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* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', a number of eighteenth century alchemists [[Deal with the Devil|summon a demon]] to grant them [[Immortality]]. The demon complies, tossing in the extra of being able to kill other immortals and [[Ghost Memory|steal their memories]], mostly for the the [[Hilarity Ensues|inevitable lulzy results]] of [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|giving twenty quarreling people stuck on a boat a reason and the means to kill each other]]. He is not disappointed.
* Near the end of ''[[Hellsing]]'', it turns out that the Doctor created Millenium's "vampires" by {{spoiler|infusing people with tiny bits of the corpse of Mina Harker, one of Alucard's aka Dracula's past victims, who survived and died as a human but still carried some of his power inside herself. So all of Millenium's vampires were Touched By Alucard.}} Small wonder that none of them really stood a chance against him.
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and its sequel, nearly all the original Digidestined were children who had been present personally for a massive battle between two Digimon, and the majority of the others seem to have witnessed the battle that took place on the internet. This seems to suggest that the only way to get a VIP pass into the [[Cyberspace|Digital World]] is by being touched by Digimon.
* This was [[Fan Disservice|played for horror]] in ''[[Berserk]]'', when {{spoiler|Femto viciously raped Casca, who was pregnant with her and her lover Guts's child at the time. The baby was at first developing as a normal human in the womb, but when the fetus came in contact with Femto's demonic essence, it became [[The Grotesque|deformed]] and took on [[Fetus Terrible|a nature of evil]], and was eventually miscarried due to the trauma Casca endured. However, due to it being a supernatural being born between worlds, the Child survived and continued to linger around its parents, [[Love Redeems|actually helping]] and [[Parents in Distress|protecting them]].}}
** In retrospect, all Apostle Spawns are created this way, since an Apostle can taint a normal human's life with their demonic powers.
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* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''. The first instances (John and Ringo) are actually unintentional on the part of the aliens involved; they end up giving George and Paul powers to make them roughly equal.
{{quote|'''Varx:''' I don't think we have a choice, Shag, unless you want half of our heroes feeling ''real'' inferior to the other half.}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Immortals can imbue a person with subtle magical abilities and start them down the road to more magic if they have a strong yearning for something or if they have an affinity for something specific. They can also unlock a person's natural latent magical abilities to be able to start getting access to and using explicit spells. Mainly by giving a [[Power Tattoo]] that grants one spell to someone who had any sort of affinity to it, even if normally the user could never acquire it. Actually having power to ''use'' a given spell is another matter, but straightforward channeling of raw power into a magic user also falls within "[[Alien Non-Interference Clause|empower and advise]]" limitations; in the continuity it was only used once, to boost a "summon [tiny familiar]" spell into "summon [small army]" (which also dazed the newly baked magic user enough to think using it this way was a good idea, but since no actual harm to him was done, it's still considered "fair game").
* In ''[[Black Adventures]]'', [[The Missingno|Missingno.]] bitch-slaps Mary, injuring her eye. Her next appearance reveals that she has obtained some of [[Missing No]].'s powers, which she uses to help her and Joseph get the upper hand against Black.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the [[Filler Strips|filler story]] "Stick Figure Tales of Cotton", Torg and Riff both gained superpowers from a group of aliens ([[It Makes Sense in Context|that were actually the author's hand]]) after going through some parodic superhero origin stories that didn't actually give them any powers.
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