Badass Abnormal/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A Badass Normal gaining superpowers.

  • Straight: Jason, a black belt martial artist, gains the ability of superhuman strength, speed, and Shapeshifting.
  • Exaggerated: Jason can turn his body into Shapeshifter Weapon, though he hardly ever needs to.
  • Downplayed: Jason, the kung fu master, gains the ability of flight.
  • Justified: Though Jason is already awesome, more powers can only make him more awesome.
  • Inverted: Badass Normal, Power Loss Makes You Strong, Brought Down to Badass.
  • Subverted: Jason has his virus powers, but is powered down afterwards.
  • Double Subverted: But he gets them back later.
  • Parodied: Jason starts out as the Badass Normal, than gets a bunch of useless powers, like Meat Vision.
  • Deconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power, which ends up making him less badass.
  • Reconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power at first, but slowly learns how.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Jason never obtains any superpowers.
  • Enforced:
    • "Jason is awesome enough as he is, but we can make him even more awesome."
    • "Alright, Jason might be pretty badass for a muggle, but he's getting outshined by his super-powered partners. Time to give him an upgrade"
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Jason injects himself with The Virus in order to make himself more powerful.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Jason never uses his newfound powers.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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