The ability to place a curse on anyone or anything. Sub-power to Curse Manipulation. Negative form of Probability Manipulation. Opposite to Blessing Inducement and Curse Removal.
Also Called
- Curse
- Cursing
- Evil Eye
- Execration
- Hex
- Malediction
Capabilities
User can place a curse on whatever they wish (people, places, objects, etc.). The exact effects can be nearly anything the user desires, ranging from minor annoyances to tortuously extended death.
Among the most common effects are misfortune/bad luck, various sicknesses, infertility, physical defects/ugliness, etc. when affecting people, breaking or working wrong or causing problems when used on objects and tendency to draw various disasters for places. Traditional magical curses include transforming the victim fully or partially into an animal/monster that fits the offense, blood-lust, insanity, unstoppable rages, unhealing wounds, misshapen/inhuman offspring, and a whole host of other effects.
Applications
- Binding
- Corruption Inducement
- Death Inducement
- Destruction
- Disease Inducement
- Haunting
- Jinx
- Mental Inducement
- Motor-Skill Manipulation
- Pain Inducement
- Possession
- Probability Manipulation
- Reanimation
- Taboo Inducement
- Transmogrification
- Vice Inducement
- Weakness Inducement
- Wound Inducement
Variations
Associations
- Curse Embodiment
- Curse Empowerment
- Curse Manipulation
- Cursed Physiology
- Death Empowerment
- Luck Energy Manipulation
- Magic
- Mediumship
- Resurrection
Limitations
- Limited by what the user knows.
- User may not be immune.
- Curse Negation can undo most curses.
- There may be ways to reverse/undo curses.
- Curse Removal can remove most curses.
- May be involuntary and triggered by extreme emotions.
- May not be able to undo one's own curses.
- Consequences/effects may be unpredictable.
Known Users
- Witches, warlocks, wizards (various franchise)
- Hina Kagiyama (Touhou Project)
- Mishaguji (Touhou Project)
- Wizards (Harry Potter)
- Tartarus Demons (Fairy Tail)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Amy Madison (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Dwarves (The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage)
- Vocah (Angel)
- Imhotep (The Mummy)
- Bad Juju (Skylanders)
- The Witch Queen from 2 reigns ago (Ojamajo Doremi)
- Kaos (Skylanders)
- Hex (Skylanders)
- Doopliss (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
- Hex (Ben 10)
- Shirley the Medium (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- Ganon (The Legend of Zelda)
- Sumo Kong (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
- Bowser (Super Mario)
- Kamek (Super Mario)
- The Darkness (Stupid Mario Brothers)
- Nox Decious (Stupid Mario Brothers)
- Zatanna (DC Comics)
- Circe (DC Comics)
- Margaret Isobel Thoreaux (Smallville)
- Aman-Rapi (Sonic Underground)
- Erazor Djinn (Sonic and the Secret Rings)
- Dr. Finitevus (Sonic the Hedgehog/Archie Comics)
- Loki (Marvel Comics)
- Demise (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ixis Naugus (Sonic the Hedgehog/Archie Comics)
- Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Wiccan (Marvel Comics)
- Spawn (Image Comics)
- William (Haven)
- Grigori Rasputin (Hellboy)
- Majora's Mask (The Legend of Zelda)
- Eggplant Wizard (Kid Icarus)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Rando (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Hail (Jibaku-kun: Twelve World Story )
- Riou (Zatch Bell!)
- Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus)
- Witches and Warlocks (Charmed)
- Spirit Killer (Charmed)
- Witch Doctors (Charmed)
- Gypsies (Charmed)
- Vicus (Charmed)
- Black Magic users (Final Fantasy)
- Juinjutsu and Jujutsu users (Naruto)
- Mr. Jingles (Ben 10)
- Zoso (Once Upon A Time)
- Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon A Time)
- Queen Regina (Once Upon A Time)
- Maleficent (Once Upon a Time)
- The Author/Isaac (Once Upon a Time)
- Snow White (Once Upon a Time)
- Regent of the Mask (Ninja Gaiden 3)
- Witches (Shadow Falls)
- Warlocks (Shadow Falls)
- Chameleons (Shadow Falls)
- Members of the royal house of Amber (Chronicles of Amber); just once.
- Bibidi (Dragon Ball Z)
- England (Axis Powers Hetalia)
- Hircine (Elder Scrolls francise)
- Kirie Himuro (Fatal Frame)
- Glenmoril Witches (Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
- Est (Spirit Elementalist's Blade Dance)
- Grayroad (Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Storyteller (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Talisman (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Evil Pigs (Tomba)
- Tohsaka Rin (TYPE-MOON)
- Avenger (TYPE-MOON)
- Matou Sakura (TYPE-MOON)
- Demise (The Legend of Zelda)
- Kendra (Beastly)
- The Sisters (Kubo and the Two Strings)
- Archfiends (Patapon 3)
- Gargoyles (Patapon 3)
- Qrow Branwen (RWBY); via Semblance
- Angor Rot (Trollhunters)
- Pokemon who can learn "Forest's Curse" (Pokemon)
- Lord Zedd (Power Rangers)
- Serrator (Power Rangers: Super Samurai)
- Genshirou Saji (Highschool DxD); via Balance Breaker
- Lee (Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell)
Known Objects
- Cursing Camera (Doraemon)
- Hex Bag (Supernatural)
- Darkness ÄRMs (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Amulet of Avalor (Sofia the First)
Known Locations
- Jusenkyo (Ranma 1/2)
Gallery
The Eggplant Wizard (Kid Icarus) curses people by turning them into eggplants.
The Cursing Camera (Doraemon) creates a voodoo doll of the person in the snapshot, basically cursing the victim to be at the complete mercy of the doll's holder.
Orochimaru (Naruto) can force his subordinates and subjects into mutation via a Cursed Seal.
Hidan's (Naruto) Jashin ritual will put anyone under his curse.
The Regent of the Mask (Ninja Gaiden 3)
Ryu Hayabusa has been afflicted with the Grip of Murder curse by the Regent of the Mask.
Every Demon in Tartarus (Fairy Tail) can use Curses instead of Magic.
Miku Hinasaki (Fatal Frame) has been afflicted by the lethal Rope Curse by the spirit of Kirie Himuro.
Naraku (InuYasha) is well-versed in various curses and black magic...
...the most notable of which being the Wind Tunnel curse he placed on Miroku's family.
The house of where the Saeki family lives, Kayako (The Grudge) will curse them when the house is entered and will kill them, along with spreading the curse to anyone who comes into contact with the cursed ones.
Est (Spirit Elementalist's Blade Dance) has her nickname "Demon Slayer" but is actually cursed demon sword that had absorbed those various curses and pass them onto its master, result in taking user's life.
Storyteller (Valkyrie Crusade) uses all sorts of dummies to place curses and cast spells.
Talisman (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of curses.
Ingrid and Freya Beauchamp (Witches of East End) cursed to die young and be reborn to relive it again and again.
In his final moments, Demise (The Legend of Zelda) cursed the bloodlines of Link and Zelda, vowing that an incarnation of his hatred would forever hound their descendants.
As a mockery of Sariatu's love for him, the Sisters (Kubo an the Two Strings) cursed Sanzo, turning him into an anthropomorphic beetle.
Anyone who has sex with Lee (Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell) is cursed with elephantiatis of the nuts.