History Main / VampiricDraining

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** ''ComicBook/FirestormDCComics'': Killer Frost, unusually for AnIcePerson, can absorb heat in order to strengthen her own powers. She can also do this to ''people'', siphoning their own warmth and freezing them to death. In fact, in the case of the third incarnation, Caitlin Snow, she ''has'' to do this in order to keep herself alive.
** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': The villain Johnny Warren gains a whole slew of abilities powered by draining the LifeEnergy out of people after making a demonic pact.
** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The villain Parasite has the ability to drain the knowledge, life-force and superpowers of anyone he touches.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Erinyes string up ComicBook/WonderGirl and Ferdiand to exsanguinate them and drink their blood, from which they pull memories and things about their victims.
* ComicBook/TheHeap is forced to drain animals of blood in order to get oxygen. He targets birds, dogs and livestock, but he usually does not attack men, unless they are evil.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/CloakAndDaggerMarvelComics'': Cloak's weaponized TeleportationSickness stems from the fact that anyone enveloped in his "dark dimension" is vampirically drained of LifeEnergy, which Cloak refers to as "the light of the soul". This causes physical depletion and intense psychological distress. Worse, Cloak is at least psychologically dependent on regularly consuming LifeEnergy in this way; if he goes too long without it, [[HorrorHunger withdrawal-like symptoms intensify until he is compelled to feed]]. His partner Dagger is actually a kind of inversion of this trope; she produces ''too much'' LifeEnergy, to the point that if it isn't siphoned regularly, she begins to lose her mind. Thus their partnership is a symbiotic relationship; Cloak keeps his HorrorHunger in check by draining Dagger, which in turn preserves Dagger's mind.
** ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Baron Mordo]] kidnaps Monet St. Croix's father in order to lure her into a trap so he can drain her life essence and put his cancer into remission. Monet's father notes that her life energy seems to attract "parasites" like Mordo and Monet herself directly compares Mordo to a vampire.
** ''ComicBook/XMen'':
*** Rogue has this due to her mutation, enabling her to drain LifeEnergy and temporarily borrow someone else's powers. Because of PowerIncontinence, she can't touch anyone without draining their strength, which is [[BlessedWithSuck understandably harsh on her social life]]. The Brazilian publishing emphasizes the vampiric metaphor, [[DubNameChange naming her as]] Vampira.
*** Selene is a "psychic vampire" who can drain the LifeEnergy of human beings to sustain herself. If she drains the victim's entire life force their bodies crumble into dust. She can use absorbed life force to enhance her physical strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, and durability to superhuman levels.

** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', to make up for his weakened strength in the real world [[BigBad Myostismon]] attacked women at night, draining them of blood and leaving them with anemia.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]", a middle-aged actress named Pamela Morris is actually an ancient Egyptian queen who is thousands of years old; she maintains her youth by draining the LifeEnergy of young men with a magic scarab beetle. [[spoiler:She succeeds in draining our protagonist Jordan Herrick to death.]]

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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}''. The three space vampires drain LifeEnergy from humans to sustain themselves (and to store in their ship for future use during their long hibernations). The humans they drain become zombies who must drain LifeEnergy from other humans every two hours or be turned to dust.

* ''''[[VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan2005 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'''': Venom needs to absorb his victim's energies.

* ''VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan'': Venom needs to absorb his victim's energies.

** ''ComicBook/FirestormDCComics'': Killer Frost, unusually for AnIcePerson, can absorb heat in order to strengthen her own powers. She can also do this to ''people'', siphoning their own warmth and freezing them to death -- in fact, in the case of the third incarnation, Caitlin Snow, she ''has'' to do this in order to keep herself alive.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': The villain Parasyte has the ability to drain the knowledge, life-force and superpowers of anyone he touches.

** ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}: Killer Frost, unusually for an ice user, can absorb heat in order to strengthen her own powers. She can also do this to ''people'', siphoning their own warmth and freezing them to death- in fact, in the case of the third incarnation, Caitlin Snow, she ''has'' to do this in order to keep herself alive.

** ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger:'' Cloak's weaponized TeleportationSickness stems from the fact that anyone enveloped in his "dark dimension" is vampirically drained of LifeEnergy, which Cloak refers to as "the light of the soul". This causes physical depletion and intense psychological distress. Worse, Cloak is at least psychologically dependent on regularly consuming LifeEnergy in this way; if he goes too long without it, [[HorrorHunger withdrawal-like symptoms intensify until he is compelled to feed]]. His partner Dagger is actually a kind of inversion of this trope; she produces ''too much'' LifeEnergy, to the point that if it isn't siphoned regularly, she begins to lose her mind. Thus their partnership is a symbiotic relationship; Cloak keeps his HorrorHunger in check by draining Dagger, which in turn preserves Dagger's mind.

*** ComicBook/{{Rogue}} has this due to her mutation, enabling her to drain LifeEnergy and temporarily borrow someone else's powers. Because of PowerIncontinence, she can't touch anyone without draining their strength, which is [[BlessedWithSuck understandably harsh on her social life]]. The Brazilian publishing emphasizes the vampiric metaphor, [[DubNameChange naming her as]] Vampira.

*** ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Baron Mordo]] kidnaps ComicBook/MonetStCroix's father in order to lure her into a trap so he can drain her life essence and put his cancer into remission. Monet's father notes that her life energy seems to attract "parasites" like Mordo and Monet herself directly compares Mordo to a vampire.

* ''Man, Myth & Magic'' Book III ''The Adventures Book'', adventure "The Great Pyramid Revealed". While exploring the Great Pyramid in Egypt the {{PC}}s will encounter a room filled with rare underground plants called Indego Gentian. The plants use any creature that enters the room as food, draining both Power (magical energy) and Life Points (LifeEnergy) from them.

** The {{PC}}s may be led astray by a glowing light that lures them into deathtraps. Once they're trapped the [[WillOWisp Will o'Wisp]] will return and touch them to drain their LifeEnergy as they're dying.

** Cerebral parasites, though eaters and brain moles feed on psionic energy, which can kill their victim.

* ''VideoGame/BloodKnights'': The player character, Alyssa, a vampire, uses this ability to LifeDrain her enemies and restore her health. An early vampire boss (also a HealingBoss) can do this too, though not to Alyssa - instead, her arena is filled with caged prisoners, and she'll drain her captives' life to boost her own periodically.

** The True Ancestors, who go insane if they completely abstain for too long, but don't actually ''require'' it for sustaining their themselves; the addiction is a purely psychological.

* [[VampireWannabe Wilhelm Ehrenburg]] from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' and it's [[VisualNovel/DiesIraeInterviewWithKazikluBey prequel]] is able to create a field of effect where all life is slowly drained and is feed to him. Even inanimate objects start to decay and break down if caught in it for too long. It additionally also turns him closer to a true vampire with all the same perks and drawbacks as a real one would have. And fittingly, the field is also crowned by a [[BadMoonRising blood red moon]] when it is activated.

* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' An-Keth can pull life energy from anything around them including plants to speed up their already impressive regeneration abilities when badly injured, leaving a patch of dead plants and other remains wherever they were when doing so.
* ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'': The "vampire" species normally [[http://www.earthsongsaga.com/vol2/109.html drink blood]], but those with soulstone power can [[http://www.earthsongsaga.com/vol2/87.html feed]] on LifeEnergy instead. FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Tristram can also drain [[VegetarianVampire plants]] and can heal people by [[LiquidAssets transferring life energy into them]].

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': A clan of bat {{youkai}} favor the blood of humans as nourishment, but they can also consume animal blood and possible other alternatives as one, Tsukuyomaru, does not attack humans and has also forbidden his clan to do so.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has vampires in the first three parts, each of which feed on blood... with their ''fingers''. They need it to heal their wounds (and in Dio Brando's case, [[spoiler:to finalize the connection of his head to Jonathan Joestar's body]]). Part 4 gives us the Stand Highway Star, which breaks down a person's body by draining the nutrients from their cells; its user uses the stolen nutrients to help him recover from grievous wounds suffered in a motorcycle accident. Part 5 gives us [[spoiler: the BigBad Diavolo, while not a vampire, drains ''a young kid's blood'' after surviving a brutal battle with the leader of his assassination team.]]

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' when a {{Shinigami}} kills a human with a [[RealityWritingBook Death Note]] their remaining lifespan is added to the shinigami's. They can also take half the remaining lifespan of a human who owns a death note in exchange for the power to see people's true names by looking at their face.

* A classic episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' entitled "Queen of the Nile". A middle-aged actress named Pamela Morris is actually an ancient Egyptian queen who is thousands of years old; she maintains her youth by draining the LifeEnergy of young men with a magic scarab beetle. [[spoiler:And she succeeds in draining our protagonist Jordan Herrick to death.]]

* ''Series/SweetHome2020'': One of the monsters has a very long prehensile tongue which it uses to drain people's blood.

* A classic episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' entitled "Queen of the Nile". A middle-aged actress named Pamela Morris is actually an ancient Egyptian queen who is thousands of years old; she maintains her youth by draining the LifeEnergy of young men with a magic scarab beetle. [[spoiler:And she succeeds in draining our protagonist Jordan Herrick to death.]]
* The final season of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' introduces the Atavus, the original race that split into Taelons and Jaridians. Being away from their homeworld, they have to replenish their energy on a daily basis by feeding on sentient beings (in this case, humans) using their energy claws. The subject doesn't survive the process. The Atavus found that they really enjoy the feeding process. Their chambers allow them to create human/Atavus hybrids who also have this ability.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[Characters/SupernaturalDjinn the djinn]] drain blood or fear from their victims.
* ''{{Series/Beyond}}'': The beings in the Realm appear to feed this way, as Frost ages rapidly when touched by one.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': Adler remains young through draining youth from her biddies (who are volunteers).

%%* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Several ''Youkai'', as is, occasionally, the title character's sword.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E26S6E1TimesArrow Time's Arrow]]'' has the Devidians, invisible aliens who steal human neural energy to live (one wonders [[FridgeLogic how they survived to evolve to sapience]]) and who go back in time to prey on humanity in the 19th Century, when there were still plagues to excuse mysterious deaths.

* The weaponized variant of Vampiric Draining shows up in the Kull the Conqueror story "Riders Beyond the Sunrise," where Kull confronts his ArchEnemy, [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Thulsa Doom]]. The sorcerer wields a sword that slowly saps Kull's strength and transfers it to Doom, allowing him to fight without tiring while Kull gets weaker and weaker. Disarming Doom and swapping his normal sword for the magical blade allows Kull to defeat the sorcerer.

** In the episode "Man of the People" the Enterprise transports an ambassador, Alkar, who forms a connection to women and does this in reverse, offloading his negative emotions on them, allowing him to be clear-headed in negotiations, but causing RapidAging and death to his victims.
** "Time's Arrow'' has the Devidians, invisible aliens who steal human neural energy to live (one wonders [[FridgeLogic how they survived to evolve to sapience]]) and who go back in time to prey on humanity in the 19th Century, when there were still plagues to excuse mysterious deaths.
** "Sub Rosa" reveals a ghost-like energy being has done this to many generations of Beverly Crusher's family.

** Selene is a "psychic vampire" who can drain the LifeEnergy of human beings into herself. If she drains the victim's entire life force their bodies crumble into dust. She must drain life force on a regular basis to renew her vitality and youthful appearance. She can use absorbed life force to enhance her physical strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, and durability to superhuman levels.

*** ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Baron Mordo]] kidnaps ComicBook/MonetStCroix's father in order to lure her into a trap so he can drain her life essence and put his cancer into remission. Monet's father even lampshades that her life energy seems to attract "parasites" like Mordo. Monet herself directly compares Mordo to a vampire.

** The giant space amoeba in Recap/StarTrekS2E18TheImmunitySyndrome eats by draining LifeEnergy from all living beings within the cloud of darkness it generates.

* ''VideoGame/Infamous2'': The Bio Leech attack lets Cole drain the bioelectric energy of the Militia. Bio Leeching gives you Evil [[KarmaMeter Karma]] for it and [[EvilFeelsGood the satisfaction of]] [[HorrorHunger monstrous Conduit gluttony]].

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* ''TabletopGame/TheUnofficialHollowKnightRPG'': Any character with the Bloodsucker trait is able to drain blood from other creatures in order to feed themselves. This is useful for stretching out the party's food supplies and getting around disadvantages from the Carnivore and Herbivore traits - even if there's no food that the bloodsucker can eat, they can just drain nutrients from their less picky allies after a meal.