Rule Bending

Rule Bending
Agent Jones (The Matrix) casually dodges a hail of bullets without even moving his feet.
Power/Ability to:	Bend variables and aspects of reality.

"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 to Neo (The Matrix)

The power to bend variables and aspects to redefine reality. Sub-power of Aspect and Variable Manipulation.

Also Called

• Reality Bending/Leaning/Shifting/Turning
• Variable Bending/Leaning/Shifting/Turning

Capabilities

The user can bend variables/aspects of reality, inducing amplification and reduction of the effects the targets possess, and generate collective phenomena from altered effects. Due to reality holding anything that contains a variable or aspect, the user can "bend" them to amplify or reduce to accomplish a desirable outcome or sometimes "nudge" them to their advantage. Rule bending can affect anything in reality, from dreams, organisms, astronomical objects, forms of matter and energy, concepts, powers, etc. but cannot "generate or delete" (that is, spontaneously or drastically edit reality to the point of generating new effects out of nowhere) them from reality, similar to laws of conservation, energy and matter are constant no matter the circumstance, only its influence is affected.

Another importance of this ability is users are severely restricted to bending; they cannot shape, create, destroy, modify, or manipulate reality. From controlling physics, the universe, multiverse, omniverse, or all of totality, contorting everything to a nigh-omnipotent scale, only restricted to fewer and lesser applications.

The user can amplify and reduce their physical, mental, and spiritual condition; to accomplish superhuman physical, mental, and spiritual abilities, bend dreams to become vivid, lucid visions, or nightmares that induce sleep paralysis and torment, bend the laws of physics by redefining reality that describes them, from reducing their effects on the user, or amplify them to grant themselves an advantage in any situation. The user can shift their senses to achieve extrasensory perception or a new cognitive understanding that can detect, acquire, and decompress information and bend multiple variables at once to accomplish variable-induced-luck, decreasing negative variables, and leaving relevant variables untouched, simulating exceeding luck, surviving and denying death, superpowers, and induce events that benefit the user.

Applications

• Condition Augmentation
  • Physical Augmentation
• Distortion
  • Personal Distortion
  • Space-Time Distortion
• Elemental/Energy/Matter Transmutation
• Extrasensory Perception
  • Claircognizance
    • Encyclopedic Knowledge
• Life-Force Augmentation
  • Enhanced Soul
• Luck
  • Efficient Mode
  • Situational Synchronicity
• Reality Hacking
  • Death Negation
  • Physics Infringement
  • Power Modification
  • Power Resistance
• Variable Creation

Variations

• Glitching

Associations

• Joke Actualization
• Living Anomaly
• Precognition
  • Flash Precognition
  • Flawless Precognition
• Reality Warping
  • Reality Arts
• Status Manipulation
• Temporal Paradox Inducement
• Variable Manipulation

Limitations

• (With absolute mastery of the ability, there are no restrictions)
• Rule Transcendence
• The extent 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 risk breaking the laws of reality involuntarily whenever this ability is in effect.
• Reality Warping

Known Users

See Also: Loophole Abuse.

• Aion (Chrono Crusade)
• Fifth Dimensional Imps (DC Comics)
• Kal-El/Superman Prime (DC One Million); from GZNTPLZK
• Shinta Tagamori (Gan-Kon)
• Gold Experience Requiem (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Hope Mikaelson (Legacies/The Originals): retained her magic after gaining immortality
• Absolon Mercator/Mister M (Marvel Comics)
• Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask (The Mask) via Loki's mask
• Agents (Matrix franchise)
• Thomas A. Anderson/Neo (Matrix franchise)
• Several Exiles (Matrix franchise)
  • Lupines
  • Seraph
  • Smith
  • The Trainman
  • Vamps
• Several Potentials (Matrix franchise)
  • Chuang Tzu (The Matrix: Path of Neo)
  • Spoon Boy
• SCP-2090 - Potentially XK Tim Duncan (SCP Foundation)
• Heaven Canceller (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Slender Man (Slender Man Mythos)
• Chara (Undertale); after beating the Genocide Route
• Sans (Undertale)
• Spam O'Brien (Zoophobia)

Known Objects

• Mask of Loki (The Mask)
• Redpills (Matrix franchise)

Gallery

Aion (Chrono Crusade)

Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask (The Mask)

Heaven Canceller (Toaru Majutsu no 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.

Videos

Gold Experience Requiem's Ability