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* Some hurriedly-introduced [[Applied Phlebotinum]] allows Zoro of ''[[One Piece]]'' to do this for Luffy.

* Joshua of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' was at least heavily implied to be like this. He wasn't an [[Ill Girl|Ill Boy]] until he got his powers, and he can't use his powers to heal himself. One of the extras on the DVDs state that this system is made to embody the virtue his power represents (Hope)--the more he uses his powers, the sicker he becomes, so the more he has to have hope for the future.

* Scheris Adjani's alter power in ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' has this as a primary ability, though it's only invoked once, when {{spoiler|sacrificing herself in order to bring Ryuhou back to life}}.

* Raven in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''.

* Inverted by Holden Carver aka The Conductor in ''[[Sleeper (Comic Book)|Sleeper]]'' - an alien artifact prevents him from feeling ''anything'', especially pain. Any time he's injured, he can transfer the pain he would feel to others by touching them.

* Nightingale in ''Marvel: The Lost Generation.''

* {{spoiler|Ginny}} in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[After the End (fanfic)|After the End]]''.

* John Coffey in ''[[The Green Mile]]'' has a variation; when he heals people, he takes their sickness and wounds inside himself, then expels them in a cloud of noxious black. It is not a pleasant experience, and if he doesn't expel it quickly, it takes a toll, but so long as he does expel it, there's no lasting damage.

** The position and type of the wounds inflicted on Wolverine have nothing in common with Rogue's. More likely she was draining so much of his power that his previous healings were starting to come undone—thus the gashes on his face and stuff.

*** Exactly. In one incident, Wolverine gets zapped by Rogue and is very ill until his healing factor kicks in. In another, he accidentally stabs her (don't startle the knife man up close), then purposely activates -her- power. Rogue gets -his- healing abillity and her stab wounds heal.

* Paul in, uh, ''[[Paul]]'' does this. He can also heal himself while he's at it, but it's exponentially more difficult with human healing.

* This is how healing works in ''[[Young Wizards]]''. However, only involves sharing the injured party's experiences, and not the actual injuries, though some serious healings require a bit of the wizard's blood (see ''[[Deep Wizardry]]'').

* Kane in Dennis L. McKiernan's ''Caverns of Socrates'' heals people in this manner, taking others' injuries onto himself.

* This is the power of Thom's in Perry Moore's ''Hero''. However there is a twist to it. {{spoiler|The emotional and physical pain Thom absorbs does affect him, but if he can handle it, it makes him stronger, to the point of being able to lift buildings, as shown in the end.}}

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Empath". The title character can do this, and her decision of whether to risk her life to save Dr. McCoy is a major plot point.

* ''[[Smallville]]''. In season 6, [[wikipedia:Chloe Sullivan|Chloe Sullivan]] acquires this power (among others).

* An episode of the short-lived horror anthology ''[[Night Visions]]'', "Now He's Coming Up the Stairs," starred Luke Perry as a psychotherapist with the ability to absorb his patients' mental disorders.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'', "The Gift." Doggett, looking for Mulder, investigates a town with a monster that turns out to be a healer that ''eats'' the illness out of people, absorbing it. Thing is, he's done it so many times and absorbed so many illnesses that he no longer looks human. {{spoiler|Like in the example mentioned above, Doggett is killed, and the healer ends his life by eating Doggett's death.}}

* Raw, the [[Cowardly Lion]] analogue in ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]].'' Within five minutes of screen time, he healed a nasty wound on Cain's leg, and affirmed that what DG and Glitch thought was just a [[Jerkass]] was really a [[Knight in Sour Armor]].

* In ''[[The 4400]]'', a one shot character had the ability to heal genetic defects and birth complications in vitro. Eventually it was revealed that he was taking these genetic defects into himself. Since he was already full grown, it didn't have any immediate result, but over time, combined with the sheer numbers he had healed, he became terminal.

* James Heath of ''[[Fringe]]'' used the inversion - he staved off his cancer by transferring it to others. Later in the series, he was able to take the sickness of others into himself.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has spells that cost the caster experience points or cause them to age rapidly for a limited time, depending on the edition. Sometimes the sacrifice can be transferred to or shared with others... voluntarily or not.

** AD&D 2nd edition psionic power Lend Health.

* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' Adepts plays this so straight that the actual name for the power is "Empathic Healing". A key thing to note, however, is that it's not only not guaranteed, it's ''very difficult'' to absorb the entire set of injuries, so there's not much risk in using the power on a gravely-injured man.

* This is how the Healer character class works in ''[[Role Master]]''—the spells learned are a free-form Empathic Healing list and lots of spells for healing yourself. Notable in that while [[Heroic Sacrifice]] is possible, there's actually a spell that allows you to [[Back from the Dead|raise the dead]] by ''giving up your own soul'' during the transfer process and then (while soulless) casting the spell to reclaim it.

* Ramza's "Wish" ability from ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''.

* Micaiah's "Sacrifice" ability in ''[[Fire Emblem]] Radiant Dawn''.

** Notably, Absorb Pain is considered an entirely dispensable power, especially considering that heals are inferior to [[Status Buff|buffs]] by ''far''.

* In ''[[Pokémon]]'', the move Pain Split works by adding up the HP of the two Pokemon and redistributing it to them equally. If you're lower than your opponent on health, you recover. If your opponent has less, you end up healing them at the cost of your HP. To my knowledge, you cannot use this in Double Battles to redistribute your HP through two of your Pokemon, sadly.

* Alicia, the titular witch of ''[[Bullet Witch]]'', can heal injured civilians this way. Her impressive regenerative powers will quickly nullify any damage she acquires this way, however.

* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', Akiha Tohno {{spoiler|gave half of her life force to Shiki after he was killed eight years ago, dooming herself to a "half life" (not to mention the complications with [[In the Blood|her blood]]). Shiki isn't much better off, either, but at least, he's alive and that's good enough for her}}.

* In ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'', Wilford Brimley has the ability to cure <s>diabetus</s> diabetes (which in the game is the equivalent of [[Standard Status Ailments|Poison]]) by taking it in as his own and worsening his own diabetus.

* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', Faen (and, it's implied, a good part of her family) have this power. It's not clear if she can die by healing, though.

* Adrak in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' can do this using the Nakta, which is usually a destructive force, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20140417050035/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2009-05-27 here].

* Nine from ''[[Machine Flower]]''. His entire trick is combining this with a [[Healing Factor]].

* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 He feels your pain.]

* Kerry, in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Not only does she take on the injury or illness of whoever she heals, but she gets major echoes of the last people she healed too. So she might heal your blindness and be blind for hours, but also get the agony of the cancer patient she cured last, and the cripple she healed before that, and...

** Even worse, she got captured by some people who forced her to cure person after person after person...

* Like her comic book counterpart, Raven in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Worth noting since the two versions don't share that many traits.