The power to bring the deceased back to life. Opposite to Death Inducement. Not to be confused with Reanimation, which brings back the dead and controls them against their will.
Also Called
- Cheating Death
- Reversed Death
- Revival
- Rising from Death/Grave
- Resurgence
Capabilities
The user can bring oneself and others back to life.
Applications
Variations
- Ash Resurrection
- Electrical Resurrection
- Killing Resurrection
- Mass Resurrection
- Multiple Lives
- Resurrection Field Projection
- Resurrection Replication
Associations
- Combined with Reactive Adaptation one may gain Adaptive Resurrection.
- Conversion Resurrection
- Event Negation
- Healing
- Immortality
- Infinite Resurrection
- Life Manipulation
- Life-Force Manipulation
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Respawning
- Resurrection Empowerment
Limitations
- May have limited time defined by how long the target has been dead.
- May only be able to resurrect others.
- Some variations may have side-effects, on either the user or the resurrected:
- User may suffer damage, exhaustion, or even death.
- Resurrected may not have completely healed from the wounds that killed them, or they may be missing memories, or a soul in some cases.
- Resurrected may deteriorate physically and/or mentally.
- For universal laws to be followed, resurrecting someone may require the death of another.
- Unavertable Death
- Resurrection Negation
- May require summoning or collecting the target's soul to properly resurrect the body.
- May require certain conditions/rituals to be fulfilled.
Known Users
- God (Abrahamic Relirions)
- Jesus Christ (Christianity)
- Amara (Supernatural)
- God (Supernatural)
- Death (Supernatural)
- Angels (Supernatural)
- Demons (Supernatural)
- Arcadius (The Vampire Diaries)
- Bonnie Bennett (The Vampire Diaries)
- Davina Claire (The Vampire Diaries)
- Al Simmons/Spawn (Image/Spawn)
- Jorge (Los Protegidos)
- Visnu (Kubera)
- Chloe Sanders (Darkest Powers series)
- Palpatine (Star Wars Legends)
- Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
- Demons of Tartarus (Fairy Tail)
- Orihime Inoue (Bleach)
- Shenron (Dragon Ball )
- Porunga (Dragon Ball)
- Super Shenron (Dragon Ball)
- Old Kai (Dragon Ball); via Life Transferal
- Turles (Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might); via Fruit from the Tree of Might
- Sesshomaru (InuYasha); via Tenseiga
- Sesshomaru's Mother (InuYasha); via Meido Stone
- Sentry (Marvel Comics)
- Layla Miller (Marvel Comics)
- Jean Grey (Marvel Comics); as Phoenix
- Cyclops (Marvel Comics); as a Phoenix Avatar
- Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
- Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Wiccan/Billy Kaplan (Marvel Comics); as the Demiurge
- Thor (Marvel Comics)
- Clyde Wyncham (Marvel Comics)
- Mad Jim Jasper (Marvel Comics)
- Chloe Sullivano (Smallville/DC Comics)
- Solomon Grundy (DC comics)
- Chle King (The Nine Lives of Chloe King)
- Imhotep (The Mummy)
- Ganon (The Legend of Zelda)
- Iblis (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Robert (DWP)
- Aqua (Konosuba)
- Draph (Heroes)
- King Nikolaus (Witches of East End)
- Wendy Beauchamp (Witches of East End); Self-Resurrection/Nine Lives
- Powerful witches (Witches of East End); via Spell Casting
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Kierkan (Charmed)
- Avatars (Charmed)
- The Tribunal (Charmed)
- Genies (Charmed); via Wish Granting
- Prue Halliwell (Charmed); As Nexus of the All
- Count Dracula (Dracula/Castlevania/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Marvel Comics)
- HIM (The Powerpuff Girls)
- Time Lords (Doctor Who)
- Gill (Street Fighter III)
- Curtis Donovan (MisFits)
- Caduceo (Mighty Med)
- Users of the Resurrection Gauntlet (Torchwood)
- Diagon (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Any user of the Pet Sematary (Pet Sematary)
- Alduin (Skyrim)
- The Chosen Undead (Dark Souls)
- Rinnegan users (Naruto Shippuden); via Rinne Tensei Justu
- Nagato
- Obito Uchiha
- Alex Mercer (Prototype); via pieces of his biomass
- Ned (Pushing daisies)
- Shamans (WoW)
- Aling Elsa (The Healing - Film)
- Kylie Galen (Shadow Falls)
- Haplo's dog (Death Gate Cycle); only its master
- Blackmist (Armed With Wings)
- Man in the Moon (Rise of the Guardians)
- Takutanuva (Bionicle)
- Genevieve (The Originals)
- Misty Day (American Horror Story: Coven)
- Madison Montgomery (American Horror Story: Coven)
- Dark Schneider (Bastard!!)
- God (Bastard!!)
- Supreme Being (Time Bandits)
- Hades (Saint Seiya)
- Asclepius (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Sage (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Xiang Xuehai (Fairy from Wonderland); via Nine Lives
- Marrow (Arkwell Academy); via a connection to a phoenix
- Archviles (Doom); restricted to other demons
- Clary Fray (The Shadowhunters Chronicles); via Symbol Magic
- Calliope (Skylanders); only after absorbing enough power from others
- Heroes of Life (Homestuck)
- Jane Crocker
- Meenah Peixes
- Feferi Peixes
- Mercy (Overwatch)
- Elise (Azure Striker: Gunvolt)
- Lumen
- Trigon (Teen Titans)
- Maleficent (Kingdom Hearts)
- Hades (Disney's Hercules)
- Red Priests/Priestesses (Game of Thrones)
- Thoros of Myr
- Melisandre
- Daolon Wong (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Twin Masters (Hero: 108)
- Black Hoshipon (Patapon 2)
- Archfiends (Patapon 3)
- Miss Covethiss (Patapon 3)
- Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
- Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)
- Ghosts (Destiny)
- The Traveller (Destiny)
- Various kaiju & aliens (Ultraman series)
- Blue Fairy (Disney's Pinocchio)
- Xerneas (Pokemon)
Known Objects
- Bezel's Charm of Resurrection (Ben 10)
- Birthing machine (Futurama)
- Reanimator (Futurama video game)
- Serphiroth Graal (Highschool DxD)
- Meido Stone (Inuyasha)
- Tenseiga (Inuyasha)
- Mega Weapon (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- The Fake Lachryma (Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven)
- Zombie Tattoo (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Resurrection Stone (Marvel Comics)
- Book of the Dead (The Mummy)
- Water from the Well of Wonders (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Mater, Tree of Life (Patapon Series)
- Chaos Emeralds (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Mark of Cain (Supernatural)
- Medi Gun (Team Fortress 2); Only in Mann Vs Machine
- CENTER (Toriko)
- Giant Sea Urchin Tears (Urusei Yatsura)
Known Locations
- Shrine of Resurrection (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Lazarus Pits (Batman)
Known Powers
- The One Magic (Fairy Tail)
Gallery
Shenlong (Dragon Ball) has the ability to resurrect anyone, with certain restrictions depending on which Shenlong cast the wish. This ability, unfortunately, has been repeatedly abused by the Z Fighters, resulting in dire consequences.
Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)
Jesus Christ (Christianity) resurrection; in front of Mary.
Brook's (One Piece) Yomi Yomi no Mi Devil Fruit powers resurrected himself once.
The Meido Stone (InuYasha) resurrects Rin by pulling her soul out of Hell.
Sesshōmaru's Tenseiga (InuYasha) allows him to see the pallbearers of the afterlife and slay them, reviving the recently deceased and healing their wounds.
Nagato (Naruto) use the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to, in exchange for his own life, infuse new life into the bodies of those who have died...
...Summoning the King of Hell which then releases the souls of the deceased from its mouth...
...which return to their respective bodies.
When Curtis (Misfits) touches someone who is dead...
...they'll be resurrected back from the dead...
...but the side-effect is that anyone who is resurrected will developed a craving for human-flesh, as well for animals, turning them into zombies, as shown Shannon eating Seth's pet iguana to restrain her hunger...
...which has the same side-effect for animals who are resurrected back from the dead, as shown a cat named Mr.Miggles eating part of Maggie's face, his owner.
Jorge (Los Protegidos) can revive the dead by touching them.
While he was an Avatar of the Phoenix Force, Cyclops (Marvel) resurrected Jean Grey on the Blue Side of the Moon from dust.
Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) casting the resurrection spell...
...and Buffy Summers is resurrected.
Misty Day (Coven) has the power of Resurgence also known as Resurrection Considered more powerful than any of the seven wonders. It's a power that is inaccessible even to some Supremes.
Kierkan (Charmed) possesses the ability to bring the dead back to life.
Lord Voldemort's (Harry Potter) earthbound soul is resurrected into a body.
Asclepius (Valkyrie Crusade) is the goddess of medicine,and has a miraculous rod that can raise the dead.
Sage (Valkyrie Crusade) knows the Spell of Resurrection
The Mark of Cain (Supernatural) is capable of resurrecting the bearer should they die, but will transform their soul into a Demon in the process
Feferi Peixes (Homestuck) resurrects someone fatally impaled in the stomach with her Witch of Life powers
HIM (The Powerpuff Girls) used his powers to bring the Rowdyruff Boys back from the dead.
Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) in the process of resurrecting Chris Bradford/Rahzar.
After being slain in battle during Calamity Ganon's attack, Link (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) was revitalized over the course of 100 years in the Shrine of Resurrection.
Valerie (Highschool DxD) can use Sephiroth Graal to resurrect the dead, being once forced by her brother Marius to revive the Evil Dragons.