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Equivalent Exchange

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Equivalent Exchange	comment	Power has consistency. Power serves a function. Power always comes with a price. To acquire the ability to perform something, induce motion, bring change — to bring something into existence, grant a wish, heal a loved one, or even bring someone back to life — someone must give up another thing of equal value. This trope has a simple dramatic purpose: it prevents the pitfalls of a typical Story-Breaker Power by adding laws and the elements of choice and sacrifice. Would you give up the gifts, love, and life you possess to get what you desire? Beware the allure of Desire, however, because it doesn't always work in your favor — people may not truly understand the full effects of what they desire, and the gift itself can end up becoming its own cost. King Midas thought of the Golden Touch as a great boon, but it ultimately robbed him of his greatest treasure: his daughter. This trope has a layer of truth to it, given the First Law of Thermodynamics. Building in the cost to the boon usually results in a Fantastic Fragility. The principle of Equivalent Exchange typically says the object or goal a person will trade for must have equal value to what the person trades with. Who and what determines this "equivalency" varies from story to story: Does the Exchange measure emotional value, material value, or both? (Someone might find a penny handed down from father to son as worthless as if he found it on the ground, even though the father and son would consider it emotionally valuable.) If a wizard ritually sacrifices a cat to get some magical mojo, what determines how much power the wizard receives: the value of the cat's life to the wizard, the value of the cat's life to the cat, or the value of the cat's life to a deity? (The last is often why a Virgin Sacrifice is considered better.) In Real Life, the First Law of Thermodynamics follows this dilemma, since it only measures mass and quantitative scale. An action only produces an equal and opposite reaction; a sacrificed cat will only release the energy of a cat, burning a human will work nearly the same as burning a human-sized carbon statue, and deconstructing an atomic nucleus to perform alchemical transmutation requires a nuclear reactor. In fiction, we can assume that souls become necessary to harness cosmic-scale energy or contain magical properties that don't follow the laws of thermodynamics (hence the necessity for Human Sacrifice as a viable form of unobtainium). Compare this trope to Balancing Death's Books, Conditional Powers, No Conservation of Energy and Mutual Disadvantage. The tropes known as Call It Karma and The Golden Rule attempt to apply this law of physics into ethics and morality. A Physical Attribute Swap or a Transferred Transformation result when this is applied to Shapeshifting, and Swap Teleportation is when it applies to Teleportation.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_10ddd3d5	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link can acquire a magical suit of golden armor which will prevent him from taking any damage. However, whenever he wears it, his wallet is slowly drained of money, and he loses extra money every time he takes a hit. Once he runs out of Rupees (the coin of the realm), the armor weighs him down considerably, making his movements slow and awkward.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1133352a	comment	Since the precise details of time travel in the Terminator series are left vague and we never see the aftermath of departure, one possibility is that the Time Sphere doesn't destroy everything around the traveller, but merely transposes the future and past in their location.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: It is an in-universe theory that the wishes that get fulfilled in exchange for the girls becoming magical girls are guaranteed to cause an amount of despair equal to the hope they generate. A Selfless Wish for the sake of others would eventually lead to the wisher suffering in turn, unable to enjoy the very wish she herself generated, especially when the Magical Girl persona is forcing the wisher into isolation. "Hope and despair balance out to zero." Although this is never treated as anything but a hypothesis, and more likely to be based on one of the themes of Goethe's Faust: As part of the Deal with the Devil, should the Faust ever reach the highest state of happiness possible for humanity, he will immediately die and be consigned to hell. Defying this trope is the true goal of the Incubators. Magic generated through emotion breaks Newtonian Equivalent Exchange, and the Incubators are using the additional energy to offset the death of the universe. However, for the Magical Girls themselves, the Equivalent Exchange of hope and despair still remains to screw them over.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_136770ce	comment	Vurt. Things are swapped between the real world and the vurt world on the basis of their value. The characters are keeping a weird tentacled creature because it was somehow switched with the protagonist's sister, and they're trying to figure out how to get her back. At one point, he wants to bring an object back to reality, so he leaves something of sentimental value behind.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_141e4b99	comment	A ritual used by Sirius's daughter in Dodging Prison & Stealing Witches gives a witch the physical strength she would have had as a man and the same potential strength as a man. The drawback is being unable to taste sweetness. She notes that ever since she used the ritual, cake tastes like eating a sponge. A ritual spoken of only as the Unforgivable Ritualnote Both the ritual's name and process are under Taboo so speaking either will alert the authorities gives a massive power boost but has two distinct costs. First, it requires completely dedicating yourself to a cause of your choosing and you become somewhat obsessed with it. Second, and more dire, the ritual kills your true love, even if you haven't met them yet. Both Dumbledore and Voldemort are revealed to have used said ritual.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1543f8a	comment	In Zero Time Dilemma, each time a character SHIFTs to an alternate timeline they're really swapping consciousnesses with the other "them". In particular, SHIFTing to save your life dumps your other self into the deadly situation you are escaping. The dilemma is not lost on the protagonists.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1882ec3c	comment	Soaring Machinariae: The Tower of Desire's wishing system will grant the wish of the winner, but it also absorbs the energy of anyone who dies in the trials to fuel the wish.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_19d0dcbb	comment	In Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Sacred Grove, the MistWalkers live by the law of Equivalent Exchange, value for value. In the backstory, when asked to use their magic to save one boy's life after he was lost in the winter woods for an extended time, they need the boy's father or brother to come live with them as one of their own. When he grows up, the first boy's anger at the MistWalkers and desire to regain his brother sets off the plot of the main game as he kidnaps a mystical fawn and angers the Forest Spirit.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In Dragon Age, Mages can perform magic effortlessly, but more powerful spells and rituals occasionally require the use of Lyrium, distilled into a consumable liquid form for this purpose. Blood Mages however, can use either their Life Energy or another's to perform powerful feats that non-Blood Mages cannot, such as Mind Control, as well as ripping the blood out of their opponents pores. While one can learn the skills safely through books written on the subject, these are usually restricted for obvious reasons, thus forcing more desperate (or foolhardy) mages to make a bargain with a Demon to gain the power. What the bargain requires changes from person to person, but most cases end with the Demon possessing the Mage and turning them into an Abomination.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, a Hollow can give up their Healing Factor in exchange for extra strength.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1db412d3	comment	The three magic systems from Mistborn work this way. Allomancy requires the wielder to consume fragments of metal and "burn" them in their stomachs to power certain effects; some of these metals are considerably rarer than others, and the metal duralumin acts as a catalyst for burning whatever other metals are in the user's stomach very, very fast. Feruchemy allows the wielder to temporarily drain themselves of a certain quality or ability — memory, skill, age, health, senses — store it in a piece of metal, and retrieve it later as needed (for example, a Feruchemist could temporarily become very weak, and then later "tap" the stored energy to acquire superhuman strength). It's not always much of a cost though. While there are few benefits to making oneself weak, there's mention of feruchemists draining their youth to disguise themselves as old men, and Sazed drains his weight so he can jump down a great height without damage. Hemalurgy does not require fuel, but it does require leeching abilities from Allomancers and Feruchemists by stabbing them with particular metals and then permanently implanting them in oneself in particular places, and often leads to great insanity. Also, it's inherently wasteful: the powers you steal with it are always somewhat weaker than the original. Compounders are a quirk of the system. If someone has matching Allomantic and Ferchemical metals, then they can store an attribute in a metalmind then burn the metalmind, creating a much larger burst of power, which they can then store, and then burn, creating an infinite loop of power. This doesn't actually break Equivalent Exchange so much as get the god of Allomancy to pay the cost of your Feruchemy. The Lord Ruler managed to gain immortality by Compounding youth in an atiummind (though after a thousand years his age was still catching up with him), and in The Alloy of Law a double-gold Twinborn has a Healing Factor that makes Wolverine look like a wimp. He shoots himself in the face with a shotgun to prove to his men he's invincible, hasn't felt pain in decades, carries around dynamite to blow himself up if someone tries catching him with a net, and doesn't even need to breathe if he flares his power enough. He still ages, but that's his only weakness. As long as he has gold, he can't be killed.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Once one becomes an esper, they can never use magic, and vice-versa, without suffering extreme damage to their bodies. To gain the incredible powers of God's Right Seat, a magician must give up their ability to use normal spells. Acqua of the Back gets around this because his Divine Mother's Mercy removes limitations and secondary conditions. Fiamma of the Right gets around this by brainwashing Index to do the spells for him. Kakine Teitoku's Esper power of Dark Matter defies the Law of Equivalent Exchange along with the rest of the laws of physics. It allows him to create a seemingly infinite amount of matter that explicitly does not exist in this universe that he can grant any manner of properties he desires only limited by his imagination up to and including human flesh and organs, which eventually lets him become a Hive Mind over an endless, regenerating army of clone bodies. It's not for nothing he's referred to as "The One Who Has Touched the Territory of God."
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Equivalent Exchange / int_222efbd1	comment	Eric gets a lecture to this effect from Dungeon Master in the "Day of the Dungeonmaster" episode of Dungeons & Dragons (1983).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Spells require that a sorcerer draw energy from things around them, or when creating things, themselves.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2659bbac	comment	Hibiki's Magic. If you want to use magic properly, you need to sacrifice an aspect of your being, like ability to dream, age, or memory; no wonder why magic practitioners are declining.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_27979798	comment	Down the Rabbit Hole: To get Kid to leave her alone when she first comes to Jump City, Jinx gives him her rose pendant so that he will pass him HIVE assignment and leave her alone and so that Jinx does NOT have to part with any of the incredibly powerful magical artifacts on her person and cause the end of the world. However because powerful artifacts were on the line, it supercharges the exchange of an already priceless if harmless memento for safe passage through the city. Unfortunately for Kid, safe passage isn't payment enough so he becomes a Cosmic Plaything until Jinx comes back to Jump to complete the exchange.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars, many Necromancer spells, mostly under the Blood Magic attribute, require the Necromancer to sacrifice a certain percentage of their maximum health, in addition to a small amount of MP, to cast. In addition, Necromancers also have many spells that require there to be a fresh corpse somewhere nearby for them to "exploit". These spells include raising undead servants, creating a "well" of energy that performs various effects, healing, or simply making the corpse explode.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2a3477a2	comment	Quite a lot of magic in Whither, especially if you deal with fae, is trading Insubstantial Ingredients for Intangible Price. Don't tell elves your true name, either.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2a4c791e	comment	Ah! My Goddess has the Law of Conservation of Happiness. Eventually, granting too many wishes within a short period of time means that someone ends up suffering some form of bad luck. This is also how wishes granted by demons run. They usually come with a myriad of attached strings that cause grief and misfortune to the person making the wish.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: The Ladybug and Cat Miraculous together grant the user a wish, but as revealed in the episode "Robostus", said wish comes at a price. For example, if Markov (the Monster of the Week of said episode) were to achieve his wish to be human, another human would lose their humanity. Should Hawk Moth succeed in wishing his wife out of her magical coma, someone else would have to take her place. Also, "Ephemeral" reveals that when a wish is made, it doesn't get "granted" in the traditional sense. It destroys the entire universe and then creates a new one where the wisher has always had what they wished for. You really can't get more "equivalent exchange" than that.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2b785ed	comment	The eponymous golden idol in The Case Of The Golden Idol works this way. It has many powers, but they always consist of absorbing something, no matter how abstract, then putting it somewhere. For example, the 'combustion spell' requires the 'freezing spell' to be used first - it's just taking heat and putting it elsewhere. The 'life spell' is able to affect living things by ageing or de-ageing them. In order to return life to something, however, it needs to take it away from something else, first. Late in the game, the Order Party takes away "years" from those who break their Virtues, giving them to party members instead.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2be70437	comment	In the first part of Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, the main character (a jerkass Straw Critic) gains magical powers at the expense of his life force.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2c7a2624	comment	Compounders are a quirk of the system. If someone has matching Allomantic and Ferchemical metals, then they can store an attribute in a metalmind then burn the metalmind, creating a much larger burst of power, which they can then store, and then burn, creating an infinite loop of power. This doesn't actually break Equivalent Exchange so much as get the god of Allomancy to pay the cost of your Feruchemy. The Lord Ruler managed to gain immortality by Compounding youth in an atiummind (though after a thousand years his age was still catching up with him), and in The Alloy of Law a double-gold Twinborn has a Healing Factor that makes Wolverine look like a wimp. He shoots himself in the face with a shotgun to prove to his men he's invincible, hasn't felt pain in decades, carries around dynamite to blow himself up if someone tries catching him with a net, and doesn't even need to breathe if he flares his power enough. He still ages, but that's his only weakness. As long as he has gold, he can't be killed.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2ce3bcd4	comment	Middlegame: Haruspicy only provides genuine prophetic results if the entrails come from something the augur truly cares about. Reed wants to be very certain about his information, so he sacrifices one of his own Artificial Human "children".
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2ddf611	comment	The Defilers in the Dark Sun setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Both Defilers and Preservers need to drain life forces in order to power arcane magic, but defilers drain it away without worrying about the consequences, while Preservers are careful not to drain enough to kill the plants and animals nearby that are contributing. Considering that Athas is a gigantic desert world, it's not hard to deduce the popularity of defiler magic. (Or, since this fact is now known to the general public, the unpopularity of arcane magic users in general, since they're all assumed to be Defilers.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2e9b0546	comment	Rules: Ryuk made a promise to Light that he would kill him should he ever become "boring" — i.e. face death/imprisonment or give up being Kira. Once it becomes clear that the latter is inevitable as Light's Character Development becomes more prevalent in the sequel, Elijah/L makes a deal with Ryuk and offers Misa's life in exchange for Light's. Not only does Misa have the collective lifespan of another Shinigami, she also lived past her natural lifespan and thus shouldn't be alive anyway.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2f1933a4	comment	The Outpost: The woman known as Two at one point in Season 3 says it takes one life to raise someone from the dead using her kinj power. Talon and Garret thus decide reluctantly to let her kill an old, mad prisoner (Garret's rationale is that it would be ending his pain) in order to revive Rosmund. She later also kills another on her own to raise someone else. In Season 4 she demands twenty lives to raise Tobin, saying it's necessary as he was dead for longer.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_2f203125	comment	Recarmdra is present in many games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, where it often does kill the user to fully heal the rest of the party. Because of how the games are in general, only the recruitable demons and not the main character can get it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: For the most part, if you want to bring someone back from the dead, someone else is going to have to die. The Edo Tensei jutsu requires a Human Sacrifice, and only brings the dead back as zombies. Suna's puppeteer clan have a technique that can revive the recently dead (they developed it to breathe true life into their puppets), but doing so costs the caster their life. Gaara is brought back in this way. Those who have the power of the Rinnegan can cast the Rinne Tensei jutsu, which can bring the dead back to life and seemingly has no limit on the number (Nagato/Pain used it to the revive the hundreds, if not thousands of dead Leaf villagers he killed, while Obito intended to revive the thousands killed in the Fourth Shinobi War) or how long they were dead (Madara's endgame was to have Nagato use the jutsu to revive him decades after his death, but he settled for forcing Obito to do it instead with Black Zetsu). However, the sheer amount of chakra the jutsu consumes all but guarantees the caster signs their death warrant (Konan implies Nagato could have survived that had he not used up so much chakra in the battle beforehand, however, and Obito was able to stay alive thanks to "life support", though it's pointed out he was just getting extensions on top of all the other life-ending events that happened to him.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_31060d84	comment	Whenever Frank Parker steps back in time in 7 Days (1998), his self at that time period vanishes from the time stream. It's explained that this is because the same set of molecules cannot exist in two places at the same time. This almost blows the secret once, when Parker steals something the first time through, when he's investigating the problem, and takes it back with him. So it 'magically' vanishes from villain out of air-tight security, out of a locked briefcase, and the villain twigs that that shouldn't be possible, and starts investigating this 'Backstep' project.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_31927f56	comment	In Coda (2013), one year powering the city takes a year off your lifespan. This is what killed Haven's parents.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): A partial subversion in "Tribunal" since it is neither necessary nor even planned. After the elderly Nazi war criminal Karl Rademacher from 1999 is brought back in time to 1944, Aaron Zgierski brings his "older" half-sister Hannah, a prisoner at Auschwitz, forward in time from 1944 to 1999.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist serves as the Trope Namer for anime and manga, as it makes a big deal out of the principle in its plot; In regards to alchemical transmutation, the law basically works like the Newtonian law of conservation of matter: matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed in a reaction. (It also helps that Isaac Newton, one of the Trope Codifiers in Real Life physics, considered himself an alchemist and formulated the basic principles of this trope.) The energy used to perform Amestrian alchemy comes from either tectonic shifts (the manga and Brotherhood anime) or the souls of our world's deceased (the 2003 anime version). Xingese alkahestry relies on reading and directing the Earth's natural energy through its mantle. Ed gets a wonderful chance to explain the principle at the start of the story. While talking with a religious zealot who believes her leader can resurrect her late boyfriend, Ed lists all the raw materials that exist in the human body — noting that anyone could buy a "body" with pocket change — before he explains that even with the materials gathered together, someone still can't make a human life because the exchange still doesn't have equivalency. He comes to a simple conclusion: you need a soul to complete the transmutation, and the right one at that. One can ask just how he figured this out. We soon learn the gory details. The legend of the Philosopher's Stone says it enables an alchemist to perform any type of alchemy without cost (including human transmutation). The Elrics learn that even the Stone is just a massive alchemy battery: to make one, someone has to sacrifice a hell of a lot of people first. A massive human transmutation collects the souls of those sacrificed to make it and turns the stone into a massive portable power supply — one which lets its user create matter from the massive energy stored inside it, even if the energy seems to come from nothing. But it doesn't last forever, and it's highly inefficient from all the souls screaming struggling inside - unless you were to somehow convince them to willingly sacrifice their existence... One of the central tenets of the series — and a sign of the development of Alphonse and Edward as people — shows that no matter how much they try and apply the rule of Equivalent Exchange to their lives, they always find something missing. At the end of the manga and Brotherhood, they vow to give eleven back to every person or thing they take ten from, thus making the world richer. Alphonse makes a crucial logical conclusion about the principle near the very end of the series. If A equals the cost of B, then the reverse should hold true: you can exchange B back for A. Once he figures it out, Al gives his soul back to Truth so Ed can have his right arm again and defeat Father once and for all. Ed does not take this development well. After it happens, however, Edward is able to top Alphonse by offering up the very truth of alchemy he received when they tried to bring their mother back as payment for Al's return. By giving up both his ability to perform clap-alchemy and his ability to perform alchemy at all, he recovers both his brother's soul and his body as well. It's such a clever exchange that even Truth itself is floored. Hohenheim likewise believes the theory has a flaw only in the opposite direction: "Even if I lived forever, I'd never give enough to have earned my sons/family." The 2003 anime demonstrates why one should not use this trope as a philosophy. Real Life is too complicated for such a neat transaction. There are numerous factors involved, and randomness (i.e., Chaos Theory) can drive the result to positive or negative reactions. Dante uses this in a Breaking Speech to Ed. The adherence to this trope makes filler episodes more obvious as they tend to avert it, such as an alchemist turning a small woodcarving tool into a full sized sword. Although, said sword quickly breaks when struck by a real metal blade.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_33529ef3	comment	Code:Breaker: It turns out that Ogami's powers come from a Deal with the Devil: for every upgrade he gets, he loses one of his senses. He's already lost his sense of taste, but "fortunately" Code: Emperor has chosen to take his newly acquired sound powers rather than his hearing... although there's still five upgrades to go...
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Equivalent Exchange / int_355f9150	comment	The Witcher (2019): Magic is explained to operate on this principle. If you don't have an external source for power, it will be drawn from the caster. As demonstrated by one of Yennefer's classmates when her hand withers horrifically after levitating a rock without draining the life from the provided bunch of flowers.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3717ea4a	comment	The fact that all magic has a price is used repeatedly in the DC Animated Universe. In one notable case in Justice League Unlimited, Circe's price for releasing a Forced Transformation curse she had on Diana is something from Batman he can never regain once lost... his dignity.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3875381	comment	Legends & Lattes: Tandri mentions a principle called Thaumic Reciprocity, wherein any energy expended in creating a magical effect eventually rebounds. Much of magical study is figuring out how to redirect or minimize the blowback. When her coffee shop burns down, Viv initially thinks it's her good luck reversing thanks to the magical Scalvert's Stone she was using to support its prosperity, but this turns out to be untrue.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_39c5e563	comment	In No Evil, this is how the big works of magic are done: you can achieve great things by trading your life. Tlaloc gave his life to divide the Tezcatlipoca Mirror. The Black Ick crisis was solved (for a while, at least) through Xipetotec trading her life, Ixtlilton his sight, Xochipilli his hearing and Xochiquetzal her voice, and the main cast have had to replicate the feat in miniature several times since (generally using eggs for the sacrifice). Smaller feats of magic, such as using Tlaloc's Tuning Fork, Xochiquetzal's ability to turn into a cloud of butterflies, and Kitty's magical warming garments (for the cold-blooded members of the cast to wear during winter) either don't use this rule or are so low in cost that it's not worth bringing up in dialogue.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry in The Next Great Adventure admits to one of his companions that the reason only he can use a ritual that brings the Forsaken back to life is because "all the years [they] now have to live have to come from somewhere."
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3cb019b9	comment	In Witches of East End any spell that deals with life or death works on this principle. A novice magic user who does not understand this can cause great harm. Ingrid causes the death of a love interest when she resurrects someone else. Dash, being a doctor, is naturally drawn towards those spells and his first attempt at major magic ends up almost killing his brother. When he tries to use a healing spell on a kid who just died, the kid is brought back to life but Dash's life force is slowly being sucked out to pay for it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3f287309	comment	Fear & Hunger: Termina: Daan, a doctor, is able to cure other characters' status effects by sacrificing organs to Vitruvia. His magna-medicinal skill also allows him to resurrect a character who died in combat (but only before the fight ends), but it requires him to lose a limb and a big chunk of his Mind stat.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_3f36a9e3	comment	Under the Northern Lights: It is a central pillar of the reindeer worldview that there is a downside to everything. They don't trust magic because they think there has to be a price being paid by someone, even if it isn't the caster. They are wary of Equestria partly because it is such a nice place that, whatever the downside is, it must be horrible.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_41ec4f3c	comment	From Comic 41 of Kill la Kill AU, we have Ryuuko's wish to be the sick one instead of her then ill sister Satsuki, which, as explained here, traded her health in exchange for Satsuki's poor health, making her the sick one instead. As Rei did point out, said wish would make her suffer and could probably take her life through illness, something that circumstances otherwise would do with Satsuki.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4257cbdf	comment	Fluke of The Young Protectors has the power to redistribute luck. This means that he can give people good luck, but someone else has to suffer bad luck in exchange (i.e. someone escapes a collapsing building, but Fluke totals his car). Nice Guy that he is, he willingly takes on bad luck most of the time so that he has extra luck to give away.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-738: If you sit in the chair across from him, he will make various offers to you. Alternately, you may request something from him. He will grant this request, provided it is a request for you (you cannot request something on someone else's behalf). However, you receive an equal amount of misery as the amount of joy this request brings. SCP-914: This machine "refines" any object you put inside into a rougher or finer form while retaining the object's mass, depending on the setting. However, beware how rougher settings kill any organics, while finer ones turn them into [DATA EXPUNGED].
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Equivalent Exchange / int_431f7ab9	comment	Sympathy in The Kingkiller Chronicle follows the actual First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, so that heat and work applied to a target have to be taken from somewhere and transfer of energy can be rather inefficient. In practice, this means that people have killed themselves trying to raise winds with their diaphragms and light candles with their body heat.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_432e5c6f	comment	Star Ocean: Upon starting a bet, Miraschon's Marilyn Manson will collect items from her opponent to fulfill the payment that was bet upon if a game is lost. The higher the bet, the more value an object has to be given up in exchange, going far enough to steal organs to sell for the appropriate price on the black market.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In the episode "Faith", a Reaper can restore a dying person's life, but only at the cost of another's. The woman who was holding the Restraining Bolt uses this to set her husband up as a faith healer, while using the exchange to murder various of her faith's bugaboos. When the brothers break the leash, she learns the hard way that True Neutral is not a toy. In the episode "Criss Angel Is a Douchebag", real magic is used to save a magician from lethal escape tricks. The cost of saving his life is that another person dies in the same way the magician would have been.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_44127c7c	comment	In Power Rangers there are some examples of the Sixth Ranger being limited due to their awesome power. The most notable were the Green Ranger and the Titanium Ranger. Rita created a magic candle linked to the Green Ranger's powers, such that every time he used them, it would burn, and if the candle burned out he would die. The Titanium Ranger was branded with a cursed tattoo of a cobra on his back. Every time he morphed, the cobra would move up a little. If it got to his neck, he would die.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4522fd1	comment	Fey of the Whateley Universe is a massively powerful mage who can, among other things, pull magical energy from ley lines. It turns out there's living things at the other end of those ley lines, and over the course of the first year she unknowingly caused several ecological disasters.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_45599333	comment	Explicitly averted in Tower of God. Shinsu is potentially limitless in power and potency, and can be created and destroyed. Killing, shrinking, even creating life are made possible. There's only one catch. To even gain control over one control unit of Shinsu, one needs to rigorously train for ten years. Every further technique used takes dozens of years to master. Some people aren't even capable of doing so, since Shinsu would instantly mangle their body. Why does it take so long? Because a single fuck-up with a greater amount of shinsu is enough to completely obliterate you. It's dangerous stuff, kids. Handle with caution. This trope is later played with in regards to a technique known as "Shinsu Loops", in which shinsu is concentrated into rings to aggregate more shinsu. Normally, no one bothers with this ability though, because the more shinsu is gathered, the less stable the loop gets and less shinsu is actually usable. It's the equivalent of a power which doubles your strength at the cost of being able to use only half your strength. Due to being an irregular however, Bam's shinsu control doesn't change despite scale, allowing him to use Shinsu Loops to pull out theoretically endless amounts of shinsu like a Minecraft infinite water-source.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: This comes up a lot with magic in the books, where it is referred to as the Law of Conservation of Reality. For example, to teleport someone from one side of the disc to another, you may need to have an equivalent weight to teleport back to where they came from. This is mainly to deal with conservation of momentum; because the Disc rotates, different points on its surface move at different velocities relative to the Hub. Teleporting without such a counterweight means that if you move very far, your velocity relative to your immediate surroundings tends to kill you. But you can do it! This is still an imperfect science, and when the wizards of Unseen University try it to retrieve Rincewind in Interesting Times, he's hit on the head by all the crap they piled up to equal his weight, going the other way. It comes up more often with conjuration than with transportation. If you wanted to make, for example, a loaf of bread appear, the casting thereof would have to expend all the energy that went into making the bread—so, growing the grain, grinding it into flour, mixing the dough, all the heat it took to bake it—or else you'd have a loaf of bread for about half a second and then it would vanish again. It is also described that the magical act of creating that loaf of bread as a permanent thing takes so much effort that it might cause the wizard's brain to forcibly evacuate his skull through his ears. So mostly they just don't bother. Another anecdote describes how using magic to levitate a book from a high shelf to lay it down in front of you will fatigue you as much as actually climbing a ladder to take the book directly. Esk mentions it outright. In the book Sourcery, there is a sort of explanation why the magic works that way with the arrival of the titular Coin the Sourceror. There is only the certain amount of magic in the Discworld. Not using the equivalent exchange (brain seeping through wizard's skull because of effort notwithstanding) spends the magic of the world so it is irretrievably lost. Discworld needs magic to function. Spend too much magic and reality becomes thin. The opposite is true as well, because the wizards get a lot more magic to work with when Coin the Sourceror arrives, making working with it much easier because Coin inputs fresh magic into the system. Spending it still makes the reality and the world thinner, though, because there is only so much you can change part of reality with magic until it goes completely unreal, Ship Of Theseus style. In a non-magical example from Snuff, the only item Vimes can offer Tears of the Mushroom for the loan of her precious unggue pot is the equally precious iconograph of his son which he keeps in his wallet.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4885590d	comment	One episode of Forever Knight featured a mystic healer that could take darkness out of people. However, said mystic happened to be a novice at her craft, and didn't know that this darkness had to be put somewhere, (usually into an inanimate object of some sort), and wound up absorbing it herself and being overwhelmed by it. The episode had a really sad end to it, Nick was quite close to becoming human again, with most of his vampiric urges gone. But she herself was absorbing his darkness and becoming a vampire. She died from "OD'ing" on his evil, which he re-absorbed into himself. Her grandfather alluded that she might have been capable of fully healing Nick (or at least making his gains permanent) if she had been more skilled.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Warlock magic is said to work like this. Don't expect to ever have to pay that price yourself though. Examples include the Life Tap spell (converts health into mana points), Health Funnel (heals your pet demon at a cost of your own health), Hellfire (which burns you as well as your enemies), and Ritual of Doom (summons a powerful demon; originally one party member would die upon completion, now one member is simply badly wounded). Other spells are fuelled with Soul Shards, gained by killing foes with a particular spell. Although now, Warlocks have a low-level spell that lets them restore all their soul shards by apparently breaking off little pieces of their OWN SOUL (at no real cost in gameplay terms, though it is interruptible and thus best used out of combat/between fights). Doomguards don't even require the ritual of summoning or sacrifice of health anymore. Just hit a button, and BOOM he's there fighting on your side for 45 seconds. In the Ashbringer comic, Darion Mograine seeks to free his father Alexandros' soul from the Scourge and the corrupted Ashbringer sword. He is told that an act of love greater than the act of evil that originally stole Alexandros' soul (being betrayed and killed by his oldest son) is needed to free him, but he's also warned that such an act of love is often the greatest test of faith. To free his father's soul, Darion impales himself with Ashbringer, freeing his father but unintentionally became a Death Knight of the Scourge himself.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood: The Resurrection Gauntlet in the first series could bring someone back from the dead, but usually only for about one or two minutes. However, with enough empathy from the gauntlet's user, a person could be brought back completely from the dead - but the person who used the glove would slowly give up their life (including any fatal wounds the formerly deceased had) while the previously dead person would get healthier and healthier. Of course, since Jack has unlimited life force, the whole thing gets turned on its head when he resurrects Owen - he's immortal, but unable to eat, heal, get drunk, etc.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4dada054	comment	The Duel of Sorcery Trilogy: At the end of Changer's Moon, Serroi turns Ser Noris into a tree. The price: she turns into a tree herself. (However, this is less a function of the magic itself — she'd previously turned mooks into trees with no ill effect — than of using it on an opponent of such power.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4e5ee12b	comment	The Three Worlds Cycle: Use of magic (or "the Secret Art") is balanced by "aftersickness": debilitating headaches and nausea. Unskilled "mancers" may even get the aftersickness without the magical effect they were going for. This, however, is nothing compared to the risks of trying to draw too much power from the field: you get "anthracised", where the sheer power you're trying to channel burns you alive from the inside out. Of course, it's lovingly described in detail in one of the books.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_4f88f22b	comment	Those That Wake: In What We Become, healing someone via the neuropleth can bring them back from the brink of death, but it erases you from existence.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5283bd72	comment	Additionally, we find out in Protector of the Small that the use of the Dominion Jewel to prevent an earthquake (at the end of Song of the Lioness) cost the fertility of all the grain in the kingdom. They had to import all their bread and seed wheat the next year, and the kingdom was in debt for years paying it off.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_537fae8b	comment	The "Pandora" feature of Street Fighter X Tekken allows you to sacrifice your partner to give your primary character eight seconds of unlimited super meter and amped-up strength. To make this even more of a desperation move, if those eight seconds elapse before you defeat your opponent, you lose.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In the final scene of "The Dummy", Jerry Etherson and Willie have switched places so that Jerry has become the dummy and Willie the ventriloquist. In his closing narration, Rod Serling says that he has gone from "boss to blockhead". In "The Parallel", Major Robert Gaines loses contact with Earth and is accidentally transported to a parallel universe in which he is a colonel. At the end of the episode, shortly after he returns home, the space program receives a transmission from Colonel Robert Gaines.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The World Next Door", Barney Schlessinger and his counterpart from the Retro Universe switch places as each wants what the other has in life. The Barney of our universe has longed to be a famous and successful inventor for years. He is delighted when he meets the alternate version of his wife Katie, who admires "his" inventions greatly as opposed to his own Katie who belittles him for them. The alternate Barney has grown tired of the pressure that comes with fame and people's expectations for the next great invention so he settles in our universe, where he can live in blissful anonymity and doesn't have to invent anything else if he doesn't want to. In "The Convict's Piano", Ricky Frost is able to escape his unjust prison sentence in 1986 when he plays "Someone to Watch Over Me" on the old piano and is transported back in time to 1928. He realizes that he has picked the right song and the right time because he remains in the past after he stops playing the piano, in contrast to his previous trips to 1899 and 1917. The gangster Mickey Shaughnessy is transported forward in time to 1986 when he plays "S' Wonderful". He is trapped 58 years in his future as the piano is subsequently destroyed. In "Something in the Walls", the creatures that live in walls are able to enter Sharon Miles' room at the Crest Ridge Sanitarium by coming through a crack formed by a leak. They absorb Sharon into the wall and one of them assumes her form and takes over her life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_53e3e545	comment	A relatively benign example of this trope occurs in The Secret of the Magic Gourd. Rather than a life for a life, the Magic Gourd uses magic to swap Wang Bao's blank failure of a test paper with the high-scoring test of a fellow classmate. Being his typically dumb self, Bao Hulu doesn't even bother to change the name at the top of the test, which gets Wang Bao in trouble for cheating.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_541c3556	comment	In Hearts of Ice, Ranma gets killed but makes a deal with a Phoenix to come back to life. Emma-O, the ruler of Afterlife, is miffed about his cheating death, so he decides to go and retrieve his soul personally. However, Yuki-Onna asks him to take her immortal life in exchange for his defiance of death.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: In the Pre-Crisis DCU, the Guardians of the Universe purged themselves of evil, only to find that the evil had to go somewhere. They sealed it in the same universe where they sent most of the magic to ensure that the Golden Age Green Lantern would be around to deal with it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_58b600de	comment	World of the Five Gods: The "death magic" in The Curse of Chalion is like this — it's a way to murder someone at a distance, but as part of the spell's workings, the person casting the spell will die, too. In addition to this little drawback, it's believed to be very difficult and requires animal sacrifice as well. Plus, the God of Executioners has to be invoked and he only lets the magic work when the victim deserves to die.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3: Chidori sacrifices herself to revive Junpei under this principle. From the same game, the skill Recarmdra fully heals all your allies' HP in exchange for yours becoming 1. It costs only 1% of your total SP, but it is still terribly risky given how it's game over if the leader is KO'd.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_59593dcd	comment	In a non-magical example from Snuff, the only item Vimes can offer Tears of the Mushroom for the loan of her precious unggue pot is the equally precious iconograph of his son which he keeps in his wallet.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5cc59ec7	comment	In Godbound, this is invoked in one of the vignettes, where Jakob agrees to use his Fertility power to ensure that the knyaz would have a son by his infertile wife (and thus prevent a messy Succession Crisis), and in return would see that one of Jakob's enemies died. "Life for life, for the gods are fair." (However, this is not a necessary condition of the power in question, just a condition that Jakob set.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	A system of Equivalent Exchange is enforced in Night Watch (Series). Basically, the forces of good and evil have a treaty regulating and limiting their actions. When one side uses their power to interfere with humanity, the treaty demands that the other side receive an equal intervention. Hence a Light mage can heal someone, but that gives a Dark witch the right to curse someone. The system works overall, with most "Others" (the series term for supernatural beings) willing to go through the proper channels to get licensing for using their powers. (For example, vampires annually receive a license to feed on a living human, though not all use them.) If an Other breaks the rules, the Watches (the police of the Others) will locate and punish them (with most crimes being sentenced to death). If a member of the Watches breaks the rules to a relatively small extent, they can offer the other Watch an equal intervention as a compromise.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: The Sidereal Exalted have the charm called Of Things Desired and Feared, which uses astrology to provide an infallible way to achieve any objective you can state... for an appropriate price. If what you want to achieve is small, it is likely the price will be something you are willing to pay (a few bruises, the lost of an item, etc.). But if you ask for a Fate-proven way to defeat Big Bad or otherway break the game, the price will be something like "your life, the lives of everyone in your Circle, and the complete destruction of all the thing you value and care for". Some other charms have a drawback to balance out the benefits. This is especially true of a number of Green Sun Prince charms, like the one that allows you to not need sleep, but requires you to run in order to rest, the one that allows you to longer without sleep in exchange for nightmares when you do, and the one that allows you to become telepathic at the cost of turning all noise into white noise for you. In the Third Edition teaser PDF for the Infernals, it's revealed that, to keep the other Primordials from making their own Exalted, Autochthon devised "The Law of Diminishment" and inserted it into She Who Lives in Her Name, which states that any who empowers others is weakened in turn (which is why, even with the divine fire of the Exigence helping them make their own Exalted champions, many weaker gods cannot survive the creation of an Exigent).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_5f89c8b8	comment	In PS238 there's Toby Marlocke, who has Reality Warper powers with a catch. Every time he tries to do something more complicated than self-levitation, there is an equivalent unintended result. This can range from funny (absorbing the kinetic energy of a super-powered soccer kick caused tulips to sprout at the goal line) to rather disturbing (creating a superhero persona for himself caused the creation of a new supervillain). Part of the reason for this is that he got his powers in the first place as part of a deal between the cosmic forces of Order and Chaos, and both sides insisted that the balance should be preserved...
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Equivalent Exchange / int_606c1a51	comment	This was a main part of The Immortal. Your character starts with a magic amulet that, you eventually discover, has the power to kill a dragon (the creature that awaits you at the end of your adventure). However, it turns out the amulet also kills the person who uses it (you could easily discover this at any point by using the damned thing), and the whole game is an Evil Plan by the Big Bad to get you to kill the dragon (sacrificing your life in the process) because he needed the dragon dead, but obviously couldn't use the amulet himself without dying.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_606e56fc	comment	In Geist: The Sin-Eaters, a Sin-Eater can come back from the dead easily (yes, more than once). Problem is, in addition to the act knocking a chunk off your Karma Meter, your geist is going to draw that life force directly from someone else. And when you wake from your brief dirt nap, your face is covered in an ectoplasmic caul that conveys all the details of that person's death.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_60f30aaf	comment	Saga of Recluce is set in a world of Chaos and Order Magic, both of which must be carefully balanced — at times, overuse of either, or just too much Order or Chaos concentrated in one area, has shifted the entire planet's weather patterns, caused volcanic eruptions, and other disasters. Despite that the balance is well-known in-universe, it didn't stop people from trying to cheat. Recluce itself, for example, was protected by a navy of Order-infused ships... and every time they replaced one, it was with a larger, more powerful ship that required more Order.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_61a39969	comment	In Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the only way to acquire the Soul Stone is to sacrifice someone you love, described by the Soul Stone's guardian Red Skull as "a soul for a soul." The sacrificed person cannot be revived with the Soul Stone even though other deceased people can be, and there is no way to undo the exchange, meaning that the sacrificed person is Killed Off for Real. In Infinity War, Thanos reluctantly decides to sacrifice Gamora to obtain the stone, and in Endgame Black Widow sacrifices herself so that Clint can get it and resurrect Thanos's victims. Time Travel seems to be able to bring back the deceased victim, but it will be an alternate version of them; the true sacrifice is gone for good.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_61b1bd67	comment	The multiverse of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- and xxxHOLiC: The price for wishes granted by Yuuko works this way. Some characters are much more wary of the possible implications of this than others. In particular, Kurogane and Doumeki will only ask for Yuuko's help if it is flat-out impossible for them to solve the problem under their own power. This is prudent, as false-hearted or impulsive wishes usually result in nasty karmic payback. Yuuko also has rules about not dealing in wishes of value equal to a human life, as that would implicate the wish-granter in murder. For the record, Yuuko accepts items or intangibilities that have both real and emotional power, which include both living and non-living: Kurogane's sword is both a precious reminder of his family and a powerful weapon; Fai's tattoo is imbued with powerful magic for his own safety; and Syaoran and Sakura pay by giving up a portion of Sakura's memories - those which contain Syaoran. This means their previous relationship is sacrificed forever. Syaoran has been edited out of the memories the feathers contain. For example, Sakura can remember the events of her last birthday party, but one seat is mysteriously empty, and there's an odd pause in the dialogue whenever someone would have otherwise said Syaoran's name. One time Sakura almost manages to put two and two together, but passes out and loses all memory of her deduction due to this price. It's not flat-out impossible for Sakura and Syaoran to have a relationship after paying the price, but it has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Interestingly, you apparently don't need someone to trade with, just need to have a payment to be given in exchange for a desired end. Clow and Yuko gained entry into the cycle of reincarnation for the clones by giving their lives up to... nothing in particular. Watanuki and Syaoran Jr. escape from a pocket dimension in exchange for the inability to leave The Shop and the inability to remain in one world for very long, respectively, again not actually selling it to anyone in particular. It eventually is revealed that whoever is the owner of the Wish Shop is essentially contractually bound to live by this principle at all times, lest they risk getting magically induced injuries from the shop itself as compensation. It's sobering when you realize that this is the primary reason for why Yuuko has made payment requests for the slightest things, even to friends, because no matter how much power she has, she can't give anyone anything without needing something from them in return... Except for feelings, which are explained to be the only things people can give without a price.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_67855503	comment	Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Lux's Drag-Ride Bahamut can slow down and speed up time, but must do both of these for the exact same duration. He usually uses it by slowing down his own time for five seconds (requiring him to analyse his enemy's fighting style so he can dodge their attacks even when slowed-down), then speeding himself up for the next five seconds.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_67b86014	comment	The entire basis of Allie Beckstrom. Magic always exacts a price, usually in pain. The user can choose between an hour-long migraine or a week-long head cold, but the price will be paid. For the protagonist, magic also takes her memories. For small spells, she'll forget what her stepmother's name is. For large spells, she'll wake up with a three-week hole in her life. She carries a journal with her everywhere, with her name, address, etc. written on the first page, just in case.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: There are at least two types of magic falling under this law: Surgebinding produces various effects (from flight to trasmutation to healing), consuming the stormlight infused in gems in exchange. The Old Magic is granted by a spirit called the Nightwatcher. Everyone who deals with the Nightwatcher can ask for a blessing, but in exchange must also receive a curse, chosen by the spirit. One minor character mentions trying to word his wish in such a way to avoid a curse but is informed it doesn't work like that. You tell the Nightwatcher what you want, she considers it, and gives you what you think you deserve (which may or may not be what you asked for), along with a curse that she considers equal to the boon. It might be related, but it could just as easily not.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_6afd0d3d	comment	In Memento Vivere, a Final Fantasy X fanfiction, Rikku's dilemma is deciding whether to pursue a romance with Auron at the risk of bringing Sin back.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Quantum Leap: Every time Sam leaps, the person he's replaced ends up in 1999.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: Chloe Sullivan got a similar power in the sixth season finale (in this case, she died and came back to life). In the seventh season, it is explained that she can heal non-fatal wounds so long as she herself takes on that wound (i.e. to heal a paper cut on Jimmy Olsen's finger, her body compensates by receiving a wound of similar size on the same spot on her body). In one episode, Lana gets killed in a car crash and Clark decides to use a Kryptonian artifact to go back in time and save her. Jor-El warns him that balance will have to be restored if he manages to save her. Clark manages to save Lana, only for Jonathan to die in her place from a heart attack after a tussle with Lionel Luthor.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_6f8c9279	comment	In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates the main characters Yuri and Chelinka has access to enough magic power for a Cosmic Retcon, if they need to. However, using that power needs something in return. Chelinka pays by losing her soul for a longer period of time, Yuri, pays with part of his life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_705bb59a	comment	The Vampire: The Masquerade version of the Tremere House and Clan is practically built around this trope. Originally mages, the Tremere turned themselves into magical creatures when magic began weakening, out of a supposition that said creatures would last a while longer during magic's decline. However, in doing so, they lost the essence that made them mages in the first place, and got what was, in essence, a surrogate. The price of power, indeed.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_71495571	comment	Wonder Woman 1984: Diana invokes The Dreamstone to resurrect her dead lover Steve Trevor, but not only does it require him to co-opt another man's body, it also starts to drain Diana's powers. Barbara also uses it to gain powers equivalent to Diana's, but slowly loses her humanity in the process.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_71e013f3	comment	The world of Drakengard 3 seems to operate under these laws, with one scholar speculating that "transformation" magic actually works by exchanging the body of the magician with that of the target Angel. Summon Magic therefore requires something to fill the gap, which is why the Disciples need the Reality Warper powers of the Intoners' songs (and just one more example of why their existence is such an unnatural abomination).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_7406f8b2	comment	In Quest for Glory I, "Every curse has an equal and opposite countercurse."
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Equivalent Exchange / int_740815bb	comment	This is still an imperfect science, and when the wizards of Unseen University try it to retrieve Rincewind in Interesting Times, he's hit on the head by all the crap they piled up to equal his weight, going the other way.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_78ec49bd	comment	In Young Wizards, "spells" are essentially equations written in a magical language and equations always have to balance, one way or another. In one book, a character holds off the Big Bad with a shielding spell which is later explained to have been fueled by a year of the character's life per strike. (The Devil hits hard.) In another, that same Big Bad is sealed away by a ritual that requires a willing sacrifice; one character attempts to take the place of the intended victim and a third actually does. It's implied that this event might have come to pass because of events in the prior book: to cast a spell they couldn't have powered alone to seal away an Artifact of Doom they used a "blank check" spell in which they essentially promise that the power they use will be repaid at some unknown date in the future.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_78f53d16	comment	In Kara of Rokyn, Dream of the Endless doesn't want his sister Death to claim Supergirl, so he trades Kara's life for the original Superman's who was also badly injured after fighting the Anti-Monitor (and wholly willing to trade his life for hers).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_79ab0b3c	comment	This is a rule of magic in the Tortall Universe, demonstrated in several ways. In Wolf Speaker, a man is turned into a tree and we are told that, somewhere in the world, a tree is now a man. (Pierce later wrote about him in a short story which is collected in Tortall and Other Lands.) Words of Power differ from regular use of The Gift in needing equivalent exchange. You can do more minor stuff rather easily. However, for example, destroying a powerful magical barrier with Words would have caused a major natural disaster elsewhere. Additionally, we find out in Protector of the Small that the use of the Dominion Jewel to prevent an earthquake (at the end of Song of the Lioness) cost the fertility of all the grain in the kingdom. They had to import all their bread and seed wheat the next year, and the kingdom was in debt for years paying it off.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_79dba5	comment	Sweet & Bitter Magic: The magic to fuel spells must come from somewhere. Generally, this is the witch casting a spell. However, it can also be a source or the earth itself (but the latter causes imbalance and is called dark magic, with a dire consequence).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_7a1f55a5	comment	In Battle Spirits, everything has a cost of core, even if it's just a low amount, though it can be reduced through the cards specified reductions and other effects. Some double symbol spirits require the tribute of another spirit to summon them.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_7a8eea7e	comment	The Scholomance has an odd variation: wizards generate Mana through personal effort, which is defined entirely subjectively. As such, El suffers diminishing returns from exercising for mana as she becomes more fit, but can produce quite a bit from crochet because she hates every second of it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_7bb2030e	comment	Full Dark, No Stars: In Fair Extension, George Elvid offers to cure Dave Streeter's cancer at the cost of inflicting it on someone else. Since that someone else happens to be his ex-girlfriend who cheated on him with his ex-best friend, Streeter isn't exactly bothered.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_7c31fdd7	comment	In Valkyrie Profile, the ritual of Soul Exchange allows someone to sacrifice their own life to bring someone else back. However, it won't work on someone who died by using the same ritual, and one character ends up undead for attempting this.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_819b8c9e	comment	This appears to be how the Phoenix Talisman works in Warehouse 13, though its behavior is not consistent. It will resurrect its user after their death, and then the trauma of that death will be transmitted to a random person in proximity. However, it's not always a one-to-one substitution; during Mac Pherson's demonstration of the Talisman, two random mooks die in exchange for the single demonstrator. It may be proportional to the amount of trauma the user suffers. Nothing comes out of Lewis Carroll's mirror unless something else goes back in.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_834197b2	comment	In Horus Heresy, it seems that Deathfire's resurrective magic works on "life for life" rule, as Vulkan doesn't come back from the dead until Numeon sacrifices himself.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_85e44399	comment	Cold Fire Trilogy: Magical energy is released by sacrifice. The amount of energy gained is directly proportional to how much the sacrificed object was worth to the sorcerer. This is one of the facts used to show the Magnificent Bastardness of Gerald Tarrent, who sacrificed his entire family to gain immortality. The spell wouldn't have worked if he hadn't loved his wife and children very, very much - and he killed them anyway. It's later explained that the sacrifice which made him immortal wasn't actually his wife and children. It was his own humanity, which he lost through the expedient of killing his wife and children. And if he ever tried to act like a compassionate human being again by engaging in an act of life or Healing, his immortality would be forfeit. Another huge example in the backstory explains why humanity is stuck on Erna without any of the technology that got them there in the first place. One of the expedition leaders, Ian Casca, sacrificed the colony ship and most of its advanced technology to make the fae into something humans could harness and control. In exchange for immediate survival, Casca gave up any chance for the colonists to escape the damn planet. The colonists killed him when they discovered this.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_86be189a	comment	Quantum Leap (2022)'s second season ends with the promise of returning Ben, the protagonist, home — but it turns out to require that someone take his place in leaping randomly through time. Then it does not actually work: the person who volunteers for the job ends up leaping in alongside Ben.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_87832533	comment	In "The Ugly Little Boy": Timmie, the titular character, is a Neanderthal youth scooped out of the past and kept in a suite of rooms specially "time-shielded". Bringing him fully into the present would require the expenditure of a mass-equivalent amount of energy proportional to the distance he traveled in time. The various rooms of different time-shielded artifacts are constantly costing energy because of air from the past escaping into the present (the present-day air heading into the past isn't costing energy).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_88383ee7	comment	The 2003 anime demonstrates why one should not use this trope as a philosophy. Real Life is too complicated for such a neat transaction. There are numerous factors involved, and randomness (i.e., Chaos Theory) can drive the result to positive or negative reactions. Dante uses this in a Breaking Speech to Ed.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_885e1bec	comment	In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Professor Quirrel claims all magic works like this. "Normal" magic works by sacrificing the constantly-regenerating pool of magical energy all wizards and witches have. To contrast, the price of any Dark magic is permanent, and dearer than the price of "normal" magic. For example, using Fiendfyre costs one drop of blood. Just one drop, but your body will forever be one drop of blood lighter. It's the sort of thing that adds up.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_8ba4613a	comment	This trope gets applied vaguely in Death Note: though no tangible price or punishment exists for a human who uses the Death Note (according to Ryuk), those who use it always end up miserable. Light vows at the beginning of the story to break this pattern; by the end, he loses everybody who ever cared about him in any way, then dies in a bloody heap as he begs Ryuk to spare his life. Everyone else who writes in the Death Note also ends up either miserable or dead.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_8c5f8573	comment	Being Human (US): In order to bring someone back from the dead without horrible complications, another soul must be sacrificed.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_9096e12c	comment	Ben's healing talent in CarnivÃ le worked by drawing Life Energy out of the surrounding area. Cure a little girl of polio, the crops wither as she skips away through the cornfield. Heal a broken arm, a bunch of fish go belly-up in a nearby pond. However when Ben wants to save someone's life, he's told that he has to murder someone in exchange.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible has Monkey Fist, who agreed to walk the path of the Yono in exchange for the Yono's power. It was granted to him...until he lost. Then he followed the path as agreed, petrification being the result.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: While use of saidar is more or less free, the Aelfinn and Eelfinn operate on this basis, and from most non-main characters important things like valuable knowledge, cooperation and items must be bargained for, often with extensive negotiations over the price the heroes must pay.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_928a8b2b	comment	The Death Gate Cycle: When someone is brought back to life, be it a full resurrection or just as a zombie, somebody else, somewhere, dies. One of the two competing races nearly wipes themselves out this way.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_929cef3c	comment	In Wolf Speaker, a man is turned into a tree and we are told that, somewhere in the world, a tree is now a man. (Pierce later wrote about him in a short story which is collected in Tortall and Other Lands.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_9322493f	comment	In Kamen Rider Zi-O, the Big Bad Another Decade's powers work off of this principle. He can summon Alternate Universe versions of Kamen Riders to serve as his minions, but in order to do so he first has to take a person from the real world and put them in a pocket dimension (in which they get to live out their greatest desire on infinite loop).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_97577e48	comment	Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots: A Price to Pay: Thanks to Adrien pulling a Faceâ€“Heel Turn, Hawkmoth/Gabriel gets his hands on the Miraculouses he needs to Make a Wish to bring his wife Emilie back. Despite being warned that this will result in somebody else dying, neither he or his son care: since reality will be rewritten in the process, both assume that nobody will be able to connect the deaths to them. But the Wish proves them wrong: the sacrifice turns out to be Marinette's dad, who gets killed in a car accident... caused by Gabriel. While he bribes the judge to escape legal consequences, Emilie is so enraged by her husband's blithe attitude over taking a life that she divorces him and disowns Adrien for defending his father. Thus, while the Exact Words of their Wish was granted, Gabriel is still seen as a murderer, and Adrien is judged harshly as well.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_98dc652b	comment	Dragon Ball GT reveals that the Dragon Balls accumulate energy based off of the wishes made; well-intentioned wishes cause the balls to accumulate negative energy while selfish ones build up positive energy, and over time the energy levels normalize. However, because of all the wishes made over the course of the franchise, the balls built up too much negative energy and cracked, releasing seven evil Dragons. On the other hand, the Four-Star Dragon was more of a Noble Demon because the wish that spawned himnote Demon King Piccolo restoring his youth back in the original Dragon Ball was selfish, meaning there was still some positive energy within the four-star ball.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_992e16dc	comment	JoJolion: The Rokakaka fruits are basically a Healing Potion, but the person who consumes the fruit loses another body part as it becomes stone. Infertile women become pregnant, but they produce sand instead of milk. Elderly people missing teeth grow back stone ones. A famous baseball player heals his busted arm, but his jaw becomes solid stone. An elderly man grows back an amputated leg, but his eyes turn to stone and crumble away. There is one variety that does not apparently produce this exchange, and it's the variety that apparently helped in the fusion of Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo into the hero Josuke Higashikata, and that quality is what makes it desirable to a multitude of antagonistic parties.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series: Most ponies need to use their mana for spells, regardless of species. Changelings have this to a bigger extreme: they will die if they run out of love energy, but need it for their abilities. The Alicorns are unique in that they can violate this trope. They have The Power of Creation and while they still require mana for spells, can literally create new matter and energy from nothing, which is how they regenerate. Draconequi, in contrast, require matter to transmute into new things (this includes Discord), but can violate the other side by being able to destroy matter and energy completely via the Power of the Void.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One of the more awesome aspects of the Op-Op Fruit, Trafalgar Law's Devil Fruit in One Piece, is that the user can grant someone eternal youth. The catch is that the user must sacrifice their own life to do it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_9e63932d	comment	While most of the magic on Ojamajo Doremi doesn't have this in place (at least for full-fledged witches and wizards), the forbidden types of magic (Healing, Mind Control, Raising the Dead) all have this as part of why they are forbidden.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a09090f0	comment	In The Inkworld Trilogy, characters can be read out of books into the real world, but not without someone or something from the real world taking their place.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama uses this trope when regarding time travel in Bender's Big Score due to the discovery of a paradox-correcting timecode. The timecode ignores all of the problems that normally arise with time travel as long as the end result is close enough to the main timeline. If there are multiple copies of someone created by time travel, then fate will make those copies exceedingly doomed until all but one are dead and the universe considers that perfectly fine. Somewhat justified as the code functions by drawing time bubbles from a creature previously implied to be God, who assumedly would be immune to paradoxes.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a2c37f38	comment	Whenever the Nameless One from Planescape: Torment dies and comes back, someone else somewhere on the Great Wheel dies as a result, becoming a tormented shadow whose only desire is to hunt down the Nameless One and kill him again.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a310dd2b	comment	In The Covenant, every time a gifted teenager uses their Reality Warper powers (which are highly addictive), the person gives up some youth, as we see later in the movie.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a465e6bd	comment	In Jujutsu Kaisen, cursed energy, and certain techniques powered by it, follow rules involving trade-offs. There's three main ways this manifests: Curtains, magical barriers usually used to hide sorcerer activity, can be fine-tuned to allow certain kinds of people in and out and, in exchange, block another kind of people's movement. For instance, during the Goodwill Event arc, a curtain is erected that allows anyone access, except for Satoru Gojo; this is used as a deliberate Deus Exit Machina. Another aspect of curtains is that they can have a special 'emitter' that projects them. These emitters can be placed behind the curtain, of course, but doing so makes them weaker and susceptible to being broken by brute force. By placing the emitter outside, and in a conspicuous location, the curtain is strengthened greatly. A kind of magical contract, called a Binding Vow, can be agreed upon between two people in order to guarantee exchanges. That said, Binding Vows can also be imposed on oneself; in exchange for more power, one can deliberately handicap themselves. Divulging your own abilities is a common contract to increase power. Nanami has a contract known as "Overtime". Normally while working on the clock, he limits his energy. When he starts working overtime though, his energy increases dramatically. Another kind of contract is known as the Heavenly Restriction. Having limited access to cursed energy, or even having no cursed energy whatsoever, gives one drastically increased physical prowess, and the lack of cursed energy to fight curses can easily be circumvented by the use of cursed tools. Conversely, those with extremely frail bodies gain access to an extreme amount of cursed energy.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a54eef52	comment	In the Hetalia: Axis Powers fan game HetaOni, England reveals that he can destroy the Grays all on his own, using his magic. However, it comes at the cost of his eyesight.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a5fec434	comment	While Calypso from Twisted Metal is either a Literal Genie or a Jerkass Genie, the ending for his daughter winds up universally balancing it out; by wishing that the car crash that killed her mother never happened, the universe balanced things by making the daughter get in the crash herself and put into a coma she probably wouldn't wake up from. Even Calypso is genuinely heartbroken about this outcome.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project has Shinmyoumaru, an inchling that possesses the Miracle Mallet. It is a weapon that is supposedly capable of granting any kind of wishes to it's user, making them literally omnipotent. Sounds cool right? Too bad it requires an equivalent exchange for everything, and may also take its price before the wish is even granted if the wish itself is too great.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a6a7f785	comment	Although it's not too much of a regular magic as it's more of a one-use, people at Hell Girl can send one person they dislike immediately to Hell by contracting Enma Ai. The price is their own soul going to Hell when they die. That's the reason why many people hesitate in first place: going to Hell is a really high price. Out of spite, they send their victims into Hell anyways. The lesson is to learn to control your emotions and hatred? or You Can't Fight Fate? Who knows?
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	Several of the magic systems in Legend of the Five Rings work this way. Shugenja do not so much manipulate the elements themselves as convince elemental spirits to do them favors, and much of their duties involve making sure said spirits are happy. Maho is directly powered by the shedding of blood - but good news! It doesn't have to be your blood.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings summoning Yarhi siphons part of your Anima, the part of you that feels. This is why all the Aegyl who regularly use Yarhi to protect themselves from random monsters appear rather emotionless. Their "god" draining their Anima for himself is a bigger factor in this, though. Il Mheg, the kingdom of The Fair Folk in Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers, has only one rule that all fae follow, regardless of their widely different forms of Blue-and-Orange Morality. As immortal beings who only live in the present, they must adhere to a balance for all things in life as put best by their king Titania. In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates the main characters Yuri and Chelinka has access to enough magic power for a Cosmic Retcon, if they need to. However, using that power needs something in return. Chelinka pays by losing her soul for a longer period of time, Yuri, pays with part of his life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a825da3e	comment	Present in the TCG Magic: The Gathering to an extent. Every spell has a cost. Most are simply Mana drawn from the land, but others require a life (yours or your creatures), the land itself, or even time (skipping a turn). Several cards will actually kill you if the cost is too much for you to afford. Perhaps the most famous example of this is Necropotence. You don't draw normally near the beginning of your turn; instead, you may pay X life to draw X cards at the end of your turn. However, this particular exchange turned out not too equivalent: both cards with this effect proved to be broken beyond imagination. For the uninitiated: Unless you know exactly what you are doing and have built your deck specifically to respond to various threats, playing Necropotence is pretty much suicide. There are also some cards that are balanced this way: they give you a benefit or harm your opponent, but also do the same thing to every other player. One example is Braids, Conjurer Adept: she lets you play a card for free at the start of every one of your turns, but your opponent(s) get to do the same. There's plenty of cards that follow a similar pattern. They tend to be particularly common in products focused on multiplayer environments, such as Commander releases; indeed, one specific strategy - the "Group Hug" deck - works by providing nice things to your opponents, so that they won't want to interrupt the flow of gifts and focus on other players instead of you.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a8729c90	comment	While The Fairly OddParents! doesn't always obey this rule, there are several occasions where granting a wish isn't as simple as making something appear out of (or disappear into) thin air: In one episode, Timmy tries to wish for tickets to see Crash Nebula On Ice, which is sold out. Wanda rejects the wish on the grounds that, because there are only a finite number of seats and they're all booked, conjuring up tickets for him would mean taking them away from people who had already paid for them. ("Which is stealing. [Beat] Which is bad.") In "Vicky Loses Her Icky", Timmy wishes for Vicky to undergo a Heelâ€“Face Turn. Cosmo and Wanda can't just erase her evil, however; they can only expel it from her in the form of a parasitic bug, and whoever it latches onto will become just as evil as Vicky was before. When the bug tries to go after the US President, Vicky pulls a Heroic Sacrifice and lets the bug re-infect her, thus restoring the status quo. In another episode, Timmy wishes he had Chip Skylark's voice, so that he can impress (but not overshadow) Trixie in a school production. Again, however, Timmy's voice can't be erased from existence, so Cosmo and Wanda give it to Chip Skylark, essentially swapping their voices. Since Timmy is Hollywood Tone-Deaf, this completely destroys Chip's career, something Timmy never wanted to happen. To make matters worse, fairies can only grant wishes made in the voice of their godchild, and because Timmy doesn't have his voice anymore, the only way he can undo it is to trick Chip into making the wish. "Escape From Unwish Island" reveals that unwished wishes aren't erased from existence, but are instead sent to Fairy World to be stored away. Timmy has unwished so many wishes that some of them are now being stored on an island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, including several villains from previous episodes who are eager for the chance to get back at him.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a9cb14fc	comment	In the Ravenloft setting, curses can be invoked by ordinary people, but attempting to do so invites a Powers check. If failed, the curse-layer will suffer karmic retribution from the Dark Powers. In an Equivalent Exchange Of Payback, the curse is actually more likely to work if the curse-layer fails this check.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_a9cd7cc8	comment	In Juniper's Knot, the rule of the spell binding the fiend is of this type: a life for a life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_aee94f2	comment	Crimson and Noire: In the series, Monarch altered the Butterfly Miraculous to give herself the power to forcefully turn people into akumas, corrupted versions of normal Champions. This came at the cost of being unable to directly control her akumas or even be able to remove their powers. The consequences are ultimately presented to Nathalie after creating the akuma Style Queen, who captures and dissolves Adrien into glitter despite Nathalie's effort to talk her out of it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: In the spin-off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, this is the real ability of Rohan's grandmother's Gucci bag. It "stores" the value of money and other high-priced goods inside of it and provides items of equivalent worth that the user requires when they are desperately in need. Star Ocean: Upon starting a bet, Miraschon's Marilyn Manson will collect items from her opponent to fulfill the payment that was bet upon if a game is lost. The higher the bet, the more value an object has to be given up in exchange, going far enough to steal organs to sell for the appropriate price on the black market. JoJolion: The Rokakaka fruits are basically a Healing Potion, but the person who consumes the fruit loses another body part as it becomes stone. Infertile women become pregnant, but they produce sand instead of milk. Elderly people missing teeth grow back stone ones. A famous baseball player heals his busted arm, but his jaw becomes solid stone. An elderly man grows back an amputated leg, but his eyes turn to stone and crumble away. There is one variety that does not apparently produce this exchange, and it's the variety that apparently helped in the fusion of Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo into the hero Josuke Higashikata, and that quality is what makes it desirable to a multitude of antagonistic parties.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b1e6eef4	comment	Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Greatest Treasure in the Universe has the power to change history and reality, and confirms that it could be used to erase The Empire from history...but doing so would also retroactively erase all of the Super Sentai from existence. The Gokaiger end up deciding not to do this, since the Sentai mean too much to humanity and it isn't their right to make that call for the entire planet. This is essentially Basco ta Jolokia's way of life, as his primary motto is: "You can't gain something without giving something up." What he usually gives up is his bonds with other characters in order to gain more power.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones. The examples mentioned above in A Song of Ice and Fire play out in the TV series. Mirri Maz Duur tells Daenerys that only death can pay for life. Jaqen H'ghar also mentions this as his reason for assassinating three people of Arya's choosing.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b3b15bc1	comment	The ending of X-Men: The Animated Series take on The Dark Phoenix Saga has Jean Grey dying to stop the Phoenix threat as per source, but since here it was the real Jean possessed by a cosmic force, instead of the force itself taking her form, she really does die. The force itself is okay though, but it realises that it was wrong, and offers to resurrect Jean, requiring someone sacrificing their own Life Energy. Cyclops and Wolverine have a More Expendable Than You moment before Phoenix informs them that the necessary amount of life energy can be obtained from several donors, without anybody dying.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b4788fad	comment	This was part of the side effect in Alya and the Harem Reality where Alya desperately tries to stop Monarch from using the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous by wishing that people love Marinette in an attempt to waste the wish with something seemingly harmless. The result is that in the new timeline Marinette is a triage with Alya and ChloÃ© and Kagami also shows romantic attraction to the former. In exchange, Adrien was never allowed to leave his home and develop romantic ties with either Marinette or Kagami, while Nino was never locked in a cage with Alya or fell in love with her. In addition, some relationships are more distant or toxic, such as ChloÃ© with her father or Kagami with her mother.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b7b5e290	comment	In Deryni, magic is physically taxing, with more powerful workings (say, Calling to another Deryni over a great distance, particularly when the other Deryni doesn't expect it and isn't helping to bridge the gap from the other end) causing more fatigue. Fatigue-banishing spells exist, but they cannot be re-used indefinitely, and the rejuvenation they provide can be quickly lost if the person experiences more stress. Training also seems to extend endurance within limits, much as people who physically train increase athletic endurance to a point. Tiercel makes this analogy: "...you're flexing abilities you've never used before. You have to build up your endurance. I'll bet you've got a headache just from this afternoon's work."
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b94e988c	comment	In Iron Council, a character is beholden to an interesting version of this. They are a monk of the God of Secrets; part of this means that they can ask the god for knowledge about a secret: a secret path, what the enemy is planning, and so on. But they have to give up some of their own knowledge to do so. The character in question lost knowledge of her gender as a result of this.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: As with the rest of its multiverse, the series contains this — energy must be taken from somewhere before it runs through the Magic Circuit, though in most cases, Prana is either generated by the magus (Od) or taken from the environment (Mana). Rin can launch A-rank attacks in seconds because she taps directly into her jewels (where she has been saving Prana for ten years) instead of gathering it slowly for a minute or three. This is a plot point for all three scenarios in the game, as protagonist Emiya Shirou has to fight, but the only magecraft he is skilled at is far beyond his capabilities. Whenever he uses it excessively, blood loss (and death) is inevitable. One exception is Rin's Jewel Sword Zelretch, which lets her use strong attacks indefinitely by absorbing mana from alternate realities. The sword is explicitly made with "True Magic", which breaks the usual rules of Equivalent Exchange, and which only about five people in the world are capable of using.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bb55a676	comment	In the Legion of Super-Heroes storyline The Great Darkness Saga, the Zeroxian wizards manage to summon Highfather in the 30th century to help the Legion fight Darkseid. But since such a magic comes with a high cost, they have to relinquish most of their world's magic. Dream Girl explains "that was a price that had to be paid, and the Teaches paid it willingly."
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bbc9028b	comment	New York Magician: Michel has to use energy from things like fired bullets and flashbulb capacitors to power his magic. One favorite trick is to fire one bullet, and use the energy from that to do magic to the next one he fires. Then there's the automatic summoning spell running off an old IRT substation.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bd184166	comment	In The Neverending Story, AURYN grants humans the ability to make their wishes come true, by rewriting reality in Fantastia so that it always was so. In exchange, AURYN takes away a memory of the Outer World from the human with each wish. They start off reasonable enough (trading the memory of being fat and scared for a more heroic figure), but eventually descends into taking more and more precious memories, no matter how selfish the wish is (the memory of being from the outer world, the memory of one's parents, the memory of one's own name). In the book, the wishes don't even have to be spoken, either. If you want something badly enough, AURYN will sense it, grant that wish and take a memory with no effort on your part.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Spells can be made easier to cast by the caster sacrificing related or opposed attributes, even when this makes no physical sense. For example, a spell which shrinks the caster and grows a friend might cost less energy than one that merely grows the friend, even though by physical logic adding an extra effect should make the spell cost more energy.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bdcd318c	comment	Son of the Sannin: Discussed when Hiashi muses on his good fortune (his brother being spared from sacrificing himself to Kumo, and his wife being saved from dying by Tsunade) and worries that one day he'll have to pay a price for it. Two years later, he ends up being killed during the Uchiha Insurrection by Obito.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_be677f0e	comment	Near the end of A Game of Thrones, Danaerys sacrifices her husband's prize stallion and her unborn child to save her husband's life — and gets badly screwed by the exchange, since the mage had played upon her desperation to save Drogo's life, and convinced her that the only life required to restore him was the horse's. Later, she uses the same principle to hatch three dragons from their fossilized eggs, using the life of the mage.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_bfb9ab50	comment	In An Octave Higher, although mages seem to produce blasts of water and walls of rock from thin air when they cast spells, they are actually summoning these substances from elsewhere in the world and those substances 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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Equivalent Exchange / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer Fantasy, the species known as the Dragon Ogres succeeded at making a deal with Tzeentch that rendered their entire species immortal and able to subsist on lightning alone as energy — but the spell also struck them all sterile, so no new Dragon Ogres has been born since. Tzeentch is kind of a dick like that.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_c19c6efa	comment	A popular mod for Minecraft by the same name revolves around this trope. This mod gives every item in the game an EMC value (Energy-Matter-Currency). These items can be exchanged for each other using a Minium Stone/Philosopher's Stone if the EMC value is the same.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "It Isn't the Mane Thing About You", Rarity's attempts to get Twilight and Starlight to conjure up a new mane after hers is destroyed in an accident run into this issue: apparently, a mane can't be produced from nothing at all, but needs to come from somewhere. The first time Twilight and Starlight try to give Rarity a new mane, they succeed... by making a random crystal pony's mane vanish and reappear on Rarity's head before shattering. The second time they try they end up giving her a wooden mane, while also making a chunk of wood in the shape of a mane vanish from one of Twilight's doors. Rule of Funny is in full effect as this is the only time in the entire series equivalent exchange has been a thing where magic is concerned.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_c51cb60a	comment	In Changeling: The Lost, this is the basis of Pledgecraft: Changelings can create magical bargains known as Pledges, each incorporating a task, a boon, a sanction and a duration. Boons and durations count toward the cost of a pledge, while task and sanction count against it, and all Pledges must have a net worth of zero. A clever changeling can still game the system a bit by such expedients as making a pledge that if given a healer's knowledge for a day, they will use it at least once that day, on pain of misfortune. If you make the pledge when a companion is already injured and needs first aid, satisfying the task is laughably easy.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm repeatedly hammers home that magic is Power at a Price. Usually, that price is just tiring oneself out. On other occasions, though, certain forms of magic require a direct exchange - for instance, true resurrection requires a life for a life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_c7cca04f	comment	Ned's talent on Pushing Daisies works the same way, by killing one thing of equal magnitude to whatever was brought back from the dead if the dead thing's alive for longer than 60 seconds. So, if a person's brought back from the dead, then another person is going to die to keep them alive. (See also: Balancing Death's Books)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_ca876243	comment	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. To gain the power to defeat the wielder of Excalibur, Vortigern has to sacrifice his wife to the Syrens. Years later when the Sword In The Stone is revealed as a portent that the Rightful King Returns, Vortigern accuses them of not living up to the deal. The Syrens reply that as his own magical power grows, other forces will arise to oppose him because that's how magic works. Vortigern is told he can either find and kill Arthur (making himself the only surviving member of the bloodline that can wield Excalibur) or sacrifice another loved one. Which he ends up doing in the final battle, killing his daughter to gain the power to take on Arthur.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter: Nen abilities. It's a special ability invented by a user by using Nen, and it can range from simple super strength to shrinking cloths to memory reading to vacuum cleaners and books and bank accounts. Each of these abilities have unique powers that the user make up in his mind during conception. The more powerful you are, the more powerful ability you can create. The thing is, the more powerful the ability is, the more restrictions the user must needs impose on it as well. Examples are: Chrollo's Skill Hunter ability allows him to steal the Nen abilities of others and record them into his book, thus robbing them of that ability forever. It's an awesome move, but there are many rules. First, he must see the ability in action personally. Second, he has to ask the target about the ability and be answered. Third, the victim's hand must touch the palm print of the cover of the book. Lastly, all of the above must be done within only one hour. Otherwise, it's back to step one. Now, if you get the ability into the book, it's all well and good. But another rule is that if the original user dies, the ability vanishes from the book forever, and he can't use it anymore. There is an exception to said rule though. Since Nen itself isn't a well known subject matter, there are literally hundreds of unknown variables that can improve or decrease Nen effectiveness. One variable in particular is that a person's Nen can actually grow even stronger in death. The best example of this is when Neferpitou's Self Manipulation Puppet Nen activated on its own and allowed her to attack at an even faster and unpredictable rate then ever before, even though by that point she was already dead from being punched to death by Gon. If this post-death phenomenon happens to someone that Chrollo has stolen their Nen from then not only does the skill stay in the book, but it even becomes more effective and powerful then ever! Kurapika's Chain Jail is a long chain used to wrap around the opponent's body. Not only that, it shuts down their aura, and prevents them from using Nen abilities. However, because it is an overpowered ability, he had to impose the condition that he could only use it on a member of the Phantom Troupe. If he uses it on a person who is not a member of the group, he dies. This causes problems because there are only at most thirteen members of the Phantom Troupe at any given time. Alluka Zoldyck's wish-granting powers are an especially sadistic take on this since the price of the wish is passed on to someone else instead of the person making the wish. If that person can't fulfill Alluka's requests (and the requests can be as severe as ripping out your own brain if the preceding wish was significant enough), then that person and that person's loved one die. Depending on the severity of the wish, everyone that person has ever met is also at risk of dying instantly. It is later revealed that this only applies to wholly selfish wishes. A wish to heal someone for example can be granted for free. Kite deliberately made his Nen ability annoying and inconvenient (the slot machine clown won't shut up, the weapon it summons is random, the scythe form can only be used for one technique, and the weapon can't be dismissed until it's used, etc.) to increase its power. He still complains about it. Franklin of the Phantom Troupe can fire very powerful Nen bullets from his fingertips. He made them that powerful by mutilating his own fingers. Shizuku, also a member of the Phantom Troupe, summons a vacuum cleaner that can suck up anything as long as it's not something Shizuku considers to be alive, and only the last object sucked up can be recovered. In chapter 305-307, Gon gives in to his rage and despair and "uses everything" to defeat an incredibly powerful enemy. He basically sacrifices his future to rapidly age himself into an adult. This gave him the power to crush his foe, but it left him on the brink of death. The Nen curse he placed on himself to obtain that brief surge of power was too strong for the Hunter Organization's Nen Exorcist to even consider removing. It took the aforementioned Alluka's power to remove it. Gon later discovers that he still cannot use Nen. Even Alluka was unable to completely restore Gon.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cc1bf35b	comment	The Monkey Island games have this as an element of Voodoo magic. In The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush needs to find a diamond as big as or bigger than the one that turned his fiancÃ© to stone. In Escape from Monkey Island, he needs to make an Ultimate Insult talisman as large as or bigger than the original in order to counter its effects. (No explanation is given on why his enemies can counter Guybrush's insults even when he has the larger talisman, although it is only the second biggest monkey head Guybrush has ever seen...)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cc5d21d5	comment	In Men in Black 3, J goes back in time to prevent K's death. He is told that the event he is trying to avoid is destined to happen, and that "Where there is death, there must always be death." Due to J's meddling, K is saved, with J's dad Taking the Bullet.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cdae54af	comment	In the book Sourcery, there is a sort of explanation why the magic works that way with the arrival of the titular Coin the Sourceror. There is only the certain amount of magic in the Discworld. Not using the equivalent exchange (brain seeping through wizard's skull because of effort notwithstanding) spends the magic of the world so it is irretrievably lost. Discworld needs magic to function. Spend too much magic and reality becomes thin. The opposite is true as well, because the wizards get a lot more magic to work with when Coin the Sourceror arrives, making working with it much easier because Coin inputs fresh magic into the system. Spending it still makes the reality and the world thinner, though, because there is only so much you can change part of reality with magic until it goes completely unreal, Ship Of Theseus style.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cdd994cc	comment	Phantasy Star III allows you to visit a "technique distribution" shop to alter the potency of a magic-wielding character's techniques. With the use of a square-shaped grid, at the expense of one, another can be strengthened. In practice, thanks to Useless Useful Spells, you'll usually end up maxing out Gires and utterly bottoming out Rever or Anti, since those had a high probability of failing anyway.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cf3fc678	comment	In Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings summoning Yarhi siphons part of your Anima, the part of you that feels. This is why all the Aegyl who regularly use Yarhi to protect themselves from random monsters appear rather emotionless. Their "god" draining their Anima for himself is a bigger factor in this, though.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_cfd860dd	comment	As with the rest of its multiverse, the series contains this — energy must be taken from somewhere before it runs through the Magic Circuit, though in most cases, Prana is either generated by the magus (Od) or taken from the environment (Mana). Rin can launch A-rank attacks in seconds because she taps directly into her jewels (where she has been saving Prana for ten years) instead of gathering it slowly for a minute or three.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_d15031b3	comment	Invoked by Victor in In the Eye of the Beholder, who explains to Lydia that the reason why she has to pay to enchant clothing in the Velvet Room, despite he and Igor having no use for it besides the novelty factor, is because of the symbolic exchange of something of value in order to get something else of equal value.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_d4fe015f	comment	C6-H12-O6 + 6O2 -> 6 CO2 + 6H20 + Heat. Explosion in a custard factory.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_d595cbf1	comment	This is mentioned in Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel, in which everyone has graduated and started families (despite being effectively proven wrong by the final book). It's only then that Barry learns that to summon something with magic is actually just teleportation, thus "created" items always come from somewhere else. This coincidentally results in a poor sap whose possessions always go missing on Barry's birthday.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: In the final episode featuring Heinrich von Marzipan as a major villain, we see said Sweet Tooth's villainous plan of making the world's most unimaginably delicious caramels. The catch? The ritual needed carefully traced lines (which he used to connect all the Treehouses of the central American KND sectors), Vast quantities of sugar (The KND are known to have ENORMOUS quantities of candy in their bases) and as he put it "You can't get something for nothing", the most prized quality of anyone inside the mystical lines. This turned each of his victim into a Polar Opposite of their past selves, without their distinguishing positive qualities (Leadership for Numbuh 1, Intelligence for Numbuh 2, Sweetness and optimism for Numbuh 3, Ferocity for Numbuh 4, and Numbuh 5's coolness). The reason Heinrich was not affected was because he was already a victim of the ritual, which happened 5 years ago robbing him of his femininity, for you see, Heinrich's real name is Henrietta Von Marzipan. Gender Bender much?
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Equivalent Exchange / int_d7c4626a	comment	In the first arc of The Sandman (1989), Dream's power is exhausted by seventy years of imprisonment in the mortal world and the theft of his tools. To regain the strength to reclaim his tools he needs to reabsorb the fragments of his power he invested in things like Cain and Abel's letters of commission or his castle. Due to Dee's modifications the Dream Ruby steals more of Dream's power when he tries to use it, but one has to wonder what a scientist-magician like Dee expected to happen with the energy stored in the Ruby when he destroyed it thinking it would kill one of the Endless.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld: This is how Luckamancy works. Numbers are a law of the universe; if you roll a four-sided die a hundred times, it will come up each number twenty five times. Luckamancy can make it roll higher for a time, but only by stealing numbers from another die—typically one of your own, meaning that if you boost one of your side's units, another of your units is going to have a worse time of it. This usually still works in your favor, since you boost the critical battles and the numbers get stolen from less critical ones. Fate must obey the numbers as well, and works in a similar way to Luckamancy, just with more cheating. The more Fate has to cheat in order to put you on the correct path, the more numbers it has to steal from elsewhere, which means life gets much worse for everyone around you. The warlord Sylvia is a textbook example. She realized she was blessed by Fate and pretty much stopped making any attempt to stay alive. Arrows aimed at her were deflected in midair and her every attack hit. But her own allies around her had much worse luck, and the absolute second she was in a position her Fate could not protect her from, she was dusted. Wanda lasts longer because she refuses to fight her gruesome Fate (whatever it is), but doesn't realize that the supposedly free Decryption has the price of altering her fate entirely until it's too late to save her from dying a completely mundane death of cave-in.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_dc217e32	comment	PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines: In their first encounter, MissingNo cites this to Ash when talking about the death of Brock's parents, claiming that it was a fair exchange for letting him fulfill his dream (finding a woman who loved him), and calling it a "bargain". It also claims that Ash and the others have had to give up something important in the new timeline in exchange for having a chance to fulfill their dreams.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time apparently has it as one of its key tenets. "All Magic comes with a price," Rumplestiltskin is fond of saying. While Fairies don't include such a thing normally in their use of magic, it's possible that their conditions for magic use is the price others must pay. (Either that or the dwarf mines are the price to make the magic work.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_dfe1eef5	comment	In the early Anita Blake stories, one must kill a living thing to create undead. Anita routinely uses goats for that purpose. Of course, most magic is swallowed up by Deus Sex Machina as the series moves forward. (She has kept the goats out of that part.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: The entire magic system of the series is wrapped up in this. Usually, doing something with magic takes the same amount of energy as doing it without magic would have done. And if you try casting a spell that takes up more energy than you have, you die. Note that there are some exceptions, considered in-universe as freak events that require some inherent intuition of magic and sheer luck. Sapphira somehow crystallizes Brom's corpse into a slab of sapphire by breathing on him, and when she's asked about it, she just says she knew she could do it that one time, not why. At one point, Eragon breaks the calves of dozens (maybe hundreds) of soldiers and doesn't die. And certain spells are just flat-out impossible, presumably because they take far too much energy, or simply cannot be done. For example: Eragon is warned to never try to bring people back from the dead; beyond death, there's just something that magic has no effect on; all attempts so far have drained the mage of all their lifeforce in one go and the energy is wasted to whatever otherworldly event it caused. Trying to see the future or the past is a bad idea as well. It's actually explained in the books that if you're trying to see the future, it's a lot like scrying, in that you need to know exactly what's going to happen, down to the last detail. But if you already know what's going to happen, then scrying the future is functionally pointless. Or, at least, trying to change the future shown is. Eragon is told about how a noble saw how he was going to accidentially slay his own son in an upcoming battle and, not wanting this to come to pass, plunged his own sword into himself, saving his son's life at the cost of his own. Thus, trying to change the future without resorting to suicide is an exercise in futility. Although in the second book, the young woman running the Varden finds the utility of using magic in the first place: doing something with magic takes less time than by making it happen physically. Therefore, magic-users can outperform in tasks which are complicated but low-energy. And that's the story of how the Varden climbs out of a financial hole by producing and selling finely made lacework for ladies' garments.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Superstar", Jonathan magically turns himself into an amazing paragon who effectively takes over Buffy's role as hero. Unfortunately, the spell also creates a homicidal monster not even he can beat. When Willow sends Buffy back in time to meet the sages who created the first Slayer, a demon is brought forwards to take her place. Willow says that this is to avoid violating the First Law of Thermodynamics. Similarly, though perhaps a more accurate example of this trope, when Buffy is brought back to life at the start of Season 6, the spell creates a brand new demon through a process Willow calls "Thaumogenesis". As she explains, the universe doesn't like you getting things for free, there has to be a cost and they asked for a huge gift; Buffy's life back, so the universe said "Ok, but you have to have this evil demon too". This fits the trope as its a Good Thing/Bad Thing equal parts deal but as Anya rightfully points out "That's not a cost, that's a gift with purchase". One of the ingredients of the spell to resurrect Buffy is the "blood of an innocent", so Willow cuts the throat of a fawn. However at the end of the season the blood of an Innocent Bystander is indeed shed, Willow's lover Tara, making one wonder if this trope wasn't in play.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e44ac57e	comment	Edward Elric in My Master Ed takes this idea further than just alchemy. Because he's been paying for everything by transmuting dirt and sand into gold, Ed's been keeping track of exactly how much gold he makes with plans to eventually buy that much and transmute it into dirt to avoid destabilizing the economy.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e48518ec	comment	C.M.B. has the rather interesting case in which Shinya requires a price for solving a mystery; luckily he's very easily bought off so long as it is interesting.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e580d929	comment	In an episode of Big Wolf on Campus, Merton was given a magical watch that could turn back time. Unfortunately, every time he uses the watch, he loses some of his knowledge.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e59ad132	comment	Valley: When the LEAF suit brings the player character back from the dead, this drains some of the life energy out of the valley, and plants and animals start dying. If you use up all of the life energy, then you have to restart the whole level instead of respawning where you died. You can recharge the valley's life energy by bringing things back to life, but this uses up your suit energy.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e61793f8	comment	In Bras and Broomsticks, if someone uses magic to get something, that thing will be taken from wherever it comes from. For example, the main character's sister makes oranges to give to the homeless, but there is an orange shortage in stores in the area.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_e8fd0bb3	comment	YuYu Hakusho had a Magic Mirror that could grant its user one wish in exchange for their life. Kurama intended to use it to save his human mother's life at the cost of his own, but Yusuke stepped in and offered his life instead so Kurama's mother wouldn't have to mourn him. Subverted at the end when the mirror spares both due to both of their selflessness.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: In the spin-off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, this is the real ability of Rohan's grandmother's Gucci bag. It "stores" the value of money and other high-priced goods inside of it and provides items of equivalent worth that the user requires when they are desperately in need.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_eb4ec2c0	comment	Most magick in Unknown Armies works this way. The "value" of certain actions varies based on what kind of adept you are. Typically an adept gets a "minor charge" for some kind of ritual that's easy enough to be performed every day or so, a "significant charge" for doing something very difficult and painful, and a "major charge" for doing something nigh-impossible. And even the magick that seems to be free usually isn't. In Unknown Armies, ain't nothin' come for free. There's even an in-game term for the concept in UA: The Law of Transaction.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel): In the British comics, if someone travels back in time, someone from the destination period vanishes into Limbo while the traveler is there. Attempts to avoid this will eventually get you eaten by a time warp.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_ee829854	comment	In House of Anubis, the Cup of Ankh will grant immortality to the person who drinks the Elixir of Life out of it, but someone else will die to replace the life that would otherwise have ended eventually.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f06707a7	comment	The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The first chronicle has Mhoram realizing that the key to power is despair, which will lead to the destruction of the Land. The second has the mere mortals of the Land required to shed blood (both their own and the blood of others is used) in order to manipulate the Sunbane.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow reveals this is how John Constantine caused Astra to be Dragged Off to Hell (at least in the Post-Crisis reality). He summoned a demon to bring Astra's mother back to life, either not realizing it would demand to take Astra down to Hell in payment, or falsely believing he'd be able to cheat it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f134ef9b	comment	The world Kartia revolves around magical cards, Kartia, that can be used to create basically anything, from living battle-creatures to spells to specific kinds of food and drink. There are a number of Original Kartia (such as "Life" "Death" and "Human"), the use of which is forbidden and will automatically cause the death of the caster. For most of the game, the player and the characters believe that the Kartia creates things from nothingness but as it turns out, it just takes things from Eden, a parallel world inhabited by Elves and rich with natural magic. In fact, it is theoretically possible to "create" the whole Eden with Original Kartia, something that is half-accomplished twice during the story. It also turns out that Original Kartia doesn't kill the user, but rather transports them to Eden.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f1bd343d	comment	The Raven Tower: Divine Reality Warping consumes power from the god equivalent to the change being made, which can drain or even kill them if they speak something beyond their means. However, they can often make much more efficient use of their power by describing the effect carefully, much like how a rope-and-pulley system can improve the efficiency of physical effort.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f3897bcf	comment	Witch Hunter Robin had a doctor whose special witch power allowed him to transfer Life Energy from one person to another; he used his power to heal patients — and took the necessary energy from mob bosses. He ultimately decides to save his human partner by sacrificing his own life. Since the witch hunters kill most of the witches they go up against—and those captured alive end up taken into custody for experimentation—he made the right decision. (And the STN-J hunts all witches regardless of whether the witches can morally justify the use of their powers, so this less-defensible hunt pokes some critical holes in Robin's philosophies.)
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f3bfbc44	comment	Two cases in the George and Azazel stories: "The Smile That Loses" has a man's smile transferred to a photo, and as a result he gets sick. "Writing Time" has Azazel helping a man who complains of always having to wait for doctors or taxis. Azazel puts the world in order for him but states that the Second Law of Thermodynamics cannot be bypassed — he simply spread the entropy all over the Solar System, including by shortening the Sun's life.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f3e1f424	comment	Merlin (2008): This was also used as a plot point. Arthur was conceived through the use of magic at the cost of his mother's life; she died during childbirth. There was even a reveal in this scene because Nimueh, a recurring villainess in the series, was the one to use the spell that conceived Arthur in order to grant Uther an heir by his barren wife. She herself knew there would be consequences of this spell, but she didn't know how they would appear. This reappeared in the season finale, where Merlin offered his life in exchange for Arthur's, as the prince was being killed by an incurable poison. However, this didn't work as planned, as Nimueh took Merlin's mother's life instead, so his mentor/father figure Gaius offered up his life (confused yet?). The whole saga ended when Merlin killed Nimueh and used her life to save Gaius.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_f4da13ed	comment	This is Fi/Contract's power in Unstoppable Force: she can sacrifice anything that is hers in order to achieve an equivalent effect. This can include physical objects or caloric energy, but it's actually more common for the sacrifices to be of abilities (such as temporarily becoming deaf or permanently losing some dexterity with her left hand) or of freedoms (such as becoming temporarily unable to lie in writing or unable to speak the truth aloud). It's stated that the value of the sacrifice and of the effect are both measured by its emotional impact to her at the moment of the transaction.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_fa30f28	comment	In Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2, in order to exit one of Eris's inescapable whirlpools, someone else has to enter it.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_fa49fd7a	comment	Oracle of Tao has a variety of these. Most magic uses MP as its price, but some abilities are Cast from Hit Points. On the other end of the scale, you have a Mana Shield. And then there's Elias's alchemy, which aside from making cool items, has certain alchemy spells. But in order to learn each spell or make a super-rare item (like gold), you sacrifice anywhere from a level to 10 levels (and you can combine spells together, meaning there's a chance you might end up making the same spell more than two times).
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Equivalent Exchange / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The various Dark Powersets from City of Heroes tend to work like this, Dark Miasma in particular. Dark Miasma has some highly potent healing spells (Including the only rezz in the game capable of reviving multiple people.) but in order to use them you have to tap into the life force of your enemies. This is just icing on the cake, really... The only real downside of these powers was that you had to have an enemy to engage to use them. So you couldn't heal or rezz BETWEEN fights.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_fca0567c	comment	In Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan is mortally wounded by his crucifixion on the Tree of Woe, so his lover Valeria convinces the Old Wizard to work a healing spell to save him from the brink of death. The Wizard warns that the gods demand a price for this sort of thing, and she says she'll pay it. When she's later shot with a snake arrow by Thulsa Doom, she decides that her death is her payment. Whether that's true is not revealed, but it seems logical given the bleak universe of the film.
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Equivalent Exchange / int_fdfce99f	comment	Broken Sky: This series has "spirit stones", which grant people special abilities but drain their energy when used, placed into the spines of characters. Ryushi, for example, can emit a powerful blast of energy, but it drains him to the point of collapsing to do so. We're later introduced to people with healing spirit stones. They can heal the wounds of others by taking them on themselves, although the healers have a slightly improved healing rate.
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