This is a TropeTrope.

Some tropes have a logical extreme that:
* Fits neatly within the description of the trope
* Requires no exaggeration
* ''Usually'' has at least one example of that extreme (indeed, the Logical Extreme might be quite common, even to the point of being a SubTrope).

Note that sometimes a trope can have more than one Logical Extreme that fit the trope in different ways. For example, the Logical Extremes of ReclusiveArtist include artists who no one knows who they are, artists who no one knows ''where'' they are, and artists whom no one knows whether they're alive or dead. In other cases, two distinct tropes can have the same logical extreme: for instance, ScienceFantasy serves as the logical extreme for both soft science fiction and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic.

For obvious reasons, this cannot be used on [[YMMV.HomePage YMMV]] items.

Compare DeconstructedTrope, where tropes are played realistically and sometimes by straining them in the logical extreme. See also ExaggeratedTrope, which is the "''Il''logical Extreme", and the Website/TVTropes section of LiteralMetaphor.
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!!Examples:
* AntiClimaxBoss: ZeroEffortBoss.
* BackseatDriver: Someone who's ''supposed'' to be the passenger tries to literally drive the car by grabbing for the controls (usually the steering wheel). TruthInTelevision, and there ''are'' legal repercussions for doing this, namely the "passenger" would be fully responsible for whatever they cause the vehicle to do.
* BandOfRelatives: ''Everyone'' in the band is related. Far from rare. Even if you narrow it to everyone in the band being ''immediate family'' (that is, parents and siblings), you have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cowsills The Cowsills]] (mother and children), Music/TheShaggs (all sisters), Music/TheJacksonFive (all siblings), Music/TheWhiteStripes (husband and wife), Music/{{Hanson}} (all brothers), Music/TheBeeGees (also all brothers), The Band Perry (sister and two brothers), Music/TheProclaimers (''identical twin'' brothers)...
* BreakingTheFourthWall: NoFourthWall, TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou
* BrokeTheRatingScale: A reviewer refuses to assign a rating at all. There are a number of examples of that on the trope page, often when the reviewer finds the work downright repulsive or otherwise not worthy of a rating.
* BrutalHonesty: Harshness is considered the only way to tell the truth, while any politeness/niceness is seen as a falsehood. See ''Film/TheInventionOfLying'', a CannotTellALie setting where niceness only showed up in conversation when the titular "invention" did.
* CastOfSnowflakes: A large cast of characters given intricate and distinct tropes that separate each one of them. Well-known examples include ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' and ''{{Anime/Monster}}''.
* AChildShallLeadThem:
** Posthumous heir -- in other words, a child is born to a waiting crown and throne (which has happened).
*** The most recent example is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain King Alfonso XIII of Spain,]] the [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy posthumous son of Alfonso XII]]. There were even debates about backdating Alfonso XIII's reign to the date of his father's death, rather than the date of his birth. He was actually ''crowned'' King when he turned 16.
*** According to some sources, the Sassanid Empire managed to turn the Logical Extreme further up with an ''in utero'' coronation; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapur_II King Shapur II]] is the only monarch known to be crowned ''before he was born'' (the crown was placed on his mother's belly). Other sources say she was ordered to wear the crown around her loins so her child would ''literally'' be born into it.
** In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Naboo takes it to a different extreme by making all their rulers teenagers (they ''retire'' at twenty).
** TeenageWasteland is where there are no adults to lead ''at all''.
* ConvictionByContradiction: ConvictionByCounterfactualClue, when the convicting "evidence" is explained away by ''simply checking the facts''.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The main character disappears for the episode in order to keep the focus on a more minor one.
* DesperatelyNeedsOrders: A character is TheDitherer. They need orders for practically ''everything'' in their lives rather than a particular situation or issue.
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Other planets are so much nicer that ''nobody'' lives on Earth any more.
* EverythingIsOnline: BrainUploading and TheSingularity.
* EvilCounterpart: Everything about the evil character from associates to hobbies is ''exactly'' equivalent to the main character, only evil. For instance Creator/KimNewman's version of [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles Professor Moriarty]], who has Colonel Moran as an Evil Watson, the Conduit Street Comanche as Evil Baker Street Irregulars, takes "cases" that are strangely parallel to Holmes's, and in his spare time breeds wasps (evil beekeeping).
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: DevilInDisguise.
* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: a creator creates an entire cast of additional new characters for an expanded adaptation. See Robert Kirkman creating the characters and providing guidance for the ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'', sister series to the live action adaptation of ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead''.
* GodIsNeutral: God is not only neither benevolent nor malevolent, but isn't even sentient and has no motivations at all, and everything He creates is entirely by accident. For instance, Azathoth in the ''Literature/CthulhuMythos''.
* HumanityIsSuperior: Humans are so overwhelmingly powerful over everything else in the setting they're [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deities Of Human Origin]] or HumansAreCthulhu. See ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and ''Franchise/{{Tron}}''. In the former, humans are incomprehensible beings who are just as likely to save the characters as kill them. in the latter, humans ''accidentally'' created a ServantRace of sentient AI who worships them as gods, and a DigitizedHacker really ''does'' live [[GodIsGood up]] or [[GodIsEvil down]] to godlike status in terms of power.
* IAmTheBand:
** A single artist who plays all the instruments, writes all the songs, and performs under a band-like moniker. For example, Trent Reznor really is Music/NineInchNails.
** OneManBand.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: ''Everyone'' has awesome clothes, and they fit for the environment. Example: ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.
* JustTheFirstCitizen: When the leader of a nation holds no official position ''at all'', but is quite firmly in charge. Example: UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi, who insisted he couldn't step down from office because he held no office to step down ''from''.
* LampshadeHanging:
** BetterThanABareBulb, where LampshadeHanging becomes a central part of the work.
** Lampshading a Lampshading.
* LongRunnerLineUp: A LongRunner band that has only one lineup from start to finish, or ''all'' lineups were long-runners. This has happened a few times.
* MagicVersusScience: ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'' has its eponymous team of {{Magical Girl}}s fight against an AlienInvasion bent on [[GalacticConqueror conquering the universe]].
* MagikarpPower: A {{Mon}} or character is pretty much completely useless at first, but with enough level grinding becomes a GameBreaker and one of the contenders for the best in the game. The TropeNamer itself, Franchise/{{Pokemon}} reached this in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' with Cosmog. It's absolutely useless in battle, even after its first evolution into Cosmoem. It has two final forms, though, and both are obscenely strong: Solgaleo and Lunala, the mascot [[OlympusMons legendaries]] of the game, and grade-A {{Game Breaker}}s in themselves (and that's without taking into account the ability to, starting in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', fuse Solgaleo with Necrozma to create an even bigger GameBreaker, Dusk Mane Necrozma, widely considered to be one of the best Pokemon in Smogon's Uber tier).
* MinimalistCast: The movie or play has ''one'' actor/actress -- after that, you don't ''have'' a cast. ''Film/AllIsLost'' is an example, where Creator/RobertRedford plays an unnamed sailor in a sinking ship. Arnold Schönberg's ''Erwartung'' is an opera with only one role.
* MissingEpisode: There are entire works, typically hundreds to thousands of years old, which we only know about because they were quoted or referenced in other works which did survive. The index for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Collection the collection of the Library of Alexandria]] contains several titles that are known only from its own (incomplete, fragmented) contents.
* NoEnding:
** "The Jewels of Nabooti" of the [[{{Gamebooks}} Choose Your Own Adventure]] series, in which there were a series of choices that made an infinite loop.
** Creator/JorgeLuisBorges" wrote on ''Foreword to "The Metamorphosis" by Creator/FranzKafka'' about the NoEnding in Kafka's novels "Amerika", "The Castle" and "The Trial".
--->"The critics deplore that in the three Kafka novels many intermediate chapters are missing, but recognizes that those chapters are not essential. I have for me that [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint this complaint indicates an essential ignorance of Kafka's art]]. The path of these "unfinished" novels is born specifically of TheInfinite number of obstacles that stop and return to stop their identical heroes.'' Franz Kafka [[NoEnding does not finish them]], because [[CentralTheme the main thing was that they]] [[TheInfinite were endless]]. ''Do you remember the first and clearest of Zeno's paradoxes? The movement is impossible, because before reaching B we must cross the intermediate point C, but before reaching C, we must cross the intermediate point D, but before reaching D ... ''The Greek does not list all the points; Franz Kafka does not have to list all the vicissitudes. It is enough to understand that they are infinite like Hell".
* NoHarmRequirement: Rather than being an arbitrary mandate or restriction ([[SelfImposedChallenge self-imposed]] or not), the No Harm Requirement ends up becoming a ''literal'' requirement for success. The character can't win or solve the situation at hand unless [[SheatheYourSword they actively avoid using violence or causing harm]].
* OneHitWonder: OneBookAuthor, the artist had a hit -- and is known for nothing else because there is literally nothing else to be known ''for''.
* OrcusOnHisThrone:
** The BigBad [[VideoGame/DeadCells stays on his throne and doesn't budge]], even when the protagonist is about to attack him.
** The Big Bad [[Film/TheLastJedi puts up a competent fight]] from atop their [[ComicBook/DarkseidWar Tactical Combat Throne]] while exerting little to no direct effort or attention.
*** The Big Bad is, itself, [[Series/GameOfThrones an inanimate throne]].
* OutOfContinues: PermaDeath
* OvenLogic: ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' brings you [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00615.htm cooking with explosives]]! Predictable results ensue.
* MoralGuardian: KnightTemplar, where the MoralGuardian will do ''[[MurderTheHypotenuse anything]]'' to protect.
* ReclusiveArtist:
** Identities Unknown:
*** Scholars are pretty sure B. Traven died in 1969 and that he was male. As for where and when he was born, what his real name was, or ''whether the original language of his books was German or English'', on the other hand...
*** Music/TheResidents are also unknown. Nobody has a ''clue'' who they are.
*** Graffiti artists who manage to keep their anonymity in spite of developing global fame, for example Creator/{{Banksy}}.
** Whereabouts unknown:
*** [[Music/ManicStreetPreachers Richey James Edwards]] went missing in 1995 and was declared LegallyDead in 2008.
*** Author Salman Rushdie went into hiding several years ago after a fatwa was declared against him. His location is still unknown, though he makes public appearances.
** The logical extreme of both would be, of course, works which were published anonymously, or where knowledge of their original source has been lost permanently. Many examples exist from mediaeval times: most mediaeval painters are only known by ''ad hoc'' "names" like "Master of the Legend of the Magdalen", named after his most famous painting.
* RevolvingDoorBand: When a constantly changing lineup is [[EnforcedTrope inherent in a band's structure.]] For example, Menudo was meant to be a BoyBand, so any member who got too tall, grew facial hair, experienced a vocal change, or turned 16 was dismissed and replaced. The Vienna Boys Choir was similar.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Seen in the vaudville version of WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur, which combined animation, live-action film, and ''Creator/WinsorMcCay live on stage''.
* SatelliteLoveInterest:
** When LovingAShadow meets ShadowArchetype with a bit of TheDulcineaEffect: Nobody is more shallow than a shadow. Example: Dulcinea was a character Literature/DonQuixote invented as a LoveInterest inspired in a real girl named Aldonza Lorenzo. At the first part, Dulcinea is only a pretext for Don Quixote to get into adventures, but later, he believes she is real and looks for her. (Did we already mention Don Quixote is crazy?)
** Alternately, the love interest never actually makes an appearance onscreen, effectively serving as TheGhost. Example: Gloriana, Literature/TheFaerieQueene.
* ScheduleSlip: OrphanedSeries.
* ScienceFantasy: Most soft science fiction makes liberal use of AppliedPhlebotinum which simply makes no sense from a scientific perspective, and may as well be magical. When an explanation ''is'' given, expect it to contradict physical laws because the writer either doesn't know as much about science as they think, or are [[{{MST3K Mantra}} disregarding it for the sake of a better story]]. Science Fantasy is therefore when a work actually admits this. Depending on how you look at it, it is also the Logical Extreme to MagicAIsMagicA and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic, as "classical" fantasy stories are inspired by mythology, and therefore never give any explanation for why the magic works the way it does. Again, in Science Fantasy, the setting is inspired by science instead.
** The “One Big Lie” subtrope of soft science fiction has another logical extreme, in the ''Literature/{{Orthogonal}}'' trilogy by Creator/GregEgan. The setting has precisely one physical law changed from the real world, in the smallest way possible (a single minus sign in an equation becomes a plus sign) but even though all other laws of physics are the same as our world, this causes ''everything'' on the macroscopic level to be so different as to be unrecognizable.
* ShortRangeShotgun: The shotgun, despite firing rounds, can only be used as a melee weapon.
** Peacock's shotgun in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' for one of her aerial attacks.
** Shotguns in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' are generally used at a 4 meter range, the same as melee attacks.
** The Gunlance in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series essentially fires blanks that do explosion damage not much farther than the tip of the weapon. As of ''Monster Hunter Rise'', it's viable to make a whole playstyle of using the gun shells only for propelling yourself around the battlefield, and doing all of your actual damage by smacking monsters with the side of the weapon.
* SkillScoresAndPerks: Go crazy and add anything you can find. ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' is both famous and notorious for having what is essentially a '''''[[http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMB skill forest]]'''''.
* SpiritualSuccessor: SerialNumbersFiledOff. The new series effectively ''is'' the earlier one save a few minor details.
* SubvertedCatchphrase: A OnceAnEpisode catchphrase isn't able to be said at all.
** Example: When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic starts his reviews, he usually says, "Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to." The subversion for the film ''Film/CoolAsIce'' was him cracking up mid-catchphrase. ''Film/BarbWire'' had him say, "I remember it so you don't [[DistractedByTheSexy boobies]]." When he reviewed ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'', however, he simply had his face buried in his hands, before saying, "I've got nothing. I have absolutely nothing."
* ThatOneAttack: In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', Ohma only has one attack, but it's a OneHitKill.
* TotemPoleTrench: Instead of two or three people teaming up to pretend to be one person, ''thousands'' of tiny people work together to form one "person" (also a trope as well: TheWormThatWalks).
* UnconsciousObjector: DiedStandingUp. He doesn't just rise to keep fighting while unconscious, he rises to keep fighting while ''dead''.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: When the very ''need'' for a successor is unexpected, or how succession itself is handled is unclear.
** In 1841, UsefulNotes/WilliamHenryHarrison taught the United States the hard way that a President ''can'' expire before his term does. The Constitution of the UsefulNotes/UnitedStatesOfAmerica wasn't entirely clear on what would happen if a President was permanently unable to perform his duties -- should just the duties devolve on the Vice President (making him Acting President), or the office ''itself''? Making matters worse, UsefulNotes/JohnTyler was ''not'' someone the Whigs [[SketchySuccessor wanted anywhere near the Oval Office]].
** In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Vlaakith CLVII is the Lich-Queen of the Githyanki. Being undead, she has no need for a successor. It's mentioned in at least one sourcebook that if Vlaakith is killed, the githyanki will be thrown into chaos.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: FlockOfWolves. ''Everyone'' is an impostor or a spy.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: MoffsLaw; instead of warning consumers not to think too deeply about a work's theme, they outright deny there's a theme to think about at all.
* WrittenInInfirmity: TheCharacterDiedWithHim (that is, the actor isn't just ill or injured, they're ''dead'').
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