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16->''"Your agony shall be ''my'' burden."''
17-->-- '''Orion''', ''VideoGame/AtlasReactor''
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19A person who can [[HealingHands heal other people's wounds]] by taking them onto themselves. Oftentimes when they heal someone else, they get the exact same injuries or ailments. Sometimes, though, they just get really sick or feel great pain. The point is healing others causes them to feel pain or sickness themselves, making it a real sacrifice every time they heal.
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21Expect there to be one point when [[HeroicSacrifice they have to decide whether or not to heal someone with definitely fatal injuries]]. See also SacrificialRevivalSpell.
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23A SubTrope of EquivalentExchange. Can sometimes be a WhiteMage, but doesn't have to be.
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25May be {{inverted|Trope}} for a more villainous equivalent -- [[LiquidAssets healing yourself by transferring your wounds to an enemy]].
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32* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': The special ability of the gauntlet part [[StudentCouncilPresident Ouka Hayasaka]]'s buso renkin Angel Gozen is to create arrows with a heart motif that, when they hit the target, transfer their wounds to her. She almost dies using this ability to prevent [[StockShonenHero Kazuki]] and her brother [[KendoTeamCaptain Shusui]] from killing each other during their fight.
33* Joshua of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' is at least heavily implied to be like this. He wasn't ill until he got his powers, and he can't use his powers to heal himself. One of the extras on the [=DVDs=] state that this system is made to embody the virtue his power represents (Hope) -- the more he uses his powers, the sicker he becomes, so the more he has to have hope for the future.
34* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' has a one-shot gadget called the "Sickness Transferring Phone" (that looks like a normal tin-can telephone) which does exactly what its name implies; sending an illness from one person to another. When Nobisuke gets hit by a terrible fever one morning and insists on going to work because of an important company meeting, Nobita decides to allow his father to transfer his sickness over instead, with intentions of passing it to one of his bullies later on.
35* This seems to be the standard with characters in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' who have the ability to remove curses, known collectively as exorcists. Abengane can remove one curse at a time, which is stored in a snake-like creature that then attaches itself to Abengane. The curse is suspended while in this creature, but Abengane is unable to lift any further curses, and the creature remains attached to Abengane until he performs what's needed to undo it. Hina can lift curses as well, and like Abengane, she can only do so one at a time. It manifests in her body, making her appear pregnant and significantly inhibiting her movements until the curse is lifted or the cursed person dies.
36* [[spoiler:Tatsuya Shiba]] of ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' has powers that work like this. While it's implied that he could even heal someone from straight-up death, he not only feels their pain but feels it intensified (inversely proportionally) according to the amount of time he spends performing the healing. For example, if someone has been suffering for two seconds and he heals them in half a second, he feels all their pain times 4, so that he feels the full brunt of it. It's much worse for long-standing or particularly horrific injuries, and understandably no one even asks him to use this unless it's a matter of death or permanent disability and fully expects that he keep this ability hidden and out of use for fear of what it might do to have to put himself through that.
37* Surprisingly enough for a kid's show, ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' has this. For this reason, healing magic is actually ''illegal'': if a Witch tries to use it on a human or an animal, she's very liable to die. [[spoiler:When Hazuki willingly broke the taboo to help a dying bunny and the ''very'' traumatized girl who was taking care of it, she ''only'' got sick... and that was specifically said to have happened just because [[BigGood the Queen]] was around.]]
38* Some hurriedly introduced AppliedPhlebotinum allows Zoro of ''Manga/OnePiece'' to take the pain from Luffy's injuries.
39* The end of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has the [[spoiler:[[MessianicArchetype main character]] become this to all magical girls past, present and future, absorbing their despair into herself so that no witches would ever be born, all while costing [[CosmicRetcon her existence in the process]].]] It gets [[spoiler:reversed]] by ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', though.
40* Scheris Adjani's alter power in ''Anime/SCryEd'' has this as a primary ability, though it's only invoked once, when [[spoiler:sacrificing herself in order to bring Ryuhou back to life]].
41* In ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'', Queen Horn has such healing powers, which her daughter Flute has inherited.
42* While Himawari from ''Manga/XxxHolic'' doesn't innately possess this power, she does take some scars from Watanuki [[spoiler:as the price of a wish to save his life after her bad luck and his subconscious desire to end his existence leaves him severely injured]]. Similarly, Doumeki loses the same amount of blood as Watanuki does in the same incident.
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46* ''ComicBook/MarvelTheLostGeneration'': Nightingale has powers that work like this, and it appears that every healing takes a little more out of her. She finally dies when she has expended everything she can give.
47* ''ComicBook/{{Ragman}}'': The eponymous character is a walking purgatory, taking the souls of killers. They get redemption by sharing his wounds. Distributed widely enough, they remain relatively unaffected. Some souls get 'permanent' injuries. Taking on enough injuries (or giving strength to Ragman) raises the Karma level, sooner or later, a Good Afterlife results.
48* ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'': The Silver Surfer can heal, but it's an EnergyDonation. A minor injury isn't that big a deal, but bringing someone back from death's door leaves him incapacitated for a while afterward.
49* ''ComicBook/{{Sleeper|WildStorm}}'': {{Inverted|Trope}} by Holden Carver a.k.a. the Conductor -- an alien artifact prevents him from feeling ''anything'', especially pain. Any time he's injured, he can transfer the pain he would feel to others by touching them.
50* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven|DCComics}} heals others by absorbing their pain and some degree of their injury into herself, a grisly take on healing powers.
51* ''ComicBook/XFactor'': This is (sometimes) how ComicBook/MultipleMan heals. A knife wound on one man is drastic but on forty is nothing. Other times, as with a hangover, it just hurts that much more. Similarly, he can safely reabsorb a critically injured dupe, but hates doing it because, well, it ''hurts.''
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55%%* [[spoiler:Ginny]] in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AfterTheEndArabellaAndZsenya''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
56%%* Melanie Bostella's Innocence in ''Manga/DGrayMan: [[Fanfic/ChaosAtTheOrder Chaos at The Order]]''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
57* In ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', there exists [[FunctionalMagic a certain prayer]] done directly to [[CosmicEntities the Fates]] themselves. It allows the prayer to transfer the pain of someone else into themselves, but only the pain is transferred, not the cause of it. The prayer is used by [[PurityPersonified Avalina]] onto [[WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron the Horned King]] after he [[VillainousRescue saves]] her from drowning and the [[WeaksauceWeakness water]] left inside his system leaves him in a very painful state. While she ends up in a painful state for hours, the water remains inside the Horned King, who is [[AngerBornOfWorry both angry and worried for her]] doing that after nearly drowning. The prayer reads like this:
58-->''"[[MagicalIncantation Oh Fates, please now hear my plea. Please grant me what I ask of thee. This pain that fills my friend so kind, I beg you, free him, and make it mine.]]"''
59* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13375109/1/Remedy Remedy]]'', whenever Raven heals someone's injury, she takes on the pain of it. For more serious ones, she also takes on its appearance, but not the injury itself; healing a dislocated joint leaves her with a nasty-looking bruise.
60* ''Franchise/{{Tron}}: Endgame Scenario'': The primary manifestation of [[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Jethro Bradley's]] User powers. He can absorb corruption from Programs, transmute it to harmless code, and sometimes weaponize it (the Ball weapons seen in the game), but it's a matter of "can my abilities to nullify the poison work faster than the poison's ability to damage me?"
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64* ''Film/Code8'' has Nia, though it's only revealed that her HealingHands are actually this during the climax.
65* John Coffey in ''Film/TheGreenMile'' has a variation; when he heals people, he takes their sickness and wounds inside himself, then expels them in a cloud of noxious black. It is not a pleasant experience, and if he doesn't expel it quickly, it takes a toll, but so long as he does expel it, there's no lasting damage.
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67* Paul in, uh, ''Film/{{Paul}}'' does this. He can also heal himself while he's at it, but it's exponentially more difficult with human healing.
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71* ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' has a healer named Javvine whose body is wracked with a multitude of illnesses. If you happen to be carrying any sort of disease, as you let her read your palm you can feel the illness leaving you while her condition worsens. Then again, your next choice allows you to repay her help by eliminating her tormentors.
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75* A hospital tests a revolutionary device that allows a mother giving birth to transfer the pain to the father. An expectant couple tries it, and while the mother reports that she's not feeling any pain at all, the father says he can't feel anything either. Despite the doctors being stumped, the birth goes painlessly for both parents, and they return home... [[CheatingWithTheMilkman to find the milkman dead on their doorstep]], an expression of absolute agony on his face.
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79* People with yellow Spirit Stones in the ''Literature/BrokenSky'' series have this ability. To compensate for taking the wounds of others, they also have [[HealingFactor enhanced healing]]. [[spoiler:Kia]]'s amnesia from witnessing the Netherfane was healed this way.
80* Brewster of ''Literature/{{Bruiser}}'' takes on the physical and emotional injuries of anyone around him that he cares for whether he wants to or not.
81* Kane in Dennis L. [=McKiernan's=] ''Caverns of Socrates'' heals people in this manner, taking others' injuries onto himself.
82* An odd example in ''Literature/TheClericQuintet'' -- Cadderly uses this on his ally after borrowing another ally's [[HealingFactor Ring of Regeneration]] because it can only heal wounds suffered after the ring is put on. If he hadn't, the wounds would have killed him, making the spell of rather dubious use under any other circumstances.
83* Tiffany Aching in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books learns a technique of withdrawing a patient's pain to ease their suffering. She doesn't have to take it into herself, though -- she can siphon it into an inanimate object, whereupon it is transmuted into heat.
84* In ''Literature/AnEmberInTheAshes'', [[spoiler:Helene]]'s healing power works like this. When she sings someone's song, she takes a less severe version of their wounds or illness onto herself. Her power also allows her to heal more quickly than other people.
85* Rory Mercury does this for Youji in ''Literature/{{Gate}}'' prior to their second fight with a deadly Fire Dragon. During the battle, he gets beaten pretty badly, but it doesn't seem to slow him down much. After they finish off the dragon, however, Rory's suffered ClothingDamage and looks like she took quite a beating, due to the damage Youji suffered transferring to her.
86* In ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', "Shrimp" Harper develops the ability to "breathe in" another person's illnesses or injuries, curing them. She receives the subjective effect of the illness or injury, but not the thing itself, and it fades away over time; when she cures someone's broken arm, she has to wear her own arm in a sling for a few days until it remembers that it's not actually broken.
87* In the series ''Literature/TheHealingWars'' by Janice Hardy, the main character Nya is a Taker, or someone who can heal the injuries of others by taking their pain into themselves. Unlike most Takers, Nya can't transfer pain into pynvium, an enchanted metal that can absorb pain -- she ''can'', however, transfer the pain she's carrying to others. Transferring pain to other Takers is fine (as they can just put it into pynvium themselves), but putting borrowed pain into a normal person is eventually lethal.
88* This is Thom's power in ''Literature/{{Hero}}''. However, there is a twist to it. [[spoiler:The emotional and physical pain Thom absorbs does affect him, but if he can handle it, it makes him stronger, to the point of being able to lift buildings, as shown in the end.]]
89* This is the special power of Trenod in ''Literature/TheHourBeforeMorning'', who has to live not only with the pain of healing but with a government that forces him to push himself too far for what it considers the general good.
90* This is one of the potential abilities in ''Literature/TheMUniverse''. Gerald finds it to be a mixed bag: it makes him a more effective doctor, but since he [[NoOffButton can't turn it off]], he's bombarded by the emotions of everyone around him 24/7.
91* The title character of ''Literature/TheManWhoCarriedTrouble'' has the ability to absorb other people's worries. Despite not being his, however, they still seem to somehow weigh on him.
92* In ''Literature/TheShapeshifter'', Mia originally starts out as one of these, but as time passes, she becomes able to heal injuries without hurting herself.
93* This is how wizardly healing works in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth''. The wizard doing the healing doesn't receive the same wounds but has to take some of the pain that is associated with getting the wound in the first place in order to do it. For example, restoring someone's severed foot makes the wizard take on the pain of it getting bitten off.
94* In the books ''Literature/TouchOfPower'' by Maria V. Snyder, Avry puts her hands on the injured and assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. For example, healing a person of plague or being run through with a sword, she receives the same disease or injury but suffers through it and heals at a faster pace than an ordinary person.
95* Dolores Michel from ''Literature/WildCards'' is an ace whose power mimics the injury of another person. Both she and the patient will then develop a surprisingly fast and efficient [[HealingFactor Healing Factor.]]
96* ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'': The heroine of ''Paladin of Souls'' gets involved with a pair of noble brothers who share [[spoiler:a mortal wound and a demonic link: the elder brother, who is walking around, is actually dead, while the younger, comatose brother's life force is almost entirely diverted to keeping the elder 'alive'. The climax involves the elder brother leading a desperate sortie from their sorcery-besieged castle while his brother and his demon-haunted wife absorb the accumulating battle wounds for as long as possible]].
97* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Scapegoat has something which is ''almost'' this -- the effect is conditional on neither him nor his target being subjected to any severe impacts or injuries in the hour or six following the procedure, or else they'll revert to their injured state, and the injuries he experiences from the healed person will likewise disappear. He also has the ability to do it in reverse, [[LiquidAssets transferring injuries he's sustained (or absorbed through his power) to someone else]].
98* This is how healing works in ''Literature/YoungWizards''. However, only involves sharing the injured party's experiences, and not the actual injuries, though some serious healings require a bit of the wizard's blood (as in ''Deep Wizardry'').
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102* In ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'', a one-shot character has the ability to heal genetic defects and birth complications in vitro. Eventually, it's revealed that he's taking these genetic defects into himself. Since he's already full-grown, it doesn't have any immediate result, but over time, combined with the sheer numbers he has healed, he becomes terminal.
103* Dr. Rosen in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E21TheQualityOfMercy The Quality of Mercy]]", using alien technology.
104* Zhaan from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' can absorb others' pain, if not their actual injuries. Stark later develops a more limited version of this.
105* James Heath of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' uses the {{inver|tedTrope}}sion -- he staves off his cancer by transferring it to others. Later in the series, he's able to take the sickness of others into himself, playing this trope straight.
106* The Troubled of the Week in the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' two-part episode "[[Recap/HavenS3E7MagicHourPart1 Magic]] [[Recap/HavenS3E8MagicHourPart2 Hour]]" can resurrect one person who died recently with a touch per day, at the cost of dying herself until sundown, when she resurrects.
107* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', this seems to have been Hiro Nakamura's mother's ability.
108* The first episode of an obscure TV show called ''Series/{{Miracle}}'' deals with a young boy who has such an ability. [[spoiler:He saves the protagonist from a deadly car crash, killing himself in the process.]]
109* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': Zedd's healing is similar to [[Literature/SwordOfTruth the books]], though here he takes part in not only a patient's pain but also the disease itself. In "Fever", this becomes a grave problem, as he has to heal himself as well periodically, plus recovering his strength.
110* Zeke gains this ability in ''Series/{{Manifest}}''. At first, it's only emotional wounds that he can heal, and he gets a job at a counseling center to make use of it. But taking on so many people's troubles begins to have a toll on him as well. [[spoiler: When Cal's cancer returns, Zeke chooses to [[HeroicSacrifice take it from him.]]]]
111* In ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'', Raelle's healing magic works by taking part of someone's illness onto herself. Subverted later when she uses her magic after a certain incident and gets no traces of their illness. She explains that she always takes some part of it, even if just a bit, but in this case, it's completely gone, which alerts her that something is wrong.
112* The ''Series/NightVisions'' episode "Now He's Coming Up the Stairs" stars Luke Perry as a psychotherapist with the ability to absorb his patients' mental disorders.
113* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. In season 6, [[spoiler:Chloe Sullivan]] acquires this power (among others). [[spoiler:Overusing this ability actually kills her twice, but luckily, she can resurrect herself.]]
114* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The title character of "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]" can do this, and her decision of whether to risk her life to save Dr. [=McCoy=] is a major plot point.
115* Raw, the Cowardly Lion analogue in ''Series/TinMan''. Within five minutes of screen time, he heals a nasty wound on Cain's leg and affirms that someone who DG and Glitch thought was just a {{Jerkass}} is really a KnightInSourArmor.
116* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Quarantine", John uses his ability to absorb another person's pain on Matthew Foreman during the surgery to remove his cancerous tissues.
117* ''Series/Warehouse13'' features Mary Mallon's Butcher's Knife in one episode, which can transfer injury and illness both ways. It's eventually used by a man who steals it to give himself his dying son's cancer, saving his son but dooming himself.
118* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E11TheGift The Gift]]", Agent Doggett (looking for Mulder) investigates a town with a monster that turns out to be a healer that ''eats'' the illness out of people, absorbing it. The thing is, he's done it so many times and absorbed so many illnesses that he no longer looks human. [[spoiler:Doggett is killed, and the healer ends his life by eating Doggett's death.]]
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122* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8wJAi-WnY ソレイユ -Soleil-]] by Toraboruta-P features [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} Kagamine Rin]] as a girl healing the afflicted masses by taking on their darkness and growing progressively weaker.
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126* The very concept and basis of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as the Messiah in UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} is essentially this on a metaphysical or cosmic level. Though GodInHumanForm, Jesus allowed Himself to be manifested as a mere human being, with full knowledge of his horrific destiny to be tortured and eventually murdered on the cross, so that he could take all the sins of Humanity into himself and experience the very consequence of sin itself: Death. However, by absorbing all these sins and suffering, yet conquering them in his Resurrection, he had given humanity a chance for redemption, healing them of their previous curse of sin, so that eventually they can regain their previous connection with God instead of being damned in [[{{Hell}} eternal separation]].
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130* The Blessed in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' feel the pain of whoever they use the Lay On Hands Miracle to heal, and risk suffering identical wounds if the casting roll fails badly.
131* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
132** The game has spells that cost the caster experience points or cause them to age rapidly for a limited time, depending on the edition. Sometimes the sacrifice can be transferred to or shared with others... voluntarily or not.
133** AD&D 2nd edition psionic power Lend Health.
134** The 3.5 psionic power Empathic Transfer does this. The psionic power Hostile Empathic Transfer is the [[InvertedTrope opposite]]. In particular, Hostile Empathic Transfer is both the most efficient damaging power and most efficient healing power in the basic psionics book, but [[AwesomeButImpractical is touch-range, allows a Will save for half damage, and the damage is capped by the damage you've taken]].
135** The 3.5 exalted feat "Stigmata" allows you to heal people by taking persistent, bleeding wounds yourself. The overall tradeoff is incredibly efficient (especially with help from other abilities), but the ability damage can't be healed for an hour, leaving the user weakened for quite some time.
136** The 4th ed. epic-tier Paladin daily "Gift of Life" allows you to heal others for up to half of your maximum HitPoints, which you take as damage. If someone died since the end of your last turn, you can even bring that person BackFromTheDead at 0 HP, taking half of your maximum HP as the cost of it. It is not a good idea to do this when you're bloodied unless you're into the whole HeroicSacrifice thing.
137** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' arcane spells "Healing Touch" (a reversed variant of [[LiquidAssets Vampiric Touch]], hurts TheUndead [[ReviveKillsZombie as usual]]) and "Simbul's Synostodweomer" (converts [[VancianMagic memorized]] spells into healing effects).
138** The 2nd Edition supplement [=HR5=] ''The Glory of Rome'' has the Caladrius bird. It can look at an ill person and draw the disease out of their body and into its feathers, which then turn grey. When it flies high up into the sunlight the sun's rays purify it.
139** In the 5th Edition supplement book ''Xanathar's Guide to Everything'', there's the 3rd level spell "Life Transference'', which is available to wizards and clerics. The caster takes Necrotic damage, then chooses a target within 30 feet of them who heals double that amount. Ironically, it's a necromancy spell and necromancers in 5th Edition eventually gain resistance to Necrotic damage, but permissive {{Game Master}}s will often let necromancers apply their resistance to the damage they take but allow the healing amount to be based on the actual number rolled rather than have necromancers somehow be less effective at using a necromancy spell than other wizards.
140* Share Vitality does this in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Magic''.
141* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', Hazduhr the Abbot can redirect damage from allied white creatures to himself, while Kor creatures (also in white) have an {{inverted|Trope}} version -- they can shunt damage they take to other allied creatures.
142* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' lets one create this sort of character as a modifier to the Healing power.
143* This is how the Healer character class works in ''TabletopGame/RoleMaster'' -- the spells learned are a free-form Empathic Healing list and lots of spells for healing yourself. Notable in that while HeroicSacrifice is possible, there's actually a spell that allows you to [[BackFromTheDead raise the dead]] by ''giving up your own soul'' during the transfer process and then (while soulless) casting the spell to reclaim it.
144* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}}'', the Base Set version of Alakazam allows you to move damage counters around between your active and reserve Pokémon, although it specifically keeps the player from knocking out their own monsters in this way.
145* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Adepts plays this so straight that the actual name for the power is "Empathic Healing". A key thing to note, however, is that it's not only not guaranteed but also ''very difficult'' to absorb the entire set of injuries, so there's not much risk in using the power on a gravely injured man.
146* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', ''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society'' #5 article "Special Psionic Powers". The new Empathic Healing psionic power allows the user to transfer someone else's wounds to themselves. If the psionic has the Awareness power, they can use the Regeneration subpower to heal the transferred injuries.
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150* In ''VideoGame/AtlasReactor'', Orion's signature move, Fate Transfer, transfers 75% of the damage an ally takes this round to himself and gives him energy (used to power his [[LimitBreak Ultimate]]) for every point of damage so taken.
151* In ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'', [[spoiler:[[SdrawkcabName Yelmirb]] a.k.a. Creator/WilfordBrimley]] has the ability to cure diabetes (which in the game is the equivalent of Poison) by taking it in as his own and worsening his own diabetus. When you meet him, [[spoiler:he is hooked up to a giant machine that constantly pumps massive quantities of insulin into his body to keep him alive, and his diabetes has gotten so bad that the machine can no longer keep up with the amount of insulin he needs]].
152* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', Krieg's "Redeem the Soul" ability allows him to instantly revive a downed teammate in exchange for putting him in a downed state. However, if he has the "Light the Fuses" ability, this may not inconvenience him all that much.
153* Alicia from ''VideoGame/BulletWitch'' can heal injured civilians this way. Her impressive regenerative powers will quickly nullify any damage she acquires this way, however.
154* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': The powers Absorb Pain (in, appropriately, the Empathy powerset) and Share Pain (in the villainous Pain Domination powerset) do this. The healer is prevented from being healed themselves for a time (fifteen seconds, which in ''[=CoH=]'' is a long time).
155* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'': This is how the [[DualBoss Glyphid Dreadnought Twins]] work in Elimination missions: if you focus too much firepower on one of the twins, both of them will dig underground, and the less-injured twin will heal the other by sacrificing some of its health to equalize them again. It's not a perfect 50-50 split; they actually regenerate some HP between them, so together they always end up with more than they started before the health transfer. Therefore, the trick is to try to keep the two of them as close to equal as possible for the length of the fight, until someone with a sufficiently big enough gun can kill them both before they trigger the health transfer.
156* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' has the H-Pathy and [[{{Pun}} M-Pathy]] skills, which transfers part of the user's HP/MP to the target, though H-Pathy isn't really worth a healing spell.
157* In ''VideoGame/DragonRealms'', the healing class is called the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Empath]]. An Empath can take damage from a particular limb, scaring, and even nervous system damage.
158%%* Ramza's "Wish" ability from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
159* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
160** Like almost all of the spells in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'', healing magic is CastFromHitPoints. Thankfully the target usually recovers more HP from the spell than the caster spent, so keeping two healers close to each other effectively lets you heal for free. Also, some healers have access to the [[LifeDrain Nosferatu]] spell which takes the cost of their other spells out of the enemy.
161** A variant in the backstory of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': When Felicia first came to work for the Avatar, they were very sick, with a severe fever. Felicia wanted to help but didn't help the medical knowledge to do so, so she used her [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] to bring the fever down... by drawing the Avatar's excess body heat into herself.
162** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' has two non-staff healing options that require this. First is Ardent Sacrifice, which heals 10HP from target and takes away that much from the user, and the second one is Reciprocal Aid, which has the user swap their health with the target's.
163** Micaiah's "Sacrifice" ability in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' transfers as much HP from herself to her target of healing as she can, down to the limit of leaving 1HP for herself.
164** Notably, Absorb Pain is considered an entirely dispensable power, especially considering that heals are inferior to [[StatusBuff buffs]] by ''far''.
165* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', the move Pain Split works by adding up the HP of the two Pokémon and redistributing it to them equally. If you're lower than your opponent on health, you recover. If your opponent has less, you end up healing them at the cost of your HP.
166* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': Not physical damage, but stat damage with Collect Pain:
167--> Amalie takes all stat debuffs from her allies unto herself.
168* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', Akiha Tohno [[spoiler:gave half of her life force to Shiki after he was killed eight years ago, dooming herself to a "half life" (not to mention the complications with [[InTheBlood her blood]]). Shiki isn't much better off, either, but at least, he's alive and that's good enough for her]].
169* In ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'', the endgame reveals that [[spoiler:Graven Ashe's Aegis]] works in this way. If [[spoiler:Graven Ashe]] is killed, the effect of all the pain he took onto himself is immediately reversed, [[spoiler:destroying the Disfavoured irrevocably]].
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173%%* Adrak in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' can do this using the Nakta, which is usually a destructive force, as seen [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171210120449/http://www.dominic-deegan.com:80/view.php?date=2009-05-27 here]].%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
174* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Faen (and, it's implied, a good part of her family) have this power. It's not clear if she can die by healing, though.
175* In ''Webcomic/LinT'', Bactine's healing abilities work this way; she takes the subject's wounds into her body and then heals herself. Eventually, she [[spoiler:sacrifices her own life by healing a terminally ill character and the dying protagonist in succession]].
176* In ''Webcomic/MachineFlower'', Nine's entire trick is combining this with a HealingFactor.
177* ''Webcomic/PatchworkHeroes'' has one of the characters able to heal others. In an interesting subversion of the whole "save a dying person by sacrificing yourself" business, she was able to save her lover from mortal wounds by only absorbing ''some'' of them, just enough that they both survived with grievous injuries.
178* When the Adventurer in ''Webcomic/PennyBlackfeather'' tries to heal Penny's cut, he accidentally transfers it to himself, because he's [[HowDoIShootWeb untrained in magic]].
179* Catharine of ''Webcomic/SisterClaire'' displays the ability to take on another's injury in [[https://www.sisterclaire.com/missing-moments/missing-moment-cappucci-7 this Missing Moments page]]. Later, she also displays the ability to transfer an injury of her own to someone else.
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183* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 SCP-590 feels your pain]]. He was severely traumatized as a result of being forced to help with bringing a stillborn back to life. The Foundation then turned him into a {{Manchild}} by having him heal several people with mental deficiencies.
184* Kerry in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. Not only does she take on the injury or illness of whoever she heals, but she gets major echoes of the last people she healed too. She might heal your blindness and be blind for hours but also get the agony of the cancer patient she cured last, and the cripple she healed before that, and... Even worse, she got captured by some people who forced her to cure person after person after person...
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188* During a flashback in the season one finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E19YoungBloodOldSouls Young Blood, Old Souls]]", Lilith Clawthorne demonstrates a spell that can split injuries with her target, using it to take on half of Eda's scraped leg when they were children. [[spoiler:Once she finally makes a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the episode, her first major act of redemption is using that very same spell to absorb half of Eda's curse ([[MyGreatestFailure which she was responsible for in the first place]]).]]
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