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* In 2008's ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', the source of the Abomination's powers is a double dose of the Marvel Universe's fabled Rebirth Project super-soldier serum , combined with a blood transfusion from Bruce Banner. This appears to have been done as part of an effort to provide visible ties between Marvel Studios' adaptations of their canon characters - in this case, laying groundwork for the ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger|Captain America]]'' film.
** Actually, even Banner's mutation into the Hulk in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] is due to his experimentation with the original serum. A combination of the fact that he didn't know what he was doing (the military had told him the work was for radiation resistance) and his replacing [[Techno Babble|Vita-Rays]] with Gamma radiation led to his transformation.
* In the [[The Bowery Boys||Bowery Boys]] movie ''Hold That Line'', Sach mixes a bunch of random chemicals together and drinks down the mixture. The potion turns Sach into a super-athlete. Inverted later in the movie when Slip tries to replicate the formula. Slip gives the potion to the college Dean, who {{spoiler|shrinks in size}}.
* In the 2011 movie ''Limitless'' the main character uses a drug to become super smart.
* After defeating his arch-nemesis Metro Man, [[Megamind]] decides to give Metro Man's superpowers to a random guy who would become the next champion of Metro City. He extracts Metro Man's DNA from some dandruff on his cape and accidentally injects it into {{spoiler|Hal the cameraman}}.
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* In their origins, steroids were looked as if they were this: some magic serum that gave new soldiers muscles with no training whatsoever.
* During the [[War of the Pacific]] Chilean soldiers developed a toxic drink nicknamed "La Chupilca del Diablo" (The Devil's Booze), which consisted of a mix of strong Aguardiente and ''black gunpowder''. According to that era's records, the unholy mixture caused the Chilean soldiers to go absolutely ''berserker'' and able to ignore pain or fatigue, but because of the toxic nature of the drink, this Super Serum was only used on extreme situations. For the record, that war had Peru and Bolivia teaming up against Chile, and Chile ''won that war.''
* Scientists have actually developed a reliable supersoldier serum. However, it [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430082909/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45890174/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/scientists-make-supersoldier-ants
* The [[Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German military]] from 1938 throughout [[World War Two]] used liberally a compound of the dreaded methamphetamine (then known as [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,354606,00.html Pervitin]), under the hope it would give the soldiers and most importantly airmen superhuman performance. While the effects of meth as an insanely strong stimulant are known, the mild concentration used back then led the troopers to stay awake for weeks, raise themselves from total exhaustion, [[Deconstructed Trope|but it did not grant]] ''super''human powers.
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