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+ InaccuraciesIndex

+ ArtisticLicenseIndexes

-->--'''[[TheSpock Data]]''', ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

The index namer is from an episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Cause and Effect", where Data deals cards at a poker game and everyone at the table correctly predicts which cards they'll receive. In-universe, the characters observed how impossibly unlikely their predictions were turning out. Ultimately, it had [[AppliedPhlebotinum a cause]], but they did not realize that for [[StableTimeLoop most of the times]] they ended up getting blown up.

Some entries in this index are also examples of BadWriting if played straight. But not all Bad Writing is necessarily unrealistic. Some devices of Bad Writing can derail a story in that they are boring, annoying or frustrating, but that doesn't make them inherently unlikely.

* AndADietCoke

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade

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+ YouFailIndexesForever

-->''This is highly improbable.''

* [[{{ptitle315nmtwnjpe4}} Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]

The index namer is from an episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Cause and Effect", where Data deals cards at a poker game and everyone at the table correctly predicts which cards they'll receive.

In-universe, the characters observed how impossibly unlikely their predictions were turning out. Ultimately, it had [[AppliedPhlebotinum a cause]], but they did not realize that for [[StableTimeLoop most of the times]] they ended up getting blown up.

Tropes that defy possibility (or probability) in some glaringly [[FridgeLogic unexplained]] ways that can at least momentarily disrupt WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief ([[RuleOfFunny if you were even trying]]), but is occasionally also employed in AcceptableBreaksFromReality. Often PlayedForLaughs with some LampshadeHanging.

This index is also not for occurrences that are merely ''rare'' but only due to wildly complex human factors that involve the net results of the unpredictable actions of multiple people (economics, elections, popularity, sports, strategy, etc.). In such circumstances, a certain minimum amount of unforeseeable uncertainty is a given, and [[LogicBomb unexpected results are not unexpected]]. Odds should have to be [[MillionToOneChance truly astronomical]] to be in this index.

* IKEAErotica

* InsurmountableWaistHighFence

* {{Narm}}

-->--'''[[TheSpock Data]]''', ''StarTrek: The Next Generation''

* HighlyVisibleNinja

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline

* MagicPants
* MagicSkirt

The index namer is from an episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Cause and Effect", where Data deals cards at a poker game and everyone at the table correctly predicts what cards they'll be.
-> '''Data''': "This is highly improbable."