Life and Death Manipulation

Life and Death Manipulation
Forest Spirit/Shishigami (Princess Mononoke); ancient god with the ability to give and take life.
Power/Ability to:	Control both life and death.

"All of you have loved ones. All can be returned. All can be taken away."

― Rick's Ship (Rick and Morty)

"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 control both life and death. Combination of Life-Force Manipulation and Death-Force Manipulation.

Also Called

• Control/Cycle of Life and Death
• Flow of Life Control/Manipulation
• Life-Death Manipulation
• Life/Death Control
• Power of Life and Death
• Vita-Mortokinesis

Capabilities

The user can manipulate the fundamental essences of life and death, wielding dominion over both creation and cessation. Their power is not limited to merely healing or harming—it is the ability to give or take the very force that defines being. They do not simply influence life; they command it. They do not merely bring death; they embody it.

With a thought, they can spark the genesis of life, causing cells to divide, organs to form, or entire beings to emerge from barren matter. Flora may bloom where they step, and faunal life may stir awake in their presence, invigorated by their touch. They are a fountain of vitality, able to restore the dying, strengthen the weak, or even grant immortality to those they choose. But with equal certainty, they can unravel the thread of life in an instant—draining energy, shutting down bodily functions, or inducing decay so profound that even time recoils.

The user governs the beginning and end of the life cycles of any and all living organisms. From the first heartbeat to the final breath, from the sprouting of a seed to the fall of an ancient tree, they can hasten, pause, reverse, or overwrite the natural order. They command the final breath and the first heartbeat, acting as a living fulcrum upon which the cycle turns.

This is not an artificial or foreign force. It is one of the most natural powers that exist—woven into the very rhythm of the world. Life and death are not enemies in the user’s eyes, but two sides of the same sacred current. They can shift the flow of nature’s most sacred cycle, ensuring balance or unleashing chaos, depending on their will.

Their influence extends to souls as well—those elusive sparks that transcend the physical. They can summon spirits from beyond, bind them into vessels, grant them peace, or obliterate their essence entirely. Death itself obeys them, retreating or advancing at their call, and even the undead are subject to their rule—animated by their power or dismissed back into silence.

This manipulation is not merely an act of magic or biology; it is a rewriting of the oldest law. Whether as a force of mercy or annihilation, the user stands as the arbiter of fate, shaping the rise and fall of all things.

And this power is not confined to the scale of individuals. The user may influence entire environments, ecosystems, and even the planet itself—reviving desolate landscapes into thriving worlds or condemning lush realms to lifeless ruin. With a mere shift of intent, they can breathe life into continents or summon extinction across oceans. In their hands, life and death are not events—they are climates, they are seasons, they are truths written into the world by will alone.

In their presence, the line between what lives and what dies is not destiny—it is decision.

Applications

• Death Removal
• Death Sense
• Death-Force Manipulation
  • Necromancy
• Immortality Manipulation
  • Immortality
  • Immortality Bestowal/Negation
• Lethality Manipulation
• Ley Line Manipulation
• Life and Death Inducement
• Life Manipulation
• Death Manipulation
• Life-Force Manipulation
  • Animancy
• Life Perception
• Mass Resurrection
• Regeneration Manipulation
  • Healing/Healing Factor Nullification
  • Regenerative Healing Factor
• Respawning
• Resurrection Manipulation
  • Resurrection/Resurrection Negation
• Reincarnation Manipulation
  • Reincarnation/Reincarnation Denial
• Sentience Inducement
• Spiritual Force Manipulation

Variations

• Lazarus Wave Manipulation
• Life and Death Embodiment
• Life and Death Magic
• Life and Death Transcendence
• Samsara Manipulation

Associations

• Animancy
• Birth Manipulation
• Death Manipulation
• Cycle Manipulation
• Life Manipulation
• Life and Death Arts
• Life and Death Connection
• Life and Death Lordship
• Necromancy
• Threads of Fate Manipulation

Limitations

• Users of Life and Death Removal.
• Users of Life and Death Transcendence are immune.
• Users of Absolute Immortality are immune.
• May be connected to one's emotion.
• May take energy, greatly exhausting the user.
• May have to absorb someone's life-force in order to heal or gather the energy to heal others unless if the user can generate it
• May require a sacrificial life in the resurrected things place.
• Unable to control the life or death of someone who was never born or given life (i.e. an Amortal).

Known Users

• Khahrahk/Harak/Khnith-hgor/Shormaush Urdal/Son of the Third Brood/The Devourer of Worlds/The Dread/Devourer/The Crimson Monarch/The King who Rose from the Bleeding/Lord of the Throne of Despair/Defiler of Worlds/Rapist King/Proskellion/SCP-001 - Tufto's Proposal - The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)
• King/Harlequin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Malia Rodriguez (La Luna Sangre)
• Nocturne (Bionicle); temporarily while holding Mask of Life
• Red Dragon (Chaos Dragon)
• Cernunnos (Celtic Folklore/Mythology)
• Dagda (Celtic Mythology)
• Elder God (Legacy of Kain)
• Hades (Disney's Hercules)
• Ned (Pushing Daisies)
• Feferi Peixes (Homestuck); from an alternate Timeline where she receives God Tier
• Spawn/Al Simmons (Marvel Comics)
• The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
• Joshua Foley/Elixir (Marvel Comics)
• Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon); as the Sailor Scout of Death and Rebirth
• Kanou Taisuke (Alive: The Final Evolution)
• Death (Supernatural)
• Othinus (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index)
• Malia Ortega Rodriguez (Imortal - Philippines TV Series)
• Wielders of The Black Orchid and White Lily (Honkai Impact 3rd)
  • Eleanor Schariac
  • Reanna Brigantia
  • Cecilia Schariac
  • Shigure Kira (Black Orchid Sword Form)
  • Durandal
• Herrcsher of the Death (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)
• Sisters of Fate (God of War)
• Red Dragon (Chaos Dragon)
• Zed (Code: Breaker)
• Sakurako Sakurakouji (Code: Breaker)
• Forest Spirit/Shishigami (Princess Mononoke)
• Death (Sandman/DC Comics); present during every birth and death
• Rinnegan Users (Naruto); via the Outer Path
• Midas Box (The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box)
• Hikari Hoshino (This Ugly Yet Beautiful World)
• Bad Wolf/Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
• Ruriko Ikusawa (Gate Keepers); via Minus Gate, Gate of Genocide/Massacre and the Gate of Life
• Chernobog (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Old Kai (Dragon Ball Z); revives Goku in exchange of his own life
• Te Fiti/Te Ka (Moana)
• Utsutsu Miya (Gatchaman Crowds); can only give life after taking life
• Blue Fairy (Disney's Pinocchio)
• The Spring Sprite (Fantasia 2000)
• Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Gold Experience
• Adam warlock (Marvel Comics); via Soul Gem
• Freyr (Norse Mythology)
• Freya (Norse Mythology)
• Yukari Yakumo (Touhou); can manipulate the boundary between life and death

Known Objects

• Reality Gauntlet (Danny Phantom)
• Reality Gem of Life (Danny Phantom)
• Black Orchid and White Lily (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Death (Sandman/DC Comics); present during every birth and death.

Bad Wolf Entity (Doctor Who)

Ned (Pushing Daisies) uses this ability on fruit and dead bodies

Forest Spirit/Shishigami (Princess Mononoke)

The Dagda (Celtic Mythology), God of fertility, agriculture, magic, Druidry, life, and death.

Cernunnos (Celtic Folklore/Mythology), God of nature, fertility, animals, wealth, life, and death.

The unknown first Herrscher of the Death (Honkai Impact 3rd) can destroy as well as create all kinds of life forms.

Cecilia Schariac (Honkai Impact 3rd) wielding the Black Orchid and White Lily, the 6th God Key.

King's ability, Disaster (Nanatsu no Taizai) can control the aspects of life and death.

Nagato (Naruto) used the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique/Gedo Art of Rinne Rebirth to, in exchange for his own life, infuse new life into the bodies of those who have died.

Chernobog (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of life and death.

The Reality Gauntlet (Danny Phantom) can make things come alive and possible kill objects with the red Gem of Life.

Joshua Foley/Elixir (Marvel Comics)

Othinus (A Certain Magical Index) has total control over the dead and the living, being capable of resurrecting anyone and freely manipulating the living's minds, morals, and points of view.

As Jean (Marvel Comics) is one with the Phoenix Force, she can fully control and manipulate life and death itself, as such, it can take the "life energy" from something, rendering it "dead" or vice versa.

Videos

Doctor Who - Complete Bad Wolf Speech

Death's Intro... Supernatural S5E21

Dean’s Dinner Date with Death - Supernatural-2

Dean Plays Death for a Day - Supernatural-2

Supernatural 6x11 "Appointment in Samarra" - Dean Talks with Death

Supernatural - Sam, Dean and Bobby bind Death - S7E01 - Logoless-2

DC Showcase "Death" part-1-2

DC Showcase "Death" part-2-2

DC Showcase "DEATH" part-3-2

DC Showcase "DEATH" part-4-2

Joker VS Giorno (Persona VS JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) - DEATH BATTLE!-2

Analysis & Discussions

The Vertigo Files- Death - The Deluxe Edition