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[[File:Hydroblast.jpg|link=Magic: The Gathering|frame| [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hydroblast]]!!!]]
{{quote|''"There is nothing softer and weaker than water,''
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You attack with the stuff that makes up 60% of your body mass, covers 70% of the Earth's surface, and falls from the sky on an regular basis: '''{{color|navy|water}}'''. Just plain old reliable water. It may not scream "[[Stuff Blowing Up|explosive devastation]]" like fire and lightning does [[Giant Wall of Watery Doom|(until you see the water-mage drop a tsunami on an entire battalion of enemy mooks)]], but you can't trump water's versatility and availability. Flood 'em, drown 'em, frost 'em, steam 'em, wash 'em, whatever. And no, we don't use that water to [[Healing Hands|heal someone]], that's for the [[White Mage]]. Use it to ''kill'' someone!
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A water controller's biggest weakness is that they usually [[Elemental Baggage|must be in the vicinity of water to be effective]]. Not a problem in a modern city if they can affect underground plumbing, but if it's not raining and they're nowhere near a source of water, they might be SOL. It's very rarely addressed that they could just sap the water directly from a person's body, killing or weakening them instantly, but this could be an issue of [[Rule of Cool|dramatic license]], since that would result in some very short and uninteresting fight scenes.
There are also beings like [[Marvel Comics]]' Hydro-Man and ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'''s Liquidator, who are sentient masses of water. Beating them can be tough as bullets and fists can simply punch through them to no effect while energy weapons' beams can be scattered though the substance. Furthermore, they usually change their shape at will, pass through anything that is not watertight and hit with concentrated blasts of their own mass. However, there are ways of defeating them: you can freeze them, you can evaporate them, you can make them lose cohesion by hitting them with electricity to induce electrolysis, or you can contaminate their bodies with a solidifying material, like cement or bake mix, to immobilize them.
Water is also required for [[Super Drowning Skills]] and [[Hazardous Water]].
In most cases, this power [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|beats]] [[Playing with Fire]]. A [[Sub-Trope]] of sorts is [[An Ice Person]]; both can be very dangerous indeed, if the two are combined. See [[Kill It with Water]] for cases where this is [[Super Effective]]. [[Soft Water]] may still be in
If you came here looking for [[Splash Damage]] tropes, you would do well to go to [[Splash Damage Abuse]], and to [[Shockwave Stomp]] for situations where [[Shockwave Stomp|the stomp]] isn't [[Cutscene Power to the Max|purely decorative]]).
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* According to the video games, ''[[Bleach]]'''s Jushiro Ukitake's Zanpakutou is water-based (the only power it's been shown with in the actual manga so far is {{spoiler|absorbing and redirecting energy attacks}}). Whether it is actually water-based is unknown, but its release command ("All waves, rise now and become my shield! Lightning, strike now and become my blade!") and translated name ("Law of the Twin Fish") strongly suggests that it is. His former lieutenant Kaien Shiba's Zanpakuto, Nejibana, ''is'' 100% water based.
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** Also, the {{spoiler|Third Espada, Tier Harribel, when she uses Resurrección.}}
* Umi Ryuuzaki of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' uses mostly water magic, although her ultimate one is [[An Ice Person|ice]].
* Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury and Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', though Mercury occasionally dabbles in [[An Ice Person|ice]] [[Super-Hero Speciation|to differentiate the two]].
* In the manga/anime ''[[X 1999]]'', Dragon of Earth Yuto Kigai is a water master, able to summon floods and hurl water bolts.
* ''[[Air Gear]]'' has Om the Water Queen and Orca, both of whom use water in the form of bubbles.
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* In the "Big Trouble in Nekonron, China" ''[[Ranma ½]]'' movie, Ranma was able to ''punch'' the water spurts coming from the geysers around them in order to create steaming hot water projectiles that could hit his opponent, no matter what his defenses.
** In what is arguably Cologne's personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], very early on, she was able to blast seawater at Ranma in the shape of a great white shark. This, after effortlessly whirling her staff while underwater to create a massive waterspout.
* The Watery from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. There
** As well, the antagonist of the first movie utilizes water-based powers.
* Mitarai "Seaman" Kiyoshi of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has the ability to animate water to attack people with by mixing his blood in it.
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** Another used it more epicly. Fugen Shinjin (a deliberate [[Expy]] of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Kaworu Nagisa]]) controls atoms with his paopei. He warns his enemies before blasting them. He used light water mist as the first warning, sharp ice formations as his last warning, and when it didn't work, ''he used the hydrogen atoms to create deuterium and tritium and initiate a nuclear fusion reaction instantly''. Cue [[Stuff Blowing Up]].
* In ''[[Flame of Recca]]'', Mikagami Tokiya uses a water sword, which he can form whenever there's a water source. His water-based power works well against Recca's [[Playing with Fire|flame powers]], but during the rematch, Recca amplified his flame powers so that the water boiled to steam, nullifying the effect. Note that the water around the sword is finite (meaning he needs another water source to "recharge"), while Recca's flame is infinite.
** It should be noted that he can make his sword even stronger simply by absorbing more water. Hell, before one early battle, he absorbs all the water from an entire
** Also, once, when his sword had its water removed or something, he used {{spoiler|his own blood}} to reactivate it.
* In ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]'', one of the enemies Alita fights uses a molecule-thin stream of water fired at supersonic speeds. [[w:Water jet cutter|It cuts through steel with shocking ease.
* Hajime, the Leafe Knight of Water, from ''[[Prétear]]''; and it's just
* One half of Fate Averruncus' abilities in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
** {{spoiler|Also the stated elemental abilities of the newly appeared Sextum.}}
* Juvia Loxar from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has water powers as an Elemental Four member. She can turn her [[Elemental Shapeshifter|body into water and prevent physical attacks]] and initially had rain surrounding her constantly, which she can heat up and scald you when she gets angry.
** Also, [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Mirajane
* [[Yaiba|The Water Orb of Suijin]] grants you this power. Also, Rain the Water Demon. She can easly give lessons on how to [[Kill It with Water]].
* In ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'', [[Lonely Rich Kid|Karen]] becomes Cure ''Aqua''. Guess what she uses to fight. Go on, guess.
* [[Token
* ''[[Wagaya no Oinari-sama.]]'' has Kou, a [[Miko]] whose impressive hydrokinetic powers are a result of a water dragon god ("Mizuchi"
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'': With [[Reality Warper|Haruhi]] subconsciously blurring the line between reality and her movie, one of the devastating abilities Mikuru's toy guns take on is recoillessly firing terrifically-powerful blasts of water.
* [[Only One Name|Eisen]] in ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de]]'' has water-based [[Elemental Powers|powers]].
* Lala Lu's power with water in [[Now and Then, Here and There]] may not be offensive per se, but she certainly uses it that way.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'''s first episode introduced (and promptly killed) Isaac MacDougall, the Freezing Alchemist. Don't let his title fool you, though. [[Red Baron|The Freezer]] uses water for everything, from ice-based weaponry to high pressure cutting tools, and can kill you by either flash freezing or boiling all the water in your body. This is a guy who definitely knows how to [[Kill It with Water]].
* While no one with the ability to remotely manipulate water has shown up in ''[[One Piece]]'' yet, many of the [[Fish People|Fishmen]] do it the old fashion way - by hand. [[Complete Monster|Arlong]] could fling water with the force of a bullet, while his archerfish underling Chew could spit water with the power of a cannon or the speed of a [[Gatling Good|machine gun]]. Standing above both of them is the whale shark Jinbe, whose mastery of [[Fantastic Fighting Style|Fishman Karate]] lets him manipulate water like cloth, manually throwing waves or lances of water that can blast through battleships at his opponents.
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*** And, quite frankly, that pretty much eliminates any possibility of a water-based Devil Fruit. Even Oda couldn't come up with enough [[It Runs on Nonsensoleum|Nonsensoleum]] to explain how that could be possible.
** From the second movie, [[Ms. Fanservice|Honey Queen]] ate a [[Elemental Shapeshifter|Logia Devil Fruit]] that lets her turn into a pink liquid, and she always [[Power Perversion Potential|takes her clothes off when doing so]].
* In the ''[[Kirby:
* Mew Lettuce of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' can control water and breathe underwater. She doesn't use the latter ability much, however.
* [[Archangel Gabriel]]'s dominion in ''[[
* Mio Mizumori from ''[[Ten Yori Mo Hoshi Yori Mo]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Aquaman]]'' himself doesn't have any abilities that influence water itself, per se, but his wife, Mera, could control it to the point of a [[Green Lantern Ring]], as could the destructive denizen of Sub Diego, the Eel.
** ...and don't forget his little buddy Aqualad, currently Tempest, whose magic powers grant him elemental control over water.
** The [[Tangent Comics]] version of Aquaman was a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] turned sentient ''ocean'', as well.
** [[Silver Age]] Aquaman ''did'' have the ability to gather seawater into a hard ball and hurl it at his underwater foes. It could knock them off their seahorses.
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* The Bill Willingham's ''Elementals'' had Fathom, who could shoot, control, [[Elemental Shapeshifter|turn into]], or breathe water (and the vampires of that 'Verse were the water-killed variety too). The newer but unrelated [[Top Cow]] ''Fathom'' is part of a whole race with similar powers.
* In ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', Bridgette has this as a power, along with [[An Ice Person|ice]].▼
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* In [[Keepers of the Elements]], Bridgette has this as a power, along with [[An Ice Person|ice]].
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', John gains complete control over water, thanks to the magical Kansael that embedded itself in his chest. Being an [[Actual Pacifist]], he doesn't do much more than play with it (though he did some pretty heavy-duty undead ass-kicking in the Plains of Death), but in several places, it's implied that he could be incredibly scary if he did some of the things the Kansael suggested to him. He seems to have some degree of control over the weather as well.
* ''[[Rise of the Galeforces]]'' gives us [[Hot Dad|David Squall/Splashdown.]] It helps to remember that he is essentially an [[Expy]] of Aquaman.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Carrie]]'', Norma Watson (P.J. Soles) is killed when a fire hose, controlled by the titular character, hits her in the face, breaking her neck with the pressure.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'': although the three girls have powers over water, Cleo is the only one who can actually control it and manipulate it. Emma is definitely [[An Ice Person]] while Rikki leans more towards [[Playing with Fire]].
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|Tracy}} gains this power after coming [[Back
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Waters of Mars", {{spoiler|a flood of water controlling viruses from the planet Mars infected the water supply of a human base. In a rare example, they could take over a human's body, making them akin to zombies.}}
* The main character in the 1998 ''[[Merlin (TV miniseries)|Merlin]]'' series.
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' has had a few water users in its history, including [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Kiva's]] Basshaa Form, [[Kamen Rider Decade|Abyss]], and [[Kamen Rider OOO|OOO ShaUTa Form]].
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' has featured a few heroes who can manipulate water - chiefly the [[Water Is Blue|Blue Rangers]] of each team. Examples include the [[Seijuu Sentai Gingaman|Gingaman]], [[Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger|Hurricangers]], [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger|Magirangers]], [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger|Shinkengers]], and [[Tensou Sentai Goseiger|Goseigers]]. Driven home by [[Milestone Celebration]] installment ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', where GokaiBlue uses a finishing move referencing said Blues against a [[Monster of the Week]].
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Water Lily, aka Jane Doe, in ''[[Wild Cards]]'' is able to control water {{spoiler|in lethal ways. She once sucks out the water out of a person.}}
* There was a short Sci-Fi story where a worker at a salvage yard used a portable [[wikipedia:Water cutter|Water Jet Cutter]] to dismember his attacker.
* The Fantasy trilogy ''[[Chronicles Of The Raven]]'' has a wonderful example where three dimensional mages open a gate to a dimension made entirely of water and use it to flood a whole valley of invaders.
* Watercrafters in ''[[Codex Alera]]'' may be better known for being healers and [[The Empath|Empaths]], but they can also drown you on dry land if you piss them off. They can also control water, though not to the same dramatic effect as [[Dishing Out Dirt|earthcrafters]] or [[Playing with Fire|firecrafters]] with their respective elements. They also [[Older Than They Look|look much younger than they really are]], as a side effect of their healing prowess, and specialist watercrafters known as "witchmen" also use their talents to keep powerful ocean beasts from detecting their ships as they pass over.
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians
* In the ''[[Star Trek Novel Verse]]'', the aquatic Alonis do not possess opposable digits. In order to build a civilization, they instead use their limited but effective telekinetic control over water. They essentially "shape" the water into "tools". The exact limit on the ability has not been determined (yet) but, possibly, it depends on the individual.
* In
* The ''[[Elemental Masters]]'' series by [[Mercedes Lackey]] has several Water Masters/mages, the main ones being Peter Scott, Lord Peter Almsley, and Marina Roeswood.
* In ''[[Shadow Ops]]'', hydromancers can control water. They can also either heat up or cool down water, allowing them to generate ice or steam as needed, which makes them useful as medics for burn victims, or as breachers for knocking down doors or walls.
== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
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** Incidentally, he's also a god of earthquakes. So he doesn't just kill you with water.
* Many other gods, obviously, both of the sea and freshwater bodies. Examples include Oceanus (also from [[Classical Mythology]]), [[Celtic Mythology|Mannan Mac Lir]], [[Norse Mythology|Njord]], and [[Egyptian Mythology|Sobek]], as well as the many kinds of nymphs and fairies and the like.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20090218192522/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4067 Jokulhaups], one of the earliest [[Reset Button]] (i.e. kill everything!) cards of the game. But why does it use mountain mana? [[Fridge Brilliance|Because Jokulhaups are the result of melting a glacier, which would require a lot of red mana.]]
** A student mage in the Kamigawa novels tries to explain the strength of water by talking about the strength of a ''tsunami'' breaking apart a ship.
* A few ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Rifts]]'' features an optional (and somewhat underwhelming) Psychic Character class called the Soaker, a character with hydrokinetic powers.
* In ''[[Anima: Beyond Fantasy]]'', one can specialize in Water-based magic, which allows both for the control of water and [[An Ice Person|ice.]]
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** Don't forget the tidal wave she summoned against [[The Starscream|Icarax]] when he pissed her off...
*** That was the same incident. Icarax beat down the five other members of Gali's team, and when he started [[Evil Gloating|gloating on top of that]], she took the opportunity to charge up her [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Nova Blast]]. That is, she drew in every bit of moisture within a radius of several kilometers, then unleashed it all as a giant tidal wave. Icarax escaped with the [[MacGuffin]] because Gali couldn't control the wave well enough to wring it from his grasp (most likely due to already having spent all her [[Magic Points|elemental energy]] on creating the wave in the first place), but at least the six Toa survived.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* Sougetsu Kazama of ''[[Samurai Shodown]]''.
* Rikuo/Aulbath in ''[[Darkstalkers]]''.
* Tytti Noorbuck, herald of Water Elemental Lord, in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''
* Kira Daidouji in ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' has the default Arcana of Water.
* [[Metal Gear]] Ray can shoot a high-pressure stream of water from it's "mouth", and it's a devastating attack [[Power Glows|that even looks like a laser.]]
* Water-type ''[[Pokémon]]'', with attacks like Water Gun, Surf, and Hydro Pump. In keeping with the frequent subtrope of water-based attackers also being able to use ice-based attacks, almost all Water-type Pokémon can also learn Ice-type attacks like Ice Beam and Blizzard.
** Water-type specialty Trainers include Misty, Wallace, Juan, Crasher Wake, and Cress.
** One of the available starters for any generation of ''Pokémon'' games is always a Water-type. They are generally ''very'' useful in the early game - in three of the five generations, the first Gym Leader is a Rock-type specialist - but not so much against the Elite Four/Champion.
** Somewhat played straight (by name) yet subverted.
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* Mercury Adepts in ''[[Golden Sun]]'' are both this and the [[White Mage]] version in one handy package. Most of their later moves seem to involve [[An Ice Person|encasing their opponents in ice]]. Mia is a classical [[White Magician Girl]] and Piers is a much more offensive version. [[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]] includes Mia's son, Rief, as a [[Gender Flip|Staff Dude]] and {{spoiler|Alex's son}}, Amiti, as a [[Magic Knight]]. Mia's daughter also makes an appearance and is stated to share her family's element.
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* Frog of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''. Being a, well, frog, Spekkio gave him Water magic.
** Ice is not considered its own element in the game, and so all ice attacks do water damage (which means that Marle, who is the healer/[[An Ice Person|ice user]] of the team, is given a water element).
* One of the more powerful attacks for the ''flamethrower'' in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' is a torrent of water that also pushes the victim a long distance.
* Demyx, from ''[[Kingdom Hearts
** Aqua from ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
* Lots of dams [[Stuff Blowing Up|get destroyed]] over the course of the ''[[Command
* Carlo Belfrond, Psychiccer of Water from ''[[Psychic Force]] 2'' and second-in-command of the [[An Ice Person|Psychiccer of Ice, Keith]].
* The Chrono Cryo soldiers cleanse with water. By freezing their enemies to death.
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* Frost Mages in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' have the ability to summon water elementals (not ice, for some reason) to fight by their side for a little while. Shamans also use water to restore their mana and help them heal. The graphic of their final healing spell, Riptide, looks pretty much like you just dumped a bucket of water on the target.
** Probably related to the fact that they were the [[Summon Magic]] of Alliance Mages in ''[[Warcraft]] III'' and of Conjurers in ''Warcraft I''. Ice elementals are also extremely rare, being the result of conflict between the elemental lords of air and water.
*** Also, a few select NPCs are also able to cast Waterbolts, Tsunamis, or water geysers that hurl the opponent into the air.
* Chaos of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games is more or less a water elemental, ranging from a humanoid to a gigantic [[Combat Tentacles|Tentacle Monster]].
** And {{spoiler|Marine the Raccoon}} is like [[Playing with Fire|Blaze the Cat]], only with water, but she tries to keep it a secret until the end of the one game she appears in.
* The spitball in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]'' is more this than an actual spitball.
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* Water is the element of the ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' characters Margarete (first game), Anastasia (''Covenant''), and Mao (''From The New World''). This applies more to their physical attacks than their magic, due to the second two games using [[Powers as Programs]].
* Kraken from ''[[Heroes of Newerth]]'' uses this trope: his abilities include tsunami-powered running, summoning whirlpools, and actually making a splash, with which he delivers splash damage to everyone around his target.
* Bubble Kirby from the ''[[Kirby]]'' series.
* [[Memetic Badass|Captain Murasa]] of the ''[[Touhou]]'' games uses water for some of her spellcards, fitting her sailor theme.
** Let's not forget resident kappa Nitori Kawashiro, with the power to control water.
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* Splash Warfly from ''[[Mega Man X]] 7''.
* ''[[From Dust]]'' allows the [[A God Is You|player]] to pull water from the sea, lakes, rivers or even puddles, morph it into a ball, and hurl it about. Whether you're using it to install a water feature, combat a forest fire, or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|flood a village]] is up to you, however...
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The Aquahopper skill in ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'' lets Yui bounce her golf ball across water hazards to avoid landing in them. It is learned after beating her clone in golf.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', Cascadian foot soldiers are trained in this. Which is odd, because they live in a desert. They carry
▲* [[Panthera]]: [[Altum Videtur|Onca Aquae]], Jaguar of Water.
▲* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', Cascadian foot soldiers are trained in this. Which is odd, because they live in a desert. They carry water--with explosive fish inside--on their shoulders to shape into weapons.
* ''[[Wayward Sons]]'': Saiden. He can control its state of matter too, allowing him to form his weapon of choice, a trident, out of ice. He can even move a fleet of ships around, though he runs the risk of passing out from exhaustion when he does so.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' examples: Riptide, the girlfriend of protagonist Chaka, and Aquamaster of the West Coast League.
* Strangely, only Sabella in ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has any water-based powers. She also has one [[Shock and Awe|ability]] that she tends to mix with her hydroblasts to make them especially deadly. Aside from her liquid control, she also has the added gift of [[An Ice Person|freezing water]].
* ''[[Water Human]]''. He can attack people with masses of water, apparently has a
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', there's Vulnapyezdka ("Wave Rider" in Russian), who can [[Elemental Shapeshifter|turn into water,]] blast it from his hands, and survive underwater; Saraswati, an Indian superheroine who cannot generate water, but can telekinetically manipulate water in the environment (including pulling it out of a human body, if absolutely necessary); River, another [[Whatevermancy|Whatevermancer]]. Archdruid could control water telekinetically as well, as part of his [[Elemental Powers|overall control of the four classic elements]]. Maelstrom and Typhoon, who both could generate and control storms, could exercise some control over water, but their use of this power wasn't very precise, to say the least.
* In ''[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Waterbenders in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' tend both toward this and the [[White Mage]] version. Water can be used for healing along with manipulation of chi flow, but in its attack forms, it's used as a malleable weapon (wall-of-water ram, razor-whip,
* Gi of ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''.
* Zan of The Wonder Twins from ''[[Superfriends]]''. "Shape of...a monsoon!"
** Downpour, the character based on him from ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', actually makes it look badass by, among other things, attempting to drown Max Lord, sweeping a few dozen lava monsters off an oil rig, and turning himself into a tsunami. [[Shooting Superman|And then he tries to drown Aquaman.]]
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** Speaking of [[Aquaman]], in his own animated series, he could toss high-pressure concussive water balls, a power which has since been adapted into several animated, live-action, and comics versions of the character.
* In ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', Omi is the Xiaolin Dragon of Water when he's not [[An Ice Person]].
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' gives us the Liquidator.
* Aqualad in the animated series ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has these sorts of powers, which don't seem to work while he's ''UNDER'' water for some reason.
* Aquamaria of ''[[Static Shock]]''. She actually does well against Static (he's prone to shorts) until he realizes, hey, electrolysis!
* ''[[The Fairly
* Subverted in ''[[Winx Club]]'': while Layla comes from an ocean-based realm, and seems connected to water, her powers come from plasma, which appears in the show to be shiny, pink clay. This is very evident in the 4th season when, twice, the girls had to stop a housefire and Layla could not use her powers to douse it. Her Sophix seems to give her this power, though.
* The water demon Bai Tza from ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.
* The new Aqualad in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has this power to not only telekinetically control water, but turn it into weapons like a [[Cool Sword|sword]] or [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]].
* Irma Lair of ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Water cannons, although they're primarily used to push people.
** There are also the so-called "Disrupters" (not to be confused with the energy weapons from Star Trek), which fire water at extremely high speeds. Bomb defusing robots are equipped with these to short out the trigger mechanism of a bomb. Thanks to water creating no heat on impact, it normally doesn't trigger the explosive to go off.
* Super Soakers...What?
** Hey, it works for the [[wikipedia:Archerfish|archerfish]].
* [[w:Water
** High pressure water (or other liquids) can also have a nasty effect on human flesh. This is particularly a problem for submarines and machinery that involved liquids at high pressure (engine fuel injection systems can be nasty in this respect), where a leak can cause serious injuries.
** And when they need to take the paint off roads, they use sandblasting: high pressure water and sand.
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