Plot Device Techniques

Plot Device Techniques
Kyle Kallgren, AKA Oancitizen (Channel Awesome) is capable of utilizing "The Plot" - a parody of "The Force" from Star Wars - to teleport, a technique called "Jump Cut".
Power/Ability to:	Use special techniques through fictional narrative.

The ability to utilize special techniques through fictional narrative. Sub-power of Plot Control.

Also Called

• Fiction-Based Combat
• The Power of the Plot

Capabilities

The user of can utilize special techniques through fictional narrative and gain special powers in ways similar to that of plot devices and processes in fiction, whether they are books, movies, television, et cetera.

Applications

• 4th Wall Awareness
• Accelerated Perception
• Convinced Inevitability
• Event Manipulation
• Fictional Mimicry
• MacGuffin Manipulation
• Meta Luck
• Plot Armor
• Reality Artistry
• Story-Breaking Power
• Situational Strength
• Talent Theft

Techniques

• 4th Wall Interaction
• Absolute Miracle Manipulation: Via Deus Ex Machina.
• Beginning Dominance
• Canonicity Manipulation: Through the power of Retcons.
• Conclusion Dominance
• Crossover Manipulation: Can create and control Crossovers, introducing all kinds of wild possibilities to not just their world but also countless others .
• Fictional Transformation
• Retrocognition: Through Flashbacks.
• Temporal Teleportation: Through Jump Cuts.
• Logic Distortion: Via Plot Holes.
• Absolute Superpower Creation: By invoking the power of the plot .
• Midpoint Dominance
• Quest Inducement
• Resurrection: Via Disney Death or Not Too Dead To Save The Day.
• Absolute Disaster Manipulation : Via Diabolus Ex Machina.
• Fantastic-Matter Manipulation: Phlebotinum is a plot device that abstracts away the problem of hard science .
• Dreamt Reality: Through the Plot Device known as All Just A Dream.
• Quantum Manipulation: By using the common Plot Device Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything to do unlikely stuff like bending the flow of time, interdimensional travel, being in more than one place at once and even warping reality by justifying it through the exaggerated version of quantum electrodynamics .
• Reality Randomization: Via Plot Twists , causing anything to unexpectedly happen .
• Time Acceleration: By Creating Montages.
• Time Travel/ Meta Time Travel
• Paradox Manipulation: Through the creation and use of continuity errors.
• Vocal Narration:Via the classic plot device of the Narrator. The User can narrate anything they want into existence .
• Dimensional Travel
• Intuitive Precognition

Associations

• Cartoon Physics
• Censorship Embodiment
• Fictional Trope Physiology
• Plot Control
• Pseudoscience Manipulation
• Author Authority

Limitations

• Coincidence Nullification is the perfect counter.

Known Users

See Also: New Powers as the Plot Demands.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Ruki (Senyu)
• Various Characters (Gintama)

Cartoons

• He-Man (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe)
• Rhett Caan (Rick and Morty )
• Self Referential Six (Rick and Morty )
• Lion-O (Thundercats)
• Uncle Grandpa (Uncle Grandpa)

Comics

• Literals (Fables)
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Writer's Block
  • Deus Ex Machina
  • The Wall Siblings

Other

• Various Characters (The Order of the Stick)
• Nostalgia Critic (Channel Awesome)
• Users of "The Plot" (Channel Awesome)
  • Kyle Kallgren/Oancitizen
  • Last Angry Geek
  • The Executor
  • Ma-Ti
• Aleister D. Homelesssb’sterrd (Channel Awesome) 
• Kung Tai Ted (Channel Awesome)
• Lord MacGuffin (Channel Awesome)
• Bruce (Ninja the Mission Force)
• Barker Sullivan (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

• The Plot Hole (Channel Awesome)
• Jar of Mayonnaise (Channel Awesome)

Gallery

Uncle Grandpa (Uncle Grandpa), among many things, is able to wield the various tropes and conventions in animation to his own personal advantage.

Deus Ex Machina (Fables) has abilities that match his namesake on a near cosmic scale.

The Wall Siblings (Fables) are literals that embody the different metaphorical walls that is undertaken during performances, each equipped with abilities that pertain to them.

The Nostalgia Critic (Channel Awesome), while commonly implementing violence and brute force to win the day, often uses the nonsense logic of characters he has faced to his advantage.

The Last Angry Geek (Channel Awesome) is an internet reviewer well versed in the ways of "The Plot", a cosmic force that controls and embodies the fictional universe they live in.

The Executor (Channel Awesome) is an evil lobbyist mastermind that can use the dark side of "The Plot".

Ma-Ti (Channel Awesome) is able to trade his "Character" - both his mind and essence - into the SpoonyOne.

Aleister D. Homelesssb’sterrd (Channel Awesome) cannot die or be killed "because of the Reason." Every time "the Reason" is brought up to justify a point, the characters inevitably concede to it.

Kung Tai Ted (Channel Awesome), as his name implies, is a master of Kung Tai - a martial art based on the various conventions of actionsploitation cinema.

Lord MacGuffin (Channel Awesome) has many powers and abilities based around different types of plot devices and was even able to imbue a jar of mayonnaise with such properties.

The Plot Hole (Channel Awesome) is a rip in the fabric of "The Plot" that causes inconsistencies in time and logic that can be controlled by a host.

Being the main villain of a ninjasploitation story, Bruce (Ninja the Mission Story) has the ability to end the story abruptly should he die, being fully aware of this ability.