History Main / VampiricDraining

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': Some incarnations of King Ghidorah are capable of this. [[Characters/GodzillaTheGhidorahs Keizer Ghidorah]] in ''Final/GodzillaFinalWars'' drains Godzilla's power with his bite, as does the [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah MonsterVerse incarnation of Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''.

* Servants in general can drain people's life force to sustain themselves if they can't get sufficient mana from their Master, though most of them will refuse to do it on moral grounds (they are ''Heroic'' Spirits, after all).

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s Blood Elves, who used to be able to suck the magic out of anything to sate their addiction to mana and keep from degenerating into "lost ones", they no longer possess this ability since their sunwell was restored. The Darkfallen, corrupted elves in the service of the Lich King, take this further by actually consuming blood.

* The ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfette's Inner Beauty" has Hogatha using the Spell of Syphonia, which drains Smurfette of her long life and beauty in order to give the evil witch a more youthful and attractive look. This goes on for hours until Empath's TrueLoveKiss breaks the spell and restores Smurfette's youth and beauty while also restoring Hogatha to her true age and looks.

* In ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', Kaiser Ghidorah could drain Godzilla's power with his bite.
* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', King Ghidorah could drain Godzilla's power with his bite.

* Pretty much ''every'' monstrous species of PC in the small-press ''Night Life'' [=RPG=] has '''some''' variant of this trope, as draining victims of whatever one's species needs - blood, vigor, youth, intellect, etc - is the usual method of restoring one's own health and/or staving off HorrorHunger.

* Changelings from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' feed by draining ponies of their love. They even have fangs to complete the vampiric look, the show's time slot won't allow for any graphic biting, however. The IDW comics tame this a little further. [[http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c282/Hyaroo/MLPFIM_3_TheGroup_006_zps5b02e8c1.jpg?t=1360615219 Take a gawk.]] [[spoiler:They get better after discovering they can feed by simply sharing love with each other.]]
** Lord Tirek grows stronger from draining other living creatures of magic, and he specifically cannot absorb magic fron inanimate objects. When overdosed on magic, he loses all control and turns into a raging beast.
** The Dazzlings, a band of Sirens from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', feed on negative energy, as well as enchant people with their singing, turning them into mindless drones. They seek popularity to gain the possibility to turn more people against each other, becoming more powerful.

** The Cerebral Parasite and Brain Mole feed on psionic energy, which can kill their victim.

** Not to mention actual [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who feed on both blood (Constitution points) and life force (negative levels), and Wights (weaker undead who drain life through slam attacks).

** There's also the classic 3rd level wizard/sorcerer spell Vampiric Touch which drains health points from the victim to replenish lost health.
** Original D&D Supplement IV ''Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes''

** ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' campaign setting:
*** On the world of Athas, the creature known as the thrax can drain all of the water out of an intelligent creature by touch. It can only drink water from a living creature, not normally. If it uses this attack on a human and the human survives, they may turn into a thrax themselves.
*** ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix - Terrors of the Desert''. The t'chowb can drain points of Intelligence by touch and add them to its own Intelligence rating, to a maximum of 24 points. The victim loses the Intelligence points permanently, but the t'chowb only gains them for one day.
** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #238 article "The Return of the Wizards Three". The spell Scourge of Stars creates a magical whip that drains HitPoints from creatures it hits and bestows them on the caster. If the caster is injured the extra HitPoints heal those injuries first. If any are left over they heal any future injuries for the duration of the spell.
** ''World of TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} Fantasy Game Setting'' boxed set (1983) "Glossography" booklet. In the adventure "The Lost Passage of the Suloise", the evil entity known as the Mother will drain the levels (LifeEnergy) of any creature inside its body.
** The Alu-demon drains LifeEnergy by touching a living creature. Each touch drains 1-8 HitPoints and cures 1-4 HitPoints of damage the Alu-demon has taken.
** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine
*** Issue #31 TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} adventure "Bane of the Shadowborn''. The TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}} Darklord sword Ebonbane sustains itself by draining the LifeEnergy of the living animals in its domain, killing them.
*** Issue #41 adventure "A Way With Words". Vampire moss feeds on the LifeEnergy of all living things within ten yards, draining one HitPoint per minute. If a victim is reduced to half (or less) of its maximum HitPoints, it will eventually fall unconscious.

*** 2nd Edition boxed set, "Realm of Terror" booklet. When someone fails a Ravenloft Powers check, one possible reward is gaining 3-6 points of Strength for 10 minutes (after drinking blood) once per day, and one possible penalty is being required to drink blood once per day with no benefit.
*** ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix I''. The doppleganger plant can possess people using its mind bondage power and change them into podlings. It then drains 1-4 HitPoints of LifeEnergy from them per day until they die.
* ''Gygax'' magazine #3 adventure "The Marmoreal Dungeon of Garn Pat'uul". A vampiric cloud called a Horla can drain two HitPoints of LifeEnergy from all creatures inside its 15 foot diameter. Each two HitPoints drained heals 1 point of damage to the Horla.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has the standard "vampire sucking blood" variant. She doesn't actually need blood to survive, but drinking it causes her to gain strength.

* Doraku from ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'' is a rather AffablyEvil and polite man who outright explains to a captive Naruto, Sakura, Hinata and Lee that he falls under "enhance his power" from drinking blood (he insists that his demon clan aren't vampires but did inspire them) saying he gains whatever ability the person has. He never drinks someone to death though just tastes the blood and it works. Has the side effect of enslaving people he drinks.

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* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Baron Mordo]] kidnaps ComicBook/MonetStCroix's father in order to lure her into a trap so he can drain her life essence and put his cancer into remission. Monet's father even lampshades that her life energy seems to attract "parasites" like Mordo.

* ''Anime/WickedCity''. The Black World radical masquerading as a call girl absorbs [[spoiler:Giuseppe]] into herself and drains almost all of his LifeEnergy.

** The Brazilian publishing emphasizes the vampiric methaphor, [[DubNameChange naming her as]] Vampira.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2056 SCP-2056 ("Tsiatko")]]. SCP-2056 has a funnel-shaped mouth lined with sharp teeth. It bites large trees with its mouth in order to drain nutrition. This leaves the tree dessicated, malnourished and 73% likely to die.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has vampires in the first three parts, each of which feed on blood... with their ''fingers''. They need it to heal their wounds (and in Dio Brando's case, [[spoiler:to finalize the connection of his head to Jonathan Joestar's body]]). Part 4 gives us the Stand Highway Star, which breaks down a person's body by draining the nutrients from their cells; its user uses the stolen nutrients to help him recover from grievous wounds suffered in a motorcycle accident.

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', one of the side-quest bosses is Monsieur Scarlet, an ant criminal who lures adventurers into his lair with [[WoundedGazelleGambit false help requests]] on quest boards, and then kills them via draining out their life force. He came dangerously close to doing this with Levi and Celia until [[PlayerCharacter Team Snakemouth]] puts an end to it. During the battle, he can also heal himself by attacking a party member.