History Main / CombinedEnergyAttack

* It is the entire premise of the TV series ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', and is used at varying degrees for both heroes and villains. The most common reference in the show is to the Charmed Ones being unique because they have "The Power of Three". Many demons and other magical beings can only be destroyed using a spell cast by all three sisters together. However, it continues to escalate throughout the series to include more family members... [[spoiler:In order to defeat the Source of all Evil, the girls use not only the Power of Three, but also call upon the power of their entire ancestral line of witches. In the series finale, this is taken a step further by calling on the powers of not only their past family members, but also their children from a future generation.]]

* The anime movie ''Harmageddon'' had the heroes combining their powers to defeat an extraterrestrial power.

* A bizarre example in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Because of the massive pollution caused by the robot population of Earth Wernstrom and Nixon have aimed an EMP cannon at the Earth with the intention to destroy all robots (who have been gathered at the Galapagos Islands under the guise of a party for this reason). In order to save the robot populace, every single robot on the planet has to blast their exhaust upwards to propel the Earth of the cannon's line of fire, incidentally moving the Earth further away from the Sun, solving the global warming problem.

* Japanese Giant Hornets are horrifying to those familiar with them. Thirty of these hornets, each the size of a person's thumb, can annihilate a hive of thirty thousand bees as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fTrSOFyfxs here]]. However, the bees native to Japan have evolved a defense that involves a bee and about a couple hundred of her sisters that can only be described as a real life CombinedEnergyAttack. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QxUR-mZVM here.]]

** [[Anime/DragonballGT Baby]] had a variation called the Revenge Death Ball, which gathered the hate of everybody on the planet.

** A slightly shaky fit, but in Ray's final CrowningMomentOfAwesome against Bryan he pretty much outright states that it is the power of his friendship that enables him to dig in and wrestle victory from the jaws of defeat.

** In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade [[TheMovie All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'', [[Series/KamenRiderX King Dark]] is defeated by [[spoiler:Decade merging with ''Series/KamenRiderJ'', forming a gigantic Decade, then performing his standard leap-through-cards [[FinishingMove Rider Kick]]...except that all the other Riders turn into the cards themselves, each donating their power to Decade as he passes through.]] CrowningMomentOfAwesome? Yes, why yes.

** Arc Impulse's first appearance in the series was very similar: in the final battle of ''VideoGame/WildArms2'', the main character uses it, gaining more and more power from the wishes and friendship of just about everyone in the world, dealing more and more damage to the final boss, until the protagonist's LoveInterest makes her speech...which, of course, gives him enough strength to deal a whopping ''99,999'' damage, destroying the boss for good. Forget "freaking brilliant," this is quite possibly the series' ultimate CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* ''Manga/InazumaEleven'' has "The Earth" shooting technique, performed by [[PowerTrio Endou, Goenji, and Fubuki]] by channeling will power of every active players in the team to create a huge energy ball before [[CrazyAwesome kicking it toward the goal.]] After learned, however, the player can have Endou abuse it in ever match without any need of gathering the power thing, in contrast to the anime adaption, where the skill is used only once throughout the series.

* ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' is pretty fond of this. The two main instances are at the end of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Yellow]]'' saga, where [[spoiler:Yellow somehow absorbs the attacks of the Kanto starters into her hand to power up Pika's Megavolt]], and the end of the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Emerald]]'' arc, where [[spoiler:the nine starters each fire an Elemental Hyper Beam at the fake Kyogre, with two Pikachu and their Pichu child finish it off with a flying triple Volt Tackle]].

* The Elemental Commixture feat in ''{{Pathfinder}}'' allows two casters to cast offensive elemental spells of different elements together to create new effects depending on the combination, as well as making it much harder for enemy casters to counterspell them.

* The finale of ''Series/UltramanTiga'' has every child on Earth channeling their light into Ultraman Tiga, transforming him into Glitter Tiga and joinning him in firing his attacks.

* "[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau Metal Ripper]]" [[{{sabaton}} Primo]] [[MagicMusic Victoria]] taps into the spirit and passion of ''all seven billion humans'' on Earth to exorcise [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess]] [[DemonicPossession Celestia]] with [[ThePowerOfRock The Power of Power Metal]].

* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', [[spoiler:during the climax, Thor, Iron Man and Vision combine their beams on an attack that greatly weakens Ultron's exterior]].

* ''PhantasyStar IV'' allows the [=PCs=] to combine their attacks. The immensely powerful [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Destruction]] combination attack requires simultaneous action all four mandatory party members: three combine their most explosive attacks, and the fourth puts up a shield so the party doesn't get nuked.

* The "prayers of the saints" are what literally empower God's Angels in ''This Present Darkness'' and ''Piercing The Darkness'' by Frank E. Peretti.

** The Genki Dama [=/=] Spirit Bomb, which is powered by living things lending their energy to a good heart, is the former TropeNamer. This evolves throughout the series. The first time it's used, it's just the planet's power itself. The second time, it draws on the power of other planets and moons nearby. The third time, everybody on Earth sent power, only to be outdone by the final time, where ''[[GondorCallsForAid everybody Goku had met across the universe]]'' helped. It should be noted that despite all the trouble involved in using it, until the very end of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' the Spirit Bomb [[TheWorfBarrage never actually works]] in the main series. [[note]] In the movies it has a much better track record, killing Dr. Wheelo, Turles, and Lord Slug, and a variation is used to destroy Super Android 13 [[note]]. Later on, (Future) Trunks uses it to kill (the physical form of) Merged Zamasu in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.
** In the ''Budokai'' games, Cell is able to use a green version of the Spirit Bomb, despite being a villain. Some believe that Cell was able to use it because he was pure of heart, but pure ''evil'' instead of good. Based on a throwaway line he says while charging it, other fans jokingly theorize that Cell uses a different energy source called "Stupid Energy".

* In the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Galactus]] mini-series, [[spoiler: Jean Grey and Professor X, combining their power with an enhanced version of Cerebro, link every human on the planet to beam thoughts of living at Galactus until it got scared off. Well, vaporizing 30% of it by ''shooting a goddamn Big Bang at it'' helped too.]]

** The Genki Dama [=/=] Spirit Bomb, which is powered by living things lending their energy to a good heart, is the former TropeNamer. This evolves throughout the series. The first time it's used, it's just the planet's power itself. The second time, it draws on the power of other planets and moons nearby. The third time, everybody on Earth sent power, only to be outdone by the final time, where ''[[GondorCallsForAid everybody Goku had met across the universe]]'' helped. It should be noted that despite all the trouble involved in using it, until the very end of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' the Spirit Bomb [[TheWorfBarrage never actually works]].
** In the series at least. In the movies it has a much better track record, killing Dr. Wheelo, Turles, and Lord Slug, and a variation is used to destroy Super Android 13.
*** In fact, the variation used to kill 13 is utilized by (Future) Trunks to kill (the physical form of) Merged Zamasu in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

A common subtext to the trope is that the worst villains are inevitably weaker because they don't have friends to help them (see ThePowerOfFriendship). It's also a handy way of showing that the hero is very strong without nullifying the importance of the other cast members. Often combined with GondorCallsForAid, when the main group needs more energy than they themselves can generate. May be fueled by {{Innocent Bystander}}s. May include the PowerOfTrust and/or ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve. See also ICantDoThisByMyself.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', the Master Sword can only [[spoiler:harm Ganondorf if the descendants of the Sages are praying for Link's success within their temples]].

* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' has this in its final battle; [[spoiler: once Ganondorf turns into Ganon, Zelda gives you the permanently-upgraded Light Arrows. The more allies are left on the battlefield at this point, the stronger the Light Arrows are, implying that they are putting their combined energy into the arrows.]]

Not to be confused with CombinationAttack or CombiningMecha or AllYourPowersCombined. This is just about collective energy which even the most faceless and generic {{Muggle}} can contribute to.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Last of the Time Lords", [[spoiler:over the past year, Martha has been travelling the world, telling people to think of the Doctor at precisely zero on the Master's countdown; the Doctor, interfaced with these people through the Master's own psychic control network, shines with power and defeats the Master.]] Some thought this ridiculously cheesy and ''WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?'', while others thought it incredibly awesome.

** In the finale of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', the Rangers resort to this in order to stop Mesogog's OneWingedAngel form, destroying him for good at the cost of burning out their powers.

* Most seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' feature an uberweapon formed by combining the melee weapons of the individual rangers.
** Of course, this usually doesn't kill the monster, instead the BigBad [[MakeMyMonsterGrow transforms it into a huge monster]]. Then the trope comes into play again as the rangers combine their powers to make a [[CombiningMecha Mega-Zord]].
** Also used in the ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' finale, when the human and mystic communities unite and their support supercharges the Rangers' magic.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', the Protagonist defeats the BigBad by focusing all the power of belief of the people of Tokyo into a bullet, which his ultimate Persona, Satanael, then shoots through its head.

* In the finale of ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'', the super-powerful Death Imagin is defeated by a Combined Energy Attack version of Den-O Sword Form's [[FinishingMove Extreme Slash]], where the blade detaches and strikes the opponent...except that this time, each of Ryotaro's allies "catches" the blade in mid-flight, imbues it with some of their power, and throws it at Death, before Den-O catches the blade, dashes in, and hacks it up with a flurry of AllYourColorsCombined slashes.
* In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade [[TheMovie All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'', [[Series/KamenRiderX King Dark]] is defeated by [[spoiler:Decade merging with ''Series/KamenRiderJ'', forming a gigantic Decade, then performing his standard leap-through-cards [[FinishingMove Rider Kick]]...except that all the other Riders turn into the cards themselves, each donating their power to Decade as he passes through.]] CrowningMomentOfAwesome? Yes, why yes.
* The climax of the ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' movie has the BigBad Kamen Rider Eternal fling Double from the tallest tower in the city. The people of the city, seeing their hero in trouble, begin shouting "Kamen Rider!" and wishing for his victory. This causes the winds to blow through the turbine in Double's belt, triggering an UpToEleven SuperMode transformation that lets him [[PowerGivesYouWings fly]] back up to Eternal and take him down.
* Series/KamenRiderFourze has a version of this by default with his SuperMode, Cosmic States, which draws its power from the bonds between him and his friends. His movie-exclusive Meteor Fusion States is even bigger in this regard, since creating it required the efforts of forty people with strong bonds with Fourze; he himself even tells the villains that it's not just his power, but the power of everyone he calls "friend".

* Ichigo powers up temporarily at times in ''TokyoMewMew'' by taking on some of her friends' powers. In the manga, this also takes their weapons and combines them into the gigantic Strawberbell Version Up.