The power to reverse the function(s) of a superpower. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Antipower
- Power 180
- Power Inversion
- Power Flipping
- Reversing
Capabilities[]
The user can change any power to its inverse. This can be used to weaken incredibly powerful beings or enhance weaker ones.
Examples[]
- Affinity to Aversion
- Air Breath to Vacuum Breath
- Anger Inducement to Patience Inducement
- Anger Manipulation to Patience Manipulation
- Animation to Inanimation
- Argentopoeia to Silver Mimicry
- Aquatic Breathing to Lava Breathing
- Binding to Freeing
- Banishment to Summoning
- Beacon Emission to Tracking Evasion
- Bionic Physiology to Organic Mimicry
- Blessing Inducement to Curse Inducement
- Body Immobilization to Enhanced Reflexes
- Chaos Inducement to Order Inducement
- Chrysopoeia to Gold Mimicry
- Creation to Destruction
- Crushing to Inflation
- Darkness Mimicry to Light Mimicry
- Death Inducement to Life Inducement
- Demagnetization to Magnetization
- Divine Force Manipulation to Demonic Force Manipulation
- Electricity Generation to Electrical Absorption
- Empathy to Apathy
- Energy Generation to Energy Erasure
- Fire Immunity to Cold Immunity
- Flight to Burrowing
- Force Field Generation to Force Field Penetration
- God Hand to Devil Hand
- Heat Vision to Freeze Vision
- Hive Mind to Divided Mind
- Ice Breath to Fire Breath
- Ice Mimicry to Fire Mimicry
- Intangibility to Corporealization
- Invisibility to Enhanced Visibility
- Invulnerability to Vulnerability
- Levitation to Sinkability
- Light Generation to Darkness Transmutation
- Light Manipulation to Darkness Manipulation
- Magnetic Skin to Lateral Repulsion
- Omnilingualism to Inaudibility
- Organic Mimicry to Inorganic Mimicry
- Pacifism Inducement to War Inducement
- Pain Suppression to Pain Augmentation
- Paralysis Inducement to Jactitation
- Past Manipulation to Future Manipulation
- Power Bestowal to Power Erasure
- Poison Generation to Antidote Creation
- Precognition to Retrocognition
- Reality Restoration to Reality Breaking
- Replication to Disassembly
- Shapeshifting to Mode Lock
- Sexual Inducement to Social Repulsion
- Size Enhancement to Size Reduction
- Smoke Generation to Smoke Absorption
- Sonic Scream to Super Inhale
- Sound Wave Generation to Sound Nullification
- Sound Manipulation to Silence Manipulation
- Space-Time Destruction to Space-Time Restoration
- Subconscious Manifestation to Dream Imprisonment
- Teleportation to Immobility
- Temporal Rewind to Flash-Forward
- Time Reduction to Time Acceleration
- Zoolingualism to Botanical Communication
Limitations[]
- User may experience unexpected and unwanted effects.
- The user's powers can still be negated.
- Certain powers don't have a reverse.
- Beings with Power Anchoring cannot have their powers altered
Known Users[]
- Heatblast (Ben 10); when sick
- Bizarro (DC Comics)
- Bizarro-Girl (DC Comics)
- Momo Hanaki (Highschool DxD); through Reversal
- Agent Zero (Marvel Comics)
- Kelly, Simon, Nathan, Curtis, Alisha, Lily, Jess, Mark and Alex (Misfits) had their powers reversed when on ecstasy.
- Kalinin's SCP-001 Proposal - Past and Future (SCP Foundation)
- Hiyori Kazane/Zeta (Sora No Otoshimono); via Reverse Hacking
- The Demon King (Seven Deadly Sins)
- Jujutsu Sorcerers (Jujutsu Kaisen); via Cursed Technique Reversal
Known Objects[]
- Reversing Mirror (Xiaolin Showdown)
- Hanki Mirror (Xiaolin Chronicles)
Gallery[]
When afflicted with the common cold, Heatblast's (Ben 10) powers are reversed, giving him Ice Manipulation instead of Fire Manipulation.
As a "reverse" Kryptonian, Bizarro (DC Comics) has reversed versions of Superman's powers,
...such as Fire Breath instead of Ice Breath...
...Freeze Vision instead of Heat Vision...
...spotlight vision instead of X-Ray Vision...
...and X-Ray hearing rather than Enhanced Hearing.
Agent Zero (Marvel Comics) can secrete a powerful corrosive that directly attacks an opponent's Regenerative Healing Factor, causing it to reverse itself and make the wounds worse the more the opponent's body tries to heal.
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Reversing Mirror (Xiaolin Showdown) can reverse the powers of any Shen Gong Wu.
SCP-001 - Past and Future (SCP Foundation) is an extraterrestrial species capable of reversing the powers and effects of numerous SCPs through advanced reality warping technology, including...
...transforming SCP-1440 from an immortal man whose presence causes widespread death and destruction into an immortal man whose presence causes good fortune and beneficial events.