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Situation where a character's miraculous abilities are not so much a product of "superpowers" as it being an ability humans in the series universe could have but are unable to access for some reason. That is, until they reach [[Brain Critical Mass]]. Very prevalent in [[Sci Fi]] as a common trope with mentalists and ESP'ers.
This trope name comes from the oft-repeated but '''false''' assertion that humans only use 10 percent of their brains. We use all of our brains, just not all at the same time -- in much the same way that hitting a few specfic notes on a piano will produce a beautiful tune, whereas mashing them all at the same time would only create a crashing cacophony.
There are occasions in some people's lives where the entire brain fires up at once. It's called a seizure.<ref>More precisely, seizures occur when the parts of the brain start firing off randomly. In some general seizures, the entire brain can have neuronal activity at once for brief moments.</ref>
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* In the film ''[[Limitless]]'', starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, Cooper plays a down-on-his-luck writer who takes a smart drug called NZT-48 that allows him to access 100% of his brain as opposed to "the twenty percent", granting him superhuman intelligence and prescience.
* Implied in ''[[The Shadow]]'', in the end, the [[Big Bad]] gets a spike through his head and has to have a part of his brain that "no one uses" removed. It turns out that this was where his psychic powers were located.
* In ''[[Lucy]]'', the whole premise of the film revolves around a drug that causes a woman to access the entirety of her brain, with complimentary pseudoscience lectures provided by Professor [[Morgan Freeman]].
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