History Main / EndOfTheWorldSpecial

** This happens again in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'', only for Eggman to interfere and cause a CosmicRetcon in their universe.

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'': God is dying and looking for a replacement. This is one of the privileges of the winner. Yukiteru ultimately wins, but is so broken up over [[spoiler: Yuno's death]] that he doesn't do anything but sit around for a ''thousand years''.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': Hikaru ultimately becomes the pillar (the person who makes Cephiro into an image of her mind) of Cephiro after two seasons of strife. Her choice is to ultimately end the Pillar system and to move the power of shaping the world to its inhabitants instead, allowing her to leave and making the world not prone to destruction because of the emotions of one person. The manga ending breaks the fourth wall when Hikaru asks the reader to come up with a new name for Cephiro.

* Comics writer Creator/GrantMorrison is particularly fond of this trope. At the climax of their run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', [[GeniusLoci Danny the Street]] (a sentient fragment of a lost, fantastic world) expands to become Danny the World, filling the 'real' world with mystery and significance.

* At the end of the main ''{{ComicStrip/Nodwick}}'' (print comic version) story arc, Yeagar receives the power to make the world perfect for himself. Fortunately, it's been explained to him that anything he changes may cause undesirable side effects, so he restricts himself to tweaking a few details that change his party's immediate situation from "certain doom" to "a winnable fight".

* The premise of the Franchise/{{Marvel|Universe}} CrossOver event ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' when the ComicBook/ScarletWitch goes insane and uses her [[RealityWarper powers]] to remake the world so that mutants are the ruling race. At the end, she does it again, reverting the world to normal but leaving the mutant population at a tenth of its former size.
* At the end of the Franchise/{{Superman}} storyline ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', Joker, being ComicBook/TheJoker, destroyed the universe. Afterwards, Superman supervises Mr. Mxyzptlk rebuilding the universe, with the help of the Spectre.
** Also, in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s LighterAndSofter AnimatedAdaptation, the middle of the episode seems to invert it with the Joker recreating the universe [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]] with playing cards via ApocalypseHow Class X-4 during his VillainSong while keeping his henchmen, his girlfriend Harley Quinn, his longtime nemesis Batman, Bat-Mite and Joker-Mite alive, so that he can kill only Batman and then bring him BackFromTheDead repeatedly. However, it takes a DeathMontage, some ReversePsychology from the Dark Knight, a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey to the Center of Batman's Mind]], and an AlternateUniverse in which the Dark Knight doesn't exist, for the Joker to finally snap and relinquish all his [[RealityWarper powers]] to Bat-Mite, after which Bat-Mite finally plays the trope straight by restoring the universe with a snap of his finger, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Setting Right What Once Went Wrong]].
* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] once did this to the entire multiverse by using the Ultimate Nullifier against Abraxas.
** He does it again in the epilogue of the 2015 Secret Wars. Having been granted the power of the Beyonders, he works in conjunction with his [[GooGooGodlike son]] to recreate the multiverse, starting with the 616 universe. The most immediate difference is that Doom's face is restored.
* In Valiant Comics' ''[[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar, Man of the Atom]]'', Solar has done this subconsciously, and is later implied to have done it many times without even realizing it (and a few times deliberately as well).

* ''Confessor'', the final book of the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series, does this in spades. Richard Rahl, once he opens the Boxes of Orden and [[DeityOfHumanOrigin acquires godlike powers]], takes the opportunity to tweak several things about his world that have always bugged him: removing the poison from red fruits in the Midlands, bringing back the Temple of the Winds, and balancing the magic flowing into the world thus resulting in a rebirth of wizardry. Oh, and lest we forget, ''Uplifting millions of people from across the world who disagreed with his personal beliefs and dumping them on a parallel planet with no magic and no afterlife.'' Included in the Literature/BraveNewWorld was his ''sister'', though for some reason she wanted to go.
* At the end of Brian Stableford's ''Day of Wrath'', [[MeaningfulName Mark Chaos]] gets the opportunity to reshape the galaxy as he sees fit, and is told to choose between the worldviews of two mutually opposed {{time travel}}ling {{well intentioned extremist}}s. Chaos, naturally, decides to TakeAThirdOption - he leaves the galaxy exactly as it is, to follow it own destiny.
* In Peter F. Hamilton's ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy''. Once Joshua Calvert finds the Naked God, a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, or at least a machine left behind by such, it gives him the opportunity to save the world from the invasion of the dead and the opportunity to reshape the Galaxy as he sees fit. He promptly relocates the entire Confederation outside the Milky Way to form a tight star cluster, making interstellar travel much easier, thus forcing Humanity to become much closer socially and ideologically, as well as physically.
* In a rare non-ending example, the main character remaking the world as he sees fit is a major plot point in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory''.
* At the end of Creator/DeanKoontz's short story, A Darkness in My Soul, a psychic goes on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and finds God trapped in the psyche of an insane genius. He then absorbs God's powers and uses it to abolish the oppressive society that Earth has been ruled over and removes all weapons of mass destruction, as well as removing the evils that plagued mankind.

* In the Warhammer 40000 Literature/HorusHeresy series, this trope is played with twice in the "maybe vision, maybe time travel" sort of way: first, [[BigBad Horus]] is whisked to the future where the Empire has been stagnating for thousands of years, the Emperor rules as a living god to all his subjects, and half the Primarchs (Horus included) seem to have been wiped from history. He decides to "fix the galaxy" by turning against his father...not realizing that he was being directly lied to, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy and that vision would come about]] ''[[SelfFulfillingProphecy because]]'' [[SelfFulfillingProphecy of his treachery]]. Later on, [[TheMole Alpharius]] has a similar experience, and has to choose between siding with the Emperor and watching all of Mankind continue to stagnate and bloat until Chaos implodes and destroys the galaxy, or side with Horus to help him win, the universe goes through ''hell'' for a couple of centuries, then Horus has a "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment and starts a(nother) self-hating civil war that wipes out the rest of humanity but saves the cosmos at large. He joins Horus, figuring a race-wide Seppuku was better than the end of everything; what actually happens is basically [[CrapsackWorld the worst parts of both outcomes.]]

* This actually happened ''twice'' in Franchise/{{Mistborn}}, once (as is eventually revealed) by the Lord Ruler a thousand years before the first book, and again by Sazed at the end of the original trilogy. Given the nature of how things work in the Cosmere, the trope is also likely to apply to other works by Creator/BrandonSanderson.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'', Kain can choose to sacrifice himself to restore balance to the world, or rule Nosgoth as the king of vampires. The later games in the series go with the assumption he chose world domination.
** Later games reveal that the first choice would throw the world into even greater unbalance eventually. Which doesn't stop those who don't know it (all but Kain and a select few) from hating Kain's guts for his choice.

* A recurring plot element in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series, but especially in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''. The main plot of the game is set after TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in a world-in-potentia called the Vortex World. Various factions, called Reasons, are fighting over who gets to recreate the world as they see fit. Although the main character, the Demi-Fiend, is a demon and cannot build his own Reason, he can champion whichever he chooses and rebuild the world in that Reason's image. The Demi-Fiend can also choose to reject all the Reasons and restore the world as we know it or maintain the Vortex World. Another ending was introduced in the ''Maniax'' expansion, in which the Demi-Fiend throws his lot in with Lucifer and destroys the world before joining the fallen angel on a RageAgainstTheHeavens.
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', you either use the Schwarzwelt to bring humanity under the control of God, use it to bring humanity under the control of the demons, or destroy the Schwarzwelt instead of changing the world with it.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', after Nyarlathotep destroys the world, Philemon tells the heroes that they can recreate the world with their wills for the better, [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia but lose their memories of each other.]] Three of them imagine better futures for themselves but the last member doesn't want to forget, causing the next game's plot, ''Eternal Punishment''.
** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' plays with this by establishing the AkashicRecords are, metaphorically, the program reality runs on. Said program, to continue with the metaphor, can be edited, deleted or recreated depending on who's currently controlling it. One can choose to use the Records to edit Earth to suit a perfect egalitarian world, a ruthless meritocracy, replace the current admin of the Records with a more sympathetic one, restore reality with the archived file on the past world (with varying success on averting a ViciousCycle), or outright destroy the Records and make it impossible for any admin to ever rise again.
** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'' throws you in the middle of an ongoing conflict between the myriad gods and the angels of the God of Law, fighting whether to create a world that ever-changing and diverse but doomed to descend into chaos or a world where God's will is the only will that rules a world of peace and happiness. You also have the choice to either destroy the only means of creating the world and letting humanity [[FigureItOutYourself figure out the rest]] or create a new one that doesn't rely on gods or demons to prosper.
* The Creator/{{Infocom}} InteractiveFiction game ''[[VideoGame/{{Enchanter}} Spellbreaker]]'' ends with the player confronted by his EvilTwin, created as a result of EquivalentExchange, who it turns out has been manipulating the player into gathering the CosmicKeystones he needs to remake the world in his own image with [[AGodAmI himself as its god]]. The player has only a narrow window of opportunity to sabotage his "End of the World" Special; it's possible to accidentally [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt unmake the entire universe]] as a result of removing the centerpiece of the tesseract entirely, but by replacing it with something non-magical, the universe is remade without magic, and without the player's evil doppelganger.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' the character must choose whether to save the Republic from the Sith, or become their new leader and continue the war. Notably, the sequel allows you to set what choice your character made in the first game and alters the plot accordingly, although the differences are minimal and do not affect the main storyline.
* ''VideoGame/FableII'' ends with your character getting the keys to the Spire, the reality altering device that Lucien fucked you over so many times to try and power. Here you must make a SadisticChoice: raise your family (who Lucien has murdered) from the dead...or raise the thousands who died in the Spire's construction in their stead. Or just get a lot of money.

* ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlrevis'' has a twist on this: The ''main character'' has the power to remake the world ''right from the start'', only he doesn't know it, yet.

* ''VideoGame/AvalonCode'': This concept is the plot of the whole freaking game.
* The entire journey of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' is to see who will summon the Dark Dragon first, and how they'll use it to recreate the world. In the end, despite Lucas pulling the last needle, the world is still destroyed, but the ending [[MindScrew implies]] it was at least for the better... [[AmbiguousEnding maybe]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. At the end of the game, Bowser's galaxy collapses into a black hole that sucks up the whole universe [[ApocalypseWow and blows up all of existence]]. [[PhysicalGod Rosalina]] creates a brand new universe.
* ''VideoGame/OracleOfTao'': Ambrosia does this in the most literal way possible. [[spoiler: The world before this is a DreamApocalypse centered around her and she makes it ''real''.]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'' is based heavily around this. Beings called Star Singers are capable of choosing between a nearly infinite number of alternate worlds, and all magic makes subtle use of this. The villains' desire to exploit this. [[spoiler: In the end the heroes gain the true version of the ability, allowing them to create an ideal world rather then just selecting a flawed one.]]
* ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures'': The metaplot of the game is that the world goes through a continual cycle of destruction and rebirth, [[CrapsackWorld becoming more horrible and deranged each time]]. The Brahe clan has conceived a plan to stop this cycle by [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery preventing the world from being reborn and therefore sending everything to oblivion]]. Tycho, one of the protagonists, breaks from his clan and instead tries to seed the next rebirth with a perfectly good individual: [[spoiler:his niece Anne-Claire]]. In the end, he succeeds.

* The path towards getting the best ending in ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' involves the destruction of Asgard and eventually Midgard, however, it also grants Lenneth the power of creation, which she uses to restore the world and everyone in it, including Lucian, and becomes the new world's Lord of Creation.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', Shulk effectively becomes a god. He creates a new world for everyone to live in because the previous one was collapsing, but then relinquishes his power and becomes mortal because he wasn't very comfortable with the idea of a god controlling the path of fate, preferring that people choose for themselves.

* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCentralFiction'' ends in something similar to this: Ragna, realizing that he's the very [[TitleDrop Central Fiction]] - the "dream that God observes", having pacified the "girl in [[DeusEstMachina the Master Unit Amaterasu]]" and absorbed all of the desires of most people he knows (with his Soul Eater power), he goes on to create a new world that doesn't focus on him and [[RetGone erases himself from the world]].

* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' destroyed all of time and space, when in every single story thread simultaneously, someone mucked with time. With everyone dead at the same time in an endless expanse of gray, the troublemakers all figured out how to restart all the story threads at the same time. Every one of the threads is now in a reboot.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is what's ''supposed'' to happen: the players cause the apocalypse in their own universe, but through playing the game they get to make a new one. Unfortunately, [[UnwinnableByDesign things haven't gone]] [[YouCantFightFate quite according to plan]].

* Subverted in the short story Chaos Theory ends with Bria building a new world order. When it's pointed out she falls apart.
* In WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, the fourth-year anniversary special of Website/ChannelAwesome, a massive, living retcon threatens to consume all of existence.

* Happens in the film ''Film/DarkCity'' in which the main protagonist John Murdoch frees the world from the shackles of The Strangers and recreates it to be a better place for all those who inhabit it.

* In WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, the fourth-year anniversary special of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, a massive, living retcon threatens to consume all of existence.

* ''Anime/TheBigO'': in the episode "The Show Must Go On", the character Angel enters a mysterious control center to apparently become the Director of Paradigm City, then appears as a HumongousMecha to erase the ruined city from existence and replace it with a slightly tweaked version of how it existed at the start of the series. This is only one interpretation; [[GainaxEnding nobody really knows what that episode was about]].
** It was supposed to be explained further in the third season, except there was no third season despite the second having [[ScrewedByTheNetwork paid off its budget in time for renewal of a possible third season]].
* In ''Anime/GeneratorGawl'', the eponymous character gains the power to reinvent the universe after nearly dying.
* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', Hikaru ultimately becomes the pillar (the person who makes Cephiro into an image of her mind) of Cephiro after two seasons of strife. Her choice is to ultimately end the Pillar system and to move the power of shaping the world to its inhabitants instead, allowing her to leave and making the world not prone to destruction because of the emotions of one person. The manga ending breaks the fourth wall when Hikaru asks the reader to come up with a new name for Cephiro.
* In the end of ''Anime/MyHime'', Mai actually rejects the power to reshape the world as she sees fit, arguing that it is immoral.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': In ''End of Evangelion'', Shinji has the choice to complete the Instrumentality of souls, turning all of humanity into one dreaming soul where there can be no pain or loneliness, or to reject it, and free humanity to live as a collection of individuals. He chooses the latter option, allowing all humankind to return from Instrumentality.

* In ''Anime/RahXephon'' the eponymous [[HumongousMecha Mecha]] is an ''artificial god'' which eventually [[DeityOfHumanOrigin grants this power to its pilot]]. This is revealed through AllThereInTheManual.
* In ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'', Pacifica is given the choice to free humanity from its enforced prison or leave them there in blissful ignorance of the real world.
* The titular character from ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' eventually decides that the thing most wrong with the world is that she existed at all, and [[RetGone removes herself]] from existence.
* In the first season of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the final episode (broadcast order) involves Haruhi, a girl with [[RealityWarper godlike powers]], on the verge of unconsciously destroying the world and creating it anew out of a combination of jealousy and boredom. As a matter of fact, the entire plot of the series revolves around preventing Haruhi from doing such a thing. The kicker is that ''it may have already happened at least once'', but nobody is totally sure.
** Kyon gets the choice in ''Disappearance''. Nagato creates a new world where he's a normal high school student and he's forced to choose to start this new world and end the previous one or return to his old world filled with weirdness he claims he hates. Guess what he chooses.
* In ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', Dornkirk tries to create a utopia where everyone's desires will be fulfilled. Essentially, this Zone of Absolute Fortunate grants everyone, to a small extent, the power to achieve their desire. Unfortunately, as there is a war going on, most desire the death of their enemy. Whoops.
* In the end of ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'', Sasshi summons Eutus, who releases his true power as a super ultra Onmyou Mysticist, who then proceeds to do what they always do- but this time, he does it right. He even includes Eutus and Mune-mune.
* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'' God is dying and looking for a replacement. This is one of the privileges of the winner. Yukiteru ultimately wins, but is so broken up over [[spoiler: Yuno's death]] that he doesn't do anything but sit around for a ''thousand years''.
* In ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Fakir breaks the control Drosselmeyer has over the town and decides to [[RewritingReality write his own ending to the story]], then destroys the machine used to make the story. It's implied that his ending restored the town and its people to the way they would have been without the story, as anthropomorphic characters are now fully nonhuman, the story characters return to the story and live happily, and the human characters lead happier lives and can come and go as they please. The end has Fakir working on a new story, full of hope.
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Madoka makes a {{Wishplosion}} that causes the universe to be recreated to accommodate her desire for no more witches in the past, present or future. This also {{Ret Gone}}s her from reality due to the erasure of her own witch.
* A variation occurs in ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'', when 2 separate universes are merged into one, which contains the best parts of both (according to the subconscious wishes of the protagonist, facilitated by the godlike power of his HumongousMecha).
* The three Choushin goddesses do this at the end of the third ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' OVA, although the only real change they make is fixing the damage the villain did, rewinding time to before it happened, and reverting the villain to an infant and removing his powers.

* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', the Rumors Arc ends with Applebloom fixing the cursed printing press Discord and company used for [[RewritingReality their end game plan]], using the Truth Dark World Nightmare Mirror put in her eye as the ink. This results in her become TheOmnipotent and being granted the knowledge needed to fix the damage the Rumors caused by the Gods, as well as making any changes she decides to, in part as a reward by the Elders for saving the entire universe. She mostly uses this to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong in several places where it's beneficial to the world as a whole. And [[KarmicJackpot give the Mane Six statues in the town square and titles in recognition of their heroism]].

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* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', Pacifica is given the choice to free humanity from its enforced prison or leave them there in blissful ignorance of the real world.

* In the first season of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the final episode (broadcast order) involves Haruhi, a girl with [[RealityWarper godlike powers]], on the verge of unconsciously destroying the world and creating it anew out of a combination of jealousy and boredom. As a matter of fact, the entire plot of the series revolves around preventing Haruhi from doing such a thing. The kicker is that ''it may have already happened at least once'', but nobody is totally sure.

* Comics writer Creator/GrantMorrison is particularly fond of this trope. At the climax of their run on ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', [[GeniusLoci Danny the Street]] (a sentient fragment of a lost, fantastic world) expands to become Danny the World, filling the 'real' world with mystery and significance.
** In the final issue of their run on ''Comicbook/NewXMen'', Jean Grey uses the Phoenix force to amputate a dystopian future and release her husband from despair and grief into the bargain (although that wasn't Grant Morrison's decision; they were told to by [[ExecutiveMeddling the editors]] to make room for the RelationshipSue).
* In ''Comicbook/TheInvisibles'', the character of Dane is, according to some, the [[MessianicArchetype new Buddha]], who helps 'deliver' humanity into a new state of existence in the final issue (his last words, and the final words of the series, being "[[EpiphanicPrison Our sentence is up]]").

* This seems to be what happens at the end of Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' and ''Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}''.
* ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':

* The premise of the {{Marvel|Universe}} CrossOver event ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' when the ComicBook/ScarletWitch goes insane and uses her [[RealityWarper powers]] to remake the world so that mutants are the ruling race. At the end, she does it again, reverting the world to normal but leaving the mutant population at a tenth of its former size.

* In the film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Arthur Dent is given the choice to make changes to the rebuilt Earth. The only change he makes is to remove himself and Trillian by leaving to explore the galaxy.

* At the end of ''Blood Omen: VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', Kain can choose to sacrifice himself to restore balance to the world, or rule Nosgoth as the king of vampires. The later games in the series go with the assumption he chose world domination.

* ''Videogame/BlazblueCentralFiction'' ends in something similar to this: Ragna, realizing that he's the very [[TitleDrop Central Fiction]] - the "dream that God observes", having pacified the "girl in [[DeusEstMachina the Master Unit Amaterasu]]" and absorbed all of the desires of most people he knows (with his Soul Eater power), he goes on to create a new world that doesn't focus on him and [[RetGone erases himself from the world]].

** The Destroy Ending, where you intentionally damage the Crucible and cause it to send out an energy wave that [[KillEmAll kills all synthetic life]] in the galaxy, including any friends or comrades you made along the way, resulting in the end of the Reaper Threat but also killing countless synthetic lives, essentially committing ''genocide'' of an entire class of lifeform. However, if you didn't build your military strength adequately before confronting the Reapers, the damage instead sends out a wave that kills ''everyone,'' essentially [[ApocalypseHow ending ALL life in the galaxy.]]

A more heroic example of the villainous ambition to remake the world InTheirOwnImage. In video games, can be a form of MultipleEndings and especially LastSecondEndingChoice. Related to ResetButton and OutsourcingFate. Subtrope of {{Retconjuration}}.

* The entire journey of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' is to see who will summon the Dark Dragon first, and how they'll use it to recreate the world. In the end, despite Lucas pulling the last needle, the world is still destroyed, but the ending [[MindScrew implies]] it was at least for the better... maybe.

* Comics writer Creator/GrantMorrison is particularly fond of this trope. At the climax of his run on ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', [[GeniusLoci Danny the Street]] (a sentient fragment of a lost, fantastic world) expands to become Danny the World, filling the 'real' world with mystery and significance.
** In the final issue of his run on ''Comicbook/NewXMen'', Jean Grey uses the Phoenix force to amputate a dystopian future and release her husband from despair and grief into the bargain (although that wasn't Grant Morrison's decision; he was told to by [[ExecutiveMeddling the editors]] to make room for the RelationshipSue).

* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', Shulk effectively becomes a god. He creates a new world for everyone to live in because the previous one was collapsing, but then relinquishes his power and becomes mortal because he wasn't very comfortable with the idea of a god controlling the path of fate, preferring people choose for themselves.

* In ''Anime/RahXephon'' the eponymous [[HumongousMecha Mecha]] is an ''artificial god'' which eventually [[AGodAmI grants this power to its pilot]]. This is revealed through AllThereInTheManual.

* ''Confessor'', the final book of the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series, does this in spades. Richard Rahl, once he opens the Boxes of Orden and [[AGodAmI acquires godlike powers]], takes the opportunity to tweak several things about his world that have always bugged him: removing the poison from red fruits in the Midlands, bringing back the Temple of the Winds, and balancing the magic flowing into the world thus resulting in a rebirth of wizardry. Oh, and lest we forget, ''Uplifting millions of people from across the world who disagreed with his personal beliefs and dumping them on a parallel planet with no magic and no afterlife.'' Included in the Literature/BraveNewWorld was his ''sister'', though for some reason she wanted to go.

** Similarly, in ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds A Link Between Worlds]]'', Link uses the Triforce to restore the Triforce of Lorule, reversing that world's inexorable decay as a result.

* In the end of ''Anime/MaiHime'', Mai actually rejects the power to reshape the world as she sees fit, arguing that it is immoral.

* In the ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog'' comics, at the (rushed) conclusion of the conflict with Mammoth Mogul, Tails -- now the more-or-less omnipotent Titan Tails -- uses his power to overcome Mogul, then gets to recreate the universe. He leaves it the same as it was before, except with Mogul sealed away.

*** This happens again in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'', only for Eggman to interfere and cause a CosmicRetcon in their universe.