Fatal Touch

Fatal Touch
Preston Payne/Clayface/Clayface III (DC Comics)
Power/Ability to:	possess a dangerous death-based defense.

The ability to cause death by a target touching your body. Variation of Death Inducement.

Also Called

• Deadly Defense
• Killing Body

Capabilities

The user's body can kill anyone that touches it. Can be induced or automatically activated. Its activation varies: some users can activate the power when they want to but other times it's permanently active and makes for a perfect defense.

Applications

• Kill in many ways (curse, poison, etc.) from being touched.
• Works great in a tight, crowded area.
• Cause the effects to extend to any objects in contact with your body (e.g. a spear, knife, glove or cane).
• Death Inducement

Associations

• Absolute Defense - close-combat with the user will be fatal.
• Curse Inducement
• Death Aura
• Poison Generation
• Pungency
• Unavertable Death

Limitations

• Users of Absolute Immortality are immune.
• May be permanently active, preventing others from touching the user at all without dying.
• Victims may not die instantly.

Known Users

• Preston Payne/Clayface/Clayface III (DC Comics)
• Marie (Dies Irae)
• The Foretold (Doctor Who)
• The Veil (Doctor Who)
• Death (Family Guy)
• Blackheart (Ghost Rider)
• Jeremy (Heroes)
• Poisons (Marvel Comics); limited to symbiotes
• Deadly Ernest (Marvel Comics)
• Kurse (Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor: The Dark World)
• Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)
• Bad Rayman (Rayman)
• SCP-049 - Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
• Lily Baker (Supernatural)
• Reapers and other supernatural entities (Supernatural)
• Phantom Limb (The Venture Bros.)
• Hassan of Serenity (TYPE-MOON)
• False Assassin (Fate/Strange Fake); through Phantasmal Pedigree
• Samael (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Muk (Pokémon)
• Orne (Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Ghost (Spelunky))

Known Objects

• Ramus Mortium (Witches of East End)

Gallery

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Anything that touches Samael (Valkyrie Crusade) instantly dies.

SCP-049 - Plague Doctor’s (SCP Foundation) signature ability is to induce death in order to operate on individuals that have been imbued with the “pestilence.”

Being a living biohazard of leaking toxic sludge, Muk (Pokémon) can kill nearby plant life and cause severe sickness to a human.

Poisons (Marvel Comics) parasitize Klyntar hosts by making physical contact, killing both the host and the Klyntar while the Poison becomes more powerful.

Deadly Ernest (Marvel Comics) gained the ability to kill via touch after rejecting Death itself.

The Ghost (Spelunky) will instantly kill any adventurer that comes into contact with it.