Reality warping

Reality warping in superhero fiction is a superpower. It is the ability to reshape matter and energy, turn a person's thoughts or desires into reality, bend time and space or possibly even rewrite the laws of physics.

All things are possible for a reality-warper. The Joker, wielding the power of Mr. Mxyzptlk as "Emperor Joker", was even able to rewrite logic itself, for example, making the whole world believe that 2 + 2 equals "fish".

Some of the most extreme reality warpers, like Mxyzptlk and James Jaspers, are not even limited by their own physical bodies and can alter their own stature and appearance at will to become whatever they want to be, no matter how bizarre it might be. In DC comics, the fifth-dimensional imps that sometimes visit the DC universe, of which Mxyzptlk is the most common and well-known, seem to be the most common and also the most powerful reality warpers.

Marvel's mutant reality warpers

Marvel mutants with potential for reality warping encountered in Marvel comics include:

• Jamie Braddock
• Fan Boy
• Mad Jim Jaspers
• Mister M
• Onslaught
• Proteus
• Franklin Richards
• Scarlet Witch
• Twilight
• Tyler Trevor Chase
• Willie Evans, Jr.
• Magician
• Wiccan
• Hyperstorm

Other comics reality warpers

Apart from the MU Mutant reality warpers, many other different beings in Marvel and DC, and other comics also possess reality warping powers, or powers which might potentially be used for reality alteration. These include, amongst others:

• Bat-Mite (DCU)
• The Doctor (WS)
• Doctor Manhattan (DCU)
• Enerjak (Archie Comics)
• Green Lantern (DCU)
• Mammoth Mogul (Archie Comics)
• Matthew Cable (DCU)
• Mr. Mxyzptlk (DCU)
• Neron (DCU)
• Parallax (DCU)
• Qwsp (DCU)
• The Spectre (DCU)
• The Thunderbolt Genie of Johnny Thunder (DCU)
• Trigon the Terrible (DCU)
• Amazo (DCAU)
• Elyon Brown (W.I.T.C.H)
• The Impossible Man (MU)
• Korvac (MU)
• Kubik (MU)
• The Man With the Power (MU)
• Molecule Man (MU)
• Shaper of Worlds (MU)
• Beyonder (MU)
• Solar (Valiant)
• Mothergod (Valiant)

Non-comics reality warpers

Apart from comic characters, there has been a number of science fiction and fantasy characters who have exhibited reality warping powers of various forms, at least within the BOUNDARIES of certain environments and/or restrictions. Such characters include:

• Metatron (Dogma (film))
• Anyanka (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Avatars, including Cole Turner and Leo Wyatt (Charmed)
• Cyvus Vail (Angel)
• Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)
• Celestial Toymaker and, briefly, Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
• Cosmo, Wanda and numerous other magical beings (The Fairly OddParents)
• Crayak (Animorphs)
• Ellimist (Animorphs)
• Possibly Elders (Charmed)
• Figment (Epcot's Journey Into Imagination attraction, most noticeably in the current version)
• Genies (Mythology)
• Alessa Gillespie (Silent Hill)
• Palmer Eldritch (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. [...])
• Anthony Fremont (It's a Good Life)
• Wyatt Halliwell (Charmed)
• Orihime Inoue (Bleach)
• It/Pennywise (It)
• Barbas, the Demon of Fear (Charmed)
• Billie Jenkins (Charmed)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Divis Mal (Aberrant role-playing game)
• The Mask (comics & movie)
• John Murdock (Dark City)
• Neo (The Matrix)
• George Orr (The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin)
• Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Amanda Rogers (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Sarda the Sage of 8-Bit Theater
• Jobe Smith (The Lawnmower Man)
• The Strangers (Dark City)
• Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi series)
• Sasaki (Suzumiya Haruhi series)
• Dark Schneider ([...]!!)
• Yubel (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Yūko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Limited to Probability or Uncontrolled Reality Manipulation

See also

• List of comic book superhero powers
• Psychogenesis
• Reality shift
• List of fictional characters who can warp reality