Elemental Embodiment: Difference between revisions

 

* [http://www.elementeo.com Elementeo] is an educational card game where the cards illustrate personifications of chemical elements and compounds - i.e. the Helium Genie, Lithium Leprechaun or Sodium Dragon.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'' has the Three Storms: Thunder, Rain, and Lightning, personified as buff martial artists with magical powers and [[Cool Hat|awesome hats]].

* [[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] 2: The Golden Army has a plant elemental, the [[Last of His Kind|last of its kind]].

 

== Literature ==

== Tabletop Games ==

 

** The Manual of the Planes expansion adds several different elemental planes, with corresponding entries for elementals of each para- and quasi- type. These could include ooze elementals, steam elementals, salt elementals, etc.

** 4th edition has mixed this up (literally) with the Elemental Chaos replacing the old ordered Elemental Planes; the Chaos is basically an infinite orgy of the four major elements (similar to Limbo, a plane of chaos with swirling elemental matter in previous editions). The elemental matter of the plane can randomly gain awareness; travelers in the Elemental Chaos risk being chased by hovering lava flows or eaten by a hungry canyon. Most elementals are 'corrupted' or mixed with other elements (creating things like an Elemental which is a tornado that is on fire). The classic, 'pure' elementals didn't appear in a 4th Edition Monster Manual until Monster Manual 3.

** Constructed golems only existed pre-''[[Morrowind]]''. ''Arena'' included Ice, Stone, and Iron and ''Daggerfall'' introduced Fire, Flesh, and the unseen types called Air, Water, and Earth.

** Daedra have always been common to ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' games. ''Arena'' had only Fire Daemons, ''Daggerfall'' included both Fire and Frost Daedra, while every game past ''Morrowind'' has included a third type called the Storm Atronach.

* Several of the Titans in [[God of War (series)|God of War]] are made up of their elements. For example, Perses ("Volcanic Destruction" in Greek) is walking lava and Oceanus is water and lightning.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has plenty of elementals. There's the usual fire/water/earth/air ones, but also various combinations of the types (for example lava=fire+earth) and more exotic types such as arcane elementals and voidwalkers (while technically demon- not elemental-type mobs, they can be considered elementals of shadow). Plant creatures are also elemental-type mobs.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' includes a Grass Elemental, a Spaghetti Elemental and a BASIC Elemental. (The programming language.)

* Djinn in ''[[Golden Sun]]'' are Elemental spirits released by the theft of the Elemental Stars. They provide stat bonuses, Class changes, [[Summon Magic]], and their own unique individual powers.

* "[[Fun Orb|Arcanists]]" has these as minions that you can summon.

* ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' has various elementals, not just limited to the four classic western elements.

* The various ''[[Guild Wars]]'' campaigns have featured elementals, but there is an obvious imbalance in their populations. Earth and water/ice elementals are extremely common, while fire is rarer and only two variants of air-type exist.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has had a few elemental embodiments. Legendary Pokémon tend to be this.

* The nebulas in ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'' are living clouds of ether energy that resemble their namesake. They come in six different colors, each representing one of the game's elements (Fire, water, electricity, ice, wind, and earth), and generally appear in areas and/or weather conditions related to those elements. They also make for annoying opponents, due to being highly resistant to physical attacks, applying status effects whenever they're struck, and having a tendency to self-destruct and deprive you of loot when low on HP.

* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', the final power of almost every control powerset is the ability to summon pets made of the set's element. With most sets, you can only have one out at a time, but [[Shock and Awe|Electric Control]] summons two Gremlins, and [[Playing with Fire|Fire Control]] gets three Fire Imps. The only exception to this is [[Mind Control]], which gets Mass Confusion instead.

* The bahmi race in ''[[Rift]]'' are part air elemental. Oddly enough, they're [[Five Races|stouts]].

 

 

== Web Comics ==

 

* Amusingly played with by ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', where the cleric Redcloak proves the value of a rudimentary education in chemistry with Chlorine Elementals, Titanium Elementals, and Osmium Elementals.

** In case you're wondering, the Titanium Elementals were fired out of catapults during a castle assault, and the chlorine elemental was used to kill infantry with its poison gas.

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', elementals are rare but powerful creatures whose power is rivalled only by the gods and the dragons. They are usually sealed within magical objects, and it takes the right amount of knowledge and spells to set them free. A fire elemental burned down the military school Graves Hall and most of the students and masters, an ice elemental froze and shattered one quarter of Remonton and over half of its citizens, and an earth elemental killed off hundreds of demons. Thankfully all of the elementals seen so far have only wrought destruction for a short while until they became weary and decided to return to the High Plane to be reunited with their sisters and brothers.

* The ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' had a few characters who were the embodiment of the elements. Ifrit was a literal fire demon from Islamic mythology. Maelstrom was the "lord of storms" and could control wind, wave, and lightning. Indian superheroine Dhara is the [[Physical God|embodiment]] of the Vedic goddess of the earth.

 

== Western Animation ==

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