Badass Abnormal/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Badass Normal gaining superpowers.

• Straight: Jason, a black belt martial artist, gains the ability of superhuman strength, speed, and Shapeshifting.
• Exaggerated: Jason can turn his body into Shapeshifter Weapon, though he hardly ever needs to.
• Downplayed: Jason, the kung fu master, gains the ability of flight.
• Justified: Though Jason is already awesome, more powers can only make him more awesome.
• Inverted: Badass Normal, Power Loss Makes You Strong, Brought Down to Badass.
• Subverted: Jason has his virus powers, but is powered down afterwards.
• Double Subverted: But he gets them back later.
• Parodied: Jason starts out as the Badass Normal, than gets a bunch of useless powers, like Meat Vision.
• Deconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power, which ends up making him less badass.
• Reconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power at first, but slowly learns how.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Jason never obtains any superpowers.
• Enforced:
  • "Jason is awesome enough as he is, but we can make him even more awesome."
  • "Alright, Jason might be pretty badass for a muggle, but he's getting outshined by his super-powered partners. Time to give him an upgrade"
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: Jason injects himself with The Virus in order to make himself more powerful.
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Jason never uses his newfound powers.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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