The power to absorb or steal powers from others. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation. Variation of Absorption. Not to be confused with Superpower Replication. Opposite of Power Bestowal.

Also Called

• Ability Absorption/Assimilation
• Ability Drain/Draining
• Ability Siphoning/Stealing/Sapping/Theft
• Power Absorption
• Power Assimilation/Consumption
• 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 and removing an opponent’s power. User can even stack several powers together, which may lead to Power Mixture and can augment them to higher levels or highest levels than the original user. The user could also technically make or mimic the effects of other powers that they may not yet possess themselves through this method.

Applications

• Ability Information Archiving
• Energy Absorption/Energy Drain
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
• 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
• Potential Theft
• Talent Theft
• 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
• Adaptive Abilities like Reactive Adaptation or Superior Adaptation could possibly become resistant / immune to the user's power.
• 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.
• May not be able to choose what powers they can absorb from their opponents. In short, the power in question will be quite unruly as it'll just simply absorb every single power possible that the opponent or ally has.
• There may be a limit on the number of capacities that can be acquired.
• 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 may 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

Cartoons/Comics

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

Video Games

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)
• Bête Noire (''Glitchtale'')

Known Objects

Known Events

• Fimbulwinter (God of War)

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)

Ihwa/Hero Killer (Hero Killer) using her Gift, Avatar of Plundering to steal the abilities of other Gift users.

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 series) after absorbing energy from the Ultimatrix.

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

Michael Morningstar/Darktar (Ben 10: AF/UA/OV)

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.

Victor Von Doom/Doctor 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)

Rupert Swaggert/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' Enchanted Amulet (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.

Orion (Ordeal)

Morphos (Max Steel)

Power-Drain-Inator (Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel)

Mystic Eye of Quackzalcoatl (Darkwing Duck)

Augustus Roman/Regent (Marvel Comics)

Eshu (Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft) can absorb powers from other orishas.

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 master's and into herself with her tongue.

Super-Z or Zorina (Krystala) has the ability to absorb powers from anyone who has a 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)

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, allowing him to fly independently.

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

Kain (Legacy of Kain) 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.

Videos

Three Blondes Steal The Charmed Ones' Powers -MASHUP- - Charmed - TNT-2

Phineas and Ferb- Mission Marvel - Clip - Phineas and Ferb - Disney Channel Official-2

Robin vs The Master of Games-2

Loonatics Unleashed - Sypher Steals Everyone's Powers!-2

A New Friend or Foe? - Ben 10 - Cartoon Network

Ben 10- Kevin 11 vs Diamondhead

Framed - Ben 10 Classic - Season 2 - Cartoon Network-2

Vilgax & Kevin Team Up! - Ben Unlocks Master Control - Ben 10 - Cartoon Network

Ben defeats vilgax and absorbs Diagon power , Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Episode 52

Omniverse- Hybrid Kevin - Ben 10 - Cartoon Network

Omniverse- Kevin vs. Swampfire - Ben 10 - Cartoon Network

The Team Vs Parasite - The Original Team - Young Justice Fights-2

Science Supervillain! 🧬 Superman vs. Parasite 🦠 - STAS FULL EPISODE 💫 Cutdown - @dckids

SNEAK PEEK - Spidey's Battle with Regent Heats Up in Marvel's Spider-Man - "The Cellar"-2

Donnie's Gifts Cause DISASTER 🎁 - Full Scene - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-2

Turtles' LAST Battle vs. the Alien Lord Dregg 🛸 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Serpent Vampire/Vamp Wolf (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)

🎵MC주비의 고스트 뮤지컬 쇼🎵 - -06 - 백사첩 - 신비아파트 고스트볼Z- 귀도퇴마사 - 신비아파트 공식 채널-2

Who is Marvel's Regent? One Man Versus All Superhumans

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