Realistically speaking, how could you ever defeat someone who can rewrite reality according to their whims?

Realistically speaking, how could you ever defeat someone who can rewrite reality according to their whims?

You can't. That's why every time a character like that appears in a story it's time to roll your eyes and sigh, because you know the solution HAS to be some type of bullshit.

Just attack whatever human-like elements they have. Loved ones, pride, there's always something.

They'll just rewrite reality so that you shat your pants instead of attacking anything.

Trick them into doing some dumb shit, like giving up their powers or something. At the end of they day, the power is bullshit, and the solution will be bullshit too, but it’s possible to come up with some interesting solutions.

Trap them in a time loop until they realize the error of their ways.

you make them suicidal and nihilistic so they give up and kill themselves
Challenge them to do something impossible like teach humans how to be good and show them the way, that killed our gods spirit thousands of year ago

by making them achieve their goals which backfire in a classic way

Have them absorb too much power. That amateur-hour horseshit will make them explode. Then their plans will be undone.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, I imagine.

Or you just don't use them as a force that needs to be defeated. If you've got a nigh-omnipotent character, what do they really get out of fucking with the little guys? Why are they doing this shit?

At that point, your goal should be to get them to stop fucking with your shit.

Do it the way SCP does it. Make them work against themselves.

There was this one little girl who was a MAJOR reality warper. Basically no known upper limit. They convinced her she was a witch and gave her a spellbook of predefined spells, so she believed that those were the only things she could do.

Four white mages.

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Can they rewrite reality when they're dead? If not find a way to kill them instantly or slowly poison and kill them without them knowing.
Most important thing is: they can't change/prevent what they don't know is happening. If they changed reality to make them immortal you're fucked

>There was this one little girl who was a MAJOR reality warper. Basically no known upper limit. They convinced her she was a witch and gave her a spellbook of predefined spells, so she believed that those were the only things she could do.
I see the anime fags have continued to degrade the quality of SCP.

She basically got written out of SCP canon because she was too twee. Now she's kept in a medical coma.

Same way the Light Warriors did it: distract him with counterspells until he dies.

Alternatively, altering reality to his whims means that he actually has to will reality to change. So all you have to do is get the drop on him faster than his neurons can react. Which is, now that I think about it, how another SCP got taken out.

>how could you ever defeat someone who can rewrite reality according to their whims?
Manipulate their whims. If telepathy is in the setting, unless the person has already used their reality-rewriting ability to make themselves impervious to it, you have a golden opportunity to use them as a puppet. you can even make them will themselves out of existence.

That would never work.

Kill them before they have the chance to use their power. If its an active user rather than a passive constant effect, they need to stop and think to intentionally make a change.

If they are dumb enough to not have already made themselves functionally immortal through self-buffs, putting a bullet in their brain can easily happen faster than they can think the bullet out of existence, especially if they never see it coming.

That's presuming active reality control. Passive reality control is much, much harder to deal with, and you can't actually beat them in a fight. You have to outmaneuver them with words and trick them.

Passive reality control means they don't need to make chances on purpose, but rather bend the world to their whims constantly. Where an active user deals with a gunman by exploding them with his mind, a passive reality warper is never in any danger because the bullets will always miss. Not because he is defending himself, but because he simply doesn't want to be hurt, so the universe can't hurt him.

You can see the weak point here. Find a way to trick him into accepting harm, like suicidal thoughts, and you have an opening to hurt him.

This remains one of my favorite jokes in the comic. Seven years of setup or some inane shit like that.

>Trap them in a time loop until they realize the error of their ways.

Itachi pls

just shoot them with your laser as any other human would

Kill them. They can't re-write reality if they're dead.

Either:

Recognize what parts of reality they won't change because at their core, they need that aspect of reality to exist... so basically... what parts of their nature impede them from doing certain things.
>Thanos

Get a bigger badder reality warper to step in
>Cosmic any comics

Magically have some part of reality be static, a foundation that can't be changed. Use that aspect to beat them.

>Recognize what parts of reality they won't change because at their core, they need that aspect of reality to exist... so basically... what parts of their nature impede them from doing certain things.
>Thanos

The defeat of Emperor Joker also falls under this.

But they'll remember that shit. The pain they felt. Unless they can't, in which there you go, another exploitable weakness.

go with the classic 'trick them into saying their name backwards'

even if it does nothing, you still tricked a omnipotent being into saying retarded shit

>insert come to bargain here

I can't believe how long that joke waited to drop.

>you still tricked a omnipotent being into saying retarded shit

Your blood gets turned into mashed potatoes and you collapse to the ground, painfully dying pf simultaneous total organ failure. Your last words, "Totally worth it."

Shiv to the back, can't undo what he didn't see coming. Unless he willed himself omniprescience or eyes in his back.

>turns out OP is actually a nth dimensional war deity locked in eternal combat with another nth dimensional cosmic force and he's gotten so desperate to find a way to break the stalemate as to lower himself onto our planar existence to ask Sup Forums for loopholes to exploit

In the case of Sarda it was just that his goals were retarded and got himself killed by Chaos, who's stronger but had a more easily exploited weakness.

Nah? They did a pass a while back aimed at toning down some of the dumb bullshit, and dumb bullshit new SCPs are purged lightning fast.

talk them into fucking off

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>what do they really get out of fucking with the little guys? Why are they doing this shit?
Maybe because they've been alive forever and now they're bored?

.50 cal from 3kms away

Bravely Second in a nutshell

Then entertain them, or refuse to entertain them. Sometimes the challenge of a nigh-omnipotent character isn't in defeating them, but just managing to put up with them until they get bored and leave.

Q just wants to spend time with his husbando.

Mephisto used the old Puss in Boots routine to get the better of Thanos when he gained absolute power over reality.

That sounds boring as shit. Are there at least records of the old lore?

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2 Fighters and 2 Red Mages is even more broken, which sort of makes sense when you think about it. RM is OP as fuck.

Got a source for your image?

There are some archived SCPs, and tales are mostly unchanged besides the addition of cross-linking and tags.

SCP Foundation also likes to take them out before they notice anything. Clef himself advocates sniping...

And there's this one SCP that was basically 7 kids turned into a "gun" that shoots people into an alternate dimension of horrors.They used the latter to get rid of an entire race of reality warpers. Maybe they died, maybe they didn't, but they haven't been back since.

>continued to degrade
Wasn't this one of the originals? It got pretty dumb before they had to sanitize the entry, but it wasn't like the core idea was some new thing injected by the anime fags. It was old school shit.

Their personality, duh. If they're still human they'll have certain core personality defects which will hinder their abilities in some way. Attack those insecurities, abd you have a start.

From their it's either convincing them to fuck off or get them distracted enough to use whatever mechanism fucked shit up to undo the fucking of the shit.

Or you could just start a shitty high school social club and be their bitch servant for all eternity.

Indirectly, playing into their god child complex or try to hijack the death drive ego into making them kill themselves wilfully or indirectly by losing control of their powers.

If its perceptive reality then kill them in their sleep when they cant be an observer, keep them off focus divert attention persuade keep talking lead and manipulate them into conclusions they make reality by thinking about it.
You have to talk a reality changer to death or make them kill themselves there is no other win condition besides bullshit asspulls.
you need to roast them so hard they sum zero through ego death ie lex's "why dont you put the whole word in a bottle superman" in Red Son.

most recent Raven ongoing

Banishment. or possibly magic seals.

like a genie, etc. This is where those "ancient evil" seals make sense. Rewriting reality, presumably has a few limitations.

1. are they conscious? if they can be stasis, or attacked faster then they can think, you might be able to stop them. Main concern here, is death the end? if they can re-write reality, death may not stop them. where again, sealing, statis or banishment is needed.
2. does their ability to rewrite reality extend beyond this reality? again, the seals, etc. pocket dimensions, alternate realitys. dimension hopping is very potentially a different powerset. so, dropping them in another plane of existence might work.
3. bound by stronger magic, laws etc. A geas that kills them, if they try to remove the geas. or, outright compels them not to. Any mind control that makes them WANT to not remove the mindcontrol, etc.

Make them to spell their name backwards.

Easy, just take the reality warper to a place where reality does not exists and then kill him there.

Aw nuts

Beat them in a game of their choosing and hope they aren't the petty type.

kek

just swap clothes with your twin brother and they totally fall for it and don't bother to check

actually do this

>You can't. That's why every time a character like that appears in a story it's time to roll your eyes and sigh, because you know the solution HAS to be some type of bullshit.

which is why it's better if they character is like

and just fucking around and you don't need to "defeat" them at all unless your protagonists are also cosmic beings

what's this

Sir Jim Jaspers's death at the hands of The Fury.

Jaspers is a reality warper who fought against The Fury who is a machine with the power to adapt to everything. In the end The Fury was able to kill Jaspers by pulling him out of reality.

I am going to post the fight.

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That doesn't make any sense. He still has himself to change.

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the only way such a character can exist is inside a story. Exploit the story's narrative, or find that someone's "tragic flaw."

Marvel Comics did this with Infinity Gauntlet. Adam Warlock gave Thanos the fight against the good-guys Thanos wanted, giving Thanos just enough rope to hang himself with. "You've had ultimate power time and time again, but you're always lost it. Because deep inside yourself, you feel you don't deserve it. So you always leave a way to be defeated."

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Can't they just wish their nihilism and suicidal tendencies away?

Proteus died in this manner

Personally I love the horror aspect of a reality warper.
I mean he could just talk to a hero in this manner: "Hey, Hero. Didn't you become a hero becauseyour daughter was killed by villains. Well look behind you. Who is? Its your daughter. But before you get all happy and stuff, just tell me something: What is her name? Oh, you don't know it? This is because I didn't gave her one yet. "
The only problem a reality warper has is his origin. His only limit is his experience. A reality warper could not watch forward and in the same time backwards, because he only imagine having his 2 eyes.

The problem about killing a reality warper suddenly is that he is unbound by his body. He is basically a sentient perception. He doesn't need a body to live nor eyes to see.

Also: How he perceives you, that is what you are. In the moment he thinks about you, you will be replaced with an philosophical zombie-copy of yourself.

Telepathy

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I wish for the day they present a reality warper fight in cinema.

RM > Thief > BM > WM > BB >>>>> Fighter >>>>>>>>>>>> The King

Say something so stupid and/or nonsensical that they accidentally contort reality into that form just trying to understand how the fuck you came up with the garbage that came out your mouth.
If done properly they accidentally kill themselves via the sheer stupid.

make it fight something that it's not bound by reality and can inmediately change according to whatever kind of attack/change you use against it, I can think of SCP 682, Dr. Manhattan or Darwin

King Steve invented ranking characters, you know.

Truly ahead of his times

AStos? Mo' like, yo' ass IS toast!!

Why did Princess Sara get dropped as the building-up-to-be-the-main-villain?

because brian clevinger loves disappointment and anti climax

FF ends in a timeloop where Garland never turns evil, and since Garland was never evil to begin with in the comic Sara is probably, like, the former villain, before the story even started.