If you came here looking for Splash Damage tropes, you might want to go to Splash Damage Abuse, and to Shockwave Stomp for situations where the stomp isn't purely decorative. May also appear as part of Fire, Water, Wind. On the other hand, Heal It with Water is for cases when water is presented as a force of healing. See Kill It with Water for cases where this is super effective Soft Water may still be in effect - you just drown 'em. A Sub-Trope of sorts is An Ice Person both can be very dangerous indeed, if the two are combined. In most cases, this power beats Playing with Fire. Water is also required for Super Drowning Skills and Hazardous Water. or you can contaminate their bodies with a solidifying material, like cement or bake mix, to immobilize them. However, there are ways of defeating them: you can freeze or boil them, you can evaporate them, you can make them lose cohesion by hitting them with electricity to induce electrolysis, note That is the effect of forcing the hydrogen and oxygen atoms making up water apart. Furthermore, they usually change their shape at will, pass through anything that is not watertight and hit with concentrated blasts of their own mass. Beating them can be tough as bullets and fists can simply punch through them to no effect while energy weapons' beams can be scattered through the substance. There are also beings like Marvel Comics' Hydro-Man and Darkwing Duck's Liquidator, who are sentient masses of water.
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It's very rarely addressed that they could just sap the water directly from a person's body, killing or weakening them instantly, but this could be an issue of dramatic license since that would result in some very short and uninteresting fight scenes. Not a problem in a modern city if they can affect underground plumbing, but if it's not raining and they're nowhere near a source of water, they might be screwed. Water always, always, always wins.Ĭombined with the other elements, water has additional effects: fire can boil or steam, earth can create mudslides, and air can create mists, dew, or storms.Ī water controller's biggest weakness is that they usually must be in the vicinity of water to be effective. The mountain stands tall and proud, but the sea will eventually grind it to sand. Water extinguishes fire, smothers air, and erodes earth. Many philosophers, like Lao Tzu above, wax poetic far beyond Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness about how nothing in the world is weaker and more malleable than water, and yet water wears away the hard and strong. Use it to kill someone! (Although in many cases, water is used as a healing element.) And no, we don't use that water to heal someone, that's for the White Mage.
Flood 'em, drown 'em, frost 'em, steam 'em, wash 'em, whatever. It may not scream " explosive devastation" like fire and lightning do, but you can't trump water's versatility and availability. For this Sub-Trope of Elemental Powers, you attack with the stuff that makes up 60% of your body mass, covers 70% of the Earth's surface, and falls from the sky on a regular basis: water.
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