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 Detection
- Disease Generation - Create a new disease, such as by mixing many illnesses together.
- Disease Inducement
- 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
- Demonic Disease Manipulation
- Disease Magic
- Divine Disease Manipulation
- Epidemic Creation
- Esoteric Disease Manipulation
- Life Disease Manipulation
- Ontopathogenesis - Infect existence.
- Pathogen Manipulation
- Prion Manipulation
- Psychic Disease Manipulation
- Supernatural Disease Manipulation
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)