Changes: Rule Bending

Revision as of 22:42, 18 November 2019

"I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be."

― Morpheus, The Matrix

The power to bend the laws of reality. Sub-power of Variable Manipulation.

Capabilities

User can bend the laws of reality to achieve a variety of superhuman feats, increasing their personal capabilities to various extends, ignore the laws of physics, and/or resisting natural or supernatural effects (such as supernatural powers, fate and destiny, death, etc.).

Applications

Variations

Glitching

Associations

Limitations

The extend of the bending may be limited.
Bending effects are by nature temporary.
User can bend the laws of reality, but cannot outright break them.
Could have the risk of breaking the laws of reality involuntarily whenever this ability is in effect.

Known Users

See Also: Loophole Abuse.

Shinta Tagamori (Gan-Kon)
Thomas A. Anderson/Neo (Matrix franchise)
several Potentials (Matrix franchise)
- Chuang Tzu (The Matrix: Path of Neo)
- Spoon Boy ( The Matrix)
Agents (Matrix franchise)
several Exiles (Matrix franchise)
- Smith (Matrix franchise)
- Seraph (Matrix franchise)
- The Trainman (Matrix franchise)
- Lupines (Matrix franchise)
- Vamps (Matrix franchise)
The Beyonder (Marvel Comics)
Mister M (Marvel Comics)
Fifth Dimensional Imps (DC Comics)
Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail); via Armor of Nakagami
Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask (The Mask)
Kal-El/Superman Prime (DC Comics One Million); from GZNTPLZK
Heaven Canceller (A Certain Magical Index)
Sans (Undertale)
Slender Man (Slender Man Mythos)

Known Objects

Redpills (Matrix franchise)
Loki's Mask (The Mask)

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-|caption = Agent Jones (The Matrix) casually dodging a hail of bullets.
+|caption = Agent Jones (The Matrix) casually dodges a hail of bullets without even moving his feet.
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+{{Template:Quote|I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.|Morpheus, ''The Matrix''|}}
 The power to '''bend the laws of reality'''. Sub-power of [[Variable Manipulation]].
 ==Capabilities==
-User can bend the laws of reality to achieve a variety of superhuman feats, increasing their personal capabilities to various extends, mimicking rules related powers (flight, phasing, teleportation, etc.) or resisting natural or supernatural effects.
+User can bend the laws of reality to achieve a variety of superhuman feats, increasing their personal capabilities to various extends, ignore the laws of physics, and/or resisting natural or supernatural effects (such as [[Power Immunity|supernatural powers]], [[Fate Denial|fate and destiny]], [[Death Prevention|death]], etc.).
 ==Applications==
 *[[Body Supremacy]]
-**[[Supernatural Condition]]
+**[[Enhanced Condition|Enhanced]]/[[Supernatural Condition|Supernatural]]/[[Absolute Condition]]
+**[[Maximum Concentration Capacity|Maximum]]/[[Enhanced Concentration Capacity]]
 *[[Extrasensory Perception]]
 **[[Encyclopedic Knowledge]]
-*[[Fate Denial]]
+*[[Death Negation]]
-**[[Fate Immunity]]
+**[[Death Prevention]]
+*[[Fate Immunity]]
+**[[Fate Denial]]
+*[[Luck]]
+**[[Situational Synchronicity]]
 *[[Physical Law Immunity]]
-**[[Flawless Coordination]]
+*[[Power Immunity]]
-***[[Unrestricted Movement]]
-**[[Flight]]/[[Gravity Defiance]]
-**[[Immutability]]
-**[[Intangibility]]
-***[[Ultimate Intangibility]]
-**[[Luck]]
-***[[Meta Luck]]
-**[[Physics Infringement]]
-***[[Physical Force Immunity]]
-**[[Power Immunity]]
-***[[Meta Power Immunity]]
-**[[Time Acceleration]]
-***[[Accelerated Perception]]
-**[[Time Reduction]]
-***[[Slow-Motion]]
-**[[Teleportation]]
 ==Variations==
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 *[[Precognition]]
 **[[Flash Precognition]]
+*[[Rule Compensation]]
 *[[Self-Exertion]]
 *[[Variable Manipulation]]
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 ==Known Users==
+''See Also: [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoopholeAbuse Loophole Abuse]''.
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 * Shinta Tagamori (''Gan-Kon'')
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 * Mister M (''Marvel Comics'')
 * Fifth Dimensional Imps (''DC Comics'')
-* Erza (''Fairy Tail''); via Armor of Nakagami
+* Erza Scarlet (''Fairy Tail''); via Armor of Nakagami
 * Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask (''The Mask'')
 * Kal-El/Superman Prime (''DC Comics One Million''); from GZNTPLZK
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 ==Known Objects==
 * Redpills (''Matrix franchise'')
+* Loki's Mask (''The Mask'')
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
-Cheater Wargear.jpg|Erza's (Fairy Tail) Nakagami Armor can bend the rules of Magic.
+Erza's Nakagami Armor.png|Erza's (Fairy Tail) Nakagami Armor can bend the rules of Magic.
 The Mask.jpg|Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask (The Mask)
 File:Heaven_Canceller_Saves_Kikyo_Yoshikawa.png|Heaven Canceller (A Certain Magical Index) is a doctor whose method is so powerful he distorts the laws of heaven to save his patients, so long as they are alive.