Our heroes might be good at what they do, but this person is on another level altogether. For some reason, this makes them useless. An All Powerful Bystander is a being who is so powerful that it seems likely they could just solve the entire plot with a snap of the fingers. They are, effectively, God. But they're not going to fix the problems facing the universe. Why? Well, there are a variety of reasons: Sometimes a Sufficiently Advanced Alien, but most of the time, they're presented as something beyond the "simple" notion of an alien being. Examples of All Powerful Bystander include: