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* ''WesternAnimation/NinjagoDragonsRising'': The city of Imperium is a technologically advanced metropolis where everything is powered by magic forcibly drained from dragons. The citizens are fine with this, as they see dragons as mindless beasts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': Vampire crime lord Hanek eventually finds a way to create teleportation devices. The catch is that they are powered by the life-force of banshees, and doing this repeatedly will kill said banshee.
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** Doctor Venture's family is trapped one by one inside his latest invention, a simulator known as the "joy can" that grants the user's [[LotusEaterMachine fondest desires]]. One of its vital components was the heart of an orphan. Doctor Orpheus's disgusted response became the new [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Better yet, Doctor Orpheus only asked for ONE of the "unorthodox parts" of the machine, implying the other parts Dr. Venture used were MORE morally questionable.
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** Doctor Venture's family is trapped one by one inside his latest invention, a simulator known as the "joy can" that grants the user's [[LotusEaterMachine fondest desires]]. One of its vital components was the heart of an orphan. Doctor Orpheus's disgusted response became the new [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]].{{Trope Namer|s}}. Better yet, Doctor Orpheus only asked for ONE of the "unorthodox parts" of the machine, implying the other parts Dr. Venture used were MORE morally questionable.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Phantoms'', [[https://youtu.be/ZLui10GMdgY the Green Lantern Corps' analysis]] of the Kaizer-Thrall, an Apokolyptian weapon confiscated by New Genesis, revealed that it not only possessed sentience but was, in fact, a human child. [[https://youtu.be/TKi21Ffyy4g Miss Martian later established contact with it,]] learning that the child was [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Danny Chase]], a trafficked metahuman who was handed to [[TortureTechnician Desaad]] for [[BrainInAJar his living brain to be used in the creation of the weapon]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}} Phantoms'', [[https://youtu.be/ZLui10GMdgY the Green Lantern Corps' analysis]] of the Kaizer-Thrall, an Apokolyptian weapon confiscated by New Genesis, revealed that it not only possessed sentience but was, in fact, a human child. [[https://youtu.be/TKi21Ffyy4g Miss Martian later established contact with it,]] learning that the child was [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Danny Chase]], a trafficked metahuman who was handed to [[TortureTechnician Desaad]] for [[BrainInAJar his living brain to be used in the creation of the weapon]].
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* The third episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' features a human gang kidnapping Nosedeenians in order to power alien technology.
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Phlebotinium [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by deeply unethical means]] in WesternAnimation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' has the Psychocrypt. Literally sucks out LifeEnergy to create Slaverlords through which the Queen can see and hear. In this fashion, she can keep direct control over her armies and [[TheEmpire her crumbling Empire]]. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen of the Crowns]] already hunted the Gherkin race to near-extinction in her thirst to create Slaverlords. Then, she discovers [[HumansAreSpecial humans]], who are [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious ideal specimens to create Slaverlords]]. A good deal of the Rangers' job is to keep the Queen from obtaining more humans for the Crypt. The process, as seen in "New Frontier" & "Psychocrypt" is also horrendously painful.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In "Power Animal", Finn is kidnapped by gnomes to power a device designed to flip over the Earth's crust.
** "Bonnie and Neddy" introduces Princess Bubblegum's brother Neddy, a reclusive dragon-like monster who hides in a cave under the Candy Kingdom and produces the "candy juice" used by the rest of the kingdom. Though Neddy is hidden away more for his own protection, as [[AmbiguousDisorder he's very nervous and sensitive, and is deeply afraid of everything that isn't his sister]]. He otherwise seems quite content to stay in the dungeons and feed off sap from the roots of the giant candy tree.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ArgaiTheProphecy'', [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[BigBad Dark]] gains and maintains her immortality by stealing the youth of several maidens throughout time and keeping them in eternal slumber.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Fairy World is powered by belief in fairies. It ''would'' be ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve, if not for one little issue: the only belief that apparently matters is ''Crocker's''. A man who does not remember having fairies, but knows they exist and is completely obsessed with them. Fairy World is thus powered by the spazzes of a forsaken former godkid. To prevent all of Fairy World disintegrating should Crocker die (having magically guaranteed that he'll never get over his issues), several more Crocker-alikes are given his obsession. Although from how it's phrased it's possible that they just started harvesting from people who were already obsessed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' features a boat powered by angsty children. [[TooDumbToLive The children are also used as cannonballs.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the book ''Literature/TheJournalOfTheTwoSisters'', it is revealed that the act of [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows raising the sun and the moon every day]] used to be this. Both the sun and the moon are obviously necessary for life on the planet to survive, but they won't move on their own. Teams of unicorn volunteers would work together to do the job, but their magic would be drained and result in RapidAging. When Celestia and Luna found out about this, they [[PhysicalGod proved their power]] by doing it by themselves (Celestia raised the sun, Luna the moon) with no side effects, and restored the lost magic to all the volunteer unicorns to boot. By the time of the cartoon, most ponies have forgotten that there was ever anything difficult about the process at all since Celestia has been handling both the sun and the moon by herself for a thousand years.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': [[SatanicArchetype The Beast]] of [[EnchantedForest the Unknown]] exists because [[spoiler: of a SoulJar lantern kept lit with oil from the inside of Edelwood trees, which are grown from the souls of lost children [[DrivenToSuicide who submit to the forest]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty:''
** Shielding the outside of Evil Rick's fortress are hundreds of tortured Morties to prevent the other Ricks from tracking him down. According to "our" Rick this is obscene overkill since you can get the same effect with "five Morties and a jumper cable." AndThatWouldBeWrong.
** In the Season 5 finale, [[spoiler: Evil Morty, who was puppeteering Evil Rick during the above example, doubles down on this and uses the blood of all the Mortys on the Citadel as well as their Ricks to power his warp drive and break through the wall Rick put around their section of the multiverse.]]
* A more mundane and light-hearted example found in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is forced to turn a gigantic capstan, with a guy with a whip egging him on... in order to operate a rotating display in the break room.
-->'''Homer:''' Ow! D'oh! After lunch, can I whip you?\\
'''Slave-driver:''' ''[cheerfully]'' Nope.\\
'''Homer:''' Oh, no fair. Ow!\\
''[pan to the plant lunch hall, where Lenny and Carl observe the rotating dessert table]''\\
'''Lenny:''' Hmm. Wonder what makes it turn.\\
'''Carl:''' Who cares?
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** It is implied that many Gem artifacts, including the Desert Glass and the pyramid in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E8SeriousSteven "Serious Steven"]], are powered by Gems. Lapis Lazuli herself powered a magical mirror, though this was meant as an interrogation device which Pearl mistook as some sort of database.
** [[DoomsdayDevice The Cluster]], a planet-busting weapon that Homeworld planted at the center of the Earth, is made up of the forced fusions of ''millions'' of Gems who were shattered during the Gem War.
* Starscream's clone technology of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' involves the use of protoforms, which can be described as fetal or pre-natal Cybertronians.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Doctor Venture's family is trapped one by one inside his latest invention, a simulator known as the "joy can" that grants the user's [[LotusEaterMachine fondest desires]]. One of its vital components was the heart of an orphan. Doctor Orpheus's disgusted response became the new [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Better yet, Doctor Orpheus only asked for ONE of the "unorthodox parts" of the machine, implying the other parts Dr. Venture used were MORE morally questionable.
** Richard Impossible, patriarch of a ComicBook/FantasticFour expy, averts ReedRichardsIsUseless and [[AndIMustScream uses his brother-in-law's pyrokinesis to power his tower]]. That same brother-in-law [[BlessedWithSuck can feel his own flames]], and Impossible gets [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration called out/congratulated by one of the series' most effective villains]] for doing the most evil thing he'd ever seen.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}:''
** [[spoiler:Qilby the Traitor]] stole the heart of the Mechasm Orgonax and used it to create [[spoiler:the Eliacube]]. The literally heartless Mechasm grew up to be figuratively heartless as a result and became hellbent on wiping out organic life (or at the very least, killing every last [[spoiler:Eliatrope]] in the universe).
** Nox was willing to drain the [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] of entire civilizations and commit wholesale genocide without batting an eye in order to use it to power up the Eliacube [[spoiler:and unleash a ResetButton that would allow him to save his long-dead family and erase all the atrocities he committed to get it done.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Phantoms'', [[https://youtu.be/ZLui10GMdgY the Green Lantern Corps' analysis]] of the Kaizer-Thrall, an Apokolyptian weapon confiscated by New Genesis, revealed that it not only possessed sentience but was, in fact, a human child. [[https://youtu.be/TKi21Ffyy4g Miss Martian later established contact with it,]] learning that the child was [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Danny Chase]], a trafficked metahuman who was handed to [[TortureTechnician Desaad]] for [[BrainInAJar his living brain to be used in the creation of the weapon]].
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Phlebotinium [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by deeply unethical means]] in WesternAnimation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' has the Psychocrypt. Literally sucks out LifeEnergy to create Slaverlords through which the Queen can see and hear. In this fashion, she can keep direct control over her armies and [[TheEmpire her crumbling Empire]]. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen of the Crowns]] already hunted the Gherkin race to near-extinction in her thirst to create Slaverlords. Then, she discovers [[HumansAreSpecial humans]], who are [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious ideal specimens to create Slaverlords]]. A good deal of the Rangers' job is to keep the Queen from obtaining more humans for the Crypt. The process, as seen in "New Frontier" & "Psychocrypt" is also horrendously painful.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In "Power Animal", Finn is kidnapped by gnomes to power a device designed to flip over the Earth's crust.
** "Bonnie and Neddy" introduces Princess Bubblegum's brother Neddy, a reclusive dragon-like monster who hides in a cave under the Candy Kingdom and produces the "candy juice" used by the rest of the kingdom. Though Neddy is hidden away more for his own protection, as [[AmbiguousDisorder he's very nervous and sensitive, and is deeply afraid of everything that isn't his sister]]. He otherwise seems quite content to stay in the dungeons and feed off sap from the roots of the giant candy tree.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ArgaiTheProphecy'', [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[BigBad Dark]] gains and maintains her immortality by stealing the youth of several maidens throughout time and keeping them in eternal slumber.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Fairy World is powered by belief in fairies. It ''would'' be ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve, if not for one little issue: the only belief that apparently matters is ''Crocker's''. A man who does not remember having fairies, but knows they exist and is completely obsessed with them. Fairy World is thus powered by the spazzes of a forsaken former godkid. To prevent all of Fairy World disintegrating should Crocker die (having magically guaranteed that he'll never get over his issues), several more Crocker-alikes are given his obsession. Although from how it's phrased it's possible that they just started harvesting from people who were already obsessed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' features a boat powered by angsty children. [[TooDumbToLive The children are also used as cannonballs.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the book ''Literature/TheJournalOfTheTwoSisters'', it is revealed that the act of [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows raising the sun and the moon every day]] used to be this. Both the sun and the moon are obviously necessary for life on the planet to survive, but they won't move on their own. Teams of unicorn volunteers would work together to do the job, but their magic would be drained and result in RapidAging. When Celestia and Luna found out about this, they [[PhysicalGod proved their power]] by doing it by themselves (Celestia raised the sun, Luna the moon) with no side effects, and restored the lost magic to all the volunteer unicorns to boot. By the time of the cartoon, most ponies have forgotten that there was ever anything difficult about the process at all since Celestia has been handling both the sun and the moon by herself for a thousand years.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': [[SatanicArchetype The Beast]] of [[EnchantedForest the Unknown]] exists because [[spoiler: of a SoulJar lantern kept lit with oil from the inside of Edelwood trees, which are grown from the souls of lost children [[DrivenToSuicide who submit to the forest]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty:''
** Shielding the outside of Evil Rick's fortress are hundreds of tortured Morties to prevent the other Ricks from tracking him down. According to "our" Rick this is obscene overkill since you can get the same effect with "five Morties and a jumper cable." AndThatWouldBeWrong.
** In the Season 5 finale, [[spoiler: Evil Morty, who was puppeteering Evil Rick during the above example, doubles down on this and uses the blood of all the Mortys on the Citadel as well as their Ricks to power his warp drive and break through the wall Rick put around their section of the multiverse.]]
* A more mundane and light-hearted example found in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is forced to turn a gigantic capstan, with a guy with a whip egging him on... in order to operate a rotating display in the break room.
-->'''Homer:''' Ow! D'oh! After lunch, can I whip you?\\
'''Slave-driver:''' ''[cheerfully]'' Nope.\\
'''Homer:''' Oh, no fair. Ow!\\
''[pan to the plant lunch hall, where Lenny and Carl observe the rotating dessert table]''\\
'''Lenny:''' Hmm. Wonder what makes it turn.\\
'''Carl:''' Who cares?
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** It is implied that many Gem artifacts, including the Desert Glass and the pyramid in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E8SeriousSteven "Serious Steven"]], are powered by Gems. Lapis Lazuli herself powered a magical mirror, though this was meant as an interrogation device which Pearl mistook as some sort of database.
** [[DoomsdayDevice The Cluster]], a planet-busting weapon that Homeworld planted at the center of the Earth, is made up of the forced fusions of ''millions'' of Gems who were shattered during the Gem War.
* Starscream's clone technology of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' involves the use of protoforms, which can be described as fetal or pre-natal Cybertronians.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Doctor Venture's family is trapped one by one inside his latest invention, a simulator known as the "joy can" that grants the user's [[LotusEaterMachine fondest desires]]. One of its vital components was the heart of an orphan. Doctor Orpheus's disgusted response became the new [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Better yet, Doctor Orpheus only asked for ONE of the "unorthodox parts" of the machine, implying the other parts Dr. Venture used were MORE morally questionable.
** Richard Impossible, patriarch of a ComicBook/FantasticFour expy, averts ReedRichardsIsUseless and [[AndIMustScream uses his brother-in-law's pyrokinesis to power his tower]]. That same brother-in-law [[BlessedWithSuck can feel his own flames]], and Impossible gets [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration called out/congratulated by one of the series' most effective villains]] for doing the most evil thing he'd ever seen.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}:''
** [[spoiler:Qilby the Traitor]] stole the heart of the Mechasm Orgonax and used it to create [[spoiler:the Eliacube]]. The literally heartless Mechasm grew up to be figuratively heartless as a result and became hellbent on wiping out organic life (or at the very least, killing every last [[spoiler:Eliatrope]] in the universe).
** Nox was willing to drain the [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] of entire civilizations and commit wholesale genocide without batting an eye in order to use it to power up the Eliacube [[spoiler:and unleash a ResetButton that would allow him to save his long-dead family and erase all the atrocities he committed to get it done.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Phantoms'', [[https://youtu.be/ZLui10GMdgY the Green Lantern Corps' analysis]] of the Kaizer-Thrall, an Apokolyptian weapon confiscated by New Genesis, revealed that it not only possessed sentience but was, in fact, a human child. [[https://youtu.be/TKi21Ffyy4g Miss Martian later established contact with it,]] learning that the child was [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Danny Chase]], a trafficked metahuman who was handed to [[TortureTechnician Desaad]] for [[BrainInAJar his living brain to be used in the creation of the weapon]].
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