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Rewriting Reality

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Rewriting Reality	comment	Writers often use to the power of stories to evoke feelings and create new worlds. Rewriting Reality is a form of magic where the invocation is writing, or in more recent tales, typing, is literally magic. Usually it is one specific object that the writing works with, such as a Reality-Writing Book, a typewriter, a sketchpad or a PC. It is sometimes based in mythology where a creator god "writes" the "Story" of history. The device might come from a mysterious deal, a magic spell, a technical device gone strangely wrong, editing the Tomes of Prophecy and Fate, or it could just be, y'know, there. In some cases, the user may not even know about the power: an author may use a cursed device to create some form of unstoppable monster, or cause all sorts of wacky hijinks for his friends. Or it may be used purposefully but unwisely, taking the statements with cruel literal-mindedness. Or perhaps the Big Bad has just found a new source of fun. The ensuing mayhem can often be stopped by destroying the object that caused it, or killing the writer, which may, or may not, lead to a Snap Back or the writer waking to find it All Just a Dream... Other methods may involve working within story rules, either playing to or breaking the conventions of the story's genre. Subtrope of The Power of Language. Compare with Author Powers, in which a character within the story has this sort of power because they are an author interacting with their creations. Unlike this trope they don't necessarily need a writing device for this, though. Also a sister trope to Universal Remote Control. Also compare with Art Initiates Life where the visual arts shape reality, or Formulaic Magic where it is pure mathematics that will change reality. See also I Know Your True Name, Language of Magic, and All Just a Dream. If such a book is responsible for setting off the plot of a story, then it's a Plot-Triggering Book. Not to be confused with figuratively rewriting reality.
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Rewriting Reality / int_108cd205	comment	Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge: The titular Cosmic Forge is a pen that allows the one who holds it to literally write reality-what one writes with it, happens. However, although the Cosmic Forge always fulfills the writer's instructions to the letter, it also has a nasty habit of interpreting those instructions rather differently than the writer intends (its Bane)...
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Rewriting Reality / int_11c6567a	comment	Since Thursday Next takes place mostly within the Book World, it can be rewritten from either the inside, or by editing an early copy of the book or text. If a fictional character escapes into reality, it's still possible to rewrite it with the right book. Since the Thursday Next series (written by Jasper Fforde, not the series-within-the-series) may be the final, rewritten version of the series, rewriting the real reality in the series may be possible.
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Rewriting Reality / int_1b71921c	comment	The Celestial Files in Misfile tell the world what it should be. For example, put a boy's file in the "girl" file and hilarity ensues. It's interesting in this case that the contents of the file tell all about who you are, while the location of the file in the system tells the world what you are. One of the threats to the protagonists is that eventually the system's error-correction will notice the discrepancy and fix it by editing the contents, making them lose their Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory and erase their original selves entirely.
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Rewriting Reality / int_1c4cbfe6	comment	Loki in Journey into Mystery (Gillen) does this to give the previously invincible Serpent a weakness. This backfires later on Loki when said weakness (a girl the Serpent once cared for) turns out to be alive... and angry.
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Rewriting Reality / int_1d43953c	comment	Usagi Yojimbo had an enchanted/possessed inkset that made whatever was painted with it come to life.
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Rewriting Reality / int_276e8679	comment	In the first episode of Ashen's Tech Dump, Dr. Ashen interviews a researcher who has cracked the "source code" used by God to create the universe and wrote a program to access its functions with simple keywords. To Ashen's dismay, rather than use this power for anything noble, he was more interested in using it to start booty parties.
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Rewriting Reality / int_2a3477a2	comment	The bulk of guardian-witch powers in Whither.
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Rewriting Reality / int_2ade1ae9	comment	In Nobilis, the player characters are Physical Gods. Mortal NPCs often have enormous magical, supertech, and quasi-miraculous powers - and remain completely unable to challenge them, except extremely indirectly. What is the one class of mortals these Sovereigns of Creation must be cautious of? Botanists. It turns out the Angels used a language of flowers to define reality. Clever botanists can write their own addenda.
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Rewriting Reality / int_2ba1d958	comment	In The Matrix, individual lives and reality in general are literal hackable computer programs. Any of the rebels at any time can call Mission Control, ask for a rewrite of their code, and receive instant upgrades.
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Rewriting Reality / int_2cd28570	comment	Serial Experiments Lain: Lain gets ability to do this by the end of her series. She uses it to wipe out all the abnormal, dangerous elements from the world, including herself. Though she still remains watching from the outside...
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Rewriting Reality / int_2dae76e9	comment	In Bungo Stray Dogs, Kunikida Doppo's power involves the use of a notebook to write things into reality. The problem is that things larger than the book are a no-go zone. In the same series, there is also the Book, which is capable of much more powerful reality-altering; writing in it permanently rewrites past, present and future to fit with what you've written. As a result, everyone wants to get their hands on it, even if it means razing Yokohama to the ground. Late in the series, the Decay of Angels manage to get their hands on at least one page, and use it to frame the Armed Detective Agency.
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Rewriting Reality / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: It's possible to alter games and their inhabitants by messing with the source code. King Candy's plan revolves around this, and Ralph and Felix use this to give Q*bert and his friends a role in their game.
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Rewriting Reality / int_31aedabc	comment	In Super Scribblenauts, they added a few more nouns they forgot to put in the first game and added adjectives. Now you can summon "happy playful Cthulhu".
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Rewriting Reality / int_36ef13eb	comment	It is implied that this is how low magic works in Adylheim, with the caster's using various words of power (among other things) to cast spells.
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Rewriting Reality / int_3b05a9de	comment	This is the gimmick of the Power Rangers Time Force Monster of the Week Cinecon; he's a film director who can make anything written in his script come true. This ability is so potent that he's only beaten through dumb luck, as Trip had earlier absentmindedly ripped out the page of the script where he beats the Rangers.
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Rewriting Reality / int_3cc97272	comment	Date A Live: Nia Honjou can write or draw in manga form in her book, Rasiel, and it will come true. It has a limitation that it cannot control beings with a higher power level than her and it cannot do things that are impossible.
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Rewriting Reality / int_3f44e3d7	comment	In Princess Tutu, Drosselmeyer and his descendant Fakir can literally rewrite reality and are known as the Story Spinners. During the climax of the series, the former uses his powers to forcibly change what the latter is trying to write, making this reality-rewriting-rewriting. The power can be passed on through generations, however, if a Spinnerâ€™s powers are not strong enough, their story will conform to reality rather than the other way around.
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Rewriting Reality / int_4282f834	comment	De Griezelbus: From the second book onwards, Onnoval's magic increases to the point where the monsters in his stories come to life and consider him their "father". This proves to be the key to defeating Onnoval in the fourth book. His book writes itself in real time on Mister Jacques' computer. After dragging most of the class into the Other Reality, the main heroes rewrite the ending to make sure Onnoval loses.
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Rewriting Reality / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-2982 is a cell phone that rewrites reality to reflect whatever is entered into the contact information for the phone — for example, if you write in a person's contact that they have a certain disease, they now have it. The trouble begins when it falls into the hands of a sociopath. At least he doesn't know about the Foundation. For now... SCP-140 is a set of textbooks on the history of an ancient civilization known as the "Daevite Empire", who were apparently the most horrifically evil, brutal, and depraved society in human history. Here's the issue: whenever one of these textbooks is near a source of ink (or indeed, any substance that could be used to mark paper), the histories extend, leading to the Daevite civilization being destroyed later and later in history, and it's been proven that reality itself is altered to fit the textbooks' account. If they are extended enough, the Daevites may retroactively start existing in modern times. And while the Foundation is extremely careful about preventing the books from being expanded, there is at least one copy out there not in their possession...
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Rewriting Reality / int_455dd62c	comment	A recurring sketch on The Carol Burnett Show featured a writer struggling to write a scene while we saw the characters acting out what he wrote and frantically trying to adjust to their shifting reality as the writer changed his mind and rewrote events as he went. Sometimes the humor came from ambiguous text passages being brought to life, as when a woman was giving multiple births in a life raft awaiting rescue: "It's a boy! It's a girl! It's a submarine!"
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Rewriting Reality / int_468bebb0	comment	There's a story on fanfiction.net called Consequences in which some of the popular Discworld characters get heartily sick of fanfiction writers constantly forcing them to get off with one another, turn into supernatural creatures, and have Harry Potter invading their universe. They eventually get revenge by writing stories about the fanfic writers, forcing them to Retcon everything they did to the characters in their fanfics and then kill themselves.
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Rewriting Reality / int_47ba573b	comment	In the Mouth of Madness had a living character and town that was written into existence by an author called Sutter Cane, who also produces a number of retcons that remove a character from existence and reshuffle an entire sequence of events within the film. By the end of the film, the entire world has apparently been absorbed by Cane's latest novel. Once he finishes his novel close to the end of the film, Cane appears to be able to warp reality at will, as demonstrated with the conversations he has with John Trent.
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Rewriting Reality / int_4b098efe	comment	The story TlÃ¶n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges, is about a secret conspiracy that wants to turn the objective, God-based, incomprehensible universe into a subjective, man-based, comprehensible one. They do this by writing encyclopedias.
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Rewriting Reality / int_4e433e78	comment	In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the knights escape a cartoon monster when the animator dies of a heart attack.
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Rewriting Reality / int_4ff8055d	comment	Labyrinths of Echo series has it in the grand finale. The Minor Investigative Force stumbles on an ancient artifact, the seal that makes a page come true just by stamping it. But it directly affects only the people whose signature is there, which mostly limits the user to wishing himself good things until he fails to add "...and no one notices".
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Rewriting Reality / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck gives this power to John in an odd, Cosmic Retgone way.
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Rewriting Reality / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): "A World of His Own" has a variation, in that anything the author speaks into a tape recorder becomes real. He can also destroy the creations by destroying the tape. This is how he stops a fight between his wife and mistress. Cut to Rod Serling's closing monologue about how the story is complete fiction. The main character interrupts Rod to warn him about saying such things, revealing a line of tape labelled "Rod Serling" and tossing it onto the fire. This was the first appearance of Rod onscreen to do the monologue and was so well received that he came on for almost every episode afterwards. However, it was the only time he interacted with the story's characters. "Printer's Devil" features a linotype machine (gotten via a Deal with the Devil) that causes the horrific accidents that are reported on before they actually happen to become reality. The reporter who writes these 'scoops' is in fact the devil. The 'infernal machine' is eventually used to break the contract that got it to begin with.
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Rewriting Reality / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Library", an aspiring writer named Ellie Pendleton gets a job working at a mysterious private library which is Bigger on the Inside. It is run by Gloria, who explains to her that each book is an accurate, up-to-date account of the life of a living person. That night, Ellie is annoyed by all of the noise made by her obnoxious neighbor Doug Kelleher and his new live-in girlfriend Carla Hollencamp. At the library the next day, she rewrites Doug's life story so that he is a kind-hearted and extremely dedicated priest. However, she feels guilty because Carla is so miserable at being alone so she uses the opportunity to fix her up with the building's wealthy landlord Edwin DeWitt. When she returns home, Carla is happy and wearing an expensive fur coat but Edwin is bankrupt from lavishing her with so many presents. Ellie rewrites Edwin's life story so that he is financially stable but she finds that her younger sister Lori is leading a strike against the inflated rent that he charges. The next day, she gives herself and Lori a nice house by the ocean. However, as soon as she arrives at her new home, Ellie learns that Lori drowned after rescuing a little boy from the sea. Devastated, Ellie admits to Gloria what she has been doing and pleads for her help. After chastising her for not realizing that people's lives are interconnected, Gloria shoos her out of the library. She immediately finds Lori alive and well and returned to her original self.
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Rewriting Reality / int_5489f51f	comment	Makai Kingdom: The Sacred Tome fulfills the wishes written upon it, but this comes with a hefty price in mana. Also, damaging the book or its writings inflicts the same on whatever was created by that particular line of text, so needless to say doing so is usually a spectacularly bad idea — especially if your entire netherworld is written down in it. It goes without saying that Zetta does it anyway. When writing something into the book, the book's spirit has to accept the wish before it becomes reality. This explains why King Drake III's wish for Zetta to yield control of his Netherworld to him (Zetta -> Drake, that is) continues to disappear when it is written down. Pram reprimands him on it after being tipped off by Trenia. That's how she knew about that function, too - Trenia was the spirit of the Sacred Tome before Zetta confined himself inside it. It also happens in-game, too. If a curative spell is cast on the Sacred Tome, it affects everything on the map, ally or enemy. Likewise, if the Tome ever gets damaged by anything (accidentally or not), everything on the map suffers Massive Damage, and you're not allowed to run away from that particular battle.
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Rewriting Reality / int_56b62db5	comment	In Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the leader of Labyrinthia, the Storyteller, seems to be able to rewrite reality; on a regular basis he passes out stories to the townsfolk detailing what will happen to them in the future, and the predictions always come true. This is because the predictions are written in ink made from a substance that produces a hypnotic gas, influencing the people to make the predictions true.
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Rewriting Reality / int_56e79cd0	comment	The Narrator in Tales of the Skull King tends to do this every so often, ether to simply things or to prevent the world at large from blindly following the title character simply because he can talk to the Narrator.
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Rewriting Reality / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5 Royal Takuto Maruki, a counsellor, gains the power to rewrite reality, which he then uses to create a perfect world without suffering.
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Rewriting Reality / int_5d354f8	comment	The 2009 Red Dwarf three-part special used this when the characters were sucked into another dimension in which they were fictional characters. After tracking down and killing their creator, they were bemused to find that they didn't die, and that it wasn't necessary for Lister to keep typing for them to continue to do anything. Funny, though.
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Rewriting Reality / int_5f6e37ed	comment	The Node from Another Sight is a mysterious glowing purple rock capable of bringing imagined things into reality. However, nobody knows exactly how it works, and it's all but stated to be incredibly risky to use; the main conflict of the story is that the people who know about it want to keep it out of the hands of the people who would just exploit it, and Kit happens to be caught in the middle.
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Rewriting Reality / int_60a7a86d	comment	Shade, the Changing Man: An arc from Shade the Changing Man featured an inversion. Anything that frustrated writer Miles Laimling wrote would be fictional, even if it were true before. Miles drew inspiration from personalities around him, and as their traits became more lifelike in his fiction, those traits would fade from the individuals they were inspired from. Played straight at the end of the arc when Laimling types a passage that grants Shade his full size and powers back, not by negating the effects trapping him, but by affirming that he had them.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6104baaf	comment	The Rune-Keeper in The Lord of the Rings Online practices his "magic" by scribing runes onto stones. As so many skill descriptions begin, "When the rune-keeper writes of x, the effects can be real." Not every attack or healing spell is carried out this way, but a good many are.
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Rewriting Reality / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The episode "Milagro" features a serial killer spawned from a story written by Mulder's next-door neighbor.
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Rewriting Reality / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Krona, a magic user (not a proper mage or super), can do this to a degree, though it's easier to alter existing objects, like defusing grenades or changing her hair color, than doing things like creating fireballs, and it's a lot like programming apparently. Her abilities are also apparently entirely unique. She later demonstrates predictive text that literally predicts the future by a few seconds, and hacks Sydney's bladder so she can wait on going to the bathroom. She can use Save Scumming in real life. This leads Maxima to bring her into ARCHON so they can make sure that she can't cause a Reality-Breaking Paradox by accident.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook The Book of Artifacts introduces Kuroth's Quill, a magical pen that can grant wishes (as always, with a twist) or even alter reality by writing things down.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6c31c39f	comment	The second season of Beetleborgs concerned the Big Bad using the evil brother of the creator of the Beetleborg comic to create/summon Mooks.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6d0b436f	comment	The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael: The western town of Atonement in the afterlife includes an author who is writing Ichabod's tale as it happens. Eventually however his typewriter takes over and continues the story without his help.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6dcfae40	comment	The Inhumans have the Reader, a merc with Reality Warper powers who can indirectly do this, either by reading or writing something in braille. While working with Matt Murdock during Daredevil (Charles Soule) to remove the Kingpin from the mayor's office (which happened thanks to his efforts in fighting HYDRA during Secret Empire), he accidentally brought "Mike Murdock", an identity Matt concocted as a Fake Twin Gambit to throw Karen and Foggy off when they got close to realizing he was Daredevil into coming to life as a separate person.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	The Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Demon World" featured the "Book of Ages", an ancient tome in which history was magically recorded. However, human intervention is possible by just writing on the next available page of the book, thus offsetting anything previously written and enabling the writer to change history as they please. Shendu possesses Jackie and rewrites it, so that he and all of his fellow Demon Sorcerer siblings were never sealed away. Humans are all slaves to the demons now, magic is outlawed, and modern technology is unheard of. Nobody remembers what it was like in the original continuity, except Jade, who ripped her page out so Shendu couldn't overwrite it. Jade and Paco have some fun with this at the end, with Jade beefing up Jackie's abilities, and Paco doing the same to El Toro; and then continuing to one-up each other until, Uncle puts his foot down and tells them to write about him getting rid of the demons, which they do. Once everything is back to normal, Jade finds the place where her page goes and resets the timeline.
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Rewriting Reality / int_6ecaff2e	comment	Scribblenauts: Maxwell has a magic notepad that he (that is, you) can write in to summon damn near anything that can be expressed as a noun. In Super Scribblenauts, they added a few more nouns they forgot to put in the first game and added adjectives. Now you can summon "happy playful Cthulhu".
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Rewriting Reality / int_6ed97bbc	comment	In Shelter, Rin has the power to change the world around her using a tablet because she is in a virtual reality machine.
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Rewriting Reality / int_70606a03	comment	Queen of Shadows: Shendu tried to use the Book of Ages to accomplish this, as per canon, but lost control of the outcome.
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Rewriting Reality / int_70b26f38	comment	Alexandre Dumas is summoned as a Caster in one of the Snowfield Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake. Since his life is pretty well known and he wasn't a magus at all, his container is one of the weakest Servants to ever be summoned. However, his extensive skill in cooking of all things, his experience as a curator of rare items and his talent as a writer blurred, allowing him a variant of this ability. One of his two Noble Phantasms allows him to "rewrite" the history of items - for instance, transforming common weapons into true Noble Phantasms. It works even better when using true magical materials, though it has a hard limit of not being able to further "fine tune" items with a rank higher than A, as by then "the item's story's complete" and there's nothing he can add to it. The other lets him superimpose parts of his experiences or those found in his writing upon the timeline of a human.
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Rewriting Reality / int_70da6e51	comment	In the Goosebumps novel "The Blob That Ate Everyone", the hero gets a magic typewriter that causes anything he types to become reality. In the end, we find out that the typewriter actually gave the kid the power to warp reality with his mind. And then we find out that the entire book was a story written by a blob monster, which he was reading to his friend.
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Rewriting Reality / int_7219fbc0	comment	In an episode of Freddy's Nightmares, "Heartbreak Hotel", a tabloid writer realizes his stories now become true, so he writes a story to make himself rich, but the ambiguous grammar makes it go wrong.
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Rewriting Reality / int_76885dcf	comment	In the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Dream Machine", an aspiring young writer discovers a typewriter that causes anyone he writes about to dream the story. However, he soon discovers that when the stories written on the typewriter are read, they come true, and he had written a story about his best friend being Buried Alive.
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Rewriting Reality / int_7950b30f	comment	The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert thinks he can do this with Wikipedia, creating "Wikiality." Fans immediately created Wikiality.net, where Colbert's word really is law.
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Rewriting Reality / int_7e2edd8c	comment	Time, Gentlemen, Please! has a similar puzzle, in which a time-rip-within-a-time-rip allows the protagonists to enter a half-programmed adventure game and assist its protagonist. This allows them to get a telekinetic crystal's data, which they then program in to a different text adventure so they can deactivate a trap.
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Rewriting Reality / int_819b8c9e	comment	In Warehouse 13, Edgar Allan Poe's notebook makes anything written in it with his pen real. Fortunately, the person who ends up using it only copies Poe's horror deathtraps.
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Rewriting Reality / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime's Alpha Trion has an artifact called the Quill, a mechanical pen that, when used to write in the Covenant of Primus, can to a limited extent alter the future.
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Rewriting Reality / int_88b348e8	comment	The non-card form of The Create of Cardcaptor Sakura was a book that made anything you write in it reality. This caused quite a bit of a problem for the titular heroine when it then fell into the hands of her fantasy story-loving friend.
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Rewriting Reality / int_8ba4613a	comment	The notebook from Death Note- though it's only good for killing people and controlling events leading up to their deaths. The Death Note could be used to make a prison inmate sing show tunes for an hour before he dies from a heart attack, but there are rather realistic limits and rules to its power. It couldn't make him sing show tunes he doesn't know, and it's against the rules for him to kill anyone. Physical impossibilities like teleportation or even levitation are similarly off-limits. The list of rules is ridiculously long and arcane.
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Rewriting Reality / int_8df5521b	comment	A Superman comic featured a pulp writer whose creations came to life, unknown to him. One group of these creations ran rampant because the writer didn't finish their book, leaving them uncontrolled and unstoppable. Superman finally figured out what was happening and got the writer to finish the book, whose ending caused the bad guys to remove themselves from existence.
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Rewriting Reality / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters involved the ghost of an Agatha Christie pastiche who had died without finishing her last novel. Winston had to solve the mystery in order to make the ghosts of her characters disappear.
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Rewriting Reality / int_8f794c68	comment	Wings of Fire: Darkstalker transferred all of his animus power into a scroll to prevent the power from making him go insane. As a result, his scroll has this ability.
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Rewriting Reality / int_90552223	comment	In Stranger Than Fiction, the lead character begins hearing a voice narrating his day. He finds out he's a character in a novel and the voice is the author of his story, which happens to be a tragedy.
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Rewriting Reality / int_92a56bcb	comment	The Masters of Horror episode "Valerie on the Stairs" is about a Round Robin story which, unbeknownst to its authors, is causing real people to be murdered. Eventually, the story's characters break from the script and kill the authors.
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Rewriting Reality / int_9322493f	comment	Kamen Rider Zi-O: Kamen Rider Woz has a tablet that can change future events. It's limited in scope, as he can only change the immediate future, rather than anything long-term. And the future he creates has to have a chance of actually happening to begin with, so he can't create certain Transformation Trinkets unless there's a chance a corresponding Rider exists. However, once something is written in, it's fated to happen, and no amount of Time Master power can alter it.
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Rewriting Reality / int_95818d99	comment	Trevor Pearlharbor from Killer7 thinks he can do this with the manga books he writes, but it's actually all rigged, and Trevor is killed by his "creations"; the Handsome Men.
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Rewriting Reality / int_97e7606f	comment	Alan Wake: The action starts picking up when the titular author starts finding pages from a book he can't remember writing and the pages start coming true. Turns out the lake with the cabin Alan was vacationing in has the power to make works of art made there come true; he suffered a week's worth of amnesia while writing the pages under the influence of an Eldritch Abomination. Said abomination was trying to get Alan to free it, but he realized what was happening and wrote his escape into his manuscript. Parodied in this Awkward Zombie strip, where Alan tries writing, "And then the sun came up, and Alan found where his wife went, and everything went back to normal." It doesn't work. This is an implied power of Alan Wake's Fake Band Old Gods of Asgard, as their songs always presciently advise the hero on how to defeat the Eldritch Abomination with note-perfect timing. Their "The Poet and the Muse," goes into detail about how their contemporary, Thomas Zane, invoked these powers to resurrect his Muse, Barbara Jagger, but an ancient Eldritch Abomination Exploited this to possess her. The implied source of their power? Moonshine made with water from the aforementioned magic lake.
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Rewriting Reality / int_9ab32c13	comment	The Pony POV Series has had two examples of this, both horrifying: In the Shining Armor Arc, General-Admiral Makarov is revealed to be an Equineoid Abomination Reality Warper, who is slowly changing reality to make himself beloved God-Emperor of the world, in the process turning into a Crapsaccharine World making its way to full Crapsack World. When Shining defeats him by feeding him to the Blank Wolf, it triggers a Cosmic Retcon that returns the world to its Lighter and Softer normal state. During the Finale Arc, Discord and his allies somehow manage to make it so that every belief held by anyone, if it's believed strongly enough, comes true, no matter how contradictory. This quickly turns the world into a grim dark Crapsack World due to them using the Foal Free Press (with help of one of Discord's cousins) to spread rumors, with Discord planning on making it so that it's always been this way. To put in perspective how bad this is, it's enough of a Godzilla Threshold for the Elders themselves to finally step in and get involved. Thankfully, Applebloom hijacks the Rumors by fixing the cursed printing press after Diamond broke it and using the bit of Truth she'd been granted by Dark World Nightmare Mirror as the ink. This gives Applebloom the ability to rewrite reality to such a point she becomes The Omnipotent and even Discord at her mercy. She mainly uses this to repair the damage, but also makes the timeline a better place by changing bits of history for the better before relinquishing the power. In addition, since Nyarlathotrot was defeated and banished from the timeline, the curse cannot be recast, as he was the only one who knew how to do it.
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Rewriting Reality / int_9dfd8786	comment	Financial dealings have this effect in [C] â€“ Control. If someone goes bankrupt as a result of a losing deal in the Financial District, they literally lose their future, which can affect the present - for example, Professor Ebari's children cease to have ever existed, and his wife leaves him soon after. Also, the 2008 Lehman Bros. collapse and the knock-on effects on the South American stock markets result in the Caribbean Republic no longer existing.
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Rewriting Reality / int_a0960dc4	comment	In the puzzle game Baba is You, the rules of each level are tangible objects that can be pushed around, allowing you to do such things as change the appearance of objects, evade hazards, or change which object serves as the Level Goal.
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Rewriting Reality / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Fry writes the reality at the end of "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", and thus saves the planet. The Giant Brain trapped Leela and Fry in several books. Fry breaks free of the illusion, and tries to attack the Brain. However, he's crushed to death by a bookcase, but it's only an illusion based on a story Fry has quickly written. The Giant Brain then announces that it is leaving Earth "for no raisin [sic]". "Forty Percent Leadbelly": Everything that Bender puts in his song and sings about actually happens. Turns out it's because he's connected to a 3-D printer.
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Rewriting Reality / int_a476f6dd	comment	The Story to End All Stories: The villain changes the ending of The Neverending Story so that the Childlike Empress dies and Fantasia is destroyed by the Nothing.
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Rewriting Reality / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents! has a neat variation. Timmy once wished to travel into books to make a library trip more interesting. He discovers that using his fairies' wands to change the text changes what that text refers to in the story. The conflict starts when Tom Sawyer swindles Cosmo's wand away from him and begins traveling to other books. They have to stop him before he starts altering non-fiction reference books like a textbook on Astrophysics, which would alter their references in reality.
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Rewriting Reality / int_ab918883	comment	Hack 'N' Slash actually features this as an ability obtainable by the player, along with some other characters, and it's for real, with all the power and freedom such an ability should give you. This is because this in-game ability gives you the freedom to rewrite what really does make up the game's universeâ€”that is, the compiled Lua bytecode of the game and its engine. You can do this to solve puzzles, bypass obstacles, or just mess around. You can give yourself insane amounts of health, walk on water and bottomless pits, and even make characters look like other characters, to simply scratch the surface.
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Rewriting Reality / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Mage: The Ascension: The Order of Hermes is big on language (and numbers and formulas). This is often depicted as speech - literally telling reality what to do - but House Shaea in particular is also interested in written magick (and written historical records). The Virtual Adepts practice magic mostly by writing and executing computer programs.
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Rewriting Reality / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: The Awesome Store sells a lot of items that can do this, ranging from a Universal Remote Control, a console that transforms the world into a video game, and a notebook that makes whatever you write in it a reality.
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Rewriting Reality / int_af4aeaaa	comment	In Ruby Sparks, a geek writes about a beautiful woman who comes to life. He finds that anything he writes about her affects her.
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Rewriting Reality / int_b0666b59	comment	Used in the Neverwinter Nights expansion Shadows of Undrentide. A certain library has two books that the player can enter, and later rewrite to end happily.
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Rewriting Reality / int_b2b8158	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Rohan Kishibe's Stand, Heaven's Door, lets him turn people into human books and rewrite them. While he usually uses it to manipulate memories and control a person's actions, it has also shown the ability to control what happens to them. Since whatever's in the human-books is absolutely true, he can make just about anything happen to someone; when he wrote "I will fly backwards at 160 KPH", the person he wrote it in immediately flew backwards at high speed. The only limitation is that the person he wants to rewrite has to see a drawing he's made; even drawing a quick sketch in the air with his finger counts, but if they can't see his drawing he can't affect them.
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Rewriting Reality / int_b3399fa9	comment	In the second When Worlds Collide Series fic, Dark Danny becomes all-powerful when he steals the author's keyboard.
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Rewriting Reality / int_b7c4fec6	comment	666 Park Avenue: Annie, a journalist with dreams of making it big, makes a deal with Gavin to become a success. This manifests as gaining the ability to make whatever she writes come true. Unfortunately, this leads to the assassin she created killing her.
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Rewriting Reality / int_b89bf586	comment	In Ninjago, the writers in Cloud Kingdom call themselves the "writers of destiny," and have the ability to influence events in Ninjago just by writing about them. They decide not to interfere anymore, though, when Morro tries rewriting events to work in his favor.
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Rewriting Reality / int_bb3fde3d	comment	The Ghost Writer in Danny Phantom can do this while he has his keyboard. He is unable to defeat Danny once he whips out an orange, and since Ghost Writer is a poet...note Thankfully he never looked up this information.
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Rewriting Reality / int_bd184166	comment	The Neverending Story is, within the story itself, a book that is reality itself. Anything that is written into it happens, and everything that happens is written into it. At one point in the story, the Childlike Empress forced Bastian's hand by ordering the Old Man of Wandering Mountain, who writes the book, to recount the story to her. By doing so, he spoke every line of the book, and wrote himself speaking those lines, and so continued to write and recite and write over and over, with all those events repeating themselves each time, until Bastian called out the Childlike Empress's new name and broke the cycle.
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Rewriting Reality / int_bd960b7c	comment	Scott Meyer's Magic 2.0 books are a tongue-in-cheek take on the idea that the whole of reality as we know it is nothing more than a complex computer program. Martin Banks is a hacker (who dislikes the term) who accidentally finds a strange file on a corporate server. He very quickly discovers that, by editing the file, he is literally Rewriting Reality. He learns how to teleport (by changing the geospatial coordinates in his entry in the file), time travel (by changing the time entry for himself in the file; but only to the past), and increase his bank account balance (which quickly earns him a visit from the US Treasury on suspicion of bank fraud). He writes an Android app for his phone to be able to do certain things without editing the file directly, including allowing his phone to be constantly charged by updating the phone's entry in the file to the same charge level every 10 seconds. The app also allows him to teleport, always stays connected no matter where (or when) he is by editing the phone's transmission area. When cornered by Treasury agents, he opts to flee to Medieval England, figuring he can pass himself off as a wizard. Once there, he finds out that he's not the first to find the file and end up in that time period. All the other "wizards" are guys just like him (in fact, many got pinched for updating their bank accounts), who live in the 12th century England as wizards, using an open-source shell to, basically, write commands and macros that respond to certain gestures and words (since many Englishmen in that time period know at least some Latin, the wizards are forced to use a bastardized form of Esperanto). Another thing Martin learns is that nothing the wizards do in the past appears to have any effect on the future (a wizard named Jimmy begins to call himself Merlin and has the king rename London to "Camelot" among other things). It's later revealed that there are many other "communes" of time travelers throughout the world and history. The largest one is Atlantis, a Lady Land built and ruled by sorceresses (since most other time periods are not kind to female magic users). Medieval England is the second largest, with Ancient China and "Arabian Nights" Days tied for the third place. The wizards have three big no-nos regarding the use of the shell: experimenting on non-wizards, experimenting on other wizards without their permission, and changing the physical parameters of a person (usually fatal). For obvious reasons, only someone from the age of computers is able to find the file. The second book introduces a person who finds the file in 1974 while working for Lockheed's Skunk Works.
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Rewriting Reality / int_be0d8ec6	comment	The conflict of The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water revolves around a magic journal that can rewrite reality falling into the hands of the evil pirate Burger-Beard.
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Rewriting Reality / int_be80da82	comment	From s-CRY-ed, the Alter (superpower) of Unkei is called "Mad Sprict" [sic] and enables him to write a script for reality that people will follow, and alter perceptions and (to a lesser extent) memories to fit. Not as powerful as other examples of the trope, as he can't seem to make someone behave completely out of character, he can't affect the perceptions of a character with super-powered perceptions, and the only times we see it used it was directed at a single victim. It also doesn't work very well if the person figures out what's going on. Which is bad, because then they are majorly pissed. Unkei doesn't do himself any favors by being an obliviously hack writer who doesn't research his targets, leading to his illusions inevitably backfiring.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c0ed3f7a	comment	An issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) had Donatello stumble across a young artist (based on Jack Kirby) who possessed jewel strapped to a pencil that brought anything he drew to life for a few minutes before vanishing into a puff of smoke, save for an ominous looking door. Sure enough, said door led to the world the drawn characters had been vanishing to, the natives now being terrorized by the robotic monsters the artist had been making for the last month. Donatello attempted to fight back against the monsters, augmented by enhancements his friend drew for him, but was in danger of being overwhelmed by superior numbers. Finally the artist had the bright idea to go back through his sketchbook and draw bindings and cuffs on the robots, rendering them immobile. The dimension was never revisited again but the jewel came back into play in April O'Neil's backstory when it was revealed she was drawn to life by her father. She only lasts indefinitely because he used ink instead of pencil.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c0f8022c	comment	Hercules: The Animated Series: In the episode "Hercules and the Tapestry of Fate", both Hercules and Hades get the idea to rewrite the titular tapestry, and thus fate itself, for their own gain.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c1014736	comment	Gaz Dreams of Genie: Dib notes that genies can rewrite history and reality if allowed to by a wish, and there's evidence that the current reality is actually just the fruit of the 23rd such rewriting. After Gaz lets the genie out, her first wish accidentally writes Dib out of existence and creates a Villain World in which Zim won and enslaved humanity. After using her second wish to fix that, her third wish is for the power to grant her own wishes, which results in her switching lives with Azie and making things so that all memory of Gaz is erased and Azie has always been Dib's sister.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c140022d	comment	The Butterfly Effect combines magical writing with Mental Time Travel.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c3b1fe07	comment	In Lost Girl, the Blood King can do this with his book, if he writes in his own blood. He only uses it as a last resort, as each change always comes with a price.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Mind Robber", the Doctor and his companions wind up in the Land of Fiction, populated entirely by characters who are fictional (even within the world of Doctor Who) or mythical — e.g., Medusa, Rapunzel, Gulliver. The Land is controlled by the Master of the Land of Fiction (not to be confused with recurring villain The Master), a prolific hack writer who somehow wound up in this place. He makes everything happen by writing it. The Doctor finds a typewriter in the villain's castle, and they have a Rewriting Reality showdown. (Also, the Doctor's companions are temporarily turned into fiction.)
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Rewriting Reality / int_c7a52ee3	comment	Extreme Ghostbusters had a story involving a horror writer who was kidnapped by his own creations, who were using him to write out their ultimate victory.
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Rewriting Reality / int_c885c236	comment	The French tabletop game Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk contain the legendary Pen of Chaos (Pen of Chaos being the name of the game's creator). This pen is an ordinary pen, except it writes on history itself.
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Rewriting Reality / int_cd6bad8a	comment	The Twilight Zone: The Twilight Zone (1959): "A World of His Own" has a variation, in that anything the author speaks into a tape recorder becomes real. He can also destroy the creations by destroying the tape. This is how he stops a fight between his wife and mistress. Cut to Rod Serling's closing monologue about how the story is complete fiction. The main character interrupts Rod to warn him about saying such things, revealing a line of tape labelled "Rod Serling" and tossing it onto the fire. This was the first appearance of Rod onscreen to do the monologue and was so well received that he came on for almost every episode afterwards. However, it was the only time he interacted with the story's characters. "Printer's Devil" features a linotype machine (gotten via a Deal with the Devil) that causes the horrific accidents that are reported on before they actually happen to become reality. The reporter who writes these 'scoops' is in fact the devil. The 'infernal machine' is eventually used to break the contract that got it to begin with. The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Library", an aspiring writer named Ellie Pendleton gets a job working at a mysterious private library which is Bigger on the Inside. It is run by Gloria, who explains to her that each book is an accurate, up-to-date account of the life of a living person. That night, Ellie is annoyed by all of the noise made by her obnoxious neighbor Doug Kelleher and his new live-in girlfriend Carla Hollencamp. At the library the next day, she rewrites Doug's life story so that he is a kind-hearted and extremely dedicated priest. However, she feels guilty because Carla is so miserable at being alone so she uses the opportunity to fix her up with the building's wealthy landlord Edwin DeWitt. When she returns home, Carla is happy and wearing an expensive fur coat but Edwin is bankrupt from lavishing her with so many presents. Ellie rewrites Edwin's life story so that he is financially stable but she finds that her younger sister Lori is leading a strike against the inflated rent that he charges. The next day, she gives herself and Lori a nice house by the ocean. However, as soon as she arrives at her new home, Ellie learns that Lori drowned after rescuing a little boy from the sea. Devastated, Ellie admits to Gloria what she has been doing and pleads for her help. After chastising her for not realizing that people's lives are interconnected, Gloria shoos her out of the library. She immediately finds Lori alive and well and returned to her original self.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d0f7d5b2	comment	The Youngblood: Judgment Day mini-series from Awesome Comics dealt with a mysterious book that could warp reality. Writing in the book would cause what the writer had written to come to pass.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d1449385	comment	The canon Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books feature such a book as a long term plot device. Due to many magical resets a book the good guys control is now the tome of magic and new rules written in it become the rules of magic. If they make sense with what came before. Making a normal human a mighty wizard would be rejecting but tweaking a wizard's powers would easily work.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club! can do this by rewriting the code of the game, though she's not very good at it and ends up making the game a little glitchy. She makes Sayori kill herself then deletes her when she fails to drive the MC toward her, changes attributes of Natsuki and Yuri making the latter a yandere and interrupting their dialogue or changing it, and eventually just deleting them as well when she couldn't get the MC toward her again and rewriting everything so that the game is just the player and her in the classroom so she can have him.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d5a71dd5	comment	Though badly-written Ages may collapse due to their own contradictions, such as the Age of Riven, assembled from text copied haphazardly from other Ages by Gehn, it's possible to create stable worlds that operate on a different kind of reality. Catherine has a tendency to write highly improbable worlds such as Torus, a donut-shaped world with a highly unusual water cycle, and Serenia, which has a form of mysticism that Atrus has trouble believing is true. Even Atrus, scientifically-minded as he is, is occasionally able to make some very odd worlds, such as Spire, a livable world suspended above, and very close to, a sun.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d85d2858	comment	Taken to extremes in Rick Cook's Wiz Biz series, where a computer programmer pulled from Earth to a fantasy world invents a programming language for magic spells.
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Rewriting Reality / int_d8782dc5	comment	In one episode of Kirby Buckets, Kirby finds a magic pen that makes his drawings come to life. Turns out it may just be coincidence, and there are tons of pens like it.
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Rewriting Reality / int_e293455a	comment	Used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in "I Robot, You Jane". Because Moloch was inside the computer, the invocation to bind him had to be typed into the machine while it was being spoken.
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Rewriting Reality / int_e3876b26	comment	Ancientwisemon from Digimon Frontier has the ability to rewrite the past, present and future by using the Akashic Records.
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Rewriting Reality / int_e5da0fa0	comment	Myst: The series centers around a civilization called the D'ni, practitioners of what they called "the Art." With the proper implements and language, it is possible to write a Descriptive Book for an entire world, or Age, which can then be visited through a Linking Book. This is a precise and delicate process, however, and if you cannot describe a world in extreme detail, no link will work. It's also possible to create a link to a world that cannot maintain itself, or an Age that appears stable and how you described it, for a brief moment before it falls to pieces. It is possible to change and reshape an Age, but these must be small enough that the world in question can actually change in that way - trying to create too drastic a change, too quickly, will result in the original link to the Age closing, and the Descriptive Book instead linking to a different world entirely. Oh, and do remember to bring a Linking Book to the Age you started from when you explore your new world. Wouldn't want to get trapped in a self-inflicted Prison Age, would you? Though badly-written Ages may collapse due to their own contradictions, such as the Age of Riven, assembled from text copied haphazardly from other Ages by Gehn, it's possible to create stable worlds that operate on a different kind of reality. Catherine has a tendency to write highly improbable worlds such as Torus, a donut-shaped world with a highly unusual water cycle, and Serenia, which has a form of mysticism that Atrus has trouble believing is true. Even Atrus, scientifically-minded as he is, is occasionally able to make some very odd worlds, such as Spire, a livable world suspended above, and very close to, a sun. The Art canonically works like a version of Many Worlds Theory, which the D'ni referred to as the Great Tree of Possibilities. Descriptive Books effectively act as search engines that find a world that matches the Age that was written in them, rather than creating worlds from nothing. Of course, villainous characters such as Atrus' father, Gehn, let the power of the Art go to their head, wrote Ages with native populations, and set themselves up as gods.
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Rewriting Reality / int_e5dfd2c1	comment	A Zork fan-made game plays this for laughs as the solution to a puzzle: At one point, the Player Character is transported to the room of the game's writer and rewrites the game to remove an impenetrable wall. When returned to the world of the game, the wall is gone.
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Rewriting Reality / int_e7a9c06c	comment	The final issue of the first series of Paperinik New Adventures has Everett find a book with this power and use it to explore a number of potential scenarios. In the end he burns it, preventing the scenarios from taking place... Except for a single page that brings Lyla back from the future.
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Rewriting Reality / int_ef7b3325	comment	One of the latter Mike Wieringo issues of Fantastic Four had God, who resembled Jack Kirby, re-draw reality. Ben Grimm literally gets his rockiness drawn onto him to "compress his sub-plot". Writing shows up when God gets a call giving Him several ideas. When questioned, He states it was His "Collaborator. 'Nuff said."
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Rewriting Reality / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow establishes a difference between altering the timeline and rewriting reality itself. The first case has rules and consequences, while the second has none. Thus far, only one object is known to be able to do the latter — the Spear of Destiny, which is why Rip and three of the JSA members split it and hid it across space and time. The Legion manages to get the Spear and uses it to remake reality to suit their own desires: Thawne is now the head of S.T.A.R. Labs, having trapped the Black Flash, Darhk is the Mayor of Star City with magical powers, Merlyn has brought his family back to life and forced Nyssa to live a miserable, closeted life in the middle of nowhere, Snart and Mick rule Central City and can steal without consequences, and all the heroes (e.g., Barry, Oliver, John, Felicity) are dead. The Legends (minus Mick) have new lives either relegated into nothingness (Ray, Nate), working for Thawne (Jax, Stein), or working for Darhk (Sara, Amaya). There are only two known ways of destroying the Spear: throw it into an extremely powerful reactor or use the blood of Christ. However, Sara finds a way to neutralize it a different way: by using the Spear to depower itself. The Spear then disintegrates along with Thawne, when the Black Flash erases him from existence.
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Rewriting Reality / int_f2041376	comment	In Charmed (1998), Paige and Kyle are sucked into a magical book and become their characters. Phoebe is able to help out by writing stuff in it. Unfortunately, she is limited to the genre of the book in respect to what she could change, so she can't write them out. So, while causing a flat tire or dropping a piano nearly on a character is possible, changing things so that the bad guys don't have guns or they all die suddenly cannot be done.
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Rewriting Reality / int_f25d2581	comment	One of the first indications of anything supernatural going on in The Last Dragon Chronicles is that David's short story he's writing about a squirrel is actually happening outside effectively parallel with his typing. As in, he mentions that the squirrel jumps onto a washing line and the Pennykettles' voices drift in from the window exclaiming about precisely that (though he doesn't pay any attention.) Debatable as to whether he's writing reality or simply being precognitive, but it seems to be the first. The Fire Eternal reveals that Arthur can do it too. Gywneth had her hand in messing with the flow of time by writing her dead counterpart back into reality.
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Rewriting Reality / int_f7d8fd70	comment	Used for comic purposes in The Goon Show episode "Six Charlies in Search of an Author".
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Rewriting Reality / int_f8acc9ea	comment	Control: It's mentioned that artists rewriting reality through their work is one of the most common types of Altered World Events, to the point that paranatural criminals have tried to take advantage of it before. The game in fact takes place in the same universe as Alan Wake, and it's implied that Alan wrote the entire Bureau into existence in order to create a hero to save him from his prison. This is why the Hiss has such a strong similarity to the Dark Presence; Alan was borrowing from his own experiences. Plus, what better way to train your hero than to give her an enemy very similar to the one you created her to fight?
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Rewriting Reality / int_f95c488f	comment	Arrowverse: Legends of Tomorrow establishes a difference between altering the timeline and rewriting reality itself. The first case has rules and consequences, while the second has none. Thus far, only one object is known to be able to do the latter — the Spear of Destiny, which is why Rip and three of the JSA members split it and hid it across space and time. The Legion manages to get the Spear and uses it to remake reality to suit their own desires: Thawne is now the head of S.T.A.R. Labs, having trapped the Black Flash, Darhk is the Mayor of Star City with magical powers, Merlyn has brought his family back to life and forced Nyssa to live a miserable, closeted life in the middle of nowhere, Snart and Mick rule Central City and can steal without consequences, and all the heroes (e.g., Barry, Oliver, John, Felicity) are dead. The Legends (minus Mick) have new lives either relegated into nothingness (Ray, Nate), working for Thawne (Jax, Stein), or working for Darhk (Sara, Amaya). There are only two known ways of destroying the Spear: throw it into an extremely powerful reactor or use the blood of Christ. However, Sara finds a way to neutralize it a different way: by using the Spear to depower itself. The Spear then disintegrates along with Thawne, when the Black Flash erases him from existence. The Crisis Crossover Elseworlds (2018) has the Book of Destiny, which allows the user to make any changes to reality they can will into existence. While still experimenting with it, Dr. John Deegan tries to make himself the Flash, but instead somehow causes Barry and Oliver to switch lives. Later, once he has a better idea of what he's doing, he turns himself into a version of Superman who operates as the Knight Templar leader of a law enforcement agency. Meanwhile, he also turns Barry and Oliver into wanted criminals and locks Kara away in the Pipeline. Later still, once the real Superman has managed to steal the book and use it to partially revert reality to normal, Deegan has a Villainous Breakdown and, upon retrieving it, starts randomly changing things in such a way that it seems to be building up to a Reality-Breaking Paradox. In the end, Oliver manages to destroy the book, hitting the Reset Button on all the changes and leaving Deegan heavily deformed as a result of the power backlash.
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Rewriting Reality / int_f964fcd0	comment	The Mad Scientist Wars: Andrew Tinker's most powerful skill, as his knowledge of Literature due to having a doctorate in English allows him to re-write reality around him. He can do it by writing on just about anything, although he prefers to use an old Notebook of his. There are even implications he may eventually be able to do this without writing. While he's very aware of the consequences and tries not to rely on it too much, so far he has: Brought the Dead back to life (Although it has been established that he can't do it if too much time has passed). Created little odds and ends — a new Cravat, a new room in his house. Made a character he wrote real, a Demon named Sayasuke — and inserted him into the last 500 years of Japanese history to support his backstory.
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