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More power to ya, but don't go on a power trip!
Superpower Superpower is the trope where a power can basically do anything with other powers. They can manipulate every aspects of these abilities and use different applications:
- Boost superpowers
- Weaken superpowers
- Nullify superpowers
- Copy superpowers
- Absorb superpowers
- Bestow superpowers
- Create superpowers
It goes without saying that someone with this type of power has hit the Superpower Lottery. There is also how some superpowers can be alternatively used to manipulate them. An example such as Telepathy, where superpowers are controlled by the brain thus a telepath can control people's powers.
Examples of Superpower Superpower include:
Anime and Manga
- From Medeka Box, Hansode Shiranui's Minus allows her to eat other Abnormalities and Minuses then alters their properties.
- Hanten Shiranui can create Abnormalities and give them to others.
- Service from Karakuri Doji Ultimo can control and use the powers of other Doji within a specific area.
- My Hero Academia's All For One can use his Quirk to steal others' Quirks to use for himself and can even bestow them. There is also how he absorbed a Quirk that can activate people's Quirks even when unconscious.
- In Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Silver Chariot Requiem can manipulate the soul thus allowing it to take control of people's Stands.
- Jujutsu Kaisen has Cursed Restriction which can limit Jujutsu but at the same can empower aspects of it.
Comic Books[]
- Marvel Comics' Professor Xavier can use his telepathy to manipulate Mutants' powers due to how they function through the brain.
- Cassandra is a Mutant that can manipulate DNA and can control Mutants superpowers, even latent ones.
- Sage is a biokinetic Mutant that can biologically awaken or enhance Mutant powers.
- Fabian Cortez, aka The Power, can augment other Mutants' superpowers and even analyze them.
- Emma Summers is a mutant who can manipulate the powers of other mutants and can even use them as her own.
- In W.I.T.C.H., the Heart of Kandrakar can empower Guardians and even use the power of the Aurameres due to its link with them.
Live-Action TV[]
- Seth from Misfits has the superpower of taking and bestowing powers to people, reflecting his past profession as a drug dealer.
Video Games[]
- Infamous' The Beast, aka John White from Infamous, can awaken Conduits' powers plus amplify and nullify their abilities.
Web Comics[]
- In UnOrdinary, John Doe has the Aura Manipulation, which allows them to copy abilities along with reading and enhancing them.
- In Sidekicks, the Triad Prana are three artifacts that are the source of superpowers, and each has a function that can affect them.
- The First Prana can create superpowers.
- The Second Prana can boost, copy, and control superpowers.
- The Third Prana can weaken, steal, and transfer superpowers.
Western Animation[]
- In Avatar the Last Airbender, Energybending is bending the energy within oneself and others. It can be used to bestow or take away others Bending. There are also other abilities where it can be used to Astral Projection and manipulate spiritual energy.