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* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' has this happen a few times in the "Riverthink" segments, usually when she's having her worst schizophrenic episodes. There were two entire chapters of the story that were nothing but River's POV, and more than one reviewer came out the other side asking "....I have no idea what half of that was about."
** The Jubal Early hallucination in the "Fourth Interlude" is especially screwy for the reader, as {{spoiler|he is alive and actively hunting the crew at that point in the story.}}
* Two words - ''[[My Immortal]]''. The fic originally starts off as an [[Author Avatar]] [[Relationship Sue]] dating [[Harry Potter|Draco Malfoy]] in a gothic Hogwarts. Right aroungaround the bathtub scene does the story contort into a ghastly creature: Voldemort wears high heels and used to be a goth who dated Harry's owl (who is now a goth boy.). Ebony herself sleeps and tortures her way through the plot until she is given a time-travelling iPod. She is tasked with making Voldemort fall in love with her [[Love Redeems|so he could stop being evil.]]. After seducing Voldemort and leading him to have sex with Hedwig in the middle of the great hall, they both travel to the future, {{spoiler|where Ebony, Draco, past!Voldemort, and Vampire have a four-way in front of Lupin and Filch for no reason. past!Voldemort then reveals that he knew about the time travelling all along, and reveals himself to be present!Voldemort. Then Snape crashes a flying car into the hall.}}
* ''[[Paradigm of Uncertainty]]'' is a classic example, starting out relatively straightforward (as much as a fic featuring a post-graduation [[Harry Potter]] as a [[James Bond]] style superspy can be, anyway) but by the time we get to the second and especially third instalments of the [[Doorstopper|door-stopping]] trilogy it's well and truly in [[Mind Screw]] territory.
* [[Doom: Repercussions of Evil|"No! I must kill the demons" he shouted. The radio said "No, John. You are the demons."]] [[And Then John Was a Zombie|And then John was a zombie.]]
** [[Peter Chimaera]]'s fics in general can often veer into this territory, particularly when the [[Rouge Angles of Satin|spelling gets so awful]] that whatever meaning his words may have had is utterly obscured. His ''[[Peter Chimaera book of hsitorical faFfiction|"Book of Hsitorical FaFfiction"]]'' contains such gems as "Caser was dysnnrf om yjr back" in the Caesar segment, along with ''this'' behemoth in the segment on Thomas Edison:
{{quote|"...where goald beocomes makreasred aotuah of iraon oara leradrd buat thatsethe beatn and idraea that asd donra alreadsyt sor5 I daddiecdd not to write about it."}}
* The {{spoiler|fake}} ending of [[Latias' Journey]], lots and lots of symbolism and surrealistic imagery.
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* The author of [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6293387/1/Skin Skin] is absolutely ''in love'' with this trope. Reality itself is perfectly fine, {{spoiler|but when Jonouchi starts having prophetic dreams...}}
** Because hey, bad enough knowing there's an [[Eldritch Abomination]] in that [[Artifact of Doom]], but being able to ''see'' it?
* ''[[Fan Fic/The Anagram Of Suzumiya Kurumi|The Anagram Ofof Suzumiya Kurumi]]'' pulls this off in a ''good'' way. Without spoiling anything, let's just say it involves [[Time Travel]], conspiracy theories, [[Anachronic Order]], and even more crazy supernatural [[Backstory|backstories]] for much of the cast than what was in canon.
* [[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|He didnt want nothing to happen to Henry Freeman because Henry Freeman was John Freeman saw Combines start to run like monsters to humens and Henry Freeman and saw Henry Freeman and humens run like brave to Combines.]]
* ThisTh ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' fanfic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5921890/1/Of_Oak_Ash_and_Blessed_Thistle called "Of Oak, Ash and Blessed Thistle"]'' is a good example of this. It starts out as what seems like an angsty Hiccup/Astrid romance involving an arranged marriage for Hiccup, but then Hiccup gets injured and has this freaky prophetic vision, and it all goes downhill from there. Pretty much EVERY''every'' chapter contains some kind of subtle foreshadowing, most of which are so tied up with actual history and Old Norse that you need a guide at the start of every chapter to even begin to understand it...not to mention that you also have to use said guide to interpret what the characters are SAYING''saying''. Then halfway through, it seemed like the author suddenly couldn't decide what the main conflict of the story should '''be.''' So we have four or five different plot lines running around involving {{spoiler|Hiccup's mom being some kind of goddess and wanting him to die because she sold his soul to Freya, Toothless being able to talk to Hiccup and Astrid, the village elder and Astrid's mom trying to trick Hiccup into getting Astrid pregnant, Astrid being royalty and not knowing it, a love triangle between Hiccup, Astrid and...Ruffnut?}} The list goes on until around Chapter 60, you finally say, "Hell is something gonna happen that MAKES''makes SENSEsense?''"
* The bizzarebizarre ''[[Pikmin]]'' video... parody... thing called ''8min''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82nkZ7W9Mgw You are not ready].
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3582765/1/Pokemon# This] [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] fic, it is totally random, and freakin [[So Bad It's Good|HILA]][[Surreal Humor|RIOUS!]]
{{quote|'''Misty''': NOOO! FAT NUMBERS AND FIVE PUDDINGS!}}
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