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* The Genie in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has '''''PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS''''' that are certainly far beyond that of any human sorcerer, but he does explicitly state three limitations to them. He cannot kill (directly), make someone fall in love, or bring the dead back to life. It's not quite clear if these are simply beyond the Genie's powers or if they are within his capability but are the only wishes he can refuse to grant; when telling Aladdin about these limitations he says that bringing the dead back to life "is not a pretty picture, I don't like doing it!", which suggests the latter.
** The killing thing seems to be a direct impossibility, but as Genie!Jafar states, "[[FateWorseThanDeath You'd be surprised what you can live through.]]"
** He also seems to be unable to make people fall in love. He was completely surprised when it appeared that he had granted Jafar's wish to make Jasmine love him.
** Once freed he is just a sorcerer who has the ability to break the fourth wall. However, he has shown the ability to predict the future and "read" reality like a book. He has the ability to read the script of the current episode as well as the ability to consult "the big book of things we're not supposed to know" in order to find out where people are and what they are doing.

* Jeffty from HarlanEllison's short story "Jeffty is Five". Albeit his power just works in a very specific way - he stays a five-year-old boy forever, and also preserves somehow the media he loves. His radio plays serial programs no longer produced on radio stations that no longer exist. They are contemporary, all-new shows, however; not re-runs. He can buy comics such as ''TheShadow'' and ''DocSavage'' that are, again, all-new although they are no longer being produced, and long discontinued pulp magazines with new stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs and Robert E. Howard despite the authors being long dead. Jeffty can even watch films that are adaptations of old pulp novels like Alfred Bester's ''The Demolished Man''.

* Drosselmeyer and [[spoiler:Fakir]] from ''PrincessTutu''.

Needless to say, running into characters with such powers can be incredibly chancy. Arguing with the more powerful ones is futile, especially since they can ''literally'', in the words of Paul from ''The Dungeonmaster'' ([[OlderThanTheyThink or]] [[Series/MythBusters Adam Savage]]), reject your reality and ''substitute their own''.

This trope has nothing to do with IRejectYourReality.

* Poron from SallyTheWitch. Mre exactly, when she throws a tantrum and starts crying (well, she ''is'' a littl girl no older than five), her magical powers go haywire and start warping whatever's left in her surroundings.

*** Miracle is the roughly the divine equivalent of the arcane Wish spell. The effect is the same, it just has a different name and different logic behind it.

* In a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream lucid dream]], a person that's dreaming is aware of being in a dream. This often has the side effect of giving the dreamer control over the dream world, making them a Reality Warper within the context of the dream. That is, as long as they can consciously keep themselves from waking up: upon realizing that [[LogicBomb what it sees isn't real]], the mind [[DivideByZero subconsciously rejects it]] and tries to press the metaphorical reset button by waking up. That's right; one can become a Reality Warper with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief alone!

** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Shaper of Worlds]] could alter reality on at least a planetary scale, but lacked imagination and so had to use others' dreams as a template. (This was because he was an evolved Cosmic Cube.) He served as a tutor in reality-shaping for Glorian, a human, and Kubik, also an evolved Cosmic Cube.

* ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'': [[spoiler:Aureolus Izzard]]. "[[spoiler:Alchemist]]" my ass.

** They don't out right say it, but that is what [[spoiler: Orihime and Chad are, due to Ichigo's spirit energy jumpstarting their abilities, exposure to hollows when either young or unborn gave them the capability, ichigo himself is half that, the fullbringers unlock his fullbringer abilites when he loses his shingami ones, and eventually take those away too. then he gets his shingami ones back, they haven't explored it further than i some odd occations where his powers violate some rules, ususally just in how much power he has.]]
** This is what [[spoiler: Aizen becomes with the Macguffin he was looking for, until Ichigo starts beating him and he loses control, eventually becoming weaker than originally, but indestructable, so he is imprisoned rather than executed, or perhaps they just cannot replace the execution method Ichigo destroyed.]]

*** Especially after his time as [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars
the Time Lord Victorious]].

* The title character in the H. G. Wells short story ''The Man Who Could Work Miracles'' does [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says he does.]]

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]'', [[spoiler:Rose]] temporarily ''acquires'' this ability, at the ultimate cost of [[spoiler:the Doctor losing another regeneration by absorbing the power's source, the "Time Vortex", from Rose.]] The implication is that if [[spoiler:Rose]] held on to it for too long, it would kill [[spoiler:her. The ensuing DeusExMachina ''does'' make you wonder why the Doctor never used the trick before; presumably, the effects of swallowing the Time Vortex are too unpredictable to depend on it, plus the aforementioned cost of one's life. Also, he later references it, saying "No one's ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that he'd become a god—a vengeful god.", so it's probable that he doesn't dare risk it.]]
*** Especially after his time as [[spoiler:Time Lord Victorious]].

* [[Series/{{Glee}} Brittany]] develops this ability in ''Fanfic/{{Special}}'', and while learning how to control it turns a pillow into a goldfish and makes Lord Tubbington talk. It fits with her CloudCuckooLander personality. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that her powers, like some of the other kids', leaked through before the story began. Which means that some of the bizarre things she talked about (her cat reading her diary, getting lost in the sewers) most likely actually happened]].

** A more malevolent example is Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony, who uses his powers to create a WorldGoneMad for his own amusement. Unlike Pinkie Pie, his powers are ''not'' PlayedForLaughs (well, [[LaughablyEvil not in the same manner]]). He was based on Q from Star Trek, to the point he's voiced by John De Lancie himself.
*** Fortunately, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe after befriending Fluttershy]], he vows to use his powers for good. [[ReformedButNotTamed Mostly]].

** In ''[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Parting_of_the_Ways The Parting of the Ways]]'', [[spoiler:Rose]] temporarily ''acquires'' this ability, at the ultimate cost of [[spoiler:the Doctor losing another regeneration by absorbing the power's source, the "Time Vortex", from Rose.]] The implication is that if [[spoiler:Rose]] held on to it for too long, it would kill [[spoiler:her. The ensuing DeusExMachina ''does'' make you wonder why the Doctor never used the trick before; presumably, the effects of swallowing the Time Vortex are too unpredictable to depend on it, plus the aforementioned cost of one's life. Also, he later references it, saying "No one's ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that he'd become a god—a vengeful god.", so it's probable that he doesn't dare risk it.]]

** There's also the Trickster, although his powers are rather limited; he would need to trick ''others'' into making a choice which would change reality. He'll often attack the Doctor's companions, such as Sarah-Jane or Donna.

Not to be confused with MasterOfIllusion, since those are only ''pretending'' to change or create things. True Reality Warpers often incorporate ShapeShifting of all varieties as well as WindsOfDestinyChange (not to mention heaps and heaps of {{Mind Screw}}ing).

* The protagonist of ''TheCompanyOfMyself''. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Oh, wait,]] [[YourMindMakesItReal His Mind Just Made It Real For Him]].]]

** Also by Creator/StephenKing, the last book of the ''DarkTower'' series introduces Patrick Danville. Anything he draws becomes real. [[spoiler:Also affects anything he erases.]]

* Various characters in Greg Egan's fairly hard sci-fi novel ''Literature/{{Quarantine}}'' gain the ability to arbitrarily collapse quantum wavefunctions, as long as no normals are watching. This ranges from the trivial (choosing the spin of an ion in a Stern-Gerlach experiment) through to the fairly useful (walking through walls) to the [[spoiler: disastrous (everyone warping reality uncontrollably at the same time)]]

-->--Transcript of Dr. Clef's Seminar, "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/clef101 Reality Benders and You: How To Survive When The Universe Doesn't]]", Wiki/SCPFoundation