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Impossible Task

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Impossible Task	comment	The Impossible Task is a favorite theme in myths and legends, folklore and Fairy Tales the world over, and is Older Than Feudalism. The task might be undertaken to win a boon, or a bride, to gain land, to break a Curse, because everyone will know about it if you do it, to prove your worth to Baba Yaga (who may agree to be your mentor if you succeed), or because your Evil Uncle wants you—the rightful heir—out of the way. Some creators try to set up one as the Fantastic Fragility flaw. In general, the person who assigns the task does not expect the hero to succeed and is trying to get rid of them or to make an excuse to not keep their end of a deal. Sometimes the Impossible Task is a quest, often involving killing an unkillable beast, but in other cases the task is a simple paradox or riddle. In other cases, it is simply searching for an item that doesn't exist. Sometimes, the one making the task will be bound by their promise should the hero succeed, or face dire consequences if they refuse. On the other hand, it may be a form of The Cake Is a Lie when the king really doesn't want to hand out the Standard Hero Reward, and they may go on and on with the Impossible Tasks until finally one blows up in his face, or he decides You Can't Fight Fate. On the other hand, sometimes the task-giver is pleased with the hero's successâ€”they can now be sent out again and again and again! On the other-other hand, the task-giver may admit that they didn't expect the task to be completed and, on the basis that they never intended to give out the reward under any circumstance...tells the hero off. What happens next tends to depend on the age group the work's for. Classic examples: Carrying water in a sieve (stop the holes with mud or moss, carry something able to hold water in the sieve, or freeze the water) Sorting a huge pile of grains and lentils in a single night (if you helped a wounded bird or ant earlier, it will call its friends to help you) Making a rope of ashes (make a rope out of straw, then burn it) Appearing before the challenger neither naked nor clothed, neither riding nor walking, neither in night nor day... etc. (come wrapped in a fishing net, with one foot on a goat, at twilight) Sometimes the challenge is answered like a riddle (e.g. when told to "Bring fire wrapped in paper," the hero returns with a paper lantern), sometimes by finding a witty way to demonstrate its impossibility (e.g. the king tells the peasant to bring him "yogurt made with bull's milk;" the peasant's daughter arrives the next day saying, "My father can't bring you that yogurt you asked for because he's giving birth to a baby.") Sometimes the hero returns a demand for appropriate supplies that are also an impossible task; given some thread to weave a scarf, the peasant's clever daughter sends the tsar a twig and says she needs the loom made of it. Tasks made impossible by exhaustively excluding all possibilities generally entail a Liminal Being or a Liminal Time, where something that is half between two possibilities, and so not fully either, can do it. These fall into three categories. Feats that should be too hard, but the hero is that badass (like killing one hundred Philistines). Feats that sound like they break the laws of physics, but the hero treats it as a riddle, exploits a loophole in the requests (like carrying water in a sieve) or succeeds purely because he didn't know it was supposed to be impossible. A Chekhov's Gun magic spell solves the problem (like in the Grimm's fairy tale of the seven servants, or Aladdin). The Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter is useful for that. Many, many folktales of both European and Chinese origin feature a number of brothers with improbable talents given impossible tasks for fame, fortune, the Emperor's service or the hand of a princess. Sometimes they resemble each other closely enough to pass for the same person capable of a wide range of miracles. One specific example called "The Five Chinese Brothers": the first (who can hold the sea in his mouth, which he uses to fish) accidentally drowns a man upon releasing the water and is condemned. Each time, the brother begs to go home so as to say goodbye to his mother, and switches with one of his other (identical) quintuplets. Thus one man supposedly survives beheading (#2 has an indestructible neck), drowning (#3 can stretch his legs long enough to always stand above the waves), burning (#4 is fireproof), and being buried alive (#5 doesn't need to breathe). They finally take this as a sign of his innocence and let him go. The third classic example is Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 875, in which the full list of conditions is something like that the heroine cannot visit the king by foot, by horse, in a wagon, nor in a boat. She could not visit him either dressed or undressed. It could not be day or night, a month or a year, and the moon couldn't be waxing or waning. As described above, she wore a fishing-net, balanced one foot on a sledge and the other on a goat, and went at dusk. She also went on the third day of Yule, which was considered to lie outside the normal count of the year. Sometimes, the hero doesn't solve the task at all, but rather by being kind to others before the task is given. Be it befriending Androcles' Lion, freeing a Benevolent Genie, or otherwise gaining the Disproportionate Reward of a Sidekick Ex Machina. Another recent variant, if the curse lasts long enough, is to wait until modern or future technology makes the impossible possible. Almost always something the witches and warlocks didn't count on. See Postmodern Magik. Related to No Man of Woman Born, We Do the Impossible and Cutting the Knot. The Engagement Challenge is often an Impossible Task. The Snipe Hunt can be a comic form of it. See also Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished.
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Impossible Task / int_10550610	comment	On a later episode of Happy Days, Joanie and Jenny are trying to join a pseudo-sorority called the Rydells. Joanie's task is to get a phonebook, but Jenny (whom they don't want as a member) is given the task of memorizing every number in the phone book. Jenny succeeds, but is then given another impossible task.
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Impossible Task / int_141a7410	comment	Used in Over the Garden Wall, as part of the general fairytale atmosphere. The Beast challenges Greg to bring him "the golden comb" (a honeycomb), "a spool of silver thread" (a cobweb on a stick), and to "put the sun from the sky into this cup" (which he does by placing it on a stump and waiting until the sun goes down). It's a trick simply meant to get Greg to stay in one place until he passes out from the cold.
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Impossible Task / int_143611d3	comment	The quest in Year Four of The Questport Chronicles: to rescue the Lost Lady from the netherworld, which requires help from vampires (thankfully, one of the heroes is a vampire) and voluntary Demonic Possession.
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Impossible Task / int_1567f203	comment	The title story from The Practical Princess (and other liberating fairytales) features the titular princess trying to get rid of her unwanted suitor by sending him on these. (The two tasks, a fire-proof cloak and a jeweled branch, are reminiscent of those used by Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and like Kaguya the princess sees through the fakes offered.)
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Impossible Task / int_18c16684	comment	John Wick: Chapter 2 goes a step further, as while we still don't know the details of the Impossible Task, we know that to carry it out, John had to pull a Marker with Santino D'Antonio to get his assistance. With John now seen as back in the game in light of the first movie's events, the plot kicks off because Santino has decided it's time to cash in on the Marker.
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Impossible Task / int_1c9287c3	comment	In "Graciosa and Percinet", Princess Graciosa's Wicked Stepmother sets her three tasks: to untangle a hopelessly tangled skein without breaking one thread, to sort a heap of bird feathers into piles by species, and to deliver a box without opening it (though this one is less impossible and more Curiosity Is a Crapshoot). Prince Percinet uses fairy magic to help Graciosa accomplish the tasks.
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Impossible Task / int_1fcdbe32	comment	In The Phantom Tollbooth, shortly after arriving in the Mountains of Ignorance, the protagonists meet a gentleman with no face who asks them to complete some impossible tasks: one of them is to carve a hole through a rock with a needle, one is to move a pile of sand with a pair of tweezers, and one is to empty one well into another with a dropper. After Milo uses a magic math-solving pencil he received from the Mathemagician to realize it would take about eight hundred years to finish the tasks, the man reveals himself to be the Terrible Trivium, one of the Demons of Ignorance and the anthropomorphic personification of wasting time. Another dilemma confronts Milo when he needs to convince King Azaz and the Mathemagician to agree to let Rhyme and Reason return from exile. Both rulers are so contrary that whenever one adopts a position, the other automatically takes the opposite stance just to counter him. Milo points out to the Mathemagician that, in fact, they agree to disagree, which is enough of a Logic Bomb to snap him out of his habitual enmity with his brother. After Milo succeeds in rescuing Rhyme and Reason from the Mountains of Ignorance, Azaz and the Mathemagician reveal to him that The Quest itself was an impossible task, and he only succeeded because he didn't know the task was impossible.
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Impossible Task / int_220c8c36	comment	The Adventures of Strong Vanya: The old Tsar decrees anyone who intends to marry his daughter and become his successor must bring to him the Armor of the Tsar Ivan Vasilievich, which is hidden on the other side of the White Mountains, and guarded by an inhumanly strong giant known as the Stone Knight.
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Impossible Task / int_22c403ac	comment	Erstwhile has this in paradox form, while telling "The Farmer's Clever Daughter". From the same comic, "All Fur" has a princess who tries to dissuade her father from marrying her by telling him that she'll marry him only after he gives her a dress as golden as the sun, a dress as silvery as the moon, a dress as bright as the stars, and a cloak made up of the furs of all the animals in his kingdom. Naturally, he succeeds at all of these tasks and she's forced to flee.
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Impossible Task / int_26101f71	comment	In The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa, the archer is set to produce the firebird, then the princess, then her wedding dress.
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Impossible Task / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Lisa's Rival", Lisa plays an anagram game with Allison and her father. Mr. Taylor gives a famous person's name and the anagram has to be a description of that person. Allison is given Alec Guinness and comes up with "genuine class". Lisa is given Jeremy Irons and, stumped, comes up with "Jeremy's... iron". Subverted, as this was intended to be possible for a genius in-universe. In real life, there's no possible answer. In "Simpson Safari", Agnes Skinner is shopping for groceries and has some demands for her bagboy:
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Impossible Task / int_2a6aae36	comment	Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons: The Daltons have to fulfill a quest where they must murder eight people living in far away locations in The Wild West in order to obtain their deceased uncle's fortune.
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Impossible Task / int_2bf0fa94	comment	Hilda and Richie: In Hilda and Richie's Wizard, Richie doesn't tell Hilda about how he originally lost his new silver pendant as commanded by the wizard Mr. Abra. That night, Mr. Abra sends Richie to a magic room filled with trinkets (cups, crowns, scepters, etc) and makes him search it for that same pendant.
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Impossible Task / int_2ce2e5a8	comment	Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City: The ninja Kirikaze is sent to complete these so that her master might earn the right to marry Princess Kaguya. Naturally, she'll fail to accomplish her task, but she'll reward your party appropriately for helping out.
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Impossible Task / int_2e79ce7a	comment	Odin Sphere: In "The Pooka Prince," Odin tasks Cornelius with fetching the drinking horn of massive warlord Lord Brigan, clearly not expecting the hard-hearted Brigan to cooperate or Cornelius, currently transformed into a comparably smaller pooka, to be able to make him. Odin's daughter Gwendolyn tells Cornelius that Odin does this kind of thing to people all the time... and, out of sympathy for Cornelius, gives him back his magic sword, armed with which he is able to kick Brigan's ass. In "Valkyrie," Onyx tries to do this by asking Oswald to defeat Leventhan, as a way to indirectly Murder the Hypotenuse. Gwendolyn is not having it.
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Impossible Task / int_3106477d	comment	The Phantom story "The 12 Tasks" involves the eponymous character being forced, by the tyrannical Prince Pepe of Ptjar, to do twelve such tasks to rescue Diana from the prince. Some of the tasks are completed by the Phantom just being that badass, others require creative solutions (given in parentheses): Arresting the giant bandit Broko while unarmed. Removing the piranhas infesting a river (done by damming up the river). Winning a race against an antelope. Catching a giant condor. Defeating a group of dangerous apes. Removing the sharks from the Bay of Sharks (done by leading porpoises in to chase out the sharks). Stopping erosion in the Red River Valley (done by teaching the farmers contour plowing). Stopping a disease spread by biting insects (done by teaching the locals to coat the swamps in oil to kill the insects). Climbing up Glass Mountain and back down again in one day, when the record is four days (done by spending most of the day climbing up, then using the mountain's icy half to slide back down quickly). Swimming across the hazardous Dead Man's Channel. Stopping all crime in Ptjar for a day (the Phantom is Loved by All in Ptjar due to the previous ten tasks, so even the criminals cooperate for this day, and the Phantom only has to stop Pepe from trying to cheat at the last moment). Pepe actually can't decide on the final task since he's now convinced the Phantom can do anything. The people give the final task, which is to get rid of Pepe, and the Phantom says they just need to hold a fair election.
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Impossible Task / int_34862404	comment	In Prunella, she is forced to do tasks that are only doable with the witch's son's help.
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Impossible Task / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia missions tend to be this, especially after secret society goals and personal agendas are figured in. The game's stance varies from "literally impossible" to "we have no idea how to succeed, but acknowledge that sufficiently devious PCs will come up with something" to "the PCs could succeed by doing X and Y and Z, it's just ludicrously unlikely that they'll be lucky and virtuous enough to actually pull all that off".
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Impossible Task / int_3845aa1f	comment	In The Three Aunts, the girl is made to do fantastic amounts of spinning, weaving and sewing in a day, when she actually can do none of them.
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Impossible Task / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Subverted in this strip. A dead soul is damned to an impossible, Sisyphean task. She finds the idea to be incredibly relaxing.
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Impossible Task / int_3972e6b	comment	The backstory for Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night is heavily based on the aforementioned legend of Princess Kaguya. The final stage is even called "Five Impossible Requests," and Kaguya's spellcards are named after the five requests from the legend, implying that she had the treasures all along. The game's Superboss, Fujiwara no Mokou, is the daughter of one of the men humiliated by Kaguya's impossible tasks, kicking off a Cycle of Revenge that's lasted over a thousand years thanks to the Hourai Elixir.
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Impossible Task / int_3c10f1d3	comment	Rumpelstiltskin, where the eventual princess is forced to spin straw into gold. Also when the eponymous character asks her to guess his name.
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Impossible Task / int_3c38c613	comment	The Merchant of Venice: Shylock's "pound of flesh nearest the heart" is related; in this case, it's the villain who is forced into either doing an impossible task, or giving up what is due him.
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Impossible Task / int_3f2b34bc	comment	In AKB49 â€“ Renai Kinshi Jourei, producer Akimoto of the idol group AKB48 likes to give tasks which are effectively impossible to the trainee members to force them to improve themselves, such as requesting them to attract a full house performance within 2 months at the price of 10000 yen per ticket (performances by regular members only cost 3000 yen per ticket) or face disbandment.
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Impossible Task / int_3f445492	comment	From the Arabian Nights: Aladdin gives the sultan a bunch of large jewels in exchange for the sultan's daughter's hand in marriage. The sultan tells Aladdin to bring 40 slaves carrying 40 trays all filled with those kinds of jewels and then he will consider. The sultan considers this impossible. Aladdin of course has a genie, so problem solved.
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Impossible Task / int_40852654	comment	Medaka Box: It is revealed that the Flask Plan, the project to create perfect humans for which Hakoniwa Academy was founded, was Ajimu Najimi's attempt to INTENTIONALLY invoke this. As a Not Equal who was blessed with an absurd lifespan and absurd specs, she'd acquired a mental illness that prevented her from seeing reality as any more "real" than some twisted manga. To stave off committing suicide out of sheer boredom, she spent her everlasting life searching for "impossibilities"; as long as she could actually fail at something, she could be convinced that reality was indeed real. While perhaps her biggest chosen task was to defeat a "perfect" human being (which she refers to as a Main Character), her next-biggest project was the Flask Plan, which she implemented with the hope that it would NEVER be completed.
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Impossible Task / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In book 1 (Blue Moon Rising), King John sends his second son Rupert to bring back the head of a dragon. Secretly, he hopes Rupert will take this as an excuse to discreetly leave the kingdom, ensuring his older brother's claim to the throne will never be contested. Rupert is wise to his father's real agenda, but stubborn enough to confront the dragon anyway. When the dragon proves both intelligent and friendly, Rupert brings the dragon back alive, which earns him a bit more respect since A) he'd stuck to his mission, and B) he's now got a freaking dragon on his side.
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Impossible Task / int_426a7572	comment	Throughout an episode of Animaniacs, Yakko is shown singing all the words in the English language (though he's only shown singing words beginning with the letters A, F (briefly), L, and Z). At the end, it is said that in the next episode he would sing all of the numbers above zero. He didn't.
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Impossible Task / int_45599333	comment	The test on the 21st Floor in Tower of God involves finding a small parasitic flower in a gigantic beast that flips over all the time and will go underwater after two hours. This is the easy part. The problem begins when they happen to meet a guy inside the beast who also wants the flower. Then they hear he has killed several Rankers before. And then you realize that this guy is Urek Mazino. He himself thinks that that the team was just sent here to face him and die.
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Impossible Task / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft it is heavily implied this is the nature of Sylvanas's punishment. Tyrande tasks her with rescuing every soul that has ever been condemned to the Maw, and only then will she be granted judgment for her own soul. Given the Maw's nigh-infinite size, this is a task which will never be completed. Sylvanas accepts her punishment without protest.
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Impossible Task / int_4a31a92e	comment	"The Troll's Daughter": The troll demands a lot of impossible things from his servant. His "service" includes being forced to feed a stable of starving animals in a single day. The stable varies from a mile long to three miles long. Somehow the boy still manages to do it. And after the "jester" (the young man in disguise) causes a lot of damage, the troll demands that the king repay him by answering four questions which no one besides him and his daughter could possibly know. The young man, who spent much of the year courting the troll's daughter, answers them all correctly.
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Impossible Task / int_4b187e74	comment	In The Odyssey, Penelope, to avoid marrying one of her suitors, told them she'd marry the one who could use Odysseus' bow to shoot an arrow through a dozen axe-heads. The impossible part was not the shooting, but threading the bow: not only it was massive and required enormous strength, but, as a recurve bow, required skills that the suitors (who only knew simple bows) didn't have. Still, the narration says that Telemachus, Odysseus' own son, would have succeeded on his fourth try had he not been stopped by the one who actually did complete the whole task... Odysseus himself, who had finally returned home in disguise and was about to slay the suitors.
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Impossible Task / int_4e433e78	comment	From Monty Python and the Holy Grail: King Arthur and his knights are confronted by the Knights who say Ni! To pass through their domain, they first demand a ... shrubbery! When this is completed, the Knights who say Ni! demand the following: Also used in the "Happy Valley" sketch on Monty Python's Previous Record. To quickly get rid of any suitors who go after his daughter, King Otto sets them the task, "Tomorrow at dawn, armed only with your sword, you must climb to the highest tower in the castle, and jump out of the window." When the queen gets sick of this, he is forced to change the task to something a bit easier - going into town and buying some tobacco.
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Impossible Task / int_4f7a49d9	comment	The Tipaan arc in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World is centered around an impossible task given by the Circleâ€”the four have to somehow retrieve an extremely well-protected musical instrument. (Paul: We'll have a bash. We're a bit good at the impossible. John: Especially the impossible at a luxury resort.) They confound everyone by succeeding in a completely unexpected way (basically by being nice), though it turns out that the instrument is actually a fake.
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Impossible Task / int_50bcf7a6	comment	SBURB, the game that the story of Homestuck revolves around, is this for all but the luckiest of players. Most don't manage to even start the game. And even then, the majority of sessions do not result in victory, making them so called null sessions. A special form of null session, the so-called "void session", appears when no kernelsprite is prototyped before entry. Since prototyping is what evolves the battlefield for the universe scale chess metaphor SBURB is built around, and a fully evolved battlefield is needed to win the game, this session is doomed to fail except if someone brings in a fully evolved battlefield from another session. Another special null session is the so-called "dead session". SBURB is an inherently cooperative game, so trying to play it solo results in an entirely different scenario, replacing the chess metaphor with a pool metaphor that is impossible to win unless you are a Determinator with time travel powers. And even then it's frustratingly difficult.
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Impossible Task / int_52e8fba	comment	In The Marvelous Land of Oz, the heroes discover Dr. Nikidik's Famous Wishing Pills at the bottom of his canister of Powder of Life, which grant one wish to whoever takes one. There is a small problem: To use one, you are required to count to count to seventeen by twos. At first, even the highly educated Woggle-Bug is at a loss on how to do that, until the Saw Horse suggests starting at half of one. The Wobble-Bug then deduces that this is true, because twice of a half of one is one, and the instructions never said you had to start at one. They try it, and that works. The task the Wizard sends Dorothy and her friends on in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz could be perceived as this, as he agrees to grant their requests provided they bring him the broomstick of the Witch of the West. Even they think the task is impossible, knowing that in order to get the Witch's broom, they would have to kill her first, and she would more than likely kill them in the process. Needless to say, the Wizard is surprised when they come back alive and with the broomstick, and nearly went back on his word.
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Impossible Task / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "I of Newton", a mathematics professor accidentally summons a demon who intends to claim his soul. The demon allows the professor to ask him three questions concerning his powers, then either ask him a question he cannot answer or give him a task he cannot fulfill. However, he notes that no one's been able to do either in a long time ("What year was the Peloponnesian War, anyway?"), and the professor uses his questions to deduce that the demon is both The Omnipotent and The Omniscient: he can go anywhere in the multiverse (temporally or physically) and always find his way back, do something as physically impossible as make two electrons share the same quantum state in an atom, and has access to all information ever recorded. In other words, posing an impossible task is the impossible task. Nevertheless, the professor comes up with an impossible command: "Get lost." Since the demon can always find his way back to wherever he came from...
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Impossible Task / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: When Darth Sidious hires Cad Bane to break into the Jedi Temple to steal a holocron, Bane claims that what Sidious is asking for is impossible. However, as Sidious begins to speak of Bane's reputation being unearned, Bane reveals that this simply means he'll need to be paid substantially more than his already extremely high usual fee. He succeeds.
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Impossible Task / int_551817f6	comment	Hercules (Pure Magic) has the title character tasked with slaying the Hydra, who is immortal. Hercules succeeds anyway by convincing (most of) him to jump into a volcano.
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Impossible Task / int_595f8dc4	type	Impossible Task
Impossible Task / int_595f8dc4	comment	In the Grimms fairy tale "How The Six Made Their Way In The World", the protagonists are assigned various Impossible Tasks, such as drinking a lake, but as each of the Six has a special ability, the tasks are achieved and the Six receive their reward.
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Impossible Task / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Miriam's parents agree to let her go to the 4*Town concert but expect her to buy the $200 ticket herself. Given that she's a middle school student without a job, her parents probably thought there would be no way for her to raise the cash within a month and thus no harm in granting her request.
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Impossible Task / int_5cb7cb01	comment	"The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": Unwilling to accept that the main character has married his daughter, the king orders him to fetch three hairs from the head of the Devil in order to get rid of him.
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Impossible Task / int_5f8843b5	comment	In The Dragon Hoard, the heroes are required to complete three impossible tasks before entering the grove containing the Hoard: taming a pair of wild, fire-breathing horses; emptying an entire lake into a single jug; and bringing back a magic orange from the grove at the far end of the kingdom in less than a day.
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Impossible Task / int_63053ca	comment	Keith, from TwoKinds is expected to bring the Grand Templar Trace Legacy back with him so that the conditions of his exile will be revoked, more or less "You can come home if you're bringing George Bush with you for dinner." note It started out as "Bring George Bush's son with you for dinner. Even though he went missing. While rushing into an enemy encampment. Solo.", then two years later it became "Bring George Bush Junior, the president, with you for dinner.", then Keith got lucky four years later when Trace was ambushed by a manipulative goddess and left stranded and amnesiac while on vacation. Then General Alabaster altered the conditions to bring Trace back ''without witnesses'', ordering Keith to betray and murder his friends. This was an Uriah Gambit, as Alabaster intended to execute Keith once he'd eliminated his support and isolated himself.
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Impossible Task / int_66fa90fe	comment	The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Arthurian Legend has Sir Gawain subjected to an impossible test of his honour and chastity by Lady Bertilak, with the expectation that he'd fail and embarrass Arthur's court. He refuses the Lady's advances, but does accept a gift from her, a green sash, only on the understanding that its enchantments would protect him from death at the hands of the Green Knight. Entirely reasonable, as even a heroic knight fears death a tiny bit.
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Impossible Task / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates, when the Black Mage Odin arrived at the Nohrian court, he was assigned to serve Prince Leo. Leo wasn't really thrilled so he gave his potential retainer some missions that counted as this, some of them involving finding things that Leo made up or otherwise didn't think were real. Odin successfully completed all of them, and, being Odin, he actually enjoyed all of these "impossible" missions.
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Impossible Task / int_6846eab7	comment	In The Cyberiad, to test Trurl's poetry-writing machine, Klapaucius demands that it compose a poem about a haircut that's lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom, is six lines long, rhymes perfectly, and has every single word starting with the letter "s". Trurl angrily snaps that it's an idiotic request, but the machine finishes writing the poem before he's even done speaking.
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Impossible Task / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Skill checks tables show these kinds of tasks. Skill check DCs in the 50s and higher are called "nearly impossible" and include things like turning a hostile foe into someone fanatically devoted to you (DC 150), swimming up a waterfall (DC 80), or balancing on a cloud (DC 120). In certain editions the Dungeon Master is expected to provide challenges like this, should players want to create powerful permanent magical items. The win conditions are generally fairly lenient, though. Artifacts in the game cannot be destroyed except by a unique method that is different for each artifact, and the method is usually something that fits this Trope.
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Impossible Task / int_6c343f1a	comment	In the Heart of Stone DLC of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Geralt is tasked by the mysterious Gaunter O'Dimm to complete three tasks as part of a contract he has with bandit lord Olgierd Von Everec. Olgierd deliberately makes it so that each task is either incredibly difficult or outright impossible by normal means, though some can be completed via Loophole Abuse... which considering who we're dealing with, he handily pulls off: The first task is for Geralt to bring Olgierd the house of Maximilian Borsodi, part of the family to whom Olgierd lost everything via debt. The "house" turns out to be a miniature model containing documents without which Borsodi's sons would end up losing everything, forcing Geralt to pull off an elaborate heist to obtain. To add insult to injury to Olgierd, Geralt can take the model while leaving the actual documents behind. The second task is to show Olgeird's brother Vlodomir the time of his life, which is difficult considering Vlodomir is dead. Gaunter shows Geralt how to summon Vlodomir's ghost and allows him to possess Geralt's body while attending a rowdy wedding, which fulfills the task. The third task is to bring back a rose Olgierd gave to his wife the last time he saw her. The rose in question is inside his wife's memories which in turn can only be accessed via their estate which is guarded by a hideous monster. When all three tasks are completed, Olgierd still believes he's relatively safe since his "contract" can only end once he and Gaunter are standing on the Moon. Gaunter shows up to their pre-arranged meeting place and with a wave of his hand blows away the dust on the floor revealing a mosaic of the Moon.
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Impossible Task / int_6ff8b00a	comment	In Dora the Explorer: Dora's Fairytale Adventure, Dora is assigned a number of tasks, several of which seem impossible, in order to become a "true princess" and save Boots from a sleeping spell. Included among these tasks are, "teach the giant rocks to sing," "turn Winter into Spring" and "Bring the moon to the Queen and King." She accomplishes the tasks with the aid of a variety of magical tools and artifacts acquired during her quest, such as a magical music box that teaches the rocks to sing.
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Impossible Task / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Since the entire series is inspired by The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (see elsewhere on this page), several references are made to Kaguya Shinomiya giving out "impossible tasks". One particular example comes when Yu Ishigami reveals that he has a crush on Tsubame Koyasu; when he deems it hopeless, Kaguya challenges him to win her heartnote Tying into the original myth, Ishigami and Tsubame's names are derived from Middle Councilor Isonokami no Marotari and the swallow's cowry shell that Princess Kaguya tasked him with retrieving. Ishigami outright calls it an impossible task, and for good reason since he's a geeky and extremely unpopular first-year while Tsubame is the most beautiful and popular third-year in the school. Unfortunately he fails because, while Tsubame is fond of him, she doesn't feel any romantic attraction to him.
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Impossible Task / int_72262aee	comment	The terms of Zuko's banishment in Avatar: The Last Airbender. "Find a nigh-all powerful person, catch him, and bring him back alive, and then you can come home. Oh, and he's been missing for a hundred years." It's a win-win for Ozai: either he rids himself of an embarrassingly incompetent and occasionally disrespectful heir so that he can promote Daddy's Little Villain in his place, or on the off chance Zuko succeeds he gets the historical thorn in the side of the Fire Nation taken care of for him. The cool part is that he actually succeeded, although not quite how his father (and banisher) wished...not to mention the Avatar brings himself to the Fire Lord.
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Impossible Task / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: Lindon ends up with a lot of these, of varying degrees. To start with, as an Unsouled he is approximately as strong as a pre-teen child, so his duel against an elite warrior of the Iron level is completely impossible. He plans to cheat so that his inevitable defeat is at least impressive, but after Suriel shows up (see below), he manages to win instead. When the Li Grand Patriarch kills Lindon with an Offhand Backhand, the celestial Judge Suriel stops time, captures the Grand Patriarch, resurrects Lindon, and shows him a vision of his future. This future is of a mostly good life, until his home is destroyed in thirty years. Lindon begs her to tell him how to save his home, and she explains that he will need to reach the Monarch level—a level so far above him that he's never even heard of it—in order to stop the catastrophe. She also says that no one, not even herself, has ever reached that level in just thirty years. He resolves to do it anyway. Lindon finds himself challenged to an honor duel against an opponent four levels above him, in a world where one level above is generally considered instant death to challenge. He has only one year to prepare, and absolutely everyone tells him that he has no chance to win. Even Suriel's Presence calculates his chances as "most likely embarrassing death, slight chance for an impressive death." Eithan gives him an overpowered Path that will allow him to advance quickly, but even with it his opponent is far above him. He ultimately loses, but because he had cured his opponent's ill sister, he refuses to kill Lindon, instead only taking his arm off. When Lindon finally returns to save his home, he's only Underlord—orders of magnitude weaker than he needs to be—because the Dreadgod ended up arriving some twenty years early. After doing everything he can, he ends up getting a chance to talk to Suriel again, and he begs her for help. She points out that he is the one who chose to take up this task, and he can choose when it's done. Sure he hasn't defeated the Dreadgod (it will rampage for a while and reduce Sacred Valley to rubble), but he successfully evacuated the majority of the population, including everyone he personally cares about. That can easily be enough, if he decides it is. Instead, he returns to Sacred Valley again and successfully drives off the Dreadgod, saving those who haven't been able to escape yet and giving everyone else a chance to move back in with minimal trouble.
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Impossible Task / int_76af8266	comment	In the Ned's Newt episode "Trouble Indemnity", Ned and Newton work together to destroy several "valuable" things around their house in impossible ways, so that they can get Ned's parents' money back and confuse a crooked saleswoman, who made them lose their money on a crooked insurance policy.
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Impossible Task / int_7826f7fe	comment	Nettle & Bone: The dust-wife agrees to help Marra if Marra can complete three impossible tasks — sew a cloak of owlcloth and nettles, build a dog of cursed bones, and catch moonlight in a clay jar. After she completes the first two with sheer willpower, the dust-wife realizes her tactic to make Marra go away won't work, and lets her skip the third.
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Impossible Task / int_791e7b7f	comment	Zootopia: Chief Bogo gives Judy 48 hours to solve the Otterton case or resign if she fails. Nick calls him out on it later when he assumes she failed, pointing out that there was practically no way a rookie cop could solve a case with virtually no resources in two days that the entire force hasn't cracked in weeks, and also pointing out that there's still time to complete the case, which she does.
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Impossible Task / int_7a07ca76	comment	In The Brothers' War, the King of Argive decrees that any suitor for his daughter must move a huge statue across the town square. Urza builds a machine to lift and transport the statue, declaring that he had moved it with his mind.
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Impossible Task / int_7ff3216c	comment	In a US Acres segment of Garfield and Friends, Orson and Wade set up a restaurant that's guaranteed to serve any food you order - if they can't make it, you get free food for a month. Roy attempts to take advantage of this with several attempts at Impossible Orders... and then gets served exactly what he orders, to his own shock. He eventually wins with "an elephant foot sandwich with mustard". Even though Orson and Wade had found an elephant, it wasn't theirs to kill and put in a sandwich, so to screw with Roy, they just showed him the elephant and pretended that they were out of mustard.
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Impossible Task / int_8033f25c	comment	For a modern film version, Chandler Jarrell (Eddie Murphy) in The Golden Child is given a glass of water. He is told he must retrieve an item from across a cavern without spilling one drop of the water in the glass. He somehow manages to keep the glass of water after passing through all of the obstacles until he's standing in front of the hollow holding the Ajanti Dagger. When he reaches for the dagger the fire flares up, foiling him. He drinks the water and the flames die down, allowing him to grab the dagger.
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Impossible Task / int_811027b0	comment	In Jesper Who Herded the Hares, Jesper first uses the help of ants, then a magic whistle, and finally blackmail to evade the task.
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Impossible Task / int_811b74a8	comment	Books of Kings: A young David is told by King Saul that he can't marry Princess Michal unless he brings the foreskins of one hundred dead Philistines. David tops him by bringing two hundred.
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Impossible Task / int_816181cb	comment	The task the Wizard sends Dorothy and her friends on in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz could be perceived as this, as he agrees to grant their requests provided they bring him the broomstick of the Witch of the West. Even they think the task is impossible, knowing that in order to get the Witch's broom, they would have to kill her first, and she would more than likely kill them in the process. Needless to say, the Wizard is surprised when they come back alive and with the broomstick, and nearly went back on his word.
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Impossible Task / int_83d41855	comment	Some of the Grimorum Arcanorum's spells in Gargoyles seemed to have this as spell conditions, until modern technology made the impossible possible, so to speak. These loopholes are needed to allow humans to cast powerful magic at less cost than a spell without any loopholes. The most obvious is the one that woke up the sleeping gargoyles: they would sleep until the castle is above the clouds. Xanatos literally does that, moving it brick by brick to the top of a tall building. The spell which turns all who see and hear it to stone at night can only be undone by the sky becoming on fire. So they spread a non-toxic flammable gas across the city's atmosphere and ignite it.
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Impossible Task / int_847f5422	comment	Child Ballad #2, "The Elfin Knight", and its folk-processed descendant "Scarborough Fair."
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Impossible Task / int_84823809	comment	In Episode 73 of Kaeloo, Mr. Cat dares Kaeloo to transform without getting angry. Despite the fact that she has been seen doing this in other episodes, she claims that she can't and her consciousness is sent to a dimension for people who can't perform tasks. At the end of the episode, Kaeloo gets revenge by giving Mr. Cat an impossible task of his own: going out while coming in.
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Impossible Task / int_84e3a8b6	comment	In The Magicianâ€™s Elephant, the king challenges a boy to perform three impossible tasks in order to win posession of the elephant: defeat the king's best soldier, fly from the roof of the cathedral, and make the dour countess laugh. He succeeds with the help of a few Chekhov's Guns.
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Impossible Task / int_862e3f86	comment	In Donkeyskin and its variants, the princess sets four impossible tasks up for her father to dissuade him from marrying her. The first three are to make or find dresses (one like the sun, one like the moon, and one like the stars/sky); the last one depends on the version (either kill and skin a donkey that's useful to the kingdom or create a cloak made up of "a thousand kinds of pelts and furs"). Unfortunately, the king passes all of the tests with flying colors, and the princess opts to run away instead — with the gifts ultimately helping her find her own happy ending.
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Impossible Task / int_884178da	comment	In Trail of Lightning Ma'ii requests that Maggie capture the sacred wind NÃlchi'i in return for his help with her mission. Given that he's willing to pay in advance, it's debatable whether he even cares whether she tries.
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Impossible Task / int_8ba43df	comment	John Wick: John Wick's backstory. Upon learning that his son Iosef has wronged John Wick, Viggo Tarasov explains why it was such a big mistake to piss off Wick: John Wick: Chapter 2 goes a step further, as while we still don't know the details of the Impossible Task, we know that to carry it out, John had to pull a Marker with Santino D'Antonio to get his assistance. With John now seen as back in the game in light of the first movie's events, the plot kicks off because Santino has decided it's time to cash in on the Marker.
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Impossible Task / int_8d5c2bc8	comment	In the Mayan Popol Vuh, Hunahpu and Xbalanque are assigned several tasks of these during their descent to Xibalba (the Underworld). One of them was to keep a cigar lit a whole night without burning it out. They attached fireflies to the end of the cigar so they would appear lit.
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Impossible Task / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode â€œParth Ferengiâ€™s Heart Homeâ€�, Captain Freeman and Admiral Vassery are attempting to recruit Ferenginar into the Federation, but Grand Nagus Rom and his wife Leeta are giving them the runaround, driving Vassery nuts as he agrees to more and more requests from them. Freeman decides to step in and not only agree to their requests along with a one billion gold-pressed latinum sign on bonus should they also recruit another world to join in as well. Rom signs it and mocks them for doing that until Freeman tells them to Read the Fine Print: they must recruit Qâ€™onos, the Klingon homeworld, which Leeta points out is impossible. However, it turns out the entire thing was a Secret Test of Character: Rom was always wanting to let Ferenginar join the Federation, but he really wanted to make sure they understood their culture. Being swindled in such a way was proof they did.
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Impossible Task / int_988629da	comment	In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (and again in Star Trek (2009), the Kobayashi Maru test administered to budding Starfleet officers is this. Kirk, being Kirk, of course Takes a Third Option.
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Impossible Task / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Saturnian slaves are supposed to build a road from Saturn to Earth. This is a task they've been at for years and without any real progress. Supposedly the road will enable their planned invasion, but they already have Faster-Than-Light Travel and make frequent casual stops at earth to abduct more slaves. In practice the whole set up seems to be designed to make the slavers of Saturn rich and keep them from rebelling against the Emperor, who does not seem all that interested in actually invading earth.
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Impossible Task / int_9a03743c	comment	Examples in the Finnish Kalevala: May be a parody: VÃ¤inamÃ¶inen is a mighty sorcerer and bard who is utterly inept in love. One girl he flirts with tells him she will never marry him unless he cuts a swan in half with a knife without a point, and knots an egg with an invisible knot. (In other words, when hell freezes over.) VÃ¤inamÃ¶inen, being both clueless and a wizard, proceeds to complete both tasks with his magic.Then she says she won't marry him unless he pulls birchbark off a stone and breaks off poles from a piece of ice without a chip flying off. He uses magic to do both immediately. Then she says she can't marry him unless he builds a boat out of her distaff and gets the boat in the water without anyone touching it. He uses magic to do this easily as well...but an evil spirit causes him to accidentally cut himself with his axe, and he has to go on an adventure to heal his wound, by which time he has forgotten about her. (There are a lot of moments in The Kalevala that seem like parodies of myths.) Louhi, the Mistress of Pohjola also gives type 1 impossible tasks to men who seek to marry her beautiful daughter. This too was related to VÃ¤inamÃ¶inen's adventures, but ultimately it was his blood-brother Ilmarinen who was badass enough to fulfil every request and got the girl (until her wickedness got her eaten by bears, but that's another story).
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Impossible Task / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls In Morrowind, Mages Guild Archmage Trebonius Artorius has developed a reputation as a Pointy-Haired Boss who assigns nothing but these. Infamously, he asks the Player Character to solve the disappearance of the Dwemer (and is shocked when the player actually manages to find an answer). Other assignments he has given to other guild members include taking an inventory of all of the silverware on Vvardenfell and digging a tunnel to the mainland. Knowing that he was named as the head of the Vvardenfell branch in a combination of getting Kicked Upstairs and being Reassigned to Antarctica probably helps to explain this. According to the developer-written obscure text The Seven Fights of the Aldudagga, this is the case for Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction who serves as either the Big Bad or Greater-Scope Villain for several games in the series. According to the Seven Fights, Dagon was once a kindly demon who attempted to protect parts of Mundus (the mortal world) from being eaten by Alduin at the end of every "kalpa" (cycle of time). Alduin found out and then cursed Dagon with such a task:
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Impossible Task / int_9e202b7b	comment	Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Takeda tried to convince James Shiba to train him. James promptly gives him several impossible tasks to get rid of him. Takeda completes the tasks anyway, and James takes it as a sign that fate must want him to train Takeda. Elder says that no one can date Miu unless they can defeat him in combat. Since he is known by names like "Invincible Superman" and "The Man Without Enemies", what he means to say is that he doesn't want anyone dating Miu.
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Impossible Task / int_9ebcdcd3	comment	Werner has an impossible (for a good reason) entry ritual for former Bhagwan sect members who want to be his followers: They have to open a bottle of beer with a raw egg. Everyone actually tries.
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Impossible Task / int_a0522cb6	comment	In Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, with it having a fairy tale motif, Self-Proclaimed Knight Gladion tells Kisaragi that he will give himself the task of stopping the Apex by trapping them in their memory tapes, forcing them to look at themselves and admit their flaws. By doing so, this would also make their numbers decrease and give them an epiphany to stop murdering denizens.
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Impossible Task / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, the Robot Devil challenges Leela in a violin contest, with her having to use a solid gold fiddle. Fry does point out that a solid gold fiddle "would weigh like a hundred pounds and sound really cruddy," and the Robot Devil admits it's "mostly for show." Leela does beat him, though - over the head with the extremely heavy fiddle. The "impossible" part here comes not from the nature of the fiddle (the Robot Devil plays the same one), but more from the fact that the Robot Devil is a robot (with extremely dexterous hands as another episode has demonstrated), who on top of that is able to use two bows thanks to an extra arm.
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Impossible Task / int_a3f6b9d0	comment	In The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, the wicked aunts send the children after the three things of the title to kill them.
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Impossible Task / int_a49a890c	comment	In Preacher, Jesse Custer punishes one of the Big Bad's flunkies by compelling him to go sit on a beach and count three million grains of sand. He does it. The hard way. As far as Custer's punishments go, this is getting off lightly. But it nearly drove him mad. Jesse realizes he'd screwed up and makes amends by using the same powers that drove him to the task to forget the whole thing.
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Impossible Task / int_a52d5113	comment	In "The Three Little Men in the Wood", the stepdaughter is sent out to gather strawberries in the snow. She meets and is polite to the title men, and they send her to a place with strawberries and give her more blessings. So the Wicked Stepmother sends her own daughter, who is rude and so finds nothing.
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Impossible Task / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible examples: Books of Kings: A young David is told by King Saul that he can't marry Princess Michal unless he brings the foreskins of one hundred dead Philistines. David tops him by bringing two hundred. Subverted in the story of Naaman and Elisha. Naaman is a commander in the Assyrian army, but he suffers from leprosy. Having been told that Elisha can cure him, he goes out to the prophet to ask for assistance. Elisha shrugs and sends a messenger who says, "Go dip yourself in the Jordan River seven times"—a trivial task, except that its very triviality makes Naaman furious. He's about to refuse when his servant asks whether he wouldn't have attempted any difficult task required (in one literary version, "if he told you to go climb a mountain of glass"). Humbled, Naaman goes and gets his cure.
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Impossible Task / int_a59597f2	comment	The horde of chores heaped upon Cinderella by her Wicked Stepmother were of this nature. Not impossible in and of themselves, but all heaped together they make an insurmountable task. In Aschenputtel (the German version of "Cinderella"), the Wicked Stepmother set such a task to let her go to the ball:
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Impossible Task / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: The backstory for Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night is heavily based on the aforementioned legend of Princess Kaguya. The final stage is even called "Five Impossible Requests," and Kaguya's spellcards are named after the five requests from the legend, implying that she had the treasures all along. The game's Superboss, Fujiwara no Mokou, is the daughter of one of the men humiliated by Kaguya's impossible tasks, kicking off a Cycle of Revenge that's lasted over a thousand years thanks to the Hourai Elixir. In the next installments, she has invented more of those tasks; one of them is bringing her the Red Stone of Aja. The commentary makes it obvious that you have to brave an erupting volcano to obtain it.
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Impossible Task / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In Legend of the Five Rings, the first emperor Hantei declared that mortal samurai Kakita was to marry Doji, one of the nine Kami. Doji agreed provided Kakita could complete three tasks: bring the dead to life, measure the width of the world, and show an image of true beauty. For the first, Kakita carved a piece of driftwood into an instrument and played a song on it. For the second, he declared that the width of the world was measured by the company you traveled with. For the third, Kakita used a mirror to show Doji herself.
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Impossible Task / int_a8729c90	comment	In The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy, the human child, sets a task for Wanda, his fairy godmother, in order for her to be sufficiently delayed while he and Wanda's husband Cosmo set up for a surprise anniversary party. The task: train a cat, she can even use magic. She couldn't do it.
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Impossible Task / int_a8b8d74e	comment	In The Grateful Beasts, Ferko is to cut all the corn in a single night, gather it all into barns the next night, and summon all the wolves in the land. It stops with the wolves because they're wolves.
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Impossible Task / int_a947f760	comment	At the end of 68 Kill, Monica promises to give Chip anything he wants as long as he lets her live; he considers this and asks her to bring Violet back from the dead.
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Impossible Task / int_a97937a3	comment	The Flash Sentry Chronicles: The third test of The Great Test is designed to be this. Flash is given the task to cross a twenty-foot-wide lava pit safely while he has been stripped of his ability to fly. After considering all possibilities, Flash comes to the difficult conclusion that there is no way for him to safely cross the lava pit. This turns out to have been the correct decision, since he realized the task presented was impossible and he didn't attempt it, passing the final test and proving he has the judgment and skills to be a leader.
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Impossible Task / int_af4d0b4e	comment	In "Mother Holle", when the girl drops her shuttle in the well, her Wicked Stepmother orders her to fetch it out again.
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Impossible Task / int_af925ef9	comment	Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Mentioned in Chapter 16 when talking about strange clothing because of a reference to "The Peasant's Wise Daughter" or a fairy tale like it:
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Impossible Task / int_b08f67f7	comment	The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: In a parody of Hercules Asterix and Obelix have to fulfill 12 impossible tasks in order to prove they're powerful. If they succeed it will imply that they are gods and Julius Caesar will surrender the entire Roman Empire to them.
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Impossible Task / int_b2700e28	comment	The Emperor in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, whenever he needs something impossible done, gives the task to the (extremely flanderized) Ultramarines. His reasoning being that either the Ultramarines' Gary Stu-ness will win out, and he gets what he wants, or they will fail miserably, in which case the rest of the chapter might act less insufferably smug. One of these tasks involved going into literal hell, with no force fields, to retrieve the second most powerful psyker who ever lived from the clutches of a literal god. Naturally, they succeed with minimal casualties.
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Impossible Task / int_b40d4111	comment	Stardust has two examples: The protagonist is challenged by a crush to bring back a fallen star from the magical land outside their town in exchange for her hand. Subverted in that she didn't actually expect him to try, much less succeed, but she agrees to marry him anyway. However by this point he's matured a lot and met a better love interest, so he declines. Tristran's mother is bound by a spell to remain in service to Ditchwater Sal until "the moon loses her daughter during a week in which two Mondays come together". It turns out to be fulfilled by a case of Exact Words near the story's end: Yvaine pledges herself to Tristran in the same week that Victoria is set to marry Robert Monday - thus two Mondays are joined in the same week that the moon loses her daughter.
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Impossible Task / int_b56ed876	comment	Mortified: The Penances Jack and Maddie have to take in order to complete their punishment are technically not this, as part of the requirements is that they have to be achievable for them within the duration of their punishment. However, it can become this depending on how much help the ghosts are willing to give them.
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Impossible Task / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, Mages Guild Archmage Trebonius Artorius has developed a reputation as a Pointy-Haired Boss who assigns nothing but these. Infamously, he asks the Player Character to solve the disappearance of the Dwemer (and is shocked when the player actually manages to find an answer). Other assignments he has given to other guild members include taking an inventory of all of the silverware on Vvardenfell and digging a tunnel to the mainland. Knowing that he was named as the head of the Vvardenfell branch in a combination of getting Kicked Upstairs and being Reassigned to Antarctica probably helps to explain this.
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Impossible Task / int_b5f7e809	comment	Beren and LÃºthien: Beren is told to return to Doriath with a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown in his hand if he's to be allowed to marry LÃºthien. His quest involves sneaking into the world's most dangerous fortress and stealing the most prized treasury from the most powerful and most evil being ever to walk the Earth, a task which whole armies have failed to accomplish during several centuries of war. Beren gets further than nobody could possibly have been expected, thanks to his badassery and, mainly, LÃºthien's help, but a giant wolf bites off Beren's hand and swallows it, including the Silmaril. Beren returns to Doriath anyway, pointing out that the Silmaril is in his hand (and the hand in the wolf's belly).
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Impossible Task / int_b6886bfd	comment	In Star Trek Into Darkness, Kirk must learn that he cannot always take a third option, and that failure for a starship captain can mean the death of those under his command.
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Impossible Task / int_b778d139	comment	Laff-A-Lympics: Yogi uses these words to describe the job of being the Yogi Yahooeys' cook.
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Impossible Task / int_bc848d30	comment	In "Help Wanted", the premiere episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Mr. Krabs tries to prevent SpongeBob from joining the Krusty Krew by tasking him with finding a "hydrodynamic spatula, with port and starboard attachments, and a turbo drive", an item he makes up off the top of his head. SpongeBob buys one at a Bargain Mart and returns in the nick of time to save the restaurant from a horde of hungry anchovies.
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Impossible Task / int_be001596	comment	The Russian fairy tale of Vasilissa the Beautiful involves many of these. Vasilisa's Wicked Stepmother sends her to fetch fire from Baba Yaga, expecting the girl to be eaten alive. Baba Yaga instead sets her to work on tasks that include threshing a roomful of wheat, stripping 10,000 ears of corn, and picking out a wagonload of poppy seeds from black flour dust, each in a single night. With the help of her magic doll, she completes all the tasks and retrieves the magic fire, and when she brings it home, its light burns her wicked stepmother and stepsisters to ashes.
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Impossible Task / int_be8ff20a	comment	Hope for the Heartless is set after the events of The Black Cauldron. The Horned King, the deceased Big Bad of the movie, is suddenly contacted by the Fates in his endless Hell. For unclear reasons, they resurrect him for the period of 18 months. During that time, he must do something absurd in his ears: he must get a human to love him despite his sins. If he doesn't do this, his spirit shall be trapped inside the Black Cauldron for all eternity. If he succeeds... the only thing made clear is that he shall be free of the Cauldron.
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Impossible Task / int_c2ccee93	comment	May be a parody: VÃ¤inamÃ¶inen is a mighty sorcerer and bard who is utterly inept in love. One girl he flirts with tells him she will never marry him unless he cuts a swan in half with a knife without a point, and knots an egg with an invisible knot. (In other words, when hell freezes over.) VÃ¤inamÃ¶inen, being both clueless and a wizard, proceeds to complete both tasks with his magic.Then she says she won't marry him unless he pulls birchbark off a stone and breaks off poles from a piece of ice without a chip flying off. He uses magic to do both immediately. Then she says she can't marry him unless he builds a boat out of her distaff and gets the boat in the water without anyone touching it. He uses magic to do this easily as well...but an evil spirit causes him to accidentally cut himself with his axe, and he has to go on an adventure to heal his wound, by which time he has forgotten about her. (There are a lot of moments in The Kalevala that seem like parodies of myths.)
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Impossible Task / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Tanks For the Memories," when Rainbow Dash realizes that her pet tortoise needs to hibernate for the winter, she sets it upon herself to stop winter so they can have more time together. While winter is created by ponies in Equestria, so her task is theoretically possible, her attempts to disrupt the coming winter just cause a big mess and don't slow it down at all. The Aesop of the episode is accepting that times change and sometimes your friends have to leave for a while.
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Impossible Task / int_c453bcfd	comment	Midway through Gun Blaze West, Viu meets a ringmaster who wants to discourage him from going to Gun Blaze West, and so gives him a test- hit a bullseye at 15 meters away, which is three times the accurate range of a pistol. He hopes that either Viu will give up or gain the skills necessary to survive in Gun Blaze West.
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Impossible Task / int_c456ee48	comment	Theoretically, the evil master in Krabat can be defeated easily - but he twists the words of the condition to his advantage. If a girl who loves one of the master's students asks on New Years' Eve to let him go, this would do the trick. However, she has to recognize her boy for this - and there's nowhere written that they may not turn into ravens. Which lead to the death of one girl and her boy Janko.
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Impossible Task / int_c5dd6c2a	comment	Wizards vs. Aliens: "To command the Hobbledehoy to obey your will, the couplet you must break." That proves simple enough (get it to say a sentence ending in "orange", but then they have to save its life by providing a rhyme. Luckily, the grocer who supplied the orange was local grocer Mr. Gorringe.
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Impossible Task / int_c717e9ce	comment	From The 10th Kingdom:
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Impossible Task / int_c773cdea	comment	In Culhwch and Olwen, one of the tales in the Mabinogion, King Arthur's cousin is given several impossible tasks to complete by the father of the woman whose hand he has asked for in marriage.
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Impossible Task / int_c91a1d46	comment	In The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen the stepmother plays a game of cards with her stepsons so she can force them on an impossible quest.
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Impossible Task / int_cbe67cb4	comment	In "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples", the mountain's old witch tasks the prince with taking care of her mare for three days in exchange for one of her horses. However, the witch mare is sapient, untameable and a shape-shifter. As soon as the prince gets tired and looks away, the mare slips away and hides away by turning into a different animal.
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Impossible Task / int_d1278b3a	comment	Elemental (2023): When Cinder, a fire elemental, discovers her daughter Ember is dating a water elemental named Wade, she is furious. She feels that the elements cannot mix and puts Wade through an incense burning ritual, where Cinder will read the smoke of the two incenses and determine if the couple is a match. Cinder forbids Ember from lighting Wade's incense, and sees no possible means for a water elemental to burn something on his own. Wade doesn't give up and refocuses his water body to refract the light from Ember's fire into a concentrated beam of light that ignites the incense. Cinder is shocked at this while Ember only smiles at her beloved's ingenuity.
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Impossible Task / int_d1702e57	comment	Parodied in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus: The initiation task Cyllene gives you to become part of the Galaxy Expedition Team is to... catch three Com Mons. It's treated like an Impossible Task by most of the other characters because the game is a Prequel taking place in an era before human interaction with Pokemon became commonplace, and most people are scared to death of interacting with Pokemon. As the protagonist is a modern kid transported back to the past, their familiarity with Pokemon makes the task incredibly easy, and causes many of the other characters to treat them as a prodigy.
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Impossible Task / int_d2dfd2f2	comment	In Journey to the West, The Buddha asks Sun Wukong to jump out from his palm. It turns out to be impossible because The Buddha's palm engulfs the entire universe.
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Impossible Task / int_d9c602eb	comment	A modern parody may be the South Park episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure." Kyle's mom tells him he can't go to a Raging Pussies concert unless he cleans out the garage, shovels the snow out of the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Of course he succeeds at all three, though his parents do have the decency to tell him that they didn't actually expect him to accomplish the third while telling him he still can't go. He still doesn't get to go, being told specifically that they never expected him to be able to pull off that last one. Kyle decides this is unfair and applies some lateral thinking: calling child services and telling them his parents molested him so they'll get arrested and he therefore won't need their permission. It works.
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Impossible Task / int_db17a15f	comment	In The White Dove, the prince is set to sort feathers and chop wood, and magically prevented from either. The dove knows the trick, though.
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Impossible Task / int_ddfa7c62	comment	Impossible by Nancy Werlin is based on the Scarborough Fair song, explains how it came about, and the entire plot is this trope.
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Impossible Task / int_de976635	comment	The Book of Boba Fett: The Children of the Watch hold that the only way a member of their order can redeem themselves for breaking the way is to bathe in the living waters in the mines beneath Mandalore. Which were destroyed when the Empire bombed the planet into oblivion, something both the Armorer and the Mandalorian are aware of. So, in other words, barring some miracle, Din can't ever return to them. That doesn't stop him from succeeding.
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Impossible Task / int_e199d649	comment	In the Inheritance Cycle, dragon riders were given impossible tasks to get them really frustrated so they'd learn to use magic. It never mentioned whether or not they actually solved the tasks.
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Impossible Task / int_e34d9eac	comment	In Turgor the player is given such tasks by Mantid and Warden.
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Impossible Task / int_e41de813	comment	Digitesque: Tanos shamelessly admits that he only asked Ada to help with the ruin door because she's cute and he wanted to spend time with her. He's shocked when she actually gets it open.
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Impossible Task / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: In the Grand Quest of ALO (Episode 22), the guardians are impossible to kill due to their huge numbers. On top of that, once Kirito reaches the door beyond the guardians, he discovers it is locked and cannot be opened by normal players.
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Impossible Task / int_edaa765e	comment	A visual version of this trope is the third challenge from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — the bridge across the ravine doesn't seem to be there at all until you do what you think is impossible and have enough faith to step off the ravine. It's then that you discover the bridge was there all along, just painted so subtly you couldn't tell it from the far ravine wall. There's also a very powerful metaphor for faith in that visual riddle: faith is sometimes described as jumping off a cliff and landing safely in midair.
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Impossible Task / int_ee5e6821	comment	John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: The Hercules example is parodied, with the tasks being given in an attempt to kill Hercules or just get rid of him. Problem is being a demi-god he keeps succeeding at them anyhow. At wit's end, the king and queen of Sparta suggest he go to the Underworld and steal Cerberus, which even Hercules takes pause at.
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Impossible Task / int_f140f23d	comment	PokÃ©mon Clover apes the Big Bill Hell's advertisement through Big Bill Hell's Bikes, complete with Challenge Pissingnote That's right, challenge pissing!. If you can piss six feet in the air straight up and not get wet, you get a free bike. Since there's no way a human can pull that off, you need a Pokemon with a Water-type move to cheat on your behalf.
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Impossible Task / int_f3c58c73	comment	King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow: In order to get the Golden Ending, Alexander must rescue Cassima's parents from the Land of the Dead, which involves meeting the challenge set by Samhain, Lord of the Dead. That challenge? To make Samhain, who has seen countless millenia of tragic deaths, cry. Alexander manages this by showing Samhain the Mirror of Truth, which reminds Samhain of his own tragic history and shocks him enough to make him shed a Single Tear.
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Impossible Task / int_f46fa37	comment	Skillfully subverted in Cyrano de Bergerac: At Act I Scene V, Cyrano claims that fate has decreed that he, being The Grotesque because of his large nose, must love the most beautiful woman there is, implying an Impossible Task. The truth is, given his Mommy Issues, Cyrano himself has chosen the most beautiful so he will fight knowing that he cannot win her love.
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Impossible Task / int_fa805da1	comment	A skit in Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it involves a parody of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, where Kaguya challenges her suitors to solve Fermat's Last Theorem. The first suitor, who isn't good at math, is stumped. The second, who's somewhat competent, feels confident that he can solve it with assistance. The third, who is proficient, realizes that she doesn't intend to marry.
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Impossible Task / int_fdbace96	comment	It turns out in Gravity Falls, Stan was kicked out by his father, Filbrick for ruining his brother Standford's science project, robbing Filbrick out of his Meal Ticket. He was then not allowed to return home until he could make them a fortune. Even worse is that Stanley hadn't graduated high school, being seen as "the dumber twin" by the others, and even Stan admitting to having no marketing skills. Stanley does attempt to make a fortune, but only of his own volition. He doesn't bother trying to go back home.
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Impossible Task / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks" has Worf, instructing a Bajoran crewman in martial arts, take the gik'tal challenge, requiring her to fight him blindfolded. After repeatedly getting effortlessly taken down by Worf, she complains that the test is impossible and unfair, and refuses to continue... at which point Worf declares she has passed the test.
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