Resurrection

Resurrection
Chloe Sullivan (Smallville) after resurrecting herself for the first time.
Power/Ability to:	Bring the dead back to life

The power to bring the dead, including oneself, back to life. Opposite power of Death Inducement. Not to be confused with Reanimation, which brings back the dead and controls them against their will.

Also Called

• Cheating Death
• Reversed Death
• Revival
• Rising from Death/Grave

Capabilities

The user can bring themselves and others back to life.

Applications

• Can raise the dead.
• Self-Resurrection

Variations

• Ash Resurrection
• Electrical Resurrection
• Multiple Lives
  • Nine Lives
• Resurrection Field Projection
• Touch of Life

Associations

• Combined with Reactive Adaptation one may gain Adaptive Resurrection
• Event Negation
• Healing
• Immortality
• Infinite Resurrection
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Regenerative Healing Factor
• Respawning
• Resurrection Empowerment

Limitations

• May be limited to certain number of self-resurrection.
• May have limited window defined by how long the target has been dead.
• Some variations may have side-effects, on either the user or the resurrected:
  • User may suffer damage, exhaustion, or even death.
  • Resurrected may not have completely healed from the wounds that killed them, or they may be missing memories, or a soul in some cases.

Known Users

• God (Supernatural)
• Jorge (Los Protegidos)
• Death (Supernatural)
• Archangels/Angels (Supernatural)
• Demons (Supernatural)
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• Jesus Christ (Christianity)
• Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• Chloe Sanders (Darkest Powers series)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Palpatine (Star Wars)
• Shenron (Dragon Ball)
• Porunga (Dragon Ball)
• Claire Bennet (Heroes)
• Nathan Young (Misfits)
• Adam Monroe (Heroes)
• Doomsday (DC Comics)
• Sentry (Marvel Comics)
• Castiel (Supernatural)
• Chloe Sullivan (Smallville/DC Comics)
• Chloe King (The Nine Lives of Chloe King)
• Imhotep (The Mummy)
• Ganon (The Legend of Zelda)
• Janemba (Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn)
• Iblis (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Robert (DWP)
• Sesshomaru (InuYasha) via Tenseiga
• Sesshomaru's Mother (InuYasha) via Meido Stone
• Draph (Heroes)
• Fawkes (Harry Potter)
• Avatars (Charmed)
• The Tribunal (Charmed)
• Lazarus Demons (Charmed)
• Resurrection Man (DC Comics)
• Count Dracula (Dracula/Castlevania/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Marvel)
• Him (Powerpuff Girls / Powerpuff Girls Z)
• Brook (One Piece)
• Time Lords (Doctor Who)
• Gill (Street Fighter III)
• Curtis Donovan (MisFits)
• Users of the Resurrection Gauntlet (Torchwood)
• Connor (Angel)
• Diagon (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
• Any user of the Pet Sematary (Pet Sematary)
• Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• Layla Miller (Marvel)
• Alduin (Skyrim)
• The Chosen Undead (Dark Souls)
• Solomon Grundy (DC comics)
• Any user of Rinne Tensei Justu (Naruto Shippuden)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype;via pieces of his biomass)
• Cylons (Battlestar Galactica)
• Ned ("Pushing daisies")
• Jean Grey as Phoenix (Marvel)
• Shamans (WoW)
• Aling Elsa (The Healing - Film)
• Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls)
• Haplo's dog (Death Gate Cycle); only its master.
• Blackmist (Armed With Wings)
• Man in the Moon (Rise of the Guardians)
• Powerful witches (Witches of East End); via Spell Casting
• Takutanuva (Bionicle)
• Phil Coulson (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Gallery

Claire Bennet (Heroes) can resurrect herself unless her brain is destroyed or her body is split in two and separated.

Chloe Sullivan (Smallville).

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A Lazarus demon (Charmed) always resurrects unless his ashes are buried in a cemetery.

Jesus Christ resurrection; in front of Mary.

Brook's (One Piece) Devil Fruit powers resurrected himself once.

Himuro Gemma (Ninja Scroll) uses his "Reincarnation Technique" to resurrect himself from otherwise lethal injuries.

The Meido Stone (InuYasha) resurrects Rin by pulling her soul out of Hell.

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Sesshomaru's sword the Tenseiga has the power to bring the recently dead back to life as well as healing the wounded.

Lord Voldemort's earthbound soul is resurrected into a body. (Click to animate)

When Curtis (Misfits) touches someone who is dead...

...they'll be resurrected back from the dead...

...but the side-effect is that anyone who is resurrected will developed a craving for human-flesh, as well for animals, turning them into zombies, as shown Shannon eating Seth's pet iguana to restrain her hunger...

...which has the same side-effect for animals who are resurrected back from the dead, as shown a cat named Mr.Miggles eating part of Maggie's face, his owner.

Due to being immortal, Nathan's (Misfits) body will repairs itself to its pre-death state; he then wakes up perfectly healthy.

Jorge (Los Protegidos) can revive the dead by touching