- "What will you do when your friends, your enemies, your lover, are all Darkseid? When there is one body. One mind. One Will. One Life that is Darkseid. Will you be the enemy of all existence, then?"
- â Darkseid, to Superman (Final Crisis)
The power to infect existence. Variation of Existence Manipulation and Disease Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Existence Infection
- Existential Disease Manipulation
- Omni Infection
Capabilities[]
The user infects the very nature of the subject's existence. The prefix "onto" has to do with the nature of being or existing, pathogenic has to do with being infectious, and so ontopathogenic has to do with infecting the very existence of a thing. Unlike common diseases or pathogens that only infect on a biological level, Ontopathogen causes infection on a metaphysical level. Just like pathogens, they can spread to other existences.
Applications[]
- Almighty Absorbing Replication
- Cosmic Otherness
- Duality Transcendence
- Omni-Physics Manipulation
- Reality Consumption
- Unidemic Creation
Variations[]
- Existential Pathology; Specialized Lesser Version
Associations[]
- Causality Manipulation
- Existence Manipulation
- Multiversal Manipulation - multiversal infection spreads.
- Nigh Omnipotence
- Omni-Conversion
- Omni-Embodiment
- Omnipotence
- Omniverse Manipulation - all possibilities contaminated.
- Selective Unity
- Universal Manipulation - infect the existence of the universe.
Limitations[]
- Users of Absolute Health and Absolute Immortality are immune/highly resistant.
- There may be some existence that proves unaffected such as Existential Perfection.
- The user may eventually become infected too.
- May be weak against Omni-Cleansing, Omni Healing and Absolute Restoration.
Known Users[]
- Calamity Ganon (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild); via Malice
- Lord of Terror (Ah! My Goddess)
- Will of the Mental World (Big Order)
- Inner Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2)
- Absalom, Avatar of Chaos (Darksiders 2); via Corruption
- Abyssal Forge (Darksiders 2)
- Darkseid (DC Comics); via the Anti-Life Equation
- Akka, the Worm of Secrets (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- Oryx, the Taken King (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- The Witness (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- XivuâArath (Destiny); via Power of Taken
- Kai (Kung Fu Panda)
- Sir James Jaspers/Mad Jim Jaspers (Marvel Comics)
- Kaguya Ćtsutsuki (Naruto); via God: Nativity of a World of Trees
- Pinion (Shakugan no Shana)
- The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural); via her essence for Rabids
- The Nothing (The Neverending Story); novel version only
- Exsurgent Virus (Eclipse Phase)
- Lord English (Homestuck)