Devour the Dragon: Difference between revisions

Usually, the two villains get on very well and trust each other before this moment, just for that little extra [[Kick the Dog]] punch. A heroic variant involves a lancer or similar trusted person giving their energy to the hero in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Being heroes, it's the devoured that makes the choice in such cases and the devourer is usually reluctant.

This is a sister trope to [[Villain Override]]. See also [[Just Desserts]].

 

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] Brotherhood'', {{spoiler|Gluttony}} is devoured for this purpose. {{spoiler|Zolf J. Kimbley}} later succumbs to the same fate. However, the second victim ends up [[Hoist by His Own Petard|biting the devourer in the ass]] later on. {{spoiler|Pride}} assumed that nobody could retain their sanity after being absorbed into him, but overlooked the fact that {{spoiler|Kimbley}} was [[Insanity Immunity|already insane]] and [[Crazy Awesome|loving it]].

* ''[[Digimon]]''

* In ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' {{spoiler|Noise absorbs Falsetto to power up and cross the [[Bishonen Line]].}}

* The Heroic version of this trope occurs twice in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. The first is with Jonathan Joestar and his mentor Zepelli, who gives Jonathan all of his Hamon power shortly before his death. A similar scene occurs with their grandsons Joseph and Cesar in Part 2.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''The [[Immortal Iron Fist]]'', Orson Randall does the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] variant by giving up his chi to power up Danny Rand.

* In ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]]/[[The Avengers|Avengers]]'', The Vision fires his solar beam (emptying his solar cells) at Superman to re-energize him when he is being attacked by several villains using Red-solar energy, and ''Kryptonite''.

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Day of the Barney Trilogy|Day of the Barney]]'', {{spoiler|Barney kills Baby Bop in this manner}}.

 

* Rare heroic example: In ''[[Highlander Endgame]]'', Connor MacLeod asks his younger cousin Duncan MacLeod to take his head and absorb his power, and thus have enough power to defeat the [[Big Bad]]. Duncan attempts to refuse multiple times, but finally Connor gets him to accept. Sort of a [[Passing the Torch]] moment as well, as it's the hero from the original movie sacrificing himself for the good of the hero from the spinoff TV series.

 

== Literature ==

* In the climax of ''[[Elemental Masters|Phoenix and Ashes]]'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]], {{spoiler|the wicked stepmother drains her lawyer/sidekick/future son-in-law completely of life, and drains her two daughters until they are [[Liquid Assets|aged, withered, senile husks of their former selves.]]}}

* ''[[Discworld]]''

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** In the adventure OA5 "Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw", this is a special ability of Dragon Claw martial artists: the most senior one present can drain [[Hit Points]] from his fellow Dragon Claws, allowing him to fight longer. If the heroes fail, the Dragon Claw statue will do this to all Dragon Claw fighters in Kara Tur.

** A number of powers of the Dark Pact, a warlock pact from Fourth Edition, have the warlock draining Hit Points from his allies to power his magic. Being as the Dark Pact was originally created by the Drow, who are natural backstabbers who hold absolutely no faith in friendship or fellowship... yeah.

** During the Time of Troubles in the [[Forgotten Realms]], Bhaal absorbed the souls of every assassin in the world in order to upgrade his avatar. To gain the strength to battle Bhaal's avatar, Torm likewise absorbed the souls of his own followers, but on a voluntary basis. This was done to justify the lack of an assassin class in 2nd Edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in-universe.

 

 

== Video Games ==

** That's what the ranger's summoned pet is for. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Well, that and disarming traps...]]

* Inverted at the end of ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'': Claudia devours the embryonic God to enable its birth, which of course destroys her.

* In ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', Thuris drains Kanan, the leader of his cult for a power boost before his boss battle after the rest of his cult wasn't enough.

* In ''[[Soul Calibur]] 4'', Tira ''wants'' Nightmare/Soul Edge to do this to her because she has a bad case of [[Mad Love]] for it. In her ending, {{spoiler|the opposite happens. Nightmare's body can no longer withstand its own power and dies while Tira begs him to stay with her. Tira gets her wish when Soul Edge's power merges with her.}}

** All classes get this ability, if they get to level cap and full dark-side.

 

* Rare ''heroic'' variant: In [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]'', Tsudura {{spoiler|eat Obana's corpse}} because she doesn't want to [[Friendless Background|lose her only friend]] (in a battle versus [[Big Bad|Nushi]]'s [[The Dragon|dragons]], at that). [[Squick]] doesn't even begin to describe the scene. The result is that Tsudura turns into an uberpowered [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|werefox-mage-exorcist]], or something.

 

== Web Original ==

* Implied to have happened in ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'', when {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Kirby]] is revealed to still be alive, there are no signs of either of his Dragons, and he's wearing the cap of one of them. Now, remember that [[Kirby]]'s powers involve copying the powers of other characters by literally eating said characters, and he usually dons a hat reflecting said powers...}}

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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