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As a cosmic entity he has whatever powers or abilities he feels like having (or more accurately whatever the authors allow him to have); he is usually below Galactus but this is not saying much as Galactus can also do pretty much whatever the plot demands.. they are significantly below Beyonders, Oblivion and outer-beings and these outer-beings are in turn microscopic compared to the One-Above-All.

Reality-Warpers are far greater scale than simple Probability-Warpers.

A person manipulating "luck" or "chance" is not a reality-warper, despite it often being confused.

Namely because there is no element of "luck" or "chance" involved for a reality-warper, they simply alter events as they see fit and even at its lowest the feats reality-warping can achieve are comparable to magic (specifically what many would call advanced magic, since the need for ritual or incantation is not needed, thus by Harry Potter-esque rules a reality-warper (even at the lowest) has learned to cast spells without use of special words or gestures (a feat even wizards found difficult).

Also, there's no need to get reality-alteration involved as this can be fixed via weather-manipulators, elemental/nature-manipulators and a few others before the need (or risk) of calling in the "big boys" comes into play.

Even the most dirt-low reality warper can prevent it, reality-warping is an all-powerful ability that puts the individual on near-omega level status even at the lowest levels.

For a reality-warper global warming is nothing.

Heck, you just need a sufficiently powerful weather-manipulator and you can do wonders in preventing (or worsening) such things.

Also Light is NOT Good (Redeemer from Spawn wanted to destroy humanity "for the greater good", Kefka became a god of magic and despite his divine status was a complete monster.. there's also guys like the Imperium, who live by the creed of "purge the heretic" and don't forget guys like Frollo who use the concepts of Light to justify their very evil deeds.

Evil is not light or dark, evil (like many destructive things) is an excess of any of the two or both.. without losing credit via a meme remember Thanos quote:

"all things balanced, as should be"

(even if Thanos was an "evil" character his quote is true).

1) Dark is NOT Evil

2) Malefic is a word rooted in prejudice, started with the witch-hunts.

3) due to the above the best term for powers that are evil is Evil.

Also from previous blog:

"Without evil there can't be good so it must be good to be evil sometimes.. malefic is just an overly fancy word for "evil" dating back to the witch-hunters, scrap it and just call it evil and have stricter enforcement of who qualifies.

Users will argue about what is and isn't evil but at end of day the wiki mods decide, no matter how "democratic" a wiki may wish to be, just as fiction dictates who is the hero or villain via the author, regardless of how audiences may personally feel (plenty of folk root for the villain over the hero, doesn't change the fact the villain has been set the role of "evil" by the author, whether audience agrees or not)."

Without evil there can't be good so it must be good to be evil sometimes.. malefic is just an overly fancy word for "evil" dating back to the witch-hunters, scrap it and just call it evil and have stricter enforcement of who qualifies.

Users will argue about what is and isn't evil but at end of day the wiki mods decide, no matter how "democratic" a wiki may wish to be, just as fiction dictates who is the hero or villain via the author, regardless of how audiences may personally feel (plenty of folk root for the villain over the hero, doesn't change the fact the villain has been set the role of "evil" by the author, whether audience agrees or not).

Simple: they are no longer a psychopath or has never been one to begin with, you just end up with a "regular" case of ASPD (anti-social spectrum) as they can feel emotions etc, unlike true psychopaths (who are the most extreme examples of anti-social).

They basically become everything from Punisher vigilantes, hit-men or surgeons and business people.

(also if someone gains a consience they no longer become a serial killer as a serial killer by very definition has high degree of antagonism towards society and other humans in general, it is virtually impossible for a serial-killer to exist if they have some degree of empathy)

Universe = a single setting that has a shared set of characters and locations (for example the original Spider-Man trilogy was set in same universe).

Multiverse = any number of realities, as long as they share similar themes and characters (Spider-Man as of MCU falls under this as he encounters multiple realities but each one has a Spidey).

Megaverse = very loose term for any verse that is owned by a larger entity (for example Star Wars and Marvel have nothing in common but are both owned by Disney so could merge at any point if Disney so desired).

Omniverse = anything and everything, including the real world itself - no one can own omniverse because of copyright laws etc (plus a whole other mess of reasons): omniverse, like omnipotence, is just a fancy thought project people like to argue over.

Infinite - you have made a rookie mistake.. a multiverse is not about numbers but themes.. every universe in Marvel for example has some version of Eternity, Galactus, Death etc etc.. this is what keeps them part of the Multiverse.. any universe that does not have some version of Eternity, Galactus etc is not part of the main Marvel multiverse but part of a larger Megaverse.. outside of that is the Omniverse but DC and Marvel have fked up Omniverse because they constantly call fictional constructs that are merely multiverses "omniverses" because it sounds cooler

Yes and No.. comics often have a very black and white morality but the best stories are when writers take into account that morality is not so simple.. Batman was wrong to monitor his friends as if they were enemies, however he was absolutely correct in keeping a list of weaknesses at hand if they went wrong.

Every superhero is a living biological weapon, often many times more powerful than even the most advanced bio-nuclear device short of a planet-destroying weapon (which so far, thankfully, has not fully been created).

Even the combined might of Earth's entire nuclear weapons would just cause someone like Superman a headache before they recovered.

So on a personal level, yes, he is a bit scummy because Clark and Diana and Jonn would never harm a fly (well okay less so for Wonder Woman, still she prefers pacifism over brutality); however in the bigger picture he is just being responsible.. Superman also can't really talk as he monitors everyone via his Fortress of Solitude and will toss enemies into the Phantom Zone if they are too dangerous.

Martian Manhunter can get more pissed but again he's a very smart creature who experienced planetary destruction, he should know very well why such monitoring is needed.

Wonder Woman can't talk back either as she will (unlike the others) outright kill enemies who are too dangerous; Green Lantern can't say much as he is part of a literal Space Cop Patrol so has many laws similar to Bats monitoring.

Aquaman can complain the most but.. yeah.. he's Aquaman.

@GMikey while true for a big chunk of mainstream "five" there's many sects, sub-sects, semi-extinct variants who have a few followers (or guys trying to revive it) etc etc.. there's absolutely variants where God is described to utilize technology or such, heck there's outright believers in certain things described in texts as being things like ancient nukes or UFOs (and no, not restricted to "ancient aliens" show).. while these may appear strange and easy to dismiss they are still beliefs and they could (theoretically) argue their cases.

Also faiths adapt with times, there are a few that have decided the Judgement Day scenario will be via nuclear war, which they say was predicted - thus in this sense all technological advances humanity ever made was made possible by either God or by adversaries of God (under His permission).

Fiction can be a pain in the butt, theology is a whole new level (not dismissive just factual, humans have been debating on theology for at least a good 2000 years, which is why I believe the current rules about flame-wars and trolls are sufficient to deal with most of the problems.. people are free to debate theology as much as they are fiction (even if the two are distinct from each other) as long as they treat each other decent.. that way all sides can engage and contribute, as well as know their boundaries)

@Meta-Magician don't worry, voting technically isn't really an issue as far as I can tell now, it was decided not to employ a blanket-ban scenario, thus this switched from a rule-changing blog to a general discussion.

@The CodeXian Thinker

I like when people counter with "well no one worships Norse, Greek etc like they did back in the day" - no "main five" worship as they did in the founding day of their religions, so it is another example of how people make a set of rules for the mainstream and another for the alternative.

(seriously, the texts that 90 percent of main five follow these days were edited in medieval times but I'll stop at that because the banshees will wail).

@TheNerdEternal1

Yes, plenty worship both Norse and Greek religions, people who dismiss that part of the problem that causes this whole idea that everything not "mainstream" is just to be waved away.

@The CodeXian Thinker yep, also the counter that the Big Five are more loud is a flawed on, this is rewarding fanatics and punishing decent users.. like making a rule based on appeasing trolls.

The damage is done so there's either:

1) delete all folklore, myth and religion-based powers and resign them to fanon

Or

2) forget about the frankly messy situation and ignore the screeching banshees.

If someone of "strong faith" has nothing better to do with their time than get offended on a wiki about superpowers then that's their problem.. if they are so secure on the omnipotence of their deity they shouldn't feel the need to defend them either as said deity wouldn't care less what a wiki does, they have more important things to do (unlike, it seems, some of their followers)

To further highlight the problem this causes, as an occultist and chaos magician I would demand that Chaos Magic, Voodoo, Occultism, Esoteric Powers etc be removed.. get rid of Satanic powers, that's offensive to Satanists.. better remove UFOs and Aliens, that's offensive to UFO cults.

Get rid of Crystal Healing etc, offensive to New Age mystics.. get rid of Druidism and Shamanism, both are still practiced in modern world.

Caving into the "Big 5" is telling every other religion or philosophy they don't count, which is equally as offensive.. so yeah.. this is something you either do fully or not at all.. all religion must go or all religion must stay.