History Main / ManaBurn

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** ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' featured tentacle-hands that would grab you and drain your magic (which would gradually regrow), as well as floating skulls that when touched, prevented you from using any items. Which of course were the only thing that could kill them.

* Many abilities in ''[=~Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time~=]'' do this in addition to causing normal damage, the reason being that you can be [[NonLethalKO knocked out]] if you run out of [[ManaMeter magic points]] just the same as you can be knocked out for running out of HitPoints.

* In ''ChronoTrigger'', the party member who attacks Flea's blatant decoy has their MP set to zero, and you ''have'' [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption to attack it to call Flea out]].

* Fubuki's passive ability in the second ''{{Disgaea}}''.
** Later, an evility possessed by the Reaper class in ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' and ''{{Disgaea 4}}''.

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* Neji's Byakugan works this way in the Naruto fighting games.

** However, in Skyrim, there's a spell called "Equilibrium" that converts your HP into MP. This is very exploitable, as it allows nigh-infinite grinding of the Restoration skill if the caster is also casting a healing spell at the same time.

-->''Destroy 13% of the target's mana (up to a maximum of 26% of your own maximum mana). For each mana destroyed in this way, the target takes 0.5 Shadow damage.''

** Hunters and Warlocks can also affect enemy mana but the latter uses a ManaDrain for it. Human Priests also used to have an ability named Feedback (based on a Warcraft 3 passive ability that causes attacks to burn some mana), but it had very limited use and was eventually removed entirely.

* ''DefenseoftheAncients'' Nerubian Assassin has the Mana Burn nuke. Anti-Mage has a passive that drains mana with each attack. Keeper of the light has a debuff that drains mana based on distance moved. Obsidian Destroyer has a disable that steals Intelligence and his ultimate burns mana or deals damage based on the amount of Intelligence that an enemy hero has. Diffusal Blade is an item that gives the passive to any hero.
* ''HeroesofNewerth'' Magebane has a manaburn passive attack and Nullfire Blade gives gives this passive to any hero.

* [[EveOnline Eve Online]] has energy destabilizers (usually called neuts) that empty some of the target's capacitor at the cost of a smaller amount of your own capacitor. Ships that specialize in this such as the Curse and certain Dominix setups can be particularly fearsome in solo/small group PVP.

* A non-video game example: In {{Mistborn}}, Vin is captured and forced to burn a strange metal [[hottip:*:revealed to be aluminum in the second book]] which drained her other metal reserves.
* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha A's [[PlaystationPortable Portable]]: The Battle of Aces'', the held down version of Chrono's Struggle Bind will bring his opponent's MP down to zero in addition to restricting them.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', any ability that destroys and/or taps lands is effectively this trope; a particularly good example of this is [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=194671 Roiling Terrain]], which destroys a land, then deals damage based on how many lands have been destroyed in total (while also punishing the use of fetch-lands, but that's a topic for another trope). Closer to the true meaning of this trope, there's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=25567 Mana Short]], among others.

** Also, there's a game mechanic called Mana Burn. At the end of turn, you lose life for every unspent mana. It seems it will be written out with the Magic 2010 rules revision.

* Flower Fuzzies in ''[[PaperMario Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' suck out a few of your FP and can use them for a lightning attack.
* ''[[{{ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokemon]]'' gives us Spite (which drains PP from the last move the opponent used), Grudge (drains all PP off the move that KO'd the user) and the passive ability Pressure (doubles opponent's PP use).

Not to be confused with the ''MagicTheGathering'' term, which is more of a limited PowerIncontinence problem (and, as of the 2010 Core Set and accompanying revisions, is no longer a part of the game).

* In ''ChronoTrigger'', the party member who attacks Flea's blatant decoy has their MP set to zero, and you ''have'' to attack it to call Flea out.

* Certain baddies in ''TheLegendOfZelda: [[TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' dungeons drain mana from your meter when they hit you--and yes, it's very annoying.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', any ability that destroys and/or taps lands is effectively this trope. Closer to the true meaning of this trope, there's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=25567 Mana Short]], among others.