Virgin Power/Playing With

• Basic Trope: A virgin (almost Always Female) has special powers, simply because she's a virgin. Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Played Straight: Virginia can ride unicorns and cast spells, just because she's a virgin.
  • Seamus O'Taku loves anime, manga, comic books, StarTrek, and video games, but has never slept with a girl. Because of the latter case, he can ride unicorns and cast spells.
• Exaggerated: If she even so much as thinks about sex, she will lose her powers.
  • If he ever masturbates to a 2D girl, he will lose his powers.
• Justified: Virginia is a Miko, and because virgins are considered to be more pure and closer to the god(s) they serve, her ability to do what she does is contingent upon her virginity.
  • Virgina worships a virgin goddess,who only grants power to her disciples if they remain chaste.
• Inverted: Slutterella gains more power the more sex she has.
• Subverted: Virginia is a virgin, but otherwise impure, or simply not nice.
  • Virginia doesn't actually have powers tied to her virginity, but her society does place a high value on a girl's virginity.
• Double Subverted: But because she's an Apocalypse Maiden, she can still use special powers that are tied to her virginity.
  • Because of that, Virginia is expected to be (and remain) "pure"
• Parodied: Because of her powers, Virginia Can't Have Sex Ever.
  • Or see the second entry of Played Straight.
• Deconstructed: Virgin Tension makes Virginia's love life awkward. She also can't help but feel like she's being used... She's also constantly fighting off villains who try to seduce her so she'll lose her powers.
• Reconstructed: Virginia decides that her powers are incredibly awesome, and that being a Celibate Heroine is a small price to pay for them. She accepts her role as Barrier Maiden. And she's a more well-rounded person because she's focused on things other than romance.
• Zig Zagged: Some virgins have special powers, other virgins do not. Some lose their powers with their virginity, others don't, still others gain, or switch, powers.
• Averted: No virgins have special powers.
  • Magical powers are not contingent upon one's virginity or lack thereof.
• Enforced: The author thinks virgins are better, and gives them special powers to show that.
• Lampshaded: "Great supernatural powers....this means I'll die a virgin."
• Invoked: Virginia already was a Celibate Heroine (or Asexual) before acquiring her power. The person/entity that granted her the ability knew it would be easier for a person devoid of romantic/sexual interest to maintain this power.
• Exploited: Virginia (or someone close to her, like her father) learns about the existence of the Virgin Power, so she's infused with it in order to protect her virginity.
  • Draco, an Empire's double agent and consummate Manipulative Bastard learns about the virgin-clause on Virginia's power, so he decides to charm her in order to fall in love with him and eventually take away her gift.
• Defied: Virginia doesn't want her powers anymore, and screws Bob the first chance she gets.
• Discussed: "What makes virgins so special, anyway?"
• Conversed: "I dunno...maybe it's their rarity. Or their perceived purity. You know, like a diamond, or something."
• Played For Laughs: Virginity Makes You Stupid, or if the powerful virgin character is male, A Man Is Not a Virgin
• Played For Drama: See "Deconstructed."