Elemental Absorption: Difference between revisions

A trick those with [[Elemental Powers]] can do is absorbing their own element(s). For example, one may think someone with [[Playing with Fire|fire powers]] wouldn't be helpful in stopping a forest fire, but that person could simply absorb the flames and either store it or release it in a safer way. Alternately, someone with [[Blow You Away|wind powers]] can [[Weapons That Suck|suck the air out of an area]].

 

* Harry Dresden of the ''[[Dresden Files]]'' does this on occasion. How do you escape a boat? Freeze part of a lake. How do you do that? Absorb the heat and release it as a fireball. {{spoiler|Takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in Changes when he becomes the Winter Knight, doing this to [[Chain Lightning]] dozens of mooks. Even Lea is impressed.}}

* Done from time to time in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** In 3 ed. even a PC race, [[Half-Human Hybrid|genasi]] can learn to heal from one's element.

** The [[Difficult but Awesome|Totemist]] class can invoke this using a [[Guide Dang It|soulmeld]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Which is why characters never have [[Pure Energy|Thauma]] resistance of any sort, and bosses get the Inversion: X attack which hits you with Thauma proportional to your resistance to X

* In ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, monsters affiliated with an element are either immune to it or are healed by attacks of that element (be they spells or attacks with an elemental weapon). Some bosses [[Barrier Change Boss|can even change their elemental type during the fight,]] so you must figure out which one it is before attacking again. Fortunately, the player characters get access to the ability to absorb specific elements themselves in many games, [[Final Fantasy VII|whether by using high-level Elemental Materia]], [[Final Fantasy VIII|junctioning enough elemental spells to your Elem-Def stat]], or (in most cases) by merely donning equipment that comes with such an effect.

** The Organization XIII members seem to absorb their own elements as well. Of course, since the ''Kingdom Hearts'' games only have a very short list of elements you can actually use (even more so after they removed Gravity, Stop, and Aero for ''2''), the only ones who might ever actually get hit by an attack of their own element are Axel, Vexen, and Larxene in ''Chain of Memories.''

** In ''358/2 Days'', all thirteen elements are present as attacks in some way shape or form, and each member has a natural resistance to their element ("Nil" for Xemnas, Moon for Saix, Light for Roxas, etc.) that starts at 10% at level 1 and rises another 10% every ten levels. Mickey, Sora, Donald and Goofy also have a natural resistance to Light. The only character who doesn't have a natural resistance to an element is Riku, perhaps because Darkness isn't present as an element in the game.

* Some ''[[Pokémon]]'' abilities passively allow the user to absorb damage from an element and restore HP (Dry Skin, Volt Absorb, Water Absorb) or completely neutralize damage of a specific element (Flash Fire, Motor Drive, Levitate) and possibly raise stats.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', you are able to do this in the Fade portion of the Circle Tower quest line. You have to be the fire man to do it, but you can still do it. And it's REALLY handy.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Wonderella]]'', an arson-obsessed [[Face Heel Revolving Door|villain/hero]] [[Stalker with a Crush|with a crush on]] a fiery superheroine makes a [[Deal with the Devil]] to absorb heat. Unfortunately it creates cold, absorbing even her powers, and she flat out rejects him.

 

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