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Some people just don't get it. The character who lives up to this trope this is a relative of the Cloudcuckoolander but with much more sinister overtones. They seem to live in a world of their own, they may live by the mantra of Screw The Rules when the "rules" are actually hard facts. They will stubbornly insist "their" reality is the true reality in the face of evidence to the contrary, much to the frustration of others and sometimes danger to companions, underlings, peers or themselves. If anything actually manages to pierce their iron-bound conviction, a breakdown, villainous or otherwise, is likely to ensue.

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  • Some people just don't get it. The character who lives up to this trope this is a relative of the Cloudcuckoolander but with much more sinister overtones. They seem to live in a world of their own, they may live by the mantra of Screw The Rules when the "rules" are actually hard facts. They will stubbornly insist "their" reality is the true reality in the face of evidence to the contrary, much to the frustration of others and sometimes danger to companions, underlings, peers or themselves. If anything actually manages to pierce their iron-bound conviction, a breakdown, villainous or otherwise, is likely to ensue.
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  • Some people just don't get it. The character who lives up to this trope this is a relative of the Cloudcuckoolander but with much more sinister overtones. They seem to live in a world of their own, they may live by the mantra of Screw The Rules when the "rules" are actually hard facts. They will stubbornly insist "their" reality is the true reality in the face of evidence to the contrary, much to the frustration of others and sometimes danger to companions, underlings, peers or themselves. If anything actually manages to pierce their iron-bound conviction, a breakdown, villainous or otherwise, is likely to ensue. On a broader scale, any person can have moments or periods like these or full on blind spots when it comes to some hot-button issue, a la Selective Obliviousness. It might be a running gag Played for Laughs, or the disabusing of their delusion may be a dramatic plot point. The poster child for many other tropes: Belief Makes You Stupid, the Inspector Javert, the Knight Templar, the Lawful Stupid. Not to be confused with the The Spark of Genius or the Reality Warper (who literally can reject and replace reality) although it is possible to combine this trope with either of the others; A God Am I is usually the result. A Sister Trope to Implausible Deniability. Compare Gravity Is Only a Theory, Windmill Political. Note: You almost certainly know people of this trope in Real Life. Most of them likely involve religion and politics. Let's not go there. Examples of I Reject Your Reality include:
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