• Lamput: One of the magic powers the marker can give the docs in "Magic Marker" is to summon lightning from the sky.
• Robot Trains: Jeffrey's powers of immobilizing targets and projecting forcefields looks like this, while Duke's abilities sound like this in terms of their naming.

• Amazing-Man: Electric Ray can emit lethal electrical charges.
• Astro City: Juice of the Irregulars is a manifestation of electrical energy who can fly and project energy bolts. White Lightning is a supervillain with similar powers.
• Atomic Robo: Guns that shoot bolts of electricity are the signature weapons Tesladyne Action Scientists. Justified, since Robo was created by none other than Nikola Tesla.
• The DCU:
  • Black Lightning can generate raw electricity which courses through his body, which he has learned to manipulate, and control to sense sources of electric energy, and administer it as a wide range of attacks with several uses; he can charge devices with electricity, and alternatively drain the energy from them into himself. So can his Super Friends Expy, Black Vulcan...and Black Vulcan's Justice League Expy, Juice. And their Static Shock expy Soul Power.
  • Brother Power the Geek can release some of his absorbed energy in the form of a burst of electricity. This is enough to light a lamp.
  • Captain Marvel and his family can do this by dodging their transformation lightning bolt. Captain Marvel tends to use his magical lightning as an anti-Superman weapon. His New 52 counterpart, Shazam, takes it one step further and can generate electricity directly from his hands and chest.
  • The Flash: Weather Wizard has this as a part of his shtick. The Flash himself generates lightning as he runs.
  • Static (DC Comics) used to be from Milestone Comics, but the Milestone characters have been integrated into the DCU. Static's powers are identical to Marvel's Magneto, except that Static is more likely to overtly include electricity in the visual effect of his powers.
  • Livewire, a DCAU creation who made her way to DC canon. She has the ability to absorb, generate and project volumes of electrical energy of an extremely high voltage. She also has the ability to transform into living energy.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes: Lightning Lad and Lightning Lass, their Psycho Electro brother Lightning Lord, and Storm Boy. Normally, Lad, Lass, and Storm Boy can't all be in the Legion due to their "no two members with the same powers" rule, but a few shenanigans happened: when Lightning Lad was "dead", she joined, and when he came back, she had her powers altered to nullify gravity on objects, making her Light Lass. For some reason, when she regained her lightning, nobody demanded that one of them leave or go through another power alteration. As for Storm Boy, he had a wide variety of weather-based abilities; he didn't get in because he was using a concealed Weather-Control Machine, rather than intrinsic powers.
  • As a benefit of being one of Zeus' bastard children Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark is able to wield and control a lasso that channels Zeus' lightning. She's also caused electrical storms when upset for long enough, but has less control over that.
  • Maxie Zeus in some of the Batman continuities.
  • On that note, Chuck Dixon’s run on Detective Comics began with the three-issue arc “Electric City”, where Batman has to contend with both Elmo Galvan (a vengeful killer who can absorb and discharge electricity after surviving the chair) and the new Electrocutioner (who seeks to finish what the state started by killing Galvan with his own lightning abilities).
  • Sparx (aka Donna Carol "D.C." Force — and yes, she was called D.C. before getting her powers) from Superboy and the Ravers.
  • Temper (Aviva Weinberg) of the Relative Heroes is a young girl with electrokinesis.
  • Penny Dreadful had the ability to absorb power and then use it to make electric attacks. This works out poorly for Bumblebee after Penny's unexplained Face–Heel Turn in Wonder Woman (1987) where Penny turns the electricity-based weaponry in Bumblebee's suit against her.
  • Wonder Woman has this power in Wonder Woman (2011) and Wonder Woman (2016) continuities thanks to a Retcon where she's Zeus daughter like Cassie. In fact, Diana's bracelets act as a Power Limiter for her full lightning-powered Super Mode.
  • Robin (1993): Tim Drake's suit can discharge a "wide burst" electrical attack, though he rarely uses it and it can only be used once before being recharged. His enemy Cheater uses a defibrillator to try and kill him in a fight in a hospital.
• The F1rst Hero: In a prologue, John Hinkley Jr. is revealed to be the world's first super powered villain when he attacks Ronald Reagan's entourage with his lightening power.
• Family (2000 AD): Richie Odysseus has a broad application of electricity powers, using them for both shock attacks and more creative uses like chaining someone up.
• Incandescence: Incandescence is able to shoot ball lightning from her hands and shock on contact. The powers are explained as being of a magical nature.
• Jumbo Comics: Lightning can shoot electricity from his fingers.
• Last of the Sandwalkers: Raef can give electrical shocks with his robot body. Lucy built him this way knowing he's a lightning bug.
• Marvel Universe:
  • Spider-Man:
    • Electro can generate massive quantities of electricity, theoretically up to approximately one million volts. He can employ this electrostatic energy as lightning arcs from his fingertips, and his maximum charge is more than enough to kill a normal human. When his body is charged to high levels, he becomes superhumanly strong and fast. He can also glide over power lines by using the electricity contained therein for propulsion, and he has on occasion been shown to actually ride on lightning bolts. He can also absorb the energy of electrical equipment such as a power plant to increase his powers further. His "daughter" Aftershock for Spider-Girl also applies.
    • Spider-Woman: Jessica Drew's venom blasts are bioelectrical in nature. They're not very potent as lightning powers go and are usually treated more or less like a taser.
    • Ultimate Spider-Man (2000): Miles Morales has a venom blast power, but his are potent enough to put the hurt on villains that can lay the smackdown on all of the Avengers at once. When sufficiently stressed, his Mega Venom Blast can fry an entire building.
  • Thor (Marvel Comics): As the God of Thunder, Thor Odinson can summon the elements of the storm: rain, wind, storm... and lightning.
    "FORSOOTH! When the lightning falleth, the Son of Odin be-eth in the familial dwelling!!"
  • Thunderbolts: Jolt generates bio-electricity, which she can channel into energy blasts, super strength, and super speed.
  • West Coast Avengers: The Living Lightning can fly and shoot electricity after absorbing energy from a lightning machine.
  • X-Men:
    • One of the principal nasty things Storm does to enemies. She has the power to manipulate the weather and, among other things, generate lightning and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena.
    • Magneto can also control electricity to some degree (he almost killed Kitty Pryde with an electric shock in UXM #150), though some writers tend to forget that magnetism is good for more than just chucking metal around; electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe, after all.
  • New X-Men: Academy X: Surge absorbs electricity at all times: from static in the air, electrical appliances, outlets, etc. (often causing lights to flicker, etc.) and can discharge the energy through lightning blasts from her hands or other parts of her body.
• Primal Warrior Draco Azul: Draco Azul is powered by electrical energy absorbed through its horn, which it can use to wreathe its punches and kicks in lightning or fire powerful energy blasts.
• Rocket Comics: Electro Man can fire electrical blasts and turn into electricity to travel through wires.
• Science Comics and Weird Comics: Dynamo can control electricity and shoot electrical bolts.
• Sure-Fire Comics and Lighting Comics: Lash Lightning can generate electricity.
• The Surrogates: Steeplejack can channel lightning through his suit.
• The Switch Electricia: In addition to her electricity-based powers, Electricia has an entire electrical motif going on as her appearance.
• Transformers: Circuit Breaker wears a suit that not only allows her paralyzed body to move, but also lets her channel electric blasts powerful enough to harm Transformers. One time she electrocuted Unicron and made him scream in pain.
• The Ultraverse: Electrocute of the Strangers is a sapient android who can create, direct, and sense the presence of electricity.
• Ungrounded: One of the powers Joseph gained when he was folded to the tenth dimension and beyond was the ability to control electricity.
• The Wicked + The Divine: Baal has this. Fitting, since he is a storm god. Or at least masquerading as one.
• Wildguard Casting Call has a few electric superheroes trying out, among them Dr. Wattage, who isn't an actual doctor but plays one on TV, and Conductra, who can generate 1.21 Gigawatts and used to be the sidekick of her father, who had the same powers.
• Yankee Comics: Firebrand can produce destructive electrical blasts and create an energy field to protect himself.

• Amazing Fantasy (My Hero Academia & Spider-Man): Izuku possesses the same Venom Strike power as Miles Morales. It's strong enough to send Peter flying down the street when it goes off for the first time. Izuku, who knows that Harmless Electrocution isn't really a thing, tries to call the hospital until Peter regains his senses and stops him.
• A Certain Magical Friendship: Both versions of Misaka Mikoto:
  • The Academy City version is an electromaster, meaning that she has the power to control electricity, like firing it at people.
  • The pegasine version has a habit of storing lightning in her fur, and can also fire it at people.
• Child of the Storm:
  • Thor, which is unsurprising, considering that he's the God of Thunder and Lightning (and it isn't dependent on Mjolnir, either). It also applies to other storm-gods, e.g. Zeus, and Dracula, who's powerful enough to cover most of the eastern seaboard of the United States in a storm system imbued with dark magic, and wields lightning as one of his favored attacks.
  • Mjolnir, also gives wielders this ability while they wield it. Said wielders so far include Steve (though he only ever used it as a doorstop, being completely oblivious to the significance of being able to lift it), Diana in the finale of Book 1, and Maddie during the Forever Red arc of book 2.
  • Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey demonstrates an electrical theme to her psychic powers (which manifest as electric blue energy), and merges lightning with her psychic powers when fighting Harry. Harry, who favors Playing with Fire, copies the trick with fire.
  • Harry is also fairly adept at using lightning in his own right, though he prefers fire, pointing out that he is the son of Thor.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron (Code Geass & Voltron: Legendary Defender): Lelouch's Geass gives him this power in this story in addition to his canon Compelling Voice powers. It's implied this is related to the Galra and their Druids and his Galra heritage.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami:
  • Lishika's special power are electric attacks, which also affects her Flashy Teleportation by giving her Power Incontinence in the form of shocking things in her vicinity when she teleports.
  • Sailor Jupiter's connection to the concept of Classical Mythology god of lightning, Jupiter, gives her the ability to throw lightning bolts from her hands.
• Game of Touhou (A Song of Ice and Fire & Touhou Project): Iku, as a reference to her original canon, gains an armor (a medieval version of a Tesla coil) that conducts electricity, and a sword that can discharge electricity enough to vaporize small areas and to kill a dragon. She gained the nickname of "The Thunderbolt".
• The Infinite Loops: Petrie, from the The Land Before Time, Looped into Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger in his first Fused Loop, replacing Pteragordon, and gained electrical abilities that stuck with him into future Loops as a result.
• Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily: Specter's Split Personality Easter is capable of unleashing electrical attacks. It's later revealed that Easter is actually a denizen from the Living Lightning Car who struck Specter and fused with him, hence why they're able to use electricity so easily.
• To the New World:
  • Eira favors lightning incantations. Her red lightning in particular is famous in Lothric, which doesn’t have any similar miracles.
  • Both Gwynhael and his father wield lightning in battle, and the former is excited to learn Eira's red lightning techniques.

Aquaman

• Aquaman: Monster: Lucia, AKA Stingray, uses electricity and electrified titanium swords to attack. Since she fights underwater, it's even more lethal than normal as the shocks spread out.

Avatar Legends

• Kyoshi Rising; Princess Miyaki starts trying to Bend lightning after a conversation with Kyoshi. She succeeds two years later, using it to blow through a squadron of guards and capture Honsou.

Bokurano

• Bokurano: One More Time: Kako's Shard lets him generate lightning, which he can use to fly at blinding speed.

Breaking Bad

• Better Call Saul: The Chicanery Cut: Saul's metaphorical "lightning bolts shooting out of his fingertips" are potrayed as literal here, and he uses his lightning powers to defeat Chuck, and later several police officers.

Calvin and Hobbes

• Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
  • Electro (who takes over Calvin's TV in "The Night of the Living Television" and its sequel.
  • Calvin himself uses some lightning stored earlier in the MTM to shock Socrates at the end of "The Sky Is Falling".
  • And the MTM itself, as well as some toys it unknowingly brought to life use it as well.
  • Evil Jack seems to have an electrically-charged fist.
  • The clones also use this.

A Certain Magical Index

• A Certain Droll Hivemind: The Electromaster powers that the titular hivemind has, is the mastery / power of controlling electricity via Psychic Powers.

Die Anstalt

• A Posse Ad Esse: Sly is one of these. But considering his mental condition, he tends not to understand how best to utilize it, nor how much damage it can cause someone.

Disney Animated Canon

• The Lion King Adventures: Shocker, one of the starring villains, can shoot bolts of lighting from his paws.

Dragon Ball

• Of The Earthling Saiyan:
  • Gine specializes in plasma ki attacks, which are electricity-based. It's rare for Saiyans to be capable of using this type of ki and Gine is one of the most talented. She can not use her electricity as an attack, but as an EMP and to cauterize wounds.
  • Raditz primarily uses electricity-based ki attacks, a rare trait among Saiyans. He inherited this trait from his mother who solely used the same type of ki attacks. He is capable of using standard ki attacks as well, but his electric attacks are generally stronger.

Final Fantasy

• The Tainted Grimoire: Ogma is skilled enough in lightning-based abilities that his Jump attack is described as hitting as fast and hard like a lightning bolt.

Invader Zim

• Zim looks for batteries!: Zim gains electricity powers as a result of all the energy he's exposed to while trying to keep the Emergency PAK charged. Everyone agrees that this makes no sense whatsoever.

The Legend of Spyro

• Destiny Intertwined: Electricity manifests in its most basic form as lightning breath, forming as singular and largely undirected bolts at first. As a dragon advances in mastery, they learn to direct these more purposefully, extend them for longer, imbue them with greater strength and fork them into multiple points. More powerful users can also create floating balls of electricity or shields of electric force. The most powerful dragons can call down lightning from storm clouds. Electricity mainly functions through a combination of heat and paralysis, with different variants emphasizing one or the other; for instance, red Electricity is cooler but causes stronger effects on living matter, while white leaves stronger burns.
• The Portal: Static, Blizzard's best friend, starts out as a human, but after entering the Dragon Realms, he is transformed into a yellow dragon who can shoot electrical bolts out of his mouth.

Mega Man

• Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: In Episode 5, ProtoMan copies Elec Man's power and shocks Mega Man with it, nearly killing him.

Monster High

• Freaky Fabulous Pretty Cure: Frankie/Cure Freaky's main superpower is absorbing the power from lightning for energy.

MonsterVerse

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Besides Ghidorah; there's Monster X, who has inherited Ghidorah's bio-electrical abilities (referred to by San as "the storm") although their abilities aren't quite the same as Ghidorah's, and there's Thor who can use his own bio-electrical powers offensively or as a form of communication.

My Hero Academia

• When Izuku is struck by lightning in Jade Lightning, he is suddenly gifted with an incredibly powerful lightning-based quirk that allows him to collect and store massive amounts of electrical energy.

My Little Pony

• A Diplomatic Visit: In the sequel Diplomat at Large, the Storm King is able to shoot lightning from his helmet.
• Divided Rainbow: Rarity kills the vicious Mr. 7 by conjuring a thunderstorm right inside the giant spider's cave.
• Pony POV Series:
  • Dark World!Rainbow Dash, due to a thousand years of experience, has a mastery of Pegasi magic, to the point of using it to shape weapons.
  • Thunderchild, Shining Armor's second in command, has this as his special talent, and is exceptionally skilled with it, to the point of being a Gifted Pegasus.
• The Rainsverse: Chroma's alicorn magic powers are heavily themed around lightning and storms.
• Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure: Queen Celesia can shoot 'lightings' out of her eyes.

Naruto

• War of the Biju: Besides canon examples like Kakashi, Hizashi reveals that he adds Lightning Release chakra to his Gentle Fist techniques.

The Owl House

• Titanic Heritage: After heavy experimentation, Luz figures out how to generate lightning bolts with her light glyph. Her first attempt on paper nearly fries Amity, but her second attempt on its own works much better.

Pokémon

• What a Drag! (Pokémon): When she feels threatened, baby Pichu shocks everyone in proximity, both Team Rocket who are trying to take her, and her caretakers Genevieve and Bellossom.

Real Person Fic

• The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World: Oricum, the wizard among the mine-robbers, hits Paul twice with massive bolts of lightning from his wand. He gets a rather nasty surprise when this doesn't harm Paul, just intoxicates him and gives him an orgasm. And, later, bestows upon him the ability to see magic and power.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• C.I.A.: Agents: Miles Prower has this as his magic element.

Super Mario Bros.

• Paper Mario: Countdown to Chaos: Koopert's Lightning Shell attack is an electrified body slam that has a chance to stun its target.

Sushi Pack

• Sushi Pack High Tide Heroes: New villain Blastine is a sprite with lightning powers, which can shock others and shake buildings and the ground. She has attacked Wharf City enough times that buildings have emergency lightning rods built in to minimize the damage she can do.

Teen Titans (2003)

• The End of Ends: Sir Vile, one of the servants of the initial Big Bad, has electrical powers.

Transformers

• Transformers Meta: Bumblebee has the powers with two electrical stingers, similar to his Transformers: Animated counterpart. However, in Transformers Meta, revealed in the fifth episode, he is capable of "charging" them by connecting the tips together to create a more potent blast.

Vocaloid

• Vocaloid Story: In the series, Rin is a Squishy Wizard specializing in Lightning spells, in contrast of her brother Len who uses Wind magic. Her spells is weaker than most other elemental spells in the same tier though, either because she's mostly a Combat Medic (first and second game), or because they may inflict the debiliating Paralysis status (third game).

Wonder Woman (2017)

• Legacy: Luna can manipulate lightning quite well, being the daughter of Zeus. The same goes for her half-sisters and of course her biological sister, Diana.

YuYu Hakusho

• Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged: Suzaku's lightning powers are mocked. Apparently he got them by standing outside during a thunderstorm on a drunken dare by his wife Murugu and... "well here we are ten years later."

• Incredibles 2:
  • Jack-Jack can toss out bursts of electric power.
  • One of the heroes introduced in the sequel is He-Lectrix, who has control over electricity.
  • Two minor superheroes who appear in the climax are revealed by source material to actually be named Shock and Awe. Presumably, their powers involved electricity.
• The witch in ParaNorman uses a great deal of lightning when she tries to attack.
• Brutus from The Secret of NIMH wields a giant freaking halberd that generates electricity.
• In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, after Cartman's V-chip gets zapped, he eventually discovers that swearing now lets him generate electricity without causing self-trauma. He uses this against Saddam in Sith/Dragon Ball style.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Electric bursts are one of the powers Miles Morales gains as Spider-Man, akin to his comic counterpart.
• WALL•E: AUTO has a built-in taser in its wheel in the event of any major issues, including anyone attempting to prevent him from following Directive A113. He promptly uses it to shock WALL•E after an annoying game of keep away, damaging his circuitry and sending him back down the garbage chute.

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954): The Nautilus can electrify its outer hull to administer painful shocks to anything or anyone in contact with it. This capability proves very effective against a tribe of cannibals, but only partially so against a giant squid.
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2: One of the antagonists is Electro, an electrical engineer who gains electrical powers after an industrial accident.
• Big Trouble in Little China: One of the spirit-demon guys (creatively named "Lightning") used lightning as a weapon.
• Code 8: Connor Reed has extremely potent electrical powers, which can knock a drone out of mid-air.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • Ares from Wonder Woman (2017) has lightning powers which he took from his father Zeus after killing him. Diana (who is also a child of Zeus) channels the powers through her bracelets after her brother tries frying her and then defeats him with The Power of Love.
  • Justice League: Zeus (the Olympian god) also had lightning powers and used them against invaders from Apokolips in ancient times (Darkseid in Zack Snyder's director's cut, Steppenwolf in the theatrical cut).
  • The eponymous hero in SHAZAM! (2019)! has this ability and exploits it all the time including charging people's phones and only stops when a man's phone explodes. The Big Bad Dr. Sivana also has this power, along with the rest of the kids in their adult forms during the Final Battle.
  • Wonder Woman 1984: Diana has expanded her Shock and Awe powers to extent where she can literally swing on lighting bolts during a thunder storm.
• Godzilla has been known to electrify and/or magnetize his body on occasion.
  • In King Kong vs. Godzilla, Kong has this, albeit only by touch.
  • King Ghidorah spits gravity beams from his mouths, but with the exception of Keizer Ghidorah the beams look and act like lightning bolts.
  • Megalon can fire a lightning bolt from his horn. Gabara generates electricity from a row of spines on his head and channels it through his hands. Mechagodzilla, Super Mechagodzilla, and Kiryu have at least one electricity-based weapon (a chest blaster, the Shock Anchor, and the Wrist Blades respectively).
  • To an extent in Godzilla (2014). The Mutos are able to emit EMPs thanks to their absorbing of radiation. It doesn't directly harm organic creatures, but the force of their footsteps still creates a powerful shockwave of its own that can send humans flying.
  • Ghidorah from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) has yellow lightning which he draws from sky, and Goji himself charges his Breath Weapon with lightning at one point.
• Ghostbusters (1984).
  • The Ghostbusters' protonic stream throwers primarily throw out positively-charged lightning. It can burn toilet paper, explode maid's carts, and will cause The End of the World as We Know It if you cross the streams. You can snare ghosts with it as well.
  • Gozer can also bust out some mean lightning, as Ray and the others learn the hard way:
    Gozer: Are you a god?
    Ray: Ummm... no?
    Gozer: Then... DIE!
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch: The Electric Gremlin is a living bolt of lightning that kills people before getting weaponized and used against the other gremlins.
• Hocus Pocus (1993): Winifred Sanderson gives Emperor Palpatine a run for his money with her powerful magic lightning.
• Horrorvision: The Cyborg overseeing Horrorvision's original computers displays these powers when he sends a wave of electricity at the man who came into the office with Dez and Bradbury, launching him across the room and leaving a huge wound on his side.
• Machete Kills. Machete kills a mook by grabbing him with one hand, then jamming his machete into a fuse box, killing him with the electricity flowing through his own body!
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Whiplash from Iron Man 2 has two electrified whips which can slice through race cars and actually give Tony (as well as Rhoedy later) a good deal of trouble. Tony uses the experience to put electrical conductors in his suit which proves very useful later when fighting a certain God of Thunder below.
  • Thor is the Norse God of Thunder, in all his electrified glory. Becomes even more adept at it during Thor: Ragnarok, as he realizes that Mjölnir was a focus for his powers, but not the source. Then come Avengers: Infinity War, with Stormbreaker in hand and his newfound focus, Thor easily proves to be Thanos's better and almost single-handedly turns the tide of the battle with his arrival.
  • Thanks to Odin's enchantment on Mjölnir, Captain America and Jane Foster also get imbued with the power of Thor, including his lightning, in Avengers: Endgame and Thor: Love and Thunder respectively.
• My Demon Lover: The demon Charles zaps Kaz with electricity from his hands, forcing him to transform from a demon to a human. A few minutes later, he picks Kaz up and continues to electrocute him. Kaz still manages to stab Charles from that position.
• Pacific Rim: Cherno Alpha apparently has Tesla-powered punches! Also, the Kaiju Leatherback has the ability to unleash electromagnetic pulses.
• The Running Man (1987): One of the stalkers after Arnold Schwarzenegger is "Dynamo", who can electrocute people using his Lightning Gun.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Sonic's body conducts electricity when he's using his Super-Speed. He produces enough while running to cause a blackout across the entire Pacific Northwest. It's quickly revealed that Sonic has no idea how to control it at first — when he starts sparking and glowing while upset during the highway chase, his reaction is a panicked "Not again!"
• Star Wars:
  • Force Lightning is considered one of the more powerful abilities of The Dark Side, though you don't necessarily have to be evil to use it. Doing so is frowned upon, though: a power fueled by anger and aggression is something no Jedi should make a habit of playing around with because using the Force that way leads to This Is Your Brain on Evil.
  • One of R2-D2's gadgets is an arc welder. A particularly hilarious scene involves a droid KO'ing R2 after getting shocked.
• Wanda Nevada: The Apache ghost summons lightning bolts to form a ball of light in his hands, which he throws at Wanda and Beau. It explodes in front of them.
• The Witch Files: One of the magical powers Brooke develops is the ability to shoot lightning from her fingertips, which she uses in her fight with Claire.

• The 4400: In "The New World", Tyler Downing, who disappeared in 1972, has the ability to control electricity with his mind.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Lincoln Campbell is an Inhuman with the ability to manipulate electricity. Aside from generating blasts of electricity to be used offensively, he's also demonstrated the ability to move and levitate objects via the use of static fields.
• Alphas: This is the Red Flag operative Kosar's power. He can't shoot lightning bolts, but he can create localized brownouts and electrocute things by touching them, or if they're connected by a conductor.
• The Amazing Extraordinary Friends: Wired, the most hot-tempered of the Friends, possesses electrical powers, including the discharge of electricity.
• Angel (1999): Gwen Raiden. The main character Angel himself tries to take out Jasmine this way, but it doesn't work.
  Jasmine: I was forged in the inferno of creation, vampire. Do you really think a little electricity would destroy me?
  Angel: Worth a shot.
• Baalveer: Vijdhaar Pari has electric powers. In the first episode of the original series, Baalveer calls on her to give Manav and Meher an electric touch to take on two criminals.
• The Boys (2019): One of Stormfront's powers is emitting lightning blasts.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow's offensive combat magic of choice is bursts of dark-energy lightning.
• Doctor Who:
  • "Horror of Fang Rock": Rutans are intelligent space jellyfish who can generate bioelectricity to fry their foes (usually the Sontarans, their archenemies).
  • While not having actual control over lightning itself, ever since "Revelation of the Daleks", Davros has been shown shooting electricity out of his hand and synthetic eye. This ability is presumed to come from cybernetic upgrades.
  • New series Cybermen can electrocute enemies at a touch, although they prefer their Arm Cannons.
  • "The End of Time": The Master gains this power after his sabotaged resurrection. Made unpleasantly realistic by his need to recharge.
  • The Silence also attack their enemies with electricity.
  • "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror":
    • The Skithra can kill people with red electricity.
    • At the climax, Wardenclyffe Tower is used to fire a large lightning bolt at the Skithra ship, forcing it to retreat.
• Beatrix from Fate: The Winx Saga is an Air Fairy and has the power to generate lightning. She has proven to be very powerful and to have a very high control of this power, being able to use it not only to move objects or to short-circuit Bloom's phone but also to kill a person by disintegrating the whole body and to break momentarily the illusory barrier that Queen Luna placed on the ruins of Aster Dell.
• Flander's Company: Carla Burnelle has powers based on electricity. She's quite good with it.
• The Flash (2014): Speedsters generate electricity whenever they use their Super-Speed. With practice, they can learn to fire it. Zoom is fast enough to Catch and Return a thrown bolt of electricity. Mark Mardon (AKA Weather Wizard II) can cause lightning to strike from the sky wherever he wishes. Mardon's estranged daughter Joss Jackam (AKA Weather Witch) can do the same with a meta-tech staff. Farooq Gibran (AKA Blackout) can absorb and emit electricity.
• Gladiators (2024): Played with in the opening credits and Gladiator profile clips, which present Electro as if she has superpowers, with lightning crackling around her hands. Like the other Gladiators, she's a very competent athlete — but does not actually have superpowers.
• H₂O: Just Add Water: Rikki gets the ability to call down a bolt of lightning in the beginning of the second season. Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure would reveal this is non-standard among mermaids, as Mimmi and Ondina, both of whom graduated from normal Mermaid School, can't manipulate electricity, even with their Moon Rings. Even then, Rikki remains unique in that she can summon lightning on a clear day, whereas Sirena needed an existing rain cloud to generate lightning.
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Many, perhaps all, of the Greek gods can throw lightning, not just Zeus. They used it with varying degrees of effectiveness. Ares preferred to brawl and would whip out the thunderbolts only if he was losing a fight; Hades was pragmatic enough to realize that absolutely no one was going to beat Hercules in a fistfight and that the son of Zeus was best attacked from a distance.
• Heroes (2006): Elle Bishop. Sylar, too, after taking it from her (and not even the usual way, originally; he still kills her eventually, though, and destroys the body with her own power).
• Ironheart (2025): After the Hood breaks him out of prison, Ezekiel Stane weaponizes his self-build bio-inplants so he can shoot electicity and lightning of his hands, using them to attack and nearly kill the titular heroine.
• Kamen Rider:
  • Kamen Rider Stronger was powered by electricity. His Hour of Power Super Mode allowed him to discharge more electricity than usual (and he had to; otherwise, he'd explode).
  • Several Heisei Riders use electrical attacks for their Finishing Moves, including Kamen Rider Blade, Kamen Rider Hibiki's Zanki, Todoroki, and most stringed instrument-type Oni, Kamen Rider Kiva (in Dogga Form), Kamen Rider OOO (in any form that uses a Kuwagata Medal, including the Greeed Uva, whom it came from), Kamen Rider Fourze (in Elec States), Kamen Rider Wizard (in Wind and Wind Dragon Styles), and Kamen Rider Ghost (in Edison Damashii).
  • Kamen Rider Saber has Kamen Rider Espada, the Swordsman of Lightning, whose main weapon is the Raimeiken Ikazuchi.
• Mayfair Witches: Rowan can create lightning by Season 2, and hurls a bolt at Lasher.
• Merlin (2008): Merlin kills Nimueh by hitting her with lightning until she exploded. It has never been brought up again, although quite understandable as he's never needed to use it again. He uses it again in Grand Finale, against the entire Saxon Army. No explosions this time though.
• Misfits of Science: Johnny B. The ability to throw lightning and move at Flash-like speeds somewhat makes up for the fact that a drop of water will burn him like acid. How he doesn't die of dehydration was never addressed.
• Mutant X: Brennan Mulwray can generate electricity by running one hand over the other. The longer he does this, the more powerful the charge. Depending on the charge, a hit can go from a stun and a mild burn to deadly. As expected, it's inadvisable for him to try to use his powers while he's wet, although grounding helps. Later, his powers evolve to him being able to sort-of fly with his hands working like ion engines.
• MythBusters: One episode revolves around trying to replicate a water-based electrical stun gun. After several failed attempts, Adam and Jamie end up weaponizing a Tesla coil by having Jamie sit within one and shoot water out of it, causing the charge to run down the stream onto its target.
• Odd Squad: The villain Mr. Lighting, can of course, shoot lightning.
• The Power (2023): Girls and women all over the world develop electricity based powers. Gradually they begin learning more uses for this, not only shocking people to harm them using it, but also mind control through manipulating the electricity in the nervous system. Some of them then even learn how to resurrect recently dead living beings through "jumpstarting" their electricity. At first, only young women or girls have the power. Before long though it's discovered older women have it dormant as well, which younger ones can spark in them. Later on Roxy finds she's capable of limited lightning blasts.
• Roswell, New Mexico: This is main character Max Evans' main power; he can channel the energy into things like healing... or destruction.
• Space Cases: Bova, an alien from Uranus, has the natural power to absorb, channel, and emit electricity and bolts of lightning.
• Spellbinder: The Spellbinders' power suits can generate powerful blasts of electricity - provided they don't get wet. A significantly upgraded version was also capable of flying by means of repelling the Earth's magnetic field.
• Sanctuary (2007): Tesla can't shoot bolts himself, but invariably causes a lot of damage with lightning. Some of the other characters even call him insane, though justifiably a genius.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Symbiosis": The Ornarans and the Brekkians can generate electricity from their hands, which Tasha theorizes to be an adaptation to the magnetically active sun their planets orbit.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Gary Mitchell and Apollo both demonstrated the ability to shoot lightning from their hands.
• Super Sentai: Several series have heroes, villains or both who use these, including Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, where it's a specialty of Kyoryu Gold and his mecha Pteragordon. His arch-rival Dogold has the same power. It's unclear if Dogold had this power before possessing Kyoryu Gold. The same goes for the (otherwise quite different in the plot) Power Rangers Dino Charge version.
• Ultra Series:
  • Ultraseven: Eleking, a Psycho Electric Eel kaiju able to fire electrical disks from his mouth and embrace foes (usually with his Prehensile Tail) to deliver powerful shocks. In appearances in other shows, he's additionally given the ability to consume electricity and breathe a powerful beam of lightning as a Finishing Move.
  • Ultraman: The rhino-like Neronga can consume and manipulate electricity to become invisible (however that works) and shoot lightning bolts from his horn.
  • Ultraman Mebius: The Maquette Kaiju Miclas is upgraded with the powers of Eleking and Neronga, as well as a Neronga expy from Return of Ultraman called Eledortoise, to become Eleki-Miclas, which gives him the ability to shoot lightning from his horns, shock others on contact, and become invisible.
• Wednesday: This version of Uncle Fester gets his latent electric sparks in the original source material updated to full "Shock and Awe"-powers that allow him to shoot lightnings from his hands. He uses them primarily to Rob banks.
• The Wheel of Time (2021): Amalisa, Nynaeve, Egwene and two other women join to channel the One Power against the Trollocs, creating lightning that strikes them.
• The X-Files: The Monster of the Week in "D.P.O." is a teenager who calls down lightning and controls electricity in general.

• Veritas: Main character Gangryong and his presumed dead mentor Lightning Tiger both practice the Enlightenment Of Thunder and Lightning (EOTL) school of martial arts which manifests its users' ki as electricity. In the hands of a master, it's a bit of a Game-Breaker since the electricity can disrupt the ki flow of anyone it hits. Lightning Tiger took it up a notch by reverse engineering Vera's Arts of Heaven's Rich Strength on the spot and combining it with EOTL to call down a bolt of lightning from the sky.

• Of course, there's AC/DC's classic "Thunderstruck".
• This appears to be one of the powers of the Tiger Rider from "Tiger Rider vs. the Time Sprinkler!" by The Aquabats!.
  Grab a hold of the lightning bolt
  And you pull down the lightning
  (Ride the lightning!)
• Bad Company's "Electricland".
• The Cobra Starship song "The Church of Hot Addiction" has the speaker say "My love is electric".
• DJ the S' "Disciple of Lightning" is a compilation remix of lightning-based themes from video games.
• Eddie Grant's hit "Electric Avenue" references this trope indirectly. It's actually about the 1981 Brixton riot, but the street where said riot took place was so named because it was the first market street to be lit by electricity.
• The Greg Kihn Band has a song, "Jeopardy", that references thunder and lightning in its lyrics.
  Well, you can take it as a warning
  Or take it anyway you like
  It's the lightning, not the thunder
  You never know when it's going to strike
• Imagine Dragons' "Thunder".
• Lights: The Darker and Edgier video clip for "Ice" sees this type of element put to good use.
• Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes".
• Ninja Sex Party's "Thunder & Lightning" is a song all about how Danny got superpowers after being struck by lightning directly in the crotch. Except he didn't get any powers...until he says an ancient prayer to the gods and gets powers for real in the bridge.
• Oingo Boingo has a song entitled "Lightning". Since it's implied the singer, Danny Elfman (or rather his stage persona), has been hit by lightning so many times he's lost count, it probably crosses over with Psycho Electro (and explains a lot). He also doubles as an Evil Redhead.
• Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" probably counts.
• Whitney Houston's song "So Emotional" has a line that goes "It's shocking what love can do", implying a connection with electricity.

• Gods of thunder and lightning are found in many myths and religions across the world.
  • Older Than Feudalism: Zeus of Greek Mythology is frequently portrayed as flinging thunderbolts.
    • Jupiter, his Roman counterpart, was also a god of thunder (no, they weren't the same). The Romans also had a nocturnal thunder god in Summanus.
  • Thor, the god of thunder, from Norse Mythology.
  • Indra, the king of the Hindu gods (according to the earliest text, anyways), is the god of thunder and lightning.
  • Raijin of the Shinto religion is a monstrous-looking god of thunder and lightning.
    • Susano'o is sometimes associated with thunder and lightning as well.
  • Leigong, the Chinese "lord of thunder", is also noted for being very ugly. According to Wikipedia, the Chinese have a whole slew of thunder and lightning deities; Leigong is just one of the most prominent. Another prominent one is Leizi, the goddess of lightning.
  • Yoruba religion gives us the fearsome Shango, who is based on a real-life West African king famed for his tempestuous personality.
  • Perun, the chief god of the Slavs. He has some similarities with Thor, which is inescapable due to the fact that they're both reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European thunder god.
  • Tarhunna, the Hittite weather god, was depicted as holding a three-pronged thunderbolt in his hand.
  • Taranis, the Celtic god of thunder. Also related to Perun and Thor.
  • The Maya had Chaac and Yopaat.
  • The Aztec had Xolotl, who was also associated with death and dogs, was hideous, and was essentially Quetzalcoatl's "shadow" self.
  • The Zapotec (another Mesoamerican tribe like the Aztec and Maya) had Cocijo.
• The mythological variant on the Thunderbird (contrasting with the more down to Earth cryptozoological variant, which is just a very large bird) was said to be capable of shooting lightning from its eyes and occasionally its wings. This makes sense, given its portrayal as a storm maker.
• The Raiju, or "Thunder Beast", of Japanese mythology was a wolf-like creature said to appear during lightning storms and literally ride the lightning. It is often described as a companion of Raijin.
• The Mongolian Death Worm is often said to be capable of shooting electric volts that can kill livestock. Most scientists (and even some cryptozoologists) cast doubt on this ability, however.

• Cirqus Voltaire is set in an avant garde circus with an electricity theme.
• Flash (Williams) is all about this trope, largely due to its Thunder God protagonist.
• Jurassic Park (Data East) has "Electric Fence" mode, where Tim will become electrocuted if the player fails to hit the bumpers enough times to shut them off.
• Nikola Tesla and his Wizard Lightning Machine are important aspects of Magic Girl (John Popadiuk).
• In Street Fighter II (1993), Blanka is drawn with this on the playfield.
• The Magneto Limited Edition of X-Men (Stern) shows him throwing bright red electrical bolts all over the place.

• Aomon from Binary Break has electrical abilities, namely his Shell Shocker attack.
• Shaula the Star from Sequinox can generate electricity.

• The Undertaker has the ability to call down lightning from the heavens, though he mostly uses it for dramatic effect and not as an attack. (If he did, his matches would be over rather quickly.)
• In a storyline where Kane stole Undertaker's powers, Kane blasted a stagehand with lightning and set him on fire.

• Avatar Adventures: Ramthundar uses lightning as one of his signature abilities.
• Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
  • Somewhat inspired by Black Adam, the rambunctious Luna has the power to create, control, and turn into electricity.
  • Josephine can create and manipulate electricity, though it tends to play second fiddle to her primary power of ice manipulation. That said, she can use them in tandem, having the ice work as a conductor to her electricity. Humorously, their shared electrical power leads to Josephine once getting mistaken for Luna.
  • Simon (and his evil personality the Dark Dragon) has control over plasma, which in turn allows him to manipulate electricity and fire.
• Fate/Nuovo Guerra: Celestina and Genessa have some expertise with this kind of magecraft, particularly the spell Perunic, which creates a large tornado that shoots lightning bolts at the enemy. They also use it to accelerate metal objects magnetically, ala railgun.

• Dungeons & Dragons has always had its share of (usually, but not always magical) electricity-based attacks, to the point where "lightning" is simply another not altogether uncommon damage type in certain editions.
  • In early editions, lightning is considered to be a "quasilement" — that is, a secondary element created from the fusion of an element with positive or negative energy. In this case, lightning is created by the meeting of air and positive energy to create a "pure" version of the original element, with an associated plane between the Elemental Plane of Air and the pole of positive energy, alongside an associated menagerie of lightning quasilementals, lightning mephits, and the like.
  • Multiple spells allows for the direct manipulation of electricity, such as call lightning, which brings down lightning from the sky, and chain lightning, which sends electric bolts arching from target to target.
  • Various monsters have innate electric powers. Blue dragons, for instance, breathe lightning instead of fire.
• Fabula Ultima: "Bolt" damage is one of the game’s elemental damage types, and is typically inflicted by attacks and spells that involve lightning and other forms of electricity. The Elementalist class can learn spells that inflict this damage, while enemies that can inflict bolt damage include the Battlemage, the Static Ooze, and the Lightning Wheel.
• GURPS Warehouse 23: Giant electric eels are immense fish native to the depths of the Caribbean Sea, which can produce strong enough shocks to kill entire schools of fish at once or disable a submarine.
• In Nomine: The Generator Attunement given out by Jean, the Archangel of Lightning, allows the user to, well... generate lots of electricity and fry things with it.
• Magic: The Gathering: Electricity and lightning are a common element Red direct damage spells, starting with classic cards such as Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, although not quite as common as fire. Red-aligned elemental creatures, such as Lightning Dragon, Lightning Mare, and Lightning Phoenix, are also common. While most Red-aligned factions tend to emphasize pyromancy or emotion magic, some notable ones more focused on electricity include the Izzet League of Ravnica, Blue/Red Mad Scientists with a lot of Lightning Guns, crackling technology, and half-electric hybrid elementals, and the Kolaghan Brood of Tarkir, a breed of Red/Black lightning-breathing dragons.
• Mortasheen has Abcoulix, an enormous brain toad created as an organic electrical generator, which can attack by frying people from a distance with an electrical bolt or trying to grapple with them to fry them like an electric chair.
• Pathfinder:
  • Blue dragons breathe lightning bolts, and become surrounded by an aura of electricity as they age.
  • Other creatures possess electric Breath Weapons — one of a mukradi's three heads spits lightning, for instance.
  • The iron deposits within an ekekeh's body act as natural conducers of electricity, allowing them to generate electrical bolts and project electric fields around themselves.
  • Nephlei, also known as cloud nymphs, can naturally use several electricity-based spells such as lightning bolt, ball lightning and lightning arc and can create whips out static electricity, and release powerful bursts of electricity when they die.
• Rifts: A Psychic Character Class, the Zapper, can shoot mega-damage blasts of electricity and use other electric powers.
• Sentinels of the Multiverse: Tempest's race can use lightning among their weather powers. The Slave Mook versions of them in Grand Warlord Voss's deck do this damage type.
• Shadowrun:
  • Electric martens are specialized predators of other electrogenic animals and of Matrix-connected technocritters, and can both generate electric bolts to stun their prey and disruptive electrical waves to disable their powers. This disruptive effect also works on man-made technology, making the martens destructive pests in urban environments.
  • Eyekillers are large, owl-like flightless birds capable of generating powerful electrical shocks to bring down prey.
  • Thunderbirds are Awakened raptors capable of generating powerful EMPs. In a world where a significant part of the population has electronics wired directly into their heads, this makes them very dangerous animals.
• Summoner Wars: Quen of the Mountain Vargath, the militant ram-men of Itharia, shoot lightning bolts that sometimes DO strike the same spot twice.
• Warhammer:
  • Blood Bowl: In the 5th Edition rules, rather than the fireballs that regular Hireling Sports-Wizards can cast, Chaos Sorcerer Coaching Staff are able to throw lightning at opposition players with the 'Thunderbolt' spell. While it cannot Knock Down as many players as a fireball, the 'Thunderbolt' spell has a greater chance of Knocking Down the player it is aimed at. In previous editions the spell was available to all Wizards.
  • Warhammer 40,000:
    • A number of Psychic Powers enable their casters to manipulate lightning, such as the Aeldari power Eldritch Storm and the entire 7th Edition Fulmination Astartes Psychic Discipline. The Ethermancy school of Cryptek skills also allows the practitioner to manipulate electricity.
    • One sect of Tech-Priests, known as Electro-priests, have microscopic circuitry implanted beneath their skin that allows them to manipulate electricity. A side-effect of this enhancement is that it causes their eyes to melt in their sockets.
    • Their mastery of the material universe allows the C'tan to create and control lightning at will, something that is represented in-game by the 'Transdimensional Thunderbolt' Power of the C'tan. In 7th Edition this Power allowed the C'tan to unleash a powerful attack with the same special rules as tesla weapons. The 8th Edition rules for the attack meanwhile give the C'tan the chance of causing mortal wounds against multiple units.
    • Tyranids of the Trygon genus produce a strong bio-electric charge, which the creatures use to wreath their claws with crackling power. The Trygon can also discharge this energy in a high-voltage bio-electrical pulse can reduce the enemy to a pile of charred bones. The more powerful Trygon Primes have even evolved various spines along their bodies that allow the beast to harness this electrical energy and unleash it with greater power.
  • Warhammer Fantasy Battle:
    • Lightning and electricity are traditionally in the wheelhouse of Azyr, the Wind of Heavens, and its wielders can call down lightning bolts and to send masses of crackling electricity to fry enemy forces.
    • Dragon ogres are empowered by lightning, whether natural or magically generated, and some can generate powerful electric shocks as well.
• The World of Darkness:
  • Mage: The Awakening has a few Forces Rotes that allow the mage to redirect electricity and throw lightning.
  • Promethean: The Created has a whole category of Transmutations called Electrification, which allows the character to manipulate electrical equipment and shoot lightning from their hands. Appropriately, the category falls into the Refinement of Tin, which focuses on spite and revenge — just the category where you'd put the Wrath of God. Notably, electricity usually heals Prometheans... but electricity created through Electrification is fueled by a Promethean's Torment, twisting it so much that it harms them instead. (It takes one of the highest-level Electrification Transmutations to produce electricity clean of Torment.)
  • Werewolf: The Forsaken: One of the more powerful Gifts causes a lightning bolt to strike the werewolf's enemies.
• Yomi: Grave Stormborne mixes lightning attacks in with his martial arts.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Thunder was one of the least impressive types in the early days of the game, though Daemon Summon/Summoned Skull used electricity in the source material. The original "Forbidden Spell" Raigeki is lightning-based, and the type did introduce a few powerful monsters like The Creator and Hamon - Lord of Striking Thunder. But the type itself only began to shine when they introduced Thunder-type archetypes such as the Watts and Batterymen. Then, in 2018, they expanded on Thunder Dragon, one of the oldest and most well-known Thunder monsters, into a full and formidable archetype.

• Futuroscope: The superheroine Étincelle ("Spark") from the 4D movie Étincelle: The Curse of the Black Opal owes her name to her electric powers. The lightning she can shoot from her fingers on-screen is often enhanced by the laser and light show in the 4D theatre.

• BIONICLE:
  • Lightning is one of the secondary elements featured. Users of the element include several Toa of Lightning, Tahnok-Kal, and a few Rahkshi species.
  • Toa of Water and Air would work together to create storms, the most obvious effect being the lightning.
  • The Toa Inika were created via special lightning, and as a side effect, their elements became intertwined with electricity. Whenever they shot fire, air, water, stone, ice, or earth, they not only burnt, blew away, smashed or froze their target, but also electrocuted them. Their toys had light-up weapons to simulate this. The trope is actually kinda justified for once, in that it's not exactly ordinary lightning. It Makes Sense in Context.
• The elemental theme of the Electroids from Mixels. They're yellow in color and all have appendages topped with a light purplish-blue that lets them shock. They live in the mountains to be closer to lightning storms, and are all named after their elements: Teslo, Zaptor, and Volectro.
• Zoids has Liger Zero X and Dark Spiner. Liger Zero X has electrified blades that shoot lightning while Dark Spiner fires a burst of electricity that causes other mecha to go into Unstoppable Rages.

• Beatrice Waltrud von Kirscheisen from Dies Irae uses lightning as her element. Additionally she is also able to become lightning in order to render herself both intangible and as fast as lighting. Tubal Cain is another character who can use lightning, although the bolts are black with purple/red highlights in his case. This is due to him housing the soul of Beatrice allowing him to use her powers.
• Michael Roa Valdamjong from Tsukihime. The original Roa, not the pathetic reincarnated one, and is one of the most powerful mages in the Nasuverse and primarily uses electric magic.
• Andi "Cat" Kim in Villainous Nights has the power to generate and control electricity. Not only can she use it to fry electronics and as an insta-taser, it makes her conveniently able to no-sell the electrified stun batons that Optimus Mooks wield.

• Broken Saints: EMP is used twice. The first time is when the fake Big Bad finds Raimi and Oran and attempts to fry them. The second time occurs when Kamimura severs Oran's chip-implanted hand, freeing him from the pain of the signal, but also triggering the EMP to be fired on the chip's current position the minute the broadcast is over. However, the EMP's limited range allows Kamimura to take the severed hand far from his friends.
• Dreamscape: Soya is a very versatile user of this trope. He even states that its not about what your powers are, its how you use them.
  • Vampire Lord can fire black lightning from his hands.
  • Anjren, while in her robot suit, can charge up and fire balls of lightning.
  • Drake can create balls of lightning of various sizes.
  • The yellow fairy of Eleenin's Fire, Ice, Lightning fairy trio has lightning powers.
  • Kaila and Melinda can send down black bolts of lightning.
  • Dylan's Mechelly can fire beams of lightning from her hands.
• DSBT InsaniT: Blake has electric powers. Fitting for someone who runs an arcade.
• Lumaya Legends: Run From Royalty: Suith is the only dragon in the series to have fur so far. Said fur allows her to generate electricity through her body, and she can send it through water and metal by touch. Unfortunately, she also struggle to control that power.
• Pretty Blood: Copper, Especially due to him being an Expy of Pikachu
• RWBY:
  • While Nora Valkyrie doesn't actually shoot lightning, she absorbs and channels electricity into strength and can run at lightning speed. Fittingly, she is rambunctious, weird, hyperactive, and very physically strong. Her power awakened in the first place when she was struck by lightning one day. However, while resistant she is not immune to electricity, and if she absorbs too much electricity at once she can overload her Aura such as in Volume 8, which leaves her with electrical burn scars afterwards.
    Nora: Got struck by lightning. Didn't die. Crazy Thursday...
  • The Four Maidens have the ability to control all elements, but some Maidens favour using lightning in battle. Although Amber used all the elements in battle, she favoured lightning once she was levitating above her opponents. In Volume 5, the Spring Maiden stills a bandit camp by shooting lightning from a clear sky, while early in Volume 8, the Winter Maiden fights the Ace-Ops with wind, lightning and hail.
• The Grossery Gang: Surge has these abilities. Being a battery Grossery, he has the ability to send out electrical jolts.

• Plenty of people on the Archipelago are Artificial Animal People with traits taken from various animals. Cassie has some capabilities of an electric eel. Normally, she's too sweet and nice to use them, but when Han tries to make her do something she absolutely won't do...
  Cassie: I say... you shouldn't have grabbed my tail. (she zaps Han)
• Aurora (2019): Lightning is one of the primordial elements that mages may be able to channel. Lightning magic is commonly used as a weapon or a tool for weather prediction and management. Tess, a Lightning mage with metal skin, uses her magic to leap great distances by launching herself like a railgun.
• Blood is Mine: The protagonist can use her ability to manipulate biological material to produce bioelectricity. At first, it's barely enough to charge one camera, but after some experiences with Electromagnetic Ghosts and Astral Projection, she can straight-up shoot lightning.
• Bob and George: George has electricity-based powers. He can travel via lightning and zap entire armies of enemies into submission. Apparently, his only limitation was low self-confidence.
• Breakpoint City: Ben can shoot electricity from his hands.
• Champions of Far'aus: Lightning magic is a subtype of Air magic. The shadow beast is shown to be able to use it’s lighting powers to create a taser-like effect, and Catharine’s spear has a lightning enchantment.
• Coga Suro 2: Anne, for about five minutes, and, later, John, due to entering into some sort of contract with an immortal lightning-ghost.
• Crankrats: The Crankrats were mortally wounded soldiers (and one kid injured in an air raid) patched up with contraptions that made them sort of a Steampunk Iron Men with power of lightning on their fingertips. Most of them went Psycho Electro and had to be disposed of. Who would have foreseen this...
• Dead Gods: One of the secrets which the Watchers imparted upon humanity was the harnessing of electricity. Drawn from stylised generators scattered throughout the landscape and stored in clay batteries (modelled after the real-life Baghdad batteries), mankind has found a wide variety of uses for the power of lightning, from a common lightsource, through a source of heating (also occasionally used for human sacrifice) down to a cattle prod-like weapon of deterrence and pacification.
• Dominic Deegan: The Maestro is the comic's foremost electromancer. He's also twitchy and speaks with a "bzzt" Verbal Tic, both of which are side effects of all that exposure to electricity.
• Grrl Power has at least two characters that can use electricity, even for producing miniature lightning. One works for ARCHON, and can occasionally turn herself into an energy bolt for quick travel; however this doesn't prevent things like eardrum damage when she isn't living lighting, and anybody in the vicinity might need to worry about radiation poisoning if one of her attacks uses enough power (implying Virtual Particle Pair production and annihilation). A different character can zap people, but apparently isn't completely immune to an attack backfire, as shown when she wanted to hit someone while standing in a puddle of water. She even admitted she didn't quite think through the potential consequences.
• Inhibit: Victor has the power of electromanipulation, or control over electricity.
• Kirby Card Clash: Yellow of the Waddle Dee Bros is seen using lightning.
• Love Unlimited (2022): In the Ms. Marvel & Red Dagger arc, villain Curio's powers are electrical in nature. Ms. Marvel eventually defeats him by using his Logical Weakness to water when he's powered up.
• Lady Knight: Galvan (as befitting for his name) has a curse that allows him to manifest extremely powerful lightning.
• Maliki: The aptly named Electro cute control electricity. She can also absorb electricity to recover or get a Temporary Power Boost.
• Max Comix: The nature of Max's powers. He's able to generate electricity at will, or summon tools and weapons made of it for fighting purposes (or to play videogames during a blackout).
• Nixvir: Oriel the angel has the ability to do this, whenever she is using magic to fight. Come to think of it, all Wizard Duels involve a mixture of this trope and Magical Star Symbols.
• No Songs For The Dead: Romeo packs a thunderous punch as his fists are made of a mix of lightning and magical energy. His eyes also crackle with similar energy.
• The Order of the Stick: Durkon occasionally uses Thor's power to call lightning.
• Pacificators: Lightning-users are often insane due to frying the brain with their powers. They also can't shoot lightning over a distance, so they prefer to use something to conduct, like a chain.◊
• Sleepless Domain: It's mentioned that the magical girl Pop Blitz has "zappy powers" that she's still getting a handle on. When Undine is looking for a new team to join, this is part of the reason that Team Blitz has to turn her down — they'd love to have her, but her water powers and Pop Blitz's barely-controlled electricity would make for a poor combination.
• Slightly Damned: Sakido has enough lightning for a pack of demons when she's mad. Which is almost always. Wind Demons in general.
• Special School: Ruby has this power, but she can't control it as much as she wants.
• Thunderstruck: Sharon Curon. At first, it looked like she simply could absorb electricity and turn it into super strength. Some training and a bout of Grand Theft Me showed there was much more to her power, including the ability to zap people like an electric eel.
• Tower of God:
  • Lero-Ro is capable of doing this since he is a Lightning User^note Jeonsulsa. His facial markings are proof of this (and also references Pokémon). In fact, anyone that has passed the test to become a Lightning User can wield electricity.
  • The Shinsu that Khun Edahn controls is said to be very fast and to possess tremendous electrical power.
  • Certain members of the Khun Family are naturally capable of wielding electricity. Khun Maschenny Jahad is famous for her Lightning Spear techniques and Khun Ran has shown the ability to use them as well.
• Sonichu: Oddly, even though most of the characters are described as "Electric Hedgehog Pokémon," Sonichu is the only one who uses electric powers with any kind of regularity, because they either have secondary typing that they focus on (the Chaotic Combo) or aren't Electric-type at all (Jamsta, Lolisa and Simonla).
• unOrdinary:
  • Remi, as well as her brother Rei and unnamed mother, possess the ability to manipulate electricity, as well as see electric currents.
  • Remi's version of the ability is also commonly copied by John
• Unsounded: Rion Keon attacks Elka with a spear he's channeling lighting from the storm they're fighting in through.
• Wright as Rayne: Albert Gaspeed, a minor villain, seems to enjoy punching people with electricity.

• Creepypasta Cookoff: In "Clock Struck One", seemingly sapient mice have this power, which they use to kill humans and a dog. This is also why the government is interested in them; some are hoping to use them as an energy source.
• Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The Mysterious Somebody's weapon of choice was blasts of Force Lightning; aside from telekinetically snapping Serna Tjan's neck, it's the only attack he was shown using. Appropriately enough, he ended up Hoist by His Own Petard when Lady Zhevago made him electrocute himself with it.
• Rock Hard Gladiators:
  • Oxob has electrokinesis, which when fighting he incorporates into his attacks. The supplementary "Oxob Origins" implies that his electrokinesis was the result of being used to test Nanomachines in a lab experiment, the same source of his enhanced strength and, in some cases, Super-Speed.
  • Besides Oxob, multiple other Gladiators have electricity-based powers, such as Shuriken (who got his when coming Back from the Dead after a lightning strike) and Drifts.

• The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids: Lord Nefarious can shoot short, painful blasts of green lightning using his staff. After coming into his power as an evil sorcerer in his own right, his Bastard Understudy Sebastian Steer displays the ability to shoot similar, but more powerful, purple bolts from his bare hands, Palpatine-style, demonstrating how he is in actuality more powerful (and also less controlled) than Nefarious was.
• SCP Foundation:
  • While plugged into an electricity source, SCP-612 ("Aggressive Cable") can shock any creature it touches and even fire an arc of electricity at targets.
  • SCP-654 ("Thunderhorn") is a mutant narwhale that can fire lightning bolts from its horn. It uses them to kill seals so it can eat them.
  • When SCP-2757 ("Dr. Wondertainment's Projector Fantastico™") is used with the film SCP-2757-1e The Valiant Crusaders, one of the powers gained by the experimental subjects is electricity generation.

• The Angry Joe Show: Angry Joe has the ability to use Force Lightning. It is exactly as hammy as you think.
• Kickassia: Both the Nostalgia Critic and Dr. Insano can shoot lightning from their hands. The Critic uses superconductor electromagnetism, while Dr. Insano uses science!
• The Platoon of Power Squadron: Donald has this power. He can do lots of stunts, like low-voltage bolts, an electric whip, and a Surge Protector (a.k.a. the Electro Barrier, the Bolt Barrier, and the Shock Shield), a form of impenetrable armour.
• Skippy Shorts: "Can you stop electrocuting people with your horrible electricity shocking powers?"
• Unwanted Houseguest: Downplayed. There's no indication that the Houseguest can generate electricity on his own, but he is apparently able to channel it without permanent harm. This is how he re-lights Owl Head Lighthouts to defeat the Shadow Demon.

• Avatar Legends: The most skilled and powerful Firebenders can create and/or redirect lightning as a secondary ability. In the original show, these are all members of the Fire Nation royal family, namely Ozai, Azula, and Iroh.
  • When Iroh is explaining to his nephew Zuko the basics behind lightningbending, he discusses positive and negative energy as well. The process of lightningbending involves separating positive and negative energy, and providing release and guidance for that positive and negative energy when they restore balance, generating lightning. In particular, the show subverts the usual association between Lightning powers and insanity: generating lightning requires absence of emotions and peace of mind, and lightning is often called "cold-blooded fire". Azula is crazy enough, all right, but maybe she simply mastered the technique so perfectly that she can enter the required state of mind automatically.
  • It becomes more common in Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, to the point where lightning-benders are standard staff in Republic City power plants. Although the method they use is a newer, less powerful method. Mako, the firebender of New Team Avatar, is reasonably capable with the technique, though Zuko's grandson Iroh seems to be the most adept at it and he does the older method.
  • Lightning is actually used for the second on-screen death in the entire franchise towards the end of book 3. Mako is fighting Ming-hua (the armless waterbender) and she lures him to an underground pool. He gets clear of the water and takes advantage of her Achilles' Heel by shooting lightning up her Combat Tentacles. She dies almost instantly.
  • Also from Korra, the Equalists and their electrified stun gun gloves are almost too badass. One little tap and even master benders drop like flies. The Lieutenant gets extra credit here with his electrified kali sticks, which he uses to beat Mako and Bolin so badly that he can still seem kind of awesome in later episodes when he's used as the resident punching bag. Asami, New Team Avatar's Badass Normal, later adopts an Equalist electric Power Fist as her primary weapon.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold: "Emperor Joker!": After the Joker is given Reality Warper powers from Bat-Mite, he uses his superpowered Electric Joybuzzer to shock Batman unconscious mid-sentence in a Shout-Out to Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars.
• Ben 10: None of Ben's original ten aliens have electric powers, but the rest of the franchise features this as a frequent power.
  • Ben 10: The Megawhatts, who are a mischievous gang of Nosedeenians - a species of diminutive Psycho Electro battery-like aliens. Also, the Transylians, the species that Dr. Viktor, as well as Ben's alien form Frankenstrike (initially dubbed "Benviktor") belong to.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force: Brainstorm's species, the Cerebrocrustaceans, combine electricity with Super-Intelligence.
  • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Ra'ad, and Ben's transformation sampled from him, Ampfibian, are from a species of Electric Jellyfish called Amperi.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse: Feedback's species, the Conductoids, an alien species with appendages that function as electrical cables. Also featured the first in-series appearance of Shocksquatch (the Omnitrix's DNA sample of the Gimlinopithecus species, who had made his debut in Ben 10/Generator Rex: Heroes United) and the first chronological appearance of the Omnitrix's sample of the Nosedeenian species, Buzzshock (who had previously shown up in "Ben 10,000" in the original series).
• Dad'X: Foudror frequently attacks people with lightning that shoots out of his claws.
• Dr. Dimensionpants: The titular hero has shooting lightning as one of his powers.
• Dragons: Riders of Berk: A few dragon species use electricity rather than fire.
  • The Skrill is the first electric dragon introduced in the series. Its metallic spines absorb ambient electricity and it exhales an ionized gas that gives said electricity a path to follow.
  • The Seashocker can generate a current between its two heads. If the two heads touch while doing this, the result is an electromagnetic blast.
• Final Space: "And Into the Fire": The lizard Titan produces purple lightning from his body to electrocute Bolo, sending the latter crashing into the planet where the Team Squad are located.
• Gravity Falls: "Soos and the Real Girl": The artificial intelligence .GIFfany can fire electricity from any device she is inside of, in addition to freely moving between electronics in the first place. As revealed in Journal 3, this extends to her "form" as a character in Fight Fighters when she ends up trapped inside that arcade.
• The New Adventures of Jonny Quest: "Warlord of the Sky": Dragna's Mooks are infused with static electricity allowing them to electrocute opponents by touch.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Sparky (Experiment 221) can produce large amounts of electricity from his body, cause black outs, and release a powerful electric blast from his antenna.
• MeteoHeroes: Fulmen controls lightning and thunder.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Pegasi can make stormclouds release lightning by jumping on them.
  • "Mare in the Moon": Nightmare Moon shoots a bolt of lighting at the guards. Luna poses with Dramatic Thunder in a few occasions later, but does not explicitly use electric powers again.
  • "Bloom & Gloom": Applebloom's first cutie mark nightmare has her becoming an exterminator hunting after twittermites, magical insects that can control electricity and generate bigger jolts the bigger their swarm gets.
  • "A Health of Information": Flash bees are highly aggressive bees that defend their nest with electricity. It just so happens Fluttershy needs their honey to make a cure for Swamp Fever, and in her sickened and sleep-deprived state "The Stare" is useless against them.
• The New Adventures of Superman: The antagonists of "The Lethal Lightning Bug" and "Night of the Octopod" have the ability to discharge deadly bolts of lightning.
• Skull Island (2023): The Kraken's tentacles are not only venomous, they're bio-electric, able to deliver electric shocks to anything they grab.
• Sky Dancers: One of Breeze's abilities is to fire directed lightning blasts.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Envoys", the transdimensional being unleashes bolts of its own energy, although its attacks don't seem to be all that harmful because Ensign Mariner can subdue it with her bare hands and she doesn't get hurt when it zaps her. After being severely drained of its power, the alien attempts to kill Captain Freeman, but ends up dissipating itself on impact.
• Star Wars Rebels: The Bendu can generate a thunderstorm, ride it, and shoot down lightning bolts powerful enough to One-Hit Kill AT-AT walkers.
• Static Shock: Static himself rather unsurprisingly has this ability, along with the ability to give things a static charge to levitate them or stick them to walls.
• Steven Universe:
  • Garnet can generate electricity from her hands, though she favors her gauntlets instead, using her electric powers only once in combat in "When it Rains" against Fusion Experiments by smashing her fists into the ground and sending an arc of lightning at one of them, electrocuting it. She's also used it to power Greg's van and an arcade game.
  • Peridot can discharge electricity through her fingers, running a live current through Amethyst's whip when the latter tries to grab her.
  • Yellow Diamond can dish out massive torrents of lightning, Emperor Palpatine-style.
• Super Duper Bunny League: Bex can shoot electricity from her hands, which can range from small sparks to full-energy blasts, the latter especially when she's fired up or angry. However, using up all of her power will drain it out, as she finds out after blasting the Robo Cluck to make it stop, only for it to grow larger and more electric-hungry in "Clock-A-Doodle-Doo!".
• Sushi Pack: As an electric eel, Unagi both eats and discharges electricity as part of his attacks.
• TaleSpin: Don Karnage has a Lightning Gun in the pilot. Apparently, 1940s-level technology is able to create artificial gems that continually generate electricity and nobody noticed.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Shirley can fire electricity, as seen in "The Amazing Three" and "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres". This is also her special attack in Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Universe, one of the licensed games of the series.
• Transformers: Animated:
  • Bumblebee can shoot electricity through prongs that come out of his hands called "stingers". Even when he's combining his powers with Ratchet's, they're not incredibly useful.
  • More usefully, Ultra Magnus can summon lightning with his hammer, Thor-style.
  • Shockwave also shows off this power in the series finale. When in his true form, he can project electricity from either his antennae or the tips of his claws. He never uses it in combat, but it can be strong enough to cut through starship armor.
• Unicorn Academy: Storm has lighting-shaped markings, and can use her weather magic to create bolts of lightning and the sound of thunder.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender:
  • Honerva and the Galra Druids under her command use this power, in the form of purple lightning that they can shoot out of their hands, thanks to the refined Quintessence that they harvest. It is particularly frightening when they combine it with Offscreen Teleportation, as Keith finds out when he tries to spy on a Galra druid. They also like to use this ability as a form of Electric Torture, whenever they are required to act as interrogators on the enemies of the Galra Empire.
  • On a lesser note, Pidge’s bayard can take the form of a multipurpose tool, that can be used as a Static Stun Gun, to briefly incapacitate enemies or annoying teammates, as Lance found when he first mocked the cuteness of her little weapon.
• What's Opera, Doc?, especially at Elmer Fudd's Villainous Breakdown.
• W.I.T.C.H. (2004): Will Vandom and Nerissa use quintessence. While magical energy, the series shows it being fired off as electric blasts.

• There are people who, while they don't generate electricity, are capable of redirecting it through their bodies without any harm and with some measure of control or otherwise withstand far more electrical current running through them than the normal human. Some theorize it's a genetic ability that allows them much higher resistance to electricity than the average person.
• (Psycho) electric eels, electric catfish, torpedo rays, and the stargazer fish are able to generate a strong electric current thanks to the help of specialized organs.
• A common elemental theme for sports teams, most notably the Los Angeles Chargers and Tampa Bay Lightning, the latter of which later installed its own tesla coils in their stadium because they felt like it. And from the short-lived NFL Europe.... Berlin Thunder.
• Two men + two Tesla coils + special suits = ELECTRICITY FIGHT! For the sharp eye, one can also spot a Dragon Ball Z-inspired (possibly) "Fusion Dance" at 2 minutes, 13 seconds (2:13) into the video.
• Nikola Tesla gained a strong reputation thanks to his contributions to radio, X-ray experimentation and magnetic induction.
• The taser device used by the police sends out massive amounts of electrical voltage to incapacitate and stun a subject, though using it on someone with a medical condition could injure them or even outright kill them. The "Don't tase me, bro!" incident is one example of particularly controversial taser usage.