- "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."
- ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "You can bleed us to the brink of death, crush every bone in our bodies, it only makes us more powerful!"
- ― Vegeta to Cui (Dragon Ball Z)
- "The only way to defeat Mahoraga is to slaughter it with a new attack before it can adapt. Cleave fits the criteria. However, if it hasn't adapted only to Dismantle but to slashing attacks in general, then... Mahoraga's regeneration will soon be complete."
- ― In regards to Mahoraga (Jujutsu Kaisen)
The power to immediately adapt to danger and harm. Not to be confused with Evolution.
Also Called[]
- Instant Adaptation
- Instant Evolution
- Nemesis
- Reactive Evolution
- Spontaneous Adaptation
- Self-Modification
- Zenkai (Dragon Ball series)
Capabilities[]
The users can either instantly develop powers or abilities to deal with threats or their bodies dynamically learn from experience. Depending on the user's control of the power or genetic structure, the reactive effects can be permanent or temporary.
For example, after a certain situation, the user's skin may become tougher. They may display increased IQ after a difficult test or fortified emotions after a personal argument. The user may be able to read different languages after moments of looking them up or be able to withstand a constant bombardment of radiation. Some users may develop Enhanced Durability after being shot, or grow Dermal Armor, or gain the opposite power of their opponent.
In some instances, a magical object may express similar powers.
Applications[]
- Acquired Immunity
- Adaptive Appearance
- Adaptive Augmentation
- Adaptive Combat
- Adaptive Power Level
- Atmospheric Adaptation
- Defeat Adaptation
- Defense Adaptation
- Limitation Transcendence
- Power Immunity in terms of adapting and becoming immune to that threat
- Power Opposition
- Reactive Invulnerability
- Reactionary Immunity
- Reactionary Replication
- Skill Adaptation
- Vacuum Adaptation
Techniques[]
Variations[]
- Adaptive Attacks: The users' attacks/techniques are capable of adapting.
- Adaptive Mind: The user's mind are capable of adapting.
- Adaptive Movement: The user's movements are capable of adapting.
- Adaptive Regeneration: Users can achieve powerful regeneration/healing based on the damages suffered.
- Adaptive Resistance: The user develops a heightened resistance to something that has affected them, most commonly after taking damage.
- Adaptive Resurrection
- Advantage Adaptation: The user adapts to their opponent by developing an advantage over them.
- Biological Manipulation: Users reactively enhance their bodies in multiple ways usually encompassing one of the personal enhancements.
- Body Adaptation: Adapt to being in another body.
- Chaos Adaptation: The users reactively adapt to any kind of chaos put in front of them.
- Course Adaptation: The users can adapt to any course or path of movement and become better at them.
- Damage Memorization: The users memorize the damage their bodies take, thus rendering themselves immune to the same attack or move twice.
- Dermal Adaptation: The users reactively change the texture, color, and density of their skin to suit the situation.
- Environmental Adaptation: The users reactively alter or shift their bodies in order to survive in their surroundings.
- Mental Manipulation: The users reactively alter their own minds and control their positive or negative effects, perhaps even turning on other Mental Abilities.
- Physical Force Adaptation: The users reactively adapt to physical forces.
- Physical Law Adaptation: The users reactively adapt to any kind of physical laws.
- Reactive Attribute Enhancement: The users reactively develop enhancements for situations, combat or tasks.
- Supersede: Reactively and automatically enter an even higher level when confronted with a stronger adversary.
- Self-Adaptation: The user has control over their own adaptations.
- Self-Adaptive Power: The user's abilities are able to adapt themselves.
- Sensory Adaptation: The user can adapt to sensory situations.
- Situational Speed: The user is literally as fast as they need to be at any given moment.
- Situational Strength: The user is literally as powerful as they need to be at any given moment.
- Society Adaptation: Adapt to different societies.
- Spiritual Adaptation: Adapt to spiritual changes and threats.
- Strategy Adaptation: The user can adapt to different strategies and tricks.
- Superior Adaptation: Adapt to utterly anything and everything.
Examples[]
- Aquatic Breathing after being submerged in water.
- Atmospheric Adaptation to changing gases.
- Damage Memorization to render oneself immune to certain types of attacks, such as limb severing.
- Size Reduction to fit through small openings.
- Self-Replication in order to do multiple tasks.
- Soul Anchoring before having their soul destroyed.
- Superpower Anchoring before having their abilities absorbed or nullified.
- Enhanced Durability before being hit by a semi.
- Enhanced Intelligence in against mentally incomprehensible threats.
- Elasticity when needing to grab a distant object.
- Enhanced Strength when being attacked by foes of great numbers.
- Fire Immunity when exposed to flames.
- Flight or Fall Damage Immunity when falling off of a cliff.
- Night Vision after being in the dark for a few seconds.
- Omnilingualism when attempting to read or listening to a different language.
- Teleportation if confronted by a force much stronger than oneself.
- Being able to survive without oxygen and being able to withstand the vacuum of space.
- Becoming pure energy.
- Invisibility when hiding.
Associations[]
- Adaptation Manipulation
- Adaptive Armor
- Adaptive Regeneration
- Adaptive Shield Construction
- Adaptive Weaponry
- Immortality
- Invulnerability
- Shapeshifting
- It may evolve into Evolution, unlocking more adaptations and abilities.
- If combined with Evolution, one may gain Superior Adaptation.
- If combined with Self-Resurrection, one may gain Adaptive Resurrection.
- If combined with Precognition, one may gain Preemptive Adaptation.
Limitations[]
- Adaptations may only be temporary.
- May not function against users of Adaptation Immunity.
- May be defeated or even die before the adaptation takes place.
- Certain hidden threats may not be reacted to.
- Learning some adaptations may negate other adaptations (e.g. learning to breathe water may prevent breathing air).
- Although users may be able to re-adapt to circumstances once removed from the need for the adaptation (e.g. re-learning how to breathe air again after leaving the water).
- Some adaptations may be in conjunction with weaknesses, even downright detrimental outside the object of adaptation.
- Some reactions may have a delayed response.
- Some threats may be beyond the extent of what the user can adapt to.
- The extent and speed of adaptations may vary between users.
- Usually dependent upon a direct threat to the person, resulting in responsive action.
Known Users[]
Anime/Manga/Manhwa[]
- The Tyrant (Akame ga Kill)
- Wielders of Incursio (Akame ga Kill)
- Gozu (Area D)
- Priscilla (Claymore)
- Various Characters (Dragon Ball Series)
- Sachiel (Evangelion)
- Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail)
- Kenshirō (Fist of the North Star)
- Kars (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency); after becoming the Ultimate Life Form
- ACT Stand Users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Requiem Stand Users (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Arceus (Pokémon)
- Haru Glory (Rave Master)
- Gale Raregroove/King (Rave Master)
- Lucia Raregroove (Rave Master)
- Hideauze (Suisei no Gargantia)
- Garou (One-Punch Man)
- Arcueid Brunestud (TYPE-MOON)
- Angeloids (Sora No Otoshimono); via Pandora Mode
- Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)
- Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga (Jujutsu Kaisen)
- Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
Cartoons[]
- Shane Gooseman (The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)
- Nanomech (Ben 10)
- Rex Salazar (Generator Rex); via the Omega-1 Nanite
- Shirley (The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3)
- Amazo (Justice League Unlimited/DC Animated Universe/DCAU)
- Morphos (Max Steel)
- Footbots (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)
Comics[]
- E.V.E. (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Amazo (DC Comics)
- Doomsday (DC Comics)
- Martians (DC Comics)
- OMACs (DC Comics)
- Viltrumites (Invincible/Image Comics)
- Allen the Alien (Invincible/Image Comics)
- Bruce Banner/The Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- Heather Cameron/Lifeguard (Marvel Comics)
- Endgame (David Haller/Legion Personality) (Marvel Comics); persona of Legion
- James Howlett/Ultimate Wolverine (Earth-1610) (Marvel Comics)
- Armando Muñoz/Darwin (Marvel Comics)
- Protégé of Earth-691 (Marvel Comics)
- Super-Adaptoid (Marvel Comics)
Movies[]
- Cyborg (DC Extended Universe)
- Meta-Coolers (Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler)
- Gamera (Gamera)
- Omnidroids (The Incredibles)
- Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
- Death Angels (A Quiet Place);
- Godzilla (Shin Godzilla)
Literature[]
- Titan (Corpies)
- Chris Gordon (Demon Accords)
- Crawler (Worm)
Live Television[]
- Valeria (Ángel o Demonio)
- Zaragas (Ultraman series)
Video Games[]
- Alex Mercer (Prototype)
- J'avos (Resident Evil 6)
- Emerl (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Web Animation/Comics/Original/Series[]
- The Hound (RWBY)
- Turbo Mecha Sonic (Super Mario Bros. Z)
- Various SCPs (SCP Foundation)
Other[]
- XII (Anima: Beyond Fantady)
- The Machine (Anima: Beyond Fantasy); via the Mothers
Known Powers[]
- Ultra Instinct (Dragon Ball Super)
Known Objects[]
- Omega-1 Nanite (Generator Rex)
- Anubis (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
- Stand Arrows (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Great Sacred Treasure (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
- Decalogue (Rave Master)
- Ten Commandments Sword (Rave Master)
Gallery[]
The horsemen of reactive adaptation.
As long there's at least one Mother or Technocrat that monitorize the enemy, the Machine (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) adapt against any type of combat, as well as modifying their bodies in order to reduce the damage against any type of non-magical attack.
Valeria (Ángel o Demonio) as a Malak, can only use this power when she needs to.
E.V.E. (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
During his battle with the Nanochip Queen, Nanomech (Ben 10) adapts to acquire energy tentacles.
Amazo (Justice League Unlimited/DC Animated Universe/DCAU) after adapting to be able to effectively combat the entire Justice League.
Amazo (DC Comics)
Doomsday's (DC Comics) body can adapt to the immediate damage it takes from opponents.
The OMACs (DC Comics) all have special countermeasures to battle different metahumans.
Cyborg's (DC Extended Universe) body is in a constant state of self-modification...
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...leading to him developing new abilities such as Flight in one day.
Every time Priscilla (Claymore) is injured, she can adapt and regenerate to gain a more powerful body.
As a Saiyan, Gohan (Dragon Ball) possesses the Saiyan Power ability, allowing him to continually increase his performance against adversity, either by recovering from a near death experience, or by fighting a strong opponent.
Hit's (Dragon Ball Super) Pure Progress ability allows him to adapt when faced with a foe he cannot overcome.
The more Son Goku (Dragon Ball Super) fights, the stronger, faster and sharper he gets via Ultra Instinct Mode.
The Meta-Coolers (Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler) rapidly repair any and all bodily damage, and any flaws that allowed said damage are corrected, rendering them unable to be harmed the same way twice.
Sachiel (Evangelion) displays the ability to learn and upgrade on the battlefield.
Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail) adapts his body to match Laxus Dreyar's strength.
Gamera (Gamera) can manipulate his own genetic structure to adapt to his environments...
...his appearance changing as his body evolves for combat.
Allen the Alien (Image Comics)
The Omnidroids (The Incredibles) can adapt to their opponents' tactics and powers.
"Shirley" (The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour) can adapt to any situation that his circuitry deems negative...
...which he demonstrates by adapting special bracelets to deflect laser fire.
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After becoming the Ultimate Life Form, Kars (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency) can adapt his body to various conditions...
...such as submersion in lava...
...and the vacuum of space.
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Anubis (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part III: Stardust Crusaders)
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The Great Sacred Treasure (Kid Icarus: Uprising) can change its form to adapt whenever it is damaged.
Darwin (Marvel Comics) adapting to survive in the vacuum of space.
Heather Cameron/Lifeguard (Marvel Comics).
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Endgame (Marvel Comics) personality of Legion, can adapt by changing its physical composition...
... for example to Magneto's powers.
Depending on his anger levels, the Hulk (Marvel Comics) can adapt to survive various environments, such as the vacuum of space...
...and under water.
Ultimate Wolverine (Marvel Comics) has some degree of adaptation, gaining the power to breathe through his skin after his head was severed from his body, and his brain going into stasis when his head was placed in an airless room.
Lifeguard (Marvel Comics)
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SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy" (SCP Foundation)
SCP-682 (SCP-Foundation)
Emerl (Sonic the Hedgehog)
The Footbots (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) can learn from and quickly adapt to their foes' own martial arts moves and combat techniques in a matter of seconds, enabling them to quickly overwhelm an unsuspecting enemy.
Whenever Doomsday gets killed...
...he can adapt to evolve from being killed by the same thing twice
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Protege (Marvel Comics)
Super-Adaptoid (Marvel Comics)
The Hound (RWBY) can adapt its own body to fit the surroundings needed...
...such as rearranging its limbs into a humanoid configuration...
...and sprouting wings.
...and developing an immunity to the anti-Blacklight weapon Bloodtox.
Arceus (Pokémon) can change its type on a whim in order to resist or negate any attack it sees coming its way, such as becoming a Ghost-type to negate Palkia's Aura Sphere.
Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia)'s body can instinctively adapt in battle as well as change shape depending on his mental state and desires, such as taking a more defensive form after enough accumulated damage was dealt to both his body and psyche.
Viltrumites (Image Comics) have Smart-Atoms integrated into their physiology which grants the ability to absorb ambient matter & energy to boost a specific attribute passively in that moment.
Bloodshot (Valiant Comics) can reactively adapt to various stimuli.
Videos[]
ジョジョ- Jotaro vs. Anubis (1)『HD』-2
JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable - Kira's Second Dose of Arrow-2
ジョジョ The truth behind THE arrow 『HD』
Gold Experience Requiem's Ability
Gold Amazo finally meets Lex Luthor to destroy him - Justice League Unlimited
-PROTOTYPE- - Opening Cinematic Trailer
Official PROTOTYPE 2 - The Red Zone
Jotaro VS Kenshiro (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure VS Fist of the North Star) - DEATH BATTLE!-2
Hulk VS Doomsday (Marvel VS DC) - DEATH BATTLE!
SCP-096 - The Shy Guy (SCP Animation)-2
SCP-682 - Ways SCP Foundation Tried to Kill Hard To Destroy Reptile-2