The ability to shed one's body or skin like a snake. Sub-power of Skin Manipulation.
Also Called
- Molting
- 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.
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.
- May leave user vulnerable after shedding.
Known Users
Cartoons
- Anodites (Ben 10)
- Sunny
- Verdona
- Ssserpent (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
- Eustace (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- Bushroot (Darkwing Duck)
- Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
- Zoidberg (Futurama)
- 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)
Manga/Anime
- Korosensei (Assassination Classroom)
- Cyan Sung-Sun (Bleach)
- Hirudegarn (Dragon Ball Z)
- Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
- Sneagator (Kinnikuman)
- Miia (Monster Musume)
- Orochimaru (Naruto)
- Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
- Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
- Manda (Naruto)
- 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 (Pokemon)
- Rattle Shake (Skylanders)
- Golem (Pokemon)
- Gore Magala (Monster Hunter Series)
- Rusted Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter Series)
Other
- Le Papillon (Grindhouse and Watercolors)