Sandbox / Elemental Wicks

Wick check for Elemental Powers

The issue: Just like Five-Man Band before, this trope is often followed by subbulleted tropes, which is an example-writing violation. This check serves to see how widespread the problem is.

Checked: 67/67

No subbullets, but still valid ( 20 5/ 6 out of 67)

1. It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Fighter survives a freefall by using his Knight abilities to block the ground. Fighter's "explanation" is that since he can block all sorts of elemental attacks, it's natural that he'd be able to block Earth.
2. Anime.Samurai Pizza Cats: The Samurai Pizza Cats Rescue Team each represented one of these. Meowzma (Gotton) was earth, General Catton (Rikinoshin) was fire, Bat Cat (Mietoru) was wind, and Spritz T. Cat (Nekkii) was water. Similarly, the three of the four Rude Noise members each represent the elements: Cannonball Battery (Bonkaa) represents fire, Ronnie Geissmuller (Wokkaa) represent water, and Mojo Rojo (Rekkaa) represents wind. The lone exception is Bad Max (Zankaa), who represents the darkness.
3. Characters.A Game Of Chance: The Promethians are an ancient magical race known for attaining absolute mastery over fire and lightning-based magics. Not so normal now, huh?
4. Characters.A Geeks Guide Corporation Of Occult Research And Extermination: Mainly attacks using magic circles that blast opponents with fire, ice, or lightning.
5. Characters.Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night (1/3): Her sub-weapons allow her to use a variety of elemental abilities, such as lightning orbs that cling to the ceiling, and wind funnels that shoot forward and then climb up. She can also fire seeds that sprout from the ground to give health powerups.
6. Characters.Encantadia: Classical Elements Ensemble: The four of them are the keepers of the Gems of Air, Fire, Water and Earth, and have powers related to their respective element.
7. Characters.Fire Emblem Warriors:
   1. Like Robin, Leo is able to use many spells of different elements, be they fire, thunder, wind, light, or darkness.
   2. The tome he carries for this game allows him to use more than one element this time around, Thunder, Fire, Wind, Darkness, and Light, and he can even combine them together to form a giant ball in his Pair Up Special. He still favors Thunder Magic, however.
   3. Linde can use light, wind, ice, lightning, and fire in her attacks.
   4. In her special attacks, where she tends to use more elements than just light, including fire, thunder, and wind.
   5. Like every magic user confirmed to use a tome, Validar has access to any element and spell that he could possibly want.
8. Characters.Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals: It can shoot fire, electricity, poison, and... water. It later adds explosives after merging itself with Alucard's tank.
9. Characters.Maken Ki Protagonists: Kagezuchi (her fire elemental) and Igazuchi (lightning elemental) are the two she most relies on in battle. But, if need be, she can also summon Nozuchi (her earth elemental) who has power over trees, plants, and has the ability to heal her. Himegami is so adept with them that she's rarely ever had to use her Maken.
10. Characters.Okami: Each head has its own element: fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, poison, light, and darkness.
11. Characters.Pokemon The Series Team Rocket Trio: Among the many Pokémon he has owned, his three most common types are Grass, Poison and Psychic.
12. Characters.Ralph Breaks The Internet: During the climax, Moana and Ariel demonstrate some control over water, Pocahontas has some control over wind, and Elsa has her ice powers.
13. Characters.Twitch Plays Pokemon Fire Red (1/2): Tri Attack, a mashup of Fire, Ice and Electricity (which results in a Normal attack, somehow).
14. GranblueFantasy.Tropes D To H: Characters come in one of six elements, Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, Light and Dark.
15. Literature.Iron Widow: The mecha each have specialties based on the five Chinese elements: fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. Wood types are the most conductive of qi and have the highest transformation potential, fire types can channel qi into powerful blasts, etc. Different pilots have different specialties too, with Zetian specializing in metal (control and precision), and Shimin in fire (power and destruction).
16. Literature.Roll Over And Die: Most people in this world are born with an affinity for magic of one of the six elements: water, fire, earth, air, light and darkness. Some people, however, are born with rare affinities that grant them different kinds of magic.
17. Manga.Omamori Himari: Besides Shizuku, there's also Yuuto and Kuesu, and some (though not all) other demon slayer clans have elemental powers as well.
18. Myth.Beti Pahuin Mythology: Nkoum Akok Ndong Bibang of the thorn tribe fought against Engouang Ondo with sunlight, rain, and fire as weapons.
19. NoodleIncident.Webcomics: Sleepless Domain: The members of Team Alchemical can all use their respective Elemental Powers to achieve something close enough to flight — with the exception of Alchemical Fire. The alt text at one point notes that she had once tried using her fire abilities as a jetboot, but "never again."
20. Recap.Charmed S 1 E 15 Is There A Woogy In The House: (re: Early-Installment Weirdness) The Nexus is revealed to be equidistant from five elements, but they use the five Taoist elements (water, fire, wood, metal and earth). Any time Elemental Powers show up in the series, it's the four classical ones (earth, air, fire and water).
21. Roleplay.You Won A Mansion: Each of the masters have a sort of associated element. Nick is Lightning, Crowley's main is Fire, Kiven is Wind, Masters is Chaos, and Jason is Star.
22. Series.Eastwick: So far, Kat has electrocuted her husband with a lightning strike and frozen a swimming pool solid. She then also almost kills her ex's date with a gust of wind.

Legal subbullets ( 7 out of 67)

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1. Characters.Carnival Mirror: Each character with a Persona or Marionette specializes in a particular element. Three distinct examples that are aided by potholes to denote tropes
2. JustForFun.Sonic And The Imperial Regalia: Tropes are listed, but they follow the characters being listed. They could use more context, though.
3. Manga.Angel Sanctuary
4. Manhwa.Witch Hunter: Two distinct examples that do not rely on tropes
5. MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.Tropes E To K: Two distinct examples that do not rely on tropes
6. Pokemon.Tropes A To I: 18 of them! Tropes are listed, but they follow the types being listed
7. VideoGame.Disciples: All factions tend to focus on 1 or 2 of the following: Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Death, Life, Mind and Weapon (the last is less an Element than it is the absence of an element, it is used for most Unit's melee/archery attacks). The following subbullets do not rely on trope wicks.

Illegal subbullets ( 13 1/ 6 out of 67)

To preserve space, just display the first level item (if any). If there are multiple wicks, say how many would fit under this category.

1. Characters.Astral Disaster
2. Characters.Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night: 2 instances (out of 3)
3. Characters.Delicious In Dungeon Monsters: Overlaps with Breath Weapon:
4. Characters.Dragons Crown: 2 instances (out of 2)
5. Characters.The Saints: More so than anyone else.
6. Characters.Twitch Plays Pokemon Fire Red: 1 instance (out of 2)
7. LetsPlay.Versus: The starter pokemon that were chosen.
8. Manga.Zatch Bell: Plenty of variety across the demons shown:
9. Manga.Zettai Shoujo Seiiki Amnesian: Commented out
10. Roleplay.Personifications
11. TabletopGame.Axiom Campaign: King Van'Derrick's sisters.
12. VideoGame.Bomberman: Done liberally in The Second Attack!, Generation, and Jetters.
13. VideoGame.Eitr: Certain items during the demo had elemental effects.
14. Webcomic.Panthera: Duh?

ZCE/misuse ( 19 out of 67)

1. Body Horror.Webcomics: In Pacificators, this is Nozomi's preferred method of attacks. She uses her powers to do things such as: tearing a man's heart in half, sucking the air out of another man's lungs, and her special favorite, bursting a man's testicles. Does not explain what powers
2. Characters.Dragonlance: Commented out ZCE
3. Characters.Final Fantasy 1: See All Your Powers Combined. "See X" ZCE
4. Characters.Friendship Is Magic Twilight Sparkle: She has several of them thanks to her status as a Red Mage but most of them are non-weaponized spell versions. Does not explain what powers
5. Characters.I Left The A Rank Party: As an elementor, she wields element based magic. Does not explain what powers
6. Characters.Namco X Capcom: None of them have adequate context.
   1. Both cover almost the entire spectrum.
   2. She can use magic on foes too far off for Gil to hit.
   3. Both cover almost the entire spectrum.
7. Characters.Super Smash Bros 456 To 59: The tomes allow them to invoke several elemental magic attacks. Partial context
8. ComicBook.Ythaq: Commented out ZCE
9. Literature.Please Bully Me Miss Villainess: Elsa is considered a prodigy because she can use all five elements, while the average magic user can only use one. Just "someone uses elements" with no explanation
10. Literature.Exhuman: Athan, obviously, but it is hinted that this is fairly common among Exhumans, such as in chapter 13, Blackett pulling up a file on a hydrokinetic or Athan mentioning a dynakinetic in chapter 10. Barely any context
11. Literature.The Riddle Master Trilogy: Hereditary in humans and highly developed in the Shape-changers. Magic doesn't seem to be limited to one particular element, but some characters specialize. Barely any context
12. Literature.Zodiac Academy: All Fae possess the ability to control at least one element. Partial context
13. MorphicResonance.Anime And Manga: Digimon Frontier has Susanoomon, the combined form and Mind Hive of all ten Legendary Warriors. It has Agunimon's blue eyes and red Facial Markings. Chained sinkhole
14. Pinball.Flash: Just lists the trope
15. Roleplay.Aradis Chronicles: Gaians and Half-Gaians are naturals at this. Commented out
16. Roleplay.Crystalwatchers Magical Girl Quest: Very common, and previously believed by the other races to be the basis of all magic, until humanity showed otherwise.Commented out ZCE
17. Series.Every Witch Way: Curb-Stomp Battle: Andi trying to take on Mia by herself results in this: Being a Badass Normal does not automatically make you a match for someone who has been training her whole life to master her Elemental Powers. Andi ends up frozen in a block of ice. Context does not say whether there were other elements
18. VideoGame.Arcana Heart: In addition to the characters' standard attacks, the Arcana grant additional powers to the Maidens, and can be used interchangeably by anyone.^note Though the characters all have their own preferred default Arcana. Partial context
19. WesternAnimation.The Mask: Tempest in "Rain of Terror" and "Convention of Evil". ZCE

Only one element ( 7 out of 67)

They should probably be moved to the appropriate trope...

1. Characters.Axe Cop: Fire Slicer can control...well, guess.
2. Characters.Frozen Elsa: Cope by Creating: After Elsa escapes Arendelle, she creates a beautiful ice palace both to test her Elemental Powers and to release her pent-up emotions. She is singing "Let It Go" as it forms around her.
3. Characters.Kid Icarus The Forces Of Nature: Rock and melted rock
4. Literature.The Crocodile God: Insistent Terminology: Haik is adamant on this, implied to be because gods are sensitive to what things mean. He notes that while some sources call him "sea-god" and "god of the sea" as if it's the same thing, he insists that there is only one "god of the sea" as the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Pacific Ocean. He emphasizes that he's a "sea-god," which means he's one of many deities with sea-based Elemental Powers. Likewise, he can't "see the future," but thanks to his and Mirasol's Reincarnation Romance, he "sees patterns."
5. NegimaMagisterNegiMagi.Tropes D To F (re: Dark Is Not Evil): Shadow magic is the manipulation of shadows, no relationship to alignment. The three prominent users shown so far have included an antagonist that quickly became the protagonist's best friend, a friendly character mostly known for ending up embarrassedly disrobed and a Punch-Clock Villain bounty hunter who was simply doing his job.
6. Recap.Mob Psycho 100 S 3 E 11 Mob 3: (re: MacGuffin) ???% spins up a tornado to deter anyone else from attacking the bouquet.
7. Webcomic.Off White: The white spirit snow leopard summoned a snowstorm on a whim.

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