Plot Manipulation

Plot Control
Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box) possesses innumerable plot-altering abilities.
Power/Ability to:	Control the plot.

"I'm inside a self-assembling hyper story! And it's trying its best to destroy me."

― Thought Robot (DC Comics)

The ability to control the plot. Sub-power of Author Authority. Narrative equivalent of Reality Warping/Nigh Omnipotence.

Also Called

• God Modding
• Metahax
• Narrative Altering/Manipulation/Warping
• Plot Altering/Manipulation/Warping

Capabilities

The user controls the plot of the story as it goes, be it the setting of the story, whom the plot revolves around, how the plot progresses or the reasoning of the user's world. They can control every decision the characters make and every consequence of those decisions and essentially control the whole timeline of their verse.

Applications (General)

• Causality Manipulation - Manipulated the cause and effects of anything.
• Conclusion Dominance - Deciding when and how to end the plot.
  • Conclusion Inducement
• Nigh Omnipotence - For the Near Omnipotent plot is yours to command.
• Nigh Omniscience - Plot-wise.
• Perspective Manipulation
• Plot Convenience
• Plot Device Techniques - via tropes in storytelling.
• Reality Warping - via plot alterations.
  • Narration - Write it down.
    • Comic Narration - Make it into comic.
    • Vocal Narration - Tell the story.
• Stage Manipulation

Applications (Examples)

• Context Manipulation
  • Story Manipulation
• Invulnerability - For as long as the user decides to focus on you, you are safe, no matter what the situation.
• Logic Manipulation - Even the most ridiculously impossible feat/situations are achievable, if not easy.
• Luck - No matter the extent of the user's misdeeds, they will always escape retribution.
• Meta Resurrection
• Plot Empowerment
• Plot Erasure - Erase the plot to defeat opponents
• Power Augmentation - Automatically adjust the user's power-level to defeat any opponent they face.
• Power Immunity - Others' powers don't work on the user, without even the need for a reason.
• Self-Power Bestowal - Literally gaining new powers if the plot requires it.

Associations

• Author Authority
• Event Manipulation - Plot is the sequence of events.
• Origin Manipulation - Control the origin of there verse.
• Nigh Omnipotence
• Reality Warping
• Story Creation
• Story Mimicry

Limitations

• The power may work subconsciously or consciously.
• The power only works in the character's own story.
• The extent of the applications varies between users.
• Coincidence Immunity limits this power.
• May have to follow a plot-structure.
• Users of Origin Transcendence and Self Origin Manipulation are immune.

Known Users

• Sarda the Sage (8-bit Theater)
• Erika Aoyama (Anime-Gataris)
• Neko-Senpai (Anime-Gataris)
• Cosmic Armor Superman (DC Comics)
• Mandrakk (DC Comics)
• Mister Mxyzptlk (DC Comics)
• Akuto Sai (Demon King Daimao)
• Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
• Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump)
• Habit (Everyman Hybrid)

• Slender Man (Everyman Hybrid)
• Kevin Thorn (Fables)
• The Narrator (George of the Jungle)
• Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
• Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck)
• John Egbert (Homestuck); After fusing with Caliborn's Treasure.
• Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
• Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box)
• Jim Gardley (Marvel Comics); via Eternity Mask
• Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Marvel Comics)
• Nyx (Marvel Comics); inside the House of Ideas
• Eternity (Marvel Comics); as part of Eternity Mask
• The One Above All (Marvel Comics)
• Billy Kaplan/Wiccan (Marvel Comics); as the Demiurge
• God of Stories Loki (Marvel Comics)
• The Author (Once Upon a Time)
• Altair (Re:Creators)
• Alba (Senyu); temporarily
• Creasion (Senyu)
• Doug Walker/The Writer (To Boldly Flee)
• God (Supernatural)
• Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)

Known Objects

• Eternity Mask (Marvel Comics)
• Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City)
• Time Machine (Teen Titans Go!)

Known Locations

• House of Ideas (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

The Author (Once Upon a Time), with his magic pen, can manipulate the story of anybody to suite his desires.

Alba (Senyu) once tried to alter the plot in order to get out of jail, but his attempt didn't last very long.

After Creasion (Senyu) changed the characters, the plot and the narrator at the same time, events become totally different as the new artstyle showcases.

The Plot Device (Sheep in the Big City) is a machine that sets up and controls the plot of the series.

Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni) is a Plot Controller.

Akira Toriyama (Dr. Slump) changes Arale's speech bubble.

Caliborn/Lord English (Homestuck) Unlocked the narrative and assumed control of it, creating "Homosuck". Later, as Lord English, he was destroying to structure of the story and dialogue boxes with his stardust glitches, poisoning people with Canonical Dissolution and killed his own author, treating to destroy all of canon and paradox space.

Altair (Re:Creators) is capable of breaking free of a plot, revising aspects of a plot, or even erasing a plot element outright.

After fusing with Caliborn's treasure, John Egbert (Homestuck) gained the retcon powers, allowing him to change the narrative of homestuck, blow away glitches on the fabric of story and the website, freely move through Canonspace, teleport planets into between the comic panels and transced the confines of canon itself.