History RealityWarper / MarvelUniverse

-->'''Billy:''' ''([[spoiler:as the Demiurge]])'' [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility I have all this power...and so the responsibility to use it. But I've also the responsibility to know how to use this power.]] And Billy Kaplan? You don't know what the hell you're doing. '''''[[spoiler:Yet]]'''''.

* In a back-up story in an issue of ComicBook/XMen Classics, the Watcher speculated that the ability to alter the fundamental nature of reality is the ultimate power of the Phoenix Force. She falls well short of the likes of the Scarlet Witch at the height of her powers in practice. In ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', Dark Phoenix did destroy a solar system, but it was by using a star as fuel; sucking up part of its energy caused an imbalance that caused a supernova, rather than her erasing it with a wave of her hand or something. She ''can'' use her maxed-out telekinesis to rearrange an object's subatomic particles until you get some other kind of matter - she once turned a tree into solid gold easily - and she has power over life and death as part of ThePhoenix motif, so she's perhaps on the ''low'' end of this list.

* The [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Avengers]] version of Loki. It seems via somehow tapping into the Odinforce, he is able to do things like change Thor into a mortal form, make himself immune against Mjolnir, change the color of the sky, and teleport a host of monsters, among other uses. The trick is, he can't use it too many times at once or much of it without alerting Odin to it.

* ComicBook/UltimateXMen introduced a SixthRangerTraitor in the form of Magician, whose reality warping usually manifested in him [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands gaining new powers constantly]] and giving him anything he wants. His power also worked subconsciously, creating a fantasy to get him onto the X-Men and passively brainwashing everyone around him in into liking him. After a confrontation with the X-Men, he ultimately fakes his death and leaves them, as his power was uncontrollable by nature.

* ComicBook/TheSentry started out as a FlyingBrick with various other ill-defined powers, but it seems the truth is he has control over matter itself. He killed the Molecule Man in about two seconds and can resurrect himself even after being disintegrated on a molecular level. It's said that if he went completely batshit insane, the Scarlet Witch (ComicBook/HouseOfM and ComicBook/{{Decimation}}) would be nothing by comparison. Since when controlled by [[EnemyWithout the Void]] he levelled Asgard in a matter of moments just through his flying brick powers, this is worrying. Death isn't a solution; at one point, he decided to be dead following a spectacular TraumaCongaLine, got forcibly resurrected, and found no-one knew how to kill him again.

* ComicBook/TheSentry started out as a FlyingBrick with various other ill-defined powers, but it seems the truth is he has control over matter itself. He killed the Molecule Man in about two seconds and can resurrect himself even after being disintegrated on a molecular level. It's said that if he went completely batshit insane, the Scarlet Witch (ComicBook/HouseOfM and ComicBook/{{Decimation}}) would be nothing by comparison. Since when controlled by [[EnemyWithout the Void]] he levelled Asgard in a matter of moments just through his flying brick powers, this is worrying. Death isn't a solution; at one point, he decided to be dead following a spectacular TraumaCongaLine, got forcibly resurrected, and found no-one knew how to kill him again.\\
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At one point, it was implied that the reason the Sentry has a MultipleChoicePast is because he's such a powerful reality warper, and has so little conscious control over his powers, that his "true" origin is whatever he thinks it is at the time.

* In a back-up story in an issue of ComicBook/XMen Classics, the Watcher speculated that the ability to alter the fundamental nature of reality is the ultimate power of the Phoenix Force. She falls well short of the likes of the Scarlet Witch at the height of her powers in practice. In ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', Dark Phoenix did destroy a solar system, but it was by using a star as fuel; sucking up part of its energy caused an imbalance that caused a supernova, rather than her erasing it with a wave of her hand or something. She ''can'' use her maxed-out telekinesis to rearrange an object's subatomic particles until you get some other kind of matter - she once turned a tree into solid gold easily - and she has power over life and death as part of ThePhoenix motif, so she's perhaps on the ''low'' end of this list.\\

It was sometimes implied that Phoenix's power was limited only by Grey's imagination. Dark Phoenix's destruction was somewhat limited by the fact that Jean was fighting against herself. She easily could have killed all the X-Men, but couldn't bring herself to do it. As Phoenix before she became Dark Phoenix, she unconsciously limited her abilities so that at some crucial moments she tried to channel more power, but instead a mental circuit breaker was tripped, shutting off the power completely.
** More recent stories involving the Phoenix have shown Jean as the White Phoenix of the Crown holding ''galaxies'' in the palm of her hand.
* ComicBook/TheSentry started out as a FlyingBrick with various other ill-defined powers, but it seems the truth is he has control over matter itself. He killed the Molecule Man in about two seconds and can resurrect himself even after being disintegrated on a molecular level. It's said that if he went completely batshit insane, the Scarlet Witch (ComicBook/HouseOfM and ComicBook/{{Decimation}}) would be nothing by comparison. Since when controlled by [[EnemyWithout the Void]] he levelled Asgard in a matter of moments just through his flying brick powers, this is worrying. Death isn't a solution; at one point, he decided to be dead following a spectacular TraumaCongaLine, got forcibly resurrected, and found no-one knew how to kill him again.\\
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* ComicBook/DoctorDoom towards the end of ''The ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'', which ended up being his undoing, as he was tricked into thinking about scenarios that would bring back his defeated opponents to fight him, thus making it happen. He gains this level of power again by killing the Beyonders and becoming God Doom in ''ComicBomic/SecretWars2015'', ruler of the fragments of remaining multiverse.

* The ''Galacta: Daughter Of Galactus'' miniseries suggests that all mutants are actually [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy unconscious]] reality warpers who alter reality to make mutant powers possible. It's non-canon, but it makes as much sense as any other explanation.

* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] on the side of good. His powers are so great, he was able to create the ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'' universe. Unfortunately for the heroes but fortunately for any sense of drama in the stories, [[GooGooGodlike he's too young to understand how powerful he is.]]
* [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} Nathan Summers]] being the love child of Scott Summers & Jean clone; Maddie Pryor, in a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot complex scheme]] enacted by Mister Sinister in order to subvert his creator and master ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}. Is stated by many to be such a powerful (or potentially powerful) psychic of the highest order that there's practically nothing his mind cannot accomplish, when he's unhindered by the T.O. virus. Or to put it another way, Cable is the mainstream reality counterpart of Nate Grey (see below), and as 'Saviour Cable', went toe to toe with the Silver Surfer while simultaneously repairing everything their fight was destroying and holding the vast island-city of Providence in the air. As he put it, while smashing the Surfer's board, [[BadassBoast "I didn't turn myself into everything I ever fought against, a god, just to come up short!"]]
* [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who spends some time hanging out and bonding with Franklin, is a psychic so powerful that he falls into this category, occasionally rewriting reality in his sleep and stopping time by accident. After a certain point, he evolves beyond the need to do things like eat, sleep or even breathe, and treats the multiverse as his personal stepladder, to be ambled up and down at will. And that was ''before'' his powers were fixed. After, he comfortably destroyed an evil alternate version of Jean Grey, reunited a woman who'd split herself across thousands of realities, easily went toe to toe with someone who was at least a planet buster, if not a reality buster, then transformed himself to energy and diffused himself into every living thing on Earth.
** On his return in 2018's ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', he's became arguably Marvel's most powerful example of this trope [[spoiler: in part because he got his powers back because of a Life Seed, the counterpart of the Death Seed that made Apocalypse what he is]]. He's casually capable of erasing every church and holy place on Earth, while simultaneously keeping Apocalypse and Kitty Pryde restrained, and Magneto (among others) on a psychic leash, swats entire teams of X-Men (including the likes of Jean Grey) like flies, and utterly terrifies Legion, a powerful RealityWarper in his own right. He demonstrates just why Legion's so afraid of him by ''effortlessly'' flattening Legion, ''inside Legion's own head'', after seeing through the other {{Reality Warper}}'s illusion and delivering a calmly brutal BreakingSpeech. He rounds it all off by finally creating the ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'', a whole new ''plane of existence'', complete with people who're implied to be genuine, living beings, rather than just mental constructs.
* Proteus on the side of bad. Fortunately, he seems to have limited range, and limited ability to make permanent changes. If he could, he'd make ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' look like a day at the park. As he cheerfully asked the X-Men when they found him in Edinburgh, "Have you ever heard a city scream?"
* David Haller aka Legion, son of Charles Xavier, which is actually only one of his ComboPlatterPowers, but each comes with him having a new/different alternate personality.
* On the "insane, or is he?" side, you have ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}'s wacky brother Jamie. He sees the world as a collection of "quantum strings," and by manipulating those, he can manipulate... well, due to PowerCreepPowerSeep, it went from "everything around him" (think Proteus) to "everything, period" (think [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]].) It's a good thing for all involved that the "mad" Jamie is more of a BunnyEarsLawyer who actually knows what he's doing with his increased power.

* The Beyonder is an unfathomably powerful reality warper, just short of Omnipotence. However he was [[StoryBreakerPower waaay too powerful]] for his own good. Although he did not know how to defecate until ComicBook/SpiderMan patiently showed him how. Way to take one for the team, Spidey. Beyonder was later revealed to have formed from a not-quite-complete Cosmic Cube.
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom towards the end of ''The ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|1984}}'', which ended up being his undoing, as he was tricked into thinking about scenarios that would bring back his defeated opponents to fight him, thus making it happen.
* The Molecule Man, Owen Reece, who can manipulate reality thanks to his ability to reshape molecules. This power comes from the missing fragment of the Cosmic Cube that formed the Beyonder, which incidentally left him immune to Beyonder's power. Unfortunately for Reece, he's always had one big problem: a serious lack of self-confidence.

* Absorbing Man once used his power to duplicate the properties of a Cosmic Cube. Stuff got very strange when he started punching stuff, like transforming people's costumes into older versions, and splitting the Sentry into the Sentry and the Void.

** Extended further in ''Gwenpool Strikes Back'' in that [[spoiler:she merely can say that something happened before to make it true, which she does with Iron Man [[MindScrew who only remembers it after she said it]]. She also does this at the end to rewrite her own backstory, becoming a mutant, to ensure she won't be forgotten or sidelined by Marvel.]]

* The Beyonder is an unfathomably powerful reality warper, just short of Omnipotence. However he was [[StoryBreakerPower waaay too powerful]] for his own good. Although he did not know how to defecate until Franchise/SpiderMan patiently showed him how. Way to take one for the team, Spidey. Beyonder was later revealed to have formed from a not-quite-complete Cosmic Cube.

* The Impossible Man from the planet Poppup, one of the Fantastic Four's earliest adversaries. He generally only displays shapeshifting in regular continuity. But a very creepy version of him appeared in the Comicbook/{{Exiles}}, where an alternate-universe Impossible Man became semi-psychotic due to a botched mind control attempt on him. He [[ForcedTransformation turned the Avengers into paper dolls]], transmogrified most of the population of Washington DC into glowing butterflies, and ''didn't realize any of what he was doing'' -- he was just trying to be ''funny''. Thankfully, he managed to [[SnapBack undo it all]] once he broke free.

* The [[Comicbook/TheUltimates Ultimate Avengers]] version of Loki. It seems via somehow tapping into the Odinforce, he is able to do things like change Thor into a mortal form, make himself immune against Mjolnir, change the color of the sky, and teleport a host of monsters, among other uses. The trick is, he can't use it too many times at once or much of it without alerting Odin to it.

** As of ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' we can take it as given that they're fully aware of the extent of their powers, but also the cost of it. In LaymansTerms: According to this series Loki's powers run on the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality (they literally ''lie things into existence''), so if they doesn't tell a passable story, their subconsciousness or the universe ''will''. As they're currently trying to do a HeelFaceTurn this means that they need to learn self-control because taking the easy route with this StoryBreakerPower is a sure-fire way back to ChronicVillainy.
* Comicbook/UltimateXMen introduced a SixthRangerTraitor in the form of Magician, whose reality warping usually manifested in him [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands gaining new powers constantly]] and giving him anything he wants. His power also worked subconsciously, creating a fantasy to get him onto the X-Men and passively brainwashing everyone around him in into liking him. After a confrontation with the X-Men, he ultimately fakes his death and leaves them, as his power was uncontrollable by nature.

* The obscure oneshot ''Comicbook/XMen'' character Mister Marvel put an interesting spin on this. He could alter reality, all right... but the changes to the universe he made were perceptible ''only to him''. In effect, he was living in a fantasy world of his own design. To himself (and only himself) he was the world's greatest superhero; the rest of the world saw him as a frail old man. Then ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' happened, [[TearJerker and suddenly he was a frail old man for real]].
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange at full power can do astonishing things to the fabric of reality, but for the most part he polices reality warpers rather than acts as one himself. This is because, as has been emphasised in recent years, "all magic comes with a price." For instance, after ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'', he successfully resurrected Las Vegas. Unfortunately, in doing so, he raised up a chunk of Hell.

* Kobik, a little girl born from the shards of Cosmic Cubes that somehow fused together. She's a friendly and cheerful child who just wants to play and be friends with everyone. Including [[spoiler:the Comicbook/RedSkull]] since he was the wielder of one of the Cubes that formed her and she has fond memories of the time they remade the world together.

** In ComicBook/TheUltimates, she once tried to attack Wolverine in the Savage Land and brought the dinosaurs back.

* Mad Jim Jaspers (referred to by other characters variously as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast reality butcher", "the Jaspers monster" or "the Jaspers thing]]") has been described in ''The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'' as the most powerful reality-warper ever to exist in the Marvel universe because he is capable of affecting realities other than his own. Jaspers is also totally insane and takes to poisoning and twisting reality around him because it seems like good sport. He was only defeated when the Fury, a super-adaptable cyborg created by the Jaspers of another universe [[spoiler: transported him to an empty void outside reality where there is nothing for him to control, and incinerated his brain]].\\
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A weaker Mad Jim from an alternate world was so powerful, his universe had to be destroyed. If the main (616) Mad Jim were to be fully powered, that may not be enough.

* The Impossible Man from the planet Poppup, one of the Fantastic Four's earliest adversaries. He generally only displays shapeshifting in regular continuity. But a very creepy version of him appeared in the Comicbook/{{Exiles}}, where an alternate-universe Impossible Man became semi-psychotic due to a botched mind control attempt on him. He [[BalefulPolymorph turned the Avengers into paper dolls]], transmogrified most of the population of Washington DC into glowing butterflies, and ''didn't realize any of what he was doing'' -- he was just trying to be ''funny''. Thankfully, he managed to [[SnapBack undo it all]] once he broke free.

** Then UpToEleven when the Reality Gem is wielded with the other Infinity Gems with something like the Infinity Gauntlet.

-->'''Billy:''' ''([[spoiler:as the Demiurge]])'' [[ComesGreatResponsibility I have all this power...and so the responsibility to use it. But I've also the responsibility to know how to use this power.]] And Billy Kaplan? You don't know what the hell you're doing. '''''[[spoiler:Yet]]'''''.