Nightmare Empowerment

Nightmare Empowerment
The Nightmare King (Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland) gains strength from the nightmares of the world's children.
Power/Ability to:	Gain strength from nightmares

The power to gain strength from nightmares. Technique of Nightmare Manipulation. Variation of Oneiric Empowerment.

Also Called

• Literal Nightmare Fuel
• Nightmare Affinity/Augmentation

Capabilities

User becomes stronger, faster, more durable, etc. from nightmares, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing their existing powers. Some users may be able to draw sustenance from the nightmares or even slow or stop aging.

Applications

• Condition Augmentation
  • Mental Augmentation
  • Physical Augmentation
• Empowered State
  • Self-Power Augmentation
  • Self-Power Bestowal
• Enhancement Calling
  • Potential Enhancement
  • Quality Enhancement
  • Skill Enhancement
• Metabolization
  • Self-Restoration
  • Self-Sustenance
• Mode Switching
  • Power Mixture
  • Power-Shifting
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Condition
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Body
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Agility
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Dexterity
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Durability/Invulnerability
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Endurance
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Health
      • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Longevity/Immortality
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Reflexes
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Senses
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Speed
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Stamina
    • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Strength
    • Regenerative Healing Factor
      • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Regeneration
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Mind

Associations

• Fear Manipulation
• Nightmare Embodiment
• Nightmare Manipulation
• Oneiric Empowerment
• Sleep Manipulation

Limitations

• Users of Oneiric Immunity are immune.

Known Users

• Dendar, The Night Serpent (Forgotten Realms)
• Nightmare King (Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland)
• Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Tantabus (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Darkrai (Pokémon)
• Pitch Black/The Bogeyman (Rise of the Guardians)
• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
• Raven (Teen Titans Go!)
• Niiue (Mother: Cognitive Dissonance)
• Nahatomb (Klonoa)

Gallery

As the original primordial nightmare, Dendar (Forgotten Realms) gains both strength and nourishment from the nightmares of all things.

Tantabus (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Niiue (Mother: Cognitive Dissonance)

Nahatomb (Klonoa) was resurrected by nightmare energy.

Video

This is God! - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Warner Bros. UK-2