History BeyondTheImpossible / VideoGames

** [[spoiler:Chaldea manages to kill ORT, an [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate One]], which lacks the concept of death, and render it DeaderThanDead. While this happens due to a ''spectacular'' number of factors going in the favor, it should still be impossible kill an Ultimate One, because the only weapons capable of harming it literally don't exist yet]].

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1'', [[SelfImposedChallenge you can use]] [[LevelEditor Custom Night]] to set all 4 of the animatronics' AI to 20 ([[HarderThanHard the absolute highest it can go]]), but developer Scott Cawthon didn't program in a reward because he thought it was [[PlatformHell impossible to beat]]. A lets-player called [=BigBug=] [[LordBritishPostulate proved him wrong]], after ''[[{{Determinator}} 23 hours]]'' of trying. ''WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}'' soon followed, after 7 hours straight trying to beat it. There's currently a section of the [[Awesome/FiveNightsAtFreddys Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page for people who've been able to beat 4/20 Mode. Now you get an extra star on the main screen for beating it.

* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'':
** The series makes it possible, such as with a well-timed CO Power like Colin's [[GameBreaker Power of Money]], to occasionally do things that shouldn't actually be possible like blowing up a medium tank with small-arms fire from an infantry unit. ''Dual Strike'' even has unique battle victory flavor text for when you manage to do it, where instead of "good!" or "excellent!!" you'll get "INCREDIBLE!!!" in shimmering rainbow text.
** Any fixed-damage environmental attack like Hawke, Drake, or Olaf's specials or Black Hole cannons and lasers, can ''not'' destroy units and are limited to dropping that unit to 1HP instead. However, internally, units have 100 HP and they're not at 10/100 but 1/100. This means a 1HP infantry (which can't normally hurt anything) is capable of swagging up to a ''megatank'' drained to the brink by one of these attacks, opening fire, ''and destroying it''.
** Defense is coded to reduce the percentage of damage taken, rather than raising their defensive power, if that makes any sense. If you can get a unit to 100% defense, a difficult but possible act that basically requires a Kanbei unit on an HQ with his super power popped and the defense skill, it ''will'' take 0% damage from any attack. Yes, a frigging ''bomber'' could swing by and drop a full salvo of bombs on a 100% infantry unit... and not so much as scratch it.

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', [[SelfImposedChallenge you can use]] [[LevelEditor Custom Night]] to set all 4 of the animatronics' AI to 20 ([[HarderThanHard the absolute highest it can go]]), but developer Scott Cawthon didn't program in a reward because he thought it was [[PlatformHell impossible to beat]]. A lets-player called [=BigBug=] [[LordBritishPostulate proved him wrong]], after ''[[TheDeterminator 23 hours]]'' of trying. ''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}'' soon followed, after 7 hours straight trying to beat it. There's currently a section of the [[Awesome/FiveNightsAtFreddys Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page for people who've been able to beat 4/20 Mode. Now you get an extra star on the main screen for beating it.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'': [[GrandTheftMe After getting his body stolen by Xehanort]], Terra refuses to submit, his mind and soul re-animating his suit of armor through [[ThePowerOfHate hate and anger]], the same thing that got his body stolen in the first place. Terra, as the [[AnimatedArmor The Lingering Will]], then proceeds to kick his own ass. Xehanort, now as Terranort, could only utter in shock how ridiculous it is.

** [[BloodKnight Undyne]], perhaps taking cues from Viral from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', manages to produce her own [[{{Determinator}} Determination]], which monsters are stated to be unable to do. She adamantly refuses to die when the player kills her - until she melts. [[spoiler:In the No Mercy route, the player character has to [[HeroicSecondWind kill her twice]] - she determines herself into a [[BonusBoss more powerful form]] [[TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople just to stop you]].]]

** [[spoiler:ORT summons another version of itself as Grand Foreigner. It really can't be overstated how insane this feat is in-universe. It used the aspects of the Tree of Emptiness it absorbed to simulate 300,000,000 years of history with itself as the prime lifeform of Earth, thereby registering itself in the Throne of Heroes as a Heroic Spirit, then inserted itself into the Grand Foreigner class (which ''does not exist''), and summoned itself into reality despite already being dead. The Grand Servants are supposed to be of the seven regular classes and be heroes meant to protect humanity, but ORT is meant to destroy the world, meaning it literally turned the world's ultimate defense against the world it was mean to protect.]]

** [[spoiler:ORT summons another version of itself as Grand Foreigner. It really can't be overstated how insane this feat is in-universe. It used the aspects of the Tree of Emptiness it absorbed to simulate 300,000,000 years of history with itself as the prime lifeform of Earth, thereby registering itself in the Throne of Heroes as a Heroic Spirit, then inserted itself into the Grand Foreigner class (which ''does not exist''), and summoned itself into reality despite already being dead. The Grand Servants are supposed to be of the seven regular classes and be heroes meant to protect humanity, but ORT is meant to destroy the world.]]

** [[spoiler:ORT summons another version of itself as Grand Foreigner. The Grand Servants are supposed to be of the seven regular classes and be heroes meant to protect humanity, but ORT is meant to destroy the world.]]

** Daybit summoned Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec War God, as a Grand Servant, even though Grand Servants are normally not summonable and beings with divinity normally can't be Grand Servants.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaider'': Jacqueline Natla certainly gets her money's worth out of her {{immortality}} which explains how she survived things like a pillar crashing on her or plunging into lava, but at one point she had an artifact that was capable of killing ''gods'' thrown at her. It didn't work.

* This is the entire point of [[{{Speedrun}} Tool-Assisted Speedruns]], where someone effectively writes a script that sends inputs to the game with frame-perfect precision. Since this allows for the PlayerCharacter to have [[PerfectPlayAI perfect movements]], do button combinations that are physically impossible for a human (such as pushing up and down at the same time or pushing buttons faster than the physical button could be pushed), have multiple characters [[HiveMind moving in perfect harmony]], and even manipulate the game's [[RandomNumberGod random-number generation]] by outright creating outcomes by setting up perfect scenarios, they lead to some outright ''impossible'' stunts like [[AlwaysAccurateAttack never missing]], wriggling through solid walls, making enemies do specific things, wrong-warping or triggering {{Event Flag}}s, glitching items into the inventory, or always getting critical hits while the enemies always miss. Starting up ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'', doing no leveling up outside of mandatory battles, and ''defeating Chaos with a single White Mage after a little over an hour of gameplay by '''intimidating it into running from the battle''''' sounds like a fever dream, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOUOeec4Qc a TAS can do it]].

** PlayedForLaughs if you're fighting Undyne on a non-KillEmAll run; she'll suplex a boulder just because she can, then she suplexes ten boulders for the same reason, then finally suplexes ''herself'' "just to prove nothing is impossible".

** [[TheSoulless The Nobodies]]. Their entire existence is supposed to be impossible, [[UpToEleven and Namine is even more impossible.]]

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': While the Blights aren't impossible to defeat, the fact that the Warden defeats the fifth one so quickly is unbelievable, to the point that many people outside Ferelden even believe that the Fifth Blight never happened. [[note]]The previous shortest Blight lasted 12 years and involved half of the continent. In contrast, the 5th Blight was defeated in one year with just three wardens and a single nation (two, if you count Orzammar).[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': The Cardinal Rules of Magic state that you can only send your mind into [[SpiritWorld the Fade]], while your body remains in the real world. Only once has this rule been defied, and ''that'' took a HumanSacrifice involving several hundred slaves, with the results being described as nothing less than [[TheLegionsOfHell utterly disastrous.]] So, when the PlayerCharacter of this game enters the Fade ''physically'' with any consequence, it is viewed by damn near everyone as nothing less than a miracle.
** Another cardinal rule of magic is that time cannot be manipulated. People's perception of time perhaps, but not time itself. That's why no one saw it coming when Magister Alexius went back in time to convince that the Templars presented a much greater danger to the rebel mages after the Breach than they actually did. It turns out that [[HellGate the Breach]] is actively rewriting the laws of reality.

** Several long-running succession forts (including [[LetsPlay/{{Battlefailed}} Failcannon]]) have well-documented cases where the fortress's layout is so labyrinthine, so complex and bizarre, that it actually breaks the game's pathing engine. (In the case of Failcannon, this saved them from the wrath of at least one Forgotten Beast which wanted to ascend to the populated levels, and knew a path existed, but ''couldn't find it''.) As if that weren't impossible enough {{Bizarchitecture}}, rooms sometimes exist that none of the players can locate. They can scroll without impediment throughout the entire fortress, and yet the only way to find these rooms is consistently to wait for a dwarf to come in and then zoom to them. Somehow, looking for it any other way, it cannot be found...

---> ''I'll be...You've just '''redefined''' what's '''possible!!!'''''

* In ''VideoGame/ShogunTotalWar'', In the Mongol Invasion campaign, you cannot perform a ceasefire from both sides- The Mongols neither have a Leader active and cannot make Emissaries. You can, however can stop the "At war" status on accident, by utilizing a Rebel revolt and not having any other borders touching the Opposing side. An [[http://imageshack.us/a/img6/4063/nu4g.png example from the mongol side.]]

* The main villain ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'', Clockwerk, has been in a feud with Sly's family for millennia. Turns out he turned himself into a robot that runs on the power of his own hatred in order to live so long. This is closer to ''{{Magitek}}'' than the rest of the more mundane science in the rest of the series.

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', [[SelfImposedChallenge you can use]] [[LevelEditor Custom Night]] to set all 4 of the animatronics' AI to 20 ([[HarderThanHard the absolute highest it can go]]), but developer Scott Cawthon didn't program in a reward because he thought it was [[PlatformHell impossible to beat]]. A lets-player called [=BigBug=] [[LordBritishPostulate proved him wrong]], after ''[[TheDeterminator 23 hours]]'' of trying. ''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}'' soon followed, after 7 hours straight trying to beat it. There's currently a section of the [[Awesome/FiveNightsAtFreddys Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page for people who've been able to beat [[FanNickname 4/20 Mode]]. Now you get an extra star on the main screen for beating it.

* In the final battle of ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', [[spoiler: Paula's Pray command [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and gets the Player to attack and destroy Giygas, a being so powerful and alien that humans [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm cannot grasp its true form]].]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' features Yuugi Hoshiguma, a famous [[{{youkai}} oni]] encountered having a rowdy drunken party in Hell's former capital. Now most oni already have some form of SuperStrength, but even among her kin, Yuugi is known as [[RedBaron "the Strong."]] What takes her Beyond the Impossible is the extent of this strength - Yuugi's [[EveryoneIsASuper special power]] is stated to be "the ability to wield unexplainable phenomena," an abbreviation of a saying about how Confucius never discussed the supernatural. One way of interpreting this is that Yuugi is so strong, her physical feats defy reason, so she could theoretically pull stunts like dispersing a typhoon by punching it.

** [[spoiler: There's Dr. W. D. Gaster, who at some point in development was the royal scientist [[{{DummiedOut}} but wound up getting cut from the final product]] (the in-game justification is that he fell into the CORE.) while still remaining in the game's code, [[{{AndIMustScream}} fully aware of his situation.]] One of the few remaining things in the game pertaining to him is a lab entry written in Wingdings (implied to be what Gaster would've spoken in) that is entirely unused. It mentions negative photon readings, which are physically impossible.]]

* The ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'' series makes it possible, such as with a well-timed CO Power like Colin's [[GameBreaker Power of Money]], to occasionally do things that shouldn't actually be possible like blowing up a medium tank with small-arms fire from an infantry unit. ''Dual Strike'' even has unique battle victory flavor text for when you manage to do it, where instead of "good!" or "excellent!!" you'll get "INCREDIBLE!!!" in shimmering rainbow text.

** [[spoiler: There's Dr. W. D. Gaster, who at some point in development was the royal scientist [[{{DummiedOut}} but wound up getting cut from the final product]] (the in-game justification is that he fell into the CORE.) while still remaining in the game's code, [[{{AndIMustScream}} fully aware of his situation.]] One of the few remaining things in the game pertaining to him is a lab entry written in Wingdings (implied to be what Gaster would've spoken in) that is entirely unused. It mentions negative photon readings, which are physically impossibile.]]

* ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'': The reality TV premise would be impossible in RealLife; it's more or less just an excuse to blow as much stuff up during a race as possible.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: The Eternal Night'' Post stage 1 of the boss fight. Scratch and Sniff manage to somehow pick Skabb off the ground and carry him out the window despite him being gigantic compared to them. Spyro and Sparx {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.