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- Naturally averted.— From the (now cut) Real Life section of Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
These require actions or conditions that are, given the best available evidence, simply not possible in Real Life, or rely on a situation that doesn't exist outside of fiction. After all, there's no point in listing real-life examples if there are no real-life examples! These tropes are prone to Square Peg, Round Trope and/or Speculative Troping, since tropers will readily attempt to shoehorn anything in Real Life that they think sounds like the trope. Compare Narrative, Characterization, and Plot Tropes, which is for things that are impossible because they involve story elements or Out-of-Universe context. Contrast Too Common, which is the exact opposite.
- 0% Approval Rating - Politicians, even dictators, with low approval ratings would have already been removed from office before they hit the zero mark.
- 100% Adoration Rating - You cannot please everyone.
- 100% Heroism Rating
- The Ace - Nobody's perfect.
- Advert-Overloaded Future - It is impossible to predict the future.
- Alien Lunch - Humans have never contacted aliens.
- Back from the Dead
- Badass Normal
- Bad Present
- Bag of Holding
- Beast Man
- The Bermuda Triangle - Has already been discredited by scientific proof.
- Beyond the Impossible - Not only is it impossible by its very nature, it attracted gushing.
- Bishōnen Line
- Blasting Time
- Boldly Coming
- Bolt of Divine Retribution
- But Thou Must!
- The Can Kicked Him
- Can't Have Sex, Ever
- Carnivore Confusion
- Cartoonish Companions
- Chainmail Bikini - Would not work as a suit of armor.
- Cheeky Mouth
- The Chew Toy
- Chromosome Casting
- Conservation of Ninjutsu
- The Constant
- Contractual Immortality
- Dark World
- Death Amnesia
- Death Is Cheap
- Delivery Stork
- Demonic Spiders
- Deranged Animation
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Disc-One Final Boss
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
- Dream Weaver
- Eldritch Abomination - Most of the given examples were highly exaggerated descriptions of normal stuff.
- Elemental Powers
- Enlightenment Superpowers
- Everybody Owns a Ford - This is specifically limited to cases where this applies to everyone and is unrealistic.
- Everybody Smokes
- Everyone Is Gay
- Everyone Owns a Mac
- Evolutionary Levels
- Fantastic Racism - "Fantastic" as in "fantasy" or "fictional", not as in "awesome" (i.e., not the way the Doctor uses "fantastic"); racism never is.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief
- For Want of a Nail - The wiki does not speculate about Alternate History.
- Furry Confusion - Real Life does not have Funny Animals, and a monkey is not a less anthropomorphic version of a human.
- Genre Savvy - Real life doesn't have a genre.
- Gilligan Cut - Real life cannot skip time. There is a reason "real life" means it involves unwelcome as well as welcome experiences.
- Goddamned Bats
- Great Offscreen War
- Hartman Hips
- Healing Hands
- Healing Herb - This is a magic trope and not how actual medicinal plants work.
- Hollywood Acid
- Hollywood CB
- Hollywood Chameleons
- Hollywood Darkness
- Hollywood Hacking
- Hollywood Healing
- Humans Are the Real Monsters
- Humans Are Psychic in the Future
- Immortality Begins at 20
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- Improbable Infant Survival - In real life Anyone Can Die, including children.
- Inconsistent Coloring
- In Spite of a Nail
- Interactive Narrator
- In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
- Invisible to Normals
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Julius Beethoven da Vinci
- Limit Break
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
- Look Ma, No Plane!
- Louis Cypher
- Made of Evil
- Magi Babble
- Magical Gesture - Gestures in Real Life are not magical.
- Magical Native American - Also a stereotype.
- Magical Negro
- The Magic Goes Away
- Magic Realism
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
- Mermaid Problem - Also a sex trope and mermaid is a mythical creature.
- Misblamed - Fan reaction trope
- Monochrome Casting
- Muggles Do It Better
- Must Be Invited
- Mystical White Hair
- Narnia Time
- No Backwards Compatibility in the Future
- Nobody Can Die
- No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel
- Noodle People
- No Ontological Inertia
- One-Winged Angel
- Plant Person
- Post-Modern Magik
- Power-Up Food
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance
- Psychic Link
- Puni Plush - Real people are not artworks.
- Reality Warper
- Ridiculous Future Inflation
- Scrappy Mechanic
- Solid Clouds
- Spinosaurus vs. T. rex
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler
- Super-Deformed
- Superpower Lottery
- Super Weight - Only levels up to 1 (Iron Weight) are possible in real life.
- Talking Poo
- Tanks for Nothing
- They Killed Kenny Again
- Time Travel - While time travel is not definitively ruled out in real life, any Real Life examples are already covered by certain subtropes.
- Timey-Wimey Ball
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
- Top-Heavy Guy
- Trampoline Tummy
- Unrealistic Black Hole
- Vegetarian Vampire - Vampires thankfully are not even real.
- Virgin Power
- Weirdness Magnet
- Wizarding School - Wizards are not real, either.
- World of Badass
- You Can't Fight Fate
- Young Future Famous People
