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  • Brennus: Emyr Blackhill, a.k.a. the Godking of Mars, who is thankfully long dead by the time the story takes place. Apparently, he had the ability to make anything he said happen including written words or even body language. He had been a sci-fi writer before getting his powers, so he got pretty creative. He somehow traveled to Mars, made it habitable, created an entire species of Martians that worshiped him, created an entire system of Functional Magic for them to use, and led them to invade Earth, conquering it in five days. He was killed by a team of heroes later on, but to this day nobody has the slightest idea how, because there were no survivors. He's one of only three S+ Class meta-humans in history. The following quote actually some it up quite nicely:
    Man In The Moon: We are talking about a guy who, when he calls himself "The Godking", is making a perfectly reasonable statement about his capabilities!
  • Characters transformed into cartoons in The Cartoon Man saga have, as Peter puts it, "the ability to bend reality in the service of humor."
  • Chadam: Chadam himself; with his overflowing imagination, he can do things such as bring trees to life or make notebook pages move on their own.
  • Channel Awesome:
    • During Spoony and Linkara's two part Adamantium Rage/Warrior # 1 review, Dr. Insano uses Warrior to screw up reality, causing it to reformat every five seconds. Everytime it cuts back to Linkara and Spoony, the scene changes; one minute, they've switched characters, then another, Dr. Insano is reviewing the comic while Linkara has a gun pointed at his head, then another, neither of them can act, and on multiple occasions, different Channel Awesome contributors are playing either Linkara or Insano. The best one is the universe that features Linkara and Insano as stuffed animals.
    • In the Awesomeverse more generally there is The Plot Hole a phenomenally powerful Negative Space Wedgie which is the cause of all the plot holes and inconsistencies in their reality was a pure force of nature …until Ma-Ti merged with it and used its power as vengeance against The Nostalgia Critic. Eventually Ma-Ti was convinced to give up his vengeance quest and leave, but this destabilized it until the Critic willingly merged with it. Critic himself still has Plot Hole powers on return, but they're called "ruining".
  • It's sometimes implied that one or both of the main characters in Chicken and Moose has this ability.
  • In Cyriak's online animated video "Boogie Math", the little boy warps reality with his dancing. Through his dancing, he distorts his body, ejects demonic clones of himself from his mouth, and eventually melts himself and his surroundings.
  • Dreamscape: The Possessor Ghost had a role in creating the dimension seen in the first episode.
    • Ethan can mold and shape whatever terrain is around him as he pleases.
    • Curien can cast illusions on the surrounding area that are strong enough to trick your senses into believing them.
  • Enchufe.tv: The sketch "Yo Ya Estoy" ["I already am"] centers around a boy who instantaneously becomes anything that is mentioned (ranging from appearing in formalwear when his friend mentions an event's dress code to materializing in the arms of a kidnapper complete with a gun pointed at his head when the kidnappers were merely discussing taking a hostage). His warping disturbs the kidnappers to the point of pleading to be arrested and away from him.
  • In Freedom City Play By Post, Claremont Academy Mark 'Edge' Lucas is a powerful Reality Warper who's done things like cover the entire city in a helium balloon and blow up city blocks full of enemies.
  • Jeannette, from Funny Business, can basically do anything she wants.
  • Homestar Runner
    • Homsar is one as such, since he is a Cloudcuckoolander, to the point where he defies all laws of logic and physics, floating, shapeshifting, and even distorting the scenery in a secret main page.
    • Senor Cardgage, to the point where he's probably known as a second Homsar in hremail3184, in which he manages to walk in place holding a steak sandwich and cause ambient city sounds appear out of nowhere. Strong Bad put it best in his words: "I'm ... quite scared right now."
    • The Paper and New Paper might also qualify as such, even to the point of defying the laws of perspective.
    • Even Strong Bad himself might qualify. Several things he used to imagine have eventually become real, including Trogdor, Stinkoman, and even the whole future of his entire world. According to the official Homestar Runner FeedBurner page, it's canon.
  • Inhuman Condition: Tamar's powers. Even in a world of the abnormal, she's the most powerful reality warper in all history. Unfortunately, the government clearly hasn't thought through dealing with her very well.
  • The Improbability Drives in Madness Combat are capable of distorting reality in some pretty bizarre ways, such as causing whales to rain down from the sky or bringing the Sun to life.
  • Monster Factory has several reality benders, usually thanks to cheats that allow the McElroy brothers to give their video game characters god-like powers. The most powerful of these characters is the Final Pam, who can summon millions of bombs out of thin air or turn her husband into a giant battle mech. Her abilities even allow her to instantly kill everybody on screen, and then steal their clothes.
  • The Noedolekcin Archives: Implied, as Kirk Odd seemingly can make objects appear and disappear. In the description of "Nick Jr. Anomaly (2001, Found Footage)", a child told investigators that he heard his younger sister screaming, but when the police came in the room, the girl was already dead, and beside her corpse was a taco shell filled with organs that wasn't in the room before.
  • Noob happens mostly inside a MMORPG and one of the characters is a hacker who is capable of altering the way the game works to a certain extent.
  • In the Paradise setting, a mysterious force is transforming humans into Funny Animals (and occasionally switching their gender as well). It turns out that The Virus responsible for the Change is not a biological virus, but rather a computer virus altering reality in a simulation running on a post-Singularity computronium computer.
  • In Protectors of the Plot Continuum:
    • Sues, by their very nature.
    • All fanfic writers are this as well, as their words literally cause things to happen in the canon 'verse. In badfic, unfortunate spelling errors or syntax problems can cause some rather weird things to happen.
  • The SCP Foundation has a number of SCP Objects that can do this. Naturally most of them are Keter-class.
    • SCP-239, an 8-year old girl who can alter reality based on what she believes; fortunately, it's limited to what she can see.
      • They put her into a chemically-induced coma after she accidentally made Dr. Clef (see below) try to kill her.
    • SCP-343, an elderly man who appears to be flat out omnipotent and even claims to be God; luckily he's a rare benevolent example. Probably.
    • SCP-1765, three sisters that look like ghosts who used their powers to take control over a whole site and are using it to perform experiments with the captured personnel, claiming they are helping the Foundation with research, the first sister makes everyone measure pipes, then changes the pipes and orders them to do it again, the second sister makes people play a deadly game in a stadium, but revives those who die so they can try again, and the third sister is making the site director eat multiple flavors of ice cream to decide which one is the best.
    • Dr. Alto Clef once claimed he was one; he's made claim to several different backstories, although the most plausible one by far is that he's the Devil. However, he is the Foundation's go-to guy for exterminating troublesome Reality Warpers. SCP-4231, however, says that he actually is one, and isn't too thrilled about it.
    • There are enough reality warpers that the Foundation's rival Global Occult Coalition has a document with special instructions on how to kill them.
    • Oh, and that seminar of Clef's in the page quote? His advice for surviving an encounter with such an individual is to invoke Boom, Headshot!, or another certain insta-kill, before he or she has any idea that you're there.
    • There's also Dr. King, who can cause SCPs to break their own rules to give him apple seeds, or, in few cases, anything related to apples.
    • SCP-2922 ("Notes From the Under"). SCP-PC-005 "The Impenetrable" is an extremely powerful reality-bending Giant Spider entity that lives in the afterlife known to the Foundation as Corbenic. It is allied to the Foundation scientist who ended up there after dying while under the influence of SCP-2922.
    • SCP-3088 is an Everytown, America in Nebraska in which whoever's elected mayor gains power over reality within the town. The last mayor upon realizing this gradually became Drunk with Power and became a Well-Intentioned Extremist, passing oppressive laws like banning the use of weapons or preventing anyone who enters from leaving for the sake of Utopia Justifies the Means. When Foundation operatives intervene, he tries to pass a law forcing them to leave but as it conflicted with his previous ruling that nobody could, it caused a Reality-Breaking Paradox that made the entire town Ret-Gone.
    • SCP-3999. Its entry details what happened when it escaped containment and decided to take revenge on one of the Foundation scientists, Researcher Talloran, torturing him, his family, and anyone vaguely connected to him, over several million years. The article has been constantly defaced, rewritten and altered, because that's what SCP-3999 does to reality.
  • Mr. Slender Man himself, who distorts reality by simply existing.
  • David Blaine in the "Street Magic" shorts, where he uses his powers in a Sarda-like Fashion to harass two Ambiguously Gay idiots, resulting in him giving a Zoolander-style look to the camera every time.
  • SuperMarioLogan:
    • Jeffy has defied the laws of physics and logic several times. In "Jeffy's Special Easter!", Mario abandons him off the road to trick him into finding a golden egg, only for Jeffy to reappear shortly after with the egg. And in "Pokémon Part 6", one of his Pokémon is Cookie Monster, who knows Thunderbolt.
    • Hansel the Hobo from "Mario's Hobo Problem!" has defied the laws of physics several times, reappearing next to Mario regardless of wherever he was. One example would be Mario locking him inside the bathroom, only for Chef Pee Pee to call him about Hansel taking beer from the fridge an instant later, despite the bathroom door being locked.
  • In the Whateley Universe, there are plenty of examples. None of them are near the A God Am I levels. Mages of varying power levels can alter bits of reality. Some devisers can build devises that can do it. And then there's a class of mutant powers known as Warper: some warpers can affect space or time or dimension, but none seem to be able to warp reality like a powerful wizard.
    • One example is Fractious, who can generate fractures and splits in reality. Normally, she can cut a weapon in half. When she gets upset, she can slice a car in half, or slice the facing off a building.
    • Devisors, debatably. If they can come up with a reason why something should work, it will, regardless of the actual physics involved.
    • Tennyo is perhaps the most likely to eventually reach god-like levels, in light of the Star Stalker's primary purpose. When captured by the Knights of the Eternal Presence, she shredded reality so badly that it took five nuclear weapons to seal the rifts inside Norad-C.
    • Next to Tennyo is Ragnarok, whose abilities reach world-shaking proportions, and who needed special training to avoid accidentally creating, say, a world-consuming black hole in a panic.

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