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Basic Trope: The power to create matter and energy from nothing.

  • Straight: The Maker has the super-ability to create anything they desire from nothing, regardless its state of being or complexity.
  • Downplayed:
    • The power they have makes a grey goo that contains a mishmash of DNA and is technically alive, but is otherwise short-lived, unstable and unimpressive.
    • The Maker can make things from nothing, but only small or simple things like rocks and playing cards. Things with billions of factors and fine details (like dollar bills) are out.
  • Justified:
  • Inverted: Power of the Void.
  • Subverted
    • The Maker is a fraud. They can't create things out of thin air. They can just teleport objects from very far away.
    • The Maker can make things out of thin air. Literally. They transmute oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide into solid objects. Still not the Power of Creation, though.
  • Double Subverted: The Maker is a talented Stage Magician that makes cards, coins and doves appear out fo thin air, but only the same way a regular human magician does it. Sure they actually have the power to do it for real, but where's the fun in that?
  • Parodied: The Maker shoots water out of their sleeves as a parlor trick, magically conjuring the water from nothing. The world floods, the Maker only capable of creating things instead of destroying it.
  • Deconstructed:
    • The Maker only has the raw power of creation. They have no real power over what they are able to create, how it behaves independent from the moment of its creation or if The Maker is immune to any ill effects that the created things gives off, like poison or radiation.
    • The Maker is one of the most powerful beings in the universe, but they recognize their equal/opposite Destroyer Deity as equally important. Destroyer Deity can try and destroy the universe (and The Maker too as his natura dictates) all they want, but The Maker can't do anything about it because 1) Creation cannot exist without Destruction, and 2) since The Maker only has the power to create, they could not destroy anything even if they wanted to.
    • The Maker can create anything, but they need to know everything about an object, all the way down to the protons and neutrons of its atoms, in order to create it exactly as needed.
  • Reconstructed:
    • The Maker and Destroyer Deity work together in the creation of everything; The Maker uses their power to create raw existence while Destroyer Deity's purpose is to hammer things into shape and make everything distinguishable. The Maker created the concept of "rock", but Destroyer Deity is why "quartz", "desert", "mountain", "metal ore" (and so on) exists distinctly from each other.
    • While The Maker creates stars and planets, Destroyer Deity destroys them whenever they outlive their usefulness or are in desperate need of ending, providing the sweet release of death to old, tired galaxies while leaving room for The maker to replace them with new things.
  • Zig Zagged: The Maker is a god with the ability to create. However, they are just one middle-tier god in a pantheon, and being the god of pastries, they are only capable of creating pastries and everything having to do with pastries (raw ingredients, tools, fire in the oven, etc.)
  • Averted: The Maker can't make anything out of thin air.
  • Enforced: The setting of the medium is about heroes who all have only one ability with no Required Secondary Powers. When you want a particularly impressive hero (or a particularly threatening bad guy), "Creation" makes for the perfect winner in the Superpower Lottery. As a Semantic Superpower and Imagination-Based Superpower, the character can create things for defensive purposes (like a dome of pure diamond, a brick wall, flexible armor), offensive purposes (like weapons, explosives or even just spontaneous explosions), travel (cars, planes with pilots, chariots with horses), emergency situations (space suits and diving suits with an unlimited supply of oxygen, radiation-proof outfits) and can even endure fatal or crippling injuries via regenerating raw tissue.
  • Implied: A character can pull literally anything out of Hammerspace and never seems to run out of stuff.
  • Logical Extreme: The Maker can create weapons, armies and fire lasers from anywhere. They can switch strategies on a dime and throw literally anything at their enemy for as long as it takes until their opponent gives up or if Maker discovers what is able to hurt them, whereupon the Maker generates that weakness ad nauseam until the opponent stays down.
  • Played for Laughs: A Running Gag has The Maker having Hammerspace pockets where he will dump random things out of them when bored or stressed, including candy, car parts and live-animals.
  • Played for Drama: Because The Maker can literally make anything they want with no effort, they cannot value any of it. They create extravagant castle from nothing full of treasure and wonders, then move out and make another the next day. They can make all the money and gold they could ever need, but what's the point if you can make anything you would need to buy? Why go out to make friends when you could just literally make friends from the comfort of your perfectly generated bed? Why keep those friends if you could just make more five minutes later? Why use your gift to make the world a better place when you could literally just make a different world where everything is already perfect?
  • Played for Horror: The Maker is a child who was born with the godlike power to create anything they want. What do they do? They create monsters and mythical creatures from their imagination which proceeds to hunt down and kill everyone and everything around them. What's worse, that child thinks they are invincible, so they were created in such a what that literally nothing could stop them.
  • Exaggerated: Everything the Maker does is a mindless and spontaneous act of creation. The Maker snaps their fingers every morning after they wake up and a universe comes into existence fully formed. The Maker pores themselves a bowl of cereal and the box becomes a bottomless well of cereal infinitely spawning grains of Cheerios forever. They go to the toilet to pee and they urinate all day because they can generate and infinite amount of urine.
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  • Exploited: The Maker is done as an excuse to put the money on the screen and have all sorts of bizarre and extravagant stuff to pack the trailer with without having a better excuse for it all happening a la The Genie from Aladdin,
  • Discussed: The Maker is a villain has the power to create anything they want and they use it to create a Doomsday Device to randsom the world with in exhcnage for a lot of money. The Hero then asks what they need money for if they could just create whatever they would want to buy.
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