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** In [[Milestone Comics]] (now part of the DCU), many supers are "Big Bang Babies" who got their powers when a massive gang fight was broken up by cops deploying tear gas that had (without the cops' knowledge) been laced with "quantum juice".
* The [[Valiant Comics]] universe was a fairly ordinary universe with no supernatural aspects until a scientist named Phil Seleski accidentally created a "wish machine" that gave him [[Reality Warper|god-like powers]]. Due to events too long to summarize, he wound up collapsing the entire universe into a black hole. He tried to restore it, but, because he was a superhero fan, he subconsciously recreated the universe as a more fantastic version of the original, complete with invading aliens, evil robots, sentient [[Powered Armor]] and mutant-like "Harbingers".
* In the ''[[Wildstorm]]'' universe, the main sources of powers were either [[Half-Human Hybrid|alien ancestry]] (like the
** In ''[[Planetary]]'' it was revealed that all Century Babies are {{spoiler|part of Universe's immunity system, created to stop attacks from [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Earth's]].}}
** The mysterious comet that passed Earth in the 1970's, which was the cause of the powers of the Seedlings, not to mention the all-powerful yet crazed WarGuard.
* In ''[[PS238]]'', metahuman powers, which come from a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|''huge'' variety of sources]], are inborn or obtained in an equally large amount of ways; it is eventually revealed that {{spoiler|an unknown cosmic determinant appears to be responsible for whether or not humanity will have access to metahuman powers. The process is circular; ever so often, humans will start to develop/be exposed to superpowers, and then, following a short 'trial period', this determinant will select a 'chooser' from humanity to decide if this state of affairs will continue. If the chooser says no, the powers will be removed and humanity will have a century or two without them. If yes, metahumans will continue to exist. So far, every chooser has elected to say no.}}
** There are exceptions, however. Uncommon origins, such as [[Touched by Vorlons|close encounters]] with the higher powers of [[Order vs. Chaos|Order and Chaos]], happen. They "don't count", as in not a part of [[Superpowerful Genetics]] and other common rules of metahumanity: Julie still is a plain [[Flying Brick|FISS]] in all regards and Tyler still doesn't detect as a metahuman at all, even if now they can see things like [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|cherubs, imps]] or portals leading [[Void Between the Worlds|outside "mortal" Universes]].
* In Defiant Comics' shared universe, the powers could all be somehow traced back to "dreamtime" - humanity's collective Id that existed on another plane of reality. All super-powered humans either learned to tap into dreamtime and wished superpowers for themselves or got powers from dreamtime's native lifeforms.
* ''[[Supreme Power]]'' links all of the powered heroes' origins to Hyperion's arrival on earth.
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