The Lifestream: Difference between revisions

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See also [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]. May be part of the conflict in a setting where [[Harmony Versus Discipline]] is used. Not to be confused with AIM's Twitter-esque status update feature.

* The Galaxy Cauldron from the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga.

* Something similar is seen in the [[Anime]] ''[[Mushishi]]''. The Lifestream is good for life in general, but it's dangerous to look at for long periods of time. Why? {{spoiler|Well, let's just say we hope you don't terribly miss [[Eye Scream|the use of your eyes]].}}

* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End of Evangelion]]'', there is a brief scene where Shinji Ikari is watching all the souls gathered from Third Impact flowing around in the Black Moon like a stream of water. Not really a surprise since the entire movie is a [[Downer Ending]].

* ''[[Kaiba]]'' has an interesting physical version of this: people's memories are gold-colored "roe", and ones that are no longer in use for whatever reason (often death), if they aren't stored in special facilities (or if those facilities are destroyed), will float up into outer space, so there is an enormous river of memory roe flowing through space.

* The Primary Village serves the same purpose in ''Digimon''. All slain digimon's data recollects itself here as eggs.

* [[Chrono Crusade]] also has this, referred to as, "The Astral Line".

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Comic Book Tropes|Comic book]] example: The Speed Force in [[The DCU]] is sometimes portrayed like this.

* The Keywork in [[Coheed and Cambria|The Amory Wars]] is a subversion: the souls are tortured and used as a fuel source for the entire galaxy. In fact, {{spoiler|there is an entire race, called Stars, who were created just for there to be more souls to burn.}}

 

 

== Film ==

* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' mythos, the Force is described as working like this, and characters who die are often described as becoming "one with the Force."

 

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The "Rebirth Into Death" setting in ''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'' poses that all life is ultimately part of one overarching source of life. In the beginning, living creatures were born randomly, but once humanity evolved, some souls retained their consciousness after death and figured out how to rig the life force (effectively creating chains of reincarnation). They stopped paying attention to it when some of their number worked out how to get into Paradise, and the system is breaking down - life energy is now going into corpses. Cue the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].

** Note that there's no Lifestream in a traditional sense; souls normally reincarnate, thus they enter Creation but doesn't leave it. The only way souls meet [[Final Death]] is by falling into Oblivion. The Neverborn want to [[Omnicidal Maniac|toss everything, themselves included]], into Oblivion.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* The Aether in ''[[Aion]]''. It's rather disturbingly also used as an all-purpose tool to power all kinds of things, such as flight, magic, armor, weapons, and force fields.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has [[MacGuffin|Kingdom Hearts]].

* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: Digital Devil Saga II'', the Sun holds the "data" of dead people until they reincarnate. Or, at least, it used to, before [[After the End|something went horribly wrong]]...

* How Mantra is portrayed in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. {{spoiler|Controlled by Chakravartin, a God who's a major asshole that thinks he does good deeds by testing the demi-gods that use the mantra he bestowed upon them by sending monstrous gohma to try and kill them.}}

 

 

== Webcomics ==

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** The name is changed to "The Well of All Sparks" in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', mostly because in this one the Allspark is an actual, physical item. This may or may not go for the movieverse as well.

 

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