Dictates
Both words in one sentence
- Can lead to a minor Inferred Holocaust, if logic dictates that the supposedly happy ending will lead to either a guilty character escaping or an innocent one being convicted.
Source: Conviction by Contradiction -
But his good heart is what causes the female lead, Yuno, to develop a Mad Love for him, and Yuno certainly everything this trope dictates.
Source: Japanese Spirit -
Which itself is an adaptation of the classic paradox of a donkey being placed equidistant to two equally sized, equally nutritious bags of feed - unable to choose between the two, the dictates of pure logic would lead it to starve to death exactly where it was.
Source: Logic Bomb
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