Basic Trope: A character possesses the power to change reality with their mind.
- Straight: Bob becomes able to conjure anything he wants merely by thinking it, and he uses it to make all his fantasies and desires come true.
- Exaggerated: Bob becomes so powerful that he is completely omnipotent, and he recreates reality itself.
- Downplayed:
- Bob can now alter the nature of some things around him if he focuses.
- Bob can alter reality, but only at certain points.
- Justified: Bob is really a god who was reborn as a human.
- Inverted: Bob the god wishes he was powerless, and suddenly finds that he is.
- Subverted:
- It seems like Bob can change reality... until it's revealed that he's only a Master of Illusion.
- Bob can't actually change reality... but he knows all the loopholes, exceptions, and hidden laws of reality, that he can exploit these to bring forth effects that look downright magical.
- Double Subverted:
- He's a Master of Illusion because Bob momentarily thought himself as one, which then became reality. He restores his actual status when he realizes this.
- Bob may actually be a Master of Illusion, but his powers become so strong that they indeed alter reality itself.
- Parodied:
- Bob's powers are so vast that he is a Comically Invincible Hero who defeats the villains by slightly moving his finger.
- Bob can warp the reality...of his poorly-drawn characters, that is.
- Zig Zagged:
- Bob's powers ebb and flow. Some days he creates entire universes with stray hand gestures; other days he has to concentrate for basic telekinesis. The changes are possibly caused by how powerful he feels at the moment.
- Bob is Flying Brick with Reality Warping to apply Required Secondary Powers. He can use his powers beyond that level, but it causes great physical pain. Anything that's not past the Godzilla Threshold, Bob "merely" being a Lightning Bruiser par excellence.
- Averted: There are no Reality Warpers in the setting, even though the potential for having one is there (for instance, there are lots of superheroes and supervillains, with a wide range of superpowers).
- Enforced: As the villains in their show get stronger and stronger over time, the producers eventually end up with a Big Bad who can change reality itself to face the heroes.
- Lampshaded: "I can turn a city block into the biggest theme park you've ever seen with a wink of an eye. Can you imagine how many things I can turn you into the whole time we've been talking?"
- Invoked: Bob finds an ancient tablet with a ritual inscribed on it that will turn him into a reality warper. He performs the ritual, and consequently can change reality.
- Exploited: Another group tricks Bob into unknowingly using his powers for their own ends.
- Defied:
- Bob finds an ancient tablet with a ritual inscribed on it that will turn him into a reality warper. He quickly destroys it because he knows the power would corrupt him.
- Bob gets brainwashed into thinking he doesn't have any powers, and because he warps reality to his perception, this becomes true.
- Discussed: "A man for whom reality is but a plaything... let us hope he doesn't go mad with power."
- Conversed: "The superhero in this comicbook can alter reality."
- Deconstructed:
- Since Bob can now change reality, the power eventually gets to his head and he becomes a dangerous lunatic with a god-complex.
- Bob uses his reality warping powers to instantly turn the world into a Utopia, because he simply thought about it. Thus, there is no more tension, and there is no more plot.
- Reality doesn't like to be meddled with, and a Reality Warper who pushes their power a bit too far might get a form of karmic backlash. This can be something completely natural like the warper turning the world into chaos, or reality itself start striking back by sending Clock Roaches to undo the damage and the warper.
- Reconstructed:
- After his power trip, he becomes increasingly distant from humanity as a whole, and eventually Ascends to a Higher Plane of Existence to join the Reality Warping Cosmic Entities.
- No matter how hard he tries, Bob cannot imagine a perfect Utopia - any attempts eventually lead to a Dystopia. The plot is revolved around trying to achieve this perfect utopia.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob becomes a comedic buffoon because he simply thought about it.
- Bob decides to make the world as absurd and comedic as possible because it amuses him.
- Played For Drama: Bob turns his nightmares into reality because he simply thought about it.
- Implied: The story is a bizarre Mind Screw, and it is never revealed just what is going on. However, there is a lot of evidence that it is Bob's fault.
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