Reanimation

"Open the gates of the past, liberate the souls of the wrongfully damned, with my life as sustenance, I called upon the hundreds and the thousands of the souls in the soil to rise on this day. To take your victory to take your justice and to take your revenge."

― Zi Yuan (Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)

Power to reanimate corpses and dead beings. Sub-power of Necromancy. Variation of Animation. Not to be confused with Resurrection.

Also Called

Dead Summoning
Necrokinesis
Reconstitution

Capabilities

The user can animate 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

Variations

May be achieved by using:

Associations

Limitations

Reanimation Negation
Reanimated targets may accidentally become zombies, undead or ghouls.
Reanimation 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 how many they may have active and controlled at once.
May be temporary.
Reanimated targets may not be under the users control.
Reanimated targets may possess their personalities, weaknesses and/or memories.

Known Users

Comics/Cartoons

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.
Sinestro's green power ring (Green Lantern: First Flight)
Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
Christopher Muse/Triage (Marvel)
Demongo (Samurai Jack)
Steven/Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)
Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H); via Quintessence
Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H); via Quintessence
Marceline Queen Vampire (Adventure Time)

Anime/Manga

Shalltear Bloodfallen (Overlord)
Kurome (Akame Ga Kill!)
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach); via Zanka no Tachi, Minami: Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin
Keith (Fairy Tail)
Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha)
Kagura (InuYasha)
Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1: Phantom Blood)
Sports Max (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean); via Limp Bizkit
Orochimaru (Naruto)
Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
Tobirama Senju (Naruto)
Kazuma (Naruto)
Fudō (Naruto)
Gekko Moriah (One Piece)
Faust VIII (Shaman King)
Eva-Beatrice (Umineko no naku koro ni)
Alucard (Hellsing)
Cancer Schiller (Saint Seiya Ω)
Hitomi (Code: Breaker)
Reborn (Katekyo Hitman REBORN)
Eucliwood Hellsythe (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?)
Hendrickson (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Melascula (Nanatsu no Taizai)

Video Games

Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
Undead Spell Punks (Skylanders)
Raine (Tales of Symphonia)
Alex Mercer (Prototype)
Beatrice (Umineko no naku koro ni)
Lich King (Warcraft)
Death Knight/Arthas (Warcraft)
Kel Thuzad (Warcraft)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Evil Dead franchise)
Red Dragon (Chaos Dragon)
Rezghuls (Backyard Monsters)
The Necromancer (Castle Crashers)
Zorbak (Adventure Quest)
Ultimate Carnage (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
The Markers (Dead Space)
Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Zed (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Vikke (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Mariska (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Josey (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Lewis Legend (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Killabilly (Lollipop Chainsaw)
Pylich (TF2 Freak)
Riza Brenner/Momiji Tenma (Dies Irae/Kajiri Kamui Kagura)
Siren (Bioshock Infinite)
Majorita (Disgaea 5)
Elise (Azure Striker: Gunvolt)

Television/Movies

White Walkers (Game of Thrones)
Alchemists (Charmed)
Chernabog (Fantasia)
Jack O'Toole (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Kakistos (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds)
Ned (Pushing Daisies)
Curtis Donovan (Misfits)
The Keeper (Legend of the Seeker)
Darken Rahl (Legend of the Seeker)
Mord-Siths (Legend of the Seeker)
Evil Ash (Army of Darkness)
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)
An Shigeng (The Four)

Literature

Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Dark Wizards (Harry Potter)
Nico DiAngelo (Percy Jackson & The Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus)
No Life King (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash); presumably
Hoodoo Mama (Wild Cards)
Sophie Mercer (Hex Hall Book 1/DemonGlass)
Vampires (True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse novels)
Menace (Queen's Blade series)
Sphinx (Re:Zero)

Other

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)
Matoro (Bionicle); via his Kanohi Tryna
Jesus (Madness Combat)

Web Animation

Demo Samedi (TF2 Freak)

Known Objects

Yatsufusa (Akame Ga Kill!)
Idol of Granath (Angel)
Kanohi Tryna (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)
Glass Lamp (Hakumei to Mikochi)
Resurrection Stone (Harry Potter)
Blacklight Virus (Prototype)
Herbert West’s Serum (Re-Animator)
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)