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The usual form this takes is related to LifeEnergy-- [[VampiricDraining if you drain someone's life energy]], they start to show the physical signs of aging. Transferring life energy ages the victim and [[LifeDrinker youthens the recipient]]. This treats aging as if it's the presence or lack of a substance. With the right set of in-universe rules, this becomes both possible and reasonable with the right kind of FunctionalMagic or AppliedPhlebotinum.
A variation simply has characters "aged" or "youthened". There's no actual drain or transfer, but age is still treated as a substance, where it can be added or removed and you'll automatically get a whole host of physical changes. This can be extended to where someone is [[FountainOfYouth youthened into a baby]], or a [[RapidAging baby aged into an adult]]. There are also other kinds of {{Physical Attribute Swap}}s that can get triggered this way, such as by draining someone else's height, weight, or musculature.
It is sometimes used for FairestOfThemAll. It may also be a PowerSource to some villains or powers, or as the food for HorrorHunger. If the character is using this to live forever, it's LifeDrinker. It helps when you use PowersAsPrograms. EmpathicHealer is a more heroic inverse of this trope, where someone ''heals'' another person by transferring the other person's wounds to themselves. The assets may be acquired via a BloodBath. Supertrope to LevelDrain, LifeDrain, ManaDrain, SoulEating and TransferredTransformation.
Not to be confused with PooledFunds.
A variation simply has characters "aged" or "youthened". There's no actual drain or transfer, but age is still treated as a substance, where it can be added or removed and you'll automatically get a whole host of physical changes. This can be extended to where someone is [[FountainOfYouth youthened into a baby]], or a [[RapidAging baby aged into an adult]]. There are also other kinds of {{Physical Attribute Swap}}s that can get triggered this way, such as by draining someone else's height, weight, or musculature.
It is sometimes used for FairestOfThemAll. It may also be a PowerSource to some villains or powers, or as the food for HorrorHunger. If the character is using this to live forever, it's LifeDrinker. It helps when you use PowersAsPrograms. EmpathicHealer is a more heroic inverse of this trope, where someone ''heals'' another person by transferring the other person's wounds to themselves. The assets may be acquired via a BloodBath. Supertrope to LevelDrain, LifeDrain, ManaDrain, SoulEating and TransferredTransformation.
Not to be confused with PooledFunds.
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The usual form this takes is related to LifeEnergy-- LifeEnergy -- [[VampiricDraining if you drain someone's life energy]], they start to show the physical signs of aging. Transferring life energy ages the victim and [[LifeDrinker youthens the recipient]]. This treats aging as if it's the presence or lack of a substance. With the right set of in-universe rules, this becomes both possible and reasonable with the right kind of FunctionalMagic or AppliedPhlebotinum.
A variation simply has characters "aged" or "youthened". There's no actual drain or transfer, but age is still treated as a substance, where it can be added or removed and you'll automatically get a whole host of physical changes. This can be extended to where someone is [[FountainOfYouth youthened into a baby]], or a [[RapidAging baby aged into anadult]]. There are also other kinds of {{Physical Attribute Swap}}s that can get triggered this way, such as by draining someone else's height, weight, or musculature.
adult]].
It is sometimes used for FairestOfThemAll. It may also be a PowerSource to some villains or powers, or as the food for HorrorHunger. If the character is using this to live forever, it's LifeDrinker. It helps when you use PowersAsPrograms. EmpathicHealer is a more heroic inverse of this trope, where someone ''heals'' another person by transferring the other person's wounds to themselves. The assets may be acquired via a BloodBath. Supertrope BloodBath.
There are also other kinds of {{Physical Attribute Swap}}s that can get triggered this way, such as by draining someone else's height, weight, or musculature. Superpowered characters may, depending on the story, "lose their powers" even if their "power" is that they have wings, a tail, etc., as if "power" is a substance and the wings, which are physical structures, only exist if the substance is present. It helps when you use PowersAsPrograms.
SuperTrope to LevelDrain, LifeDrain, ManaDrain, PowerParasite, SoulEating andTransferredTransformation.
TransferredTransformation. Not to be confused with PooledFunds.
A variation simply has characters "aged" or "youthened". There's no actual drain or transfer, but age is still treated as a substance, where it can be added or removed and you'll automatically get a whole host of physical changes. This can be extended to where someone is [[FountainOfYouth youthened into a baby]], or a [[RapidAging baby aged into an
It is sometimes used for FairestOfThemAll. It may also be a PowerSource to some villains or powers, or as the food for HorrorHunger. If the character is using this to live forever, it's LifeDrinker.
There are also other kinds of {{Physical Attribute Swap}}s that can get triggered this way, such as by draining someone else's height, weight, or musculature. Superpowered characters may, depending on the story, "lose their powers" even if their "power" is that they have wings, a tail, etc., as if "power" is a substance and the wings, which are physical structures, only exist if the substance is present. It helps when you use PowersAsPrograms.
SuperTrope to LevelDrain, LifeDrain, ManaDrain, PowerParasite, SoulEating and
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* One of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] in ''Manga/{{Zanki}}'' used leeches to drain the blood of schoolgirls, leaving them withered husks and making herself young and beautiful in the process.
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* One of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] in ''Manga/{{Zanki}}'' used uses leeches to drain the blood of schoolgirls, leaving them withered husks and making herself young and beautiful in the process.
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* Franchise/MarvelUniverse villan Selene, in her earlier appearances in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', was an energy vampire; as she sucked the life out of her victims she became younger and more beautiful; as she used her powers up, she would look older.
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* Franchise/MarvelUniverse villan villain Selene, in her earlier appearances in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', was is an energy vampire; as vampire. As she sucked sucks the life out of her victims victims, she became becomes younger and more beautiful; as she used uses her powers up, she would look looks older.
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* The movie ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' and the book it was adapted from, ''The Space Vampires''.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', the knight guarding the Holy Grail explains that, "The true Grail will give you life, and the false Grail will take life from you." When Donovan drinks from the wrong Grail, he ages rapidly until he dies, his body decomposes and turns to dust. Notable for the fact that Donovan grows a considerable amount of hair during the ageing process, and may well have died of starvation for all we know.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' Wesley has at least 31 years of his life drained away to the point that he's OnlyMostlyDead.
* Featured in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] classic ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'': the {{Jerkass}} subject of one story makes liberal use of a book of magic spells, but finds that afterwords he's suddenly been turned into an old man, since magic use drains LifeEnergy. His solution is to use the book's recipe for a LifeEnergy-restoring potion, but winds up overdoing it (or something) and turning himself into a baby.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Used partially in ''Film/XMen1''. After Rogue (having absorbed a large part of Magneto's power) is used as a battery for the machine that gives normal people powers, she becomes drained of energy, and her hair gets [[LockedIntoStrangeness a grey streak]]. In fact, Magneto used her for this because using it was expected to ''kill'' the user.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Yashida intends to drain Logan's HealingFactor from him.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', the knight guarding the Holy Grail explains that, "The true Grail will give you life, and the false Grail will take life from you." When Donovan drinks from the wrong Grail, he ages rapidly until he dies, his body decomposes and turns to dust. Notable for the fact that Donovan grows a considerable amount of hair during the ageing process, and may well have died of starvation for all we know.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' Wesley has at least 31 years of his life drained away to the point that he's OnlyMostlyDead.
* Featured in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] classic ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'': the {{Jerkass}} subject of one story makes liberal use of a book of magic spells, but finds that afterwords he's suddenly been turned into an old man, since magic use drains LifeEnergy. His solution is to use the book's recipe for a LifeEnergy-restoring potion, but winds up overdoing it (or something) and turning himself into a baby.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Used partially in ''Film/XMen1''. After Rogue (having absorbed a large part of Magneto's power) is used as a battery for the machine that gives normal people powers, she becomes drained of energy, and her hair gets [[LockedIntoStrangeness a grey streak]]. In fact, Magneto used her for this because using it was expected to ''kill'' the user.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Yashida intends to drain Logan's HealingFactor from him.
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* In the 2002 ''Film/{{The Time Machine|2002}}'' film, [[spoiler:the Morlock leader]] gets partially thrown out of the time machine, hanging from Alex's neck. Alex then sends the machine forward, rapidly aging him to dust, similar to the Indiana Jones example above. This is even more strange, as this means he was basically hanging for centuries without trying to do anything about it. If anything, his hands should've been cut off the moment the machine began moving through time.
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* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', the 2002 ''Film/{{The Time Machine|2002}}'' film, knight guarding the Holy Grail explains that "The true Grail will give you life, and the false Grail will take life from you." When Donovan drinks from the wrong Grail, he ages rapidly until he dies, his body decomposes and turns to dust. Notable for the fact that Donovan grows a considerable amount of hair during the ageing process, and may well have died of starvation for all we know.
* ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' and the book it was adapted from, ''The Space Vampires''.
* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'': The {{Jerkass}} subject of one story makes liberal use of a book of magic spells, but afterwards finds that he's suddenly been turned into an old man, since magic use drains LifeEnergy. His solution is to use the book's recipe for a LifeEnergy-restoring potion, but winds up overdoing it (or something) and turning himself into a baby.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Wesley has at least 31 years of his life drained away to the point that he's OnlyMostlyDead.
* In ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'', [[spoiler:the Morlock leader]] gets partially thrown out of the time machine, hanging from Alex's neck. Alex then sends the machine forward, rapidly aging him to dust, similar to the Indiana Jones example above. This is even more strange, as this means he was basically hanging for centuries without trying to do anything about it. If anything, his hands should've been cut off the moment the machine began moving throughtime.time.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Used partially in ''Film/XMen1''. After Rogue (having absorbed a large part of Magneto's power) is used as a battery for the machine that gives normal people powers, she becomes drained of energy, and her hair gets [[LockedIntoStrangeness a grey streak]]. In fact, Magneto used her for this because using it was expected to ''kill'' the user.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Yashida intends to drain Logan's HealingFactor from him.
* ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' and the book it was adapted from, ''The Space Vampires''.
* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'': The {{Jerkass}} subject of one story makes liberal use of a book of magic spells, but afterwards finds that he's suddenly been turned into an old man, since magic use drains LifeEnergy. His solution is to use the book's recipe for a LifeEnergy-restoring potion, but winds up overdoing it (or something) and turning himself into a baby.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Wesley has at least 31 years of his life drained away to the point that he's OnlyMostlyDead.
* In ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'', [[spoiler:the Morlock leader]] gets partially thrown out of the time machine, hanging from Alex's neck. Alex then sends the machine forward, rapidly aging him to dust, similar to the Indiana Jones example above. This is even more strange, as this means he was basically hanging for centuries without trying to do anything about it. If anything, his hands should've been cut off the moment the machine began moving through
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Used partially in ''Film/XMen1''. After Rogue (having absorbed a large part of Magneto's power) is used as a battery for the machine that gives normal people powers, she becomes drained of energy, and her hair gets [[LockedIntoStrangeness a grey streak]]. In fact, Magneto used her for this because using it was expected to ''kill'' the user.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Yashida intends to drain Logan's HealingFactor from him.
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* Notably averted in the Creator/LarryNiven book ''Literature/AWorldOutOfTime''. Aging is dependent on cellular poisons that can be removed. However, people who have it removed don't instantly turn young, but gradually get young as their younger cells can repair the body.
* Magic in the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology works like this. Ward, who has magical abilities, but is untrained, can share his magical energy with Oreg, who is better at doing something with it.
* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' books operates on this principle.
* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and in a few of the numerous adaptations, the Count starts off as an elderly man and becomes younger in appearance over time through drinking blood. Also, when Lucy becomes a vampire, she looks healthier "dead" in her coffin than she did alive though ill (that she looks better after having "died" of said illness is a sign something is Not Right).
* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
* Magic in the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology works like this. Ward, who has magical abilities, but is untrained, can share his magical energy with Oreg, who is better at doing something with it.
* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' books operates on this principle.
* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and in a few of the numerous adaptations, the Count starts off as an elderly man and becomes younger in appearance over time through drinking blood. Also, when Lucy becomes a vampire, she looks healthier "dead" in her coffin than she did alive though ill (that she looks better after having "died" of said illness is a sign something is Not Right).
* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
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* Magic in the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology works like this. Ward, who has magical abilities, but is untrained, can share his magical energy with Oreg, who is better at doing something with it.
* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' books operates on this principle.
* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
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* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/RedNails", Tascela does this. She intends to do it to Valeria.
* Happened to Wesley in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' tie in novel ''The Longest Night'' from a spell being used by a desperate, dying father who was trying to stay alive to see his son grow up. Angel rescues Wes and the boy is briefly aged by the spell, thereby letting the dad see him as an adult before he returns to being a kid.
* In ''Literature/TheSwordOfGood'', the Lord of Dark has a Wormarium, filled with worms that he drains life-force from to artificially extend his life. This is taken as a sign of great evil, [[spoiler:but as he points out, it's objectively no worse than slaughtering cattle to eat their meat.]]
* Happened to Wesley in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' tie in novel ''The Longest Night'' from a spell being used by a desperate, dying father who was trying to stay alive to see his son grow up. Angel rescues Wes and the boy is briefly aged by the spell, thereby letting the dad see him as an adult before he returns to being a kid.
* In ''Literature/TheSwordOfGood'', the Lord of Dark has a Wormarium, filled with worms that he drains life-force from to artificially extend his life. This is taken as a sign of great evil, [[spoiler:but as he points out, it's objectively no worse than slaughtering cattle to eat their meat.]]
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* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/RedNails", Tascela does Magic in the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology works like this. She intends to do it to Valeria.
Ward, who has magical abilities, but is untrained, can share his magical energy with Oreg, who is better at doing something with it.
*Happened Happens to Wesley in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' tie in novel TieInNovel ''The Longest Night'' from a spell being used by a desperate, dying father who was trying to stay alive to see his son grow up. Angel rescues Wes and the boy is briefly aged by the spell, thereby letting the dad see him as an adult before he returns to being a kid.
* In''Literature/TheSwordOfGood'', "Literature/RedNails", Tascela does this. She intends to do it to Valeria.
* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' operates on this principle.
* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
* In "Literature/TheSwordOfGood", the Lord of Dark has a Wormarium, filled with worms that he drains life-force from to artificially extend his life. This is taken as a sign of great evil, [[spoiler:but as he points out, it's objectively no worse than slaughtering cattle to eat theirmeat.]]meat]].
* Notably averted in ''Literature/AWorldOutOfTime''. Aging is dependent on cellular poisons that can be removed. However, people who have it removed don't instantly turn young, but gradually get young as their younger cells can repair the body.
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* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' operates on this principle.
* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
* In "Literature/TheSwordOfGood", the Lord of Dark has a Wormarium, filled with worms that he drains life-force from to artificially extend his life. This is taken as a sign of great evil, [[spoiler:but as he points out, it's objectively no worse than slaughtering cattle to eat their
* Notably averted in ''Literature/AWorldOutOfTime''. Aging is dependent on cellular poisons that can be removed. However, people who have it removed don't instantly turn young, but gradually get young as their younger cells can repair the body.
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* One episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' involves a [[ProudWarriorRace Luxan]] holy woman undergoing a psychic ritual with D'Argo, which unexpectedly results in her becoming far younger because she's accidentally draining energy from [[SpaceWhale Moya]], who undergoes accelerated aging.
* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' online material, Linda Niles [[spoiler:a.k.a. Leona Mills]] has this as her superpower. She also suffers from accelerated aging if she doesn't use this power regularly. However, she's a ''protagonist'', so she only drains youth from trees and pieces of wood rather than people.
** Additionally, in the main series, when [[spoiler:Adam]] loses their healing factor [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him, he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust]]. Apparently, healing factors in the Heroes 'verse merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' had a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Criminal Of The Week]] with aging powers who sold his services (primarily to {{Stage Mom}}s); once his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gaia Memory]] was destroyed, all his victims returned to normal.
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', an evil scientist drains Jimmy Olsen's youth to rejuvenate herself.
** Bonus points in that old Jimmy was a cameo by Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' in the '50s.
* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' online material, Linda Niles [[spoiler:a.k.a. Leona Mills]] has this as her superpower. She also suffers from accelerated aging if she doesn't use this power regularly. However, she's a ''protagonist'', so she only drains youth from trees and pieces of wood rather than people.
** Additionally, in the main series, when [[spoiler:Adam]] loses their healing factor [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him, he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust]]. Apparently, healing factors in the Heroes 'verse merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' had a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Criminal Of The Week]] with aging powers who sold his services (primarily to {{Stage Mom}}s); once his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gaia Memory]] was destroyed, all his victims returned to normal.
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', an evil scientist drains Jimmy Olsen's youth to rejuvenate herself.
** Bonus points in that old Jimmy was a cameo by Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' in the '50s.
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* One episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' involves a [[ProudWarriorRace [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Luxan]] holy woman undergoing a psychic ritual with D'Argo, which unexpectedly results in her becoming far younger because she's accidentally draining energy from [[SpaceWhale Moya]], who undergoes accelerated aging.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** When [[spoiler:Adam]] loses his HealingFactor [[spoiler:(or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him)]], he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust. Apparently, healing factors in the setting merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
** In the''Series/{{Heroes}}'' online material, Linda Niles [[spoiler:a.k.a. Leona Mills]] has this as her superpower. She also suffers from accelerated aging if she doesn't use this power regularly. However, she's a ''protagonist'', so she only drains youth from trees and pieces of wood rather than people.
** Additionally, in the main series, when [[spoiler:Adam]] loses their healing factor [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him, he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust]]. Apparently, healing factors in the Heroes 'verse merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' had has a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Criminal Of The of the Week]] with aging powers who sold his services (primarily to {{Stage Mom}}s); once his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gaia Memory]] was destroyed, all his victims returned to normal.
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', an evil scientist drains Jimmy Olsen's youth to rejuvenate herself. \n** Bonus points in that old Jimmy was a cameo by Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' in the '50s.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** When [[spoiler:Adam]] loses his HealingFactor [[spoiler:(or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him)]], he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust. Apparently, healing factors in the setting merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
** In the
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', an evil scientist drains Jimmy Olsen's youth to rejuvenate herself.
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* The Wraith on ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. It was {{handwave}}d as "a series of complex chemical processes that we only barely understand." This, however, [[VoodooShark does not explain]] how the victims suddenly grow enough extra skin to be wrinkly like that.
** This can be covered by their body rapidly going through an accelerated aging process, so it still makes more sense than their hair turning grey/white.
** Rather than growing extra skin, couldn't they be losing muscle and bone mass? That could even help explain where Wraith get chemical nutrients.
** This can be covered by their body rapidly going through an accelerated aging process, so it still makes more sense than their hair turning grey/white.
** Rather than growing extra skin, couldn't they be losing muscle and bone mass? That could even help explain where Wraith get chemical nutrients.
* The Wraith in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. It's {{handwave}}d as "a series of complex chemical processes that we only barely understand." This, however, [[VoodooShark does not explain]] how the victims suddenly grow enough extra skin to be wrinkly like that.
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* "Grampira", an episode of ''Series/WeirdScience'', had Wyatt wishing for his elderly grandmother Nana to leave her nursing home by being young again. LiteralGenie Lisa granted the wish by giving her the power to suck the youthful energy from anyone she touched: Nana became more active and energized, while the teens themselves acted like old people trapped in young bodies (talking about early bird specials and becoming hard of hearing, for example). The only way to set things right was for Nana to go back into the nursing home again, which, in a surprising reversal of this trope, she willingly did, explaining that she while being young again was fun, she's also quite happy to be old, too.
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* "Grampira", an The ''Series/WeirdScience'' episode of ''Series/WeirdScience'', had "Grampira" has Wyatt wishing for his elderly grandmother Nana to leave her nursing home by being young again. LiteralGenie Lisa granted grants the wish by giving her the power to suck the youthful energy from anyone she touched: Nana became becomes more active and energized, while the teens themselves acted act like old people trapped in young bodies (talking about early bird specials and becoming hard of hearing, for example). The only way to set things right was is for Nana to go back into the nursing home again, which, in a surprising reversal of this trope, she willingly did, does, explaining that she while being young again was fun, she's also quite happy to be old, too.
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* The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' has an arc based around this, with elderly villain Silvermane trying to become younger via magic and winding up turning himself into a baby. The Vulture constantly shifts between youthful and elderly form, eventually managing to stabilize himself as young by taking Silvermane's youth via the AppliedPhlebotinum meant to restore him to adulthood (thus returning Silvermane to his original elderly form). Later, Venom and Carnage are recruited by a villain to steal LifeEnergy to release a SealedEvilInACan. This results in rapid aging.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': "The Forbidden Fountain Of The Foreverglades" reveals this is the power of the series' version of the Fountain of Youth. It's discoverer, Ponce [=DeLeon=], having run out of crewman to feed to the fountain, has set up a Spring Break resort using the Fountain's waters as pool water to syphon unsuspecting teens' youth by [[{{Squick}} drinking said water afterward.]]. He has dozens of bottles of such water in his office, literal liquid youth, which he uses to maintain his vitality. At least until the [=McDucks=] check in.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'' had a one-shot villain, a witch named Somnambula, create a carnival as a trap for the Ponies so she could drain their youth and the unicorns' magical power to herself.
* The villain Mad Mod in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' used a magic cane in his second appearance to suck the youth out of Robin and into him. He then proceeded to rule over reality (or at least one city's worth of it) like a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] - and ''Creator/MontyPython''-obsessed God until the Titans put him back in his place. It somehow sucked the youth out of Robin's ''[[MagicPants clothes]]'', turning them into old and worn-out with faded colors, and made Mad Mod's clothes regain their color and look new again.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': "The Forbidden Fountain Of The Foreverglades" reveals this is the power of the series' version of the Fountain of Youth. It's discoverer, Ponce [=DeLeon=], having run out of crewman to feed to the fountain, has set up a Spring Break resort using the Fountain's waters as pool water to syphon unsuspecting teens' youth by [[{{Squick}} drinking said water afterward.]]. He has dozens of bottles of such water in his office, literal liquid youth, which he uses to maintain his vitality. At least until the [=McDucks=] check in.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'' had a one-shot villain, a witch named Somnambula, create a carnival as a trap for the Ponies so she could drain their youth and the unicorns' magical power to herself.
* The villain Mad Mod in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' used a magic cane in his second appearance to suck the youth out of Robin and into him. He then proceeded to rule over reality (or at least one city's worth of it) like a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] - and ''Creator/MontyPython''-obsessed God until the Titans put him back in his place. It somehow sucked the youth out of Robin's ''[[MagicPants clothes]]'', turning them into old and worn-out with faded colors, and made Mad Mod's clothes regain their color and look new again.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E11TheForbiddenFountainOfTheForeverglades The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' has an arc based around this, with elderly villain Silvermane trying to become younger via magic and winding up turning himself into a baby. The Vulture constantly shifts between youthful and elderly form, eventually managing to stabilize himself as young by taking Silvermane's youth via the AppliedPhlebotinum meant to restore him to adulthood (thus returning Silvermane to his original elderly form). Later, Venom and Carnage are recruited by a villain to steal LifeEnergy to release a SealedEvilInACan. This results in rapid aging.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': "TheForbidden Fountain Of The Foreverglades" of the Foreverglades!]]" reveals that this is the power of the series' version of the Fountain of Youth. It's discoverer, Ponce [=DeLeon=], having run out of crewman to feed to the fountain, has set up a Spring Break resort using the Fountain's waters as pool water to syphon unsuspecting teens' youth by [[{{Squick}} drinking said water afterward.]]. He has dozens of bottles of such water in his office, literal liquid youth, which he uses to maintain his vitality. At least until the [=McDucks=] check in.
*''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'' had ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' has a one-shot villain, a witch named Somnambula, create a carnival as a trap for the Ponies so she could can drain their youth and the unicorns' magical power to for herself.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' has an arc based around this, with elderly villain Silvermane trying to become younger via magic and winding up turning himself into a baby. The Vulture constantly shifts between youthful and elderly form, eventually managing to stabilize himself as young by taking Silvermane's youth via the AppliedPhlebotinum meant to restore him to adulthood (thus returning Silvermane to his original elderly form). Later, Venom and Carnage are recruited by a villain to steal LifeEnergy to release a SealedEvilInACan. This results in rapid aging.
* The villain Mad Modin from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' used uses a magic cane in his second appearance to suck the youth out of Robin and into him. It somehow sucks the youth out of Robin's ''[[MagicPants clothes]]'' as well, turning them into old and worn-out with faded colors, and makes Mad Mod's clothes regain their color and look new again. He then proceeded proceeds to rule over reality (or at least one city's worth of it) like a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] - Beatles]]- and ''Creator/MontyPython''-obsessed God Creator/MontyPython-obsessed god until the Titans put him back in his place. It somehow sucked the youth out of Robin's ''[[MagicPants clothes]]'', turning them into old and worn-out with faded colors, and made Mad Mod's clothes regain their color and look new again.place.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' has an arc based around this, with elderly villain Silvermane trying to become younger via magic and winding up turning himself into a baby. The Vulture constantly shifts between youthful and elderly form, eventually managing to stabilize himself as young by taking Silvermane's youth via the AppliedPhlebotinum meant to restore him to adulthood (thus returning Silvermane to his original elderly form). Later, Venom and Carnage are recruited by a villain to steal LifeEnergy to release a SealedEvilInACan. This results in rapid aging.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Bartholomew Kuma is able to push EVERYTHING with his hands. Sounds useless, right? He can push even physical conditions out. The first time we see this, Kuma pushed the pain [[spoiler:out of Luffy]], which manifested as a giant red bubble. [[spoiler:It then made a viable projectile, with a small bit of the bubble knocking Zoro to his knees. And then he took it all in. And he is more or less unconscious. While standing.]] The wounds weren't healed, but the 'donor' felt great after waking up.
* If you use magic to heal someone in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', their wound is transferred onto you. This is why healing magic is forbidden, as is magic that brings people BackFromTheDead.
* If you use magic to heal someone in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', their wound is transferred onto you. This is why healing magic is forbidden, as is magic that brings people BackFromTheDead.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Bartholomew Kuma is able to push ''everything'' with his hands. Sounds useless, right? He can [[SemanticSuperpower push even physical conditions out]]. The first time we see this, Kuma pushes the pain [[spoiler:out of Luffy]], which manifests as a giant red bubble. [[spoiler:It then becomes a viable projectile, with a small bit of the bubble knocking Zoro to his knees. Then he takes it all in and is left more or less unconscious, ''while standing''.]] The wounds aren't healed, but the 'donor' feels great after waking up.
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* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven}} "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her absorption power to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).[[/note]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her absorption power to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).[[/note]]
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* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven}} ComicBook/{{Raven|DCComics}} "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her Rogue's absorption power is sometimes taken to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' extreme. In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd he's been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not In one of Creator/MarvelComics' attempts at an ongoing series for her, when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack''. In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit, who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).[[/note]]power.
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* Kerry Ellison (Seraphim) of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. When her powers manifest, she finds she can heal people but only by getting their injury/illness for a while, and the injury/illness from previous healings at a lessened level. This means that when she heals an old woman with cancer, she's in agony for hours. Then she's ''forced against her will'' to heal person after person, taking on all their illnesses. {{Squick}}.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** King of the Slaughterhouse Nine can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24-hour period.
** The similarly powered Scapegoat can absorb other people's injuries and then transfer them to his opponents. Unfortunately for him, he fully experiences any injuries he's carrying until he can load them off.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** King of the Slaughterhouse Nine can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24-hour period.
** The similarly powered Scapegoat can absorb other people's injuries and then transfer them to his opponents. Unfortunately for him, he fully experiences any injuries he's carrying until he can load them off.
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* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', when the "Wonder Twin" heals people infected with his sister's illness, not only do they get healthy, but their black tears somehow disappear.
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* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', when the "Wonder Twin" Alejandro Herrera heals people infected with his sister's illness, not only do they get healthy, but their black tears somehow disappear.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' original episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]", the titular mute alien could heal others, but suffered concurrent damage to herself. If she healed someone badly enough injured, she could die.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' original episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]", the titular mute alien could heal others, but suffered concurrent damage to herself. If she healed someone badly enough injured, she could die.
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* In the game ''[[TabletopGame/SeventhSea 7th Sea]]'', there is an advantage in the Vendel/Vesten sourcebook called "Sympathetic Healer" that allows a player to absorb another's wounds into themselves. Likewise, they can transfer injuries into a target if pressed.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (from AD&D 2 on) wizard spell "Vampiric Touch" (drains HitPoints).
** PsychicPowers "Life Draining" (drains HitPoints) and "Psychic Drain" (gains power points by temporarily damaging the victim's stats), 3 ed. has "Psychic Vampire" (drains power points, if the victim has none it damages stats temporarily).
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has wizard spell "Morgannaver's Sting" (stronger variant of Vampiric Touch) and in 3rd ed. druid spell "Healing Sting"
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (from AD&D 2 on) wizard spell "Vampiric Touch" (drains HitPoints).
** PsychicPowers "Life Draining" (drains HitPoints) and "Psychic Drain" (gains power points by temporarily damaging the victim's stats), 3 ed. has "Psychic Vampire" (drains power points, if the victim has none it damages stats temporarily).
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has wizard spell "Morgannaver's Sting" (stronger variant of Vampiric Touch) and in 3rd ed. druid spell "Healing Sting"
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* In the game ''[[TabletopGame/SeventhSea 7th Sea]]'', ''TabletopGame/SeventhSea'', there is an advantage in the Vendel/Vesten sourcebook called "Sympathetic Healer" that allows a player to absorb another's wounds into themselves. Likewise, they can transfer injuries into a target if pressed.
*''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** From ''[[TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons2ndEdition AD&D2 on) 2]]'' onwards, the wizard spell "Vampiric Touch" (drains HitPoints).
drains HitPoints.
** Some PsychicPowers do this. "Life Draining"(drains HitPoints) and drains HitPoints, "Psychic Drain" (gains gains power points by temporarily damaging the victim's stats), stats, and [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3 ed. ed.]] has "Psychic Vampire" (drains Vampire", which drains power points, if points (if the victim has none none, it damages stats temporarily).
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the wizard spell "Morgannaver's Sting"(stronger (a stronger variant of of" Vampiric Touch) Touch"), and in 3rd ed. the druid spell "Healing Sting"Sting" in 3rd ed.
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** Some PsychicPowers do this. "Life Draining"
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the wizard spell "Morgannaver's Sting"
* The sun-touched in ''VideoGame/AStudyInSteampunk'' can use their ability to sense the "inner fire" in a person to [[HealingHands heal them]] or to [[LifeDrinker reinvigorate themselves]]. The latter is addictive and causes the sun-touched's aura (detectable by [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual special glasses]]) to redden.
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* Kerry Ellison (Seraphim) of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. When her powers manifest, she finds she can heal people but only by getting their injury/illness for a while. And the injury/illness from previous healings at a lessened level. Which means that when she heals an old woman with cancer, she's in agony for hours. And then she's ''forced against her will'' to heal person after person, taking on all their illnesses. {{Squick}}.
* [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-]][[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 590]] is an empathic healer who follows this trope. When he heals someone's serious physical injury, he feels the pain they felt when they received the injury, and a scar appears on his body to correspond with the injury's location on the individual being healed. Unlike most empathic healers in fiction, he doesn't have an accelerated healing factor, so the damage he heals constantly accumulates in his body. When the Website/SCPFoundation took him in, they had him heal several cases of mental retardation, permanently leaving him with the intelligence of a three-year-old child, thereby making him less able to resist his new role as the foundation's repository for suffering. It's also treated as a partial MercyKill: ''hopefully'' there's not enough of his mind left to properly suffer all that agony.
* King of the Slaughterhouse Nine from Literature/{{Worm}}, who can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24 hour period.
** The similarly powered Scapegoat can absorb other people's injuries and then transfer them to his opponents. Unfortunately for him, he fully experiences any injuries he's carrying until he can load them off.
* The sun-touched in ''VideoGame/AStudyInSteampunk'' can use their ability to sense the "inner fire" in a person to [[HealingHands heal them]] or to [[LifeDrinker reinvigorate themselves]]. The latter is addictive and causes the sun-touched's aura (detectable by [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual special glasses]]) to redden.
* Kerry Ellison (Seraphim) of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. When her powers manifest, she finds she can heal people but only by getting their injury/illness for a while. And the injury/illness from previous healings at a lessened level. Which means that when she heals an old woman with cancer, she's in agony for hours. And then she's ''forced against her will'' to heal person after person, taking on all their illnesses. {{Squick}}.
* [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-]][[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 590]] is an empathic healer who follows this trope. When he heals someone's serious physical injury, he feels the pain they felt when they received the injury, and a scar appears on his body to correspond with the injury's location on the individual being healed. Unlike most empathic healers in fiction, he doesn't have an accelerated healing factor, so the damage he heals constantly accumulates in his body. When the Website/SCPFoundation took him in, they had him heal several cases of mental retardation, permanently leaving him with the intelligence of a three-year-old child, thereby making him less able to resist his new role as the foundation's repository for suffering. It's also treated as a partial MercyKill: ''hopefully'' there's not enough of his mind left to properly suffer all that agony.
* King of the Slaughterhouse Nine from Literature/{{Worm}}, who can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24 hour period.
** The similarly powered Scapegoat can absorb other people's injuries and then transfer them to his opponents. Unfortunately for him, he fully experiences any injuries he's carrying until he can load them off.
* The sun-touched in ''VideoGame/AStudyInSteampunk'' can use their ability to sense the "inner fire" in a person to [[HealingHands heal them]] or to [[LifeDrinker reinvigorate themselves]]. The latter is addictive and causes the sun-touched's aura (detectable by [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual special glasses]]) to redden.
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* King of the Slaughterhouse Nine from Literature/{{Worm}}, who can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24 hour period.
** The similarly powered Scapegoat can absorb other people's injuries and then transfer them to his opponents. Unfortunately for him, he fully experiences any injuries he's carrying until he can load them off.
* The sun-touched in ''VideoGame/AStudyInSteampunk'' can use their ability to sense the "inner fire" in a person to [[HealingHands heal them]] or to [[LifeDrinker reinvigorate themselves]]. The latter is addictive and causes the sun-touched's aura (detectable by [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual special glasses]]) to redden.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Xergiok the ex-Goblin King heals an accidentally-broken leg of one of his birds by using a "vibrational chant" (which isn't magic, according to him) to give the bird his healthy leg and transfer the bird's broken leg to himself. [[spoiler: He then does it again to steal one of Jake's legs and its stretching ability, leaving Jake with the bird's broken leg.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Xergiok the ex-Goblin King heals an accidentally-broken leg of one of his birds by using a "vibrational chant" (which isn't magic, according to him) to give the bird his healthy leg and transfer the bird's broken leg to himself. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He then does it again to steal one of Jake's legs and its stretching ability, leaving Jake with the bird's broken leg.]]
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* L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s, ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce'' series has order and chaos magic. Natural aging is a breakdown of order in the body and an increase of chaos, which can be countered by using magic to restore and reinforce order to a person's body. While this makes a person healthier (and an order master is effectively immortal), it also causes cosmetic changes that make little sense, like gray hair returning to the person's natural color. In the first book, a secondary character goes from black to gray to black hair repeatedly while straining himself or using too much chaos magic, then recovering.
* In the ''Literature/DragonJousters'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey, the Magi were deliberately encouraging the war between Alta and Tia to continue, since they were using the death of the soldiers fighting in it to extend their lifespans and that of the Altan rulers. Later on, Magi that were forced to flee Alta went to Tia and did the same for the Tian king. Also, the Magi were draining the priests/acolytes that were 'god-touched' in order to power their spells, which eventually killed the priests/acolytes or stripped them of their powers.
* In the ''Literature/DragonJousters'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey, the Magi were deliberately encouraging the war between Alta and Tia to continue, since they were using the death of the soldiers fighting in it to extend their lifespans and that of the Altan rulers. Later on, Magi that were forced to flee Alta went to Tia and did the same for the Tian king. Also, the Magi were draining the priests/acolytes that were 'god-touched' in order to power their spells, which eventually killed the priests/acolytes or stripped them of their powers.
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* The ''Literature/SagaOfRecluce'' series has order and chaos magic. Natural aging is a breakdown of order in the body and an increase of chaos, which can be countered by using magic to restore and reinforce order to a person's body. While this makes a person healthier (and an order master is effectively immortal), it also causes cosmetic changes that make little sense, like gray hair returning to the person's natural color. In the first book, a secondary character goes from black to gray to black hair repeatedly while straining himself or using too much chaos magic, then recovering.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' had someone caught in a temporal anomaly die of old age, even though his ship didn't have enough supplies for him to live that long. And then there was the affliction Sinclair had in the two-parter "War Without End"...
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' had has someone caught in a temporal anomaly die of old age, even though his ship didn't have enough supplies for him to live that long. And then there was Then there's the affliction Sinclair had has in the two-parter "War Without End"...
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** Being a show about time travel, many stories in the old series (like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]") had people aging and de-aging without any negative side affects (besides being older).
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** Being a show about time travel, many stories in the old series (like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]") had people aging and de-aging without any negative side affects effects (besides being older).
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** This happened to Martha temporarily when [[TheGrimReaper Duroc]] almost took her in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Dead Man Walking".
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* ''Series/TheStarLost'': In "The Pisces", the crew of a scout starship discover that [[HollywoodScience relativistic]] TimeDilation has NoOntologicalInertia, so that once they slowed down they started rapidly aging to their "real" ages.
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* ''Series/TheStarLost'': ''Series/TheStarlost'': In "The Pisces", the crew of a scout starship discover that [[HollywoodScience relativistic]] TimeDilation has NoOntologicalInertia, so that once they slowed down they started rapidly aging to their "real" ages.
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* An episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'', "Grandma's Last Wish," had [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a grandmother make a wish]] after her {{Jerkass}} relatives told her they were going to put her in a nursing home, and that she had one last week of freedom to enjoy herself. We don't hear the exact wording of the wish, but as the week progresses, the younger family members show all the symptoms of aging, until, on the last day, ''they'' are too old and infirm to live independently and have to move into a nursing home, while Grandma herself (who was never all that enfeebled to begin with) gets to stay out of it.
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* An In the ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'', "Grandma's "[[Recap/TalesFromTheDarksideS1E22GrandmasLastWish Grandma's Last Wish," had Wish]]", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a grandmother make makes a wish]] after her {{Jerkass}} relatives told tell her they were that they're going to put her in a nursing home, and that she had has one last week of freedom to enjoy herself. We don't hear the exact wording of the wish, but as the week progresses, the younger family members show all the symptoms of aging, until, on the last day, ''they'' are too old and infirm to live independently and have to move into a nursing home, while Grandma herself (who was never all that enfeebled to begin with) gets to stay out of it.it.
* This happens to Martha temporarily when [[TheGrimReaper Duroc]] almost takes her in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E7DeadManWalking Dead Man Walking]]".
* This happens to Martha temporarily when [[TheGrimReaper Duroc]] almost takes her in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E7DeadManWalking Dead Man Walking]]".
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* ''Literature/AccelWorld'': Dusk Taker's power is the ability to steal the powers of other burst linkers, such as when he stole Haruyuki's Flight ability and manifested a set of demonic looking wings. The power was limited in that he could only permanently take powers from those who'd suffered mental trauma similar to his own, hence why he couldn't just straight take Like Bell's time ability.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', victims of [[BattleAura ki]]-vampire Hinako Ninomiya's [[LifeEnergy Life]] EnergyAbsorption attacks don't age, but ''wither'', to the point where they can be rolled up like used toilet paper and even flutter in the wind. She, on the other hand, spontaneously gains enough mass to grow from her [[TokenMiniMoe eight-year-old]]-looking body to her real late-twenties appearance, [[FanWank apparently implying]] that all the [[BattleAura ki]] she absorbed was somehow transformed into biomass. Then the reverse happens when she [[KiManipulation expels the accumulated ki]] and she shrinks back down into her child form. Even her hair reverts to its original length.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', The Wolkenritter can steal people's magical power to fill [[ArtifactOfDoom The Book Of Darkness]].
* Isumi of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is able to use the blood of someone (who Hayate fits the description of perfectly) to restore her powers in one arc.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', victims of [[BattleAura ki]]-vampire Hinako Ninomiya's [[LifeEnergy Life]] EnergyAbsorption attacks don't age, but ''wither'', to the point where they can be rolled up like used toilet paper and even flutter in the wind. She, on the other hand, spontaneously gains enough mass to grow from her [[TokenMiniMoe eight-year-old]]-looking body to her real late-twenties appearance, [[FanWank apparently implying]] that all the [[BattleAura ki]] she absorbed was somehow transformed into biomass. Then the reverse happens when she [[KiManipulation expels the accumulated ki]] and she shrinks back down into her child form. Even her hair reverts to its original length.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', The Wolkenritter can steal people's magical power to fill [[ArtifactOfDoom The Book Of Darkness]].
* Isumi of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is able to use the blood of someone (who Hayate fits the description of perfectly) to restore her powers in one arc.
* Isumi of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is able to use the blood of someone (who Hayate fits the description of perfectly) to restore her powers in one arc.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', the Wolkenritter can steal people's magical power to fill [[ArtifactOfDoom the Book of Darkness]].
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', victims of [[BattleAura ki]]-vampire Hinako Ninomiya's [[LifeEnergy Life]] EnergyAbsorption attacks don't age, but ''wither'', to the point where they can be rolled up like used toilet paper and even flutter in the wind. She, on the other hand, spontaneously gains enough mass to grow from her [[TokenMiniMoe eight-year-old]]-looking body to her real late-twenties appearance, [[FanWank apparently implying]] that all the [[BattleAura ki]] she absorbed was somehow transformed into biomass. Then the reverse happens when she [[KiManipulation expels the accumulated ki]] and she shrinks back down into her child form. Even her hair reverts to its original length.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', victims of [[BattleAura ki]]-vampire Hinako Ninomiya's [[LifeEnergy Life]] EnergyAbsorption attacks don't age, but ''wither'', to the point where they can be rolled up like used toilet paper and even flutter in the wind. She, on the other hand, spontaneously gains enough mass to grow from her [[TokenMiniMoe eight-year-old]]-looking body to her real late-twenties appearance, [[FanWank apparently implying]] that all the [[BattleAura ki]] she absorbed was somehow transformed into biomass. Then the reverse happens when she [[KiManipulation expels the accumulated ki]] and she shrinks back down into her child form. Even her hair reverts to its original length.
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* Comic book characters may, depending on the story, "lose their powers" even if their "power" is that they have wings, a tail, etc., as if "power" is a substance and the wings, which are physical structures, only exist if the substance is present. (See also PowersAsPrograms.)
** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' when a few 'Power Disruptors' are stated by WordOfGod to simply be neural disruptors that prevent them from using their natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and retains her wings.
** In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'', a power nullifier caused Batman and Robins' ''{{utility belt}}s'' to disappear.
** Averted, optionally, in the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' superhero RPG, where superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. So if your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
** The Fifth Edition TabletopGame/HeroSystem RPG introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds''.
** Also happened in the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' comic-book tie-in: The villains figured out a way to negate superpowers across the entire city. This lead to a great many FridgeLogic moments, as it even affected people whose 'powers' were magic, technological or the result of physical changes, but not those who had {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s.
** There are also numerous cases of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s powers being transferred to someone else (including normal humans), despite the fact that his powers are a product of his Kryptonian biology. Though in MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] it was a general property of anything whatsoever from Krypton, including dogs, monkeys, and inanimate objects like his costume. This was completely separate from the structure of any specific item, so transferring it is more plausible.
* The character ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' drains other mutants' powers and anyone's life force.
** Treating their physical forms very inconsistently in the process. She's been depicted as assuming part of Nightcrawler's inhuman appearance, for instance, but not Angel's wings; on one occasion she absorbed enough of Mr. Sinister's powers and personality that she effectively became him--but didn't turn chalk white, which one would assume to be simpler than growing fur.
** In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains powers and life energy, but not physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his eye beams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There was one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining - once Rogue touched Sabertooth, she grew fur and abnormally big fangs. Reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].
** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' when a few 'Power Disruptors' are stated by WordOfGod to simply be neural disruptors that prevent them from using their natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and retains her wings.
** In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'', a power nullifier caused Batman and Robins' ''{{utility belt}}s'' to disappear.
** Averted, optionally, in the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' superhero RPG, where superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. So if your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
** The Fifth Edition TabletopGame/HeroSystem RPG introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds''.
** Also happened in the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' comic-book tie-in: The villains figured out a way to negate superpowers across the entire city. This lead to a great many FridgeLogic moments, as it even affected people whose 'powers' were magic, technological or the result of physical changes, but not those who had {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s.
** There are also numerous cases of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s powers being transferred to someone else (including normal humans), despite the fact that his powers are a product of his Kryptonian biology. Though in MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] it was a general property of anything whatsoever from Krypton, including dogs, monkeys, and inanimate objects like his costume. This was completely separate from the structure of any specific item, so transferring it is more plausible.
* The character ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' drains other mutants' powers and anyone's life force.
** Treating their physical forms very inconsistently in the process. She's been depicted as assuming part of Nightcrawler's inhuman appearance, for instance, but not Angel's wings; on one occasion she absorbed enough of Mr. Sinister's powers and personality that she effectively became him--but didn't turn chalk white, which one would assume to be simpler than growing fur.
** In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains powers and life energy, but not physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his eye beams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There was one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining - once Rogue touched Sabertooth, she grew fur and abnormally big fangs. Reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].
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* Comic book characters may, depending on the story, "lose their powers" even if their "power" is that they have wings, a tail, etc., as if "power" is a substance and the wings, which are physical structures, only exist if the substance is present. (See also PowersAsPrograms.)
** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' when a few 'Power Disruptors' are stated by WordOfGod to simply be neural disruptors that prevent them from using their natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and retains her wings.
**In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'', a power nullifier caused Batman and Robins' ''{{utility belt}}s'' to disappear.
** Averted, optionally, in the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' superhero RPG, where superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. So if your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
** The Fifth Edition TabletopGame/HeroSystem RPG introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds''.
** Also happened inthe ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' comic-book tie-in: The tie-in, the villains figured figure out a way to negate superpowers across the entire city. This lead leads to a great many FridgeLogic moments, as it even affected affects people whose 'powers' were are magic, technological or the result of physical changes, but not those who had have {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s.
** * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': There are also numerous cases of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s Superman's powers being transferred to someone else (including normal humans), despite the fact that his powers are a product of his Kryptonian biology. Though in MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] it was a general property of anything whatsoever from Krypton, including dogs, monkeys, and inanimate objects like his costume. This was completely separate from the structure of any specific item, so transferring it is more plausible.
* Thecharacter ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' character Rogue drains [[PowerParasite other mutants' powers people's powers]] and anyone's life force.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains powers and life energy, but not physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his eye beams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There was one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining - once Rogue touched Sabertooth, she grew fur and abnormally big fangs. Reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].fur.
** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' when a few 'Power Disruptors' are stated by WordOfGod to simply be neural disruptors that prevent them from using their natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and retains her wings.
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** Averted, optionally, in the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' superhero RPG, where superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. So if your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
** The Fifth Edition TabletopGame/HeroSystem RPG introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds''.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains powers and life energy, but not physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his eye beams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There was one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining - once Rogue touched Sabertooth, she grew fur and abnormally big fangs. Reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].
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* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', the villains suck the basketball talents from five NBA players and use them themselves in an attempt to crush the Looney Tunes.
* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', the villains suck the basketball talents from five NBA players and use them themselves in an attempt to crush the Looney Tunes.
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** When Beast approaches Leech, his powers are drained. Apparently his powers include "being hairy", because his hair withdrew into his body as he got close, and immediately grew back when he stepped away.
** Same happens to Mystique when she gets her shot of AppliedPhlebotinum, she loses her shapeshifting ability and looks like a normal human again. A bare naked [[strike:normal human]] ''[[FanService Rebecca Romijn]]'' at that. [[note]]The second example explains the first based on the events of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', where it's shown that Hank's hairy appearance is originally the backfired result of an attempt to use Mystique's genes to make himself appear totally human (his mutation had only previously affected his appearance in regards to his weirdly large feet).[[/note]]
** Same happens to Mystique when she gets her shot of AppliedPhlebotinum, she loses her shapeshifting ability and looks like a normal human again. A bare naked [[strike:normal human]] ''[[FanService Rebecca Romijn]]'' at that. [[note]]The second example explains the first based on the events of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', where it's shown that Hank's hairy appearance is originally the backfired result of an attempt to use Mystique's genes to make himself appear totally human (his mutation had only previously affected his appearance in regards to his weirdly large feet).[[/note]]
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** When Beast approaches Leech, his powers are drained. Apparently Apparently, his powers include "being hairy", because his hair withdrew withdraws into his body as he got gets close, and immediately grew grows back when he stepped steps away.
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* The ''Literature/SimeGen'' series by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is pretty much built on this trope. "Simes" (consumers) must have "Selyn" (LifeEnergy) to live. They can get this from "Gens" (generators). Simes are mutated humans, with additional senses and tentacles added to the arms. Gens are apparently normal humans. Simes must have a 'transfer' of life-energy from a Gen once a month or die -- additional transfers can power special feats. At the beginning of the series transfer always kills the Gen, and Simes do not regard Gens as people, although Simes and Gens are inter-fertile and two Simes can have a gen child and vice-versa. During the series Simes learn how to have safe transfer and to regard Gens as people.
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* The ''Literature/SimeGen'' series by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is pretty much built on this trope. "Simes" (consumers) must have "Selyn" (LifeEnergy) to live. They can get this from "Gens" (generators). Simes are mutated humans, with additional senses and tentacles added to the arms. Gens are apparently normal humans. Simes must have a 'transfer' of life-energy from a Gen once a month or die -- additional transfers can ''Literature/AccelWorld'': Dusk Taker's power special feats. At is the beginning of ability to steal the series transfer always kills powers of other burst linkers, such as when he stole Haruyuki's Flight ability and manifested a set of demonic looking wings. The power was limited in that he could only permanently take powers from those who'd suffered mental trauma similar to his own, hence why he couldn't just straight take Like Bell's time ability.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; theGen, and Simes do not regard Gens as main character is a MagicalGirl who uses her LifeDrain abilities to sap "health" from people, although Simes staving off her own terminal illness, and Gens are inter-fertile leaving her victims temporarily sick and two Simes weak; she can have even "store" this stolen health as a gen child pool to burn through later for a physical boost. When she meets with a doctor who specializes in the overlap between magic and vice-versa. During medicine, the series Simes learn doctor points out how to have safe transfer this makes ''no sense'' from a logical standpoint, since "health" is just a word that means "the absence of illness" and isn't an energy source you can drain and stock up on. This is to regard Gens demonstrate that magic doesn't care about things like "logic" or "laws of nature" and so it works anyway.
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living aspeople.a faith healer, feeding from large crowds in amounts that don't harm any one person, then using the excess energy to cure people's wounds and diseases.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; the
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living as
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* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfBilly'', [[GodOfevil Vetherr]] devoured the fertility and the reason of of his lovers, and used it so that he could create life and give a mind of their own to his creations.
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* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfBilly'', [[GodOfevil ''Literature/TheSagaofBilly'': [[GodOfEvil Vetherr]] devoured the fertility and the reason of of his lovers, and used it so that he could create life and give a mind of their own to his creations.
* The ''Literature/SimeGen'' series is pretty much built on this trope. "Simes" (consumers) must have "Selyn" (LifeEnergy) to live. They can get this from "Gens" (generators). Simes are mutated humans, with additional senses and tentacles added to the arms. Gens are apparently normal humans. Simes must have a 'transfer' of life-energy from a Gen once a month or die -- additional transfers can power special feats. At the beginning of the series transfer always kills the Gen, and Simes do not regard Gens as people, although Simes and Gens are inter-fertile and two Simes can have a gen child and vice-versa. During the series Simes learn how to have safe transfer and to regard Gens as people.
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* The second book in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series has this as a major plot line - evil sorceresses drain the magical power of wizards and add it to their own.
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living as a faith healer, feeding from large crowds in amounts that don't harm any one person, then using the excess energy to cure people's wounds and diseases.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; the main character is a MagicalGirl who uses her LifeDrain abilities to sap "health" from people, staving off her own terminal illness, and leaving her victims temporarily sick and weak; she can even "store" this stolen health as a pool to burn through later for a physical boost. When she meets with a doctor who specializes in the overlap between magic and medicine, the doctor points out how this makes ''no sense'' from a logical standpoint, since "health" is just a word that means "the absence of illness" and isn't an energy source you can drain and stock up on. This is to demonstrate that magic doesn't care about things like "logic" or "laws of nature" and so it works anyway.
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living as a faith healer, feeding from large crowds in amounts that don't harm any one person, then using the excess energy to cure people's wounds and diseases.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; the main character is a MagicalGirl who uses her LifeDrain abilities to sap "health" from people, staving off her own terminal illness, and leaving her victims temporarily sick and weak; she can even "store" this stolen health as a pool to burn through later for a physical boost. When she meets with a doctor who specializes in the overlap between magic and medicine, the doctor points out how this makes ''no sense'' from a logical standpoint, since "health" is just a word that means "the absence of illness" and isn't an energy source you can drain and stock up on. This is to demonstrate that magic doesn't care about things like "logic" or "laws of nature" and so it works anyway.
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* The second book in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series has this as a major plot line - -- evil sorceresses drain the magical power of wizards and add it to their own.
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living as a faith healer, feeding from large crowds in amounts that don't harm any one person, then using the excess energy to cure people's wounds and diseases.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; the main character is a MagicalGirl who uses her LifeDrain abilities to sap "health" from people, staving off her own terminal illness, and leaving her victims temporarily sick and weak; she can even "store" this stolen health as a pool to burn through later for a physical boost. When she meets with a doctor who specializes in the overlap between magic and medicine, the doctor points out how this makes ''no sense'' from a logical standpoint, since "health" is just a word that means "the absence of illness" and isn't an energy source you can drain and stock up on. This is to demonstrate that magic doesn't care about things like "logic" or "laws of nature" and so it works anyway.own.
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': One of the {{Psychic|Powers}}s in ''Mind of My Mind'' can both drain and impart LifeEnergy. She makes a living as a faith healer, feeding from large crowds in amounts that don't harm any one person, then using the excess energy to cure people's wounds and diseases.
* ''Literature/NowhereStars'': Discussed and Lampshaded; the main character is a MagicalGirl who uses her LifeDrain abilities to sap "health" from people, staving off her own terminal illness, and leaving her victims temporarily sick and weak; she can even "store" this stolen health as a pool to burn through later for a physical boost. When she meets with a doctor who specializes in the overlap between magic and medicine, the doctor points out how this makes ''no sense'' from a logical standpoint, since "health" is just a word that means "the absence of illness" and isn't an energy source you can drain and stock up on. This is to demonstrate that magic doesn't care about things like "logic" or "laws of nature" and so it works anyway.
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* In an episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' (and in the comic it was originally based on), the villain Parasite was able to drain life force from his opponents. [[spoiler:But when he tried to drain Superman's power, that overloaded him, leading to the villain's demise. That ending suggests that too much of a good thing is bad, also poetic justice for hubris.]]
* Glory of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', who drains sanity. Described as the mystical energies that hold ones mind together the loss of them leaves the victim in a BlackBugRoom. Glory herself is a Chaos God [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside a mortal man]] not capable of handling our limited perception that has to periodically drain others to save herself from such a state.
* Glory of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', who drains sanity. Described as the mystical energies that hold ones mind together the loss of them leaves the victim in a BlackBugRoom. Glory herself is a Chaos God [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside a mortal man]] not capable of handling our limited perception that has to periodically drain others to save herself from such a state.
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* In an episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' (and in the comic it was originally based on), the villain Parasite was is able to drain life force from his opponents. [[spoiler:But [[spoiler:However, when he tried tries to drain Superman's power, that overloaded it overloads him, leading to the villain's demise. That ending suggests demise -- suggesting that too much of a good thing is bad, also bad (as well as poetic justice for hubris.hubris).]]
* Gloryof ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', who from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' drains sanity. Described sanity, described as the mystical energies that hold ones one's mind together together; the loss of them leaves the victim in a BlackBugRoom. Glory herself is Being a Chaos God [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside a mortal man]] man]], Glory is not capable of handling our limited perception that and has to periodically drain others to save herself from such a state.state.
* ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'' has an unusual example. Whenever the squid/jellyfish-monster Kuragen is summoned to MakeMyMonsterGrow, it fires a beam out of its' big red eye, reconstituting and growing the monster -- at which point the Kuragen shrinks and shrinks into a tiny little octopi creature (often seen scurrying away from the battlefield). In this case, it seems that there's only so much "big" to go around; the Kuragen is basically transferring its size to the monster (after it shrinks, the other villains put it in a small pool for it to recharge).
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* ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'' has an unusual example. Whenever the squid/jellyfish-monster Kuragen is summoned to MakeMyMonsterGrow, it fires a beam out of its' big red eye, reconstituting and growing the monster -- at which point the Kuragen shrinks and shrinks into a tiny little octopi creature (often seen scurrying away from the battlefield). In this case, it seems that there's only so much "big" to go around; the Kuragen is basically transferring its size to the monster (after it shrinks, the other villains put it in a small pool for it to recharge).
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]]: The mutated Lazarus drains people's LifeEnergy, turning them into mummified husks, to sustain himself.
** Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels. They send you back in time to live out your life in the past, then feed on the years you "might have had". The Doctor says this isn't a terrible way to go and calls them "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill you nicely." That is, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], where they figure out they can make a "battery farm" of humans by sending them back repeatedly and feeding on them again and again until they age and die.
** Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels. They send you back in time to live out your life in the past, then feed on the years you "might have had". The Doctor says this isn't a terrible way to go and calls them "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill you nicely." That is, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], where they figure out they can make a "battery farm" of humans by sending them back repeatedly and feeding on them again and again until they age and die.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment"]]: The Experiment]]", the mutated Lazarus drains people's LifeEnergy, turning them into mummified husks, to sustain himself.
** Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels. They send you back in time to live out your life in the past, then feed on the years you "might have had". The Doctor says this isn't a terrible way to go and calls them "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill you nicely." That is, until[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan"]], where Manhattan]]", in which they figure out they can make a [[PeopleFarms "battery farm" of humans humans]] by sending them back repeatedly and feeding on them again and again until they age and die.
** Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels. They send you back in time to live out your life in the past, then feed on the years you "might have had". The Doctor says this isn't a terrible way to go and calls them "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill you nicely." That is, until
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* Both ''Series/LoisAndClark'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' employed this trope. In both cases {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} can copy Clark's powers to someone else (in ''Smallville'', the local GreenRocks also have to be involved) and both shows have had Clark's powers fully transferred into someone else with him losing them (in ''Series/LoisAndClark'' it actually got passed around from Clark to Lois to Lucille back to Clark.) Both shows have also had episodes featuring youth draining abilities or devices.
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* Both ''Series/LoisAndClark'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' employed employ this trope. In both cases cases, {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} can copy Clark's powers to someone else (in ''Smallville'', the local GreenRocks also have to be involved) involved), and both shows have had Clark's powers fully transferred into someone else with him losing them (in ''Series/LoisAndClark'' ''Series/LoisAndClark'', it actually got gets passed around from Clark to Lois to Lucille and back to Clark.) Clark). Both shows have also had episodes featuring youth draining youth-draining abilities or devices.
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* An unusual example from ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman''. Whenever the squid/jellyfish-monster Kuragen is summoned to MakeMyMonsterGrow, it fires a beam out of its' big red eye, reconstituting and growing the monster. At which point, the Kuragen shrinks, and shrinks, into a tiny little octopi creature (often seen scurrying away from the battlefield). In this case, it seems that there's only so much "big" to go around; the Kuragen is basically transferring its' size to the monster (after it shrinks, the other villains put it in a small pool for it to recharge).
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* In ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', one of the perks of being a higher level Avatar of the Merchant is to allow them to facilitate the exchange of intangible qualities. They can buy your good fortune, sell your youth, or trade histories. The only rule is that the exchange must be must be mutually agreed upon.
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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' Fifth Edition "HERO System" introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds'' below.
* Averted, optionally, in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''; superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. If your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
* In ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', one of the perks of being ahigher level higher-level Avatar of the Merchant is to allow them to facilitate the exchange of intangible qualities. They can buy your good fortune, sell your youth, or trade histories. The only rule is that the exchange must be must be mutually agreed upon.
* Averted, optionally, in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''; superpowers can be deemed Innate, not powers at all, and thus immune to effects that negate powers, such as Neutralize or Nullify. If your PhysicalGod gets hit with a Neutralize, maybe he loses his lightning blasts and what-have-you, but the strength that lets him juggle small mountains? That's just the natural physical capabilities of his race, therefor is 'innate' and not technically a power, thus it is not affected. Though this doesn't help against the power Drain: if you have a strength Drain, you lose that innate Super-Strength too.
* In ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', one of the perks of being a
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* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', ugly witch Gruntilda plans to transfer the protagonist's sister's ''beauty'' to herself through a machine. You get to see the result on the GameOver screen...
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** In''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the original game, ugly witch Gruntilda plans to transfer the protagonist's sister's ''beauty'' to herself through a machine. You get to see the result on the GameOver screen...
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* Lampooned in the ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4Tnyqn4UM Last Call]]" in which a doctor purports to be able to transfer ''drunkenness'' between people by balancing out their blood alcohol levels, with the punchline being that now neither the former drunkard nor the designated driver were fit to drive after equalising their blood alcohol, with predictable results.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheCyanideAndHappinessShow'': Lampooned in the ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4Tnyqn4UM Last Call]]" Call]]", in which a doctor purports to be able to transfer ''drunkenness'' between people by balancing out their blood alcohol levels, with the punchline being that now neither the former drunkard nor the designated driver were fit to drive after equalising their blood alcohol, with predictable results.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' featured a power draining villain, which captured several members of the Rogue gallery to drain them for his benefit; including Talon, a villain with wings. When she was recovering from the drain, it showed her feathers growing, as if the draining caused them to shrink.
** Another episode saw a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva could restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Washingtoon" had the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon characters of their "tooniness." Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, breaking it and restoring everyone's tooniness ([[spoiler:although [[FreakyFridayFlip not all of them to their proper bodies]]]]), including [[spoiler:the A.A.F.C. chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago]], and saving Acme Acres.
* The season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' saw Tirek draining magic from unicorn ponies, which would seem to make enough sense, although he also steals ''flight'' from pegasus ponies, leaving them unable to fly (but with their wings still intact) and he steals physical strength from earth ponies. Interestingly, the ponies' cutie marks also vanish when these things are removed, even if their talent wasn't related to magic, flying, or strength.
* Played straight and then averted to a hilarious degree in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. While in the Savage Land, all the mutants temporarily lost their powers. For some reason this enabled Professor Xavier to walk, even though his inability to walk is related to a spinal injury and has nothing to do with his powers.[[note]]{{Lampshade|Hanging}}d later by Mr. Sinister: "I hadn't realised a side-effect would be your renewed ability to walk. I do hope you enjoyed it."[[/note]] When villains inevitably arrived, {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} announced "I've got news for ya, bub! There's nuthin' mutant about these!" and released his adamantium claws. However, without his healing factor he nearly passes out from the pain of ''grievously injuring his hands''.[[note]]Wolverine also lampshaded this after falling off a cliff: "I could really use some mutant healing power right about now."[[/note]]
** Another episode saw a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva could restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Washingtoon" had the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon characters of their "tooniness." Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, breaking it and restoring everyone's tooniness ([[spoiler:although [[FreakyFridayFlip not all of them to their proper bodies]]]]), including [[spoiler:the A.A.F.C. chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago]], and saving Acme Acres.
* The season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' saw Tirek draining magic from unicorn ponies, which would seem to make enough sense, although he also steals ''flight'' from pegasus ponies, leaving them unable to fly (but with their wings still intact) and he steals physical strength from earth ponies. Interestingly, the ponies' cutie marks also vanish when these things are removed, even if their talent wasn't related to magic, flying, or strength.
* Played straight and then averted to a hilarious degree in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. While in the Savage Land, all the mutants temporarily lost their powers. For some reason this enabled Professor Xavier to walk, even though his inability to walk is related to a spinal injury and has nothing to do with his powers.[[note]]{{Lampshade|Hanging}}d later by Mr. Sinister: "I hadn't realised a side-effect would be your renewed ability to walk. I do hope you enjoyed it."[[/note]] When villains inevitably arrived, {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} announced "I've got news for ya, bub! There's nuthin' mutant about these!" and released his adamantium claws. However, without his healing factor he nearly passes out from the pain of ''grievously injuring his hands''.[[note]]Wolverine also lampshaded this after falling off a cliff: "I could really use some mutant healing power right about now."[[/note]]
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' featured Averted by WordOfGod in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''; a power draining villain, which captured several members of the Rogue gallery few [[PowerNullifier 'Power Disruptors']] are stated to drain them for his benefit; including Talon, a villain with wings. When she was recovering from the drain, it showed her feathers growing, as if the draining caused them to shrink.
** Another episode saw a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva could restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Washingtoon" had the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoonsimply be neural disruptors that prevent characters of from using their "tooniness." Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, breaking it natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and restoring everyone's tooniness ([[spoiler:although [[FreakyFridayFlip not all of them to their proper bodies]]]]), including [[spoiler:the A.A.F.C. chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago]], and saving Acme Acres.
retains her wings.
* The season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''saw sees Tirek draining magic from unicorn ponies, which would seem to make enough sense, although he also steals ''flight'' from pegasus ponies, leaving them unable to fly (but with their wings still intact) and he steals physical strength from earth ponies. Interestingly, the ponies' cutie marks also vanish when these things are removed, even if their talent wasn't related to magic, flying, or strength.
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'':
** One episode features a power-draining villain who captured several members of Static's RoguesGallery to drain them for his benefit, including Talon, a villain with wings. When she's recovering from the drain, her feathers are shown growing, as if the draining caused them to shrink.
** Another episode sees a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva can restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas]].
* In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', a PowerNullifier causes Batman and Robins' ''{{Utility Belt}}s'' to disappear.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E11Washingtoon Washingtoon]]" has the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon characters of their "tooniness". Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, breaking it and restoring everyone's tooniness ([[spoiler:although [[FreakyFridayFlip not all of them to their proper bodies]]]]), including [[spoiler:the A.A.F.C. chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago]], and saving Acme Acres.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains [[PowerParasite powers]] and LifeEnergy, but ''not'' physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his EyeBeams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There is one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining -- once Rogue touches Sabertooth, she grows fur and abnormally big fangs. The reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].
* Played straight and then averted to a hilarious degree in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. While in the Savage Land, all the mutants temporarilylost lose their powers. For some reason reason, this enabled enables Professor Xavier to walk, even though his inability to walk is related to a spinal injury and has nothing to do with his powers.[[note]]{{Lampshade|Hanging}}d later by Mr. Sinister: "I hadn't realised a side-effect would be your renewed ability to walk. I do hope you enjoyed it."[[/note]] When villains inevitably arrived, {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} announced arrive, Wolverine announces "I've got news for ya, bub! There's nuthin' mutant about these!" and released releases his [[WolverineClaws adamantium claws. claws]]. However, without his healing factor HealingFactor, he nearly passes out from the pain of ''grievously injuring his hands''.[[note]]Wolverine also lampshaded lampshades this after falling off a cliff: "I could really use some mutant healing power right about now."[[/note]]
** Another episode saw a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva could restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Washingtoon" had the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon
* The season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'':
** One episode features a power-draining villain who captured several members of Static's RoguesGallery to drain them for his benefit, including Talon, a villain with wings. When she's recovering from the drain, her feathers are shown growing, as if the draining caused them to shrink.
** Another episode sees a large number of Bang Babies kidnapped and drained so [[spoiler:Edwin Alva can restore his son from statue-form, which was the result of an earlier SuperpowerMeltdown from trying to combine all the potential powers of the Bang Baby Gas]].
* In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', a PowerNullifier causes Batman and Robins' ''{{Utility Belt}}s'' to disappear.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E11Washingtoon Washingtoon]]" has the A.A.F.C. (standing for Adults Against Funny Cartoons, of course) chairperson, the main villain of the episode, using a machine to drain cartoon characters of their "tooniness". Buster's tooniness is too strong for the machine, breaking it and restoring everyone's tooniness ([[spoiler:although [[FreakyFridayFlip not all of them to their proper bodies]]]]), including [[spoiler:the A.A.F.C. chairperson's tooniness, which had been lost many years ago]], and saving Acme Acres.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Rogue drains [[PowerParasite powers]] and LifeEnergy, but ''not'' physical traits. For example, when she touches Cyclops, she absorbs his EyeBeams, but not his PowerIncontinence, since that is an effect of physical trauma and not an innate part of his power. There is one inconsistency regarding physical trait draining -- once Rogue touches Sabertooth, she grows fur and abnormally big fangs. The reason for it? [[RuleOfFunny Making a joke about leg shaving, apparently]].
* Played straight and then averted to a hilarious degree in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. While in the Savage Land, all the mutants temporarily
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** There are also numerous cases of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s powers being transferred to someone else (including normal humans), despite the fact that his powers are a product of his Kryptonian biology. Though in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] it was a general property of anything whatsoever from Krypton, including dogs, monkeys, and inanimate objects like his costume. This was completely separate from the structure of any specific item, so transferring it is more plausible.
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** There are also numerous cases of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s powers being transferred to someone else (including normal humans), despite the fact that his powers are a product of his Kryptonian biology. Though in UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] it was a general property of anything whatsoever from Krypton, including dogs, monkeys, and inanimate objects like his costume. This was completely separate from the structure of any specific item, so transferring it is more plausible.
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** Additionally, in the main series, when [[spoiler:Adam]] loses [[spoiler:his]] healing factor [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him, he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust]]. Apparently, healing factors in the Heroes 'verse merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
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** Additionally, in the main series, when [[spoiler:Adam]] loses [[spoiler:his]] their healing factor [[spoiler:Or, more accurately, when Arthur Petrelli drains it from him, he ages super-rapidly and crumbles into dust]]. Apparently, healing factors in the Heroes 'verse merely suppress the symptoms of aging rather than reversing them or making them never happen at all.
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* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and in a few of the numerous adaptations, the Count starts off as an elderly man and becomes younger in appearance over time through drinking blood. Also, when Lucy becomes a vampire, she looks healthier "dead" in her coffin than she did alive.
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* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and in a few of the numerous adaptations, the Count starts off as an elderly man and becomes younger in appearance over time through drinking blood. Also, when Lucy becomes a vampire, she looks healthier "dead" in her coffin than she did alive.alive though ill (that she looks better after having "died" of said illness is a sign something is Not Right).
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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has the Steal Youth spell, the most energy-efficient means of reducing a character's age, giving you a year of life for every three taken from the victim. In energy points, it's much cheaper than the Youth spell, and it doesn't have the ridiculous expense of an alchemical youth elixir. So long as you've got disposable victims, you can live forever.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has the Steal Youth spell, the most energy-efficient means of reducing a character's age, giving you a year of life for every three taken from the victim. In energy points, it's much cheaper than the Youth spell, and it doesn't have the ridiculous expense of an alchemical youth elixir. So long as you've got disposable victims, you can live forever.
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* Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her absorption power to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).[[/note]]
* ComicBook/{{Raven}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', at least in her comic book incarnation, "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
* ComicBook/{{Raven}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', at least in her comic book incarnation, "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
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* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven}} "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her absorption power to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).[[/note]]
* ComicBook/{{Raven}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', at least in her comic book incarnation, "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].[[/note]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Creator/MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} took her absorption power to a ridiculous extreme; when she touches Juggernaut to absorb his powers while he is having a heart attack, she ''absorbs the heart attack.'' In a subsequent issue, she accidentally touches Gambit who is temporarily blind because of an eye injury, and is also struck temporarily blind until the absorption wears off. [[note]]''ComicBook/XMen'' #179, when she absorbs Colossus's steel form after he'd been paralyzed by the stress of being near-melted and then frozen in a tag team attack; despite it being the results of external attacks rather than natural powers, she assumes the paralyzed form. (Not to mention ''every time'' she absorbs Cyclops's powers, since the lack of control necessitating his visor was the result of an external injury rather than being inherent to his power).
* ComicBook/{{Raven}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', at least in her comic book incarnation, "absorbs the pain" and apparently the physical wounds of whomever she heals. In one memorable scene, when her demon father Trigon put the "death stare" whammy on a little girl for being too childishly honest, Raven absorbed the "blood boiling" injuries from the child in a very painful-looking scene, becoming covered with welts and blisters until she could heal herself as well. [[CruelTwistEnding Then Trigon vaporized the kid anyway]].
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* In the gospels of Mark and Luke from ''Literature/TheBible'', Jesus' healing power worked by just a woman with uncontrollable bleeding touching the fringe of His garment, and Jesus sensed this happening even when He had a throng of people pressing toward Him, so the woman made herself known and what she did, and Jesus told her that her faith had saved her and to go in peace.
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* In the gospels of Mark and Luke from ''Literature/TheBible'', Jesus' healing power worked by just a woman with uncontrollable bleeding touching the fringe of His garment, and Jesus sensed this happening even when He had a throng of people pressing toward Him, so the woman made herself known and what she did, and Jesus told her that her faith had saved her and to go in peace.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E07TheCuriousCaseOfDeanWinchester The Curious Case of Dean Winchester]]" has a witch who stays immortal by running [[AbsurdlyHighStakesCardGame poker games]] with years of life as the stakes -- after the game, players get physically younger or older to match what they've won or lost. Dean spends some time as a geriatric before Sam wins enough to get his youth back.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E07TheCuriousCaseOfDeanWinchester The Curious Case of Dean Winchester]]" has a witch who stays immortal by running [[AbsurdlyHighStakesCardGame [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame poker games]] with years of life as the stakes -- after the game, players get physically younger or older to match what they've won or lost. Dean spends some time as a geriatric before Sam wins enough to get his youth back.
