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Walking Techfix
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The opposite of Walking Techbane, these people are just uncannily able to get recalcitrant technology to work. It's not just fixing them, it's miraculous things like getting computers to behave when touched or make the BSOD go away by looking at it. Techfixes are people for whom Percussive Maintenance works. Just as Techbanes can be quite knowledgeable about computers but unable to operate them, certain Techfixes may not know anything about the technology they fix. Often an ability of the Technopath. Might have Machine Empathy as a secondary effect. If it's only a specific device (usually a vehicle) they have this effect on, see Only I Can Make It Go. Examples |
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Fonzie from Happy Days has this ability due to his coolness. Not only will anything he performs Percussive Maintenance on start working, but he can even use it to "fix" things that aren't broke, like making a vending machine dispense soda without money. This is Truth in Television for older soda vending machines. Proper abuse would frequently result in merchandise or a failure in the coin-return system, causing the machine to spit soda and cash everywhere. |
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Shirley Fenette is one of these in Justice Society of Japan, thanks to her technopathic powers. She finds it kind of creepy. | |
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The title character of Gene Catlow, starting with the first strip and eventually dubbed Tech Master by the machines. | |
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Although the storyline is now over, for many years up until 2000, Fiona from Kevin & Kell could fix any computer (or machine for that matter) by just pointing at it. It was granted to her by the Great Bird Conspiracy (posing as aliens) to fix the Y2K bug with. | |
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Paranoia has the mutant powers of Mechanical Intuition (which gives you an uncanny insight into how machines work) and Machine Empathy (which makes bots and other A.I.s like you and generally do what you want). Confusingly, Mechanical Intuition is an example of the Machine Empathy trope, while Machine Empathy is not - those who have it are actually Technopaths. And Machine Empathy works on The Computer - until It figures out what's going on, and wipes your entire clone template for subverting Alpha Complex's systems. |
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Sweden from Scandinavia and the World has this ability. | |
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At the beginning of Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, Shurik is riding a donkey, which suddenly stops dead in its tracks as they stumble upon Edik and his stopped truck he's fruitlessly trying to start. Then, as Nina happens to walk by past the two of them, the donkey follows her, while the truck starts on its own. | |
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In the TRON universe, a human programmer who has entered the computer world has this ability. It is uncertain whether a person less skilled in controlling what goes on in a computer from the outside would have the same power. | |
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Command & Conquer's engineers can generally repair buildings to full health instantly. Renegade gives the Engineers heal guns that fix buildings, vehicles, and people. In CnC4 engineers can repair anything with their guns, like in Renegade, but can also restore incapacitated husks to full effectiveness instantly. This allows going over the unit cap, sometimes massively so. |
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Renegade gives the Engineers heal guns that fix buildings, vehicles, and people. | |
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The Technomancer Crypteks from Warhammer 40,000 are a subversion of this trope, they are technically androids, just with the faintest echo of their biological former selves, they don't use the Warp to achieve magic effects but they apply for Clarke's Third Law which translates ingame in the form of them being capable to reanimate destroyed models, fix vehicles and make all Canoptek units fight with more lethality by just being close to them. | |
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In the Forges of Mars trilogy, Abrehem Locke discovers that he can make damaged or disused machines work again just by touching them. Several characters take this ability as a sign that he’s been blessed by the Machine God and is Machine-touched. | |
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In the Deadlands: Hell on Earth setting, a junker can assemble scrap into a machine that just looks like it could work, then get a technology spirit to inhabit it and finish the job. | |
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In CnC4 engineers can repair anything with their guns, like in Renegade, but can also restore incapacitated husks to full effectiveness instantly. This allows going over the unit cap, sometimes massively so. | |
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