Changes: Rule Bending

Revision as of 01:43, 19 June 2020

"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)
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. If powerful enough, user may end up breaking the rules of reality.
+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==
-*[[Accelerated Perception]]/[[Time Acceleration]]
 *[[Body Supremacy]]
+**[[Enhanced Condition|Enhanced]]/[[Supernatural Condition|Supernatural]]/[[Absolute Condition]]
-*[[Enhanced Concentration Capacity]]
+**[[Maximum Concentration Capacity|Maximum]]/[[Enhanced Concentration Capacity]]
-*[[Flawless Coordination]]
+*[[Extrasensory Perception]]
-*[[Flight]]/[[Gravity Defiance]]
+**[[Encyclopedic Knowledge]]
-*[[Force Field Generation]]
-*[[Immutability]]
+*[[Death Negation]]
-*[[Intangibility]]
+**[[Death Prevention]]
+*[[Fate Immunity]]
+**[[Fate Denial]]
 *[[Luck]]
+**[[Situational Synchronicity]]
-*[http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Object_Creation Object Creation] - by making an infinite amount of objects from one.
 *[[Physical Law Immunity]]
-*[[Physics Infringement]]
 *[[Power Immunity]]
-*[[Slow-Motion]]/[[Time Reduction]]
-*[[Supernatural Condition]]
-*[[Telekinesis]]
-*[[Teleportation]]
-*[[Unrestricted Movement]]
 ==Variations==
 *[[Glitching]]
-*[http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Living_Anomaly Living Anomaly] - Advanced form of this ability.
 ==Associations==
 *[[Cheating]]
 *[[Fate Denial]]/[[Fate Immunity]]
+*[[Living Anomaly]]
 *[[Power Augmentation]]
 *[[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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 ** Spoon Boy ('' The Matrix'')
 * Agents (''Matrix franchise'')
-* several Exiles (''Matrix franchise'')
+* Several Exiles (''Matrix franchise'')
 ** Smith (''Matrix franchise'')
 ** Seraph (''Matrix franchise'')
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 ** Lupines (''Matrix franchise'')
 ** Vamps (''Matrix franchise'')
-* The Beyonder (''Marvel Comics'')
 * 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.
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 [[Category:Supernatural Powers]]
 [[Category:Reality Manipulation]]
-[[Category:Fighting Power]]
-[[Category:Non-Fighting Power]]
 [[Category:Superpower Manipulation]]
 [[Category:Science Powers]]
 [[Category:Enhancements]]
 [[Category:Almighty Powers]]
-[[Category:Common Powers]]