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  • In Chaos;Head, every single major character is a Reality Warper, except they call it "Real-booting" and it can manifest in different ways. Takumi is implied to be the only person who can do it on a large scale.
  • Danganronpa Fan Game Danganronpa Another introduces the Born Lucky Utsuro, whose "luck" is just a milder form of this. His ability, called Divine Luck, allows him to achieve virtually any outcome he desires, whether it's getting food or money, learning a new subject, or understanding how any device works without even needing to study it. It also affects anyone around him; at the moment of his birth, every sick person in the hospital was cured and his parents won the lottery. However, not only did this mean he didn't need to work toward achieving anything, his power drew greedy people who wanted to exploit his luck for themselves. As a result, he ended up homeless, depressed, and tired of the world and people. He couldn't even commit suicide because his luck would always save him. He's later revealed to be the mastermind behind the Deadly Game, as well as the true identity of Yuki Maeda. The real Yuki Maeda was a completely Identical Stranger (as a result of his "luck") who he performed a Capture and Replicate on, leading real Yuki to become the centerpiece of Utsuro's followers' Resurrect the Villain plan in the sequel.
  • Demonbane: Sorcery is described as small-scale reality warping: the magic-user imposes a new physical law onto the world, which is their "spell". Large-scale reality warpers tend to be either an Outer God or a fully powered Demonbane or its rival, Liber Legis. The most impressive of them is probably the Big Bad, Nyarlathotep itself, as well as "War God" and "Elder God" Demonbane forms.
  • In Dies Irae pretty much all of the characters are Reality Warpers to some extent. This exists in the form of the Third Degree of Die Ewigkeit, Beri'ah, which allows the user to manifest their desires upon the surrounding world or upon themselves by temporarily turning those desires into a natural law and creating a new reality within a limited space. This can be manifest in all kinds of ways, to those who want to keep their everyday life to manifest the ability to stop time, or someone who does not want to be touched to always be faster than anyone else. And to even use these abilities at the most basic level with the First Degree, one has to fundamentally reject the logic of the world and substitute it with ones own. And taking that to the logical extreme allows one to one-up all that with the Fourth Degree, Atziluth, which will turn that desire into a true permanent natural law on a multiversal scale, allowing a person to become a true god with absolute dominion over all of creation. This also extends to the larger Shinza Bansho Series as a whole as one of the The 'Verse's core plot devices, the Throne, is what makes all of this possible.
  • In Doki Doki Literature Club!, Monika can do this by virtue of editing the game itself.
  • In Little Busters!, Kyousuke has total control over the world that he created. Since he's trying to pretend to Riki and Rin that this is the real world, he mostly only uses the powers for little things, but the effect of his influence is still apparent enough that at certain points Riki begins to seriously wonder exactly how powerful he is.
  • In the Nasuverse there are a lot of ways to actually be a Reality Warper.
    • General examples across the franchise:
      • There are two primary abilities related to reality warping: 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 white marble from a jar of otherwise black marbles. Marble Phantasms manipulate probability such that there is a 100% chance that the selected marble will be the white one; Reality Marbles rewrite reality so that all of the marbles are white.
      • Reality Marble, used by 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 Ultimate Ones, but beings born the Counter Force (a force of nature born from both Gaia and Alaya, the collective human unconscious) can also perform this. However, since their use of Reality Marbles clash against Gaia's, performing it will consume a lot of 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 are the Marble Phantasm. These are possessed by nature spirits born from Gaia. 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).
      • The "Slash Emperor" owned by Ado Edem, during the times of Angel Notes. He can produce a titanic sword that can impose the concept of destruction upon anything, allowing it to cut through realities like a hot knife through butter. So far, it is the most powerful ability to date in the franchise, being able to one-shot Ultimate Ones.
      • Crimson Moon is an Ultimate One (specifically of the Moon), and thus possesses reality warping abilities on par with Gaia's. If he wanted, he could manifest his own Reality Marble roughly equal in strength to Gaia's, overwriting the laws of reality on Earth to those of his own design temporarily. Separate from that is his "Mystic Eyes of Rainbow", which are said to be able to "crush reality." He is further known to possess a Knight Arm that is said to be similar to the Slash Emperor, but its properties and abilities are unknown.
      • If someone is connected with Akasha, the Root of Creation through some unexplained means, they'll gain True Magic, an art which allows one to manipulate different domains of reality. So far humanity has discovered 5 Magics (with possibility of the 6th being discovered some time in the future), but only the First Magic (the ability to deny nothingness), the Second Magic (the ability to manipulate Alternate Universes), the Third Magic (the ability to materialize and manipulate souls) and the Fifth Magic (seemingly to govern Time Travel), has been explored so far. The user of the Second Magic, Zelretch, was able to defeat Crimson Moon by dropping it to an alternate world where the moon fell on it, although this was only possible because he took it by surprise.
      • During the Age of the Gods, magecraft was flourishing due to the abundance of energy of both Gaia and Alaya, thus normal magecraft was able to achieve feats comparable to True Magic. Among them, the most impressive are Merlin and Solomon, both of whom are capable of performing Age of the Gods level of magic even when summoned in the present (the former because he is connected to the Avalon, a place from the Reverse Side of the World, where the supernatural is exiled into after the Age of Man began, and the latter because the guy invented magecraft).
      • Ryougi Shiki unknowingly gained a deep connection to Akasha, which manifests as a split personality she is unaware of. This split personality is so powerful, it could rewrite the world with a thought and was suggested to be omnipotent, but Word of God states that it is far from it, listed under Arcueid's Archetype Earth form in terms of power level. More fitting an All-Powerful Bystander however, it's absolutely neutral and has no interest in getting involved with anything.
      • Speaking of Arcueid, she is already the most powerful of True Ancestors (copies of Crimson Moon, redesigned by Gaia as nature spirits) and is considered to be the closest being to become the Crimson Moon's successor, but once she returns to her original self and becomes Archetype Earth, she basically is the Crimson Moon, and is considered an Ultimate One.
      • ORT, the (possible) Ultimate One of Mercury is even more incredible, simply by virtue of being able to annihilate Gaia's reality marble by substituting its own and is able to do so indefinitely despite Gaia's interference, and annihilate the human race faster than anything else in existence. Until the time of Angel Notes, it is explicitly the strongest being in the franchise. We finally see it in action near the end of Fate/Grand Order's second arc, and the sheer power possessed by it completely and utterly dwarfs everything else that has ever been seen several times over, such that when a god projects a mere recreation of a possible future where it awakens, said recreation utterly stomps everything in its path, and nobody has any ability to even slow it down. Including the gods, and even the game's Big Bad (whose power eclipses the gods).
    • Specific to the Fate/stay night and its deriatives:
      • 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.
      • 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 nor divine but simply 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.
      • Gilgamesh's Ea, Sword of Rupture and Artoria's 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.
  • OZMAFIA!!: Witches can do this, as long as it doesn't benefit them personally. Dorothy created the entire setting for her friends. As a partial aspect of her magic, Soh is also able to harness this.
  • When They Cry:
    • In one of the more disturbing Story Arcs of Higurashi: When They Cry, Keiichi starts suspecting himself of being one after several people he wished to see dead died soon afterwards, eventually culminating in the entire village. It turns out to all be a series of coincidences, since everyone involved happened to be on the Big Bad's hit list. In that very order. It doesn't seem so unlikely when you consider how many times this scenario has been repeating.
    • All witches in Umineko: When They Cry have powers that come down to this. The Endless Magic that Beatrice, Eva-Beatrice, Ange, and Maria use is defined as this. In addition, thanks to the Schrödinger's Cat that the entire island of Rokkenjima has been turned into, the red, blue, and gold truths work this role, especially the blue truth.
      • Featherine takes it even further. When fighting Lambdadelta (a reality warper in her own right) she more-or-less decrees that the fight was over and Lambdadelta was dead. And thus, the fight ended.

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