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7	A form of AppliedPhlebotinum where it's possible to, in effect, "drain", or "transfer", or "reverse" physical conditions.
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9	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.
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11	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]].
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13	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. 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.
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15	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.
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17	SuperTrope to LevelDrain, LifeDrain, ManaDrain, PowerParasite, SoulEating and TransferredTransformation. Not to be confused with PooledFunds.
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19	!Examples:
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21	!!Transfer or drain for aging
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25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* One of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]] in ''Manga/{{Zanki}}'' 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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29	[[folder:Comic Books]]
30	* Franchise/MarvelUniverse villain Selene, in her earlier appearances in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', is an energy vampire. As she sucks the life out of her victims, she becomes younger and more beautiful; as she uses her powers up, she looks older.
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33	[[folder:Fan Works]]
34	* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfette's Inner Beauty", Hogatha the witch uses the Spell of Syphonia on Smurfette to transfer her youth and beauty onto herself, causing the witch to transform into a young ginger-haired beauty while Smurfette became old and wrinkled and aging toward death.
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37	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
38	* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', captive Podlings are drained of their "living essence" in order to provide the Skeksis with mindless slaves. Drinking the essence gives a temporary "youth boost", at least in appearance. Very temporary. "It always worked better with gelfling..."
39	* 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.
40	* ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' and the book it was adapted from, ''The Space Vampires''.
41	* ''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.
42	* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Wesley has at least 31 years of his life drained away to the point that he's OnlyMostlyDead.
43	* 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 time.
44	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
45	** 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.
46	** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Yashida intends to drain Logan's HealingFactor from him.
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49	[[folder:Literature]]
50	* 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 that something is not right).
51	* [[EvilSorcerer Fistandantilus]] of ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' routinely drained the life-force from one of his apprentices to maintain his immortality, and from the description of the process it also seems to restore at least some of his youth. [[EvilOldFolks He still looks impossibly ancient most of the time]].
52	* 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.
53	* Happens to Wesley in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' 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.
54	* In "Literature/RedNails", Tascela does this. She intends to do it to Valeria.
55	* Most magic in ''Literature/TheRunelords'' operates on this principle.
56	* Similarly, the vampire Barlow in ''Literature/SalemsLot'' initially appears as an old man but gets younger-looking as the story progresses.
57	* 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]].
58	* 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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61	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
62	* One episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' involves a [[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.
63	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
64	** 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.
65	** In the 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.
66	* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has 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.
67	* 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.
68	* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' had a MonsterOfTheWeek who "stole youth" to be used as a power source, leaving victims elderly. Since ''Rangers'' monsters suffer from NoOntologicalInertia, taking the monster out caused everyone to turn young again.
69	* ''Series/RedDwarf'': "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIIMCorp M-Corp]]" reveals that the MegaCorp M-Corp graduated to using Time as currency. The result is that when Lister swiftly exhausts his credits, they start draining his time, causing him to drastically age. They also made thinking a taxable event, which they used to dissuade people from rebelling against their control.
70	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E06Redux Redux]]", the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Freak of the Week]]'s power to absorb life energy immediately becomes apparent as the victim rapidly ages.
71	* 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.
72	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
73	** This happens to Dr. Pulaski in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E7UnnaturalSelection Unnatural Selection]]" when her aging disease is cured, only justified as the [[DestructiveTeleportation transporter]] basically restructures her body.
74	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E3ManOfThePeople Man of the People]]", an ambassador uses Troi as a dump for all his negative emotions, which in turn ages her rapidly. When the effect is undone, Troi immediately reverts to her younger self, including her grayed hair returning to black.
75	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E07TheCuriousCaseOfDeanWinchester The Curious Case of Dean Winchester]]" has a witch who stays immortal by running [[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.
76	* The ''Series/Warehouse13'' Season 2 episode "Age Before Beauty" has Myka become an UndercoverModel to track down an ArtifactOfDoom that's causing other models to age to death. [[spoiler:The culprit reverts to an old man when he's HoistByHisOwnPetard.]]
77	* The ''Series/WeirdScience'' episode "Grampira" has Wyatt wishing for his elderly grandmother Nana to leave her nursing home by being young again. LiteralGenie Lisa grants the wish by giving her the power to suck the youthful energy from anyone she touched: Nana becomes more active and energized, while the teens themselves 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 is for Nana to go back into the nursing home again, which, in a surprising reversal of this trope, she willingly does, explaining that she while being young again was fun, she's also quite happy to be old, too.
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80	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
81	* ''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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84	[[folder:Video Games]]
85	* ''Krystine and the Children in Chains'' has the evil queen draining multiple children to death, just to restore her from old age. This is a one-time scene, and not elaborated upon.
86	* ''VideoGame/MilkmaidOfTheMilkyWay'': Queen Amrita uses the age machine to keep the milk beasts alive, and to keep her own youth by draining her subjects. The machine can also be used to ripen some fruit, and revert a rotten fruit back to a seed.
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89	[[folder:Western Animation]]
90	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E11TheForbiddenFountainOfTheForeverglades The Forbidden Fountain 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.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' has a one-shot villain, a witch named Somnambula, create a carnival as a trap for the Ponies so she can drain their youth and the unicorns' magical power for herself.
92	* ''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.
93	* The villain Mad Mod from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' 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 proceeds 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.
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96	!!Transfer or drain for wounds
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98	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
99	* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': 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.
100	* If you use magic to heal someone in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', [[EmpathicHealer their wound is transferred onto you]]. This is why healing magic is forbidden, as is magic that brings people BackFromTheDead.
101	* 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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104	[[folder:Comic Books]]
105	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': 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]].
106	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Rogue's absorption power is sometimes taken to a ridiculous extreme. In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #179, she absorbs Colossus's steel form after 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. 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.
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109	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
110	* In ''Film/XMen1'', Wolverine lets Rogue absorb his healing factor to save her, and instead of his healing merely being halted, his already-healed wounds ''returned.''
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113	[[folder:Literature]]
114	* ''Literature/BrokenSky'' does this with those that possess the yellow spirit stones, the healers. They can take on the injuries of another, whether the injury is mental or physical in nature. While they heal faster than most people, an inexperienced or reckless healer could kill themselves quite easily by absorbing more wounds than their body could handle.
115	* This is Lifeforce's power in ''Literature/{{Lux}}''. He can transfer any injury he suffers to anyone he is currently touching.
116	* 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}}.
117	* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
118	** King of the Slaughterhouse Nine can transfer his injuries to anyone he has touched in a 24-hour period.
119	** 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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122	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
123	* ''Series/BabylonFive'' features an alien device that transfers life energy between the people attached to it to heal illnesses, wounds, et cetera. [[spoiler:The device was actually meant for executing criminals, a use to which it is put by the end of "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E21TheQualityOfMercy The Quality of Mercy]]".]]
124	* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', when Alejandro Herrera heals people infected with his sister's illness, not only do they get healthy, but their black tears somehow disappear.
125	* This proves to be Chloe's GreenRocks-given power in ''Series/{{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.
126	* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' 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.
127	* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E8TheyKeepKillingSuzie They Keep Killing Suzie]]", the resurrection gauntlet, when used with enough empathy on the revived person (a normal resurrection lasts one or two minutes), transfers the fatal injury to the user of the gauntlet. When the connection broke, the injuries leave.
128	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E11TheGift The Gift]]" features a monster that [[spoiler:eats people and later vomits them out again into a mold where they take their original human form after a time]]. This has the effect of healing the people entirely, but passing all the symptoms onto the monster. The monster thus stacks up symptom after symptom, a living hell, until finally he [[spoiler:eats John Doggett]], who is dead at the time, thus passing the death onto the monster, who is finally free of the pain of disease-ridden life.
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131	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
132	* In ''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.
133	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
134	** From ''[[TabletopGame/AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons2ndEdition AD&D 2]]'' onwards, the wizard spell "Vampiric Touch" drains HitPoints.
135	** Some PsychicPowers do this. "Life Draining" drains HitPoints, "Psychic Drain" gains power points by temporarily damaging the victim's stats, and [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3 ed.]] has "Psychic Vampire", which drains power points (if the victim has none, it damages stats temporarily).
136	** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the wizard spell "Morgannaver's Sting" (a stronger variant of" Vampiric Touch"), and the druid spell "Healing Sting" in 3rd ed.
137	** The {{Ps\|ychicPowers}}ionic ability "Lend Health" from the second edition's ''Complete Psionics Handbook'' likewise works by way of literally transferring injury from the recipient to the psion using the power.
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140	[[folder:Video Games]]
141	* ''VideoGame/HardWest'': Lazarus has the power to swap wounds (HP and some status effects) with someone else. At its base level, he can use this power to heal a posse member by taking on their wounds, and then activate his personal self-healing passive skills by killing an enemy to recover. At higher levels, Lazarus can use this skill on enemies, which means he can throw himself onto death's door, swap wounds with some unfortunate sap, and then finish them off himself.
142	* 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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146	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 SCP-590]] is an EmpathicHealer 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 Foundation 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.
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149	[[folder:Western Animation]]
150	* 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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153	!!Aging/youthening without explicit transfer
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155	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
156	* Isumi's great grandmother of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' is able to suck the blood of a target who is 'near death' to restore her youth. Isumi is hinted at having the same ability, but she's only 13, so it wouldn't have any effect.
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159	[[folder:Literature]]
160	* In the ''Literature/DragonJousters'' series, 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.
161	* ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'': A Feruchemist can store youth inside an atium metalmind, temporarily becoming physically older than their chronological age, and then draw the youth out again to become physically younger for an equal amount of time.
162	* 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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165	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
166	* ''Series/BabylonFive'' 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. Then there's the affliction Sinclair has in the two-parter "War Without End"...
167	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
168	** 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 effects (besides being older).
169	** The Master ages the Doctor 900 years while suspending his [[TheNthDoctor regenerative]] capability in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]".
170	* In an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', O'Neill discovers a planet where people age rapidly during the night and becomes entwined in the AppliedPhlebotinum that causes this. This is a semi-subversion, as Jack's hair grows very long as it goes gray, and after being cured Jack does NOT magically revert; he is told his still-actually-young cells will repair the ravages of fake age, but it will take a few weeks.
171	* ''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.
172	* The various ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series have had instances of rapid aging caused by diseases and such. In the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals Rascals]]", an away team is also [[FountainOfYouth turned into children]] in a TeleporterAccident.
173	* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheDarksideS1E22GrandmasLastWish Grandma's Last Wish]]", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a grandmother makes a wish]] after her {{Jerkass}} relatives tell her that they're going to put her in a nursing home, and that she 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.
174	* 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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177	[[folder:Western Animation]]
178	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' features recurring villain Professor Nimnul [[CutLexLuthorACheck trying to make an honest living]]. He has invented an aging ray, and tries 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.
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181	!!Other
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183	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
184	* One of the early enemies in ''Devil & Devil'' is a tentacled monster that can suck time out of people. This merely serves as nourishment for the creature, and doesn't cause it to change its appearance in any way, but the victims do change, as they [[FountainOfYouth are regressed into babies]]. However, because there's NoOntologicalInertia, all the time that the creature had sucked out is returned once it is killed, restoring the victims to their proper ages.
185	* 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.
186	* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'', Josuke Higashikata is able to use his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Soft & Wet, to extract various attributes from anything by touching them with special "soap bubbles" before another bubble passes on the attribute to another target. He has used this ability to steal properties such as friction and physical objects such as fur from a cat.
187	* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', the Wolkenritter can steal people's magical power to fill [[ArtifactOfDoom the Book of Darkness]].
188	* 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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191	[[folder:Comic Books]]
192	* In the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' comic-book tie-in, the villains figure out a way to negate superpowers across the entire city. This leads to a great many FridgeLogic moments, as it even affects people whose 'powers' are magic, technological or the result of physical changes, but not those who have {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s.
193	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': There are numerous cases of 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.
194	* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' character Rogue drains [[PowerParasite other people's powers]] and 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 absorbs enough of Mr. Sinister's powers and personality that she effectively became him -- but doesn't turn chalk white, which one would assume to be simpler than growing fur.
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197	[[folder:Fan Works]]
198	* In ''Fanfic/TheAwakeningOfAMagus'', Voldemort is slowly siphoning away his followers' power to increase his own. In case of a Death Eater who had failed him (or was captured and can't be rescued soon enough to avoid questioning), he drains all of it with extremely painful and naturally lethal results.
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201	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
202	* In ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'', without any synthetic antidote for the Medusa Serum, Private uses himself instead, allowing the machine to drain cuteness from him to transfer it back to the other penguins.
203	[[/folder]]
204
205	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
206	* 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.
207	* ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
208	** When Beast approaches Leech, his powers are drained. Apparently, his powers include "being hairy", because his hair withdraws into his body as he gets close, and immediately grows back when he steps away.
209	** The 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 ''[[{{Fanservice}} Rebecca Romijn]]'', at that.[[note]]The second example explains the first based on the events of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', in which 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 regard to his weirdly large feet).[[/note]]
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212	[[folder:Literature]]
213	* ''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.
214	* ''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.
215	* ''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.
216	* In ''Literature/{{Prey}}'', the main character uses an electromagnet to force parasitic nanobots out of his wife's body for about thirty-second intervals (then they swarm right back in). During that half-minute, since she is actually starved and abused, and the nanites are essentially acting as a layer of disguise, he describes her as becoming withered and old-looking without the nanites and more normal as soon as they flood back into her.
217	* ''Literature/TheSagaofBilly'': [[GodOfEvil Vetherr]] devoured the fertility and the reason of his lovers, and used it so that he could create life and give a mind of their own to his creations.
218	* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', "Shrimp" Harper has the ability to "breathe in" the life force of others, leaving them feeling tired and run-down. In the sequel, ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', she discovers that she has the ability to "breathe in" other things than life force, such as mental confusion or even arm-brokenness, and has the potential to be an EmpathicHealer. The sequel also mentions that she has a much more popular twin brother who breathes ''out'' life force, making people feel better when they spend time with him; it is not revealed whether he's sharing his own life force or somehow acquiring it some other way.
219	* 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.
220	* In ''Literature/SomethingMoreThanNight'', a MadScientist devises a way to transfer insubstantial attributes in a fashion analogous to a blood transfusion. His rich sponsor rounds up a group of people with desirable attributes, including a telekinetic and a man who has lived unaging for over three centuries, and has their attributes transferred to himself. (The shopping list also includes a man of remarkable height -- the sponsor is shorter than average, and touchy about it.) [[spoiler:In the end, stealing a contortionist's flexibility proves his undoing; he begins to collapse into a boneless living puddle -- one which still possesses the immunity to death he stole from the very old man as his first transfusion]].
221	* 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.
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224	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
225	* In an episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' (and in the comic it was originally based on), the villain Parasite is able to drain life force from his opponents. [[spoiler:However, when he tries to drain Superman's power, it overloads him, leading to the villain's demise -- suggesting that too much of a good thing is bad (as well as poetic justice for hubris).]]
226	* Glory from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' drains sanity, described as the mystical energies that hold one's mind together; the loss of them leaves the victim in a BlackBugRoom. Being a Chaos God [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside a mortal man]], Glory is not capable of handling our limited perception and has to periodically drain others to save herself from such a state.
227	* ''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).
228	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
229	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]", the mutated Lazarus drains people's LifeEnergy, turning them into mummified husks, to sustain himself.
230	** 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]]", in which they figure out they can make a [[PeopleFarms "battery farm" of humans]] by sending them back repeatedly and feeding on them again and again until they age and die.
231	* The ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' episode "Vanity's Mirror" had a woman with a special compact mirror. If the mirror reflects light on a victim, he or she will die and the person who wields the compact becomes more beautiful.
232	* Both ''Series/LoisAndClark'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' employ 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 gets passed around from Clark to Lois to Lucille and back to Clark). Both shows have also had episodes featuring youth-draining abilities or devices.
233	* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays End of Days]]", [[BigRedDevil Abaddon]] consumes the LifeEnergy of everyone in his shadow, which gives him a deadly PhlebotinumOverdose when the [[ResurrectiveImmortality immortal]] [[spoiler:Captain Jack Harkness]] steps up.
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235
236	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
237	* The ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' Fifth Edition "HERO System" introduced the advantage Inherent, which has the same effect as Innate in ''Mutants and Masterminds'' below.
238	* 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.
239	* 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 mutually agreed upon.
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241
242	[[folder:Video Games]]
243	* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'':
244	** In 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...
245	** In [[VideoGame/BanjoTooie the sequel]], Gruntilda has been [[DemBones reduced to a skeleton]] after spending two years trapped under a boulder since the end of the first game, and plans to restore her body by draining the life force out of things. [[spoiler:The ray also goes in reverse in order to revive characters who had been killed earlier.]]
246	* In ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'', {{life\|Energy}} and wounded are chemicals. You can't actually transfer them between creatures, but you can inject them. You can also genetically engineer them to make life out of oxygen, or, for that matter, make it out of wounded.
247	* The Sadhus of ''VideoGame/TreeOfSavior'' can use Send Prana to temporarily donate a portion of their Intelligence stat to an ally.
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249
250	[[folder:Web Animation]]
251	* ''WebAnimation/TheCyanideAndHappinessShow'': Lampooned in "[[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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254	[[folder:Webcomics]]
255	* A major plot-point of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' is that everything living has a whole variety of essences within them; not just LifeEnergy but things which determine all characteristics. The first chapter involves a cursed valley that causes everyone who goes there to be turned permanently into a woman; it turns out there was an artifact that sucked up "masculine essence" from everything around it to promote plant growth. The reason this turns men into women is that the essence of both genders exist within people and getting rid of all the manliness tips the balance. Goro the muscular war surgeon gets all of all his strength (and masculinity) sucked out of him when he tries to physically attack the artifact, winding up a skinny, sickly woman who needs a strength essence infusion at a hospital later (it's treated like an organ transplant). Most of this is justified as magic working with "concepts" rather than raw physics.
256	* [[KillerDM Vriska Serket]] from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' can [[WindsOfDestinyChange steal]] {{luck\|Stat}}, which apparently causes catastrophic misfortune to ''immediately'' befall her victims.
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258
259	[[folder:Western Animation]]
260	* Averted by WordOfGod in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''; a few [[PowerNullifier 'Power Disruptors']] are stated to simply be neural disruptors that prevent characters from using their natural abilities. Hawkgirl gets shot by one and retains her wings.
261	* The season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' 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 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.
262	* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'':
263	** 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.
264	** 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]].
265	* In one particularly absurd example from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', a PowerNullifier causes Batman and Robins' ''{{Utility Belt}}s'' to disappear.
266	* 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.
267	* 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]].
268	* Played straight and then averted to a hilarious degree in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. While in the Savage Land, all the mutants temporarily lose their powers. For some reason, this 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 arrive, Wolverine announces "I've got news for ya, bub! There's nuthin' mutant about these!" and releases his [[WolverineClaws adamantium claws]]. However, without his HealingFactor, he nearly passes out from the pain of ''grievously injuring his hands''.[[note]]Wolverine also lampshades this after falling off a cliff: "I could really use some mutant healing power right about now."[[/note]]
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