The power to cause a chaotic chain reaction from many different causes to many different effects. Combination of Causality Manipulation and Chaos Manipulation. Variation of Domino Effect.
Also Called
- Chaos-Causalian Manipulation
- Chaos Theory
- Nonlinear System Manipulation
Capabilities
User can control the Butterfly effect, i.e. all the different causes and their reaction that can have a huge net effect on the whole system. All the causes may be small and completely unrelated to each other in both space and time, yet they can cause many big things in the flow of time which no one can predict. Notable example: a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane several weeks after.
Applications
- Destabilization
- Destruction
- Disaster Manipulation
- Disruption
- Event Manipulation
- Future Manipulation
- Paradox Manipulation
- Probability Manipulation
- Reality Warping
- Space-Time Manipulation
- Unpredictability
Associations
Limitations
- Cause and/or outcome may be unpredictable.
- Even the users are unable to control the entirety of the system.
- When it begins, there is no way to stop it.
Known Users
- Maxine Caulfield (Life is Strange)
- The Flash/Barry Allen (DC Comics); briefly during The Flashpoint event.
- Hiro Nakamura (Heroes); via Time Travel
- Evan Treborn (The Butterfly Effect - Film); via Time Travel
- Jason Treborn (The Butterfly Effect - Film); via Time Travel
- Nick Larson (The Butterfly Effect 2 - Film); via Time Travel
- Sam Reide (The Butterfly Effect 3 - Film); via Time Travel
- Nathaniel Renko (Singularity); via TMD
- Light Fairy (Valkyrie Crusade)
Gallery
Evan Treborn (The Butterfly Effect) has the ability to travel back in time to redo things in his past but had a huge effect afterwards thus complications happened making it more difficult for him to solve them.
Max Caulfield (Life is Strange) is able to rewind time within a short period of time. However, when she attempts to change major events in the past, she causes a significant change in her future.