Revenant Physiology

Revenant

"Vengeance will be MINE!"

― Scorpion, vowing revenge. (Mortal Kombat 2011)

"You said I was worthless, rejected my imperfection. I am being re-purposed, I'm becoming a weapon. Yeah my engines are burning with the fire from the hell that I've been in. I'm coming back from the dead, I'm hellbent on revenge. Every time you attack I'm assimilating all the blades in my back from when you betrayed me. All the shit that you say it don't even faze me, I made upgrades to my armored plating. I transformed, you're the one that changed me. Created a monster, but you can't face me. It's me against the world, everybody hates me. I'll take you all, you can never break me!"

― Terrobyte, "Helios"

The power to have the traits and powers of a revenant. Technique of Revenant Manipulation. Variation of Vengeance Spirit and/or Undead Physiology.

Also Called[]

Restless Corpse/Ghost/Soul/Spirit Physiology
Revenant Mimicry
Troubled Corpse/Ghost/Soul/Spirit Physiology
Vengeful Corpse/Ghost Physiology

Fiction-Specific Terms[]

The Bound/Sin-Eaters (Geist: The Sin-Eaters/Chronicles of Darkness)
The Risen (Wraith: The Oblivion/World of Darkness)

Capabilities[]

The user either is or can become a revenant, a visible ghost or animated corpse believed to return from the grave to haunt/terrorize the living.

In most cases, revenants return from the grave for vengeance on those who wronged or killed them or harassed their families or friends. Revenants can spread disease among the living, or suck the blood of the living, much like vampires.

Revenants are beings who have returned, especially from the dead, hence why the word revenant is derived from the Old French word, revenant, the "returning" (see also the related French verb revenir, meaning "to come back") whether they are ghosts, spirits, zombies to living people.

Applications[]

Ascended Spirit/Enraenra/Ghost/Hellspawn/Poltergeist Physiology (Spirit version)
- Afterlife Traveling
- Dead Heart
- Ethereal Mimicry
  - Ectoplasm Manipulation
    - Ectoplasm Mimicry
  - Soul Shapeshifting (Revenants can shape their spiritual appearance to trick mortals.)
- Ghost-Light Manipulation
- Haunting
  - Soul Portal Creation
    - Soulnado Generation
- Inodorosity
- Intangibility
- Killing Resurrection
  - Murderous Possession
  - Restoration Augmentation
- Possession
  - Corpse Possession (Use carcasses as extensions to harm the living)
    - Multi Possession (Rarely)
  - Object Possession
  - Remote Possession
- Psionics
  - Telekinesis
  - Telepathy
- Spiritual Flight
Fear Inducement
Ghoul/Skeleton/Vampire/Wight/Zombie Physiology (Undead version)
Punishment
- Torment Inducement
Smoke Mimicry

Techniques[]

Revenaization

Associations[]

Demon Physiology (Revenants may become obsessive in their revenge that they become malevolent, dark, and soon demonic.)
- Dybbuk Physiology
- Hellspawn Physiology
Horror Villain
Qutrub Physiology
Resurrection
Undead Physiology
Vengeance Embodiment

Limitations[]

Normal, Flawless, to Absolute Restoration, and even Resurrection can restore revenants back to being what race they are formerly.
Exhumation, decapitation, and removal of the heart can kill the user.
May require a tether/link binding them to the living world.
Revenants may not stop, no matter the circumstances until they got their revenge.
- After their act of vengeance is complete, the revenant may find peace by finally passing on.
Users of Resurrection, in conjunction with reviving them, will result in the tether being destabilized and then abolished, thus ending their cycle of reanimations, and making them alive and mortal again.

Known Users[]

See Also: Revenant Zombie.

Kurt Baumeister (The 8th Son? Are you Kidding Me?); via the Flute of Malice
Gatherers (Amnesia series); Corpses
Briar Harvestar (Bone Comics)
The Candyman (Candyman); Ghost
Revenants (Code Vein)
Benton Tarantella (Courage the Cowardly Dog); Corpse
Errol Van Volkheim (Courage the Cowardly Dog); Corpse
Zombies (Danny Phantom)
Revenants (Dragon Age)
John Milton (Drive Angry)
The Revenant (Fablehaven series)
Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th series); Corpse
Deadmen (GunGrave)
- Beyond The Grave
- Fangoram
- Bunji Kugashira
- Jyuji Kabane
- Sherry MacDowell-Walken
Victor Crowley (Hatchet)
Candyman (Candyman)
Abyssal Vessels (Kancolle)
Revenant (Tower Battles)
Revenants (Runescape)
Molly McNamara (Supernatural); Tangible Ghost
Reborns (The Crow)
- Eric Draven (The Crow)
- Ash Corven (The Crow: City Of Angels)
- Iris Shaw (The Crow: Flesh and Blood)
- Alex Corvis (The Crow: Salvation)
- Jimmy Cuervo (The Crow: Wicked Prayer)
Dead Girl (Marvel Comics); Corpse
Tristan Dubois (Merlin)
Revenants (Mortal Kombat series); Undead
- Liu Kang
- Kuai Liang/Sub-Zero
- Kung Lao
- Jax Briggs
- Kitana
- Jade
- Smoke
- Nightwolf
- Kurtis Stryker
- Kabal
- Sindel
Santa Sasaki (UQ Holder)
Zombie Ghost (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
Joseph Crackstone (Wednesday)
Bloody Mary (Western Folklore); Ghost
The Despoiled (Wolfenstein); Corpses
Kuri's Mother (Youkai Apartment no Yuuga)
Gavin Land (Crossed Badlands)
R.I.P.D. Officers (R.I.P.D.)
Deados (R.I.P.D.)