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== [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness/One Big Lie|One Big Lie]] ==

The author invents [[The "Unicorn In The Garden" Rule|one (or, at most, a very few)]] counterfactual physical laws and writes a story that explores the implications of these principles.

 

{{examples|Examples of One Big Lie include:}}

* ''[[Patlabor]]'''s only "lie" is the existence of giant humanoid robots that can support their own weight, and even then it's more plausible than, say ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Gundam]]''.<ref>This is excepting single episodes with weirdness such as ghosts and [[Kaiju]].</ref>

* Despite what the anime may cut off, ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is actually very high on this scale. Both the anime and manga do not have any forms of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|except in a few questionable cases]], and the manga ''justifies'' the development and appearance of Diclonii: they have an accelerated growth of a "pineal body", or "[[wikipedia:Pineal gland|pineal gland]]", which is a part of the [[wikipedia:Cerebellum|cerebellum]] and was also known as a "third eye", as well as related to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Near-Death Experiences]]. The cerebellum is widely rumored to be a controller of the [[wikipedia:Proprioception|sixth sense]], of which [http://hanslindgreen.com/blog/proprioception-the-sixth-sense/ this page goes further in-depth]{{Dead link}}.

 

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