I Just Want to Be Special: Difference between revisions

* ''[[xkcd]]'' [//xkcd.com/308/ wants to] live in interesting times.

* Sol in ''[[Circumstances of the Revenant Braves]]'' initially befriends Kei simply because he wants to know how he can get special powers. {{spoiler|Later subverted when he actually gets similar powers}}.

* Sarah of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has a bit of this, considering that her friends consist of several magic users, an alien shapeshifter, and a [[Mad Scientist]], though she is mature enough not to whine about it constantly. However, it was hinted at several times before being admitted outright [//egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-30 here.]

** Later when Tedd experimented with [[Magitek]] she volunteered as a guinea pig/assistant. And apparently, Grace was [[Incredibly Lame Pun|graceful]] and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|gracious]] enough to [[Rule of Three|grace]] her with these possibilities, via getting Tedd to make her some magic-powered stuff she could use.

** Eventually it took [[Physical God|an Immortal]] and even then in very unusual circumstances. The "diagnosis" is that she ''was'' a latent magic-user, but [[Superpower Lottery|stuck with]] affinity for a spell that needs raw power hopelessly out of reach for anyone not already well-trained — [[The Key Is Behind the Lock|she would not be able to use it or get new spells until she's much stronger, and won't get any stronger until she hurled magic like there's no tomorrow at least for weeks]]. On the upside, when she finally got access to it, "heavy lifting" helped to quickly reach the point where she could do it without "cheating".

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': everyone who lived through the transformation into Jägermonsters are immune to age and got generic [[Super Soldier]] augmentations. All but ''one'' Jäger also have various visible changes like claws, [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|sharp teeth]], pointy ears, [[Amazing Technicolor Population|strange skin pigmentation]] (sometimes [[Chameleon Camouflage|changing at will]]), and occasionally extras like horns or tail. Neither their creator (the guy was from one of the very first batches), nor all his descendants who made more Jägermonsters could figure what's up with this guy. He's still loyal to his master's clan, other Jägers still count him a brother in arms, being the only one who can really pass for a completely normal human (if with above-average amount of scars) after more than cursory examination got him an important job… but he still considers this bad luck.

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|"Axel Higgs"}}''': Out of all the thousands who taken [[Super Serum|the draught]] — and the hundreds who've ''survived'' — I'm the ''only one'' who ''never changed''. Never.}}