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''All fiction is equally real.''

That is to say, all fiction is equally unreal. Fiction, by its very definition, is make-believe. Made up. Imagined.

From the biggest summer blockbuster movie, to the most obscure novel buried at the bottom of a bargain bin, to the crappiest [[Fanfic]], to the smallest passing idea of a story in a random person's mind, all fiction is equally real.

Fiction may vary in a lot of ways, specifically in genre, quality, presentation, and cultural significance. However, the ''ideas'' underneath it all are equal in gravity. They are all exactly 0% real.

Fans of a show can take comfort in the fact that, while something happened on the show they don't like, they could invent an [[Fanon Discontinuity|alternate continuity inside of their mind]], and it would be [[Up the Real Rabbit Hole|equally as real]]. After all, it's [[MST3K Mantra|just television]].

This principle could be said to be the source of all [[Fan Fiction]], or, to an extent, the source of all fiction; the idea to aspire to significance in writing is [[Tropes Are Not Bad|what drives people to use tropes]] to build their own work.

The Fiction Identity Postulate can be proved by illustrating that, when it comes to story concepts, '''all ideas have the potential to be good'''. Sometimes it takes a little tweaking, other times it may take serious revamping and changing of the genre, quality, and presentation, but beneath every pile of crap is something pretty if you are willing to dig through it.

Of course, this can be completely inverted (or just explained in a different way) by an infinite multiverse: everything that has the tiniest possibility of existing [[Daydream Believer|must exist;]] this makes all fiction 100% real. [[Nightmare Fuel]] on [[Sugar Wiki]]? What?

See also [[All Myths Are True]]. Compare [[Absolutely Happened]], [[Mutually Fictional]], [[Recursive Canon]].

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* [http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html Exhibit A] vs. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II Exhibit B]
* [http://www.chick.com/READING/TRACTS/0046/0046_01.ASP Exhibit C] vs. [http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/ Exhibit D]
* [[My Little Pony|Exhibit E]] vs. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Exhibit F]].
* [[Twilight (novel)|Exhibit G]] vs. [[Luminosity|Exhibit H]].
* [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|Exhibit I]] vs. [http://fav.me/d4w1wuo Exhibit J]
* [[Kuttsukiboshi|Exhibit K]] vs. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6MXVnG8lY Exhibit L]

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