History BeyondTheImpossible / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Some class abilities allow more ammo to be used than some guns can hold. In some cases this allows for five shotgun rounds to be used when only''two'' are loaded as well as sub-machinegun and assault rifles being able to hold as much as THOUSANDS of rounds. With the right character skills, even revolvers with a clearly-visible number of chambers can hold more rounds than should be possible.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, all {{Skill Score}}s are {{cap}}ped at 100 for all characters, including the [=PCs=], representing the peak of mortal ability (you can raise them further temporarily with magic, but never permanently). And then there is Oghma Infinitum, a TomeOfEldritchLore that contains knowledge so otherworldly, it will actually raise your skills permanently ''above'' 100 (if they're already maxed out). It helps that the book's Daedric master, Hermaeus Mora, is an EldritchAbomination that transcends reality, anyway.

* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'': Yessha's mother Catherine was good at this. In the novels she's mentioned as having written "Torus", an stable doughnut-shaped Age, which features a huge waterfall that falls through the planet's core, turns into rain and gets carried back by clouds to refill the Ocean, that in turn, feeds the Waterfall. Atrus' reaction to first seeing this was that until then, he had thought it ''impossible'' to do such things with the Art.

** On a more serious note, [[BloodKnight Undyne]], perhaps taking cues from [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], 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]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', at one point Asura becomes so mad, he gains the level of power it took his fellow Deities nearly '''12000 YEARS''' to accumulate. Yasha even states that this is impossible by the standards they were using.
** Similarly, killing [[spoiler: [[{{God}} Chakravartin]] was said by Chakravartin himself to be an impossibility.]]

-->'''Deus''':"Power without a purpose is meaningless and worthless. A purpose that is firm can change the impossible to the possible."

** [[BloodKnight Undyne]], perhaps taking cues from [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], 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]].]]

* Azrael from ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' was such a dangerous [[TheJuggernaut juggernaut]] that he had to be sealed in a pocket dimension that was kept at absolute zero. After being released from it in [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma the third game]] he basically reacts as if he's had a power nap, and is dominating the rest of the cast within hours. It goes even further in the fourth game, where he creates a sealed arena for his fight with Kagura by shifting space through sheer strength, and punching his way through a dimensional barrier without breaking a sweat just so he can pick a fight with Izanami.

** In ''New Vegas'', you can elect to save [[spoiler: Caesar]] by performing life performing brain surgery. In order to succeed, you need high stats in medicine...Or a ludicrously high Luck stat. The game [[{{Lampshade}} lampshades this]] by having a character ask how you managed to pull this off, one of your responses to which can be [[AchievementsInIgnorance "I have no idea."]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Sabin and Cyan have a boss fight against The Phantom Train. Not only can Sabin successfully use his Suplex move on it also has the same animation as all other enemies and realize that although only the locomotive is shown it is implied that he flips the entire train upside down in the process.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Sabin and Cyan have a boss fight against The Phantom Train. Not only can Sabin successfully use his Suplex move on it also has the same animation as all other enemies and realize that although only the locomotive is shown it is implied that he flips the entire train upside down in the process.

* ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld Data Squad'': Yuma managed to make ''the physical embodiment of Lust'' feel pure love.

* ''VideoGame/ArTonelico'' has three examples and justified in all of them:
** Melody of Elemia: It is ''technically'' possible for a Reyvateil to craft a song outside her cosmosphere and without the aid of a Hymn Crystal, but it's so difficult and happens so rarely that anyone who sees it happen will say it's impossible.
** ''VideoGame/ArTonelico2 Melody of Metafalica''. The game likes to mention how only one person at a time can dive into a single reyvateil with a ''two'' person dive being a big deal that only the most skilled therapist can perform. Jacqil says Frelia can handle ''four'' people at once. Everyone shouts how impossible this is, and normally they would be right, but Jacqil reminds them that Frelia is a goddess and so can handle it easily. Croix' response is essentially, "oh yeah....I forgot..."
** ''VideoGame/ArTonelico3 Knell of Ar Ciel'': When the Rinkernator is open, Reyvateils can't use Song Magic because the source of it is disabled. Coccona can cast anyways because she is registered to an entirely different server called ''Infel Phira'' instead of the Third Tower whose Rinkernator was open at the time. There's a cutscene showing the energy transfer through space.

** In the [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} sequel]], Gaige has an ability called Anarchy, which increases her damage but reduces her accuracy for every stack. Under normal circumstances, the max number of stacks is 400, which equals 700% bonus to damage and an equal penalty to accuracy. However, with a special class mod that drops from a raid boss, you can get up to 600 stacks, for 1,050%. Once you pass about 550 stacks, bullets [[BizarreAndImprobableBallistics stop making any sort of sense]]. They'll zig-zag in mid-air, land behind you, bounce up and down, and all sorts of crazy stuff. In the rare event you actually ''hit something'', they'll take so much damage, LudicrousGibs is almost guaranteed.
** In the same sequel, Salvador's "5 Shots or 6" gives him a chance to gain 2 ammo upon shooting (1 is automatically consumed via said shooting, the other is added to his magazine), maxed out at 25%. Class mods (Most notably the Legendary Hoarder) can raise it to 50% or even 55%, meaning he's capable of ''spontaneously generating more ammo'' just by shooting. Vladof Rocket launchers don't consume ammo every 3rd shot and the Butcher shotgun randomly generates more ammo every few shots or so, meaning with these guns, Salvador can literally have his ammo gauge bounce from nearly empty to max, empty again, and keep going up and down. Once you reach this level of insanity, the best way to conserve ammo is to shoot as fast as possible and as much as possible.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts''

** Also, [[TheSoulless the Nobodies]]. Their entire existence is supposed to be impossible, [[UpToEleven and Namine is even more impossible.]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

--> '''Cerberus Trooper''': [[OhCrap HOLY SHIT!]] IT'S ''[[TheDreaded SHEPARD!]]''

-->'''Rannoch Reaper:''' '''''Shepard.'''''
-->'''Shepard:''' You know who I am?
-->'''Rannoch Reaper:''' '''[[BigBad Harbinger]] speaks of you.'''

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

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has one in Rayquaza, specifically Mega Rayquaza. Like many other Pokemon from the sixth Generation, it gains Mega Evolution (a temporary SuperMode only available in Battle). ''Unlike'' other Pokemon who can mega evolve, Rayquaza ''does not need a mega stone to do so''. Justified due to it having a unique organ that has properties similar to that of a mega stone.

* ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'''s [[BloodKnight Undyne]], perhaps taking cues from [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], 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]].]]

** Mega Rayquaza is so overpowered, ''it broke the metagame''. It was deemed too strong for even the highest tier, Ubers, where many of the PurposefullyOverpowered Legendary (and pseudo-Legendary) Pokemon go. Smogon was forced to create a new tier, Anything Goes, just so Mega Rayquaza could be used without being banned. This makes Rayquaza more powerful than Arceus, the ''god of the Pokemon world.''

** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28cGVLKLFw You can smash her with a hammer, or shoot her in the face...you can smash her with a pillar and blow up the whole place...you can throw her off a million cliffs with lava down below, it doesn't make a difference to Natla, oh!]]''

%%* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

* 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=] proved him wrong, after ''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]].

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

** The "{{DwarfFortress/Deathgate}}" succession fort has a Battery that produces power from nothing. "The physics is weeping".

** 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...

Events in Video Games that are not possible. '''only list examples that fit this description'''

** Mega Rayquaza is so overpowered, ''it broke the metagame''. It was deemed too strong for even the highest tier, Ubers, where many of the PurposefullyOverpowered Legendary (and pseudo-Legendary) Pokemon go. Smogon was forced to create a new tier, Anything Goes, just so Mega Rayquaza could be used without being banned.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': If the ONI officer reviewing Cole's life is correct, [[spoiler:Cole SURVIVED by executing an in-atmosphere slip-space jump, and is most likely finally living a life of peace far outside UNSC or Covenant space. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He deserves it.]]]]

** The "DwarfFortress/Deathgate" succession fort has a Battery that produces power from nothing. "The physics is weeping".

** Mega Rayquaza is so overpowered, ''it broke the metagame''.