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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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* 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 ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]'' manga; it's able to dominate virtually ''everything'' used against it, including Kaiba's Blue-Eyes and Yugi's Slifer the Sky Dragon (an ''Egyptian God'' whose power level is variable depending on the number of cards in its controller's hand, ''and'' who can reduce an opponent's monster's ATK and DEF by 2000, when that monster's summoned, an ability that, of course, did ''nothing'' to The Wicked Avatar). It was only taken down by Yugi's Obelisk the Tormentor, after it uses its effect to power up its ATK to infinite. However, in this case, it's a ''subversion'', as the game physics for the manga actually follow real-world mathematics and consider "∞ + 1" to still be equal to "∞", meaning both monsters are considered to have equal ATK and, thus, [[Double Knockout|do each other in]].
* 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}}.
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== Literature ==
* At the end of a ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel trilogy based on the history of the already-omnipotent being Q, he is forced to absorb the equally-powerful Calamarain to become a
== 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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