Basic Trope: A character's spiritual power manifests as an active physical entity.
- Straight: Chris's ki energy manifests into a spirit entity, Black Platinum, with supernatural abilities.
- Exaggerated: Black Platinum can release multiple superpowered punches a second.
- Downplayed: Black Platinum sometimes manifests in the form of an arm or leg when Chris is fighting to give him extra reach.
- Justified: Black Platinum is Chris's soul, and it manifests when he uses up his ki.
- Inverted: Black Platinum's ki manifests itself into Chris.
- Subverted: Chris powers up for a while but instead of breaking out Black Platinum, he enters his Super Mode.
- After cryptically talking about "invisible friends", Chris and Drake duke it out hand-to-hand.
- Double Subverted: ... then Black Platinum flies out to punch the bad guys.
- ... because Black Platinum and Purple Rain are Invisible to Normals.
- Zig-Zagged: Chris's spirit energy sometimes comes out and sometimes it just powers him up.
- Averted: There are no fighting spirits
- Enforced: While making the series, the artists and story writers were told to make things more "Bizarre". This was the result.
- A Merchandise-Driven work has to add more characters but cannot fit them into the show, thus giving the existing characters fighting spirits.
- Lampshaded: "Where did your friend come from?"
- Invoked: The author wanted to make fight scenes more interesting and decided to include another "Body" for Chris to use.
- Parodied: Black Platinum is actually Chris' friend Eli in a costume.
- Exploited:
- Chris makes Black Platinum do chores while he's home to make everything go faster.
- Drake decides to attack Chris directly instead of fighting Black Platinum since that will deplete his energy and render Black Platinum ineffective anyway.
- Defied: "Alrighty then, we need to make a Jojo refer-" NO!!
- Discussed: "As you can see, my ki energy has manifested as this entity behind me".
- Conversed: "This is just like that anime where they have ghosts that help them fight!"
How did we end up in the Playing With section? This must be the work of an enemy 「Fighting Spirit」
