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* This is a major plot point in the [[Marvel Comics]] series ''[[Strikeforce: Morituri]]''. To fight back against an [[Alien Invasion]], humanity has developed the Morituri Process that give human subjects superpowers. The drawbacks?
*# The process is biologically incompatible with humans, and causes ''guaranteed death'' in a year or less, [[Your Head Asplode|usually in a messy fashion]].
*# The training procedure to activate the superpowers was fatal, unless the powers actually triggered and you were able to use them quickly.
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*** Beast built the device so that its effects could be reversed—he was using it to blackmail Unus into surrendering in order to save his own life. Henry McCoy is fricking hardcore.
*** Unus is so [[Blessed with Suck]], his powers manage to kill him ''twice''. In the ''Son of M'' mini-series, starring [[Quicksilver]], Unus showed up alive without explanation, but depowered. He & several other depowered mutants are exposed to the [[Green Rock|terrigen mists]] by the titular character, despite [[The Inhumans|the Inhumans']] warnings that exposing any non-Inhuman will end in tragedy. Everyone exposed has their powers returned, but to extreme levels, leading to madness, misery and (in Unus' case) death. Again.
*** Skids was a Morlock with powers similar to Unus, who like him, had no control over it; but she got lucky, after surviving the assault by the Marauders that killed most of the Morlocks, the New Mutants managed to help her learn to control it.
** There is a character in volume 2 of ''New Mutants'' called Wither. [[Touch of Death|Guess what ''his'' power is?]]
*** And when his power manifested, he happened to be touching his father at the time, thus killing Dad and turning Wither permanently into an [[Emo Teen]] who tends to [[Wangst]] quite a lot.
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*** It gets worse in the current continuity. {{spoiler|Why is he a robot? A group of scientists (including Caulder) gave him an injection of nanites to protect his life, when they hired him to drive for them. When the superbike he was testing went out of control, the only thing they could think of to do to save him was to consume his still completely concious body, and convert it into an indestructible robot.}}
** Steve "Mento" Dayton enhances his telepathic and telekinetic abilities with a helmet of his own design... but between the loss of his wife and the helmet's unforeseen side effects, [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
* The Crimson Guard twins, Tomax and Xamot in ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' (comics ''and'' cartoon) have an emphatic relationship to each other that causes each to share any pain or injury the other takes. While this does have benefits - should they be separate, it can quickly inform one of them that the other has been attacked by an enemy - it's a handicap when they fight together, and many of the Joes have learned that you can take both out simply by knocking out one.
* ''Vertigo'' example: in ''[[Fables]]'', Bigby Wolf has to constantly smoke in order to keep his super-sensitive sense of smell from inhaling the millions of scents from all over Manhattan. Not to mention all the noise...
** Another example from the third issue of the [[Spin-Off]] series ''Jack of Fables'', in which Jack learns that his overbearing lust for adventure has cursed him with being the center of all stories, including the ''Sword in the Stone"- where he plays the stone, after getting Excalibur shoved through his chest.
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** This is somewhat subverted because Jackie has the ability to create women from the Darkness which he can sex all he likes.
*** But this usually goes horribly wrong.
* This was the motivation behind one-time ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' foe Josef Huber's attempt to orchestrate the extinction of mutants. Unlike others with this goal, he wasn't a deranged fanatic; he just had the ability to automatically copy the [[All Your Powers Combined|powers of every mutant on the planet]], which resulted in him having telepathy so powerful that even the isolated arctic cave he lives in offers little refuge from the constant noise of thoughts from all over the world.
* The protagonist of the Top Cow one-shot ''Murderer'' sees/hears the thoughts of everyone around him all the time. This results in him knowing things he'd rather not (like how much his grandmother secretly hates him) and being so overwhelmed by other people's thoughts that it's hard to focus on his own. He speaks in broken fragments full of pauses<ref>e.g. "Wife. Got sick. Lost job. No money. No food. Just want. Family okay."</ref> because he can't concentrate well enough to string together a whole sentence. The title comes from the fact that the only way for him to turn his power off (and even then, only for a few hours) is to be in someone's mind as they're dying.
* Velcroman from a comic by German artist [[Walter Moers]] is about a superhero all covered in velcro (not a suit, but due to a biological-nuclear accident). In a world which is completely covered with fuzz, because of a [[Running Gag|biological-nuclear catastrophe]].
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* The newish Mutants from the marvel universe, Generation Hope, all have powers like this, or at least linked to this. You have Velocidad, who's a superspeedster who ages up with each use of his power as it just makes time move slower/faster/whichever would be relevant for him, Sadie (can't remember hero-name) who's trapped forever in some blue alien looking body, some guy who got super-animal strength and senses... and the mind to go with them. Another one of them's walking [[Body Horror]]. Being one of the new generation of mutants sucks.
** Idie is the one exception. Too bad her upbringing convinced her that just being a mutant was bad enough.
* In one ''[[Justice League|Justice League Europe]]'' story, [[Power Girl]] is dying and needs surgery to save her life. But doctors cannot operate on her for a simple reason: Her bulletproof skin makes it impossible. They have no scalpel or surgical laser capable of cutting through her skin. Fortunately the rest of the League think of something: they have former [[Green Lantern Corps]] member [[Gadgeteer Genius| Kilowog]] put together a helmet that lets [[Superman]] focus his heat vision like a super-powered laser, which is able to do the job.
* Isca the Unbeaten from ''[[New Mutants]]'' can never be defeated - literally. Her omega-level mutant power is that she cannot lose at anything, be it a game of ''[[Candy Land]]'' or multi-planetary [[Gladiator Games]]. Should she not have the skills needed for a contest, her powers will provide them, if any amount of luck is required, probability is altered in her favor, and should she be part of a group that is at risk of losing due to factors not concerning her (like say, a high-ranking general in an army making a stupid mistake or being assassinated) her powers compel her to defect to the winning side. To put this bluntly, if she threw down her weapon and surrendered, telling her foe to take her life and then kneeling down so he could do so, the foe would probably trip and impale himself on his weapon before he could. And of course, Isca has no control of her powers. While clearly an asset, she sees this as a curse for the same reason [[One-Punch Man| Saitama]] does, as not only is her life no challenge at all, the "clause" in her powers that compels her to join the winning side has given her the reputation of a turncoat, leaving her with few allies and even fewer friends.
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