The power to regress anything/everything to its original form. Sub-power of Progress Manipulation. Opposite to Progression and Extreme Progression. Not to be confused with Devolution.
Also Called
- Recession
- Absolute/Ultimate/Limitless/Boundless Retrogression/Reversal
- Retrogression Manipulation
Fiction-Specific Terms
- Rewind (Maki Modoshi from My Hero Academia)
Capabilities
The user can control regression, the ability to reverse anything and/or everything; matter, people, powers, concepts, boundaries, etc. back to a beginning, precursor state or flipping it, causing their opponents to completely devolve back into more barbaric or pre-evolutionary forms, cause constructed items to de-compile to their original building materials or even cause their targets to disperse back into their composite atoms/particles or nothingness and rewind time itself. This can also allow for the user to reverse things about themselves.
Applications
- Absolute Change (through regressing everything, changing everything permanently as a result)
- Absolute Counter (Regressing every obstacle of the user so they counter whatever comes their way)
- Absolute Condition (Possibly. Through reversing all physical, mental, spiritual or conceptual barriers of the person's being)
- Absolute Defense (Through reversing an opponent's offence permanently on a conceptual level where they cannot touch or attack the user)
- Absolute Erasure/Absolute Will (Regressing a person to the point of true and utter non-existence, as well as being able to will whether or not they exist)
- Absolute Death Inducement/Absolute Death Manipulation (Regressing a person to the point where they will never exist ever again in any time period; where they cannot be brought back)
- Absolute Invincibility/Absolute Invulnerability (Via regressing all negative barriers to the user)
- Absolute Immortality (Eternally regressing age so the user becomes completely immortal)
- Absolute Life Inducement (Reversing death on any scale, thereby reviving life fully)
- Absolute Restoration (Restoring a person through reversing all of their wounds on a conceptual level)
- Age Deceleration/Age Reversal (Through reversing the aging process)
- Atavism (Reversal of the person's physiology so they gain lost traits)
- Body Manipulation (Reversal or regression of certain body parts)
- Boundary Manipulation (Regressing all boundaries)
- Boundary Removal/Obstacle Rejection (Removing all boundaries on the conceptual level)
- Causality Reversal (Reversing causality)
- Civilization Regression (Regression of society)
- Compound Fission (Diffusion of an object into different parts)
- Conclusion Dominance (Regressing all of existence to the point where everything completely concludes)
- Consciousness Grounding (Forcing consciousness to stop progressing past a certain point)
- Concept Destruction (Can reverse and regress any concept, thereby destroying it)
- Devolution (Devolving events or a person's physiology either temporarily or permanently)
- Event Negation (Regressing the flow of events)
- Existence Grounding (Forcing an existence to stop growing past a certain point)
- Extreme Regression (Regressing something to the point where it can never return back to its previous form of existence that existed prior to the reversion)
- Flawless Indestructibility (Reversing all weaknesses and resisting everything through reversing weaknesses on the body or concept of the person's powers)
- Growth Negation (Nullifying growth through regression on a conceptual level)
- Matter Manipulation (Reversal of all forms of matter, regressing matter to the point where it never existed)
- Motion Manipulation/Inertia Manipulation (Can regress movement completely through reversing speed or distance)
- Object State Manipulation (Can make an object go into its previous state)
- Omni-Negation (Reversal the stage of all powers and of all things, negating them)
- Reversed Effect (Can cause things like towers to be reversed into nothing more than dust)
- Reversal Manipulation (Control of the idea of regression)
- Stagnation (Regressing a person's movement or being on a conceptual level)
- Superpower Manipulation (through regressing superpowers)
- Power Destruction/Power Negation (Through regressing powers completely so that they never work in any fashion or form)
- Temporal Rewind (Regressing time to the point of complete non-existence)
- Total Erasure (Regressing someone to the point where they don't or cannot exist)
- Unhealing (Can force a person's wound to be maintained, regardless of form)
- Omni Healing (Healing all injuries through regressing wounds permanently, thereby removing any negative ailments)
- Youth Inducement (Regressing age to the point of youth)
Associations
- Cellular Disintegration (Regression of cellular tissue)
- Development Reset (Regression of a person's development to the point where things such as evolution or skills become meaningless)
- Event Denial (Reversal of events)
- Event Manipulation (Control of events and reversing them on a conceptual level)
- Evolutionary Template (Regression to the point where the person becomes the beginning of their species due to the effects of the regression)
- Limitation Inducement (Reversing or regressing a certain thing about a person)
- Neanderthal Physiology (Complete regression of physiology or body)
- Progress Manipulation (Reversal of progress)
- Temporal Healing (Healing through time manipulation)
- Time Reduction (Reducing a person's time)
- Time Manipulation (Reversing the flow of time)
- Weakness Inducement (Reversal and regression of strength either temporarily or permanently)
Known Users
- GOLB (Adventure Time)
- Retrograde (Champions)
- Trinity (DC Comics)
- Doriate (Fairy Tail)
- Castor and Pollux (God of War: Ascension)
- Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable); via Crazy Diamond
- Experiment 210 aka Retro (Lilo and Stitch)
- Mimihagi (Bleach) as the embodiment of stillness and all of its aspects
- Mahito (Jujutsu Kaisen) via his technique Idle Transfiguration and reversing injuries or previously incurable ailments
- High Evolutionary (Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of Smash)
- Joutou Kotobuki (Medaka Box)
- Kiriko (My Daemon)
- Eri (My Hero Academia) via her quirk Rewind
- Ain (One Piece)
- Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)
- Tiamat (TYPE-MOON)
- The D'rahn (Wildstorm Comics)
Known Objects
- Brahmashirā Astra (Hindu Mythology) through forcing the person to never exist in the past, present or future upon the person being damaged by the godly weapon.
- Time Key (Breath of Fire)
- De-vo Mist (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command)
- Amulet of Uroborus (God of War: Ascension)
- Devolving Ray (Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of Smash)
- Evolution Chamber (Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of Smash)
- Age-Regressor Ray (Milo Murphy's Law)
- Rewind Drug (My Hero Academia)
- Modo Modo no Mi (One Piece: Film Z)
- Devo Chamber (Super Mario Bros. film)
- Devolution Gun (Super Mario Bros. film)
- Rio Reverso (Xiaolin Showdown)
Gallery
Amulet of Uroborus (God of War: Ascension)
Josuke Higashikata’s (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Diamonds are Unbreakable) Stand, Crazy Diamond, has the ability to restore anything it touches or punches into a previous state.
Eri (My Hero Academia)
Ain (One Piece: Film Z) can reverse a person's or item's age by 12 years, thanks to the Modo Modo no Mi power.
After being blasted by Devolution Guns, President Koopa (Super Mario Bros. film) regresses into a Tyrannosaurus Rex...
...and then into primordial ooze.
Tiamat (TYPE-MOON) is the embodiment of all the evil aspects of regression, able to revert any lifeform back into primordial ooze.
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Rio Reverso (Xiaolin Showdown) can return objects back to their original form such as a wood chair back into a tree to an acorn.