Soul Absorption

"You can exist without your soul, but you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone... lost forever."

- Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)

The power to absorb souls and utilize them in some way. Sub-power of Soul Manipulation. Variation of Absorption.

Also Called

 * Soul/Spirit Collection/Consumption/Draining/Harvesting/Robbery/Stealing/Theft

Capabilities
User can absorb souls, while removing them from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.

Common advantages include adding the target's skills and abilities to users, or using the absorbed souls to augment user's own powers.

Applications

 * Absorbing Regeneration
 * Assimilation Shield
 * Energy Empowerment
 * Enhanced Condition/Supernatural Condition
 * Knowledge Absorption
 * Life-Force Absorption
 * Power Absorption
 * Psychometry
 * Soul Empowerment
 * Soul Energy Absorption
 * Soul Removal
 * Obtain access to items hidden in soul, like Soul-Bound Weapon.

Associations

 * Afterlife Prevention
 * Death Inducement
 * Absorption
 * Death Empowerment
 * Life Reduction
 * Reincarnation Denial
 * Shapeshifting to the absorbed soul's former shape.
 * Soul Channeling
 * Soul Destruction
 * Soul Manipulation
 * Soul Mutilation

Limitations

 * May be limited to how much one can absorb.
 * May have a limit for how many souls one can contain.
 * May have limited range, including touch only.
 * May have to continually absorb souls to survive.
 * Soulless beings are immune.
 * May only be able to absorb certain kinds of souls, such as those belonging to supernatural beings.
 * Users of Soul Restoration, Absolute Restoration/Flawless Restoration can restore the souls of others.
 * Users of Soul Anchoring are immune.

Known Users
See Also: Your Soul Is Mine.

Television/Film
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 * Soul Eaters (Angel)
 * The Beast (Angel)
 * Liss Hubble (Angel: After the Fall)
 * Kathy Newman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Mok'tugar Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Donna Gilchrist (Being Human)
 * Angel of Death (Charmed)
 * Guardian Demons (Charmed)
 * Soul Collectors (Charmed)
 * Lord Marshal Zhylaw (The Chronicles of Riddick)
 * Morgan Sinclair (The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
 * Set (The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
 * Ogdru Jahad (Hellboy/BPRD)
 * Alexia (Los Protegidos)
 * Stephanie (My Babysitter's a Vampire); via Symbol Magic and Spell Casting
 * Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
 * Splitface (Power Rangers Samurai)
 * Halloween Hound (Spooky Buddies); via Howl Breath
 * Darth Vitiate (Star Wars Legends); via Ritual of Nathema
 * Castiel (Supernatural)
 * The Darkness/Amara (Supernatural)
 * Migar Prisoners (Tracker)
 * Darkness (Twitches)
 * Arcadius (The Vampire Diaries)
 * Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)
 * The Beldum (Coraline)

Comics/Cartoons

 * D'Hoffryn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Trigon (DC Comics)
 * Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
 * Selene (Marvel Comics)
 * Walker (Marvel Comics)
 * Legion (Marvel Comics)
 * Mephisto (Marvel Comics)
 * Shuma-Gorath (Marvel Comics)
 * Zarathos (Marvel Comics)
 * Spawn (Image Comics)
 * Knuckles the Echidna/Enerjak of Dark Mobius (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Soulvex (Undertaker comics)
 * Keradon The Soulbender (Wetworks)
 * The Darkness (Witchblade/Top Cow)
 * Jackie Estacado (Witchblade/Top Cow)
 * Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time)
 * Marceline Abadeer (Adventure Time)
 * Jasmine (American Dragon: Jake Long)
 * Charmcaster (Ben 10)
 * Demongo (Samurai Jack)
 * Spirit Drinker (X-Men: The Animated Series)
 * Nadakhan (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Djinn Blade
 * Skylor (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)

Literature

 * Dementors (Harry Potter)}}