- "What will you do when your friends, your enemies, your lover, are all Darkseid? When there is one body. One mind. One Will. One Life that is Darkseid. Will you be the enemy of all existence, then?"
- ― Darkseid, to Superman (Final Crisis)
The power to infect existence. Variation of Existence Manipulation and Disease Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Existence Infection
- Existential Disease Manipulation
- Omni Infection
Capabilities[]
The user infects the very nature of the subject's existence. The prefix "onto" has to do with the nature of being or existing, pathogenic has to do with being infectious, and so ontopathogenic has to do with infecting the very existence of a thing. Unlike common diseases or pathogens that only infect on a biological level, Ontopathogen causes infection on a metaphysical level. Just like pathogens, they can spread to other existences.
Applications[]
- Almighty Absorbing Replication
- Cosmic Otherness
- Duality Transcendence
- Omni-Physics Manipulation
- Reality Consumption
- Unidemic Creation
Variations[]
- Existential Pathology; Specialized Lesser Version
Associations[]
- Causality Manipulation
- Existence Manipulation
- Multiversal Manipulation - multiversal infection spreads.
- Nigh Omnipotence
- Omni-Conversion
- Omni-Embodiment
- Omnipotence
- Omniverse Manipulation - all possibilities contaminated.
- Selective Unity
- Universal Manipulation - infect the existence of the universe.
Limitations[]
- Users of Absolute Health and Absolute Immortality are immune/highly resistant.
- There may be some existence that proves unaffected such as Existential Perfection.
- The user may eventually become infected too.
- May be weak against Omni-Cleansing, Omni Healing and Absolute Restoration.
Known Users[]
- Calamity Ganon (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild); via Malice
- Lord of Terror (Ah! My Goddess)
- Will of the Mental World (Big Order)
- Inner Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2)
- Absalom, Avatar of Chaos (Darksiders 2); via Corruption
- Abyssal Forge (Darksiders 2)
- Darkseid (DC Comics); via the Anti-Life Equation
- Akka, the Worm of Secrets (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- Oryx, the Taken King (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- The Witness (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- Xivu’Arath (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- Kai (Kung Fu Panda)
- Sir James Jaspers/Mad Jim Jaspers (Marvel Comics)
- Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto); via God: Nativity of a World of Trees
- Pinion (Shakugan no Shana)
- The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural); via her essence for Rabids
- The Nothing (The Neverending Story); novel version only
- Exsurgent Virus (Eclipse Phase)
- Lord English (Homestuck)
Gallery[]
When he harnessed the Anti-Life Equation during the Final Crisis, Darkseid (DC Comics) replaced the will of approximately three billion residents of Earth with his own.
While fairly weak in its sealed state, The Lord of Terror/Ultimate Destruction Program (Ah! My Goddess) is revealed to be a transcendent computer virus capable of infecting anything in existence after its unsealed. Including...
...Gods, Demons, ...
...Humans, ...
...Divine Transcendent Beasts/Monsters, ...
...and even the transcendent anti-virus program originally designed to stop and destroy it.
Sir James Jaspers (Marvel Comics) was such an infectious existence that his less powerful Alt. self could warp his entire realities timeline and his more powerful mainstream counterpart could afflict whole multiverses.
Kai (Kung Fu Panda) after stealing the Chi from his victims he infected their existences with Jade cursed forms.
Corruption (Darksiders II) in the form of Absalom the first Nephilim had enough power to reach out and warp, distort and otherwise rot the whole of creation if left unchecked by his lonesome...
from decaying the very landscape of other worlds beyond his reach...
to rending even the most pure and noble minds of heavens considerably pious followers....
until they degenerate into foul obscene lunatics rife with his malicious bane.
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The bile, cantankerousness of Gabriel Belmont's vengeful Id, Inner Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2) was so powerful and malignant that not only could it take on a life of its own, but was also capable of reaching out warping the very being of anything or anyone unlucky enough to be caught by it.
Anything that is fully consumed by The Nothing (The Neverending Story) is infected and forever transformed into a lie which then enters the human world and begins to cause chaos over time.
Unlike previous iterations of Ganon from the Zelda series, Calamity Ganon (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) is more so distinguished as an apocalyptic force of nature whose malicious essence, "malice", permeated the land of Hyrule and a large sum of its sentient, albeit mostly automated, lifeforms.
The Blue Spirit of Ice Naydra (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) permeated by Calamity Ganon's Malice.
Lord English (Homestuck) can bite and infect others with "Canonical dissolution", a metaphysical non-literal poison that corrodes their narrative relevancy and erases them.