History Main / Biomanipulation

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Minor Morlock member Masque has the ability to physically reshape other living creatures with a touch, although he can't use his powers on himself -- to his dismay, as he's a mutant with a disfigured face. In a CerebusRetcon, it was established that most of the Morlocks actually ''weren't'' originally hideously deformed, but Masque reshaped all mutants who joined the group in order to make it harder for them to be able to leave the Morlocks and thus betray them, as [[GoodPowersBadPeople he was something of a sadist]]. He was responsible for the brief period of time in which Callisto, the Morlock leader, traded her once-human arms for clusters of boneless green tentacles.

This is, quite literally, the power to manipulate biology and biological lifeforms (mostly animals, usually not [[GreenThumb plants]]), also referred to as biomancy, biokinesis, fleshwarping, [[Website/SCPFoundation fleshcrafting]] and more. Depending on the setting and the power level, it may vary in range (long-ranged vs. strictly hands-on), comprehensiveness (e.g. can only affect humans), or scope (e.g. limited to the user's own biology).

Supertrope of MasterOfYourDomain, which is when you manipulate '''your own''' biology.

* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Winnowill started out as a healer, but over time became able to shapechange herself and create mutant monstrosities.
* Creator/MarvelComics:

** ''ComicBook/XForce'': Elixir can manipulate another person's cells with a touch. He primarily uses it to heal his teammates, but sometimes he can also use it offensively such as by giving his enemies tumors. He's classified as [[RandomPowerRanking "Omega level"]] which implies this is the bare minimum of his potential, and he would have stayed that way if the Stepford Cuckoos never telepathically transcribed all of [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Hank McCoy's]] knowledge of biology into him. In an alternate future Venom, who has access to his and every other mutant's powers, uses his ability to genetically engineer mutant clone armies whose powers are far stronger or specific than their originals. Making [[PeopleFarms "meat gardens"]] out of entire planets
** Minor Morlock member Masque has the ability to physically reshape other living creatures with a touch, although he can't use his powers on himself -- to his dismay, as he's a mutant with a disfigured face. In a CerebusRetcon, it was established that most of the Morlocks actually ''weren't'' originally hideously deformed, but Masque reshaped all mutants who joined the group in order to make it harder for them to be able to leave the Morlocks and thus betray them, as [[GoodPowersBadPeople he was something of a sadist]]. He was responsible for the brief period of time in which Callisto, the Morlock leader, traded her once-human arms for clusters of boneless green tentacles.

* The obscure Creator/DCComics superhero B'wana Beast, and his successor Freedom Beast, have the power [[FusionDance to merge two animals into a bizarre hybrid form.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Fleshmaster is one of these, capable of some rather versatile tricks including healing, LegoGenetics, and shapeshifting. He started out as a superhero but found little success and was known mostly for being a CasanovaWannabe (the common joke was saying he was the master of his own flesh and nobody else's), until he ended up on the receiving end of a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' esque humiliation. [[spoiler:This resulted in him disappearing, training up his abilities, and reinventing himself as PintsizedPowerhouse hero [=dWARf=]!, before ultimately becoming a supervillain out of revenge. Towards the end of his career, he'd become particularly horrifying]]

** In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (the former ExpandedUniverse), Jedi could use this power to heal themselves or others of wounds, rather than unethical genetic engineering experiments like the Sith like to do.

* ''Literature/TheRook'': the power of Myfanwy, the protagonist. She's able to use it in a variety of creative and lethal ways after her amnesia.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': [[spoiler:Victoria Neuman's]] superpower is the ability to physically destroy people's flesh by [[DeadlyGaze staring at them]]. It's typically, though not exclusively, used to [[YourHeadASplode blow up their heads]].

* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'': The Freak, from ''Godwalker'', demonstrates this power via shapeshifting, gendershifting as well as healing of self and others.

* ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'': Devourers with Lore and Visage of The Flesh can use evocations to shape flesh, bone, and manipulate the nervous system to empower mortals or mutate them into horrific monsters, as well as heal any ailments and even regrow lost limbs. They must physically touch a target to do this, however.

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon:'' Shapeling Arts, a power that allows for the manipulation of biomatter alive and dead with the right tools and energies, is one of the game's Advanced Skills. You use it for a variety of things from changing yourself on the fly (shifting your organs around to avoid a stab, passing yourself through small holes and non-euclidean barriers) to merging skeletons together into ever more interesting forms in order to sell them later. [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Rubbery Men]] are the original experts and mentors in the area, and their Amber pieces are essentially the "batteries" where they keep the necessary energies.

* ''Webcomic/{{Aurora|2019}}'': Life mages can encourage the growth of living things, which can be used for [[HealingHands healing]]. It is also possible to use life magic to create [[{{Mutants}} chimeras]], but doing so is forbidden.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-040 SCP-040 ("Evolution's Child"),]] has the anomalous ability of manipulating living matter. She uses it to modify existing life forms to create new ones. Her creations include SCP-040-1a (a VoluntaryShapeshifter she wears like a sweater, formerly a cat), SCP-040-1c (a LivingGasbag that can play music), and SCP-040-1j (a four-legged, eyeless creature that can WallCrawl). This ability extends to [[spoiler:reanimating dead bodies, although the resuscitated person had no memories of their former life and the intelligence of a toddler]].
** This is the hat of the Sarkic cults, a ReligionOfEvil that venerates material power, especially over flesh. They stole it from the Daevites, an equally evil PredecessorVillain whom the Sarkicist slave uprising overthrew. Sarkic articles and stories usually revolve around monsters (or even buildings) that used to be people, and their Karcist high priests often transform themselves into full-on {{Humanoid Abomination}}s

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Rose Quartz is known for her [[HealingHands healing tears]] and [[GreenThumb control of plant life.]] [[spoiler:However, she was [[KingIncognito actually Pink Diamond in disguise]], and the plant specialization was merely [[PowerMisidentification a strategy to disguise her real power over life in general]]. The ability that brings the plants to sentience, sapience, and mobility is actually the same one that heals the injured, raises the dead, and gives the same sentience, sapience, and mobility [[CreatingLife to inanimate objects]]: the liquid secreted from her Gem form bestows life and the replenishing of that life to all that comes in contact with it.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'': Devourers with Lore and Visage of The Flesh can use invocations to shape flesh, bone, and manipulate the nervous system to empower mortals or mutate them into horrific monsters, as well as heal any ailments and even regrow lost limbs. They must physically touch a target to do this, however.

* ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'': Devourers with Lore and Visage of The Flesh can use invocations to shape flesh, bone, and manipulate the nervous system to empower mortals or mutate them into horrific monsters. They must physically touch a target to use their powers however.

** This is the hat of the Sarkic cults, a ReligionOfEvil that venerates material power, especially over flesh. They stole it from the Daevites, an equally evil PredecessorVillain whom the Sarkicist slave uprising overthrew.

** ''ComicBook/XForce'': Elixir can manipulate another person's cells with a touch. He primarily uses it to heal his teammates, but sometimes he can also use it offensively such as by giving his enemies tumors. He's classified as [[RandomPowerRanking "Omega level"]] which implies this is the bare minimum of his potential, and he would have stayed that way if the Stepford Cuckoos never telepathically transcribed all of [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Hank McCoy's]] knowledge of biology into him. In an alternate future Venom, who has access to his and every other mutants powers, uses his ability to genetically engineer mutant clone armies whose powers are far stronger or specific than their originals. Making [[PeopleFarms "meat gardens"]] out of entire planets

** ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'': Faiza Hussain has the ability to control, disassemble, and reassemble anything on an atomic level, including people. She can use this ability to take people apart by the limbs, organs and bones, or use it to heal them.
** ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'': Coronary of Psionex has the power to manipulate other people's biometabolic processes, allowing him to cause migraines, muscle spasms, stomach upsets and other things. Eventually, his powers evolved to the point he could affect his own body allowing him to perform feats like phasing through solid matter and stretching his limbs.

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Fleshmaster is one of these, capable of some rather versatile tricks including healing, LegoGenetics, and shapeshifting. He started out as a superhero, but found little success and was known mostly for being a CasanovaWannabe (the common joke was saying he was the master of his own flesh and nobody else's), until he ended up on the receiving end of a ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' esque humiliation. [[spoiler:This resulted in him disappearing, training up his abilities, and reinventing himself as PintsizedPowerhouse hero [=dWARf=]!, before ultimately becoming a supervillain out of revenge. Towards the end of his career, he'd become particularly horrifying]]

* ''Literature/LiminalWorld'': Taggart can use his power at range but it works a lot better when he's touching the target. He is referred to as healer by most people he meets but given that we see him stripping the myelin off people's nerves, redirecting their stomach acid to places stomach acid should never go, growing gills and armoring his own body in multiple layers of callused skin, he is clearly far more than that.
* ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'': Biotaumaturgy is magic through which flesh can be altered and reshaped. It's most notably used to turn criminals, political dissidents and other undesirables into the Remade, whose bodies have been twisted into grotesque shapes to serve the roles they have been enslaved to fulfill.

* ''Literature/ShadowOps'': Physiomancers can use their power to heal, harm, warp or augment their own flesh or that of others as their skills permit

* ''Roleplay/TheFirstHero'': Talon's "Gift" allows him to augment existing attributes and abilities of himself, others, and objects. Through use of this power he has made himself ImmuneToBullets and given himself a HealingFactor, among other improvements.

*** True fleshwarping involves the submersion of the subject into a brew of mutagens, alchemical reagents and flesh-eating bacteria, which will reshape, warp and replace the victim's tissues until they either die or emerge into a new and usually grotesque shape. There's a strong pattern regarding the fleshwarp created by a specific "input" -- fleshwarped drow always become [[SpiderPeople driders]], for instance, while elves become horrific, barely mobile and pain-wracked horrors of twisted flesh and broken bone, humans turn into mindless slug-like beings, gnomes into fleshy, immobile, mushroom-like things, orcs into centaurine centipede people, and so on.
** Alghollthus naturally secrete a slime that can be used to cause physiological changes in both the alghollthus themselves and other creatures, or to serve as a substrate for more fine-tuned genetic engineering. They have historically made prolific use of this, shaping themselves into a variety of specialized forms and transforming other creatures into a variety of servants, soldiers and guardian monsters.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Biomancers are able to mold flesh for shapeshifting or healing, channel the Warp into their own body for superhuman speed, strength and toughness, or direct their natural electrical field into [[ShockAndAwe crackling bolts of lightning]].

* The central mechanic of ''VideoGame/{{Misshapen}}'' is the player's ability to make enemies grow misshapen tumurous growths from their body, which come in a few different varieties such as sticky, heavy, or floating. This is mostly used for puzzle-solving and incapacitating enemies.

* ''Webcomic/WaywardSons'' this is ship physician Hara's power, and she can even alter people effected by the Star Core. This power has also been prophetically linked to her eventual death.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-040 SCP-040 ("Evolution's Child"),]] has the anomalous ability of manipulating living matter. She uses it to modify existing life forms to create new ones. Her creations include SCP-040-1a (a VoluntaryShapeshifter she wears like a sweater, formerly a cat), SCP-040-1c (a LivingGasbag that can play music) and SCP-040-1j (a four-legged, eyeless creature that can WallCrawl). This ability extends to [[spoiler:reanimating dead bodies, although the resuscitated person had no memories of their former life and the intelligence of a toddler]].