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=== Comic Books ===
* In his most outrageous [[Silver Age]] incarnation, [[Superman]] could blow out stars with his super-breath, and reignite them with his heat vision. He was thus ''personally'' a Type II on the Kardashev scale.
=== Fan Works ===
* The [[Sailor Moon|Silver Millennium]] as depicted in flashbacks in ''[[Heir to the Empire]]'' by Ozzallos. As a polity, they controlled a significant fraction of the galaxy. They possessed world-destroying weapons that make the Vorlons look weak and inefficient -- and used them in war when the enemy deserved it. ''And'' they had access to magic as well as technology. Finally, Queen Serenity ''by herself'' qualifies as a high Type 0, being personally able to generate energy blasts in the ''2.75 terawatt'' range.
=== Literature ===
* The unseen aliens in ''[[The Space Odyssey Series]]'' have the ability to make stars. This might indicate midlevel Type II power use, depending on just how they go about it.
* The ''[[Cordwainer Smith|Instrumentality of Mankind]]'' controlled a significant region of the Milky Way, including several Type I worlds, had effective immortality (though they limited lifespans to 400 years for most its history) and could intimidate other interstellar empires with ''<s>balloons</s> starships an AU in diameter''.
** It's explicitly stated more than once in-universe that creating a tachyon bubble (the faster-than-light travel method of the Lords) "consumes" a star. Whatever that means, precisely, it's almost certainly a ''lot'' more energy than simply using its entire power output, and is arguably sufficient to categorize them as Type III, though they don't seem to ''continuously'' require this amount of power. It's also possible... no details are really given... that the technology is extremely inefficient and most of the power is actually wasted.
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