Superpower Absorption

Basic

Absolute

Superpower Absorption
Äs Nödt (Bleach), like other Quincy, is able to steal the Bankai of Shinigami using his Medallion.
Power/Ability to:	Steal/absorb supernatural powers from others.

"I take power from the underserving. It's kinda my thing."

― Agatha Harkness after absorbing a small portion of Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

"Woah. What a rush. How do you do it kid? Even Superman never recharged this fast."

― Rudolph "Rudy" Jones/Parasite after absorbing Superboy's powers. (Young Justice)

The supernatural power to absorb or steal powers from others. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation. Not to be confused with Superpower Replication.

Also Called

• Ability Absorption/Assimilation
• Ability Drain/Draining
• Ability Siphoning/Stealing/Sapping/Theft
• Power Absorption
• Power Assimilation
• Power Drain/Draining
• Power Sapping/Siphoning
• Power Stealing/Stripping/Theft

Capabilities

Users can absorb powers; assimilating supernatural abilities and powers directly from others even straight from the source, removing into themselves and utilize it in various ways, enhancing themselves with each new power drain expanding their arsenal of abilities. As a result, victims either temporarily or permanently lose their powers depending on how much users take into themselves.

Applications

• Ability Information Archiving
• Energy Absorption/Energy Drain
• Intuitive Absorption
• Power Erasure
  • Power Destruction
• Power Negation/Reduction
• Power Containment
  • Self-Power Augmentation only when absorbing the same power or ability.
  • Self-Power Bestowal by transferring the absorb power into themselves.
• Multi-Power Use
• Power Mixture by combining absorbed powers.
• Superpower Arsenal
• Talent Theft
• Usurp Potential
• Usurp Worth

Variations

• Demonic Power Absorption
• Divine Power Absorption
• Draconic Power Absorption
• Empathic Power Absorption
• Enhanced Power Absorption
• Magical Energy Absorption
• Meta Power Absorption
• Possessive Power Absorption
• Post-Mortem Power Absorption
• Power Borrowing
  • Enhanced Power Borrowing
• Power Transferal
• Regenerative Absorption
• Strength Absorption
• Supernatural Arts Theft
• Tactile Power Absorption

Associations

• Absorption
• Alien Physiology
• Anti-Power Weaponry
• Consumptive Replication
• Death-Force Absorption
• Enhanced Power Absorption
• Life-Force Absorption
• Meta Power Absorption
• Mystic Human Physiology
• Superior Human Physiology
• Transcendent Physiology

Limitations

• May not be able to absorb technology-based abilities, only to steal the power to manipulate it, unless they have Technological Assimilation or Property Absorption.
• Cannot absorb Absolute Immortality, Absolute Regeneration, Meta Resurrection, Omnipotence and Omnilock.
• Despite the powers being absorbed from other opponents, the powers will still have every single limitation that the abilities would possibly possess, for example, Fire Manipulation is useless against Fire Immunity.
• User cannot absorb powers that are linked to basic anatomy.
  • Or, if they do, Body Horror may result.
• Cannot absorb any power from those with Power Absorption Immunity, Power Anchoring or Singularity.
  • Offensive Immunity/Unknown Power
• Unlike what Power Replication is capable of during supportive combat, the user's power cannot work as a supportive ability in of itself when forced to rob their own friends' abilities, unless they also have the power to transfer them back to them.
• Does not work against Absorption Immunity, Absorption Negation, Flawless Indestructibility and Meta Power Immunity
• May be permanent on the target and/or User.
• May be unable to either discard or transfer the powers.
• May be constantly active unless willed too not to be.
• May have limited range, including touch only.
• May be need see the activation of the power.
• May need to fulfill certain requirements in order to absorb a power.
• Power may no longer be usable if the original user of the absorbed power dies.
• Users of Indomitable Will may be resistant.
• Absorbing too much power may be fatal if the user's body normally is not as strong as the target.
• Physical powers, like Multiple Arms and Multiple Eyes, may be painful to absorb.
• May be unable to evolve/improve the power as the original user can, unless they also have Enhanced Power Absorption.
• If the user becomes incapacitated or annihilated, the absorbed powers will return to the previous owners.

Notes

• Energy Absorption: is similar in nature that both powers are used to transfer an entity's power to another entity. The difference is that energy absorption only transfers the energy (which the receiving person can use against their enemies with their own powers), while power absorption transfers an actual arsenal of powers (the receiving person is granted the powers of the first person and can use powers they may not have otherwise).

Known Users

See Also: Power Parasite.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Seiji Noumi/Dusk Taker (Accel World); in his Brain Burst form
• Conrad Leto (Black Clover); via Key Magic
• Lucius Zogratis (Black Clover)
• Kugo Ginjo (Bleach)
• Sternritters (Bleach); via Medallions
• Yhwach (Bleach)
• Wall Man (Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo)
• Yū Otosaka (Charlotte)
• Monkey guy (Denma); via Energy Adjustment and Transmission Quanx ability
• Yellow hair (Denma); via Energy Transferal Quanx ability
• Ryo Asuka/Satan (Devilman)
• Superhuman Water (Dragon Ball Super)
• Franmalth (Fairy Tail)
• Acnologia (Fairy Tail)
• Mikan Sakura (Gakuen Alice); also Power Negation
• Yuka (Gakuen Alice)
• Serpent Vampire/Vamp Wolf (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
• Ihwa/Hero Killer (Hero Killer)
• Genshirou Saji (Highschool DxD)
• Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter X Hunter)
• Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter); via Steal Chain
• Kwon Ohjin (I'm Not a Regressor)
• Mirei Kudō (Inō Battle wa Nichijō-kei no Naka de)
• Ken Oyanagi (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable); via Boy II Man
• Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean); via Whitesnake
• Yuta Okkotsu (Jujutsu Kaisen); via Rika
• Oudo Miyakonojou (Medaka Box); via Unreasonable Taxation
• Syrma (Mugen Souls Z)
• Enigma (Musaigen no Phanton World)
• Boroso (Midnight Horror School); through Zobie
• Zobie (Midnight Horror School); temporarily, only in one episode
• All For One users (My Hero Academia)
  • Shigaraki/All For One
  • Tomura Shigaraki
  • Nine; weaker duplicate
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
• Madara Uchiha (Naruto); via the Preta Path and Hashirama Cells
• Rinnegan users (Naruto)
  • Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
  • Nagato/Pain
  • Obito Uchiha
  • Sasuke Uchiha
  • Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki
• Fūka (Naruto); via Execution by Kiss
• Hiruko (Naruto); via Chimera Technique
• Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations); via his fishing rod
• Users of Kāma (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
  • Boruto Uzumaki
  • Kawaki
  • Isshiki Ōtsutsuki; in Jigen's body
• Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece)
• Celes Walt (Seventh)
• Hinata Sakaguchi (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Rimuru Tempest (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Yuuki Kagurazaka (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
• Peggi (Tokyo ESP)
• Hell Joe (Tower of God); via Red Thryssa
• Red Thryssa (Tower of God)
• Momoka Sagara (Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid)
• Shinichi Tamaki (Yamada-kun to Nana Nin no Majo)
• Yo-kai Watch (Yo-Kai Watch series)
• Wiseman (Zatch Bell!)

Cartoons/Comics

• Kelpie (American Dragon: Jake Long)
• Titan Tails (Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender); via Energybending
• Kevin Levin (Ben 10 series)
• Aggregor (Ben 10 series)
• Severin (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine)
• Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom); through his Ghost Shield
• Drake Sypher (Loonatics Unleashed)
• Orion (Ordeal)
• Black Alice (DC Comics)
• Parasite (DC Comics)
• Absorbency Boy/Earth-Man (DC Comics)
• Alexander Luthor Jr (DC Comics); New 52 Earth 3
• John Constantine (DC Comics)
• Lois Lane (New 52) (DC Comics); via gaining Superman (New 52)'s powers
• Lana Lang (New 52) (DC Comics); via gaining Superman (New 52)'s ability to absorb Yellow Solar Radiation
• Various Metahumans (DC Comics)
• Master of Games (DC Comics)
• Master Chen (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu); via Staff of Elements
• Skylor (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Various Mutants (Marvel Comics)
  • Ann Marie LeBeau/Rogue
  • Emplate
  • Legion/David Haller; via his personas
  • Vulcan
• Ahura Boltagon (Marvel Comics)
• Amatsu-Mikaboshi (Marvel Comics)
• Doctor Victor Von Doom (Marvel Comics)
• Solarus/Mallory Gibbs (Marvel Comics)
• Sabrina Raincomprix/Miraculer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Turbo K.O. (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Laserblast/Professor Venomous (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• The Gnome (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Leech (Static Shock)
• The Seance (Umbrella Academy)
• Meat Sweats (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Zayla (Marvel Rising); via amulet
• Casey Krinsky/Mega Casey (DC Super Hero Girls 2019)
• Sypher (Loonatics Unleashed)
• Children of the Night/Vampires of Gladstock (Winx Club)

Literature

• Mele (Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined); via Power Transferal
• Hemalurgists (Mistborn)
  • Steel Inquisitors
• Glaistig Uaine (Worm)
• Max Everhart/The Bandit (Renegades)

Live Television/Movies

• Jordan Collier (The 4400)
• Zip (Ace Lightning)
• Snip (Ace Lightning)
• Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker (Arrowverse); via to his Hoverchair
• Music Meister (Arrowverse)
• Ochobot (Boboiboy Movie 2)
• Hang Kasa (Boboiboy Movie 2)
• Retak'ka (Boboiboy Movie 2)
• Witches (Charmed); via Spell Casting
• Warlocks (Charmed); via Post-Mortem Power Absorption
• Zankou (Charmed)
• The Dogan (Charmed)
• Arthur Petrelli (Heroes)
• Tommy Clark (Heroes Reborn)
• Ian Haskell (Haven)
• Eric Alves (Invisible City/Cidade Invisível); magical creatures/entities only
• Super-Z (Krystala TV Series)
• Tsukuyomi/Alpina (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• Swartz (Kamen Rider Zi-O)
• The Chameleon (Kung Fu Panda 4)
• Sisters of the Dark (Legend of the Seeker/Sword of Truth)
• The Dacra (Legend of the Seeker)
• Agatha Harkness (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Gus (Mighty Med); briefly
• Hapax the Elder (Mighty Med)
• Neil Gunzenhauser/The Annihilator (Mighty Med)
• Magnetox (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy)
• Octomus The Master (Power Rangers: Mystic Force)
• Camille (Power Rangers Jungle Fury)
• Darth Nihilus (Star Wars)
• January (Secret Society of Second-Born Royals)
• The Quillion (Sword of Truth)
• Lord Dreg (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); via Morphogenesis Exoskeleton
• Werewolves (Teen Wolf)
• Werecoyotes (Teen Wolf)
• Belasko (Teen Wolf)
• Malia Tate (Teen Wolf); via Belasko's claws
• Theo Raeken (Teen Wolf)
• Ace Killer (Ultraman series)
• Siphoners (The Vampire Diaries)
  • Josie Saltzman
  • Lizzie Saltzman
• Vampire-Witches (The Vampire Diaries)
  • Malachai Parker
  • Valerie Tulle
  • Beau
  • Mary Louise
  • Nora
  • Malcolm
  • Oscar
• Athena Browning/Penelope Gardiner (Witches of East End)
• Apocalypse (X-Men film series)
• Sara Kane (You Cast a Spell On Me); via a kiss with Matt Andover
• Abigael Jameson-Cain (Charmed 2018); via a demonic power stripping ritual
• Vivienne Laurent (Charmed 2018); via the Prism

Video Games

• Tyreen Calypso (Borderlands)
• Azul Ashengrotto (Disney: Twisted-Wonderland); via It's a Deal
• Celes Chere (Final Fantasy VI); via Runic
• Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI)
• Sirin/Herrscher of the Void (Honkai Impact 3rd)
• Delsin Rowe (InFamous: Second Son)
• Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
• Kirby (Kirby)
• Sylas (League of Legends)
• Vampires (Legacy of Kain)
• Thanos (Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite)
• Mega Man (Mega Man)
• Shinnok (Mortal Kombat)
• Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
• Merz (Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections); via Yachihoko
• Archangel (person) (Paradox Saga)
• Prototypes/Evolved (Prototype)
• Alex Mercer (Prototype)
• James Heller (Prototype 2)
• Calliope (Skylanders)
• Jin Kazama (Tekken); as Devil Jin
• Meltlilith (TYPE-MOON)

Others

• Makuta (BIONICLE)
• Rahkshi (BIONICLE)
• Kraata (BIONICLE)
• Marcus Black (RWBY); via unknown Semblance
• Cinder Fall (RWBY); via Shadow Hand
• Parasitic Grimm (RWBY)
• The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

• Yo-kai Watchers (Yo-kai Watch); only Yo-kai energy
• Ascalon (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
• Medallions (Bleach)
• The Hollow (Charmed)
• Power-Sucking Athame (Charmed)
• Blade of Olympus (God of War)
• Time Blades/Chronosteel (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Blue Crystal (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
• Aviarius's Staff (Kim Possible)
• Sorcerer's Hat (Once Upon a Time)
• The Transistor (Transistor)
• Third Prana (Sidekicks)
• The Trident Stone (Mako Mermaids)
• Balcoin Medallion (The Secret Circle)
• Sun Chi Lantern (Xiaolin Showdown)
• The Arsene Amulet (Epithet Erased)
• Zayla's Necklace (Marvel Rising)
• Master of Games' Necklace (Teen Titans)
• Dark Mayhem's Orb (The Thundermans)
• The Prism of Souls (Charmed 2018)
• Amulet of Archangels (Charmed 2018)
• The Prism (Charmed 2018)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Seiji Noumi/Dusk Taker (Accel World) has the ability to absorb and steal other Burst Linker's Abilities such as Haruyuki Arita/Silver Crow's wings by...

...looking in the eyes.

Fate Graphite (Berserk of Gluttony) possesses a skill known as "Gluttony" a Mortal Sin skill with the ability to steal the skills and stats of person by consuming its soul.

Yhwach (Bleach) can use Auswählen to take the powers and life-force of other Quincies to empower himself, or to revive his fallen Sternritter elites...

...and also use Sankt Altar to steal Ichibē Hyōsube's powers.

Yū Otosaka's (Charlotte) initial ability was thought to be possession, but it's later revealed that his real power is to plunder the abilities of any power-user he possesses.

Mikan Sakura (Gakuen Alice) can absorb Alices at will.

Serpent Vampire (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)

Chrollo Lucifer (Hunter x Hunter) uses his Bandit Secret book to conjure a mantle that shrinks anything even living beings...

...The Sun and The Moon that allows him to conduct explosions...

...Convert Hands if he touches someone with this mark will cause them to take on Chrollo likeliness...

...Order Stamp that allows him to control puppets up to 200 puppets with lifeless body.

With his own stigma, Kwon Ohjin (I’m not a Regressor) can steal and freely use the stigmas of others.

Enrico Pucci's Stand, Whitesnake (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VI: Stone Ocean) allows him to plunder stands from other stand users in the form of discs.

Celes Walt (Seventh) can not only steal powers, but memories as well.

All For One (My Hero Academia) possesses the quirk "All For One", allowing him to take the quirks of others and use them for himself...

...All For One stealing one person's quirk and giving one to the other.

Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura (My Hero Academia) inherits the quirk "All For One".

Nine (My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising) possesses a weaker variant of All for One.

Madara Uchiha (Naruto) using the Preta Path power to absorb Ōnoki's Particle Style.

Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations) uses his Fishing Rod to steal Shikadai and Temari's chakra and use it for his own by loading them in his gourd.

Through an unknown process, Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard (One Piece) extracted the power of the Tremor Tremor Fruit/Gura Gura no Mi from his former captain, Edward Newgate/Whitebeard.

Yo-kai Watches (Yo-kai Watch)

Fushi (To Your Eternity) possesses the ability to use the talents, and special abilities of deceased bodies he uses as his vessels.

Cartoons/Comics

Kelpie (American Dragon: Jake Long)

Kevin Levin (Ben 10) after absorbing energy from the Ultimatrix.

Aggregor (Ben 10) drains the powers of a Geochelone Aerio.

Michael Morningstar (Ben 10)

Ascalon (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)

Severin (Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic) possesses the power to drain the powers of mystical beings such as vampires and Slayers.

Severin (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has absorbed Illyria's powers.

Parasite (DC Comics)

Casey Krinsky/Mega Cassey (DC Super Hero Girls 2019)

Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom)

The Arsene Amulet (Epithet Erased) has the ability to steal other people's epithets when someone is wearing it.

Aviarius (Kim Possible) used his Power staff to drain the members of Team Go’s of their superpowers, allowing him to use all of their powers at once, but if someone is caught in the middle of him and the victim the powers would then be transferred into the one caught in the middle.

The Staff of Elements (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) was created from both Chronosteel and Blue Crystal to absorb, steal, drain, strip and take away the powers of others by blasting an already absorbed power on the target then the power color will be absorbed in the crystal.

The Time Blades (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) were created from Chronosteel to drain the Hands of Time Power

Drake Sypher (Loonatics Unleashed) can steal both the superpowers and natural abilities of anyone he touches, but those whose powers he absorbs can steal them back by touching him.

In addition of Life-Force Absorption, Ann Marie LeBeau/Rogue (Marvel Comics) can take on the powers of others.

Vulcan (Marvel Comics) demonstrated the ability to siphon his opponents' powers.

Dr. Victor Von Doom's (Marvel Comics) has created technology that has stolen the powers of nigh-omnipotent beings like the Silver Surfer and the Beyonder.

The Moment when Rogue (Marvel: X-Men Legacy) absorbs the powers of Miss Marvel.

Zayla (Marvel Rising)

Zayla's Necklace (Marvel Rising)

Meat Sweats (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) possesses tentacles in place of hands that he can use to drain energy and powers from other mutants.

The left arm of Cinder Fall (RWBY) was replaced with a Grimm Arm, which allows her to absorb the magical powers of Maidens.

Lord Dregg (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987) used the Morphogenesis Exoskeleton to steal the powers of five powerful aliens.

Master of Games (Teen Titans) absorbs the powers of heroes and villains.

Master of Games' Necklace (Teen Titans)

The Gnome (The Powerpuff Girls)

Sun Chi Lantern (Xiaolin Showdown)

Miraculer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir); by touching a Miraculous holder with her tonfa, she can steal their special superpowers from them and use them as her own. She is able to use more than one power at once, such as infusing a Lucky Charm weapon with the destructive energy of the Cataclysm. She also has the ability to grant others the superpowers she has stolen without losing them herself.

Orion (Ordeal)

Live Television/Movies

Hollow possessed Sisters (Charmed) can absorb all powers.

Zankou (Charmed) steals Piper's power.

The Stillman Sisters (Charmed) steal the Charmed Ones' powers with a spell.

Eames (Charmed) absorbs Vivian's power after killing her with an athamé.

Arthur Petrelli (Heroes) absorbs all of Peter's powers, demonstrating electricity...

...absorbs Adam's Enhanced Regeneration.

Tommy Clark (Heroes Reborn) prenatally absorbs Regenerative Healing Factor from his mother and, shortly after he born, he takes Hiro's Space-Time Manipulation.

The Chameleon (Kung Fu Panda) can take the Kung fu right out of masters with her tongue.

Super-Z or Zorina (Krystala) has the ability to absorb powers from anyone who has an super power ability.

Sister Nicci (Legend of the Seeker) absorbs Sister Ulcia's Han gaining her powers.

Camille (Power Rangers Jungle Fury) absorbing powers.

Kai (The Vampire Diaries) siphoning Damon.

Lizzie (The Vampire Diaries) siphoning Caroline.

Dark Mayhem (The Thundermans) created the world’s first Power Sapping Orb to take superpowers from supers and store/keep them inside the orb.

The Annihilator (Mighty Med) can absorb any powers/energy and weaponize it using other superheroes' powers against them. But he is unable to take Skylar's natural alien biology abilities.

Hapax the Elder (Mighty Med) was The Annihilator mentor and a mutant who has similar abilities as him.

Agatha Harkness (Marvel Cinematic Universe) absorbing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic for her own use.

Apocalypse (X-Men film series)

Deviants (MCU/Marvel Comics)

Video Games

Herrscher of the Void/Sirin (Honkai Impact 3rd) was able to absorb Welt Yang's powers by eating his Core of Reason.

Delsin Rowe (Infamous: Second Son) absorbs Smoke Manipulation from Hank Daughtry…

…Neon Manipulation from Abigail Walker…

…Video Manipulation from Eugene Sims…

…and finally Concrete Manipulation from Brooke Augustine.

Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) absorbing the powers of the recently slain Pandora.

Thanos (Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite) has absorbed the Satsui no Hado from Ryu.

Kain (Legacy of Kain Vampires) can consume the Blood of other Vampires and gain their powers.

Thanks to his artificial Sharingan, Merz (Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections) is able to copy other Visual Dojutsu, as such he is capable of using Yachihoko, to absorb large amount of chakra from everyone marked by the Engraved Tsukuyomi, to the point that he was able to form a Perfect Susanoo.

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