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{{Quote|Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.|1 Chronicles 29:11}}
The power to '''be supremely almighty and invincible, in every sense and aspect'''.
 
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{{Quote|I am the One Above All. I see through many eyes. I build with many hands. They are themselves, but they are also me. I am all-powerful. My only weapon is love. The mystery intrigues me.|The One-Above-All (Marvel Comics)}}
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The state of being '''supremely almighty and all-powerful'''.
   
 
==Also Called==
 
==Also Called==
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*'''All-Powerful'''
*Above-All
 
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*True Omnipotence
*Absolute Power
 
*All-Power
 
*Almighty Power
 
*Infinite Power
 
*Supreme Power
 
*Unlimited Power
 
*Ultimate Godhood
 
*Ultimate Power
 
   
==Capabilities==
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==Overview==
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'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence Omnipotence]''' (from Latin: ''Omni Potens'', lit. "all power") is a quality most commonly attributed to [[Archetype:Monotheistic Deity|deities in monotheistic religions]]. The concept of omnipotence has been represented in a myriad of vastly different ways - [[Wikipedia:Pantheism|Pantheism]]: where being omnipotent is synonymous with being one with everything, [[Wikipedia:Agnosticism|Agnosticism]]: which postulates that God and the omnipotence it possesses is incomprehensible, [[Wikipedia:Monotheism|Monotheism]]: where there can only be omnipotent being, etc. - all of which have differing views on the attributes of omnipotence and hence their 'level of power'. Some philosophers claim that omnipotence can do that which is only confined within the realms of human logic, while others claim that omnipotence can do anything and everything, no matter how contradictory. However, due to the nature of this concept, the existence of omnipotence is impossible to prove, much less fictional characters possessing omnipotence.
'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence Omnipotence]''' (from Latin: Omni Potens: "all power") is the ability to be almighty in every sense and aspect.
 
   
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Due to the innumerable variations of omnipotence that have been conceived, this page will only delve into the most inconceivable and variation of omnipotence, thus also making it the most 'powerful' version of the concept, which will be referred henceforth as '''True Omnipotence'''.
The user can achieve absolutely anything without any limit or condition, including the ''conceptually'' impossible, like "bigger than infinity."
 
   
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===Principles of True Omnipotence===
Its one and only wielder (there can be only one in each fictional continuity, hence the "Above All") is fundamentally invincible, completely immune to all other powers, and able to defeat the combined might of all Creation and its mightiest beings just by wanting it, without the slightest effort.
 
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===='''Absolutely Everything'''====
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True Omnipotence is associated heavily with the concept of "totality" and "absolute infinity", transcending both those concepts infinitely and encompassing absolutely everything, anything, and nothing. Omnipotence encapsulates everything imaginable, unimaginable, possible, impossible, existent, non-existent, known, unknown, thinkable, unthinkable, created, uncreated, discovered, undiscovered, definable, undefinable, scalable, un-scalable, fictional, non-fictional, logical, illogical, conceivable, unconceivable, etc...ad infinitum, and even the everything beyond it, and the everything beyond that, and the everything beyond that. Despite all this, it still wouldn't be an infinitesimal fraction of the true everything it encompasses.
   
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Additionally, since the concept of "everything", including the concept of omnipotence and God, is a human construct, omnipotence would transcend infinitely far beyond all of humanity's thoughts, imagination, conceptualizations etc. In other words, its power reaches anything, even things that are outside of humanity's collective knowledge and limitless imagination.
==Applications==
 
*[[Omniarch]] - Rule all things.
 
*[[Omnicompetence]] - Handle all situations or matters.
 
**[[Hypercompetence]] - Be absolutely skilled in every possible field.
 
*[[Omnifarious]] - Take on any and all existing forms, shapes, varieties, or kinds.
 
*[[Omnificence]] - Create anything and everything from nothing.
 
**[[Almighty Object Manifestation]] - Create artifacts of [[Nigh Omnipotence|nigh limitless]] power.
 
**[[Omnireplication]] - Duplicate anything.
 
*[[Omnilingualism]] - Decipher and speak any language.
 
*[[Omnilock]] - Exist outside of everything.
 
**[[Freedom]] - Be absolute free of any boundaries even from destiny.
 
*[[Omnipresence]] - Be everywhere in existence at once.
 
*[[Omniscience]] - Know everything and anything.
 
**[[Enlightenment]] - Possess full comprehension of the universe.
 
   
===Specific Examples===
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===='''Only One'''====
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Due to its nature, there can only be one omnipotent being. Suppose omnipotence splits into parts, each one of these parts are both omnipotent. As an omnipotent entity would be able to do absolutely anything, any slightest opposition between each part will lead to successfully negating the doing, and hence the result is nothing happens until there is unity. But that is the same as one omnipotence, thus removing the distinction of splitting and not splitting omnipotence into multiples. In short, there can be only one omnipotent being, as another of equal power and authority would act as a limit to each other, making both not fully omnipotent.
*[[Complete Arsenal]] - Have every power.
 
**[[Ability Resilience]] - User's powers are immune to all alterations.
 
**[[Absolute Condition]] - Have the ultimate levels of strength, speed, intellect, etc.
 
**[[Absolute Existence]] - Total control over their own existence.
 
**[[Absolute Force Manipulation]] - Control, create, shape and destroy all forces.
 
**[[Absolute Restoration]] - Restore everything back to their natural state.
 
**[[Absolute Will]] -The power to control and manipulate anything.
 
**[[Almighty Law]] - Create and control the law that is unbreakable and is the Alpha law.
 
**[[Almighty Replication]] - Replicate all powers.
 
**[[Alpha Reality]] - Rewrite the laws of reality without limit.
 
**[[Amortality]] - The user is beyond life and death.
 
***[[Absolute Immortality]] - Total, absolute immortality.
 
**[[Boundary Manipulation]] - Complete control of all boundaries.
 
**[[Causality Manipulation]] - Compete control of the cause/effect relation.
 
**[[Concept Manipulation]] - Create/manipulate/erase all Concepts.
 
**[[Cycle Manipulation]] - manipulate the cycles of existence (creation, existence, destruction).
 
**[[Destruction]] - Destroy anything and everything.
 
***[[Apocalyptic Force Manipulation]] - control the final force.
 
**[[Existence Manipulation]] - Manipulate the entirety of existence itself.
 
***[[Primordial Force Manipulation]] - Manipulate the prime force.
 
**[[Existential Plane Manipulation]] - Manipulate ''all'' planes of existence.
 
**[[Grand Design Construction]] - creating, sorting, preserving the universe.
 
**[[Indomitable Will]] - Being totally unstoppable.
 
**[[Logic Manipulation]] - Control and defy logic without limit and achieve any impossible feat.
 
**[[Maximum Quintessenal Control]] - Control infinite amounts of spiritual force.
 
**[[Meta Power Manipulation]] - Create, control and delete powers on an infinite level.
 
***[[Power Augmentation]] - Can increase and amplify special abilities to infinite power-levels.
 
***[[Power Immunity]] - Be immune to any and all external powers and effects.
 
***[[Power Link]] - manipulate the power link.
 
***[[Meta Ability Creation]] - Can create whatever power one wants with no limits.
 
**[[Meta Probability Manipulation]] - Control all possibilities
 
**[[Nonexistence]] - Completely erase any kind of existence.
 
**[[Omnicide]] - Kill all life at once.
 
**[[Omni-Magic]] - Manipulate all forms of magic.
 
**[[Omni-Negation]] - Negate and nullify everything.
 
**[[Omnifabricating]] - Invent anything with varying capabilities.
 
**[[Omniverse Manipulation]] - Control all universes.
 
**[[Origin Manipulation]] - Manipulate the origin of all that is.
 
**[[Paradox Manipulation]] - Override the laws of reality, logic and common sense.
 
**[[Perspective Manipulation]] - Manipulate the Perspective.
 
**[[Preservation]] - Preserve Everything
 
**[[Physical Godhood]] - Break and bend all scientific laws and concepts
 
**[[Separation]] - Separate/Divide Everything.
 
**[[Singularity]] - Absolutely one of a kind.
 
**[[Supernatural Manipulation]] - Control everything supernatural.
 
**[[Totality Manipulation]] - Rule/Control/Preserve/Create/Destroy all Totality.
 
**[[Ultimate Invincibility]] - Be absolutely invincible.
 
**[[Universal Irreversibility]] - Actions cannot be stopped or reversed.
 
**[[Unimind]] - Be one with all minds.
 
**[[Unity]] - Be one with all and be everything.
 
   
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===='''No Limits'''====
==Associations==
 
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Omnipotence doesn't have limits. It transcends anything, fiction, consciousness, awareness, dimensions, existence, axioms, mathematics, concepts, logic, thoughts, everything humanity represents, transcendence and even itself. Anything that can and ever will be conceptualized by humans and whatever that can't and wouldn't be limits for an omnipotent being.
*[[Cyberpotence]]
 
*[[Metapotence]]
 
*[[Nigh Omnipotence]]
 
*[[Omnipotence Embodiment]]
 
*[[Ultipotence]]
 
   
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If it can create a being more powerful than itself, than that being would be a limit, making the omnipotent being not omnipotent in the first place. Transcending omnipotence would have the exact same outcome as well. This also applies to the aforementioned situation of there being two omnipotent beings.
==Omnipotent Abilities==
 
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==='''In-Universe''' (official)===
 
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Omnipotent is the ultimate end-all of everything, meaning that there is no "beyond omnipotence" no matter how much logic a being is stated to transcend. Suppose again that there was a being that was "beyond omnipotence", whatever is being transcended was never omnipotent in the first place, and the "beyond omnipotent" being would be omnipotent in its place. This cycle can repeat forever and ever. An infinite recursion of "beyond omnipotence"s. And the end result would still be, without exception, omnipotence.
*[[Absolute Existence]]
 
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===='''Trans-Fictional'''====
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Omnipotence is fundamentally a trans-fictional concept, meaning that nothing that ever appears in fiction (or even imagination) can ever be truly omnipotent regardless of how many statements or feats its author provides, whether it'd be their character transcending fiction, treating the real world as a dream or fiction, their character being incomprehensible to the human mind and thus any of its concepts (including omnipotence), or asserting that me typing this very sentence itself is somehow the result of their character's meddling, said entity will never be considered to be truly omnipotent. This is due to the simple fact that their very nature acting as a limitation that can and will never be overcome.
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===='''Illogical'''====
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Omnipotence is a concept that is beyond human comprehension and language or any of communication isn't enough to fully describe it, any attempt to perceive or attribute meaning or understanding to it would dull its absoluteness. Since the dawn of this concept as an attribute to God, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox many paradoxes] have emerged from philosophers and theologians coming up with different interpretations for what it means for a subject to be omnipotent, giving rise to 'types' of omnipotence, with the two most well-known types being logical and illogical omnipotence.
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True omnipotence is where one is unconstraint by logic, doing the impossible such as "bigger than infinity", "making a squared circle" or "beyond omnipotence". An omnipotent being can transcend itself, and be "beyond omnipotence", but at the same time will also still be omnipotent. Moreover, logic is but a human construct at the end of the day, and hypothetical truly omnipotent being would obviously be unaffected by the conceptions of humans. Any definable trait or aspect of omnipotence only represents an inconceivable fraction of its true nature. The act of imposing a definition onto something of this caliber is equivalent to diminishing it.
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True omnipotence is a concept that is ultimately incomprehensible to the human mind as humans, and similarly any other sentient being, have limitations to their imagination and perception that severely impede its capability to conceive the true nature of omnipotence.
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===='''Eternal'''====
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True omnipotence is beginningless and endless, having always existed before existence or any conceptions of time or being. It is for this reason that omnipotence is impossible to achieve, in fiction or in reality. An omnipotent being must exist before any conceivable 'beginnings' for the simple reason that any period that an omnipotent being isn't omnipotent makes the omnipotence it possesses not absolute.
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==Applications==
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*All [[:Category:States of Being|States of Being]]
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**[[Absolute Derivation]] - Be the prime source of everything.
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**[[Absolute Transcendence]] - Transcend absolutely everything, including itself, any forms of definition, limitations, and the concept of transcendence itself.
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**[[Autopotence]] - Have absolute power over your own existence and everything related to it.
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***All [[:Category:Archetypes|Archetypes]]
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***All [[:Category:Traits|Traits]]
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**[[Complete Arsenal]] - Have every power and ability, thus being able to do absolutely anything.
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***All [[:Category:Powers|Powers & Abilities]]
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****[[Omni-Manipulation]] - Manipulate anything and everything, even the power itself.
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**[[Cosmic Otherness]] - Absolutely and only one.
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**[[Eternal Existence]] - Having always existed.
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**[[Flawless Indestructibility]] - Possess absolutely no weaknesses or outlets of harm.
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***[[Absolute Invincibility]] - Be absolutely undefeatable.
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***[[Absolute Invulnerability]] - Be absolutely immune to damage or harm.
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**[[Freedom]] - Be unconstrained and unrestricted from anything.
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**[[Indeterminacy]] - Be incomprehensible and undefinable by any means.
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**[[Omniarch]] - Rule all things.
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**[[Omnipresence]] - Be everywhere and nowhere all at once.
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***[[Omnilock]] - Exist outside of absolutely everything.
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**[[Omniscience]] - Know absolutely everything and everything.
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**[[Perfection]] - Be in a state where one can no longer improve.
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**[[Totality Embodiment]] - Embody and encompass absolutely everything.
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***All [[:Category:Embodiments|Embodiments]]
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**[[Unity]] - Be one with totality.
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*[[Absolute Change]]
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*[[Absolute Condition]]
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**[[Omnicompetence]]
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*[[Absolute Destruction]]
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**[[Absolute Erasure]]
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*[[Absolute Embodiment]]
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**[[Absolute Manipulation]]
 
*[[Absolute Force Manipulation]]
 
*[[Absolute Force Manipulation]]
*[[Almighty Ascension]]
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*[[Absolute Restoration]]
*[[Almighty Link]]
 
 
*[[Alpha Reality]]
 
*[[Alpha Reality]]
*[[Anti-God]]
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**[[Middle Reality]]
*[[Author Authority]]
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**[[Omega Reality]]
*[[Boundary Manipulation]]
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*[[Authority Embodiment]]
*[[Causality Manipulation]]
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**[[Author Authority]]
*[[Complete Arsenal]]
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**[[Boundless Influence]]
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*[[Dimensional Transcendence]]
*[[Existential Perfection]]
 
*[[Logic Manipulation]]
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**[[Higher-Dimensional Manipulation]]
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*[[Duality Transcendence]]
*[[Monotheistic Deity Physiology]]
 
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*[[Fictional Transcendence]]
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*[[Grand Design Construction]]
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*[[Idea Embodiment]]
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*[[Infinity Embodiment]]
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**[[Infinity Manipulation]]
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*[[Logic Embodiment]]
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**[[Logic Generation]]
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**[[Logic Manipulation]]
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*[[Meta-Concept Manipulation]]
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**[[Apex Manipulation]]
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**[[Axiom Manipulation]]
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**[[Balance Manipulation]]
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***[[Balance]]
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**[[Boundary Manipulation]]
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**[[Causality Manipulation]]
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**[[Definition Manipulation]]
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**[[Immanence Manipulation]]
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**[[Inside Manipulation]]
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**[[Liminality Manipulation]]
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**[[Limit Manipulation]]
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**[[Meta Manipulation]]
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**[[Nadir Manipulation]]
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**[[Outside Manipulation]]
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**[[Origin Manipulation]]
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**[[Paradox Manipulation]]
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**[[Society Manipulation]]
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***[[Meme Manipulation]]
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***[[Zeitgeist Manipulation]]
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**[[Solipsistic Manipulation]]
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**[[System Manipulation]]
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**[[Transcendence Manipulation]]
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**[[True Name Manipulation]]
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*[[Meta Miracle Manipulation]]
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*[[Meta Perspective Manipulation]]
 
*[[Meta Power Manipulation]]
 
*[[Meta Power Manipulation]]
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*[[Meta Probability Manipulation]]
*[[Nonexistence]]
 
*[[Omnipotence Embodiment]]
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*[[Metaphysics Manipulation]]
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*[[Omnicide]]
*[[Omniverse Manipulation]]
 
*[[Origin Manipulation]]
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*[[Omnifarious]]
*[[Perfection]]
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*[[Omnificence]]
*[[Prime Source]]
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*[[Omnilingualism]]
*[[Reality Dreaming]]
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*[[Principle Embodiment]]
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**[[Principle Manipulation]]
*[[Tetralogy]]
 
*[[Totality Manipulation]]
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*[[Rule Transcendence]]
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*[[Universal Irreversibility]]
*[[Unity]]
 
*[[Unrestricted Wishes]]
 
   
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==='''Trans-Fictional''' (fan speculation)===
 
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*Omnipotence in Fiction
*[[Omni-Creator]]
 
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**Strictly speaking, omnipotent entities in fiction often have human-like personalities, and as a result, they are not omnipotent. However they are often the sole absolute almighty in their setting, thus they are close enough to represent omnipotence.
 
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*Its one and only wielder (there can be only one in each fictional continuity, hence the "Above All") is fundamentally invincible, completely immune to all other powers, and able to defeat the combined might of all creation and its mightiest beings just by wanting it, without the slightest effort.
==Trivia==
 
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* Although users ''can'' do and know anything without limit, they may possibly choose not to, be it because of personal rules (like the Mother of Creation), or purely out of whim.
 
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**If their are many omnipotent beings in the multiverse then they would fundamentally be the same being, representing the individuality of their respective universe and unity of the infinite cosmos of other realities.
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***Thus being a more truer omnipotent being by universal concept and the principals of omnipotence.
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*Omnipotent beings can only apply their power in their respective fiction.
   
 
==Known Users==
 
==Known Users==
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''See Also: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOmnipotent The Omnipotent]''.
'''In-Universe Omnipotence''':
 
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*[http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/One_Power The Creator] (''A Wheel of Time'')
 
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===In-Universe Omnipotence===
*[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Presence The Presence] (''DC'')
 
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism) The Monad] (''Gnosticism'')
 
*[http://www.spawnworld.com/encyclopedia/mother.htm Mother of Existence] (''Image Comics'')
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God God] (''Abrahamic Religions'')
*[http://marvel.wikia.com/One-Above-All_(Multiverse) The-One-Above All] (''Marvel'')
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*[http://brucealmighty.wikia.com/wiki/God God] (''Bruce Almighty/Evan Almighty'')
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*The Supreme Archetype (''Cthulhu Mythos'')
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God God] (''Monotheism'')
 
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*Luminous Being/The Dungeon Master (''Forgotten Realms'')
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Gnosticism) The Monad] (''Gnosticism'')
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*Para Brahman (''Hinduism'')
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*Divine Presence (''I/O'')
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*God (''I, Lucifer'')
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathala Bathala] (''Philippine Mythology'')
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*God (''Seekers into The Mystery'')
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*The Emperor Beyond The Sea (''The Chronicles of Narnia'')
 
*[http://shadowofmordor.wikia.com/wiki/Eru_Ilúvatar Eru Ilúvatar] (''Tolkienverse'')
 
*[http://shadowofmordor.wikia.com/wiki/Eru_Ilúvatar Eru Ilúvatar] (''Tolkienverse'')
*God-Man (''Tom the Dancing Bug'') 
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*God (''Unsong'')
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*EOGT GOKU with the dragonballs/shenron fused
 
   
 
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Brahman.jpg|Para Brahman (Hinduism)
Omnipotence symbol.gif|The symbol of Omnipotence.
 
one-above-all_multiverse2.png|The One-Above-All, the supreme being in the Marvel Universe, nothing's greater than him
 
_by_BIGBC.jpg|Hold all in your hands
 
j5.jpg|Judeo-Christian name of God
 
 
Holy_Trinity.jpg|God in new testament (Holy Trinity)
 
Holy_Trinity.jpg|God in new testament (Holy Trinity)
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The dungeon master.jpg|The Luminous Being (Forgotten Realms) is the truly omnipotent supreme being and is thus above absolutely everything including conceptually transcendent beings like Ao.
52.jpg|The Hand (DC Animated Universe).
 
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God (Seekers into The Mystery).webp|God (Seekers into The Mystery) is the eternal omnipotent God above and beyond all things who dreams Maya, the illusionary reality. He is The Primal Ocean, The Sea of Nothingness from which everything sprang forth and the ultimate reality beyond Maya, the reality from which all dreams emanated. He is the projectionist, while reality is the movie. Being part of everything and everyone, he guides all to the light that is himself.
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Eru Ilúvatar.jpg|Eru Ilúvatar (Tolkienverse) is the supreme being, creator of Ainur.
 
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What is OMNIPOTENT? (Meaning and Definition Explained) What does OMNIPOTENCE Mean? All Powerful God-2|A Summary of True Omnipotence
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Omnipotence EXPLAINED - Powerscaling 101-2|The Different Meanings and Portrayals of Omnipotence
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[[Category:Superpower Manipulation]]
 
[[Category:Elemental Control]]
 
[[Category:Elemental Manipulation]]
 
[[Category:Energy Powers]]
 
[[Category:Energy Manipulations]]
 
[[Category:Reality Altering Powers]]
 
[[Category:Spatial Powers]]
 
[[Category:Non-Fighting Power]]
 
[[Category:Fighting Power]]
 
[[Category:Almighty Powers]]
 
[[Category:Meta Powers]]
 
[[Category:Primordial Powers]]
 
[[Category:Absolute Powers]]
 
[[Category:Omniverse powers]]
 
[[Category:Omnipotent Powers]]
 
[[Category:Infinite Powers]]
 
[[Category:Divine Powers]]
 
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"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all."
― 1 Chronicles 29:11
"I am the One Above All. I see through many eyes. I build with many hands. They are themselves, but they are also me. I am all-powerful. My only weapon is love. The mystery intrigues me."
― The One-Above-All (Marvel Comics)

The state of being supremely almighty and all-powerful.

Also Called

  • All-Powerful
  • True Omnipotence

Overview

Omnipotence (from Latin: Omni Potens, lit. "all power") is a quality most commonly attributed to deities in monotheistic religions. The concept of omnipotence has been represented in a myriad of vastly different ways - Pantheism: where being omnipotent is synonymous with being one with everything, Agnosticism: which postulates that God and the omnipotence it possesses is incomprehensible, Monotheism: where there can only be omnipotent being, etc. - all of which have differing views on the attributes of omnipotence and hence their 'level of power'. Some philosophers claim that omnipotence can do that which is only confined within the realms of human logic, while others claim that omnipotence can do anything and everything, no matter how contradictory. However, due to the nature of this concept, the existence of omnipotence is impossible to prove, much less fictional characters possessing omnipotence.

Due to the innumerable variations of omnipotence that have been conceived, this page will only delve into the most inconceivable and variation of omnipotence, thus also making it the most 'powerful' version of the concept, which will be referred henceforth as True Omnipotence.

Principles of True Omnipotence

Absolutely Everything

True Omnipotence is associated heavily with the concept of "totality" and "absolute infinity", transcending both those concepts infinitely and encompassing absolutely everything, anything, and nothing. Omnipotence encapsulates everything imaginable, unimaginable, possible, impossible, existent, non-existent, known, unknown, thinkable, unthinkable, created, uncreated, discovered, undiscovered, definable, undefinable, scalable, un-scalable, fictional, non-fictional, logical, illogical, conceivable, unconceivable, etc...ad infinitum, and even the everything beyond it, and the everything beyond that, and the everything beyond that. Despite all this, it still wouldn't be an infinitesimal fraction of the true everything it encompasses.

Additionally, since the concept of "everything", including the concept of omnipotence and God, is a human construct, omnipotence would transcend infinitely far beyond all of humanity's thoughts, imagination, conceptualizations etc. In other words, its power reaches anything, even things that are outside of humanity's collective knowledge and limitless imagination.

Only One

Due to its nature, there can only be one omnipotent being. Suppose omnipotence splits into parts, each one of these parts are both omnipotent. As an omnipotent entity would be able to do absolutely anything, any slightest opposition between each part will lead to successfully negating the doing, and hence the result is nothing happens until there is unity. But that is the same as one omnipotence, thus removing the distinction of splitting and not splitting omnipotence into multiples. In short, there can be only one omnipotent being, as another of equal power and authority would act as a limit to each other, making both not fully omnipotent.

No Limits

Omnipotence doesn't have limits. It transcends anything, fiction, consciousness, awareness, dimensions, existence, axioms, mathematics, concepts, logic, thoughts, everything humanity represents, transcendence and even itself. Anything that can and ever will be conceptualized by humans and whatever that can't and wouldn't be limits for an omnipotent being.

If it can create a being more powerful than itself, than that being would be a limit, making the omnipotent being not omnipotent in the first place. Transcending omnipotence would have the exact same outcome as well. This also applies to the aforementioned situation of there being two omnipotent beings.

Omnipotent is the ultimate end-all of everything, meaning that there is no "beyond omnipotence" no matter how much logic a being is stated to transcend. Suppose again that there was a being that was "beyond omnipotence", whatever is being transcended was never omnipotent in the first place, and the "beyond omnipotent" being would be omnipotent in its place. This cycle can repeat forever and ever. An infinite recursion of "beyond omnipotence"s. And the end result would still be, without exception, omnipotence.

Trans-Fictional

Omnipotence is fundamentally a trans-fictional concept, meaning that nothing that ever appears in fiction (or even imagination) can ever be truly omnipotent regardless of how many statements or feats its author provides, whether it'd be their character transcending fiction, treating the real world as a dream or fiction, their character being incomprehensible to the human mind and thus any of its concepts (including omnipotence), or asserting that me typing this very sentence itself is somehow the result of their character's meddling, said entity will never be considered to be truly omnipotent. This is due to the simple fact that their very nature acting as a limitation that can and will never be overcome.

Illogical

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Omnipotence is a concept that is beyond human comprehension and language or any of communication isn't enough to fully describe it, any attempt to perceive or attribute meaning or understanding to it would dull its absoluteness. Since the dawn of this concept as an attribute to God, many paradoxes have emerged from philosophers and theologians coming up with different interpretations for what it means for a subject to be omnipotent, giving rise to 'types' of omnipotence, with the two most well-known types being logical and illogical omnipotence.

True omnipotence is where one is unconstraint by logic, doing the impossible such as "bigger than infinity", "making a squared circle" or "beyond omnipotence". An omnipotent being can transcend itself, and be "beyond omnipotence", but at the same time will also still be omnipotent. Moreover, logic is but a human construct at the end of the day, and hypothetical truly omnipotent being would obviously be unaffected by the conceptions of humans. Any definable trait or aspect of omnipotence only represents an inconceivable fraction of its true nature. The act of imposing a definition onto something of this caliber is equivalent to diminishing it.

True omnipotence is a concept that is ultimately incomprehensible to the human mind as humans, and similarly any other sentient being, have limitations to their imagination and perception that severely impede its capability to conceive the true nature of omnipotence.

Eternal

True omnipotence is beginningless and endless, having always existed before existence or any conceptions of time or being. It is for this reason that omnipotence is impossible to achieve, in fiction or in reality. An omnipotent being must exist before any conceivable 'beginnings' for the simple reason that any period that an omnipotent being isn't omnipotent makes the omnipotence it possesses not absolute.

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Notes

  • Omnipotence in Fiction
    • Strictly speaking, omnipotent entities in fiction often have human-like personalities, and as a result, they are not omnipotent. However they are often the sole absolute almighty in their setting, thus they are close enough to represent omnipotence.
  • Its one and only wielder (there can be only one in each fictional continuity, hence the "Above All") is fundamentally invincible, completely immune to all other powers, and able to defeat the combined might of all creation and its mightiest beings just by wanting it, without the slightest effort.
  • In Trans-Fictional Theories
    • If their are many omnipotent beings in the multiverse then they would fundamentally be the same being, representing the individuality of their respective universe and unity of the infinite cosmos of other realities.
      • Thus being a more truer omnipotent being by universal concept and the principals of omnipotence.
  • Omnipotent beings can only apply their power in their respective fiction.

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See Also: The Omnipotent.

In-Universe Omnipotence

  • God (Abrahamic Religions)
  • God (Bruce Almighty/Evan Almighty)
  • The Supreme Archetype (Cthulhu Mythos)
  • Luminous Being/The Dungeon Master (Forgotten Realms)
  • The Monad (Gnosticism)
  • Para Brahman (Hinduism)
  • Divine Presence (I/O)
  • God (I, Lucifer)
  • Bathala (Philippine Mythology)
  • God (Seekers into The Mystery)
  • The Emperor Beyond The Sea (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  • Eru Ilúvatar (Tolkienverse)
  • God (Unsong)

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