Talk:Causality Manipulation/@comment-24.129.55.101-20120704152350/@comment-4867780-20120707023215

I'm pretty sure the Living Tribunal is a Causality Manipulator himself, though it was never said or shown, explaining why he isn't among the known users. And his "don't do anything unless the plot demands it" general policy don't offers many opportunities to confirm this theory.

About Jim Jaspers, he is an extremely powerful Reality Warper, and RW is basically the power to turn your thoughts into reality. So a CM user could simply separate the cause (thought) from the effect (reality), effectively negating JJ's power.

From the looks of it, the acausal concept is essentialy an interpretation from the fanbase. I have a pretty good fantastic culture, and I don't remember it being only mentioned even once in any (professional) work. Probably because when you seriously think about it, it makes no sense at all. Without some form of causality, how can these beings even work ? And how could their powers work ? Because strictly speaking, without causality nothing happens. You're either frozen or nonexistent.

Cosmic and Supernatural beings simply answer to a different form of causality (and then again, the fact that we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist). Different nature, different rules, different powers. But immune to causality ? It's like being immune to existence : it just doesn't make sense.