Cereal-Induced Superpowers: Difference between revisions

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The trope is an exaggeration of the idea that a good breakfast gives you enough energy for the day. Expect the comment "along with hard work, exercise and sensible diet" to be [[Rattling Off Legal|casually thrown in]] somewhere once in order to be ''technically'' true. It will also have to be consumed as [[Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast|part of a complete breakfast]], or the magic won't work.

** Kellogg's was a health-food company originally. Kellogg's products could, according to its founder, detoxify your colon and keep you from masturbating to excess.

* The Honey Nut Cheerios Bee has gained super powers from time to time because he ate Honey Nut Cheerios.

** As did the French campaigns, exclusively with a Tortoise and Hare.

** [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Bullwinkle]] was a spokescharacter, touting the cereal's benefits in a series of poetry-reading ads. As 'Casey At The Bat', he still strikes out, and is chased by an angry mob, but:

They gave him strength and lots of ''GO''...to get him out of town. }}

** Cheerios had the Cheerios Kid who ate the cereal and got strength to seal volcanoes, rescue people and save his girlfriend, Cheerios Sue from wild animals, kidnappers, etc. Later they both ate Cheerios and worked as a team. The Kid and Sue were around from the fifties to the eighties.

* There was also a series of ade with Bullwinkle and the Cherrios kid doing some kind of competition like bicycle racing, etc. Bullwinkle gets his energy after a bowl of the stuff, but usually ends up crashing into walls and other things. The slogan?

Bullwinkle: (dazed) But watch where you're goin'... }}

* One of the mascots of yesteryear, Sugar Bear of Post Sugar Crisp/Golden Crisp, would gain super strength upon eating just a handful of his cereal.

* The print ad for Chef Boyardee's ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' pasta is a two-page comic in which the Turtles catch [[Those Two Bad Guys]] Rocksteady and Bebop stealing their supply of the pasta being advertised. Before taking them down, the Turtles munch down on the pasta because it gives them "[[Crunchtastic|total turtle power]]".

* Subverted in a Sprite ad. A boy drinks Sprite on a basketball court and then tries to dunk while a voicover says, (paraphrasing) "If you want to play like the NBA stars..." And he falls on his face. "...practice."

** Well, if Spider-Man can foil criminals through the strategic use of Twinkies...

* While not consuming the product per se, various Holiday Inn Express commercials feature this.

Guy performing feat: "No, but I did stay at a holiday Inn Express Last Night." }}

* Winner ice cream turns people into polar bears.

** It turns out that powdered toast can not actually give kids the power to fly, despite having Vitamin F.

* [[South Park|"Mintberry CRUUUNCH!!"]] Only the power of mint and berry combined can defeat [[Cthulhu Mythos|the Dark One]].

* Referenced in the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "What You Want" -- [[Jerk Jock|Dash]] wanted to be a monster to crush the opposing football team, and after [[Jackass Genie|Desiree]] turns him into one, one of the announcers for the game comments, "Wow! It looks like those high-protein breakfasts are really paying off!"

* During the early 90ies, the Norwegian soft drink Solo ran a series of adverts that would always start out as stereotypical adverts of this kind... Only for nothing to really happen when they drank it, or [[Diabolus Ex Machina|for things to somehow get even worse]]. The tagline used was that Solo was "probably the only soft drink that does nothing ''but'' quench your thirst".