Insane Troll Logic: Difference between revisions

=== Film ===

* in ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' Rose knows where to go by finding vague items, she always turns out to be right, but it gets odd when she MUST go to the hotel because she found a piece of a sign in some dead guys mouth.

* ''[[Murder By Death]]'': Somehow Sam Diamond links a girl walking off with his money in 1940 Paris with the German invasion of France that by chance occurred two hours later.

* Paraphrased from ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'': Witches burn. Wood also burns. Therefore witches are made of wood. Wood floats in water. A duck also floats in water. So logically, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood! And therefore, [[Burn the Witch]]. When they put her on the scales, she does indeed weigh the same as the duck. The townspeople first reach the conclusion that they can tell if she's a witch by throwing her into the pond, which actually is part of witchcraft folklore. Logically, if the accused floats, she's a witch using magic and must be burned. If she sinks and drowns, she's not.

** On the other hand, the Spurious Logic skill in early editions is ''not'' an example - the logic is sane, but the initial claim is a lie ("I'm an undercover Violet, Violets are cleared for plasma generators, therefore I'm cleared for this plasma generator").

* This is a madness talent in ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]''.

** Orks on military strategy: "Here's da plan: win. If we lose, it's because ya didn't follow da plan."

** Orks on friendly fire: "If ya misses it, it's obviously ''one o' ours''. If ya hits it, den it must be ''one o' theirs.''"

** [[Image Boards|/tg/]] has applied Orky logic to matters of camouflage, concluding that purple is the sneakiest color. Because you've never seen a purple army, have you?

** This can apply to the Players themselves. A swarm of infantry bodies in any other army would be a suicide tactic (or at least be a handicap in the case of the imperial guard). For the Orks, it's the only tactic! This actually works because the Orks roll so many dice, the sheer amount of actual hits are still enough to kill whatever they're targeting, despite the massive odds against them.

** For those out of the loop, slaadi are outsiders from the [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|realm of chaos]], are Always [[Chaotic Neutral]] (or [[Chaotic Evil]] in 4th edition), and who have a mechanically-enforced [[Our Monsters Are Weird]] creature-generation system. They also look like giant anthropomorphic frogs.

 

 

=== Web Original ===

** [[Late Arrival Spoiler|Spoiler Alert]]: Dio's stand, The World (known better as [[Memetic Mutation|ZA WARUDO!]]), stops time. {{spoiler|It ''doesn't'' breathe fire}}.

* Played for laughs by ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' with Detective Riley, a recurring character who takes one look at a crime scene and uses free-associational logic to determine the culprit. Slight subversion in that he's always right - the police have already reached the same conclusion through completely rational means.

* As with the ''Batman'' examples above, the ''[[Superfriends]]''' dealings with the Riddler when he joined the Legion of Doom involved this trope. In any of these situations, it's difficult to be sure which is worse: that the Riddler could come up with this nonsense or that the [[Superfriends]] could figure it out?

** In another example, two of the Super Friends go back in time and get stuck there with no way to return. Aquaman, the genius that he is, walks to the exact location of where the Hall of Justice will be tens of thousands of years in the future. When he gets there, he takes out his communicator and turns on the homing beacon, then ''buries'' the communicator. Why? The communicator will appear in the future. Superman will be able to hear it and will know what it means, then go back in time to rescue them. Which would work if carbon dating had been invented and if the communicator (already shown to be nigh indestructible) had enough carbon to be dated successfully and enough battery to last all that time. When digging the foundation for the justice hall, it would be found. A few time-hops (a few dozen probably to get the date right), and then young Supes would come up, ask when in time they wanted to go, and viola. It's bad when you can make these things work easily.

** Come to think of it, the same could be said for a lot of situations that make Crocker think Timmy has fairies.

** Crocker once had an argument with Steven Hawking about basic addition, which ended up with Hawking proving that [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|2+2=5]]. From the end of the episode: "Hawking! I've done the math! Two plus two isnt five! It's SIX!!! SIIIIIX!!!"

* This is the entire point behind the [http://trollscience.com/ Troll Science meme]. Which eventually led to mathematicians and internet commenters who majored in math having to thoroughly disprove a Troll Proof that pi=4.

** Animation of the Troll Science meme in action, available [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=yyBRqSN5NnI here].

* Charles Manson used this to justify the murders that he ordered committed. According to him, when the victims were found dead this would spark a racial war between blacks and whites becaues the black people would be unfairly blamed for the murders. During the war Manson and his "family" would hide in a "bottomless pit" in the desert. The black people, despite having no army, no central infrastructure, and only being 13% of the population, would win. However, they would be unable to handle the tasks of administrating the government, so they would look to the surviving whites, who they just got done overthrowing, to govern them, putting Manson in charge of the U.S.

* [[Time Cube]], which holds that Earth is really two round Earths compressed into a cube, where it takes 24 hours for 96 hours to pass, and anyone who uses common, ordinary logic, physics, and thought says otherwise is just an evil brainwashed tool of Big Academia.

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