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* The 1990s ''{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}}'' had 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 shifted 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 were recruited by a villain to steal LifeEnergy to release a SealedEvilInACan. This resulted in rapid aging.

*** In {{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and [[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.

* [[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 Wiki/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.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men Evolution}}'', 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.

** 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. Rogue survived only because {{Wolverine}} let her absorb his HealingFactor.

* 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. Rogue survived only because {{Wolverine}} let her absorb his HealingFactor. This caused Wolverine's already-healed wounds from fighting Sabretooth earlier to ''reopen,'' so apparently... healed-ness is a liquid asset?

* Used partially in the first ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' film. 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. Rogue survived only because {{Wolverine}} let her absorb his HealingFactor. This caused Wolverine's already-healed wounds from fighting Sabretooth earlier to ''reopen,'' so apparently... healed-ness is a liquid asset?

* In the first ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie, Wolverine lets Rogue absorb his healing factor to save her, and instead of his healing merely being halted, his already-healed wounds ''returned.''

* In ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X3]]'', 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.
*** The second example explains the first based on the events of ''X-Men First Class'', 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).

* In the episode "The Pisces" of ''TheStarLost'', 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.

* An episode of ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' features recurring villaing Professor Nimnul [[CutLexLuthorACheck trying to make an honest living]]. He had invented an aging ray, and tried to demonstrate it by turning a huge bottle of milk to cheese. Not that cheese works that way, and the convention hall full of the dairy industry should've mentioned that ... and the ray does work to age things. Notably the two cops and the police car, as well as one of the Rangers.

* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', an evil scientist drains Jimmy Olsen youth to rejuvenate herself.

* ''Anime/BusouRenkin'': The special ability of Ouka Hayasaka's bow weapon is that she can craft arrows that transfer wounds to herself. She uses them twice: once on her brother, and once on Kazuki.

* Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels of DoctorWho. 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/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan 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.

One variation uses life energy to transfer injuries instead of aging. Apparently, we might not be able to drain the roundness from pizzas, but we can drain "lack-of-bullet-hole-ness"; how else to explain why someone can drain your life energy to give you their wounds?

Sometimes used for FairestOfThemAll. May 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. 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. Assets may be acquired via a BloodBath.

* King of the Slaughterhouse Nine from WebOriginal/{{Worm}}, who can transfer injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24 hour period.

** Similarly, ''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.

* This proves to be Chloe's GreenRocks-given power in ''{{Smallville}}.'' Her first use of it left her clinically dead for a long time, and her second left her with a finger cut in the same manner as Jimmy's had been when she healed him.

* A similar example in ''Series/{{The X-Files}}'', wherein a monster would [[spoiler:eat people, and later vomit them out again into a mold where they took their original human form after a time]]... this had the effect of healing the people entirely, but passing all the symptoms onto the monster. The monster thus stacked up symptom after symptom, a living hell, until finally he [[spoiler:ate John Doggett]], who was dead at the time, thus passing the death onto the monster, who was finally free of the pain of disease-ridden life.

* MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for 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. [[hottip:*: ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' #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).]]

* King of the Slaughterhouse Nine from WebOriginal/{{Worm}}, who can transfer injuries to anyone he touches after 24 hours.

* Glory of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', who drains sanity. She's a Chaos God. Judging by her deteriorated condition when she hasn't "fed" in one episode, it probably had something to do with maintaining some semblance of Order in her human form and mind to balance out her innately Chaotic nature and let her function in a mortal coil.

'''Transfer or drain for aging'''

'''Transfer or drain for wounds'''

'''Aging/youthening without explicit transfer'''

'''Other'''

* Used partially in the first ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' film. 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 ''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. Justified because, well, [[AWizardDidIt God did it.]]
** Also notable for the fact that Donovan does grow a considerable amount of hair during the ageing process, and may well have died of starvation for all we know.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Bartholomew Kuma is able to push EVERYTHING with his hands. Sounds useless, right? Well, he can push even physical conditions out. So far, it has been shown only with pushing 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. [[MadeOfIron This trope's image]] is the end result. You can't see it in the picture but he is more or less unconscious. While standing.]] The wounds weren't healed, but the 'donor' felt great after waking up.

* MarvelComics' most recent attempt at an ongoing series for 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. Notably, Rogue's powers have never functioned this way before and have not done so since.
** Well, other than ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' #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).

* Glory of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', who drains sanity.
** Well, she is a Chaos God. Judging by her deteriorated condition when she hasn't "fed" in one episode, it probably had something to do with maintaining some semblance of Order in her human form and mind to balance out her innately Chaotic nature and let her function in a mortal coil.

* Something like this occurs with the Weeping Angels of DoctorWho. They send you back in time to live out your life in the past, then feed on the years you "might have had". Even the Doctor admits this isn't exactly a terrible way to go, and calls them "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill you nicely". That is, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]], where they figure out they can make a "battery farm" of humans by sending them back repeatedly, keeping them prisoners in small rooms for their entire lives, and feeding on them again and again until they age and die.