The ability to have a face/appearance/true form which kills whoever sees it. Variation of Countenance and Death Inducement. Opposite to Curative Countenance.
Also Called
- Death Face
- Face of Death
- Horror Face
Capabilities
The user can kill multiple beings just by having their opponents gaze upon their face/appearance/true form.
Applications
- Death Inducement
- Disintegration
- Fear Inducement
- Insanity Inducement
- Internal Rupturing
- Mutilation
- Petrification
Associations
Limitations
- Opponents unable to physically see the user are unaffected by their ability.
- User can still be attacked via natural blind-spots possessed by the user.
- Truly immortal beings may only be severely incapacitated/unharmed instead of killed.
- Without proper usage, the user may accidentally kill their allies.
- The ability could damage the user's sanity.
- User may be susceptible to the effects of their own face if seen in a reflective surface.
- User may need to keep their face concealed due to constantly being a danger to themselves and others.
Known Users
- Johnny Sorrow (DC Comics)
- Pale Night (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Meg Griffin (Family Guy) during after-school fight with Mike Pulaski.
- Lady Tsepish (Kings Quest VII)
- Weavers (Loom)
- Michael (Supernatural)
- The Ugly Barnacle (Spongebob)
- Gods (Mythology)
- Mimikyu (Pokémon)
- Judge Fear (Judge Dredd)
- Primordials (Death Vigil)
- Mia (Death Vigil)
- God (Abrahamic Religions)
- Gorgons (Greek Mythology); via turning people to stone.
Known Objects
- Ark of the Covenant (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Gallery
Pale Night (Dungeons & Dragons)
Johnny Sorrow (DC) kills two police guards with his appearance.