History Literature / BeyondReality

** Lustaka, the Fucking God is essentially lauv'abrarc, the Lustful God from ''VideoGame/LustForDarkness'' and ''VideoGame/LustFromBeyond'' if he was PlayedForLaughs as opposed to being played for horror. While Lustaka's ability to induce anyone to undergo a rabid sexual frenzy is shown to be similar to what lauv'abrarc can do, it's portrayed as much more harmless than the games in question, and ''Beyond Reality'' shows how an entity like this would be more of a NormalFishInATinyPond when compared to various other Gods and eldritch horrors that exist in the multiverse.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Dialogue in ''Interdimensional Diplomacy'' reveals the Earth Ascendancy has shades of this, refusing to acknowledge the existence of the divine and argue that any being claiming to be such is merely a pretender. This bites them in the ass when they unknowingly invade Lustaka's realm, and subsequently invade God's universe during that same story.

* StoryBreakerPower: God is omnipotent, but only within his own universe. Celeste is an Interdimensional Goddess who can shift entire worlds across the multiverse. When they work together and combine their powers in tandem, they could trivialize pretty much everything in most stories that take place post ''When Your Reality Cracks'', which is why they explicitly focus their efforts on the infinity of worlds in the multiverse that are completely devoid of hope, leaving the UEW Agency to their own devices.

* BigFishInABiggerOcean: Shows up frequently with various Gods and eldritch beings who end up discovering and exploring the multiverse. Notably, this trope is responsible for Nyarlathotep's downfall, as while he's an undeniably powerful Outer God, he still treats his foes like he's dealing with mortals he can play with without fear of retaliation, and while that may have been the case in his own universe, in the wider multiverse, both God and Celeste (among others) have the power to actually hurt him.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Discussed and appears on a number of occasions, but a specific example would be Lustaka, the Fucking God. Among the vast scales of the multiverse, and the various other Gods and cosmic beings that appear, he's treated primarily as a joke. Compared to powerful entities like [[TheOmnipotent God]], [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]], [[ThinkingUpPortals Celeste]], [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death, Fate]], [[{{Satan}} the Devil]], [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse the Interdimensional Guardians]], and more, his primary ability to force people into a sexual frenzy is extremely lacking by comparison. Even members of the United Extradimensional Worlds don't treat him that seriously as a threat. [[spoiler: With that said, when the Earth Ascendancy sent an invasion force to his lust dimension, the entire army was rendered completely helpless by his power. For all the UEW has mocked him and his title, they still understand that Lustaka is called a ''god'' for a reason]].

* CurbStompBattle: Anyone who ends up in God's universe as his enemy tends to end up on the receiving end of this.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Shows up on occasion, with characters like Evelyn Monet and Kaitlin Holmes indicated to have been having their own adventures in between their various appearances.

* CuttingTheKnot: Mid-way through the big battle in ''When Your Reality Cracks'', [[spoiler: Celeste realizes that God is using her own powers to create a hijacked connection for his avatar to exist in her border realm. In response, she simply shuts every single interdimensional rift she made into his universe, cutting off the connection and causing his avatar to vanish]].

* LogicalWeakness: For all her power, Celeste ultimately has the body of a human being. As a result, she can be tired out and even killed just like anyone else. Her ResurrectiveImmortality helps mitigate the second part though.

''Beyond Reality'' is an interconnected and ongoing ScienceFantasy novel trilogy and short story series written by Jeffrey Konkin. The series focuses on the perspective of various superpowered agents of the United Extradimensional Worlds and their allies, while also blending multiple genres together in an exploration of the multiverse and various dangers and threats therein.

* DimensionalTraveler: All the characters in the series are this, though the methods of how often vary. Some like Sean, Sylvia and Celeste have the innate power to travel between universes, while others like the Alchemist use magic to generate portals between universes. Meanwhile, the bulk of the UEW Agency rely on technological methods implanted in their armors to travel around the multiverse.

* OhCrap: Nyarlathotep goes through this when he realizes that Celeste can not only see him, she's more than capable of hurting him. [[spoiler: He goes through it again in the epilogue of ''When Your Reality Cracks'' when Celeste teleports every single one of his avatars into God's universe, allowing him to wipe out the Outer God completely]].

* MediumAwareness: To the point where it overlaps with NoFourthWall. The series has brought up more than once that what is fictional in one universe is reality in another and vice versa, but it's really on display in ''When Your Reality Cracks''. During Celeste's rampage, she sends Sean, Sylvia, Rachel and Jacob to a couple of universes beyond the Fourth wall, first to one where the events of the story are being filmed as FilmOfTheBook (with the film stage in question being set up as a scene where the actors meet the characters when it actually happens), then to a universe where the author of the series is in the middle of writing the book in question. Furthermore, besides the above mentioned TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou event, the book also ends with God and Celeste directly addressing the audience.

* TheMultiverse: The main setting of the series, with a wide variety of locales and one-shot universes that appear throughout each story. The series also discusses and explores the idea more in depth with acknowledgements about the differences between reality and fiction, the differences and similarities between [[AnotherDimension dimensions]], [[AlternateUniverse universes]], and [[AlternateTimeline timelines]], various afterlives and pantheons, as well as concepts like the megaverse and omniverse.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Discussed on a number of occasions, but a specific example would be Lustaka, the Fucking God. Among the vast scales of the multiverse, and the various other Gods and cosmic beings that appear, he's treated primarily as a joke. Compared to powerful entities like [[TheOmnipotent God]], [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]], [[ThinkingUpPortals Celeste]], [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death, Fate]], [[{{Satan}} the Devil]], [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse the Interdimensional Guardians]], and more, his primary ability to force people into a sexual frenzy is extremely lacking by comparison. Even members of the United Extradimensional Worlds don't treat him that seriously as a threat. [[spoiler: With that said, when the Earth Ascendancy sent an invasion force to his lust dimension, the entire army was rendered completely helpless by his power. For all the UEW has mocked him and his title, they still understand that Lustaka is called a ''god'' for a reason]].

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** The United Extradimensional Worlds is this to the Earth Ascendancy. While the Ascendancy is an aspiring interdimensional empire who managed to conquer 15 different versions of Earth, the UEW's reach encompasses well over a million universes and includes a number of galactic and intergalactic polities under their banner.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Celeste is this. After being abducted by aliens and undergoing various experiments, she ended up with the power to open interdimensional cracks anywhere in the multiverse and the necessary omniscience to use that power effectively. She's referred to by the narrative and various characters as an interdimensional goddess more than once and she more than lives up to the title.

* DimensionalTraveler: Pretty much all the characters in the series are this, though the methods of how often vary. Some like Sean, Sylvia and Celeste have the innate power to travel between universes, while others like the Alchemist use magic to generate portals between universes. Meanwhile, the bulk of the UEW Agency rely on technological methods implanted in their armors to travel around the multiverse.

* EveryoneIsASuper: The version of Earth that hosts the UEW Agency's HQ is this. Every single human being on the planet is born with a unique superpower. This ends up hindering the Cabal when they attempt to invade, as the entire world is capable of fighting back.

* EvilOverlord: The ruler of the Cabal is this, who's title is simply [[ShapedLikeItself "The Overlord"]]. The Dread Lord also bears this role to the people on Quintala.

* {{Foil}}: God is this with Celeste, as shown throughout ''When Your Reality Cracks''. Both are incredibly powerful cosmic beings who were initially blind to the multiverse until outside forces caused them to discover it, but while God is a TimeAbyss omnipotent being who always had his power, Celeste is a DeityOfHumanOrigin who's much younger and gained her power as a side effect of a random experiment. While Celeste's discovery of the multiverse caused her to breakdown when combined with the information overload, God's response to learning of the multiverse was a combination of wonder and awe. God cannot leave his own universe personally, while Celeste can travel between universes at will. [[spoiler: Their conversations in the epilogue of ''When Your Reality Cracks'' only highlight just how alike and different they are from each other]].

* GodIsGood: While he certainly has limits, God has been shown to be a NiceGuy who's friendly and compassionate towards pretty much everyone he meets.

* LovecraftLite: When [[spoiler: Cthulhu himself is killed by turning him into a plushie of himself, you know the series is this]].

* {{Magitek}}: Noted to be a fairly common staple among the UEW. One of the most prominent examples that appears in the among the series are healing syringes that use a combination of nanotechnology and magical healing potion to instantly heal pretty much any wound.

* TheOmnipotent: God is this, unsurprisingly. It is noted that he's only this within his own universe and can't leave it under his own power. While he does find a way around this limitation, it requires creating an avatar body that can access only a fraction of his own power.

* PrisonDimension: The Panopticon is this, and the United Extradimensional Worlds are noted to have access to several of these. The Interdimensional Guardians are also indicated to have a few of these under their control.

* SummonBiggerFish: Celeste's go to tactic is to summon various powerful entities to fight for her as a makeshift army. Given her power can reach across the multiverse and summon pretty much anything she wants, it's incredibly effective.

* YouCanSeeMe: In ''When Your Reality Cracks'' Nyarlathotep believes that he's successfully concealed his presence from Celeste, [[TemptingFate boasting about this to God's avatar]]. Celeste pulling him into her dimension right after saying that clues him in that she's well aware of his presence.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: This was the response of Sean and Rachel when Celeste briefly displaced them into the universe of MI6 agent Emma [=McIntyre=]. While she and her fellow agents immediately had their guns pointed at the two intruders, Sean and Rachel were initially confused about why they were so on edge, and it took them a moment to realize that they had been in their universe before.

* OutsideContextProblem: Happens occasionally throughout the series, but a prominent one takes place in the short story ''... What Just Happened?!'': An MI6 agent named Emma [=McIntyre=] is undercover trying to get information from an arms dealer about a terrorist organization at a fancy party. As she's trying to seduce him, however, [[spoiler: Sean and Rachel's conflict from ''In the Shadow of Gods'' spills over into their universe and the collateral damage ends up killing the arms dealer in question. While Emma is able to get the information regardless, she and MI6 are clearly shaken, especially since they have no idea as to what just happened or why]].

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: This was the response of Sean and Rachel when Celeste briefly displaced them into the universe of MI6 agent Emma McIntyre. While she and her fellow agents immediately had their guns pointed at the two intruders, Sean and Rachel were initially confused about why they were so on edge, and it took them a moment to realize that they had been in their universe before.

** The Snowdrop Anomaly in Paulina Stewart's universe is explicitly noted in the Author's Notes of ''Tales of the Multiverse'' to be a reference to the Half-Life 2 mod VideoGame/SnowdropEscape, with the anomaly and dome (not to mention the story title) in the short story ''Snowdrop Studies'' having similar functions to the ones in said mod.

* TheFederation: The United Extradimensional Worlds. They are noted to prefer diplomacy to open conquest and have a reach spanning well over a million universes across the multiverse. A fair amount of those universes in question tend to be on a single world, though it's been stated that a few galactic governments are a part of the UEW. Humans tend to be the most prominently seen species among the UEW, though multiple alien species have been shown to be working in the UEW.

* MindRape: In ''When Your Reality Cracks'', [[spoiler: the Devil subjects Celeste to this when her reality anchors are destroyed in an effort to subdue her. This backfires. ''Horribly''.]]

* PowerIncontinence: While Celeste is able to generate interdimensional rifts at will, she can't shut off her omniscience so easily, which is driving her insane.