Soul Manipulation

Soul Manipulation
Brook (One Piece), the Soul King, gained the power of the Yomi Yomi no Mi which allows the user's soul to come back to life after dying once, remain alive until their body is sufficiently damaged, and to use several other soul-based abilities.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate souls.

"All is powerless before the might of my SOUL!"

― Brook (One Piece)

"I need you to let me touch it. The human soul — it's pure... energy. If I can siphon some of that off, I might be able to bring Sam and Dean back."

― Castiel talking to Bobby about the power of the soul (Supernatural; "Frontierland")

"The power to dominate souls...? Is that what this is!?"

― Guido Mista on Silver Chariot Requiem (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)

The power to manipulate souls. Sub-power of Life-Force Manipulation.

Also Called

• Animakinesis
• Psychíkinesis
• Soul Bending/Control
• Soul Stringing
• Idle Transfiguration (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Capabilities

Users can manipulate the soul, the incorporeal and immortal essence of a living thing, souls are usually most obviously present in sentient beings. At some level all biological organisms have souls, and even non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess something that is analogous to a soul.

Most users have to learn to control their own soul first and expand from there, some may be able to learn how to tap into the essence of everything living.

Applications

• Afterlife Border
• Animation
• Astral Projection
• Aura Reading
• Consciousness Separation
• Death Sense
• Disembodiment Inducement
  • Doppelgeist
• Ectoplasm Manipulation
  • Ectokinetic Constructs
  • Ectoplasmic Attacks
• Exorcism
• Expanded Presence
• Phantasm Manipulation
• Possession
• Resurrection
• Reincarnation
• Soul Absorption
• Soul Banishment
• Soul Channeling
• Soul Constructs
  • Soul Creature Creation
  • Soul Shield
• Soul Conversion
• Soul Creation
• Soul Destruction
• Soul Energy Solidification
• Soul Exchange
• Soul Forging
• Soul Healing
• Soul Immunity
• Soul Materialization
• Soul Merging
• Soul Morph
• Soul Mutilation
• Soul Projection
• Soul Reading
• Soul Recreation
• Soul Removal
• Soul Resonation
• Soul Restoration
• Soul Retention
  • Soul Carrier
• Soul Sealing
• Soul Shapeshifting
  • Other Soul
• Soul Sharing
• Soul Speed
• Soul Splitting
• Soul Summoning
• Soul Transferal
• Soul Trapping
• Spiritual Force Manipulation
  • Spiritual Element Manipulation
  • Soul Energy Absorption
  • Soul Energy Attacks
  • Soul Energy Generation
• Strong Soul
• Symbiosis

Techniques

• Afterlife Marking
• Soul-Bound Armor
• Soul-Bound Entity
• Soul-Bound Power
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Soul Empowerment
• Soul Link
• Soul Portal Creation
• Soul Replication
• Soulnado Generation
• Spirit Physiology
• Spiritual Aura
• Spiritual Energy Physiology

Variations

• Absolute Soul Manipulation
• Animal Soul Manipulation
• Dark Soul Manipulation
• Esoteric Soul Manipulation
• Pure Soul Manipulation
• Soul Embodiment
  • Soul Lordship
• Soul Staring
• Spiritual Twilight Manipulation
• World Soul Manipulation

Associations

• Animancy
• Astral Manipulation
• Automated Body
• Corruption Inducement by twisting other's souls.
• Ghost Physiology - permanently losing their body, possibly meaning death.
• Immaterial Manipulation
• Life Creation - by infusing souls into inanimate objects.
• Life-Force Absorption
• Life-Force Conversion
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Matter Manipulation - by controlling the soul of substance & energy.
• Multiple Souls
• Nature Manipulation
• Necromancy
• Psychoscience
• Salvation
• Self-Puppetry - contain and preserve one's soul into a single object which remotely controls the body.
• Shamanism
• Spirit Magic
• Spirit Physiology
• Spiritual Arts

Limitations

• Soul Immunity
• May be limited to manipulating the soul of either oneself or others.
• Users of Eternal Soul and Soul Anchoring cannot be manipulated.
• Cannot affect soulless beings as they have no soul to manipulate.
• May be dangerous/ineffective if the target's soul is stronger than that of the user.

Known Users

See Also: Soul Power.

Comics/Cartoons

• Patry (Black Clover); via Reincarnation Magic
• Rory Regan/Ragman (DC Comics)
• Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
• Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)
• Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Al Simmons/Spawn (Image/Spawn)
• Adam Warlock (Marvel Comics); via Soul Gem
• Deathwalker Prime (Marvel Comics)
• Galactus (Marvel Comics)
• Life-Force Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Comics)
• Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics)
• Classic Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics)
• Death (Regular Show)
• Demongo (Samurai Jack)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Chariot Requiem (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou); via Necromancy
• Fullbringers (Bleach)
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
• Bickslow (Fairy Tail)
• Nab Lasaro (Fairy Tail)
• Wraith (Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest)
• Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Valerie Tepes (Highschool DxD)
• D (I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Silver Chariot Requiem (JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Mahito (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Peta (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki (Naruto); via Rinnegan
• Nagato/Pain (Naruto); via Rinnegan
• The FAR/First Ancestral Race (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
• Carmel (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
• Brook (One Piece); via the Yomi Yomi no Mi
• Ghost-type Pokémon (Pokémon)
• Deathmask (Saint Seiya)
• Hades (Saint Seiya)
• Thanatos (Saint Seiya)
• Teufel Diabolos (Senyu)
• Dr. Franken Stein (Soul Eater)

Video Games

• Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers)
• Kris (Deltarune)
• The Puppet/Marionette (Five Nights at Freddy’s)
• Hades (God of War)
• Kratos (God of War)
• The Knight (Hollow Knight)
• The Hollow Knight (Hollow Knight)
• Soul Master (Hollow Knight)
• Snail Shaman (Hollow Knight)
• Thresh (League of Legends)
• Senna (League of Legends)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
• Ermac (Mortal Kombat)
• Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
• Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
• Shao Kahn (Mortal Kombat)
• Shinnok (Mortal Kombat)
• Rose (Street Fighter)
• M. Bison (Street Fighter)
• Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project)
• Fleurety (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Soul Reaper (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Frisk (Undertale)
• Chara (Undertale)
• Asriel Dreemur (Undertale)
• Sans and Papyrus (Undertale); mimic Gravity Manipulation by turning souls blue
• Undyne (Undertale); mimics Binding by turning souls green
• Muffet (Undertale); mimics Binding by turning souls purple
• Alphys (Undertale); uses Advanced Technology to turn souls yellow and grant Bullet Projection

Live Television/Movies

• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Chucky (Child's Play)
• Lord Marshals (The Chronicles of Riddick); After visiting the Underverse
• Soulites (Mutant X)
• Darth Nihilus (Star Wars)
• Kallig (Star Wars)
• Death (Supernatural)

Literature

• Helda (Beauchamp Family series)
• Mana Lord (Children of Mana)
• Sauron (Middle-earth)
• Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

Others

• Heart Players (Homestuck)
• The Demiurge/The God of Flesh/Važjuma/Saklas/Samael/God-Eater/Devourer/His Undulating Vastness/The Great Winnower/The God of Flesh/Nüwa/The Dragon in the Great Brass Cage/Yaldabaoth (SCP Foundation)
• The Ambassador of Alagadda (SCP Foundation)
• The Hanged King (SCP Foundation)
• The Fragmented One/WAN/he Eternal Network/Fuxi/The Maker of Machines/Hakhama/The Great Voice/Sophia/Mekhane/SCP-001 - TwistedGears/Kaktus Proposal - The Broken God (SCP Foundation)
• Khahrahk/Harak/Khnith-hgor/Shormaush Urdal/Son of the Third Brood/The Devourer of Worlds/The Dread/Devourer/The Crimson Monarch/The King who Rose from the Bleeding/Lord of the Throne of Despair/Defiler of Worlds/Rapist King/Proskellion/SCP-001 - Tufto's Proposal - The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)
• Yulü, Yama and Kshitigarbha/The All-Death/The Great Death/The Small Death/The Three Lords of Death/The Brothers Death (SCP Foundation)
• Archons of Yaldabaoth (SCP Foundation)
• Klavigar Orok (SCP Foundation)
• God (Judaism & Christianity)

Known Items

• Sephiroth Graal (Highschool DxD)
• Claws Of Hades (God of War)
• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)
• Revive-Revive Fruit/Yomi Yomi no Mi (One Piece)
• Soul-Soul Fruit/Soru Soru no Mi (One Piece)

Gallery

Due to her superior talent in Necromancy, Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou) can directly control the souls of the dead and reanimate them as her undead puppets.

Fullbringers such as Kūgo Ginjō (Bleach), can freely manipulate the souls of matter to varying degrees.

Aura Michibane (Bleach) is an exceptionally powerful Fullbringer, freely able to reconstitute any matter at will, even that of her own body.

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers)

Due to his Death-attribute magic, Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time) is capable of manipulating souls and can communicate with the souls of the death without needing the【Spiritualist】job.

Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)

Hades (God of War)

Valerie Tepes (Highschool DxD) can use Longinus Sephiroth Grail to summon and communicate with the souls of dead.

Al Simmons/Spawn (Image/Spawn)

After the Stand Arrow evolved Jean Pierre Polnareff's Stand, Silver Chariot into Silver Chariot Requiem (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) the rogue Stand could affect souls,...

...it also affecting Stands to protect it from any harm.

The Soul Gem (Marvel Comics) gives its user infinite control over souls both alive and dead.

Ermac (Mortal Kombat)

Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)

Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)

Using his Rinnegan power over Samsara, Hagoromo Otsutsuki (Naruto) can summon souls from the afterlife and control them via a combination of the Ningendo/Human and Gedo/Outer Path.

Rinnegan grants Nagato/Pain (Naruto) various soul-based powers, including removing souls from his victims to kill them with the Ningendo/Human Path…

…summon souls of recently deceased people with the Gedo Art of Rinne Rebirth Jutsu/Outer Path - Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique…

…returning them back to their corpses to restore them to life.

The Soru Soru no Mi grants Big Mom (One Piece) the ability to communicate with and manipulate human souls.

The previous Soru Soru no Mi user Carmel (One Piece) infused a fragment of her soul into an inferno…

…to create Sun Homie Pandora.

Darth Nihilus (Star Wars)

Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project) the ghost princess of Hakugyokurou.

Fleurety (Valkyrie Crusade)

Soul Reaper (Valkyrie Crusade)

Barbatos (DC Comics) can control the soul of others and enslave them

Kain (Legacy of Kain),is able to split his soul into different fragments, with these fragments attached to the soul of the original body, he can revive the dead and turn them into vampires, he can also remove and seal souls for different uses.

Sans (Undertale) manipulating the soul and its gravity

Videos

Word Study Nephesh - "Soul"