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== [[Advertising]] ==

* One of the brands of Leggs® panty hose was called "Sheer Energy".

 

* The "Pure Energy items are indestructible" thing shows up all the time in the [[Marvel Universe]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', a tower is built out of [[A Wizard Did It|pure magic]].

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]'', the original series at least, might as well be the trope namer. The number of times Spock says "Pure Energy" over the course of the series is only rivaled by the number of times he says "[[Planet of Hats|Near Earth parallel]], captain."

 

* ''In [[Might and Magic]] VI'', gold dragons and energy drakes hand out "energy" damage as distinct from fire, cold or electric, and so do "Ancient Weapons".

 

 

* This is a pretty common power type in the ‘’[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]’’. Victory, Evengella, Argent, both Quantums (one an American superhero with [[Physical God|vast and near-limitless power]], the other a Spanish hero with not quite as much power), Silverwing, and the Chaos Lord all use the “cosmic energy” rational, and some use the “energy can’t be destroyed” assumption as well.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Energon, so near as we can tell, is Pure Energy which has been poured into a box for easy storage.

** The late G1 episode, "Call of the Primitives", featured a monster named Tornedron who was described as being made of "pure energy", thereby allowing him to assume many (apparently solid) forms and making him superior to Unicron, a being of matter... ''riiiight''.

** Other incarnations, like ''[[Beast Wars]]'', made Energon into a form of [[Green Rocks]] that generate a lot of power and have all sorts of funky effects.

** G1 Energon is weird. Any source of fuel can be poured into a cube made of... white outlines... and once inside, it promptly turns into glowy stuff that robots can ''drink'' or use to fuel stuff. All the other series (including ''[[Beast Wars]]'', which actually follows G1) treat it as a natural resource that can be mined. [[Made of Explodium|It still blows up if you rub it the wrong way]], though. Interestingly, most if not all weapons made of Pure Energy in ''Transformers'' are called "energon weapons". They seem to be quite solid. In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the shiny parts of a weapon that's mostly made of shiny can ''hold the solid parts in place.'' It's... pretty safe to say that it all runs on [[Rule of Cool]].

* Dexter of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' once tried to produce pure energy in his laboratory. In the few moments before his machine crashed, it was depicted as a giant glowing atom (you get a better view of it in [[Cloudcuckoolander|his grandfather's]] [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|Rube Goldberg machine]]).

* Megabyte in ''[[ReBoot]]'' once extracted all the energy in Mainframe's core and converted it into a liquid state which was stored in a "transformer". But since this pure energy was unnatural it caused problems when the User loaded a game, including forcing the game to land on the Principal office, corrupting the game and turning Megabyte into a Megatruck.