Animation

Animation
Sai (Naruto) uses Super Beasts Imitation Picture to animate his ink paintings.
Power/Ability to:	Animate inanimate objects.

The power to animate inanimate objects. Sub-power of Life-Force Manipulation. Not to be confused with Life Creation. Opposite to Inanimation.

Also Called

• Life to the Lifeless
• Motion to the Motionless

Capabilities

The user can give life to inanimate objects/substances, animating them to act/move on their own accord out of the user’s control; however, they do seem to work in tandem to their animator.

Variations

• Artistic Animation Artistic Manifestation, Drawing Animation
  • The power to bestow sentience to drawings, illustrations, sketches, etc. The creations assume a 2D life, traveling along walls, or even coming into 3D reality.
  • Use an Etch-A-Sketch to bring art to life.
    • If mixed with Technology Manipulation, digital drawing or photo can be brought to life.
• Clay Animation
  • Create figures out of clay and bring them to life.
• Elemental Animation
  • Bring any Elements to life, fire, water, wind, earth, wood, etc.
• Literary Animation Literary Manifestation, Narrative Animation, or Storytelling
  • The power in which one can project narrative stories into reality. The user can read a book aloud causing the narrative to assume tangible life, with the characters and environments manifesting within the user’s present surroundings.
• Object Animation
  • Bring any sort of object to life, such as statues, game stations, rugs, bottles, etc.
• Reanimation
  • The ability to reanimate dead beings, possibly restoring their consciousness.
• Toy Manipulation
  • Bring toys, like a Barbie Doll or Action Figures, to life and make part of an army.
  • Make toy/water gunfire live rounds including toy tanks.
  • Bring game pieces to life.
  • Use Construction sets, like building blocks, to create a weapon or turn a toy vehicle to life-size and use it as a real vehicle.
  • Complete an image puzzle in order to give life to the picture.

Associations

• Activation & Deactivation
• Animancy
• Animation Manipulation
• Animation Retention
• Object Possession
• Reality Inducement

Limitations

• May be limited on how long the object stays animated.
• May be limited to animating objects without controlling them.
• May have to give specific orders or program the target, which cannot deviate from them.
• May have to keep various levels of attention to the target, without which it will either continue to follow the last orders, start acting erratically or simply stop completely.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Gikon inside of Gigais (Bleach)
• The Create Card (Card Captor Sakura)
• Action Card (Card Captor Sakura: Clear Cards)
• Users of Living Magic (Fairy Tail)
  • Zeref
  • Hades
• Cherry (Fairy Tail)
• Dante (Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 Anime)
• Kotatsu (Inuyasha)
• Myoe (Kyousougiga)
• Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Golden Wind)
• Ungaro (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6 Stone Ocean)
• Sai (Naruto)
• Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
• Gekko Moriah (One Piece)
• Medusa Gorgon (Soul Eater)
• Mutsumi (Sgt. Frog/Keroro Gunsou)
• Kriem (Tiger & Bunny)
• Miki (Shugo Chara!)
• Bojo (Stitch!)
• Experiment 610 Witch (Stitch!)
• Experiment 112 "Toons" (Stitch!)

Comics/Cartoons

• Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving (Adventure Time); via touch, the personality of the inanimate object is determined based on his mood, whether they be good or evil, etc.
• Psyphon, Hex, Charmcaster, Adwaita, and Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Shendu (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Jade Chan/Amazing T-Girl (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Selene (Marvel Comics)
• Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
• Wiccan (Marvel Comics)
• The Evillustrator (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Discord (My Little Pony series); via Chaos Magic
• Mirror Man (The Shapies)
• Crimson Witch (Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery)
• Fairy Godmother (Shrek)
• Control Freak (Teen Titans)
• Mumbo Jumbo (Teen Titans)
• Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Anna Maht (World of Quest)
• Wuya (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Rainbow Quartz 2.0 (Steven Universe franchise)

Video Games

• Sadida Class (Dofus/Wakfu)
• Zeus (God of War)
• Ancient Vampires (Legacy of Kain) can given life to statues
• The Animator (Ordinary Boy)
• Maxwell (Scribblenauts); via a magical notepad
• Witches and warlocks (Shadow Falls)
• Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls); as a witch
• Pop Fizz (Skylanders); via purple potion
• Kaos (Skylanders)
• Master Hand (Super Smash Bros.); believed by many fans to be a metaphor for a child, who uses his/her imagination to 'animate' their toys and figurines
• Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Matt Groening (The Simpsons Game); as a boss, summons Bender and Zoidberg from "Futurama" out of a notebook to attack the player

Literature

• Magickinds (Arkwell Academy)
• Eric Shellhorn (Charlie Bone)
• Magic Users (Harry Potter); via Spell Casting
• Enoch O'Connor (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
• Awakeners (Warbreaker)
• Returned (Warbreaker)
• The Lady of the Cold (Moomin); only the snow horse

Live Television/Movies

• Kevin (Charmed)
• Flora, Fauna, Merryweather (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
• Merlin (Disney’s The Sword in the Stone)
• Weeping Angels (Doctor Who); limited to statues
• Hervoken (Doctor Who: Forever Autumn)
• Grandpa Mason (Grandpa in My Pocket); via his cap
• Mo Folchart, Meggie Folchart, and Dário (Inkheart)
• Erazer (MisFits)
• Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin (Once Upon a Time)
• Reverend Henry Kane/The Beast (Poltergeist series)
• Lord Zedd (Power Rangers)
• Sarah Ravencroft (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost)
• Kibaoni Army Corps (Shuriken Sentai Ninninger)
• Mina Chaytan/Black Bison (Arrowverse)
• Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker (Arrowverse/The Flash)
• Prince Koura (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad)
• Zeebad (The Magic Roundabout)
• Sorcerers (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
• Wizards (Wizards of Waverly Place); via Murrieta Animata spell

Others

• Animators (Loki IRL); limited to cartoons
• Nomad (Nomad of Nowhere)
• Richard Gansey III (Blue Lily, Lily Blue); briefly

Known Objects

• Shards of Galatea (Amazing Stranger)
• Doofenshmirtz Animate-Inator (Milo Murphy's Law)
• Reality Gauntlet (Danny Phantom)
  • Reality Gem of Life (Danny Phantom)
• Psychomagnotheric Slime/Mood Slime (Ghostbusters)
• Cosmic Forge (Wizardy)
• Rat Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Heart of Jong (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Kage Kage No Mi (One Piece)
• Soru Soru No Mi (One Piece)
• Phoenix Stone (Fairy Tail)
• Youtenshin Sourai (Mamotte Shugogetten)
• Tablet of Ahkmenrah (Night At The Museum)
• Doodlebob (Spongebob Squarepants)
• Teleki-Helmet (Johnny Test)
• Animation of the Inanimate (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)
• Chaos Emerald of Life (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Queen La's Staff (The Legend of Tarzan)
• Opal Starfire Gem (Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic)
• Rasputin's Reliquary (Don Bluth’s Anastasia)
• Circus Clothes (Round the Twist)
• Van Allen Belt (The Simpsons)

Known Spells/Powers

• Ocktoon Eradiko (Ben 10)
• Ocktoon (Ben 10)
• Living Magic (Fairy Tale)
• Doll Play Magic (Fairy Tale)
• Gold Experience (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Golden Wind)

Gallery

Reading May cause animations to awaken (Inkheart)

Namine (Kingdom Hearts 2) drawing as Sora appears

Gikon can be placed in bodies to push out souls or reanimate them. (Bleach)

The Create (Card of Card Captor Sakura) has this power but only if someone uses it.

Naoko Yanagisawa (CardCaptor Sakura) is one example for this power after using it unknowingly with The Create Card.

Psychomagnotheric/Mood Slime (Ghostbusters)

The Rat Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventures) grants motion to the motionless, animation to the inanimate.

Any thing Erazer (Misfits) paints, the graffiti will come to life, as shown when a graffiti bulldog is coming to life.

Anyone who wields the Sword of Triton (Pirates of the Caribbean) can animate and control ships.

Gekko Moria (One Piece) animating his shadow thanks to the power of the Kage Kage no Mi.

Kanjuro (One Piece) using his Devil Fruit powers to animate anything he drew to 3-dimensional life, though when drawn poorly it affects their capabilities and stamina.

Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin (One Piece) with her Homies; inanimate objects brought to life by the humans souls of her subjects.

Bojo (Stitch!)

Experiment 112 "Toons" (Stitch!)

Heart of Jong (Xiaolin Showdown) can bring inanimate objects to life and give them personalities and personal abilities

With Chaos Magic, Discord (My Little Pony series) can bring unliving things, like paintings, to life.

Tablet of Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum) has the power to bring all of the exhibits to life during the night.

Professor McGonagall (Harry Potter) animates the statues of Hogwarts.

Lord Zedd (Power Rangers) used animation magic to make monsters out of objects.

Both Nerissa and Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.) can animate inanimate objects by using the Quintessence.

Charmcaster (Ben 10) casts Ocktoon Eradiko to Make Mr. Smoothly Attack Gwen & Ben

Charmcaster Casted The Spell Ocktoon

Crimson Witch (Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery) can bring inanimate objects to life

The Reality Gauntlet (Danny Phantom) can make things come alive and possible kill objects with The Red Gem of Life.

Jade Chan as the Amazing T-Girl (Jackie Chan Adventures)

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The Lady of the Cold (Moomin)

From Mina Chaytan, DeVoe (The Flash) can temporarily animate effigies by leaving a psychic imprint of his dark matter on the molecular level of the target, controlling their movements as if genuinely alive

Hex (Ben 10 Series)