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One of the nice things about reality is that a person's existence is not decided by consensual agreement, worship, or logic. Except when it is, and then you disappear in a Puff Of Logic. Maybe the characters live in a world where Your Mind Makes It Real, or they have advanced Reality Warper powers, failing at logic can be fatal, or most likely the author likes a good laugh. Whatever the case, a convincing argument can make anyone cease to exist and simply disappear as if they never existed. However, this doesn't necessarily erase the character's prior existence up to that point; see Ret-Gone for an instance when a character's entire past gets expunged as well.

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  • One of the nice things about reality is that a person's existence is not decided by consensual agreement, worship, or logic. Except when it is, and then you disappear in a Puff Of Logic. Maybe the characters live in a world where Your Mind Makes It Real, or they have advanced Reality Warper powers, failing at logic can be fatal, or most likely the author likes a good laugh. Whatever the case, a convincing argument can make anyone cease to exist and simply disappear as if they never existed. However, this doesn't necessarily erase the character's prior existence up to that point; see Ret-Gone for an instance when a character's entire past gets expunged as well.
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  • One of the nice things about reality is that a person's existence is not decided by consensual agreement, worship, or logic. Except when it is, and then you disappear in a Puff Of Logic. Maybe the characters live in a world where Your Mind Makes It Real, or they have advanced Reality Warper powers, failing at logic can be fatal, or most likely the author likes a good laugh. Whatever the case, a convincing argument can make anyone cease to exist and simply disappear as if they never existed. However, this doesn't necessarily erase the character's prior existence up to that point; see Ret-Gone for an instance when a character's entire past gets expunged as well. Compare The Centipede's Dilemma, Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress and Talking the Monster to Death. Contrast Self-Inflicted Hell, where a character is in Hell simply because he or she believes they are. Also contrast Clap Your Hands If You Believe, in which blind faith manages to make something work or exist where it shouldn't. See also Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth variant where a character is too dumb to believe in what's attacking him. Can be the end result of a Logic Bomb. Super-Trope to I'm Not Afraid of You. In particularly absurd circumstances, might happen immediately after a character has proclaimed: "This Cannot Be!!" Expect some unmarked spoilers ahead, as this can obviously be a perfect mechanism for winning, say, The Final Battle. Examples of Puff of Logic include:
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