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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!

 

 

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.

Water is also required for [[Super Drowning Skills]] and [[Hazardous Water]].

 

 

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]]).

May overlap with [[Elemental Shapeshifter]].

 

 

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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]].

* 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 (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' has Om the Water Queen and Orca, both of whom use water in the form of bubbles.

* ''[[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)|Heroes]], {{spoiler|Tracy}} gains this power after coming [[Back From the Dead]] during the Volume 4 finale.

* The main character in the 1998 ''[[Merlin (Film)|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]].

* Water is the totem (and weapon) of Translucent of the ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series.

* 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.}}

* 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.

* Splash Warfly from ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 7''.

* ''[[From Dust (Video Game)|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...

 

 

** 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?

* Water pressure cutters, going as high as 50,000PSI to cut through thin sheets of things like titanium with pure dihydrogen monoxide. For thicknesses up to eight inches, an abrasive component is added, but it's still mostly 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.

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