History Main / RealityWarper

* In EnsignSueMustDie, Sue Prime rewrites the universe to be her own slash fic.

** [[spoiler: Sans in the Genocide will not just warp reality, he will shatter all the rules of reality and cut you to pieces with the shrapnel. This is especially impressive because, unlike the previous two, he does '''not''' have any human souls - he just seems to be [[HeKnowsAboutTimedHits savvy enough about the game mechanics]] to InterfaceScrew you to death - [[ThatOneBoss and he is the hardest boss in the game]] despite the fact that you battle him at your most powerful.]]

* ''Master of Space and Time'' by Rudy Rucker has a scientist invent a machine that makes him... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Well, I'll let you guess]].

** If someone is connected with [[AkashicRecords Akasha, the Root Of Creation]] through some unexplained means, they'll gain True Magic, an art that allows one to manipulate different domains of reality. It's divided into 5 domains, but only the First Magic ([[ThePowerOfCreation the ability to deny]] [[PowerOfTheVoid nothingness]]), the Second Magic ([[SpaceMaster the ability to manipulate]] {{Alternate Universe}}s), the Third Magic ([[SoulPower the ability to materialize and manipulate souls]]) and the Fifth Magic (seemingly to govern TimeTravel), has been obtained by a human so far.
** Reality Marble, used by [[MotherNature Gaia]] to shape the entire world as we know it. To be specific, Reality Marbles force all things around you to obey your vision of the world. Reality Marbles are traditionally possessed by the [[SentientCosmicForce Ultimate Ones]], but beings born from Alaya (the collective will of humanity) and the Counter Force (a force of nature that ensures the balance between Gaia and Alaya) can also perform this. However, since their use of Reality Marbles clash against Gaia's, performing it will consume a lot of [[{{Mana}} prana]], its effects are limited to specific areas, and Gaia will actively try to destroy it so it can't last for more than one night.
** Similar yet different to Reality Marbles above are the Marble Phantasm. These are possessed by nature spirits such as the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestors]]. Marble Phantasm manipulates probability so that the user can recreate any kinds of natural phenomenons. To give an example, Arcueid used this ability to create a vacuum space in the atmosphere, but she can't distort floors directly at will (since floors have zero probability of just flinging itself right to your face unless someone throws it).
** In basic terms Reality Marbles and Marble Phantasms are abilities that manipulate probability to achieve a desired outcome but from different angles. The analogy that gives their name is that of plucking a black marble from a jar of otherwise white marbles. Marble Phantasms manipulate probability such that there is a 100% chance that the selected marble will be the black one; Reality Marbles rewrite reality so that all of the marbles are black.
* In addition to the ones above, ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' offers a limited version in Lancer's spear, Gae Bolg, which reverses causality to ensure a fatal blow. The spear strikes a fatal blow, and then reality is rearranged to fit that--which can result in a few oddities, such as the spear haft seemingly making a sharp turn to dodge a block. Surviving a blow from Gae Bolg requires either an ''obscene'' amount of luck or flat-out divine intervention. Most Servants have one or both of those, so it's not quite the {{Gamebreaker}} it would normally be.
** [[spoiler:Fake]] Assassin also possesses a reality-warping attack, Tsubame Gaeshi. The attack manipulates alternate universes to allow Assassin to simultaneously attack his target from three different directions. Interestingly, this is neither magical or divine but simply [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower the result of endlessly training and refining his swordsmanship]]. But what makes this truly outstanding is that it is ''impossible'' for magecraft to accomplish the same feat. He is literally such a great swordsman that he denies reality more than mages do. Only the Second True Magic could accomplish something like what he did, and only one person exists who can use that at all.
** Actually, [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]]'s [[WorldWreckingWave Ea, Sword of Rupture]] and [[spoiler:Arthuria]]'s [[NoSell Avalon, The Everdistant Utopia]] are also this. Ea unleashes the memory of distant past (of the world ''before creation'') allowing it to blow up entire planets and even Reality Marbles without effort. Meanwhile, Avalon is for intents and purposes a True Magic, it shifts the user into another plane of existence altogether, preventing the user from being attacked by '''anything''', even Ea or True Magic.
* Also from Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} is "Slash Emperor" owned by Ado Edem, during the times of ''Literature/AngelNotes''. He can produce a [[{{BFS}} titanic sword]] that can show the "World of Truth" upon targets, returning everything to their original state (that is, when they ''haven't existed yet''), allowing it to cut through realities like a hot knife through a butter. So far, it is the most powerful ability to date in the franchise.

** This is mostly because the show operates with ''very'' prominent CartoonPhysics, Ed just happens to be the one who uses them the most (with the implication that he can do these things so easily because [[AchievementsInIgnorance he doesn't understand he can't]]) and is also one of the people most involved in the physical side of the show's comedy.

** This is mostly because the show operates with ''very'' prominent CartoonPhysics, Ed just happens to be the one who uses them the most and is also one of the people most involved in the physical side of the show's comedy.

* 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.

** Dungeon Master himself seemed to be this to an extent. He clearly had limits (since Warduke actually captures him once), both some inherent and some self-imposed, but it wasn't entirely clear what they were. When he gave Eric his powers for one adventure, Eric had a lot of trouble learning to control them, but also seemed to gain some valuable insight from the experience (which is presumably why DM did it). Dm also warned him that his actions could have unforeseen consequences: conjuring water in one place could create a drought elsewhere.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', a mage at the College of Winterhold attempts to recreate the even that caused the Dwemer to disappear. He recovers one of the original tools used to tap into the aforementioned Heart of Lorkhan and sets you on a FetchQuest to find something that can simulate (if a little incompletely) the Heart itself. [[spoiler:It leads to him being incompletely wiped from reality. But hey, you get him as a nifty, [[AndIMustScream permanently wailing and hurting]] summon!]]

*** To elaborate one has to have a view of the world so radically different from reality that it can overwhelm Gaia's Reality Marble. As such, it's use is almost exclusively restricted to inhuman beings such as demons and Dead Apostles, and even then it's a rare and powerful ability. Heroic Spirits, being removed from the world and from time, can also develop them. For a [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight human]] to create one would require them to be completely and utterly distorted.

* WesternAnimation/Wallykazam: Wally Trollman can do pretty much anything with the magic stick so long as he finds a word with the appropriate sound or letternannounced at start.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' had Stumpy and Quack Quack become this by using [[MediumAwareness animation software to make their own episode.]]

** Zexion wields a YourMindMakesItReal version of "Illusion". Additionally, ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358daysover2'' allows him to briefly convert his book into other weapons during combos, and the Final Mix version of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' allows him to use said book as a portal to an EldritchLocation PocketDimension under his control.

** 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.
** And it just happens to be that the incident that wiped the aforementioned Dwemer off the face of Nirn was a similar attempt to make a similar, if more godlike, golem, complete with the ''exact same'' power source, the disembodied heart of the dead god Lorkhan. Considering [[TheTrickster what kind of god]] [[JerkassGods Lorkhan was]], it seems almost fitting. Time will tell if mortals will finally stop messing around with the damn thing one day, but until then, it seems it'll remain a thorn on the Nine's collective side. In the time period of ''Skyrim'', the Heart of Lorkhan is disembodied thanks to the Nerevarine's work but somehow still in existence, and kooky mages of all stripes are still trying to recover it or create a simulacrum of it, with results varying from comical to tragical. One prominent example is one of the mages you meet in Skyrim itself, who recovers one of the original tools it was handled with for the aforementioned more-godlike Golem and sets you on a fetch quest to find something that can simulate (if a little incompletely) the Heart itself. [[spoiler:It leads to him being incompletely wiped from reality. But hey, you get him as a nifty, [[AndIMustScream permanently wailing and hurting]] summon!]]
** Anyone who achieves CHIM (essentially realising that everything, including yourself, is just a dream of the Godhead but having the mental fortitude to assert your own existance anyway), something so difficult that only two people are known to have done it: a Chimer called [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Vivec]] and a man called Hjalti Early-Beard/Tiber Septim. Tiber Septim ([[UnreliableCanon allegedly]]) used this power to change Cyrodiil from a jungle to a temperate grassland, a change that was retroactive, essentially making it so Cyrodiil had always been a temperate grassland. As well as achieving CHIM, Septim was also Dragonborn giving him natural use of the Thu'um and used the Numidium. Taking all of that into account, it's not surprising that he was able to conquer all of Tamriel.

* Exist in several different varieties in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series:
** Reality is made up of "Tones" and several races devised ways of messing with them to create all sorts of effects. The Dov (and later the Nords) have [[MakeMeWannaShout the Thu'um]] which is basically yelling at the Universe until it does what you say, the Redguards have Sword Singing and the Dwemer had Tonal Architecture which was likely their main method of RagnarokProofing.

** 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. However, it's obviously much less powerful than that of the above.
** 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.
** [[spoiler: The Phoenix.]]
** [[spoiler: Harry]] during the finale [[spoiler: when Chthon possesses him and just after, allowing him to set things right.]]

** [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} Nathan Summers]] being the love child of Scott Summers & Jean clone; Maddie Pryor, in a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot complex scheme]] enacted by Mister Sinister in order to subvert his creator and master Apocalypse. Is stated by many to be such a powerful or potentially powerful psionic of the highest order that there's practically nothing his mind literally cannot accomplish when he's unhindered by the T.O. virus. Or to put it another way, Cable is the mainstream reality counterpart of Nate Grey, see below. Wrap you heads around that for a minuet.
** [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who spends some time hanging out and bonding with Franklin, is a psychic so powerful that he falls into this category, occasionally rewriting reality in his sleep. After a certain point, he evolves beyond the need to do things like eat, sleep or even breathe, steps in and out of time at will, and treats the multiverse as his personal stepladder, to be ambled up and down at will.
** Proteus on the side of bad. Fortunately, he seems to have limited range, and limited ability to make permanent changes. If he could, he'd make ComicBook/EmperorJoker look like a day at the park.

* ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'' 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 main universe Loki is strongly hinted to be a reality warper as well, but it's not clear if he is aware that he is. While he is a god, the Asgardians (Odin aside) are not generally shown to be omnipotent, most have very little in the way of powers at all aside from vast strength and longevity. Loki's gives out powers to mortals like candy, he's altered his own past and the pasts of others by basically creating a retcon in the story, and in the process actually created the goddess Hela (Leah) from nothing, and now he has begun warping reality up to and including creating people subconsciously. It has been [[WordOfGod confirmed by Kieron Gillen]] that he has been laying the groundwork for Loki to be a powerful reality warper, and in fact that the entire plot of YoungAvengers was Loki's subconscious manipulating events. [[http://kierongillen.tumblr.com/post/69162756902/writer-notes-young-avengers-13 "In short: Loki’s subconsciousness creates a plan to put Loki in a position where he has to confess or lose. This was all Loki’s plan."]]