- "Everyone will lose someday. You can't go against your own limits."
- ― Liu Longxiang (Taiso Zamurai)
- "Even the slightest use of our powers would cause the heaven and earth of the three worlds to tremble. Because of that, we linked our lives to one another to seal away our true swords."
- ― Senjumaru Shutara (Bleach)
- "This is amazing. There's so much power. So much...Cyclops has never used more than a fraction of full capacity. He's so afraid of it. He won't let himself go."
- ― Johnny Dee on Scott Summers/Cyclops (Marvel Comics)
The ability to block or induce limits into oneself or others' capacities, powers and/or abilities. Sub-power of Boundary Manipulation, Superpower Manipulation and Limit Manipulation. Variation of Inducement. Opposite to Power Augmentation, Limiter Removal, and Superpower Evolution.
Also Called[]
- Ability Block
- Aversion Inducement
- Boundary Creation
- Power Limitations
- Restraint Inducement
- Restriction Inducement
Capabilities[]
User can induce various limits/limitations or blocks into oneself or others' capabilities, powers and/or abilities, for example removing their ability to increase their powers or skills, causing them to decrease or simply remove them.
Applications[]
- Attack Prevention
- Defense Prevention
- Power Erasure
- Power Level Separation
- Power Negation
- Limit the usage of a certain ability of the opponent makes them incapable of using it more than twice.
- Block the levels of power of the opponent making it impossible for them to evolve to another stage.
- Making opponents moves to lose their efficiency.
- Limit body functions.
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Aversion
- Buffering
- Limit Manipulation
- Power Immunity
- Power Level Division
- Power Reversal
- Taboo Inducement
Flaws[]
- Almighty abilities are immune or defeat/surpass any limits by their very nature such as Omnipotence, Boundary Manipulation, Existential Perfection etc.
- Limitation Transcendence is the perfect counter.
- Limitations can be removed by Limiter Removal.
- May need to have high medical knowledge.
- Weak against Weakness Removal.
- Users of Flawless Indestructibility are immune.
Known Users[]
See also: Restraining Bolt and Power Limiter.
- God (Abrahamic Religions); via Absolute Separation
- Joukkyu Kunotoshi (AIKI)
- Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach)
- The Royal Guard (Bleach); via Blood Oath's Seal
- Lost Force/Restrictors (Dirge of Cerberus)
- Frieza (Dragon Ball series)
- Rosario Galán-Grant (The Posterchildren)
- Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Bowyer (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)
- Scott Summers/Cyclops (Marvel Comics)
- Eight Million Gods/Yaoyorozu no Kami (Touhou Project)
- Charlie Swan (Twilight Saga); limits the effects of psychic powers
- Faris (Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest)
- Nen users (Hunter X Hunter)
Known Objects[]
- Behavior-modification circuitry (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Golden contracts (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland)
- Vaccine "Metroid" (Metroid); weak against extreme cold
- Miraculouses (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Devil Fruit (One Piece); weak against seawater, baths and Seastone/Sea-Prism Stone
- ''Indoctranation Method''/SCP-2004 (SCP Foundation)
- Yamato (Devil May Cry) as Boundary Creation
- Inhibitor Ring (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Females of Cosmo's species' amulets (Sonic X)