In this setting, Digimon die after being defeated, leaving behind data that can be absorbed by the victor in order to become stronger and steal their special attacks. While Digimon normally have Born-Again Immortality, Digimon Tamers was an exception to the rule. It doesn't have to be blood, but even he finds living up to this trope a little icky. Deadman Wonderland has Mockingbird, who copies other people's abilities by consuming some of their blood.She also inherits traits of their physical appearance and personality. In Chained Soldier, the Thunder God Kuusetsu is able to devour humans whole and absorb their superhuman Peach abilities.Despite suffering from Horror Hunger, she's a good guy and desperately tries to avoid eating people. In A Certain Magical Index, Fraulein Kreutune, who has an Adaptive Ability, eventually gains the ability to acquire the powers and memories of who she eats.In Blood+, the chiropteran queens and chevaliers can take on the appearances of people whose blood they've drank.This power works on fellow Sternritter like Pepe's The Love after she eats him in vengeance and even Hollows like Loly's Resurreccion after she eats parts of it, which would normally be toxic to a Quincy. Specifically, if what she eats possesses a special ability, she can use that ability once her meal digests. Liltotto Lamperd of the Vandenreich is revealed to have this power as a secondary effect of her power The Glutton in the Bleach novels.Other Hollows also get stronger by devouring other souls, but Aaroniero is the only one who also gains their special abilities. Unfortunately, this was the very Hollow which possessed Rukia's mentor, and gave him access to his memories and allowed him to seriously Mind Screw her. This allows him to assimilate another Hollow, which could itself assimilate shinigami. The 9th Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie, has a power to assimilate devoured foes.Taken to more literal extremes in Betterman, where the seeds Betterman devours to take on his monstrous superpowered forms are grown out of dead bodies.One alchemist developed a weaker elixir that would make people just immortal enough to be vulnerable to his " cannibalism", but unable to eat anyone themselves. Although the victim is not ingested, the process is referred to in-series as "eating" or "devouring", and some fans have used the term "alchemical cannibalism" to describe it. The only way immortals of Baccano! can die is by absorbing one another by placing the right hand on the subject's head, which also transfers their memories and knowledge.It is later confirmed by Ymir's backstory and Eren ingesting the "hardening" factor. This leads to further speculation that this is the true reason Titans instinctively devour humans: finding and eating a Titan Shifter would restore their humanity.This normally involves a ritual where the current vessel is Chained to a Rock and their successor eats them as a mindless Titan, especially when the successor is one of Marley's Warrior unit. When a Titan consumes the current vessel, their powers and memories are inherited to create a new vessel just like how Eren, Armin, Ymir, Porco, and Falco inherited their powers. Cannibalism is the preferred method to transfer the power of the Nine Titans from one host to another. In Attack on Titan, this is speculated to have something to do with why Titans devour humans.Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: This is what allowed Hajime to survive the Abyss, normally eating Demon flesh is fatal, but due to drinking the God's Crystal Elixir, Hajime managed to survive, but gain the ability to safely consume their flesh and obtain some of the demons' abilities as long as the demon was stronger than what he had already eaten.In Animal Land, Chimeras gain animal attributes and become stronger via this.Compare Soul Eating and Vampiric Draining. See also Captured by Cannibals, Victor Gains Loser's Powers, Wendigo. Thinking of it another way, it's a more macabre version of Power Copying and a Meta Power. This is a mixture of All Your Powers Combined with I'm a Humanitarian (of course, the victim doesn't have to be of the same species). Please note, however, that this trope is not limited to villains (though, admittedly, it makes for a pretty strange hero). In different cases, either eating someone whole is necessary, or eating just a few bites of them (or drinking their blood, or some other bodily articles like hair or tears) would suffice. Big Bad characters in particular may Devour the Dragon for this. Obviously, this is a power more suited to super villains, since eating people implies killing them. This sometimes also allows the user to take the character's memories or physical appearance as well. to absorb superpowers from other characters by eating them. The Cannibalism Superpower is the ability of a person, mutant, monster, demon, alien, Eldritch Abomination, etc.
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