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In most action games, there are [[Healing Potion|items that refill]] a little bit of your [[Hit Points|health]] and [[Mana|energy]] as soon as you touch them. Sometimes, there are special inventory items that completely refill your health or energy, or possibly both. In [[RPG
This is the
Compare [[Auto Revive]], [[Heart Container]].
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* The ''[[Blood]]'' series has the Doctor's Bag, which had enough supplies to return 100 hit points until exhausted or another is picked up.
== [[Hack and Slash
* Possibly an unintentional version in the ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'' game: By spending "soul" points (rather than collecting relics a la [[God of War (series)|God of War]]), you can purchase health and mana upgrades. When you purchase them, it also gives you the bonus of refilling the gauge to maximum. Because these upgrades can be purchased pretty much whenever you're permitted to pause, you can refill your health and mana at will in the middle of a fight, which helps to balance out the slew of incredibly cheap bosses the game throws at you.
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** The [[Metroid Prime]] trilogy also has the same mechanic.
** ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' features a variation: when Samus' HP are low, she can "Concentrate" to restore a small amount of HP (normally this only restores missiles). You can also collect E-Recovery Tanks which increase both the amount of HP restored and the threshold at which this option becomes available.
*** Super Metroid included a technique similar to the Concentration mechanic known as the Crystal Flash, the stricter requirements of which can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20140123064926/http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_Flash here]. It eats up a lot of your ammunition, but fully heals you, unlike Concentration, which can only replenish a number of your Energy Tanks based on how many E-Recovery Tanks you've collected (there are only three in the game). Also, unlike the Crystal Flash, which you're safe during and happens rather quickly, you can be hurt while concentrating and it'll take a while, but the rate at which you recover health and ammunition can be improved with Accel Charge powerups.
== [[Platform Game
* Named after the Energy Tank item from the ''Mega Man'' series. To use it, you go to the inventory screen and select it to refill your [[Hit Points|HP]]
** Debuted in ''[[Mega Man 2]]'', and [[Memetic Mutation|famously kept until the very end when fighting]] [[Blow You Away|AirMan]].
** The [[Sequel Series]] ''[[Mega Man X]]'' however had the rarer (four in the early games (X1-X3), and later only ''two'') but refillable Sub Tanks instead. These are carried over to the later [[Sequel Series]] in the timeline.
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* Potions in [[World of Warcraft]] work like this. They can be used in battle, but can't be spammed due to a long cool down that affects all potion usage and doesn't start until you leave combat. As such one must know when to use potions to avoid wasting it.
== [[Role
* In most ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, Elixirs restore all of your HP and MP, but are either not buyable or cost something obscene like [[Final Fantasy IV|100,000 gil]].
** Even better are the half a dozen or so Megalixirs and Megaphoenixes an average player is likely to find. These are held as sacred relics and only dug into when there's a boss you know you need the boost for.
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