History Main / CombinedEnergyAttack

** The second season introduces the [=S2CA=] Tri Burst, where three of the Gear wielders combine their [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique]] through protagonist Hibiki Tachibana's Gungnir, channelling it into a WaveMotionGun.

* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' had the Thought Bomb, one of the most powerful and destructive applications of the dark side of the Force, created by many powerful Sith Lords. It was so powerful that it not only killed every Jedi in its radius, but the Sith who created the bomb as well.

* In the ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'' mini-series, [[spoiler: Jean Grey and Professor X, combining their power with an enhanced version of Cerebro, link every human on the planet to beam thoughts of living at Galactus until it got scared off. Well, vaporizing 30% of it by ''shooting a goddamn Big Bang at it'' helped too.]]
** Prof X pulled something similar in the original ''Comicbook/XMen'' comics: He went into hiding for months (with the dying Changeling taking his place among the X-Men) and linked every mind on Earth with his to fend off an impending alien invasion.
** In an ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' AfterTheEnd issue of ''ComicBook/WhatIf'', [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Dwayne Taylor]] uses technology from the Watcher's Dome to give himself incredible powers to fight off Galactus but, after seeing his brother die, uses a Combined Energy Attack instead to take down the monster.
** Another X-Men example. During a mission in Russia, X-Men got into a fight with a one-shot villain Soul Skinner, a telepath who got a serious PowerBornOfMadness upgrade after discovering his wife was an undercover KGB agent monitoring him (and that she let their daughter die to avoid blowing her cover). With the X-team on the verge of losing, Psylocke performed a rather unusual move: she found a group of children hiding in a nearby building (the only people in town who hadn't yet been turned EmptyShell by Soul Skinner's rampage) and linked their minds into her psychic knife. Then she stabbed Soul Skinner with it. Since his powers were pretty much powered by {{Wangst}}, the concentrated ChildrenAreInnocent shut down his brain.
* Used in a bizarre manner--perhaps [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] or parodied--in an issue of the original ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series. Korvac, a KnightTemplar who wants to create a perfectly ordered universe, is opposed at every turn by the Franchise/MarvelUniverse 's cosmic beings (mostly because his plans involve slaughtering them). At the end of the story, Korvac absorbs the powers and life force of every being on Earth, starting with his allies, in order to face off with an alien armada and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the universe]]. It was even lampshaded by the editors in the letters column, when one fan questioned whether Korvac was really strong enough to kill all the Celestials on Earth at the time--they argued that if all those cosmic beings, plus the superheroes, plus every living being on Earth wasn't enough to kill one Celestial and absorb its powers (then go on to the next till finished), they didn't know what was.
* In the classic ''Franchise/XMen'''s ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', all of the X-Men donated part of their life forces to give Jean Grey the strength to repair the M'Kraan crystal.
* In the Day of Vengeance DC miniseries, Sorceress uses the combined power of every magic user in the DCU to fight ComicBook/TheSpectre. [[spoiler:It wasn't enough.]]
* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim's cast comes together in an equally defensive and offensive version of this at Scott's first fight with Matthew Pattel.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'': At the climax, Zelda begins to ask for the aid of the maidens and fires an ordinary arrow from the crossbow, but as it approaches Ganon, the power of the maidens, Zelda, Link, and Roam, turn the arrow into the Silver Arrow, destroying Ganon.

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' is pretty fond of this. The two main instances are at the end of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Yellow]]'' saga, where [[spoiler:Yellow somehow absorbs the attacks of the Kanto starters into her hand to power up Pika's Megavolt]], and the end of the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Emerald]]'' arc, where [[spoiler:the nine starters each fire an Elemental Hyper Beam at the fake Kyogre, with two Pikachu and their Pichu child finish it off with a flying triple Volt Tackle]].

** Despite being a villain, Cell claims at one point to be able to use the Spirit Bomb, but never actually does so in the anime. In the ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' games, Cell is able to use a green version of the Spirit Bomb. Some believe that Cell was able to use it because he was pure of heart, but [[PureIsNotGood pure]] ''[[PureIsNotGood evil]]'' [[PureIsNotGood instead of good]]. Based on a throwaway line he says while charging it, other fans jokingly theorize that Cell uses a different energy source called "Stupid Energy".

* Used in a bizarre manner--perhaps [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] or parodied--in an issue of the original ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series. Korvac, a KnightTemplar who wants to create a perfectly ordered universe, is opposed at every turn by the MarvelUniverse 's cosmic beings (mostly because his plans involve slaughtering them). At the end of the story, Korvac absorbs the powers and life force of every being on Earth, starting with his allies, in order to face off with an alien armada and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the universe]]. It was even lampshaded by the editors in the letters column, when one fan questioned whether Korvac was really strong enough to kill all the Celestials on Earth at the time--they argued that if all those cosmic beings, plus the superheroes, plus every living being on Earth wasn't enough to kill one Celestial and absorb its powers (then go on to the next till finished), they didn't know what was.

* ''VideoGame/ArTonelico2'' has METHOD_REPLEKIA. It's an attack hymn that all the [=IPDs=] sing together.

* During the climax of the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY X/Y]]'' arc of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Lysandre unleashes a Zygarde-like entity known as the Giant Rock and plans to have it collide with the Sundial in Anistar City, thus releasing enough Primal energy [[note]]"Primal" as in [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Primal Reversion]][[/note]] to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt annihilate all life on the planet]]. In order to stop Lysandre, Ash teams up with not only [[TheRival Alain]], Professor Sycamore, and [[HeelFaceTurn the recently reformed]] Team Flare member Malva, but also Kalos Champion Diantha, all eight of the Kalos Gym Leaders, and Hoenn Champion Steven Stone. This assembled group proceeds to [[YouShallNotPass draw a line in the sand]] and commands their strongest Pokémon to attack with their strongest moves, which proceed to {{converg|ingStreamWeapon}}e upon the monolith. [[NoSell It's not very effective]], so the heroes turn to Plan B: disabling the Giant Rock by buying Ash and Alain enough time to infiltrate it and remove its power source, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Mairin's Chespie]].

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': At the climax, Zelda begins to ask for the aid of the maidens and fires an ordinary arrow from the crossbow, but as it approaches Ganon, the power of the maidens, Zelda, Link, and Roam, turn the arrow into the Silver Arrow, destroying Ganon.