Sadness Empowerment

Sadness Empowerment
Penelope Spectra (Danny Phantom) can absorb the youth of her victims by feeding off their misery.
Power/Ability to:	Be strengthened by sadness.

"Men grow stronger through their tears."

― Koyomi Shirakawa (Da Capo)

"I remember when you were a nerdy little fourth grader. And now you're an emotionally crippled mini-Hulk!"

― Bart Simpson talking to teenage Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)

The ability to be strengthened by sadness. Technique of Melancholy Manipulation. Variation of Emotion Empowerment.

Also Called

• Dejection Affinity/Empowerment
• Depression Affinity/Empowerment
• Disappointment Affinity/Empowerment
• Dismay Affinity/Empowerment
• Distress Affinity/Empowerment
• Grief Affinity/Empowerment
• Melancholy Affinity/Empowerment
• Nostalgia Affinity/Empowerment
• Sadness Affinity
• Misery Affinity/Empowerment
• Sorrow Affinity/Empowerment
• Tragedy Affinity/Empowerment
• Unhappiness Affinity/Empowerment

Capabilities

Users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by sadness of oneself and/or others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Some users may be able draw sustenance from the sadness or even 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
• Emotion Metabolization
• Self-Power Augmentation
• Self-Sustenance

Associations

• Affinity
  • Failure Empowerment
  • Weakness Empowerment
• Empathy
• Empathic Power Augmentation
• Emotion Empowerment
  • Anger Empowerment
  • Desire Empowerment
  • Despair Empowerment
  • Doubt Empowerment
  • Guilt Empowerment
  • Humility Empowerment
  • Loneliness Empowerment
  • Shame Empowerment
  • Stress Empowerment
  • Suffering Empowerment
• Emotion Manipulation
• Emotion Inducement
• Indomitable Sadness
• Melancholy Manipulation
• Sin Empowerment
  • Envy Empowerment
  • Gluttony Empowerment
  • Greed Empowerment
  • Sloth Empowerment

Limitations

• User may lose power when deprived of sadness and/or exposed to happiness.
• Extreme sadness may cloud the user's judgement.

Known Users

• Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
• Lankin (Class)
• Penelope Spectra (Danny Phantom)
• Captain Lachrymose (Dial H)
• Hokuto Shinken Practitioners (Fist of the North Star); via Musou Tensei
• Crying Man (Hero Inside)
• Freeze (Kamen Rider Drive); Humiliation
• Shiego Kageyama/Mob (Mob Psycho 100); via 100% Sadness Mode
• Uchiha Clan (Naruto); via Mangekyou Sharingan
  • Itachi Uchiha
  • Madara Uchiha
  • Obito Uchiha
  • Sasuke Uchiha
• Nighlok (Power Rangers)
• HIM (Powerpuff Girls)
• Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma 1/2)
• Misery Cleaver (Record of Ragnarok)

Gallery

The sharingan of the Uchiha Clan (Naruto) can transform into the more powerful mangekyou sharingan when the user experiences immense sadness & guilt.

Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)

Videos

Raoh, Toki is waiting... (Remastered - Kareta Daichi)-2