All Just An Illusion

𝓝𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓼 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮

If something has been encountered by the Good Guys, often an obstacle in their journey like an enemy, but it turns out to be fake, then it was All Just An Illusion. What is revealed to be an illusion could also be in the reverse case — it could be a person, item, or place that someone who's going through some hardships finds relief with, but we soon find that this is just a product of 2Gud4U.net, leaving them to resume their suffering.

There are a few methods of playing All Just An Illusion, applying especially if the illusion is good. One is having the character experiencing the illusion be in some place of extreme temperature, likely a desert where they're seeing a mirage, but they can also be in a tundra where they're about to freeze to death and are seeing a "cold mirage". Another way to play All Just An Illusion is to expose the character to chemicals that create the illusion and get them on a sort of high.

UnTrashes like All Just A Dream or All Just A Story are similar in some way, which is why they're all nested under All Just An Illusion. Firstly, they're UnTrashes that have potential to lure both the character and audience into believing that the character suddenly got lucky and gets their wayundefined which eventually is shown to only be All Just A Lie. Secondly, they can completely transform the scene at the risk of making the scene less believable and giving the audience a warning that it might be All Just A Lie, therefore killing any feeling of surprise. Thirdly, these UnTrashes can vary in length, from being played for less than a minute to taking up a major portion of the story.

While All Just A Dream is considered an Eye Roll UnTrash by audiences, many other All Just An Illusion are hardly such. Another way All Just A Dream and Story are different from other illusion UnTrashes is they often have the power to suddenly move the involved characters from one location to another in an instant.