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Living Battery
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Most Magitek and machines require some kind of Power Source. Common sources are coal, steam, electricity, or even Phlebotinum. But sometimes, that source is something which is biological and alive, sometimes even sentient. It's a Living Battery, which the machine or device takes the Life Energy from almost parasitically. We generally don't feel too bad if such living batteries are plants or insects, but the more intelligent, humanoid and sentient the creature, the more likely this will be Played for Drama. The story may reveal the battery is being taken advantage of, if not outright enslaved, and the extraction of the Living Battery's energy is harmful, traumatizing, or even lethal. Often the justification for why it is necessary is some form of Higher-Species-Rights, Fantastic Racism, the fact that the parasitic species created the Living Battery in the first place, or simple desperation and need on the part of the extracting species. Or the extractors might just be villains who don't care who they hurt in the name of gaining power. A Sub-Trope of Power Source, and Super-Trope to Powered by a Forsaken Child. Compare Life Energy, Sentient Phlebotinum, Human Resources and Cast from Hit Points. Hamster-Wheel Power is the family-friendly comedy equivalent. |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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In another series called X-Treme X-Men about a multiverse traveling team of alternate X-Men had an arc where they traveled to an Earth where Magneto cracked the crust and destroyed the magnetic field out of spite. Thinking quickly, all the world's smartest scientists devised a machine capable of drawing upon mutant energy to hold the planet together. They supply it with mutants from parallel realities and have been draining them dry countless times, with their personal effects kept in storage in an eerie parallel. | |
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Powered Armor | |
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In Ultraforce, it was revealed that Prototype's Powered Armor was fueled by his latent ultra abilities rather than having a built in power source. | |
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Cast from Hit Points | |
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Dark Conspiracy supplement Darktek. A number of the Dark Minion items can only be Cast from Hit Points. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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Star Wars: Power Droids, the most famous model being the Gonk Droids, are essentially designed to be walking power generators, hence their rather simple design of being a box with legs. | |
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In the Animutation JamezBond, Hello Kitty is the power source that drives a reactor core. | |
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While the original Airborne Aircraft Carrier Balrog from Strider (Arcade) worked by using gravity control, the one from Strider 2 turned to this trope: its Reactor Core is a female Merrow (an Irish mermaid-like creature) encased in the core itself, which syphons and manages the psychic energy from her body to make the whole airship function. This doesn't appear to be a pleasant experience for her, as she begs Hiryu to kill her as soon as he arrives. | |
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In the Bad Future of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Captain Atom pulls a Leeroy Jenkins on Aquaman that results in himself getting captured and used to power a Doomsday Device. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum / int_70c18d5f | |
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Females Are More Innocent / int_70c18d5f | |
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Magitek / int_70c18d5f | |
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Our Homunculi Are Different / int_70c18d5f | |
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Price of Power Index / int_70c18d5f | |
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Sci-Fi Horror / int_70c18d5f | |
| Jellyneo Altador Cup Vii (Roleplay) | seeAlso |
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