The ability to strike through others' protecting powers while shielding oneself from others' penetrating attacks. Sub-power of Protection Manipulation. Technique of Defense Manipulation. Variation of Absolute Lock Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Attack & Defend
- Invading & Protecting
- Protection
- Penetrate & Protect
- Penetration & Protection
- Strike & Parry
- Sword & Shield
Capabilities[]
The user has the ability to penetrate any shield-like/protection related powers and a counter that blocks or protects oneself from others' penetrating/protecting powers.
Applications[]
Penetration
- Access Manipulation
- Attack Augmentation
- Defense Break
- Fortitude Weakening
- Layer Removal
- Lock Manipulation
- Mental Shield Penetration
- Microscopic Weakening
- Passageway Manipulation
- Shield Penetration
- Transparency Inducement
Protection
- Armor Creation
- Defense Augmentation
- Exoskeleton
- Force-Field Generation
- Layer Reinforcement
- Protection Inducement
- Psychic Shield
- Shield Construction
- Surface Creation
- Ultimate Intangibility
- Wall Generation
Variations[]
- Bodily Entry Protection
- Demonic Protection
- Divine Protection
- Omni-Protection
- Residential Protection
- Prophecy Protection
- Sacrificial Protection
- Temporal Protection
Associations[]
Limitations[]
- Absolute Defense may counter any penetration.
- Absolute Attack may counter any protection.
- User may be unable to use both penetration and protection simultaneously.
- May be limited to penetration or protection.
Known Users[]
- Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)
- Megumi Kurugane (Gate Keepers)
- Cal Shekar (Taboo Tattoo)
- Yuma (Towa no Quon)
- Renesmee Cullen (The Twilight Saga)
- Iron Clefts (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
- Metal Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Sonic (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
- Valerie (Valerie and her week of wonders); via magical pearls
Gallery[]
Due to their magical abilities, Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran Li (Cardcaptor Sakura) have a degree of protection against such things as the Freeze Card's Ice Magic and the Time Card's Time Magic.
Metal Sonic's (Sonic the Hedgehog) V. Maximum Overdrive Attack enables him to penetrate any substance.
The spikes of an Iron Cleft (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Door) can penetrate any substance...
...including the body of another Iron Cleft.
After collecting his one billionth Power Ring, Sonic (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) was surrounded with a protective mystical aura, allowing such things as partially protecting his psyche and free will after his roboticization.
While she sleeps, Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is mystically protected from threats...
...causing such things as daggers to split apart so as not to pierce her skin.
Due to his mother's sacrifice, Harry Potter (Harry Potter) is protected against Lord Voldemort, preventing Voldemort from even touching him without experiencing horrific pain.