Power Erasure

Power Erasure
Arthur Petrelli (Heroes) draining Adam Monroe of his power.
Power/Ability to:	Remove the powers of another.

"In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves."

― The Lion Turtle

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

• Power Discarding

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
• Skill Erasure
• 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/amount of targets, including touch only.
• May be temporary.
• May kill the target.

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 Brotherhood); 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
• All For One (My Hero Academia)
• Meltlilith (Nasuverse)
• Yumewo Kuroda (Psyche Mattechitemo)
• Merlin (Seven Deadly Sins); via Absolute Cancel
• Peggi (Tokyo ESP)
• Shinichi Tamaki (Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches)

Cartoons/Comics

• Energybenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend Of Korra)
• Bloodbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend Of Korra)
• Santa Claus (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Lex Luthor (Justice League Unlimited); 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)

Video Games

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

Web Original

• Djoric/Dmatix SCP-001 Proposal - Thirty-Six (SCP Foundation)

Web Animation

• Cinder Fall (RWBY); via Grimm Arm
• Marcus Black (RWBY); via unknown Semblance

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)
• Blue Crystal (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Chronosteel (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Energy Absorption/Elemental Absorption/Power Absorption
• Antidote X (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Gem Rejuvenator (Steven Universe: The Movie)

Gallery

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

Noatak/Amon (Avatar: 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 both Chronosteel and Blue Crystal to 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) 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