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Elemental Baggage

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Elemental Baggage	label	Elemental Baggage
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Elemental Baggage	comment	When users of Elemental Powers need to kick ass and take names, they can't always count on there being enough of their element of choice around to properly fight. At its core, Elemental Baggage belongs to the Acceptable Breaks from Reality brought about by the Rule of Cool. In order to make the action more interesting, the author expects that the viewers will not concern themselves with whether there's enough water around for the empowered character to flood the room, as long as it makes for flashy combat scenes, and maybe just assume they got it from Hammerspace. This violation of Equivalent Exchange is less noticeable for manipulators of more volatile elements such as air (which is present in large enough quantities in pretty much every setting), fire (although someone is bound to ask where all those calories come from, which is often Hand Waved by having fire users be Big Eaters) or lightning (where one is usually more distracted by the character's Psycho Electro qualities). People with the ability to control earth and especially water using this trope tend to be much clearer examples of Artistic License and Rule of Cool being employed, depending on how much of the element is available. Or it may otherwise be explained away with factors such as high amounts of dust or humidity. If after using this, the writers then decide to include a scene where the elemental user is explicitly at a disadvantage because they can't find a large enough source of their element to control, we have a case of Holding Back the Phlebotinum. Compare This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman if the power is more difficult to get into use. In many fantasy settings, Functional Magic will often allow the elemental ability to be simply created out of nothing, requiring no source to function. Otherwise only a small amount of the element may be needed to power the spell, or some other Power Source or component may be used. It may also allow the user to draw elements from distant sources or even other planes of existence. Related to No Conservation of Energy, Shapeshifter Baggage, and the Hyperspace Arsenal. Often implied for Snow Means Cold. This item is available from the Trope Co. catalog.
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Elemental Baggage / int_14afa9d	comment	Undine of Sleepless Domain has a set amount of water, a roughly human-sized sphere, she can conjure and control regardless of circumstances. However, it's noted on several occasions that her powers are much more effective when she has outside water to use. Rainy nights or water from drainage ditches offer her much more power than she would have normally, and if the air is humid or foggy enough she can sense monsters' locations even better than Heartful Punch, who's generally one of the better Sensor Characters in the series.
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Elemental Baggage / int_17c7cdc3	comment	Downplayed in Daughter of the Lilies. Although a mage can conjure up an element out of nothing, it's more energy-efficient to cast on existing material, so one pragmatic mage wears a dress made of water as an aid to Making a Splash.
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Elemental Baggage / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter has a go at averting this through its use of Fantastic Science. If a dragon breathes fire, that's because it has an organ in its chest that creates powder that ignites on contact with the air, and if you're lucky you might even be able to carve said organ from its corpse when you hunt it. The exception is the Dragon element, which is considered an enigma In-Universe precisely because it breaks all the apparent rules.
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Elemental Baggage / int_1f76648	comment	Used in A Certain Magical Index and its spin-off, where elemental mages seem capable of generating large amounts of their chosen element from thin air. Of course, much of it is explicitly explained as magic. Averted by espers who can control elements, for example, Kinuhata Saiai, who can use nitrogen to form shields, carries several canisters of nitrogen with her at all times in case she uses up what's in the air around her. There are a couple of exceptions, but they tend to be very high-level espers, whose abilities border on magic anyway.
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Elemental Baggage / int_1ffa9e7	comment	Apparently invoked only to be nastily averted in Now and Then, Here and There. Lala Ru is introduced as having the ability to create endless water using her pendant. This is later clarified as the pendant containing a vast but by now nearly emptied reservoir of water, the depletion of which is directly tied to Lala Ru's steadily worsening condition, and then it's heavily implied that, far from the pendant creating extra water, there's a connection between the slow emptying of Lala Ru's pendant and the fact the earth has turned into a desert. And then by the end, Lala Ru finally uses the last of the water. And dies. But then, nothing in Now and Then, Here and There works out well for those involved.
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Elemental Baggage / int_227431b6	comment	Played with in Runaways with Klara and her Green Thumb abilities. In theory, she can command any living plants nearby, but her roses are the only plants that speak back to her, so she still carries pots of them around.
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Elemental Baggage / int_2819aebd	comment	The Mega Man and Mega Man X games partially avert this. The weapons and tools are fueled by their own energy reserves, but where do the heroes get the materials for things like giant scissor blades, a damn meteor shower, barriers made of jewels, homing missiles, tornadoes, etc?
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Elemental Baggage / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes, Angela's sister Alice is able to control the weather like Storm.
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Elemental Baggage / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Initially averted in Naruto, where for a long time pretty much all the water elemental powers were shown to use existing bodies of water. Later on, it fell headlong into this trope, with huge amounts of water appearing out of thin air. Of course, since the main character regularly creates clones of himself out of nothing, and others have been known to increase their body mass hundreds of times or turn shadows into physical beings, it seems like creating matter (elemental and otherwise) out of nothing is just something ninjutsu can do. It should be noted that the "huge amounts of water appearing out of thin air" disappeared when the guy that made it appear was beaten. And given that people regularly using Summon Magic for both magical animals and weapons, it's likely that this involved summoning the water from a remote location. With the Second Hokage, it's even specifically noted (as per the above quote) that not needing an existing water source had to do with his level of skill. One character that does avert this consistently is Gaara, whose sand manipulation powers rely on a supply of sand that he carries in a huge gourd on his back. If that's not enough, he'll just make more sand by grinding up nearby rocks (though sand made this way isn't as useful pound-for-pound as the sand he carries around because he hasn't put as much chakra into it). And when he fights in his homeland, a desert, he predictably has pretty much infinite ammo for his sand manipulation. This is pretty much the only thing that can possibly explain the Sage of the Six Paths creating the moon without the sudden presence of a new body of gravity killing everything on the planet. Never mind the conspicuous lack of a moon-sized crater that the material to create it should have come from. One filler episode featured a villain that was fairly clever at averting this: instead of making the water himself, he pulled it out of the wet dirt ground. The Third Hokage actually had a jutsu that played this straight using dirt that just came out of his mouth to block attacks. At one point a character with the power to "absorb any ninjutsu" is able to absorb the water being pulled out of thin air by another character, but can't absorb the sand that Gaara carries around and creates by grinding up nearby rocks. The implication is that when the element they need isn't nearby ninjas just create an artificial substitute with their own chakra, which is convenient but inferior in some ways to the real thing.
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Elemental Baggage / int_3aabfec3	comment	Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Gi's Ring of Water, Linka's Ring of Wind, and Kwame's Ring of Earth could only control existing forms of their element. Gi was the most limited in this regard, as air and earth are abundant in the majority of locations the team visited. Mati's Ring of Heart also required the person/thing to have a heart he could connect to; thus, it could not be used on inanimate objects, plants or heartless villains. Wheeler's Ring of Fire was the only exception: he could basically create fire from nothing, and the only limit imposed was one occasion when there was not enough oxygen for fire to burn.
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Elemental Baggage / int_3b34143f	comment	In Harry Potter it is at one point stated that you can't create matter out of thin air (explaining Mrs. Weasley's ability to conjure up food to cook). During the course of the books, however, Harry has used a spell to shoot a stream of water from his wand and conjure flame. More specifically, food is one of Gamp's Five Untransmutables. Anything not on that list is fair game for being instantly generated.
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Elemental Baggage / int_3d0c6e7c	comment	Dekiru: The Fusion Hero! notably averts this. Izuku can merge with any material, but he needs enough of it to merge it with his entire body. Interestingly, this goes both ways; if the source is too substantial, Izuku can only absorb so much of it because there's only so much of his body he can merge it with.
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Elemental Baggage / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher both uses and averts this. It is possible to create fire or other effects through the wizard's personal will, but they can also channel existing energy, often to create significantly more powerful effects. Harry has frozen large amounts of water by drawing heat from it to create fire and channeled the energy of a storm, but has also regularly just creates fire, and after becoming the Winter Knight, gains the ability to create cold. In-universe it's explained that any effects, after being created with magic, will still follow the laws of physics as normal. After a fireball is thrown, it just becomes normal fire, igniting anything flammable and burning out if it runs out of fuel.
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Elemental Baggage / int_42aa7ed7	comment	During Crisis on Earth-X, Killer Frost is able to create almost limitless ice bridges/slides, enough to bring her and two others up to the Earth-X Waverider, even having enough to expel ice/frost behind her to powerslide them miles up to the ship. What happened to all the leftover ice? No mention of it.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4484c586	comment	In Yurara, fire wielder Mei plays this pretty straight, though the excuse is that it's "spirit fire" that normal people can't even see. Yako, on the other hand, very much averts this — he carries around bottles of water just so he can create his water barriers any time, anywhere.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4522fd1	comment	So far averted in the Whateley Universe. Riptide, who can control water, has had enough water to really kick ass only once - a stormy, rainy day in Boston. (But she got knocked out before she could use her powers.) It depends on the person, lucky mutants play this straight. Also there are "Manifesters," who essentially create (temporary) matter, even things as complex as plants and animals, out of nothing/psychic energy. In some of the later stories Riptide is described as being a water manifester... specifically "creating" water to fuel an apparently steam/mist propelled flying board designed for her by a friend.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4b6b161f	comment	The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe tried to justify the Original Johnny's flames in a different way, saying that they're a pyrokinetic ability to create a superheated plasma. The Word of God follow-up justification for why his flame goes out when the air supply is cut off is that he can only heat up oxygen molecules, which has been contradicted time and time again in the actual stories.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4bcaa9d6	comment	(In)convenience: After Applejack breaks her family's salad spinner, Rainbow Dash offers to let her borrow the wonder (a piece of pegasus Magitek) she uses for the same purpose. Unfortunately, though the wonder can instantly dry off soaked fruit or vegetables, that water still has to go somewhere. In a Pegasus cloud-house, this is actually a bonus because the extra moisture can be used to reinforce the kitchen walls. In an earth pony house, on the other hand, the water ends up going all over the kitchen.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun contains some pretty good examples of this, such as characters freezing small puddles of water into huge ice pillars. In a few instances in the sequel one must provide the water for the puddle by using a spell to fill a small indentation with water before it can be frozen, so it really is just a small puddle. However, since most of the magic in the game is situational (several of the cooler sounding magic will only work with certain terrain features, notably the "hover" and "teleport" spells), this is easily handwaved.
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Elemental Baggage / int_4ddcf970	comment	Played straight in Flame of Recca . Tokiya's weapon is Ensui, a rapier that uses water as its blade. Whenever it is not active, the Ensui is nothing more than a slightly sharp handle; it requires a water source for it to form the blade, and although rare, Tokiya did find himself in some situations where water is non-existent, therefore rendering Ensui useless.
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Elemental Baggage / int_53bd0aaf	comment	Averted in With Strings Attached. John's Kansael acts as an extradimensional storage space for a lot of water, which is where he draws his water from when he doesn't have a ready source nearby. Since he doesn't do much large-scale water casting, he only ran out once, on the dead-dry Plains of Death.
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Elemental Baggage / int_5b28dc78	comment	Averted in a certain instance in Hoshin Engi. Koyuken of the Four Saints of Kuryuu Island wields the paope Kongenju (an orb the size of a basketball) which allows him to summon as much water as he wants, to the point that he's introduced flooding a mountainous desert area with a colossal tsunami. During the fight against Taikobo (who notices that it's salt water), he explains that Kongenju is connected to a twin orb floating in the ocean of the Kingo Islands and thus it doesn't create water but rather summon the water from one orb to the other.
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Elemental Baggage / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, the Dragon-Blooded don't need elemental baggage. They are elemental baggage, scions of a long line of elemental heroes, sons and daughters of the (obviously) Immaculate Dragons. Likewise, several Terrestrial Circle Sorcery spells are capable of flat out creating elemental matter. Impervious Sphere of Water's flavor text even describes the possible utility of the spell's conjured water in arid or desert environments. Justified by Sorcery being akin to the powers of the Primordials, the great beings responsible for creating reality in the first place. It's addressed somewhat in third edition. Several Brawl charms create tentacles out of water. Generally this requires a water source nearby, but if one is unavailable a dragonblooded can shed a level of anima to create some instead.
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Elemental Baggage / int_5fc3fc4d	comment	Storm from the X-Men. This was used to (sort of) explain that she can control weather, but not really create it. (For instance, when she makes it rain inside a room, it becomes much drier outside.) Compare Thor, who can make it rain anywhere because his powers are explicitly magical. It was also originally stated that her ability to shoot lightning bolts out of her hands was because her body naturally generated a strong positive electrical charge. This was rather swiftly dropped. Iceman, also of the X-Men. He canonically makes his ice by drawing the moisture out of the air, but the huge sculptures he creates would be difficult to pull off even taking into account a high percentage of humidity. The precise mechanism depends on the writer; one was that he draws the moisture from an extra-dimensional source, but he needs actual moisture in the air to "pattern" it from. Thus, he's weaker in extremely arid conditions. In one issue of The Defenders, Bobby manages to kill an alien fungus by draining all the moisture from a sealed room, but it takes much, much longer than you'd expect from the volume of ice he's producing.
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Elemental Baggage / int_610a694a	comment	Not so much in the Pokémon Adventures manga. Almost at the end of the third arc, the day is saved because Blue's Blastoise had run out of water and Red filled it with flammable water from a mystical healing spring.
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Elemental Baggage / int_630755ab	comment	Averted five times out of six in the Codex Alera series, also by Jim Butcher. Everyone has powers corresponding to at least one of six elemental "furies" of earth, air, fire, water, metal, and wood. Some basic techniques can be done with minimal amounts of the appropriate element, but their power is almost directly proportional to the amount available, to the point that being cut off from it completely (like a metalcrafter with no metal) renders the power totally inert. This is specifically used with prisoners, making cells that both contain their elemental opposite (which also can help cut off their powers) and giving them none of their appropriate element. The exception is firecrafters, who can make something room-temperature burst into flame instantly. On the other hand, skilled firecrafters are in high demand because being powerful enough to make it useful is apparently more difficult than other types of crafting. Aircrafting is also something of an exception, simply because if there's no air to craft there are bigger issues like breathing.
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Elemental Baggage / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: Witches in the Abomination coven fight by summoning up a specialized goo to manipulate (most commonly in the form of semi-sentient Muck Monsters), though the implication is that it's pre-made and then teleported to their location. Amity starts carrying a small jar of the stuff on her belt in "Eclipse Lake" so she doesn't have to waste precious seconds summoning it in combat (similar to Katara's waterskin) and her father is shown doing something similar in "Reaching Out".
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Elemental Baggage / int_68c8e9ad	comment	This is Super Robot Wars, the game where under the right circumstances, a technique shown to be destroying the Universe does ten damage, in a series where unit health is usually in the thousands. Willing Suspension of Disbelief is required when you start the game up.
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Elemental Baggage / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons, Functional Magic often allows elemental powers to be conjured out of nothing or it may otherwise require a small spell component to cast (with more expensive components needed for more powerful spells). Sometimes the powers are explicitly drawn from elemental planes (particularly summoning spells), which double as exotic adventuring locales. If you're actually on those planes, spells involving the plane's element get a free power boost, while spells involving their opposed element — fire/water or earth/air — are much harder to cast. There are a few spells which may only function if there's at least some amount of the element present, and these are usually given names such as "control X".
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Elemental Baggage / int_6b85085e	comment	Sub-Zero of Mortal Kombat at first only had the ability to freeze enemies without any superfluous ice forming, but these days is capable of creating ice out of thin air. It's weakly Hand Waved by him freezing water vapor in the air, but that doesn't quite account for how he can make something as large as a sword out of a thimbleful of surrounding moisture.
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Elemental Baggage / int_6c89d16c	comment	Discussed in Stephen King's Firestarter. An evil scientist muses how the title girl's talent to conjure up huge amounts of thermal energy with a barely noticeable effort is going to mess up the theories of physics.
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Elemental Baggage / int_6cd819eb	comment	Worked around in Skulduggery Pleasant. Any Elemental attack requires there to be some of the element around but once there's a bit of it in the vicinity it can be expanded on. Need a fireball? Snap your fingers and use the friction to create a spark. From there it can be turned into a proper fire with magic.
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Elemental Baggage / int_704decef	comment	In Chaotic, the Liquilizer is capable of refilling itself with just the water in the air.
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Elemental Baggage / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hama reveals to Katara that using the water in the air is very doable, and when Firebenders imprisoned the Waterbenders from the Southern Water Tribe, they piped dry air into their cells to make sure they couldn't do anything. However, this is a more realistic instance; when they're pulling water from the air, Waterbenders only receive small portions. And when they're pulling it from living things, things tend to wither and die for quite a large area for a relatively small amount of water. Also averted with Earthbenders to the extent that keeping refined metal between them and any earth or stone is considered sufficient to imprison them... and only two have proven common wisdom wrong (one by commanding nearby stone with his exposed face, the other by figuring out how to control impurities in the metal). Though they're sometimes shown pulling boulders out of the ground without making a hole or noticeable mark in the ground (closing said hole is also likely the result of Earthbending). However, this is played straight in the case of Firebenders, who are capable of creating fire, though it's explained in-universe by chi; presumably, they sling around burning energy. This also explains why they can force their fire to explode at will. It's mostly averted though in that both Katara and Toph have been seen to run out of bendables, in one case leading to Katara doing some rapid exercise so she could sweat to make her own. Katara, in particular, carries a bag of "bending water"—literal elemental baggage—for use in waterless places. A scene in the first episode shows Iroh running Zuko through firebending combat drills, where he explains that firebenders use their breath control to draw chi energy outwards, which manifests as flame. Most likely the creators did this to make the firebenders more threatening. It's also shown many times that benders are capable of enhancing existing expressions of their element: Aang uses fans (or his own breath in one instance) to create wind which he massively amplifies, and when sitting near a campfire Zuko expresses his anger by making the fire flare several meters into the air. An interesting example of firebending manipulating existing heat pops up in "The Avatar and the Fire Lord." During one of Roku's flashbacks, Fire Lord Sozin is shown drawing the heat out of a volcano's erupting lava and directing it into the air to cool it into solid rock. Interestingly enough, he is using the same stance and technique that Iroh would demonstrate a century later for redirecting a firebender's lightning. This also makes Airbenders (the last one left, anyway) quite formidable, as they almost never run out of element to bend. The sole exception is when they get sent to the Spirit World because, as Aang found out, bending doesn't work without a physical body, which is pretty hard to get into the Spirit World. It is possible to bend in the Spirit World by walking through a spirit portal, as shown in The Legend of Korra. For the live-action adaptation, the rules for firebending have been refined and slightly redefined: most firebenders work from an existing fire source and the weaponry of the Fire Nation armies is build around the tactic of spreading fire sources onto the battlefield for the benders to use. Only advanced masters — Iroh, Ozai, eventually Zuko — can conjure fire using ki powers. Unfortunately, this runs into a problem when firebenders start using fire from nearby torches which could be easily extinguished by their opponents. In The Legend of Korra waterbenders raiding an anti-bending hideout brings along a water tank. This trope gets lampshaded later on, in book 3 when Korra gets captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers. They truss her up Hannibal-style, restricting not only her arms and legs, but also covering up her mouth, preventing her from bending earth, water, and fire (which would be fairly easily accessible even on an airship). However, one soldier admits that there wasn't a whole lot they could do about air. The Dai-Li (in all eras) wear a thin glove made out of hardened stone. As they are all master earthbenders, they can move their hands as if it was a silk glove. These function as concealed weapons; the Dai-Li can reform them into handcuffs, combat weapons, projectiles, and even use them to cling onto otherwise smooth surfaces to quickly scale walls. Republic City Police would later copy them by wearing spools of bendable metal on their persons (originally with back-mounted spools, but switching for smaller ones in modern day) so they always have something to bend. Suyin and Kuvira would also wear metal as part of their combat regalia (Kuvira having metal bands around her shoulders and wrist, Suyin wearing a full cuirass) so they always have some sort of metal to work with. Kuvira, in particular, catches people off guard as hers look less like weapons and more like fancy decorations. The precautions taken against airbenders are seen in season 4: Zaheer (who can even fly) is kept in an underground vault with metal doors bent open when someone needs to see him, and he's kept chained to the ground.
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Elemental Baggage / int_73dd3d5	comment	Pyro from X2: X-Men United can only control fire, not create it. He compensates for this by carrying a lighter around with him, and in the third movie, a flamethrower.
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Elemental Baggage / int_793c3360	comment	Lampshaded in H₂O: Just Add Water. Cleo is able to summon extra water as well as control it, something that baffles both her and Emma when they first learn their powers.
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Elemental Baggage / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash: The villain Amunet Black averts this trope, she has telekinetic control over a particular type of metal, meaning she has to carry a bucket of it around at all times. This looks incredibly stupid, demonstrating exactly why this trope exists. (In later appearances she stores the metal as a gauntlet instead, which looks much cooler).
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Elemental Baggage / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	In Frozen (2013), Elsa summons massive quantities of ice and snow out of seemingly nowhere. In the finale, she dissipates the products of her Endless Winter, also seemingly into nothing.
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Elemental Baggage / int_7fc78282	comment	Averted in The Lord of the Rings. Gandalf the Wizard is a master of fire, but needs fuel to work with, noting that he "cannot burn snow".
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Elemental Baggage / int_8dc4b654	comment	Ultimate Fantastic Four had Johnny become a walking fusion reactor; his entire body has reconfigured itself to be as perfect an energy store as possible (which results in some bad effects on his health, as you might expect for someone who turns his stores of body fat into plasma). Warren Ellis tried very hard to justify Johnny. He also has a protective layer of microscopic scales to protect him from this flame. Though that still doesn't explain how he flies...
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Elemental Baggage / int_8eda89ef	comment	Averted in Darker than Black. Ice-user November 11 and April, who can create cloudbursts, both need existing water to use their powers.
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Elemental Baggage / int_90f42a9b	comment	Zig-zagged in The Wheel of Time books: The One Power can't create matter, so for Rand to produce a miraculous display of water in a desert, he has to draw on an aquifer, having found it impossible to condense enough atmospheric moisture. Playing with Fire is often used to set people and objects on fire, but the most common use for it is creating fireballs out of thin air. (To be fair, these are supposed to be balls of hot air held together with magic. "Fireball" just sounds better.)
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Elemental Baggage / int_928a8b2b	comment	A version of this appears in The Death Gate Cycle. The magic in the books is based on possibilities. So if a wizard is going to cast a fireball, he shapes the waves of reality to find a possible situation where a ball of flame could be hurled through the air. Or if he is being shot by an arrow, he can turn air into solid shield in front of him. No need to really know why, just that there is a CHANCE that the effect might be possible. Only limitation is that more complex spells take longer to prepare. For example, in the books, the main character prepares weapons with enhancement to kill with each hit. They take hours to prepare (scratching runes into metal) and even a small mistake in rune carving means he must begin everything from the scratch.
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Elemental Baggage / int_9989595b	comment	Averted in W.I.T.C.H. for the most part. Taranee is shown to absorb and exert heat from the human body, which is the source of her fire, as she is shown to be unable to conjure fire when the heat from her body was drained away from her in "S is for Self". Irma also needs moisture in the air to create water. Cornelia subverts this the most when her element is useless in "N is for Narcissist" where the fighting takes place in a floating fortress in the sky with no plant-life at all. And again in "V is for Victory" when she's resorted to using algae in the school's pool for her main source of attack, to which she is criticized for by her teammates. Hay Lin controls air, which tends to be in abundance everywhere. Will controls Quintessence, the mythical fifth element which can be forgiven for being conjured; though it takes the form of lightning, which comes directly from the static on her body as she is shown to be glimmering with static electricity, especially her hair which stands on end at times as well as shocking people randomly when they touch her. The way it works is that they're able to use the power of the Aurameres (or in their absence their own Life Energy) to amplify what they can naturally generate. So Will can turn a static spark into a lightning storm but can't use it if she can't start up the spark (like if she's wet) and Taranee can turn a small amount of her body heat/other heat released into a giant fireball but can't make one if she's too cold to release a little bit.
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Elemental Baggage / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon: Pokémon: The Series: Most Pokémon are capable of expelling ridiculous quantities of their elements from their bodies. One episode of the anime had Ash's Squirtle fill up a whole truck with water using only Water Gun. In the games, a Pokédex entry mentions that Blastoise (about the size of a van) could fill an Olympic swimming pool. How did so much water end up inside the Mons? Nobody knows. Then again, that creature the size of a van fits in a ball the size of a clenched fist (which in the anime can become even smaller). Not so much in the Pokémon Adventures manga. Almost at the end of the third arc, the day is saved because Blue's Blastoise had run out of water and Red filled it with flammable water from a mystical healing spring.
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Elemental Baggage / int_a17bbe03	comment	For the live-action adaptation, the rules for firebending have been refined and slightly redefined: most firebenders work from an existing fire source and the weaponry of the Fire Nation armies is build around the tactic of spreading fire sources onto the battlefield for the benders to use. Only advanced masters — Iroh, Ozai, eventually Zuko — can conjure fire using ki powers. Unfortunately, this runs into a problem when firebenders start using fire from nearby torches which could be easily extinguished by their opponents.
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Elemental Baggage / int_a7bb29af	comment	It's averted by the Silk Shot from Mega Man X2, a weapon that attracts debris from around the level and coalesces it into a projectile that explodes in a spread. The debris is usually scrap metal, but in certain levels it can attract rocks, leaves, or crystals.
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Elemental Baggage / int_a81325d3	comment	Any Final Fantasy game, as well as most RPGs in general, as magic usually allows you to make flames, ice chunks, etc. appear out of thin air. Although you do have to sacrifice some MP.
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Elemental Baggage / int_a97a40f0	comment	The Witch of Knightcharm: This trope is both used and averted, depending on the character. Some witches seem able to summon certain elements; Imogene, for instance, is able to just create fire with a spell. Others, however, need to carry the element with them to use it in magical fights. Amira Chadid is an example of the latter; she specializes in water magic and carries water with her in large canteens so she has some when needed.
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Elemental Baggage / int_a9a7d452	comment	Zig-zagged with Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante's Riders. While the Kaizo-Majin play this trope straight, the Riders are explicitly noted to having to draw in their elements in order to fuel their powers. However, a loophole is tapping into their Emotional Powers, where the more a person feels towards a certain emotion (i.e. anger to fuel the fire-based Dante), the more power they can tap within themselves, essentially becoming the Hammerspace from which the belts draw power from.
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Elemental Baggage / int_b500f0c4	comment	This gets discussed in Raindancer. Izuku and his father Hisashi are able to produce a virtually endless amount of freshwater with their Quirks without dehydrating themselves, violating the First Law of Thermodynamics. Izuku shrugs at this, saying that many Quirks (such as Quirks that open portals) mess with the laws of physics so it isn't something to be alarmed about.
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Elemental Baggage / int_b88b182f	comment	In The Dark Eye, most magical traditions need a small amount of one of the six elements is to summon a servant, djinn, or master elemental of that particular element. If the element in question is not pure (sand instead of stone for a stone elemental) it will be more difficult, should it be purer, it will be easier (diamond instead of stone for a stone elemental).
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Elemental Baggage / int_b962c879	comment	Played straight for most wizards in Fairy Tail who can create elemental spells from nothing but their magic power but it's played with by Lucy who can only summon Aquarius when she has a source of water (preferably a big one because Aquarius can get pretty insulted if it's something like a cup of water), but Aquarius herself can generate water at will from her urn which is a good thing because she prefers her attacks "giant" alongside controlling existing water.
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Elemental Baggage / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Zig-zagged with Frozone's ice powers. Normally, he uses water that's either in the air or in his body. In one scene where he and Mr. Incredible are rescuing people in a burning building, he points out that there's no humidity in the air and he's short on body water, so he's screwed. However, after a single drink from a cup from a water cooler — and moving into a cooler building, granted — he creates enough ice to entirely cover a man and stop a bullet.
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Elemental Baggage / int_bb931b09	comment	Played straight and averted in Fire Force; second generation Pyrokinetics like Maki cannot start their own fires but can control existing fires and have to rely on flints and other starters when none is available. Third generations like Shinra or Arthur, however, are able to create their own fires from nothing, though usually in a specific focused way as opposed to full flames.
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Elemental Baggage / int_bfb9ab50	comment	An Octave Higher subverts this trope. It may seem like people are producing blasts of water and walls of rock from thin air when they cast spells, but in reality these substances are being summoned from elsewhere in the world and will eventually return to where they came from; thus, no new matter is actually being created and the conservation of energy is maintained.
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Elemental Baggage / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	This trope is averted in Drowtales, where elemental sorcery requires the presence of the element in question. For example, ice users need freezable liquid, and fire users either carry around so-called "fire pots" or strike a spark when they need some flames.
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Elemental Baggage / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Pyro apparently took night classes in this trope seeing as one of his/her taunts produces fire out of thin air. (Their chi, perhaps, since it is a Hadokuen.) Depending on who you ask, there's also the questions of where the Dispenser gets the matter to generate infinite amounts of ammunition and metal, where the Medigun gets the energy to promote endless healing, how Respawn is supposed to work, and where all of those ammo and health packs keep coming from.
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Elemental Baggage / int_c51cb60a	comment	Changeling: The Lost accounts for this with the Contract of Elements. Level 3 requires that the element actually be there before you can control it... but level 4 of the Contract allows you to summon a large quantity from elsewhere if there's none available. Mage: The Awakening, another new world of darkness property, has a similar system since a mage's increasing power represents him being less bound by the laws of the universe. A rank-2 Arcana allows 'ruling' abilities that manipulate an existing instance of whatever the arcanum governs, such as matter 2 allowing a mage to reshape a solid object as if it were soft clay. Actually creating the element from scratch requires full mastery of the arcanum (5 ranks), as conservation laws are some of the most fundamental rules of the universe. This gets interesting since Mage is very much not limited to the classical elements and the same limitations apply to "elements" like time, fate, minds, and souls. Apparently conservation of 'years alive' is a physical law of nature in the world of darkness.
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Elemental Baggage / int_cceb25de	comment	The Locked Tomb: The Necromancer prodigy Harrowhark has a particular specialty for bone magic and can conjure large skeletal constructs out of tiny flecks. Necromancy doesn't follow conservation of mass or energy, but even the God-Emperor is impressed by how far she can push it.
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Elemental Baggage / int_d4263e4c	comment	Wild Cards' Water Lily believes that she condenses water from the air, but to account for the amounts she makes, it's later speculated that she can actually subconsciously transmute air and other matter around her into water, at one point creating a large flood.
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Elemental Baggage / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami: Paintbrush techniques can pull various elements across the screen. Interestingly, late-game weapons double as literal Elemental Baggage - if you need a stream of fire, you can just pull it from your flaming disc weapon. Which uses up a whole lot less ink then making it appear out of thin air. Same goes for your final rosary and glaive; Her rosary contains the ice element while her glaive contains thunder. As far as techniques that have you connecting two targets on-screen with a line, this just leaves the water power (which was obsolete in just about every way but one at that point) and the vine power (which was incredibly circumstantial and was mainly used for transportation).
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Elemental Baggage / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Pokémon: The Series: Most Pokémon are capable of expelling ridiculous quantities of their elements from their bodies. One episode of the anime had Ash's Squirtle fill up a whole truck with water using only Water Gun. In the games, a Pokédex entry mentions that Blastoise (about the size of a van) could fill an Olympic swimming pool. How did so much water end up inside the Mons? Nobody knows. Then again, that creature the size of a van fits in a ball the size of a clenched fist (which in the anime can become even smaller).
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Elemental Baggage / int_d709b969	comment	Similar to the above example, dragons in The Elric Saga don't literally breathe fire, but rather have a caustic venom that causes flammable materials to burn. They have a limited supply of the venom and can run out in an extended battle.
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Elemental Baggage / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra waterbenders raiding an anti-bending hideout brings along a water tank. This trope gets lampshaded later on, in book 3 when Korra gets captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers. They truss her up Hannibal-style, restricting not only her arms and legs, but also covering up her mouth, preventing her from bending earth, water, and fire (which would be fairly easily accessible even on an airship). However, one soldier admits that there wasn't a whole lot they could do about air.
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Elemental Baggage / int_dbd378f0	comment	Air Watch cadet Alexandra Mumorovka, an incidental character in The Price of Flight, is revealed in continuation tales to have considerable talents and skills as a trainee Witch. One reason why other Witches on the Discworld are keen to have her under keen supervision is that at an early age, Lexi made friends with a sylph, an elemental spirit of the wind. A Witch who can, up to a point, command the very windnote It really sums up to Lexi making polite requests which her Sylph may or may not grant is a Witch whose superiors want to keep close by. More in the tales of A.A. Pessimal.
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Elemental Baggage / int_deaae920	comment	Dungeon Crawl generally plays this straight, but makes an exception for summoning elementals and the Sandblast spell. Elementals require a large source of the element in question (Air and Earth are pretty easy; fire and water are tricky), and Sandblast works best if the caster is holding a large stone, or else it has to use the ambient grit. Spells that create stuff always include the Conjurations spell school (for example, Bolt of Fire is a Fire/Conjuration spell). Spells that require a natural source never do.
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Elemental Baggage / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: When Eragon tries to magic up some water in a desert, he has to dig a pit and draw it up from deep underground, as he can't create it from nothing and couldn't afford the Equivalent Exchange to shift the weather enough to make it rain.
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Elemental Baggage / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi often has characters summoning giant chunks of ice, balls of fire, pillars of stone, etc. out of nowhere. It's magic, though, so no one seems to care. Lampshaded All There in the Manual, as it states high-level ice magic is harder than high-level fire magic because it breaks more Laws of Thermodynamics.
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Elemental Baggage / int_eb175449	comment	Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson has a very literal example where Allomancers must consume specific metals (both elemental and alloys) to fuel their abilities. Each metal corresponds to a specific power and running out a particular element is a consistent concern. Allomancers generally carry extra metal for refueling as needed. Controlling the supply of one particularly powerful (fictional) metal is part of how The Emperor controls the economy as well.
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Elemental Baggage / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening, another new world of darkness property, has a similar system since a mage's increasing power represents him being less bound by the laws of the universe. A rank-2 Arcana allows 'ruling' abilities that manipulate an existing instance of whatever the arcanum governs, such as matter 2 allowing a mage to reshape a solid object as if it were soft clay. Actually creating the element from scratch requires full mastery of the arcanum (5 ranks), as conservation laws are some of the most fundamental rules of the universe. This gets interesting since Mage is very much not limited to the classical elements and the same limitations apply to "elements" like time, fate, minds, and souls. Apparently conservation of 'years alive' is a physical law of nature in the world of darkness.
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Elemental Baggage / int_eed321b1	comment	In Ars Magica, matter created by magic has No Ontological Inertia unless the spell is augmented with Ritual Magic and a valuable form of condensed Mana called vis. A mage can go around conjuring torrents of water out of nowhere, but they won't last long enough to hydrate anyone unless they make the extra investment.
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Elemental Baggage / int_ef7b3325	comment	In the Fantastic Four, the Human Torch's power is the ability to set his body on fire, yet there's not usually any actual fuel for said fire. Ultimate Fantastic Four had Johnny become a walking fusion reactor; his entire body has reconfigured itself to be as perfect an energy store as possible (which results in some bad effects on his health, as you might expect for someone who turns his stores of body fat into plasma). Warren Ellis tried very hard to justify Johnny. He also has a protective layer of microscopic scales to protect him from this flame. Though that still doesn't explain how he flies... The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe tried to justify the Original Johnny's flames in a different way, saying that they're a pyrokinetic ability to create a superheated plasma. The Word of God follow-up justification for why his flame goes out when the air supply is cut off is that he can only heat up oxygen molecules, which has been contradicted time and time again in the actual stories.
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Elemental Baggage / int_fa5e90fd	comment	Used heavily within City of Heroes and its sister game, City of Villains. Superpowered characters and NPCs regularly toss lightning, summon fire in a variety of forms, create blizzards or jagged shards of ice, even generate radioactive material on demand. Made most obvious during Hurl, which picks up a chunk of rock off the ground and tosses it, even when used in the middle of an ocean or on top of an empty shipping container.
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Elemental Baggage / int_fbc44b8a	comment	Great Mazinger has its Thunder Break attack, in which Great unleashes a weaponized bolt of lightning at his opponent. Sometimes (typically in Super Robot Wars and Mazinkaiser), this includes sending a jolt up into the sky, which somehow causes a thunderstorm that sends an even bigger bolt back down for Great to use.
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Elemental Baggage / int_fe5f7909	comment	Played with in Guards! Guards!, a Discworld novel. Swamp dragons, which are small pathetic creatures kept as house pets, can breathe fire but are obsessed with fuel and frequently explode from getting the mix wrong. 'Noble dragons', the series' name for the standard fantasy fire-breathing dragon, run on magic - whether this counts as fuel or not is debatable, although magical items are seen to crumble to dust once the magic is sucked out by summoning the dragon.
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