Trope Workshop:Power Buff

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Amp it up to eleven!

Schematic diagram of Real Life pneumatic powered gas booster types. Single acting single stage, double acting single stage and double acting two stage power boosters.

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:

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.
• A Certain Magical Index‍'‍s Shin'enkouji Rurikakesu power as an epser is Shield, which can boost physical abilities or make a defensive layer around them.
• In Fairy Tail, Kyoka uses the Curse called Enhancement to enhance a target's attributes as she sees fit. She uses it on herself to increase her physical strength. She also uses Enhancement to boost people's senses, such as pain, to make torturing them more efficient.
• Belo Betty in One Piece. Her Kobu Kobu no Mi Devil Fruit power enhances her already considerable skills as an orator, inspiring bravery, resolve, and fighting spirit in anyone listening to her. A very useful power to have as a member of Dragon's Revolutionary Army, she was able to turn the frightened and destitute citizenry of Lulusia Kingdom into an army that proved able to hold off the Peachbeard Pirates with only makeshift weapons. Many fans have theorized that if television existed on the One Piece world and Betty were able to make even a five-minute broadcast, the World Government would have been overthrown in a manner of hours.

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.

Literature

• In The Raven Cycle, Blue Sargent can amplify the abilities of psychics and other supernatural beings.
• Keeper of the Lost Cities‍'‍ Enhancers are elves with the Ability to enhance others' Abilities.

Live-Action TV

• In Heroes, Ando Masahashi can project red energy conducts through enhanced humans, amplifying their powers.
• Charmed: empathy can increase powers because all magical powers are tied to emotions.

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.

Web Animation

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

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.
• Generator Rex: Amp is an EVO who can charge up Nanintes, causing EVO's powers to go out of control. He can even charge inanimate objects to explode.