Ingesting Knowledge: Difference between revisions

See also [[Powers Asas Programs]], for abilities instead of knowledge, and [[Instant Expert]].

* On the first ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime, Scar somehow is able to absorb some of the investigations made by the Elric brothers related to the Laboratory Five.

* One [[Janosch (Creator)|Janosch]] story is about a family of mice where in the son became smart by eating books.

* In [[Through the Eyes of Another Pony (Fanfic)|Through the Eyes of Another Pony]], [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Princess Luna]] has a spell that allows her to absorb all knowledge in any written document (destroying the document in the process). She later bites off more than she could chew by using this to absorb {{spoiler|''the internet''}}.

* One episode of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' has Phoebe use a smart spell that allows her to absorb the knowledge of a book by waving her hands over it. When this happens, the pages flip by themselves and there's the sound of whispering, as if the worlds were being spoken in a sotto voice.

* Something of a [[Subverted Trope]], but in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Sylar can copy another character's powers by cutting open their skull and [[Awesomeness By Analysis|examining their brain]]. He doesn't actually eat their brain, though, calling that "disgusting."

* Happens in a vision in [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] (the book of Jeremiah).

** In another vision, the [[Book of Revelation (Literature)|Book of Revelation]], the narrator (who is by tradition the Apostle John) is told to do this, and he does. It's "sweet in his mouth, and bitter in his belly".

* The Space Marines of ''[[Warhammer 40 K40000]]'' deserve a mention as they were revealed in ''Deathwatch'' to be able to literally gain a person's recent memories by physically eating a portion of their brain. Tasty.

* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'', intellect devourers, small brain-sized creatures (with legs) can eat a victim's brain, then insert themselves into the skull and control the body like a meat puppet. (They can heal the grievous hole they needed to make in order to get inside.) Making matters worse, they absorb at least some of the victim's memories, making it easier to impersonate them.

* Until a recent update, your character in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online (Video Game)|Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' used stat-enhancing books pretty much exactly like this.

* Carbosilicate amorphs in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' evolved from data storage systems. They share memories by writing a copy into chosen piece of body, then exchanging and absorbing these.

* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''. In one episode a mage teaches her an ability to absorb (not literally) many books at the same time, as it's faster than reading them.