History Main / RealityWarper

* Dragons, Dovahkiin, and, to a lesser extent, those trained in the Thu'um are this in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. The dragon tongue is such that a Shout can produce fire or ice, summon storms, and slow time merely by speaking the effects into existence.
** And in the general ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' universe, the giant Dwemer robot the Numidium was so powerful it did this just by existing. It's activation in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' ended up creating "The Warp In the West", which not only altered the entire region, but also caused [[MultipleEndings multiple versions]] of history to all occur ''simultaneously''. In fact, the events of ''Daggerfall'' broke Nirn's fragile reality so thoroughly that the god of time himself had to step in and do a reality-warping patch job of his own. [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Every]] [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion game]] [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim since]] has had texts theorising that Akatosh is Not Amused by this turn of events.

When adding examples, please remember that this trope is ''extremely'' common (since even magic in general is technically this trope) so please add only {{egregious}} examples, and works that elaborate upon this trope InUniverse or have this trope as a {{Plot Device}}.

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* Arguably Viki, from the ''{{Suikoden}}'' series. While her teleportation rune explains why she can send people to different places, and her general ditziness means this happens by accident or is done wrongly on occasion, it does not explain why she has the ability to travel through time, entirely by accident, usually after sneezing. In Suikoden III you can actually have two copies of her in your party because of this.

* Holiday Emperor Bun-Bun from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. Also the wish-granting demons.

Protagonists aren't often this character type; [[InvincibleHero what's the point of a story]] when you can just end it right then and there? If the protagonist ''is'' one of these, expect him or her to either [[JustForFun/HowToStopTheDeusExMachina have a reason]] for [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy not using it]] or for all of the antagonists to have powers on a similar or greater scale.

** Aureolus Izzard. "Alchemist" my ass. MasterOfIllusion combined with ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve is his actual power. It does has its limits however, as pointed out by Stiyl, if he really could warp reality, why couldn't he just wish a vampire into existence?

** Anything the Master writes in "The Mind Robber" becomes true. In the fifth episode of the serial, the Doctor is wired into the computer, giving him the same powers.

** Wanda Maximoff, thanks to the above, has this as her mutant power - and her magic is inclined towards probability manipulation too. Her blessing on Harry, (in short: he'll always have someone to back him up) makes him a MagneticHero and strong enough to be detected by Odin.
** Doctor Strange is repeatedly stated to be someone who long ago decided that the Laws of Reality were for other people, performing feats that shouldn't really be possible.

* Pluma and the other Penna in "The Ghost of Paradise Estate" episode of

** But ultimately, the most powerful RealityWarper in the game is... [[spoiler:'''you''', the player, "[[TheButcher The Anomaly]]" as Sans refers to you. Ultimately, it is '''you''' who have total control over the player character, you who eventually decide the fates of every character in the game. If you complete the Genocide ending, you are kind of [[HijackedByGanon hijacked by]] The First Child, who turns your own Determination against you to take control away from you... but even then, you have the ability to alter the game's files, which even The First Child can do nothing about

** But ultimately, the most powerful RealityWarper in the game is... [[spoiler:'''you''', the player, "[[TheButcher The Anomaly]]" as Sans refers to you. Ultimately, it is '''you''' who have total control over the player character, you who eventually decide the fates of every character in the game. If you complete the Genocide ending, you are kind of [[HijackedByGanon hijacked by]] The First Child, who turns your own Determination against you to take control away from you... but even then, you have the ability to alter the game's files, which even The First Child can do nothing about.]]
* In VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}, the player character Maxwell has a magic notebook that can conjure anything you can imagine. In addition to this, he can add adjectives to other people and objects allowing for things that shouldn't even be possible like a male woman, he also has the ability to write things out of existence in the later games by adding "gone" to an object.

* In ''Anime/Digimon'', many high-level Digimon and other powerful beings have the power to defy Physics and even change the world around them. Many can fly effortlessly, without any jets, wings or other means of propulsion or lift, and some of the highest level beings are able to create warp gates or portals between dimensions. Megidramon and OmnimonX both have the power to rewrite or annihilate the entire Digital World, while Apocalymon can sacrifice himself to completely annihilate both the Digital and Real Worlds ''without even being in them''. Zeed-Millenniummon is the most extreme example, possessing the ability to completely rewrite time and space throughout infinite realities if it gets free of its bindings.

* When ''Creator/{{SethMacFarlane}}'' guested on the season 2 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', he's portrayed as being such by way of the {{Cutaway Gag}}s his own works popularized.

* Anyone who enters The Void in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' becomes this, but only when their in the void.
* Beetlejuice in ''WesternAnimation/Beetlejuice'' is essentially this with his claims on being the ghost with the most.

*** [[spoiler: That said, it only *looks* like he breaks the laws of magic; the supplementary material in the Lexicon Negimarium explains the perfectly rational reasoning for how he did his "impossible" deeds, such as creating a gravitational singularity to break out of a localized infinite pocket dimension by distorting space until the artifact couldn't sustain it anymore).

* ''[[Literature/InTheMarvelousParacosmOfFitzFaradayAndTheShapersOfTheId "The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id"]] '', the protagonist discovers a way of bringing his thoughts into reality by using a device known as the cognitive resonator. The device was invented by the town quack and easily backfires on Fitz and his friends as they unleash all manner of chaos.

* ''[[Literature/InTheMarvelousParacosmofFitzFaradayandtheShapersoftheId]] '', the protagonist discovers a way of bringing his thoughts into reality by using a device known as the cognitive resonator. The device was invented by the town quack and easily backfires on Fitz and his friends as they unleash all manner of chaos.

* ''Literature/In The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id '', the protagonist discovers a way of bringing his thoughts into reality by using a device known as the cognitive resonator. The device was invented by the town quack and easily backfires on Fitz and his friends as they unleash all manner of chaos.

* In The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id, the protagonist discovers a way of bringing his thoughts into reality by using a device known as the cognitive resonator. The device was invented by the town quack and easily backfires on Fitz and his friends as they unleash all manner of chaos.

* In ''Anime/Digimon'', many high-level Digimon and other powerful beings have the power to defy Physics and even change the world around them. Many can fly effortlessly, without any jets, wings or other means of propulsion or lift, and some of the highest level beings are able to create warp gates or portals between dimensions. Megidramon and OmnimonX both have the power to rewrite (or annihilate) the entire Digital World, while Apocalymon can sacrifice himself to completely annihilate both the Digital and Real Worlds ""without even being in them". Zeed-Millenniummon is the most extreme example, possessing the ability to completely rewrite time and space throughout infinite realities if it gets free of its bindings.

* In ''Anime/Digimon'', many high-level Digimon and other powerful beings have the power to defy Physics and even change the world around them. Many can fly effortlessly, without any jets, wings or other means of propulsion or lift, and some of the highest level beings are able to create warp gates or portals between dimensions. Megidramon has the power to rewrite (or annihilate) the entire Digital World, while Apocalymon can sacrifice himself to completely annihilate both the Digital and Real Worlds ""without even being in them". ZeedMillenniummon is the most extreme example, possessing the ability to completely rewrite time and space throughout infinite realities if it gets free of its bindings.

* In ''Digimon'', many high-level Digimon and other powerful beings have the power to defy Physics and even change the world around them. Many can fly effortlessly, without any jets, wings or other means of propulsion or lift, and some of the highest level beings are able to create warp gates or portals between dimensions. Megidramon has the power to rewrite (or annihilate) the entire Digital World, while Apocalymon can sacrifice himself to ZeedMillenniummon is the most extreme example, possessing the ability to completely rewrite time and space throughout infinite realities.

* ''Literature/TheReader2016'' calls this manipulation, and it can only be done by those who can read. It's the second tier of illumination: first one is able to see the stories of people and objects, and when they reach Manipulation they can rewrite those stories. In most cases, this is presented as more similar to MindOverManner, but the execution shows that the person is actually ''rewriting'' the destinations of objects. Like bullets.