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* The LogicalFallacy known as ''[[AppealToPopularity argumentum ad populum]]'' implies this. For some reason that doesn't stop people from using it, even though the implications should be obvious.
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* The LogicalFallacy UsefulNotes/{{Logical Fallac|ies}}y known as ''[[AppealToPopularity argumentum ad populum]]'' implies this. For some reason that doesn't stop people from using it, even though the implications should be obvious.
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** ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' plays with this a little. The source of Embeds, the baseline powers of angels and demons, is the set of "occult physics" that underlies the world, something the God-Machine understands perfectly. Although these occult physics are tangible laws with means-tested results, if not necessarily verifiable by conventional science, the God-Machine has secured the secrecy of its massive operating system by getting people to ''believe'' that certain aspects of these laws are perfectly normal. "Everybody knows" you can blow a car up by shooting the gas tank, "everybody knows" you can knock someone out by hitting them in the head without it causing permanent damage, and so on and so forth. Thus, when demons Fall, they're able to use most Embeds without risking the attention of the God-Machine, because everybody knows these powers are "just how the world works." The reality-rending miracles of Exploits, on the other hand, are a lot messier.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': The Liahona works so long as Lehi's family believes that God can make it work, and stops working if they forget or rebel.
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A variant of this trope, common in works aimed at children (and their parodies) involves one character [[BreakingTheFourthWall turning to the audience and asking them]] to clap their hands/stomp their feet/whatever to accomplish whatever needs to be accomplished at the time.
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A variant of this trope, common in works aimed at children (and their parodies) involves one character [[BreakingTheFourthWall turning to the audience audience]] [[AudienceParticipation and asking them]] them to clap their hands/stomp their feet/whatever to accomplish whatever needs to be accomplished at the time.
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* Deconstructed in ''Literature/KingdomKeepers''. Enough people believing in them is what causes several Creator/{{Disney}} characters to come to life...including the villains, who are putting the world in danger.
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* Deconstructed in ''Literature/KingdomKeepers''.''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers''. Enough people believing in them is what causes several Creator/{{Disney}} characters to come to life... including the villains, who are putting the world in danger.
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* ''The Shadowglass'' by Josh Winning has as a backdrop to the story, a cult classic '80s movie ''The Shadowglass'' which is an {{Expy}} to ''Franchise/TheDarkCrystal'' and its director Bob Corman. Bob has such a vivid imagination and retained an almost childlike ability to believe that when working on the movie, he accidentally brought his puppet Rill the Wise Sage to life. This had a domino effect which led to Bob imagining the entire world of Iri and its people into existence. And because of fanworks and expansion material, other people caused things to exist in Iri that weren't there before such as the lunium, a conjuction of Iri's moons that has magical significance.
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* This is the true power of the Chaos Emeralds in ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. They are explicitly stated to "turn thoughts into power." While they can be fueled by negative feelings and emotions, positive and uplifting feelings can turn someone into a PhysicalGod if enough people wish hard enough for a miracle.
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* The fact that people's beliefs influence how they act, and by acting people can create things, means that in a very real way the belief in something can cause in to come into existence. The effect is generally much more subtle than it is portrayed in fiction however. And the opposite is almost as likely: there are many many cases of people inventing something in the process of trying to prove that thing ''wouldn't'' work. It is also true that people do not necessarily act on their beliefs, but are in fact very susceptible to social pressures: so it's relatively rare for this trope to occur even in its subtle form in real life. However, many modern technologies were first conceptualized in science fiction and then became reality almost solely because someone read the story and decided they were going to figure out how to make that cool thing a reality.
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* The fact that people's beliefs influence how they act, and by acting people can create things, means that in a very real way the belief in something can cause in to come into existence. The effect is generally much more subtle than it is portrayed in fiction however. And the opposite is almost as likely: there are many many cases of people inventing something in the process of trying to prove that thing ''wouldn't'' work. It is also true that people do not necessarily act on their beliefs, but are in fact very susceptible to social pressures: so it's relatively rare for this trope to occur even in its subtle form in real life. However, many modern technologies were first conceptualized in science fiction and then became reality almost solely because someone read the story and decided [[LifeImitatesArt they were going to figure out how to make that cool thing a reality.reality]].
