Evolution Manipulation

Evolution Manipulation
Evolvo-Lad (DC Comics) had the ability to control the stages of his own evolution to devolve and evolve himself at will.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate evolution.

The power to manipulate the stages of evolution. Sub-power of Biological Manipulation, Life Mastery and Organic Manipulation.

Capabilities

The user can manipulate the evolution of species and individuals, including themselves. Advancing or decreasing evolutionary steps shifting their adaptations/abilities to create new species, etc. They are able to grant superpowers, especially those related to expanding the normal abilities of the species, remove the existing powers or granting the species a potential to gain powers.

Applications

• Devolution
• Evolution
• Life Creation by pushing a species further into it's evolutionary stage.
• Power Bestowal by accelerating another further into the evolution path.
• Power Erasure by sending them back.
• Progression
• Regression
• Self-Power Augmentation
• By pushing further into the evolutionary path, the user could make others reach the point of Ascension.
• By pushing back, they could become their primitive forms, even a primordial ooze.

Variations

• Cosmic Radiation Evolution Manipulation
• Evolution Energy Manipulation
• Evolutionary Path Manipulation
• Mutation Manipulation

Associations

• Adaptation Manipulation
• Biological Manipulation
• Body Modification
• Evolutionary Template
• Life Mastery
• Mode Switching
• Organic Manipulation

Limitations

• May not be able to evolve oneself.
• May be limited to a certain species.
• Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user.
• Evolving a species may result in random mutations, most of which will lead to many individuals deaths at the cost of betterment of the species.
• Devolving a species or oneself leads to a decrease in levels of cognition or intelligence.

Known Users

• Alfar (A Certain Magical Index)
• Jasmine (Angel)
• Celestials (Marvel)
• Saint Sinner/Philip Fetter (Marvel Comics)
• Celestial Golems (Marvel Comics)
• High Evolutionary (Marvel)
• Calumon (Digimon Tamers)
• Bob the Killer Goldfish (Earthworm Jim)
• Ancients/Lanteans (Stargate franchise)
• Ancient humanoids (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Ben Tennyson (Ben 10 Alien Force/Ultimate Alien); via ultimatrix
• Albedo (Ben Alien Force/Ben 10 Omniverse)
• Najimi Ajimu (Medaka Box); with Step By Step (Boss Skill)
• Evolvo-Lad (DC Comics)
• Noishe (Tales of Symphonia)
• Mitochondria Eve (Parasite Eve)
• Lavos (Chrono Trigger)
• Godzilla (Shin Godzilla)

Known Objects

• Earring of Evolutional Dominance (Yin Yang Yo!)
• Ultimatrix (Ben 10 franchise)

Gallery

Jasmine (Angel) manipulated the evolution of the Zealots, producing individuals with psychic abilities.

Calumon (Digimon Tamers) wields power over Digivolution, able to induce it in other Digimon.

Godzilla (Shin Godzilla) possessed an enhanced version of the ability to self-evolve: his first form's tail...

...second form...

...third form...

...fourth/most-advertised...

... hypothetical fifth form. seen at the very end of the movie...

...close-up of hypothetical fifth form from The Art of Shin Godzilla.