The power to animate inanimate subjects. Sub-power of Life-Force Manipulation. Not to be confused with Life Creation, Sentience Inducement or Entity Creation. Opposite to Inanimation.

Also Called

• Animatopathy
• Animate Projection
• Effigy Animation/Animatopathy
• Life to the Lifeless
• Motion to the Motionless

Capabilities

The user can give life to inanimate objects/matter/energy/concepts/the dead, animating them to move and otherwise act on their own accord. Though capable of operating purely independent of their animator's control, they can still function as extensions of their will, allowing the animator to potentially be able to command, control and otherwise influence them to varying degrees. This can include allowing the target to act in ways that they otherwise wouldn't be able to under their own power, such as flying. In some cases, the user's power over their material can allow them to shape and mold it into a variety of forms and make it resemble various objects, entities, images and other shapes that can change at will. The element could even be used as a medium for the user to display thoughts and memories, as well as any sounds or visuals they encounter.

Applications

• Action Inducement
• Audio/Visual Recording
• Command Inducement
• Control Inducement
• Illusion Manipulation
• Materialization
• Motion Bestowal
  • Flight Bestowal
• Reshaping
• Reanimation
• Shapeshifting Inducement
• Sound Sculpting

Variations

• Artistic Animation Artistic Manifestation, Drawing Animation
  • The power to bestow sentience to drawings, illustrations, sketches, etc. The creations assume a 2D life, traveling along walls, or even coming into 3D reality.
  • Use an Etch-A-Sketch to bring art to life.
    • If mixed with Technology Manipulation, digital drawing or photo can be brought to life.
• Clay Animation
  • Create figures out of clay and bring them to life.
• Digital Animation
  • The power to bestow motion to digitally generated imagery.
• Elemental Animation
  • Bring any Elements to life, fire, water, wind, earth, wood, etc.
• Literary Animation Literary Manifestation, Narrative Animation, or Storytelling
  • The power in which one can project narrative stories into reality. The user can read a book aloud causing the narrative to assume tangible life, with the characters and environments manifesting within the user’s present surroundings.
• Object Animation
  • Bring any sort of object to life, such as statues, game stations, rugs, bottles, etc.
• Reanimation
  • The ability to reanimate dead beings, possibly restoring their consciousness.
• Sentience Inducement
• Toy Manipulation
  • Bring toys, like a Barbie doll or action figures, to life and make part of an army.
  • Make toy/water gunfire live rounds including toy tanks.
  • Bring game pieces to life.
  • Use construction sets, like building blocks, to create a weapon or turn a toy vehicle to life-size and use it as a real vehicle.
  • Complete an image puzzle in order to give life to the picture.
  • Turn weapon toys in real toys.
• Golem Animation
  • The ability to make and reanimate creatures from inanimate matter.
• Monstrous Animation
  • The ability to create and control monstrous entities.

Associations

• Activation & Deactivation
• Animation Manipulation
• Animation Retention
• Construct Creation
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Object Possession
• Reality Inducement

Limitations

• May be limited on how long the object stays animated.
• May be limited to animating objects without controlling them.
• May have to give specific orders or program the target, which cannot deviate from them.
• May have to keep various levels of attention to the target, without which it will either continue to follow the last orders, start acting erratically or simply stop completely.
• Art Manipulation users can take over or control artistic/inanimate objects or even destroy them entirely.
• Object Manipulation users could take control of the animated objects.
• Control Negation.
• Users can’t fabricate things out of nowhere, unlike Entity Creation, users require at least an object or type of material to animate something.

Known Users

Also See: Animate Inanimate Objects

Anime/Manga

Comics/Cartoons

Video Games

Literature

• Magickinds (Arkwell Academy)
• Eric Shellhorn (Charlie Bone)
• Magic Users (Harry Potter); via Spell Casting
• Enoch O'Connor (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
• The Lady of the Cold (Moomin); only the snow horse.
• Richard Gansey III (The Raven Cycle; Blue Lily, Lily Blue); briefly
• Awakeners (Warbreaker)
• Returned (Warbreaker)

Live Television/Movies

Others

• The Second Coming (Animator vs. Animation)
• The Animator/Alan Becker (Animator vs. Animation)
• Animators (Loki IRL); limited to cartoons
• Nomad (Nomad of Nowhere)
• SCP-239 - The Witch Child (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

See also:Animating Artifact

Known Spells/Powers

• Ocktoon Eradiko (Ben 10)
• Ocktoon (Ben 10)
• Living Magic (Fairy Tale)
• Doll Attack (Fairy Tale)
• Gold Experience (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind)
• Animatey (Witch Watch)

Gallery

Desiree (Danny Phantom) is a genie-like ghost with the power to grant wishes and warping reality, like enchanting a movie poster with three female horror movie stars: Nightmerica, FemAlien, and Terminatra.

Rasputin's Reliquary (Anastasia) brings the pegasus statue to life.

Reading May cause animations to awaken (Inkheart)

Namine (Kingdom Hearts 2) drawing as Sora appears

Gikon/Substitute Souls (Bleach) can be placed in bodies to push out souls or reanimate them.

The Create (Card of Card Captor Sakura) has this power but only if someone uses it.

Naoko Yanagisawa (CardCaptor Sakura) is one example for this power after using it unknowingly with The Create Card.

Psychomagnotheric/Mood Slime (Ghostbusters)

Any thing Erazer (Misfits) paints, the graffiti will come to life, as shown when a graffiti bulldog is coming to life.

The Rat Talisman (Jackie Chan Adventures) grants its master the power of Animation...

...after the destruction of the twelve talisman, Mickey became the noble rat and inherited the rat talisman power of Animation.

Anyone who wields the Sword of Triton (Pirates of the Caribbean) can animate and control ships.

Gekko Moria (One Piece) animating his shadow thanks to the power of the Kage Kage no Mi.

Kurozumi Kanjuro (One Piece) using his Fude Fude no Mi powers to animate anything he drew to 3-dimensional life, though when drawn poorly it affects their capabilities and stamina...

...but when drawn properly, they perform even better than actual beings.

Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin (One Piece) with her Homies; inanimate objects brought to life by the humans souls of her subjects.

Bojo (Stitch!)

Odie (Stitch!)

Experiment 610 "Witch" (Stitch!)

Experiment 112 "Toons" (Stitch!)

Heart of Jong (Xiaolin Showdown) can bring inanimate objects to life and give them personalities and personal abilities

With Chaos Magic, Discord (My Little Pony series) can bring unliving things, like paintings, to life.

Bezan's magic paint (My Little Pony 'n Friends)

Tablet of Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum) has the power to bring all of the exhibits to life during the night.

Professor McGonagall (Harry Potter) animates the statues of Hogwarts.

Lord Zedd (Power Rangers) used animation magic to make monsters out of objects.

Both Nerissa and Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.) can animate inanimate objects by using the Quintessence.

Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.), the former Guardian of Quintessence, demonstrates her power.

Charmcaster (Ben 10) casts Ocktoon Eradiko to Make Mr. Smoothly Attack Gwen & Ben

Crimson Witch (Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery) can bring inanimate objects to life

The Reality Gauntlet (Danny Phantom) can make things come alive and possible kill objects with the red Gem of Life.

Jade Chan as the Amazing T-Girl (Jackie Chan Adventures)

The Lady of the Cold (Moomin)

From Mina Chaytan, DeVoe (The Flash) can temporarily animate effigies by leaving a psychic imprint of his dark matter on the molecular level of the target, controlling their movements as if genuinely alive

Hex (Ben 10 Series)

Warp Crystal (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Kevin (Charmed)

Equinox (Batman: The Brave and the Bold)

Manipula (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir) is able to bring wax statues to life. Those who are statues of superheroes can replicate their powers.

Selene Gallio/Black Priestess (Marvel Comics) can cause inanimate objects to move according to her will by projecting part of her absorbed life force into them.

The Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron) bringing a stuffed sabretooth tiger to life.

Queen La (The Legend of Tarzan) animates the statues of leopard men to life.

Stingy Jack (The Curse of Bridge Hollow) brought all Halloween decorations of Bridge Hollow to life

Angelique Bouchard (Dark Shadows) a powerful witch that brought life to objects and statues of the Collins mansion

Doc’s Stethoscope (Doc McStuffins)

Wendy the Good Little Witch (Casper Meets Wendy) uses her magic to bring a cut-out of Santa Claus to life.

Northern Vambrace (Red One) can bring most toys to life.

Sarah Ravencroft (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost) brings a tree to life.

Sofina (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) gives life to the dragon statue.

Faye and Melissa (The Secret Circle) cast an animation spell on a bat decoration.

Tattoo (Elektra) can animate his tattoos to life.

Regina (Once Upon a Time) animates the vine wallpaper to restrain The Evil Queen.

Morgan Le Fay (Ultimate Spider-Man) animates various statues of the museum.

Little General (White Snake) animates the cloth patterns on his changshan an attempt to bind Blanca and Verta.

Frosty the Snowman (Frosty the Snowman) was brought to life by Professor Hinkle’s hat...

...and Crystal (Frosty's Winter Wonderland) by the act of love when she constructs a snow corsage, place him onto his chest and kissed him without the hat when it was stolen by Jack Frost.

Tzekel-Kan (The Road to El Dorado) bring a stone jaguar to life.

Through Quintessence, Will Vandom (W.I.T.C.H.) can bring life to objects, such as a calculator...

...a lights machine...

...and a pool divider.

Psychics (Netflx Wednesday)

Lord Farquaad (Shrek 4-D) brought a stone dragon to life.

Miss Eglantine Price (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) brought suits of armor to life to scare off the invading Germans,

Princess Valentina (Elena of Avalor) accidentally cast a spell that makes the xolo dog statues come to life.

Frost Flowers (Frosty’s Winter Wonderland)

Videos

Ghostbusters II (1989) - The Statue of Liberty Walks Scene - Movieclips

Night at Museum-2

"Substitutiary Locomotion" scene from "Bedknobs & Broomsticks" 1080p-2

Goosebumps 2- Haunted Halloween- Monsters come alive HD CLIP-2

Frosty Comes to Life - Frosty the Snowman - Freeform-2

Shrek 4-D - The Ghost Of Lord Farquaad-2

The Road to El Dorado (2000) - The Stone Jaguar Attack Scene (9-10) - Movieclips-2

The Road to El Dorado (2000) - You're Not a God? Scene (10-10) - Movieclips-2

Lucky Girl - Ben 10 Classic - Cartoon Network

Gwen VS Charmcaster - Ben 10 Alien Force - Cartoon Network

ジョジョ- Giorno vs. Baby Face (2)『HD』-2

ジョジョ- Giorno vs. Baby Face 『FINAL』-2

Joker VS Giorno (Persona VS JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) - DEATH BATTLE!-2