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Amp it up to eleven!

Power Booster is a superpower that increases characters' abilities and even other's superpowers. They 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 can also make others' powers uncontrollable, inducing Power Incontinence.

Averted Trope of Power Limiter, which limits a person's power.

The objectified form of this trope is Amplifier Artifact.

Examples of Kuma/sandbox 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.
• Magical Girl Raising Project has Sister Nana who's magic can increase a person's capabilities. For a Magical Girl, their magic also gain a boost.

Comic Books

• DC Comics' Blue Lanterns can increase the powers of Green Lanterns when in their presence.
• From Marvel Comics, Zach, aka Amp, is a mutant that 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.
  • Emma Summers can manipulate the powers of other mutants, which allows her to unlock their full potential.
  • Víctor Álvarez, aka Power Man, can manipulate chi, which he can use to enhance vitality or the superpowers of others.

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.

Video Games

• Infamous 2 has The Beast, a Conduit that has many abilities, including amplifying 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 Adepts' Septima.

Web Animation

• RWBY's Juane has Aura Amp, his Semblance that can amplify others Aura by giving his own to others. This can enhance their Semblances plus 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.
• In Slugterra, Fandangos can boost the abilities of other Slugs and act as support rather than offense and defense compared to other Slugs.