Power Erasure

Power Erasure
The Twelve Gods (The Order of the Stick) stripping Miko Miyazaki's status and powers as a Paladin after she commits an evil act.
Power/Ability to:	Remove the powers of another.

"What? What did you do to me?"
"I took away your firebending. You can't use it to hurt or threaten anyone else ever again."

― Aang and Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

The ability to eliminate the powers of others. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation. Variation of Erasure and Superpower Absorption. Opposite to Power Bestowal and Power Restoration.

Also Called

• Ability Erasure
• Ability/Power Extraction/Curing/Deletion/Nullification/Removal/Stripping
• Ability/Power Removing
• Bending Severing (Avatar: The Legend of Korra)
• Depowering

Capabilities

The user can eliminate/remove the supernatural powers of others, so they won't have access to them.

Applications

• Buffering
• Power Deactivation

Variations

• Depowering Beam Emission
  • Depowering Chest Blasts
  • Depowering Vision
• Power Discarding
• Proximity-Based Power Deactivation
• Supernatural Arts Erasure

Associations

• Anti-Power Weaponry
• Conversion
• Energy Erasure
• Energy Scattering
• Erasure
• Healing Erasure
• Humanization
• Phenomenon Elimination
• Physical Law Erasure
• Powerlessness Inducement
• Power Absorption
• Power Containment
• Power Destruction
• Power Negation
• Power Sharing Removal
• Skill Erasure
• Superior Human Physiology
• Superpower Manipulation

Limitations

• Power Restoration can reverse this power's effects.
• May become inflicted/infected with target's emotions.
• Cannot erase the user's powers of Absolute Immortality, Absolute Regeneration, Meta Resurrection and Omnilock.
• Useless against Meta Power Immunity.
• Users of Power Reflection can reflect the erasure back to the user
• Cannot strip any power from those with Power Absorption Immunity, Power Anchoring or Singularity.
  • Offensive Immunity
• May have a limited distance/number of targets, including touch only.
• May be temporary.
• May kill the target.
• May kill user to restore their power.

Known Users

See Also: De-Power.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Yhwach (Bleach)
• Kūgo Ginjō (Bleach)
• Ichibē Hyōsube (Bleach)
• Users of the Quincy medallion (Bleach); by removing a target's Bankai
• Truth (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist); using a reverse transmutation circle originally devised by his brother, he stripped Father of his ability to control Alchemy in Amestris
• Sakura Mikan (Gakuen Alice)
• Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean); via Whitesnake
• Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion); via Soft & Wet
• Daiya Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion); via California King Bed; by memory and Stand theft
• Myne (Living In This World With Cut & Paste); via Cut
• Shota Aizawa (My Hero Academia)
• All For One (My Hero Academia)
• Itachi Uchiha (Naruto); via the Totsuka Blade/Totsuka no Tsurugi
• Meltlilith (Nasuverse)
• Yumewo Kuroda (Psyche Mattechitemo)
• Merlin (The Seven Deadly Sins); via Absolute Cancel
• Peggi (Tokyo ESP)
• Shinichi Tamaki (Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches)
• Strong the Budo ("Kinnikuman") using Zero Tragedy

Cartoons/Comics

• Energybenders (Avatar series)
• Bloodbenders (Avatar series)
• Santa Claus (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Lex Luthor (Justice League Unlimited/DC Comics); with Power/Energy Disruptor Ray
• Ragtag (Static Shock)
• Red Hulk (Marvel Comics); by absorbing the Gamma Radiation out of other gamma beings
• Rex Salazar (Generator Rex); by deactivating the nanites in EVO's he can make them normal again
• Nega Chin (Fairly Odd Parents); via Nega Vision
• Edward Brock/Anti-Venom (Marvel Comics); by draining radiation-based powers
• Ann Marie LeBeau/Rogue (Marvel Comics); via Power Absorption
• Deathstorm (DC Comics); by removing the DNA that gave Captain Cold his Cryokinesis powers
• Hades (Disney's Hercules); via Contract Bestowal
• Miraculer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir); via Power Absorption
• Spinel (Steven Universe: The Movie); via Gem Rejuvenator
• Master Chen (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) via Power Absorption
  • Skylor; via Elemental Absorption
• Strike (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes!)

Live Television/Movies

• Alex (Misfits); via sexual intercourse
• Arthur Petrelli (Heroes); via Power Absorption
• Tommy Clark (Heroes Reborn); via Power Absorption
• Jordan Collier (The 4400)
• Power Brokers (Charmed)
• Elders (Charmed 2018)
• Bianca (Charmed)
• The Tribunal (Charmed)
• Witches and warlocks (Charmed); via Spell Casting and Potions
• Margaret Isobel Thoreaux (Smallville)
• Castiel (Supernatural)
• Miranda (Twitches)
• Professor Crumbs (Wizards of Waverly Place)
• Wizards (Wizards of Waverly Place)
• Water Dragon (Mako Mermaids)
• Vanya Hargreeves/Number Seven/White Violin (The Umbrella Academy)

Video Games

• The God (Genshit Impact)
• Rhino (Growtopia)

Web Animation/Comics/Original

• Southern Pantheon/Twelve Gods (The Order of the Stick)
• Cinder Fall (RWBY); via Grimm Arm
• Marcus Black (RWBY); via unknown Semblance
• Djoric/Dmatix SCP-001 Proposal - Thirty-Six (SCP Foundation)

Known Natural Occurrences

• Lunar Eclipse (H2O: Just Add Water); reverting temporarily non-natural merpeople back into humans for twelve hours in an active Moon Pool
• Moon of Fifty Years (H2O: Just Add Water); reverting a non-natural merperson back into a regular human being permanently in an active Moon Pool

Known Objects

• Power/Energy Disruptor Ray (Justice League Unlimited)
• Power Stripping Potion (Charmed)
• Anti-Promicin (The 4400)
• Quirk-Destroying Drug (My Hero Academia)
• Gold Kryptonite (DC Comics)
• Chronosteel (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Energy Absorption/Elemental Absorption/Power Absorption
• Antidote X (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Gem Rejuvenator (Steven Universe: The Movie)
• Malvexium (The Thundermans)
• Red-Eyed Mudfish juice (Danger Force)

Gallery

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) use Energybending to eliminate one's bending abilities.

Noatak/Amon (The Legend of Korra) can use Bloodbending to sever the connection between a bender and their bending abilities by disrupting their chi paths.

As the progenitor of all Quincy, Yhwach (Bleach) can grant and take away their powers as he sees fit.

Through severing and manipulating someone's true name, Ichibē Hyōsube (Bleach) can remove the powers of anyone he hits.

Alex (Misfits) gained the power to remove a person's power through sexual intercourse after having a lung transplant from the previous owner of the power.

Penny (Charmed) with the power stripping potion.

Mikan Sakura (Gakuen Alice) can permanently steal an Alice at will or by accident.

Tommy Clark (Heroes Reborn) erases Hiro's power just by being held by him.

Enrico Pucci's Stand, Whitesnake (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean) can remove the Stands of others, storing them in discs. It also makes it able to bestowal these Stands upon others by inserting the discs on them.

Through a contract, Hades (Disney's Hercules) erases Hercules' superhuman strength.

Strike (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) is capable of stealing others' powers.

Antidote X (The Powerpuff Girls)

Edward Brock/Anti-Venom (Marvel Comics) tries to cure Spider-Man of his radioactive blood and his powers...

...and attempting to "erase" the Venom Symbiote from Mac Gargan's body.

The Elders (Charmed 2018) stripping Harry's Whitelighter abilities

The Staff of Elements (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) was made from Chronosteel and with Blue Crystal, it can steal more than one Elemental Power.

The Time Blades were created from Chronosteel, the only material that can steal elemental powers, to steal/drain the power of an Elemental Master, rendering the Master a normal person. However, if the Chronosteel is destroyed, any elements stolen by it will return to their original masters.

Lex Luthor (DCAU/DC Comics) invented an Energy Disruptor that had the ability to deprive/depowered any kind of super-powered beings of their powers, regardless of whether they were born with their abilities, or if something else was the source, such as the Green Lantern's power ring.

Eraserhead (My Hero Academia) temporarily disabling a group of villains' superpowers just by looking at them

Viktor Hargreeves/Number Seven (Umbrella Academy) can remove the powers of whoever he shares his powers with.

Arthur Petrelli (Heroes) draining Adam Monroe of his power.

When Danger Force (Danger Force) except Captain Man and Schwoz, are exposed to red-eyed mudfish, the juice makes them loose their powers.

Videos

Rogue VS Wonder Woman (Marvel VS DC) - DEATH BATTLE!-2