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[[File:exalted modern 2651.jpg|link=Mage: The Awakening|frame| "Martha, does our [[Hero Insurance]] cover Reality Warping?"]]

 

 

Ever heard of the [[Superpower Lottery]]? Well, kid, you just won the ''grand prize''.

 

High-end '''Reality Warpers''' tend to also be [[Reality Maker]]s. For the ''really'' high end ones, see [[The Omnipotent]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. For that matter, {{spoiler|Yuki and Ryouko}}, as well. Their powers aren't as rule-breaking as Haruhi's, but they can still launch [[MySQL]] injections into reality. And to take [[Game Breaker|game-breaking]] to an even ''more'' absurd degree in the novels, {{spoiler|they can even hijack Haruhi's unlimited power}}! The difference between Haruhi and the Interfaces is that Haruhi can {{spoiler|create "data" out of nothing}} while the Interfaces can "only" {{spoiler|alter existing data}}.

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Gurren Lagann]]'' the main mech creates drills from sheer willpower for no explained reason other than [[Hot-Blooded|boiling blood]]. Heck, the main plot of the series was that {{spoiler|[[Dark Messiah|the Anti-Spirals]] were afraid of the spiral races creating so much matter through spiral power that they would turn the universe into a black hole, bringing about [[The End of the World as We Know It|Spiral Nemesis]]. Ironically, they were beaten by Simon creating a mech over 10,000,000 light years tall to beat them.}}

* In the third ''[[Pokémon]]'' movie, ''[[Pokémon 3|The Spell of the Unown]]'', the Unown have this power, and create Entei, who in turn grants a girl's wishes with the power. This quickly becomes supremely dangerous.

** Several other Psychic and Ghost type Pokemon are said to have this ability too, most notably Gardevoir, who can actually create a wormhole out of thin air just by thinking about it.

** And Arceus, the creator of everything in the Pokemon universe.

* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' slowly reveals that {{spoiler|Lain herself can do basically anything.}}

* In one of the more disturbing [[Story Arc]]s of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', Keiichi starts suspecting himself of being a Reality Warper after [[I Wished You Were Dead|several people he wished to see dead died soon afterwards]], eventually culminating in {{spoiler|the ''entire village''}}. It turns out {{spoiler|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 {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop|how many times this scenario has been repeating]]}}.

* One episode of ''[[Mushishi]]'' featured a swordsmith infected with a mushi that let him foresee disasters and warn people beforehand. Ginko gave him a medicine that would suppress them, but after his daughter died during something he hadn't dreamed of, he stopped taking it. {{spoiler|Turns out it was actually a mushi that brought his dreams to life - ''causing'' unnatural disasters. He wouldn't have foreseen what killed his daughter because it was a normal disaster. And, one night, he dreamed of his entire village dying gruesomely...}}

* Drosselmeyer and {{spoiler|Fakir}} from ''[[Princess Tutu]]''.

* The [[Big Bad]] of the 12th ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' movie, Janemba was a Reality Warper so powerful that it had virtually complete control of the afterlife, having resurrected ''everyone'' even, and especially the old [[Big Bad]]s, [[The Dragon|their corresponding dragons]], and an army of [[Mooks]], and yes even [[Those Wacky Nazis]] were revived along with [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] himself, and managed to trap Enma Daiou, the Lord and Judge of the Dead himself in a large jelly button-shaped prison, and managed to transform Hell into a play-land full of floating jelly beans. Much of which was in one go.

** East Kaioshin has shades of this ability, though probably only to a limited extent. We see him create an extremely powerful (and fictional) metal. Piccolo has also been seen "materializing" things.

* ''[[Bleach]]'' has {{spoiler|Inoue Orihime}}, who can literally {{spoiler|reject reality, depending on her current emotional state.}}

** {{spoiler|Fullbringers}} in general seem to all be minor-scale reality warpers, due to the fact {{spoiler|Fullbring}} manipulates the "souls" in "matter", which is literally everything in reality. Among their powers, we have a "time manipulation" ability, an ability that affects "probability", and {{spoiler|a sword that can alter the past of anything it cuts (both living and inanimate)}}.

* This is the true power set of the ''[[RahXephon]]''. The whole point of the [[Ancient Conspiracy|ancient conspiracies]] going on throughout the series is to influence the pilots so they will reshape reality in a certain way.

** Actually, {{spoiler|it's not Averruncus, but Asuna who has this ability. Fate is merely abusing her power.}}

** Also {{spoiler|Nodoka, however briefly, when she steals one of the aforementioned items from one of the bad guys and uses it to teleport herself and Asakura. The bad guy recovers it soon after, but it's still an impressive feat.}}

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|Izanagi}}, a forbidden [[Your Mind Makes It Real|cast-on-self Genjutsu (illusion/hypnosis)]] {{spoiler|of the Uchiha clan allows them to [[Nigh Invulnerability|turn any real injury inflicted on their body, up to and including death, into a genjutsu and leaving the user alive and intact]]. It doesn't come cheap: the controlling eye will be rendered blind after being used for a certain amount of time, though the exact limit differs depending on the user}}.

** It is revealed later that {{spoiler|Izanagi is an imitation of the Sage of the Six Path's [[The Power of Creation|power to spontaneously create and bring to life almost anything]], which is what he used to separate the 10-tails into the nine tailed beasts.}}

* ''[[Ayakashi Ayashi]]'' borrows a healthy dose of this trope for Yukiatsu. His Ayagami can literally '''weaponize the kanji in people's names''', plain and simple. How freakin' badass is that?!

* ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' reveals that {{spoiler|Ryougi Shiki's third personality}} is this, due to the person's connection formed with [[Akashic Records|Akasha]].

** Kyuubey himself also has this power in a limited way, since he's able to give people reality-bending magic powers and can magically grant wishes, {{spoiler|including the causality-defying, multiverse-rewriting wish Madoka makes at the end.}}

* The "demon" of the Advina Avis (aka {{spoiler|Ronnie Suchiart}}) from ''[[Baccano!]]''. The full extent of his reality warping abilities haven't been demonstrated, but so far include materializing and dematerializing matter at will, bestowing forbidden knowledge, [[Super Empowering|granting people immortality and other abilities]] (as well as slapping on whatever perks and restrictions he wishes), appearing anyplace at anytime, global mind-reading, and {{spoiler|shifting in and out of human form at will}}. Generally, it doesn't go around doing these sorts of things very often, however, because nigh-omnipotence can become quite boring after several-hundred millenia.

* Haruka in ''[[Noein]]'' is possessed of a power known as the "Dragon Torque", which gives her the ability to do stuff like visualize alternate universes, survive interdimensional travel with no problems, and be unaffected by [[Time Stands Still|time stops]]. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any real control over this power, and its use is mostly instinctive.

* Rustyrose from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is only limited by his imagination.

* Aki's [[Psychic Powers]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' can best be interpreted this way. By using Duel Monsters cards as a focus, she can give the monsters a pseudo-life, and make the Spell and Trap Cards generate actual energy. The end result is, the duel becomes very real, able to injure or potentially kill her opponent, sometimes destroying the room or even a whole city block in the process. Many have compared this to a Shadow Duel, saying it's similar, only with psychic abilities rather than supernatural ones, but duelists who have experienced this type of power ''and'' Shadow Duels, including her [[Evil Mentor]] Divine, claim that Shadow Duels are even more potent. Unfortunately for Aki, she initially had very little control over her ability, and [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry| even less when she was angry]], and was [[Blessed with Suck| full of self-loathing as a result]]; a lot of this can be blamed on Divine, [[Manipulative Bastard| who was purposely fueling her anger]] while [[Blatant Lies| claiming to help her control her powers.]]

** Divine could do this too, to a lesser degree. While he couldn't cause as much widespread destruction as Aki could (at least, if he could, it was never witnessed), he could utilize cards as potent weapons even outside of a duel, like using a [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Hinotama Hinoama] card to shoot fireballs at an enemy, or creating a real sword from a [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Psychic_Sword Psychic Sword] card.

== Comic Books ==

* The [[Marvel Universe]] has numerous examples:

** Proteus on the side of bad.

** On the "insane, or is he?" side, you have Psylocke's wacky brother Jamie.

** [[Doctor Doom]] towards the end of ''The [[Secret Wars]]'', which ended up being his undoing, as he was tricked into thinking about scenarios that would bring back his defeated opposers to fight him, thus making it happen.

** The Molecule Man, Owen Reece, who can manipulate reality thanks to his ability to reshape molecules.

** Mad Jim Jaspers was so powerful in his reality warping that two in comic universes had to be shut down because the writers had no idea with what the hell to do with him and the universes.

*** A weaker Mad Jim from an alternate world was so powerful, his universe had to be destroyed. If the main (616) Mad Jim were to be fully powered, that may not be enough.

{{quote|Merlyn: ''This version of Jaspers. Is too powerful, too dangerous. His counterpart could at least be halted, even if it meant destroying his entire continuum. This one is not so easily containable. And if he cannot be defeated, then the omniverse shall fall into chaos, and a new and hostile god shall play dice with matter.''}}

* From ''[[DC Comics]]'', the inter-dimensional imps Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite (on the [[Chaotic Neutral]] side).

** In "Emperor Joker," Mr. Mxyzptlk accidentally gives most of his power to ''[[The Joker]]'' (on the extremely [[Chaotic Evil]] side!).

** Then there's [[The Spectre]], who's able to warp reality in some particularly inventive ways, especially when it comes to killing sinners. Not surprising, given he's God's Vengeance incarnate.

** The mother of Cascade in ''[[Sovereign Seven]]'': She remodels ''all'' of her Earth (architecture, fashion, technology level, etc.) every few minutes. {{spoiler|It turns out she began as a normal (but very powerful) superhero who prevented an alien invasion but failed to stop the aliens from destroying Earth in revenge. Then she used her powers to reanimate the world, so that the daughter she was pregnant with could have some semblance of a normal life.}} She's also best friends with Darkseid for some reason, but how they could ever have met was never explained.

* Dr. Manhattan in ''[[Watchmen]]'' has telekinesis down to the subatomic level, allowing him to rearrange matter at will. Technically, this is a little different from changing reality outright, but since he's the most ridiculously overpowered character in the saga, nearly everyone there considers him a Reality Warper.

* The Time Trapper can manipulate reality in everything BUT the present, hence his name, he ''traps'' you in time. Oh yeah, he can also move boulders.

* In all incarnations of the character (comic, movie, cartoon), ''[[The Mask (comics)|The Mask]]'' has this ability by virtue of effectively being a real-life Tex Avery character.

* The Rumor in ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]'' has the ability to tell lies that come true, which she usually does by saying "I heard a rumor that...". As her power is speech-based, it can be disabled if anything happens to her voice.

* Manservant Neville in the ''The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse'', the graphic novel conclusion to ''The Middleman''. To the point where {{spoiler|defeating him requires an army consisting of every Middleman who has ever lived.}}

* Sebastian from ''[[Gloomcookie]]'' can do this both wittingly and on accident.

* {{spoiler|The Plutonian}} from ''[[Irredeemable]]'' is one of these, though he isn't aware of it.

 

== Fan Works ==

 

 

* The Beast in the ''[[Poltergeist]]'' movies (a composite spiritual entity created by, and mostly represented by, the ghost of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Preacher Kane]]) seems to be capable of this, opening up spatial rifts that lead into other dimensions, warping rooms into [[Alien Geometries]], controlling the weather and bringing everything from toy clowns and trees to braces and mirror images to life. Some of its powers involve [[Master of Illusion|creating illusions]] rather than truly reshaping reality, but the line between the two isn't always clear.

* This is the entire point behind the architects in ''[[Inception]]''. Their job is to craft dreamworlds that the rest of the teams move through, while at the same time creating mazes to trap and confuse the subconscious projections of the dreamers' minds so as to keep them from attacking. Being architects, however, they can also alter the dreamworld's properties to further confuse and fight the projections, but the more they shift and alter reality, the faster the projections converge, the more violent their responses, and the more heavily they are armed.

 

== Literature ==

*** It's a limitation of magic. Hermione cites the "five exceptions to Gamp's Third Law of Elemental Transfiguration" as the reason they can't poof food into existence. Sounds a lot like something she got from McGonagall, not from the wizarding lawbooks.

*** Considering that the Wizarding Ministry is at that point run by the [[Big Bad]], and the trio are public enemies 1, 2 and 3, I doubt Hermione would be bothering about breaking the law at that point.

*** Note that this doesn't mean "[[Arrested Development (TV series)|illusions]]" as in stage magic, just "not actually creating things." For instance, you ''can'' conjure food and water—but if you do it with illusions, they won't fill you up or quench your thirst, and if you do it through reality warping, you've probably destroyed the universe, or at least put it in serious danger.

* The [[Book of Amber|Lords Of Amber]] actually do this in reverse. Instead of changing the universe, they move themselves into successive nearly-identical universes more to their design.

** Although the question of whether they actually travel into pre-existing universes or actually will them into existence, or even if they can grasp a fourth space-time dimension unknown to us (not unlike a 3-dimensional object would seen from the perspective of a 2-dimensional one) is never really ascertained.

** Also, Emmanuel and Zina in The Divine Invasion also by [[Philip K. Dick]]. Either that or everyone's crazy, which is equally possible. The two characters have a disagreement over how the world should be run, reflecting perennial mystical themes and Kabbalah.

* The Incanters and Rhetors in ''[[Anathem]]''.

* The Ellimist, and his archnemesis Crayak in ''[[Animorphs]]''.

* Anthony Fremont from the Jerome Bixby short story ''[[It's a Good Life]]''.

** This story was later adapted as a famous episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. This depiction of Anthony may be the [[Nightmare Fuel|scariest example]] of a Reality Warper to date.

* The title character of the children's picture book ''[[Harold and The Purple Crayon]]'' matter-of-factly shapes his world by drawing it with the crayon.

* Adam from ''[[Good Omens]]''. Being a child, his unconscious alterations of reality are innocently whimsical at first...until his destiny as the Antichrist calls. {{spoiler|He manages not to end the world through [[Heroic Resolve]] and even uses his power to prevent a showdown with the Devil himself.}}

** Crowley and Aziraphale, being a demon and an angel respectively, also have reality-warping powers, though to a lesser extent. For instance, Aziraphale can turn cheap rotgut wine into "a perfectly acceptable, though rather surprised" fine older vintage. Crowley can turn the weapons of an entire management-skills-retreat paintball war into ''real guns.''

* Really powerful beings in the [[Nasuverse]] sometimes have access to powers called Marble Phantasm and Reality Marbles. The former basically lets the user control probability so that anything with a chance of occurring naturally will happen, while the later changes reality to conform to the user's will. So named after an analogy with a jar of marbles having exactly one white one and 99 others of various colours. While Marble Phantasm lets you always pick the white one, Reality Marble simply turns all the marbles white.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: ''[[The Bible]]'':

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' books, {{spoiler|Soric's}} psychic abilities conjure up things, including messages in his own handwriting from the future. {{spoiler|When he is imprisoned, they strip him of all effects and his room soon fills with paper nonetheless.}} (Unfortunately.)

* In one story in Lord Dunsany's ''Time and the Gods'', [[Nightmare Fuel|a king offends the gods, so they decide to forget he ever existed.]]

* One particularly memorable scene from ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' (The book, not the play) was Elphaba's sighting of a sickly Chistery from across a river. Despite her famous allergy to water, she bucks up and steps into the raging river... only for it to freeze beneath her. When her son recalls this in the next book he cites it as "The world bending itself to meet her will."

* Daniel from ''The Dangerous Days of Daniel X'' by [[James Patterson]]. He can do most of the things listed in the description, as well as create people. The only "catch" is that the people must ''once'' have existed. An example is that he often creates his dead parents and his sister that his mom was pregnant with when she died. He is also a [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]].

* ''[[The Eyes of Kid Midas]]'' plays this quite darkly. The artifact that's used to change reality can do anything and everything, as tested when the main character says that two plus two makes five—but whatever it's done, it can't ''undo''. The main character has even less self-control than [[Haruhi Suzumiya]], so by the climax, [[World Gone Mad|reality itself is fragmenting]].

* Anyone who gains access to even some of the power of the [[Well World]] computer (or develops an analogous system). The human-built computer Obie has the power to warp a planet. The Well is the operating system for the Universe, and has been rebooted several times (thankfully by the good guys).

** Warlockry seems more like Psionics, with most powers focused on the self, but Wizardy even though not effortless, does seem to have less in the way of limits if you know the rituals to follow. And a single change can have massive unintended consequences.

* ''[[The Secret]]'', a supposedly non-fiction book that supposedly teaches the reader to do this through [[Think Happy Thoughts|Positive Thinking]].

* Damara, the protagonist of Tim Waggoner's ''Pandora Drive'', has reality warping powers over which she doesn't have much control. She struggles to suppress her imagination so that she doesn't unintentionally turn her thoughts into reality, but her power slips out anyway and starts warping reality in accordance with the horrific thoughts of other people.

* Frank Dominio, the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Anti-Hero]] of Thomas Ligotti's novella ''[[My Work Is Not Yet Done]]'', becomes this after a bizarre accident. [[From Nobody to Nightmare|And boy,]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|does he milk it!]]

* Similar to ''[[The Matrix]]'' example above (but predating it), the main character in [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Labyrinth Of Reflections]]'' gains superhuman abilities in a virtual world after interacting with an entity of unknown origin. He flies, is immune to attacks, and can erase any log he wants with a thought. His powers also extend to the real world, as he can connect to the virtual reality without the use of a computer or an Internet connection. Attempting to get rid of these powers can lead to some nasty consequences, as evidenced by the second book ''False Mirrors''.

** Madman was potentially even more powerful, as his Reality Warper abilities weren't limited to erasing things, but could alter them at will. His insanity barred him from directing his power to any specific purpose, however.

** Hadleigh Oblivion is another extremely powerful [[Nightside]] warper, while his kid brother Tommy is a mild one: he can change things only so far as he can make an existential argument that they could've already ''been'' that way.

* The female lead of ''Of Two Minds'' comes from a society where everyone can do this. Most people deliberately restrain themselves, but both she and the villain believe that the power should be used to make life better (or at least more exciting.) The sequel takes this a step further: {{spoiler|''everyone'' has the potential for this, but people grew sick of living in a [[World of Chaos]], and most societies gave up the power.}}

* All magicians in Gwyneth Jones' ''Bold as Love'' series - from Rufus O'Niall, Fiorinda and Janelle Firdous, the three who achieve fusion and potential Neurobomb status, to barely active cyrstal-swinging hippies like Anne-Marie Wing - are Reality Warpers with the ability to rearrange "the 0s and 1s" of the universe as it suits them depending on how many other minds' power they're able to hijack at the time. Since having full-blown functional magic in this universe also invariably means having severe forest-fire brain damage and schizophrenia, this is definitely not a comfortable thing to be dealing with.

== Live Action TV ==

* The classic: Samantha of ''[[Bewitched]]'' and all her relatives—when they could control their powers.

* Anya, not to mention several other supernatural beings in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]''. Anya in particular can only warp reality while granting other people's wishes for vengeance (though she has [[Jackass Genie|a lot of leeway]] in how she grants them), which at one point leads to a [[Travelling Salesman Montage]] of her uselessly trying to cajole everyone she knows into making a wish that'll let her use her powers.

** The Order of Dagon was a group of monks who altered reality to make Dawn fit in the world.

** Some novels also claim that the Galactic Barrier was either created or influenced by the Q (in one trilogy, it was created by the Q Continuum to keep a [[Big Bad]] out; in the book where Trelane was a Q, our "beloved" Q was nearly destroyed and spent millennia in the Barrier, causing anyone who passed to go insane).

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episodes

** "The Mind and the Matter". A man learns how to control reality by reading a book.

* In an episode of ''[[Farscape]]'' Scorpius briefly becomes a virtual Reality Warper when Crichton tries to trap him in a VR game ([[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time]]), dissolving a character into a tangle of equations and transforming Crichton's pulse pistol into a banana.

** There was also Jason Ironheart, the mostly-successful attempt at creating a super-telekinetic. Unfortunately, his powers quickly got out of control as they kept exponentially increasing, eventually turning him into an [[Energy Being]]. He killed the scientist who created him in order to ensure the process couldn't be repeated.

** The [[Magic From Technology|techno-mages]] appear to have this ability, but it is, in fact, highly advanced technology {{spoiler|created by the Shadows}} mixed with illusion and theatrics.

* In the novelization of the 1998 ''[[Merlin (TV miniseries)|Merlin]]'' series, it is explained that fairy magic relies on [[Master of Illusion|illusion]], and humans cannot use such magic. However, [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] can combine fairy illusion with human feeling, causing the illusions to come to life in reality, giving them this power.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* High End Mages in the ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]''. Some [[Changeling: The Lost|Changelings]] can also do this, albeit to a much more limited extent, by manipulating Glamour. [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with the Technocracy, who were originally responsible for there being a reality ''to'' warp.

** In the Fan-made line ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' you have the Unmada, [[Mad Scientist|geniuses]] who believe their own [[Magic-Powered Pseudoscience|theories]] are really how the world works and that everybody else in crazy or deluded. When they stay in one play for too long, their [[Mana|Mania]] starts warping the world around them to reflect their beliefs.

* Like its successor, ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' gives its character the ability to bend reality, but they're usually kept in check by [[Weirdness Censor|Paradox]]. The Marauders, however, are not; due to [[Power Born of Madness|the circumstances of their Awakening]], they have the ability to flout Paradox, making it hit ''other'' mages instead of themselves. On the other hand, they get Quiet, which reflects just how much reality disagrees with them; if it hits a certain point, they're exiled from this world and free to run merry in realms of their own madness.

*** Miracle is the roughly the divine equivalent of the arcane Wish spell. The effect is the same, it just has a different name and different logic behind it.

** Psionics are a textbook example of this trope, es it all boils down to thinking about something, and then making that happen with your mind.

* The Nobles of ''[[Nobilis]]''. The game is about playing as one of them.

* High-level psykers in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', known as 'apex-levels', have the ability to change physical reality by thought alone. Unfortunately, human minds were not designed to handle so much exposure to the Warp and these individuals are inevitably driven insane the moment they awaken to their powers, with catastrophic results.

** The ultimate goal of all Chaos followers is to [[One-Winged Angel|ascend]] and become an immortal Daemon Prince with absolute mastery of the Warp. They spend most of their time ruling [[Death World|Daemon Worlds]], planets where physics is a fun joke you tell your friends and the only law is the will of their masters.

* ''[[GURPS]]'' also has a variety of reality warping spells, including (in ascending order of power): Lesser Wish, Wish, and Great Wish. They're all ridiculously expensive to cast, especially Great Wish (duh), thus you can only create one by hard work over a long period of time. (But if you find an item with a Wish enchantment already on it, you can ''activate'' the spell with ease.)

** Although Ixidor was not a planeswalker, he possessed the unique ability to sculpt reality. He used this to create a small kingdom in the desert and transformed his own arm into Akroma, the Angel of Wrath.

*** Ixidor wasn't always a Reality Warper. He used to be an illusionist. Then his illusions became real.

* The "Language" Madness Talent from ''Don't Lose Your Mind'', a supplement for ''[[Don't Rest Your Head]]'', lets one of the Awake alter reality by speaking the secret language God used to create the universe. If they become a Nightmare, they're at risk of becoming the Omnipotent Third Person, a mindless, disembodied narrator who corrupts and twists reality by describing it.

** Several other Madness Talents provided in that book are narrower Reality Warper abilities -- "Teddy" in particular lets you harm or destroy things by harming a teddy bear you possess—and since the player is free to come up with their own Madness Talents, they can make their own that are also Reality Warper abilities.

* Numerous beings in ''[[Exalted]]'' are capable of some degree of this (especially Raksha and Primordials). However, the Solar Exalted are by far the most capable. Not only are their Lore Charms able to impose order and structure on the Wyld to create beings, objects or places, but at higher levels they can access a Charm that allows them to fundamentally alter the universal principles that apply to the things that they create. Through an extremely difficult mechanism called a "Miracle Shell", they are capable of applying such alterations to Creation itself, allowing them to redefine or add pretty much anything to it.

* In ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', the power of choice for Reality Warpers would be Animate Object - which can be used to bend the ''air'' to your will. Combined with Create Object and Transform, you can very nearly manipulate every aspect of your environment with a thought.

* The [[Nasuverse]] has a form of the mild variety in Reality Marbles. They are usually used by demons and other outsiders to materialize the user's own inner reality, supplanting the World's. Of course, the World doesn't like you rejecting reality to substitute your own and vehemently sets about crushing it, leading to short duration and all but draining the user. It also has limits, as the user can't freely manipulate their Reality Marble. Rather, it is imposing what your heart believes in reality onto the outside world. Given this, it is nearly impossible for normal humans (i.e. not vampires, etc) to obtain one. So naturally, they based a [[Fate/stay night|game]] around one.

* [[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis|"Your power is very honest. It will bend reality around your wish."]]

* Yukari Yakumo, of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series, has complete power over boundaries. I'm not talking about walls or fences here, I mean the boundaries between Dreams and Reality, Life and Death, Truth and Lies, or pretty much anything consisting of two opposites. This power goes to comical levels; she can never truly die, as she can simply manipulate the border of Life and Death and be alive again (she also did this to another person), and she once created a portal to the moon by looking into the moon's reflection in a lake, and manipulating the border between truth and lies. She's never been truly beaten in any of the games (this is a series where everyone is a [[Game Breaker]]), and instead leads the protagonists on behind the scenes.

** Reimu Hakurei also somewhat counts in that her Last Word "Fantasy Heaven", the most powerful Spellcard in her arsenal, allows her to simply "float away from reality", making any attempt to attack her futile. Thankfully, because battles are largely regarded as games in Gensoukyou, she has a self-imposed time limit to this spell (around a minute). Doesn't really help much considering that this spellcard is considered by some to be the second, if not THE toughest one to beat in the game. According to [[Word of God]], however, if she were to ever use this spell without the time limit, it would be impossible to defeat no matter what the method.

** The third game pretty much confirms that Alma is warping reality, and its not even a conscious choice on her part. The developers even refer to it as the "Almaverse" and it features horrific monsters and living humans who are horribly twisted by Alma's psychic powers.

* The JRPG ''[[My World, My Way]]'' has something of a Reality Warper as the ''main character'' - a [[Spoiled Brat|spoiled-rotten princess]] who becomes an adventurer, and can "pout" to change things (including locations, monsters, etc.) to her liking.

* In ''[[Eversion]]'', you have the power to change the world around you at certain points in stages. This seems like an interesting power. {{spoiler|And later you warp the [[Sugar Bowl]] into a [[Sugar Apocalypse]].}}

* The first few ''[[Myst]]'' games revolve the concept of [[Rewriting Reality]]. Uru and Myst V brought this one step further by introducing the Bahro, an enslaved species with the power to warp reality among other untold abilities (ex.: Linking from one Age to another without the use of Linking Books, controlling the weather, and even accelerating time). It's possible that Yeesha might be able to do this as well.

* The [[Eldritch Abomination|Virage Embryo]] in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' has this power: even when technically still dormant it warps the interior of the Moon That Never Sets into a series of elaborate constructs based on the memories of the main characters. During the final boss battle, with half of its power awakened, it takes on no less than four different forms while also transforming the arena into a moving recreation of the birth of the universe. And, of course, at full power it would have {{spoiler|destroyed the world and remade it in it's own twisted image.}}

* The protagonist of ''[[The Company of Myself]]''. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Oh, wait,]] [[Your Mind Makes It Real|His Mind Just Made It Real For Him]].}}

* Alf Layla wa-Layla from ''[[Sonic and The Secret Rings]]'', as he tells you at the beginning of the fight:

{{quote|"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}kgEj67nrd-g I AM...THE CREATOR...THE STORIES OF THIS WORLD ARE... MINE!]"}}

* King Blue from ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' {{spoiler|That's because he is Captain Blue, movie director extraordinaire and the creator of Movie Land}}

* Hemah in ''[[Fall From Heaven]]'' does this with dreams. Hemah himself is similar creation of a god's dreams.

* Sackboy in ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]''.

* Sammun-Mak in ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max]]: The Devil's Playhouse'', who rewrites the history of the world to put himself in charge and make everyone love him. And possibly Max depending on whether you believe Papierwaite's or Sam's explanation as to why [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|Max's insides]] look like a trendy 70s house - Papierwaite says it's this trope, Sam claims Max's insides have always looked like that.

* Xigbar from ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' is given control over the power of "Space". During his boss fight he frequently teleports, changes the layout of the stage, and redirects the projectiles fired from his "arrowguns" at the player. He also seems to use his spacial manipulation to adhere himself to an non-existent surface, giving him the appearance of walking on an invisible ceiling.

* The Black Jewel from ''[[Wario World]]''. The first thing it does upon being freed is destroy Wario's castle and create its own realm in it's place.

* In ''[[Alan Wake]]'', {{spoiler|any artist who creates works in and around Cauldron Lake can potentially do this. This includes Alan Wake himself, Thomas Zane, and it is implied that the Anderson brothers were capable of it as well.}}

* It turns out that the Von Braun's FTL drive in ''[[System Shock]] 2'' works this way. This is also how {{spoiler|SHODAN plans to remake the world according to her specifications}}.

 

== Webcomics ==

** Case and point http://crazyghosts.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=96#/d34xd6y{{broken link}}

* In ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' [[Author Guest Spot|The Author]] created the world and can change it at will. He has been seen to [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|*poof*]] things into existence when he forgot to create them earlier. Interestingly enough the main character Robin has also learned to take advantage of the world’s malleable nature: changing character's names, pulling objects out of nowhere ,and even creating characters herself, though much of her control over the comic comes from bullying the narrator.

* ''[[Minus]]'', a little girl with a very powerful imagination, is close to the 'ridiculously overpowered' end of the scale and definitely hits "really scaring in how she uses her powers sometimes". The comic is frightening because she has the thought patterns of a typical kid, and is surrounded by people who don't know that omnipotent ≠ the wisdom to use it responsibly. Sometimes she does realize how her actions hurt others and fixes then like when she accidentally killed a woman with a magic act and brought her back. However, plenty of other times she ends up ending/drastically altering the lives of people she crosses [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|without thinking of it]], like a man that yelled at her for popping his balloon whom she ''turned into a balloon and popped''. She's also very open to the suggestions of others, and {{spoiler|the strip actually ends when she takes a suggestion to bring back every living thing ever back to life, which wipes out all life on Earth due to the lack of space.}}

** Of course, this is softened by the slightly bizarre place the series is in the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]. The most important thing is that while death isn't [[Death Is Cheap|cheap]], all it does is turn you into a ghost, which pretty much just means you have a spectral tail instead of a legs and can fly. {{spoiler|It's noted that the aforementioned apocalypse isn't even that [[Downer Ending|tragic]], as everyone's pretty much continuing life as usual. The last half-dozen strips even include the regular kind of oddness back when everyone was alive.}}

* Axel gained this ability once he became an evil Buddhist god in ''[[Ansem Retort]]''. However, Ansem believes the ''entire cast'' has this ability.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Becquerel, Jade's Guardian/Pet [[Big Badass Wolf]] demonstrates this ability during [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002880 Jade's STRIFE battle.]

*** And then {{spoiler|Jade herself, after merging with her dreamself and Bec-prototyped sprite, and PM, after prototyping herself with WQ's ring.}}

** Becquerel is actually a type of being known as a First Guardian, all of whom have the same abilities as him. Other First Guardians include Doc Scratch and {{spoiler|1=GCat}}, with Scratch also being [[The Omniscient]]. {{spoiler|And then there's [[Eldritch Abomination]] Lord English, who seemingly has First Guardian powers ''and'' [[Time Travel]], potentially making him the most powerful character in the comic.}}

* Holiday Emperor Bun-Bun from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Also the wish-granting demons.

* Dan Shive of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' portrays himself as being able to alter the size, hair color, appearance, gender, and [[Baleful Polymorph|species]] of any of the characters that annoy him in a few of the sketchbook comics. On occasion, anyway.

** Not actually this trope, but the above question is hilariously explored at the end of [[Robert Sheckley]]'s classic novel ''Mindswap''.

* Crusader in [http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader] is the artist of the webcomic and, from time to time, he will use his powers to raise the dead, punish the wicked and generally save the world.

* A major part of ''[[A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe]]'' is that, since the beginning, the protagonist is able to spend CREATIVITY points (gained usually from killing enemies) to [[The Power of Creation|create any object (or creature) he wants]], but also change objects, combine them together or imbue them with specific abilities. The more complicated an object is, the more CREATIVITY it costs though. {{spoiler|Much later on, a fluid generated by the [[Sinister Geometry|Stone Icosahedron]] grants the same abilities to anyone who drinks it.}}

** By the end of the comic, {{spoiler|the protagonist unlocks his full powers, thus gaining infinite CREATIVITY, allowing him to pull off truly spectacular stunts such as creating a gas giant solely to have its gravitational well divert a projectile off its course.}}

* Everyone in [[Sylvan Migdal]]'s ''[[Mnemesis]]'' [http://sylvanmigdal.com/?ix=mnemesis&date=20020928 (starts here)] can concentrate and create objects out of nothing in the afterlife. More complicated constructs requires more thought and more people to work on it.

 

== Web Original ==

* The [[SCP Foundation]] has a number of SCP Objects that can do this.

** Dr. Alto Clef once ''claimed'' he was a Reality Warper; he's [[Multiple Choice Past|made claim to several different backstories]], although the most plausible one by far is that he's {{spoiler|[[Satan|the Devil]]}}. However, he ''is'' the SCP's go-to guy for ''exterminating'' troublesome Reality Warpers.

** One example is Fractious, who can generate fractures and splits in reality. Normally, she can cut a weapon in half. When she gets upset, she can slice a car in half, or slice the facing off a building.

* During [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] and [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] two part ''Adamantium Rage/Warrior # 1'' review, Dr. Insano uses ''Warrior'' to screw up reality, causing it to reformat every five seconds. Literally, everytime it cuts back to Linkara and Spoony, the scene changes; one minute, they've switched characters, then another, Dr. Insano is reviewing the comic while Linkara has a gun pointed at his head, then another, neither of them can act, and on multiple occasions, different [[That Guy With The Glasses]] contributors are playing either Linkara or Insano. I could not possibly make this up.

* It's sometimes implied that one or both of the main characters in ''[[Chicken and Moose]]'' has this ability.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GIgyoMyYU "Does everything I say just happen now?!"]

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** It should be noted that in this show anyone (at least children) can bring an imaginary friend into being. Goo gets special mention because she's the only kid we've met who runs the risk of doing it ''by accident''. If you consider how it takes some imagination and focus to bring an imaginary friend to life (Terrence having to strain himself to create a red block with arms, though that's [[Dumb Muscle|primarily just because it's Terrence]]), being able to bring dozens to life in detail within a few seconds makes Goo even more impressive.

** Not to mention creating an entire army of them with diverse body types, powers, and personalities...while asleep.

* The Genie in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has phenomenal cosmic powers that are certainly far beyond that of any human sorcerer, but he does explicitly state three limitations to them. He cannot kill (directly), make someone fall in love, or bring the dead back to life. It's not quite clear if these are simply beyond the Genie's powers or if they are within his capability but are the only wishes he can refuse to grant; when telling Aladdin about these limitations he says that bringing the dead back to life "is not a pretty picture, I don't like doing it!", which suggests the latter.

** The killing thing seems to be a direct impossibility, but as Genie!Jafar states, "[[Fate Worse Than Death|You'd be surprised what you can live through.]]"

* Basically any animated character that fits the classic description of "[[Toon]]," like the Looney Tunes, [[Screwy Squirrel]], other Warner Bros. characters, and many of the [[Classic Disney Shorts]] characters.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name|Nosyarg Kcid]], or "Larry", from the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Larry the Titan" (an homage to Bat-Mite, mentioned above).

** And the show goes on to show what happens if a Reality Warper had a [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]] (All Robin's fault, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]).

** And in a less over-the-top but still valid example, who could forget Melvin and her [[Everything's Worse with Bears|imaginary friend Bobby]]? Certainly not Monsieur Mallah.

** Slightly more over the top is when Raven turns Titans Towers into a horror movie as a subconscious manifestation of her own fear. She never uses it again, but she certainly seems to have shade of it.

* Some Ghosts in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Notably, Desiree, a Genie-like ghost.

** As well as anyone who wears the Reality Gauntlet.

* Elyon Brown {{spoiler|aka Queen Elyon of Meridian, and later Cornelia's little sister Lillian Hale}} in ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]''.

* Varla, the [[Barrier Maiden]] in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' TV series.

* A [[Halloween Episode]] by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' featured a parody of Twilight Zone's "It's A Good Life", "It's a Bart Life", where Bart is all-powerful. Everyone must bend to his every whim or suffer a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. The USA is actually "Bonerland" due to his history exam (although that's more out of fear of reprisal than actually altering history.) Homer gets a nice monologue when he tries to KO Bart with a chair and remembers Bart is also a mind reader.

* [[Popeye]] is one of the biggest reality warpers of all time, and he does so by punching things. He's punched bulls into freshly cut steaks (with a sign and stand), people into baloney, Indians into nickels, etc, and even ripped through the very film he was on, the animators having to stop the cartoon so they could fix it.

* Orson of ''[[Garfield and Friends|U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm]]''. He does need to be deliberately using his imagination, and a book helps, though. Either way, if it doesn't merely shut him off to the rest of the world, it superimposes his imagination on a fairly large acreage around him. Those affected need not have known he was reading; they can deduce it from the drastic changes in their surroundings. Reading a book about the ocean? Roy and Wade find themselves at the bottom. A coloring book? Whoops, now they're lineart. Reading "A Pictorial History of Trains", or even just the title? They get chased by a locomotive. But once he's done, it goes away. (If they were in the air, they might still have to fall back to the ground, though.)

* Dwayne, a ''[[Static Shock]]'' Bang Baby, was able to turn water into cherry soda and create fictional characters with his mind.

* Fred from ''[[Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island]]''.

* ''[[Futurama]]'' has Bender at the end of "Obsoletely Fabulous" although it's more of him warping his perception of reality.

** He can also defy gravity, lift entire houses, blow up an entire house with nothing but the static electricity, clone himself to get an I-beam brought up to the top of the aforementioned elevator, jump at least a thousand feet up in the air, is invulnerable to pain, and can exist in cartoons. When you consider all this, it's little wonder that he almost destroyed reality itself in 2+2=Ed.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': According to [[Word of God]], Lucius can remake Miseryville on a whim, which is the reason for all the strange things that occur. The reason he doesn't do it obviously is because his [[Pride]] [[Weaksauce Weakness|would be damaged if he admitted he needed his powers]].

* ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode "The Magicks of Megas-Tu". They can bring anything into existence with but a thought. While they were on Earth they were considered to be witches and magicians due to their powers.

* [[Big Bad|Belladonna]] from ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven The Series]]'' is a low level one. She was able to teleport most of the cast into a board game (which became a world of it's own) with just a snap of her fingers and this is probably how her [[Villain Song]] even makes sense at all (it involved dancing meat). However, it seems she can't directly effect someone's freewill or won't.

* On the ''[[Adventure Time]]'' episode "Rainy Day Daydream", everything that Jake imagines becomes real. Finn then has to go through a bunch of obstacles created by Jake to turn off his imagination.

** Pinkie Pie, [[Played for Laughs|although her powers aren't meant to be taken literally]].

** The fandom seems to somewhat take it seriously, especially since Pinkie seems to have just about [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|obliterated the fourth wall]].

** A more malevolent example is Discord, who uses his powers to cause chaos for the sake of his own amusement. And unlike Pinkie Pie, his powers are ''not'' [[Played for Laughs]]. Discord has been compared to Emperor Joker (see Comics) in that he's willing and able to singlehandedly bring about a [[World Gone Mad]].

 

== Real Life ==

 

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