The ability to give non-human creatures or inorganic items anthropomorphic traits. Combination of Biological Manipulation, Animal Morphing, Life Creation and Animation, depending on what is given human characteristics.
Also Called
- Motion to the Motionless
- Personification
- Pinocchio Effect
- The Pathetic Fallacy
Capabilities
The user can grant non-living objects or even concepts life and anthropomorphic form/intelligence, change animals and plants into more humanoid in form and abilities and change pictures and paintings into three-dimensional beings. These new beings can use the abilities of their former state in addition to their new humanoid skills.
Applications
- Bring forces of nature into an anthropomorphic form.
- Give non-sentient/inorganic beings emotions.
- Bring objects like toys or machines to life.
- Bring pictures, paintings, digital records, films, etc. to the real world and give them life.
- Change animals and plants into humanoids.
- Sentience Inducement to give a conscious awareness.
- Size Manipulation to bring size closer to the humanoid norm.
Associations
- Access & Occlusion
- Animal Morphing
- Animation
- Art Physiology
- Biological Manipulation
- Life Creation
- Literary Manipulation
- Object Creation Touch
- Physical Art Manifestation
- Reanimation
- Technology Manipulation
- Transmutation
Limitations
- Power/skill define how many and how long these changes last.
- New beings may become independent and rebel.
- May require specific equipment.
- Absolute Restoration/Flawless Restoration can undo the transmutation.
Known Users
Literature
- The Fairy with Turquoise Hair (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
Cartoons
- Master Yen Sid (Fantasia)
- Mickey Mouse (Fantasia)
- Fairies (Fairly Odd Parents)
- Timmy Turner (Fairy Odd Parents); via Wand
- Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving (Adventure Time)
- Fox (Totally Spies); via DNA transformer and only animals
Comics
- Gary, the Pathetic Fallacy (Jack of Fables)
- minus (minus)
Manga/Anime
- Charlotte Linlin/Big Mom (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
- Carmel (One Piece); via the Soru Soru no Mi
- Gekko Moriah (One Piece); via animating them with shadows
- Giorno Giovanna (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Vento Aureo)
- All of the characters of Kantai Collection are lving ships (Kantai Collection)
- Diana (Marchen Awakens Romance)
Life TV
- Alex Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place); Via Spell.
Video Games
- Poison Tea (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Alice Margatroid (Touhou Project)
Known Objects
- The Rat Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Yen Sid's Hat (Fantasia)
- Sacred Pool of CHI (Legends of Chima)
- Mutagen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Professor MacKrill's antidote (Help! I'm a Fish); only aquatic animals
- Magic words of the Star of Astoroth (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
- Brain Grain (We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story); only dinosaurs and give human intelligence
- DNA transformer (Totally Spies); only animals
- Needle of Humanification (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Gallery
From left to right: Japan, Italy, Germany and America (Hetalia: Axis Powers).
Italy (Hetalia), is the human embodiment of a country like every other country in the hetalia universe.
Gary, better known as "The Pathetic Fallacy" (Jack of Fables), is a literal that can bring any inanimate object to life - complete with faces and animation - by talking to them.
The Ancient Sleeping Magi of Life Giving (Adventure Time) is a wizard who's touch has the power to bestow life - complete with faces and limbs - to inanimate objects, their personalities depending on his mood.
Yen Sid's Hat (Fantasia) is used by Mickey to bring his broom to life, compelling it to do his chores for him.
Poison Tea (Valkyrie Crusade) can create living dolls.
Alex Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place) cast a spell to give famous paintings physical forms.
Fox (Totally Spies), uses a DNA transformer to give animals human intelligence.
Diana (Marchen Awakens Romance) used powerful dark magic to bring a doll named Pinocchion to life. She promised to go even further and make him human if he succeeded in killing her younger sister Dorothy.
Charlotte Linlin (One Piece) used her own soul to bring to life a Sun, a Thundercloud and a Bicorn Hat.
Carmel (One Piece) infused her own soul into a massive inferno...
compressing it into an animated Sun named Pandora.