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* Gwen Raiden (see ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' below) gets a mega-massive dose of this in ''Angel: After the Fall'' when {{spoiler|having found a cure for her electrical...ness, she uses the opportunity to get close to another person for the first time. Then everything goes to Hell and the electrical doohickey keeping her powers suppressed breaks... and she [[Squick|deep-fries her new friend]].}}
* Rick Sheridan, from the 1990s [[Marvel Comics]] series ''Sleepwalker'' ends up having to share his head with the titular alien hero, who can only come out when Rick sleeps. Sleepy's presence causes no end of trouble for Rick in his social life, up to and including putting Rick in a coma when Sleepwalker tries to force his way out while Rick is still awake. At least Peter Parker got some cool powers to balance things out...
* One of the few examples of this trope who is also a [[Badass Normal]] comes from [[Marvel Comics]] in the form of [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Michael Van Patrick, aka MVP]]. Long story short, he went through a diet and exercise regimen (starting from ''infancy'' it seems) devised by his grandfather who had worked on the [[Super Soldier]] program that created [[Captain America]]. On the plus side, it made MVP a human being whose physical abilities were on par with [[Captain America]] himself, ''without'' [[Super Serum]]. The downside? Hoo boy. When it was discovered that his grandfather worked on the project, school officials suspected that MVP's abilities weren't natural, so he got booted off his high school sports team. Then he got drafted by the Initiative because they also believed he had [[Super Serum]] in his veins. While he adjusted well enough, he and his fellow recruits took part in an ill-advised live fire exercise on ''their first day''. End result? {{spoiler|To quote the Sniper from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', "[[Boom! Headshot!|Boom. Headshot]]."}} [[It Got Worse|It]] [[Cloning Blues|didn't]] [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|end]] [[Ax Crazy|there]].
* Jhiaxus in IDW's ''[[Transformers]]'' comics {{spoiler|gains immortality as a result of being on the border between two universes, and so cannot die. This would be fine if it weren't for the hyperviolent Arcee using this to take her revenge against him. So she kills him again, and again, and again, and again...}}
** However, this is karma paying him back tenfold. Arcee wasn't hyperviolent until Jhiaxus turned her into a her. Until he experimented on Arcee, she ''had'' no gender, just like the rest of the Transformers. He did it just to see what would happen, just because he could. So this is a bit less this, more him getting his just desserts.
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