Pressure Manipulation

Pressure Manipulation
Xiaoyi (Marvel Comics) can control the pressure of her surroundings to crush or loosen objects.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate pressure.

The power to manipulate pressure. Not to be confused with Gravity Manipulation.

Also Called

• Nixukinesis
• Piezokinesis
• Pressure Control

Capabilities

User can create, shape and manipulate pressure, the amount of force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area. They can move objects over distance, strengthen gravitational pull, pseudo-solidify non-solid objects by generating a repulsive pressure exertion field around them, crushing of material targets, reduce friction between targets, etc.

Applications

• Solidification by increasing the pressure, this may lead to Elemental Constructs.
• By drastically decreasing pressure of air/water on front of object and increasing it on behind:
  • Flight
  • Missile Generation
  • Speed Swimming
• Enhanced Strength by increasing the pressure their hands/ feet exert on a surface.
  • Crushing
  • Pressure Strike
• Manipulate pressures inside living beings:
  • Equilibrium Distortion
  • Death Inducement
  • Pain Inducement
  • Rupture Inducement

Techniques

• Blood Pressure Manipulation
• Piezokinetic Combat
• Pressure Defiance

Associations

• Air Pressure Generation
• Gravity Manipulation
• Pressure Immunity
• Pressure Resistance
• Spatial Pressure Generation
• Telekinesis
• Water Pressure Generation
• Weather Manipulation

Limitations

• User may have to be in contact with the object/person they wish to pressurize/depressurize.
• May be useless in a vacuum or void.

Known Users

Cartoons

• Wuya (Xiaolin Showdown)

Comics

• Storm (Marvel Comics)
• Xiaoyi (Marvel Comics)

Manga/Anime

• Kenichirō Morio (Alive: The Final Evolution)
• Kōji (Code:Breaker)
• Kiru (Karakuri)
• Shigure (Myuu and I)
• Zaku Abumi (Naruto)
• Gaara (Naruto)
• Nagare (Naruto)
• Rin (Needless)
• Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece)
• Poor Tom (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: Jojolion); via Ozon Baby
• Aoi Kuchiba (The Qwaser of Stigmata)
• Setsuno (Toriko)

Gallery

Kenichirō Morio (Alive: The Final Evolution) compressing wind into a pressurized air blast that almost crushed Taisuke.

Kōji (Code:Breaker) controlling air pressure to great levels, capturing Toki and applying crushing waves.

Kiru (Karakuri) using his Mechanism to produce control the temperature and pressure of liquid methane he injects into his victims, which then expands 630 times when vaporized, causing the body to explode.

Storm (Marvel Comics) can control atmospheric pressure.

Zaku Abumi (Naruto) can control air pressure inside the tubes of his arms, firing off highly destructive supersonic blasts capable of leveling a forest area.

Gaara (Naruto) using his chakra-infused sand to crush Shiba with so much pressure, it liquefied his corpse.

Nagare (Naruto) copying Gaara's sand manipulation abilities, controlling rock powder's pressure to crush his opponents.

Aoi Kuchiba, in her Yū (The Qwaser of Stigmata) persona, pressurizing oxygen molecules into 10,000 atm of blasts for devastating effects.

Setsuno (Toriko) using extremely powerful air pressure to microwave her opponents, causing them to heat up and shatter.

Bartholomew Kuma (One Piece) can control pressure with the paw pads on his palms, repelling anything they touch.