This Troper is working on an UrbanFantasy where the BigBad jokingly calls himself one. #QUOTE#Japheth: Who am I? Hmm, well, I like that question, really. I can start civilization. I can destory civilization. I am humanity's best friend, and the worst enemy. I've been called by many names, Lucifer, Grendel, Loki, Azaroth, and so on. For now, I, am your best friend. Want some cake?

In an RTS game this troper is devising, the leaders of the forces of Agartha are like this; they were originally a bunch of EvilSorcerer types from the old Tibetan Empire circa 600s CE, who had very powerful magic and gained immortality, but when Buddhism became more or less fully entrenched in Tibet the sorcerers had less and less influence, and in the end were hunted down, escaping through MassTeleportation to the planet Alfheim, where they fought against the Ljosalfar who drove the formerly-human sorcerers underground. After a group of American soldiers stationed near a backwater Arizona town ''along with the townspeople'' ended up in a MassTeleportation of their own (the base was studying a weird, harder-than-diamond object called a Godstone, out of the analogy "God only knows how it's harder than diamonds" that fell to Earth) got teleported because of a SummoningRitual to retrieve the Godstone back to Alfheim went too well. The Agarthans, from scrying human culture, start growing little grey men to serve as technological users (guns etc) since the master Agarthans themselves though powerful magically have very little clue about human-type technology - and also ''to get the humans scared'', since by that time the Agarthans forgot over the centuries even what it was like to be actually human, ''even to the tiny detail of really having to go to the toilet'' - however, the Outer God that gave the Agarthans their power is evil and nothing else and needs what is left of the sorcerers' humanness to make plans that actually would work...

In fact, this troper sometimes believes himself this in human form - even though he is deemed as merely having Asperger Syndrome, this troper has plans so secret even he doesn't quite know what they are yet - and is capable of such high levels of love empathy and such depths of hatred and wrath that seems beyond the ken of most people he knows. Since these sorts of emotions are usually considered beyond autistics, and it is a feeling in himself, not just belief, but that he ''knows'' he has a soul-type nature so strange and bizarre that his human body only serves to cage it - like an EnergyBeing version of the Reapers forced to take a random just-conceived human form, perhaps, must be why he feels so much resonance in studying history...

I have four of them:

Merlin - An insane, unfettered mage, meant to be the equivalent of Merlin in my setting without actually being the 'real' Merlin. He seeks after the Truth at all costs, for its own sake. In the pursuit of it, he entered the belly of a massive EldritchAbomination, and along with his accomplice Yseult/Tristen (below), they drank too much of the monstrosity's blood. In addition to everything else he was doing that made him creepy as hell, such as being utterly indifferent to the fact that he reeked of rotting flesh because he had zombies around for cheap labor, as well as being able to drive people insane with his eyes or voice, not to mention a mercurial, almost Jokerish personality, such things were now punctuated by the distinct feeling of being in the presence of the Eldritch Abomination itself.

Yseult/Tristen - Merlin's accomplice, an unfettered EmotionlessGirl who followed fearlessly after Merlin because he held the promise of helping her find the one thing she sought after. Like Merlin, she often reeks of rotting flesh because of their use of zombies, and though lacking his eyes, she can use her voice to drive people insane.

Kaeli/"Fulfillment" - In the wake of a soon to fail super soldier project, the commander decided he would take an awful risk to try to bring something out of it. His decision was to have his most loyal subject submit to an alien heart transplant, replacing her heart with that of a captured EldritchAbomination. Said abomination, up until then violent and uncooperative, was docile and submitted to what was to happen. What happened is that the experiment had GoneHorriblyRight, in effect creating what could only be described as something akin to a TimeLord. Her entire being changed, as well as her mind. She could no longer relate to mortal things, being able to see through the flow and time and space as easily as we see what is before our eyes normally. Given that she is more acutely aware of how her new powers could end up causing more harm than good, she has taken on an advisory or secretly empowering role.

King Arthur of Camelot - Or rather, the true being the myth of Arthur is based on. He lives in Albion, known to us as the IC 1101 galaxy, and when Kaeli took the alien heart into herself, her being was presented before Arthur, who judged her as worthy of the blood of the Grail, which now flowed in her veins, empowering her. In terms of power, Arthur is much the same, only naturally instead of empowered by an alien heart.

So King Arthur is a Time Lord? There's a role reversal for you (Merlin was implied to be The Doctor in Doctor Who).

I have a character who is an agent/mouthpiece of an insanely huge and powerful worlds-spanning consciousness often referred to as a god. She can jump 10 feet straight up, dodge bullets, stroll past infrared cameras without registering, lift someone a foot in the air by the neck one-handed, and tends to make magic evaporate and psychics scream and run just by walking into the room. She's also a {{ditz}} who spends all her money on chocolate milkshakes, thinks ''FamilyCircus'' is a postmodern masterpiece, and doesn't get why people think it's weird that she travels around on a motorcycle in the middle of snowstorms.

The Seer from TheNewDawnHollowDusk. There is something just not right about that guy, even Adrian sees it.

I have a few in my UrbanFantasy story, including the main protagonist, who tries to invoke this.

Matthias is a young father and blind man with AuraVision who is trying to put bread on the table by working as a mercenary. The incident that gave him his AuraVision as well as blinded him also Drove Him Mad From The Revelation, leaving him a little... out of it. And he's a protagonist.

His father, Vinicio, is a truer example, being a man- who was never really all that normal in the first place -who a infected with an alien virus, and subsequently gained RealityWarping powers. He is human only in appearance and mind.

This Troper is going to be a DM for her game group soon and is using one of these for a character's SpiritAdvisor. She's kind of like a mutant combination of C.C. and Hanyuu, but... weird and ''way'' more powerful.

In a Fallout inspired Shadowrun game this troper runs there are many, ranging from 'Threadbare' Johnson, who is a manifestation of some outer being through a toxic shaman and the monofilament communication network, Mr "Violence" Moskau, who is a 5th generation Transhuman that survived the apocalypse by Walking it off and has an array of weapons built into his body, from a monofilament chainsaw to a ballistic fist. Finally there's The Illustrated Misanthrope and the rest of the Misanthropes' society, who are all humans caught in an anomalie during the apocalypse, changing their state of existence. So far TIM (conveniant acronym, I know) has been responsible for several assassinations, the complete obliteration of the only raider gang with the now rare guns (using only a rusty pipe.) and the eradication of 3 towns that refused to surrender when the island government declared a war on terrorism aimed at the Misanthropes' society. The war ended when a pyramid of 90,000 severed heads was built in the town centre of government headquarters in a single night. What was most disquieting to the leaders of this apparently sole surviving island amidst a scorched world, is that the number of heads far outnumbered the number of people alive on the island BEFORE the war began, bringing up the question of where the heads were aquired.

The player have now found out a bit about the society, learning that Illustrated Misanthropes are their shock troops in a civilisation entirely centered around the propagation of war in order to prevent any of the new governments from achieving dominance. They also found out why they are shock troops. They're not only Multi-melee and firearm masters, but even them talking can cause strange spacial anomalies. This was found out when they saw TIM assault a military installation and his laugh caused a squad of elite security forces to mutate into gibbering, cancerous masses of flesh, all of which has proved resistant to mercy killing and remains sapient. It's probably for the best that Misanthropes are not visible beneath their large, knee length coats, suits and wide brimmed hats. It's heavily implied that were one to drop the clearly heavy and stifling coat that anyone in visual range would suffer even more horrific changes. And that's before the then unhindered Misanthrope gets into close combat. It is also been stated that Mr Moskau, who spends his spare time crucifying people who annoy him, is deadly afraid of having to fight any of the misanthropes.