Wood Manipulation

Wood Manipulation
Hashirama Senju (Naruto) using "Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence/Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees".
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate wood.

The power to manipulate wood. Variation of Plant Manipulation.

Also Called

• Dendrokinesis
• Ligneokinesis
• Tree Manipulation
• Wood Control
• Wood Style/Mokuton/木遁 (Naruto)
• Xylokinesis

Capabilities

Users can create, shape and manipulate wood/woody plants, including trees, shrubs and lianas. They can cause wood to grow, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate wood by rearranging DNA structure, revive withered or dead wood or manipulate the dead wood as well as living.

Applications

• Botanical Communication
• Manipulate the properties of wood.
  • Rearrange the genetic structure in wood/woody plants, including creation of mutant wood/woody plants.
• Move/lift wood.
  • Flight with wood.
  • Matter Surfing using wood/woody plants or their parts.
• Plant Empathy
• Plant Enhancement
• Plant Growth
• Sawdust Manipulation
• Seismic Sense through wood/woody plants, especially roots.
• Wood Attacks
• Wood Generation/Branch Generation to create wood/branches/roots/trunks and etc.
• Xylokinetic Constructs

Techniques

• Floraportation using wood/woody plants.
• Healing Plant using wood/woody plants.
• Wood Absorption
• Wood Empowerment
• Wood Mimicry
• Wood Transmutation
• Xylokinetic Combat
• Xylokinetic Regeneration

Variations

• Flower Manipulation
• Fruit/Vegetable Manipulation
• Leaf Manipulation
• Pollen Manipulation
• Sap Manipulation
• Seed Manipulation
• Spore Manipulation
• Thorn Manipulation
• Wood Embodiment
• Wood Magic

Associations

• Architecture Manipulation for buildings of wood.
• Flora Energy Manipulation via wood.
• Fortification Creation
• Forest Manipulation
• Furniture Manipulation
• Light Absorption from photosynthesis.
• Organic Manipulation
• Oxygen Generation
• Paper Manipulation cellulose based paper.
• Plant Manipulation

Universe Variations

Some universes consider Wood to be a source of life, allowing the user to access Life-Force Generation, Life-Force Absorption or even Life-Force Manipulation.

Limitations

• May be unable to create wood, being limited to manipulating only from already existing sources.
• Most users are powerless in areas without wood/woody plants or at least potential for wood/woody plants to grow (infertile/barren soil).
• High levels of radiation in a concentrated area may cause defects in the ability.
• Users may be only able to control certain types of wood/woody plants.
• Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user, and their power's natural limits.
• May have limits on the amount/time user can control.
• Attacks from Fire Manipulation and/or Ice Manipulation can pose an issue.
• Wood attracts lightning.

Known Users

Comics/Cartoons

• Swamp Thing (DC Comics)
• Black Tom Cassidy (Marvel Comics)
• Ramrod (Marvel Comics)
• Groot (Marvel Comics)
• Shao Yen (Master Raindrop)
• Cornelia Hale (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Kadma (W.I.T.C.H.)
• Ping Pong (Xiaolin Chronicles)
• Gloriosa Daisy (My Little Pony Equestria Girls)

Manga/Anime

• The Wood (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Zou Hakuten (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Azuma (Fairy Tail)
• Laki Olietta (Fairy Tail)
• Aldoron (Fairy Tail: The 100 Years Quest)
• Shinji Nishiya/Kamui Woods (Boku No Hero Academia)
• Kurohime (Magic User Kurohime)
• Yashahime (Magic User Kurohime)
• Wood Style users (Naruto)
  • Hashirama Senju
  • White Zetsu
  • Yamato
  • Danzō Shimura
  • Obito Uchiha
  • Madara Uchiha
  • Asura Ōtsutsuki
  • Moegi Kazamatsuri
  • Orochimaru
• Kōsuke Ueki (The Law of Ueki)

Video Games

• Wood Man (Mega Man 2)
• The Master of Treetop Tower (Pandora's Tower)
• Grass-type Pokémon (Pokémon)
• Stump Smash (Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure)
• Nicole Mimi Tithel (Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis); via the wood mana that made a pact with her
• Gloriosa Daisy (My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree)

Gallery

Azuma (Fairy Tail) controlling tree roots to form a sturdy wooden shield.

Swamp Thing (DC Comics)

Cornelia Hale (W.I.T.C.H.)

The Wood (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Yamato (Naruto) can use the Wood Style thanks to Hashirama Senju's cells that were implanted into him…

…and using Wood Style: Four Pillar House Jutsu/Wood Release: Four Pillar House Technique to construct something as intricate as a house for overnight camping.

Madara Uchiha (Naruto) using Wood Style: Wood Dragon Jutsu to create a wooden dragon that will drain its victims of their life-force.

Obito Uchiha (Naruto) using Wood Style: Cutting Sprigs Jutsu/Wood Release: Cutting Spring to Impale his opponents…

…and channeling it through the Ten-Tails, killing multiple opponents.

White Zetsu (Naruto) have a limited version of Wood Release due to having Hashirama's cells mixed into them.

Venusaur (Pokémon) using Frenzy Plant to create gigantic tree roots that will smash the opponents.

Celebi (Pokémon) using its telekinetic and nature powers to control wood, forming a powerful giant shell to crush its opposition.

Shinji Nishiya/Kamui Woods' (Boku no Hero Academia) Arbor Quirk allows him to control, generate and sprout the wood on his body.

Yashahime (Magic User Kurohime)