Thread Manipulation

Thread Manipulation
After eating the Ito Ito no Mi/String-String Fruit, Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) gained the ability to generate and manipulate strings at will, allowing him to achieve virtually any effect he desires, such as controlling the bodies of people like a puppeteer, stitching up his own internal organs, or even slicing through a meteorite.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate threads.

"But the real nuisance is that woman's thread magic! It runs all through this space, interfering whenever and wherever she wants it to! It can't attack or bind me personally, but I can barely see it! It's too thin, and I can't detect its magic!"

― Vetto on Vanessa Enoteca's Thread Magic (Black Clover)

"It's no good! Those threads have a life of their own, and I can't get through their attacks!"

― Tanjiro Kamado on Rui's threads (Kimetsu no Yaiba)

"The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no [substantial] existence enters where there is no crevice."

― Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)

The power to manipulate threads. Variation of Object Manipulation. Not to be confused with Web Generation.

Also Called

• Filukinesis
• Linikinesis
• String/Strand Manipulation/Control
• Thread Control

Capabilities

Users can create, shape and manipulate threads and string, long, thin and flexible form of material. Most commonly, users can generate them and use them to control the movements of people and manipulate their movements akin to how a puppeteer controls puppet. Users can also move threads telekinetically or use them to move other objects. Depending on their tensile strength and durability, thread manipulation can be used as a thin and stealthy weapon to slice up enemies or cut through objects with ease. Moreover, they can shape string into weapons, such as whips and swords, or use them to form shields or traps to bind their opponents and immobilize them.

Applications

• Binding with threads.
• Improbable Weapon Proficiency - By using threads as a weapon.
• Manipulate the properties of threads.
  • Repair threads.
• Thread Constructs
  • Cocoon Generation
  • Thread Cloning
  • Thread Wall Generation
• Object Possession
• Projectile Enhancement
• Puppet Mastery controlling others through marionette strings.
• Rope Manipulation
  • Rope Generation
  • Motor-Skill Manipulation
• Stitching
• Thread Attacks
• Thread Generation
• Thread Telekinesis
  • Flight using threads.
  • Matter Surfing by riding threads.

Techniques

• Rope Sliding
• Thread Bestowal
• Thread Mimicry
• Thread Transmutation

Variations

• Hair Manipulation
• Red String Manipulation
• Quantum String Manipulation
• Silk Manipulation
• Thread Magic
• Threads of Fate Manipulation
• Wire Manipulation
• Yarn Manipulation

Associations

• Bandage Manipulation
• Cloth Manipulation
• Etheric Cord Manipulation
• Fiber Manipulation
• Object Manipulation
• Ribbon Manipulation
• Spider Physiology
• Web Generation
• Whip Manipulation
• Unraveling

Limitations

• Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user.
• May be unable to create threads, being limited to manipulating only from already existing sources.
• Depending on the material, the threads may be vulnerable to fire and/or cutting.

Known Users

See Also: Master of Threads.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Lubbock (Akame ga Kill!); via Cross Tail
• Yashamaru (Basilisk)
• Macalpine Tony Strauss (Bastard!!)
• Drossel Keinz (Black Butler)
• Vanessa Enoteca (Black Clover)
• Kisuke Urahara (Bleach); via Bankai
• Senjumaru Shutara (Bleach); via Shigarami
• Ransōtengai users (Bleach)
• Eriol (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Layfon "Wolfstein" Alseif (Chrome Shelled Regios)
• Lintence Savoled Haden (Chrome Shelled Regios)
• Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
• Decim (Death Parade)
• Puppetmon (Digimon)
• Oregano (Dragon Ball Super)
• Ijuna (Edens Zero); via Red Destiny
• Arania Webb (Fairy Tail)
• Heine Lunasea (Fairy Tail)
• Members of the Fuuchouin clan (Getbackers)
• Rappa Momochi (Gintama)
• Elf and Zwölf (Gunnm Last Order)
• Walter C. Dornez (Hellsing)
• Lyca (Hero Killer)
• Machi (Hunter × Hunter)
• Yura of the Hair (InuYasha)
• Zeljirga the Abyss Web (Ishura)
• Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean); via Stone Free
• Ragyo Kiryuin (Kill la Kill)
• Rui (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Mother Spider Demon (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Sister Spider Demon (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Best Jeanist (My Hero Academia)
• Chakra-String Users (Naruto)
• Kafka (Needless)
• Adam Blade (Needless)
• Yoo Sangah (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)
• Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece); via the Ito Ito no Mi
• Shura (One Piece)
• Yuudou Mibari (Psyche Matashitemo)
• Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Pyo Wol (The Reaper)
• Minos (Saint Seiya)
• Lyra Orphee (Saint Seiya)
• Lyra Orpheu (Saint Seiya)
• Benetnasch Eta Mime (Saint Seiya)
• Souei (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Naga the White Serpent (Slayers); via Chaos String
• Various Characters (So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Frankenstein (Soul Eater)
• Odie (Stitch!)
• Doll Licca (Super Doll Licca-chan)
• Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven)
• Kudou Eiji (U19)
• Misa Saotome (Val x Love)

Folklore/Mythology

• Deities of Weaving (Mythology)
  • Neith (Egyptian Mythology)
• The Fates/Moirai/Parcae (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Norns (Norse Mythology)

Literature

• Sandrilene Fa Toren (Circle of Magic)
• Thorned Namshiel (The Dresden Files)
• Parian (Worm)

Live-Action TV

• Jeremy Brasieri/Spider Kumonos (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger)

Tabletop games

• Cancer Users (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
  • Tiamat

Video Games

• Marcy (Chrono Cross)
• Mao (Disgaea 3)
• Marynari (Girls X Battle)
• Rebellio (Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX)
• Botan (The King of Fighters)
• Sion Eltnam Atlasia (Melty Blood)
• Red String (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Strand Users (Destiny 2)
• Yelan (Genshin Impact)
• Kafka ( Honkai Star Rail)

Web Comics/Series

• Cecile (unOrdinary)
• John Doe (unOrdinary)

Other

• The Neutrals (Tails Gets Trolled)

Gallery

Tiamat (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)

Yashamaru (Basilisk) wields his Black Ropes like extension of his own body, piercing, flaying or binding his opponents.

Vanessa Enoteca's Thread Magic (Black Clover)

Senjumaru Shutara's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Shigarami, takes the form of a sowing needle that can generate and manipulate threads into any forms, shapes, or structures she desires.

Strand (Destiny) is the web of connected consciousness that binds all life in the universe grants guardians thread like powers that derives from that connection.

Puppetman (Digimon) can attach strings onto the target and control them.

Heine Lunasea (Fairy Tail) can produce threads to bind and attack her enemies with a great speed.

Kazuki Fuuchouin (Getbackers)

Machi (Hunter X Hunter) forming her Nen Threads...

...that she can use masterfully for attacks, bindings or traps.

Yura (InuYasha) using the hair of her victims in many ways, including cutting, controlling victims like puppets, setting them on fire and reattaching her limbs.

Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean) can transform her body into a string and use it in combat.

Ragyo Kiryuin (Kill la Kill) can control another person's mind and force them to do her bidding with Mind Stitching technique.

Through his Blood Demon Art, Rui (Kimetsu no Yaiba) can create extremely sharp and deadly threads made from his own cells and freely manipulate them at will.

Through his Fiber Master Quirk, Best Jeanist (My Hero Academia) can freely manipulate the threads in any nearby piece of fabric, usually unravelling part of his or his opponent's clothes into fabric strings and manipulating them in order to restrain his targets.

Sasori (Naruto) forming Chakra Threads, to which can be used to manipulate puppets and people, but also disrupt targets such as tripping and levitate daggers.

Kushimaru (Naruto) using Nuibari, a longsword with a long wire, to pierce and bind a bundle of corpses together in a skillful and gruesome manner.

Monju (Naruto) can use his wires to slice through steel or to form protective barriers.

Due to being sponsored by Olympus, Yoo Sangah (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) can use Ariadne's Web to freely manipulate fine threads.

Yuudou Mibari (Psyche Matashitemo) can apply embroidery on to objects and people. He can then manipulate the thread with that thing to lift them up or change the properties of the thread such as giving them the properties of carbon nanotubes.

Mime (Saint Seiya) can use the strings of his harp to shatter his enemies.

With her Ninja techniques, Levi Kazama (Trinity Seven) can use razor sharp threads to surround a target, preventing the enemies from making any movements or risk being cut.

Souei (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)

Vandalieu (The Death Mage who doesn't want a fourth time)

Odie (Stitch!)

Adam Blade (Needless) using his fragment copied Kafka's Kandata String which allows the user the ability to create and control durable string from their entire body.

Videos

JJBA Joseph defeats Esidisi-2

One Minute Melee S4 EP12 - Sasori vs Alice Margatroid (Naruto vs Touhou)

Music

アニメ「ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ストーンオーシャン」OP映像

アニメ「ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ストーンオーシャン」新OP映像