The circumstance in which the user is dependent on the regular usage of drugs, devices, etc. to control/retain their powers, stay cognizant, or even to remain alive. Variation of both Affinity and Aversion. Opposite to Self Sufficiency and Self-Sustenance.
Also Called
- Life Dependency
- Power Dependency
- Superhuman Dependency
Capabilities
The user is forced to regularly use something, such as drugs, devices, species, structures, elements, etc. to perform certain tasks in order, remain alive and/or to retain/control their powers.
Associations
- Blood Empowerment
- Consumption Healing
- Disease Suppression
- Drug Usage
- Electric Life
- Emotional Consistency
- Life-Force Absorption
- Life Preservation
- Power Instability
- Powers Via Object
- High-Tech Exoskeleton
- Regulation
- Soul Absorption
- Spiritual Meditation
Limitations
Known Users
Comics/Cartoons
- Roger's alien species (American Dad)
- Michael Morningstar/Darkstar (Ben 10 Series)
- Bane (DC Comics)
- Mr. Freeze (DC Comics)
- Ra's al Ghul (DC Comics); Requires use of the Lazarus Pit to regain his youth.
- Raven (DC Comics/Teen Titans); must meditate daily to keep her emotions and powers in check.
- Talia al Ghul (DC Comics)
- Vandal Savage (DC Comics)
- Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- Morbius (Marvel Comics)
- Nina Pryce (Marvel Comics)
- Sauron (Marvel Comics)
- Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics); requires his arc-reactor in order to keep metal from reaching his heart & killing him.
- Skips (Regular Show)
- Werecats (Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island); need to drain life-force from victims.
- Simone Lenoir
- Lena Dupree
- Jacques
- Chase Young (Xiaolin Showdown); via Lao Mang Lone Soup
Television/Movies
- Sam Winchester (Supernatural); needed to consume demon blood to maintain his demon powers.
- Monsters (Supernatural); feeding on humans keep them from starvation.
- Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Reapers (Blade II)
- Saya Otonashi (Blood+)
- Amata Sora (Aquarion Evol); originally
- Joshua (No Ordinary Family)
- Pied Piper (Sarah Jane Adventures)
Manga/Anime
- Shinnosuke (Ranma 1/2)
- Alucard (Hellsing Series)
- Eclipse Virus Infectees (Nanoha)
- Bounts (Bleach)
- Utsuro (Gintama)
- Kouka (Gintama)
- Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire)
- Dr. Gero and Android 19 (DragonBall Z)
- Febrie (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
- Rea Sanka (Sankarea)
- The Crystal Alter Form (s-Cry-ed)
- Koyori (Hand Shakers)
- Yume Hasegawa (Pupa); must eat her brother's flesh to stay calm.
- Kojō Akatsuki (Strike the Blood)
- Sora (No Game No Life)
- Shiro (No Game No Life)
- Prisoners at Deadman Wonderland (Deadman Wonderland), must eat candy once every three days to prevent being poisoned
Video Games
- Demigods (Asura's Wrath)
- Clear (Final Fantasy Unlimited)
- Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat Series)
- Quarians (Mass Effect)
- Albert Wesker (Resident Evil Series)
- Samus Aran (Metroid Series)
- Volus (Mass Effect)
- The Beauty and the Beast Unit (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
- Teclis (Warhammer) Teclis is sickly and frail and has to regularly drink special elixirs in order to even stand up.
- Sauron (Primal Rage)
- Frank West (Dead Rising)
Literature
- Count Dracula (Dracula)
- Reki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
- Yoshino (Date A Live)
Other
- Jian (Chinese Mythology)
- Vampires (Various Media); need to drink blood.
Known Objects
- Sustenance (Cybersix)
- Lazarus Pit (DC Comics)
- Zombrex (Dead Rising)
- Candy (Deadman Wonderland)
- Unicorn Blood (Harry Potter)
- Arc-Reactor (Marvel Comics)
- Life Extender Machine (Team Fortress 2)
- Lao Mang Lone Soup (Xiaolin Showdown)
Gallery
Comics/Cartoons
Roger (American Dad!) and his alien species must constantly act mean and cruel to stay alive, as otherwise their "bitchiness" will turn to bile and poison them to death.
Michael Morningstar/Darkstar (Ben 10 Series) has hunger for energy to recover his looks.
Mr. Freeze (DC Comics) must be kept at sub-zero temperatures to survive.
Two-Face (DC Comics) mostly relies on his coin to make his decisions.
Due to his lack of a physical body, Johann Kraus (Hellboy/BPRD) must wear a special containment suit or his ectoplasmic form will fade out of existence.
Tony Stark/Iron Man (Marvel Comics) depends on an arc reactor in his chest to prevent shrapnel lodged in his body from entering his heart and killing him.
Due to metal poisoning from his carbonadium tentacles, Omega Red (Marvel Comics) must regularly drain life energy to sustain his life.
Invisible Woman (Marvel Comics) needs to wear a special suit in order to be completely invisible which has no effect on normal clothes.
The Human Torch (Marvel Comics) needs to wear a special suit that is completely immune to fire due to ordinary clothes would burned off.
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In order to use his Bio-Organic Thermokinetic Blasts, Black Tom Cassidy (Marvel Comics) requires a wooden object to focus them through, such as his shillelagh.
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The Werecats (Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island) need to drain life-force from victims every harvest moon.
Despite being immortal, Chase Young (Xiaolin Showdown) needs to drink the Lao Mang Lone Soup everyday to retain his human form and to stay young forever.
Abe Sapien (Hellboy/BPRD) must wear a special breathing apparatus when outside of water for prolonged periods.
Anime/Manga
Saya Otonashi (Blood+) requires regular blood transfusions to maintain her vitality.
If Android 10/Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball Z) and Android 19 are away from Dr. Gero's Lab, they need to absorb energy…
…or else they'll drain their power reserves and begin to malfunction.
Utsuro (Gintama) relies on the Altana of Earth for his immortality, and prolonged separation would cause his accumulated supply to run dry.
Kouka (Gintama) relies on the Altana of Kouan for her immortality, and prolonged separation caused her accumulated supply to run dry, which led to her death.
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Kikyo (InuYasha) must regularly absorb dead souls to sustain her undead body.
Hidan (Naruto) has to lick someones blood and stand in the Jashin symbol to complete his curse.
Kojō Akatsuki (Strike the Blood) must taking some of his own blood to stop his vampiric urges take over when he gets aroused either through smells or other things.
Yume Hasegawa (Pupa) must eat her brother's flesh to prevent from becoming a monster herself.
Bui (YuYu Hakusho) wears a special type of armor to contain his demon energy which he lacks control over.
Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire) must regularly keep a special lollipop in her mouth to maintain her body temperature outside of cold environments.
Sora and Shiro (No Game No Life) must reliance mutually and be closed together to fight opponents...
...If they're separated, this is terrific example, Shiro without Sora...
...another terrific example, Sora without Shiro.
As a unique zombie, Rea Sanka (Sankarea) must consume hydrangea leaves to remain lucid and too keep her body from decaying.
Boros' (One Punch Man) power is so vast that he wears a special type of armor to maintain it.
Video Games
Demigods (Asura's Wrath) depend on their Mantra reactors to fight.
Frank West (Dead Rising) requires the Zombrex drug to prevent from becoming a zombie himself.
Raziel (Legacy of Kain) must regularly consume souls to maintain his physical body or risk being shunted back to the Spectral Realm.
Quarians (Mass Effect) are dependent on specialized environmental suits because of their near-nonexistent immune systems.
After losing his body's ability to regulate temperature, Python (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops) must wear a special cooling suit filled with liquid nitrogen or risk being literally burned alive from the inside out.
Due in part to their severe psychological trauma, the members of the Beauty and the Beast Unit (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots) can only survive outside of their suits for a few minutes.
As his new cyborg body lacks self-repair units of its own, Raiden (Metal Gear) must periodically steal fuel cells and batteries from other robots and cyborgs to recharge and heal.
Samus Aran (Metroid) depends on her Power Suit to fight aliens.
Drahmin (Mortal Kombat) needs to wear the Face of Kun-Lo to prevent himself from losing his mind to an oni's mindless rage.
After being severely burned by Kintaro, Kabal (Mortal Kombat) must now wear a breathing mask and mobile life support to remain alive.
Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) absorbs souls to stay young.
Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) needs to regularly inject himself with a specialized serum to keep the virus inside his body in check.
Due to his small body making incapable of flying, Arpeggio (Sly Cooper) build a mechanical birdcage on wheels to help him travel.
After suffering irreparable damage to his heart and lungs, Dingo Egret (Zone of the Enders) is forced to remain inside the Orbital Frame Jehuty to preserve his life.
Television/Movies
If Reapers (Blade II) don't feed on blood almost constantly, they will starve to death.
Like all vampires, Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) must regularly ingest mammalian blood to maintain his vitality.
Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) needs to periodically drain the sanity of others to maintain her own, but to also to keep Ben from gaining control.
Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) needs Hiccup to stabilize his new modified tail to fly.
Joshua (No Ordinary Family) requires special injections not only to retain his powers, but to stay alive.
After being severely burned on Mustafar, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Star Wars) was placed into a mobile life support unit to sustain his life.
After losing his immune system, Mason Eckhart (Mutant X) must wear synthetic skin, a white wig, and gloves to avoid infection.
Like Joshua, Dr. Dayton King (No Ordinary Family) needs the serum to keep himself alive as well as to resist the cancer he had 18 years ago.
Darien Fawkes (The Invisible Man) needs regular injections of a special counteragent or risk being driven insane by the Quicksilver in his system.
Due to a design flaw that renders her brain unable to produce enough serotonin, Max Guevara (Dark Angel) must ingest tryptophan or drink milk in order to avoid losing her powers and/or suffering violent seizures.