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* In ''Anime/YugiohDuelMonsters'' in the Virtual World Arc, Tristan, Duke Devlin, and Joey's sister Serenity are forced into a three on one duel against a member of the big 5 named Nezbitt. During the duel, Serenity constantly makes mistakes because she's never played before. Tristan sacrifices his monsters and lifepoints to save her, loses the duel, and gets dropped into a abyss. While not dead, he disappears for the rest of the episode. Before losing, he placed a face down card on the field, and for some reason it still remained on the field for the whole duel. When Serenity finally starts winning, and summons a powerful monster, she still needed one last power boost to win. Putting all their faith in Tristan's face down card, they activate it, revealing it to be the card they needed to win the duel.

* A more down to earth example. In'' the Patriot'', Heath ledger and other militia men return to find their hometown burned down to the ground and all of their loved ones with it. Desiring revenge for the death of his wife and the other townspeople, they all ride after the British officers responsible, and all except the villain, heath ledger and the preacher who married heath ledger and his wife are the last ones standing at the end of the shootout. Heath ledger runs out of ammo, and the villain is reloading his gun, the preacher attempts to shoot him, but is too slow and gets shot instead, before he collapses he tosses his loaded gun over his head into heath ledgers hands, and he quickly shoots the villain.

* In ''Anme/YugiohDuelMonsters'' in the Virtual World Arc, Tristan, Duke Devlin, and Joey's sister Serenity are forced into a three on one duel against a member of the big 5 named Nezbitt. During the duel, Serenity constantly makes mistakes because she's never played before. Tristan sacrifices his monsters and lifepoints to save her, loses the duel, and gets dropped into a abyss. While not dead, he disappears for the rest of the episode. Before losing, he placed a face down card on the field, and for some reason it still remained on the field for the whole duel. When Serenity finally starts winning, and summons a powerful monster, she still needed one last power boost to win. Putting all their faith in Tristan's face down card, they activate it, revealing it to be the card they needed to win the duel.

* In '' Yugioh duel monsters'' in the virtual world arc, Tristan, duke devlin and joeys sister serenity are forced into a three on one duel against a member of the big 5 named Nezbitt. During the duel serenity constantly makes mistakes because shes never played before, and Tristan sacrifices his monsters and lifepoints to save her, losing the duel, and being dropped into a abyss. While not dead, he disappears for the rest of the episode, before losing, he placed a face down card on the field, and for some reason it still remains on the field for the whole duel. When serenity finally starts winning, and summons a powerful monster, she still needs one last power boost to win, putting all their faith in tristan's face down card, they activate it, revealing it to be the card they needed to win the duel.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': 'Forces' act like this in general. The original Champion passed the Champion Force on to Miss Champion, who in turned gave it Champ's ''other'' KidSidekick, Junior Champion, who became [[LegacyCharacter the new Champion]]. Since the creation of [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] (which both Miss Champion and the second Champion helped found), the school has tried to always have one student with the appropriate 'Avatar' power and a suitably heroic demeanor who is prepared to step into the role of Champion whenever the current one falls. The other known Forces (including the Astarte Force, held by the former Miss Champion, now known as [[BigGood Lady Astarte]] AKA [[BadassTeacher Headmistress Elizabeth Carson]]) were all created directly or indirectly due to some incident involving the Champion Force, though there are always {{Mad Scientist}}s and powerful wizards looking to find a way to form one some other way. [[spoiler: We later learn that [[TheAtoner Solange]] may have the same unusual variant of the Avatar ability which Harry Holbrook, the first Champion, had, and that she may be able to create new Forces on her own.]]

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* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Doyle passes on his prophetic visions to Cordelia via kiss just before going off to [[HeroicSacrifice heroically sacrifice]] himself.
* In ''Series/TinMan'', the Queen finds her [[DemonicPossession possessed elder daughter]] killed her younger sister (Dorothy) using a LifeDrain spell. The Queen pours her own power into Dorothy, reviving her. It's implied that the process depleted her of magic, leaving her and Oz defenseless against the Witch's reign of terror.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' gives us [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Marceline]], in a way. She was originally a vampire hunter (admittedly one who was [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon]]); after killing all of the others, she fought with the [[VampireMonarch the Vampire King]]. As she staked him, he managed to bite her, thus turning her into a vampire and keeping the species from being totally destroyed.

** It's hinted that [[spoiler:some of Tessa's power passed onto Undine as a result of Tessa giving up her powers to heal Undine]]. Undine has a rare second dream of the power granting nature, then soon pulls off a powerful water jet similar to one of [[spoiler:Tessa's]] attacks: specifically, one she tried before, but deemed impossible. Like HP, the only real sign something changed with Undine is [[ExoticEyeDesign her pupils are now pink when she transforms.]]

* Heartful Punch of ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' believes that something like this happened to her as a side effect of [[spoiler:being born to a still-active Magical Girl and her mother's powers leaving her and going into the baby]]. While HP's actual abilities are her own, indeed the only sign anything about her is different from the standard magical girl is [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow her eyes neither match nor complement her hair and costume]], she thinks her overall strength is higher as a result.

* ''ComicBook/PowerPack'' is similar to ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' in that the kids get their powers from a dying alien.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'':

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' the protagonist and his friends all get their power from a dying alien.
* In ''{{Discworld/Sourcery}}'', a wizard is about to die (Death is standing by, waiting) and gives his staff to his newborn son--then projects himself and his wizard powers into it. This causes no end of problems for the kid as he grows up.

* In Vasily Golovachov's ''The Envoy'', the previous Envoy transfers his mission and powers to the protagonist, when he's ambushed and killed by the villains.

* In ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' this is how Quick Ben became so powerful. A cabal of mages fled into the desert to escape pursuit by the Malazan army that conquered their city. When they run low on water, the older, physically weakest but magically strongest members of the group transferred their power and life force to the younger members. When the Malazan soldiers finally caught up to them, only the youngest member of the cabal still lived and he now possessed the combined magic and knowledge of the entire cabal. He adopted the name Quick Ben and joined the newly formed Bridgeburners as their first cadre mage.

** During the Finale Arc, Nightmare Mirror [[TakingTheBullet shields Applejack from Nyarlathotrot's attack]], then transfers her power to her. Applejack turns into an Alicorn as a result, Princess Veritas.

See also DevourTheDragon, PowerParasite, IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin, TakeUpMySword, YouKillItYouBoughtIt and CannibalismSuperpower.

See also PowerParasite, IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin, TakeUpMySword, YouKillItYouBoughtIt and CannibalismSuperpower.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the four Champions, who were killed a century ago, give Link their special magical spells once he frees their spirits from the Divine Beasts. [[WhiteMagicianGirl Mipha]] in particular notes that her magic would be wasted on herself now that she's a spirit.