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Great Gazoo
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A good-natured weirdo with (effectively) magical powers, often in the form of a Sufficiently Advanced Alien. This subtrope of The Trickster is from some alternate reality or alternate time, with Reality Warper powers. The purpose of these characters is to enable unusual plots, not resolve them. A Great Gazoo is similar to a Trickster God, and possesses similar powers, but does not come from a pantheon. Their pranks/trolling are either due to a need to satisfy their own boredom (and torturing helpless savages will solve that) or they have an earnest desire to help their less-powerful friends, but their alien background causes them to provide completely inappropriate solutions to the problem. Getting the second one to stop helping is usually as difficult as getting the first one to stop Trolling. The problems they cause have to be solved by the protagonists' wits because they don't have enough power to just Counterspell or Dispel Magic. This trope takes its name from the character in The Flintstones, a little green alien that only Fred, Barney, and small children can see. Neither is related to The Grand Wazoo. |
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Aladdin: The Series: There's an episode with a blue cat creature named Chaos who is said to be stronger than any genie. Another episode has a pair of small Gazoo-like Reality Warpers, who force the cast to compete in various games. At one point Iago suggests that, with their powers, they should try to Take Over the World or something instead. They reply that ruling it got boring after a few centuries. |
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The Adventures of Captain Jack has Beelzebub, a normally invisible demonic spirit who embodies the character Herman's dark side and phenomenal psionic power, both of which frightened Herman so much that he subconsciously created that separate being who later integrates with Herman at the end of the series. | |
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Mork from Ork when he was introduced in Happy Days was basically this. A bit downplayed in his own spinoff. | |
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Adventure Time has Magic Man, an obnoxious spell-caster who travels around Ooo inflicting all sorts of torments on the locals. His pranks and mischief range from silly (like making Finn and Jake live as birds, bacteria, plants, and caterpillars in "Food Chain", or slipping Jake a sedative that causes him to shape-shift his torso into a miniature city in "Everything's Jake") to unpleasant (like turning a bird inside-out and transforming Finn into a giant disembodied foot in his debut episode "Freak City") to downright dangerous (swapping places with Jake in a ploy to escape execution in "Sons of Mars"). You almost feel sorry for the guy when you learn he was driven crazy by the death of his wife Margles. | |
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The end of Sunrider Liberation Day reveals Claude Trilleo to be this. The post-game [RE]turn scenario elaborates on it: as a time traveller and a goddess, Claude is effectively omnipotent and could end the conflict with a snap of her fingers. Yet she doesn’t, partly because using too much of her power could wipe out all of existence by causing a Reality-Breaking Paradox, partly because she’s secretly been working with the villains for most of the series until their goals stopped aligning with her own, but mostly because it amuses (and arouses) her to watch Kayto Shields try and overcome the hardships placed before him through his own merits. Because of this, she limits herself to messing with the Sunrider’s crew in more mundane ways and provides Kayto with very minimal assistance during the [RE]turn scenarionote (which only happened because she thought it would be interesting to send Kayto back in time and watch him try to prevent the Liberation Day massacre). | |
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In Dragon Age, the Dalish remember one of their gods, Fen'Harel, as being very much this in the vein of Coyote or Loki, fond of Cruel Mercy and Be Careful What You Wish For and responsible for sealing away the Elven Gods For the Lulz. And then it turns out to be averted outside of in-universe legend. Turns out he's a decent and well-intentioned non-trickster guy who simply had a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment, and a mix of Written by the Winners and Once Done, Never Forgotten took care of the rest. Or that's how he tells the story, anyway. The fact that he murders Flemeth to absorb her power and his overall plans are "tear down the Veil that separates the material world from the spirit world" despite knowing that doing so will kill every living thing in existence because he doesn't consider them truly alive points to him being considerably darker than he claims. | |
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X-Men: A far more malevolent version is the X-Men's enemy Mojo. He's from another dimension that he rules absolutely through a brain-numbing media empire, although he can only maintain ownership of the Mojoverse so long as his subjects like his programming. To that end, he uses his utter and complete mastery of magic (or sufficiently advanced science, maybe) to irritate the X-Men, so they have wacky adventures. He rarely attacks them outright; he does, however, have an army of baby clones of both the X-Men and of their enemies, including those of the Age of Apocalypse. Ominously, Dr. Strange once remarked that if Mojo ever decided to appear on Earth itself, it would be a very, very bad thing... Specifically, Mojo is a semi-humanoid invertebrate that moves mostly through technological aid, which makes television a lot more popular in his world since his people are more sedentary by nature. As said though, their technology is sufficiently advanced and on top of that Mojo's presence gives off an anti-life effect while in the regular 616 world for unknown reasons. The few times he's come in person he has shown himself as a terrifying Eldritch Abomination with a mile-long sadistic streak who just happens to be funny. He's a Walking Wasteland, natural disasters increase around the world just by his very presence, he can rot you away to nothing just by touching you, Rogue's touch does nothing to him, and if you have Psychic Powers, never try to get inside his head. Mutilation and torture are also just another Tuesday to him. |
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Glomer on Punky Brewster. He's more naive and clumsy than he is mischievous. | |
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Disney's Aladdin has the zany Genie. Virtually any good magical character in Disney is typically pretty wacky (the Three Good Fairies, the Fairy Godmother, Peter Pan, etc.), but the Genie takes the cake, breaking even the Fourth Wall. | |
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The Simpsons: The Great Gazoo is given a Shout-Out in "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase", showing "Ozmodiar" as a little green alien that only Homer can see. The joke many fans missed was that in an interview, Matt Groening said that the introduction of a Great Gazoo would officially mark the death of the series. In another episode, the Simpsons are at an animation convention, and Bart and Lisa watch a clip from an Anime: |
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The Magic School Bus: Ms. Frizzle qualifies as a human example, using the namesake bus to turn her class into bees, fly into outer space, travel through time, or shrink to the size of human cells. She's also a wholly benevolent version, since she does it all to teach her science class, and while there are a few close calls, the kids always get out of it perfectly safe. | |
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Orko from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983). The twist? He only has omnipotence in his homeworld — in Eternia, he is mostly an Inept Mage. However one episode features another trollan called Prankster, who is an even straighter example, and he makes a lot of trouble for He-Man and co. The only way to get rid of him was to trick him into saying his real name. | |
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The 2002 reboot at least demonstrated why this was. Orko could manage his powers just fine with his wand, which he accidentally lost while saving a young Prince Adam and Cringer shortly after arriving in Eternia. | |
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With the popularity of Mxy and Bat-mite, it was planned to give The Flash a helpful imp by the name of Mopee. However the Retcon involved was so hated that the very next issue ignored the entire thing. He was effectively out of continuity for decades, though appeared in two issues of the DC Super Friends series. During which he claimed to not only have given powers to the Flash, but also Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. No one buys any of it. He also gets his first taste of the troublesome side of the trope, giving everyone at a convention super powers to prove he really can do it. Naturally Myx planned the whole thing. | |
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Nyarlathotep of the Cthulhu Mythos can be interpreted as a Darker and Edgier variation of the archetype — the "pranks" he plays on mortals usually induce madness and hysteria at the absolute least, but he does appear to simply be flexing his powers in minor ways for his own amusement, never seeming to do anything large-scale that would disrupt the status quo, nor to be working towards any great Evil Plan. | |
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Wonder Woman didn't have an imp, but did have the leprechaun Shaggy of Shamrock Land, who pestered her and Etta Candy. | |
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In The Divine Cities, Jukov was the trickster Divinity of pleasure, corruption, chaos, madness, rebellion and a few other things. Stories of him playing tricks on his believers, like changing their form or luring them somewhere, abound. His favourite animal was the starling, but he seemed to favour birds in general, often turning himself or his followers into birds. | |
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Assassination Classroom has Koro-sensei, a super-speedy octopus creature who can move at mach-20 with great ease. His playful personality and super-speed allow him to do things like go around the world during break time and change his clothing without anyone noticing. Throughout the series, we learn that the best way to kill him is to trick him so he'll lower his guard enough to get a proper kill. | |
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The Amazing Digital Circus has Caine, the titular circus's eccentric AI ringmaster. Described as a "fun-loving wacky little guy", he's a Virtual-Reality Warper who controls everything within the confines of the circus except for the human performers' minds and the Void. Unfortunately, he's oblivious to the psychological torment he's inflicting upon those trapped in the circus and he's trying to make an effort to better understand humans. He also sets up random adventures for the performers as a distraction to keep them from going insane about not being able to get out and then turning into feral Digital Abominations. Not that it's enough, as Kaufmo can attest to. | |
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Stargirl (2020) has Thunderbolt, the pink genie who was the partner of the original JSA member Johnny Thunder and later became this first to Courtney's younger brother Mike, then to Mike's friend Jahkeem. Being a Literal Genie, anyone asking him for a wish has to be all levels of specific but sometimes, something as simple as wishing the Big Bad were toast actually works out for the better. | |
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In the Halt Evil Doer!! setting, the resident cosmic imp is Mr. Hoppy, a demonic cartoon Killer Rabbit who happens to rule Hell. | |
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The Sentinels of the Multiverse card game has the annoying Little Blue Man the Wager Master, who messes with the rules of the game to the point that it's possible for the players to win or lose before they even get a turn. | |
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In Mobius Final Fantasy, Echo is a fairie who follows travellers around before luring them to their deaths with promises of treasure. She's also known for never physically appearing to her victims, but Wol is able to see her, and she can even stop time so they can talk without anyone else knowing. She provides helpful, annoying guidance, as well as using her magic powers to pep him up in battle or sic him on wacky invading aliens. | |
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Bravest Warriors has the Emotion Lord, a crazy old man with the ability to bend reality (who turns out to be Chris's future self). He shows up to annoy the Bravest Warriors by doing things like filling Wallow's mouth with cashews or conjuring space chickens and chocolate puppies. | |
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Homestuck: The beta kids when they enter trickster mode. | |
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Persona and Persona 2 has Philemon and Nyarlathotep. Notably, while Nyarlathotep is a total ass about it, Philemon isn't really that much better. Agreeing to a stakes-free bet with Nyarlathotep about whether humans will break reality if they were given a way, then doing nothing to stop Nyarlathotep from cheating was kind of a dickmove. | |
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Excalibur from Soul Eater, the most powerful weapon on earth and also the most obnoxious and pettily selfish. | |
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In PS238, Veles serves as an expy for both Loki and Mr. Mxyzptlk. He has to fight someone each year to keeps the seasons running, and with Atlas now busy ruling his home planet Veles gets irritated, threatens to turn New York into his "personal temple, pleasure palace and gift shop" and then creates a contest to decide his new opponent. | |
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The Owl House: The Collector is a powerful reality warper with the mind of a playful child, though they are actually far older than they appear. Subverted in that the rest of their species are far less playful, interested only in cataloguing and preserving planets and their inhabitants and exterminating any that resist. | |
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The Cosmic Imp in Mutants & Masterminds. In the Freedom City splatbook, that cosmic imp is Quirk, a teenage expy of Superman's foe, Mr. Mxyzptlk. In the Halt Evil Doer!! setting, the resident cosmic imp is Mr. Hoppy, a demonic cartoon Killer Rabbit who happens to rule Hell. |
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The Hormone Monsters from Big Mouth possess some degree of magical ability and cause all sorts of unnecessary stress on the kids they hang around (not out of malice but out of impulse) and can only be seen by certain people. | |
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The Fae race from Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures. That's right, an entire effing race of 'em. | |
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Supreme has, of course, a Captain Ersatz Mr Mxyzptlk called Szasz, the Sprite Supreme. There's also Nite-Mite and Qyrk, who bedevil Batman and Aquaman counterparts Professor Night and Roy Roman. | |
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According to Sword of the Stars' copious fluff, the polytheistic Tarka have one called Sardo Kal. He is also the pantheon's War God. This says a lot about the Tarka. | |
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The Man From Another Place in Twin Peaks is a diminutive figure with an otherworldly voice who resides in an alternate dimension known as the Black Lodge, giving Dale Cooper cryptic messages while also trying to get a rise out of him. His allegiances are all over the place when he's in human form, but in The Return he's changed into some bizarre tree-thing and is more benevolent. | |
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Tortall Universe: In the Trickster's Duet, Kyprioth is the chief Trickster of Tortall's Fantasy Pantheon and has two faces: jovial prankster, and extremely bitter ex-king. | |
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Coyote in Gunnerkrigg Court is based on New World trickster god Coyote and embraces the trope fully. | |
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The Flintstones has Gazoo himself, of course, a scientist sent into exile on prehistoric Earth for inventing a Doomsday Device. He quickly became The Scrappy as he was mostly responsible for the end of the show, indicating the writers had run out of ideas by introducing a reality-warping alien. | |
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Tom Bombadil, in The Lord of the Rings. Tom is older than any living thing save possibly Treebeard the Ent, so powerful that he is able to wear the One Ring as if it was just a regular piece of jewellery and give it up freely without a thought, and Gandalf believes that it would take the entire might of Sauron's armies to defeat him on his own turf. But he spends most of his time wandering in the Old Forest and whimsically singing about himself. He provides a convenient plot device to allow the hobbits to escape the Old Forest and then the Barrow-wight, in the process acquiring swords from a Barrow-wight's hoard which later prove essential to the story. Let's just say that Tom really doesn't fit neatly into Tolkien's larger backstorynote even Tolkien himself never really figured out Tom's nature and origin, and there's a lot of fannish speculation about who or what he really is. Gandalf suggests that Tom is unaffected by the Ring because Tom simply doesn't care about the Ring (beyond a brief passing interest in it as a pretty shiny thing). The Ring influences people by appealing to their greed and desire for power, but Tom has all he wants and wants nothing more, so the Ring has no way to influence him. | |
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A minor recurring nemesis of the Fantastic Four was a shape-shifting alien troublemaker known as Impossible Man. In the past DC had Mxyzptlk imply that he was visiting the Marvel universe in the form of Impossible Man, but the Marvel Handbook says that this isn't the case and Mxy is merely imitating Impossible Man. This was further disproven in the Superman and Silver Surfer crossover. Mxy and the Impossible Man teamed up, and later started fighting. And Mxy was quite offended at the thought of being equated with the Impossible Man. It also highlighted some of the chief differences between the two: Impossible Man just loves to have fun, while Mxyptlk's humor has a darker edge to it. The former gets enraged when he realizes Mxy lied to him. |
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Gargoyles: The incarnation of Shakespeare's Puck. In his first appearance he winds up switching the species of all of the humans and gargoyles in Manhattan, just to annoy Demona. Even in episodes like "Possession," where he's being helpful, he goes out of his way to do so in the most annoying way possible. Gargoyles had quite a few demigods and deities, thanks to its setting. Some of those characters might qualify as Great Gazoos, such as Coyote. Loki did not appear; Word of God is that Loki (and Thor) died in Ragnarok specifically because they wanted to focus on lesser–known characters. |
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The Teen Titans (2003) episode "Fractured" guest-stars Larry the Titan (also known as Nosyarg Kcid), a Bat-Mite-inspired "Super-Deformed Robin" imp from dimension four and nine eighths. | |
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Ryuk from Death Note is most definitely a Great Gazoo. His only real manipulation is letting humans think they are in control of the situation as part of his screwball routine. He is very potent, impossible to harm conventionally, and the only way to defeat him would be manipulate him into sacrificing himself for someone else's sake — something extraordinarily unlikely given his carefree attitude. | |
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The Legion of Super Heroes (2006) episode "Child's Play" introduces Zyx, a Spoiled Brat runaway from a magical Obstructive Bureaucrat planet (as well as a transparent stand-in for Mr. Mxyzptlk). | |
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Hilda: The titular Merman of the episode “The Laughing Merman� is quite the flamboyant showman and skilled illusionist. The only problem is that he desires a Captive Audience, and he’s willing to resort to the usual tricks to get it. | |
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Dung Beetle/Koyemshi from Bokurano counts as well. Proves himself generally invulnerable to the actions of the main cast. | |
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Maui of Moana is explicitly stated to be a trickster demi-god, and his Establishing Character Moment is his "I Am Great!" Song; He pulls the titular character into a Disney Acid Sequence to distract her from the fact that he's stealing her boat and leaving her trapped on the "Far Side" Island where he was himself stuck. | |
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Trelane, in the original Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos" is so like Q the expanded novels retconned him into a member of their species. At the time he was revealed (at the end of the episode) as being a child of parents with similar omnipotence, who turn up to scold him accordingly. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up introduced Scooby-Mite, a being from the same dimension as Bat-Mite who wears a Scooby costume and fights with Bat-Mite over who deserves the credit for a recent adventure. After the heroes outsmart them and convince them to leave, Larry the Titan shows up... | |
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The Elder Scrolls: From the series' primary Creation Myth, Lorkhan. He was one of the et'Ada ("original spirits") who convinced/tricked some of his fellow et'Ada into sacrificing large portions of their divine power in order to create Mundus, the mortal plane. The races of Mer (Elves) generally view this as a malevolent act which robbed their divine ancestors of their pre-creation immortality and forced them to experience mortal suffering and loss. The races of Men, however, view this as a benevolent act which freed the spirits from the "prison" of pre-creation unchanging stasis. In both cases, Lorkhan is still viewed as a trickster figure. Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. He's a Cloud Cuckoolander prone to Mood Swings where he can range from Ax-Crazy to Affably Evil at the drop of a hat. Though he can seem charming and harmless one second, he is still a god and very capable of hurling planets or raining down flaming dogs if the mood strikes him. Sanguine, the Daedric Prince of Debauchery and Hedonism. He mostly plays with and, at worst, annoys mortals while attempting to drag them into sin with various vices. He is definitely one of the less serious Daedric Princes. His "Myriad Realms of Oblivion" constantly reform to become the pleasure paradise of whoever is visiting. In Skyrim, his idea of fun time is going out on a pub crawl with some mortal he just met and getting them in more and more stupid scenarios until they wake up with a splitting headache, a brand new wife, and their old wife lying dead with her skull split open like a watermelon. The Dragonborn got off lightly in "A Night To Remember", having stolen a goat to sell to a giant to pay for a ring to marry a hagraven in Markarth, and wreck a temple to Dibella. |
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Wanted has Imp, who is another explicit Expy of Mr. Mxyzptlk. However, most of his powers are only alluded to off-panel, with the appendix mentioning that he once accidentally turned the entire world into cotton candy. On-page, he gets murdered by the Parasite-expy fairly quickly. | |
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Bricriu from So Weird definitely qualifies, although he leans more towards the menacing side of the scale. To elaborate, he often ends up possessing the main cast and causing trouble, and using his powers to do things like freeze time and trap others, all to try to prevent Fi from finding out what happened to her father. Although he works for the demonic villains of the show, he also doesn't like them, and has his own agenda. | |
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The Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" had the Energy Being Melllvar, who kidnaps the Planet Express and forces them, and the re-corporated heads of the Star Trek: The Original Series cast to re-enact old episodes. | |
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Thanks to the great powers and incomprehensible natures, certain Transapients and Archailects have been considered to be these in Orion's Arm, in the eyes of ordinary modosophonts. | |
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minus. is a tamer example, generally keeping to herself on a good day, but being a playful kid with reality warping powers have led her games to inflict massive damage on the fabric of reality on multiple occasions. | |
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In the Ben 10 (2016) episode, "Xingo," Ben accidentally brings the titular character into his reality when he goes Upgrade to fix the TV and lightning strikes the satellite dish. Xingo, despite no longer being in his own reality, still operates entirely on cartoon logic. He's nigh-invulnerable, capable of seemingly unlimited shapeshifting, can materialize any object out of thin air, and is at the very least Type Two omnipotent. He's also completely incapable of distinguishing between what is harmless fun and actually harmful outside of his normal cartoon reality. | |
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The Seven Stars from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meet theirs while travelling through the Fifth Dimension. Captain Universe has Captain Loonyverse, Electrogirl has Electro-Elf and Mars Man has MarsMite. Zom the Zodiac seems sad the he doesn't have one. | |
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Superman can be thankful he is merely a pest most of the time. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? offers a rather disturbing look at what would happen were Mr. Mxy to stop playing around, and Emperor Joker reveals what might happen if The Joker were to gain his power. An early Silver Age Legion Of Superheroes story had Mxyzptlk V avenge his ancestor's defeat by killing all of the Legion until his magic was undone at the last second. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos God Tzeentch fits this to a T. And then immediately warps the T into a shifting, mutated monstrosity to slaughter billions of Imperial Guard. The Eldar Laughing God Cegorach is similar, but more a Guile Hero than an outright Magnificent Bastard, and he has an army of Sexy Jester Space Elf Monster Clowns. He likes playing games of All According to Plan with the rest of the universe, up to and including said Chaos Gods. |
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In the Freedom City splatbook, that cosmic imp is Quirk, a teenage expy of Superman's foe, Mr. Mxyzptlk. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Immortals tend to be these since they have a poor grasp of human morality and great power. The only thing preventing them from being more than minor trickster gods are their self-imposed, collectively agreed upon rules but even that may soon change. | |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Mentok the Mindtaker, a judge who usually cares little about the cases he presides over and instead spends his time using his powers to mess with everyone in the courtroom. | |
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Warhammer: Ranald the trickster is the Empire's god of thieves and those who live by their wits. Most of his legends involve him making fools out of the other gods, typically by tricking them into doing something stupid or by stealing something important. | |
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Even Aquaman has an imp related to Mxy, the Thunderbolt and all the rest, by the name of Quisp. He is best known for turning up during the Grant Morrison Justice League run, having made himself absurdly Darker and Edgier to better mirror Aquaman at that time. It's fairly clear that Morrison intended this as a parody. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discord, the spirit of Chaos and Disharmony and the opening baddie of the second season, zigzags this trope like no tomorrow. A reality-warping Trickster God, he uses his powers to screw with the mane cast. He seems at first like he'll be a classic example, dancing inside stained glass windows and summoning chocolate rain, but when he starts using Mind Rape and More than Mind Control to turn Twilight's friends against her, he turns out to be a fair bit nastier than is the norm for this type. By Season 3, he has reformed, but his mischievous nature goes untamed, making him a straight example — he's still a Jerkass but in a far more lighthearted way, and his antics — intentionally or not — end up teaching the main characters valuable lessons. Then he temporarily goes back to being evil when he's manipulated by Tirek, who betrays him once he outlives his usefulness, so he redeems himself again and starts playing the trope straight once more. Bonus points for being voiced by John de Lancie, who also played Q. | |
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker in the old series, although he was rather more menacing than such characters usually are. "Amy's Choice": The Dream Lord, an intangible, teleporting super-being who invades the TARDIS and challenges the heroes to choose between two different realities. It turns out the whole thing is a shared dream, and he's just a manifestation of the Doctor's self-loathing. |
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Justice Society of America: Johnny Thunder's thunderbolt Yz (originally a genie, but later retconned into a being from the same dimension as Mxyzptlk). | |
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Undergrads: Great Gazoo himself appears in the first episode "Party" as a hallucination Rocko has while tripping off a can of decades-old clam juice he drank as part of a fraternity hazing. Not demanded by the frat, Rocko was just randomly hazing himself to impress the frat brothers. In reality, the person talking is Gimpy's henchman Mump. | |
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The Superman/Silver Surfer crossover was a stealth Mr. Mxyzptlk/Impossible Man crossover, highlighting the differences between the post-Crisis Mxy and Impy. Impy is in it for the fun, while Mxy is in it for the mischief (and a sociopathic one at that, which presses Imp's Berserk Button.) | |
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Dragon Ball: The kaio race are a downplayed example, sometimes for comedic effect. King Kai is able to live comfortably on a planet with gravity 10 times denser than Earth's and being one of the most revered martial arts instructors in the universe, despite looking like a short, pudgy imp. He admits early on that he's not as powerful as Vegeta and Nappa, though. Kaioshin and the elder Kaioshin try to play up their enigmatic natures in their earliest appearances, yet due to appearing late in the story, their powers just come across as slightly more powerful versions of techniques the characters have already seen. Majin Buu was originally a chaotic life form that was nigh indestructible and could turn victims into confectionery. Once he absorbed a kaioshin, he became more impish and eventually benign. He also became much less dependable as he has a habit of falling asleep during moments where his omnipotent powers would be of most help. Zeno the king of the multiverse and his angel court are straight examples, being able to erase entire universes out of existence (Zeno) or wind back time (Angels) on a whim. While they're feared by gods and mortals alike, they're mostly uninterested in being villains. |
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Superman: Mr. Mxyzptlk, an imp from the fifth dimension. In Superman: The Animated Series, Mxy claims to be the inspiration for the stories of genies and leprechauns — after a while he got bored of messing with ordinary people, but then Superman showed up. It's unclear just how far up the ladder he is on his home turf (sometimes he's unknowable, sometimes he's a 5th-dimensional kook with a weird hobby), but in the third dimension he's a Reality Warper. Supes can only get rid of him by tricking him into saying his name backwards — a weakness that, in Post-Crisis continuity, Mxy made up himself because a game has to have rules; pre-Crisis, it was a naturally ingrained weakness. In The World's Greatest Superfriends, he even tricked Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Supes into making the ingredients needed for a potion that'd enable him to overcome his weakness, but Supes wised up and not only foiled the plan but also allowed Mxy to think the plan worked to trick him into saying his name backwards. When he's sent back, a Reset Button is hit, and everything returns to normal. In the Golden Age, Mxyztplk (note the spelling) was in his own dimension a mere court jester to his world's king. Also during this era, saying his name backwards wasn't just his own weakness; anyone who said Mxyztplk's name backwards would be sent to the fifth dimension. One Silver Age story had Superman turn the tables by traveling to the Fifth Dimension and using his superpowers to prank Mxy exactly the same way he normally does on Earth. Mxy attempts to get rid of Supes by getting him to say "Namrepus", but it doesn't work; after he decides he's had enough fun, he goes home by saying "Le-Lak". Superman can be thankful he is merely a pest most of the time. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? offers a rather disturbing look at what would happen were Mr. Mxy to stop playing around, and Emperor Joker reveals what might happen if The Joker were to gain his power. An early Silver Age Legion Of Superheroes story had Mxyzptlk V avenge his ancestor's defeat by killing all of the Legion until his magic was undone at the last second. Grant Morrison's run introduced Vndktvx, Mxy's son, who has been trying to ruin Superman's life in a non-linear fashion out of jealousy of his father for the attention of his father and mother. Yeah, imp relationships are both cyclical, non-linear and a little ontologically paradoxical. The Superman/Silver Surfer crossover was a stealth Mr. Mxyzptlk/Impossible Man crossover, highlighting the differences between the post-Crisis Mxy and Impy. Impy is in it for the fun, while Mxy is in it for the mischief (and a sociopathic one at that, which presses Imp's Berserk Button.) |
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Madame Tarsa, the Interdimensional Toymaker of The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, is a variation on the trope — she's an arbitrarily powerful interdimensional being who dresses like a jester and frequently engages in eccentric and tricksterish behaviour, but she has never dropped down on the protagonists, only considering them "fair game" if they barge into her home. She also knows perfectly well what she's doing at all times; her eccentricities are a mark of hedonism, not cluelessness. | |
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Simkin from The Darksword Trilogy is a rare example of a human-looking Great Gazoo. He spends most of the books simply inventing his own plotlines if he doesn't like the situation he's in. | |
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Sun Wukong, who is basically a powerful monkey wizard with a magic staff and a knack for trouble. | |
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League of Legends features Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight, a reality-warping cosmic messenger to Mount Targon in the form of an energetic preteen girl. Many ages ago, she was actually a normal Targonian girl who one day merged with the Aspect, and she's in absolutely no rush to grow up, preferring to use her power mischievously on unsuspecting mortals. In-game, this translates as throwing paddle balls (which can be redirected mid-flight to do some of the highest burst damage in the game), blowing bubbles (which puts enemies to sleep to make the damage more painful), and hopping through portals (both to make hitting abilities easier and to blow immature raspberries at opponents). | |
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Xibalba from The Book of Life; his profile describes him as a "mischievous trickster" and notes that he likes to interfere in the lives of mortals. | |
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Issue #65 of The Powerpuff Girls introduced the Micro-Puffs, three sprite versions of the girls from another dimension. They first appear to want to be friends with the girls but their ulterior motive is to yank their collective chains with mischief. | |
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Masters of the Universe: Orko from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983). The twist? He only has omnipotence in his homeworld — in Eternia, he is mostly an Inept Mage. However one episode features another trollan called Prankster, who is an even straighter example, and he makes a lot of trouble for He-Man and co. The only way to get rid of him was to trick him into saying his real name. The 2002 reboot at least demonstrated why this was. Orko could manage his powers just fine with his wand, which he accidentally lost while saving a young Prince Adam and Cringer shortly after arriving in Eternia. The Filmation version had a similar plot, though in this case it was a medallion rather than a wand. When Orko got it back, magic was quite impressive. Unfortunately resolving the episode's plot required him to give it up again. It should be noted that even without his wand/medallion, Orko is still quite powerful on Eternia. When he gets to concentrate or isn't trying to impress someone with conflated tricks, he's been able to beat Skeletor in terms of magic. |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "best thing" mocks this with Bozar in the Show Within a Show "Limozeen: But They're in Space!". | |
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Pennywise the Clown from IT is a malevolent form of this trope. Wacky, powerful, and completely evil and murderous, and invisible to most people. | |
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Lone Wolf: Really the only way to describe Alyss, a mischievous demigoddess first introduced in the novelization before becoming a Canon Immigrant in the gamebooks. She's firmly on the side of Good, but is rather playful about it compared to any other of Lone Wolf's allies. And although her Reality Warper powers could be game-breaking, she only uses them to even the odds in Lone Wolf's favor rather than letting him win without efforts. Alyss is unusual for this trope in that she both has definite goals and fully understands what she's doing: she isn't just messing with people or producing loads of unintentional consequences. To some extent she's deliberately playing this role to hide just where her limitations and weaknesses are. | |
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Sprint Vector has Mr. Entertainment, the host and organizer of the titular intergalactic racing competition. He manipulates all manner of galactic powers to produce Sprint Vector, as evidenced by the range of characters he forces to race (including a former Super-Soldier, a criminal tycoon, two cosmic superbeings, two famous artists, a superhero, a Last of His Kind cyborg, amphibian former royalty, and a feral child from a Death World) and the galactic princess he has as his co-host. And yet, he's seemingly beholden to powers even greater than himself - his corporate sponsors. | |
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22 from Soul is a very mischievous soul with some low level supernatural powers. | |
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Housepets!: Of all the Celestial characters (Physical God denizens of Heaven and other realms above Earth), the majority are mature and refined about their positions. The two major exceptions are Kitsune and Pete, both of whom delight in using their powers to toy with Earthlings as part of their Cosmic Chess Game taking place on the planet. The difference is that Kitsune is mostly annoying; Pete's are life-ruining, such as his Forced Transformation inflicted on King to unwillingly make him Pete's avatar. | |
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Paladine in the Dragonlance novels is a good version of this trope. Consider how every single time Tasslehoff prays to him in the Legends trilogy, Paladine immediately gives Tass exactly what Tass asked for, never quite what Tass had in mind, but exactly what Tass needed. | |
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George and Azazel: Azazel is either a demon or a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, depending on the venue in which any given story was published. | |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): The Beyonder. He's much hammier and more playful than his comic version and is comparable to Q in a lot of ways, especially his Humanity on Trial schtick. | |
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Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls is another much darker take on this trope, to the point of subversion. "A trickster jerk" according to Word of God, Bill has the voice, the look and the mannerisms of a Gazoo, but even at his best he is creepier than Discord (above) at his worst. Right off the bat, one of the first things we see him do is rip all the teeth out of a deer's mouth, and he gets worse as the series progresses. By the finale, where he flat-out invades our dimension, he's more Emperor Joker than Great Gazoo. | |
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First introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q is a cosmic being with reality-warping powers and profound irresponsibility, with a penchant for annoying Starfleet captains. Apparently a literal example; according to a woman who was briefly stuck in the middle of a Love Triangle between Q and Captain Picard, went off with the former and then got marooned in the Delta Quadrant after they had a fight, there's at least one pre-warp culture where he's worshipped as the God of Lies. | |
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