Soul Removal

Soul Removal
Castiel (Supernatural) removing the souls of Purgatory from his vessel.
Power/Ability to:	Remove others' souls.

"My Stand can take your soul at the moment of your loss!!"

― D'Arby the Gambler (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders)

The power to remove souls from oneself and others. Sub-power of Soul Manipulation. Not to be confused with Essence Removal.

Also Called

• Soul/Spirit/Spiritual Extraction
• Soul/Spirit/Spiritual Liberation
• Spirit/Spiritual Removal

Capabilities

The user can remove the souls from others, possibly resulting in apathy and psychopathy due to lack of emotions, especially empathy. Once removed, the souls may be vulnerable to damage, and restoration of the damaged soul may cause mental damage to the victim, such as madness.

Applications

• Apathy - by removing one's own soul
• Apathy Inducement
• Prevent users of Soul Reading from reading the souls.
• Exorcism (ghosts only)

Variations

• Consciousness Separation

Associations

• Death Inducement
• Necromancy
• Soul Absorption
• Soul Manipulation
• Soullessness may be the result.

Limitations

• Soulless beings, users of Soul Anchoring and Eternal Soul are immune.
• Users of Soul Restoration can undo this power.
• Soul's can't actually be removed from their bodily vessels. Not while the being still remains alive; at best, the connection between the two can be compromised, but neither can be truly separated from the other.

Known Users

• Hollows (Bleach)
  • Acidwire
• Muramasa (Bleach)
• Daniel J. D'Arby (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Osiris
• Telence T. D'Arby (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Atum
• Polpo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo); via Black Sabbath
• Saigyou Ayakashi (Touhou Project)
• Soul Eater Evans (Soul Eater)
• Izanami/Yin (Darker than Black)
• Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
• Morgana (Tales of Arcadia)
• Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
• Quan Chi (Mortal Kombat)
• Shao Kahn (Mortal Kombat)
• Nagato/Pain (Naruto)
• Angel of Death (Charmed)
• Soul Collectors (Charmed)
• Soul Blaster Demons (Charmed)
• Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Yammy Llargo (Bleach)
• Demongo (Samurai Jack)
• Alucard (Hellsing)
• Jedah Dohma (Darkstalkers)
• Wo-Pang (Angel)
• Liss Hubble (Angel: After the Fall)
• Lord Marshal Zhylaw (The Chronicles of Riddick)
• Orb of Caldia (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece)
• Horcrux creators (Harry Potter)
  • Herpo the Foul
  • Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Soulvex (Undertaker comics)
• Soul Bees (Darkstalkers)
• Q-Bee (Darkstalkers)
• Kris (Deltarune)
• Raziel (Legacy of Kain)
• Splitface (Power Rangers Samurai)
• Spawn (Image Comics)
• Melascula (The Seven Deadly Sins)
• Kikyo (InuYasha)
• Hollows (Bleach)
• Bounts (Bleach)
• Hakuryuu Ren (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic)
• Arrancars (Bleach)
• Espadas (Bleach)
• Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X)
• Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Gouki (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Crossroad Demons (Supernatural)
• Castiel (Supernatural)
• Pamela Barnes (Supernatural)
• Soma Cruz (Castlevania)
• Kaito Tenjo (Yu-Gi-Oh!); via Photon hand
• Demise/The Imprisoned (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Demons (Kuroshitsuji)
• Charmcaster (Ben 10)
• Vulgrim (Darksiders)
• The Gohma (Asura's Wrath)
• Enerjak (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Knuckles the Echidna/Enerjak of Dark Mobius (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Kallig (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
• D (Vampire Hunter D)
• Selene (Marvel Comics)
• Walker (Marvel Comics)
• Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
• Shuma-Gorath (Marvel Comics)
• Mephisto (Marvel Comics)
• Trigon (DC Comics)
• The Darkness (Witchblade/Top Cow)
• Jackie Estacado (Witchblade/Top Cow)
• Mio Takamiya (Date A Live)
• Kain (Legacy of Kain)
• Dante (Devil May Cry)
• War (Darkstalkers)
• Enid (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Wilhamena (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Nightmare (Soulcalibur)
• Ogdru Jahad (Hellboy/BPRD)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
• Mario (Super Mario)
• Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D)
• Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars)
• Cortez (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
• Akina Hiizumi (Yozakura Quartet)
• Walter Sullivan (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
• Larcade Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
• Soul Dowser (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Daolon Wong (Jackie Chan Adventures); via Sheep Talisman
• Hades (God of War); via the Claws of Hades
• Kratos (God of War); via the Claws of Hades
• Gnoufs (The Gnoufs)
• Charles Killian (The Killian Curse)
• Users of Soul Tear (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
  • Last Dragonborn/Dovahkiin
• Wraith (Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest)
• Project Gestalt (NieR)
• Dirk Strider (Homestuck)
• Sonic.EXE (Sonic.EXE series)

Known Objects

• Artificial Soul Pill/Gikongan (Bleach)
• Substitute Shinigami Badge (Bleach)
• Soul Apprehension Gauntlet/Gokon Tekkō (Bleach)
• Soru Soru no Mi (One Piece)
• Sheep Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventure)
• Wishing Tickets (Majimoji Rurumo); after using all of them
• Demonic Statue of the Outer Path (Naruto)
• Claws of Hades (God of War)
• Soul Gem (Marvel Comics)
• SCP-158 - Soul Extractor (SCP Foundation)
• Soul Caliber (Undead Unluck)
• Millennium Eye (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Millennium Ring (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Orichalcos Barrier (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Gallery

Enerjak (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) removes the souls/Cores of other beings...

...for use in the creation of his Prelate army.

Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach) uses the Soul Apprehension Gauntlet to remove Ichigo's soul.

Artificial Soul Pill/Gikongan (Bleach)

A Soul Blaster Demon (Charmed) fires a Soul Blasting that can extract the souls of other beings.

Larcade Dragneel (Fairy Tail) can remove the souls of his targets and send them to heaven which makes them feel great pleasure and joy.

After committing a murder, Voldemort (Harry Potter) can remove part of his soul and seal it inside an object, thereby creating a Horcrux.

As a Prince of Heart, Dirk Strider (Homestuck) can rip souls out of one's body.

When in Djinn Hakuryuu (Magi the Labyrinth of Magic) can access Belial's true power to sever souls from the bodies of the living and seal them into another dimension...

...for example Alibaba, who's soul Hakuryuu sealed away leaving Alibaba's body to die in the physical world.

Before Koyuki was born, Orb (Marchen Awakens Romance) extracted a fragment of the baby's soul and downloaded it into a magical stone. He then gave the stone to Diana who sealed it inside the queen of Lestarva, creating a child identical to Koyuki.

Nagato (Naruto) used the Phantom Dragon Nine Seals to massacre an army of Hidden Rain Ninjas by removing their souls from their bodies...

...and with his Human Path of Pain, he can remove a target's soul just by touching them.

Daniel J. D'Arby, the Elder's (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders) Stand, Osiris has the ability to take the soul of anyone who loses against D'Arby be it in a bet or in a game.

Big Mom (One Piece) became a soul manipulator from eating the Soru Soru no Mi. As a result, she has the power to extract soul energy from those she touches.

Splitface (Power Rangers Samurai)

Soul Dowser (Valkyrie Crusade) can detect lies, and if she discovers lies in a person's heart, she steals their soul.

Dark Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!) used the Millennium Ring to remove the souls of his victims and sealing them into figurines.

Pegasus J. Crawford (Yu-Gi-Oh!) used the Millennium Eye to remove the souls of those who lost a duel against him and sealed them into cards.

The Orichalcos Barrier (Yu-Gi-Oh!) removes the soul of the one(s) who lose a duel within its boundary and seals them away.

Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho) draining souls away from the deceased and alive to sustain his 100% form.

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