Empowerment

"Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities."

- Wikipedia, on empowerment

There are many kinds of ways in which a character can be empowered. True ways and faux ways, ways that come from within and ways that come from the outside, ways that are mundane and ways that are supernatural.

Empowerment, True (unless subverted)

 * Ethical Slut
 * From Nobody to Nightmare (Empowerment is not necessarily a good thing)
 * Helping Would Be Killstealing
 * Pride Parade
 * Safe, Sane, and Consensual
 * Took a Level in Badass

Empowerment, Faux (unless played with)

 * Culture Justifies Anything
 * Magic Feather
 * The Presents Were Never From Santa
 * Questionable Consent

Empowerment, True or Faux

 * Easy Evangelism
 * Epiphany Therapy
 * Freedom From Choice
 * Wounded Gazelle Warcry

Often providers of true empowerment

 * The Chooser of the One
 * Enigmatic Empowering Entity
 * Fairy Godmother
 * The Obi-Wan
 * Santa Claus

Often distributors of faux empowerment

 * Con Man
 * Path of Inspiration
 * Phony Psychic
 * Scam Religion
 * Straw Feminist

Often receives (or builds) true empowerment

 * The Chosen One
 * Rags to Riches
 * Magical Girl

Often receives (or delude themselves into) faux empowerment

 * Armored Closet Gay
 * Boomerang Bigot
 * Moral Guardian
 * Egocentrically Religious
 * Straw Feminist
 * Straw Loser
 * Windmill Crusader

Tropes about averting empowerment

 * Internalized Categorism (in all its forms, but especially Normopathy.)
 * Only the Author Can Save Them Now
 * Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality

Individual examples, not fitting any of the above tropes

 * (none added yet)