Seal Removal

[Flashlight237]

You know what this wiki doesn't have? Seal Removal as an ability. Often you get stuff like unlocking one's potential (ex. Guru unlocking Krillin's, Gohan's, and Dende's powers and Old Kai bringing about Mystic Gohan) or seals being broken. In the latter case, you know the cliche plot where ancients seal an evil overlord away and said overlord vows to return, and then it actually happens? Yeah, that's what I meant.

In any case, some notable examples of Seal Removal are...

Natalie (Epic Battle Fantasy) (Purify is capable of removing Syphon, though she would have to eat garlic since Purify can't be used while she's Syphoned)

Ariadoa (The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious) (Ariadoa's title doesn't refer to the act of sealing stuff, but rather unlocking one's hidden potential. Also, no profile available)

Guru (Dragon Ball) (Has unlocked the powers of Krillin, Gohan, and Krillin)

Old Kai (Dragon Ball) (The ritual used to unleash Mystic Gohan; duh!)

Arle Nadja (Puyo Puyo) (She has Unlocking Magic, which is used to unlock stuff obviously)

While physical seals can be broken just by destroying the object of sealing (as in the case of Dr. Cortex's satellite crashing into the temple Aku Aku used to seal Uka Uka away, thus freeing Uka Uka), this logic doesn't apply to magical seals, which need to be removed. As such, these would be the types of seal removal:

Type 1 (Unlocking Potential): Unlike Statistics Amplification and Power Bestowal, this doesn't provide boosts to one's powers or provides any extra abilities, but rather unlocks one's hidden powers from within. Such is the case with Guru and Ariadoa.

Type 2 (Removal of Power Nullification): This removes Power Nullification, which makes it a formidable form of Seal Removal in a Vs Debate setting. An example of this would be Natalie removing Syphon with Purify.

Type 3 (Removal of Seals): This pretty much means you're removing the seal on someone who has been sealed away. This can be done physically (in this case it wouldn't count as a special ability) or magically. Arle's Unlocking Magic is an example of removing physical seals with magic.

So yeah, there's that. Hopefully this would help enlighten things on Seal Removal. I may have missed another type or two of Seal Removal, but if there's anything you'd like to contribute, please let me know.

For real, why don't we have that yet?

 

[Flashlight237]

Wasn't sure if this qualifies as Q&A (since I'm wondering why that doesn't exist) or Content Revision (since I'm proposing an ability not yet seen in the wiki)

 

[Monkey_Dunno]

Not much to say. The idea seems nice and it makes up for the lack of a "physical" Hacking power in the wiki.

 

[Flashlight237]

Not much to say. The idea seems nice and it makes up for the lack of a "physical" Hacking power in the wiki.

I mean hacking itself is more along the lines of the technological version of Mind Manipulation...

 

[Bobsican]

I have the feeling that any Keyblade user has this, so following.

 

[Monkey_Dunno]

I mean hacking itself is more along the lines of the technological version of Mind Manipulation...

Touché... You get the point though.

 

[Antvasima]

You should ask some administrators to comment here. Promestein, Wokistan, and Dargoo Faust might be interested for example.

 

[The_Impress]

Isn't this too vague and non-descript to be a power?

 

[Antvasima]

I suppose that is a good point.

 

[Epsilon_R]

Secré Swallowtail can unseal nearly anything, wounds, sealed people and even souls

 

[The_Impress]

That's a single character though.

 

[The_King_of_Prudence]

There's that girl from Date A Live, and mr. "I'm every woman."

There's also Noise (Suite Pretty CureÔÖ¬), who can unseal himself with enough power.

 

[ProudLearner]

What about limitations?

Some users can only unlock potential while doing a rituals or incantations that may take hours if not days.

 

[Flashlight237]

What about limitations?
Some users can only unlock potential while doing a rituals or incantations that may take hours if not days.

Yeah, it took ages for Old Kai to bring about Mystic Gohan.

 

[Epsilon_R]

Why not call it Unsealing instead of Seal Removal

Also the users:

Type 1:

Type 2:

Type 3:

• Examples: Secré Swallowtail (Black Clover), Noise (Suite Pretty CureÔÖ¬)

 

[Flashlight237]

Why not call it Unsealing instead of Seal Removal

Because apparently the wiki likes to complicate things with fancy names sometimes, ex. "fire manipulation" and "poison manipulation."

 

[Antvasima]

We prefer to use easy to understand titles.

 

[Wokistan]

Yeah, I'm not really sure this needs to be a page.

Your type 1 works as bio manip or chi manip or whatever the verse treats one's "inner potential" as.

Type 2 is just power null of it's own, no reason we'd treat removing one status to its own power.

3 can also be whatever a verse treats it as, and due to there being no unified way to do this i don't think a page is the best.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you for helping out Wokistan. Should we close this thread then?

 

[The_King_of_Prudence]

You could argue that Energy Projection and Superhuman Physical Characteristics don't need to be pages.

 

[The_Impress]

Superhuman Physical Characteristics actually has alot of uses, it is an umbrella term for most niche superhuman capabilities not explicitly under our current list of powers, like mad hops, or something.

Energy Projection is an absolute necessity because 90% of the characters who have it don't have full-on energy Manipulation.

 

[The_King_of_Prudence]

Yes, a better example would be Subjective Reality, where its uses fall under Creation and Existence Erasure. Unsealing is also usually treated a separate power from those things.

 

[The_Impress]

You can argue Subjective Reality's removal in your own thread. Current verdict is that the suggested power is unneeded

 

[The_King_of_Prudence]

I was using it as an example of why Unsealing should be made.

 

[The_Impress]

I pulled the reverse card on you though, so boom both are getting deleted

 

[Antvasima]

I think that subjective reality should stay. It is unnecessary work to remove it at this point, and it doesn't cause any harm.

 

[Bobsican]

I mean, that was said about Composite Human too.

There aren't many pages that link to Subjective Reality, right?

Edit: Okay, there may be quite a bunch of those

 

[Antvasima]

Yes, and again, I think that the ability is rather useful to keep. We would gain nothing except a lot of work by removing it.

 

[Bobsican]

I have to agree with that.

Unlike Seal Removal, Subjective Reality has a constant trying to refer to, so it's fine to stay.