-> "''To infinity... '''and BEYOND!'''''"
-->-- '''Buzz Lightyear''', ''Franchise/ToyStory''

The medium of Western Animation is such that literally anything is possible. Beyond The Impossible, in this case, refers to those rare actions and events that do not conform to the previously established rules of its universe. Generally, the more realistic a work is, the greater the likelihood that something going Beyond The Impossible can be found. Cartoons like WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes would be exempt from this trope, because the characters and settings follow no rules except the RuleOfFunny (a rule which cannot be ''broken'', only ignored).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': During the FinalBattle with [[spoiler:[[BigBad the Core]], [[CuteClumsyGirl Marcy]] manages to trip in '''''zero gravity''''']].
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelWars'': A sword that was played up to be unbreakable called Caliburn did in fact break when Paladin tried to use it to hit an invulnerable demon called Discord. Paladin regarded this as a colossal failure on his part.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'',
** Earthbenders repeatedly demonstrate that they cannot bend metal. MagicAIsMagicA is so strong with this one that an entire episode was based on earthbenders as [=POWs=] in a ''metal'' prison. This trope comes into play near the season 2 climax [[spoiler:when Toph invents metalbending. Not only did this come in handy during the rest of her adventures, but it also made her LegendaryInTheSequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. She also passed the art onto her two daughters, Lin and Suyin.]]
** Firebenders producing colored flame beyond the typical red, orange, and/or white was also supposed to be impossible... until the royal fire siblings Zuko and Azula produced dragon fire and blue fire, respectively. The same goes for the lightning redirection technique; up until Iroh got creative, there was no block or counter to lightning. [[OhCrap Ozai's face]] when [[spoiler:Zuko redirects his own lightning back at him]] says it all in terms of how impossible it was considered to be until it happened.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** "It's not a full moon... how are you doing this!?" [[spoiler: Korra when Tarrlok bloodbends her into submission.]] A panning shot later confirmed that the moon was indeed only a crescent.
** Amon [[spoiler:''[[NoSell can resist bloodbending]]''. ''Tarrlok's'' bloodbending. It's been shown already that the only ones who are able to resist bloodbending are fully fledged Avatars and waterbenders that are at least as skilled as the bloodbender in question. And even without considering that, it was also shown that Tarrlok was able to take down many of the strongest characters in the show, ''including Korra'', using his bloodbending.]] Revealed to be a subversion, however, when Amon [[spoiler:turns out to be Tarrlok's older brother, and consequently [[BoomerangBigot a more skilled waterbender, and bloodbender, himself.]]]]
** Yakone, [[spoiler: father of Amon/Noatok and Tarrlok]], also demonstrated the ability to bloodbend on whichever day he pleased. In fact, he deliberately ''avoided'' bloodbending during the full moon, so that when he was brought to trial, he claimed he had to be innocent because, [[AsYouKnow as everyone knows]], the crime he was accused of was physically impossible. Sokka shot this one down by pointing out that there were many recorded cases of people manifesting odd powers unknown to traditional bending, [[ContinuityNod such as Combustion Man]].
** When Korra gets chained up in platinum cuffs by the Red Lotus at the end of season 3, she rips them out of the wall. Either she physically ripped them out (platinum is very heavy) or she metalbent them. Not even Toph is good enough to bend a metal as pure as platinum.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a cartoon with the occasional AcceptableBreaksFromReality by RuleOfFunny... but there are exceptions.
** [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]] can do much more cartoonish and impossible things than anyone else.
*** In one episode, she repeatedly appeared in places that were far too small for her to fit, culminating in her appearing in a mirror without being in the room.
*** Besides OffScreenTeleportation, she has appeared briefly in more than one location at the same time.
*** There's her notorious [[BreakingTheFourthWall disregard of the fourth wall]]. Outside of a one-off gag or two, Spike is the only other character to engage in this, and does so far less overtly or consistently.
*** In the episode "A Friend In Deed," Pinkie Pie has a FantasySequence done in ''felt'' as she runs through her checklist of friend-making activities. After coming out of the spot, she resolves to complete her list, and punctuates it by holding up a green felt checkmark '''from her FantasySequence'''.
*** In the same episode, she also sprouts an extra pair of limbs, which disappear just as suddenly. ...Yeah.
*** In "Too Many Pinkie Pies," Rainbow Dash is trying to nap by the lakeside. Pinkie, who still wants to jump and splash around, compromises by doing a ''huge'' cannonball - only to slow herself down in midair just as she reaches the water, and gently float the rest of the way down. Rainbow stares and [[LampshadeHanging asks]], "How did you ''do'' that?" Though it gained less attention, she did the same thing while bouncing on a trampoline at the beginning of "The Best Night Ever."
*** "Too Many Pinkie Pies" also has her (or rather, her clones) perform feats like inflating her hoof so that working fingers pop out, or making a "crazy face" by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing her face]] to resemble that of [[MythologyGag a G3 pony]]... which [[SelfDeprecation Twilight Sparkle immediately proceeds to blast to oblivion]].
*** The "[[SpiderSense Pinkie Sense]]" is an ability of Pinkie's that, according to Twilight Sparkle, breaks the MagicAIsMagicA rules of the world.
*** In "Magic Duel" she played multiple instruments at the same time without using her mouth. [[note]]It was magically removed earlier that episode and she could neither speak nor eat.[[/note]]
*** In "Party Pooped" it turns out Pinkie Pie has a hidden room beneath Sugarcube Corner with information on ''every pony in town'' so she knows exactly how to throw the absolute best and perfect parties for them. The only way in or out is a large slide. Pinkie Pie just leaves by sliding up it. The rest of the ponies are left wondering how in the hell ''they'' are going to get out.
*** The end of "School Raze" shows all the magic returning to the unicorns and alicorns of the world, and ''three'' beams of magic go toward the Mane Six: Two go to Rarity and Twilight Sparkle's horns, and one goes to Pinkie Pie's nose. Somehow, as an earth pony, Pinkie has tangible unicorn-like magic. Honestly, this explains a lot.
*** This carries into ''Equestria Girls'', where it stands out even more because the human world is explicitly non-magical. Among other feats, she pulls one of the balloon patterns off her skirt and inflates it, teleports behind Twilight Sparkle so she can grab her from behind, and later drops down from the top of the frame, upside down. [[spoiler: During the attempt to keep Twilight's crown away from Sunset Shimmer near the climax, she also grabs the crown from Snips by materializing behind him.]] As usual, no one seems to notice any of this.
** [[EnchantedForest The Everfree Forest]] is considered an EldritchLocation because [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows everywhere else in Equestria requires ponies to manage its natural processes]], whereas the Everfree Forest takes care of itself.
** Everypony thought that the Sonic Rainboom was impossible until Rainbow Dash performed it.
--->''"Most people thought the Sonic Rainboom was just an old mare's tale but on that day, the day I discovered racing, I proved that the legends were true. I made the impossible happen!"''
** Sweetie Belle's status as LethalChef is nothing important but there remains her culinary impossibility:
--->'''Rarity''': I didn't know you could burn juice.
*** She also managed to liquefy toast.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** While the show has a habit of doing this anyway, Billy's backstory had him defeat a HumanoidAbomination and literally ''PUNCH AN '''OCEAN TO DEATH'''''. [[note]]Also, HE FOUGHT A '''BEAR!'''[[/note]]
** Finn popped a bubble he had made into a black hole with a four-dimensional sword despite in-show and real life logic and physics saying otherwise.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Nox, the main villain of the first season, is a powerful [[TimeMaster Xelor]] who has been alive for over 200 years, collecting life energy and feeding it to a powerful magical artifact called the [[AmplifierArtifact Eliacube]], trying to accumulate enough energy to turn back time in order to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong undo a mistake which caused the death of his family]]. However, while the strongest Xelors are capable of TimeTravel to a limited extent, what Nox wants to do is [[ResetButton reverse time for the whole universe by 200 years]], a feat that's outright stated to beyond even the Xelor's patron god of the same name. The ancient dragon Grougaloragan outright says that it can't be done and Nox's far more likely to just destroy the universe in the attempt. In the end, he manages to achieve his energy goal and actually succeeds in turning back time [[spoiler: by 20 minutes.]]
* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. The duo have failed to reform 627 in [[DefeatMeansFriendship the usual way,]] so they ask Jumba, resident EvilGenius and 627's creator, if they can dehydrate him back into pod form.
-->'''Jumba''': No. When something is hydrated there is absolutely ''no way'' for it to being dehydrated.
-->'''TV Commerical''': [[CoincidentalBroadcast Have you ever wanted to dehydrate something? Now you can!]]
** They place an order and the device works.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': Jude can get a tan from the mall's ''florescent'' lights. His explaination: "The key to a good va-cay is all in the ''mind''." Nikki shouted how impossible this was, but the tan was there, so there wasn't much she could do about it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' has a FreezeRay that can freeze fire.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** Comicbook/{{Cyborg}} once got in a BrawlerLock with an insanely strong robot who was working at full power. Cyborg won by going farther than full power. His meter was at around 160% before it [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale exploded]]. This was in fact the [[AnAesop aesop]] of the episode: Cyborg believed it was impossible for him to get any stronger/faster/better etc. because, "I'm a robot; my limits are ''built in''." [[HumansAreSpecial His human half]] allowed his mechanical half to perform better than what should have been possible. [[note]]This has been discussed extensively. The short version: The "100%" was a measure of safe capacity, not maximum. He [[HeroicWillpower forced himself]] to exceed his safe limits.[[/note]]
** Also discussed in the episode "How Long is Forever". Starfire laments the [[VillainOfTheWeek Warp's]] claim about changing the future [[YouCantFightFate being impossible]], and Robin reminds her of their past achievements.
--->'''Robin''': So it's impossible? Good, if memory serves [[ScrewDestiny we've done the impossible before]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Many of Professor Farnsworth's inventions involve screwing logic. For example, the Planet Express ship doesn't fly, it stays put and moves the universe around it. Not to mention the boxes in Universe 1 and Universe A, which contain each other's universes - until the Professor and his Universe A counterpart somehow switch them, so that each box ''contains its own universe''.
---> '''Professor:''' Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it.
** On multiple occasions, bending robots have bent "unbendable" girders. Bender in particular has bent objects that shouldn't be able to bend, including a wooden door and a brick wall.
** This is why they've provided the page quote for VoodooShark. To elaborate, the episode takes place at the bottom of the ocean. Zoidberg finds an empty shell, which he moves into and turns into his home. Later in the episode, said home has burned down. The impossibility of this is lampshaded, then HandWaved as where Bender left his cigar.
** Bender's arms came off in the pilot and he managed to put them both back on by himself. Lampshaded by Fry: "I don't know how you did that".[[note]]This is subtly explained in a later episode: Bender's arms are shown to be able to operate completely independently of his body, and seem to have some measure of artificial intelligence[[/note]]
** Scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
** In "Future Stock", Igner is given a controller with only two buttons, "yes" and "no". He somehow manages to press the non-existent "Pat Buchanan" button.
* Cosgrove, friend of WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}, has the ability to make '''any group of characters''' immediately stop fighting and behave themselves, from common burglars to supervillain mooks. It even works on [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} The Warner Brothers (and Sister).]] The premise of their own show was their inability to be contained or controlled.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': Three examples:
** Master Yao can do more than SupernaturalMartialArts and perform outright magic such as TimeStandsStill and do physical attacks with his mind.
** There are techniques called the "Seven Impossible Moves" which would be better named "six moves that are impossible for anyone lacking TheGift". Po and Fenghuang can do them because they have it and this is presumably what fuels the latter's [[TheSocialDarwinist "strong rule the weak"]] beliefs.
*** Fenghusng later demonstrated 5 additional impossible moves that not even Shifu knew.
** "The Three Needles" is a trick that is repeatedly stated to be impossible. Po accomplishes it by cheating with magic shoes. Which is how Shifu and the others knew that he was cheating.
* ''WesternAnimation/BensCity'': "The Debris" contains a lot of supernatural elements, and the ending of "The All Inclusive" feels like a KarmicTwistEnding. Yet, most of the rest of the series happens in a very realistic world.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
** In the climax of "Hurty Tooth", Cricket gives Dr. Enamel a speech on what he's learned on how important the dentist is and is ready for his aching tooth to be extracted; suddenly, Dr. Enamel reveals he already pulled the tooth out while Cricket was talking to him.
--->'''Cricket:''' Whaaa?! Dang, you ''are'' good.
** In "Dolled Up", Bill somehow manages to construct a dollhouse out of ''a single wooden board.''
* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'': Blaze tends to do this on occasion, normally to escape cheats Crusher thought ''no one'' would escape from.
** In "The Hundred Mile Race", he turns into a hydraulic spreader which manage to rip apart the impossibly strong webs created by Crusher's trapping spider.
** The titular Power Tires which serve as a humongous DeusExMachina, but what takes the cake is their Lava Power, which allows Blaze to ''drive right through lava.''
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
** The first plot arc featured a dog(?) who had been looking for the city of gold for centuries. When asked how he stayed alive that long, all he said was "Sheer willpower!"
** In the episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E12TopDuck Top Duck]]", the story opens with [[CaptainCrash Launchpad]] attempting a stunt that Huey claims no pilot has ever survived. Not only does Launchpad survive the botched attempt, but also he goes on to perform the stunt to save Scrooge from falling out of the sky during an aerial battle with the Beagle Boys (and he doesn't crash either!).
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Discussed in the GrandFinale as [[spoiler: Bradford's]] justification for not just throwing Scrooge into the Solego Vortex, which erases anything thrown into it from existence. He's convinced Scrooge would ''still'' find a way to come back from CessationOfExistence just because "He's [[TheAce Scrooge McDuck]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In one episode, Benson asks Mordecai and Rigby to park a car. Somehow, they drive it through Benson's office window...and his office is ''on the second floor''. All Mordecai gives as an explanation is that he thought he could drive stick, but it turns out he can't.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Homer Goes To College", Homer once caused a nuclear meltdown in a truck containing a ''simulation'' of a nuclear power plant in which it was explicitly lampshaded by one of the supervisors who directly stated that there was not a single speck of radioactive material. In the same episode, he also, ''somehow'', caused a criticality incident with a ''classroom model'' of a proton accelerator.
** In "The Front", Abe Simpson forgets his own name. He reminds himself by checking his underwear... without removing his pants. Even Abe himself wasn't sure how he did that.
** In "The Old Man And The Lisa", Homer drinks lots of beer so that Lisa can have enough cans for recycling. However, that eventually gets to him when, after Lisa turns down Burns' offer, Homer suffers '''''four simultaneous heart attacks''''' (and a fifth one after Lisa tells Homer that 10% of $120,000,000 isn't $12,000...[[note]]It's $12,000,000, in case you were wondering[[/note]]).
** In "Homer the Smithers", when Homer is making breakfast for Mr. Burns, he pours cereal and milk into a bowl... which then spontaneously catches on fire.
** In "The Mansion Family" when going to visit the Mayo Clinic for a routine checkup, Mr. Burns is horrified to learn that he has every disease known to man, including rubella (which, circa 2000, was ''incredibly'' rare to contract and was nearly eradicated), juvenile diabetes, and ''hysterical pregnancy''.
* On ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', it's mentioned that Jeff's MissingMom somehow ran away before she gave birth to him. Upon being told this, Stan asks [[HowIsThatEvenPossible how could she even do that]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'',
** One of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's flashbacks to his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood shows that neither of his parents were at the hospital for his birth. [[labelnote:*]] However, there could be an [[FridgeBrilliance interpretation]] that maybe as soon as he was born, his parents abandoned him there. [[/labelnote]]
** In "Doof Side of the Moon", it's stated that the building Phineas and Ferb built could not be moved by any force on Earth. It turns out to be a case of ExactWords, as it's moved by a force from the ''Moon''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': Murphy's law allows Milo to do some pretty insane things. These include ''causing'' a fire with water and setting vinegar and baking soda on fire despite the mixture being endothermic.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': A lot of people Mr. Cat knows are capable of doing insane things, like a guy who somehow swallowed 12 miles of sausage without swallowing and a guy who stuffs chickpeas with gloves.
* In the in-between seasonal shorts of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' which focus on Lord Hater trying to kill Wander while strapped to a giant X, the naïve alien is somehow able to easily slip in and out of the shackles on occasion, which cannot possibly be done.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', it is stated and shown that Bloom's power, the Dragon's Flame, cannot be taken by force, only willingly given or inherited (all bearers have been related, with Bloom receiving it after her older sister's death and said sister inheriting it from their mother). Many have tried, including the [[GreaterScopeVillain Three Ancestral Witches]], and all of them have failed. All of them except the Trix, who did just that in ''season 1'', much to the denial of other and more experienced characters (including one who had actually worked for the Ancestral Witches before having a HeelFaceTurn). They weren't completely successful at it, as Bloom still maintained enough she could eventually manifest and take back all that was taken from her, but it was still far beyond anyone had ever achieved, or even thought possible.
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'', the only thing standing between Manhattan Island and sliding into a watery grave was the Hulk. When Iron Man told the other Avengers, Hawkeye is gobsmacked, telling him that's impossible. Iron Man responds "No, just... incredible."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In "Sees Stars", the Bus manages to manufacture a new star, a process which takes millions of years, in mere ''minutes''. Even the caller at the end, who by now is presumably used to the Bus's ability to manipulate time locally, feels compelled to tell the producer how that one was extreme even for the Bus.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', it's stated that a million cameras are watching the cast, yet the same episode has Toot die four times and come back with no explanation (sometimes in the ''next scene'' after '''her first death'''). Think about how unbelievable that is. The first episode also has Xandir say that he's died 8 million times saving his girlfriend, easily the most deaths of any fictional character in history and the most devoted boyfriend in any work of fiction in history...yet the episode opens by saying he's gay. WordOfGod says that [[SurrealHumor nothing in this show happens for any reason other than to be funny.]] You'd go nuts trying to comprehend it.
* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' is somehow everyone in the world's magical uncle ''and'' grandpa, which is impossible in every way.
* ''WesternAnimation/FudencioESeusAmigos'': Safeno, a sick kid who has perpertually terrible health, mentioned once that he finally found a compatible lung for him after eleven years. The problem is, Safeno is only ''nine years old''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Same Game", when Timmy gets fed up with [[DepravedDentist Dr. Bender]] gloating about his own perfect teeth (actually dentures) while making fun of the former's, he wishes for a world where every human is a nondescript blob and everything is in shades of gray. His mother, a LethalChef who previously made a pink casserole that immediately went bad and turned gray, makes a gray casserole in this new reality that goes bad and turns pink. Ergo, her cooking managed to be so bad that it somehow defied the effects of two {{Reality Warper}}s changing the entire planet, turning into a different color in a world where the concept of color no longer existed.
* WesternAnimation/MightyMouse seems to have control over the forces of nature. In "The Johnstown Flood," he uses hypnosis to force the floodwaters back into the breached dam and the dam itself back into its unbroken state.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "Porky and Daffy," Daffy is in a prize fight against a bruiser rooster and is running from him in the ring. Porky tells Daffy to get on his bicycle (slang for strategic retreat from the opponent) so Daffy hops on an invisible bicycle, bell and all.
-->'''Daffy:''' I'm so crazy, I don't know that this is impossible!
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E02Envoys Envoys]]", Rutherford's first training simulation goes extremely poorly -- not only does he get his ship blown up, casualties are estimated at 105%. Somehow.
-->'''Rutherford:''' Wait, how did I kill more than the whole crew?
* Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' shows an alternate universe where Doctor Strange's girlfriend, Doctor Christine Palmer, died in the car accident that, in the main universe, cost him the use of his hands instead. This lead to him learning magic and becoming the Sorcerer Supreme. Eventually he tried to use the Time Stone to go back in time and save Christine, only to find that no matter what he does, Christine still dies one way or another. The Ancient One explains that because Christine's death lead to the sequence of events that resulted in Strange becoming the Sorcerer Supreme and learning about time travel in the first place, if Christine does not die, Strange would not have had a reason to travel back in time, and thus would not have saved her. Her death is therefore an "Absolute Point" which cannot be undone through time travel. Undaunted, Strange then learns of a way to absorb magical creatures to eventually reach a level of power that would let him do it anyway. After doing so, he finally manages to save Christine; unfortunately, this results in a RealityBreakingParadox that destroys his universe, and her along with it.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': The Contumelia are the 5-D species that created the universe. They claim that the extradimensional ContainmentField around the Annihilargh is impossible to breach. Ben proves them wrong by having Skurd shift his arm into a sword made with [[RealityWarper Alien X's]] DNA (who comes from [[OutsideContextProblem outside the universe]]) and [[CuttingThroughEnergy slicing through the barrier]]. [[AllPowerfulBystander The Contumelia]] find this "interesting".
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