History Main / TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': This gets worked into [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu's]] stat block when facing him. Since he's not entirely of the 3rd dimension or, even Euclidian space for that matter, his fight gets slapped with a couple of ''nasty'' quirks...the first being all attacks having a 50% chance to miss Cthulhu, since he isn't ''quite'' where your PCs perceive him to be, and the other being ''his'' attacks hitting in a 10-foot cube around where he actually strikes. Now, you ''could'' beat this by using the [[TrueSight True Sight Spell]], but then this Trope REALLY comes into play by forcing any character who DOES to take an immediate Will save...with the penalty for failing it being ''instant'' and '''permanent''' insanity from glimpsing Cthulhu's actual form.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': This gets worked into [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu's]] stat block when facing him. Since he's not entirely of the 3rd dimension or, even Euclidian space for that matter, his fight gets slapped with a couple of ''nasty'' quirks...the first being all attacks having a 50% chance to miss Cthulhu, since he isn't ''quite'' where your PCs perceive him to be, and the other being ''his'' attacks hitting in a 10-foot cube around where he actually strikes. Now, you ''could'' beat this by using the [[True Sight Spell TrueSight]], but then this Trope REALLY comes into play by forcing any character who DOES to take an immediate Will save...with the penalty for failing it being ''instant'' and '''permanent''' insanity from glimpsing Cthulhu's actual form.

** ''Life, The Universe, and Everything'' features a poor guy who was a trial witness who was accidentally overdosed on {{Truth Serum|s}} -- so when they told him to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," he told ''all'' of it. And drove pretty much everyone in the courtroom mad in the process, but oddly didn't seem bothered by it himself. By the time Arthur and company show up, he's already finished, commenting that there's not as much of it as people think. (And apparently most of the good bits are about frogs.)

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': After seeing Ed Wood's ''[[SoBadItsGood Bride of the Monster]]'', the line "He tampered in God's domain" became almost a CatchPhrase for Crow T. Robot.

Not to be confused with YouDoNOTWantToKnow, which you wouldn’t enjoy knowing but won’t destroy you from the revelation. Nor with WomensMysteries, the things ''men'' were not meant to know— although perhaps that may suggest a clever loophole for NoManOfWomanBorn.

Not to be confused with YouDoNOTWantToKnow, which you wouldn’t enjoy knowing but won’t destroy you from the revelation. Nor with WomensMysteries, the things ''men'' were not meant to know— although perhaps a clever woman might find a loophole as in NoManOfWomanBorn.

Not to be confused with YouDoNOTWantToKnow, WomensMysteries (things ''men'' were not meant to know).

** In the episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/RickAndMortyS7E2TheJerrickTrap The Jerrick Trap]]", Rick does a FreakyFridayFlip with his son-in-law Jerry. However, trying to work with everything he knew using a normal human brain was simply too much, and he immediately has a nervous breakdown and tries to kill himself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the main reason Rick is so mentally disturbed is that humanity was clearly never meant to have access to The Multiverse, encounter the horrors therein, and most importantly, face the existential nightmares of knowing of your infinite alternate selves. He (barely) copes by being an alcoholic hedonistic sociopath. Morty took his first steps along this path by blocking out these thoughts with the noise of mindless television and advises his sister to do the same.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all."
** Rowling later goes to say that the room actually contained... [[http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30766/what-is-in-the-locked-room-in-the-department-of-mysteries a fountain of love potion.]] Which the researchers would take to "[[SexualEuphemism study the effects of love]]".
** This causes a ContinuitySnarl since [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Horace Slughorn]] explicitly explained that love potions are ''not'' love potions. They are ''obsession'' potions.

** ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' also features a poor guy who was a trial witness who was accidentally overdosed on {{Truth Serum|s}} -- so when they told him to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," he told ''all'' of it. And drove pretty much everyone in the courtroom mad in the process, but oddly didn't seem bothered by it himself. By the time Arthur and company show up, he's already finished, commenting that there's not as much of it as people think. (And apparently most of the good bits are about frogs.)

*** A young Harry once interacted with an Outsider for all of fifteen minutes. His description of encountering it ''normally'' is nearly as bad as his description of the skinwalker through the Sight[[note]]Both can be found on the Quotes.EldritchAbomination page, if you're up for some NightmareFuel[[/note]], and it left a psychic scar that's still visible years later. It should also be noted that this is from the perspective of someone [[spoiler: whose mind is shielded from the worst effects of touching an Outsider.]] He eventually encounters another Outsider, many years and many brushes with horrible, horrible things later, and he's...mostly able to handle the experience.

*** A young Harry once interacted with an Outsider for all of fifteen minutes. His description of encountering it ''normally'' is nearly as bad as his description of the skinwalker through the Sight[[note]]Both can be found on the Quotes.EldritchAbomination page, if you're up for some NightmareFuel[[/note]], and it left a psychic scar that's still visible years later. It should also be noted that this is from the perspective of someone [[spoiler: whose mind is shielded from the worst effects of touching an Outsider.]]