The ability to control humanoid forms. Variation of Complete Mastery.
Also Called[]
- Manipulative Puppetry
- Puppet Control/Manipulation
- Puppetry/Puppeteering
- Marrionetakinesis
Capabilities[]
The user takes control over motor functions of humanoid forms, whether living, dead or objects as if they were a marionette.
Applications[]
Variations[]
Puppet Mastery can be achieved in several ways:
- Animation - control through the motion to the motionless.
- Blood Manipulation/Blood Marionette - control by controlling blood.
- Body Control - control by controlling anatomy.
- Bone Manipulation - control by controlling skeletons.
- Command Inducement - control just about anything focused upon.
- Darkness Manipulation/Shadow Marionette - control by controlling shadows.
- Hair Manipulation/Hair Marionette - control by controlling hair
- Mind Control - control by compelling minds.
- Motor-Skill Manipulation - control the bodies of the living.
- Reanimate/Necromancy - to control the bodies of the deceased.
- Sentient Control - to control conscientious minds.
- Telekinesis - control puppets with one's mind.
- Thread Manipulation - control using marionette strings.
Associations[]
- Control Manipulation
- Doll Manipulation
- Doll Physiology
- Dollification
- Remote Motion Manipulation
- Silk Manipulation
- Sympathetic Magic
- Thread Manipulation
- Voodoo
- Voodoo Doll Creation
Limitations[]
- Users of Control Immunity are immune.
- Strong will may complicate the control.
- May be limited to a certain number of targets.
- May open the user up to being controlled, give away their location, and/or the target may cause feedback endangering the user.
- Without Remote Mind Control/Remote Motion Manipulation, the distance may limit control, increase control-difficulty/lag-time, and/or break control.
Known Users[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Drocell Keinz (Black Butler)
- Kisuke Urahara (Bleach); via Bankai
- Zommari Rureaux (Bleach)
- Pernida Parnkgjas (Bleach)
- Touko Aozaki (Boundary of Emptiness)
- Rizelle (Chrono Crusade)
- Users of Marionette Quanx ability (Denma)
- Mother Spider (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Puppetmon (Digimon)
- Sherry Blendi (Fairy Tail)
- Ganko Morikawa (Flame Of Recca)
- Kazuya Souma (Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki)
- Rappa Momochi (Gintama)
- Puppeteer (Hero Killer)
- Neferpitou (Hunter x Hunter)
- Chrollo Lucifer (Hunter x Hunter); after stealing the ability Order Stamp
- Ripple/Hamon Users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Jonathan Joestar (Part I: Phantom Blood)
- Caesar A. Zeppeli (Part II: Battle Tendency)
- DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part I: Phantom Blood); via vampirism
- Noriaki Kakyoin (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Hierophant Green
- Devo the Cursed (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders); via Ebony Devil
- Enyaba (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Justice
- Anjuro Katagiri/Angelo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamond is Unbreakable); via Aqua Necklace
- Hazamada Toshikazu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamond is Unbreakable); via Surface
- Spots Maxx (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean); via Limp Bizkit
- Ojiro Sasame (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion); via Fun Fun Fun
- Mekeke (Keroro Gunsou)
- Abel Walker (Mashle: Magic and Muscles); via Marioness magic
- Tomoyasu Chikazoku/Skeptic (My Hero Academia) via Anthropomorph
- Dictator (My Hero Academia) via Despot
- Kankuro (Naruto)
- Sasori (Naruto)
- Chiyo (Naruto)
- Saya (Naruto)
- Toneri Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
- Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Naruto/Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell (Negima)
- Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
- Basil Hawkins (One Piece)
- D.D. Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu)
- Kanna Hijiri (Puella Magi Kazumi Magica)
- Gein (Ruoruni Kenshin)
- PallaPalla (Sailor Moon SuperS)
- Griffon Minos (Saint Seiya)
- Mekeke (Sgt. Frog/Keroro)
- Shiki Misaki (The World Ends With You)
- Sunny (Toriko)
- Puppeteers (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Raishin Akabane (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Charlotte Belew (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Frey (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Loki (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
- Magnus (Unbreakable Machine-Doll)
Video Games
- Dollmaker (Alice: Madness Returns)
- Carl Clover (Blazblue)
- Relius Clover (Blazblue)
- Lilith Aensland (Darkstalkers)
- Lulu (Final Fantasy X)
- Bronya Zaychik (Honkai Impact 3rd); limited to Project Bunny 19c
- The End (Sonic Frontiers)
- Screaming Mantis (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
- Atoraru Ka (Monster Hunter Series)
- Taboo (Penny’s Big Breakaway)
- Haruka (Senran Kagura)
- Mesmerelda (Skylanders)
- Anise Tatlin (Tales of the Abyss)
- Botan (The King of Fighters)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
- Alice Margatroid (Touhou Project)
- The Player (Undertale/Deltarune); via Soul Manipulation
- Puppeter (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Puppetmaster (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Yinlin (Wuthering Waves)
- Alexandrina "Rina" Sebastiane (Zenless Zone Zero)
Cartoons/Comics
- Mr. Chanax (The Amazing World of Gumball); only his employees
- Bloodbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra); via Blood Manipulation
- Cypher (Beware the Batman); via tendrils
- Johnny Dee (Marvel Comics)
- The Puppet Master (Marvel Comics)
- Puppet King (Teen Titans)
- Slade (Teen Titans)
Other
- Maria (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Nascal Mehirim (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
- Bobby (Freaky)
- Hagfish (The New Legends Of Monkey)
- Set (Guardian Archangels)
- Jonah (Logan)
- Vex (Lost Girl)
- Puppetmaster (Paradox Saga)
- Billy (SAW)
- Winston Pratt/The Puppeteer (Renegades)
- The Demonic Cubes (Charlie The Unicorn)
Gallery[]
Maria (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) use the corpse of the great beast of death and former messenger Memitim as a marionette, even being capable to use its necromantic powers.
Bloodbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra) resemble how a puppeteer controls a marionette.
Kisuke Urahara's (Bleach) Bankai, Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame, creates a giant female bodhisattva puppet which he can manipulate by thoughts. Said puppet is also able to reconstruct and control anything it touches.
Pernida Parnkgjas (Bleach) extending its nerves via The Compulsory, allowing it to control anything they come into contact with, living or inanimate...
Zommari Rureaux's (Bleach) Amor can take complete control of anything any of his fifty eyes looks at.
Sheril Kamelot (D.Gray-Man) creating Dark Matter threads that can manipulate people's movements and bend them to horrible shapes.
Chrollo (Hunter x Hunter) stole ability called Order Stamp that allows him to affix stamp onto a "puppet" and control a large number of puppets by commands.
Ripple/Hamon (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) can control people, as Jonathan used on Wang's headless carcass to disrupt the ships machinery and Caesar hypnotized a woman via kiss.
Noriaki Kakyoin (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders) demonstrates his Stand, Hierophant Green's ability to control his victims like a puppet.
Screaming Mantis (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots) uses puppets of Psycho Mantis and The Sorrow to control any living or dead person with Nano-Active Blood.
Showing mastery in puppet controlling even in his childhood, Sasori (Naruto) was the greatest puppet master ninja of his generation…
Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) can use his String-String Fruit powers to bind parasite threads into hundreds of people's bodies controlling them like a puppet master.
With mastery over his Straw-Straw Fruit/Wara Wara no Mi powers, Basil Hawkins (One Piece) can create and control the Straw Man, a demonic Voodoo Scarecrow.
Gein (Rurouni Kenshin) can use his diamond-filament steel wires to control his specially made puppets.
Akabane Raishin (Unbreakable Machine-Doll) can perform martial arts while controlling his puppet on fighting with little or no effort.
Kazuya Souma (Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki) uses his magic, Living Poltergist to infuse his consciousness into dolls or puppets to perfectly control them...
...he can control Musashibo with such mastery to perfectly mimic the fighting skills of a master warrior.
Shirogane Saiga (Karakuri Circus) is a master puppeteer, able to control the extremely powerful Harlequin with ease.
Alexandrina "Rina" Sebastiane (Zenless Zone Zero) can control her specialized, puppet-like Bangboo Drusilla and Anastella using her electricity and puppet string-like control devices worn on her fingers and arms.