"I'm not sure that us being magically forced into storybook roles is any more ridiculous than people getting super powers from drinking chemistry experiments, which is definitely a thing that happens in this reality," Tadashi says in response to Videl's protest. He too glances down at Ken's ruby slippers, then back to Ray.

"If Ken taps his shoes together and goes home before the story's over, do we know that it's not going to trap the rest of us? Or any of the others who might have ended up here? There's still the Wizard, and that's assuming that we're only likely to fill the roles of named characters."