History Main / HowIsThatEvenPossible

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku reveals he has no idea what kissing is. Vegeta incredulously points out that Goku has been married for years and has two children. Goku doesn't see what that has to do with it. This is due to a translation issue. In the original, Goku witnessed Trunks feeding Mai a senzu bean through mouth-to-mouth contact, and when he said he'd never dome "that" before, Vegeta asssumes he's talking about kissing.

* Said almost word for word in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' when the Dread Pirate Roberts reveals to Buttercup that he is in fact her sweetheart, Westley. She wants to know how this is possible, given that the Dread Pirate Roberts has been marauding for twenty years, but Westley only disappeared, presumed dead, five years ago. Westley then explains that the DreadPirateRoberts is a LegacyCharacter -- the original has been "living like a king in Patagonia for quite some time."

* ''Manga/TimeStopBrave'':

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku reveals he has no idea what kissing is. Vegeta incredulously points out that Goku has been married for years and has two children. Goku doesn't see what that has to do with it.

** In "A Ward Show", Principal Lewis reacts this way when Roger somehow tracks him down after he kidnaps Steve:

* In ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'', an all-female soccer team practically flies across the soccer field the way Sing and the others do, prompting this exchange:
-->'''Light Weight Vest:''' How do they fly like that?\\
'''Sing:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Must be special effects!]]
* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Doctor Strange separates Spider-Man's astral form from his body to take a magic box back from him. To his total surprise, Spider-Man's Spider Sense takes over and starts swinging his arm around quickly to keep the box away from Strange, while Strange keeps futilely trying to grab at it. Strange protests that Spider-Man should not be able to do this.
--->'''Strange:''' How are—you—doing this?\\
'''Peter:''' I have no idea.\\
'''Strange:''' You shouldn't—be able—to do that!

* ''Film/{{Superman}}'': Superman's Metropolis debut, catching Lois Lane and a falling helicopter in mid-air:

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "One Trick Phoney", this is everyone's reactions to Jessie's Charizard somehow doing moves that logically a Charizard shouldn't be able to do, like [[TunnelKing Dig]]. That said, in the game Charizard can learn it by a [=TM=].
* In ''Anime/OnePiece'':

* ''Fanfic/GodSlayingBladeWorks'': This is the general reaction everyone in ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' has whenever [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou or Illya]] use their powers, as they can [[WrongContextMagic perform spells without having to invoke the power of a god or other magical being]]. Guinevere and Lancelot are baffled when Shirou Traces copies of the weapons Excalibur, Caliburn, Rhongomyniad, and Arondight. In the Campioneverse, Excalibur belongs to Artus, The King of the End, and no other. Caliburn, Rhongomyniad, and Arondight are mere stories and do not even exist in the Campioneverse, yet their senses tell them they are real. Everybody gets really baffled when Shirou uses [[MentalWorld Unlimited Blade Works]].

** Sarda also invokes this (using a FlatWhat) when Ranger '''dual-wields his dual-wield''' [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/]].

* Happens to the word in this ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strip, when an AI appears to be drunk. [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2133]]

* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Scott is very confused by the black censor boxes that pop up on Julie's mouth when she swears.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing NewHorizons''. One villager interaction dialogue is them thinking how things don’t make sense on the island, like three kinds of wood from one tree and Tom Nook and the Nooklings buying stuff from you to give you money to pay off your house. But then they decide they’re worrying over nothing.

* In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Betrothed", Beast Boy is able to scare some palace guards away by transforming into one of the giant Tameranian beasts he saw earlier:
-->'''Raven:''' How long have you been able to do that?\\
'''Beast Boy:''' Uh... Since just now? [[note]]Fans have debated just how Beast Boy's powers work, given that he seems able to turn into any living or extinct member of a planet's natural ecosystem, but not magical creatures like Malchior; [[{{Fanon}} it's now generally agreed]] that if he has ''seen'' the animal, or a depiction of it, he can turn into it.[[/note]]

* In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Betrothed", Beast Boy is able to scare some palace guards away by transforming into one of the giant Tameranian beasts he saw earlier:

-->-- '''[[RunningGag/RedVsBlue Many People]]''', ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

* From ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

** In "Homer Goes to College", Homer is put in a truck containing a simulator of his work station and somehow causes the truck to suffer a meltdown.

** "The Internet": Gumball asks this verbatim after an embarrassing video of him gets a hit counter so high the numbers start falling off the screen and leaking out the computer.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''
** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "virus", when the virus infects Strong Bad's computer, Homestar declares that it "needs words" and proceeds to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou steal them from the navbar]]. Strong Bad objects that that's not supposed to be possible.
** In "4 branches", Strong Bad finds Homestar stuck in the office's water cooler, with one foot hanging out of the nozzle.
--->'''Strong Bad:''' Just explain to me what you were ''trying'' to do when this happened.\\
'''Homestar:''' Well, [[OrphanedSetUp I was in Barbados, hanging a picture on the wall...]]\\
'''Strong Bad:''' Okay, that tells me everything I need to know.
** In "original" Strong Bad explains the incident that caused the original Bubs to quit the show:
--->'''Original Bubs:''' Hey! Who ate all the mayo off of my egg salad?! ...And ''how?''\\
'''The King of Town:''' It's a proprietary technique I can't reveal!
* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'':
-->'''Armed robber:''' You're gettin' mugged, kid!\\
'''Unarmed kid:''' ''(makes {{Finger Gun}}s with his hands)'' [[NoYou No YOU'RE getting mugged!]]\\
'''Armed robber:''' Ah! How the hell does that even ''work''?

* In the ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' episode "Eggs Benefits", when Nurf and Preston's [[EggSitting egg that they were taking care of]] [[RuleOfFunny runs away offscreen]], [[OnlySaneMan Max]] yells "He ran away?!" in a tone that evokes this trope.

* ''Fanfic/KrisPerdormsSurgery'': After getting banished into his own ass, Rudy questions how that's even possible, since he doesn't yet know that he's inside a Dark World made from his own body.

* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail''
** Strong Bad finds Homestar stuck in the office's water cooler, with one foot hanging out of the nozzle.

'''Homestar:''' Well, I was in Barbados, hanging a picture on the wall...\\

** Strong Bad explains the incident that caused the original Bubs to quit the show:
--->'''Original Bubs:''' Hey! Who ate all the mayo off of my egg salad?! ...And how??\\

** When The Virus infects Strong Bad's computer, Homestar declares that it "needs words" and proceeds to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou steal them from the navbar]]. Strong Bad objects that that's not supposed to be possible.

'''Unarmed kid:''' ''(makes a "gun" with his fingers)'' [[NoYou No,]] ''[[NoYou you're]]'' [[NoYou getting mugged!]]\\

** In "Joint Custody", it's explained what happened to Jeff's mother: