Immunity Bypassing

Immunity Bypassing
With enough charge, Virgil Hawkins/Static (DC Animated Universe) is able to bypass Rubberband Man's Electrical Immunity.
Power/Ability to:	Ignore/bypass immunity.

"Let me tell you something about electricity. A big enough charge can overload any insulator."

― Static (DC Animated Universe)

The power to bypass/ignore any immunity to one's powers. Technique of Immunity Manipulation. Not to be confused with Immunity Negation.

Also Called

• Immunity Break/Breaking/Ignoring
• Retention Break/Breaking/Bypassing/Ignoring

Capabilities

The user can completely bypass/ignore any immunity to their powers, including secondary effects, affecting what one is immune to it like their immunity doesn't even exist at all.

Applications

• Completely ignore/bypass all Immunities.

Examples

• Affect users of Apathy with Empathy and Emotion Manipulation.
• Affect users of Fire Immunity with Fire Manipulation.
• Affect users of Reality Anchoring with Reality Warping.
• Erase users of Erasure Immunity with Existence Erasure.
• Change the fate of users of Fate Immunity with Destiny Manipulation.
• Read the minds of those with Psychic Immunity.
• Make users of Fear Immunity feel fear.
• Brainwash users of Control Immunity.
• Bypass users of Power Immunity.
• Use Magic on those with Magic Immunity.
• Negate the powers and abilities of those with Negation Immunity.

Variations

• Cancellation Bypassing
• Health Bypassing
• Immortality Bypassing
• Invulnerability Bypassing
• Magic Bypassing
• Nothingness Bypassing
• Spatial Bypassing
• State Bypassing
• Temporal Bypassing

Levels

• Immunity Bypassing
• Absolute Immunity Bypassing

Associations

• Boundary Manipulation
• Self Transcendence
• Attack Bypassing
• Defense Bypassing

Limitations

• May be limited to bypassing certain immunities.
• Meta Power Immunity, Immutability, Superpower Anchoring and Omnilock are unaffected.
• Bypassing Immunity either renders this power useless or creates a paradox.
• The user's powers can still be negated unless they're immune.

Known Users

See also: Scissors Cuts Rock.

• Giorno Giovanna (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Vento Aureo); via Gold Experience Requiem
• Johnny Joestar (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run); via Tusk Act 4
• Betta George (Angel)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail)
• Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Issei Hyoudou (Highschool DxD); via Penetrate
• Krebskrum (How NOT to summon a Demon Lord); via her Breath Attack
• Aqua (Isekai Quartet)
• King Boo (Luigi's Mansion 3)
• Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
• Rob Lucci (One Piece); Sai Dai Rin: Rokuogan
• Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord); via The Goal of All Life is Death
• Kaire (Overlord); via Downfall of Castle and Country
• Herohero (Overlord); via Class-levels strengthened Corrosive Abilities
• Ash's Pikachu (Pokémon)
• Bloodmoon Ursaluna (Pokemon); via Mind’s Eye
• Pokemon with Scrappy (Pokemon)
• Salandit/Salazzle (Pokémon); via Corrosion
• Zygarde (Pokémon); via Thousand Arrows
• Pokémon that can learn Foresight, Mind Reader, or Miracle Eye (Pokémon)
• Pokémon that can have Scrappy ability (Pokémon)
• Nereid (Tales of Eternia)
• Four Beast (Toriko)
• Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Legends)
• Demi-Fiend (Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne); via the skill Pierce

Known Objects

• Monkey Village (Bloons TD 5) via the Monkey Intelligence Bureau upgrade
• Impact Dials (One Piece)
• World Class Items (Overlord)
• Ring Target (Pokémon)

Gallery

Betta George (Angel) possesses such high-level telepathy that he can read the minds of vampires, who are normally immune to telepathic penetration.

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) bypasses vengeance demons' immunity to mind control, allowing her to brainwash Anya into freeing her.

Laxus Dreyar (Fairy Tail) uses Mercury Fulminate: Thunder God to bypass Wall Eehto's electrical immunity.

Issei Hyoudou (Highschool DxD) can ignore immunity to his powers via his ability Penetrate.

Johnny Joestar's Tusk Act 4 (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 7: Steel Ball Run)

King Boo (Luigi's Mansion 3) bypassed E.Gadd's protective lab/safe room.

Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord) can ignore and invalidate any form of immunity to his powers via the eclipse-level spell The Goal of all Life is Death.

Usopp's Impact Dial (One Piece) emits a burst of kinetic energy powerful enough to bypass Luffy's immunity to blunt force attacks.

Rob Lucci (One Piece) using Sai Dai Rin: Rokuogan to produce a powerful shock wave that bypassed Monkey D. Luffy's rubber-based defenses.

Ash's Pikachu (Pokémon) bypasses a Rhydon's Electrical Immunity by shocking its horn, which acts as a lightning rod.

Bloodmoon Ursaluna's (Pokémon) Mind'a Eye Ability allows it to bypassed the immunities of ghost type pokemon to hit them with normal and fighting type attacks.

Salandit & Salazzle's (Pokémon) Corrosion Ability allows them to poison steel and poiosn type pokemon, who are normally immune to the condition.

The Four Beast's (Toriko) Green Rain is so deadly that it can bypass immunity to poisons, including Coco's immunity.

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Legends) is capable of killing Yuuzhan Vong with Force powers, despite them otherwise existing outside of the Force and being immune to such abilities.