Soul Manipulation

Soul Manipulation
With his powers as a Fullbringer, Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) can manipulate the souls that reside in anything at will, allowing him to achieve virtually any effect desirable, such as telekinetically controlling an object, empowering himself, or even warping the laws of physics.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate souls.

"All things in this world have souls. Not just creatures and plants. [...] The souls of things are equipped with the power to help their users by nature. Our powers draw on that, boosting it with our own souls, to be able to unleash a greater power."

― Kūgo Ginjō to Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

"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)

"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)

The power to manipulate souls. Sub-power of Life-Force Manipulation. Not to be confused with Spiritual Force Manipulation.

Also Called

• Animakinesis/Psychíkinesis
• Soul Bending/Control/Stringing
• Anima/Psyche/Immortal Essence Bending/Control/Manipulation
• Soulekinesis

Capabilities

Users can create shape and 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

• Disembodiment Inducement
  • Doppelgeist
• Exorcism
• Expanded Presence
• Personal Soul
• Possession
• Reanimation
• 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
• Strong Soul

Techniques

• Afterlife Marking
• Soul-Bound Armor
• Soul-Bound Entity
• Soul-Bound Power
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Soul Bestowal
• Soul Empowerment
• Soul Link
• Soul Portal Creation
• Soul Replication
• Soulnado Generation
• Spiritual Aura
  • Spiritual Pressure

Variations

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

Associations

• Immaterial Manipulation
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Spirit Physiology
• Spiritual Force Manipulation

Limitations

• Soul Immunity
• 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.
• May be limited to manipulating the soul of either oneself or others.
• Users of Eternal Soul and Soul Anchoring cannot be manipulated.

Known Users

See Also: Soul Power.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Eri Nakamura (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekaisaikyou); via Necromancy
• Patry (Black Clover); via Reincarnation Magic
• Fullbringers (Bleach)
• 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)
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)

Comics/Cartoons

• Rory Regan/Ragman (DC Comics)
• Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
• Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)
• 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)
• Nightsisters (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

Folklore/Mythology

• Hades (Greek Mythology)
• God (Judaism & Christianity)
• Enma (Shintoism)
• Izanagi (Shintoism)
• Izanami (Shintoism)
• Ōkuninushi (Shintoism)

Literature

• Helda (Beauchamp Family Series)
• Mana Lord (Children of Mana)
• Sauron (Middle-Earth)
• Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
• Maxine Navarro/Soulstorm (Teen Titans Graphic Novel Series)

Live Television/Movies

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

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)
• Robloxians (ROBLOX);via Crescendo, The Soul Stealer
• Rose (Street Fighter)
• M. Bison (Street Fighter)
• Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project)
• 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
• Mad Mew Mew (Undertale); mimics Binding by turning souls red and blue
• Fleurety (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Soul Reaper (Valkyrie Crusade)

Web Original

• Yaldabaoth (SCP Foundation)
• The Ambassador of Alagadda (SCP Foundation)
• The Hanged King (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-001 - TwistedGears/Kaktus Proposal - The Broken God (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-001 - Tufto's Proposal - The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)
• The Brothers Death (SCP Foundation)
• Archons of Yaldabaoth (SCP Foundation)
• Klavigar Orok (SCP Foundation)
• Entity 33 - "The King" (The Backrooms)

Known Items

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

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

Chernabog (Disney’s Fantasia)

Hades (God of War)

Kratos (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.

Mahito's (Jujutsu Kaisen) cursed technique - Idle Transfiguration allows him to distort the souls of those he touches.

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.

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.

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.

Demongo (Samurai Jack)

Darth Nihilus (Star Wars)

Through the use of Magick, Nightsisters (Star Wars) are capable of influencing the souls of the living and the dead. Being capable of possession, communing with Ghosts and summoning Zombies.

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.

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

Sans (Undertale) manipulating the soul and its gravity

Videos

Word Study Nephesh - "Soul"