Trope Workshop:Power Buff

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Amp it up to eleven!

A Power Booster is a superpower that increases characters' abilities and even other's superpowers. Individuals who possess this power can increase their and others' physical abilities beyond their limits. When it comes to superpowers, it gives a stronger output. These effects are usually temporary, especially if range is involved. Boosting superpowers too much may also make others' powers uncontrollable, inducing Power Incontinence.

Inversion/opposite of Power Limiter, which limits a person's power.

The objectified form of this trope is Amplifier Artifact.

Examples of Power Buff include:

Advertising

Anime and Manga

  • Psyren: Rise is the part of PSI where the PSI waves are used internally to enhance the body. This means it increases physical prowess to superhuman levels like strength, speed, durability, sense, etc.

Art

Ballads

Comic Books

  • As seen above, from Marvel Comics, Zach, aka Amp, is a mutant who can output energy to anything around him, such as technology or other mutants. By using this superpower, he can bolster other mutants' powers but could also short-circuit them.

Fan Works

Film

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

New Media

Newspaper Comics

Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends

Pinball

Podcasts

Professional Wrestling

Puppet Shows

Radio

Recorded and Stand Up Comedy

Tabletop Games

Theatre

Video Games

  • Infamous 2 has The Beast, a Conduit that has many abilities, including amplifying other Conduits' capabilities.
  • Joule, an ally to Azure Striker Gunvolt, is an Adept with a Septima that can resonate with other Adepts' powers when she sings, which amps other Adepts' Septima.

Visual Novels

Web Animation

  • RWBY‍'‍s Jaune Arc possesses the Semblance Aura Amp, which allows him to transfer Aura to others, accelerating their healing and enhancing their own Semblances. He can use it to increase his own Aura as well.

Web Comics

Web Original

Western Animation

  • In Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, Nathalie Sancoeur is akumatized into Catalyst, who has the power to enhance the powers of others. Hawk Moth uses her superpower to boost his power of Akumatization, where he can Akumatize multiple people at once.

Other Media

Real Life