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{{quote|''You cannot harm me. You cannot stop someone who has been [[Trope Namer|touched by Vorlons]].'' |'''Lyta Alexander''', ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]''}}
 
A character, initially having no unusual powers, [[Contagious Powers|gains them]] through interactions with [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|powerful aliens]] or [[Alien Space Bats|supernatural beings]]. Alternately, they might have very weak or useless powers amplified to godlike levels.
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** In the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Charlie X," the eponymous human character is given his powers by the superpowerful [[Energy Beings|Thasians]].
** [[Star Trek]] loves this trope. [[Butt Monkey|Lieutenant Barclay]] (temporarily) gets an IQ in the thousands after an encounter with a Cytherian probe in ''The Nth Degree.''
* The [[Trope Namer]] would be commercial telepath Lyta Alexander of ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'', who disappeared after the events of the [[Pilot Movie]], only to reappear in season three, vastly empowered by the Vorlons. Before, she was a P5 rating (on a scale of 0, non-telepath, to 12, the Psi Cops), but afterward she's just plain off the scale. She says later that she thinks she was made to be the Vorlons' ace in the hole.
** To say it in her own words: ''"In a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium sized weapons, and one or two big ones. The kind of weapons you drop when you're out of the small weapons, and the medium weapons, and you've got nothing left to use."''
** Technically, ''all'' telepaths might qualify, as it is eventually revealed that telepathy was induced in the younger races by the Vorlons so they could be used as weapons against the Shadows.
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** What about Weir? She was infused with replicator nanites and gained some of their abilities; namely, rapid regeneration (we're talking about ''brain damage'' here!), limited telepathy versus other replicators as well as the ability to mentally hack into their wireless network.
* The premise of ''[[The 4400]]'' is that 4400 people have been abducted by people of the future, altered to have special abilities, and returned all at the same time and place. Each returnee demonstrates one [[Stock Super Powers|unique ability]] (some have not yet been manifested or revealed).
* In series 1 of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', Captain Jack Harkness is exterminated by Daleks but resurrected by the Time Vortex-empowered Rose. In the spinoff series ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', it is revealed that he has been immortal since then. In series 3 of ''Who'', it is confirmed that this immortality was a side-effect.
** Likewise, Donna in the season four finale "Touched a Time Lord" (well, his hand at least) and got super vast intellect {{spoiler|which got taken away thanks to [[Victory -Guided Amnesia]] lest her [[Your Head Asplode|brain go all asplody]] afterwards}}.
** In new Series 6, we get {{spoiler|River Song. Her parents (Amy and Rory) are human, but she ends up being part Time Lord because she was conceived on the TARDIS}}.
* The [[Big Good]] {{spoiler|Jacob}} and the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|The Smoke Monster}} of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' have supernatural powers and immortality thanks to {{spoiler|the Source of Life located in the heart of the Island}}.
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