The ability to manipulate attacks from an opponent or another person to other desired targets. Sub-power of Attack Manipulation. Combination of Efficacy Manipulation and Probability Manipulation. Opposite to Defense Movement Manipulation.
Also Called[]
- Aim Manipulation
- Attack Redirection/Manipulation
- Projectile Movement Manipulation
- Redirection
- Redirection Manipulation
- Roboteching
Capabilities[]
Users can manipulate, redirect or transfer attacks from an opponent to other targets. They can disable attacks towards them as a target and can transfer the attacks to anyone/anything they desire. The can also manipulate the form of the attack by either compressing or expanding the attack and can augment the attack power by compressing multiple attacks into on or by adding to it themselves.
Applications[]
- Attack Prediction
- Attack Recording
- Attack Reversal
- Attack Cancellation
- Attack Augmentation
- Attack Compression
- Attack Expansion
- Attack Mixture
- Attack Modification though only via compression, expansion or mixture
- Bullet Redirection
- Bullet Hell if enough attacks are deflected/reflected at once
- Counter
- Countering Intuition
- Deflection
- Damage Reflection
- Energy Redirection
- Effect Stacking
- Elemental Mixture
- Energy Amplification
- Energy Concentration
- Homing Effect
- Interaction
- Power Reflection
- Projectile Enhancement
- Trajectory Manipulation
- Union Attacks
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Attack Manipulation
- Bullet Projection
- Combat Manipulation
- Deflection
- Evitability Manipulation
- Missile Generation
- Power Negation
- Power Usage Manipulation
- Reflective Immutability
- Reflection Manipulation
Limitations[]
- May not be able to manipulate an Absolute Attack.
- May not be able to manipulate Conceptual Attacks.
- May have a limit to how many attacks they can manipulate at once.
- May need training/experience to properly use this power.
Known Users[]
- Optimus Primal (Beast Machines Transformers)
- Griffith/Femto (Berserk)
- Aion (Chrono Crusade)
- Captain Atom (DC Comics)
- Gyutaro (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Beerus (Dragon Ball Super)
- Amidatelion (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers)
- Wanda Maximoff (X-Men: Evolution)
- Cao Cao (Highschool DxD); via the Pearl Treasure
- Francis Drake (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
- Baglis (Log Horizon); via his true form
- Black Bolt (Marvel Comics)
- Gabriel Summers/Vulcan (Marvel Comics)
- The Spot (Marvel Comics); via Portal Creation
- Pyrrha Nikos (RWBY); via Magnetism Manipulation
- Meliodas (Nanatsu no Taizai); via Full Counter
- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece); Gomu Gomu no mi/Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika
- Various Niko Style users (Kengan Ashura/Omega); via Redirection Kata and Demonsbane
Gallery[]
Optimus Primal (Beast Machines Transformers) was able to redirect and transfer a blaster beam from Tankor to another area for him to be able to escape or hide.
Griffith/Femto (Berserk) manipulating the movement of the Skull Knight's Spatial Slicing attack in order to open a fissure into the Astral Plane.
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Aion (Chrono Crusade)
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Using his portals, the Spot (Marvel Comics) redirects Spider-Man's punch.
Gabriel Summers/Vulcan (Marvel Comics) is such an accomplished energy manipulator...
...that he can twist and bend all forms of energy directed at him the opposite way...
...even the exotic energies of his own brother's eye beams.
Black Bolt (Marvel Comics)
Captain Atom (DC Comics) is adept at predicting and manipulating oncoming assaults through his quantum powers and military training.
Pyrrha Nikos (RWBY) commonly uses her Semblance to alter the movements of her weapons or her opponents', such as redirecting a kick from Mercury Black.