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* The Mystic Urns of ''{{Heretic}}'' basically act as this.

** Similarly in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' and the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' for GameBoy and GameBoyColor respectively, you have no bottles. All three games allow you to obtain a Magic Potion which will save you from death once before vanishing.

* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' series provides a non video game example with senzu beans. When a character eats it, his or her energy is completely revitalized and all injuries are healed instantly. An amusing moment occurs when BigEater Yajirobe eats a basket full of them and gains a seriously upset stomach, with senzu bean creator Korin telling him afterwards that you're only supposed to eat one when you're not at a 100% healthy condition, and ''only one'' (they have the secondary effect of "feeding a man for ten days").
** They've also been incorporated into some of the video game adaptations. The ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' series, for instance, features senzu bean capsules which, when equipped, basically act as a final life for your character after he or she has been KO'd, with varying degrees of vitality recovery depending on the bean equipped. The strongest is the 100% senzu bean, which restores your vitality completely, but due to being the strongest of the beans, it takes up a lot of space in your character's custom capsule inventory.
** In the series, the villainous Cell is fully aware of how awesome these are, and proceeds to use his superior speed to just swipe them from the support character who brought them for the team's big showdown against him.

** The SequelSeries ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' however had the rarer (four in the early games (X1-X3), and later only ''two'') but refillable Sub Tanks instead. These are carried over to the later SequelSeries in the timeline.

* ''DragonQuest'' games have most things with [[WorldTree Yggdrasil]] (or just 'World Tree') in their name. The leaves tend to revive one ally, while dew heals the party. They can usually not be bought. [=NPCs=] that give either one, which appear in some games, will not give you one if you already have one in your inventory.

* ''Super {{Metroid}}'' had these in addition to the standard energy tanks.

** In the series, the villainous Cell [[GenreSavvy is fully aware of how awesome these are, and proceeds to use his superior speed to just swipe them from the support character who brought them for the team's big showdown against him.]]

** The ''MegaManZX'' series allows you to have both Sub Tanks and Energy Tanks. In story, Energy Tanks are referred to as ancient technology that people have suddenly started using again for some reason and are very expensive.

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* "{{VideoGame/DungeonSiege}}" has rejuvenation potions, which restore more of a stat than individual health and mana potions. However, they can only be bought in stores (outside a few locations in the expansion's campaign), and can only be used once before disappearing. That's a lot of mana to waste on restoring a meleé fighter or a ranger.

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** ''MetroidOtherM'' features a variation: when Samus' HP are low, she can "Concentrate" to restore a small amount of HP (normally this only restores missiles). You can also collect E-Recovery Tanks which increase both the amount of HP restored and the threshold at which this option becomes available.

* "DungeonSiege" has Rejuvenation Potions, in small, regular, large, and super sizes like all potions. They restore more mana and health than their equivalent HP and MP potions combined. However, they are more expensive, can only be consumed once, and except for a few select locations, can only be found in stores. At least those stores have infinite potions.

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* VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim has several methods for rapidly refiling health, stamina and magicka including..
** Several races have daily power that speeds regeneration of Health (Histskin - Argonians), Stamina (Adrenaline Rush-Redguards) and Magicka (Highborn - Altmer)by ten times normal speed.
** Mora's Boon - a once day power that completely refilling health magicka and stamina.
** Potion's of Ultimate healing, stamina and magicka, which completely restore one reserve each. relatively common at higher levels.
** The Potion of Ultimate Well-being unfortunately only refiles the reserves by 100 points, higher level players will have maybe two to three time this amount.
*** Unfortunately none of these do anything about disease or poisons.

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* Soma in ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games fully restore health and MP, usually to the whole party. (In some games, Soma Drops do it for just one person. In other games, Somas heal only one person, Soma Drops partially heal HP and MP, and Great Somas fully restore the entire party.) They're also ridiculously rare, usually unable to be bought. In some games they can be sold to NPC merchants for thousands of macca (and even then you're getting suckered), or very little (to keep you from selling them). Amrita Soda is its counterpart for StandardStatusEffects in some games. Finally, in ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'', the stat-boosting incenses also healed you fully, meaning you had to decide whether to take the boost now or sit on them for emergencies.

* Miracles in the ''Franchise/{{Lufia}}'' series fully restore a character's HP and MP, as well as curing any status effects (including NonLethalKO). ''VideoGame/LufiaTheLegendReturns'' features the even-rarer and even-more TooAwesomeToUse Croquettes, which function as Miracles on ''your entire party'' (which, in this game, is '''up to nine people'''.

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* "{{VideoGame/DungeonSiege}}" has rejuvenation potions, which restore more of a stat than individual health and mana potions. However, they can only be bought in stores (outside a few locations in the expansion's campaign), and can only be used once before disappearing. That's a lot of mana to waste on restoring a meleé fighter or a ranger.

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* The Sacred Ash in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is extremely rare, found only once or twice per game, but it fully revives all of your Pokémon at once--essentially a portable Pokémon Center.

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* Soma in ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games fully restore health and MP, usually to the whole party. (In some games, Soma Drops do it for just one person.) They're also ridiculously rare, usually unable to be bought. In some games they can be sold to NPC merchants for thousands of macca (and even then you're getting suckered), or very little (to keep you from selling them). Amrita Soda is its counterpart for StandardStatusEffects in some games. Finally, in ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'', the stat-boosting incenses also healed you fully, meaning you had to decide whether to take the boost now or sit on them for emergencies.

** In the series, the villainous Cell is fully aware of how awesome these are, and proceeds to use his superior speed to just swipe them from the support character who brought them for the team's big showdown against him.

* VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrimhas several methods for rapidly refiling health, stamina and magicka including..

** Even better are the half a dozen or so Megalixirs and Megaphoenixes an average player is likely to find. These are held as sacred relics and only dug into when there's a boss you know you need the boost for.

* The ''{{Blood}}'' series has the Doctor's Bag, which had enough supplies to return 100 hit points until exhausted or another is picked up.

This is the EmergencyEnergyTank: the ultimate fully-revitalizing panic button. Whether locked in battle with ThatOneBoss or desperate for healing in the DroughtLevelOfDoom, the Emergency Energy Tank can give you a crucial second wind. Use it wisely.

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* Potions in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' work like this. They can be used in battle, but can't be spammed due to a long cool down that affects all potion usage and doesn't start until you leave combat. As such one must know when to use potions to avoid wasting it.

In many games, there are [[HealingPotion items that refill]] some of your [[HitPoints health]] and [[{{Mana}} energy]]. But sometimes, that's not enough. Sometimes, there are special inventory items that ''completely'' refill your health and/or energy, as well as removing StandardStatusEffects or even reviving a character from death. You'd better [[TooAwesomeToUse save it for the right moment]], though, because once you use it, it's gone, and you'll have to find another one--and there's often only a finite amount of them in the whole game.

* Ethers in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' work this way. They restore PP, which allows the Pokemon to perform attacks. Healing items can be bought in infinite numbers, but items that restore PP for attacks are limited.