Talk:Power Reversal/@comment-72.23.42.207-20130405194115

'opposite' has lots of interpretations. For example, imagine an old analog picture made from real film: look at the reverse in a mirror, flip it so the image shows upside down, flip it face-down, or look at the negative-color version on the film itself. There's also opposites of size, like thumbnails and wallpapers (yes, they had those pre-digital, but I'm off-topic...)

So, with powers, can have several opposites. Reverse 'direction', so that if you affect others, it now affects only you. Reverse 'elements', and make fire or energy powers become based on water & fluid. Reverse the 'time' to make a power that originally does something (like disintegration) undo it (reintegration or creation). Or merely reverse 'magnitude' from godlike to parlor-trickster. Or vice-versa.

So, take omnipotence or 'all-power'. If one reversed that -- presumably by surprise or other trickery -- you could make the person helpless (call it 'null-potent'), let them make anyone BUT themselves godlike (all-empowering), or switch their might-based power to a knowledge-based one (omniscience). Possibly, could argue a 'nega-potent' version, say as a curse by enemies or for evil characters seeking redemption, where the former godlike person undoes every act it ever did, in some form or other. Even combinations of the above, since multiple powers could be seen as the 'opposite' of a single power.

Khyranleander (visitor)