The power to reduce or remove the need for bodily necessities.
Also Called
- Contained Metabolism
- Deprivation
Capabilities
Users physical needs are greatly reduced or completely removed. These needs include air/breathing, sleep/rest, food, drink, bodily evacuations, shelter from environmental effects and their lack (heat/cold, dryness/wetness), etc. User is also able to stay immobile without the normal effects this would have.
Applications
- Digestive Expulsion Negation
- Enhanced Lung Capacity/Oxygen Independence
- Hunger Suppression/Negation
- Perpetual Nourishment
- Sleeplessness
- Temperature Regulation/Immunity
Associations
- Discomfort Immunity
- Dependency Transcendence
- Energy Independence
- Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Condition
- Environmental Adaptation
- Hibernation
- Immortality
- Pain Suppression
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Self-Sufficiency
Limitations
- May only be able to disregard some needs.
- May have limited time period available.
- Disregarding some needs may cause certain capacities to degrade, regardless of maintaining stable health. Eg: Forgoing eating may lead to muscular dystrophy, etc.
Known Users
See Also: The Needless and Perpetual Motion Monster.
Literature
- Sally Sandwich (Sweet Story)
- Timmy Taco (Sweet Story)
Movies/Television
- Hypercognitive Alphas (Alphas)
- Stanton Parish (Alphas)
- Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Davros (Doctor Who)
- The Golden Army (Hellboy II)
- Neil Cuddahy (Mutant X)
- Angels (Supernatural)
- Changelings (Star Trek)
- Borg Drones (Star Trek); only when connected to the Collective
- Data (Star Trek)
- Jem'Hadar (Star Trek); only when supplied with Ketracel White
- Terminators (Terminator)
- Daggon/Cole Hauser (Tracker)
- Hybrids (Twilight Saga)
Cartoons
- Kevin Levin (Ben 10); in his Ultimate form
- Professor Paradox (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- Vlad Masters/Plasmius (Danny Phantom)
- Emotions (Inside Out)
- Aku (Samurai Jack)
- The Guardian (Samurai Jack)
- Gems (Steven Universe)
Comics
- Kryptonians (DC Comics); under a yellow or blue sun
- Doomsday (DC Comics)
- Firestorm (DC Comics)
- Martians (DC Comics)
- Captain Atom (DC Comics)
- The Flash (DC Comics)
- Dr. Manhattan (DC Comics)
- Amazons of Themyscira (DC Comics)
- Hippolyta
- Midnighter (DC Comics/Wildstorm)
- Mr. Majestic (Wildstorm/DC Comics)
- Supreme (Image Comics)
- Emma Frost (Marvel Comics); in diamond form
- Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics); in diamond form
- Colossus (Marvel Comics); in Steel form
- Original Xorn (Marvel Comics)
- Sprite/Jia Jing (Marvel Comics)
- Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- A-Bomb (Marvel Comics)
- Skaar (Marvel Comics)
- Adam Warlock (Marvel Comics)
- Dead Girl (Marvel Comics)
- Heralds of Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- Asgardians (Marvel Comics)
- Thor Odinson
- Olympians (Marvel Comics)
- Sentry (Marvel Comics)
- Sunspot (Marvel Comics)
- Hyperion (Marvel Comics)
- Chamber (Marvel Comics)
- Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Ultimate Marvel)
Manga/Anime
- Empty Cans (Akikan!)
- Titans (Attack on Titan); only need sunlight to stay active
- Pseudomonas (Cells At Work)
- Klaxo-Sapiens and Klaxo-Sapien Hybrids (Darling In The FranXX)
- Shinigami (Death Note)
- Asato Tsuzuki (Descendants Of Darkness)
- Artificial Humans (Dragon Ball)
- Namekians (Dragon Ball series)
- Majin Buu (Dragon Ball series)
- Isaac Netero (Hunter X Hunter)
- Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
- Black Zetsu (Naruto)
- White Zetsu clones (Naruto)
- Genos (One-Punch Man)
- Demon Lord (Sekai Maou)
- Ryoko Hakubi (Tenchi Muyo)
Video Games
- Skeletons (Crypt of the NecroDancer)
- Necromorphs (Dead Space)
- Ghouls (Fallout)
- Reapers (Mass Effect)
- Porygon, Porygon2 & Porygon-Z (Pokémon)
Tabletop Games
- Vampires (Vampire the Masquerade); only need blood to stay conscious
Other
- SCP-017 - Shadow Person (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-122-1 - No More Monsters (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-280 - Eyes in the Dark (SCP Foundation)
Known Objects
- Mayan Sun Amulet (Gargoyles)
- Ring of Sustenance (Overlord)