Killing Intent

Killing Intent
Despite his emotionless expression, Illumi (Hunter x Hunter) has a horrifying side and a sinister killing intent given the Zoldyck's history of being elite assassins.
Power/Ability to:	Exude killing intent to intimidate the target.

"I told you...I'm busy. Plus, I'm pissed, so anyone in my way...gets Punched."

― Saitama to Speed O' Sound Sonic (One-Punch Man)

"Yes, the strongest signal we are capable of emanating is our intent to kill. That’s when we harbor animosity toward another, after all."

― Tamiya Ryouko to Shinichi Izumi and Migi (Parasyte)

"Look at my eyes, churl. No power... Yours or anyone's... can stop me."

― Projectra Wind'zzor to Hart Druiter/Nemesis Kid (DC Comics)

"The Force moves darkly near a creature that's about to kill."

― Chirrut Imwe (Rogue One)

The ability to control one's own killing intention and use it to intimidate others. Variation of Fear Inducement. Not to be confused with Killing Instinct or Intuition.

Also Called

• Killing/Murderous Intention/Vibe
• Murderous Intent
• Psychic Intimidation
• Sakki (殺気)
• Shin no Ippō (心の一方, "One Side of the Soul") (Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X)

Capabilities

The user can control their killing intention and use it to intimidate others, it can be used in two ways:

Killing Intent

The user can give off their pure killing intent, affecting opponents, themselves, and others around the vicinity. Particularly strong killing intent can paralyze the victim in fear, causing them to morbidly hallucinate their own deaths, or even kill them by forcing the mind to believe their death is a reality.

Suppression and Perception

If the user has mastered control over their emotions, they can control their killing intent by suppressing it, to prevent their opposition from discovering it, thus hiding one's motives and preventing one from being tracked by such emotions.

Anyone who can also perceive a foe's killing intent can perceive the foe's next move and prepare the next appropriate move in advance.

Applications

• Apathy: by suppressing the intent while retaining the desire to kill.
• Combat Perception: by reading the foe's killing intent.
• Death By Horror: by causing fear to the point of killing the foe.
• Fear Inducement: by showing extreme bloodlust to shock the opponents.
• Intimidation Intuition: by using it to instill fear in their opponents and command respect from others.
• Mental Hallucination: by projecting visions of gruesome deaths via killing intentions.
• Pain Illusion: by causing so much fear that the foe hurts in the visions of death.
• Paralysis Inducement: by utilizing fear against the foe to the level of stopping their movements.
• Persuasion: by utilizing fear to make others do what the user requests.
• Psychosomatic Illusion: by showing such powerful visions that the foes actually believe it is happening.

Associations

• Bloodlust Aura
• Bloodlust Empowerment
• Fear Manipulation
• Killing Instinct
• Killing Intuition
• Phobia-Initiated Ability Manifestation
• Spiritual Aura
• Submission

Limitations

• Killing intentions can serve as a way for the opponent to track them down by Empathy, unless they can suppress the intent while fighting.
• Uncontrollable killing intent can adversely affect unwanted targets.
• Users of Indomitable Will, Apathy, Fear Masking, Fearlessness, and Tranquil State are either immune or highly resistant.

Known Users

See Also: Killing Intent.

Killing Intent Exudation

• Nagisa Shiota (Assassination Classroom)
• Mikasa Ackerman (Attack On Titan)
• Levi Ackerman (Attack On Titan)
• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Guts (Berserk)
• Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach)
• Retsu "Yachiru" Unohana (Bleach)
• Naoto Miura (Clockwork Planet)
• Code Breakers (Code:Breaker)
• Projectra Wind'zzor/Princess Projectra (DC Comics)
• Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (DC Injustice Comics)
• Gildarts Clive (Fairy Tail)
• Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail)
• Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
• Dale (For My Daughter, I Might Even Be Able to Defeat the Demon King)
• Gosu (Gosu)
  • Gang Ryong
  • Gha Woobok
  • Soh Jinhong
• Satsujinken Users (History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi)
• Felias (Hitsugi no Chaika)
• Nen Users (Hunter x Hunter)
• InuYasha (InuYasha)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Iggy (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
• Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamonds are Forever)
• Diavolo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Muta (Kingdom)
• Kyou Kai (Kingdom)
• Rin Ko (Kingdom)
• Kei Sha (Kingdom)
• Morlun (Marvel Comics)
• All For One (My Hero Academia)
• Chizome Akaguro/Stain (My Hero Academia)
• Kai Chisaki/Overhaul (My Hero Academia)
• Shinobi (Naruto)
• Arlong (One Piece)
• New Fishman Pirates Officers (One Piece)
• Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
• Saitama (One-Punch Man)
• Pokémon that know Glare/Leer (Pokémon)
• Martial Artists (Ranma 1/2)
• Mikoshiba Ryouma (Record of Wortenia War)
• Reise (Re:Zero)
• Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Jin-e Udō (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Makoto Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Enishi Yukishiro (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Kunugi Renya (Second Life in Another World)
• Elendira the Crimsonnail (Trigun)
• Miyamoto Usagi (Usagi Yojimbo)

Killing Intent Suppression

• Akame (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Nagisa Shiota (Assassination Classroom)
• Azumi (Azumi)
• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Mikoshiba Ryouma (Record of Wortenia War)
• Sōjirō Seta (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Ayano Aishi (Yandere Simulator)

Killing Intent Reading

• Nagisa Shiota (Assassination Classroom)
• Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
• Gods of Destruction (Dragon Ball Super)
  • Beerus
• Angels (Dragon Ball Super)
  • Whis
• Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Gintoki Sakata (Gintama)
• Akaza (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Shin (Kingdom)
• Kunugi Renya (Second Life in Another World)
• Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Users of Observation/Kenbunshoku Haki (One Piece)
• Parasites (Parasyte)
• Various martial artists (Ranma 1/2)
• Mikoshiba Ryouma (Record of Wortenia War)
• Various skilled swordsmen (Rurouni Kenshin)

Gallery

Killing Intent Exudation & Suppression

Akame (Akame Ga Kill!) suppressing her killing intent while fighting Zank the Beheader to prevent him from reading her movements.

Nagisa Shiota (Assassination Classroom) possesses incredibly potent natural instincts for assassination that allow him to completely suppress his killing intent to the point that not even highly trained assassins or veteran soldiers can detect it or…

…emit pure killing intent so fierce it incapacitates even experienced killers and…

…years of living with his deranged mother and having to endure her mental abuse and anticipate when her psychotic outbursts would occur has made him highly perceptive to the inner thoughts and emotions of others, enabling him to read and gauge their state of mind just by looking at them to determine when or how they are most vulnerable.

Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale) apathetically exuding his killing intent, due to his brain damage sealing his emotions.

Kenpachi Zaraki's (Bleach) killing intent manifesting to the form of his spiritual pressure, making Ichigo hallucinate being stabbed.

Yachiru Unohana (Bleach) revealing her true sinister nature, exuding so much killing intent that even the toughest Soul Reapers fear her.

Rei Ōgami's (Code:Breaker) killing intent is so powerful, Sakura described it as the eyes of a grim reaper.

Projectra Wind'zzor/Princess Projectra (DC Comics)

When getting serious for fights, Gildarts Clive (Fairy Tail) exudes tremendous power with the intent to crush them.

Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail) when he enters Assault Mode, he modified his killing intent to focus solely on Laxus Dreyar.

While he is usually a chill and goofy man, Gintoki Sakata (Gintama) can exude an intense amount of killing intent towards his opponents whenever he gets serious or is enraged like during his fight with Jirocho...

Hisoka (Hunter x Hunter) has an insatiable love for spilling the blood of powerful fighters in combat and his enjoyment of extreme pain while doing so fuels his seemingly sadomasochistic desires.

Killua Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter) threatening Sadaso.

Neferpitou's (Hunter x Hunter) killing intent is the strongest of all the Royal Guards, capable of reaching up to 2 kilometers.

Gon Freecss (Hunter x Hunter) displaying a malicious Ren.

InuYasha (InuYasha) in his full demon persona, is so full of killing intent that the mind-reading Goshinki could not follow.

Iggy (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)

By simply aiming his blow gun, Muta (Kingdom) exudes his killing intent towards Shin as he breaks out in a cold sweat.

Due to their camaraderie, Kyou Kai (Kingdom) exuded no killing intent towards Shin during their bloody duel...

...but later exudes it after he continually ticks her off while he senses the maddening intent of the Shukyou assassins.

After surviving countless bloody battles, Rin Ko of the Four Heavenly King’s (Kingdom) killing intent…

…manifested itself as a Fierce Tiger.

While a calm strategist with an unreadable poker face, Kei Sha the Silent Hunter’s (Kingdom) killing intent was so intense that is manifested in the form of a Spider.

Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman (DC Injustice Comics) giving off a huge amount of killing intent towards Plastic Man.

Morlun (Marvel Comics) projecting his Predatory Instincts towards Spider-Man.

The very presence of All For One (My Hero Academia) was enough to make Izuku and friends see their own deaths.

Chizome Akaguro/The Hero Killer Stain's (My Hero Academia) hatred and desire to purge the world of fake Heroes manifests as malefic aura so intense it paralyzed everyone in range, including powerful and skilled Hero Gran Torino and No 2. Hero Endeavour, in fear.

During the fight when Kurama the Nine-Tails Fox first spilled into him, Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) gave off such an intense amount of ghastly, wrathful bloodlust that Haku stated it was evil itself.

Orochimaru (Naruto) exuding his killing intent to shock Sasuke and Sakura.

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) releasing his killing intent to paralyze both Suigetsu and Jūgo from fighting anymore.

Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto) exuding a large amounts of killing intent at times, scaring Oboro and his teammates.

Red Haired Shanks (One Piece) displays his Conqueror's/Haoshoku Haki.

When Arlong (One Piece) is angry, his eyes is a reflection of his killing intent.

Hody Jones (One Piece) overdosed on Energy Steroids, making his killing intent overflowing and unstable.

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) intimidates bounty hunters…

…and paralyzes Monet with nothing but his pure killing intent.

Charlotte Katakuri and Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) display their respective Conqueror's/Haoshoku Haki.

Miyamoto Usagi (Usagi Yojimbo)

When properly angered, Saitama (One-Punch Man) can exude an extreme level of killing intent and bloodlust,…

…displaying Instant Death whenever he gets serious.

Parasites such as Migi (Parasyte) can sense, not only the mood of other parasites, but their murderous intent as well.

Tamiya Ryouko (Parasyte) exuding her killing intent to locate Shinichi and Migi.

Jin-e Udō (Rurouni Kenshin) is so skilled with Shin no Ippō…

…that he can paralyze a person's lungs, causing them to suffocate.

Giving his trademark false smile, Seta Sōjirō (Rurouni Kenshin) exudes no killing intent while apathetically taking lives.

Gang Ryong's (Gosu) killing intent manifesting as a colossal Tiger.

With impressive skill, Mikoshiba Ryouma (Record of Wortenia War) can suppress and hide his killing intent…

…and as well giving off an intense amount to frighten even a high mage like Gaietsu.

Killing Intent Reading

As a God of Destruction, Beerus (Dragon Ball Super) can sense the killing intent of others, allowing him to deduce that Zamasu was planning to kill Zamasu when no one else could.

With his trained senses, Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders) can detect any amount of killing intent aimed towards him.

Monkey D. Luffy's (One Piece) sensing the killing intent of a sniper with Kenbunshoku/Observation Haki.

As a trained martial artist, Mikoshiba Ryouma (Record of Wortenia War) can sense any killing intent directed towards him.

Video

Ichigo and Uhohana

Even while smiling serenely, Retsu Unohana, being the first Kenpachi and the most diabolical criminal to have existed within Soul Society, can get people to do what she 'requests' by projecting Killing Intent.