Reanimation

Reanimation
Kurome (Akame Ga Kill!) using her katana, Yatsufusa, to reanimate and manipulate up to eight corpses.
Power/Ability to:	Grant animation to the deceased.

"Open the gates of the past, and free the souls of the wrongfully damned. In the name of the ancestors and the righteous, I sacrifice my immortality and that of my daughter's so that you may rise this day. Bring down the wrath of the oppressed upon this emperor and all who follow him. I call upon the hundreds, and the thousands that you may rise up and seize this moment; to take your victory, to take your justice, and to take your revenge!"

― Zi Yuan raising her army of the undead (Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)

"You mean bringing dead people back to life?"
"No, that's re-animation, Raven."
"Oh, sorry, guys."

― Raven and Robin (Teen Titans Go!)

"And some lingering remnants of his memory and personality."
"But without our Circuit implants he would be utterly mindless an ordinary machine."
"A robotic zombie."

― Quintesson Judges discussing their plans to revive Optimus Prime to destroy the Autobots (Transformers Generation 1)

The power to reanimate corpses and dead beings. Sub-power of Necromancy and Death-Force Manipulation. Variation of Animation. Not to be confused with Resurrection.

Also Called

• Anti-Death Inducement
• Dead/Living Dead Revival/Summoning
• False Resurrection
• Reanimating Resurrection

Capabilities

The user can reanimate corpses and dead beings, making them able to move and react. They are usually under the user's control, but because the corpses are likely mindless, they have to be carefully monitored. However, some users may be able to create sentient or semi-sentient undead.

Applications

• Carcass Manipulation
• Undead Conversion
  • Poltergeization

Variations

May be achieved by using:

• Animation
• Biological Manipulation
• Bionic Manifestation
• Corpse Conversion
• Fungal Reanimation
• Killing Resurrection
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Magic
• Soul Summoning

Associations

• Corpse Conversion
• Dark Arts
• Death-Force Manipulation
• Necromancy
• Spirit Physiology
• Undead Physiology
  • Ghost Physiology
  • Skeleton Physiology
  • Zombie Physiology

Limitations

• Reanimation Negation
• Reanimated targets may become zombies, ghouls or some other form of undead.
• May be limited to those that the user has killed.
• Using this on long dead creatures can be tricky for beginners.
• Users may have limits for how many corpses they may animate at once and/or control at once.
• May be temporary.
• May have no effect on those who found eternal rest.
• Reanimated targets may not be under the user's control.
• Reanimated targets may possess their personalities, weaknesses and/or memories, partially or completely.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

• Marceline, the Queen Vampire (Adventure Time)
• Charmcaster (Ben 10); limited to small animals
• Black Lanterns (DC Comics)
• Orange Lanterns (DC Comics); Variation: A dead person's soul contained in an artificial energy body.
• Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
• Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
• Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics)
• Christopher Muse/Triage (Marvel Comics)
• Melody Jacobs/Threnody (Marvel Comics)
• Aku (Samurai Jack)
• Demongo (Samurai Jack)
• Tengu Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Lost Episodes)
• Quintesson Judges (Transformers Generation 1)
• Blood Red Queen of Hearts (Vampirella)
• Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H); via Quintessence
• Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H); via Quintessence

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Sekai Saikyou)
• Kurome (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamato (Bleach); via Zanka no Tachi, Minami: Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin
• Hitomi (Code: Breaker)
• Vladimir (Darwin's Game)
• Keith (Fairy Tail)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Sesshoumaru (InuYasha)
• Kagura (InuYasha)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part I: Phantom Blood)
• Sports Max (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean); via Limp Bizkit
• Masamichi Yaga (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Reborn (Katekyo Hitman REBORN)
• Eucliwood Hellsythe (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
• Orochimaru (Naruto); via Edo Tensei
• Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto); via Edo Tensei
• Tobirama Senju (Naruto); via Edo Tensei
• Kazuma (Naruto)
• Fudō (Naruto)
• Gekko Moriah (One Piece)
• Phoenix Man (One-Punch Man)
• Shalltear Bloodfallen (Overlord)
• Ainz Ooal Gown (Overlord)
• Cancer Schiller (Saint Seiya Ω)
• Hendrickson (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Melascula (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Tsubakiri Momomiya (Tougen Anki)
• Faust VIII (Shaman King)
• Kikurage (Dorohedoro)
• Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling)
• Sung Suho (Solo Leveling: Ragnarök)
• Aleister Crowley (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Johann Valentin Andreae (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
• Esther Rosenthal (Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator)
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
• Re-Animator West (Ghost Reaper Girl)
• Misha Hao (Hunter × Hunter); via Post-Mortem Nen

Video Games

• Zorbak (Adventure Quest)
• Mummies/Mummy Viziers (Age of Mythology)
• Nephthys (Age of Mythology)
• Elise (Azure Striker Gunvolt)
• Siren (Bioshock Infinite)
• Rezghuls (Backyard Monsters)
• The Necromancer (Castle Crashers)
• Red Dragon (Chaos Dragon)
• The Necromancer (Darkest Dungeon)
• Riza Brenner/Momiji Tenma (Dies Irae/Kajiri Kamui Kagura)
• Majorita (Disgaea 5)
• Freya (God of War)
• The Ancients (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)
  • Ulyaoth
  • Xel'lotath
  • Chattur'gha
  • Mantorok
• Merrin (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)
• Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Zed (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Vikke (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Mariska (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Josey (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Lewis Legend (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Killabilly (Lollipop Chainsaw)
• Talion (Middle-earth: Shadow of War); via Isildur's Ring of Power
• Zog The Eternal (Middle-earth: Shadow of War)
• Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
• Renée's sister (The Order)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype)
• Genie (The Sims 2)
• Witch (The Sims 2)
• Specter Knight (Shovel Knight)
• Undead Spell Punks (Skylanders)
• Ultimate Carnage (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
• Raine (Tales of Symphonia)
• Beatrice (Umineko no naku koro ni)
• Lich King (Warcraft)
• Death Knight/Arthas (Warcraft)
• Kel Thuzad (Warcraft)
• Tower of Barbs (Let It Die)

Literature

• Voldemort (Harry Potter)
• Dark Wizards (Harry Potter)
• Sophie Mercer (Hex Hall Book 1/DemonGlass)
• No Life King (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash); presumably
• The Animator (Ordinary Boy)
• Nina Zenik (GrishaVerse)
• Children of Hades/Pluto (Percy Jackson & The Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus)
  • Nico Di Angelo
• Children of Ares/Mars (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus); can only reanimate dead soldiers who fought on the losing side of a war.
  • Frank Zhang
• Sphinx (Re:Zero)
• Menace (Queen's Blade series)
• Vampires (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse novels)
• Hoodoo Mama (Wild Cards)

Television/Movies

• Neil Clarke (Absolutely Anything)
• Evil Ash (Army of Darkness)
• Jack O'Toole (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Kakistos (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds)
• Alchemists (Charmed)
• Starro (DC Extended Universe); via extensions
• Chernabog (Fantasia)
• White Walkers (Game of Thrones)
• Ned (Pushing Daisies)
• Curtis Donovan (Misfits)
• Douglas Davenport (Lab Rats)
• The Keeper (Legend of the Seeker)
• Darken Rahl (Legend of the Seeker)
• Mord-Siths (Legend of the Seeker)
• Donna Gilchrist (Being Human)
• Solanum (World War Z)
• Jonah Hex (Jonah Hex (film))
• Penelope Gardiner/Athena Browning (Witches of East End); using a reanimation potion
• Benny Weir (My Babysitter's a Vampire); using a reanimation potion
• Marie Laveau (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Morgana (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
• Herbert West (Herbert West the Re-Animator)
• Imhotep (The Mummy)
• Zi Yuan (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
• Alien Slug Creeps (Night of the Living Creeps)
• An Shigeng (The Four)
• Sobek (Under Wraps 2); via staff

Web Animations/Comics/Originals/Series

• Various Characters (The Order of the Stick)
• Necromancers (RPG's)
• SCP-049 - Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2292 - Gorilla beringei necromantiae (SCP Foundation)
• Phelous (Channel Awesome)
• Phelous D-1 (Channel Awesome)
• Black Lantern Spoony (Channel Awesome)
• Santa Christ (Channel Awesome: Two-Year Anniversary special Kickassia)
• Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Matoro (Bionicle); via his Kanohi Tryna
• Jesus (Madness Combat)
• Various Characters (Looking for Group)
• Skid and Pump (Sr Pelo's Spooky Month)
• Stolas (Helluva Boss)

Known Objects

• Decorpsinator Serum (Adventure Time)
• Yatsufusa (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Idol of Granath (Angel)
• Kanohi Tryna, the Mask of Reanimation (Bionicle)
• Mask of Undeath (Bionicle)
• The Black Cauldron (The Black Cauldron)
• Ovu Mobani (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Element 115/Divinium (Call of Duty: Black Ops series)
• Green Dip (Catscratch)
• The Markers (Dead Space)
• Necronomicon Ex Mortis (The Evil Dead)
• Sinestro's green power ring (Green Lantern: First Flight)
• Glass Lamp (Hakumei to Mikochi)
• Tar Serum (Overlord)
• Blacklight Virus (Prototype)
• Herbert West’s Serum (Re-Animator)
• Cursed Aztec Mask (Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare)
• T-Virus (Resident Evil series)
• Reanimation Potion (Sankarea)
• Bob's Reanimation Machine (The Simpsons)
• Stevie (Smosh)
• Orb of Rafuk (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee)
• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)
• SCP-1700-A - Debtshop (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2486 - Pomegarrote (SCP Foundation)
• Hair cream (Wendell and Wild); temporarily

Known Locations

• SCP-022 - The Morgue (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2419 - "Lalughing Men" (SCP Foundation)

Known Spells

• Platnica Sorensae (Ben 10)
• Animate Dead (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Danse Macabre (Dungeons & Dragons)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Using his Zanka no Tachi, Minami - Kaka Jumanokushi technique, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach) can reanimate the charred skeletons of his victims...

...And even send them to attack their former allies.

Orochimaru (Naruto) uses Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation/Impure World Reincarnation to resurrect Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, and the creator of the technique, Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage.

Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto) demonstrating the reanimating ritual to Tobi.

Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Sekai Saikyou) has perfected her necromancy skills in reanimation, able to perfectly reanimate an entire army of corpses with their memories, personalities and skills intact.

Rea (Sankarea) holding a glass of the Reanimation Potion.

Vandalieu's (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time) death-attribute magic allows him to reanimate the dead bodies of any living being; with their soul's memories and personality intact; including himself.

Sohaku Kago (Tenjho Tenge) turned Fu Chi'en's corpse into a zombie, having him fight with his abilities intact.

Kagura (InuYasha) using her wind to utilize her Corpse Dance, controlling corpses as puppets.

Sō'unga (InuYasha) can reanimate entire army of corpses to serve as its minions and summon the souls of the dead…

…including Setsuna Takemaru who So'unga chose as its host.

Aleister Crowley accessed the science side's network via the former site of Windowless Building and found the location where Anna Kingsford's (Toaru Majutsu no Index) corpse had been preserved and reanimated her, despite her being dead for over a century. Aleister can also switch Anna Kingsford off similar to machine.

After killing Alice Anotherbible, Johann Valentin Andreae (Toaru Majutsu no Index) has managed to reanimate her corpse.

Esther Rosenthal (Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator) reanimating corpse by placing a Huotou on the corpse, in the case of Hitokawa Hasami her abilities are gone but her combat powers increase.

Re-Animator West (Ghost Reaper Girl) is a scientist who works on re-animating corpses.

Cartoons/Comics

The Black Cauldron (The Black Cauldron)

The Black Lantern Corp (DC Comics)

Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics)

Melody Jacobs/Threnody (Marvel Comics)

Jesus’ (Madness Combat) most infamous power in the series is the ability to resurrect the dead. Up until Madness Depredation, he would often resurrect Hank's victims into zombies, in order to fight Hank. Although they do not possess better fighting skills, they are much more resistant to attacks than they are normally.

Bastion (Marvel Comics) can also reanimate dead people by infecting them with the virus, as he did with several mutant-haters who formed his Human Council to aid in the extinction of the mutants.

Quintesson Judges (Transformers Generation 1) once reanimated Optimus Prime as a robotic zombie with their own evil programming to destroy the Autobots.

The Decorpsinator Serum (Adventure Time) was flawed when it was tested by Princess Bubblegum that it led to a zombie apocalypse.

The Green Dip (Catscratch) made by Waffle…

…accidentally resurrected an entire cemetery full of zombies.

Unicron's (Transformers: Prime) blood can produce Dark Energon which can revive fallen Cybertronians as vicious undead.

Marceline (Adventure Time) raising an army of skeletons.

Live Television/Movies

Ovu Mobani (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) reanimates a nearby corpse.

Starro (DC Extended Universe) can resurrect people once his extensions latch onto their faces.

With Khonsu's Lunar Magic, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah (Night At the Museum) can reanimate mummies and even fossils to life during the night.

Tar Serum (Overlord) can resurrect dead people, but at the cost of horribly configuring them into zombies.

Alien Slug Creeps (Night of the Living Creeps)

Neil Clarke (Absolutely Anything)

Video Games

T-Virus/Tyrant Virus (Resident Evil) infect corpses into zombies.

Element 115/Divinium (Call of Duty: Black Ops series) was the key material used by Group 935 to create several weapon programs, one of which was the undead army super-soldier program for the Third Reich.

The Red Marker (Dead Space) will reanimate and mutate anyone.

Web Animations/Originals/Series

SCP-022 - The Morgue (SCP Foundation)

SCP-049 - Plague Doctor (SCP Foundation)

Stevie (Smosh) has the power to reanimate the dead with the power of love.

Skid and Pump (Sr Pelo's Spooky month) made corpses in a morgue do Micheal Jackson's "Thriller dance" for Spooky Month.

Videos

Samurai Jack - Jack vs. Demongo's Warriors - Adult Swim UK 🇬🇧-2

World of Warcraft- Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic Trailer

Overlord (2018) - Resurrecting Private Chase Scene (4-10) - Movieclips-2

Overlord (2018) - Zombie Transformation Scene (5-10) - Movieclips-2

The Suicide Squad (2021) - Starro scene 4K 60fps-2

The Slumber Party Panic - Adventure Time - Cartoon Network-2

The Henchmen - Adventure Time - Cartoon Network

LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP - Swan-2

Night at Museum-2

Absolutely Anything Movie CLIP – Zombies (2015) - Simon Pegg Comedy Movie HD-2

SCP-022 - The Morgue (SCP Orientation)-2

SCP-049 - the Plague Doctor Captured (SCP Animation & Story)-2

SCP-049 Plague Doctor (SCP Animated)-2

SCP-049 - Plague Doctor - Object Class - Euclid - Sentient SCP - 2018 Rewrite-2

Analysis & Discussions

Why Death Magic is Evil-2

A Crap Guide to D&D -5th Edition- - Cleric-2

A Crap Guide to D&D -5th Edition- - Sorcerer-2

A Crap Guide to D&D -5th Edition- - Warlock-2

Music

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Video)