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Healing Vat
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In many science fiction works, people can recover from practically any injury after being immersed in a tank full of some kind of liquid Applied Phlebotinum that makes them heal with shocking speed. People in them tend to be naked or barely clothed, to show how badly they're wounded and to absorb all the healing juices. Sub-Trope of both Auto Doc and People Jars. Related to Panacea, Healing Spring, Healing Potion, and Heal It with Water. May involve Nanomachines. Compare Saved by the Phlebotinum. |
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Advice and Trust: After fighting Zeruel, Rei spent an entire week in a transparent tank full of LCL, healing her body. Ritsuko spent that time observing her and resenting that she was forced to resort to old-fashioned bandages and band-aids whereas Rei had preferential treatment. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: A strip after Torg gets hit with a load of "sleep chaff" shows him in what looks like a bacta tank, then Riff states that it's actually a "bactine" tank and the only reason they can't hear him screaming is the breath mask. | |
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Star Renegades: The final battle of a run pits you against the Overseer of the Imperium, an evil, supercharged version of one of the playable characters. When you kill the Overseer, a Vat pops up and revives them, and will continue to revive them if they are killed again. You have to destroy both the Overseer and the Vat to beat them for good. | |
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TRON: Uprising: The title character has to rely on one stored in his hideout due to injuries and malware, staving off Critical Existence Failure from the damage. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the Shrine of Resurrection in which Link wakes up in a vat filled with glowing blue liquid after having been Only Mostly Dead since Calamity Ganon destroyed Hyrule. Though contrary to other examples, it takes Link a century to heal up from near-fatal wounds, and it comes at the cost of his memory, but also halts aging. One can only imagine Link's thoughts upon waking, alone, in such alien-looking environs. | |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi shows both Darth Vader and Obi-Wan having to spend time in bacta tanks due to injuries they sustained at the other's hands. | |
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In Mischief Makers, the injured characters, the Quirky Miniboss Squad and Marina herself are put in one of these. | |
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In Spider-Man: Edge of Time, Spider-Man 2099 places Amazing Spider-Man into a regeneration egg to heal him after he is fatally injured by a mind-controlled Anti-Venom. | |
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Such tanks are used in Starship Troopers to heal wounded soldiers, such as when Rico gets his thigh bitten through by a bug. | |
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In Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky!, Martian resurrection technology consists of a tank in which a corpse is kept, which when plugged into the device causes it to regenerate fully and then return to life. | |
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Kolto tanks (precursors to the bacta ones) appear throughout the Knights of the Old Republic series. In the first game, an entire main story quest revolves around not cutting off the Republic's supply of them. The Player Character of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords even wakes up inside one at the start of the game. | |
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The obscure Marvel Universe vigilante/villain Solo heals himself after getting wounded in battle by bathing in a weird tank of green fluid. | |
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Buso Renkin: Dr. Butterfly spent the hundred years prior to the start of the series developing a large restoration tank that would allow him to heal the seriously wounded Victor through the power of alchemy and tested it by bringing his great-grandson Papillon back to life after his destruction. After Dr. Butterfly's defeat, Papillon inherits the designs, often using them to heal and revitalize himself. | |
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In Fallout 2, the Brotherhood of Steel have a medical A.I. named ACE that works by immersing the Player Character in "suspension tanks". If given the proper add-ons, it can also operate on the player to permanently boost their stats, although this requires them to stay suspended for weeks at a time. | |
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The X-Wing Series makes heavy use of bacta tanks. In one book, after a character who was heavily injured is "decanted" (leaves the tank fully healed) he's met with his zany squadmates all jockeying to make jokes, like that 'this batch' went off or that they come bearing gifts of bacta-flavored food. | |
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In the Batman comics, Ras al'Ghul has a place called the Lazarus Pit that regenerates and rejuvenates him. It also causes temporary insanity. | |
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Kolto tanks appear again in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Imperial characters get more than one Side Quest involving their destruction (in the Republic camps, of course) — often with wounded soldiers still inside. | |
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Bravely Default has the White Magic Circulation Hub for Eternian Central Command. Victoria F. Stein experiences its treatments regularly. Come Bravely Second, it's being used to keep Tiz Arrior alive with the absence of his soul. | |
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In The Sims 2, players on console versions of the game can purchase the SlumberGell Immersion Pod which allows characters to rest and sleep in it. As an added bonus, it also doubles as a shower, cleaning the player in the process. | |
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The Worthing Saga: Used in the novel Hot Sleep (it's an inversion of the cold sleep trope, not a sexual reference) when the protagonist is being healed/reconstructed after "proving he's a survivor". | |
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Such vats tend to be part of resurrection apparati in Girl Genius. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series, Batman has one in the Batcave. He uses it as a "hot chemical bath" (!) in "Heart of Ice" to treat a low-level thug who'd just been on the receiving end of Mr. Freeze's Freeze Ray. | |
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Wanted features vats filled with paraffin wax. It's said to "stimulate white blood cells and speed up the process". Wounds that normally takes days to heal do so in hours. | |
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Spinnerette: When Spinnerette's powers are going critical, she wakes up in one of these in Dr. Universe's lab and smashes it open in a panic, which causes Universe to wonder about the practicality of such things. | |
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Grandpa Max also has to spend some time in one designed by the Galvans in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien after Ultimate Aggregor uses Ra'ad's powers to wreck his central nervous system. | |
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Iliff from Agent of Vega delivers his final report from a healing vat, after his near-fatal confrontation with the Big Bad of the story. | |
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In the Paradox series, the Chatcaava use a sort of gel to recover from wounds sustained in duels. Alliance ambassador Lisinthir spends a few days in a tank full of it after one fight with the emperor (who had to have his digestive tract re-inserted and was back on his feet that evening). | |
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These are located in Fairy Tail used by Tartarus to revive and create new demons. | |
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In Danny Phantom, Danny is put in one after crash-landing on the yeti world. Since Butch Hartman is a known Star Wars fan, it's entirely possible that the tank and the icy environment itself is a Shout-Out. | |
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Judge Dredd has speedheal machines, which allow the human regenerative system to speed up. | |
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Eclipse Phase has healing vats, one of the first uses of nanotechnology. Given a few days they can regenerate limbs and given a few weeks can grant a severed head a new body. | |
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In Beast Wars, both Maximals and Predacons have their own type of healing vat. The Maximals possess a small, airtight, one-person chamber, while the Predacons use a vat that resembles a hot tub. In fact, Megatron is seen bathing in one on multiple occasions, complete with a rubber ducky. | |
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In The Book of Boba Fett, Boba spends time healing in a bacta tank due to the injuries he sustained from spending time in the Sarlacc's stomach as well as what Tatooine's suns and heat did to his body (these scenes usually bookend flashbacks of his past when he got these injuries). When Boba is not using the bacta tank he allows allies needing treatment for injuries to use the tank, including one of his two Gamorrean guards, Cobb Vanth and the Wookie Krrsantan (who, ironically, once tried to attack Boba while he was vulnerable in the same tank). | |
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Dune (2021): After Dr. Yeuh's poison tooth fails to kill Baron Harkonnen but instead only seriously injures him, the Baron spends time healing in a vat containing a thick, black, viscous liquid. When his nephew Rabban comes in to inform Harkonnen that Jessica and Paul are surely dead, Harkonnen comes up just long enough to issue his marching orders to Rabban before sinking back into the healing liquid. | |
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GURPS, the Ultratech sourcebook has the Chrysalis which is a machine that cocoons the injured and sick, then reformats them on a DNA level eventually restoring all health including missing body parts. Later editions has the Regeneration Tank which is a tank of full healing liquid that can eventually restore all body parts and restore health plus there's the Rejuventation Tank where the liquid use will return the user to young adulthood. | |
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Ballerina Mafia shows Joel making frequent use of a nanobot healing tube. | |
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In the Amphibia episode "True Colors", Marcy Wu is impaled when King Andrias stabs her with his sword. In "The New Normal", Marcy is shown recuperating inside a liquid-filled healing chamber back in Newtopia to prepare her to become the Core's new host. | |
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The Frieza Force in Dragon Ball Z has vats called Medical Machines that bathe the user in synthetic Saiyan DNA. Probably inspired by the bacta tanks from Star Wars. | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog has a few levels with tanks that can heal wounded soldiers. One level even has a mission that revolves around this. | |
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