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The [[Monster of the Week]] is apparently [[Immune to Bullets]], but not only that, it's getting stronger too! Maybe you shot it with an Energy Weapon, maybe you intervened in a situation and [[Reed Richards Is Useless|caused a worse problem to appear]] or maybe you just hit its [[Berserk Button]], but it didn't die, and now it's stronger than ever.
▲The [[Monster of the Week]] is apparently [[Immune to Bullets]], but not only that, it's getting stronger too! Maybe you shot it with an Energy Weapon, maybe you intervened in a situation and [[Reed Richards Is Useless|caused a worse problem to appear]] or maybe you just hit its [[Berserk Button]], but it didn't die, and now it's stronger than ever. [[Feed It With Fire]] is the process by which attempting to [[Kill It With Fire|kill or destroy]] something ends up making it grow, [[Adaptive Ability|become more powerful]], or otherwise [[Infernal Retaliation|help it out.]]
▲[[Feed It With Fire]] occurs most often as a form of [[Energy Absorption]], although [[Energy Absorption]] is one specific type of [[Feed It With Fire]]. If punching a man makes him get stronger, or attempting to stamp out a religion gives it martyrs and helps it spread, that's a case of [[Feed It With Fire]]. If shooting a laser at the enemy makes it grow stronger, then it's both. If you're using lightning to animate a dead body, that's just [[Energy Absorption]].
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* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]
Compare [[Heal It
A form of [[Attack Backfire]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]''
** Android 19 absorbs Ki blasts to increase its power through its hands. Vegita killed it by popping its arms off.
** Cooler, from one [[Non
** In the series proper, Goku also kills a minor minion in the Buu saga this way.
** Also, each time a part-Saiyan heals from a near-mortal wound, they come back significantly stronger. Vegeta dangerously, deliberately uses this to his advantage, in addition to the incidental uses by most of the other part- or full-Saiyans. Turns out that teaming up a guy who gets dramatically stronger after recovering from injury with a guy whose power is to heal other people's injuries works pretty well.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', all of the Dragon Slayers can eat their element to heal themselves and boost their attacking power-resulting in a literal example of this trope's name,as the main male lead ''eats fire''.
* ''[[Kirby:
* Subverted in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', where the demon Byako gets stronger by absorbing the energy from Kuwabara's aura sword, until he takes in too much, causing him to get indigestion.
* In ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[Evolution (
* The Ultimate Evil from ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is basically the ultimate example of this trope. '''Any''' hostile action '''at all''' directed at it will cause it to grow stronger, as it feeds off of negative feeling.
* Literally true with [[Gamera]]. In one movie, he is healed by crashing into an oil refinery and absorbing the resulting explosion.
== Folklore and [[Mythology]] ==
* The hydra, of [[Greek Mythology]], would grow two heads in place of each one you cut off unless, ironically, you [[Kill It
== [[Literature]] ==
* Fred and George Weasley of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' designed their fireworks in ''[[Harry Potter and
* In the book ''Pyramid Scheme'', {{spoiler|the aliens wanted to provoke the humans into nuking their device so it could absorb the energy and become unstoppable.}}
* In ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'', the scientists at the containment facility figure that if whatever they're studying gets out of control, they'll nuke it. Bad idea - the strain has mutated to the point where it can feed on nuclear radiation.
** [[The Professor Is Crying Again|Wait... That doesn't even make sense!!! A nuclear bomb works by causing an explosion, not massive amounts of radiation!]] [[
* In the novel ''Meg'', blinding the nocturnal giant shark made it deadlier, as its other senses compensated for its blindness and now it could hunt during the day.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Played straight many times in ''[[Stargate SG
** An alien time-capsule like thing absorbs staff blasts to help it grow
** An Ori shield generator type thing absorbs the orbital fire directed towards it and uses it to expand.
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** Inverted in the ''Stargate SG-1'' season 10 finale, when the heroes absorb enemy fire to power a time machine. (In case it's not clear, the inversion is that the ''main characters'' use this, instead of having it happen to the [[Monster of the Week]].)
* Adam from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' was able to absorb energy from the [[Family-Friendly Firearms|electricity guns]] that the Initiative used. It only really came up once though, presumably to prove that [[Guns Are Useless]].
* Another inversion where it applies to the main character is [[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[
* Some ''[[Magic:
* '[[Warhammer Fantasy]]''
** The dragon ogres gain much of their power (and immortality) from lightning. Casting lightning bolt on them is a bad idea.
** One dragon ogre character has the special rule "Lightning Rod". Any lightning-based attack used within a certain radius will automatically redirect to him, and it grants him power just the same as his weaker relatives.
* Very common in games of ''[[The Awful Green Things From Outer Space]]'' until the crew work out what weapons will kill the things and which will make them grow larger.
* ''[[Dungeons
** Electricity and lightning cause Shambling Mounds to increase in size and [[Hit Points]].
** Hitting an iron golem with magical fire restores lost [[Hit Points]].
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** The move "Bide" increases its attack power with every point of damage taken during the time your Pokémon "bides its time," and "Rage" starts out as a weak move, but each hit your Pokémon takes pumps its Attack stat as long as it keeps using the move.
** There are also some Pokémon abilities<ref>Water Absorb, Volt Absorb, Flash Fire, Motor Drive, Lightningrod, Storm Drain, Justified, Sap Sipper, and Dry Skin</ref> that heal a Pokemon's health or raise a stat when the Pokémon is hit by a certain type of attack, instead of damaging them.
* In ''[[Crysis (
* The adult Sheegoths in ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', they absorb most energy weapons into their ice-like carapace.
** As do Elite Pirates.
* In the ''[[
** In ''[[
* In ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', Dragons, Aqua Demons, and Mystic Beasts are innately immune to fire, ice, and wind respectively, but if they're donning equipment with a Lover on it, they absorb a percentage of the damage they would've taken as HP instead.
** There's also the Holy Dragon, who can absorb non-elemental special attacks, which is much more useful (Or annoying) then the abilities possessed by the previously mentioned monsters, due to how prevalent such attacks are.
** Considering how ridiculously over the top some of the stronger attacks are, it can be quite comical to see these monsters get healed by things like disintegration, [[Earthshattering Kaboom|world ending explosions]], or being sliced in half.
* In ''[[The Story Of Thor]]'' for SegaMegaDrive, there's an enemy that takes the form of a string of flames moving around the area. Predictably, attacking it with fire-based attacks restores its health.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' the villain Kuja has just figured out that he can use the game's [[Limit Break]] system in order to make himself nigh-unstoppable, after absorbing a whole bunch of souls. All he needs is a lot of aggressive energy to trigger the [[One-Winged Angel|transformation]]. So naturally he [[Batman Gambit|walks right up to the heroes and starts a boss fight.]]
* ''[[
** Using Bubble Lead on Bubble Man will fully heal him.
** Using Crash Bombs on Heat Man will fully heal him
** Using ''any'' weapon other than {{spoiler|Bubble Lead}} on the final boss will fully heal it.
* [[ROM Hack]] ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]'' has Dust Man. When he is [[Sucking
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'', the replicator pods on Ghost Planet are found to grow when hit with Space Ghost's destructo ray. This being Space Ghost, it takes him awhile to stop shooting his ray even after he realizes that it's making it grow. Eventually, he uses this to make the one next to Zorak gigantic.
* In the [[Kaiju]] parody episode of ''[[
* ''[[Godzilla:
* ''[[
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* One of the villains of ''[[Captain Planet]]'' was once tricked into using a lightning attack on Captain Planet himself... Apparently striking someone, created by the spirit of the earth who is more or less a force of nature himself, with lightning will ''empower'' him.
* In the ''[[Earthworm Jim (
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* Gigabyte and the Web Virus from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Attempting to persecute Religions often makes [[Self Fulfilling Prophecies]] come true, and gives the religion Martyrs, helping them to grow in number and influence.
* In biology, this trope occurs when an infection is partly eradicated by an antibiotic, but not completely, giving the thing time to adapt and thus making it immune to this antibiotic in the future, and thus creating even worse strains.
* Don't spray that water-based Fire Extinguisher on an electrical fire!
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