Disease Manipulation

Disease Manipulation
Yamame Kurodani (Touhou) The Bright Net in the Dark Cavern.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate diseases.

The power to manipulate diseases. Variation of Organic Manipulation. Opposite to Health Manipulation.

Also Called

• Bacteria Manipulation/Bacterial Manipulation
• Germ Manipulation
• Illness Manipulation
• Nosokinesis
• Sickness Manipulation
• Virokinesis

Capabilities

The user can create, manipulate, shape, transform, cause/heal, etc. all forms of diseases, including their severity, contagiousness, methods of spreading, etc. They can control the organisms that spread diseases, including germs, bacteria, virus or other pathogens on a cellular level, including bacteriophages, microorganisms (microscopic organisms), retroviruses, cells that abnormally grow to make cancerous tumors and cysts, and pathogens that produce genetic mutations.

Applications

• Curing
• Death Inducement - from fatal diseases.
• Disease Acceleration - Alter speed at which pathogens reproduce.
• Disease Augmentation
• Disease Detection
• Disease Generation - Create a new disease, such as by mixing many illnesses together.
• Disease Inducement
• Disease Reduction
• Disease Solidification
• Disease Suppression
• Disease Transferal
• Infection
• Infectious Attacks
• Nosokinetic Constructs
• Alter means by which pathogens are transferred (communicable, noncommunicable, contagious, airborne, waterborne, blood-borne, sexually-transmitted, genetic, etc)
• Stop the incubation of pathogens.
• Kill existing pathogens (including the worst, such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, etc).
• Induce, prevent and withstand the contraction of illness.

Techniques

• Cellular Disintegration – Using diseases to destroy cells.
• Conversion Pathogen – Create pathogens which transform beings into other kinds of beings.
• Disease Mimicry - Mimic the traits of any sort of disease.
• Genetic Disintegration – Using diseases to rend asunder life-giving inherent chains.
• Hypnotic Pathogen - Create pathogens which influence other peoples minds.
• Healing Factor Nullification - Manipulate infections to negate and erase regenerative properties.
• Infection Empowerment - Strengthen oneself via personal affliction or through contagion spreading.
• Microbial Communication - Gain a better handle of controlling and understanding various infections.
• Mutation Inducement - Cause biological abnormalities to occur via virus/bacteria.
• Sickness Infusion - Supplement attacks by channeling erosive bacterial aspects through it.

Variations

• Conversion Manipulation
• Demonic Disease Manipulation
• Disease Magic
• Divine Disease Manipulation
• Epidemic Creation
• Esoteric Disease Manipulation
• Existential Pathology
• Life Disease Manipulation
  • Spiritual Disease Manipulation
• Ontopathogenesis - Infect existence.
• Pandemic Creation
• Pathogen Manipulation
• Prion Manipulation
• Psychic Disease Manipulation
• Supernatural Disease Manipulation
• Unidemic Creation

Associations

• Biological Manipulation
• Filth Manipulation
• Health Manipulation
• Immune System Manipulation
• Infestation
• Organic Manipulation
• Pestilence Manipulation
• Poison Manipulation
• Undead Conversion

Limitations

• Users may not be immune to their own diseases.
• Users may become carriers to their own fatal illnesses, spreading it unwillingly through the community.
• Healing and Curing can remove diseases.
• Users of Contaminant Immunity and Disease Immunity are either immune or highly resistant.
• Regenerative Healing Factor defeats this by simply recovering.
• Enhanced Health/Supernatural Health may be highly resistant.

Known Users

• Yuu Otosaka (Charlotte)
• Infectious Lass (DC Comics)
• Leraje (Demonology)
• The Plague Doctor (The Fear Mythos)
• Pain and Panic (Hercules)
• Viral (hero.com)
• Pannacotta Fugo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Purple Haze
• Elena (Los Protegidos)
• Bogeyman (Martin Mystery); spreads viruses
• Zachary Smith Jr./Microbe (Marvel Comics)
• Aoki Aka (Medaka Box); with Five Forks
• Medaka Kurokami (Medaka Box); with Five Forks
• Black Percher (Mondaiji tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sō Desu yo)
• Several Monsters (Monster Hunter Series)
  • Gore Magala
  • Shagaru Magala
  • Chaotic Gore Magala
  • Apex Monsters
• Imhotep (The Mummy)
• The Amoeba Boys (Powerpuff Girls)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype)
• Elizabeth Greene (Prototype)
• James Heller (Prototype 2)
• Chern (Scarred Lands); The Scourge and The Last Great Sickness and Suffering
• SCP-353 - "Vector" (SCP Foundation)
• Sarkics (SCP Foundation)
• Mchala (Son of Angels)
• Pestilence (Supernatural)
• Merlin (The Sword in the Stone); via Germ form
• Aimaru (Toriko)
• Yamame Kurodani (Touhou)
• Flu (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Germophile (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Morbus Bloodline (Vampire: The Requiem)
• Nurgle (Warhammer 40k)
• Kamiya Minoru (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Gallery

Nurgle (Warhammer 40k) also known as the Plague Lord, is the Chaos God of Disease, Decay, and Destruction.

Pannacotta Fugo's Stand, Purple Haze (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)...

...can generate deadly flesh-eating viruses.

Elena (Los Protegidos) can infect any person she touches.

Zachary Smith Jr./Microbe (Marvel Comics)

Gore Magala (Monster Hunter Series) create and manipulate an infectious disease called the Frenzy Virus.

If frenzied monsters overcome Gore Magala's (Monster Hunter Series), or Shagaru Magala's, Frenzy Virus they become Apex Monsters which they can manipulate the virus.

Chern (Scarred Lands) The Scourge and The Last Great Sickness and Suffering

As the Horseman of Pestilence, Pestilence (Supernatural) can create and manipulate any disease.

While infected by Merlin's (The Sword in the Stone) germ transformation, Madam Mim suffered from rapid illness that bed-riddled her.

Flu (Valkyrie Crusade), the Demon of Disease.

Germophile (Valkyrie Crusade) can create and manipulate germs.