The ability to manipulate whips. Variation of Weapon Manipulation.
Capabilities
Users of this ability can use whips with great skill and ease, move whips beyond their normal abilities such as extending them beyond their normal lengths and/or simply manipulating the whip to move with much greater precision and flexibility. They may also be able to use flexible materials as makeshift whips or manipulate the density of their whips allowing them to clash with sharper weapons use whips as shields.
High level users may be able to convert one type of whip into another type (such as a leather whip into a chain whip) as well as add improvements to their whips (Transforming a normal leather whip into a spiked or bladed leather whip or multiplying the number of tails on a whip). They may also be able to use Elemental Whip Generation and Energy Whip.
Applications
- Elemental Whip Generation
- Energy Whip Construction
- Enhanced Whipmanship
- Improbable Weapon Proficiency As long as the object used is flexible or whip-like.
- Whip Generation
- Whip Sword Proficiency
Associations
- Density Manipulation
- Elemental Manipulation
- Energy Manipulation
- Enhanced Combat
- Enhanced Marksmanship
- Weapon Manipulation
- Weapon Transmutation
Limitations
- Users may need practice.
- If not careful, users could hurt themselves.
- Users could be limited by how strong the density of their whip can be.
Known Users
- Ryo Utagawa (Bleach)
- Renji Abarai (Bleach)
- Whiplash (Iron Man)
- Ghost Rider (Marvel)
- Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail); via Fleuve d'etoiles
- Lucy Ashley (Fairy Tail); via her magic whip
- Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)
- Tabuu (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
- Benders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
- Fury (Darksiders)
- Sesshomaru (Inuyasha); anime only
- Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones)
- Shuichi Minamino/Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- various Pokémon (Pokémon); via Vine Whip or Power Whip