Darkseid torturing Superman with Agony Matrix
AgonyMatrix

 

Description:

The ability to control the target's ability to feel pain, dulling one's own pain to continue fighting or incapacitating an opponent by causing their pain receptors to flare all at once.

This ability ignores conventional durability as it directly targets the brain and nerves of the target rather than attacking the opponent directly, allowing the user to defeat them even if they're unable to harm them physically (except on rare occasions where the constant usage of pain receptors wears out the target's nerves). Particularly powerful users can even control the mental and emotional aspects of pain and suffering, allowing them to instigate conditions related to them (i.e. anxiety attacks and mental breakdowns).

Applications:

  • Harm or inflict pain on others by inflicting damage upon one's own body (wound transferal)
  • Amplify/augment the physical sense of pain
  • User can change pain into tools, objects, weapons and other items, create semi-living constructs and/or create structures of varying permanence 
  • Users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by the pain of oneself and others
  • Create a false feeling of pain on others and trick an individual's mind into thinking they are in physical pain 
  • Neutralize one's sensitivity to physical pain
  • The user can torture target mentally, spiritually and psychologically

Characters who can Manipulate Pain: