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** The [[PureIsNotGood purer]] water is, the more noticeable its dissolving powers become. ''Never'' drink [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water distilled water]] straight, unless you ''want'' to be down some calcium.

* Frost Mages in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' have the ability to summon water elementals (not ice, for some reason) to fight by their side for a little while.
** Probably related to the fact that they were the SummonMagic of Alliance Mages in ''WarCraft III''.
** Ice elementals are extremely rare in World of Warcraft, the only example I can think of is Lokholar the Ice Lord.

* Many other gods, obviously, both of the sea and freshwater bodies. Examples include Oceanus (also from ClassicalMythology), [[CelticaMythology Mannan Mac Lir]], [[NorseMythology Njord]] and [[EgyptianMythology Sobek]], as well as the many kinds of nymphs and fairies and the like.

** It also extends to [[AnIcePerson ice]].

** [[http://tinyurl.com/hbombcrater Oh yeah?]]
*** [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/GRANDVIEWREVB.jpg Hell yeah!]]
** Or given enough water. See "Missoula Floods" and "Channeled Scablands" -- canyon formation while you wait!
* In the Tomorrow Land part of Disney World's Magic Kingdom, a fountain uses a high pressure stream of water (ascending over 250 feet into the air uncovered) to lift a one ton ball off its base, allowing an average six year old child to spin it with ease.
** Those things are everywhere. This troper found one in Niagara Falls once.
* For a long time, Hollands main form of defense was breaching one of their dykes near where the enemy was and watching them drown.

** Forget your fancy high-tech science shrimp! Just drop pure Sodium into some water and it will not only explode, but catch fire as well!
*** Forget sodium. Use [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill potassium]]. And take cover.
**** Cesium is the ''best''. Anything that can be likened to "a depth charge in a bathtub" and live up to it is MadeOfWin. (Chemistry class; we watched a video and they dropped two grams into, well, a bathtub and... [[StuffBlowingUp Things proceeded to their logical conclusion.]]
***** Heh, I remember that video. Shame that it [[http://www.badscience.net/2006/07/ka-boom/ really]] [[DidNotDoTheResearch didn't work like that.]]
**** Incidentally, anyone who feels like mentioning Francium would do well to remember that it is so unstable that there's probably no more than 30g at any one time in the tens of ''exatonnes'' of the earth's crust, and no more than 10000 atoms of it have been synthesized at once. [[DidNotDoTheResearch You'll never get enough to make an explosion]]. This goes double for smart-arses who would mention heavier synthetic alkali metals.
**** An alternative to the alkali metals are the metal hydrides (e.g. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnD1tYAu0KI sodium hydride]]) which are [[UpToEleven even more reactive]] than the metals they are made from. (For those who like to know why, it's because they contain the hydride (H-) ion, as opposed to the common hydrogen (H+) ion)

* Water-type ''{{Pokemon}}'', with attacks like Water Gun and Surf. There are also Water-type specialty trainers like Misty. In keeping with the frequent subtrope of water-based attackers also being able to use ice-based attacks, almost all Water-type Pokemon can also learn Ice-type attacks like Ice Beam and Blizzard.

* Robot Masters Wave Man and Aqua Man from the ''MegaMan'' series. Toad Man can also summon a screen-filling rain attack. Pump Man creates a shield out of globes of water, and can throw them out. Oddly enough, Splash Woman ''doesn't'' fit this.
** Stardroid Neptune yields the Salt Water weapon, allowing MegaMan to short out and corrode robots with globs of ionised saline solution.
** Also, Bubble Man in ''MegaMan II''
* Mario using the Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device in ''[[SuperMarioBros Super Mario Sunshine]]''.

* [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience Blue]] {{Pikmin}} can't controll water, but they are the only Pikmin species that can't drown in water.

* In the KirbyoftheStars anime, Kirby can become Water Kirby who can blast water out of his mouth. Water Kirby is yet to make an apperence in the games however.

* On Series/{{Heroes}}[[spoiler: Tracy]] gains this power after coming BackFromTheDead during the Volume 4 finale.
* ''DoctorWho'' Waters of Mars:[[spoiler: Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop. Water is patient. Water always wins.]]

* The Chrono Cryo soldiers cleanes with water, frozen water. Aka freezing enemies to death.
* The ''BubbleBobble'' games have water-filled bubbles which can be used to rinse down enemies. Sometimes though it can stun the protagonists ''while'' they're being pulled with the current.

* Chaos of the SonicTheHedgehog games is more or less a water elemental, ranging from humanoid to gigantic [[CombatTentacles Tentacle Monster]].

* Strangely only Sabella in TrintonChronicles has any water-based powers. She also has one deadly [[ShockandAwe ability]] that she tends to mix with her hydroblasts which makes her deadly. Aside from her liquid control she also has the added gift of [[AnIcePerson freezing water]].

*** This troper thought he was trying to crush him with the pressure. Just as pointless, but it doesn't sound quite so stupid.

* Aquamaria of ''StaticShock''. She actually does well against Static (he's prone to shorts) until he realizes, hey, electrolysis.

** There are also the so called "Disrupters", not to be confused with the energy weapons from Star Trek, which fire water at extremely high speeds. Bomb defusing robots are equipped with these to short out the trigger mechanism of a bomb. Thanks to water creating no heat on impact it normally doesn't trigger the explosive to go off.
* Super Soakers. ...what?

* For a long time, Hollands main form of defence was breaching one of their dykes near where the enemy was and watching them drown.

**** Cesium is the ''best''. Anything that can be likened to "a depth charge in a bathtub" and live up to it is MadeOfWin. (Chemistry class; we watched a video and they dropped two grams into, well, a bathtub and...[[StuffBlowingUp things proceeded to their logical conclusion.]]

* Look at natural disasters like Floods and Tsunamis. Water probably causes more damage over all than fire.
** In hurricanes it is not the wind that kills people most of the time. It is the storm surge and the flash flooding. And afterwards the infrastructure is messed up because of the flooding, leading to more deaths as vital services are cut off.

Many philosophers, like Lao Tzu above, wax poetic far beyond SesquipedalianLoquaciousness about how nothing in the world is weaker and more malleable than water, yet water wears away the hard and strong. The mountain stands tall and proud, but the sea will eventually grind it to sand. [[DoctorWho Water always]] ''[[DoctorWho always]]'' '''[[DoctorWho always]]''' [[DoctorWho wins in the end.]]

* Mercury adepts in ''GoldenSun'' are both this and the StaffChick version in one handy package. Most of their later moves seem to involve [[AnIcePerson encasing their opponents in ice]].

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-->''For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.''
--> -- Genesis 6:17, TheBible

-->''There is nothing softer and weaker than water,''
-->''And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.''
-->''For this reason there is no substitute for it.''
--> -- Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching, Ch. 78.

* [[MemeticBadass Captain Murasa]] of the ''Touhou'' games uses water for some of her spellcards, fitting her sailor theme.

* New Wave, a villainess in TheDCU who can transform her body into any form of water, including steam and acid rain.

** The purer water is, the more noticeable its dissolving powers become. ''Never'' drink distilled water straight, unless you ''want'' to be down some calcium.

If you came here looking for Splash Damage tropes, you would do well to go to HitTheHarmlessHex, and to ShockwaveStomp for situations where [[ShockwaveStomp the titular stomp]] isn't [[CutscenePowerToTheMax purely decorative]]).

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