History Main / HealingVat

%%* These are used in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' by Frieza's minions. They're apparently [[TotallyRadical mondo]] [[MemeticMutation cool]]!

In many science fiction works, people can recover from practically any injury after being immersed in a tank full of some kind of liquid AppliedPhlebotinum that makes them heal with shocking speed. People in them tend to be naked or barely clothed, to show how badly they're wounded and to [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged absorb all the healing juices.]]

%%* ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'': A female team member recovers from a bullet wound injury in a healing vat.

* [[RobotGirl Lambda-11]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' tends to spend her time between missions in one after being rebuilt by [[MadScientist Kokonoe]], due to her decrepit state. This isn't always a good thing though, as Kokonoe has to [[ShootTheDog give her a fair few questionable surgical operations and memory wipes]] to get her back into fighting shape.

%%* These kinds of devices appear in the ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty'' franchise (and considering that the titular protagonist is prone to get into fights as befits her {{Superhero}} status, she ends up using them rather often).

* ''Webcomic/BallerinaMafia'' shows Joel making frequent use of a [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20130826 nanobot healing tube]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', both Maximals and Predacons have their own type of healing vat. The Maximals possess a small, airtight, one-person chamber, while the Predacons use a vat that resembles a hot tub. In fact, Megatron is seen bathing in one on multiple occasions, complete with a [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rubber_Ducky rubber ducky]].

Subtrope of both AutoDoc and PeopleJars. Related to {{Panacea}}, HealingSpring, HealingPotion, and HealItWithWater. May involve {{Nanomachines}}. Compare SavedByThePhlebotinum.

%%* These are used in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' by Frieza's minions. They're apparently [[TotallyRadical mondo]] [[MemeticMutation cool]]!

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': Dr. Butterfly spent the hundred years prior to the tart of the series developing a large restoration tank that would allow him to heal the seriously wounded [[BigBad Victor]] through the power of [[AlchemyIsMagic alchemy]] and tested it by bringing his great-grandson [[AntiVillain Papillon]] back to life after his destruction. After Dr. Butterfly's defeat, Papillon inherits the designs, often using them to heal and revitalise himself.

%%* One appears in ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' season 2.

* The obscure Creator/MarvelComics vigilante/villain, Solo, heals himself after getting wounded in battle by bathing in a weird tank of green fluid.

%% * ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'': A female team member recovers from a bullet wound injury in a healing vat.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has bacta tanks, using a universal regenerative fluid containing some sort of microbe. Most famously used with Luke in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and crucial to the plot of the third and fourth novels in the Literature/XWingSeries. ''Film/RogueOne'' shows that Darth Vader uses one in order to recuperate from his injuries and give himself a break from his heavy, painful life-support suit.

* In ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' they use vats filled with paraffin wax. It's said to "[[ArtisticLicenseBiology stimulate white blood cells]] and speeds up the process". Wounds that normally takes days to heal do so in hours.

* Used in Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/TheWorthingSaga'' novel ''Hot Sleep'' (it's an inversion of the ''[[HumanPopsicle cold sleep]]'' trope, not a sexual reference) when the protagonist is being healed/reconstructed after "proving he's a survivor".
* Iliff in the ''Literature/AgentOfVega'' series by Creator/JamesHSchmitz delivers his final report from a healing vat, after his near-fatal confrontation with the BigBad of the story.

** In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' Boba spends time healing in a bacta tank due to the injuries he sustained from spending time in the Sarlacc's stomach as well as what Tatooine's suns and heat did to his body (these scenes usually bookend flashbacks of his past when he got these injuries). When Boba is not using the bacta tank [[BenevolentBoss he allows allies needing treatment for injuries]] to use the tank, including one of his two Gamorrean guards, Cobb Vanth and the Wookie Krrsantan (who, ironically, once tried to attack Boba [[SickbedSlaying while he was vulnerable]] in the same tank).

* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has healing vats, one of the first uses of nanotechnology. Given a few days they can regenerate limbs, and given a few weeks can grant a severed head a new body.

* Kolto tanks (precursors to the bacta ones) appear throughout the ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' series. In the first game, an entire main story quest revolves around not cutting off the Republic's supply of them. The PlayerCharacter of the second game even wakes up inside one at the start of the game.
* Kolto tanks appear again in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''. Imperial characters get more than one SideQuest involving their destruction (in the Republic camps, of course) -- often [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with wounded soldiers still inside]].
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', the Brotherhood of Steel have a [[AutoDoc medical AI]] named ACE that works by immersing the PlayerCharacter in "suspension tanks". If given the proper add-ons, it can also operate on the player to permanently boost their stats, although this requires them to stay suspended for weeks at a time.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' has a few levels with tanks that can heal wounded soldiers. One level even has a mission that revolves around this.
* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has the White Magic Circulation Hub for Eternian Central Command. [[WickedWitch Victoria F. Stein]] experiences its treatments regularly. Come ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', [[spoiler:it's being used to keep Tiz Arrior alive with the absence of his soul]].

* In '' VideoGame/TheSims2'', players on console versions of the game can purchase the SlumberGell Immersion Pod which allows characters to rest and sleep in it. As an added bonus, it also doubles as a shower, cleaning the player in the process.

* Played with in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', a strip after Torg gets hit with a load of "sleep chaff" shows him in what looks like a bacta tank, then Riff states that it's actually a "bactine" tank and the only reason they can't hear him screaming is the breath mask.
* When ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'''s powers are going critical, she wakes up in one of these in Dr. Universe's lab and smashes it open in a panic, which causes Universe to [[LampshadeHanging wonder about the practicality of such things]].
* Most [[CloningBodyParts cloning rigs]] in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' are giant tanks of water with {{Nanomachines}} that rebuild the patient's missing parts, which tend to be everything but the head.
* In the [[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky alien-related]] continuities of the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'', Martian resurrection technology consists of a tank in which a corpse is kept, which when plugged into the device causes it to regenerate fully and then return to life.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' season 2 finale "True Colors", Marcy Wu is {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} when King Andrias stabs her with his sword. In the Season 3 premiere episode "The New Normal", Marcy is recuperating inside a liquid-filled healing chamber back in Newtopia [[spoiler:to prepare her to become [[MindHive the Core's]] [[GrandTheftMe new]] [[DemonicPossession host]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' was put in one after crash-landing on the yeti world. Since Butch Hartman is a known ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, it's entirely possible that the tank and the icy environment itself is a ShoutOut.

* Vilgax of ''Franchise/Ben10'' spends most of the first season inside one after the vessel carrying the Omnitrix causes his ship's bridge to explode with its counterattack. After coming out, his body is augmented with muscle enhancing implants [[CameBackStrong to make him even stronger]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Batman has one in the Batcave. He uses it as a "hot chemical bath" (!) in "Heart of Ice" to treat a low-level thug who'd just been [[HarmlessFreezing on the receiving end]] of Mr. Freeze's FreezeRay.

* These are used in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' by Frieza's minions. They're apparently [[TotallyRadical mondo]] [[MemeticMutation cool]]!
* These kinds of devices appear in the ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty'' franchise (and considering that the titular protagonist is prone to get into fights as befits her {{Superhero}} status, she ends up using them rather often).

** In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' Boba spends time healing in a bacta tank due to the injuries he sustained from spending time in the Sarlacc's stomach as well as what Tatooine's suns and heat did to his body. When Boba is not using the bacta tank he allows allies needing treatment for injuries to use the tank, including one of his two Gamorrean guards, Cobb Vanth and the Wookie Krrsantan.

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* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has the White Magic Circulation Hub for Eternian Central Command. [[WickedWitch Victoria F. Stein]] experiences its treatments [[IllGirl regularly]]. Come ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', [[spoiler:it's being used to keep Tiz Arrior alive with the absence of his soul]].

** In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' Boba spends time healing in a bacta tank due to the injuries he sustained from spending time in the Sarlacc's stomach. When Boba is not using the bacta tank he allows allies needing treatment for injuries to use the tank, including both Cobb Vanth and the Wookie Krrsantan.
** ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' shows both Vader and Obi-Wan having to spend time in bacta tanks due to injuries they sustained at the other's hands.

** In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' Boba spends time healing in a bacta tank due to the injuries he sustained from spending time in the Sarlacc's stomach.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has bacta tanks, using a universal regenerative fluid containing some sort of microbe. Most famously used with Luke in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and crucial to the plot of the third and fourth novels in the Literature/XWingSeries.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' season 2 finale "True Colors", Marcy Wu is {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} when King Andrias stabs her with his sword. In the Season 3 premiere episode "The New Normal", Marcy is recuperating inside a liquid-filled healing chamber back in Newtopia while Andrias is preparing his plans.

Subtrope of both AutoDoc and PeopleJars. Related to {{Panacea}}, HealingSpring, HealingPotion, and HealItWithWater. May involve NanoMachines. Compare SavedByThePhlebotinum.

* These kind of devices appear on the ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty'' franchise (and considering that the titular protagonist is prone to get into fights as befits her {{Superhero}} status, she ends up using them rather often).

* These are located in ''Manga/FairyTail'' used by [[TheLegionsOfHell Tartarus ]] to revive and create new [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]].
* One appears in ''Anime/AldNoahZero'' season 2.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' mythos, Ras al'Ghul has a place called the Lazarus Pit that regenerates and rejuvenates him. (It also causes temporary insanity...)

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has bacta tanks, using the universal regenerative fluid containing some sort of microbe. Most famously used with Luke in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', and crucial to the plot of the third and fourth novels in the Literature/XWingSeries.

* In ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' they use vats filled with paraffin wax. It's said to "[[ArtisticLicenseBiology stimulate white bloodcells]] and speeds up the process". Wounds that normally takes days to heal do so in hours.

* In the ''Literature/{{Paradox}}'' series the Chatcaava use a sort of gel to recover from wounds sustained in duels. Alliance ambassador Lisinthir spends a few days in a tank full of it after one fight with the emperor (who had to have his digestive tract re-inserted and was back on his feet that evening.)
* These show up in the ''Literature/TourOfTheMerrimack'' novels
* Used in Creator/OrsonScottCard's [[Literature/TheWorthingSaga Worthing Saga]] novel ''Hot Sleep'' (it's an inversion of the ''[[HumanPopsicle cold sleep]]'' trope, not a sexual reference) when the protagonist is being healed/reconstructed after "proving he's a survivor".

* Subverted in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', where the vats can keep the person alive, but because the victim's injuries are simply too serious (and serious injuries on a SpaceMarine would kill normal people several times over) they are instead armored, given legs and heavy weapons, and sent off to vanquish the Emperor's enemies as Dreadnoughts.

* Kolto tanks appear again in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''. Imperial characters get more than one SideQuest involving their destruction (in the Republic camps, of course)--often [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with wounded soldiers still inside]].

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has the White Magic Circulation Hub for Eternian Central Command. [[WickedWith Victoria F. Stein]] experiences its treatments [[IllGirl regularly]]. Come ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', [[spoiler:it's being used to keep Tiz Arrior alive with the absence of his soul]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has the Shrine of Resurrection in which Link wakes up in a vat filled with glowing blue liquid after having been OnlyMostlyDead since Calamity Ganon destroyed Hyrule. Though contrary to other examples, it takes Link a ''century'' to heal up from near-fatal wounds, and it comes at the cost of his memory, but also [[HumanPopsicle halts aging.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6jisr1Nlk&list=PLSQLREUw9vwlh8bzgvZCt_WS8615trN5H One can only imagine Link's thoughts upon waking, alone, in such alien-looking environs.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MischiefMakers'' the injured characters, the Quirky Miniboss Squad and Marina herself are put in one of these.
* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'', Spider-Man 2099 places Amazing Spider-Man into a regeneration egg to heal him after he was fatally injured by a mind-controlled Anti-Venom.

* When ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'s'' powers are going critical she wakes up in one of these in Dr. Universe's lab, and smashes it open in a panic. Causing Universe to wonder about the practicality of such things.
* Most [[CloningBodyParts cloning rigs]] in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' are giant tanks of water with NanoMachines that rebuild the patient's missing parts, which tend to be everything but the head.

* ''Webcomic/BallerinaMafia'' shows Joel making frequent use of a [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20130826 Nanobot healing tube.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' season 2 finale "True Colors", Marcy Wu is impaled when King Andrias stabs her with his sword. In the Season 3 premiere episode "The New Normal", Marcy is recuperating inside a liquid-filled healing chamber back in Newtopia while Andrias is preparing his plans.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' was put in one after crash-landing on the yeti world. Since Butch Hartman is a known Star Wars fan it's entirely possible that the tank and the icy environment itself is an intentional reference.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Wars]]'' both Maximals and Predacons have their own type of healing vat. The Maximals possess a small, airtight, one-person chamber, while the Predacons use a vat that resembles a hot tub. In fact Megatron is seen bathing in one on multiple occasions, complete with a [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rubber_Ducky rubber ducky.]]
* Vilgax of ''Franchise/Ben10'' spends most of the first season inside one after the vessel carrying the Omnitrix caused his ship's bridge to explode with its counterattack. After coming out, his body was augmented with muscle enhancing implants [[CameBackStrong to make him even stronger]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Batman has one in the Batcave. He uses it as a "hot chemical bath" (!) in "Heart of Ice" to treat a low-level thug who'd just been on the receiving end of [[HarmlessFreezing Mr. Freeze's]] [[HumanPopsicle ice-gun]].

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has the White Magic Circulation Hub for Eternian Central Command. [[WikedWith Victoria F. Stein]] experiences its treatments [[IllGirl regularly]]. Come ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'', [[spoiler:it's being used to keep Tiz Arrior alive with the absence of his soul]].