History Main / MasterOfYourDomain

* Underplayed drastically on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', where "Master of your Domain" simply meant the ability to resist the urge to masturbate. [[AllMenArePerverts None of them can hold out long]]. [[AllWomenAreLustful Not even Elaine]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': SCP-1475 is a man who created a drug that allowed him to use [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain 100% of his brain]], giving him complete control over his own body to the point where he [[TheSleepless rewired his brain to remove the need for sleep]]. However, in an extreme case of BlessedWithSuck, he now has to do manually what his body used to do automatically. Like keep his heart beating and digest food. As a result, [[AndIMustScream he is left permanently bedridden]] because keeping himself alive takes up so much of his concentration that he can't do anything else.

* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] learns a few techniques from his interactions with Lash: mostly pain suppression but also uses yogic contortionist techniques to escape the thorn manacles in ''Literature/ProvenGuilty''.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** Skinslip has dermokinesis, meaning he can control any skin connected to him. His usual upgrade method is to flay people alive and staple their skin to his.
** Browbeat is a biokinetic who can manipulate his muscle and bone density at will, suppress bleeding and otherwise assume direct control of his own body.
** Hemorrhagia is described as a "''hemokinetic with personal biokinesis''".
* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': SCP-1475 is a man who created a drug that allowed him to use [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain 100% of his brain]], giving him complete control over his own body to the point where he [[TheSleepless rewired his brain to remove the need for sleep]]. However, in an extreme case of BlessedWithSuck, he now has to do manually what his body used to do automatically. Like keep his heart beating and digest food. As a result, [[AndIMustScream he is left permanently bedridden]] because keeping himself alive takes up so much of his concentration that he can't do anything else.

* In ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'' series pilot, Darien is having trouble consciously controlling his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Quicksilver gland]], which is activated by adrenaline. This is hilariously shown when he tries to spy on a soldier and a nurse getting it on and reappears at an inopportune moment (which the soldier did not appreciate). His brother teaches him some basic yoga techniques to allow him to not only appear and disappear at will but to also selectively make parts of his body invisible. He also learns to secrete Quicksilver on small objects, making them temporarily invisible as well. This is brought up in a later episode where his brother's [=RNA=] is injected into the gland, allowing him to temporarily take control of Darien's body ([[YouFailBiologyForever don't ask]]). He also has trouble controlling the gland at first.

* Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, set himself on fire as a means of protest against the policies of the Diem regime. He then sat down on the road and quietly burned to death without screaming in pain or otherwise reacting in any way to the fact that he had just ''set himself on fucking fire.''

--> '''Brass:''' I eliminated my need for food and sleep in 1942, stopped aging in '43, and learned to close wounds with the power of my mind in '44.

** -->Ninjak: "''I could feel my nerve endings like I could feel my fingertips. I could control it all ... heal it all.''"
** -->And Roku: "''For the first time I felt my bones ... every muscle, every tendon ... for the first time I felt every follicle ... every cell ... for the first time ... I felt complete control.''"

* In ''FanFic/AgesOfShadow'', some of [[FallenHero Jade's]] many experiments over the [[TimeAbyss countless millennia]] she spends [[SealedEvilInACan trapped]] in the Shadow Netherworld lead to her learning to how reshape her body as a matter of willpower and a little physical exertion. This leads to, among other things, extending her spine into a tail and turning her now redundant legs into an extra pair of arms.
* During one fight in ''FanFic/AShadowOfTheTitans'', [[AxCrazy Gadjo]] emulates his enemy's power-up by somehow ''forcing himself to grow a mustache''.

* In the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the newly psychic Gary Mitchell can control his heart rate.

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-1475 is a man who created a drug that allowed him to use [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain 100% of his brain]], giving him complete control over his own body to the point where he [[TheSleepless rewired his brain to remove the need for sleep]]. However, in an extreme case of BlessedWithSuck, he now has to do manually what his body used to do automatically. Like keep his heart beating and digest food. As a result, [[AndIMustScream he is left permanently bedridden]] because keeping himself alive takes up so much of his concentration that he can't do anything else.

* In one recorded incident involving hypnosis, the subject relived a heart attack. Their heart stopped for 22 seconds (they were hooked up to a EKG). Sometimes the line between fiction and reality is farther out than we think.

** [[TheDragon Rob Lucci]] and [[LargeHam Kumadori]] of [[SecretPolice CP9]] have an ability called Life Return (''Seimei Kikan''). Kumadori is the one who uses it most, allowing him to do things such as [[PrehensileHair control his long hair as a weapon]] or instantly digest a large amount of food. Lucci on the other hand can use it in conjunction with his [[{{Animorphism}} Zoan Devil Fruit powers]] to make his large [[HalfHumanHybrid Leopard-Man form]] more [[BishonenLine proportionate]] to his human form. When [[TheMedic Chopper]] saw Kumadori's use, he described it as being based on biofeedback.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake (Robin III/Red Robin)]]'' can slow his heart beat to fake death or slow blood loss and can continue listening to his surroundings for about a minute after being drugged into unconsciousness if he has a bit of warning.

Often {{Hand Wave}}d by NinetyPercentOfYourBrain and other cases of ArtMajorBiology. [[IThoughtItMeant The title is decidedly not a]] ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' reference.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] once displayed the ability to control his own immune system. When the Osaka Flu hits Springfield, he is completely unaffected, much to his dismay (he wanted to get out of school). So, with some intense concentration, he manages to get his antibodies to stop fighting the virus.
-->'''Cell #1:''' Sarge! We keep getting orders to let the virus win.
-->'''Cell #2:''' Must be a school day. Lay down your arms!
-->'''Virus:''' Alright! Let's make some pus!

* This is the core element behind ''Enbu'', or Monkey Martial Arts, in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. It involves unifying literally every single cell in your body for a single purpose. Doing so can enhance your abilities far beyond the norm and allow traverse otherwise deadly environments.

* [[TheDragon Rob Lucci]] and [[LargeHam Kumadori]] of the ''OnePiece'' villains [[SecretPolice CP9]] have this ability which is called Life Return (''Seimei Kikan''). Kumadori is the one who uses it most, allowing him to do things such as [[PrehensileHair control his long hair as a weapon]] or instantly digest a large amount of food. Lucci on the other hand can use it in conjunction with his [[{{Animorphism}} Zoan Devil Fruit powers]] to make his large [[HalfHumanHybrid Leopard-Man form]] more [[BishonenLine proportionate]] to his human form. When [[TheMedic Chopper]] saw Kumadori's use, he described it as being based on biofeedback.
** Chopper has gained this to an extent as post TimeSkip he no longer needs the Rumble Ball for six out of his seven forms, when previously he needed it for any transforming beyond the three-form Zoan standard.

* [[Series/TwinPeaks Agent Dale Cooper]] exhibits numerous feats of mind-body coordination over the course of the investigation into Laura Palmer's murder, most obviously his "[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext throwing rocks at bottles to find leads]]" detective style and his survival of a gunshot wound by [[ShoutOut keeping fear from his mind.]]

*** Somakinetics can also just decide to have their unarmed attacks deal lethal damage or add extra dice to their unarmed damage rolls if they feel like it.

* UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'' has the ''dothé'' discipline which enables practitioners to deliberately unleash [[http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/bodily-feats/adrenaline-strength.htm hysterical strength]]

It can be due to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower extensive training]], to BioAugmentation, {{Nanomachines}} or just be a [[StockSuperpowers Superpower]]. As explained in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback the other wiki]] and in RealLife below, this can also be TruthInTelevision. Stronger fictional wielders of this ability can exhibit abilities such as FeelNoPain, SuperSenses, SuperStrength, HealingFactor, VoluntaryShapeshifting and/or even {{Immortality}}. [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore At the greatest extremes]], they may even be able to alter specific molecules in their bodies or meddle with their own cellular pathways. More often though, their capabilities ''merely'' extend to conscious control of normally autonomic and subconscious physiological processes.

Subtrope of {{Biomanipulation}}; here, the manipulation is limited to one's own body. BloodyMurder and BadWithTheBone may stem from this, as well.

* Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, set himself on fire as a means of protest against the policies of the Diem regime. He then sat down on the road and quietly burned to death without screaming in pain or otherwise reacting in any way to the fact that he had just ''set himself on fucking fire!''

* Also by Creator/WarrenEllis, Axel Brass (an {{Expy}} of Franchise/DocSavage) in ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' has these powers.

* ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' villain, has this down to the molecular level.
** Most mid-to-high-level MarvelComics martial artists have been shown to have this ability, mostly for healing and faking death. Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} can speed up his healing via meditation as can ComicBook/{{Elektra}}, [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Danny Rand]] and Shang Chi.