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* Harry Dresden of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' does this on occasion. How do you escape a boat? Freeze part of a lake. How do you do that? Absorb the heat and release it as a fireball. [[spoiler: Takes it UpToEleven in Changes when he becomes the Winter Knight, doing this to ChainLightning dozens of mooks. Even Lea is impressed.]]

* In the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'', this is actually impossible without Subtractive Magic, and there's only one person [[spoiler: Richard, naturally]] who has been born with this power in three thousand years. [[spoiler: It was the Temple of the Winds leveling the playing field, because Jagang wasn't supposed to exist, either.]] There are a few people who managed to pick up Subtractive Magic, and thus this ability, by studying. There are also noted Banelings, including Darken Rahl and the Sisters of the Dark.

* Nacht of the ''WhateleyUniverse'' has magical darkness powers, and can absorb light-based attacks and make herself more powerful. Blot just absorbs all energy radiating on him all the time, which is why he looks like a human-shaped black spot all the time.

* Part and parcel of Dragon Slayer (along with other types of 'Slayer' magic) in ''Manga/FairyTail''. Users can produce, manipulate, and are immune to one element (Natsu is [[PlayingWithFire fire]], Gajeel is [[ExtraOreDinary iron]], Wendy is [[BlowYouAway air]], Laxus is [[ShockAndAwe lightning, Cobra is [[PoisonousPerson poison]], and so on) which they can also eat to heal and power themselves up.

* Natsu from ''Manga/FairyTail'', who uses Dragon Slayer Magic, can ''eat'' (and manipulate) fire. Ditto Gajeel with iron and Wendy with air.
** It should be noted that, at least for Natsu, different fire sources and colours have different tastes. This has been used as both gags and plot points several times throughout the series.
** Ditto with the God Slayers and apparently with the [[spoiler:Devil Slayers]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': Heatblast absorbs the fire in a burning building while saving the people trapped inside. Even in the first episode, after Ben using this form accidentally starts a forest fire and has no idea on how to stop it (it was a HowDoIShootWeb moment for the inexperienced Ben after all), his GenreSavvy grandfather Max points to him to use that alien's powers to absorb the flames.
* Some [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Firebenders]] can use their abilities to stop fires, most notably Fire Lord Sozin who was able to absorb heat from magma in order to stop it from flowing.

** Which is why characters never have [[PureEnergy Thauma]] resistance of any sort, and bosses get the Inversion: X attack which hits you with Thauma proportional to your resistance to X

* Certain Heartless from ''KingdomHearts'' (mainly the ones that look like flying lanterns) can do this. Physical attacks and forms of magic other than the one they use and especially one that's opposite their own (i.e. blizzard->fire or fire->blizzard, etc.) will cause it damage. Getting hit by a magic attack that's of the same element as their own restores energy. Blue Rhapsody uses and absorbs Blizzard attacks. Red Nocturne uses and absorbs Fire attacks. Yellow Opera uses and absorbs Thunder attacks. Green Requiem absorbs all magic attacks and heals itself and other Heartless. Aquatank, a fish-like Heartless who uses thunder magic in Atlantica will regain health if hit by thunder magic. (''Re: Chain of Memories'')

** Done even better when benders redirect lightning by having it pass through their body

* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': By default, most Toa are able to do this with their element. The only exceptions are [[GravityMaster Gravity]] and [[PsychicPowers Psionics]].

* [[TheMightyThor Thor]] can absorb electricity.

* In ''{{MARDEK}}'', if a character's [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental resistances]] exceed 100%, incoming attacks with that element will heal them. Which means that if they have 100%+ resistance to all 8, they'll be pretty much invincible. [[note]]Not only that, if any teammates have attacks in that element, they can [[FeedItWithFire direct them at the resistance guy]] [[EnergyAbsorption to heal him]].[[/note]]

* Most users of ElementalPowers in the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' can do this with their appropriate element, as long as they are capable of generating that element in the first place. If all they can do is manipulate the element, then absorption is usually beyond the scope of their power.

* Harry Dresden of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' does this on occasion. How do you escape a boat? Freeze part of a lake. How do you do that? Absorb the heat and release it as a fireball. [[spoiler: Takes it UpToEleven in Changes when he becomes the Winter Knight, doing this to ChainLightning dozens of mooks. Even Lea is impressed.]]
* Dragons in ''[[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]'' can swallow a flame, putting it out. This goes for candles, fireplaces, and forest fires (if the dragon is big enough). Most of the dragons in the series, however, are only big enough to swallow candle flames.
* Done from time to time in ''Literature/CodexAlera''.
* In the ''SwordOfTruth'', this is actually impossible without Subtractive Magic, and there's only one person [[spoiler: Richard, naturally]] who has been born with this power in three thousand years. [[spoiler: It was the Temple of the Winds leveling the playing field, because Jagang wasn't supposed to exist, either.]] There are a few people who managed to pick up Subtractive Magic, and thus this ability, by studying. There are also noted Banelings, including Darken Rahl and the Sisters of the Dark.

* Fred, a fire elemental in ''WhatsShakin'' absorbs fire magic, which is why he hunts fire mages to consume their powers.
* In ''{{Wonderella}}'', an arson-obsessed [[FaceHeelRevolvingDoor villain/hero]] [[StalkerWithACrush with a crush on]] a fiery superheroine makes a DealWithTheDevil to absorb heat. Unfortunately it creates cold, absorbing even her powers, and she flat out rejects him.

* In ''FinalFantasy'' games, monsters affiliated with an element are either immune to it or are healed by attacks of that element (be they spells or attacks with an elemental weapon). Some bosses [[BarrierChangeBoss can even change their elemental type during the fight,]] so you must figure out which one it is before attacking again. Fortunately, the player characters get access to the ability to absorb specific elements themselves in many games, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII whether by using high-level Elemental Materia]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII junctioning enough elemental spells to your Elem-Def stat]], or (in most cases) by merely donning equipment that comes with such an effect.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': Heatblast absorbs the fire in a burning building while saving the people trapped inside.

* In the second ''{{Film/X-Men}}'' movie Rogue absorbs Pyro's powers and uses them to put out the fires he had created, though she doesn't directly absorb the fire.

* Dragons in ''[[Literature/Dragons The Last Dragon Chronicles]]'' can swallow a flame, putting it out. This goes for candles, fireplaces, and forest fires (if the dragon is big enough). Most of the dragons in the series, however, are only big enough to swallow candle flames.

* Dragons in ''the LastDragonChronicles'' can swallow a flame, putting it out. This goes for candles, fireplaces, and forest fires (if the dragon is big enough). Most of the dragons in the series, however, are only big enough to swallow candle flames.

* Dragons in ''the LastDragonChronicles'' can swallow a flame, putting it out. This goes for candles, fireplaces, and forest fires.

** This may have been inspired by a scene in ''KamenRiderTheNext'', where [[Series/KamenRiderV3 V3]] sucks the flames from a burning building into his Double Typhoon belt and uses the energy to kick villain butt.

** This may have been inspired by a scene in ''KamenRiderTheNext'', where [[KamenRiderV3 V3]] sucks the flames from a burning building into his Double Typhoon belt and uses the energy to kick villain butt.

* Many elemental creatures in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' tend to do this.

A trick those with ElementalPowers can do is absorbing their own element(s). For example, one may think someone with [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]] wouldn't be helpful in stopping a forest fire, but that person could simply absorb the flames and either store it or release it in a safer way. Alternately, someone with [[BlowYouAway wind powers]] can [[WeaponsThatSuck suck the air out of an area]].

* In ''FinalFantasy'' games, monsters affiliated with an element are either immune to it or are healed by attacks of that element (be they spells or attacks with an elemental weapon). Some bosses [[BarrierChangeBoss can even change their elemental type during the fight,]] so you must figure out which one it is before attacking again. Fortunately, the player characters get access to the ability to absorb specific elements themselves in many games, [[FinalFantasyVII whether by using high-level Elemental Materia]], [[FinalFantasyVIII junctioning enough elemental spells to your Elem-Def stat]], or (in most cases) by merely donning equipment that comes with such an effect.