The ability to shed one's body or skin. Sub-power of Skin Manipulation.
Contents
Also Called
- Ecdysis
- Molting/Moulting
- Skin Shedding
Capabilities
The user is capable of shedding their body or skin and emerging with a new body, even after dismemberment.
Applications
- Healing/Health Optimization
- User may emerge with skin of different quality.
- Life Renewal
- Regenerative Growth
Techniques
Associations
- Crustacean Physiology
- Insect Physiology
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Resurrection
- Skin Manipulation
- Snake Physiology
Limitations
- Shedding one's skin takes time to perform in combat.
- May only be able to shed a certain amount of times.
- Process may be physically painful.
- User may be vulnerable after shedding.
Known Users
Cartoons
- Anodites (Ben 10)
- Sunny
- Verdona
- Ectonurites (Ben 10 series)
- Zs'Skayr
- King Koil (Ben 10 2016)
- Sheelane (Ben 10: Omniverse)
- Ssserpent (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
- Eustace (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- Bushroot (Darkwing Duck)
- Nuova Shenron (Dragon Ball GT)
- Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
- Zoidberg (Futurama)
- Rick Sanchez (Rick & Morty)
- Kumoko/Shiraori (So I'm a Spider, So What?)
- Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Spy-Roaches (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)
- Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)
- Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic); via Snake Form
Comics
Live Television/Movies
- Meganulon (Godzilla)
- Viper (The Wolverine)
- Greg Arkin (Smallville)
- Alien Baltan (Ultraman)
- Shapeshifters (Supernatural)
- Super-soldiers (The X-Files)
- Demodogs (Stranger Things)
Anime/Manga
- Korosensei (Assassination Classroom)
- Cyan Sung-Sun (Bleach)
- Pernida Parnkgjas (Bleach)
- Hirudegarn (Dragon Ball Z)
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- Sneagator (Kinnikuman)
- Miia (Monster Musume)
- Orochimaru (Naruto)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
- Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
- Manda (Naruto)
- Doc (Radiant)
- Jean Henri Fabre (Read or Die)
- Elm L. Renegade (Embalming: The Tale of another Frankenstein)
- Gyasa (Shinzo/Mashuranbo)
- Pepper (Urusei Yatsura)
RPG
- Transformed Snakes with the Shed Skin ability (Feng Shui)
- Mercurials (Planescape)
Video Games
- Clawgrip (Super Mario Bros. Series)
- Pokemon with Shed Skin ability (Pokémon)
- Rattle Shake (Skylanders)
- Golem (Pokémon)
- Gore Magala (Monster Hunter Series)
- Rusted Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter Series)
- The World (The House of the Dead 4)
Other
- Le Papillon (Grindhouse and Watercolors)
Gallery
Le Papillon (Grindhouse and Watercolors) sheds its form and create a new one whenever it creates a universe, whatever's left of its old body ranging from fossilized remnants to landforms, natural phenomenon and even living, breathing abstract prosopopeians.
Lucy's Seviper (Pokémon Adventures) using Shed Skin to shed its skin, curing itself of any status conditions like poison or burn.
During the final stage of his transformation into a super-soldier, Billy Miles (The X-Files) bloodily sheds his skin.
After shedding its rusted skin, Rusted Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter Series) skin becomes extremely vulnerable to attacks until it hardens, which later its named Kushala Daora.
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