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1	A PersonOfMassDestruction leaves rubble in their wake, but some people add to the surroundings rather than wrecking them. A Person of Mass Construction can also be a Person of Mass Destruction, either at different times or by razing the scenery to make room for their own. It can simply be mundane construction, overlapping in video game examples with CommandAndConquerEconomy, and on the other side of the JustForFun/SuperWeight scale, characters with the PowerOfCreation often fit this trope. However, things must be permanent constructions[[note]]i.e. they continue to exist even after the Person leaves the area or stops using their power[[/note]] to count as this; Alchemists from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' would count, but not [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lanterns]], as the Lanterns' constructs are temporary. There can be RealLife examples of people or groups that produce improbably large amounts of things.
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3	By definition, ConstructionAndManagementGames make the player this by way of RidiculouslyFastConstruction.
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5	Compare GorgeousGarmentGeneration.
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12	* Almost all alchemists in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' can create anything they want out of the ground, raw materials lying around, or even [[spoiler:their own bodies]].
13	* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', after the battle against Pain, Yamato helps rebuilding whole districts of the Leaf Village by himself with his Wood Art. Though he claims to be very tired afterwards.
14	* Franky in ''Manga/OnePiece'' serves as the Straw Hat Pirates' shipwright and carpenter. In his first arc as a Straw Hat, Thriller Bark, he puts these skills to use by doing things like constructing a very detailed and ornate bridge while the others with him have their backs turned discussing how to cross a huge gap. In the battle with Oars, he constructs a much more simplistic staircase as fast as he and Chopper can climb it to get them into position for a punch to the giant monster's jaw.
15	* In ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'', the [[TheDragon First Star Commander]] of W.I.S.E, Grana, is first seen using his simple, yet astounding telekinesis to assemble an entire base of operations (which likely includes all the machinery, cables, conduits and whatnot) from scratch in about 2 minutes, as if it was a RealTimeStrategy game.
16	* In Franchise/DragonBall there is Majin Buu who can use a TransformationRay to turn people into building supplies (or candy) and Cell who built a fighting ring with telekinesis, a relatively low grade attack, and a mountain.
17	* In ''Literature/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'' has the Castle Lords, specialized members of Demon armies in charge of using spells like '''Iris''' to construct castles, fortifications, traps, and other defensive measures. Misha Necron of the main cast is especially notable for the scale and the speed she can construct things, making three grand, completely outfitted, and identical castles in a few seconds where other armies would need several Castle Lords working in unison. She is also famed for her ability to make ''extremely'' small, detailed, and intricate models, [[MundaneUtility highly valued by art collectors.]]
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21	* In a battle between Comicbook/{{Cable}} and Comicbook/SilverSurfer, the only reason there wasn't massive devastation in the clash between the two god-like beings is because whatever damage they caused, Cable (at least) also repaired within nanoseconds, meaning that the {{Innocent Bystander}}s caught between them never even noticed that anything had ever been destroyed.
22	* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} can use his MagnetismManipulation to create as easily as he uses it to destroy. He's constructed multiple space stations in this way, including his various Asteroid Ms and Avalon (though Avalon was a pre-existing station called Graymalkin that he expanded and modified). He's also prone to erecting statues of himself (either as tribute to his ego, or as a warning, depending on who you ask), as demonstrated in 2018's ''ComicBook/XMenBlue'', and in the same year's ''Uncanny X-Men'' (though this time, they were statues of [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who had him on a psychic leash, and they're made of soldiers' guns).
23	** Magneto's disciple [[KnightTemplar Exodus]] also wields powers capable of both creation and destruction, though in his case he wields high-order telepathy and telekinesis. After the original Avalon was destroyed he constructed a New Avalon in the arctic north (though he had to abandon it as its launch into space would have killed millions) and later in ''ComicBook/XMen Legacy'' he used his telepathy in combination with his telekinesis to read Cable's memories of a future Cerebro machine and then build it in the present day out of a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Helicarrer.
24	* Franchise/{{Superman}} was originally very much like this; he might wreck something, but he would rebuild it at SuperSpeed, and helps out community construction projects, as well as building things on the fly to help combat villains. (His heat vision and super-cold-breath began as NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, welding metal together "with the heat from my x-ray vision" and then freezing it into place.)
25	** A recent issue of ''Justice League'' featured the team debating whether to make any changes to the design before rebuilding the destroyed Hall of Justice. They then turn around to see that Superman and the Flash have rebuilt it exactly the way it was while they were arguing.
26	* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is just so quick taking apart the landscape like putting it back together. She has been known to get a giant breakwater up in seconds to protect San Franciso from a tsunami.
27	* This became a plot point in the solo series of Nate Grey, the ComicBook/XMan, when Nate's high-order telekinesis started ''literally putting people back together in his sleep''. He restored a doctor's arm in this way, as well as resurrecting Madelyne Pryor outright. Unfortunately, he was creating psionic constructs rather than actual flesh and when his focus slipped, most of what he created vanished (save Madelyne, who used her own power to liberate her body from its dependency on Nate). This proved to be {{Foreshadowing}} for his later veer into full on RealityWarper status.
28	* Franchise/{{The Flash}} is able to use his SuperSpeed in order to repair any damage that his battles may cause. One of the biggest examples occurs in the 2010 flash series when Barry Allen rebuilds an apartment that was completely destroyed by an explosion.
29	* The super-powered soldiers of ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' have this ability: they can transmute air into solid steel, generating platforms or bridges near-instantaneously.
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33	* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Magneto's space station base 'Avalon' a.k.a. Asteroid M is mentioned repeatedly throughout the first book, before appearing in the second. It's about 3/4 the size of Hogwarts, and with the exception of a few life support systems provided by Mar-Vell, entirely made by Magneto himself, who caught and hollowed out the asteroid, before building it - and with his powers, he can create rooms, collapse them, and alter walkways however he sees fit. This is widely considered to be very impressive: Harry, whose PsychicPowers are vast, says that while in theory he's got the power to do it, he wouldn't know where to start in actually making it work.
34	** Referenced and PlayedForLaughs when Fandral tells a small child that whenever Thor tries to use Mjolnir to put up a house, he ends up knocking the house down (though in this case, he's just lying).
35	* In the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings,'' Hiccup, a creative person by anyone's measure, uses dragon-aided labor to create massive amounts of infrastructure, including water powered mills, an underground bathhouse, floating pile-drivers, and other such things, and has plans in motion to create a mail-network that will span Europe.
36	* When Swamp Thing invades Gotham and turns it into a jungle in ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'', his plants break up concrete, block pathways, and generally disrupt regular services, but they provide food, water, cleaning supplies (unfortunately the gourds for those are hard to distinguish from the previous two), and even play equipment, as well as attacking and dousing fires. Several months later, the sewers are still self-cleaning and there's a bridge support made of ultra-hard wood, kept partly for tourist/historical value, and partly because no one could agree on what to do with it.
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40	* Fix-It Felix Jr. from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is a guy who can both fix anything ''and'' build anything in a blink of an eye.
41	* The Master Builders on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', who are able to build anything out of random pieces in seconds.
42	* Queen Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'' can use ice powers to construct a giant castle of ice for herself filled with giant doors and a spiral staircase, all in the course of a single song! Kristoff, whose life pretty much revolves around ice, is all but driven to tears by how beautiful it is.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': when demonstrating his microbots, Hiro shows how they can be applied to construction by using his microbots to build a roughly 10-foot tower in a matter of seconds. Yokai, [[spoiler: alias Professor Callaghan]] later uses the microbots to reconstruct Krei's teleportation device as part of his revenge scheme against Krei.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' features the use of a genies wish to turn Scrooge Mcduck's money bin into a fantasy castle in a fantastic TransformationSequence.
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48	* Jean Grey and Magneto rebuild the ''totally'' explodiated X-mansion with little trouble at the end of ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. Apocalypse himself is this and PersonOfMassDestruction, as he uses city's material to build his sanctum.
49	* ''Film/{{Stardust}}'': Features a witch transforming a chariot into a InnOfNoReturn via magic to further her plot.
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53	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Bran the Builder is said to have built Winterfell and Storm's End, two of the strongest castles in the world, as well as the Wall in the north. Many characters, however, doubt that he actually existed, or that he was a single person.
54	* ''Literature/EmpireStar'' has the Lll, a race that the Empire reluctantly keeps as slaves because they are the only cost-effective way to rebuild planets which have been destroyed by war. Just a handful of Lll is enough to restore the most ravished planet.
55	* ''Literature/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Laika the dragon has extensive knowledge of carpentry and retains her SuperStrength in [[{{Humanshifting}} human form]], so can build a large house singlehandedly in a day.
56	* ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'' has [[spoiler: Yeine ascended to goddess status, who both causes a gigantic WorldTree to grow up around the city of Sky and later creates an entire new palace for Shahar Arameri after the WorldTree and Sky are destroyed]].
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60	* When the Dark Curse from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is enacted, it causes an entire town to form itself in the middle of the woods in Maine, right around the people camping there! A clock tower, a bed-and-breakfast, town hall, the mayor's office, a well, elaborate mines, a port and more can all be yours, just for the price of the heart of the one you love most!
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64	* As described in the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', {{God}} is an exaggerated example of this. He created light, the heavens, the stars, the lands, the animals, and humanity all in only ''six days''.
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68	* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has several dreamlike construction techniques available to creatures of faerie:
69	** The OathboundPower of the [[PrestigeClass Ancient and Accepted Order of Bridgemasons]] lets them build at incredible speed, up to the size of a city bus every hour, with no need of tools, so long as {{Muggles}} don't see them at work.
70	** The [[MagicByAnyOtherName Contracts]] of Artifice let a changeling {{MacGyver\|ing}} almost any device out of "vaguely appropriate parts" within minutes or hours, like assembling an ultra-light plane out of a lawn mower and some pipes. However, the construction [[NoOntologicalInertia only lasts for a few hours]].
71	** Bloodbrute Ogres can turn available parts into any melee weapon with just a few seconds and a point of [[{{Mana}} Glamour]].
72	* ''TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
73	** The [[UtilityMagic utility spell]] Fabricate transforms raw materials into finished products, which can do things like creating a bridge out of logs.
74	** The [[MagicMusic Lyre of Building]] reproduces the work of 100 humans laboring for three days with every 30 minutes of playing, though it becomes increasingly difficult to play with every hour of use.
75	** The 5th edition book ''Xanathar's Guide to Everything'' features two spells, Mighty Fortress and Temple of the Gods, that allow a spellcaster to summon huge buildings on command. They normally [[NoOntologicalInertia vanish after a while]], but repeated castings of the spell make them permanent.
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79	* In ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' and fittingly, its SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'', you begin with a single Commander, who builds up a base that can eventually produce massive numbers of units, some of which can build more buildings, making more units...
80	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' games, a city with high Production can build every turn buildings or units that usually take many turns to complete.
81	* The point of ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' is to solve puzzles by creating things with your notebook, including castles, planets, dragons, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cheese.]]
82	* The player character of ''VideoGame/MySimsKingdom'' is part of a legacy of these known as "Wandoliers." As the name suggests, they use a magical wand assigned by the Crown to construct domestic items for the troubled denizens of the kingdom. The player character of the original ''VideoGame/MySims'' is a similar story.
83	* Mickey Mouse, thanks to his magical paintbrush, can instantly make giant structures appear mid-air in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''. He can't choose where the structures go, but if he slaps Paint in the appropriate place, he can create giant buildings, advanced machinery and the greatest construction of all, [[ThePowerOfFriendship love]].
84	* Every character present in any ''VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame'' can rapidly create complex structures, assuming a pile of interactive LEGO Bricks are around. This especially goes for characters with {{Telekinesis}} (ex: the Jedi, Wizards, Green Lanterns), who can manipulate LEGO Bricks from a distance.
85	* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'': [[AGodIsYou As a god]], you can [[JustifiedTrope miraculously]] transform construction materials into finished buildings in a matter of seconds, though it wastes some resources compared to just letting your villagers build them normally.
86	* In ''Videogame/Fallout4'', the protagonist can build anything on settlements from basic decorations and utilities to automated turrets and entire buildings along with power stations within seconds provided that they have the resources. At one point, it is actually necessary for them to build [[spoiler:a ''teleporter'']] in order to progress with the storyline.
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90	* White Mage in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' [[spoiler: accidentally created the entire universe the comic takes place in at the beginning of time.]]
91	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'''s population of RidiculouslyHumanRobots was manufactured to {{Terraform}} and construct a colony on the planet Jean, so their acts of civil disobedience tend to [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fc02599.htm look like this]]:
92	--> '''Police Officer:''' Rampaging robots built a gazebo in Mrs. Jones' back yard! They're reroofing her neighbor's house as we speak!
93	* Most of the [[MadScientist Sparks]] in the main cast of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius '' are the gadgets-and-gizmos building sorts, whose scientific prowess and engineering savvy (and reality warping abilities) allow them to construct giant robots, death rays, fantastic medical equipment, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking coffee machines]] out of stuff they find lying around. They work ''fast''.
94	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Sburb players usually become this, often turning the houses of their client players [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} into tall and bizare complexes]] by copy-pasting various parts of the already existing house on top of it. The size of the buildings is only limited by the score the client achieves.
95	* ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'': The titular character, [[StoryBreakerPower who is quite possibly the most powerful esper in the world]], is challenged by arrogant fellow [[PsychicPowers esper]] [[TheRival Teruki]]. Despite [[TheFettered Mob]]'s own reticence to fight other humans, Teruki takes things way too far and ends up awakening Mob's SuperpoweredEvilSide, which absolutely obliterates the entire school the two were fighting in. Upon coming to, a remorseful Mob '''rebuilds the entire school from shattered rubble as good as new,''' in a matter of seconds.
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99	* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Earthbenders can manipulate earth to form walls and roofs with a few hand movements. The Fire Nation's main issue with breaching the walls of Ba Sing Se was that the damage they inflicted was repaired overnight until they designed a giant drill.
100	* Duncan in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' is a GadgeteerGenius who enjoys building things to help people. When transformed into Man-At-Arms, he becomes a {{Technopath}} who can build engineering marvels in a fraction of the time with his [[TimeStandsStill Speed Build]] [[SignatureMove Master Strike]].
101	* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic:'' In his character short, [[CoolOldGuy Papa G]] uses [[MesACrowd powers of self-duplication]] to construct an entire landing strip (complete with lights and cushioning at the end) for the Kid in a matter of minutes, all so he could find his way back home. He can apparently do this so quickly he considered it faster than just going out and looking for him directly.
102	* While not all of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'''s inventions can be called massive, they have certainly demonstrated the ability to build just about anything, including things in the realm of impossible, in just one morning. Their accomplishments include multiple sport arenas, a giant aircraft made with paper, a skyscraper that goes to the moon, a rollercoaster that spans through a entire city, multiple amusement park rides, and many robotic animals, to name a few.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Crossing over with PersonOfMassDestruction, Lapis Lazuli uses her [[MakingASplash control of water]] to turn Earth's oceans into a StarScraper. We're later told her [[HiveCasteSystem caste]] is meant for HostileTerraforming.
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