History Main / IRejectYourReality

* A group of Dwarves in ''[[{{Narnia}} The Last Battle]]'' decided that Aslan wasn't real so they couldn't see that they were in Aslan's Country, thinking they were in a small dark shack. When they were given wonderful food they ate it but thought it tasted like shit, because they expected food passed around in a small dark shack to taste like shit. Basically a TakeThat against atheists: anyone who doesn't believe in God must be seriously deluded. In ''The Magician's Nephew'', there is a similar scene where the titular magician, being all evil and atheist and all, sees Aslan as just a lion that goes around growling at people.

* An inversion of the trope: ALoonaticsTale Issue #4: "Talking To Myself," is about Dr. Qubert giving the main characters a mental health interview; Dr. Qubert's own personal philosophy on the treatment of mental disorders is that if he can see reality the way his patient does, he can understand what makes him see it that way and the best way to fix it. So in a very real sense he works by temporarily rejecting his own reality, so that he can see how his patient needs to change ''their'' reality to bring it in line with what's medically considered normal.

* The "customers are crazy" website NotAlwaysRight.com is chock ''full'' of people who try to reject reality and substitute their own version.

* InvaderZim is convinced that he's the greatest [[GalacticConqueror Irken Invader]] ever; completely oblivious to the fact that he's an incompetent, insane dolt who's [[AllTheOtherReindeer hated by his entire species]].

* ''[[GeniusTheTransgression Genius: the Transgression]]'' has the Umanda, MadScientists who believe they alone understand the truth. Umanda are low level reality warpers who unknowingly prove themselves right and censor contradictory facts. Then there are the Baramins of Lemuria. Whole organisations of Umanda sharing similar delusions bases around a key point where mankind went off in the wrong direction, and they're going to fix it. Any way they can...

* ''MageTheAscension'' features Marauders, mages who had something strange happen during their Awakening that drove them mad. [[PowerBornOfMadness As a direct result of that]], they're more powerful than other mages, as [[WeirdnessCensor Paradox]] slides off of them and onto others, meaning they can get away with the most blatant of magic without reality grabbing them by the short hairs. However, they're also locked in their own delusions, and if they get powerful enough, reality rejects them.

--> -- '''Paul''', ''The Dungeonmaster''

** Esper powers are essentially low grade [[RealityWarper reality warping]] powers. Part of the training involved in increasing the level of an Esper's power is by teaching and strengthening their personal reality and making the triggers for them to unleash it easier.

-> '''Baron Münchhausen''': Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm [[AchievementsInIgnorance delighted to say I have no grasp of it whatsoever]]!
-> --''TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''

-> "I reject your reality and substitute my own."
-> -- Adam Savage of ''[[{{Mythbusters}} Mythbusters]]''

-> "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Talk radio host Michael Savage

* Cornelius Fudge in ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' is in utter denial about the return of Voldemort - by ''Order Of the Phoenix'', the Minestry of Magic is outright denying the comeback until the battle in the Ministry itself forces the issue.

* {{To Aru Majutsu No Index}} has Esper powers involving something called a 'Personal Reality' which suggests that something along the lines of this trope is in play.

* Doctor Thirteen in the DCU has this as his superpower. He's a crazy skeptic who doesn't believe in the supernatural despite living in a world where wizards and aliens are public celebrities. Because of his innate unknown powers, the supernatural literally doesn't exist for him (but does for his beleaguered wife and his witch daughter).

* {{To Aru Majutsu No Index}} has Esper powers involving something called a 'Personal Reality' which suggests that something along the lines of this trope is in play.
* While not exactly an example, Adam from {{Mythbusters}} is known for having said/quoted "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

* While not exactly an example, Adam from Mythbusters is known for having said/quoted "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

* Orihime, from ''{{Bleach}}'', is [[RealityWarper POWERED]] by this...
** She can apparently bring people back from the dead simply by screaming NOOOOOOOO!!!
*** Well, if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

* A group of Dwarves in ''[[{{Narnia}} The Last Battle]]'' decided that Aslan wasn't real so they couldn't see that they were in Aslan's Country, thinking they were in a small dark shack. When they were given wonderful food they ate it but thought it tasted like shit, because they expected food passed around in a small dark shack to taste like shit.
** Basically a TakeThat against atheists: anyone who doesn't believe in God must be seriously deluded. In ''The Magician's Nephew'', there is a similar scene where the titular magician, being all evil and atheist and all, sees Aslan as just a lion that goes around growling at people.

* Lady Scheppnel of ''ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', has as one of her mantras that "rules are meant to be broken". This includes the laws of time travel and physics. [[TemporalSickness Time lag?]] No such thing, you're trying to shirk work with a lame excuse. [[YouCantTakeItWithYou Bring artifacts back from the past?]] Well, [[spoiler: they find a loophole in the end but]] who cares if it can't be done? [[NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel Too dangerous to send the black grad student back to do work?]] Nonsense, it's only an air raid, how bad can it be?
* Cornelius Fudge in ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' is in utter denial about the return of Voldemort - by ''Order Of the Pheonix'', the Minestry of Magic is outright denying the comeback until the battle in the Ministry itself forces the issue.

* Calvin of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' can be quoted thus: "It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

* AtlasShrugged: Among the books themes is that the governments and the failed businesses are denying reality (in the form of what amounts to Objectivism: reality is objective, morality is not subjective, and all the capatilist and "man qua man" philosophy attached to it) and should be left to suffer the concequences. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Let's not get into the debate about its merits here]], as if [[CouldSayItBut there are dissenters who might theoretically just list the book here]] as a TakeThat gesture.

* ''[[GeniusTheTransgression Genius: the Transgression]]'' features the Baramins of Lemuria. They practice the maddest of MadScience, based on discredited theories of the ages. Thing is, unlike their opponents, the Peerage, they don't recognize that it's [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder their own personal madness powering their inventions]]; instead, they think something went horribly wrong with the model of the universe, and they're going to fix it. Any way they can...

The poster child for many other tropes: BeliefMakesYouStupid, the InspectorJavert, the KnightTemplar, the LawfulStupid.

* AtlasShrugged.

-> He's as blind as he can be,
->[[SelectiveObliviousness Just sees what he wants to see,]]
->Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
-> --TheBeatles - Nowhere Man

-> '''Adam Savage''': Ok, so I was off on my percentages. I gave what happened here a 30% chance of happening.
-> '''Camerawoman''': (offscreen) 20%.
-> '''Adam''': No, 30.
->''(Cut to flashback of [[IronicEcho what the audience saw just moments before]], Adam predicting odds of 70%, 20% and 10%.)''
-> '''Adam''': [[BlatantLies No, that wasn't me]], [[ImplausibleDeniability that was somebody else]]. (...) [[BadLiar I said 50, 40, 10]].
->''(Replay flashback)''
-> '''Adam''': [[CatchPhrase I reject your reality and substitute my own!]]
-> --''{{Mythbusters}}''