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* [[Empowered]]'s suit usually is more [[Blessed with Suck]], but the fact it supercharges her orgasms and libido? Gee, what a burden.
** Supercharged orgasms are one thing, but having a supercharged libido actually could suck.
* [[The Incredible Hulk]], of course, has [[Blessed With Suck| the opposite Trope]], as do many super-beings whose powers come from gamma radiation, such as the Abomination and General Ross. But there are exceptions:
** The page picture's subject, She-Hulk, started out as Bruce Banner's mousey cousin who transformed after being given a blood transfusion from Mr. Banner. She went from a shy, rather nebbishy girl into... well, She-Hulk. Eventually, writers realized there weren't any real ''downsides'' to it, and she hasn't complained about the situation in ''years.'' (The trick is that, as the name implies, they were trying to make a [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[The Incredible Hulk]] - but while Bruce Banner turns into a horrific, mindless force of destruction [[Depending on the Writer|most of the time]], Jennifer turns into a friendly, vivacious Amazon. Hard to see any downsides in that, especially since she didn't like who she used to be all that much to ''begin'' with.)
** Lampshaded as early as the late-80s, in the ''She-Hulk'' graphic novel. Mr. Fantastic sez, "I've got bad news. Due to that burst of radiation you absorbed, you are now stuck as the She-Hulk, permanently. I'm sorry, Jen." She replies, "So, what's the ''bad'' news?"
** Jen isn't the only one to benefit from gamma radiation. The Hulk's enemy the Leader was once nothing more than a janitor until an accident involving gamma radiation turned him into a super-genius with Psychic Powers. He considered the green skin and enlarged, mutated cranium a very small price to pay.
** Doc Samson transformed himself using stored energy siphoned from the Hulk in an attempt to cure Banner permanently. It didn't work, but considering that it changed him from a somewhat nerdy scientist into someone with the physique of a Greek god, the fact that it also made his hair longer and green was unplanned, but overall he admits it's still a good deal for him.
** Indeed, one theory about gamma radiation is that it transforms the victim into a physical embodiment of deeply repressed emotions. While the Hulk embodies the hidden rage that Bruce felt towards his abusive father, She-Hulk is a liberated, daring side of Jennifer that she had never been able to show before. Abomination is an unlovable bastard because Emil Blonsky is an unlovable bastard (or believes he is). Doc Sampson always wanted to be a paragon-style superhero, so that's what he turned into.
* [[ROM Spaceknight|ROM and the other Spaceknights]] constantly bewail the loss of their humanity, even though they can still think, talk, feel, and do pretty well everything else humans can, while also having supercool cyborg armor, the ability to fly, virtual immortality, and, of course, survive attack by the Dire Wraiths.
** Not being able to get ''out'' of their armor probably sucks pretty hard. For one thing, you couldn't have sex. Actually, do there really have to be any other reasons?
** Tigra from ''[[The Avengers]]'' is a lot like She-Hulk, being a magnet for [[Furry Fandom]] before that even became a fad. She can't become human again (possibly because she rarely did so when she ''could''), but her [[Cat Girl]] form released a liberated, energetic side of her that she ''never'' wants to abandon. Possibly even the reason she and Ben Grimm were once an item.
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