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It Runs on Nonsensoleum

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It Runs on Nonsensoleum	comment	There's "hard" science fiction, which adheres only to what is currently known or theorized. And then there's "soft" science fiction, which usually either offers little to no explanation beyond "it's a time machine!/ray gun!/clone!, etc", or makes use of Techno Babble, which is when the writer gives a reason that sounds science-ish and trusts the Willing Suspension of Disbelief to take care of the rest. But there is some science fiction, usually on the "softest" end of the scale, that deliberately uses what is obviously nonsensical science, with no illusions about the audience ever taking it as anything but a joke. It may explain the scientific principles on which the phlebotinum works, but the principles are so outlandish that the audience has to shrug and say, "it's comedy". Oftentimes, Noodle Implements are needed to harness nonsensoleum. Other times, Achievements in Ignorance are the catalyst that allow nonsensoleum to work, and it will stop working once the characters realize that it shouldn't be possible. If they can still do it despite recognizing that what they're doing should be impossible then it's Beyond the Impossible. If a person has powers that run off of this trope then they may be using Literal Metaphors to make it work. Can be seen as an acknowledgement of the Rule of Funny. Compare Insane Troll Logic, which is logic that is not supposed to make sense. If the explanation is used to cover a plothole and creates an even bigger plothole, it becomes a Voodoo Shark. See also Had the Silly Thing in Reverse. Sometimes justified by The Spark of Genius or Psychic Powers.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_10e9182d	comment	One episode of Tales from the Crypt was about a sideshow man at a carnival who'd attained the power to be killed and resurrected from a mad doctor transferring a cat's nine lives over to him using some crazy machine. As part of this mad logic, he keeps count of how many times he's been killed to ensure he still has one extra life to spare. Then he realizes his count is short and the life he's about to lose really is the last one...
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_11c6567a	comment	Thursday Next: Lost in a Good Book features Nextian Geometry, which (for example) uses the "principle" that cylindrical objects such as cakes and scones look rectangular from the side, as the basis for a design of cookie cutter which doesn't leave those irregular bits of leftover dough. But only if the cutter is used with Nextian dough, which tastes like library paste. First Among Sequels reveals that the Chrono Guard can time-travel because of the reasoning that, in all the entire history of the universe, someone must have invented time machines. However, when they finally trace the future history of the universe to the end and find out that no one ever did, all their time machines vanish.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_136342f1	comment	In a footnote in Mort, there's a passage regarding the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle's theory of kingons (or queons), the elemental particle of monarchy, that he believed traveled faster than light; there could only be one king at a time and there couldn't be a gap between kings, so monarchy must travel faster than anything else in the universe. His plans to use this discovery to send messages by carefully torturing a small king to modulate the signal never came to fruition because at that moment the bar closed.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_13b6da8c	comment	The Freeeze Ray (it freezes time!) from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog runs on 'Wonderflonium'. ("Do Not Bounce".) The fanmade sequel Doctor Horribles Sing Along Sequel sees Johnny Snow inventing a way to bring people back from the dead. It's a Life Ray, built by taking an ordinary Death Ray and reversing the polarity.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_13be614d	comment	In The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, the aliens have a machine that's somehow powered by purple objects. Making this even more ridiculous, the aliens change the power source of the machine each stage to: hats, balloons, exit signs and plutonium rods (the only one that actually makes some sense).
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_15870207	comment	El ChapulÃn Colorado, being a superhero satire, obviously runs on Grade-A Nonsensoleum to make the titular hero paralyze people with a bicycle horn, shrink to about 4 inches tall, and show up at Venus, ancient Japan or Nazi Germany.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1b5eec6e	comment	Sheep in the Big City: One episode had a robot called "the plot device", leading to conversations like: The sheep-powered ray gun, for which the Secret Military Organization needs Sheep, despite the fact that the farm from which he escaped was a sheep farm with at least 50 more. We don't know why, but the ray gun only works with one sheep and only if he's alive. There is Lampshade Hanging whenever anyone suggests to just make a ray gun with a power source other than sheep, but the idea always gets rejected.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1b9abae6	comment	The Chronoskimmers from Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego run on "fact fuel" generated by crew members answering history questions.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Almost everything runs on plot. Especially Riff's devices. And more especially, Schlock's devices. And MORE MORE especially, the devices they make together or with each other's technology. (Riff uses Schlock's inflatable technology to make inflatable guns that somehow shoot lasers without destroying themselves.) Even better is that Schlock creates a balloon version of himself that inflates WHEN YOU PIERCE IT.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1beec425	comment	Scary Go Round's Tim Jones built a time machine that was a self-heating teapot with a clock on the side and an electronic eye in the lid. To use it, one simply had to set the clock to your desired time, then turn on the teapot; using the principle that "a watched pot never boils", the water would heat up but never boil. In the process, time would get confused, and reset itself to the nearest timepiece.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Techno Babble and Magi Babble are the order of the day, with various semi-plausible explanations trotted out for all the powers and magic. Some of them are actually pretty good explanations. And then there's Gunha Sogiita. He is the seventh Level 5 esper in Academy City, but he's a Gemstone; he was born with his power, rather than having it developed artificially. That means absolutely no one has any idea how it works. He mostly just runs around punching through buildings and headbutting missiles while yelling about "GUTS". At one point, he gives the same sort of Techno Babble explanation for his powers that is common in the series... only to be flatly told that what he just said makes no sense whatsoever in any context. While all espers are explicitly low-level Reality Warpers, Gunha is the only one who can seemingly just break the laws of physics completely and utterly without hesitation.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_1fcdbe32	comment	The Phantom Tollbooth has a cart with no visible means of propulsion that starts moving when all the passengers are quiet, because "it goes without saying."
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_237a86c	comment	In Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, the Akibarangers are powered by delusions and their henshin call is JÅ«mÅ�sÅ�! ("Grand Delusion!"), thus their abilities literally run on nonsense!
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Don't Fear the Roofer", Homer gets his new friend Ray Magini to fix his roof. However, other people soon begin to postulate that Ray doesn't actually exist, since everyone who was with Homer when he spoke to Ray claimed not to have actually seen him. Thinking that Homer is delusional, his family takes him to the doctor, and after several treatments of painful therapy, Homer thinks he's back to sanity again. But then they find out that Ray was real all along, and that there were logical explanations as to why no one else saw him — except for one case where Bart couldn't see Ray even though he was in plain sight and should have been able to. Guest star Stephen Hawking then shows up and delivers the trope — a miniature black hole had appeared between Bart and Ray that absorbed the light from Ray so Bart couldn't see him.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_26674ed5	comment	Towards the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Raiden asks Snake if he has enough ammo to lend him, and Snake replies, "Infinite ammo" while pointing to his bandana (a reference to the Infinity Bandana from Metal Gear Solid, which did indeed give Snake infinite ammo for the weapon he was holding).
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_26ef902d	comment	In Home (2015), Oh uses a slushie machine and some other junk to make Tip's mother's car capable of flight.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_27a2d64a	comment	Mocked in a fictional Doctor Who scene in Extras:
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_299db5c7	comment	Bruce Coville's Book of... Aliens II: The Very Long Distance Wrong Number features an alien who stops on Earth to refuel his ship. Checking the list of ingredients, it turns out his fuel is actually made up of the same things as an industrial-strength frozen yogurt and espresso milkshake with tabasco sauce. And he only needs about three liters. (The drive-beasts process the fuel into matter and antimatter, which powers their star drives, and with matter/antimatter conversion, a little bit goes a long way.)
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_2fee008d	comment	The Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann dub gives us a great short example, with Simon wondering how Gurren Lagann's leg gets patched up and Kamina shouting "FIGHTING SPIRIT!" at the top of his lungs as a presumed explanation. He's right. They were repaired by Spiral Power, which comes from fighting spirit. In this case, Nonsensoleum is the most powerful force in the universe.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_30d9627b	comment	One part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) radio series that was never adapted in other versions has a fifteen mile high statue of Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup. The mile-long marble cup floats in mid-air "because it's artistically right."
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Fighter survives a freefall by using his Knight abilities to block the ground. Fighter's "explanation" is that since he can block all sorts of elemental attacks, it's natural that he'd be able to block Earth. As far as Red Mage is concerned, the less sense a plan makes, the greater its chance of success! He took this to heart when devising a plan that he claimed to be infallible.note The situation: the Light Warriors are trying to reach an invisible sky castle. Fighter sighted a sky castle that was clearly not invisible. Red Mage's plan: shoot down the visible sky castle with a powerful weapon, then reverse-engineer it from its burning remains, repair it to full working order, then fly it into the sky so that they can have a better look around and see the invisible sky castle. Why? It made no sense, therefore it couldn't be stopped. His reasoning for that run thusly: the more complex the plan, the more things can go wrong. Ergo, if the plan is completely insane and unworkable from the outset, there's no way for it to fall apart, so it's guaranteed to succeed! (Black Mage became so irritated by this explanation that he temporarily went blind.) Notably, Thief managed to find a strategy only slightly less impossible to reach the sky castle: he threw the other members of the party up there. And then he threw himself.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_33860f9f	comment	In Scott Pilgrim, being a vegan apparently gives you Psychic Powers. The explanation of why this works — humans only use 10% of their brains since the other 90% is full of curds and whey — makes no sense, and all the characters know it. And if you break the rules too many times (three strikes it looks like) your powers are taken away by the Vegan Police.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck hardly has any other kind of technology. For example, there's the completely notion that all matters consists of "trons", particles that come in good (positron) and evil (negatron) flavours. So you can split someone (like Darkwing) into their good and evil sides. Also, if you use the splitting machine again with the right setting, the split sides become "galvanized", which apparently means "superpowered gods".
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_36b0ee57	comment	In The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T, Bart Collins creates a sound-absorbing device using all the items in his pockets combined with liquid odor-eater and a hearing aid, on the theory that if odor-eater removes odors, then combining it with a hearing aid (and marbles, and string, matches, a frog, etc.) will remove all sound from a room. Then it turns out to be Atomic and blows up. It is All Just a Dream, after all.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_38790e1b	comment	Most of Holden's inventions in The Flamin' Thongs. He created a wormhole generator by placing a worm and a doughnut in a cement mixer and spinning the mixer at the speed of light, thereby fusing the worm and the doughnut into one entity. This somehow succeeded in creating a wormhole.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin invents devices that run on nonsensoleum, especially a cardboard box capable of traveling through time, transforming Calvin into an animal, or duplicating him. These are all the same box, the only changes being what direction the box's opening is facing and what's scribbled on its sidenote apparently the box is just a casing, since the transmogrifier device is small enough to be housed inside a toy squirt gun as well. Hobbes lampshades these inventions by saying, "It's amazing what they can do with corrugated cardboard these days." Calvin himself took advantage of this at one point: after creating several duplicates of himself (whom he couldn't stand), he got rid of them by getting them to stand under the duplicator box, crossing out the label "Duplicator," and writing in the new label "Transmogrifier" so he could change them into worms. When the transmogrifier was introduced, it was able to select between 4 forms: eel, baboon, bug, or dinosaur. When Hobbes asked what if he wanted to turn into something else, Calvin simply replies he left space to write more stuff on the dial.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_43e9884a	comment	The Long Earth: Travel to parallel dimensions is achieved with a device that consists of a metal case, a few wires, and a potato. Although given that at least some people have the ability to "step" without them, it might be another trope entirely.note It's (eventually) known within the series that almost everyone has the ability, but to activate it — at least the first time — usually involves personally building one of the devices. If you don't, you're stuck being carried along for the ride by someone who can. And the rest? They most likely could, but for some reason get sick when they step, even if it's under someone else's power.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_4522fd1	comment	Devisors from the Whateley Universe run on this trope, although they sometimes get devices that are close to reasonable. This is annoying to those with both Gadgeteer and Devisor traits, since they don't know if what they built either obeys the rules of science or ignores the rules of science, in which case they can't patent and mass-manufacture it. The only test is if someone else can build it.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_45602249	comment	In Monday Night Combat, bacon raises a character's attributes past their maximum limit until the end of their current life. The explanation? "Bacon makes you better at everything, just like in real life".
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In The Truth, it's explained that the dried frog pills the Bursar takes to keep him apparently sane are actually hallucinogens, the idea being that a proper dose will cause him to hallucinate that he's sane (just like most people). In Hogfather, when Hex (a non-electronic computer composed primarily of ants marching through glass tubes) becomes unstable, its rationality is restored by typing the words "dried frog pills" into it. (This may have been inspired by the Cookie Monster virus, one of the first computer viruses.) Guards! Guards! introduces the concept of L-Space, where large collections of books warp time and space based on the principle that knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter has mass, and mass warps space-time. Thus, the reason why owners of independent book stores tend to be so eccentric is that they're secretly from an alternate dimension (usually one where it's acceptable business practice to wear carpet slippers all day, keep a cat in the shop, and only open up when you feel like it). Also in Guards! Guards!, characters try to invoke the trope Million to One Chance, since "everyone knows million-to-one chances always succeed". The men of the City Watch are camped out on a rooftop to try to bring down a dragon by shooting it in its "voolnerables." Problem is, they're all Genre Savvy about it, and after considering the situation - their archer used to win prizes for his marksmanship, he's using his lucky arrow, a dragon's "voolnerables" might be quite big - they think that it might not be a million-to-one-chance of success, but could be a near-certainty, or some awkward number like 999,943-to-one. So they end up trying to handicap their bowman by blindfolding him, putting soot on his face, and making him stand facing the wrong way on one leg while singing the Hedgehog Song, but still end up missing the shot. Then the dragon retaliates by flaming the building they are standing on. Which is a distillery. Luckily, as the narration points out, the odds of the Watch surviving a jump from the (exploding) roof into a nearby pond do happen to be exactly a-million-to-one. Later we learn their odds of hitting the dragon's "voolnerables" were more like zero - it was female. Sourcery: the characters travel across the sea in a magic lantern. This works because one of them is holding the lantern, and they're all inside the lantern. The trick is to complete the journey before the universe catches on... oops, too late. In a footnote in Mort, there's a passage regarding the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle's theory of kingons (or queons), the elemental particle of monarchy, that he believed traveled faster than light; there could only be one king at a time and there couldn't be a gap between kings, so monarchy must travel faster than anything else in the universe. His plans to use this discovery to send messages by carefully torturing a small king to modulate the signal never came to fruition because at that moment the bar closed. In the fiction portion of The Science of Discworld, the thinking engine Hex increases his own processing abilities by reasoning that, in the future, he'll have already done so, then pulling the needed components out of probability phase space where they must therefore exist in potentia. It's Lampshaded that, while this train of thought is, for the most part, garbage, it isn't complete garbage. The Pork Futures Warehouse, which allows people to trade in pork that doesn't exist yet. So they built a warehouse to store it until it does. If you go inside you'll find semi-transparent pig carcasses hanging around, waiting to become real. This is inspired by real-life futures trading, where someone agrees to buy something at a set price at a specific time in the future to try to avoid market fluctuations.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_4bb953f3	comment	The B-Movie Comic has a Transforming Mecha with a traditional air brake, the kind that turns a fall into a pleasant hover two feet above the ground. When its button is pressed, it works by triggering a small explosive charge that propels a massive tungsten bolt. Into what, you ask? Into Isaac Newton's memorial at Westminster Abbey.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Post-Scratch Bro Strider that is to say, Dave, invented a way of making JPEG artifacts in real life that obviously runs on this trope. Its quite profitable despite nobody wanting the products, because they have a negative cost to manufacture. The events of "[S] Cascade": To summarize: the heroes have triggered a Cosmic Retcon that will cause them to become Ret-Gone if they don't escape the universes (yes, ''universes'') they are residing in. While the method of travel chosen by the remaining trolls, as well as Dave and Rose, is pretty tame by Homestuck standards (that is, traveling on a meteor psionically propelled through the Furthest Ring ), the way Jade and John leave is positively insane. To sum it up: Jade hijacks a spaceship and literally drives it through the fourth wall to end up in Andrew Hussie's house, after which they take a three-year-long trip to another fourth wall leading to the new universe. Yes, this actually happens. Spades Slick is unable to open a door because the barcode he needed was on the hand ripped off by Snowman. He gets out of it by flipping his 2-D sprite, so left hand becomes right and vice-versa. Roxy can create objects by imagining them and then removing nothingness. Gamzee can't die, because clowns don't die. It's literally the only explanation we got. Even the author himself admits that he doesn't know how this works.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_5639c58b	comment	In Black Adventures, quantum physics cause Magical Girl Transformation Sequences and the Nimbasa subway is powered with Ingo and Emmett's "Bruderliebe".
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Towards the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Raiden asks Snake if he has enough ammo to lend him, and Snake replies, "Infinite ammo" while pointing to his bandana (a reference to the Infinity Bandana from Metal Gear Solid, which did indeed give Snake infinite ammo for the weapon he was holding). Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: During an incredibly meta codec conversation between Sigint and Snake discussing the Patriot gun: Snake can eat a bioluminescent mushroom to recharge his batteries. Para-Medic and Sigint agree to themselves that it must've just been a placebo effect.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_591aa39f	comment	The official reason why Metal Slug Recurring Boss Allen O'Neal is able to come back from the dead in every game, even when he's Eaten Alive by an orca and his bones spat out? He has a family he has to return to.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: Such gleefully unscientific phenomena as a mutated flu virus that makes the sufferer's hallucinations "solid" (When Lister objects that this doesn't make sense, Rimmer's second attempt at explaining it fails to be significantly different from the first) and a similarly affected photo developing fluid that not only brings photos to life but allows time travel through them when projected onto a screen.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_5d84baa1	comment	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe has an accidental application of nonsensoleum, when a rock band using cutting-edge high-tech amplifiers achieves such loud volumes that the tectonic plate on which the concert is taking place flips like a flapjack, converting a former blasted wasteland into a fertile field of volcanic soil which becomes the garden spot of that world in just a few short years. It also somehow cured the natives of their unwanted psychic powers, which were forced on the populace by the rest of the galaxy for being quiet and happy while the everyone else was miserable from the small talk they were forced into by social convention. The concert was to distract them from the constant buzz of other people's thoughts.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd: Abusing the principle of explosion to get "Your Mom's phone number". One strip has a guy say he felt a sharp pang the moment his brother died. A physicist wonders if this was instantaneous or if there was a light speed transmission delay. He then goes on to wonder if they could use this to send a message faster than light and break causality, and asks how many other siblings the guy has. Subverted in One strip where a character describes using Plutonium to power a spacecraft and it sounds like Nonsesoleum, but its actually a perfectly valid scientific explanation.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_60a7a86d	comment	"It runs on pure madness!" is a principle used quite often in Shade, the Changing Man. Things like Angel Catchers and Time Machines are built from unlikely whirlwinds of parts, arranged in implausible configurations, and powered by Shade's insane faith that they would work. For a time, even Shade's own body was formed and held together with madness.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_63a951c3	comment	Invoked in Skyhold Academy Yearbook. According to Varric, the eponymous school is powered by nonsensoleum. Considering that the entire series is a Lighter and Softer yet Denser and Wackier take on the Dragon Age universe, he has a point.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_69fa7496	comment	A Scrooge McDuck story where Scrooge went to the center of the Earth to look for the key to time had his vehicle being powered by the power of the market put in a pressure chamber. At one point, he ran out of fuel because the market had been tamed, but his fighting with Donald charged up the pressure chamber again. At the center of the Earth, there was a miniature space with another, small Earth. There was so little gravity down there that the ducks were able to walk on thin air because of that, but also able to walk on the ground. Of course, the author may have thought this actually made sense. This is to say nothing of the magical time thingies the characters gained from the center of the Earth. They somehow used them to make money, but the explanations given as to how were so vague it barely even gets up to this trope.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George combines this with an inverted example of Too Dumb to Live. Mega Man is able to survive incredible amounts of damage because he has the "extraordinary ability to not recognize life-threatening injuries." In other words, he's too stupid to die.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_72508928	comment	Dresden Codak: The Dark Science arc is premium unleaded nonsensoleum: Kim hires a director friend to produce horrendous adaptations of literary classics, in order to convert "posthumous indignity" (i.e., the authors spinning in their graves) into clean energy. It would've worked, too, if anyone had gone to see the films.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_731da009	comment	In Allen the Alien, apparently, the English the aliens speak is translated Czech. It's entirely played for laughs.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_73a9bdee	comment	Tall Tale America: The chapter on Jim Bridger and Febold Feboldson ("Western Scientists") is all about this. Petrified forests having petrified gravity, feeding fish iron rich food so you could harvest them with a magnet, literally cutting fog with a knife and burying it under ground; they've got it all. The second chapter about Paul Bunyan, the one where he's a "scientific industrialist", has got some whoppers. He invents refrigerator cars when he packs some cows in with a bunch of popcorn; the cows think the popcorn's snow and freeze solid on the spot. Then there's how he finds oil wells by following dinosaur footprints, or how he carves one large hole into pieces to sell as small, individual holes for fence posts.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_742af508	comment	Grim Fandango, being set in "The Land of the Dead" and thus primarily inhabited by skeletons, frequently runs into this. For example, in keeping with the Film Noir tone, several characters smoke cigarettes or cigars despite lacking the respiratory system and circulatory system necessary to enjoy it; they even lack a tongue to taste it with, meaning it's an entirely trivial habit performed entirely because it's awesome.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_76b8cb10	comment	The Fallout series explicitly works based not on actual science, but Science! of the 1950s. Nuclear powered cars and radiation causing giant bugs to pop up is just how things are supposed to work.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_78db2b3b	comment	All of the inventions at the Academy on Balbinarbi in Gulliver's Travels are this, ranging from a diarrhea cure that somehow turned the user inside out and a contraption used to extract sun beams from cucumber slices.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_7b0d5e93	comment	In Voodoo Walrus A publishing house operates out of an underwater techno-volcano powered by a baby fueled furnace. Not to mention the tendency of explosions be at least partially comprised of live, unperturbed by being in explosions, cats.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: The very first episode has them escaping earth's gravity, in a rollercoaster, because the Eiffel Tower flung them there like a slingshot. Though interestingly, sometimes things will have a scientific basis, such as their plan to experience forty hours of sunlight by flying around the world in "Summer Belongs to You." Amusingly, this was the one time one of their friends decided to exhibit Arbitrary Skepticism — he may not understand their usual insane take on science, but he knows a day isn't that long!note Although it's very strongly implied that he was just pretending not to believe them to be a Jerkass and/or goad them into going through with it.. In "Candace Gets Busted", Dr. Doofenshmirtz accidentally teleports a house full of people into his pants. Confused as to why his teleporter had that option, he realizes he mixed its wheel's setting up with his dry-cleaning wheel... which raises the question of why he has a dry-cleaning wheel.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_7f82538d	comment	In an episode of Krypto the Superdog, tiny aliens land on Earth to refuel their spaceship, the fuel in question being sugar. (And they're rather sickened to discover humans eat what is their equivalent of gasoline.)
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_80e913e5	comment	The Life of Nob T. Mouse is built on this trope. Characters are not born, they just appear. There's a city built on a giant wodge of putty plugging a hole in the universe where the Big Bang happened. Waving a jelly on a stick with pink-icing buns stuck on it will summon a letterbox that lets you post yourself to another universe. The list goes on and on.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_81692f99	comment	In the Star Trek universe, the tech, no matter how far-fetched, is supposed to be taken seriously within the context of the story. But once in a while it gets, in a self-aware fashion, pretty close to the edge of Nonsensoleum. A good example is the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "One Little Ship," in which a runabout and its crew are shrunk to a tiny size by a Negative Space Wedgie and then zoom around the interior of the Defiant fighting off a hostile boarding party. It's obviously meant as a completely goofy premise, with only the most perfunctory attempt at an Applied Phlebotinum justification, for the sheer fun of telling the story, and the key is that even the characters in universe lampshade how enjoyably silly it is.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Othar Tryggvasen (GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!) and his "special trousers" which allow him to No-Sell an irate Super-Soldier landing on him and snapping his spine in half. Othar is on his feet two panels later and no explanation beyond "Special trousers. Very heroic." is ever given.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_8b957d5d	comment	In Life, the Universe and Everything, a new form of travel is devised based on "Bistromathics", the unnatural manner in which numbers behave when dining at a fancy restaurant is involved (from discrepancies in the size of the party booked vs. how many people show up to the price of the food to how to split the bill).
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_8ccaf67f	comment	The whirligigs of Netstorm: "This device is lofted on its own impossibility and so it destroys by the power of negation." Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Oddly enough, they need to refuel every so often, which implies that they must be loaded with impossibility before each flight. Does impossibility have a physical form? One would assume not, but then why is their impossibility supply finite? More importantly, how do you power an object with impossibility in the first place, let alone destroy things with it? It seems that the Whirligig is something of a philosophical quandary, though it must be acknowledged that attempting to use logic on an example of this trope is futile.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_9004922f	comment	In Hogfather, when Hex (a non-electronic computer composed primarily of ants marching through glass tubes) becomes unstable, its rationality is restored by typing the words "dried frog pills" into it. (This may have been inspired by the Cookie Monster virus, one of the first computer viruses.)
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_93e8b35e	comment	If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways — Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Don't worry about booking a table or forgetting your wallet; since this restaurant is at the temporal end of the universe, rather than the spatial, you've had literally all of time in existence to book your seats and the food you had when you last visited the place, which you've obviously already done by the time you get to the place, even if you haven't done so from your perspective yet.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: The 'special parts' mentioned in the theme song, used to create the Bots (thus including, among other things, a bowling pin and a gumball machine), which in turn somehow explains why Joel/Mike can't just turn the damn movies off. Later, of course, the same theme tosses an iconic lampshade over this entire trope: "If you're wondering how he eats and breathes/and other science facts/Then repeat to yourself 'It's just a show/I should really just relax'..." When Crow's voice actor was changed at the beginning of Season 8, it was lampshaded by the crew. His explanation? "I got a new bowling pin".
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_9a152d5d	comment	In an episode of Cow and Chicken, Flem and Earl were seemingly stranded in the middle of an ocean, reminiscing on memories that didn't actually happen. In the end, it turns out they were stuck in their bathtub the entire time, suffering from "Steam Induced Amnesia." It's then lampshaded, as the Red Guy demonstrates it to the audience by intentionally breathing in steam which causes him to lose his memory and suddenly think he's Amelia Earhart.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_9b8c6919	comment	Dragon Tails with Bluey's Science Explained.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_9db821ee	comment	In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Red says his powers run on "Kizuna Energy" produced by his bonds with others. To Idola's frustration, it's incredibly vague and wishy-washy. So long as he's been introduced to someone and knows what motivates them, he considers it a bond and they're eligible to help him use his strongest moves and weapons, but the amount of power produced doesn't follow any kind of constants or rules. Lampshaded by Idola, who complains that it's full of loopholes in the way it decides what is and isn't a bond.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The author Eiichiro Oda often gives joke reasons for things in his question-and-answer column, like how Zoro can talk even when he has a sword in his mouth because his heart allows him to speak... This is best illustrated by the explanation for Sanji's Diable Jambe move, which involves setting his leg on fire with friction. According to Oda, his leg isn't hurt because his heart is burning hotter. What an awesome power heart is, huh? Nami's slaps bruise Luffy because "she hurts his spirit". Of course anyone with the ability to use Haki would also be able to nullify Luffy's rubberness, but by the time this power was introduced, Nami had been slapping around Luffy for years. When he was introduced (much later but still a good while before Haki), Luffy's grandfather Garp also displayed the ability to hurt Luffy, claiming he was able to because of The Power of Love. Sanji appears to be picking up the explicit ability to kick people pretty. Literally. As in, during his fight with uber-Gonk Wanze, he kicks him in the face, turning him temporarily into a Bishounen, and later, does the same (seemingly permanent and much appreciated) to Duval. This means that if this pirate/cook thing doesn't work out for Sanji, he could always become a plastic surgeon. Y'know, without the scalpels and stuff. The reason Brook kept his Funny Afro even after being reduced to a skeleton is that he had "strong roots". He also claims that milk has healing properties for him because "Milk strengthens the bones"; Usopp calls him out on this one. Much later when, after a fight, Brook has a crack in his skull and Luffy is missing a tooth, and they both drink milk to heal these injuries. All of Franky's robot powers run on carbonation from Cola. As do the special abilities of the Thousand Sunny, the Straw Hats' current ship. Everything from its air-burst speed-boost to a Wave-Motion Gun runs on cola. Pappagg, the talking starfish? He can talk because — hear, hear — in Japanese "hito desu" is "I'm a human" and "hitode" is starfish. So, because of a pun, he spent his early years convinced he was a human; subsequently he learned to talk and walk around. Then he finally realized he was a starfish; but, oh well, it was too late. The Marine Captains' Coat Capes, despite simply hanging on their shoulders, are held in place by Justice. And justice will never fall! It even shows in anime fillers. Twin villains Canpachino and Brindo have the ability to magnetically attract and repel each other. They specifically state that this power doesn't come from a Devil Fruit, but from their brotherly love. During his fight with Zoro, Kaku figures out he can retract his giraffe neck into his body (which Zoro notes real giraffes can't do). However, he ends up causing his arms and legs to stretch out! Kaku then reasons that it's the same principle behind a pasta machine; If you put dough in one end, noodles come out the other end. Zoro lampshades the stupidity of that logic. Sasaki can transform into a triceratops, and in his hybrid form can spin his neck frill fast enough that it works like the propeller of a helicopter, giving him sustained high-speed flight. Sasaki claims that this is a natural ability of triceratops. In case there was any confusion about this in the real world, or for those who are new to the field of paleontology, the ability to spin one's neck frill like a helicopter is not included among the natural abilities of a triceratops. Similarly, Queen and King of the Beast Pirates can transform into a brachiosaurus and a pteranodon respectively. Queen displays the ability to separate his head, neck and tail from the rest of his body, declaring that this serpentine form is the true nature of the brachiosaurus. King, on the other hand, can pull the crest behind his head in order to stretch his face and retract his beak, which flings forward like a powerful slingshot once he releases his head crest; King declares that this is how pteranodons used to hunt their prey in ancient times. A befuddled Zoro asks King if pteranodons could also manipulate fire like he has been doing the entire time; King merely replies that they couldn't. That's just a natural ability King has.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Much of Professor Farnsworth's science is based on total nonsense. For instance, his theory of "reverse fossilization" — that if fossilization turns organic matter to mineralsnote it doesn't; fossilization is when biological matter is covered by minerals, the matter decays to leave a mold, and then the mold is filled gradually by different minerals, then one simply had to reverse the process to turn household appliances into animals. He also built a spaceship which moved by staying perfectly still by shifting the rest of the universe, whose engine's afterburners worked at two hundred percent efficiency. Ships can cross the universe in days even though you can't travel faster than the speed of light because the speed of light was increased six hundred years ago. Lampshaded at least once: Lampshaded later in the same episode, but with love and idealism: Inverted in "When Aliens Attack", with the Professor explaining, using perfectly sound science, how aliens could know about a show that hadn't aired in a thousand years: In "Mars University", the characters meet Gunter, Professor Farnsworth's talking monkey. Fry asks if Gunter can talk because he was genetically engineered, but the Professor laughs and tells him that genetic engineering is a bunch of science fiction mumbo jumbo. He then explains that Gunter's intelligence and ability to talk come from "his electronium hat, which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation." In "Roswell That Ends Well", time travel occurs when energy from a microwave which is malfunctioning due to Fry putting foil in it meets energy from a supernova. On the commentary, the crew admit they did it because the chances of anyone proving them wrong on that score are very low.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a3fcd166	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: The Infinite Improbability Drive, which, in a nutshell, works against all probability precisely because someone went through the trouble of calculating precisely how improbable it is for it to work. The Infinite Improbability Drive was created using Nonsensoleum. They already had a Finite Improbability Generator, but needed an Infinite one to take in the whole universe for use as a drive, and frustrated scientists declared this "virtually impossible" — it took one of the lab cleaners to figure out that a "virtual impossibility" is also a "finite improbability", so he could use the Finite Improbability Generator to create the Infinite Improbability Drive or, in fact, teleport its core component, the Heart of Gold/Golden Bail, there from where it had been hidden from the Krikketers. Furthermore, the Finite Improbability Generator is powered by a "fresh cup of really hot tea", as it runs on the unpredictability of the Brownian motion of the water molecules. note The cleaner who did this was given the Galactic Institute's Prize For Extreme Cleverness, and then was promptly murdered by a rampaging mob of respectable scientists who finally decided the one thing they couldn't stand was a smart-ass. In Life, the Universe and Everything, a new form of travel is devised based on "Bistromathics", the unnatural manner in which numbers behave when dining at a fancy restaurant is involved (from discrepancies in the size of the party booked vs. how many people show up to the price of the food to how to split the bill). Life also introduces the "Somebody Else's Problem Field", a cloaking device that takes advantage of people's natural tendency to ignore things they can't comprehend or don't want to deal with, and proposes that the secret to unassisted human flight is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Which, while a gross over-simplification, is sort of how things maintain orbits... so it's not entirely false. It works, too. If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways — Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Don't worry about booking a table or forgetting your wallet; since this restaurant is at the temporal end of the universe, rather than the spatial, you've had literally all of time in existence to book your seats and the food you had when you last visited the place, which you've obviously already done by the time you get to the place, even if you haven't done so from your perspective yet. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe has an accidental application of nonsensoleum, when a rock band using cutting-edge high-tech amplifiers achieves such loud volumes that the tectonic plate on which the concert is taking place flips like a flapjack, converting a former blasted wasteland into a fertile field of volcanic soil which becomes the garden spot of that world in just a few short years. It also somehow cured the natives of their unwanted psychic powers, which were forced on the populace by the rest of the galaxy for being quiet and happy while the everyone else was miserable from the small talk they were forced into by social convention. The concert was to distract them from the constant buzz of other people's thoughts. Mostly Harmless mentions an attempt by the Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor to build spaceships powered by bad news, on the grounds that it is the one thing in the universe capable of moving faster than light (this was before hyperspace travel was developed). Unfortunately they didn't work very well, and in any case were never welcome wherever they went.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a5fbd473	comment	How does the FLDSMDFR (a food-creating machine) in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs work? By mutating water molecules.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: This is the only possible explanation as to how Patchouli Knowledge's rocket, which was more of a vaguely rocket-shaped three-tier cottage with very nice windows, cobbled together from random bits of poorly understood trivia about the Apollo rocket, was perfectly capable of reaching the True Moon in Silent Sinner in Blue.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth, it's explained that the dried frog pills the Bursar takes to keep him apparently sane are actually hallucinogens, the idea being that a proper dose will cause him to hallucinate that he's sane (just like most people).
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2 establishes Aperture Science to be both incredibly innovative yet also comically byzantine and inefficient in part due to an ethos established by founder Cave Johnson: "We do all our science from scratch." This implies that Aperture spent its three or so decades of activity testing and relearning all known scientific principles from the ground-up (from fire, to electricity, to nuclear physics and beyond), and in-house approach somehow enabled them to create guns that create portals (apparently made to serve shower curtains) and super-AIs that can run on as little volts as it takes to power a lightbulb.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a9a6d9f9	comment	Professor Zweistein of The Fan attempts a rather nonsensical explanation regarding people turning into anime characters due to lengthy exposure to anime. This turns out to be a subversion as he later admits that he made it up on the spot.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_a9ee3cc1	comment	Goats has a singularity that turns kittens into pop tarts, or vice versa. It turns out to be both a Running Gag and, eventually, a bit of Applied Phlebotinum.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Mage: The Ascension: Every human is essentially unaware that they are a Reality-Warping God, and mages are beginning to awaken to the truth, but most need their Focus to actually employ their powers, as they believe that whatever method they practice is actually responsible for the changes they employ, whether they use druidic magic, mad science, martial arts, or reality hacking. Or at least they haven't figured out how to do it without them. The more they raise their Arete, the more they realize that the magic is in them rather than their tools. Averted with the Technocrats, as their Enlightenment further cements their belief that their technology is the source of the fantastic abilities, and even when a Technocrat Ascends, they basically become a Ghost in the Machine.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_b40513b1	comment	Foxtrot: One strip has Paige intently watching a pot on the range. Peter asks her what she's doing, and she says she's watching the pot to ensure it doesn't boil, so whatever foul concoction their Cordon Bleugh Chef of a mother put in won't end up as dinner. Peter laughs, then learns there's twice the usual amount, and joins her.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: During an incredibly meta codec conversation between Sigint and Snake discussing the Patriot gun: Snake can eat a bioluminescent mushroom to recharge his batteries. Para-Medic and Sigint agree to themselves that it must've just been a placebo effect.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_bac46af6	comment	The Core: This movie, which is scientifically ridiculous from beginning to end, acknowledges this at one point when a character shamefacedly admits that he refers to his secret miracle substance, which not only gets stronger the harder you squeeze it and/or the more you heat it, but generates vast amounts of electricity while doing so, as "Unobtainium." This is based on an old engineer joke wherein an otherwise perfectly good design turns out to require some material whose tensile strength, melting point, or whatever is higher than that of any known substance, and the spec therefore calls for "Unobtainium." It provides a detailed explanation of why it is impossible to travel to the Earth's core (heat, pressure, etc.). This is followed by the line, "Yes, but... what if we could?" Yes, the movie says, in character-appropriate dialog, that the entire rest of the movie is scientific nonsense. It's a sign saying, "Suspend your disbelief here." John Rogers, one of the film's writers, is a physics major. The writers were entirely aware that what they were proposing was ludicrously incorrect, but deliberately patterned The Core in the style of a 60's Science Hero movie; it's not realism that's important, it's verisimilitude. It's also worth mentioning that the craft was originally written to have a windshield, and that there were dinosaurs in one of the earlier scripts.note A Shout-Out to Journey To The Center Of the Earth, which posited that there was a prehistoric landscape inside the Earth's center.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_bc758ea9	comment	In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, when Buster Bunny asked Calamity Coyote how the machine he created works, all he could say is that it works "with magic". Buster even comments on "the miracles of modern science".
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Ork "teknologie" runs, quite literally, because the Orks believe it should work that way. This is typified in their most common upgrade to any vehicles' speed: they paint them red, because "da red wuns go fasta!" So while the real reason is that Orks have tremendous Psychic Powers, their explanations fit this trope perfectly. This is used to humorous effect when a group of Imperial engineers try to determine what it is that makes Orky weaponry so deadly. They dismantle it, put it back together, try everything they can to even get the gun to fire, but nothing. This is because the gun is missing several vital components. When they put it in the hands of an ork, it fires with deadly power. Ork spaceships have been reported to navigate through space for months despite having run completely out of fuel, just because the crew thought they should, or simply didn't notice. Ork stealth technology consists of painting things purple, because nobody's ever seen a purple army.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_bdb01400	comment	Arachnid and Caterpillar have characters themed after all sorts of arthropods. Some of them have really unusual abilities for what appeared to be a mundane setting. Whenever one of the assassins does something, the narration goes on wild life documentary-esque tangents about how the characters' skills relate to the bugs they represent. This more often than not doesn't explain a thing about how, for example, Oki Megumi has cockroach superpowers or how Kabutomushi is immune to nerve gas and has her heart covered by steel armor.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Gray Mann's robots are powered by... money. According to an early version of "Meet the Medic", the Medigun pack is apparently powered by an unknown red liquid, pain pills, blood, sandwiches, and piss. The Tie-in comics inform us that the surest way to get the Demoman "drunk" and useless is to feed him solid food and water. His body has been spending so much time "wrestling nutrients out of grain alcohol and aspirin tablets" that it starts acting funny because it thinks it's been poisoned. Shakespearicles, the strongest writer who ever lived, invented the two-story building, the stage play, America and the rocket launcher. Because he did not invent stairs, people were forced to reach the second floor via Rocket Jump for the next three hundred years until Abraham Lincoln went and invented stairs... before dying after trying to rocket jump up the world's first staircase in Ford's Theatre. No, really.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_c34ab4c	comment	The absurdity of what can be done with the power of a Devil Fruit is frequently lampshaded in This Bites! to the point that Cross has coined the phrase "Devil Fruit bullshit" to justify whatever oddity the Straw Hat Pirates come across.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_c3bbb7f7	comment	While not Sci-Fi, The Order of the Stick is openly plot-based. The characters are aware and use it for everything from fast-forwarding in time to realizing what's about to happen.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor's timey-wimey detector (it goes 'ding' when there's stuff). Mocked in a fictional Doctor Who scene in Extras: In "An Unearthly Child", the First Doctor's explanation to Ian about how the TARDIS is Bigger on the Inside is some absolute nonsense about how a television allows you to fit an entire building inside your living room, which displays the Doctor's total contempt for Ian's human intellect. When the Fourth Doctor attempts to explain it to Leela in "The Robots of Death", he gives her a lecture involving a pair of black cubes of different sizes and putting them so that the smaller one is much closer to her, saying that it makes it bigger — but it's apparent from his expressions that he's really just challenging her to call him out on his explanation being nonsense as a kind of Secret Test of her intelligence (she does).
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_c5e0b864	comment	The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Doctor Shark's invisible paint is created by pouring one gallon of base paint over zero gallons of whatever color you want your invisible paint to be. Since one-over-zero can't exist, the paint vanishes from sight because your mind can't grasp an irrational concept.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_cb570c4a	comment	Mostly Harmless mentions an attempt by the Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor to build spaceships powered by bad news, on the grounds that it is the one thing in the universe capable of moving faster than light (this was before hyperspace travel was developed). Unfortunately they didn't work very well, and in any case were never welcome wherever they went.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_cdae54af	comment	Sourcery: the characters travel across the sea in a magic lantern. This works because one of them is holding the lantern, and they're all inside the lantern. The trick is to complete the journey before the universe catches on... oops, too late.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_cdb93f1	comment	Mac Hall: Ian manages to turn applied theology into a jelly donut.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_d2391df6	comment	The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Department of Problem-Solving once stopped time inside a warehouse by filling it with clocks, the idea being that, just like you have to remove a bit of a chemical substance to analyze it, or draw a bit of blood to perform a blood test, clocks only get a reading on time by absorbing and consuming a little bit of time — so put enough clocks in one place and they'll absorb ''all' the time and there won't be any left.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_d4263e4c	comment	In the Wild Cards books, some Aces are super inventors, but other scientists/engineers can't operate or maintain their devices because it's their own psychic power that makes them work.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_d88c6466	comment	In the fiction portion of The Science of Discworld, the thinking engine Hex increases his own processing abilities by reasoning that, in the future, he'll have already done so, then pulling the needed components out of probability phase space where they must therefore exist in potentia. It's Lampshaded that, while this train of thought is, for the most part, garbage, it isn't complete garbage.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_df1e73ec	comment	Ludwig Von Drake of Ducktales 2017 is generally regarded as a Posthumous Character by everyone in the show given even Flashbacks show him as an aging duck, when he shows up alive and is questioned on how the heck he is still alive, he replies that he simply never found the time to 'get around to dying'.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_df7e11cd	comment	In Manly Guys Doing Manly Things Time Travel, according to Commander Badass, runs on bullshit. And if you think about it too hard, things happen.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_df8811f9	comment	The manual of Three Dirty Dwarves has a treatise from a scientist explaining how the titular dwarves (who are tabletop RPG avatars brought into reality by their Reality Warper creators) managed to enter our world. It starts with the premise that the non-existent nature of the dwarves' home dimension makes dimension-hopping easier (as "the rules of physics don't apply) and piles on the nonsensoleum from there.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e270b7e1	comment	Genius: The Transgression: One of the main problems with the mad science is that it runs entirely on the inventor's madness (sorry, Inspiration). Any attempt to pin down the underlying scientific principles involved (especially by a mundane observer) will fail, and any attempt by a mundane observer to closely examine or tinker usually results in the thing blowing up... or worse. Note that "runs on the inventor's Inspiration" should not be taken to mean that Inspiration is any kind of consensus — five different Geniuses can build exactly the same machine, using five different theories on how it's supposed to work, and the machine will work exactly the way they said it would work all five times.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e31e108e	comment	Merry Gear Solid: The game offers a bunch of nonsensical reasons for why things work the way they do, usually powered by puns and synonyms. For instance, a moldy jam sandwich can be used to counteract radar jamming, because the mold in it absorbs jam. The second game has Snake acquire a Nikita rocket launcher that fires "Kissiles": missiles with lips that only knock their target unconscious by overwhelming them with love. Though Snake calls this out as ridiculous, he's a lot more receptive to the idea when Otacon reminds him that the alternative is that he's blowing up children.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e5f9c831	comment	Awesomenauts, being a homage to wacky 1980s sci-fi cartoons, revels in this trope, above all when it comes to some of the Nauts' backstories. The silliest example so far is probably Commander Rocket, who somehow survived getting his head blown away and replaced by a head prosthesis. Don't ask...
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e75c6d45	comment	Minmax of Goblins manages to create a sword made of nothingness by playing around with a magic sword and a hole in reality. It's theorized that the sword is powered by Minmax's lack of understanding of what it is or how it works. Minmax immediately decides to give the sword the, uh, incredibly badass name "Oblivious," which another character notes is an apt name since Minmax clearly doesn't understand what it means.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e7bb061c	comment	Everything Everywhere All at Once: Someone using the device to teleport their mind to a parallel universe's version of themself requires an action that is otherwise completely nonsensical, making this a rather literal example.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e7f15ba5	comment	Sparky in Books Don't Work Here doesn't have enough education in Mad Scientist to give a logical explanation so he just wings it.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Starslip: The Superlinear drive works on the principle that the fastest path between two points is a straight line. The superlinear drive finds the straight line, then it finds an even straighter one to travel, thus allowing Faster-Than-Light Travel. The previous mode of locomotion, the Starslip Drive, worked by inputting the destination and flipping you into an alternate universe where you were already there. This causes some Cerebus Syndrome moments when the main characters wind up in an alternate universe where another main character never existed.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Lampshaded in "The Former Life of Brian": Lampshaded again in "Fox-y Lady": James Woods is, at one point, seemingly Killed Off for Real but then turns up again later. When asked for an explanation he gives an absurd and laughably insane explanation involving a woman's soul being transferred into his body to sustain him. It fits perfectly with the character.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_eb9cafb2	comment	Scott Pilgrim Takes Off takes the Vegan psychic powers example below (See Scott Pilgrim) to a new level with the concept of robot vegans; Vegans who have never, ever eaten meat or dairy at all and therefore more powerful than human vegans.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_f3c3ca42	comment	In The Tick vs. the Big Nothing, an alien ship has a device that enables it to travel at the speed of lint. Which is faster than light, because it's one of the first things you find in your pockets after you do your laundry.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_f51bed61	comment	In Girls in Space the girls travel space in a VW Camper Van. This was converted into a spaceship when the Universal Upgrader (a prototype made by an intergalactic electronics company) was fired at it.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_f954bf10	comment	Nebulous' inventions and scientific discoveries in Nebulous include things like 'the discovery of a sense between smell and touch called "smouch"' and Factor 1000000 sunblock ("if you wear it for more than an hour, you get rickets").
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_fc658ed1	comment	Mountain Time has a car that runs on hollandaise and emits shampoo, and another one that travels through dimensions when Billy Joel music plays on its tape deck.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_fcfa999b	comment	In FLCL, "sushi-eyebrow" Amarao's explanation about how and why robots are sprouting from main character Naota's forehead makes about as much sense as anything about the show. Apparently it involves the thought processes of certain people's brains (particularly Naota's) creating hyperspace teleportation portals called "N.O. channels" when subjected to a good old smash from space officer Haruko's Rickenbacker bass guitar, which are triggered by some kind of emotion.
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It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_fe5f7909	comment	Also in Guards! Guards!, characters try to invoke the trope Million to One Chance, since "everyone knows million-to-one chances always succeed". The men of the City Watch are camped out on a rooftop to try to bring down a dragon by shooting it in its "voolnerables." Problem is, they're all Genre Savvy about it, and after considering the situation - their archer used to win prizes for his marksmanship, he's using his lucky arrow, a dragon's "voolnerables" might be quite big - they think that it might not be a million-to-one-chance of success, but could be a near-certainty, or some awkward number like 999,943-to-one. So they end up trying to handicap their bowman by blindfolding him, putting soot on his face, and making him stand facing the wrong way on one leg while singing the Hedgehog Song, but still end up missing the shot. Then the dragon retaliates by flaming the building they are standing on. Which is a distillery. Luckily, as the narration points out, the odds of the Watch surviving a jump from the (exploding) roof into a nearby pond do happen to be exactly a-million-to-one. Later we learn their odds of hitting the dragon's "voolnerables" were more like zero - it was female.
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To Boldly Flee (Web Video) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Ansem Retort (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Black Adventures (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Corgi Quest (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Ink Proof Cannon (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
One Piece: Grand Line 3.5 (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Pusheen the Cat (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Reporterz (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Scary Go Round (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
SPRINGIETTE (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Survival Anxiety (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Life of Nob T. Mouse (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Val and Isaac (Webcomic) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Channel 101 (Website) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Gino il pollo / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Here Comes Peter Cottontail / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Home (2015) / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Jibber Jabber / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
101 Dalmatians: The Series / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Pinky and the Brain / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Porky in Wackyland / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Quack Pack / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Rupert / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Sheep in the Big City / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Adventures of Mark Twain / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Little Rascals / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Proud Family / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
3-2-1 Penguins! / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Time Squad / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie! / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / int_8a5dc833	type	It Runs on Nonsensoleum

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