Food Empowerment

Food Empowerment
By eating spinach, Popeye (Popeye) gains sufficient strength to perform any superhuman ability.
Power/Ability to:	Gain strength from food.

"What you eat defines your condition, physique and personality. It builds the whole human body."

― Emporio Ivankov, One Piece

The power to gain strength from food. Technique of Food Manipulation. Variation of Organic Empowerment.

Also Called

• Food Affinity

Capabilities

Users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by eating, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. While many users, by food's very nature, are able to draw complete sustenance from it, some users may even be able to slow or stop aging.

Applications

• Decelerated Aging/Semi-Immortality
• Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
  • Enhanced Durability
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Stamina
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
  • Regenerative Healing Factor/Supernatural Regeneration
• Metabolization
• Self-Power Augmentation
• Self-Sustenance

Variations

• Drink Empowerment
• Fruit/Vegetable Empowerment

Associations

• Consumption Healing
• Food Augmentation
• Food Manipulation
• Organic Empowerment

Limitations

• The amount consumed may determine how long the effects lasts.
• May be limited to certain foods, other types might even weaken the user.

Known Users

Cartoons

• Mighty Ray (Hero 108); via bananas
• Upchuck (Ben 10 Franchise); via inorganic matter
• Theo (Nutri Ventures)
• Popeye (Popeye The Sailor Man); via spinach
• Kwamis (Miraculous Ladybug)
• Motu (Motu Patlu); via Samosas
• Bugs Bunny as Super-Rabbit ("Looney Tunes"); via carrots

Comics

• The Collector (Chew); via Spinach
• Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim); via a vegan diet
• Bananaman (DC Thomson); via Bananas

Live Television

• Sportacus (LazyTown); via Sport Candy, AKA: fruits and veggies

Manga/Anime

• Goku (Dragon Ball)
• Beth (Fairy Tail)
• Kinnikuman (Kinnikuman)
• Lionel (Isekai Shokudo) via Katsudon
• Tamaki Amajiki (My Hero Academia)
• Satsuki Yotsuba (Negima)
• Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece); via meat
• Amon Patricia (There's a Demon Lord in the Floor)
• Bishokukai (Toriko)
• Four Heavenly Kings (Toriko)
• Flint Hammerhead (Flint the Time Detective)
• Sana (Alice & Zoroku)

Video Games

• Bonk (Bonk's Adventure)
• Umaro (Final Fantasy VI); via Green Cherry
• Kirby (Kirby Franchise)
• Mario (Mario Series)
• Pac-Man (Pac-Man Franchise)
• Wario (WarioWare series); via garlic
• Ringo (Touhou Project); via dango
• Wolfgang (Don't Starve)
• Heavy (Team Fortress 2); via Sandwich

Known Objects

• Attack Cuisine (One Piece)

Gallery

Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug) acts as a power source for the ladybug miraculous, being able to refuel by ingesting cookies.

Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug) acts as a power source for the cat miraculous, being able to refuel by ingesting camembert cheese.

As a vegan, Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim) is embued with nearly unstoppable psychic powers. Should he stray from his vegan diet, he loses his powers.

Wario (WarioWare series) can become Wario-Man by eating garlic.

Sea Pork Offal Soup (One Piece) is one of the 99 dishes of the Attack Cuisine that vastly enhances the constituition of the consumers.

Lionel (Isekai Shokudou) became strong enough to become a gladiator champion by weekly consuming Katsudon in the Nekoya Restaurant.