Basic Trope: Something or someone is too imperceptible to see the true form of, and should someone else attempt to understand it, they will be driven to insanity and/or terror due to their otherworldly nature.
- Straight: B'obh's true form will make people literally insane and unable to see the entirety of what they are.
- Exaggerated: Not only B'obh's true form cannot be perceived, but can actually obliterate entire universes whenever someone senses them.
- Downplayed: B'obh's true form can be fully grasped by sufficiently powerful three-dimensional species, but weaker beings cannot.
- Justified: Unlike other people, B'obh is a genuinely hyperdimensional being, not just a human with powers of a higher dimension. Not just anyone can view the true form.
- If following an aversion, people absolutely can't grasp onto a true form because B'obh has none to begin with.
- Inverted: B’obh drives people insane from the sight of them. B'obh then shows their true form. They stop making people insane and people are able to grasp and describe them.
- Subverted: B'obh, a great being from beyond the stars, is assumed to be imperceptible, but turns out to be much more normal than advertised.
- B'obh's true form can't be seen in whole at one time (akin to how projections of a globe aren't fully accurate) and they always appears as bizarre three dimensional objects shifting in ways that don't retain a consistent volume. With their cooperation to 'rotate' around, their full form can be described mathematically. They aren’t dangerous to behold but it is confusing and likely to give most who aren't familiar with higher dimensional mathematics headaches.
- Doubled Subverted: B'obh then explains this as the human brain rejecting what they see in favor of something that makes more sense.
- Parodied:
- B'obh's true form is something completely mundane or silly, like a refrigerator or a pineapple. Yet people still go insane when seeing them.
- B'obh insists that people can't comprehend their true form, despite people already having seen them and trying to inform them otherwise.
- B'obh's true form is just a big ball of light, but it is a light so bright that it makes literally anyone who see it go permanently blind.
- B’obh’s true form is so incredibly luminous that they make everything within miles catch fire. So less You Cannot Comprehend the True Form than You Cannot Survive the True Form.
- Zig Zagged: Certain people can see the real form of B'obh's
- Averted: B'obh's true form is not imperceptible at all.
- Alternatively, B'obh has no true form to begin with.
- Lampshaded: "What are we seeing? Just saying 'What the hell?!' can't do justice this time, and any other expletives can't sum up this feeling of pure dread either."
- Invoked: B'obh places a Perception Filter on themself to prevent people from remembering their appearance.
- Exploited: Because B'obh's true form cannot be grasped, they cannot be perceptible, and can attack without retaliation against them.
- Defied:
- B'obh decides not to show their true form and just tells Alice it's best to not even imagine them.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With
- Discussed: "Legends speak of a being so alien, that it's very appearance is impossible for human minds to comprehend."
- Conversed: "Just once, I'd like to hear about an interdimensional monster that humans can actually look at."
- Deconstructed: B'obh is actually not a malevolent entity, but because regular beings cannot perceive them as anything else but an incomprehensible abomination, they end up being hated and feared.
- Reconstructed: Someone is brave enough to meet B'obh in person, and finds out that they is harmless. This person then relates their encounter to the other humans, reducing the fear they have for B'obh.
- Implied: B'obh only appears off-screen, and nobody is able to talk about their physical appearance.
Back to — the true, imperceptible form is inexplainable.
