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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Your Divine Serpent's strength may be infinte, but it's still not enough; for now there is a force beyond infinite!"''|'''Yami Yugi''' to '''Dartz''', '''''[[
The scenario is thus: you are facing down a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|god-like being]] whose powers really are impossible for you to match. They are infinite in their potential, going way infinitely into googolplex-in-base 13 levels. There is absolutely no way you can defeat it, until...
Some [[Deus Ex Machina]] gives you the chance to pull off a wicked combo that somehow calculates your power level past your opponent's; whereas they have infinite power, yours is
Usually only reserved for a [[Big Bad]] that is so massively [[The Omnipotent|omnipotent]], our mortal protagonists need a miracle to to turn things around. Of course, if you ''have'' to use this trope, then you've already got an absurd scenario that strains the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] to the shattering point, and/or showing just how [[Mary Sue]]/[[Marty Stu]] your hero really is.
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<ref>It should be noted that there are degrees of infinity; the number of points in a line is less infinite then the number of curves that can be drawn on a plane, but more infinite than the number of integers; this still doesn't make most "more infinite than infinite" plot points make any sense, though. There's also a notion from mathematics and computer science of something being having ''unbounded size'' but still being finite. This just means that the thing, call it Attack Power, could grow to any arbitrarily-large finite number on command, but won't actually become infinite. An unboundedly finite number can still be smaller than any larger number or than any infinity.</ref>
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Three examples of this are shown in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime:
** First, Yugi Mutou, to defeat a monster with infinite attack, brings out all three Egyptian God Cards, then ''sacrifices two of them to make the third one - whose power would've already gone to infinite by the two sacrifices -
** At the end of the Doma arc the [[Big Bad]], Dartz somehow managed to summon a monster with infinite attack points. Yugi responds by having two of his monsters attack, bouncing the attack between then until it reached infinity and then having a third monster attack to exceed infinity and destroy Dartz' monster.
** During the show's Memory World arc, to defeat the [[Big Bad]] Zorc Necrophades, one of Atem's priests (who disturbingly resembled Yugi's grandfather) summoned Exodia, a monster who was apparently so powerful (in the anime, his total ATK was infinite), he needed to be split up into five pieces. Even so, Zorc exploited the fact that Exodia needed the priest's life energy to remain manifest, draining that energy in the fight while he remained
** In the real ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' trading card game all of the examples above would lose to 'The Wicked Avatar', whose ATK is equal to the ATK of the strongest monster on the field [[Always Someone Better|plus 100]]. This is put to the test when it's used in the ''[[
* This was bound to happen eventually on ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the [[Trope Namer]] of [[Beyond the Impossible]]. In the final showdown, {{spoiler|the effectively omnipotent [[Big Bad]] ''throws a Big Bang'' at the good guys. One of them then ''absorbs the attack'' (via [[Heroic Sacrifice]]) and channels its power into the good guys'}} Indescribably [[Humongous Mecha]], making its power More Than Infinite and allowing {{spoiler|them to finish off the enemy}}.
* In ''Digimon V-Tamer'', Taichi and Zeromaru discover a level of Digivolution ''beyond'' Ultimate, appropriately named Super Ultimate. (Note that the "Ultimate" level is called "Mega" in earlier translations).
** Which makes one conversation in the English dub of the first series rather [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]. When Miyotismon becomes VenomMiyotismon, a Mega-level Digimon, the team had up until that point, only seen Digimon as high as Ultimate (or what was called "Ultimate" in the dub) and were completely incredulous that there would be a level beyond Ultimate, saying something to the effect of "What is he, then? Super-Mega-Ultimate!?"
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': When Sesshoumaru is [[How the Mighty Have Fallen|rendered weaponless]], [[Big Bad|Naraku]] decides that's the perfect moment to steal the [[Dismantled MacGuffin|last jewel shard]] that Sesshoumaru is [[Protectorate|protecting]]. He does this by releasing the [[Ultimate Evil|dark will]] of the [[Artefact of Doom|Shikon no Tama]] itself. Not only is this the most powerful evil in the entire story, but it actually strategies as well, targetting Sesshoumaru's [[Handicapped Badass|only arm]] to render him [[Badass in Distress|incapable of fighting]]. Both Inuyasha's [[Infinity
== Card Games ==
* ''[[Magic:
** Infinite damage loops tend to end when the thing they're damaging (usually a player) runs out of whatever it is that damage depletes (life for players, loyalty for planeswalkers, or toughness for creatures), or when someone renders the damage irrelevant.
** Infinite loops that perpetuate themselves without any input from players (such as three Faceless Butcher creatures without any other creatures in play, which will repeatedly exile each other and return each other to the battlefield) which don't incrementally progress toward a win condition instead result in a draw if no player can interrupt them.
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The authors notes for chapter 34 of ''[[Harry Potter and
== Literature ==
* At the end of a ''[[Star Trek:
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' explains that OOO's name is an infinity symbol plus an O; thus, his true power is literally
== Webcomics ==
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