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The power to absorb the powers of dead beings. Death-based variation of Power Absorption.

Capabilities[]

The user can absorb the powers of dead beings. Once the beings are dead, their powers will be absorbed into the user as their own. Powers that allow one to kill can help the user.

Applications[]

Associations[]

  • Absorption - Can steal the powers of others and kill them as well
  • Biological Absorption - By consuming others with powers, they absorb their powers.
  • Experience Absorption - Whence after the individual in question's life-force has been quenched.
  • Knowledge Absorption - Via the assimilation of the victim's anima.
  • Life-Force Absorption - Absorbing another's life-force completely can kill the target as well as absorb their power.
  • Post-Mortem Shapeshifting - Some users can also steal the appearance of the person they killed after they absorb their power.
  • Soul Absorption - Some users are able to absorb a person or being's power by absorbing their very soul.
  • Magic - Some magic users may be able to do this.

Limitations[]

  • Some users may only be able to absorb the powers of people they kill
  • May lose powers that were absorbed if the person they took said power from is Resurrected.
  • Cannot absorb powers from what wasn't alive to begin with.
  • May need to be near the victim or in physical contact.
  • Like Power Absorption, it is useless with no powers around.
  • Cannot absorb powers from the living.
  • May need time to absorb the powers, this may mean eating the whole corpse, taking time to digest the target/power, etc.
  • May not be able to gain powers from the victim if they're killed by someone (or something) else.

Known Users[]

Anime/Manga

  • Hiiragi Seiichi (The Fruit of Evolution) via Complete Dismantling
  • Campione (Campione!)
    • Sasha Voban
    • Godou Kusanagi
  • Yhwach (Bleach)
  • Emulator (Darwin's Game)
  • Riku Suigin (Gin no Guardian); via First Blood
  • Alucard (Hellsing)
  • Ihwa/Hero Killer (Hero Killer)
  • Kyoko (Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka)
  • Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece)
  • Natsuki Subaru (Re:Zero); limited to Sin Authorities
  • Ancient Dragon (Seiken Tsukai No World Break)
  • Chaos (Sora No Otoshimono)
  • Diabound (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Cartoons/Comics

  • Marceline (Adventure Time)
  • Alexander Luthor (DC Comics)
  • Switchblade the Demogorge (Marvel Comics)
  • David Haller/Legion (Marvel Comics); via The Fiend/"Charles Xavier"
  • Flatline (DC Comics)

Literature

  • Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (Dies Irae)
  • Max Rosenqvist (Engelsfors)
  • Marcus Edge (Half Bad)
  • Nathan Byrn (Half Bad)
  • Hemalurgists (Mistborn)
  • Witches (Shadow Falls); via Ritual killing
  • Glaistig Uaine (Worm)

Live Television/Movies

  • Warlocks (Charmed)
    • Jeremy
    • Nigel
    • Devlin
    • Nicholas
    • Eames
    • Jane Franklin
    • Malcolm
    • Hogan
  • Titans (Charmed)
    • Cronus
    • Demitrius
    • Meta
  • Immortals (Highlander)
  • Werewolves (Teen Wolf)
    • Peter Hale
    • Derek Hale
    • Deucalion
    • Kali
    • Ennis
    • Ethan
    • Aiden
    • Theo

Tabletop Games

  • Ergo Mundus (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
  • High Albiter Aizen (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)

Video Games

  • Practitioners of the Sword Logic (Destiny)
  • Riku Replica (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories)
  • Mega Man (Mega Man Series)
  • Evolved (Prototype series)
    • Alex Mercer
    • James Heller
  • Monsters (Saga Frontier)

Web Comics/Original

  • Cinder Fall (RWBY)
  • Raven Branwen (RWBY)
  • Miguel (My Best Friend Marneao)

Known Objects[]

  • Chrome Disaster (Accel World)
  • Athames (Charmed); used by warlocks to steal powers
  • Dark One's Dagger (Once Upon A Time)

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Videos[]

Music[]

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