human vs. inexplicable adversity theme

A character is confronted with problematic happenings that seem to defy explanation or categorization in any meaningful way.

Notes

This theme does notably not apply in the case of events for which the character can perceive reasonable sounding possible explanations. It is meant to capture things that just don't any make sense. However, if mysterious events are cause by spirits or the like, the theme "human vs. the occult" is normally used instead.

Examples

In tz1959e1x34 "The After Hours", Marsha grew increasingly puzzled after she purchased a gold thimble on the 9th floor of a department that had only eight floors.

46 total · 40 major · 6 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
bbf1x18	major	Sinclair and Ivanova tried to get to the bottom of what was going on on the strange planet that Babylon 5 was orbiting around.
bbf1x20	major	Everyone was left to piece together what was going on when the Babylon 4 space station became became mysteriously trapped in time.
blackmirror7x02	major	From Maria's point of view, unexplainable and seemingly impossible things about reality simply kept changing. Words she knew she had written were suddenly, and embarrassingly, different. The final straw came when she referred to her nut allergy and found that the entire concept of "allergy to nuts" (perhaps the concept of allergies in general since people couldn't make sense of the words "nut allergy") had somehow vanished from existence.
ds91x18	major	Odo and Quark were left to sort out why everyone had lost their ability to communicate coherently.
ds95x08	major	Sisko, Odo, Dax, and Garak were left to figure out what had happened to them after they'd become trapped in a reality of Odo's own creation.
movie: Color Out of Space (2019)	major	Everyone was at a loss to explain all the weirdness that went on in the wake of what appeared to be a pinkish meteor outside the Gardner's family home.
movie: Cube (1997)	major	A handful of strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms.
movie: Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)	major	Seven strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms.
movie: Cube Zero (2004)	major	Several strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms.
movie: The Birds (1963)	major	It was entirely inexplicable to people what caused the birds to be aggressive, or what intelligence drove them to pick targets as they did.