The power to reduce or remove the need for bodily necessities.
Also Called
- Contained Metabolism
- Deprivation
- Self-Sufficiency
Capabilities
Users physical needs are greatly reduced or completely removed. These needs include air/breathing, sleep/rest, food, drink, bodily evacuations, shelter from environmental effects and their lack (heat/cold, dryness/wetness), etc. User is also able to stay unmoving without normal effects this would have.
Applications
Associations
- Desert Adaptation
- Energy Independence
- Hibernation
- Immortality
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Vacuum Adaptation
Limitations
- May only be able to disregard some needs.
- May have limited time period available.
- Disregarding some needs may cause certain capacities to degrade, regardless of of maintaining stable health. Eg: Forgoing eating may lead to muscular dystrophy, etc.
Known Users
Literature
- Sally Sandwich (Sweet Story)
- Timmy Taco (Sweet Story)
Western Television
- Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Stanton Parish (Alphas)
- Neil Cuddahy (Mutant X)
- Daggon/Cole Hauser (Tracker)
Western Animation
- Aku (Samurai Jack)
- Kevin Levin (Ben 10); in his Ultimate form
- Professor Paradox (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- Vlad Plasmius (Danny Phantom)
- Gems (Steven Universe)
- Emotions (Inside Out)
Comic Books
- Kryptonians (DC); while under a yellow or blue sun
- Firestorm (DC)
- Captain Atom (DC)
- The Flash (DC)
- Emma Frost (Marvel); while in diamond form
- Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel); while in diamond form
- Original Xorn (Marvel)
- Hulk (Marvel)
- A-Bomb (Marvel)
- Skaar (Marvel)
- All Heralds of Galactus (Marvel)
- Asgardians (Marvel)
- Olympians (Marvel)
- Sentry (Marvel)
- Sunspot (Marvel)
Manga/Anime
- Demon Lord (Sekai Maou)
- Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
- Zetsu and clones (Naruto)
- Ryoko Hakubi (Tenchi Muyo)
- Asato Tsuzuki (Descendants Of Darkness)
- Shinigami (Death Note)
- Artificial Humans (Dragon Ball)
- Isaac Netero (Hunter X Hunter)