Magic Meteor: Difference between revisions

A certain type of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] in giving powers. Here new superpowers come from above, literally. A meteor [[Came From the Sky|falling from the sky]] gives powers to a person. Either they're hit by it or exposed to it in some way.

 

 

Compare [[Thunderbolt Iron]], where meteor ore is forged into a weapon.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* In one manga adaptation of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', they had to deal with everyone in the City Of Townsville getting powers from a meteor.

* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' begins with a meteor shower that brings Mepple to Earth. Mipple came the same way a hundred years prior.

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the [[DC Comics]] comic book ''Ball And Chain'', a fighting couple both get bathed in strange [[Phlebotinum]] from a meteor and get superpowers.

* ''[[Hawkman]]'' villain Lionmane got his powers from exposure to a meteor.

* There's a ''[[Spider-Man]]'' villain, the Looter, whose whole schtick was stealing meteorites for the yummy power-granting ability

* ''[[Darna]]'', the heroine of a Filipino comic, found her [[Transformation Trinket]] stone in a meteorite (or rather, the meteorite ''is'' the stone).

* [[DCU]] villain Vandal Savage gained immortality from sleeping next to a magic meteor.

* Many powers in [[Wildstorm]] can be traced back to the Comet Effect, an event in the 1970s wherein the mysterious radiation from a comet passing close to the Earth caused widespread mutations.

* ''Black Condor's'' origin from the 1940's consisted of him being raised by wild condors from a young age and somehow simply learning how to fly. When the story was retold in ''Secret Origins'', writer Mark Waid added a panel showing a passing meteor, to at least give it ''some'' kind of explanation.

 

== Film - Live-Action ==

** She also turns blonde and gets a magical boob job.

* In the movie ''[[The Meteor Man]]'' (it might have been a comic book too), a guy named Jefferson gets hit in the chest with part of a meteor and gets powers.

 

 

== Literature ==

* [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s Wold Newton Family are descended from people who were in the vicinity of the Yorkshire village of Wold Newton the night a meteor came down in 1795.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' has Eddy get powers for one episode by a meteor passing that only does once in a while.

* Superman himself may not count but in ''[[Smallville]]'' the [[Monster of the Week]] was often a "meteor freak," i.e. got their power from exposure to Kryptonite.

* The object of ''[[Poptropica|Super Power Island]]'', an online game, is to capture 6 villains who escaped from the County Prison after a crashing meteor gave them all super powers.

* The Chaos Comet from ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' apparently gives off a type of magical radiation. Being bathed in the comet's light had been known to give people anything from psychic powers to horribly mutating them into demons. At one point, it's mentioned that "[[Neglectful Precursors|The Ancients]]" had enough understanding of the comet's powers to outright create living things, like camels and the Dark and Light Knights. The comet also ended up causing these civilizations to fall, since "evolving too fast brings destruction". It seems to return once every 800 years, however.

** {{spoiler|'''You die next to it''': Your spirit gains super powers like telekinesis, teleport-swapping similarly-shaped objects, or the ability to turn back time for brief periods.}}

** {{spoiler|'''You are ''killed'' by it''': Additionally to the former, your body turns immortal by being timelocked at the moment of your death, but you are unable to feel any kind of sensation, exhaustion or pain and can leave and reenter the body at will.}}

* In ''[[Terraria]]'', every night Fallen Stars will crash down like meteors in random places. You can collect them and [[Item Crafting|craft them into an item]] that will permanently increase your maximum [[Mana]] pool (which is the only way to get a Mana pool in the first place). They can also be used as ammunition for a special type of gun, and do the most damage of any type of ammunition in the game. Actual meteors can be summoned by smashing a Shadow Orb. The resulting meteor ore can be crafted into various items, including the aforementioned star-shooting gun.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* An episode of ''[[Rescue Rangers]]'' began with a meteor falling to Earth, splitting into two crystals, one of which goes to the hero, the other to the villain, giving them both [[Rubber Man]] abilities.

 

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