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Life-Force Manipulation

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"In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy within ourselves. To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be unbendable, or you will be corrupted and destroyed."
― Lion Turtle (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
"The Auswählen. It absorbs energy from those Quincy judged to be unnecessary and sends it to those who need it. A redistribution of power. Those taken from will perish while those on the receiving end are revitalised with still greater strength than before."
― Jugram Haschwalth (Bleach)
"When Gold Experience hits something, it can give it life. Any object can change into any living thing!"
― Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Vento Aureo/Golden Wind)
"Life. Death. Taking it, giving it. I give life. I take it. With everything, my powers can do... Really Miss Pryde... What can't I do?"
― Joshua Foley/Elixir (Marvel Comics)

The power to manipulate life-force. Sub-power of Aether Manipulation. Lesser version of Meta Life-Force Manipulation. Variation of Force Manipulation. Opposite to Death-Force Manipulation. Not to be confused with Life Manipulation.

Also Called[]

  • Lifeforce Manipulation
  • Life Energy Manipulation
  • Life-Force/Energy Control
  • Quintekinesis/Vitakinesis
  • Vital Energy Manipulation
  • Vitality Control/Manipulation

Other Terms for Life-Force[]

  • Adur (Basque Mythology)
  • Aether
  • Altana (Gintama)
  • Animus (Latin)
  • Appetite Energy (Toriko)
  • Asha
  • Ashe
  • Aura (RWBY)
  • Awen
  • Ba (Ancient Egyptian, Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Chakra (Naruto)
  • Chi/Ki/Qi (Various Media)
  • Eco (Jak and Daxter)
  • Energybending (Avatar series)
  • Fye (To Your Eternity)
  • Haki (One Piece)
  • The Heart
  • Inua
  • Ka (Egyptian Mythology)
  • The Lifestream (Final Fantasy VII series)
  • Light Force (Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap)
  • Life Powder (Cookie Run)
  • Light of Life (Kabbalah)
  • Maban
  • Mana (Various Media)
  • Manetuwak
  • Manitou
  • Mantra (Asura's Wrath)
  • Megbe
  • Mulungu
  • Nen (Hunter X Hunter)
  • Numen
  • Od/Odic Energy
  • Orenda
  • Pneuma
  • Prana (Hindu Concept)
  • The Pulse (Luke Lyre)
  • Quintessence (W.I.T.C.H)
  • Reiki
  • Ripple/Hamon 波紋 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
  • Stands (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
  • Seid
  • Sekhem (World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Shinsoo (Tower of God)
  • Sila/сила (Russian)
  • Spiritual Light
  • Sumesh
  • The Force (Star Wars)
  • Tao (Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku)
  • Teotl (Aztec Mythology)
  • True Qi/Innate Qi (Martial Arts Manhua)
  • Väki (Finnish)
  • Vortessence (by the Vortigaunts) (Hλlf-Life)
  • Wakfu (Wakfu universe)
  • Wave Energy (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)
  • Light (Ori)

Capabilities[]

The user can create, shape, and control life-force, the fundamental energy that sustains all living beings. This power governs vitality, growth, and biological essence, making it one of the most essential forces in nature. By mastering it, the user can enhance their physical, mental, and spiritual capacities, pushing beyond natural limitations to achieve extraordinary feats. Life-force is the very energy that fuels existence, allowing the user to reinforce their strength, accelerate healing, and extend their lifespan, potentially slowing or even halting the aging process entirely.

Through precise control, the user can influence not only their own lifeforce but also that of others. They can heal wounds, purge diseases, and restore vitality, making them capable of bringing individuals back from the brink of death. By transferring their life-force, they can rejuvenate allies or empower others, but at the cost of their own energy. Conversely, they may drain life-force from targets, weakening them or even causing severe physical and spiritual deterioration if taken to an extreme. This power allows the user to maintain, restore, or take life, making them a force of healing or destruction.

Life-force does not exist in isolation—it flows through all living things and even the natural world itself. The user can sense the vitality of their surroundings, detecting the presence of life, its strength, and its condition. With enough mastery, they may revitalize dying environments, restore barren lands, and enhance the natural energy of plants and animals. Some may even develop a deep connection to the biosphere, feeling the pulse of life across vast distances and instinctively understanding the state of living organisms. In places where life is strong wherever living things dwell, blowing strongly wherever there is life. It settles often in idyllic and manicured spots, pleasant groves, thriving orchards, and abundant farmland. Arable land thrives from the presence of life, and also attracts it, in a virtuous circle. But it also springs up around the wild and overgrown, where natural floral growth is rampant and less hospitable: steaming jungles, the ocean littoral, and tangled forest

Beyond direct manipulation, the user can weaponize life-force, unleashing devastating energy attacks or forming protective barriers infused with raw vitality. By refining their control, they can forge constructs from life-energy, creating weapons, armor, or extensions of themselves that resonate with their essence. The sheer force of their attacks can disrupt biological functions, overwhelm defenses, and overpower conventional forms of energy due to its deeply fundamental nature.

At its peak, Life-Force Manipulation can shape and govern the essence of life in all its forms. Whether used for healing and preservation or destruction and consumption, it is a force that dictates the rise and fall of all living things. The user stands as a guardian of vitality or a harbinger of decay, wielding one of the most primal and sacred energies in the universe.

Applications[]

Controlling and manipulating Life-Force may include other powers such as:

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Known Users[]

See Also: Life Energy.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa/Manhua[]

  • Users of Ki (Akatsuki/Sakigake Otokojuku)
    • Shishimaru Tsurugi
    • Edajima Heihachi
  • Dark Schneider (Bastard!!)
  • Taoists (Black Cat)
  • Mages/Wizards (Black Clover)
  • Shinigami (Bleach)
  • Hollows/Arrancars (Bleach)
  • Fullbringers (Bleach)
  • Quincies (Bleach)
  • Bounts (Bleach)
  • Power Users (Code:Breaker)
  • Ki Users (Dragon Ball series)
  • Moro (Dragon Ball Super)
  • The Black King (Drifters)
  • Mages (Fairy Tail)
  • Alkahestry users (Fullmetal Alchemist)
    • May Chang
  • Users of Tao (Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku)
  • Senjutsu users (High School DxD)
  • Nen Users (Hunter x Hunter)
  • Lee Jaha (Return of the Mad Demon)
  • Ripple/Hamon Users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series)
    • Jonathan Joestar
    • Will A. Zeppeli
    • Joseph Joestar
    • Caesar Zeppeli
    • Elizabeth Joestar/Lisa Lisa
  • Stand Users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series)
  • Wave Energy Users (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
  • Shinobi/Ninja’s (Naruto)
  • Haki Users (One Piece)
  • Taeka (Needless Zero)
  • Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½)
  • Ryouga Hibiki (Ranma ½)
  • Phoenix Ikki (Saint Seiya series)
  • Ryoko Hakubi (Tenchi Muyo!)
  • Users of Appetite Energy (Toriko)
  • Wave Controllers (Tower of God)
  • Magus (Trinity Seven)
  • Eunryu/Palgeuk (Witch Hunter)
  • Lee Bairong (Witch Hunter)
  • Visul (Witch Hunter)
  • Xing Bairong (Witch Hunter)
  • Yue Bairong (Witch Hunter)
  • Various Characters (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Cartoons[]

  • Satan (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
  • Doctor Ivo Robotnik (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog); as the Supreme High Robotnik
  • Energybenders (Avatar series)
  • Lion Turtles (Avatar series)
  • Adwaita (Ben 10)
  • Anodites (Ben 10)
    • Gwen Tennyson
    • Verdona Tennyson
  • Charmcaster (Ben 10)
  • Hex (Ben 10)
  • Demongo (Samurai Jack)
  • Allura (Voltron: Legendary Defender)
  • All Eliatropes and their dragon brothers/sisters that use Wakfu (Wakfu universe)
  • Bloom (Winx Club)
  • Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.)
  • Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.)

Comics[]

  • Toa Ignika (Bionicle)
  • Toa Mata Nui (Bionicle)
  • Poseidon (DC Comics)
  • Aquaman (DC Comics)
  • White Lantern Corps (DC Comics)
  • The White Entity (DC Comics
  • Meggan (Marvel Comics)
  • Joshua Foley/Elixir (Marvel Comics)
  • Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
  • White Phoenix of the Crown (Marvel Comics)
  • Triage (Marvel Comics)
  • Thanos (Marvel Comics)
  • Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics)
  • Life-Force Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Comics)

Live Television[]

  • Cordelia Foxx (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Fiona Goode (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Madison Montgomery (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Misty Day (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Queenie (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Zoe Benson (American Horror Story: Coven)
  • Jeremy Greer (Heroes)
  • Peter Petrelli (Heroes); briefly
  • Shawn Farrell (The 4400)
  • Beatrice Mitchell (Haven)

Literature[]

  • Harry Dresden (Dresden Files)
  • The Boxes of Orden (Sword of Truth)
  • Richard Rahl (Sword of Truth)
  • Spirit Users (Vampire Academy)

Tabletop Games[]

  • Defilers (Dark Sun)
  • Preservers (Dark Sun)

Video Games[]

  • Users of Mantra (Asura's Wrath)
  • Skye (Valorant)
  • Seraph (Digital Devil Saga)
  • Ara Haan/Eun (Elsword); via Energy Absorption
  • Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series)
  • Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII series)
  • Lisa Pacifist (Final Fantasy: Unlimited)
  • Vortigaunts (Half-Life)
  • Bianka Ataegina (Honkai Impact 3rd)
  • Jak (Jak and Daxter)
  • Users of Ki (King of Fighters/Fatal Fury series)
  • Mana users (League of Legends)
  • Johnny Cage (Mortal Kombat series)
  • Users of Ki (Street Fighter series)
  • Reimu Hakurei (Touhou Project)
  • Narumi Yatadera (Touhou Prject)
  • Okina Matara (Touhou Project)
  • Daphne (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Alexstrasza (Warcraft)
  • Guardian Spirits & Spirit Trees (Ori)

Folklore/Mythology[]

  • Phanes (Greek Mythology)

Web Animation/Comics/Original[]

  • Lilith Calah (Dreamkeepers)
  • Aura users (RWBY)

Known Objects[]

  • Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)
  • Tsuki-no-Gozen (Bungo Stray Dogs)

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Comics[]

Video Games[]

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Live Television[]

Videos[]

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