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* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Shoto Todoroki has both [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[PlayingWithFire fire]] abilities. It's shown that the only restriction to how much fire and ice Shoto can produce is based on his body temperature, and thanks to him winning the SuperpowerLottery, using the other half of his power helps regulate his temperature (so if he's suffering from hypothermia due to using too much ice, he can just switch to fire for a bit to warm himself back up). Other than that, there's no limit to what he can do, leading to a few instances where he summons building-sized walls of ice seemingly out of thin air.
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* Invoked and subverted in ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', where Lilith comments that whilst [[ElementalPowers Logia]] users generally are able to create a near-infinite amount of their elemental matter, ''[[{{Animorphism}} Zoan]]'' users with similar "mass-projecting" powers still need that mass to come from somewhere, even if they ''do'' have a much higher wellspring than they realistically should. Specific examples are Lilith's SuperSpit, which lets her spray enormous quantities of venom but still requires her to drink a considerable amount of water at some point, and Nabiki's [[BloodyMurder haemokinesis]], which taps into a stockpile in her own body. If she doesn't replenish it by drinking blood or reabsorbing blood she's extruded, eventually she taps out and shrinks down into a bat-like chibi form.

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* ComicBook/{{Storm}} from the ''ComicBook/XMen''. This was used to (sort of) explain that she can ''control'' weather, but not really ''create'' it. (For instance, when she makes it rain ''inside'' a room, it becomes much drier ''outside''.) Compare [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], who can make it rain ''anywhere'' because his powers are explicitly magical. It was also originally stated that her ability to shoot lightning bolts out of her hands was because her body naturally generated a strong [[ArtisticLicensePhysics positive electrical charge]]. This was rather swiftly dropped.
** [[AnIcePerson Iceman]], also of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. He canonically makes his ice by drawing the moisture out of the air, but the huge sculptures he creates would be difficult to pull off even taking into account a high percentage of humidity. The precise mechanism depends on the writer; one was that he draws the moisture from an extra-dimensional source, but he needs actual moisture in the air to "pattern" it from. Thus, he's weaker in extremely arid conditions. In one issue of ''The Defenders'', Bobby manages to kill an alien fungus by draining all the moisture from a sealed room, but it takes much, much longer than you'd expect from the volume of ice he's producing.

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* ComicBook/{{Storm}} from the ''ComicBook/XMen''. ''ComicBook/XMen'':
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This was is used to (sort of) explain that she [[WeatherManipulation Storm]] can ''control'' weather, but not really ''create'' it. (For instance, when she makes it rain ''inside'' a room, it becomes much drier ''outside''.) Compare [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], who can make it rain ''anywhere'' because his powers are explicitly magical. It was also originally stated that her ability to shoot lightning bolts out of her hands was because her body naturally generated a strong [[ArtisticLicensePhysics positive electrical charge]]. This was rather swiftly dropped.
** [[AnIcePerson Iceman]], also of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. He Iceman]] canonically makes his ice by drawing the moisture out of the air, but the huge sculptures he creates would be difficult to pull off even taking into account a high percentage of humidity. The precise mechanism depends on the writer; one was that he draws the moisture from an extra-dimensional source, but he needs actual moisture in the air to "pattern" it from. Thus, he's weaker in extremely arid conditions. In one issue of ''The Defenders'', Bobby manages to kill an alien fungus by draining all the moisture from a sealed room, but it takes much, much longer than you'd expect from the volume of ice he's producing.
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* Averted in a certain instance in ''[[Manga/SoulHunter Houshin Engi]]''. Koyuken of the Four Saints of Kuryuu Island wields the Paopei Kongenju (an orb the size of a basketball) which allows him to summon as much water as he wants, to the point that he's introduced flooding a mountainous desert area with a colossal tsunami. During the fight against Taikobo (who notices that it's salt water), he explains that Kongenju is connected to a twin orb floating in the ocean of Kingo Island and thus it doesn't create water but rather summon the water from one orb to the other.

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* Averted in a certain instance in ''[[Manga/SoulHunter Houshin Engi]]''. ''Manga/HoshinEngi''. Koyuken of the Four Saints of Kuryuu Island wields the Paopei paope Kongenju (an orb the size of a basketball) which allows him to summon as much water as he wants, to the point that he's introduced flooding a mountainous desert area with a colossal tsunami. During the fight against Taikobo (who notices that it's salt water), he explains that Kongenju is connected to a twin orb floating in the ocean of the Kingo Island Islands and thus it doesn't create water but rather summon the water from one orb to the other.

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* Most ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' are capable of expelling ridiculous quantities of their elements from their bodies. One episode of the anime had Ash's Squirtle fill up a whole truck with water using only Water Gun. In the games, a Pokédex entry mentions that Blastoise (about the size of a van) could fill an [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic]] swimming pool. How did so much water end up inside the {{Mons}}? Nobody knows. Then again, that creature the size of a van fits in a ball the size of a clenched fist (which in the anime can become ''even smaller'').

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Most ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' Pokémon are capable of expelling ridiculous quantities of their elements from their bodies. One episode of the anime had Ash's Squirtle fill up a whole truck with water using only Water Gun. In the games, a Pokédex entry mentions that Blastoise (about the size of a van) could fill an [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic]] swimming pool. How did so much water end up inside the {{Mons}}? Nobody knows. Then again, that creature the size of a van fits in a ball the size of a clenched fist (which in the anime can become ''even smaller'').
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Zig-zagged with Frozone's ice powers. Normally, he uses water that's either in the air or in his body. In one scene where he and Mr. Incredible are rescuing people in a burning building, he points out that there's no humidity in the air and he's short on body water, so he's screwed. However, after a single drink from a cup from a water cooler -- and moving into a cooler building, granted -- he creates enough ice to entirely cover a man and ''stop a bullet''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Zig-zagged with Frozone's ice powers. Normally, he uses water that's either in the air or in his body. In one scene where he and Mr. Incredible are rescuing people in a burning building, he points out that there's no humidity in the air and he's short on body water, so he's screwed. However, after a single drink from a cup from a water cooler -- and moving into a cooler building, granted -- he creates enough ice to entirely cover a man and ''stop a bullet''.
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* Used in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and its spin-off, where elemental mages seem capable of generating large amounts of their chosen element from thin air. Of course, much of it is explicitly explained as magic. Averted by espers who can control elements, for example, Kinuhata Saiai, who can use nitrogen to form shields, carries several canisters of nitrogen with her at all times in case she uses up what's in the air around her. There are a couple of exceptions, but they tend to be very high-level espers, whose abilities border on magic anyway.

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* Used in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and its spin-off, where elemental mages seem capable of generating large amounts of their chosen element from thin air. Of course, much of it is explicitly explained as magic. Averted by espers who can control elements, for example, Kinuhata Saiai, who can use nitrogen to form shields, carries several canisters of nitrogen with her at all times in case she uses up what's in the air around her. There are a couple of exceptions, but they tend to be very high-level espers, whose abilities border on magic anyway.
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* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': This trope is both used and averted, depending on the character. Some witches seem able to summon certain elements; Imogene, for instance, is able to just create fire with a spell. Others, however, need to carry the element with them to use it in magical fights. Amira Chadid is an example of the latter; she specializes in water magic and carries water with her in large canteens so she has some when needed.

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