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Die or Fly

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Die or Fly	comment	Evidently, life-threatening situations bring out our hidden powers. The threat seems to have to come from Fate for it to work out. Don't Try This at Home. At a moment of extreme stress, a superpower pops out that the character never knew was there. They might have continued to lead a normal existence, doomed to be — at best — a character in a romance, if it had not been for that car wreck, or fall from a great height, or evil-doer... The idea presumably has its origins in the fight-or-flight reaction that humans experience when in great danger or under great stress, as a surge of adrenaline can indeed make someone capable of something that they weren't a minute ago. A preferred training method of the Sink or Swim Mentor. Contrast with New Powers as the Plot Demands, which is about powers manifesting as an easy way out of danger. This trope is about danger being used as a not-so-easy way for powers to manifest. This trope is a common way of introducing Powers in the First Episode. If the power can only ever be used in life-threatening situations, it's a Defence Mechanism Superpower. Compare with Traumatic Superpower Awakening, when the powers appear as a result of trauma that is not immediately life-threatening and Crisis Makes Perfect, in which a person masters a skill rather than manifesting superpowers under pressure. Don't confuse it with Crash Course Landing, when a passenger has to learn how to fly or else they die. This trope is the central concept of Japanese Spirit. A Death-Activated Superpower is when both happens. They die, then they fly. Compare Uninhibited Muscle Power. Examples
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Die or Fly / int_12b2b8a6	comment	In Unbreakable, David discovers his invulnerability after surviving a horrific train wreck unharmed. Turns out his mentor, Elijah, was behind it because of this trope; he has caused many disasters in order to find someone like David.
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Die or Fly / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm: Most parahumans get their powers in a Traumatic Superpower Awakening, which can include one of these; Brandish and Lady Photon, for example, got their powers when they were about to be murdered, and Grue got his powers during a violent fight with his and Aisha's abusive stepfather. Faced with a situation beyond their ability to save themselves with their current powers, some parahumans have a second trigger event, which alters or enhances their powers to help them survive. Grue, for example, had the power-draining effects of his darkness enhanced and gained the ability to copy others' powers with it, alongside more minor changes in how the darkness functions. The trauma that triggered it? Having his body rearranged such that his organs were spread around a room while still functioning. He needed the power-copying enhancement in order to copy a nearby parahuman's Healing Factor. It's speculated in-universe that particularly powerful parahumans had a second trigger event essentially at the same time as their first.
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Die or Fly / int_13b7da6e	comment	The original Liberty Belle, a member of the All-Star Squadron, had an experience like this. She'd been kidnapped by Baron Blitzkrieg, who used her, a lightning bolt, and the stolen Liberty Bell in an attempt to cure his blindness (don't ask). The experiment worked, but the bell fell off its rig toward Libby; she raised her hand in a desperate bid to stop it, and it flew across the room, hitting Blitzkrieg instead. Turned out the experiment had given her sonic powers as a side effect.
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Die or Fly / int_14a745bd	comment	Alien Worlds (2020): Skygrazer young live on a heavy gravity planet, so the only way they can get off the ground is crawl to a cliff and launch themselves off. To provide further motivation, the Blob Monsters that prey on ground-dwelling species are following close behind them, so it's either jump and hope you can learn to fly on the way down, or be eaten.
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Die or Fly / int_14cb9f30	comment	A Bug's Life: Dot's subplot involves her trying to get her wings to work. She finally succeeds after being chased off a cliff by Thumper.
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Die or Fly / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Though Cassie had just received powers when her mother and Jason Blood were attacked by Artemis she wasn't sure she had any, and had no clue what they might be if she did. She stepped out a window on an upper floor hoping for flight or durability (she had both) and then discovered to her delight she also had super strength when trying to prevent Artemis from killing anyone she held dear, since Artemis is also stronger than a baseline human.
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Die or Fly / int_194eb14e	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_194eb14e	comment	In Strikeforce: Morituri, candidates for the Morituri Process must survive Biowar Facility Alpha, a greenhouse garden loaded with lethal traps. The stress of survival is required to trigger the superpowers granted by the Process.
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Die or Fly / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: In the Hiryuu Shouten Ha story arc (Rising Dragon Wave in the US) Cologne never gets around to disclosing the legendary technique's final step to Ranma. However, he figures it out all on his own just as Ryouga's fist is about to turn him into paste on the side of the mountain. The Nekoken's training in a nuthsell — Cover a child in fish. Throw them into a pit full of starving cats. The child learns or dies.
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Die or Fly / int_1bdab048	comment	Richard Rider a.k.a. Nova was depowered for a long time and Night Thrasher guessed that he could reignite Rider's powers with a high stress incident. To create one, he kidnapped Rider, dropped him off a building and found that his hunch was right when Rider instantly repowered in the fall, including his flight power. He tried it a second time after another depowering, only to be rescued before the splat and having it made very clear that a second power-up was not what would have happened (he got his powers back again, of course, in another story arc).
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Die or Fly / int_1bdeba5a	comment	There is a relatively new phenomenon called Secondary Mutation in which known mutants (typically X-Men) suddenly develop a new mutant power at extremely convenient moments, such as a healing power (after receiving an otherwise mortal wound) or the ability to become indestructible (in the middle of a bombing). It started in New X-Men as an excuse by Grant Morrison to give Emma Frost transform-into-diamond powers,since they were not allowed to bring the transform-into-metal Colossus back from the dead and had a story idea they wanted to use which needed that power.
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Die or Fly / int_1cc09117	comment	Fitting for a Bleach crossover, and lampshaded by Ditzy Doo while training the Humane Five with their Fullbrings. Rarity can't find it in herself to disagree, considering that most of them did in fact first unlock their Fullbrings with their lives or those of their loved ones on the line from Hollows, and Ditzy preparing to fire a Cero that could kill Pinkie and Fluttershy is what leads to the former's epiphany to unlock the next level of hers, while taking one of the most powerful and deadly attacks in Ditzy's arsenal head-on is what lets the rest of them reach their own next level.
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Die or Fly / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad and Malloreon use this trope straight for sorcerers, who usually discover their power by accident in a fit of anger or frustration. Since the one unbreakable rule of the universe is "you can't unmake something with sorcery, and if you try, the universe unmakes you", most potential sorcerers don't survive the discovery of their powers.
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Die or Fly / int_28508de	comment	In Winx Club, Bloom discovers her powers in the pilot episode only after being threatened by an ogre and some ghouls. She also only unlocks her fairy form after almost being finished off by the Trix.
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Die or Fly / int_28fe1376	comment	In Fringe, David Robert Jones subjects Olivia to a series of tests for telekinetic ability, including a game where you make lights go off with your mind. With the Bishops' help, she fakes the test. She later finds a bomb attached to a skyscraper that will take out half of downtown Boston unless she can beat the same test for real.
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Die or Fly / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Nathan Petrelli discovers he can fly when he unconsciously rises into the air while his car is being shunted from behind by employees of a crime boss he is attempting to prosecute. This happened completely against his will; without him in the driver's seat, the car crashes, paralyzing his wife from the waist down and leaving him with lasting guilt about his wife's condition. Claude attempts to help Nathan's brother, Peter, control his power-stealing powers by throwing him off a tall building, hoping to trigger the flight power he'd mimicked earlier from Nathan. In a unique subversion, while Peter's flight power is not triggered by the attempt, the regeneration powers he took from Claire Bennet are triggered when he dies after crashing and being impaled on a cab.
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Die or Fly / int_2e1df124	comment	As a glitch, Vanellope from Wreck-It Ralph has corrupted code and occasionally suffers from random short-range teleportation, especially when stressed. The trope develops in two stages. First, when she exposes King Candy as the rogue character Turbo, he tries to crash her into a column, forcing her to actually concentrate and figure out how to glitch consciously to escape the trap. Then, she sees Ralph falling to his death in a Heroic Sacrifice, and effortlessly performs a Teleport Spam to Catch a Falling Star. After that point, she adopts the power for herself and it becomes her in-game ability, making her extremely popular with players.
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Die or Fly / int_2ea6ae26	comment	In the pilot episode of Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance", a girl named Dahj is nearly abducted — until she suddenly kills her attackers. It turns out that she's a "synth" with superhuman abilities that just activated.
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Die or Fly / int_2f081c11	comment	The Age of the Five: This trope is played literally straight in Priestess of the White — the heroine is knocked off a cliff and manages to use magic to stop herself before hitting the ground.
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Die or Fly / int_2fce14ae	comment	In Wearing the Cape, breakthroughs usually occur as the result of a life-threatening or traumatic experience. The main character's best friend tried to do this literally before the story began, and failed.
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Die or Fly / int_300a42ec	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie2nd As, Hayate's initial awakening as the mistress of the Book of Darkness is depicted like this, with the book whisking her up into the sky to save her from getting hit by a truck.
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Die or Fly / int_302566f9	comment	In Astro Boy, the rocket boots activate under similar circumstances, while his weaponry activates in moments of crisis during the final battle.
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Die or Fly / int_30876163	comment	A dark example in Blue Exorcist, to attempt to awaken his demonic heritage, Yukio goes to greater and greater lengths of putting himself in danger, culminating by jumping off a tall building. When that works long enough to save him from the fall but then goes away, he proceeds to put his gun to his head. He gets a phone call before he is able to pull the trigger.
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Die or Fly / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Jiraiya resorts to literally throwing Naruto off of a cliff to force him to learn how to tap into the power of the Kyuubi demon sealed within him. Luckily for Naruto, this "strategy" works and enables him to get the chakra needed to summon a giant toad. The Uchiha clan's hereditary super-eye power, Sharingan, first manifests in a life-or-death situation. They can use it at will afterwards, although it takes time to get to full potential. Naruto's first successful use of the Rasengan is in his battle with Kabuto, in a situation in which failure would have meant defeat.
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Die or Fly / int_30d735ec	comment	In Sky High (2005), Will discovers he has super strength after he tries to protect his friends from Warren. He also discovers he can fly after Royal Pain throws him out of the floating highschool
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Die or Fly / int_34cb583d	comment	Barbie in the Pink Shoes: After their trip into the world of Swan Lake leads to their transformation into swans, Kristyn and Hailey struggle to use their wings. They figure it out quickly when a pair of hunters show up.
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Die or Fly / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: In Volume 6, Ruby learns that the power of her silver eyes can only be triggered by the presence of the Grimm. There is no way to safely train to master her power. All she can do is practice settling her mind into the right emotional state for summoning the power. Beyond that, she has to learn on the battlefield while fighting the Grimm. The first time she attempts to do this against a huge Grimm, she fails. The only thing that stops her from dying is that she's traveling with someone who has the ability to freeze time. That allows her to get into the right mentality for summoning the power; even then, she's only able to stop the Grimm for a moment, but it's just long enough for other options to come into play and defeat it. Oscar has an inheritance of magic that he can't initially tap into. When falling to his death in Volume 7 and with no Aura to protect him, he is able to connect with that magic just in time to save his life.
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Die or Fly / int_37ea664b	comment	This is Darwin from X-Factor's main power. He always mutates the most simple and convenient power he needs to survive whatever situation he's in. This can range from surviving without a head, to being part Death, to teleporting out of the way of an angry Hulk.
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Die or Fly / int_38c57aa2	comment	The Eberron novel The Grieving Tree had Ashi develop a mark to defend her friends from an angry dragon.
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Die or Fly / int_390a0da6	comment	The player has to do this in Steel Battalion. No training, no tutorial, just the imposing controller and a complex manual. Good luck!
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Die or Fly / int_3a4dbd36	comment	Fate/Harem Antics: Shirou Emiya masters his Projection powers just in time to summon two swords when Angelica Ainsworth was about to kill him.
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Die or Fly / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In a more literal example, it's mentioned that Neville Longbottom's Uncle Algie made multiple efforts to "scare" Neville's hidden magic into manifesting when he was a baby — most notably by throwing him off a pier and dangling him out a window. Neville's magical nature was finally revealed when Algie simply dropped him by "accident" — and he bounced. In a less literal example, Harry finally masters a difficult spell when facing the prospect of playing chase with a dragon. He quips that now they know what to do the next time he has trouble with a spell.
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Die or Fly / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed by Rock when talking about how to test the extent of Kaladin's Surgebinding powers.
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Die or Fly / int_3e8c09b9	comment	This is how Eren's titan shifting ability was awakened in Attack on Titan when he was in the belly of the titan who ate him. Also, his ability as the coordinator manifested when their group was surrounded by titans outside the wall with little hope of surviving.
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Die or Fly / int_4064f208	comment	According to the background for the tabletop role-playing game Aberrant, the first recorded superhero following the Space Station Galatea's explosion was a firefighter whose flame-manipulation powers kicked in when he was trying to save some kids from a burning bus. Likewise, the "eruption" of several other Novas in the setting usually comes about as the result of a massively emotional experience, such as a near death experience. Given the celebrity associated with being a Nova at this point in history, a lot of people often try to kick-start powers of their own through such experiences; the results are often unpleasant and messy, to say the least. Aberrant is unusual this way; the moment of becoming a Nova is similar to exposure to LSD, in that the results are dependent on the personality of the individual and the circumstances under which it occurs. In consequence, Novas demonstrate this trope by their very nature.
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Die or Fly / int_40ef1034	comment	In The Seven Deadly Sins, King Arthur is said by several characters to have a lot of latent magical power, but he has no idea how to access it. He's repeatedly thrown himself into life or death fights in an attempt to access it, but so far, it doesn't work. He is eventually killed, then when Merlin ressurrects him, he finally awakens his powers.
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Die or Fly / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion Gendo Ikari: "Pilot the mecha against the thing that just wiped out an army and survived a nuke." Shinji (rather sensibly): "Uhhhm....what!?". But seriously, this is how the first few Unit 01 battles go. Shinji (with little-no training) has to go out and fight things that ignore (basically) nuclear strikes. To quote: "Unless you (Shinji) succeed, humanity HAS no future." Have fun with that.
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Die or Fly / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: This happens to Tennyo in her origin story. She wakes up and finds herself a prisoner, and finds she now has energy powers. When mutant assassins come after her (to send a message to her superhero parents), she finds out (in the nick of time, natch) that she can create an energy sword, and that she can fly. Even closer to the trope, Jade's powers first manifested to save her from being possibly beaten to death by her abusive father. Die or fly indeed.
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Die or Fly / int_468bebb0	comment	Obligatory Discworld reference: Archchancellor Ridcully once disputed Ponder's notions about evolution using this trope, proclaiming that nobody's ever seen a lizard evolve into a bird to save itself after falling off a cliff.
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Die or Fly / int_4a4d7232	comment	In The Secret Texts, the shape-shifting characters only fly after dropping out of a building, or off of a mountain.
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Die or Fly / int_4b084b98	comment	Justice League Action: Firestorm tries proving to an amnesiac Clark Kent that he's actually Superman by dropping him from the sky, hoping he'll remember to fly. He doesn't, but he does survive the fall unscathed, proving Firestorm right, much to his relief.
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Die or Fly / int_4e7cac32	comment	In Supergirl (2015), Siobhan Smythe first discovers her family's banshee curse when she trips off a rooftop and accidentally triggers a Super-Scream that breaks a hole in the ground, saving her from the impact.
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Die or Fly / int_4f2c8bef	comment	See the video to "Ich bin wieder hier" by BlÃ¼mchen for a literal example: Jasmin Wagner's character falls off an airship and grows wings.
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Die or Fly / int_4f46b380	comment	There are several examples in X-Men: First Class. First, Dr. Schmidt threatens to shoot Erik Lehnsherr's mother unless he figures out how to use his power to move a coin. Erik is unable to do so until after Schmidt kills his mother, the pain of which triggers his abilities. Later, Erik takes this approach during Banshee's flying attempts (though given that Banshee's costume contained metal, he could easily have caught him if it didn't work). Later, Alex Summers grasps his energy-blasting ability just as he needs to.
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Die or Fly / int_4f57b33a	comment	Retasu in Tokyo Mew Mew gained her mermaid form when she jumped into the ocean, despite being terrified and unable to swim, to try and save a small child. Technically, a Mew Aqua also helped.
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Die or Fly / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Similarly, George in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, when he desperately turns into an air elemental for the first time so he can carry John away from an angry mob. After he turns back to himself, he describes the experience as being like â€œan idea wrapped in airâ€� and how he was terrified that he'd fly apart.
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Die or Fly / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Vriska strands John on a tiny island in the middle of an ocean of oil that's about to be engulfed in fire in order to get him to develop his powers as the Heir of Breath. Luckily, it works. Happens to him again later when Typheus submerges him in oil in order to force him to master his retcon powers by forcing him to either drown, zap himself away (and make zero progress on his quest) or Take a Third Option by zapping the oil away. Even before that, she tried it in a much more literal sense with Tavros. He didn't fly, and wound up paralyzed from the waist down for his trouble. Dave's Bro threw him off a roof to teach him how to Flash Step.
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Die or Fly / int_51f5fe4b	comment	In Vampire Academy, Lissa Dragomir awakened her spirit powers (which includes the power to bring the dead to life, at the possible cost of her own sanity) when a car crash killed her parents, brother, and best friend, while leaving her alive. In the moments after the crash, she unintentionally brought her friend back to life, though at the time she did not realize that she was actually dead.
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Die or Fly / int_53bd0aaf	comment	John in With Strings Attached, when he is held prisoner in a net he can't break and furiously wishes he could turn into water. Splash! Though the experience almost drives him crazy. Also Ringo, twice. First, he has his choice of telekinetically levitating himself (which he's never thought to do before, because he can only hold something 5-7 seconds) or getting torn apart by crazed "Beaglemaniacs." Then, after a pair of disembodied arms throws him off the garage roof where he stranded himself (It Makes Sense in Context), he suddenly teleports to safety—if ending up in the Plaza Hotel, currently under siege by thousands of Beaglemaniacs, is "safety." Similarly, George in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, when he desperately turns into an air elemental for the first time so he can carry John away from an angry mob. After he turns back to himself, he describes the experience as being like â€œan idea wrapped in airâ€� and how he was terrified that he'd fly apart.
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Die or Fly / int_56e10d85	comment	In Tolkien's Legendarium, magical powers are often unlocked by an intense need to use them.
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Die or Fly / int_57f80079	comment	A key part of Clary's role as protagonist in The Mortal Instruments. Despite having been raised with no knowledge of her Nephilim ancestry she starts to exhibit an intuitive, and encyclopedic, knowledge of angelic runes once she gets caught up in the events of the Shadow World. She is even able to come up with powerful runes that other Shadowhunters have never seen before. It turns out that the captive angel Ithuriel had been putting them into her mind, and this aspect of her abilities starts to diminish after he is freed, such that she can no longer pull new runes out of her head at will.
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Die or Fly / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3 uses this as a game mechanic, and it's symbolic.
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Die or Fly / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4 subverts this with most of your party members. While the Protagonist still has his classic "Per...So........Na..." invocation scene, his powers were awakened by Izanami at the start of the game, the source of the rest of your party's powers is the very same thing that would have caused the Die or Fly reaction in the first place.
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Die or Fly / int_59a835fb	comment	In Sonic Adventure 2, Eggman traps Sonic in an escape capsule with a bomb to try and kill him. Sonic, remembering that Shadow could use the Chaos Emeralds to teleport and having a pseudo-Emerald with him, tries it out for himself to teleport back onto the ARK. He succeeds, and later uses Chaos Control in the fight against him (when playing as Shadow).
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Die or Fly / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine is a prime example of this — his claws first popped out during the attack on his parents.
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Die or Fly / int_5ce3fc86	comment	At the end of the Soul Eater anime, Maka discovers that she is also a weapon, like her father when fighting Kishin, though this is not what allows her to defeat him. (And it's not clear if she remembers this afterwards, as she was having an insane episode at that point.)
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Die or Fly / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, people tend to Exalt at a moment when they are in dire need of a boost of heroic supernatural power. It's supposed to be fated, but considering how many things muck about with Fate on a fairly regular basis, not even the Sidereals can always figure whose life or death situation will end up resulting in Exaltation. The Lunars get a weird variant on this, seeing as they usually Exalt after managing to survive a life-or-death situation.
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Die or Fly / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: There is a relatively new phenomenon called Secondary Mutation in which known mutants (typically X-Men) suddenly develop a new mutant power at extremely convenient moments, such as a healing power (after receiving an otherwise mortal wound) or the ability to become indestructible (in the middle of a bombing). It started in New X-Men as an excuse by Grant Morrison to give Emma Frost transform-into-diamond powers,since they were not allowed to bring the transform-into-metal Colossus back from the dead and had a story idea they wanted to use which needed that power. Richard Rider a.k.a. Nova was depowered for a long time and Night Thrasher guessed that he could reignite Rider's powers with a high stress incident. To create one, he kidnapped Rider, dropped him off a building and found that his hunch was right when Rider instantly repowered in the fall, including his flight power. He tried it a second time after another depowering, only to be rescued before the splat and having it made very clear that a second power-up was not what would have happened (he got his powers back again, of course, in another story arc). Spider-Man first discovered his powers this way. While he is walking home, feeling sick after being bitten by the spider, a car is about to hit him. His new Spider-Sense kicks in and he instinctively leaps up the side of a building, clinging to it. The transformation of Jean Grey into the Phoenix was originally presented as this, then retconned into a subversion, with a primal power of the universe using her as a template to create an avatar. (This ultimately went horribly wrong.) Amara from New Mutants discovers her powers this way. Selene drops her in a volcano and she ends up learning to manipulate lava. Guess her Code Name? Magma, of course. Wolverine is a prime example of this — his claws first popped out during the attack on his parents. This is Darwin from X-Factor's main power. He always mutates the most simple and convenient power he needs to survive whatever situation he's in. This can range from surviving without a head, to being part Death, to teleporting out of the way of an angry Hulk.
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Die or Fly / int_627507ac	comment	The climax on the film Rio. Blu must fly or he and Jewel will die. And he did.
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Die or Fly / int_65aabcf0	comment	Buso Renkin: As a buso renkin is the physical embodiment of the wielder's fighting instinct and will to survive, it is common for people to learn how to summon them when their life is in serious danger. Kazuki, for example, learned how to summon the Sunlight Heart while fighting a homunculus note Mita in the manga; Saruwatari in the anime, while Tokiko gained the Valkyrie Skirt when she was attacked by a captured humanoid homunculus while having her injuries treated with a kakugane.
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Die or Fly / int_6673d40b	comment	Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Fitting for a Bleach crossover, and lampshaded by Ditzy Doo while training the Humane Five with their Fullbrings. Rarity can't find it in herself to disagree, considering that most of them did in fact first unlock their Fullbrings with their lives or those of their loved ones on the line from Hollows, and Ditzy preparing to fire a Cero that could kill Pinkie and Fluttershy is what leads to the former's epiphany to unlock the next level of hers, while taking one of the most powerful and deadly attacks in Ditzy's arsenal head-on is what lets the rest of them reach their own next level. Sunset follows a similar progress with her own Soul Reaper powers, having bonded with her blade to gain her Zanpakutou during her first battle with a Hollow and getting her Shikai while fighting the Sternritter Fleur de Lis. During her Training from Hell under Discord with Clover at the same time the Humane Five are training their Fullbrings, it's only when both of them brought to their very limits fighting skeletal copies of themselves after eight floors of grueling battles with skeletal constructs with their spiritual power being suppressed and sapped all the while that their Zanpakutou respond to their determination to win by granting them access to even greater power than they had before to triumph at the last stage. This is the usual process behind a Menos becoming an Arrancar. In theory, all you have to do is tear off your Hollow mask. In practice, your will needs to be strong enough to hold your destabilizing spiritual power together as your body reshapes itself. Fail and you die, but succeed and you achieve far greater power than before along with regaining some of your lost humanity. The more advanced you are in your evolution gives you better odds of survival, but it's still a risk. Vasto Lorde Adagio, pinned down by Luna's shadows as the Soul Reaper Captain and her subordinates capture and take her friend Ember from Las Noches, tears her mask off in a fit of rage and determination to get the power necessary to break free and stop them. It works, and while she fails to prevent Ember from being taken she now has the power to be a proper threat and get her back.
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Die or Fly / int_6715932e	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, RosÃ© speculates that this is how Akira's psychometry came to be- his already fine-tuned instincts were sharpened even more by the grave danger that Kakuya put him in, which awakened his latent ability to glean the information he needed from blood spatter.
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Die or Fly / int_69071a1b	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_69071a1b	comment	Deconstructed in the Mutants & Masterminds setting "Paragons": it's common knowledge that superpowers occasionally manifest this way, so a common cause of death is idiots attempting to invoke this trope by e.g. skydiving without a parachute or setting themselves on fire. Worse, once in a blue moon it works, which means that someone who is suicidal and/or not particularly bright now has superpowers, and moreover, everyone else has renewed encouragement.
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Die or Fly / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Discussed by Rock when talking about how to test the extent of Kaladin's Surgebinding powers. Invoked in a horrifying manner by the Envisager cult. They thought this trope was how you gained Surgebinding powers, and deliberately jumped off cliffs and otherwise put themselves in deathtraps in hopes of bringing back the Surgebinders. Since at that point it was impossible to create new Surgebinders (the spirits that allowed it having retreated to their own world after the humans killed most of them), all the Envisagers succeeded in doing was killing themselves in horrible ways.
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Die or Fly / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In the Dungeons & Dragons setting Eberron, the dragonmarked houses try to induce this on purpose in blood members in their late adolescence to see if they'll develop a dragonmark or not if they haven't already; this is called the Test of Siberys. While contrary to the usual form of this trope it often works, sometimes someone who's assumed not to have a mark due to failing the test needs to encounter a real Die Or Fly situation in order to manifest a mark. The Eberron novel The Grieving Tree had Ashi develop a mark to defend her friends from an angry dragon.
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Die or Fly / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series Bobby Drake's ability to turn his body into ice happens because his original powers were not enough to withstand Pyro's fire attacks in X-Men: The Last Stand. There are several examples in X-Men: First Class. First, Dr. Schmidt threatens to shoot Erik Lehnsherr's mother unless he figures out how to use his power to move a coin. Erik is unable to do so until after Schmidt kills his mother, the pain of which triggers his abilities. Later, Erik takes this approach during Banshee's flying attempts (though given that Banshee's costume contained metal, he could easily have caught him if it didn't work). Later, Alex Summers grasps his energy-blasting ability just as he needs to. Invoked by Ajax in Deadpool (2016). His Super-Soldier factory works by grabbing people, pumping them full of a mutant-gene-kickstarting serum that is catalyzed by adrenaline, and then torturing them until the trauma gives them superpowers (or they die, whichever comes first). Wade's powers get activated after he's left on the edge of suffocation for a whole weekend.
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Die or Fly / int_6c519c14	comment	An odd variant in the Knight and Rogue Series. When Michael is tossed off a cliff his magic activates on its own and saves him. Despite not wanting to die, he stops it the moment he realizes what's going on. (Fortunately, he's only a few feet from the ground at this point). The only time his powers don't manifest when his life depends on it is when he's desperately trying to put out a fire.
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Die or Fly / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the unaired pilot, Aang jumps off of a cliff in an attempt to trigger the Avatar State. In "The Avatar State", an Earth Kingdom general attempts to induce the Avatar State by putting first Aang, then Katara in danger. It works. In "The Puppetmaster", Katara learns Bloodbending when her Evil Mentor Hama takes control of Aang and Sokka and was about to make Sokka stab Aang.
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Die or Fly / int_729d41c6	comment	Dead Island 2: In order to awaken an immune survivor's Numen status,note that is to say, turning them from simply immune to the infection to a full on Human-Zombie hybrid the survivor must go through an event that pushes them beyond their physical limits. The Slayers don't awaken their Numen status and gain their fury power until they're kicked off a bridge into a horde of zombies forced to fend for themselves. Normally, this wouldnâ€™t be much of a problem, but at the moment the Slayer is weak and as been suffering from migraines (alongside other symptoms) for at least several days, which leads to their zombie instinct taking over to literally tear the horde to shreds. A similar incident happened to Rainer, but instead he went mad and succumbed to the virus, transforming into a Burster.
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Die or Fly / int_730edfb3	comment	Downplayed in Of Quirks and Magic. To get Izuku to surrender his control of magic, Strange locks him in an infinitely long hallway flooded with water: he either lets go and successfully makes a portal to escape, or he drowns. Strange wasn't actually going to drown him and considers fetching him in about a minute, but Izuku manages to tap into the Sling Ring and make his portal.
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Die or Fly / int_743277aa	comment	This is how most +Anima gain their powers. When a child is in life-threatening danger, they sometimes manifest a Power Tattoo that lets them partially turn into a nearby animal. True to the trope name, this makes flight a somewhat common power; Birds are just about everywhere, and sprouting wings is great for a quick escape.
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Die or Fly / int_7559ae0b	comment	In Dune, the Bene Gesserit have at least two such tests. In the Gom Jabbar an acolyte must hold their hand in a pain inducer and endure unbearable pain or be pricked in the neck with a poisoned needle. In the ritual to become a Reverend Mother they ingest a deadly poison and have to exert conscious control over their biochemistry to neutralize it.
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Die or Fly / int_755fadab	comment	Koizumi Itsuki from Haruhi Suzumiya can already use ESP to fly and fight, but only inside closed spaces. In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, to make him realize his powers were unlocked for use anywhere it took being thrown off of a cliff to fight against a robot attacking Kyon by Haruhi (who had forgotten Koizumi didn't know).
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Die or Fly / int_76eb4411	comment	In BirdMen, Karasuma is having trouble flying, so Takayama, just picks him, flies to a distance and let's go. Karasuma starts flapping his wings in panic, and now he can fly!
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Die or Fly / int_77f5af7f	comment	Faevv of Juathuur at first seems to be able to release her powers only when threatened by imminent death.
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Die or Fly / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Twice with Akira's more grounded Bullet Time like ability called Compressed Time: First, Akira uses it unknowingly while falling through the air when fighting Nelia, but despite training on how to use the ability, he can't directly invoke it. It takes being Eaten Alive by The Great Serpent Mechanical Monster and cut off from his Virtual Sidekick for Akira to be able to muster the ability on his own. The ability stems from Akira being a rare Differently Powered Individual resulting from past genetic engineering known as an Old World Connector.
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Die or Fly / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): Jesse Wells awakens her Super-Speed to escape getting hit by a car. When he learns about this, Wally West attempts to imitate her by stepping into traffic (and he just stands there instead of trying to avoid an incoming car). If Jesse hadn't saved him, he would have most likely died. A literal version in "Legends of Today" when Carter Hall tries to get Kendra to "emerge" as Hawkgirl by shoving her off a building. It turns out that it's not that simple, but fortunately, Barry Allen races down the side of the building with his Super-Speed and catches her.
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Die or Fly / int_7f021f70	comment	In Elcenia, mages have powers over a single element, however, in order for a potential mage to access their powers they have to get into a situation where they would otherwise die from their element (e.g. water mages must drown, air mages must fall from a height that would kill them, etc.). Fortunately, potential mages can be identified before they manifest powers, though not all of them will choose to access their powers.
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Die or Fly / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers throws you right into the fray after the lengthy unskippable intro.
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Die or Fly / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "True Q", Q invokes this to test a young woman that the Continuum thinks may be a Q. He instigates a breach of the warp core while she is in engineering, forcing her to use her latent powers, or die, along with everyone else on the ship. In the pilot episode of Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance", a girl named Dahj is nearly abducted — until she suddenly kills her attackers. It turns out that she's a "synth" with superhuman abilities that just activated.
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Die or Fly / int_83d81bd4	comment	Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War has you seeing this trope applied firsthand in Mission 4, "First Flight" during the early hours of a war between Osea and Yuktobania when Yuktobanian Rockwell B-1B bombers and Panavia Tornado GR1 fighter-bombers escorted by McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II and General Dynamics F-16C fighters attempt an early evening bombing raid on Osea's isolated Sand Island airbase. A Fighter-Launching Sequence ensues, with the player character and his two wingmen — themselves recently-minted rookies, with only a taste of combat under their belts — taking off (amidst bombs falling on nearby hangars, and enemy jets Buzzing the Deck) in their aging Northrop F-5 fighters to engage the "Yukes" before they can bomb the base to smithereens. The only problem? There are three Osean fighters pitted against what amounts to at least a dozen or more Yuke planes all bearing down on the sparsely-defended airfield. Enter the untested rookie Osean pilot Grimm, who by Falling into the Cockpit is forced to either prove himself in some high-intensity aerial combat or die trying. He succeeds and gets permanently assigned to Wardog Squadron.
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Die or Fly / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, Agatha finally consciously taps into her Spark while she and Gil are under attack from slaver wasps, creating some weapons for the two of them to use to fight their way out. Prior to this, Agatha had only been able to invent while asleep or in a fugue state with no awareness of what she was doing.
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Die or Fly / int_88b348e8	comment	In the Sakura Cards arc of Cardcaptor Sakura, this effect is deliberately invoked by Eriol to help Sakura change the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards.
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Die or Fly / int_8a1c34ad	comment	"Dear Axe Cop, is it possible that you have a secret attack that is so secret you don't even know about it?" Unsurprisingly, the answer is yes, and one of them was that when he's tied up, his ghost comes out and kills everyone and frees him.
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Die or Fly / int_8a568555	comment	In Jumper, the main character first uses his teleportation powers to avoid drowning after he falls through thin ice into a frozen lake.
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Die or Fly / int_8b957d5d	comment	Life, the Universe and Everything: This is exactly how Arthur Dent manages to fly, after reading from the guide that flying is the art of "throwing oneself at the ground and missing" — he has to completely focus his attention on something else (typically something immensely banal, as per the themes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) or simply forget that he's supposed to be falling. Once achieved, he simply hovers there and can move around at will... but he has to be careful not to think too hard about what's going on.
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Die or Fly / int_8c12ec97	comment	Shizuka Saeki from Talentless Nana discovered her time-rewinding ability when she slit her wrist in hopes of joining her parents in the grave.
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Die or Fly / int_8df52a8d	comment	Superboy later introduced a character called Sparx, who came from a family who had all tested positive for the metagene. Members of her family deliberately endangered themselves to try and trigger their powers.
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Die or Fly / int_8ee238c9	comment	The Persona series uses this trope for the main characters of each game, usually by having them attacked by Mooks. Innocent Sin does it differently; the main characters all awakened their Personas at different times, and it's not Mooks they were in danger of. Persona 3 uses this as a game mechanic, and it's symbolic. Persona 4 subverts this with most of your party members. While the Protagonist still has his classic "Per...So........Na..." invocation scene, his powers were awakened by Izanami at the start of the game, the source of the rest of your party's powers is the very same thing that would have caused the Die or Fly reaction in the first place.
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Die or Fly / int_8ffd1b86	comment	In Doctor Strange (2016), the Ancient One strands Strange on Mount Everest to force him to figure out how to open a portal to get back. He nearly freezes to death before he manages it. Mordo's reaction shows this isn't the first time she's done this.
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Die or Fly / int_9029daa	comment	The movie The Pumaman (featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000) had Valdhino toss random people out of windows in order to find the man who has the Puma Man powers. He finally hits paydirt when he tosses Tony out and he lands on his feet like a cat. That's not exactly true, Valdhino had enough biographical information to be fairly sure both where and who Tony (a.k.a. Puma Man) was. If anything Valdhino's actions were more to demonstrate that Tony really was the descendant of "Gods from another world". YMMV on whether this actually Makes Sense In Context or instead is Insane Troll Logic. The other young American men thrown out of windows during the movie were the result of the Big Bad trying to "strike first" is his own words.
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Die or Fly / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: This probably refers to his mastery of the World of Dreams, particularly his 11th-Hour Superpower of moving between the dreaming and waking worlds at will. He had a mentor, albeit a tough one, for most of it, but that particular trick was one that only one other person had ever accomplished, and that through very unusual means. This is also how Nynaeve finally overcomes the mental block that prevents her accessing the True Source unless angry. Trapped in a sinking ship, her only option is to fully surrender to the Source, and thereby control it.
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Die or Fly / int_91103245	comment	Gully Foyle of The Stars My Destination suddenly can "jaunt" (teleport) much further than anyone has managed before when he is marooned in space — and then gets really ticked off. "Jaunting" started as "burn or teleport" for the discoverer, Charles Fort Jaunte, about a century before. He was later put in an inescapable, slowly flooding chamber by his fellow scientists to force him to replicate the process.
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Die or Fly / int_91c4612a	comment	In Hotel Transylvania 2, Dracula attempts to teach his grandson how to fly by throwing him from a tower. His friends protest, but he claims that was how he was taught. It doesn't work and Dracula has to catch him.
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Die or Fly / int_9321b7f4	comment	In Kamen Rider 555, certain humans that are genetically predisposed to evolve into higher forms have no idea that they have the ability unless an early death kickstarts the process.
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Die or Fly / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia has a "other person in danger" variation: the first time that Izuku managed to use One For All, if badly, was when he saw Ochaco, a girl who was nice to him earlier, about to get killed. Then, after he gets in, Aizawa, already a Sink or Swim Mentor, threatens him with expulsion if he can't keep up with the class. This pressures Izuku to find a way to make his quirk work without totally wrecking himself (he does it by only breaking one finger) and actually gets an impressed smile out of Aizawa.
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Die or Fly / int_961ae24f	comment	Kimi No Na Iowa: Natural Born shipgirls Reawaken their true natures in response to danger.
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Die or Fly / int_980c3316	comment	Shazam! has this as a slightly more mundane situation for the Batson siblings and/or Freeman: they are often in freefall and their only chance of survival is to say their magic words to change into their Flying Brick modes.
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Die or Fly / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, Goku's new Ultra Instinct form can only activate this way; being closer to a state of mind rather than an actual powerup, it only ever seems to activate whenever Goku's back is against the wall. Even after the Tournament of Power is over, Goku can't activate Ultra Instinct willingly.
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Die or Fly / int_986e857e	comment	In Ben 10, this is how Ben discovered his Wildvine form in the episode Camp Fear. It's downplayed in that Wildvine wasn't particularly useful that episode, though the form was able to handle the immediate threat.
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Die or Fly / int_9a7a61a	comment	In Sonic the Comic, Tails first learns that he can fly after accidentally walking off a cliff.
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Die or Fly / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series, this happens literally to Scootaloo during the Wedding Arc. To save Twilight and Sweetie, she grabbed Sweetie in a move that sent them both out a window, and, with the only other options being die or get captured by Queen Chrysalis, finally manages to fly to save them both. This act also earns her Cutie Mark.
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Die or Fly / int_9b530c26	comment	The "Pureheart the Powerful" sequences of Archie (1966-7) had this as Betty/Superteen's origin story, as she tried to rescue an unconscious Archie from falling off a cliff.
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Die or Fly / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders has a brief outro in one of its episodes where a woman attempts to push her daughter off their house in what attempts to be a murder attempt. However, it turns out that the woman is just using this trope as a teaching technique as the girl literally flies away while falling since in that world people have wings.
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Die or Fly / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Macross Delta: One of the primary themes running through its story, especially with regards to Hayate and Freyja's development is the concept of risking one's life to awaken their full potential. Freyja in particular only gains full access to her Fold receptors when either Hayate is endangered or she is. While this trait goes away with training, it never quite fades. Hayate goes for a quite literal version of this in the second episode, where for his induction into Delta Flight he is asked to 'ride the wind' by jumping off the Elysion's deck.
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Die or Fly / int_9d079138	comment	Invasion! (DC Comics) introduced the "metagene", which gives humans superpowers as a way to survive lethal trauma, as a way to Hand Wave the many heroes and villains with Freak Lab Accident origin stories. The concept was demonstrated by an alien scientist performing a mass execution of fifty abductees; six of them survived, gained powers, and briefly formed a superteam.
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Die or Fly / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Bran's first dream sequence in A Song of Ice and Fire. To all appearances, this does save his life, but the poor kid would be a lot happier about the flight he was promised if he could grasp a metaphor.
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Die or Fly / int_9d963831	comment	Septimus Heap: In Darke, Septimus must try the Flyte spell without its charm in order to escape from Dungeon Number One, and succeeds at it.
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Die or Fly / int_9e1e1974	comment	morphE begins with the galvanization party. The host puts captives in near death situations to activate their magical potential. It succeeds for 5 of the 8 entrants.
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Die or Fly / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In the Alabasta arc, Zoro comes up against an adversary whose body is made of steel. With no option to retreat, it becomes a "cut steel or die" scenario. No points for guessing the outcome. It's even lampshaded to an extent, when Zoro declares, after learning of his opponent's ability, that he will be able to cut steel by the end of the fight. Garp's preferred training method, especially when it came to his grandchildren. Then when he realized that his being away from home for so long did not work towards his goal of making them marines, he left them with a friend to raise them and make them marines. Said friend was a mountain bandit. He was asking for it, really. A flashback in the Fishman Island arc shows us a variation, as one character's hidden power awakened through someone else being in danger: Shirahoshi unknowingly first displayed her ability to summon Sea Kings when she was a child, after crying out to her mother who was seconds away from being shot dead.
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Die or Fly / int_9e82c3cb	comment	In Wanted this happens where Wesley must shoot the wings off of flies or Fox will blow his brains out.
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Die or Fly / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In Fighting Fear with Fear!, Gary gives Gligar the option to use the Razor Fang to evolve when Gligar desires to become stronger. However, Ash doesn't let Gligar evolve until they have spent time training together. Just as Gligar accomplished its training and thus conquering its Acrophobia and fear of battling, Team Rocket's attempt to steal Gligar leads both Ash and Gligar falling down a cliff, and Gligar can't dive fast enough to stop Ash from falling. Knowing that he needs Gligar to evolve, Ash throws the Razor Fang towards Gligar, who grabs it and immediately evolves into Gliscor, gaining enough speed to stop Ash from falling to death.
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Die or Fly / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Invasion! (DC Comics) introduced the "metagene", which gives humans superpowers as a way to survive lethal trauma, as a way to Hand Wave the many heroes and villains with Freak Lab Accident origin stories. The concept was demonstrated by an alien scientist performing a mass execution of fifty abductees; six of them survived, gained powers, and briefly formed a superteam. Superboy later introduced a character called Sparx, who came from a family who had all tested positive for the metagene. Members of her family deliberately endangered themselves to try and trigger their powers. Another story featured wannabes hanging around hoping for the day of their Origin and one relating how one guy decided to stop waiting and shoved a fork into a toaster. While the guy he's talking with starts rattling off possible powers, the answer for what he got was 'electrocuted'. Destiny doesn't like it when you try and cheat. Shazam! has this as a slightly more mundane situation for the Batson siblings and/or Freeman: they are often in freefall and their only chance of survival is to say their magic words to change into their Flying Brick modes. Wonder Woman (1987): Though Cassie had just received powers when her mother and Jason Blood were attacked by Artemis she wasn't sure she had any, and had no clue what they might be if she did. She stepped out a window on an upper floor hoping for flight or durability (she had both) and then discovered to her delight she also had super strength when trying to prevent Artemis from killing anyone she held dear, since Artemis is also stronger than a baseline human.
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Die or Fly / int_a0b3a75e	comment	In Superman & Lois, an ongoing trend across seasons one and two is Jordan's superpowers manifesting one at a time and getting progressively stronger as he keeps finding himself in life-threatening situations where he needs his powers to survive and/or save somebody else. Both played straight and downplayed late in season two, when Clark takes Jordan to the Arctic for flying lessons. Which involves Jordan jumping into a massive chasm and needing to overcome his fear and activate his Flight before he hits bottom. The downplayed part is that Jordan already has Super-Toughness and Healing Factor by this point, so the impact probably would not hurt him very much. He still screams most of the way down though before going airborne just as he almost reaches the ground.
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Die or Fly / int_a2d9c25d	comment	Noein: Haruka's La'cryma captors lock her in a glass pod that slowly fills with water, hoping that her fear and stress will awaken her Dragon Torque powers. They do start to awaken, but she is unaware of them and Karasu rescues her before she drowns.
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Die or Fly / int_a33d74a4	comment	Sword of Truth: Richard's magic, a lot of the time. Being a War Wizard, Richard's magic tends to do whatever the plot requires of it, without Richard understanding what he's doing, or how he's doing it.
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Die or Fly / int_a3d98436	comment	Zenith reactivates Siadwel Rhys' powers by dropping him out of the sky. (About the most useful thing he ever does in his own book.)
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Die or Fly / int_a48bef99	comment	BoBoiBoy: Ochobot forgot what powers he gave to Gopal, so he tries unlocking his superpowers through various means to no avail. When he gets kidnapped by Adu Du and a sawblade swings towards him, Gopal surprises himself when he turns it into pizza. It's after he also turns a bomb into a chocolate bar does he realise his powers are (apparently) turning things into food. Justified by the fact that his powers are amplified by his fear.
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Die or Fly / int_a6cdace8	comment	Played with and lampshaded in The Dreamland Chronicles. While taking flying lessons, Alex asks if the lessons involve him getting thrown off a cliff. The teacher asks why on earth he would do something so risky. After exhausting all of his other ideas, the teacher does throw Alex off the cliff, only to realize that also isn't going to work, so he reminds Alex of his promise to his Love Interest. This motivates Alex enough to save himself and learn to fly.
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Die or Fly / int_a6f7768f	comment	One of the characters in the video for "Bury It" by CHVRCHES has a moment like this when the heroes are discovering that their telekinetic powers work on themselves.
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Die or Fly / int_a825da3e	comment	In the story of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, those with the "planeswalker spark" can become Planeswalkers, powerful, immortal mages (representing the player in the game). To become a Planeswalker, one must "ascend", which involves great stress and usually horrendous death — the most famous example, Urza, was literally blown to atoms before ascending.
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Die or Fly / int_a9830146	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_a9830146	comment	Happens to Terinu when his Bion abilities activate when he's drugged and kidnapped.
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Die or Fly / int_a993be1f	comment	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords applies this trope to the player character, who learns on-the-fly to survive extremely deadly situations, such as poison attacks.
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Die or Fly / int_aa954170	comment	Gundam X has Newtype powers work this way, as demonstrated in the Estard arc. The Frost brothers sic potential Newtypes on the Double X, with the intent that the near-death rush of battle will awaken their powers. Out of the four Pilots of the Week, only the last one develops powers in this way. Which is just fine by the Frosts, who despise Newtypes and were sending the candidates to their deaths; the one who does develop powers and survives his fight gets shot anyway.
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Die or Fly / int_ad97c383	comment	The first time Leina pulls off the Dragon's Tail in Queen's Blade is during her training session with Echidna. Said training session? Echidna openly and actively trying to kill her for three days straight. (Both combatants are coated in sap that prevents any injuries, but that sap does wear off over time...)
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Die or Fly / int_b2431955	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_b2431955	comment	In Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, Luvia shoves Miyu out of a helicopter in an attempt to get her to fly. It doesn't work and she hits the ground hard. Fortunately, Sapphire was able to shield her body with magic, so she wasn't hurt.
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Die or Fly / int_b3690647	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_b3690647	comment	Bobby Drake's ability to turn his body into ice happens because his original powers were not enough to withstand Pyro's fire attacks in X-Men: The Last Stand.
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Die or Fly / int_b4996199	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man first discovered his powers this way. While he is walking home, feeling sick after being bitten by the spider, a car is about to hit him. His new Spider-Sense kicks in and he instinctively leaps up the side of a building, clinging to it.
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Die or Fly / int_b67b702b	comment	In Baki the Grappler, a young Baki throws himself off of a cliff in order to trigger "endorphins" that enhances his senses.
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Die or Fly / int_b7296d31	comment	Mai's powers manifest themselves this way in My-HiME, after Natsuki attacks Mikoto and she tries to defend her. Later, they come out more fully when her little brother is in danger.
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Die or Fly / int_b7b5e290	comment	Several times in the Deryni universe, someone discovers that s/he has Deryni (magic-user) blood in an extreme situation. Not all Deryni, even very powerful ones, are Healers; but those who are often first discover that they have that power when someone is hurt and there is no Healer available.
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Die or Fly / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night, the protagonist Emiya Shirou first uses most of his abilities when protecting himself or, more usually, someone else, from immediate death. The first example is on the third day, in which he easily and instantly uses a perfect strengthening magic, which he normally has a less-than .01% success rate on with an hour to practice. His true ability, Projection, only first manifests when protecting a route's heroine from death, and his later attempts to use it on demand usually turn out less than ideal because he fundamentally misunderstands the ability's true nature.
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Die or Fly / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Subverted early in the film: when their plane is about to be hit with a missile, Helen shouts at Violet to block it with a forcefield or they'll all die. Violet, panicking, fails to create the field and the plane is shot down (Helen saves everyone in another way). Afterwards she apologizes to Violet, saying it was completely unreasonable to put that pressure on her. Violet finally learns to create large force fields when jumping at her brother to save him, and Dash is desperately running from guards in velocipods when he finds that he can run on water. Jack Jack apparently doesn't manifest his powers until Syndrome tries to kidnap him. However, the short film Jack-Jack Attack reveals that Jack Jack did manifest his powers beforehand: a Mozart CD is the catalyst. The sitter did say that Mozart was good for babies, but she apparently didn't know the effects on superbabies.
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Die or Fly / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Danny first gets it his Ghostly Wail he's ganged up on by some really angry ghosts, and later busts it out to defeat his future self when it looks as though he's going to be defeated and everyone will die.
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Die or Fly / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Grace first discovers how to create legion forms when she is under pressure to change to a form strong enough to maintain her telekinesis without passing out in order to save Ellen and Nanase's lives during the fight with the Omega Goo as seen here and on the next page.
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Die or Fly / int_bdbcdadf	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku learns how to fly after he's blasted off Mt. Fuji by a laser cannon. He doesn't even realize he's doing it until All Might and Firestorm point it out to him.
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Die or Fly / int_bdf7310a	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_bdf7310a	comment	In Phaeton, this is one way to trigger manifestation in the youngest of people.
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Die or Fly / int_c0540e21	comment	The Powers of Harmony invokes this when Blair, on Ophiuchus' insistence, forces Twilight to get over the mental block on using her powers by tossing her over Neighagra Falls. To say that she's not happy afterwards is an understatement.
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Die or Fly / int_c223e919	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c223e919	comment	The 2003 anime version of Astro Boy, which addresses the ridiculousness of his various built-in gadgets by giving him a highly modular construction that reconfigures itself in response to danger. He gains his iconic rocket boots after tripping and falling out the window of a high rise office tower.
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Die or Fly / int_c2d205a8	comment	Jumper: Davy first "jumps" (teleports) involuntarily to escape his abusive father. At first he thinks he just blacked out after his dad beat him, and begins hitchhiking. The first time he consciously realizes he "jumped" is when some truckers try to rape him, and he is suddenly back in the library. Happens again in the sequel, Reflex, in which the main character's girlfriend-in-the-first-book-wife-in-the-sequel "jumps" to safety after a probably-fatal fall. Apparently, being teleported by a teleporter enough times can pass on the ability, though the characters have no idea how that works.
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Die or Fly / int_c346fa94	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c346fa94	comment	Amara from New Mutants discovers her powers this way. Selene drops her in a volcano and she ends up learning to manipulate lava. Guess her Code Name? Magma, of course.
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Die or Fly / int_c3b975b5	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c3b975b5	comment	A literal example occurs in One Question when Ranu falls off a building and his wings suddenly appear. Unfortunately, he needs some tutoring to learn how to use them...
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Die or Fly / int_c3e63db7	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c3e63db7	comment	In The Zombie Knight, this happens a lot. The Zombies (resurrected people given power by undead reapers) can go through emergence in a life-or-death fight, but only if they are truly desperate, and not relying on emergence to save them... and the bad guys can have emergence triggered by the good guys' emergence.
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Die or Fly / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: This happens in "Sonic Rainboom" when Rainbow Dash finally manages to pull off her Sonic Rainboom technique to save her friend Rarity and her idols the Wonderbolts from plummeting to their doom after Rarity's wings fail and the Wonderbolts are knocked out in their attempt to rescue her. This is pretty much how Fluttershy's ability to fly at high speeds works. She can match Rainbow Dash's flying speed, at least for brief moments, but only when it's absolutely necessarily, and other times seems to be an average flyer at best. In "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", however, this outright failed to work for Fluttershy in a flashback. As a filly, she was a weak flier, and when falling from the clouds to certain death, she couldn't fly to save herself. Fortunately, her fall was broken by a swarm of butterflies. Also fails to work in "Sleepless in Ponyville", in which the flightless pegasus Scootaloo still can't fly even when falling down a waterfall. Thankfully, she is saved by the timely arrival of Rainbow Dash.
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Die or Fly / int_c86ee87a	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c86ee87a	comment	In Crepuscule, Setz, who up until then had no special powers outside of the standard for vampires, manages to awaken a fire spirit who manifests to protect him just as he, while unconscious, is about to be killed.
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Die or Fly / int_c8da904d	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_c8da904d	comment	Future GPX Cyber Formula: Hayato Kazami and Asurada learn the Lifting Turin Saga completely by accident. Asurada in its AKF-0 version bounce off course during a test drive and in order to avoid a painful crash landing and keep Hayato, its driver, safe, it reverses its effect fans and causes the car to float around the turn. Lo and behold, Hayato's just discovered his most gamebreaking driving skill ever. Before that, he learns the Internal Drift when Super Asurada AKF-11 is about to crash on the wall when he tries to pass Kaga while trying to pass Knight Shoemach's time, also during a test drive.
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Die or Fly / int_ca745ccb	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_ca745ccb	comment	In Pacificators, this seems to be how Daryl learns new tricks. When her platoon was stranded out on the ocean with no food supplies, she learned how to flare her staff's orb brightly. Later, when faced with gun-toting Preservers, she became the first person to discover how to use solar power and used it to sting the enemies.
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Die or Fly / int_cd69fa57	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_cd69fa57	comment	In the Darkover series, the most effective test to see if someone possesses the Alton Gift of telepathic forced rapport is to have someone who has the gift use it on the person who might have the gift. If they have it, then it will activate. But if they don't, then they probably won't survive the attempt. This is why Lord Kennard Alton risks doing it to his oldest son Lew as a child to prove to the Comyn Council that he is a valid heir to the Alton Domain, but not his younger son Marius for whom there is no urgent need to prove he has the gift.
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Die or Fly / int_cfd860dd	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_cfd860dd	comment	In the Nasuverse, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception seem to be awakened by near-death experiences; though this is extremely unlikely to happen. Which makes sense: the power is said to result from a person gaining an intuitive understanding of death in all its forms, which could only result from a close, personal brush with death.
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Die or Fly / int_d4263e4c	comment	In the Wild Cards series, people infected with a latent version of the wild card virus often "turn their cards" after a near-death experience. Examples include Will-O'-Wisp (stepped on a power line, gained electrical powers), Stuntman (botched a stunt during a student film and fell several hundreds of feet onto solid ground, gained the ability to regenerate from any injury), and the Harlem Hammer (exposed to nuclear waste, gained superstrength and invulnerability but needs to consume heavy metal salts to survive).
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Die or Fly / int_d7a5f3fe	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_d7a5f3fe	comment	E.V.O.: Search for Eden does this in the age of dinosaurs, and quite literally at that. After climbing to the top of Mt. Brave, you are given a choice to jump off or leave. Jumping off results in an evolution... you become a pterodactyl.
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Die or Fly / int_d7c4626a	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989) In one short story, a dreaming man who falls off a cliff literally must fly or die. It ties into An Aesop about how you don't know if you can do something until you've done it.
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Die or Fly / int_db96ded4	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: Bumi discovers he's become an Airbender (as a result of Harmonic Convergence) when he falls from a cliff and inadvertently saves himself by airbending inches from the ground. Happens literally with Zaheer after his lover P'li dies and he is holding an unconscious Korra while surrounded at the edge of a cliff. He discovers that P'li dying severed his last attachment to the world, allowing him to fly like Superman, and continue the final phase of his plans. Bolin discovers his ability to lavabend in "Enter the Void" when he, Mako, Asami, and Tenzin were about to be killed by lava flow. With nowhere to run, Bolin steps towards the lava and tries to bend it... and succeeds.
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Die or Fly / int_dc217e32	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_dc217e32	comment	In Chapter 31 of PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines, when Ash asks Misty about how she learned to use Water-type moves, she reveals that she learned Waterfall when it was either that, or fall to the rocky bottom of one.
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Die or Fly / int_de83e532	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_de83e532	comment	Jack Jack apparently doesn't manifest his powers until Syndrome tries to kidnap him. However, the short film Jack-Jack Attack reveals that Jack Jack did manifest his powers beforehand: a Mozart CD is the catalyst. The sitter did say that Mozart was good for babies, but she apparently didn't know the effects on superbabies.
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Die or Fly / int_df2eb6f4	comment	The movie Highlander (and the spinoff TV show, also called Highlander) has as its main plot driver the Immortals, people who experience a phenomenon called The Quickening if they are mortally wounded. They soon heal, much faster than ordinary humans, and afterwards, do not age and can only be killed if they are completely decapitated. In the series, it is confirmed that if someone who would otherwise be an Immortal dies of sickness or old age, they are just... dead. At one point, one of the characters forces a Quickening on someone by stabbing them. This doesn't go over well.
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Die or Fly / int_df9a2e15	comment	In Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits, Kharg's affinity for magic awakens when he is about to be executed by firing squad.
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Die or Fly / int_dfdfe88c	comment	In The Time Traveler's Wife, great stress seems to be the activator of involuntary Time Travel. The time traveller mentioned in the title uses his power for only the second time, completely involuntarily, to escape from the car crash which killed his mother. Later on, he gets to travel back to this moment and watch it from the sidelines at multiple angles...
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Die or Fly / int_e05681a1	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_e05681a1	comment	A mentally ill would-be superhero in Kick-Ass takes the first option given by the trope name.
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Die or Fly / int_e13b1e82	comment	In the Nickelodeon remake of The Tomorrow People (1973), Jade spends much of her series hanging out with Adam and Megabyte and wishing she could be a Tomorrow Person. Her powers are revealed when she saves herself (and her crush Megabyte) from an exploding boiler room.
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Die or Fly / int_e199d649	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_e199d649	comment	The Inheritance Cycle has Eragon first discovering that he can do magic when chased by two Urgals intent on killing him. Brom explains to him afterward that a non-lethal variant of this is how young Riders are taught to use magic: setting them tasks that are impossible to do without magic until they get so frustrated as to trigger it.
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Die or Fly / int_e26905cd	comment	In the Tekken series, Kazuya Mishima's Jerkass abusive father Heihachi tossed him off a cliff in order to butch him up. This had the unintended effect of activating the Devil Gene, awakening Kazuya's Superpowered Evil Side.
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Die or Fly / int_e2993046	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_e2993046	comment	In Vita Nuova, Beatrice is said to make any who look upon her experience the joy of Heaven on Earth or kill them where they stand. This is exaggerated, of course, but beyond poetic license, Dante does tend either to enter into a state of radical bliss or despair depending in each of his encounters with Lady Bea.
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Die or Fly / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The timeline for the GURPS International Super Teams roleplaying worldbook cites several such metahumans, including two caught in a nuclear bomb test in 1951, a girl whose rapist tried to burn her alive, and an early-1970s illicit American military program to "destruct-train" draftees in order to force a few metahumans out of their numbers.
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Die or Fly / int_e8254283	comment	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time made her first time leap when flipped into the path of a train.
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Die or Fly / int_eb08d538	comment	Not quite the discovery of superpowers, but in the same vein: at the end of the The Animatrix short Kid's Story, the eponymous Kid frees himself from the Matrix by throwing himself off the roof of his school.
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Die or Fly / int_eb175449	comment	In Mistborn, Allomantic powers are activated by "Snapping", which involves some form of trauma. Most nobles give their children a savage beating at some point in their life, hoping they're latent Allomancers. Kelsier was Snapped by the death of his wife. Vin apparently snapped as a newborn due to an unusually difficult birth. The best way is to experience "mist-sickness", which only affects latent Allomancers and by design causes just enough harm to Snap them.
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Die or Fly / int_eb6802b4	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII, when a l'Cie falters in his or her resolve, they may be challenged by their own power in the form of an Eidolon. Failing an Eidolon's trial is guaranteed death; overcoming the trial grants the l'Cie the ability to summon the Eidolon to assist them. Eidolon battles tend to be That One Boss.
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Die or Fly / int_ebffc81f	comment	In both Mage: The Awakening and its predecessor Mage: The Ascension, Mages tended to Awaken under life-or-death situations, or at least situations of incredible duress. Of course, many mages still end up dying shortly after Awakening anyway, since they tend to lose control of their powers or get careless and start eating a Paradox buffet.
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Die or Fly / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Piccolo throws Gohan at a mountain for this express purpose. Good thing it worked. Of course, instead of flying, Gohan goes into "hidden power" mode and vaporizes the mountain, which was a lot more than Piccolo expected. It didn't work in the Abridged Series. Cue offscreen smack, then Gohan whining. The above was foreshadowed in Gohan's first appearance, where he was about to go over a waterfall. When Goku arrives, he's somehow clinging to a branch far above the fall with no idea how he got there. Goku later invokes this when trying to get Gohan to transform into a Super Saiyan. It works, but only when Gohan is put in genuinely life-threatening danger. In Dragon Ball Super, Goku's new Ultra Instinct form can only activate this way; being closer to a state of mind rather than an actual powerup, it only ever seems to activate whenever Goku's back is against the wall. Even after the Tournament of Power is over, Goku can't activate Ultra Instinct willingly.
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Die or Fly / int_f163bd9f	comment	In ElfQuest, Zhantee's shielding power first manifests when he saves Skot and Krim from being struck by a falling branch. Justified in that this is the first opportunity he'd had to invoke it after being exposed to the Palace, which enhances elves' powers.
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Die or Fly / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed (1998): Paige's first use of her teleportation power was to escape her parents' car as it crashed and exploded (discovered through the magic of Time Travel). Her first use of her healing power came when she had only three options: orb out (exposing herself as magical in front of cameras, police, and civilian hostages), let her boyfriend Henry die right in front of her, or figure out how to heal (which is much less obvious as visually it's just a bit of light, and the wound didn't heal all the way as to seem suspicious). Naturally she was glad to discover that the third option was possible (as before she begins to heal him she had no idea that she could). A literal example occurred when Phoebe first discovered she could levitate; a demon wielding a dagger took a swing at her neck, and she literally flew up and out of his reach to dodge it.
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Die or Fly / int_f496803	comment	In The S-Classes That I Raised, it was orginally thought that the requirement for someone to Awaken is to go through a life-threatening event, but it was later learned that this isn't the case. It still applies to the Awakening of some indiviuals, however. For instance, Yoo Myeongwoo was attempting suicide when he Awakened.
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Die or Fly / int_f5dc7ca	comment	Fantastic Four (2005) also has this. Johnny has been trying to master flight ever since he got his powers (with no one really believing he can do it), when Doom fires a heat-seeking missile at the Baxter Building he leaps off the edge to try and lure it away and right before he splatters all over the pavement he finally nails it.
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Die or Fly / int_f6b79960	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_f6b79960	comment	In the backstory of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Gentarou Hongou believed that people who have minor psychic abilities (such as communicating telepathically through the morphogenetic field) could unconsciously develop and increase these abilities if faced with emotional trauma. To prove this theory, he kidnapped nine children and forced them into a Deadly Game. Gentarou was right, but he realized too late that his 'subjects' could use their newfound power to get revenge on him.
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Die or Fly / int_fdd8d054	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_fdd8d054	comment	The Hollow: Mira discovers that she has mermaid-like abilities after the group's ship crashes into the ocean and she gets stuck in the ejector seat. Kai discovers that he has fire powers when he and Benjamini are trapped in a burning haunted house ride.
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The Hollow	hasFeature	Die or Fly / int_fdd8d054
Die or Fly / int_ff9ab17f	type	Die or Fly
Die or Fly / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "True Q", Q invokes this to test a young woman that the Continuum thinks may be a Q. He instigates a breach of the warp core while she is in engineering, forcing her to use her latent powers, or die, along with everyone else on the ship.
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