Animal Swarming

Animal Swarming
Gekko Moriah (One Piece) commanding his Doppelman clone to scatter into shadow bats.
Power/Ability to:	Transform into a swarm of animals.

The power to separate and disperse into a swarm of animals. Technique of Animal Morphing. Variation of Scattering.

Also Called

• Animal Scattering
• Animal Swarm
• Fauna/Faunal/Wildlife/Zoo Scattering/Swarming

Capabilities

The user can disperse their body into a swarm of animals, be they of a single type of animal or many different ones, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.

Applications

• Burying
• Hive Mind
• Reforming
• Spying/scouting large areas at once.
• Defensive dispersing making the user very hard to hurt and especially capture/kill since finding all of the fragments is practically impossible using normal methods.
• Syndicated Formation

Techniques

• Charging Ram Attack: By transforming into a multiple of animals to create a massive stampede.
• Feeding Frenzy
• Flash Step: By transforming into the animals and back while moving around the battlefield.

Variations

• Arachnid Swarming
• Avian Swarming
• Bat Swarming
• Bovine Swarming
• Crustacean Swarming
• Insect Swarming
  • Butterfly Swarming
• Rodent Swarming
• Snake Swarming

Associations

• Aim Dodging
• Animal Manipulation
• Animal Imitation
• Animalia Manipulation
• Disassembly
• Safe Mode
• Scattering
• Swarm Running

Limitations

• There's a limit for how far the scattered parts can be from any other part.
• May need most of the scattered pieces together to be able to reform.
• Amount of scattered pieces may be limited by the user's body size.
• May require enhanced coordination to control all the fragments.
• May be limited to certain types of animals.

Known Users

See also: One to Million to One.

• Vampires (Discworld)
• Destoroyah (Godzilla)
• Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)
• Orochimaru (Naruto)
• Tia Dalma/Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)
• Shuri (Marvel Comics)
• Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics)
• Mystique (X-Men Evolution)

Gallery

Destoroyah (Godzilla) is composed of microscopic crustaceans, dispersing into them after an attack by Godzilla.

Ero, the Other (Marvel Comics) representing Spiders.

Tia Dalma/Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean) dispersing into crabs.

Shuri (Marvel Comics) can transform herself into either a flock of black birds or even enormous one at will.

Mystique (X-Men Evolution) can morph herself into swarms of different animals she wants like a nest of scorpions, a swarm of bats, or a pit of cobras.

Wolfsbane (Marvel Comics) is able to split herself into a pack of five wolves.