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* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': Dark magic requires the True Book of Spells, the only one of its kind to list every spell a witch can use; each one of the 100 fairy species whose body parts enable magic; and a witch [[spoiler:who holds darkness in her heart.]]

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'': Saturn Girl temporarily copies the powers of the entire ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes -minus ComicBook/{{Superboy}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, who were not around- to fight Zaryan the Conqueror without her teammates' backing.

** Happened in a story involving ComicBook/RedHulk, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, ComicBook/GhostRider's AntiHeroSubstitute Alejandra and [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] teaming up to fight [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Blackheart]]. Knowing they separately stand no chance against the guy, Venom tricked the Spirit of Vengeance and symbiote into possessing Red Hulk at the same time. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot The result]] was [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Np_kAQFWVY4/T2AW0tAm2fI/AAAAAAAAAnY/e7NuHQj_mog/s1600/venom13403.jpg glorious]]

* ''[[LightNovel/ILeftTheARankParty I left the A-rank party and headed for the depths of the labyrinth with my former students]] has a variation with the main character's ultimate spell which inflicts ''all negative status effects'' on a target.

* In a crossover between ComicBook/GreenLantern and ''Film/StarTrek2009'', the crew of the ''Enterprise'' and the remaining ring-bearers figure out the way to release the White Entity and stop Nekron from running havoc across another universe by giving all seven emotion-based rings to [[spoiler:Spock, whose half-Vulcan and half-Human biology makes him the perfect one to control emotions]]. Of course, this also turns into a HoistByHisOwnPetard as three temporary ring-bearers, a Gorn, a Romulan and a Klingon, were fighting in space when their rings were recalled and all three suffocated out there.

* Marisa Kirisame of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' counts, to an extent.
** [[DittoFighter Satori Komeiji]] might be a better example. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz10bka9Ly4 This Danmakufu script]] shows what could happen when she begins combining all those copied spellcards together.
** It should be noted that what Marisa does is actually [[PowerCopying create her version of ''some'' spellcards, most famously her]] [[WaveMotionGun Master Spark,]] which was taken from Yuuka. Satori also doesn't actually ''learn'' the spellcards. The reason Satori was able to use your partner's spellcards against you in ''Subterranean Animism'' was because Reimu/Marisa's partner's spellcard patterns were within the reach of Satori's MindReading; ostensibly, this is because they have the patterns down in the case they enter into a [[BulletHell Danmaku duel]] with them again, and having ongoing conversations with the usually obnoxious youkai makes it hard not to also think of the associated patterns. The fact that once Satori starts using the spellcards also likely brings out ''more'' associated patterns to Reimu/Marisa's foremind doesn't help.

** There are Union Monsters, which can turn themselves into Equip Spells for other monsters -- including one particularly famous group of Union Monsters whose main gimmick was that they were CombiningMecha (see entry on page).
** There's Relinquished, which can steal your opponent's monster to equip it to himself to boost his own power levels.
** There's [[BloodKnight Buster Blader]] and other monsters (such as [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon]], [[KingMook Goblin King]], and [[InfinityPlusOneSword Gren Maju Da Eiza]] or the infamous [[PhysicalGod Slifer the Sky Dragon]]) that gain power for all monsters of a particular type or attribute on the field or in your discard pile (the effect varies; some (like Da Eiza or Slifer) even gain points for cards in a particular SPOT).
** There's the Element monsters, six monsters that were either Light or Dark attribute and gained fitting effects if Fire, Water, Wind, or Earth attribute monsters were on the field.
** There's the Six Samurai monsters, which gain their effects only when there's another one of them (of a different name) on the field (and thus got many cards to [[GameBreaker get them out]]).
** There's the Equip Spell 'United We Stand', which fittingly enough gave the equipped monster 800 Attack Points for every other monster you controlled, and then there's the Continuous Spell 'The A. Forces', which was a card that, for every [[AnAdventurerIsYou Warrior]] or [[SquishyWizard Spellcaster]] you controlled, gave all Warriors 200 extra Attack Points.
** Many fusion monsters, such as [[DragonRider Gaia the Dragon Champion]] work on this principle.

** There's the Tag Force version of One Hundred Eyes Dragon, which gains the effects of all Infernity cards in your Graveyard.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17242514/ Pokemon vs. Digimon: When World Collide]]'', after Devimon comes to the Pokemon world, he eventually merges with the Fearow Ash injured on his first day as a trainer to become [=FearDevimon=], allowing him to use Pokemon attacks and significantly increasing his strength.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', Shido can seal a Spirit's power within himself. At the beginning of the series, the only power he could use was Kotori's HealingFactor. Eventually, his determination to protect Tohka and the others he cares about lets him access the other powers, and then use them at the same time.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Deconstructed through [[spoiler:Tact]]; his ability to steal [[spoiler:Legendary Weapons]] only works on the physical level since he's not only using items that he nabbed from their true, chosen wielders, but he has no idea how to actually use them beyond their basic functions once he got his hands on them. To add insult to injury, the individual benefits of each [[spoiler: Weapon]] don't even stack on each other since the user was never meant to have more than one. Someone with a sufficiently high level that knows what they're doing in actual combat can easily hand him his ass, with or without a [[spoiler:Hero Weapon]], as a vengeful Naofumi and Fohl prove in a satisfyingly brutal fashion.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': Rimuru Tempest, in addition to his CannibalismSuperpower giving him the powers of [[TheAssimilator anything he absorbs]], gains the [Food Chain] sub-skill to his Ultimate Skill [Gluttonous King Beelzebub] [[spoiler:upon his proper ascension to True Demon Lord.]] This ability allows him to access the Unique Skills of any and all of his subordinates, even if they're skills he didn't give to them himself and they obtained on their own.

* Sacred Eclipse in ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' can use the powers of the other seven Ragnarok, on top of its own powers ({{Shapeshifting}} and ResurrectiveImmortality). It starts out with access to the powers of only one (Poseidon, giving it CombatTentacles and a HealingFactor) but gains additional powers each time it resurrects.

Often this character is a villain who specializes in fighting a particular group of heroes, allowing them to pose a serious threat despite being outnumbered. The character often also has an AchillesHeel regarding the use of the power that keeps them from being completely unbeatable. Also commonly given to a villain who has acquired the powers of lesser villains. This is a good way to make a climactic FinalBoss battle in a video game.

** The 31st century version of the Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy once fought Composite, an Inhuman selectively bred by [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]] to have all the powers of the classic [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman royal family]] ([[Characters/TheInhumans Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Triton, and Karnak]]). [[https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Composite-Marvel-Comics-Guardians-Galaxy-Inhuman.jpg He combined their looks as well]], making him a green-skinned FishPerson with orange hair, giant silver epaulets, hooves, and a loincloth -- a true FashionVictimVillain.

** Amazo, who was designed to emulate the combined powers of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. On the [[PlayingWith/AllYourPowersCombined Playing With]] page, the {{exaggerated|Trope}} version of this trope was once explicitly Amazo's power (in the pages of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA''). When the JLA recruited more people to fight him, he instead became a PhysicalGod. However, since he quite literally had "all the powers of the JLA," they were able to beat him by [[spoiler:disbanding the group, thus causing him to lose all of his entirely]].

* Combo Man, a 90's Marvel promotional character, was this trope personified. Due to an accident, he was infused with the powers of characters in his comics. He possessed the powers and abilities of around a dozen heroes and villains, his first and only appearance had him face off against the Super-adaptoid.
* Franchise/TheDCU:

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* OlderThanDirt: The Myth/{{Hindu|Mythology}} goddess Durga was formed when a powerful demon was threatening to kill all the gods, until beams of light sprang from every god and from the pool of light came a warrior woman who was strong enough to defeat him.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' and ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon Trainer]] has a Final Smash combining the powers of all his Pokémon.

** ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' does it in two different ways. First is King Form, which used the powers of all 13 of Blade's Rouse Cards, and second was an attack that combined the elemental powers of all four Riders.

** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' takes this to its logical extreme. His main gimmick is that he can use any form of the previous nine titular Kamen Riders, from Kuuga to Kiva. His SuperMode lets him use their respective SuperMode FinishingMove. Decade later returns in Zi-O, using the powers of the next ten Riders as well. [[spoiler: And as of the new Zi-O vs Decade special, he gains a new upgrade letting him use the Reiwa era Riders.]]
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''[='s=] [=CycloneJokerXtreme=] SuperMode combines all three of his right-half Gaia Memories (Cyclone, Heat, and Luna) with one of his left-half ones (usually Joker, once Metal) to power a very potent [[FinishingMove Maximum Drive]]. In the movie, [[BigBad Kamen Rider Eternal]] can use a '''26 memory''' Maximum Drive, combining powers that are literally from A to Z.
** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'''s Cosmic States not only uses all 40 of his Astro Switches, he can combine the powers of those of the same type (for instance, Launcher and Freeze are both Cross Switches; he can normally use only one at a time but in Cosmic States he can activate both for freeze missles). In TheMovie, Fourze gains the aptly-named Fusion Switch that lets him borrow [[SixthRanger Kamen Rider Meteor]]'s own Astro Switch, resulting in Meteor Fusion States. Even beyond this, the Fusion Switch was created by harnessing ThePowerOfFriendship from all Fourze's classmates and teachers, so he himself asserts that it's not just Meteor's power, but the power of all his friends backing him up. The following ''Movie Wars'' crossover has him use the Fusion Switch again, this time borrowing Kamen Rider Nadeshiko's powers as well and changing into Meteor Nadeshiko Fusion States.

** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' has multiple combined-power forms: Zi-O Trinity is a FusionDance with his allies Geiz and Woz, Grand Zi-O combines the powers of the twenty main Heisei Riders, and Oma Zi-O combines the powers of ''every'' Kamen Rider, hero and villain alike. Grand and Oma can both summon copies of the individual Riders that they're composed of to fight for them.

** Happened in a story involving [[Characters/MarvelComicsGammaMutates Red Hulk]], ComicBook/{{Venom}}, ComicBook/GhostRider's AntiHeroSubstitute Alejandra and [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] teaming up to fight [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons Blackheart]]. Knowing they separately stand no chance against the guy, Venom tricked the Spirit of Vengeance and symbiote into possessing Red Hulk at the same time. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot The result]] was [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Np_kAQFWVY4/T2AW0tAm2fI/AAAAAAAAAnY/e7NuHQj_mog/s1600/venom13403.jpg glorious]]

*** ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: The Avengers'' #19 also had the Super-Adaptoid make an appearance, and this version absorbed DNA, memories and powers. What it could also absorb [[spoiler: (and which became this version's somewhat-AchillesHeel) were some elements of the personalities of the heroes as well, so when [[Characters/Avengers60sMembers Quicksilver]] let it absorb [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]]'s powers and skills, it also absorbed the noble and trusting nature of Captain America. It realized the Avengers were the good guys, and stood down -- because it knew "it was the right thing to do."]]

* In ''LightNovel/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'', [[TheHero Kazuki]] can use the powers of any summoner he has a strong bond with. So obviously [[HilarityEnsues he has to seduce all of them]].

* A rather hilarious take of this trope is used in ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', when the party is chased down by a FOE. As a last resort, Naoto decides to combine [[LethalChef Chie, Yukiko, Rise, and Fuuka's horrible cooking]] into what is basically a chemical weapon known as "Mystery Food X: The Final Edition". It ''[[OneHitKO one-shots]]'' said FOE and left Kanji barely alive when he accidentally got hit by it.

** ''ComicBook/XMen'' team member [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rogue]] (who started as a villain) is capable of doing this, but the unpleasant side effects of her power have limited her one-woman army moments to a handful of desperate situations. Then in ''X-Men Legacy'', Xavier removed the psychic barriers that formed as a coping mechanism for dealing with her powers. Now that she can choose whether to absorb or not absorb powers and/or memories by touch, Rogue is often shown absorbing and manipulating multiple powers at once. In the last year she has on multiple occasions absorbed the powers of the New X-Men and combined and manipulated them in ways even the kids who own them never thought to, and in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' she juggles using Iceman's and [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]'s powers.

* In the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' mini-series ''[[ComicBook/RenewYourVows Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows]]'', the BigBad of that comic is Regent, a man who has captured and stolen virtually every superhero's power in his area.
* In ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', minor villain Sin Eater had been resurrected by the demon Kindred and given the power to take the sins and the powers of people he shoots with his magic shotgun. Besides some minor villains, the Sin Eater has shot and stolen the powers of the Juggernaut, Mr. Negative, Count Nefaria and his Lethal Legion among others. With this much power, there's no way Peter can defeat him and so he escapes only with the help of Green Goblin and a group of other Spider-heroes like Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and Jessica Drew.