- "The blood is the life."
- ― Count Dracula misquoting and missing the point of Genesis 9:4 in Dracula (1931)
- "Xander: Why blood? Why Dawn's blood? I mean, why couldn't it be, like, a lymph ritual?
- Spike: 'Cause it's always gotta be blood.
- Xander: We're not actually discussing dinner right now -
- Spike: Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going, makes you warm, makes you hard, makes you other than dead. 'Course it's her blood."
- ― Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The power to manipulate blood, whether it's from oneself, others or free-flowing. Variation of Body Manipulation and Liquid Manipulation.
Also Called
- Bloodbending
- Blood Control
- Hemokinesis/Haemokinesis
- Hematokinesis
- Sanguinarian Control/Manipulation
- Sanguine Control/Manipulation
Capabilities
User can create, shape and manipulate blood of oneself, others or from their surroundings, whether it be from blood-banks, hospitals, or battlefields.
Applications
- Blood Attacks
- Blood Clotting
- Blood Consumption
- Blood Generation
- Blood Marionette of yourselves or others.
- Blood Solidification
- Death Inducement
- Neurocognitive Deficit by reversing the flow of blood to cause unconsciousness.
- Haemokinetic Constructs
- Manipulate the properties of blood.
- Blood Property Manipulation
- Density Manipulation
- Dermal Armor by increasing the density of the blood.
- Prehensile Blood
- Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Regeneration by increasing the flow of blood.
Techniques
- Blood Absorption: To be able to absorb blood from others.
- Blood Aura: To surround oneself in blood.
- Blood Cloning: To create clones of themselves by using blood.
- Blood Empowerment: To be empowered and vitalized by blood.
- Blood Link: To be linked to others by blood.
- Blood Mimicry: To mimic the properties of blood.
- Blood Oxygen Manipulation: To manipulate the oxygen in one's blood and others.
- Blood Portal Creation: To create portals out of ones own blood.
- Blood Pressure Manipulation: To manipulate the pressure and flow of blood inside bodies.
- Blood Propulsion: To propel one's self using blood.
- Blood Sugar Manipulation: To manipulate the blood sugar inside bodies.
- Blood Teleportation: To teleport through blood.
- Blood Transformation: To transform matter into blood.
- Blood Transfusion: To inject one's blood into others.
- Drowning: To drown a target with large quantities of blood.
- Haemokinetic Combat: To infuse blood in physical combat.
- Haemomancy: To use divination with blood as a medium.
- Haemopotent Regeneration: To regenerate oneself using blood.
- Haemopotent Replication: To replicate powers with blood as a medium.
- Healing Blood: To heal by using blood.
- Thermovariance: To boil targets blood.
Variations
Associations
- Acid Manipulation by controlling acidity of blood.
- Adoptive Muscle Memory, Knowledge Replication and/or Power Absorption using blood as a medium.
- Adrenal Activation
- Blood Energy Manipulation - using blood as energy.
- Blood Transcendency
- Bloodlessness
- Body Manipulation
- Bone Manipulation: Blood is produced in bone marrow.
- Cardiology Manipulation
- Iron Manipulation
- Life-Force Manipulation - Blood is a essential part of one's biology.
- Liquid Surveillance Communication: Use blood for communication, connection, spying and surveillance.
- Magic, especially Dark Arts and Voodoo.
- Summoning, Dead and Ghosts especially.
- Vampire Physiology
- Water Manipulation
Limitations
- Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user, and their power's natural limits.
- Users of Bloodlessness/Blood Resistance are immune.
- May be unable to create blood, being limited to manipulating only from already existing sources.
- May be limited to manipulating the blood of others or only themselves.
- May bleed to death by drawing too much blood.
- Some users could be limited on what type of blood they can control, e.g. animal blood.
- To manipulate one's own blood for external applications, one may have to draw blood.
Known Users
See Also: The Power of Blood.
Manga/Anime
- Liver (Akame ga Kill!)
- Akeginu (Basilisk)
- Mirai Kuriyama (Beyond the Boundary: Kyoukai no Kanata)
- Charden Flamberg (Black Cat)
- Blut practitioners (Bleach)
- Tenjirō Kirinji (Bleach)
- Saya Otonashi (Blood Plus)
- Diva (Blood Plus)
- Saint Fighters (Code:Breakers)
- Arystar Krory III (D.Gray-Man)
- Wei Zhijun (Darker than Black)
- Deadmen (Deadman Wonderland)
- Gyuutarou (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- John Doe (Embalming: The Tale of Another Frankenstein)
- Juvia Lockser (Fairy Tail)
- Hiruko Shiten (Flame Of Recca)
- Isaac McDougal (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
- Kuroudo Akabane/Dr. Jackal (Getbackers)
- InuYasha (InuYasha)
- Esidisi (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2: Battle Tendency)
- Peta (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Sekijiro Kan/Blood King (My Hero Academia)
- Ketsuryūgan users (Naruto)
- Shido Tatsuhiko (Nightwalker)
- Cadis Etrama Di Raizel (Noblesse)
- Erga Kenesis Di Raskreia (Noblesse)
- Shinrei (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
- Alexander Nikolaevich Hell (Seikon no Qwaser)
- Boris Tepes Dracula (Shaman King)
- Crona (Soul Eater)
- Chōji Suitengu (Speed Grapher)
- Senri Shiki (Vampire Knight)
- Gama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Kotarou Tennouji (Rewrite)
- Klaus Von Reinherz (Blood Blockade Battlefield)
- Zapp Renfro (Blood Blockade Battlefield)
- Steven A. Starphase (Blood Blockade Battlefield)
- Zed O'Brien (Blood Blockade Battlefield)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Movies
- Vampire Girl (Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Live Television
- The Sycorax (Doctor Who)
Video Games
- Dr. Beatrix Lucavi (Battleborn)
- Naoto Kurogane (BlazBlue)
- Dracula/Gabriel Belmont (Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2)
- Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers)
- Azmodan (Diablo)
- Blood Mages (Dragon Age)
- Elesis (Elsword); as Dark Knight/Crimson Avenger/Bloody Queen
- Berserker/Hellbringer/Blood Evil (Dungeon Fighter Online)
- Mira (Killer Instinct)
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- Vladimir (League of Legends)
- Skarlet (Mortal Kombat)
- Elizebet, Queen of the Greater Fiends (Ninja Gaiden II)
- Eliza (Skullgirls)
- Gaston King (The Immortal Knights)
- Blood Magic Users (The Secret World)
- Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Carmine Prime (Under Night In-Birth)
- Sorcerer Slayer (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Vermillion Victoria (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Vampires (Vampyr)
- Jonathan Reid
- Red Queen (Vampyr)
- Lana'thel (Warcraft)
- Touya Kagari (XBlaze)
- Tremere Clan (Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines)
Cartoons
- Bloodbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
Comics
- Ramsey Rosso/ Bloodwork (DC Comics)
- Carnage (Marvel Comics)
- Michael Asher (Marvel Comics)
- Oshun (Santerians) (Marvel Comics)
- Purgatori (Purgatori)
- Noah (Rebirth)
Literature
- Sgt. Billie Church (Clive Barker's Jericho)
- Vogan (The Young Guardians)
- Vampires (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse)
- Bill Compton (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse)
- Eric Northman (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse)
- Seth Caleb (Eve Duncan series)
Known Weapons
- Black Marlin (Akame ga Kill!)
- Kesshu (Flame of Recca)
Gallery
Manga/Anime
Liver (Akame Ga Kill!) using his Black Marlin to control liquid, even his own drug-tainted blood, for a final attack.
Mirai Kuriyama (Beyond the Boundary) controlling her blood, solidifying it into a sword.
Charden Flamberg (Black Cat) using his Blood to create a reaper with a sharp scythe, draining his victims while attacking.
Yhwach (Bleach) using Blut Vene Anhaben to create a spiritual barrier from his blood vessels that assimilates enemy attacks for his own benefit.
Yukihina (Code: Breaker) using his Shape of Water ability to control the water content within his blood cells, vaporizing it and then freezing it.
The four Saint Fighters (Code: Breaker) utilizing their blood as sharp weapons.
Wei Zhijun (Darker than Black) teleporting with his blood as a catalyst.
Wretched Egg (Deadman Wonderland) using her blood to create deadly whips, enough to destroy Tokyo in a 11.4 magnitude earthquake.
Ganta Igarashi (Deadman Wonderland) controlling his blood to fire as powerful projectiles.
Senji Kiyomasa (Deadman Wonderland) making a blade of blood from his arm.
Toto Sakigami (Deadman Wonderland) creating feathers out of blood.
John Doe (Embalming: The Tale of Another Frankenstein) produces infinite amounts of blood to fire off at high pressure, flood the entire London sewer system or turn the Thames crimson.
Isaac McDougal (Fullmetal Alchemist) using his water alchemy to make a spear of blood, which he only does so as a last resort.
Kuro'udo Akabane (Get Backers) controls blood, creating 108 scalpels and even his reality cutting Bloody Sword.
InuYasha (InuYasha) infusing his blood with his demonic energy to create sharp blood blades.
Shinrei (Sammurai Deeper Kyo) controlling his blood to create the carbonic acidic Blood Dragons that will melt anything.
Crona (Soul Eater) controlling his Black Blood for powerful attacks and healing.
Kiyoshi Mitarai (Yu Yu Hakusho) can manipulate any water that is mixed with his own blood.
Add a photo to this galleryVideo Games
Azmodan (Diablo) creating pools of blood to damage the heroes.
Mira (Killer Instinct) uses the Gloves of Rasavatham, which allow her to control her blood while turning it into a silver mercury-like substance.
Vladimir (League of legends) has learned from an old monk how to control blood.
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Kain (Legacy of Kain) rips the blood from a victim's body in order to feed.
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Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
Sorcerer Slayer (Valkyrie Crusade) has and can control burning blood.
Vermillion Victoria (Valkyrie Crusade) manipulating blood.
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Eliza (Skullgirls) can manipulate her blood to masterful levels.
Comics/Cartoons
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender) uses BloodBending to punish the Commander of the Southern Raiders for his crimes.
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Hama (Avatar: The Last Airbender) has absolute mastery over all forms of water that she can even control blood and bodily fluids.
Yakone (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) bloodbends without full moon.
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Young Tarrlok (The Legend of Korra) controls multiple wolves, using Bloodbending.
Carnage's (Marvel Comics) symbiote is bonded directly to his bloodstream, allowing him to control his own blood…
…to the extent he can recreate the symbiote through an open wound.
