Illusion Manipulation

Illusion Manipulation
Candice Wilmer (Heroes) drops her illusion of being Niki/Jessica Sanders
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate illusions.

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

― George Bernard Shaw

The power to manipulate illusions.

Also Called

• Genjutsu (Naruto)
• Hallucikinesis
• Hallucination Manipulation
• Hallucinogen
• Illusion Casting
• Illusions
• Illusory/Illusive Reality Manipulation/Warping
• Mirage Manipulation

Capabilities

User can create, shape and manipulate illusions, causing targets to see, hear, touch, smell and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are. Some users can create complex and detailed worlds, others may be able to only alter the way they or the target are perceived.

Applications

• Afterimage Creation
• Death by Illusion: If the illusion is powerful enough, it can literally convince the brain to copy anything that happens to the victim within the illusion, making it possible to kill the target with illusions.
  • Illusion of Death: Target thinks they are being killed over and over again. This may lead to insanity.
• Decoy Creation
• Evolving Illusions
• Feign Damage
• Hallucination Solidification: Solidify illusions.
• Holographic Projection: Project illusions based on only sight.
• Illusion Attacks: Attack using illusion energy.
• Illusion Constructs: Create constructs out of illusions.
• Illusion Destruction: Destroy illusions.
• Illusion Generation: Create/generate various types of illusions.
• Illusion Negation: Negate illusions.
• Illusion Reflection: Reflect any illusions that are used against themselves.
• Illusionary Environment: Change the environment with illusions.
• Illusive Appearance: Most users who are not exactly combat savvy would use their ability as a defense mechanism to camouflage themselves, and even alter their physical appearance to look like someone or something else.
• Illusive Suggestion: Use illusions to subjugate others.
• Invisibility
• Location Displacement
• Mirage Inducement
• Pain Illusion
• Phobia Exploitation: Targets experience their worst fears.
• Sensory Inducement: Targets can be forced with overlapping hallucinations, causing several negative symptoms.
• Torment Inducement

Techniques

• Bottomless Pit Creation
• Disappearing
• Illusion Awareness
• Illusion Empowerment
• Illusion Interaction
• Illusion Physiology
• Illusion Transformation
• Illusory Combat
• Illusory Defense
• Layered Illusions
• Relative Appearance Alteration
• Time Perception Manipulation

Variations

• Illusion Embodiment
• Illusion Energy Manipulation - manipulate illusion energy.
• Illusionary Magic - create illusions via Magic.
• Illusory Power Replication
• Mental Hallucination - create high-level mental hallucinations.
• Psychosomatic Illusion - create illusions that are so realistic and powerful they can cause physical effects on the target.
• Selective Illusions - induce illusions onto specific targets without affecting the others.
• Self Perception - alter own perception of reality.

Associations

• Absolute Illusion
• Guise Manipulation
• Hypnosis
• Imagination Manipulation
• Light Manipulation
• Living Illusion Creation
• Mental Manipulation
• Mind Control
• Perception Manipulation
• Sense Manipulation
• Telepathy
• True Illusion
• Unreality Manipulation

Limitations

• Illusion Negation
• Users of Illusion Awareness and Illusion Reflection are immune.
• Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
• People with Danger Intuition may be able to distinguish a fake illusion by telling which one is really a threat.
• May be limited to creating illusions that affect only certain senses, sight being the most common as a result people with Enhanced Senses might be able to see through it.
• May have to limit the number of mental powers to control the illusion.
• May be unable to create accurate illusions, such as making things that don't exist or situations that would never happen in a million years. One common mistake is misplacing a feature on a person or forgetting to add shadows to their forms.

Trivia

• Unlike Reality Warping this power allows the user to pretend they warp reality, like for example, changing and creating things on a whim, at least illusively. Although, it can be possible that reality warpers can do the same of creating illusions as well.

Known Users

See Also: Master of Illusion.

Comics

• Myresto Mor (Angel: After the Fall)
• Betta George (Angel: After the Fall)
• Ixis Naugus (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Mammoth Mogul (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Spellbinder (Batman Beyond)
• Zatanna (DC Comics)
• Scarecrow (DC Comics)
• Doctor Fate (DC Comics)
• Circe (DC Comics)
• Maxima (DC Comics)
• Cornelius Stirk (DC Comics)
• Enchantress (DC Comics)
• Raven (DC Comics)
• Gypsy (DC Comics)
• Miss Martian (DC Comics)
• Princess Projectra (DC Comics)
• Mirror Master (DC Comics)
• Nanase (El Goonish Shive)
• Justin (El Goonish Shive)
• Mastermind (Marvel Comics)
• Lady Mastermind/Regan Wyngarde (Marvel Comics)
• Mastermind/Martinique Jason (Marvel Comics)
• Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
• Rachel Summers (Marvel Comics)
• Professor Xavier (Marvel Comics)
• Nathan Summers/Cable (Marvel Comics)
• Mysterio (Spiderman far from home/Marvel Comics); via technology
• Mesmero (Marvel Comics)
• Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
• Wiccan (Marvel Comics)
• Pixie (Marvel Comics)
• Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics)
• Selene (Marvel Comics)
• Kid Omega/Quentin Quire (Marvel Comics)
• Danielle Moonstar (Marvel Comics)
• Calavera (Marvel Comics)
• Psylocke (Marvel Comics)
• Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
• MODOK (Marvel Comics)
• Loki (Marvel Comics)
• David Haller/Legion/Delusionaut (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
• Mad Mod (Teen Titans); via technology
• Abeloth (Star Wars Legends)
• Naga Sadow (Star Wars Legends)
• Darcy/Witch of Darkness (Winx Club)
• Sentrakh (BIONICLE)

Anime/Manga

• Baal (666 Satan/O-Parts Hunter)
• Nue (Air Gear)
• Blackburn (Air Gear)
• Ah Fu-Lo (Akatsuki Otokojuku)
• Yoshikatsu Utsunomiya (Alive: The Final Evolution)
• Dark Schneider (Bastard!!)
• Devils (Bastard!!)
• Ririn (Bleach)
• Sosuke Aizen (Bleach)
• Shinji Hirako (Bleach)
• Muramasa (Bleach)
• Koga Kuchiki (Bleach)
• Senjumaru Shutara (Bleach)
• Rojuro Otoribashi (Bleach)
• Camie Utsushimi (Boku no Hero Academia)
• Junichiro Tanizaki (Bungou Stray Dogs)
• The Illusion Card (Card Captor Sakura)
• Mirage Card (Card Captor Sakura: Clear Cards)
• Director of Internal Affairs (Denma); via Hallucination Quanx ability
• Princess Snake (Dragon Ball Z)
• Raiti and Zaacro (Dragon Ball Z)
• Mystogan (Fairy Tail)
• Midnight/Macbeth (Fairy Tail)
• Ivan Dreyar (Fairy Tail)
• Roubaul (Fairy Tail)
• Mavis Vermilion (Fairy Tail)
• Ban Mido (Get Backers!)
• Song Yerin (Gosu)
• Yang Jeonghak (Gosu)
• Neko (K Project)
• Kano Shuuya (Kagerou Project)
• Mist Flame users (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
• Desert Flame users (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
• Ai Enma (Hell Girl)
• Zorin Blitz (Hellsing)
• Naraku (InuYasha)
• Kenny G (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Tenore Sax
• Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean); via Whitesnake
• Rajra/Deis (Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors)
• Diana Cavendish (Little Witch Academia)
• Teana Lanster (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
• Najimi Ajimu (Medaka Box); with Fantasy Illusion (Magic Skills)
• Muto (Mob Psycho 100)
• Shinobi (Naruto); via Genjutsu
• Sharingan Users (Naruto)
• Zorua and Zoroark (Pokémon)
• Mansion Owner's Ninetales (Pokémon)
• Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Kurumu Kurono (Rosario + Vampire)
• JunJun/Sailor Juno (Sailor Moon)
• Hypnos (Saint Seiya)
• Thanatos (Saint Seiya)
• Hades (Saint Seiya)
• Phoenix Ikki (Saint Seiya); via Phoenix Demon Fist
• Virgo Saints (Saint Seiya)
• Medea (Saint Seiya Omega)
• Wang Ta-Ren (Sakigake Otokojuku)
• Ruin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Merlin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Tezca Tlipoca (Soul Eater)
• Asura (Soul Eater)
• Mirage (Transformers)
• Komurasaki (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
• Enjin (Yosakura Quartet)
• Kanchomé and Parco Fologore (Zatch Bell!)
• Bettenō (Un-Go)
• Kiba Yuuto (High School DxD)

Live Television

• Glarghk Guhl Kashmas’nik Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Rex Buckland (Charmed)
• Demon of Illusion (Charmed)
• Black Heart (Charmed)
• Avatars (Charmed)
• Ghosts (Ghost Whisperer)
• Wes (The Gifted)
• Candace Wilmer (Heroes)
• Sylar of the Explosion future (Heroes)
• Gulliver (Mighty Med)
• Illusionists (Mutant X)
• Emma de Lauro (Mutant X)
• Regina Mills/ Evil Queen (Once Upon A Time)
• Tess Harding (Roswell)
• Many villains (Power Rangers)
• Kali Prasad (Stranger Things)
• ShadowEmz (Super/Lette)
• Many villains (Super Sentai)
• Gabriel (Supernatural)
• Tygra (Thundercats)
• Silas (The Vampire Diaries)
• Various Ultramen, kaiju, and aliens (Ultraman series)
• Darcy/Witch of Darkness (Winx Club)

Cartoons

• Mirage (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
• Chaos (Aladdin: the Animated Series)
• Charmcaster (Ben 10)
• Karzahni (Bionicle)
• Makuta (Bionicle)
• Matau (Bionicle)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Skeletor (Masters of the Universe)
• Lila Rossi/Volpina (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• King Sombra (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Thuglett slugs (SlugTerra)
• Hobgoblin 2099 (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
• Darcy (Winx Club)
• Mirta (Winx Club)
• Valtor (Winx Club)
• Wuya (Xiaolin Showdown)
• Chase Young (Xiaolin Showdown)

Movies

• James Freeman (Bomb Squad)
• Bianca Freeman (Bomb Squad)
• Lillith "Lily" Sullivan (Case 39)
• Ares (DC Extended Universe)
• Connor MacLeod (Highlander)
• Pennywise The Dancing Clown/It (It)
• Jeon Woo-chi (Jeon Woo-chi)
• Jonah and Seth Trimble (Seconds Apart)
• Evil (Time Bandits)
• Maui (Moana)
• Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn)
• Mommy Fortuna (The Last Unicorn)
• Vuk (X-Men: Dark Phoenix)

Video Games

• Chakravartin (Asura's Wrath)
• Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
• Terumi Yuuki (BlazBlue)
• Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Dark Souls)
• Xel'lotath (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)
• Halicarnassus (Final Fantasy V)
• Tisiphone (God of War)
• Sasha (inFamous)
• Desann (Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast)
• Zexion (Kingdom Hearts)
• Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
• Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)
• Mariska (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid)
• Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
• Staff Officer Enlil (Oreca Battle)
• Jack Norman/Ultimate Abyss (Resident Evil: Revelations)
• Wei Lu (Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy)
• The Darkness (Skylanders)
• Black Doom (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Infinite (Sonic The Hedgehog)
• Talim (Soul Calibur)
• Mirage (Static Shock)
• King Boo (Super Mario/Luigi's Mansion)
• Reisen Udongein Inaba (Touhou Project)
• Illusionist (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Illoo (Yo-kai Watch)
• Magic Man (Mega Man & Bass)

Literature

• Larkin Kent (The Caster Chronicles); Illusionist Caster
• Olivia Vertigo (Charlie Bone)
• The Infectus Markers (Dead Space, Exodus Trilogy)
• Harick (Glass Sword)
• Penny (GONE Series)
• Hécate (Greek mythology)
• Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
• Hazel Levesque (Heroes of Olympus)
• Harrick (Red Queen)
• Ghosts (Shadow Falls/Shadow Falls: After Dark)
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It (Stephen King's It)
• Zafrina (Twilight)
• Adelina Amouteru (The Young Elites)

Web Animation

• Neopolitan (RWBY)
• Emerald Sustrai (RWBY)

Web Original

• The Choir (Fear Mythos)
• The Constant Wanderer (Fear Mythos)
• The Glitch (Fear Mythos)
• Dr. Clef (SCP Foundation); his face does not appear in photographs
• SCP-2928 - The 21st Discipline (SCP Foundation)

Other

• Rahkshi (BIONICLE)
• Kraata (BIONICLE)

Known Locations

• SCP-238 - Building Complex (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-450 - Abandoned Federal Penitentiary (SCP Foundation)
• The Empty City (Fear Mythos)
• The Crossroads of Trials (Fear Mythos)

Gallery

Comics/Cartoons

Mirage (Aladdin: the Animated Series) is powerful and dangerous sorceress capable of creating powerful illusions that are so convincing they can be mistaken for reality.

Scarecrow (DC Comics) Causes incredible visions with chemical weapons.

Raven (DC Comics)

Zatanna (DC Comics)

Doctor Fate (DC Comics)

Circe (DC Comics)

Miss Martian (DC Comics)

Princess Projectra (DC Comics)

Mirror Master (DC Comics)

Gypsy (DC Comics)

Enchantress (DC Comics)

As a master of illusion, Mastermind (Marvel Comics), has no problem appearing as a suave handsome gentlemen and not his true sickly self.

Delusionauts (Marvel Comics) can create illusions with such astounding ability that experienced telepaths like Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos did not realize the deception.

Lady Mastermind's (Marvel Comics) illusionary powers are so realistic that people do not question the sudden appearance of a tiger.

The Hobgoblin of 2099 (Marvel Comics) possesses "psy-powers" that enable him to create entire demonic realms.

Mysterio (Marvel Comics)

Rena Rouge's (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) "Mirage" allows her to create powerful illusions.

Volpina (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) has the power to create and control illusions.

Mirage (Static Shock) starts to create an illusion.

Mad Mod (Teen Titans) uses technological illusions.

Anime/Manga

Yoshikatsu Utsunomiya (Alive: The Final Evolution) can create very convincing illusions.

Sosuke Aizen's (Bleach) Kyoka Suigetsu is the most powerful illusion-type Zanpakutō, it can generate unbreakable illusions that fully control the five senses.

Shinji Hirako's (Bleach) usage of illusions affects his target's sense of sight, making it appear as if the entire world is upside down, left side right, and front side back.

Muramasa (Bleach) is an illusion-based Zanpakuto.

Koga Kuchiki (Bleach) is a proficient user of illusions.

Senjumaru Shutara (Bleach)

The Illusion (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Midnight (Fairy Tail) in his his Monstrous Illusion Form.

With mysterious eye, Zorin (Hellsing) can influence over the area with her illusions.

Viper/Esper Mammon (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!) is a first class illusionist.

Chrome Dokuro (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!)

Mukuro Rokudo (Katekyō Hitman Reborn!) is skilled in illusions.

Kurenai Yūhi (Naruto) is a master of Genjutsu.

The Sharingan (Naruto) can create powerful illusions via eye contact.

Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) casting the nightmare world, Tsukuyomi during his fight with Kakashi.

Gengetsu Hōzuki (Naruto) using "Mirage Genjutsu/Demonic Illusion: Steaming Multistoried Building" to create mirages to hide his true body.

The Izanami (Naruto) is illusion that forces the victims to live through an infinite loop of events, and they remain trapped in that loop as long as they refuse to accept their fate.

Yakumo Kurama (Naruto) was born with a powerful Genjutsu ability to literally convince the victim's to physically reflect anything that happens to the them in the Genjutsu, making it possible for her to kill opponents with her illusions.

Kurumu Kurono (Rosario + Vampire) using illusions in combat.

As a god Bettenō (Un-Go) her current master; Serada uses her power in an area to make everyone believe that a war has started by using only words.

Illoo (Yo-Kai Watch)

Others

Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Dark Souls) is famous for his power of illusion.

Wes (The Gifted) has the power to create illusions.

The sirens (Ice Age) create illusions through song.

Zexion (Kingdom Hearts series) wields the element of illusion through his lexicon.

Pennywise/It (Stephen King's It) is able to create illusions.

King Boo (Super Mario/Luigi's Mansion), Master of Illusion.

Zafrina (Twilight)

Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes)

The extremely rare Zorua and Zoroark (Pokemon) possess the ability to create illusions to mainly disguise themselves as other Pokemon or humans though they use illusions to hide themselves the more powerful Zoroark use illusions to induce fear to enemies or tire out potential prey in a looping environment

Zoroark (Pokemon) has the ability to create illusions.

Zorua (Pokemon) also has this ability.

Wei Lu (Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy) has the power of illusion - which is strong enough to distort reality.

Infinite (Sonic The Hedgehog) uses his embedded Phantom Ruby to create red cubes that induce illusions, which are real to the ones who are hit with it.

Kali Prasad (Stranger Things)

Illusionist (Valkyrie Crusade)

Magic Man (Mega Man & Bass)