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In the past, it was thought that all of matter could be classified into easily viewable "elements" that one can observe with the naked eye. Thus, all of the world was made up of natural forces such as "earth, air, fire, water" et al. The discovery of the atom mostly disproved that, but the idea was so deeply rooted in mankind's mind, that it's still used in nearly every supernatural fictional setting (note that the classical elements actually correspond to a different scientific concept: the phases of matter, provided you count plasma as a fourth phase & not just as a subset of gas. Alternately, fire corresponds to ''energy,'' particularly the heat energy that moves matter from one state to another).
The most common use of '''Elemental Powers''' is to give characters some superpower over an aspect of nature
May involve the capability to summon [[Elemental Embodiment|Elementals]], the living embodiment of the elements themselves.
Just what the "classical elements" are varies from culture to culture. In Greek (and by extension most European), Hindu, and Buddhist mythology, it's usually Fire, Air, Water, and
Usually, there will be an effort to make all powers equally
Depending on your mileage, you might also have any natural force counted as an
A lot of cultural baggage has become attached to the elements over the ages, making some of them [[Bad Powers, Bad People|"bad"]] and assigning personality traits to them and their practitioners much like a [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]. Fiction exploring elemental powers tends to use these as [[Four-Element Ensemble|tropes and character traits]]:
* '''Earth:''' Stable and resilient, earth is the element of solidity and support. [[Mighty Glacier|It is the strongest element, but also the slowest.]] Earth characters are frequently dependable, strong, and, if female, motherly. However, they can also be stubborn and far too stuck in their ways. It is aligned with the melancholic temperament. Generally represented as by either the color Green, Brown, or Yellow (the latter two more often used if this element is based purely on [[Dishing Out Dirt|actual earth]] rather than [[Green Thumb|plants]] or other stuff).
** Main article: [[Dishing Out Dirt]]
** Character most likely to use Earth: [[The Big Guy]], [[Mighty Glacier]], [[Barrier Warrior]], [[Cute Bruiser]], [[Boisterous Bruiser]]
* '''Fire:''' Carries positive connotations like warmth, light, purification, and even rebirth. On the flipside, it's very, very easy to [[Flanderization|Flanderize]] it into [[Evil Is Burning Hot|an antagonistic element]] by emphasizing its wild, destructive, and unpredictable nature. Most series with an elemental motif will usually assign it to the hero or "Red Ranger". As it is aligned with the choleric temperament, fire characters have a habit of being impulsive, hotheaded, and brash. Most CRPGs featuring a young vigorous sword-wielding male teenage hero (which means, nearly all CRPGs) have him associated with fire, if the characters have elemental associations or attributes. [[Fire Is Red|Usually represented by the color Red]], even though it is naturally more Orange in color, if not outright Gold/Yellow (of course, [[Technicolor Fire|they aren't the only possible fire colors]]).
** Main article: [[Playing with Fire]]
** Character most likely to use Fire: [[The Hero]], [[The Ace]], [[The Lancer]], [[Pyromaniac]], [[Glass Cannon]], [[Hot-Blooded]]
* '''Air/Wind:''' The element of change and movement; unpredictably calm one moment and flying into a tempest the next. [[Fragile Speedster|The quickest of the elements, but sometimes seen as the weakest (unless it is referred to as "sky" or "heaven"),]] therefore, what it lacks in raw power it makes up for in offensive and defensive maneuvers. It can also include [[Power of the Storm|weather manipulation]]. Aligned with the sanguine temperament, air characters are often cheerful, energetic, free spirits. [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Noise]], when used as an elemental attack, is sometimes depicted and treated as an air-like attack. [[Wind Is Green|Green is often used to represent it in eastern products]], but it's also fairly common to see Yellow, Light Blues, Purples, or White.
** Main article: [[Blow You Away]]
** Character most likely to use Air/Wind: [[The Trickster]], [[Fragile Speedster]], [[The Smart Guy]], [[The Hero]] (which now becomes more common lately)
* '''Water:''' The element of change and adaptability; capable of taking any form. Water is pretty much always seen positively, symbolizing [[Healing Hands|healing]], adaptability, and [[The Stoic|calm]]. While earth is strong and solid and air is weak but fluid, water is both strong and fluid, but not to the same extent as the other two. Aligned with the phlegmatic temperament, water characters are usually laid-back and "go with the flow". [[Water Is Blue|Usually depicted as Blue or Cyan.]]
** Main article: [[Making a Splash]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Water: [[The Chick]], [[White Magician Girl]], [[The Medic]], [[Father Neptune]], [[Only Sane Man]], [[The Lancer]]
Some shows that absolutely need a [[Five-Man Band]] will come up with a [[Element Number Five|fifth element]] in addition to the classical western ones, and find a way to make it a team attack that uses [[All Your Colors Combined]]. Anime usually employs Light or Lightning, but Western Animation prefers to make something up like [[Pure Energy|Energy]] or [[Ki Attacks|Spirit]] or possibly [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|heart]].
[[Video Games]] and [[RPG]]'s will often add more to the list. Common additions include:
* '''Lightning/Electricity''' is sometimes paired with air or fire, but more often is considered a separate form of power. In most games, it forms the [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|basic trio]] of available powers. Lightning usually carries the same connotations as fire, but may also include speed (i.e.: "moves like lightning") or [[Psycho Electro|mild insanity (from having fried his brain too many times)]], [[Lightning Can Do Anything|or even more]]. Usually depicted as either [[Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning|very yellow or very blue]], although in real life it's actually more often white.
** Main article: [[Shock and Awe]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Lightning/Electricity: [[The Hero]] (if not Fire), [[The Lancer]] (if the hero uses Fire), [[The Smart Guy]], The [[Psycho for Hire]], [[Psycho Electro]]
* '''Ice/Snow:''' may or may not be combined with water. As a [[An Ice Person|separate element]], it carries connotations of [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|coolness, detachment, harshness]], and even [[Kill It with Ice|death.]] However, snow is almost the same but carries connotations of fun, softness, cheerfulness, and even [[Snow Means Love|love]].
** Main article: [[An Ice Person]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Ice: [[The Lancer]], [[The Dragon]], [[The Baroness]], the [[Winter Royal Lady]], the [[Big Bad]].
* '''Light/Holy:''' Light can be for healing or [[Holy Hand Grenade|destruction]]. Commonly used by angels, priests, and the forces of heaven ([[Light Is Not Good|even if they're not the good guys]]). Light is, however, usually associated with absolute good. Sometimes mixed with Lightning or Fire. May also be portrayed as [[The Power of the Sun|Sunlight]].
** Main articles: [[Light'Em Up]], [[Holy Hand Grenade]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[Hard Light]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Light: [[The Hero]] (if not Fire or Lightning), [[White Magician Girl]], [[Sixth Ranger]], [[Knight Templar]]
* '''Darkness/Shadow:''' Even if [[Dark Is Not Evil]], the vast majority of bad guys will use this. Often causes [[Standard Status Effects]] or Instant Death. Usually the opposite of and weak to Light. Occasionally manifests as gravity-based powers (as in '''black''' hole).
** Main Article: [[Casting a Shadow]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Darkness: the [[Big Bad]], [[The Dragon]], [[Sixth Ranger]], [[Black Magician Girl]], [[Evil Twin]], [[Evil Counterpart]], [[Rival Turned Evil]] (the last three if the hero is using Light), the [[Evil Sorcerer]]. The [[Anti-Hero]] [[Dark Is Not Evil|may also use it]].
* '''Life/Nature/Wood:''' May or may not be combined with Light, or may be concerned more with healing and/or [[Green Thumb|Plant life]]. Also tends to cause [[Standard Status Effects]], usually positive ones or poison. Often combined with Wind in Asian settings or Earth in Western settings, often creating [[Petal Power]] attacks.
** Main Articles: [[Green Thumb]], [[Petal Power]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Life: [[The Chick]], [[White Magician Girl]], [[Friend to All Living Things]], [[The High Queen]] (especially if she is really a goddess)
* '''Paper''': Made from Wood, and is versatile in use, from bandages to weapons/familiars based on the user's imagination.
** Main Articles: [[Paper Master]]
** Character (s) most likely to use Paper: [[Badass Bookworm]], [[The Smart Guy]], [[The Chick]], [[The Dark Chick]], [[Hot Librarian]], [[Cute Bookworm]], [[Scary Librarian]]
* '''Death:''' Just as Life may get combined with Light in some settings, Death often gets lumped in with Darkness. As its own element, death magic is usually focused on [[Black Mage|destruction]], [[Black Magic|defilement]], and summoning spirits from the less-than-pleasant parts of the afterlife. Expect practitioners of Death magic to have made some sort of [[Deal
** Main Articles: [[Necromancy]], [[Black Magic]], [[Blood Magic]]
* '''Heart/Love:''' The element of emotions and spirit. May involve [[The Empath|empathic abilities]], [[The Power of Friendship]] [[The Power of Love|and/or love]], or [[Healing Hands|healing]]. On the other hand, it may involve focusing that power into a [[Care Bear Stare|coherent beam of destruction]] (in which case it may be conflated with Light or Life). Usually turns out to be either the [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|most powerful element of all]], or the [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|most useless]]. Sometimes [[Informed Ability|they claim it's the former when it's really the latter]].
** Main Article: [[Heart Beat-Down]], [[The Power of Love]]
** Characters most likely to use Heart: [[The Messiah]], [[The Chick]], [[The Hero]] (especially in a [[Magical Girl]] show), [[The Empath]], the [[Love Freak]], the [[Token Loli]], [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and]] [[Captain Planet|Ma-Ti]]
* '''Metal/Steel:''' Either a subset of Earth (including metals and non-metals) or contrasted against Earth (metal alloys as opposed to non-metal rocks). Metal is used for either ridiculously high defensive capabilities (clang) or offensive capabilities (stabby). It has associations with strength, technology, civilization, rigidity, craftsmanship, and determination. Even though it's like a stronger version of Earth, it's also sterile, inflexible, cold, and can't bear life like Earth can. Often opposed by Nature or Wood. The easiest of the elemental powers to produce [[Magitek]] from. Metal is rarely seen as a classical element or power outside of Asia (and China in particular).
** Main Article: [[Extra Ore Dinary]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Metal: [[Gadgeteer Genius]], the [[Badass]], the [[Master Swordsman]], the [[Wrench Wench]], [[The Blacksmith]], the [[Implacable Man]], the [[Big Bad]] (of a technological theme).
* '''Soul/Spirit/Aura:''' The ability to manipulate spiritual energy, or spirits themselves. This is occasionally involved with religion, too. People possessing this power can probably talk to the dead, as well. Sometimes related to necromancy, [[Psychic Powers]], [[Cold Flames]], and especially [[Ki Attacks]]. This can be either a villainous or heroic power, depending on [[The Dark Arts|how it's portrayed.]]
** Main Article: [[Soul Power]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Soul: [[The Stoic]], the [[Creepy Child]], and the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].
* '''(Pure) Energy/Magic:''' [[Mana|Pure magical]] [[Pure Energy|power or energy]] as [[Non-Elemental]] power. Might involve runes or glyphs. Thematically relates to either the mind or wisdom, or to the primal form of energy you get when you stick all the others together. Generally of neutral alignment to other elemental types, sort of a [[Jack of All Stats]] of elemental powers. If it is opposed, expect it to be against Heart (rationalism vs emotionalism). May be functionally interchangeable with [[Psychic Powers]] or a dumping ground for a setting's magical effects which can't be tied into any standard element.
** Main Articles: [[Pure Energy]], [[Mind Over Matter]], [[Psychic Powers]]
** Characters most likely to use Energy: [[Squishy Wizard]], [[The Smart Guy]], the [[Evil Sorcerer]], the [[Badass Bookworm]]
* '''Beast/Creature:''' Powers relating to animals of nature and harnessing their abilities.
** Main Article: [[The Beast Master]], [[Animorphism]]
** Characters most likely to use Beast: [[Nature Hero]], [[Friend to All Living Things]], [[Not Good with People]], [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]
* '''Poison:''' Powers relating to poison, acid, and disease. Can be classified as an element and/or status effect depending on the work.
** Main Article: [[Poisonous Person]], [[Plaguemaster]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Poison: [[Deadpan Snarker]], [[Walking Wasteland]], [[Mad Scientist]], [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], [[Complete Monster]]
* '''Lava:''' May overlap with fire due to both being hot substances, even though it's molten rock, so if anything it should be part of earth. Usually stresses the more negative connotations of fire, and may be considered "hellish".
** Main article: [[Magma Man]]
** Character(s) most likely to use it: [[Pyromaniac]], [[The Brute]], [[The Lancer]]
* '''Sol/Sun:''' Power relating to the sun. It's usually something of a mix of [[Playing
** Main Article: [[The Power of the Sun]]
** Characters most likely to use Sun: [[The Hero]] and [[Knight Templar]]s.
* '''Luna/Moon:''' Power relating to the moon. Can be considered evil, but not always. Usually relates to [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]], and by extension [[Tarot Motifs|insanity or confusion]]. May involve [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|power in exchange for sanity]]. It may also involve [[Making a Splash|water]], since the moon's gravity controls the ocean's tides.
** Main article: [[Lunacy]]
** Characters most likely to use Moon: [[White Magician Girl]], and [[The Big Bad]].
* '''Sound:''' Using sound as a method of attacking and/or battling with an instrument falls under this section.
** Main Articles: [[Make Me Wanna Shout]], [[The Power of Rock]], [[Musical Assassin]]
** Characters most likely to use Sound: [[The Hero]] (In a [[Band Land]] setting), the [[Badass Bookworm]]
* '''Radiation:''' Generally of the gamma kind, the kind related to reactors, bombs, and fallout. You're probably not going to see this very often at all, [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo|for obvious reasons]], and when you do it'll generally be either [[Bad Powers, Bad People]] or serious [[Blessed
** Main article: [[I Love Nuclear Power]]
** Characters most likely to use Radiation: [[The Smart Guy]], [[Anti-Hero]], [[Mad Scientist]], [[Big Bad]], [[Complete Monster]]
* '''Time:''' Controlling the flow of time. People who can control time can stop it, slow time down, speed it up, and do other stuff.
** Main article: [[Time Master]]
** Characters most likely to use Time: [[The Smart Guy]], [[Tricksters]], and [[Time Police]] (but not the [[Time Lord]]).
* '''Space/Gravity:''' The ability to control the fabric of space. Teleportation, causing objects to phase in and out, or the ability to control gravity is usually included.
** Main articles: [[Space Master]], [[Gravity Master]], [[Reality Warper]]
** Characters most likely to use Space: [[The Smart Guy]], [[The Big Bad]], [[Tricksters]], and [[Space Police]].
* '''Void:''' This is generally considered to be even [[Darker and Edgier]] than Darkness. Generally involves erasing things from existence, whether via black hole, draining [[Life Energy]], or simply making them Cease To Be. Rarely has an opposing element.
** Main Article: [[Power of the Void]]
** Character(s) most likely to use Void: [[Omnicidal Maniac]], [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], [[Eldritch Abomination]], anyone capable of a [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]. In the latter case, [[Dark Is Not Evil|is just as likely to end up in the hands of heroes as villains.]]
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[[Elemental Baggage]] is when a character requires some (usually not much) element laying around in order to work with.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Pokémon (
* The heroes and villains of ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' use Spirits that represent ten elements, specifically Fire (Takuya), Water (Ranamon), Earth (Grumblemon), Wind (Izumi/Zoe), Wood (Arbormon), Lightning (Junpei/J.T), Ice (Tomoki/Tommy), Metal (Mercurimon), Light (Kouji) and Darkness (Kouichi).
** In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', all of the main eight kids are associated with an element: Taichi/Tai (Fire), Yamato/Matt (Ice), Sora (Air), Koushirou/Izzy (Electricity), Jyou/Joe (Water), Mimi (Earth), Hikari/Kari and Takeru/T.K (Light).
** And then by [[Digimon Adventure 02]] we have Davis/Daisuke (fire/thunder/light(Magnamon)), Yolei/Miyako (air/nature), Cody/Iori (earth/water), Kari (light, sometimes heart based), T.K. (light, sometimes sun based), and the Digimon Kaizer/Emperor (dark) {{spoiler|before Ken had a [[Heel Face Turn]] and, in the drama CD at least, gained love as well}}.
* Certain mages, knights, and unison devices in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' specialize in spells of a specific element, such as Lightning, Fire, or Ice. Also, in full defiance of the main text of this article, the "calm and collected guy who can shoot fire" that "you're not likely to find" describes the Blazing General Signum perfectly... well, except for the "guy" part.
* In [[
* The world the characters of ''[[Naruto]]'' live in is made up of five nations named after the elements (using Lightning as the fifth element) and the ninja living in the hidden villages inside those nations use jutsus based on their homeland's elements (Fire-style, Water-style, Earth-style, etc.) as well as related sub-elements. The main characters are from the Village Hidden in the Leaves of the Fire Country, so most of their special skills and abilities are fire and plant themed (in Japanese mythology, leaves and fire are related).
** Bloodline powers, or ''Kekkai Genkai'', combine two elements to create a new one which cannot be accessed by other characters - the First Hokage can combine Earth and Water to create [[Green Thumb|Wood]], Haku can combine Air and Water to create [[An Ice Person|Ice]], the Mizukage can combine both Fire and Earth to make [[Magma Cum Laude|Lava]] ''and'' Fire and Water to make [[Hollywood Acid|"Boil"]] (A corrosive/acidic mist), while Darui can combine Water and Lightning to create [[Light'Em Up|"Storm"]] (the one technique he used it for made [[Beam Spam|a lot of bright beams]] which are probably made of electricity), the Tsuchikage can combine Earth, wind & Fire (Oddly enough) to create "Dust", which can atomize things (and possibly be how he can [[Flight|fly]]), Pakura, a Edo Tensei zombie, can combine Fire and maybe Wind to create "Scorch", which boils the water out of your body & Gari, another zombie, combines Lightning and either Fire or Earth to create [[Having a Blast|"Explosion"]], which one punch can blow up someone to dust. The Third and Fourth Kazekages combined two elements, probably Lightning and Wind, to use [[Selective Magnetism|Magnetism]]. Sasuke has a special "Blaze" nature which he uses "shape transformation" to manipulate [[Hellfire|Amaterasu]], which comes from his Mangekyo Sharingan, like the regular Fire release (What difference this makes is not yet known, though it may be some sort of [[Infinity+1 Element]]).
** A filler character could create Crystal with who-knows-what, and a movie villain has, other than a then-movie only Storm (It's unknown if this was just a coincidence, but his was more dealing with Thunder clouds), Steel, Dark (Instead of the regular [[Dark Is Edgy|darkness manipulation]] is [[Energy Absorption]]) & "Swift", (Which is more [[Super Speed]] then an element).
** {{spoiler|Kakashi, Tobirama, Madara and, Minato can use Time-space manipulation to a degree.}}
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** Dosu, Kin, And Zaku displayed the use of several sound based attacks.
** Deva Pein can control gravity.
* ''[[
* [[Saint Seiya]] has much of the Cloths powers based on an element. Particularly stated of the Steel Saints of the anime.
* In ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', Minto/Mew Mint is a birdgirl that can fly, uses a bow and arrow and can withstand strong winds; Retasu/Mew Lettuce is a fishgirl that can turn into a mermaid, uses bubble attacks and can control nearby water sources; and Bu-ling/Mew Pudding is a monkeygirl that creates trenches when she attacks, can manifest boulders out of nowhere, and once caused vines to grow up around Tokyo Dome. The only reason Zakuro has flames in her Transformation Sequence when she becomes Mew Zakuro appears to be to match the other three. This would, of course, put Ichigo/Mew Ichigo under "heart", which fits pretty strongly, actually.
* ''[[Prétear]]'' has Wind, Sound, Light, Fire/Heat, Ice/Cold, Water and Plants.
* Magic in ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'' the Logia Devil Fruits let their users turn into whatever element they're given as well as create huge amounts of them out of nothing and manipulate it. However, this includes more then the basic elements as a result of the Logia's official definition being the loose concept of "Forces of Nature" which means bizarre "elements" such as Smoke, Swamp, and Gas get a pass. Oddly, Fire is the only classical element that has appeared yet.;<ref>
** Smoke
** Fire
** Sand
** Electricity
** Ice
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** Light
** Magma
** Swamp<ref>
** Gas
* The Djinn of ''[[Uta Kata]]'' represent ''twelve'' different "elements" - one for each episode. They are, in order: Sun, Moon, Earth, Water, Fire, Sky, Wind, Flower, Lightning, Darkness, Sea and {{spoiler|Mirror}}.
* ''[[
* In the Bakugan first season, each of the main characters has a favored element.
** Pyrus (fire) - Favored element of [[The Hero|Dan]], tends to be displayed in fireballs destroying opponents.
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** Darkus (dark) - Favored element of the [[Big Bad]], Maskerade {{spoiler|and thus also his alternate personality [[Sixth Ranger|Alice]]. }} Also the favored element of [[Smart Guy|Ace]] and [[The Mole|Ren]].
* ''[[Flame of Recca]]'' - All of the Madogu have domain over a particular Element. This includes the classical 5 Eastern Elements, but also things like [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Sound]], [[Prehensile Hair|Hair]], [[Paper Master|Paper]], ''Gravity''...
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'':
** Mercury = Ice/Water
** Venus = Love/Metal/Light
** Moon = Light (Sometimes mixed with love/heart, or just [[Power of Friendship]])
** Mars = Fire (Though the planet Mars is suppose to be cold) Mars as Fire may have to do with the fact that in Japanese, Mars is "Kasei" (Literally Fire Star or Fire Planet)
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** Uranus = Sky/Space (except World Shaking is very much like an Earth attack for some reason)
** Neptune = Sea/Water
** Pluto = Time/Underworld
* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' had a [[Five-Man Band]] representing Heart, Fire, Light, Earth, and Water. The second season introduced a [[Sixth Ranger]] who seems to represent the previously-missing Air.
** On the other hand, in ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' we have the two heroines representing, respectively, Earth and Water, with two [[Sixth Ranger
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' has the standard attributes Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, plus Light, Dark, and Divine. The elemental concept is played straight with cards like "Oxygeddon" (Wind) and "Hydrogeddon" (Water).
** If one has two "Hydrogeddons" and one "Oxygeddon" one can react them to create the "Water Dragon" ([[
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'' Goh is Fire, Rey is Ice (/Water), Shin is Wind and Gai is Earth, most of which run [[The Four Gods|against]] [[Personality Powers|expectation]]. Judas and Luca appear to have powers involving light and darkness respectively, a theme which comes out in their personalities too.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has:
** Fire
** Ice
** Air
** Water
** Time
** Light
** Metal
** Thunder
** Dark
** The Dragon Slayer have the special ability to eat there respective element and [[Power-Up Food|regain energy]]
* ''[[Slayers]]'' got Shamanism magic divided into classical four elements plus Spirit. [[White Magic]] and [[Black Magic]] are
* "[[Bleach]]" has many characters with elemental abilities, such as Toshiro and Rukia, ice, Yamamoto & Hinamori, fire, Matsumoto, ash/dust, and Kira, gravity (sort of). One unusual example is Ukitake, whose release phrase for his zanpakuto would indicate his elements are both water and electricity. It's probably meant to be storm-related, although once shown his shikai either doesn't use said elements literally or has other unrelated abilities.
* [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] in ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]''. They have Elemental Powers. That, as in ''iron, lead, oxygen, and other elements from the periodic table.''
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** Water Orb (Light Blue): the power of commanding [[Making a Splash|water]].
** Golden Orb (Yellow): the power of [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Transformation]].
** Fire Orb (Red): the power of [[Kill It
** Giant Orb (Gray): the power of [[Attack of the 50
** Dark Orb (Purple): the power of [[The Power of the Void|sucking the enemies in the darkness]].
** Ice Orb (Whiteish-blue): the power of [[An Ice Person|ice]]
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** Ryuujin Orb (Multicolored): the power of [[All Your Powers Combined|all the legendary Orbs]] [[Barrier Warrior|plus]] [[Flight|more]].
** {{spoiler|Heaven Orb (White): the ultimate power [[Holy Hand Grenade|of the Supreme King Sword]].}}
* Western-style magic in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' tends to be elemental in nature. Thus far we've seen: Light, Wind, Lightning, Fire, Earth, Water, Ice, Darkness, and even Plant, though that last one hasn't come up very often. Some of them seem to be grouped together as well: Wind and Lightning, Water and Ice, etc. Mages tend to have a particular affinity for one or two elements, and find it difficult (though not impossible) to cast spells of a different one. Some spells also combine elements: ''Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens'' is Lightning/Wind, while ''Incendium Gehennae'' is Darkness/Fire.
* [[Ronin Warriors]] originally known as Yoroiden Samurai Troopers have the 5 core Troopers' armors based on some elemental powers. Ryo is fire, Shin/Cye is water, Shu/Kento is earth, Seiji/Sage is Lightning/Thunder and Touma/Rowen is Light/Air.
* [[Magic Knight Rayearth]] has Hikaru as fire, Umi as water, and Fuu as wind.
* In the Hanshin Republic arc of [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]], Syaoran has a fire kudan, Kurogane a water kudan, and Fai an air kudan. Later, Kurogane gains a sword named Souhi (blue ice), while Syaoran gains a sword named Hien (scarlet flame).
** {{spoiler|Original!Syaoran instead uses lightning, given his signature magic attack "Thunder Emperor".}}
* ''[[
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** It was hinted at, but never confirmed, that [[Captain Atom]] might be the [[Element Number Five|quintessential, or fifth elemental]].
* The elemental heroes and villains of the [[Marvel Universe]] include:
** Earth: Avalanche (''[[X
** Fire: Human Torch (''[[Fantastic Four]]''), Pyro (''[[X
** Air: Wind Dancer (''[[X
** Water: Hydroman (''[[Spider
** Marvel-wise, the ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' are pretty much a representation of the four classical
** Marvel also have a super-villain team named Force of Nature, with Terraformer (Earth), Aqueduct (Water), Skybreaker (Air), and Sunstreak (Fire).
* This trope was the whole premise of Comico Comics' ''Elementals'', a dark superhero comic about the team of Morningstar, Vortex, Fathom and Monolith.
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== [[Fan
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** Similarly, in ''[[
** In ''[[
* In the ''[[
* What little is seen of the Warriors in ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' indicates that at least some of them possess elemental powers. For example, Wetter Hexe is explicitly an incarnated weather deity with powers to match, Shadowwalker is darkness and sound, and Silverbolt is Lightning.
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** Well, sort of. {{spoiler|Leeloo}} is just the carrier. The titular fifth element is {{spoiler|''[[The Power of Love|luv]]''. Awww}}!
** By my understanding, the fifth element was LIFE. Perfect being and all, y'know?
* On the
* The ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' movie actually invokes this. Ghost Rider is Fire, just like in the comics, and he's pitted against three demons based on wind, water and earth. And who are they working for? '''Black[[Fridge Brilliance|heart.]]'''
* [[Thor (
** In ''[[Thor: Ragnarok]]'' it's revealed that the lightning powers are inherent in Thor, not in Mjolnir.
{{quote|'''Odin:''' Are you Thor, the god of hammers? That hammer was to help you ''control'' your power; to focus it. It was never your source of strength.}}
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** Harry's friend {{spoiler|and fellow Warden}} Carlos Ramirez balances Harry in that he possesses an elemental power that Harry doesn't have ( {{spoiler|water}}) and a power that may or may not be an element in the Dresdenverse-- {{spoiler|entropy}}. When the two wizards are working together, they seriously kick ass.
*** Entropy is water magic, essentially enhancing water's natural dissolving properties by an order of magnitude.
** There's also the rare use of Earth magic. When we see Harry use it, it's mostly in the form of magnetism to disarm enemies.
** Morgan used Earth magic in combat, although it was rarely seen directly in the novels. It's mentioned once or twice that Harry knows he wouldn't stand a chance against Morgan in straight-up combat, although this is probably mostly just due to Morgan's skill and experience rather than their elements.
** Interestingly the [[The Fair Folk|faeries]] refer to human technology as a form of "ferromancy" - whether this is simply them not really understanding human technology or something more remains to be seen.
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** Another he trapped inside a burning building (Fire)
** The final one he drowned in a fountain (Water)
* One sphere of magic in ''[[
* Used by Pug/Milamber to destroy a gladiator stadium in an impressive display of magical awesomeness, in Raymond E. Feist's ''Magician: Master''. Note to any conquerors: If you take slaves from a nation you are at war with, then subsequently help one of them [[Took a Level
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'': The Five Powers are Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit. Male channelers are more skilled with Earth and Fire, and women with Water and Air.
* The ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebooks feature the Seven Serpents, [[Exactly What It Says
* Stone and Wood related powers are the best established in ''The [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' due to being the ones favored by the good guys, but other possible "elements" appear to include Fire, Ice, Acid, Lightning, Water, Wind/Sound, Gold, Blood, and Time. There exists also non-elemental magic of pure force, as well as Wild Magic based on White Gold.
* [[Tamora Pierce]] used this with a twist in her original ''Circle of Magic'' series: Briar was a plant mage (earth), Daja was a smith-mage (fire), but rather than distributing the final two elements amongst the other members of the circle, she gave Tris, a [[Power of the Storm|weather-mage]], both air and water, and Sandry was a thread mage, which is definitely not a traditional element.
** Moreover, once Sandry spins their magics together, they all have [[Incredibly Lame Pun|elements]] of each other's power, and so expand their fields of influence significantly.
* The [[Discworld]], being a nearly-unreal world, uses the Classical Elements, but adds a fifth, and [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|no, it's not Heart]]. According to the History Monks, the world is made of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, and the fifth element, Surprise, allows everything to keep happening.
** In ''The Light Fantastic'', it is stated that the druids believe the world consists of four elements: magic, uncertainty, charm and bloody-mindedness.
* [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[Codex Alera]]'' series features a fantasy world inhabited by "furies", which are elemental spirits that inhabit most everything. Most people in this world can "craft" at least one fury; talented furycrafters can control two or more or differing elements. Anyone can exert a minimal level of control over most elements, especially if items have been pre-crafted for a specific effect. For instance, a Furylamp is a lamp with a captive fire fury to produce light. Anyone can turn them on or off, even if they have no actual skill at firecrafting. Similarly, anyone can draw on the earth furies in the major roads to let them run at high speed with minimal fatigue - infantry can march up to 50 miles a day with a causeway, whereas without one, a day's march is only
** Earth is specifically about dirt and stone, but not metal. Mentally, Earth is associated with love, lust and contentment. Internal earthcrafting gives great strength and endurance. A talented earthcrafter can literally lift tons of weight. Externally, you can move and reshape dirt and stone. This can be used to create walls (or holes in them), carve ditches, or draw salt up from the earth. Manifested earth furies tend to be large strong quadrupeds, like giant dogs, bulls or just golems.
** Metal is unusual in that it doesn't normally manifest externally. Metalcrafters are good at manipulating metal, and tend to work as smiths. A metalcrafter can draw on the "stillness" of metal to control their emotions (becoming dispassionate and flat), as well as to ignore pain, even from crippling wounds. The control of metal makes them master fencers. Not only can they harden the metal of their own swords (letting them cut through stone or even un-fury-hardened steel), but they can both more precisely control their blades, but can sense the nearby presence of metal, letting them know exactly where their opponent's swing is headed so they can block.
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** Air is associated with intellect. It is said that air furies are fickle with short attention spans, and thus only those with great concentration can master them. Internally, air can be drawn upon for incredible speed and reactions. Externally, the most common application is flight. Proper manipulation of air can also be used to create a magnifying glass for far-seeing, or with enough strength, a veil to conceal from sight. One rarely used application is simply to draw the air out of an opponent's lungs, asphyxiating them.
** Wood is associated with almost all vegetable matter, including leaves, grass, hay, ferns and the like. Woodcrafters are great scouts and trackers, and phenomenal archers. Being able to directly manipulate the wood of their arrows grants them extreme levels of accuracy. They can draw vegetable matter over themselves in veil, using it to manipulate shadows into concealing themselves. With enough strength, they can animate trees into entangling foes.
* Nearly the entire basis of magic in David Farland's ''Runelords'' series of fantasy novels. Air and fire are usually treated as the "bad" elements, since they're chaotic and inspire chaos and madness in their wielders (and fire inspires its wielders to be destructive, because they can draw strength from other fires), while earth and water are the "good" elements, since both are considered stable and even nurturing. The hero of the first part of the series was the powerful Earth King, fighting to avert [[The End of the World
** The second series is much less black-and-white. The Earth King's son is a fire mage; the son's challenges lie as much in controlling his rampant power as in fighting evil. We find out that Fire has powers that can be used for good, including doing one thing that nobody has ever been known to do with Earth powers: {{spoiler|kill a Locus.}}
* In Orson Scott Card's ''The Tales of Alvin Maker'' you have torches (fire), doodlebugs (earth), Making and Unmaking, as well as the Indians' Song of the Green. There are also references to earth-fire-air-water... unusually, ''water'' is the one considered to be inherently destructive.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Elemental Masters]]'' series obviously uses this trope. Each book is a re-writing of a traditional Fairy Tale with the involvement of Elemental Powers.
* Wurts's ''[[The Cycle of Fire]]'' Trilogy has particularly powerful elemental magic. The Stormwarden, who uses only air and water, can create a storm fierce enough to melt rock through sheer friction. The Firelord, who uses only earth and fire, kills the [[Big Bad]] with a explosion hotter than the heart of a star.
* August Derleth tried to retroactively impose an elemental theme on [[
* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Sunshine'', the titular protagonist is a magic-user whose abilities are connected to sunlight. This is described as an unusual elemental affinity that falls somewhere between air and fire. It is explained that in this book's universe, being a magic-user associated with a certain element gives you resistance to anything that element opposes or neutralizes. For example, a magic-user affiliated with Water would make a good firefighter, and a mage associated with Sun would make a good vampire hunter.
* In Cate Tiernan's ''[[Balefire]]'' quartet, Clio and Petra have fire as "their" element. They assume that Clio's twin Thais does too, until a series of disastrous magical events show that her element is water.
* In the anthology [[Wandering Djinn]], not only do we have our protagonist Malik who's a djinn, and classically associated with fire, but also meets up with a marid, which is based on water, and a kamaitachi, who traditionally could be seen as air-types.
* Benjamin in ''[[Twilight (
** Except it isn't unique as Jasper's is apparently a physical chemical thing (I got a bit lost). [[Fridge Logic|Or at least that's the desperately back-pedalling explanation for his power affecting Bella when it turns out she is in fact mind-immune.]]
* This is how most of the magic in the [[Farsala Trilogy]] works- Kavi's is a possible exception, as he has the ability to speak to metal.
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* In the novel [[Salamander]], magic is divided along elemental axes. It's noted, however, that one can also divide magic along functional (weaving, shaping, refining, tempering) or humorous (hot, cold, wet, dry) axes.
* The ''[[Chronicles of the Emerged World]]'' have the Eight Lands each representing an element, and in each land there's a hidden sanctuary keeping the sacred [[MacGuffin|Stones]] needed for the Talisman of Powers. Said elements and lands are Water (teal), Sea (blue), Sun/Light (yellow), Days/Time (grey), Night/Darkness (black), Fire (red), Stone (brown) and Wind (white).
* In ''[[
* Wizards in [[The Witch Watch]] can invoke the 'primal forces of nature.' Normally fire, but wind and rain have been known to occur too and there are rumours of wizards commanding even lightning.
* In ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'', Soulcasting is a form of magic that allows turning one substance into another (vaguely resembling Alchemy from [[Fullmetal Alchemist]]), and is based around [[Arc Number|ten]] elements:
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* Some ''[[Super Sentai]]'' (and by extension, ''[[Power Rangers]]'') teams use elements for the motif:
** [[Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan]]: Fire (Red), Water (Blue), and Earth (Yellow).
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** [[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger]] / [[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]: Sky/Wind (Red), Water (Blue), Land/Earth (Yellow), Thunder (Goraigers/Thunder Rangers), and either Fire (Shurikenger) or [[Non-Elemental]] (Samurai Ranger).
** [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]] / [[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]: Fire (Red and Wolzard Fire/Wolf Warrior), Lightning (Yellow), Water (Blue), Wind (Pink), Earth/Nature (Green), Sun (Shine/Solaris Knight), and Ice/Snow (Mother/White).
** [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]] / [[Power Rangers Samurai]]: Fire (Red), Water (Blue), Heaven/Sky (Pink), Wood/Forest (Green), Earth (Yellow), and Light (Gold).
** [[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]: Sky/Wind (Red and Pink), Land/Earth (Black and Yellow), and Water (Blue and [[Death
* Early seasons of ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' would sometimes base the heroes' powers on ''single'' elements in no consistent pattern. The very first one used wind, and ''Stronger'' would be the first lightning one - but later ones like ''Super-1'' could switch between several at will. More so for the Noughties' seasons (commonly called the Heisei era), as changing colors and forms to shift the [[Multiform Balance]] ''and'' enable different elemental abilities became the standard.
* Much like the above, ''[[Madan Senki Ryukendo]]'' would invoke this very directly, with fire, water and lightning forms.
== Music ==
* The [[Spice Girls]] (after Geri Halliwell Left) in their music videos Holler and Let Love Lead The Way represents the four elements each.
* [[Korean Pop Music|KPop]] boyband EXO bestowed elemental powers to members [[Dishing Out Dirt|D.O.]], [[Playing
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Elemental Powers as a whole is one of the spheres of magic Mages can learn in the ''[[
** Notably, in ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'', there's the collection of legacies known as the Elemental Masteries, which allow a mage to develop powers based on a specific element. The five best known Masteries are Void, Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, with rumors of various others.
*** Most notable in that they are focused around controlling both the physical and ''conceptual'' element (Tamers of Fire can control fire and inspire willpower for instance, or Tamers of Water can control water and heal).
** In ''[[
** The [[
** ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[Magic:
** Magic color/elemental alignments summarized. Note: This is not perfect.
*** White: [[Light'Em Up]], [[The Power of the Sun]], [[Soul Power]]
*** Blue: [[Psychic Powers]], [[Blow You Away]], [[Making a Splash]], [[An Ice Person]], [[Time Master]], [[Space Master]]
*** Black: [[Power of the Void]], [[Casting a Shadow]], [[Soul Power]], [[Poisonous Person]]
*** Red: [[Shock and Awe]], [[Playing
*** Green: [[The Beast Master]], [[Green Thumb]], [[Dishing Out Dirt]], [[Blow You Away]], [[An Ice Person]]
*** Colorless: [[Non-Elemental]], [[Reality Warper]] (Eldrazi), [[Extra Ore Dinary]] (artifacts)
*** Many things, like [[Lunacy]] and power over snow and metal, tend to vary across the settings; Kamigawa, for example, attributed snow magic to Red.
* ''[[Dungeons
** Earlier editions of D&D, elaborated further in 2nd Edition's [[Planescape]] setting, were a lot more complicated
*** Each of the four elemental planes also has a native race of [[Our Genies Are Different|genies]]: the djinn (Air), efreet (Fire), marid (Water) and dao (Earth). There's also a fifth race, the jann, which are native to the mortal world and are composed of all four elements.
*** And [[Ravenloft]] has tainted Elementals born out of the corrupting influence of the Dark Powers: Pyre (fire) Grave (Earth) Blood (Water) and Mist (Air) elementals.
** Third Edition did this too...they just put a lot less emphasis on it, since Planescape was largely a discontinued setting.
*** Other elementals exist in different supplements, such as taint elementals in ''Heroes Of Horror''.
*** Each element also had an [[Standard Status Effects|energy type]] associated with it. Fire had fire damage (duh), water had cold, air had lightning, and earth had acid. Then, there was poor, lonely sonic damage...
*** The Elemental Savant [[Prestige Class]] selects any one of these four to focus on, creating a truer example than mages with access to all of the above.
** 4th edition replaced all the Elemental Planes and Limbo with something called the Elemental Chaos. Each Elemental Plane was devoted to a single element, but Limbo had mixtures of all the elements. The Elemental Chaos combines not only the features of these planes, but their inhabitants (Elementals from the Elemental Planes; slaadi and githzerai from Limbo). Also, the Abyss was created when a dark [[God of Evil]] (later revealed to be Tharizdun) plunged a seed of pure Evil into the Elemental Chaos. As a result, demons in this edition are corrupted elemental beings.
** The spin-off game ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has the kineticist, a class all about elemental powers. Not an actual spellcaster, a kineticist uses a wide array of spell-like abilities, most usable at will, or [[Cast From Hit Points|at the cost of his/her health]] for the most powerful ones. A kineticist has access to fire, water (includes ice), earth, air (includes lightning), wood, aether ([[Mind Over Matter]] and [[Pure Energy]]) and void (includes shadow and gravity). Depending on what combination of elements the character decides to learn (up to 3), many different play styles are available, from a destructive damage dealer to a highly defensive protector.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' divvies up the Dragon-Blooded by the five elemental Aspects of Creation (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Wood). The Aspect of a particular Dragon-Blooded determines their favored attributes (such as Craft for Earth, Sail for Water, Thrown for Air, etc.), and one Charm (Elemental Bolt) lets them produce a blast attack of their particular element.
** Various planes of reality in Exalted all possess certain elements that dominate the makeup of that place. [[Eternal Engine|Autochthonia]] has the peculiar elements of Crystal, Lightning, Metal, Oil, Steam and Smoke, all with corresponding elementals and mechanical dragons (The Lesser Elemental Dragon of Smoke is lovingly titled [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Shogun of Genocide]]). The [[Dark World|Underworld]] has the ghostly elements of Blood, Bone, Prayer, Pyreflame and Void.<ref>In-character, these are only theoretical as the Underworld doesn't actually have a physical substance...</ref> [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|Malfeas]] has Vitriol—and that's it. {{spoiler|It kind of sucks to live there.}}
* In the [[Savage Worlds]] setting ''[[Fifty Fathoms|50 Fathoms]]'', magic is based on elemental mastery. Much like ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', most mages posess mastery over only one of the four clasical elements. However, player characters can buy dominion over each element, gaining increasing penalties with each new element, leading up to buying the 'Elemental Mastery' edge, with which your now "archmage" can successfully balance all four elements. Unfortunately going for archmage falls squarely under [[Awesome But Impractical]], as there's only minimal inherent benefit to knowing multiple elements (a small number of spells are slightly more versatile, and only after your next level up can you select new spells from that element using the same pool of spells known as a single element user), while granting heavy penalties, and the opportunity cost of taking the advantage is getting more spells, which far outstrips the versatility of being able to do slightly more with a spell you already have.
* [[The Dark Eye]] has six elements: Water, Fire, Air, Ore, Humus, and Ice. Ore is the "dead" part of the more common element Earth: Anything from sand to gemstones and refined metals, and one aspect is gravity; the opposite of air. Humus is the "living" part, from fertile topsoil to plants and animals, and associated with growth. Its opposite Ice includes cold and darkness, and is also associated with logic. The magic system is not limited to elemental spells, but any magic user specialising in elemental magic must chose one element as their main one, which makes spells based on it easier to learn, gives a slight bonus in negotiations with elementals, etc. There are corresponding penalties when dealing with the opposite element.
== Toys ==
* Most characters in ''[[Bionicle]]'' have an element associated with them. The main ones that the various heroes wield are Fire, Ice, Water, Air, Stone, and Earth; while the [[Big Bad
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has ''seventeen'' types: [[Big Creepy
** [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Shadow!]] Technically it is the only element that is a temporary one as well as potential for Pokémon to have a third possible "type", but in certain circles, it still counts as a type in and of itself. The same may also apply to [[Wild Card|???]] but only if one wants to count this not-so-legal type.
*** The ??? type officially doesn't exist as of [[Pokémon Black and White
* The Japanese-themed RPG ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', which places great significance in the Five Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Void) - all spellcasters in that system work by controlling one of the four (other than Void).
** Void doesn't have a set spell list; instead it gives 'Void Points' which power special abilities.'
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** Which are often the domain of Blue Mages or other casters not directly connected to the classic classes. White Mages often get Holy, though.
** "Gravity" is a class of spells which deals percentage-based damage but is generally not directly associated with an element (unless it's associated with Darkness, in which case it takes off an extra fraction of damage to those weak against it). There are also countless "non-elemental" spells like Flare and Ultima.
** In ''[[
* ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' has quite a few. The Guardian's powers seem to be of the holy nature, especially with them being a [[Church Militant]]. The Inhibitor is a [[Church Militant]] as well, but their powers seem to have an arcane theme and appearance to them. The Glutton's magic is stated to be earth magic. The Stalker's powers aren't stated within their background, but has a darkness look and naming to it. The Seeker can use fire, ice and lightning on their arrows with an ultimate in the past that was called Elemental Fusion (later changed to a different ultimate called Marksmanship). The Harbinger has darkness powers. The Thorn [[Green Thumb|has twisted plants to use them as abilities]]. The Herald of Insight is a [[Time Master]]. The Psychopomp's powers are of soul and spirit. While not mentioned in their background, the Nomad has wind powers. ]][[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Diablo II]]'' only uses [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire, Cold and Lightning]]. Fire deal the most consistent damage, ice is generally useful due to it's incapacitating properties while lightning has the potentially highest but also the potentially lowest damage. Sorceresses have a separate skill tree for each though lightning contains some strange choices as well, like teleportation (fire only has one that increases mana regeneration). All three elements have separate resistance values; poison (mastered by Necromancers) does as well but in terms of gameplay mechanics, it's not considered to be elemental damage. Also, in terms of gameplay mechanics, elemental and magical damage are considered two separate things ie. magical immunity won't block elemental attacks and vice versa.
** Some monsters have the "Spectral Hit" attribute that gives each of their attacks random elemental damage. Additionally, some are elementally enchanted, giving them increased resistance to that particular element as well as special powers:
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*** Cold: cold damage with each attack, casts a Frost Nova when killed.
*** Lightning: lightning damage with each attack, casts Charged Bolt when hit. Unpatched versions can combine this with Multi-Shot, creating a [[Game Breaker]] combo.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', Organization XIII members have their own "attribute". Most of the time, they use elemental attacks based on their attribute. Axel controls fire, Demyx controls water, Xaldin controls wind, etc. Others just use their attribute as a source of power (Saïx), or visual motifs (Marluxia). Or it's just very tangentially related to their fighting style (Luxord's timer is the extent of his time attribute). In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
*** [[Power of the Void|Nothingness]]: Xemnas. Can null your defense in ''358/2 Days''.
*** [[Gravity Master|Space]]: Xigbar. Can "shoe-glue" you in ''358/2 Days'', preventing you from jumping.
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*** [[Master of Illusion|Illusion]]: Zexion. Can "flip-foot" you in ''358/2 Days'', reversing your controls.
*** [[Lunacy|Moon]]: Saïx. Can silence you in ''358/2 Days'', preventing you from casting magic.
*** [[Playing
*** [[Making a Splash|Water]]: Demyx. Can damage-drain you, healing the enemy if you get hit by their water attack.
*** [[Time Master|Time]]: Luxord. Can rewind your defense in ''358/2 Days'', setting your defense back to what it was at level 1.
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** Air: Cybuster piloted by [[No Sense of Direction|Masaki Andoh]], the main character, and is... not quite as clever.
** Water: Goddess piloted by [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Tytti Noorbuck]].
* ''[[
** ''[[
*** Metal Man: [[Extra Ore Dinary|Metal]] (obviously)
*** Wood Man: [[Green Thumb|Wood]] (obviously)
*** Bubble Man: [[Making a Splash|Water]]
*** Heat Man: [[Playing
*** Air Man: [[Blow You Away|Air]]
*** It also had a [[Time Master]] in Flash Man, who was also [[An Ice Person]].
** ''[[
*** [[Shock and Awe|Magnet Man]]
*** [[Shock and Awe|Spark Man]]
*** [[Poisonous Person|Snake Man]]
*** [[Light'Em Up|Gemini Man]]
** ''[[
*** [[Making a Splash|Toad Man]]
*** [[Light'Em Up|Bright]] [[Time Master|Man]]
*** [[Dark Is Edgy|Skull Man]]
** ''[[
*** [[Making a Splash|Wave Man]]
*** [[Star Power|Star Man]]
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*** [[Dishing Out Dirt|Crystal Man]]
*** [[Dishing Out Dirt|Stone Man]]
** ''[[
*** [[Everything's Better
*** [[Everything's Better
*** Armored Armadillo: [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]]
*** [[Combat Tentacles|Launch Octopus]]: [[Making a Splash|Water]]
*** Flame Mammoth: [[Playing
*** [[Feathered Fiend|Storm Eagle]]: [[Blow You Away|Wind]]
*** [[Hollywood Chameleons|Sting Chameleon]]: [[Holy Hand Grenade|Light]] (his weapon is an optical laser of sorts)
*** Boomer Kuwanger: Probably the odd one out, but could be [[Casting a Shadow|Darkness]] as he employs frequent ninja tactics.
* In [[Genji]] ''Dawn of a Samurai'' there are four basic elements which can be use both by the player and the enemies and each of them has a status effect and color: [[Playing
* ''[[
** ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' {{spoiler|ends by adding [[Light'Em Up|light]] and [[Casting a Shadow|darkness]] to the setting. [[Epileptic Trees|We can only guess]] how they'll play into future installments of the series.}}
* Spells in ''The Elder Scrolls'' series have elemental damage, and also lots of side-effects (that don't really have element-association) like Silence, Dispel or Burden.
* The Wizardry series divides magic into six spheres: fire (which also includes lightning and light), water (which includes ice), air (which is mostly known for poison), earth (featuring lots of acid and life), mental (exactly what it sounds like), and "magic" (a mix of holy light and more esoteric arcane spells such as magic screen and magic missile).
* And let's not forget the ''[[Seiken Densetsu]]'' series, better known in English as the ''Mana'' games, where the world's magic is governed by eight elemental spirits: Gnome (earth), Undine (water), Sylphid/Jinn (wind), Salamander (fire), Lumina (light), Shade (darkness), Luna or Aura (the moon or gold, respectively), and Dryad (wood/Mana).
* ''Baten Kaitos'' has six elements, which oppose each other in pairs. The pairs are Fire and Water, Light and Darkness, and Wind and Chronos (a.k.a. Time).
* ''[[
** This makes more sense in the remake, where Lightning and Shadow are clarified to be Light/Purity and Shadow/Impurity. Hence, an imperfect energy attack generated by techonology by a being without the ability to cast magic naturally is quite impure. Lightning is just the traditional manafestation of the divine in many cultures.
* ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', set in a [[
* ''[[Touhou]]'''s Patchouli Knowledge has power over the five Chinese elements.
** Not only that, but she's known as the "one-week wizard" for a reason - along with the five oriental elements, she can control solar and lunar power as well (each element she controls corresponds to a day of the week in the Japanese calendar) - she can even combine multiple elements for her attacks, up to the five-element "Philosopher's Stone."
* ''[[Dinosaur King]]'' divides certain types of dinosaurs along elemental lines. In order of opposition, carnosaurs are fire, smaller theropods are wind, large ornithopods are grass, stegosaurs, nodosaurs, and ankylosaurs are earth, ceratopsians are lightning, and sauropods and spinosaurs are water. There is also Secret, which has no definite dinosaur type and no elemental weakness. Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles obtained through move cards are usually neutral, though there are exceptions.
* In [[Legacy of Kain]] series, both Raziel (and Kain in ''Defiance'') can obtain elemental power ups for the Reaver. Raziel started with the Spectral/Material reaver and could gain: [[Casting a Shadow|Darkness]], [[Light'Em Up|Light]], [[Playing
** Kain's power ups for the Reaver includes: [[Bloody Murder|Balance]], [[Enemy Civil War|Conflict]], [[Teleporters and Transporters|Dimension]], [[Shock and Awe|Energy]] and [[Time Stands Still|Time]].
* The later games in the ''Wizardry'' series, from ''Bane of the Cosmic Forge'' onward, use six spheres of magic-fire (also folding in light and general energy), water (including ice), air (involving lots of poison, oddly enough), earth (including acid and wild/nature), mind (lots of weird/limited use spells, but also some directly offensive ones), and magic (which also includes holy/light). Mages mostly specialize in fire and water, alchemists in earth and air, psionics in mind, and priests in magic, but all spellcasters pick up an array of spells from all spheres.
* In the first ''Tales of Symphonia'' game, there are eight temples for the eight elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice, Darkness, and Light. Spellcasting characters can use spells from each element except for darkness, which for some reason doesn't have spells other than one of Sheena's summons late in the game. In the second Tales of Symphonia game, each character is assigned a different element.
** There are dark spells. They just fall under [[Bad Powers, Bad People]], which is why none of your allies can use it.
*** Not necessarily. Sheena can gain access to Dark Element powers via shadow, and they're are also several weapons throughout the game which deal dark-element damage to enemies. In other Tales games, however, you can cast dark element spells {ie Negative Gate, Violent Pain, etc,}.
** Also in [[
* While the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series generally shies away from this, [[Castlevania: Circle of the Moon]] uses as the basis for their magic system ten elements, represented by cards:
** Salamander: Fire
** Serpent: Water and Ice combined
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** Black Dog: Dark
*** While some enemy varieties(ie. demons) have representatives for a few of these elements, the Armor enemies have (at least) one for each.
* ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* [[Visions and Voices|Visions & Voices]] has five elements: [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Cold, Fire, Shock]], [[Dark Is Edgy|Necrotic]], and [[Light'Em Up|Radiant]]. Five of the playable characters specialize in one element, and one character can switch between light and dark skillsets.
* All over the place in ''[[
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' the classical elements are used in full force by mages (for example, Azar Javed is a fire mage, who attacks with fire, and summons a monster from the planes of fire.). [[Mad Scientist]] Kalkstein however mentions he has a theory that is effectively a basic description of atoms.
** Wizards in Witcher's world call upon the elements for <s>mana points</s> magical power they use for spells. Water is easiest to channel, requiring but to find a ley line, so it's the one taught to wizardry students. Earth requires much strength to get magic from it, while Air is technically difficult. Fire offers great power that is easy to reach, but also is a poster child for [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
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* In the ''[[Onimusha]]'' series, there are several weapons related to elements and magics. In total we had:
** [[Shock and Awe|Thunder/Darkness]]: Dark blue, used with [[Cool Sword|Raizan, Buraitou]] and [[Double Weapon|Raisen]].
** [[Playing
** [[Blow You Away|Wind]]: Green, used with [[Double Weapon|Shippu and Senpumaru]].
** [[An Ice Person|Ice]]: Light Blue, used with [[Blade
** [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth/Magma]]: Orange, used with [[Drop the Hammer|Dokotsui]] and [[An Axe to Grind|Chigo]].
** [[Light'Em Up|Light]]: Yellow, used with [[Dual-Wielding|Tenso]].
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* ''[[Master of Magic]]'' is halfway between here and there. It got 5 types of magic, but in the sense of "Resist Elements" spell and suchlike elemental damage is caused by Chaos (fire bolt, lightning bolt) and Nature (ice bolt, call lightning) magic. Summoneble elementals are Air (in Sorcery), Earth (in Nature) and Fire (in Chaos) -- Water is absent.
* In ''[[Ultima VIII]]: Pagan'', much of the plot involves the Avatar learning magical powers related to three of the four elements, only to later defeat the gods responsible for them. You don't get to acquire any water-based powers, since the mastery of that element seems to be an inborn talent of a particular royal family. However, the player can optionally learn Thaumaturgy, a branch of magic particular to a fifth element, Aether.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' series there were different elements, each with a determinated power and effect. It affects weapons, but also some characters are more incline to determinated elements than others. Furthermore, some characters have elemental attacks involving [[Light'Em Up|Light]], [[Making a Splash|Water]] and [[Musical Assassin|Sound]].
** [[Playing
** [[An Ice Person|Ice]]: Freeze the enemies and make them helpless. Ice users include [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Ranmaru]], [[Smug Snake|Masamune]] and [[Team Mom|Nene]].
** [[Shock and Awe|Thunder]]: Stun the enemies and make them crumble. Thunder users include [[Boisterous Bruiser|Keiji]], [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Mitsuhide]] and [[Lady of War|Ginchiyo]].
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* The Elemental class in ''[[Twilight Heroes]]'' has powers and skills themed on the four classical elements.
* Like the [[Samurai Warriors]] example above, [[Sengoku Basara]] too used elements, (though, mind you, they were referred to the characters, not their weapons). They have:
** [[Playing
** [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]]: Stun the enemy.
** [[Razor Wind|Wind]]: Draw the enemies closer and deals them damage.
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** [[The Power of the Void|Darkness]]: Drain the healthbar of the enemies.
** [[Light'Em Up|Light]]: Break any defense.
* Persona2 uses a lot of different elements, reflected in the different families of spells; [[Playing
** The Persona series uses six different elements and up to three classifications of physical attack: slash, pierce, smash (or just Physical), fire, ice, wind, lightning, light and dark. There's also a final element, Almighty, which is generally powerful and costly, but cannot be resisted. However, the inverse is also true: no enemies are weak to it, and in the 3rd and 4th games, where hitting weaknesses gives you extra attacks, Almighty is sometimes not as good as the elements.
* The main enemies of the first ''Zoids Saga'' game are called the Four Heavenly Kings, and their first Zoids correspond to the four "heavenly creatures" associated with them - a blue dragon (dinosaur), red bird (well, dragon), white tiger and black tortoise. There's also some subtle [[Theme Naming
* The old Psygnosis RPG ''Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard'' has Earth, Chaos, Dragon (fire), and Night. The game lets you pick from sixteen
* ''[[
* [[Super Mario Bros.]]: Several depending on the game and the power up, but fairly consistently in the spinoffs the characters tend to perfer
** Mario - [[Playing
** Luigi - [[Playing
** Yoshi - [[Care Bear Stare]]
** Peach - [[Heart Beat
** Daisy - [[Petal Power]]
** Wario - [[Shock and Awe]] (at least up until Power Tennis)
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* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' elements aren't considered polar opposites, but allied. Learning Fire and Ice together, or Earth and Lightning (a more spectacular manifestation of Air) improves mastery of both. There's also the Spirit element, and the Force school amplifies the side effects of all elements (Fire burns, Ice freezes, Earth knocks down and Lightning stuns.)
* ''Kirby'', depending on what enemy he copies, can control a ton of different elements: There are the standard ones, like Stone, Iron/Sword/Spear/Cutter (for Metal), Leaf, Water/Bubble, Ice/Freeze, Fire/Burning, Tornado/Wing (for Wind), and Animal, but then there are weirder ones, like Needle, Magic (which is stage magic), Fighter/Suplex, UFO, Laser/Beam, Ghost, Ball, Mini...
** A complete list can be found [http://kirby.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_copy_abilities Here.]
* In [[
* [[World of Warcraft]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qwcxLIzvM&feature=related Storm, Earth, and Fire! Heed my call!]
* [[Septerra Core]]. The spell cards provide these.
* [[
** Conflagratory: [[Playing
** Hyperborean: [[An Ice Person|Ice]].
** Voltaic: [[Shock and Awe|Lightning]]. Often found with [[Horny Vikings|Viking]] [[Magic Knight|Wizardry]], courtesy of Thor.
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* ''Anvil of Dawn'' has seven schools of magic: the usual four, plus Lightning, Flesh, and Void.
* The [[Dragon Quest]] series have most of the basic elements but the hero is associated with lightning. In fact, only the hero and the hero class can learn lightning magic.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' uses the Greek four, plus light. [[Mad Scientist|Relmyna Verenim]] in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
=== MMORPGs ===
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Shaman class can create elemental "totems" that produce various effects; Earth totems tend to give defensive [[Status Buff|buffs]], Fire ones are usually offensive, Water ones provide healing/restoration effects and Air ones provide a variety of support effects such as acting like a lightning rod for enemy spells. And let's not forget the fact that they can shoot lightning (and ''lava'') from their hands.
** The game is unique in that air and earth count as the same element (nature). It also features Shadow, Arcane (magic) and Holy (which, unlike the other five, has no resistance stat).
** Story-wise, the Warcraft universe contains universal self-aware spirits for each element. The fifth element, and the strongest of all, is <s>life</s> Wild.
** Note that there doesn't seem to be any connection to the elemental spirits that Shamans get their power from and the damage types ingame; which are the above mentioned Nature, Shadow, Arcane and Holy, plus Fire, Frost and physical damage. Nature in particular seems to be a 'dump' category, including air and earth, but also poisons.
** The schools of magic damage simply don't correspond to anything in particular. Arcane damage is pure magical energy used almost exclusively by cerebral mages, which warps reality in large concentrations - but focused moonlight, a gift from the moon goddess, is also Arcane. Fire from demons is a completely different thing from fire from elemental forces or a chemical combusion reaction, but it's all Fire damage. Frost damage is dealt by all water elementals everywhere, even on tropical islands. Some earth elementals (that is, with a certain animated rock model) deal Nature damage and some deal Fire damage, if they're found in places where volcanic forces are strong, and somewhere there are probably some that deal physical damage. In addition to some earth elementals, Nature damage also comes from lightning, poison, plant elementals and wildlife-associated spells.
** Of course, every spell is connected to an element and most classes have at least two elements used regularly. Exception being the Warrior, who doesn't use anything at all, the Rogue who has poisons and the Paladin who relies solely on Holy spells.
* Elementalists in ''[[Guild Wars]]''. They have five spell attributes: Fire, Earth, Air (Most of which are Lightning), Water (Most of which are Ice), and their Primary Attribute, Energy Storage, which gives them a large Energy (mana) pool. It has one offensive spell, Energy Blast, which does more damage based on how much Energy you currently have. [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] isn't invoked much, mainly against some monsters with an obvious elemental bent.
** Mesmers can also perhaps be called in here, invoking a strange mix of Heart and Mind, collectively designated Chaos, and they excel at making life for other people miserable by turning their own powers against them, sabotaging those powers, and attacking the very essence of the enemy.
** Rangers also feature a series of Nature Rituals, tying them into Life, and Ritualists use Spirit as their main power source, with some ties to Life.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', there are the five elements of Hot, Cold, Spooky, Stench, and Sleaze, with rare occurrences of Bad Spelling and Shadow (the former used by creatures parodying the Internet like Flaming Trolls and Spam Witches, the latter used, appropriately, by your [[Mirror Match|Shadow]])
* The MMORPG ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' has nine elements. Earth, Fire , Wind (most of it is lightning), Water ( almost everything of it is ice), Ghost , Holy , Undead , Dark , Poison. There's also neutral. First five are used by Mages, holy by Priest and Crusaders, Poison is utilized by Assasins. Dark and Undead is used by monsters. The game involves [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] and elemental levels, from 1 to 4. The higher the elemental level the more important its elemental weaknesses and strenghts. A Water1 monster is highly resistant to fire attacks, but a Water4 is invulnerable to them.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has multiple powersets for using many elements for ranged and melee attacks, defensive armors, [[Standard Status Effects|controls]], and [[Status Buff|buffs]] and debuffs. Elements available include Fire, Wind (Storm), Electricity, Ice, Darkness, Energy, and one of the few heroic examples of Radiation, used by one unambiguously heroic character.
* In ''[[RuneScape]]'', the basic spell book divides up offensive spells into wind, water, earth and fire attacks. The Ancient spellbook on the other hand uses smoke, shadow, blood, ice and miasma spells.
* ''[[Rift]]'' has six elemental planes that are all trying to invade the world of Telara. To wit, Life, Death, Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, each and every one of them opening the titular rifts and each and every one of them hating all the others. Fun times, everybody!
* In addition to all the elements that both ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' and ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' feature, ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' throws in a new tenth elemental in the form of Chaos, which is represented by purple Chaos tentacles and a purple eye. Chaos has the power to chaorrupt (short for chaos corrupt) objects and beings, sapping them of their sanity and giving them the power to chaorrupt others. It is controlled by the [[Big Bad]], Drakath, and his 13 Lords of Chaos.
* In ''[[Black Desert]]'', Witches and Wizards use spells with fire, ice, earth and lightning elements.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* All mages in ''[[What's Shakin']]'' can use all forms of magic, however each one excels in only one school. For instance, Coffin excels at fire magic, Pai at spirit/summoning, and Ell at holy/light.
* Subverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick
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** But don't you know the classic elements are called ''classic'' for a reason!?
** They are, but once you remember [[Planescape|4 paraelements and 8 quasielements]], you see why a stock parody is "Elemental Plane of Marshmallow".
** Don't forget the [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0802.html Semi-Elemental Plane of Ranch Dressing.]
* In ''[[Angel Moxie]]'', Alex's magical ability is centered around the magical elements. The 6 magical elements are Water, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Pearl, and Shadow. Every lesser demon is aligned with a particular element, and as Alex slays demons of an element, she gains more power to cast spells of that element.
* In the webcomic ''[[Slightly Damned]]'', angels, demons, and mortals are attuned to the four elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. In
* A webcomic example: Magic in the world of [[Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts
* In the Web comic ''[[Harkovast]]'' there are fourteen (count em) magical elements! They are Fire, Ice, Water, Earth, Metal, Mind, Nature, Technology, Dark, Light, Life, Death, Thunder and Water. Every race that appears is gifted with the magic of two of these elements, each race receiving a different combination. The combination they get determines both the special powers and often aspects of the culture of that race.
* In ''[[Panthera]]'', each of the teens gains an elemental power while in panther form. Jason becomes the lion of earth, Kira the tiger of fire, Fletcher the leopard of Air, and Taylor the jaguar of water.
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* [[Bob and George]] [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041101c They even wonder where fire is, for symmetry.]
* Spontaneous Combustion has Flat Man, who seems to have more to do with element control than being flat
* John from ''[[
** Actually, Homestuck is all about this. There's not much of an [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]], but there are Heroes of Time, Breath, Doom, Blood, Heart, Space, Mind, Light, Void, Rage, Hope, Life, and gog knows what else.
* An antagonist in ''[[Sarab]]'' also averts air users lacking raw power. He [https://web.archive.org/web/20120720142618/http://sarab.co/pages/chapter-01-changes/page-13-distress/index.html seems] to have the ''most'' raw power of anyone shown so far.
* ''[[BACKLASH]]'' has "key elements" defined per celestial body. Keyes, as an inhabited planet, [https://backlashcomic.tumblr.com/post/172830438438/235 has eight]: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Plantae, Life, Death, Time. Since usually a celestial entity that's [[Genius Loci|alive]] and not [[God in Human Form|away in a mortal form]] is asleep most of the time (staring into void for billions of years non-stop isn't particularly interesting) with its mind hanging out with others [[Spirit World|on another plane]], they usually keep [[Gaia's Vengeance|guardians of godlike power]], one for each key element, watching over surface — which usually is more than enough, in that even the weakest of these could purge the entire biosphere, if this was in their orders. Celestial energy based magic of mortals works on a lesser scale with one of these elements, [https://backlashcomic.tumblr.com/post/162177716238/121 depending on the practitioner's affinity]. Since it comes from the Celestial, [https://backlashcomic.tumblr.com/post/162177784678/122 native mortals are limited to the planet's set], but with someone else all bets are off. Demons [https://backlashcomic.tumblr.com/post/172594228383/234-lesson-lesson don't have celestial affinities], so their abilities are of a different nature.
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** Volnoryezka ("Wave Rider" in Russian), Cascade, and Maelstrom have water powers.
** Dark Wind has powers over smoke, haze, and mist.
** Gaea's Children are an entire team of eco-terrorist supervillains with
** The Four Winds are a supervillain team who all have control over a different aspect of the weather: Flurry has wind and cold powers; Hurricane has wind and water powers; Sirocco has wind and heat powers; and Tornado has wind and speed powers.
** John Colbert, a student at the [[Super
** Dust Devil has control over both wind and sand.
** Typhoon has "storm powers" that give him control over wind, electricity, and water.
* Nearly everyone in [[Trinton Chronicles]] from hero, villian, to [[Innocent Bystander|every-day-citzens]] has one of the above abilities or [[Mix and Match|more then one in some cases]]. Magic is treated like [[For Science!|science]] as it is learnable by all and everyone uses it
* ''[[Chaos Fighters]]'' is rife with this. Without counting the [[Power Levels
* In the web novels of ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' it seems like everyone has one form of elemental based powers.
* A work in progress, [
** Lightning-Powerful, yet fast fading.
** Water-Versatility.
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** Air-Persistence and loyal.
** Ice-Loss of Sanity.
** Mind-Underhanded and Manipulative.
* In [[
* In the hybrid webcomic/browser game ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' has only one element-- ''Metal''.
* Shendu's family of demons from ''[[
* ''[[Captain Planet and
* ''[[
** Note that the Avatar cycle goes in the same order as the elements are called out on ''Captain Planet'', corresponding with the ancient Greek order: Air (warm and wet) to Water (cold and wet) to Earth (cold and dry) to Fire (hot and dry) to Air...
** One unique theme is the presence of the titular [[Messianic Archetype|Avatar]]- a reincarnated figure who can (with training and time) [[The Red Mage|harness the powers of all four elements]], and serves more or less as the resident [[Superhero]]. It also has not only the cast but ''entire nations'' themed around the elements- the [[The Empire|Fire Nation]], the [[The Kingdom|Water Tribes]], the Air Nomads and the [[The Federation|Earth Kingdom]]. A certain percentage of people born within those countries tend to manifest their signature elemental power, with no known exceptions besides the Avatar.
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** There are also a few odd clans with their own takes on bending, like swampbenders and sandbenders.
*** For clarification: those are ''not'' separate elements, but specific disciplines of waterbending and earthbending developed by some tribes to better suit the areas they live in (swamps and deserts, respectively).
* ''[[
** Metalbending has become more widespread, and an entire police force of metalbenders keeps order in [[City of Adventure|Republic]] [[Wretched Hive|City]].
* ''[[
* ''[[WITCH (
** Actually justified in the comic book: Cornelia got Earth power because she was the most grounded, as declared by Yan Lin when she gave the protagonists their powers, while Taranee is noted many times as being the one you can't piss off, as provoking her is like pouring napalm on fire (as Cedric cried at Elyon after the latter did just that and Taranee started melting the building. There WAS a reason if Cedric told her to leave Taranee alone for all the issue while Taranee was their prisoner...).
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' - Bloom (Fire), Stella (Light), Musa (Sound), Flora (Earth/Air), Tecna (Metal), Layla (Water/Plasma) and Roxy (Animals).
* Many of the aliens in the Ben10 series have these kind of powers. Most notably however is in [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]], Ben obtains the forms of five aliens who each possess one of these: Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, and Lightning.
**
* ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' already [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever|Fails Religious Studies Forever]] in its portrayal of Wicca, but just to make sure, at the end the Hex Girls sing a song naming the elements as "Earth, Wind, Fire, Air". Yes, it rhymes, yes it scans, but...what happened to Water?
** Hello, they're witches. They don't work well with Water.
* ''[[Gormiti The Lords Of Nature]]'' Has four kids with the power of Air, Earth, Water and Forest, with the fifth being Light.
* ''[[Ninjago]]'' The four ninja have the powers of Fire (Kai), Earth (Cole), Electricity (Jay), and Ice (Zane)
== [[Real Life]] ==
* In east-Asian tactics, there's the concept of the ''Furinkazan'': Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain; the idea that success requires superior mobility ("Be as swift as the wind"), superiority in intelligence ("As silent as the Forest"), superior firepower at the point of attack ("As fierce as Fire"), and superior will ("As unmoving as the Mountain").
** In other words, being [[BlazBlue|Bang Shishigami]].
* The classical elements are actually [[Fridge Brilliance]] when compared to the four basic organic elements that also happen to be some of the most abundant in the universe: hydrogen (1), carbon (6), nitrogen (7), and oxygen (8). All four are rock forming elements (earth), water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, nitrogen and oxygen together make up 98% of Earth's atmosphere (air), and hydrogen and hydrocarbons are combustible when exposed to oxygen (fire). All four of these actual elements can combine to make the classical elements.
** The four states of matter (solid, liquid, gas and plasma) is also mentioned in this. The obviousness of it is that earth is primarily solid; water, while it possesses the first three states depending on the temperature, is liquid; air is gas; and fire is charged up gas, or plasma.
*** Does that mean "aether" corresponds to Einstein-Bose Condensate?
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