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Some group of mysterious superpowered types gain their powers through a [[Super Empowering]] process that is permanent and irreversible. They want to induct a new member into their ranks—so they put him through that process with little or no explanation and ''then'' ask him to join them. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]] (Hint: [[Phlebotinum Rebel]])
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Often happens in [[Magical Girl]] shows, such as ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (though technically, Usagi/Serena was ''born'' with the powers and only required them to be activated).
** ''All'' of the senshi were born with their powers and awakened in a similar manner, though the series didn't seem to decide right away whether the reincarnated girls were "normal" girls who just happened to inherit some powers from their past selves, or were planetary warriors all along, reborn with their full power set (it eventually settled on the latter).
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', Morpheus feeds Neo a line about how nobody can ''explain'' the
** Justified, as trying to do this when you're in the Matrix itself is one of those things that the Machines' search programs tend to pick up on (which generally means the Agents will be after
** Parodied by ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* This often happened in ''[[
** It was a standard procedure of the Sabbat, which performed mass Embraces, with the victims being buried and those who dug themselves out being brought into the group.
** The adventure "Blood Nativity" was about a group of people being Embraced simultaneously and being forced to fend for themselves without any training. Those who survived could join vampire society.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In
* ''[[Vampire Cheerleaders]]'' had a younger cheerleader promoted to A-team and "converted" as the replacement for missing-presumed-dead Candice - though at least cared to do some screening (Lori could see the new addition is both fit and have [[Team Spirit]], which she values above all else). Heather accepted this without any problems, but when their cover was blown, made a point of publically telling a slightly edited version - how it obviously ''should have been'' done, given that vampires can casually mind-wipe the prey after feeding and thus took responsibility for her status even though this wasn't really her choice. Later {{spoiler|when Lori/Lorna left the group, she left in charge the youngest (both as human and vampire) of her "progeny" for some reason}}.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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