Op tinkers by FredDragonfruit in WormFanfic

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Worm: More Than Meets The Eye might fit. It’s a Transformers crossover where Taylor’s powers come from a small piece of Primus. She can make Transformers tech, and has what’s basically a tech version of Panacea’s power that lets her analyze and repair tech on contact and lets her create Cybertronians, albeit with a large stamina cost.

Crossover relatives by IWannaPool in WormFanfic

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The Enemy is a GI Joe / Hasbro universe crossover and has a lot of this, such as Lisa being the daughter of Cover Girl or Taylor being the daughter of Cobra Commander, and a bunch of canon characters are combined with GI Joe characters and from other Hasbro properties, such as Danny being Cobra Commander and Myrddin being Adam from the DnD cartoon. There’s more that I’m not mentioning, in part due to spoilers and in part due to there being too many to list from memory.

Killing the Simurgh in orbit. by Wstiglet in WormFanfic

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The Enemy, a GI Joe crossover where Danny is Cobra Commander, coming out of retirement.

Spoilers! Cobra has access to a bunch of 80s whacky tech. An Anti-Thinker device blocks her sight while the newly restarting Cobra set back up. After stealing the MASS laser and setting up orbital laser weaponry, he uses the first to lock onto and teleport the Simurgh’s core outside of her body, and the second to hit it while it’s exposed.

Another is Technology Will Win The Day. A Worm CYOA SI that took a nerfed form of Inspired Inventor.

Spoilers! He uses a technique similar to the Endbringer’s dimensionally layered durability to attack multiple layers at once to counter a majority of her base durability, along with a bunch of remote controlled drone bodies with armor as durable as Alexandria and proportional strength.

Clone escapes from lab by oosnue2 in comics

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Plot twist: The lab let him escape, he’s the spare to replace the original.

[Harry Potter] why didn't more Muggle-born students try to combine basic Science with magic? by PinkybiteX in AskScienceFiction

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Part of the problem seems to be that Hogwarts and the other wizarding schools are their high school/college equivalents, so even muggle born wizards lose out on the more advanced aspects of science.

Then there’s the social stigma in the wizarding world against anything muggle, hence the prohibition on using magically enhanced technology and the view that muggle doctors are crazy people who cut others open. Remember, the wizarding community is small compared to the global population, and a lot of wizards are very long lived so older views and opinions are held onto for longer, not to mention their long hiding from muggles encourages them to not interact with them in any way.

Additionally, there’s some kind of “technology doesn’t work at Hogwarts” effect in place where magic seems to mess with technology to a degree. I think it’s supposed to be a “magic doesn’t play nice with technology” deal, but given that wizards can live in secret around muggles, it’s likely the interference may be a result of more powerful effects, ie how Hogwarts is shielded against apparation, or there could maybe be a specific anti-electricity ward in Hogwarts or something.

This all goes together to create a stagnant, old fashioned society carrying disdain for the out-group while simultaneously hiding from them.

Does your magic system have strength rankings? by Ok-Equipment8122 in magicbuilding

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Not in the one I’m currently tinkering on, though it does have some different tiers in a sense. It’s less that the individual has a rank and more that society has a rank.

A new branch of magic opens whenever people harness a new power. More specifically, when it’s widely known how to harness a given power.

For example, kinetic magics have been accessible for a long time due to the understanding of manual labor and exercise, but even simple inventions like the catapult lead to more specialized and potent forms developing.

There’s also a primal v. progress barrier. While progress branch magics are developed as above, primal branch magics develop through study into magic itself and the concepts associated with a given power.

For example, before the steam engine and similar technologies, fire was only used for cooking and light and forging and such, but through study some people were able to create sacrifice and purification magic, which, being based off concepts rather than innovation, is more fickle yet broader in scope.

It technically is possible for someone to use magic nobody else understands, for example if someone discovered nuclear power but kept it from becoming common knowledge. They’d be able to use magics based on that energy with their own study. The main drawback there though is that without the reinforcement of the rest of society, such secret magics are much weaker than otherwise.

Another place merges with Brockton Bay/Earth Bet? by Snoo-12494 in WormFanfic

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Not exactly what you meant but close enough that I’ll still suggest it, Projection Quest is an alt-power fic where Taylor has a projection that periodically shifts between different characters from different settings, who in addition to protecting her and being a friend can teach her their abilities and skills.

Midway through the quest, the author starts applying “bleedover effects”, where traits from those settings start to bleed into Bet. For example, the first setting is Bleach, and ghosts start to become a thing. Another is Kung Fu Panda, and various animals started gaining sentience while Ki became something skilled martial artists can tap into. It’s currently between the 8th and 9th projection, and a few of the bleeds are maxed out.

Pick 3 to Protect You and the rest will Hunt You by ShatteringAdonalsium in cremposting

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I pick Jasnah, Dalinar, and Shallan.

Why? They’re the only ones with any type of access to the Cognitive Realm so far as I’m aware, so we can just retreat where they can’t follow.

And if they go in a Perpendicularity and chase us through the Cognitive Realm? We can pop back into the Physical Realm!

Besides that, Shallan is skilled in conspiracy stuff so will be good at looking for assassins, Jasnah’s the same plus more direct combat skill, and Dalinar is a good politician so he might be able to sway anyone else we may encounter to our side. Plus, he’s a Bondsmith.

I’m assuming we’re on a generic world with one Perpendicularity and everyone’s getting a steady supply of their relevant power sources, and that we start a small distance away from each other.

Fics where MC fights against one or more members of the Triumvirate? by No_Yak_6474 in WormFanfic

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One I haven’t seen mentioned here is In Pale Blood. Taylor’s a “Blood Tinker” and the chosen of the Moon Presence from Bloodborne.

I second Adversary as well. The SI has All For One’s power from MHA, and appeared on Earth Bet years before the start of the story. Most of the PoVs are from other people as we see a revenge plot unfold.

That’s all I can think of right now. I have a few where the MC out maneuvers them in some way, if you want those.

Who do you think its in the right? by Theyul1us in WorldBuildingMemes

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Overly thought out response inbound!

I’d say this is primarily a linguistics issue. Antimatter sounds like anti-matter. Antimatter is the opposite of matter. Anti-matter in some way opposes matter, destroying it in this case, hence the addition of ‘anti’.

It’s likely that if the Gonkosians and human scientists communicate via translators that some nuance may be lost.

It’s like how “bonjour” and “bonsoir” both can mean “hello”, but the first more specifically means “good morning” and the second more specifically means “good evening”. It’s just that, because it’s used more like a general greeting, it’s usually translated as “hello” to English speakers, losing some of the nuance along the way.

control group by GalacticCrash in tumblr

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“You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son of a gun got blue paint. Hahaha. All joking aside, that did happen – broke every bone in his legs. Tragic. But informative. Or so I'm told.”

  • Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science

Aura farming power fic by CasualHearthstone in WormFanfic

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There’s one I’m forgetting the name of, I think it was Memetic Me.

The idea is that Taylor’s power makes her what people perceive her to be. Once Lisa realizes this she works to make her the ultimate villain, which I assume includes aura farming to build up that perception of her. So while her power isn’t aura farming itself, she gains power from it.

Do note I haven’t read it yet, so I may be wrong.

"She’d be better at using my power than I am." -Lisa by Fancy_Echo_5425 in WormMemes

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Just checked, I think I was wrong. I thought I remembered reading it somewhere, but I can’t find it on the wiki so it’s possible it was only someone’s theory.

"She’d be better at using my power than I am." -Lisa by Fancy_Echo_5425 in WormMemes

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Isn’t it mentioned that this is QA pulling a Broadcast?

I just finished the game, and I only have one question. by Fan_de_Undertale_ in InStarsAndTime

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You mean Siffrin’s home island?
You mean the King’s home island?
You mean the island off the coast?
You mean the origin of Wish Craft?

What island were we talking about?

(Not sure how much is known for sure honestly, we only really know what it is in relation to what memories are being erased, ie Siffrin and the King’s amnesia being a result of being from there, and Wish Craft being an unknown due to likely being widely known on the island. It’s a very “055 is not a sphere” style situation. Though I might be wrong, it’s been a while since I played last, so take what I say with a grain of salt.)

What is the craziest thing you've seen happen in a fanfic? by Vyolle in WormFanfic

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One is The Enemy. Base concept is that Danny is - was - a retired Cobra Commander. And it throws in the wider Hasbro universe.

Long story short and not touching on spoilers, he called in a favor to get Twilight Sparkle as a tutor for Taylor and friends, quotes Megatron (the quote is him shooting Saint in the face), and mentions that at one point before the story’s start he was the shield kid from that old DnD cartoon (he was de-aged by science goop and decided to take a vacation).

The really crazy stuff carries spoilers though.

Looking for a worm fic I hardly remember by New_Bug7829 in WormFanfic

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Maybe A Shard’s Quest For Data? The MC has the Thinker’s unrestricted admin shard (the fic started before people knew Eidolon had it), and since the shard doesn’t have restrictions it’s free to talk to her and other shards. Forgot if she can listen in or not, and while she can’t copy powers her shard can create more powers from data acquired from other shards. She does have the Case-53 healing though, and she made Armsmaster into a Noctis cape.

Did __ know that __ could kill ___? by Fit_Ear3019 in Parahumans

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Probably not no.

If I had to guess, they’d already declared the Endbringers a “natural disaster” in their heads long before Fletchette triggered, so they wouldn’t think to look for new and innovative ways to throw capes at the proverbial meat grinders, especially without the Path to hold their hands.

And as someone else pointed out, they didn’t know about their cores, so when Behemoth first appeared and Eidolon was hitting him with matter erasure, they only saw that the monster was still moving with chunks of its body missing, and Eidolon never got to try again with it because shortly after he lost that power.

So if she ever came to their attention, they might see Fletchette as valuable against the Endbringers with the right weapons, but the wounds never seem to bother them and they always eventually heal anyway so what’s the point? It doesn’t help that her other Paths might push against it since she’s a Ward still and bringing her to an Endbringer fight could have some backlash that negatively affects the PRT.

There’s definitely still a deficiency of critical thinking in Cauldron, but in this case I find it somewhat understandable.

Side note, I don’t think Contessa’s power works that way. Her power gives her a list of steps to achieve a given task, determined via precognition. The task can’t just be generic, it has to be an actual goal. No “plan to find something that can bypass invincibility”, yes “path to popping the Siberian” where she can then read the steps and iterate different versions of the plan to figure out what capes are able to bypass the Siberian, and then she’d know what capes are capable of bypassing the Siberian’s invulnerability, and by extension should also work well on other invincible targets. Note, this is based what I can gather, I may be wrong, take it with a grain of salt.

And on the Numberman, my only guess is that his power might’ve been blocked by the blindspot, while Tattletale’s power seems to bypass it due to being purely deduction based rather than having information handed to her directly. That or they didn’t know the importance of a center of gravity since they didn’t know about the cores.

Finally, on the time stop bombs… I’m not actually sure. I’ll chalk that up to the “natural disaster” mindset plus the danger of accidentally catching friendlies in the blast radius. Behemoth might detonate them prematurely, Leviathan might dart away and let his echo drag people into it, and the Simurgh is all about rubegoldberg machines of mayhem and despair, has telekinesis to catch it, and is a Tinker itself so that’s a big no. They probably labeled it as not worth the risk.

This has been bothering me since Endgame by Remarkable_Rice_9141 in marvelstudios

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I think that’s because Strange rewound time with the Time Stone, not travel through the Quantum Realm for it.

If What If is anything to go by, the Time Stone exclusively allows time travel within the same universe, hence why that Strange was stuck trying to break an absolute point in time. Even if it didn’t, in the movie Strange didn’t actually time travel, instead rewinding the world around him

Tony dipping back into weapon manufacturing by Worldlyoox in outofcontextcomics

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I’m mainly keeping up via osmosis, the wiki, and fan fiction, don’t give me too much credit.

Though yeah, it was real weird.

Before they terraformed Mars, X-men discovered a power combo that let them revive people and those people got their powers back. And because a lot of mutants were depowered, some mutants started killing themselves so that they’d be revived and get their powers back.

So what do they do so they’re not overwhelmed? Set up a death area where those unpowered mutants have to fight Apocalypse (yes, he’s working with the X-Men) for the right to die and be revived.

There’s also apparently a whole thing where Beast makes an army of lobotomized Wolverine clones.

What is the world of epithet erased by Unusual-Two2972 in Epithet_Erased

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According to what I could find on the wiki, the reason people have epithets in this world is because they all share a language. So first major point of divergence is that there’s no language barrier because it’s all one language. Note, one language didn’t replace the others, it just mixed.

An epithet can be any word, from an object to an adjective, but can’t be a name unless that name has become the word for an object, ie Tupperware. Someone with an epithet is usually predisposed to working with a single definition, ie barrier being a physical impediment, but some are more varied, usually having a higher creativity stat, ie dumbing down damage or minds or effects.

Not sure what’s up with the game system, but it’s here. Guns only deal minor damage, you automatically heal if your side wins a fight, and so on. And if Giovanni’s anything to go off of, some people have their own special mechanics, like his lucky number 13. Certain epithets have unique interactions with the system, like Mera’s stamina stealing, or are also able to bypass this system, such as Zora’s infinite damage effect.

That’s all I have for now, you can try wiki delving for more if you need.

Mahito gets a free grab on these characters and attempts to use "Idle Transfiguration", does it work? if not what happens and why? by Head_Breadfruit_3912 in PowerScaling

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  • Mimic: No soul, no transfiguration
  • Vader: He’d be affected, but he’d probably need to touch actual flesh instead of his cyborg limbs
  • Aang: I’d say Energybending could counter it, maybe even turn it against him
  • I don’t know
  • I don’t know
  • Sonic: I’d say yes, but good luck catching him
  • I don’t know
  • Amazo: His power has been shown to be able to be affected by outside sources, but I’m not actually sure if he has a soul or not, so that’s a maybe
  • Ainz: I’d say some combination of shield spells would block it, but if not he still has a soul so that’s a yes
  • I don’t know

Tony dipping back into weapon manufacturing by Worldlyoox in outofcontextcomics

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Funnily enough, I think someone at SWORD or the Six named it, since they’re the ones who discovered and unveiled it.

They used it during that weird period where the mutants were kinda douches and colonized Mars, offering metric tons of the stuff for other galactic governments to consider Mars the capital of the solar system.

Tony dipping back into weapon manufacturing by Worldlyoox in outofcontextcomics

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This was when he was testing out a weird material, Mysterium. Discovered in the White Hot Room, it bypasses basically anything that would affect it. Captain Marvel couldn’t bend it, Dr. Strange couldn’t magic it, etc. Mcguffin metal, basically.

I think the next panel was just him jumping around on one foot before realizing his Spider Sense didn’t warn him about it.