History Main / ImaginationBasedSuperpower

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan]] is an energy-manipulating example, as he can manipulate ''any'' form of energy on a truly colossal scale -- and despite getting a bare minimum of training and being, frankly, impulsive, immature, and outside of some very specialised situations, as thick as two short planks, he can do practically whatever he likes with it. In the Krakoan age, he's graduated to full Green Lantern-style energy constructs, including semi-sentient and entirely subconscious ones. Given that he's got the rough personality of [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superman-Prime]], this is... unfortunate.

* The Power Rings from ''Franchise/GreenLantern''. [[ComboPlatterPowers In addition to the primary ability]] of creating anything the user could think of, it also had a knowledge database that allowed it to translate any language, flight, and gave its user the ability to survive in any environment. Oddly, he was once able to create a ''Turkish-English Dictionary'' with his ring in the Janissary arc. Which really shouldn't have been necessary, considering the aforementioned translation function.

** The most powerful psychics in the Grey-Summers family -- [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]], [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]], [[Characters/CableNathanSummers Nathan Summers]], and [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]] -- are such powerful telekinetics that at least in the case of Nate, they can explicitly [[RealityWarper warp reality]]. The others can, minimally, bend a few of the laws of physics and rearrange molecules, and that's ''without'' the Phoenix coming into play.

* This is basically how sorcery works in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. Belgarath describes it as 'The Will and the Word' -- imagine what you want to happen, then say a word to release your Will and make it happen. Practically, you're limited by how much energy you can safely use but more importantly, you have to be able to envisage what you want to achieve. This encourages sorcerors to spend lots of time in study, as knowledge vastly expands their available repertoire. As an absolute limit, it's impossible to 'unmake' anything. The universe doesn't like it and unmakes you instead.

* In ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', Eugene Sims has the ability to create projections from virtual characters. In his case, he uses his powers to create angels and demons from his favorite video game, which Delsin gains to a limited extent after he absorbs his power.
* In ''VideoGame/AmazingIsland'', humans' imagination is the key to creating monsters and saving the island.

Because of the nature of this trope, there will often be some kind of limitation to the power to prevent it from becoming a StoryBreakerPower. For example, the power has a limited power supply, or the power has the inability to affect certain objects, or maybe the wielder's imagination isn't as good as yours or mine. For example, the rings wielded by the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] have a limit to how many constructs their rings can make, and they used to have the infamous inability to affect yellow-colored objects (or, in even earlier versions, anything made of wood). People with the Imagination-Based Superpower are vulnerable to doubt; i.e., [[HoistByHisOwnPetard imagining themselves losing]].

A SuperTrope to SpontaneousWeaponCreation. {{Reality Warp|er}}ing tends to be this. Also see PsychoactivePowers.

A SuperTrope to SpontaneousWeaponCreation. {{Reality Warp|er}}ing tends to be this.

Compare NewPowersAsThePlotDemands and StrongAsTheyNeedToBe. See also ArtInitiatesLife, {{Prop}}, SwissArmySuperpower, and SemanticSuperpower.

This power, based around the user's imagination, allows the user to create anything if they can think of it. It can be anything mundane from table flatware to weapons like rocket launchers and machine guns.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Gremmy Thoumeaux's fantasies can create fully-functional people, change landscapes, render bones too brittle to function, and heal injuries or kill just by imagining wounds never occurred or people are already dead. He can even create fully functional clones of himself whose presence increases the power of his imagination. If he loses focus on imagining something the effect will end, though indirect injuries will remain. The ability has two drawbacks: If he doubts himself, his power can make the doubts real; and if he uses his power to do something he can't imagine, it can result in a SuperpowerMeltdown.
* In ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'', Kunikida's power allows him to create whatever he wants by writing on his [[RealityWritingBook notebook]], as long as he has seen the object before and know how it functions.
* ''Franchise/CardfightVanguard'' gives a huge emphasis on the importance of imagination, so naturally there are suporpowers that came out of it.
** First is [=PSYquolia=], which is some kind of mix between {{Telepathy}} and {{Seers}}. [=PSYquolia=] users can communicate with their cards and influence the flow of their decks, or see the way the fight is going to turn out like seeing the future. That includes knowing what ''the opponent'' is going to draw. They can also draw other people in the realm of their imagination, which is directly linked with Planet Cray, where the beings that are illustrated in the cards reside, thus allowing them to come and go through the planet mentally as they please. That is used for MindRape quite a few times, but it can also allow them to communicate via telepathy with other people; for instance, in one episode, a guy with this power uses it to drag three other people in his imagination and hold a discussion with them, while they were the center of attention in a stadium full of people. Nobody notices that something was off. In addition, they can ''attack'' other people in that realm, or ask their cards to do so, which results in them experiencing the physical pain even though there is no actual injury. Finally, they can track each other down. The ability also has some degree of physical manifestation; at their strongest, one user obtains BlowYouAway abilities (though his power always kind of manifested like that) and another KiManipulation. However, all of this -- and we mean ALL OF IT -- can be countered if someone else has a stronger imagination, because that's what it comes down to.
** The second ability doesn't have a name, but its users are called either Singularities or Peacemakers. It's a type of SummonMagic that allows them to physically manifest the creatures of the cards on Earth, and all that entails. However, it's a major case of BlessedWithSuck; it requires imagination, and we quote "[[CastFromHitPoints so strong that it chips your life away]]". The side effects are various and horrific: one suffers from RapidAging and dies on-screen, another is almost paralyzed, and a third becomes an EmptyShell to cope with the pain. The others aren't that badly damaged, but one is in constant state of burn-out, and another is tricked into knocking himself in a coma via his own power. Notably, the [[Anime/CardfightVanguardVSeries reboot]] removes the CastFromHitPoints aspect of this ability.

** Rusty Rose has this with his magic: Arc of Embodiment. Unlike most with an Imagination Based Superpower, fear and doubt don't have much negative effect on him. In fact, when he feels [[WhatIsThisFeeling fear]] for the first time in a long time, he uses it as inspiration for a new spell. When he actually stops screwing around and gets serious, it takes some ''serious'' creative thinking for Fairy Tail to get around his defenses and hit him [[SquishyWizard and lucky for them he's not too good at actually taking a hit.]]
** There's actually a fair number of these in ''Fairy Tail''. At the most basic level, you have Molding magic, which allows you to create objects or weapons out of an element (Ice, Wood... even Memory). Then you have Solid Script, an attack which takes the form of the word you write (iron, fire, etc.).

* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', Ginta can use magic stones to imagine pretty much any ability for Babbo. There only seems to be a vague limit of what he can do based on his own magical power, but if he has the energy, it can be done. Snow is understandably underwhelmed when the first things he comes up with are a plain hammer and dagger.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Momo Yaoyorozu has the power to generate physical objects from her body, as long as she knows their atomic structure. Fortunately, she's a genius, and thus has been shown creating a number of different items. [[AllThereInTheManual Her hero costume is detailed]] as having reference books in the belt compartments, in case there's anything she doesn't know. Her only limitation is that each use of her power is CastFromCalories, so she has to constantly eat and overusing her power risks her becoming weak and anemic.

** Shadow using magic also qualifies; Takane D. Goodman creates shadow golems for attack and defense (as well as clothing), the other shadow magic user creates blades and such. Haruna has the better imagination, ''and'' she can reuse a drawing.
** Jack Rakan's artifact allows him to create literally any weapon. Normally he'll just go with a BFS, since that suits his style best, but the fact remains that if it's a weapon of any sort, he can make it. The kicker? He doesn't even need his artifact to beat most opponents, he's just that ungodly strong.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', Ditto's Transform move not only lets it turn into other Pokémon, but face masks, arms, keys, umbrellas, ''full sized working cannons'' etc. Pretty much whatever it needs.

** There's also the other Lantern Corps, all of whom are capable of the same matter-creation as Green ones, though different Lantern Corps apply their Green Lantern Ring powers differently. The Raging [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lanterns]] typically vomit their energies from their mouth as a sort of acid, which can also corrode other Corps' constructs. [[Characters/GLOrangeLanternCorps Orange Lanterns]] are the physical recreations of Larfleeze's victims (as he is the only true member of the corps of Greed) in addition to being standard constructs. [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Yellow]] is like Green, but with Fear as its power source and it allows them to [[IKnowWhatYouFear manifest the worst fears of their targets]] against them. [[Characters/GLBlueLanternCorps Blue Lanterns]] usually just let their Ring make a copy of whatever the target will feel Hope about, but in the presence of a Green Lantern, can do plenty more, especially sabotage or nerf the Red, Orange and Yellow corps while also being able to {{heal|ingHands}}. [[Characters/GLStarSapphireCorps Violet]] has the basic powers in addition to manifesting [[CrystalPrison strange violet crystals]] to entrap lovers in a form of stasis. [[Characters/GLIndigoTribe The Indigo Tribe]] has the basic power set, weaponized Compassion [[HeelFaceBrainwashing (forcing their victims to have compassion)]], and the ability to tap into any of the other colors' powers. Later stories establish several limitations on the rings:
*** The ''ComicBook/LightsOut'' storyline reveals that there these powers do have a serious limitation: [[spoiler:the source of their powers, the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum, is ''finite''. Turns out the previous universe went dark since the "Lightsmiths" used them extensively and the sole survivor clearly doesn't want that to happen.]]

** Then there is the Phantom Ring, a colorless (gray) ring that appears to be the FlawedPrototype for the Lantern Rings. The Phantom Ring can use any of the seven emotional lights, but it all depends on the emotion that the ''user'' is feeling. If they're relying on Willpower, they'll use Green, hopeful, they'll use Blue and so on. However, because it shifts on the person, and because the farther you are on the Spectrum's ends, the more the light will influence you (best seen with the Red Light of Rage and the Violet Light of Love, both of them on the opposite ends of the spectrum and their wielders are usually completely ''nuts'' and driven by the emotion of their ring unless they master themselves), the Phantom Ring will pretty much make you into a very powerful but potentially very emotionally unstable person (and the person who got it was already kinda nuts to begin with.)
* Deliciously subverted in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' with the villain called the Quiz, who has "every superpower you hadn't thought of". Combating the Quiz consisted of listing as many super powers one could summon up before she could come up with her Green Lantern's Ring effect.

** Argent can generate silver plasma which she can either project as energy blasts or mold into complex shapes like daggers, shields and whips. In ''JLA: Rock of Ages'', her powers in the future had evolved to the point that she could create an entire army of silver plasma creatures.
** Bunker, a member of the the ComicBook/New52 Teen Titans, is capable of creating and manipulating "psionic brick" structures. By his own admission, he needs practice, and his ability to make things much more complicated than a simple wall or "gloves" for his fists is pretty limited, but he's confident that eventually he'll be virtually indistinguishable from an ''actual'' Green Lantern.

** ComicBook/{{Galactus}} (and to a lesser extent his heralds) possesses the Power Cosmic, which was at some point described as being able to control [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction the four Fundamental Interactions of the universe]]. Whatever this would entail in RealLife, what it allows Galactus to do in the comics boils down to "Anything he wants". There are limits to what he can do, but these limits are so high that it's only ever an issue if he encounters one of the two or three people that are stronger than he is.
* ''ComicBook/TheNewUniverse'': The ComicBook/StarBrand easily fits this trope. It can do just about anything the user wants, from flying to immortality. However, it has a tons of downsides to it, including being unable to be fully rid of the power (passing it leaves you with 10% of the power and you can drain it completely, but there's the possibility that you'll get it back or accidentally pass it on) and it can only be held by living beings (the two times it was placed on inanimate objects? Gave people superpowers and turned Pittsburgh into a crater, respectively). When the New U's Earth was brought to the Marvel U, it was placed in quarantine because the Star Brand ''upset the balance of the universe''. Its main depicted wielder, Ken Connell, was severely lacking in imagination and functioned mostly as a FlyingBrick.
** In the 2018 ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron Avengers]]'' run, the Star Brand reappears... having attached itself to a woman transported as space migrant labour with her boyfriend, who'd got pregnant, and then was 9 months along and panicking as she was separated from her boyfriend and put into a space immigration lock-up just as she got the Brand... and went into labour. Her terrified rampage ripped through a Shi'ar prison galaxy, and attracted the Avengers, the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, and all the extant Heralds of Galactus. Naturally, Captain America managed to calm her down long enough to deliver the baby. Then it turned out that [[spoiler:the real bearer of the Star Brand was the baby, the mother having died in delivery. The Avengers then adopted the baby, who proved to be... somewhat wilful. As in, confronting a super-charged Moon Knight who'd stolen, among other things, Mjolnir and the Spirit of Vengeance with Iron Man unable to stop her]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Answer has pretty much the same "power", allowing him to do whatever is required to "answer" a situation. For some reason this doesn't make him omnipotent, and he does get trounced by Spidey fairly often. Though in hindsight, it makes sense. An answer isn't always correct. Or there could be more than one correct answers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': Melissa Joan "Mel" Gold was given a cybernetic vocalizer that allowed her to use her [[SuperScream augmented vocal chords]] to create constructs out of solidified sound, in a manner similar to Klaw, when she reinvented herself as Songbird. Deconstructed in that it actually proves ''tricky'' for her to properly use this power at first, as her only previous experience with her sonic powers was simply shrieking to produce straightforward sonic blasts. With practice, however, she learned to use it competently.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan]] is an energy-manipulating example, as he can manipulate ''any'' form of energy on a truly colossal scale -- and despite getting a bare-minimum of training and being, frankly, impulsive, immature, and outside of some very specialised situations, as thick as two short planks, he can do practically whatever he likes with it. In the Krakoan age, he's graduated to full Green Lantern style energy constructs, including semi-sentient and entirely subconscious ones. Given that he's got the rough personality of [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Superman-Prime]], this is... unfortunate.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is an ambiguous example. Assuming every weird thing that happens to Calvin actually ''happens'', then Calvin can do anything or summon anyone he wants with his mind. He creates advanced technology out of cardboard, travels to Mars in a wagon, and requests leaf collections from aliens. Unfortunately, while he can occasionally does such things of his own free will, he usually has no control over this power. Occasionally he has to to deal with threats such as monsters under his bed, [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2008/12/21 enormous bedbugs]], murderous living snowmen, or even his own bicycle!

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, as a PosthumousCharacter and former SHIELD Agent. His primary job? Act as a counter-measure to freaking ''ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.'' Who is consistently depicted in-story as a peer of planet-busting Thor. And by all accounts, including Magneto's own, he was very good at it. By the time of the story, the {{ring|OfPower}} has vanished. It later reappears in the possession of Doctor Strange, who loans it to a teenage Carol Danvers in chapter 75 and conveniently fails to mention that it's a lot more than just an enchanted ring, until it saves her life [[spoiler:(by bringing her BackFromTheDead)]]. Even in her inexperienced hands (she gets the basics [[spoiler:from the ghost of Alan Scott]], but that's it), it proves powerful enough to blast straight through Darkhold enhanced defences of a Loki-class EvilSorcerer, and is described as operating like a focus for magic at its most fundamental: magic, commanded and shaped to its wielder's will. And by 'magic', we mean that it's tied to the magic reserves of Earth itself, which is a cosmically powerful magical dynamo.

* In ''Fanfic/ConsequencesOfUnoriginality'', Emeris has this amongst his unicorn magic, creating tool constructs which are explicitly compared to the Green Lanterns'.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series, Adept powers are essentially this. Each Adept has an area of specialty but each individual manifestation of that specialty can only be used once. For instance the Blue Adept sings rhyming spells but each rhyme only works once. This makes sense in the context of the spoken word but doesn't bear up to much scrutiny when some of the other Adepts manifest powers through building golems, mixing potions and drawing lines. One Adept paralyzes with the Evil Eye. How do you see the person you're paralyzing differently each time?
* This is basically how sorcery works in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. Belgarath describes it as 'The Will and the Word' -- imagine what you want to happen, then say a word to release your Will and make it happen. Practically, you're limited by how much energy you can safely use but more importantly you have to be able to envisage what you want to achieve. This encourages sorcerors to spend lots of time in study, as knowledge vastly expands their available repertoire. As an absolute limit, it's impossible to 'unmake' anything. The universe doesn't like it, and unmakes you instead.

* In ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', Apollo's lyre is capable of conjuring whatever the musician thinks of. Apollo used the lyre to construct the walls of Troy, and Grover Underwood summons a birdcage, a brick wall and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking enchiladas]] in order to combat the titular singer of Apollo.

* In ''Literature/IsekaiCheatMagician'', magic works this way: while it must be based in the four classical elements (Air, Earth, Fire and Water), a spell can be created by visualizing the effect. Rin, who has modern education in sciences (particularly physics and chemistry), is able to use a greater repertoire of spells based on it: for example, when she started training with fire, instead of thinking of wood burning, she picked gas, producing hotter flames than her mentor.
* Libriomacy in ''Literature/MagicExLibris'' works ''mostly'' like this. It's a sort of collective imagination power that lets people tap shared belief to pull magic or technological items from books, with a few limits like no time-travel, necromancy or wishes. Still, it's incredibly powerful and versatile.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheNewAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Rob acquires a unicorn horn to fight the BigBad. He can command it to turn into anything from a weapon, to a ladder, to a length of rope. Towards the end he's flailing a bit, and just yells, "Give me what I need!"

* Magic in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' works like this most of the time. It also often shows the shortcomings of such an ability. Improperly-worded or ordered thoughts can create spells with unfortunate side effects. Such as how Aunt Hilda states that [[HistoricalInJoke Columbus Day]] can be attributed to her casting a spell "to make everything round".
--> '''Valerie:''' ''[upon witnessing Sabrina's magic]'' So you basically think of something, you point with your finger and that something happens?\\

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': After a boy named Grant accidentally swallows a gem that grants wishes, the Superman-obsessed kid gains superpowers largely based on those of his comic book idol, including SuperStrength, flight, SuperSpeed, enhanced senses, invulnerability, and X-ray vision. He can also snap his fingers and achieve different results, such as breaking a window rated to withstand a nuclear blast or light a candle. He becomes a superhero called the Ghost.

* The Lamplighter of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has a lamp that lets him do Green Lantern-esque things with light. He hasn't been used as a hero yet. Riptide has aquakinesis, and is a side character, but when she had to stop The Lamplighter from killing Chaka, she found out she could do pretty much whatever she wanted if she had enough water.

* In an ironic subversion, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'''s Former Marine John Stewart was once criticized by his former Green Lantern Corps mentor about the militaristic, uncreative use of his ring, mainly as a [[BarrierWarrior blaster weapon and forcefield]]. This itself is actually an echo of the early disputes among the fandom in regards to both his character and limited abilities. Following this episode, Stewart begins to increasingly be more creative with his ring, culminating in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E3KidStuff Kid Stuff]]" where he is reverted to a child and his ring's power increases exponentially due to his active (if not overactive) imagination.

*** This seems to no longer be the case in comics either. In ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'', Hal Jordan narrates about how John's architectural background influences his constructs; everything is meticulously detailed, even including individual screws and moving parts. Hal has specifically stated that "None of John's constructs are hollow." In fact, a recent scene had John Stewart attempting to recreate an entire planet with his ring, only for it to inform him that the willpower limit was exceeded. Just think about that for a second...

** In "Brother-Sister Act," Mirage, another Bang Baby (and another [[ChildrenAreInnocent largely innocent kid]] being [[MinionWithAnFInEvil forced into villainy]] by her nasty brother), combines this power with being a MasterOfIllusion. She can [[LightEmUp manipulate light]] however she sees fit, and largely uses her imagination to create realistic images of threats, like tigers and elephants.
* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', for obvious reasons, but also subverted when the Interceptor needs repairs. Hal asks if a ring construct would suffice until they could get back to Oa for proper repairs. Aya replies that the construct would have to be an exact duplicate of the coil and its 56 moving parts to within a 0.8162 micron tolerance, which none of the Lanterns have the skill to replicate.

** Discord is a RealityWarper who works largely like this, often creating and/or warping things, landscapes and people just ForTheLulz.

* A kid in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' had the ability to create things he thought of, which his brother took advantage of.

* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': Klaw has the ability to create virtually anything he can imagine out of [[MakeMeWannaShout sound energy]].

** First is [=PSYquolia=], which is some kind of mix between {{Telepathy}} and {{Seers}}. [=PSYquolia=] users can communicate with their cards and influence the flow of their decks, or see the way the fight is going to turn out like seeing the future. That includes knowing what ''the opponent'' is going to draw. They can also draw other people in the realm of their imagination, which is directly linked with Planet Cray, where the beings that are illustrated in the cards reside, thus allowing them to come and go through the planet mentally as they please. That is used for MindRape quite a few times, but it can also allow them to communicate via telepathy with other people; for instance, in one episode, a guy with this power uses it to drag three other people in his imagination and hold a discussion with them, while they were the center of attention in a stadium full of people. Nobody notices that something was off. In addition, they can ''attack'' other people in that realm, or ask their cards to do so, which results in them experiencing the physical pain even though there is no actual injury. Finally, they can track each other down. The ability also has some degree of physical manifestation; at their strongest, one user obtains BlowYouAway abilities (though his power always kind of manifested like that) and another KiManipulation. However, all of this - and we mean ALL OF IT - can be countered if someone else has a stronger imagination, because that's what it comes down to.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Spiral Energy is essentially this. It's the force of willpower manifested into reality, allowing one to "do the impossible." While first seen to apply (temporary) repairs to Gurren Lagann's leg early on, it also allows one to create matter, break physics and just overpower anything through sheer will. By the end of the series, Simon is able to harness it to do practically anything. Though namely in the [[GonnaNeedMoreX making of]] [[ThisIsADrill larger drills]] while powering the insanely huge mechs. Perhaps as a nod to its spiritual predecessor, Getter Robo, it usually manifests itself as green (with the exception of Lord Genome; who's is a rather sinister red, [[spoiler: though this is due to the fact he is using spiral energy against itself, working for suppressive and repressive means, since his was green back when he was a young man.]]

---->'''Batman''': You go through that ''every time''?\\
'''Green Lantern''': Yes.

** In the 2018 ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron Avengers]]'' run, the Star Brand reappears... having attached itself to a woman transported as space migrant labour with her boyfriend, who'd got pregnant, and then was 9 months along and panicking as she was separated from her boyfriend and put into a space immigration lock-up just as she got the Brand... and went into labour. Her terrified rampage ripped through a Shi'ar prison galaxy, and attracted the Avengers, the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, and all the extant Heralds of Galactus. Naturally, Captain America managed to calm her down long enough to deliver the baby. Then it turned out that [[spoiler: the real bearer of the Star Brand was the baby, the mother having died in delivery. The Avengers then adopted the baby, who proved to be... somewhat wilful. As in, confronting a super-charged Moon Knight who'd stolen, among other things, Mjolnir and the Spirit of Vengeance with Iron Man unable to stop her]].

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, as a PosthumousCharacter and former SHIELD Agent. His primary job? Act as a counter-measure to freaking ''ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.'' Who is consistently depicted in-story as a peer of planet-busting Thor. And by all accounts, including Magneto's own, he was very good at it. By the time of the story, the {{ring|OfPower}} has vanished. It later reappears in the possession of Doctor Strange, who loans it to a teenage Carol Danvers in chapter 75 and conveniently fails to mention that it's a lot more than just an enchanted ring, until it saves her life [[spoiler: (by bringing her BackFromTheDead)]]. Even in her inexperienced hands (she gets the basics [[spoiler: from the ghost of Alan Scott]], but that's it), it proves powerful enough to blast straight through Darkhold enhanced defences of a Loki-class EvilSorcerer, and is described as operating like a focus for magic at its most fundamental: magic, commanded and shaped to its wielder's will. And by 'magic', we mean that it's tied to the magic reserves of Earth itself, which is a cosmically powerful magical dynamo.

* This is basically how sorcery works in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. Belgarath describes it as 'The Will and the Word' - imagine what you want to happen, then say a word to release your Will and make it happen. Practically, you're limited by how much energy you can safely use but more importantly you have to be able to envisage what you want to achieve. This encourages sorcerors to spend lots of time in study, as knowledge vastly expands their available repertoire. As an absolute limit, it's impossible to 'unmake' anything. The universe doesn't like it, and unmakes you instead.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens'': The protagonists of ''Pirates'' all seem to have this, which makes the events of their game come to life. [[spoiler: Up to and including them all being blown up when one of the kids self-destructs their spaceship, ending his turn. The next turn begins with one of the girls saying "Pretend we exist."]]

* Magic in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' works like this most of the time. It also often shows the shortcomings of such an ability. Improperly-worded or ordered thoughts can create spells with unfortunate side effects. Such as how Aunt Hilda states that [[HistoricalInJoke Columbus' Day]] can be attributed to her casting a spell "to make everything round".
--> '''Valerie''': ''[upon witnessing Sabrina's magic]'' So you basically think of something, you point with your finger and that something happens?\\
'''Sabrina''': That would be the technical definition.

* In ''Webcomic/AliceAndTheNightmare'', oneironauts of Spades and Diamonds Suits can alter reality of dream at will - Spades can make the dream look however they want it to, and Diamonds can create material objects.

-->'''Kid Green Lantern''': I'll make a laser cannon! No, a missile launcher! Oh -- oh, I know!\\
'''Kid Batman''': Just pick something!

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has several of these. Evillustrator ([[VillainPossessedBystander evilized]] Nathaniel) can create anything drawn on the special pad on his arm. He does have a LogicalWeakness, though, in that he needs light to see what he's drawing. Mime can create invisible objects by miming them, even complex things like a car, but only one thing at a time. And there's Hawk Moth himself, whose power is [[SuperEmpowering bestowing powers on others]]. He can get quite creative with the powers that he grants, although it's usually related to the mental state of the recipient. It turns out that all of the Miraculous holders are like this - which Ladybug uses to create magic charms that block Hawk Moth's power (which Hawk Moth eventually finds a way around) - as well as the [[FairyCompanion kwamis]], which has resulted in [[ApocalypseHow several historical disasters]]. Animaestro can transform into any type of 2-animated being he can imagine with any power he wants but can only use his power if he is being watched by somebody.

-->'''Batman''': You go through that ''every time''?\\

* [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Beast Boy]], ComicBook/{{Vixen}} and ComicBook/AnimalMan's powers all revolve around either turning into or gaining the abilities of whatever animal they can think of. The thing is, what does and does not qualify as an animal is incredibly vague, meaning they have a good deal of variety, and can transform into/copy even other sentient species (how's a [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] strike your fancy? How about an [[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Apokalypsian]]?). To make matters even more confusing, on at least one occasion when Vixen's powers were limited to "the Human animal" her abilities allowed her to copy the powers of other superpowered Humans, even those whose powers weren't natural...and Superman...and an actual Franchise/GreenLantern (it was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d that this didn't make sense, though, and it eventually turned out to be the work of a RealityWarper).

* The ComicBook/New52's version of ComicBook/PhantomLady has [[TrickedOutGloves black light gloves]] that can manifest darkness into [[OminousFog black fog]], HardLight objects (like razors and shields) and [[LivingShadow living shadows]].\\
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** Marvel's most powerful psychics - particularly the Grey-Summers family, Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey, Characters/MarvelComicsRachelSummers, Characters/MarvelComicsCable, and Characters/MarvelComicsNateGrey - are such powerful telekinetics that at least in the case of Nate, they can explicitly warp reality. The others can, minimally, bend a few of the laws of physics and rearrange molecules. And that's ''without'' the Phoenix coming into play.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan]] is an energy manipulating example, as he can manipulate ''any'' form of energy on a truly colossal scale - and despite getting a bare-minimum of training and being, frankly, impulsive, immature, and outside of some very specialised situations, as thick as two short planks, he can do practically whatever he likes with it. In the Krakoan age, he's graduated to full Green Lantern style energy constructs, including semi-sentient and entirely subconscious ones. Given that he's got the rough personality of Superboy-Prime, this is... unfortunate.

* ComicBook/{{Spawn}} has the power to do almost anything, but the bigger the feat is, the more it uses up his limited energy pool. [[CastFromLifeSpan Once it's all gone, he gets a one-way trip to Hell.]]
* [[Franchise/StarWars The Force]], especially in [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse the EU]], is shown to be able to do just about anything the plot wants it to. From the more common things like shooting lightning from the hands, [[PsychicStrangle choking people]], seeing the future, etc. to more exotic things like moving objects to size of Star Destroyers, mutating life into insanely dangerous creatures, and so on. If the plot needs it The Force can do it, the only thing that keeps it from being a StoryBreakerPower is how fickle The Force tends to be as to what it'll allow people to do.
* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Atom Eve has the ability to alter the atomic structure of anything into anything she can think of, allowing her to do things like turn thin air into DeflectorShields.

* With Marvel, there's the Quantum Bands, belonging to ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}''. They do pretty much the same as the Green Lantern rings, only they're not technology, or run by willpower, and they come with the slight design flaw that kills anyone incapable of wielding them. And yet an OmnicidalManiac like Annihilus was able to hang on to them for several months in-universe.
* ComicBook/BlackPanther's ArchNemesis Klaw has the ability to create virtually anything he can imagine out of [[MakeMeWannaShout sound energy]].
* Invisible Woman of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' has this ability, given to her after her original ability turned out to be so useless that writers had to give her a reason to even EXIST. If you're a spy, a thief or an assassin, or just a phenomenally skilled martial artist, being able to turn invisible at will would be quite useful by itself. But Sue is none of those things, and an otherwise ordinary human who can turn invisible isn't much help against enemies with superhuman strength. They pulled that off pretty well, considering that she is now the strongest member of the team. Basically, she's become an Invisible Lantern over the years, being able to shape her invisible forcefields into any sort of constructs she wants but with the added advantage that her enemies can't see them.
** In early stories, the Human Torch's flame could often come off as this. One of this solo yarns in ''Strange Tales'' had him building a ''catapult'' out of pure flame to get rid of a bomb.
* The Answer, a villain from the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' series, has pretty much the same "power", allowing him to do whatever is required to "answer" a situation. For some reason this doesn't make him omnipotent, and he does get trounced by Spidey fairly often. Though in hindsight, it makes sense. An answer isn't always correct. Or there could be more than one correct answers.
* The Staff of One from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' lets Niko cause any effect she can name -- [[ItOnlyWorksOnce once]]. Any attempt to do the same thing twice causes random effects, ranging from silly (summoning pelicans) to massively inconvenient (teleporting her miles away). They are a bit inconsistent about this, but at least early on it seems it is not limited to the ''effect'' but to the actual ''[[SemanticSuperpower command word]]''; there are examples of Nico trying to come up with synonyms for words she has already used.
* Marvel's most powerful psychics - particularly the Grey-Summers family, Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey, Characters/MarvelComicsRachelSummers, Characters/MarvelComicsCable, and Characters/MarvelComicsNateGrey - are such powerful telekinetics that at least in the case of Nate, they can explicitly warp reality. The others can, minimally, bend a few of the laws of physics and rearrange molecules. And that's ''without'' the Phoenix coming into play.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsShiar Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan]] is an energy manipulating example, as he can manipulate ''any'' form of energy on a truly colossal scale - and despite getting a bare-minimum of training and being, frankly, impulsive, immature, and outside of some very specialised situations, as thick as two short planks, he can do practically whatever he likes with it. In the Krakoan age, he's graduated to full Green Lantern style energy constructs, including semi-sentient and entirely subconscious ones. Given that he's got the rough personality of Superboy-Prime, this is... unfortunate.
* Marvel's very own ComicBook/{{Galactus}} (and to a lesser extent his heralds) possesses the Power Cosmic, which was at some point described as being able to control [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction the four Fundamental Interactions of the universe]]. Whatever this would entail in RealLife, what it allows Galactus to do in the comics boils down to "Anything he wants". There are limits to what he can do, but these limits are so high that it's only ever an issue if he encounters one of the two or three people that are stronger than he is.
* The ComicBook/StarBrand from ComicBook/TheNewUniverse easily fits this trope. It can do just about anything the user wants, from flying to immortality. However, it has a tons of downsides to it, including being unable to be fully rid of the power (passing it leaves you with 10% of the power and you can drain it completely, but there's the possibility that you'll get it back or accidentally pass it on) and it can only be held by living beings (the two times it was placed on inanimate objects? Gave people superpowers and turned Pittsburgh into a crater, respectively). When the New U's Earth was brought to the Marvel U, it was placed in quarantine because the Star Brand ''upset the balance of the universe''. Its main depicted wielder, Ken Connell, was severely lacking in imagination and functioned mostly as a FlyingBrick.

* Melissa Joan "Mel" Gold was given a cybernetic vocalizer that allowed her to use her [[SuperScream augmented vocal chords]] to create constructs out of solidified sound, in a manner similar to Klaw, when she reinvented herself as Songbird of the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''. Deconstructed in that it actually proves ''tricky'' for her to properly use this power at first, as her only previous experience with her sonic powers was simply shrieking to produce straightforward sonic blasts. With practice, however, she learned to use it competently.

* Atom Eve in ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' has the ability to alter the atomic structure of anything into anything she can think of, allowing her to do things like turn thin air into DeflectorShields.
* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', Clara's veilripper is a pen that allows her to draw things into existence.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Spiral Energy is essentially this. It's the force of willpower manifested into reality, allowing one to "do the impossible." While first seen to apply (temporary) repairs to Gurren Lagann's leg early on, it also allows one to create matter, break physics and just overpower anything through sheer will. By the end of the series, Simon is able to harness it to do practically anything. Though namely in the [[GonnaNeedMoreX making of]] [[ThisIsADrill larger drills]] while powering the insanely huge mechs. Perhaps as a nod to its spiritual predecessor, Getter Robo, it usually manifests itself as green (with the exception of Lord Genome; who's is a rather sinister red, [[spoiler: though this is due to the fact he is using spiral energy against itself, working for suppressive and repressive means, since his was green back when he was a young man.]]
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Haruna owns a magical sketchbook which allows her to summon ''[[ArtInitiatesLife anything she draws]]'' as a magical beast. Thus far she's used it to fight, to decoy enemies by summoning clones of her friends, to tie enemies up by summoning tentacle-ermines (don't ask), stopping a ''Gatling gun barrage'' by summoning a swarm of small creatures (more ermines) to get in the way of the bullets, making a flying manta ray to avoid enemies on, and creating several [[PowerPerversionPotential modified golems of other characters]].
** Shadow using magic also qualifies; Takane D. Goodman creates shadow golems for attack and defense (as well as clothing), the other shadow magic user creates blades and such. Haruna has the better imagination, ''and'' she can reuse a drawing.
** Also from Negima is Jack Rakan, whose artifact allows him to create literally any weapon. Normally he'll just go with a BFS, since that suits his style best, but the fact remains that if it's a weapon of any sort, he can make it. The kicker? He doesn't even need his artifact to beat most opponents, he's just that ungodly strong.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', Ditto's Transform move not only lets it turn into other Pokémon, but face masks, arms, keys, umbrellas, ''full sized working cannons'' etc. Pretty much whatever it needs.
* Demons' robes in ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' can do anything from creating lifelike replicas to looking into the past, limited mainly by the skill of the user and the mass of the robe.
* The titular character from ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has godlike powers, meaning she can twist reality and create any thing/situation she wants. The only catch is she doesn't realize she has this ability.

* In ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'', Kunikida's power allows him to create whatever he wants by writing on his [[RealityWritingBook notebook]], as long as he has seen the object before and know how it functions.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Parodied with Kanjuro who has the ability [[ArtInitiatesLife to turn anything he draws real]]. The problem is that he's a TerribleArtist, rendering anything he creates barely functional (or completely non-functional if drawn badly enough). If he creates a creature, it always appears to be in pain and is happy only when it's destroyed or reverts back to a drawing. [[spoiler:When he reveals he was TheMole, he also reveals he was faking how bad his drawing skills really were and starts using it to his fullest potential. He can even make copies of himself.]]
** A straighter example is Mr. 3, whose wax-molding powers function very much like a poor man's Green Lantern Ring. He can't do much against [[KillItWithFire fire]] (or high temperatures in general), but otherwise he can build himself a HumongousMecha battlesuit in ''seconds''.
** In a way, many Devil Fruits can be considered this. Though the basic power is determined by the fruit itself, the usefulness of those powers are determined by the creativity of the user. Did you know being made of rubber can give you SuperSpeed? Or how about the [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway seemingly useless power]] to [[OneUp return to life once]], would you have guessed it would also let you summon the flames of Hell itself? And did you know the power of Pushing can also include shoving around abstract concepts like injury and pain? Devil Fruits never get more powerful than when you first eat them, outside of a very rare occurrence called Awakening, but the users get more creative.

* ''Franchise/CardfightVanguard'' gives a huge emphasis on the importance of imagination, so naturally there are suporpowers that came out of it.
** First is [=PSYquolia=], which is some kind of mix between {{Telepathy}} and {{Seers}}. [=PSYquolia=] users can communicate with their cards and influence the flow of their decks, or see the way the fight is going to turn out like seeing the future. That includes knowing what ''the opponent'' is going to draw. They can also draw other people in the realm of their imagination, which is directly linked with Planet Cray, where the beings that are illustrated in the cards reside, thus allowing them to come and go through the planet mentally as they please. That is used for MindRape quite a few times, but it can also allow them to communicate via telepathy with other people; for instance, in one episode, a guy with this power uses it to drag three other people in his imagination and hold a discussion with them, while they were the center of attention in a stadium full of people. Nobody notices that something was off. In addition, they can ''attack'' other people in that realm, or ask their cards to do so, which results in them experiencing the physical pain even though there is no actual injury. Finally, they can track each other down. The ability also has some degree of physical manifestation; at their strongest, one user obtains BlowYouAway abilities (though his power always kind of manifested like that) and another KiManipulation. However, all of this - and we mean ALL OF IT - can be countered if someone else has a stronger imagination, because that's what it comes down to.
** The second ability doesn't have a name, but its users are called either Singularities or Peacemakers. It's a type of SummonMagic that allows them to physically manifest the creatures of the cards on Earth, and all that entails. However, it's a major case of BlessedWithSuck; it requires imagination, and we quote "[[CastFromHitPoints so strong that it chips your life away]]". The side effects are various and horrific: one suffers from RapidAging and dies on-screen, another is almost paralyzed, and a third becomes an EmptyShell to cope with the pain. The others aren't that badly damaged, but one is in constant state of burn-out, and another is tricked into knocking himself in a coma via his own power. Notably, the [[Anime/CardfightVanguardVSeries reboot]] removes the CastFromHitPoints aspect of this ability.
* ''Manga/BlackClover'':
** Anything that Dorothy imagines in her Glamour World becomes real with all the properties that it would have in the real world. However, her magic also manifests anything that can be unintentionally imagined too.
** Because his Picture Magic is based on creating paintings, Rill is only limited by his creativity. He's been seen casting wells, a wooden multi-headed snake, and a harpy. Rill notes that the more inspired he is the stronger his magic is.
* In ''Anime/HelloWorld'', younger Naomi gets gifted a special glove called the Hand of God that can manipulate matter it touches into anything he can imagine, including [[spoiler:a black hole.]] The better he knows an item's composition and structure, the faster he can do so, and he goes through BoxingLessonsForSuperman by reading a lot of relevant books.
* ''Amentia'': People called Delusioners can conjure up whatever they imagine, including people capable of independent thought. However, most Delusioners are unaware of this and cannot tell their conjured things from the real deal. For example, the main character, Lee Wee-Jin, is a siscon and usually conjures up loving duplicates of his bullying sister Wee-Na, and often gets them mixed up. When he learns about his ability, he finds that he can make creations of other Delusioners disappear, as long as his willpower is stronger than theirs. Unfortunately, a group called the Wakers are hellbent on persecuting Delusioners with weapons that can destroy whatever they create.

* Melissa Joan "Mel" Gold was given a cybernetic vocalizer that allowed her to use her [[MakeMeWannaShout augmented vocal chords]] to create constructs out of solidified sound, in a manner similar to Klaw, when she reinvented herself as Songbird of the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''. Deconstructed in that it actually proves ''tricky'' for her to properly use this power at first, as her only previous experience with her sonic powers was simply shrieking to produce straightforward sonic blasts. With practice, however, she learned to use it competently.

* ''Amentia'': People called Delusioners can conjure up whatever they imagine, including people capable of independent thought. However, most Delusioners are unaware of this and cannot tell their conjured things from the real deal. For example, the main character, Lee Wi-Jin, is a siscon and usually conjures up loving duplicates of his bullying sister Wi-Na, and often gets them mixed up. When he learns about his ability, he finds that he can make creations of other Delusioners disappear, as long as his willpower is stronger than theirs. Unfortunately, a group called the Wakers are hellbent on persecuting Delusioners with weapons that can destroy whatever they create.

* ''Amentia'': People called Delusioners can conjure up whatever they imagine, including people capable of independent thought. However, most Delusioners are unaware of this and cannot tell their conjured things from the real deal. For example, the main character, Lee Wi-Jin, is a siscon and usually conjures up loving duplicates of his bullying sister Wi-Na, and often gets them mixed up. Unfortunately, a group called the Wakers are hellbent on persecuting Delusioners with weapons that can destroy whatever they create.

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* Parodied in ''Manga/OnePiece'': Kanjuro has the ability [[ArtInitiatesLife to turn anything he draws real]]. The problem is that he's a TerribleArtist, rendering anything he creates barely functional (or completely non-functional if drawn badly enough). If he creates a creature, it always appears to be in pain and is happy only when it's destroyed or reverts back to a drawing. [[spoiler:When he reveals he was TheMole, he also reveals he was faking how bad his drawing skills really were and starts using it to his fullest potential. He can even make copies of himself.]]

* Marvel's most powerful psychics - particularly the Grey-Summers family, Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey, Characters/MarvelComicsRachelSummers, Characters/MarvelComicsCable, and Characters/MarvelComicsNateGrey - are such powerful telekinetics that at least in the case of Nate, they can explicitly warp reality. The otehrs can, minimally, bend a few of the laws of physics and rearrange molecules. And that's ''without'' the Phoenix coming into play.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has several of these. Evillustrator ([[VillainPossessedBystander evilized]] Nathaniel) can create anything drawn on the special pad on his arm. He does have a LogicalWeakness, though, in that he needs light to see what he's drawing. Mime can create invisible objects by miming them, even complex things like a car, but only one thing at a time. And there's Hawk Moth himself, whose power is [[SuperEmpowering bestowing powers on others]]. He can get quite creative with the powers that he grants, although it's usually related to the mental state of the recipient. It turns out that all of the Miraculous holders are like this - which Ladybug uses to create magic charms that block Hawk Moth's power (which Hawk Moth eventually finds a way around) - as well as the [[FairyCompanion kwamis]], which has resulted in [[ApocalypseHow several historical disasters]].

So you played the SuperpowerLottery? Well, kid, you just scored the gold medal! This power, based around the user's imagination, allows the user to create anything if they can think of it. It can be anything mundane from table flatware to weapons like rocket launchers and machine guns.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia,'' Momo Yaoyorozu has the power to generate physical objects from her body, as long as she knows their atomic structure. Fortunately, she's a genius, and thus has been shown creating a number of different items. [[AllThereInTheManual Her hero costume is detailed]] as having reference books in the belt compartments, in case there's anything she doesn't know. Her only limitation is that each use of her power is CastFromCalories, so she has to constantly eat and overusing her power risks her becoming weak and anemic.
* In ''LightNovel/IsekaiCheatMagician'', magic works this way: while it must be based in the four classical elements (Air, Earth, Fire and Water), a spell can be created by visualizing the effect. Rin, who has modern education in sciences (particularly physics and chemistry), is able to use a greater repertoire of spells based on it: for example, when she started training with fire, instead of thinking of wood burning, she picked gas, producing hotter flames than her mentor.

* Melissa Joan "Mel" Gold was given a cybernetic vocalizer that allowed her to use her [[MakeMeWannaShout augmented vocal chords]] to create constructs out of solidified sound, in a manner similar to Klaw, when she reinvented herself as Songbird of the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}''. Deconstructed in that it actually proves ''tricky'' for her to properly use this power at first, as her only previous experience with her sonic powers was simply shrieking to produce straightforward sonic blasts. With practice, however, she learned to use it competently.\\
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* Taylor in ''Fanfic/{{Silencio}}'' has the power to create telekinetic constructs in the shape of anything that she can [[YourMimeMakesItReal mime]]. Objects created can be as simple as the classic mime barrier or a strong wind, to things like chainsaws, swiss army knives, and one time, a horse.

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' [=PCs=] ''are'' {{Swiss Army Superpowers}}. Sure, they may only have a raygun and a door-opening device on them when you [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard trap them in your warehouse]], but depending on their abilities, they could build just about ''anything'' in there.

* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' [=PCs=] ''are'' {{Green Lantern Ring}}s. Sure, they may only have a raygun and a door-opening device on them when you [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard trap them in your warehouse]], but depending on their abilities, they could build just about ''anything'' in there.