Events in fanfiction that are not possible. Only list examples that fit the description.
- Heaven-Smiting Masked Magician
(not a crossover, but heavily inspired by Gurren Lagann): It has been stated repeatedly that it's impossible to destroy the incoming meteor in space for three reasons. First, whatever that tries to get past the atmosphere will get burnt up unless the object is extremely fast. Second, there's no oxygen in space, while there's no sign of spacesuit in-universe. Third, the meteor is over a mile in diameter. Guile, whose flight speed is just slightly faster than a hunting bird and armed with only his magic power and Boom Stick, doesn't care and brushes it off with a Badass Boast (complete with Kamina's pose) when the fortuneteller warns him about it. Through blasting the ground with Kamehame Hadoken, he gets past the atmosphere, and he later does the same trick on the Moon to get a speed boost in space, so that he can complete his mission before the oxygen supply in his body depletes. He succeeds, and his achievement terrifies people.
Crossovers
- The Boy Who Fell from the Sky & The Girl Who Found Him (Naruto and The Legend of Korra): When Naruto tries to restore Bolin's Earthbending with his Six Paths Powers Naruto some how turns Bolin from an Earthbender to an Airbender.
- Child of the Storm (massive multi-crossover): As in canon, it is impossible to Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts. Stephen Strange, however, regularly teleports into, out of, and throughout the school with no trouble whatsoever. For him, laws of nature seem to be areas for targeted disobedience (see also his somehow managing to defeat a Humanoid Abomination in a Wizard Duel while simultaneously performing Astral Projection to the other side of the battlefield.) Most other characters eventually just brush it off as 'Strange being Strange in every sense of the phrase', while Hermione has mild hysterics.
- Elementals of Harmony (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Magic: The Gathering): Spike's fire breath apparently burns faster than entropy. The story acknowledges that this shouldn't make sense, but dragonfire, like dragons, is magical enough to make it work regardless.
- Equestrylvania (formerly My Little Castlevania; My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Castlevania): Fluttershy's animals turn on her in one scene. Which is where we really start to understand just how powerful Dracula's influence is, since Fluttershy's special talent is her connection with animals. Yet, Dracula is able to control the animals she raised herself!
- Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver (fusion of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the Fallout universe): The fic brings to one of its settlements centered around aircraft construction a trio of stallions bearing some resemblance to a certain other trio of blokes that once worked for the BBC. Given how things usually went when they were tasked with piecing together their own vehicles, it should be no surprise this rings true for the three stallions in the fic as well.Sharpwing, while discussing the fireproof fabric used for the Stork's flight surfaces: "That, and, uh, this was all they had left of it. Heavy Strike said that Fast Track set most of what wasn't used in the airship's balloon on fire... somehow."
- Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness (Megas XLR and Touhou Project): Features Patchouli Knowledge, of all people, throwing Reimu at Megas's head. Patchouli is anemic, asthmatic, and lacking in both Vitamin A and physical strength, so she should not have been able to throw a grown person any sort of distance without outside help. No one told her that, and given how much stress she was under due to Coop and Marisa's shenanigans, it was likely she would not have cared about that or the fact that it was Gensokyo's protector she had thrown: she was angry, she was staying as far from Megas from possible, and that was final. Alice guessed after the deed was done that Patchouli was more like Coop than she realized.
- The Flower Princess and the Alchemist (Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach): Because of her ability to ignore the Law of Equivalent Exchange, this is the reason Edward initially believes Orihime possesses a Philosopher's Stone. In the beginning, Ed's inability to comprehend her powers frustrates him, but he has gotten over it.
- Game Over (massive multi-crossover): SC does do some things that circumvent other's expectations as to what is possible, although there's always the question of whether or not it always was possible and the other people just didn't think it was. SC's claim is that "anything is possible... except beating Kat."
- Glorious Shotgun Princess (Mass Effect and Exalted): A common theme in the story is that "this is impossible" means nothing to an Exalt.
- Hybrid Theory (massive multi-crossover):
- Beyond the natural reality of Chi and the common impossibilities of Magic, you have the Third Circle, where people in moments of desperation can push themselves beyond all normal limits. Its presence can set people outside the rules and allow them to force new Concepts to be and always have been at the expense of collapsing timelines and accruing Paradox.
- Thanks to Ukyou's constant exposure to the Third Circle due to her bond with Aaron, when Sailor Pluto freezes time in order to kill her, the ninja isn't affected. It's not through an act of will, but simply because Ukyou wasn't paying attention.
- The Infinite Loops (massive multi-crossover):
- This is hilariously common due to Loopers applying solutions from one universe to problems in an entirely different universe which bypass the given ruleset making something impossible. Special mention, however, goes to a non awake Dr. Wily bypassing the antitech barrier in The Conversion Bureau setting with his army of robots; not destroying it, just bypassing it.
- Billy is an MLE because of this. Through nothing but his sheer, lethal stupidity, Billy has managed to accomplish what even loopers deem impossible, including crashing three safe-mode punishment loops. For those not in the know, punishment loops lock away a looper's subspace pocket, restricts their abilities to baseline, and railroads them to the plot of whatever universe they're in. They are among the most stable loops in Yggdrasil — crashing them is literally suppose to be impossible. The mere fact that Billy managed to crash three speaks volumes of what he is capable of in his idiocy, leading to him being classified as a danger to not only himself, but to other loopers and Yggdrasil as a whole.
- He got GENDO IKARI to loop. Loopers are determined by how close they are to their respective loop's anchor. Shinji despises his father so much that it was a guarantee that he'd never loop, especially considering how much the rest of the multiverse despises him as well. Then, one day, Billy replaced Shinji for the loop, and suddenly Gendo Ikari finds himself stuck in a multiverse that hates his guts.
- The MLP Loops: This is how ponies ascend to alicorns. They do something that's supposed to be impossible related to their special talent, while touching a sufficiently powerful magical artifact such as an Element of Harmony—it helps that the artifact makes the impossible just a little less impossible. Rainbow Dash flew across the entire world in twenty minutes (she hit mach seventy near the end), Applejack terraformed Tatooine (it was a Star Wars crossover), Fluttershy negotiated peace with the changelings (by herself), Pinkie redeemed the Eldar civilization with a years-long party and replaced Slaanesh (it was a Warhammer 40,000 crossover), and Rarity made fifty-two masterpiece dresses overnight (including out of impossible materials such as water and moonlight).
- The Interference (massive multi-crossover): Hyperion stole Terra's Keyblade with alchemy. No one seems to recognize this impossible feat.
- A Knight's Tale As Inquisitor (Fate Series and Dragon Age): the deal that Arturia made with Alaya in order to gain another chance to save Camelot has been rendered null the minute Arturia obtained the Anchor when she arrived at Thedas. Why is this such a confounding situation? Because Alaya is also known as the collective unconsciousness of mankind itself, meaning that the pact that Arturia made at her death bed was with the World of Nasuverse itself...and the Anchor has broken that very pact by simply being attached to Arturia.
- The Lone Traveler (massive multi-crossover) has some examples.
- In one particular version of the Buffyverse, some of the local deities have managed to hide the entire universe from the sight of God himself. Too bad for them they forgot to guard against entry by quantum mirror.
- My Little Denarians (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and The Dresden Files): In The Dresden Files canon it is thought impossible to destroy a Denarian's coin. The most you can normally do is kill the host and seal away the coin. Harry is understandably shocked when Lash's defeat of Lasciel results in the coin being destroyed.
- The Night Unfurls (Bloodborne and Kuroinu: Kedakaki Seijo wa Hakudaku ni Somaru): Kyril is shown to dual wield trick weapons at once in two occasions: Chapter 22 of the original (Hunter's Axe + Stake Driver), and Chapter 12 of the remastered version (Beast Cutter + Stake Driver). On the surface, this may seem nothing out of the ordinary, until one realises that in Bloodborne, this is by no means possiblenote .
- Running With Death: The Addams family (shocker) is this to the entire wizarding community (good and evil). The family uses Dark magic regularly without any of the usual ill effects (because they use a form of dark magic that isn't inherently evil and predates the Dark magic used by Death Eaters), the Addams clan existed long before the Statute of Secrecy so they don't have to adhere to it (hence why they willingly show their creepy and kooky tendencies in public), they can bring back victims of Killing Curses as ghosts with the Addams family ritual (so long as they're in the Addams family), they keep a dragon as a pet (he's a wonderful guard dog), and before age eight Harry managed to scare Pennywise the Clown (he ran away crying!). Also, Lurch is one of the only known beings to have befriending Inari, leader of the kitsune (apparently Lurch's tofu recipe is just that good).
- Stardust (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within): Twilight's abilities break all the laws of physics Vahlen knows and their usage doesn't register on any of XCOM's sensors.
- Thousand Shinji (Neon Genesis Evangelion and Warhammer 40,000): According to the Magi, the data Ritsuko enters to determine how a massacre of black ops troops occurred is completely impossible. She has to write a patch for the software just to make the computers accept what they view as nonsensical data. (In reality, it just requires technology from 38,000 years in the future).
- Time Lords and Terror (Doctor Who and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): There was a storm in the first chapter that was "outright contradictory to all known magical laws." Trying to quantify the impossible event that happened over her head makes Twilight shout, “AAAAAARRRGH!!!!”
- The Wizard in the Shadows (Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings): Harry performs supposedly impossible feats regularly in this series. Ollivander lampshades it.
- Facing the Future Series: Danny's feral Super Mode gives him enough power to break free of Vlad's spectral energy neutralizer box that he normally couldn't escape on his own.
- In chapter 7 of Dinosaur King Retold, the D-Team inadvertently leave Spiny behind, who then throws a house party with fireworks and loud music that causes the house to jump up and down. When the D-Team gets back, the house is somehow cleaner than it was before they left.Tank: H-h-how?! You said you had a dance party! You said you used fireworks! How is this place so clean?!
Spiny: I must have been cleaning when I was partying.
- Phone Call: The Doctor somehow manages to win the entire game of Grand Theft Auto without killing anyone.
- build your wings on the way down: Roy believed that taking apart a chimera was impossible, only for Ed to prove him wrong and save Nina.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Harry believes Humans Are Special and this gives him the power to destroy dementors. In canon, the best one could do is make them go away. Here's how Harry did it. When someone normally tries to summon a Patronus they think of a good memory from their childhood, and this normally results in creating a Patronus, always in the form of a specific animal. But Harry? Harry thinks of his utter rejection of death as a concept, which causes his Patronus to evolve into the form of a human and be as bright as the sun. This completely annihilates the dementor.
- Where in the World Is Harry Potter?: The third story, You Did What?!, has Bob wanting Harry to tempt fate to see how much further Beyond the Impossible he can go after accidentally bringing his dead parents and godfather back to life in the bodies of his uncle, aunt and cousin respectively, something already confirmed to be impossible in canon. Considering the kind of Troll Harry is in this story, the concept of Harry doing worse terrifies most people.
- Ollivander: I always figured there would be an Ollivander's until the end of time. I just didn't think that would happen in my lifetime.
- Becoming a True Invader: With Zim's training, the Heboadians somehow become capable of stabbing through objects as tough as body armor with just blunt sticks.
- In Failure to Explode, a Point of Divergence regarding a bunch of Glory Hound Heroes nearly getting people killed leads to the HSPC making a complete rearrangement in Hero school entrance testing methods: the Hero Point becomes a stronger Secret Test of Character. Considering that it takes as simple an act of common decency during the test as helping others or warning them to watch out as all hell is breaking loose, earning them is easy. And then Bakugou Katsuki astonishes the teachers running the entry tests at UA (and not in a good way) when he breaks the record of Villain Points of the test but has zero Hero Points. He is denied entry as a result.
- In When Reason Fails, things like defeating a Category Seven Aberrant or befriending a Demi-Power is generally considered impossible, especially if you are not a Magister. Izuku achieving both feats in a single trip just three weeks into his life as an Initiate surpasses what most Magisters achieve in their immortal lifetimes, and Izuku isn't even a Magister himself.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- The Life and Times of a Winning Pony: Invoked. Most of Rainbow Dash's plans boil down to "throw myself into the thick of things with no forethought, then make the impossible happen."
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
- Killing a dragon with fire, which Blazen Sun did.
- The Nightmare's spirit body - not the host, but the Nightmare's very self - bleeds when Night Blade nearly cuts off one of its wings.
- Dragon glass steel is among the most unbreakable materials in the world. Vix-Lei was able to crack it with a squeaky rubber hammer.
- Titanomachy (by Biochi [1]: Features Twilight hatching a plan that only the most desperate pony would try, using a formula that involved quantities of magic involving a constant she had computed but was certain wasn't done right, as it was 'in the range of the speed of light, in pony-lengths per second, times itself - a literal unbelievably large number.'. Luna later comments on this. Two stories later, so do the Fates, and they're not very happy about it. It involves basically jumpstarting her own corpse with the leftover corrupting essence of an evil god. So yes, she is in a way rather desperate at this point.
- Waking Nightmares: Harbinger qualifies because he's an earth pony and earth ponies do not have special powers like the unicorns and pegasi. Yet, he's faster than a train.
- The Worst Bakers In Equestria: Those who compete in such a competition are so horrible their cooking breaks the laws of physics and creates malevolent bread golems.
- In many Naruto fics, like this one. Despite being sealed, Kurama can alter DNA and create new bloodlines.
- Echoes (Kagaseo): Naruko can trick herself, her mindscape, an emotion reading monster and her own soul into thinking she is completely pure of heart.
- Nier: Automata (RE)Birth: Emil is shocked that A2 found a living human baby in part because humanity went extinct thanks to the White Chlorination Syndrome and the failure of the GESAULT Project, along with the fact that the cyrogenics lab that A2 found the baby should have broken down centuries ago. When he, A2, 2B, and 9S investigate the lab, he discovers the baby survived so long thanks to magic drawn from WCS-infected corpses surrounding him.
- Nobody Dies: Jet Alone Prime generates an AT-field despite not being an Evangelion and Mana uses it to collapse an Angel's AT-field.
- RE-TAKE: Shinji swats Arael out of the sky with his AT Field. Yes, a purely defensive ability somehow turned into a weapon.
- Shinji and Warhammer40k: In canon, AT-Fields are only a defensive shield. Repeatedly this is stated to be what they are and what they do. This fic uses them to do things that are literally impossible.
- To Protect Everything: At one point, Zoro somehow manages to get lost and end up on a different Yagura bull despite sitting down on the correct one and not moving.
- This Bites! is full of examples.
- While fighting Blueno, Sanji enters the former's 'door dimension' so he can't use his powers to take Robin. He then kick the bricks so hard they carry his legs' momentum into Blueno in the real world, something Blueno fearfully notes only the strongest of CP9 were able to do.
- A doctor checking up Luffy practically shouts that even with Luffy's rubber body, he took so many injuries and so much stress in his fight against Lucci that he should have gone unconscious two days ago despite the fact the fight was merely yesterday.
- Cross's reaches his limit with Luffy's stupidity when Luffy mistakes Coby for Natsu Dragneel, a level that transcends time and space.
- An then Garp proves that he's even dumber by revealing who Luffy's father is... after Cross told him that the SBS was broadcasting. Even Dragon admits to Cross that of all the strange things he saw in his life (including the fact that Cross is from another world), that moment is one of the few things that fazes him.
- In their You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to Cross, B.R.O.B. tells him that Merry and Ace's deaths in canon are meant to be fixed points in the timeline that no one can prevent. However, Cross's actions to save them ultimately succeded, and they outright tell him that if he was able to change those events, he can change anything.
- Ashes of the Past: Most of what Ash's Squirtle (stated to be an Expy of Trope Namer Kamina) does is classified as impossible. In fact, it's considered routine as Ash has specifically said he's stopped telling Squirtle something's impossible, for the Tiny Turtle Pokémon considers 'impossible' a challenge.
- Squirtle has broken space.
- To quote Dexter:
Dexter: Also, battles will almost invariably end in some improbable manifestation of power.- He creates Squirtilite and mega evolves into Mega Squirtle.
- Brave New World (Pokémon): Leo himself said making a "Enhance Button" is impossible but "I figured out how to make one of my own in spite of that because I'm awesome." This disregard for physical laws makes Pikachu's eye twitch.
- Monsters In Paradise: This is Tobias's rationale for stocking his team with Legendaries at the Sinnoh tournament, as he feels that it's the person who can achieve the impossible that deserves to be the Champion. Whether he was referring to himself or to Ash's efforts against Darkrai and Latios is left unsaid.
- Traveler: Normally, Psychic Pokemon can't affect Dark types unless using Miracle Eye. Even being too close to one can disable their powers, as noted by Dazed being unable to feed on Ash's dreams when he's sleeping next to Sneasel. Mewtwo not only tosses Sneasel around with ease, but he even hurts Mew transformed into Darkrai.
- Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries: Butterfree (generally considered a Com Mon from the starting areas of the game) explodes and burns down the Celadon Gym. While learning Solar Beam.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: In Acts V and VI, Babylon's powers enable the souls of the dead to leave the afterlife, which the angels of Heaven insist shouldn't be possible.Gabriel: Whoever this monster is, he... defied the laws of life itself.
- Star Wars: Lineage: Qui-Gon does a mind trick on a droid, while smugly reflecting that the Force, like he himself, has little use for naysayers who conventionally define what "is" and "isn't" possible.
- The Roboutian Heresy: At the end of the Battle of Macragge, the sheer rage inside Titus allows him to overcome the holds enforced by Guilliman's genetic code and Khornate blessings.
Other
- Gensoukyou Great Sports Day - 200 Yojana in a flash: At the start, Youmu's power just lets her run very fast but she later uses the same spellcard to exist outside space and time.
