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Empowered Badass Normal

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Empowered Badass Normal	comment	Your average Badass Normal can take on monsters, supervillains, and cosmic horrors with nothing but intense training and sheer determination. But that other guy can blow things up with his mind. And so can the villains. How could that puny human possibly compete with that? In short, despite his amazing capabilities, the Badass Normal just doesn't seem to be badass enough. Time for a convenient power upgrade. He may find some new Applied Phlebotinum, don a suit of Powered Armor or discover a new power lurking within himself. Perhaps a sudden revelation reveals some otherworldly origin in his background, or he has an encounter with mysterious beings that leaves him forever changed (or just for one day). Or perhaps his badassness just escalates beyond the limits of normal humanity. Either way, an upgrade of this type may be required just so the Badass Normal won't become completely irrelevant compared to his superpowered comrades. If the Sorting Algorithm of Evil leaves him too far behind, and his role seems to be reduced to getting his ass handed to him, he may otherwise have to be Put on a Bus so he doesn't get in the way. Compare Took a Level in Badass, where a character who was legitimately weak gets a power boost, and Fights Like a Normal, where a superpowered character chooses to fight without using their powers. Power Loss Makes You Strong and Boxing Lessons for Superman are inversions. Contrast with Superhero Packing Heat, where someone who already has powers decides to pick up a gun (or other prosaic weapon). Important Note: Empowered Badass Normal is a trope that specifically deals with a Badass Normal who gains superpowers. It does not mean "Badass with superpowers." There are plenty of other Badass-related tropes to deal with those. Please help us fight this Trope Decay.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_100d4e39	comment	In Aladdin: The Series, Aladdin winds up getting possessed by Mozenrath and fighting for control of the body. In the middle of the fight, he blocks Mozenrath's magic with his spirit's own mystical power and wins a Beam-O-War with Mozenrath. Unusually for an Empowered Badass Normal, this is never seen again, and it's heavily implied that he can't use it outside his body.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_118fd4cf	comment	Persona 5 Strikers: Zenkichi began the story as just a cop who was good at hand-to-hand combat, but he sneaks into a Jail to rescue the Phantom Thieves knowing he has no way to fight back if he is spotted. When he reaches them, he confronts the Shadow of his daughter and awakens his Persona, making him just as powerful as the Thieves.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_11ac43b4	comment	Spider-Ninja: Petra was taken in by Master Splinter when she was four, and was a skilled martial artist by the time she was fourteen, as well as a Teen Genius who (alongside Donatello) was capable of building any machine or device the family needed. This was all before she took a fateful trip to OsCorp and became her dimension's version of Spider-Man.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_12557dc4	comment	Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Per the results of a poll, all of the Paladins will be given Geass, so this could be applied to all of them. Specifically: Lelouch has the Geass of Absolute Obedience from canon. He can also now shoot out lightning bolts. Shirley has the Geass of Absolute Concealment. Kallen has the Geass of Absolute Perception.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1576d725	comment	The J-WITCH Series has a couple of examples: Jade is, as per canon, already a Pint-Sized Powerhouse and expert martial artist. Midway through Season 1, she gets even stronger when she becomes the Guardian of Shadows, gaining enhanced strength and Casting a Shadow powers. Early in Season 2, Hak Foo, Frost, and Raythor — already extremely strong fighters — are granted portions of Drago's chi. This grants them Super-Speed, Super-Strength, and fire powers, respectfully.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_15ac5735	comment	The sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduces the Midnight Angel-armors, two high-tech battle suits created by Shuri. In the movie's Final Battle, Okoye and Aneka, two members of the Royal bodyguard group Dora Milaje don the suits after showing before they are pretty capable at their own.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): In a 1968 issue, Steve Trevor takes a temporary Super Serum in the form of pills which give him Flying Brick powers, and he takes the name of "Patriot". Although the story ends with a hint of possible future adventures, "Patriot" never appears again, likely due to the all-new mod Wonder Woman just being around the corner.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_18262b0d	comment	Truth and Consequences: Kagami was already an Olympic fencer, before becoming the new bearer of the Butterfly Miraculous.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: Jack started out as a badass who spent his whole life training with other great warriors to prepare himself for Aku. He is so skilled that Aku has to resort to opening a time portal to the future in the pilot. The season 5 pilot reveals that one of the side effects of the time travel is that Jack no longer ages. Fifty years after being sent to the future, he is still in his physical youthful prime. With that said, he is not immortal, as he still needs to eat and can be injured and killed in combat like any mortal man would. During the original run, he has two examples of this in "Jack vs the Ultra-Robots." Despite the superior power of his sword, the robots adamantium chassis meant that Jack couldn't cut them (due to a lack of raw strength.) Wanting to atone himself, Extor, the robots' creator, gave Jack a power gauntlet to augment Jack's strength to where he could cut through any metal like butter, including adamantium. He slayed 7 of the 8 robots, but the gauntlet ran out of power before the 8th one, a sword wielder, could be cut. Jack then calls on the power of his ancestors to give him the strength needed to win. Cue a ray of light from the sky, empowering the sword and Jack slaying the last Ultra-Robot in a single slice.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In Dragon Age, this is what Templars and Reavers are compared to the other warrior specializations. Templars get powers that deny magic to their opponents and are very effective against demons from consuming lyrium, while Reavers get the ability to consume their opponent's health or strike harder at the cost of their own by drinking dragon blood, but before they are eligible for becoming either, they must already be accomplished warriors with no magical powers whatsoever. Non-mage members of the Grey Wardens also count, as the process of Joining gives them the ability to sense darkspawn, and arguably enhanced physical abilities as well (or at least stamina). Avernus' research implies that the Joining give others unknown powers beyond that. The most prominent example being The Warden themselves.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1b386512	comment	Akane TendÅ� from Ranma Â½ has gotten this on occasion: The legendary Super Strength Soba noodles confer herculean strength; after Akane mistakenly ate HappÅ�sai's, she was able to lift, toss, juggle, and split in half multi-ton, two-stories-tall iron bells. Unfortunately, they had the side-effect of sprouting whiskers on her face until she took the antidote. The Battle DÅ�gi from the late manga, a sentient suit that unlocks the wearer's ultimate fighting potential. She is able to run rings around Ranma while wearing it. A magical swimsuit made from a jellyfish-like substance, which allows the user to swim like a dolphin — not only negating Akane's Super Drowning Skills, but also giving her a speed and coordination that leaves Ranma wallowing in her wake.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Bun-bun was already one of the most dangerous individuals in the comic. Having him become a godlike personification of holidays took him way over the top. Also the big revelation near the end of "Oceans Unmoving": Captain Blacksoul is actually Bun-bun riding inside the head of a levitating robot with Super-Strength. Inverted with Sam the supernaturally powerful vampire being mundanely empowered by being given a gun so that he can get past someone using his vampire weaknesses against him. Who cares if they can repel you from coming close when you can just shoot them?
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1ed9811e	comment	Ashley Winchester, the protagonist of Wild ARMs 2 is this when he gets his Second Hour Superpower a few hours into the game. Comes with a Theme Music Power-Up too.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_1f1826e5	comment	The Amalgam Universe sees your Green Lantern Batman and raises you Wolverine Batman.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_22147342	comment	Arrow: As in the comics, Slade Wilson starts out as an accomplished martial artist, swordsman and tactician. The flashbacks in season 2 focus on him as a human before he is injected with Mirakuru, granting him enhanced strength, speed, reflexes and durability. Even after he's cured, he can still fight off Oliver and Thea single-handed. Roy Harper received archery and martial arts training from Oliver. He later got injected with Mirakuru as well, with all the benefits and drawbacks before it was purged from his system.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2268de37	comment	Nick Burkhardt in Grimm, is essentially an average human being with above average abilities in combat. The only supernatural ability he possesses is his ability to see Wesen in their true form. Fan speculation has gone back and forth on whether being a Grimm provided any abilities besides seeing the Wesen's true forms due to ambiguous portrayals of strength and durability. Starting in season 2, his powers provide a type of immune response that fights certain types of attacks and adapts to compensate or incorporates aspects and resistance to further attacks. So far, he now has enhanced hearing that allows him to fight blind and hear better than the werewolf, and a zombie state that allows him superior stamina without raising his heart rate or getting fatigued and not needing to breathe for an unknown amount of time.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_227431b6	comment	At one point, Chase Stein of the Runaways merged with Vision of the Young Avengers. During Avengers Arena, he became the new Darkhawk (which is, of course, ironic, because his predecessor in that role was one of the Runaways' enemies back when they were still based out of the Hostel).
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_258d8864	comment	Spider-Man: Finding Home sees Black Widow Yelena Belova receive the White Tiger amulet from Wakanda; the amulet had been previously cursed to drive the wearers insane, but after Kraven the Hunter tried to steal it, Yelena is forced to use the amulet to help Spider-Man at a crucial moment, her actions somehow purifying the amulet and T'Challa granting her permission to keep it.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2669fd85	comment	The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: Amina is a veteran sea captain and an excellent warrior in her own right. Late in the book, she gains a connection to the supernatural realm by drinking the waters from a magical island, granting mild Super-Strength and the ability to perceive and even physically manipulate magic.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has Skye. She starts out as a skilled computer hacker in Season 1 and receives combat training from May in Season 2 where she also gains the power to control and manipulate vibrations. Season 5 also does this for General Glenn Talbot: Introduced as a high-ranking member of the U.S. Airforce in season 1, he's shown as a capable fighter troughout the series. In season 5 however he gives himself a major power update with the fictional element Graviton, turning him into a major threat for SHIELD as well as the MCU-version of the Avengers-villain Graviton.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_26eb8bf3	comment	In Ceres, Celestial Legend, Yuuhi Aogiri starts as a competent martial artist (who can cook!) and manages to save Aya more than once with his own abilities alone. However, his sister-in-law Suzumi creates a bandana and two wristbands that lends him part of her power as the Celestial Maiden. That gives Yuuhi partial immunity to other Maidens' attacks (including Ceres) and extra strength while he fights (as shown during the Grand Finale when he manages to severely wound Mikagi with one strike).
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_27c708b3	comment	Rosario + Vampire: Tsukune. In the beginning he wasn't that impressive, but he was courageous enough to shield his stronger friends from attacks so often you have to wonder what he's made of to keep getting up like that. Then he gets his Emergency Transformation Next Tier Power-Up, and this trope breaks loose. He goes through several power-ups over the course of series and by the final chapter he's a Shinso Vampire, the most powerful monster there is.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_29984214	comment	Rudol von Stroheim only got a single story arc in which he was without his cybernetic enhancements, but in that arc he ordered Joseph to cut off hisnote Stroheim's leg in order that he be able to open the door that would expose Santana to sunlight, and when Santana crawls inside the resulting wound to hide, Stroheim walks out into the noonday sun and blows himself up with a grenade. When he returns with his cybernetics, he's the only person who ever manages to directly injure Ultimate Kars, digging his fist into the back of the latter's neck and pinning him to the nose of a crashing airplane.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_29f0502c	comment	Vlad Dracula in Dracula Untold is introduced as a skilled warrior with such a fearsome reputation that it made his foes cower and retreat with the mere mention of his name. His very first feat upon rising as a vampire is to put down an army of a thousand Turks by himself.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2b0ada22	comment	In WandaVision, this happens to Monica Rambeau after she re-enters the Hex, turning her into an Energy Being]]. After S.W.O.R.D. learns that Wanda's Reality Warper powers are rewriting the DNA of the inhabitants of Westview, Monica is advised not to go back, as she's already been in and out once and nobody knows what going through it again would do to her.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2baf4941	comment	Blue Beetle — Zig-zagged. The Golden Age Fox Features Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett), before being revived by Charlton Comics and thence moving to The DCU, started as a Badass Normal, then got a bulletproof costume and Super Serum from a scientist ally, then got superpowers from a magic scarab in the Silver Age at Charlton. The second Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) couldn't make the scarab worknote (Well, sorta. It did offer him its power once, but it turned out to be evil, and Ted chose instead to destroy it. It's back now and doesn't seem evil anymore.), but the third (Jaime Reyes) goes back to using the scarab.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Both Mohinder and Ando in Heroes spend the first two seasons struggling to keep up in a world of superhumans. They do okay all things considered — even facing the Big Bad, Sylar, a couple of times and living to tell of it, which many characters with powers can't say. But in Volume 3 they both get powers, letting them hold their own.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2c1809f5	comment	Totally Spies!: In "Super Agent Much?", Clover's drink is spiked with a drug created by Geraldine, transforming her into a superhuman agent with enhanced intelligence, strength, speed, agility and durability under Geraldine's control.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2d316ba2	comment	After seven seasons as a regular, yet freakishly strong, human, regular Ninja Turtles antagonist Hun becomes one of these after he accidentally gets doused in mutagen in Turtles Forever. Of course, considering his hatred of turtles, he considers it a Cursed with Awesome deal.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2d316bc0	comment	This happens a lot in the third Ninja Turtles series: A few episodes after their introduction, the recurring antagonists Chris Bradford and Xever Montes, two highly-trained martial artists who work for Shredder, get doused in mutagen by the Turtles and become dog and fish mutants. After spending the first season as one of the Turtles' more formidable foes, Karai inadvertently plunges into a mutagen vat and turns into a snake mutant. Besides the addition of poisonous venom, this grants shapeshifting abilities. Anton Zeck and Ivan Steranko were already able to keep up with the Turtles by using their high-tech weaponry and natural fighting abilities, so the traits they gained after mutating into this series' version of Bebop and Rocksteady were more complementary than anything else (although respectively having a great sense of smell and Super-Toughness are a nice perk). Eventually, Shredder himself ended up as a mutant by the second half of the fourth season, as a savage beating by Splinter left him bed-ridden and demanding Baxter Stockman to inject a lot of experimental mutagen. The result? Super Shredder; has super strength, is even more nigh-undefeatable than before, and can generate bony spike blades.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_2e833eb	comment	Deconstructed in Fallout: Equestria as part of the story's attempt to show how much it would suck to be the main character in a Fallout game. Over the course of the story, Littlepip picks up several beneficial mutations and alterations, at the cost of sterility and a significantly reduced lifespan. By the story's end she's basically on her last legs, and being sealed in the SPP's stasis chamber is probably the best thing that could have happened to her at that point.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Ling Yao is a Badass Normal Warrior Prince whose martial arts and swordsmanship allow him to fight homunculi on somewhat even ground and even sense their inhumanity. He then willingly becomes a human-based homunculus as the second Greed and once Greed lets Ling take control of their body, Ling can utilize the homunculi's Super-Strength and Ultimate Shield with his fighting prowess. Ling loses this when Greed sacrifices himself to save Ling and weaken Father. Scar started out as an Ishvalan warrior priest, who had the strength and skill to take on multiple Amestrian soldiers at once, but after being attacked by Kimblee, his brother would give him his right arm, marked with his work on alchemy (combining it with alkahestry.) This allows Scar to deconstruct anything alchemically. Much later, he acquires the power of reconstruction by tattooing his left arm with the rest of his brothers' life work and is now able to perform amazing alchemic feats.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_33acebd8	comment	Wouldn't you believe it, but Ky Kiske from Guilty Gear is revealed to be this in Xrd. Any normal human who can keep up with the magically-augmented Gear Sol Badguy in a sword fight is a Badass Normal. However, in Xrd's story mode, an assassin shoots Ky in the back, riddles him with bullets and goes over to deliver the Coup de GrÃ¢ce. As he turns to walk away, Ky gets up and runs him through. His wounds have begun rapidly healing and his left eye is glowing red, the mark of a Gear...
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_347ec243	comment	Monster Rancher: Genki may seem to be Badass Normal at first but is often seen focusing energy in order to attack, as well as transferring it to others and putting it into his attacks. Later on it is shown he can launch Spirit Bombs and, in the last two episodes focus the energy of everyone they know, combining the bodies of several of his friends and reviving the Phoenix.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_34d050c6	comment	In one episode of Darkwing Duck, NegaDuck steals the powers of his villainous "allies". This doesn't actually make him detectably tougher, since by that time there's not much time left in the episode to defeat him in.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3583b777	comment	The Tome of Eternal Darkness grants its holder access to powerful magicks and the memories of past (and future) bearers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_35ada324	comment	Ellen Ripley in the Alien series was a normal human who Took a Level in Badass by the end of Aliens by destroying an entire alien hive by herself, fighting against acid-bleeding parasitic Xenomorphs. Then by Alien: Resurrection her clone Ripley 8, who shares most of her memories, receives some Alien DNA as a result of a flaw in the cloning process. Ripley's own blood becomes slightly acidic, she gets a psychic connection with the Xenos, has reduced empathy and predatory instincts, and is able to shrug off being hit in the face with a loaded barbell.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_35c619e2	comment	Happened to Green Arrow II, Connor Hawke, as of Green Arrow and Black Canary #14, when the genetics manipulation of Dr. Sivana granted him with a Healing Factor.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_38ce5997	comment	In Season 3 of The Boys (2019), Vought develops a variant of their Super Serum Compound V that gives non-Supes powers temporarily, with the intent of selling it to the military. Queen Maeve smuggles some to The Boys to give them a fighting chance against Payback and eventually Homelander. However, Butcher and Hughie are the only ones willing to use it as the others feel No Man Should Have This Power.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3aabfec3	comment	Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Although we don't see much of it, thanks to the show being an unconventional superhero program, Wheeler is implied to have been quite the force to reckon with even before receiving the Fire Ring. In his first scene, he scares a mugger just by showing up and disarming him, and even when the scene is retconned in "Two Futures", the fight doesn't last long before the mugger realizes he's outmatched. Then Gaia chose him as the bearer of what is effectively a mini flamethrower.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3c5675b	comment	How to create T'Challa, the Black Panther: start with an African prince, raised since his earliest days to be an all-round expert athlete, brilliant mind, skilled warrior and natural leader. Then have him eat a mystical plant and have all of his physical capabilities boosted to explicitly superhuman levels. Season with all of the miraculous gadgets that a super-advanced utopia can cook up as personnel-grade gear. Then let the local Panther deity grant him its blessings.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3c6e88b2	comment	The Purgatory miniseries gave Frank, who was resurrected by an angel after a demon-assisted suicide, divine powers that allowed him to pull any kind of (divine) weapon he wanted from his Badass Longcoat.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Eren Yeager, from Attack on Titan. He's a Determinator fueled by The Power of Hate, graduating 5th in his military class through sheer persistence and noted to be one of the best at hand-to-hand-combat. Then he Came Back Strong, surviving a brush with death and gaining the ability to transform into a 15-meter Titan with Super-Strength.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_3f58fe30	comment	Wildcat — Got nine lives; legacy successors got cat related powers and could turn into a werecat.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_40852654	comment	Medaka Box: Male Lead Zenkichi was already a Crazy-Prepared martial artist who could handle even Abnormals in combat. After the battle with Kumagawa, he gained the Parasite Seeing ability which allows him to see things from other people's perspective. Literally. Then he becomes even more abnormal, gaining one more ability — Devil Style, which keeps any kind of Contrived Coincidence from happening. After he no longer needs Parasite Seeing, he has it modified into Model Zenkichi, giving him his own personal Super Mode.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_41cc1c3a	comment	Edward Buck: A former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper described as such in his pre-Spartan days: "Truly, if he was any better he'd be a Spartan."
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_41d79599	comment	Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces Saga games spent the entire first game and first 3 levels of the second as just a Badass Normal (during which he bests Boba Fett and takes out at least one Kell Dragon with just his fists). He then learns about his Force Sensitivity and gets a lightsaber.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_42b82a3a	comment	At the turning point of "What if Tom was never a Controller?", the Animorphs don't recruit David, but they still get the morphing cube from him, and offer to give Tom (who's been helping them as a sniper) the morphing power. He accepts.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Sam Winchester shifts into this in Seasons 4 and 5 when he starts gaining direct control over his psychic abilities and uses it to fight demons. However, he eventually abandons them and returns to being a Badass Normal. In Season 6, Dean was temporarily vampirized in an episode and used his new powers to infiltrate and destroy an entire coven, but his transformation was ultimately reversed in time. In Season 7, we have Ghost Bobby. In Season 9, there's Dean after he gets the Mark of Cain and the First Blade. Also in Season 9, we find out the reason Garth went MIA is that he was turned into a werewolf. Before any of them, in "Fresh Blood" Gordon Walker became a vampire. He didn't take it too well.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Champion of Cyrodiil in Oblivion also has Vampirism as an option, with the downsides much less severe than in Morrowind. By completing the Shivering Isles expansion, you'll also become the new Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness. While the powers that come with such a station may not be apparent right away, they do manifest by the time of the next game...
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4522fd1	comment	Rear Admiral (retired) Sam Everheart, U.S.N., in the Whateley Universe, was already a retired Badass Normal before he took out a team of criminals looting a high-tech research facility and got dosed with nanotechnology. Now Hive is strong and fast enough to deal with the mutants at Whateley Academy.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_46ae7ca0	comment	Red Tornado — Legacy successors could manipulate wind in the form of tornados (though the first was a middle-aged woman while her successor was an air elemental inhabiting a robotic body).
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_47a34a01	comment	Before he became Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo was already a Badass Biker and martial artist with an IQ of 600. No wonder Shocker thought he'd be a good candidate for their grasshopper super-Cyborg.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_493666a1	comment	King Kong vs. Godzilla gives the gorilla a size upgrade and electrical abilities so that he can stand up to the atomic dinosaur. This is a side-effect from the fact that King Kong was originally supposed to be Frankenstein, which would have still fit into this category for making Franky 30 stories tall.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Vincent Valentine was a Turk, one of Shinra's elite Men In Black who enforced the company's will and guarded their VIPs. And then Hojo got a hold of him and turned him into an unaging shapeshifter. Cloud was also quite skilled despite being an infantry as he managed to kill Sephiroth and lift the masamune even impaled, and that was before Hojo forcibly injected Jenova cells into him and exposed Cloud to Mako to turn him into a Super-Soldier. In Remake Tifa is already an immensely strong Kick Chick martial artist with Charles Atlas Super Power abilities on par with SOLDIER members, before she even breaks out her Chi powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4ab81dfa	comment	Ladybug in a Half Shell: With Hawk Moth's powers, Shredder's burns have now fully healed and is bestowed lightning powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4ce5263e	comment	You can also do this in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. True, a perfectly ordinary squaddie with a rifle can hold his/her own against the aliens, but later on you can turn them into truly dangerous psionic Super Soldiers, Mind Rape enemies to death, conjure up psychic shields or take control of enemies. Enemy Within adds bio-enhancements which allow soldiers to heal miraculously from injuries, jump over buildings or turn invisible, and cybernetic enhancements which allow the soldier to take control of a Mini-Mecha which laughs off firepower and is armed with weapons ranging from a flamethrower to a grenade launcher to a Power Fist.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4e588869	comment	In Darwin's Soldiers a certain character known only as "Trinity" is already a Badass Normal. But after she doses herself with a Super Serum her scientists were working on she gains Super-Speed, super agility and Super-Strength.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: Chloe Cerise starts off her Train journey with nothing but a donut holer and her skills in softball. Over the course of the story, she later gains a cloak that lets her cast fire and a summoning mark to let her bring to life the demons she loves.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Tim is already Robin, a teen detective trained in martial arts, when Dava Sborsc gives him the Aramilla, which grants the user a level of super-speed and rapid healing. He uses it very briefly, as the stuff also makes the user impulsive, violent and cuts down on people's self-imposed morals — he actually kills someone (though he's able to bring them back by CPR, which transfers some Aramilla to them), which cuts through the euphoria of the drug and terrifies him.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5084d29e	comment	Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics): Carol Danvers was just an Air Force military figure, investigating about this new "Captain Marvel" and the Lawson scientist. And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Marvel Comics wanted to have more female super-heroes, and Carol Danvers was exposed to a Kree machine that turned her into a Flying Brick with the capabilities of a Kree supersoldier. However, her new origin reveals that she is actually half-Kree with her mother having been a Kree soldier herself. The machine just activated her latent powers. This happened to Carol again during her time as part of the X-Men supporting cast, after a prolonged period of being depowered. The Brood captured and experimented on her (even with her Flying Brick powers drained, her biology was still altered by the Kree machine and this piqued their interest) and accidentally granted her even stronger powers as Binary.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, everyone who plays Sburb is ultimately destined to become demi-gods in a new universe, but given that many of them were badass before playing, their powers come off as this. For example, Dave was a skilled swordsman before entering the game, then quickly got Time Travel powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold A number of episodes give Batman superpowers. One time, he gained bat-themed superpowers from a magical artifact. Another episode caused a mishap by a villain's laser beam to give Batman Plastic Man's powers. People like giving Bats the Lantern ring. He nearly puts it on for the sake of an even playing field, to the chagrin of Guy Gardner. Sinestro (before his inevitable Faceâ€“Heel Turn) half-heartedly agrees, citing regulation, but comes to a compromise by synthesizing a suit that functions as a Lantern's ring would: on willpower. After Equinox absorbs a lot of power, Batman and Dr. Fate resort to merging the powers of many superheroes into one person. Of course Batman gets chosen, due to his mind being able to handle the powers. He ends up becoming a gigantic being, dubbed Bat Monolith, with an arsenal of powers, ranging from Dr. Fate's magic blasts to Green Lantern power ring energy. In yet another episode, he arrives on an alien planet whose atmosphere gives him Superman-like powers, to the chagrin of the local Badass Normal hero (who happens to also be a Batman). After a while he realizes that he's making the alien Batman feel useless, the way Superman sometimes makes him feel, and in the end he has the alien Batman remove his powers to also negate his weakness to quartz. When Batman gets bitten by a vampire, he gains vampiric powers: ranging from flight, hypnosis, shape shifting, becoming a living shadow, intangibility. Though it turns out to be All Just a Dream from the results of vampire induced hallucination.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_52cffcc	comment	If Wishes Were Ponies: The portal between Equestria and England, it is quickly revealed, transforms anyone with magic to a form that allows them to blend in to the world they are going to. Castor Searle, a British politician who was already a bit of a Badass Bureaucrat, finds himself becoming this after his first trip to Equestria, when he's turned into a pegasus.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_57ad0c07	comment	Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil series was already one hell of a Magnificent Bastard, but after successfully pulling off his massive Gambit Roulette in the first game and coming Back from the Dead in Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, he gains superhuman strength and speed thanks to a specific form of The Virus. Resident Evil 5 reveals that Wesker along with the other Wesker children, though he supposedly was the only survivor, was a subject of Project W, the first and greatest of Umbrella's experiments. He was indoctrinated with Oswell Spencer's beliefs and treated with the Progenitor Virus since early childhood. He was a badass all along. Wesker also makes Jill Valentine one in RE 5. Resident Evil 6 gives us two more to add: Sherry Birkin, who possesses a healing factor as a result of her exposure to the G-Virus, and Wesker's Heroic Bastard son, Jake Muller, who possesses enhanced strength, speed, and endurance.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_586167a7	comment	Ryou was a normal human before his boat was beached by a mythical creature called the ningyo. Having successfully caught it, Ryou in Ageless ate its flesh, cursing him with eternal youth. Ever since, he has fought countless wars and beaten hundreds of opponents, being able to outmaneuver Korra after she had mastered Waterbending, Earthbending and Firebending with nothing but a wooden sword.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5908ee91	comment	The Dragonborn of Skyrim subverts the trope, as he/she is not actually "normal". The Dragonborn was born with the immortal Aedric soul of a dragon, a blessing bestowed on rare mortals by the Aedric Top God, Akatosh, the God of Time and "father" of dragons. However, this blessing doesn't mean much until the dragons begin to return at the start of the game. Additionally, the Dragonborn has some of the same means of empowerment mentioned above, including Vampirism (with additional boosts given in the Dawnguard DLC) and Lycanthropy, which for the first time in the series is a voluntary transformation, making it something of a Super Mode with the previous downsides heavily downplayed.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_59593dcd	comment	In Snuff it's revealed that due to the events of Thud! Sam Vimes can see in the dark, understand the language of goblins, and can ask the Summoning Dark to tell him anything that happened in darkness.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5affab48	comment	The Avengers (Jason Aaron): Echo, a supporting character from Daredevil, becomes a host to the Phoenix, the powerful cosmic entity known for its destructive power. Previously, she was just an ordinary but well-trained woman.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5c07d6ab	comment	Before that, in Saints Row: The Third, the Boss briefly got superpowers in the final part of the DLC campaign "The Trouble with Clones", courtesy of an irradiated energy drink.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5c4dd971	comment	Sasha Bordeaux from Checkmate was originally a Badass Normal Action Girl who was considered good enough to serve as the bodyguard and crimefighting partner to Batman. She was later attacked by an O.M.A.C. which converted 10 to 20 percent of her body into cybernetics and granted her enhanced strength, a Healing Factor and Stat-O-Vision.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5c9a92cc	comment	Frost in Project: Snowblind is already a Badass Army in the prologue. After he was turned into augmentation after suffering from an explosion, naturally, he does the mission even better and at the best and worst of times, becoming a One-Man Army.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5ce3fc86	comment	The anime of Soul Eater had Maka, the protagonist, a Badass Bookworm who wields a giant red-and-black scythe who is actually her shape-shifting best friend. Her father also had this ability, but she inherited the powers of a Meister from her mother. Until the final episode, when it turns out she has been a Weapon all along.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5e150650	comment	This is quite often how Exaltation works in Exalted, but mostly for Solars and Lunars. To explicate: Solars are typically Exalted after performing an act of bravery or a great accomplishment. Lunars are typically Exalted after surviving in the face of overwhelming odds. Getimians are an interesting subversion: they would have been this if they'd actually existed before their Exaltation, because the miracle of Getimian Exaltation makes a life that never came to pass real, a life that would have changed the world.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5e91c7e	comment	Resident Evil 5 reveals that Wesker along with the other Wesker children, though he supposedly was the only survivor, was a subject of Project W, the first and greatest of Umbrella's experiments. He was indoctrinated with Oswell Spencer's beliefs and treated with the Progenitor Virus since early childhood. He was a badass all along.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5e91c7f	comment	Resident Evil 6 gives us two more to add: Sherry Birkin, who possesses a healing factor as a result of her exposure to the G-Virus, and Wesker's Heroic Bastard son, Jake Muller, who possesses enhanced strength, speed, and endurance.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Black Panther fits this trope just like its comic book counterpart: every king of Wakanda must be trained to the peak of human condition, then ingest the special Heart-Shaped Herb which grants superhuman attributes on par with a Super Soldier, and dons a vibranium suit that is practically indestructible. T'Challa goes the extra length when he replaces his old suit with a vibranium-nanite version that absorbs and stores kinetic impact from physical attacks and releases it in energy form. The movie's Big Bad, Erik Killmonger, also qualifies since he is a US operative that scored hundreds of kills and ends up becoming a Black Panther with his own nanite suit after besting T'Challa in physical combat. The sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduces the Midnight Angel-armors, two high-tech battle suits created by Shuri. In the movie's Final Battle, Okoye and Aneka, two members of the Royal bodyguard group Dora Milaje don the suits after showing before they are pretty capable at their own.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_5edeb641	comment	While the Player Characters in Pretending to Be People are comparatively incompetent by Badass Normal standards, they're able to face down myriad horrors and live. Clark Bishop gains superhuman toughness and quick reflexes. Later he gains spellcasting abilities. John Lee Pettimore IV gains the gift of prophecy. Played with, as it later turns out that due to his status as a mechanical abomination living inside a human body, he wasn't that normal to begin with. Keith Vigna gains cybernetic enhancements, including a mechanical finger capable of blasting cocaine up his nose.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_60c66fd3	comment	In Moon Knight (2022), Marc was a badass long before he became Khonsu's Moon Knight, and even afterwards he still manages to win fights without the armor during the day time. In the final episode, Layla also briefly gets empowered when she becomes Tawaret's Avatar.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_62862142	comment	Dusty Raging Fist have your main hero, Dusty the rabbit, and his friends Kitsune the fox and Darg the horse, being brawlers and mercenaries who effortlessly beats up plenty of mooks. And then you obtain Elemental Powers from various Elemental guardians for kicking more ass, in order to stop a greater evil. Unfortunately the powers granted to your heroes doesn't last; with the all powerful Great Evil defeated in the final stage, you're then reverted to your normal forms.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_630755ab	comment	Tavi of the Codex Alera is the one and only Muggle in a world where absolutely everything runs on Elemental Powers. He can't even turn the lights on and off by himself. He is, however, so badass that he easily outmatches more than a few people who have Super-Strength or can throw waves of fire around, and often saves the day through sheer Badass Normal awesomeness. But he also becomes less and less normal with time; his bond with Kitai increasingly sharpens his senses and improves his stamina, and at the end of Cursor's Fury, he finally starts to get over his mother stunting his magic and develops some rudimentary furycrafting ability. But since he's short about 15 years of practice, he's unable to utilize it properly until he gets some Training from Hell in First Lord's Fury.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_66b7b92d	comment	A villainous example occurs in the third game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast with the Reborn, warriors who were artificially imbued with the Force using the Valley of the Jedi and made into Dark Jedi by The Remnant of The Empire. However, they proved to be no match for the more experienced natural-born Force users and were wiped out by Luke Skywalker's Jedi.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: Hunter has no magical ability of his own, and while he's a skilled martial artist and can cast magic using his artificial staff or Palisman, this still places him at a significant disadvantage compared to his peers. However, after his Palisman Flapjack sacrifices his life to save Hunter by letting him absorb his lifeforce, Hunter is able to use the short-range teleportation he could only do with a staff before at will.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_682f54d8	comment	Olympia Vale: A former Navy diplomat who survived a very dangerous expedition to the Ark and acquitted herself quite well.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_684610	comment	Bullet from BlazBlue possesses a pair of incendiary gauntlet armagus with which to start campfires or ignite her foes, but her mercenary corps' grappling technique means that she can put up a considerable fight without them.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6920713d	comment	Parodied in Shortpacked!, in which Batman has the ability to breathe in space, based on art in his action packaging which appears to depict him fighting Darkseid in space.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power's Sydney is effectively this. In her backstory, before getting her orbs, someone tried to mug her; despite the entire police report reading "Oh, the humanity!", it was ruled self defence. Then there's the incident that got her recruited to be a super hero: during a staged bank robbery that she didn't know was staged, she flipped over one of the 'robbers' by grabbing his tongue. The powers of her orbs aren't fully unlocked, but she's able to fight four Kaiju-sized aliens (with associated drone fighters) by herself. Maxima (functionally a Superwomen) thought that avoiding one was a wise choice.note Informing her decision was the fact that a portal leading back to Earth was rapidly closing, and she wasn't sure how else to get back, but she still preferred not to stay to try fighting. The biggest casualty: Sydney's paycheck; she ended up taking a $10000 advance to throw in her swear jar using a "$5 per rant" penalty.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: Tony Stark, who began as a simple man (not even badass) wearing a Powered Armor, gave himself technology-based superpowers with the 'extremis' virus after deciding he wasn't fast enough to keep up. In addition to speeding up his ability to control his suits by mental link (even to summon its pieces and assemble into the full suit with his mind), it also allowed him to mentally link with other pieces of technology as well, often leading to 'I hacked it while standing here talking to you' asspulls. The Bleeding Edge suit can do a lot of what the Extremis suit could do and a lot of what it can't.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: Even though Saitama is a borderline Physical God who can destroy basically anybody in spectacular fashion with his Story-Breaker Power, one of his most awesome moments ever is early on during the Introduction Arc, back when he was just a powerless Japanese salaryman: He killed Crablante by looping his necktie around the monster's eyestalk and promptly pulling his eye and internal organs out. Whole other level of badass right there.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin starts off solidly Badass Normal, managing to kill a Shardbearer, a feat considered nearly impossible for those without Shards of their own. Then he starts developing Surgebinding abilities. This is actually a question left intentionally open by the author, and a major source of angst for the character is that he may have had the powers forever but simply hadn't realized it and used them to protect his fellow soldiers. Many of his epic feats of martial skill and survival sort of read differently on a second read-through when you know in advance that he can sustain himself on stormlight, heal any wound with a handful of spare change, and control his momentum and that of everything trying to hit him. Scenes where an opponent has trouble freeing a weapon from a shield or miss with a projectile weapon get an extra helping of "Oh. Huh." The chapter from the perspective of a new recruit in Kaladin's squad specifically mentions seeing Kaladin surrounded by/trailing a mist while fighting, odd on first read and incredibly obvious the second time. Of course he's not even close to using his abilities at their fullest extent, and he's clearly still a badass spearman in his own right though. This is proven in the second book, when he kills a chasmfiend when temporarily Brought Down to Normal. Dalinar Kholin aka "The Blackthorn". In his flashbacks in Oathbringer we get to see the campaign to unite Alethkar. Despite having no Shardblade or Shardplate to call his own, he's still considered one of the most dangerous men alive. At one point Sadeas says they need to get him some Shards, not for his own safety, but because he makes everyone else look bad by doing what he does without them. He ends up winning both Plate and Blade by the end of the campaign, becoming basically unstoppable. Much later he also bonds with the Stormfather, becoming a Bondsmith, of which apparently only 3 can exist at any given time. Like above, there is some implication he had been using Stormlight long before this without realizing it.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Several characters started out as fairly ordinary if talented martial artists, who later developed or gained magical or superhuman powers. Shang Tsung was originally a warrior from Earthrealm who was skilled enough on his own that he won a tournament against Outworld. However, his next tournament didn't go so well, so he turned to Black Magic by feasting on a soul for greater power in order to win again. After he was found out, he was kicked out by the Elder Gods and cursed with Rapid Aging, although he found he could temporarily stall or reverse it by consuming even more souls. He subsequently turned to Shao Kahn who taught him even more dark magic and how to refine his soul stealing abilties, and served Kahn as a warrior and eventually tournament host from then on. Scorpion started life as a highly skilled ninja assassin named Hanzo Hasashi who was killed by his Arch-Enemy Sub-Zero and went to the Netherrealm / Hell for his own crimes in life, only to escape and come back to the mortal world to seek revenge on his killer, at which point his time in Hell caused him to develop a variety of demonic fire-based powers. Jax is a Special Forces operative who is a trained and skilled fighter, but he felt he could not keep up with the supernatural fighters so by the time of 3 he undergoes a procedure to give himself. In the reboot, his arms were actually ripped off by Ermac, pretty much forcing him to become Empowered to so much as survive. Quan Chi is a curious inversion, since he is a demon from the Netherrealm who learned Black Magic on his own, but unlike most of the Kombatants- who are trained or experienced warriors- his fighting skills are almost entirely magical, using spells to give himself mastery of various forms of martial arts. He temporarily loses most of his powers between 4 and Deadly Alliance, and it transpires that he is actually a rank amateur fighter without his magic. Johnny Cage was an actor who signed up for the tournament because he wanted to put to rest rumors that his skills were all Wire Fu, having no idea what he actually walked into. Most of his skills run on obfuscation, misdirection, and opponents underestimating him because of his constant irreverent snarking. And then come Mortal Kombat X, it's revealed that he (and by extension, his daughter Cassie) is the descendant of a warrior cult who bred fighters for the Gods, with just enough superpowers to hold his own among Elder Gods, Outworld fighters, and other nastiness. Johnny and Cassie are still fighting well above their weight class, however.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6c013d08	comment	Due to the relatively "fair" balance between supernatural and non-supernatural abilities (mundane skills, for instance, grant essentially the same increase in capabilities as ranks in a Mage's spheres), it is not uncommon for a The World of Darkness game to start with a bunch of badass normal "hunters" and then have them gain supernatural templates only after a certain number of sessions.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In the Jackie Chan Adventures fic Queen of All Oni, Jade gets significantly stronger and more durable (plus a healing factor), along with the normal powers of a Shadowkhan when her Queen persona returns.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_6f734712	comment	He was also offered a Yellow Ring in the Smallville: Season 11 comics. He caught it, glared at it when it began its usual spiel on the "Bruce Wayne of Earth. You have the capacity to harvest great fear" lines, and said, "Take a deeper look. Let it linger." Cue a long moment, before the ring mumbles, "Harvesting protocols paused." What's more badass than a Batman with a Lantern Ring? A Batman who terrifies a Yellow Lantern Ring into compliance.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_701f0ece	comment	It's not quite clear when Guts, of Berserk fame, went from merely a very talented swordsman with a degree of Charles Atlas Superpower to a full-on superhuman, but his acquisition of the Berserker Armor definitely pushed him over the edge. Even Grunbeld, one of the strongest demons active, was at risk of being flat-out overpowered by Guts in a berserk state.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Happened subtly, mostly the "Touched by Vorlons" variety. Jack O'Neill was already badass (he was a USAF Special Ops officer) before the reveal that he has the gene necessary to use the technology of the Ancients. Same for Sam Carter and being used as a host by a Tok'ra. Daniel Jackson was an Action Survivor until he ascended to a higher plane of existence (twice). The difference between before and after is relatively minor in some cases, but it's definitely there. Used less subtly in the episode "Upgrades", when the three of them all wear Atoniek armbands, granting them enhanced strength, plus Super-Speed on a level even The Flash would find respectable. Unfortunately for them but fortunately for the continued drama of the series, the armbands impart their superpowers by injecting a nanotech virus... that the human body eventually develops an immunity to. This turns out to be why the Atoniek civilization is extinct: they relied on the armbands exclusively for their defense, and once the entire population was immune, they were helpless.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_708ae58b	comment	Years into Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures' run, we find out that Dan's wings were the outward signs of his 'Cubi heritage (his mother was apparently a powerful succubus, something that apparently everyone knew except Dan). Once his heritage fully kicked in, it granted him assorted new powers that he's mostly still getting the hang of. (His ongoing refusal to stay at the 'Cubi academy and train doesn't help.) Dan was a very successful adventurer already before he semi-retired to Lost Lake and his heritage kicked in.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: Vi is a strong and tough girl whose innate fighting instincts and boxing skills serve her well in most fights, but she finds herself outclassed by Silco's shimmered up thugs. This changes though when after making a deal with Jayce she gets a pair of Hextech Atlas Gauntlets, massively increasing her strength and versatility. With her new weapons Vi is able to easily handle herself against any of Silco's soldiers. Vander was the one who taught Vi boxing and it shows. Just with a couple of improvised knuckle dusters, he's able to fight a Shimmer boosted Deckard evenly. When he takes the Shimmer himself, he kills Deckard in seconds.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_74f7210c	comment	This happens to Link in various The Legend of Zelda games. Usually he starts the game as a regular sword-wielding kid, but by the end of the game he's acquired various spells and other magical powers, his energy level has been magically doubled, etc. Also helps that his entire lineage is blessed by the gods.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_74fcaab2	comment	The Sandman — Legacy successors had all sorts of super powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Would you believe it, but Sergeant Johnson, who was revealed to be a SPARTAN-I. All of the Spartan-IIs are this, with it being noted that Dr. Catherine Halsey chose through her screenings Child Prodigy candidates who would have grown into exceptional human beings even if they never became Spartans. This is borne out in their training, where even before they received their Bio-Augmentation these prepubescent trainees were capable of fighting, overpowering, and even killing their adult trainers in one-one engagements. Pretty much every Spartan-IV is this, as they're all adult volunteers who qualified for the program by doing something awesome when they were still Badass Normals. Here's the pre-Spartan backgrounds of Fireteam Osiris from Halo 5: Guardians: Jameson Locke: A former bounty hunter and ONI agent who was an expert tracker. Edward Buck: A former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper described as such in his pre-Spartan days: "Truly, if he was any better he'd be a Spartan." Olympia Vale: A former Navy diplomat who survived a very dangerous expedition to the Ark and acquitted herself quite well. Holly Tanaka: A former Army engineer who survived for years on a glassed world overrun by Covenant scavengers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_76a25ac7	comment	The Cosmic Ghost Rider is The Punisher who after his death gets revived as an all-new Ghost Rider.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_783392b	comment	Dante's Inferno: Dante Alighieri is re-imagined as a crusader knight that kills several enemies during the game's tutorial, before being stabbed in the back and when The Grim Reaper comes to take his soul to Hell, Dante challenges him to a fight and wins. After taking Death's scythe as his own, he gains several magical powers of both holy and unholy nature and superhuman fighting prowess allowing him to overcome demons much larger than himself.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_789b7014	comment	Judomaster — The fourth one could project an "aversion field" which prevented her from being hit by attacks specifically aimed at her, though not ones with wide-effects like explosions. She was also a skilled martial artist just like her predecessors.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7988cb68	comment	Depending on player choices, Mass Effect's Commander Shepard can be this by the second game. A non-biotic Shepard is a Badass Normal N7 Special Forces Operative in the first game (or not, given genetic upgrades are standard issue), but Cerberus adds upgrades in the second. Regardless of class selection, Shepard is given a reinforced skeleton, enhanced senses, tougher skin, increased strength and stamina and virtual immunity to toxins. If you choose a new class with an imported save, it's justified by saying Cerberus' tinkering gave Shepard new abilities. Even if you don't change classes from a non-biotic class, the game lets you unlock loyalty powers, which include a few biotic abilities. Ryder embodies this to a slightly larger extent in the beginning of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Unlike Shepard who had already established themselves as a badass N7 commander, Ryder had just started his/her career in the Alliance Marines, when they were forced to leave and join the Andromeda Initiative. They prove themselves on Habitat 7 by gunning down about a dozen Kett enemies, optionally rescuing a captured squad mate, helping other stranded squad mates hold out against a Kett onslaught and even assisting their N7 father Alec in activating alien technology that allows them all to escape. It is only after this that Ryder becomes merged with SAM and gains all their combat, tech and biotic powers. Later, when their connection to SAM is temporarily removed, Ryder still leads an assault on Meridian, defeats the Kett Archon and rescue their sibling.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: An awful lot of Fan Fiction tends to give Batman powers, typically so he can "stand up" to Superman. Some comics do this, too, usually as a one-issue gag or an Elseworld. The Elseworld Batman: In Darkest Knight gave him a Green Lantern Ring — leading to this Demotivator titled "Overpowered"◊ He was also offered a Sinestro Corp's ring (yellow, based on fear) in canon during the Blackest Night saga which admittedly fits him remarkably well. However, he rejected it (whether due to what happened with the Green Ring and/or because it's a Yellow Ring of Sinestro isn't stated) and it ended up in the hands of Scarecrow briefly before being taken by a deputized Orange Lantern Lex Luthor. He was also offered a Yellow Ring in the Smallville: Season 11 comics. He caught it, glared at it when it began its usual spiel on the "Bruce Wayne of Earth. You have the capacity to harvest great fear" lines, and said, "Take a deeper look. Let it linger." Cue a long moment, before the ring mumbles, "Harvesting protocols paused." What's more badass than a Batman with a Lantern Ring? A Batman who terrifies a Yellow Lantern Ring into compliance. In a different medium, Batman has been offered the ring, or at least comparable to it twice (see below in Western Animation). The Amalgam Universe sees your Green Lantern Batman and raises you Wolverine Batman. He always loses such powers at the end of the story or has them ruled non-canonical. The writers know that Batman is known and loved as a Badass Normal, and neither wants nor needs superpowers. That and it gives them an excuse to experiment. There's one story where Batman gains Superman's powers, and Superman is Brought Down to Normal. The ramifications are explored — Batman begins to go a little bit crazy from righting every possible wrong he could, and ends up getting weakened because fighting at night all the time doesn't suit a solar-powered hero. Vampire Batman. The trilogy of stories ended with everybody dead, including Batman himself. There are occasions where Batman has his own Powered Armor to beat superpowerful foes. He does have a storage of more exotic technology and even supernatural items that he doesn't use in his normal crimefighting, but tend to be used when working with the Justice League or during drastic events. Batman was offered a Green Lantern Ring in the mainstream comics once. Surprisingly enough, he's not able to do much with it. Despite having incredible willpower, Batman's drive also came from his inability to let go of the past and only was able to conjure bats and an image of his parents. In fact, this is what every Green Lantern faces each time they wield the ring. As a result, Batman gained a much greater respect for Hal Jordan. While there are some Batman villains who fall under this trope, Bane is a very prominent example whenever he's on Venom. Otherwise, he's a Badass Normal super-villain with a lot of willpower and discipline whenever he's not on it. Similarly, Harley Quinn in mainstream Post-Crisis DC comics continuity, although it isn't often stated — after the first time the Joker tried to kill her, Poison Ivy took her in and gave her a herbal Super Serum that permanently gave her mildly superhuman strength, agility, and resilience, explaining why a skinny young woman can beat up massive combat-trained guys when before she was just "merely" an Olympic level gymnast. This may or may not still be canon in the New 52 and DC Rebirth continuities. This even happened to theJoker in a crossover with The Mask, when he came into the possession of the eponymous artifact endowed with Loki's powers. His lack of inhibitions skirted the usual problem of turning the user into a murderous lunatic, so it mostly just made him nigh-unstoppable. Another Joker example: In Emperor Joker he gets the reality-warping powers of Superman villain Mr. Mxyzptlk.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7aefccf3	comment	Jacket from Hotline Miami becomes one of these as he unlocks more and more of the masks (the "Rasmus" mask allows him to see secret collectibles on the map with ease, the "Tony" mask allows him to perform executions faster and kill his opponents with a single punch, etc.). This may just be a gameplay mechanic, but it may also have something to do with Jacket dreaming the first half of the game in the hospital he's recovering from his headshot wound in.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash, Iris is badass enough already, but twice in the series she temporarily gains powers. Once Barry's speed is transferred to her, and she becomes the Flash for a day (with purple lightning). Later on, her spending a lengthy time period in the mirror world gives her the ability to control mirrors. She loses that as well. It turns out that her being the Flash has left an imprint on her, which is why their future daughter Nora has yellow and purple lightning when she runs. Later on, the Speed Force temporarily gives Iris her powers back to fight the Godspeed army.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7d28f67b	comment	The titular Metabarons in The Metabarons.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7f2f55ad	comment	In The Punisher MAX, Garth Ennis makes his own supernatural upgrade part of Frank's backstory: During the battle of Valley Forge (depicted in Born miniseries), an enigmatic voice gave him the choice to either die in battle or be its agent on Earth. This entity is implied to be Death Itself, and it apparently guides The Punisher's hand.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mu La Flaga of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, a rare Natural ace pilot on a battlefield dominated by Designer Babies, is eventually revealed to have "enhanced spatial awareness". Which clearly is the "Cosmic Era" equivalent to Newtypes. In the final battle Cagalli, also a Natural, is shown capable of activating SEED Mode like Kira and Athrun.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_81901bb0	comment	In Comic Fury Werewolf, analytical players tend to catch Werewolves a lot. Give them a role, and... This includes any role... including being a Werewolf. Ranger has had this twice. Once was in Game 9, where he was the Medium Mystic and he developed a Game-Breaker strategy. The other was Game 11, where he used his analytical powers as a Werewolf.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_82a3c9d7	comment	Another Joker example: In Emperor Joker he gets the reality-warping powers of Superman villain Mr. Mxyzptlk.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: The Pack are one big mess of these; they start out as a group of TV "heroes" who star in a schmaltzy action series (complete with them fighting the "EEEEEVIL NINJAS!") However, all their physicality is completely real, and when they find out about the Gargoyles they give the Clan a run for their money before getting upgrades. Then, Wolf becomes a Half-Human Hybrid, Hyena and Jackal get VERY extensive cybernetic enhancements, and Dingo gets a suit of Powered Armor. Only Fox chose to remain not only fully human but also serve out the rest of her jail sentence. Then went straight into the arms of David Xanatos, her future husband, exactly as they planned. It wasn't until much later that it was disclosed that Fox wasn't completely normal herself to begin with. Owen Burnett gains a stone fist from testing a potion for Xanatos, and he uses it in combat. Turns out he doesn't count: he's secretly been Puck all along.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8558d643	comment	Jonathan Joestar of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was the only JoJo to spend more than a handful of chapters without either a Stand or Hamon, and in that time he not only fought, but defeated, Dio in a hand-to-hand battle in a burning mansion. He only gets more badass when Zeppeli awakens his Hamon powers later. Rudol von Stroheim only got a single story arc in which he was without his cybernetic enhancements, but in that arc he ordered Joseph to cut off hisnote Stroheim's leg in order that he be able to open the door that would expose Santana to sunlight, and when Santana crawls inside the resulting wound to hide, Stroheim walks out into the noonday sun and blows himself up with a grenade. When he returns with his cybernetics, he's the only person who ever manages to directly injure Ultimate Kars, digging his fist into the back of the latter's neck and pinning him to the nose of a crashing airplane.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8601c91f	comment	The Doom Slayer from Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal turns out to be none other than Doomguy from the original Doom series, who was recruited by the Night Sentinels sometime after electing to stay in Hell at the end of Doom 64. With that background, he was a hardcore Demon Slaying badass even before the Makyr known as "the Seraphim" granted him immortality, tirelessness, and super-strength, making him a warrior feared even by Hell itself.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: Terra and Celes are the only two members with access to magic for the very first portion of the game (in fact, this makes them highly valuable to La RÃ©sistance). After meeting with Ramuh, the rest of the party gains access to magicite and start learning magic themselves.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_86c3beca	comment	Higgs from Girl Genius is an interesting example. At first he seems normal, but it is later implied (and later still confirmed) that he is actually one of the JÃ¤gergenerals. For unknown reasons, he kept his human body after taking the JÃ¤gerdraught, but internally, he's 100% JÃ¤ger. This is inferred to be the case for anyone who takes the the JÃ¤gerdraught. Those who didn't already possess some level of Badass Normal strength tended not to survive the experience.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8a1c34ad	comment	In Axe Cop, new powers are really easy to come by for just about all the characters. Axe Cop himself repeatedly just displays and also gains new powers, the latter including for example being given flight by the comic's writer, and making himself into a magical mummy. But, unlike other characters, he usually forgets about any and all of them soon and acts like a Badass Normal again, until it's time to gain yet another new power.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8aa7c509	comment	In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Star Butterfly was a hero who started out regularly fighting bad guys and taming wild beasts with her bare hands. Then she inherits a magic wand... Which she has no idea how to use, needing lots of time to practice with it and experiencing more than one unfortunate Magic Misfire in the process.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black stars one. He was known as "The Black Reaper" even before he became a Contractor, and in one flashback he completely owned a Contractor in a straight-up fight using only a choke wire, throwing knives, and sheer badass ninja skills. He still has the aforementioned skills, but now he can also zap the crap out of people. Gets taken Up to Eleven when it transpires that these same powers make him a full-blown Reality Warper in the right circumstances.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8f1542e0	comment	Ultimate Origins #1 reveals that Nick Fury's incredible badass-ness apparently comes from having been a successful test subject of the Super Soldier Serum. On the one hand, you'd think just being Samuel L. Jackson would be enough; on the other, this kinda makes it easier to swallow things like dodging automatic weapons fire in close quarters, or holding his own against Wolverine until Captain America dropped the mutant with a taunt and a grenade. Most of his awesome is in his badass planning, anyway.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_8fdaf277	comment	Joshua Carver of No Hero did patrols at night without any super powers. Then, he gets FX7 and he becomes very powerful. In fact, he was raised by the FBI as a monster fighter, and an FBI agent comments that she's very scared of Joshua since he has superpowers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: In "Go Team Go", Kim gains the Super-Strength of the hero Hego after foiling the villain Aviarius's plans to drain Hego's power. In the climax of "So The Drama", Kim wears an experimental battlesuit created by Wade which grants her enhanced strength, speed, healing and even allows her to catch and throw Shego's plasma bolts back at her.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: Warders are just about the most skilled fighters in the world to begin with, but the magical bond they form with the Aes Sedai they're charged to protect comes with the perks of increased endurance and awareness, and a slight Healing Factor. Both Perrin and Mat were fairly badass even before Perrin found his connection with the wolves, and before Mat had his little episodes with the dagger from Shadar Logoth and the Aelfinn and Eelfinn. Aviendha as well, as she was an Aiel Maiden of the Spear before becoming a Wise One apprentice and learning to channel. Even her first appearance involves her and a pair of other Aiel fighting (and taunting) a myrddraal, and she was one of the Aiel who took the Stone of Tear.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_924c78dc	comment	Hunters are this in Hunter: The Reckoning and Hunter: The Vigil, especially in the older Reckoning line, where it is strongly recommended your hunter is a thoroughly normal person before they gain their powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_95521c97	comment	In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Kraven and the Enforcers started out as Badass Normals who, while not actually winning against Spider-Man, could put up a decent fight. To level the playing field, they got themselves powers: Kraven became a Half-Human Hybrid and the Enforcers got Powered Armor. Specifically, Kraven became fused with the DNA of several jungle cats (at least leopard and lion), giving him superhuman abilities such as strength and being able to smell Spider-Man being there. Meanwhile, the first of the Enforcers to become empowered was none other than Shocker. His fellow Enforcers would get their own armor in the second season, with Ox's augmenting his already impressive strength and bulk while Fancy Dan's allowed him to bounce off of walls.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored: Corvo was already The Dreaded before The Outsider gifted him with a Power Tattoo. His skills with a blade were legendary amongst the city guard, and in game they can occasionally be heard recounting times they saw him in action. Giving him supernatural powers just made him more lethal.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_960062b7	comment	Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia starts the series as nothing more than a superhero Otaku with an incredibly sharp mind that lets him out-analyze and out-plan even people with powers, as well as having the heart of a hero (if not the powers). This catches the eye of the #1 hero All Might, who takes Izuku under his wing and puts him through an intense 10-month physical training regimen that practically turns the kid into a teenage Batman. After his training is complete, All Might bequeaths to Izuku his power, One For All, granting him the ability to enhance his body. However, there's an aspect of Deconstruction to this: Since Izuku only just received One For All, he didn't have the full measure of it at first and would always use it at full power, which tended to shatter whatever limbs that he enhanced and ran the risk of permanently crippling him. Eventually, while training with All Might's mentor Gran Torino, he realized that his problem came from viewing One For All as a special attack rather than an extension of his own body, which led to him developing "Full Cowl", where he distributes a fraction of the power throughout his entire body evenly.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9794445c	comment	Sweet Home (2017): Hyun, as an infected who has resisted his transformation, is much stronger than the average person and has a Healing Factor. While both of these pale in comparison to the actual monsters, it gives him a noticeable edge when fighting them.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: Gwen starts out as a 10-year old girl who knows karate. She later learns magic after getting her hands on a spellbook. Zig-Zagging Trope with The Reveal in Ben 10: Alien Force that she and Ben are part Energy Being and the spellbook was a Magic Feather.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_990ba067	comment	Tales of Wedding Rings: Granart starts out as a formidable warrior and swordswoman, but as time goes on, she realizes that strength and martial skill alone won't be enough to stop the Abyss King's monsters. She then starts training to unlock her people's forgotten magical abilities. She eventually succeeds, becoming a Magic Knight who can increase her own strength and speed dramatically, make herself hot enough to ignite flammable substances on contact while being selective about what burns and what doesn't, and superheat her sword to increase its cutting power.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series, there are a few: Apple Pie, Applejack and Pinkie Pie's niece from the Bad Future in Dark World, was already part of a Badass Family capable of thriving in the chaotic hellhole Discord made of the world. Then she awakens as an Element of Laughter, which gives her the power to Logic Bomb things because she finds paradoxes hilarious (her special talent is literally paradoxes). This includes other people and zombies. Applejack, already a Badass Normal, gains Living Lie Detector abilities upon exposure to the Truth that could Mind Rape somepony if she really wanted to. Being AJ, she doesn't very often. During the final battle with Nyarlathotrot, she gains healing powers thanks to her relation to Saint Sweetheart. Finally, during the same battle, Dark World Nightmare Mirror gives her her power upon death, transforming Applejack into an Alicorn. She uses this power to kick Nyarlathotrot's flank. Dark World Applejack also got this trope: her Element of Deceit (or by its true name, Fantasy) gives her a form of Living Lie Detector powers (though different than her prime self's) and makes her a Master of Illusion, on top of giving her Complete Immortality so long as it isn't forcibly removed. She also gains healing powers when she takes Fluttershy's place as Element of Kindness. According to Loose Canon, she eventually unlocks the Element of Fantasy's true power, gaining a Super Mode.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9ba3174f	comment	Alaric in The Quest of the Unaligned was already a Badass Normal policeman as seen in his killing a dragon with absolutely nothing but his sword and his wits. Then he discovered that he's the heir to the royal house of Caederan, and then after that he becomes the first orah to be created for centuries.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: As a race, the Nords are the resident Badass Normals of Tamriel. They are a Proud Warrior Race of Horny Vikings who epitomize the idea of Humans Are Warriors, but they are least magically inclined race (and have a strong dislike of magic and distrust of magic-users to boot). Despite this, their ancestors were able to carve out a foothold in Skyrim by nearly driving the Falmer (Snow Elves), who it is said were nearly as naturally magically inclined as the modern Altmer (High Elves), to extinction. The "empowerment" comes in when the Nords, facing the threat of the Dragons and their Dragon Cults, prayed for aid from the Divines and were granted it. They were taught how to use the Thu'um, the Language of Magic of the Dragons which allows users to "shout" elements into existence as well as some other utilitarian effects. Led by the Tongues, masters of the Thu'um, the ancient Nord armies vanquished the Dragons and their Cults, then forged an Empire that covered nearly all of north Tamriel. A succession crisis would eventually tear it apart, and then the use of the Thu'um as a weapon of war dropped dramatically after their defeat at the Battle of Red Mountain, following which one of those Tongues (Jurgen Windcaller) founded the "Way of the Voice" to use the Thu'um only honor the gods. In most of the main series games, the Player Character is a Badass Normal (or at least as "normal" as one can be in a world where magic is ubiquitous and anyone can learn to use it if they choose) with several options to become "Empowered" throughout the game. To note: The Agent in Daggerfall has the options of Lycanthropy (werewolf and wereboar) and Vampirism. Both offer powerful buffs, at the cost of some (ultimately minor) drawbacks. The Nerevarine in Morrowind also has the option of Vampirism (as well as Lycanthropy with the Bloodmoon expansion). The drawbacks are more significant than those in Daggerfall, but the "Empowerment" is quite powerful in each case. In addition, you'll contract the Corprus Disease during the main quest. On the positive side, it will make you The Ageless, give you Ideal Illness Immunity, and permanently boost your Strength and Endurance. However, the negatives include a severe case of Body Horror and having your mental faculties decreased to animalistic levels. As part of the main quest, the negatives are cured while the positives remain. The Champion of Cyrodiil in Oblivion also has Vampirism as an option, with the downsides much less severe than in Morrowind. By completing the Shivering Isles expansion, you'll also become the new Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness. While the powers that come with such a station may not be apparent right away, they do manifest by the time of the next game... The Dragonborn of Skyrim subverts the trope, as he/she is not actually "normal". The Dragonborn was born with the immortal Aedric soul of a dragon, a blessing bestowed on rare mortals by the Aedric Top God, Akatosh, the God of Time and "father" of dragons. However, this blessing doesn't mean much until the dragons begin to return at the start of the game. Additionally, the Dragonborn has some of the same means of empowerment mentioned above, including Vampirism (with additional boosts given in the Dawnguard DLC) and Lycanthropy, which for the first time in the series is a voluntary transformation, making it something of a Super Mode with the previous downsides heavily downplayed.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Vivi in One Piece trained to a bounty hunter in order to infiltrate Baroque Works and identify the leader who was responsible for destabilizing her nation. After being forced to leave Alabasta in This Bites!, she continue to refine her skills and acquired two new abilities: Sovereign Will, a variant of Conqueror's Haki, and the power of one of Alabasta's treasures: the Gust-Gust Fruit.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9e7f27c6	comment	The Atom - The first Atom was originally just a short guy with a temper and a good punch, he later gained super strength, a radioactive punch, and radiation immunity. His more famous successors gained the ability to shrink to subatomic levels.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9e845561	comment	This even happened to theJoker in a crossover with The Mask, when he came into the possession of the eponymous artifact endowed with Loki's powers. His lack of inhibitions skirted the usual problem of turning the user into a murderous lunatic, so it mostly just made him nigh-unstoppable.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9eddb2fb	comment	There is a variety of this in Irredeemable — while Charybdis always had the powers, they were pretty weak. So when he got boosted to Plutonian's level, he has an advantage, because he actually knew how to fight.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_9edf7c1d	comment	In a What If? story, the Venom symbiote joins with Frank Castle instead of Eddie Brock. Using his new powers, the Punisher's war on crime becomes more brutal than ever and he succeeds in killing several Marvel supervillains before a team of superheroes manages to stun the symbiote, allowing Punisher to tame it by telling it that he'd commit suicide and destroy them both unless the symbiote gives him complete control over it. Punisher then tells the superheroes that he's in control now before escaping.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a03824e8	comment	This happened to a huge number of The DCU's Golden Age superheroes, either the characters themselves or their legacy successors. Originally, non-powered mystery men were a popular character type back in the 40s and all of DC's characters were supposed to be in self-contained continuities. As time passed, these characters were put into a Shared Universe with super powered characters and non-powered characters just didn't seem that impressive in comparison. Since a lot of these characters are fairly obscure, most people didn't really care much if they were reworked. All-Star Squadron was particularly guilty of this. The most famous example is Black Canary. Before joining the Justice League, Black Canary had no superpowers, but one issue immediately after joining the Justice League, Black Canary suddenly acquired the Canary Cry, a sonic projection weapon emitted from her mouth. This conflicted so much with her traditional Badass Normal nature, that her solo series and the smaller scale Birds of Prey constantly use Kryptonite Is Everywhere to force her to solve problems without using superpowers. Oh, it gets better. The Canary Cry is sometimes described as being so insanely powerful that any time she uses it, she's basically holding back so as not to completely and utterly eff up everything within earshot. It's put a hurt on characters who are considered to be much heavier hitters. Of course, this ironically lets the writers who are so inclined hold this back and let her use her 'fu as her primary weapon: The Canary Cry really is that powerful, and you use the conventional weapons before you Nuke 'em. Gangs of Mooks and non-Superman-class superpowered thugs can easily be defeated by her martial prowess. The Canary Cry serves as her trump card against much stronger and or unconventional opponents or as an urgent contingency if she needs to end matters quickly (in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, she saves the Green Arrow and the princess from being stabbed by Count Vertigo with the Cry, likely since his vertigo-inducing powers would mess with her fighting.) Happened to Green Arrow II, Connor Hawke, as of Green Arrow and Black Canary #14, when the genetics manipulation of Dr. Sivana granted him with a Healing Factor. The Atom - The first Atom was originally just a short guy with a temper and a good punch, he later gained super strength, a radioactive punch, and radiation immunity. His more famous successors gained the ability to shrink to subatomic levels. Stars and Stripes — Star Spangled Kid got Starman's cosmic rod and technology, while Stripesy built a mech for himself. Their successor, Stargirl continues to use Starman's technology. Wildcat — Got nine lives; legacy successors got cat related powers and could turn into a werecat. Firebrand — Legacy successors got fire manipulation powers. Liberty Belle — Acquired ability to project sonic vibrations from her hands along with enhanced speed, strength and agility (the second Liberty Belle, her daughter, did not gain the sonic vibrations, but did gained her enhanced attributes along with her father's, Johnny Quick, superspeed powers.) Phantom Lady — Legacy successor could become invisible. The Sandman — Legacy successors had all sorts of super powers. Congo Bill — Gained the power to turn into a gorilla. Crimson Avenger — Legacy successor is a spirit of vengeance with magic guns. Red Tornado — Legacy successors could manipulate wind in the form of tornados (though the first was a middle-aged woman while her successor was an air elemental inhabiting a robotic body). Blue Beetle — Zig-zagged. The Golden Age Fox Features Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett), before being revived by Charlton Comics and thence moving to The DCU, started as a Badass Normal, then got a bulletproof costume and Super Serum from a scientist ally, then got superpowers from a magic scarab in the Silver Age at Charlton. The second Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) couldn't make the scarab worknote (Well, sorta. It did offer him its power once, but it turned out to be evil, and Ted chose instead to destroy it. It's back now and doesn't seem evil anymore.), but the third (Jaime Reyes) goes back to using the scarab. Wonder Woman (1942): In a 1968 issue, Steve Trevor takes a temporary Super Serum in the form of pills which give him Flying Brick powers, and he takes the name of "Patriot". Although the story ends with a hint of possible future adventures, "Patriot" never appears again, likely due to the all-new mod Wonder Woman just being around the corner. Judomaster — The fourth one could project an "aversion field" which prevented her from being hit by attacks specifically aimed at her, though not ones with wide-effects like explosions. She was also a skilled martial artist just like her predecessors. Rex the Wonder Dog drank from the Fountain of Youth, gaining longevity, the ability to talk (to any human or animal), and unspecified magical abilities. Overkill, considering Rex was already a decorated war veteran (for both World War II and the Korean War), a successful newspaper photographer, and had won fights with bears, woolly mammoths, and even Tyrannosaurus Rex before getting powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a0b3a75e	comment	Superman & Lois: In season 2, General Mitch Anderson becomes obsessed with avenging the deaths of two of Supermen of America members at Bizarro's hands. After Superman and Tal-Rho escape his prison, Anderson goes to the secret DOD armory with anti-Kryptonian weapons and loads up to bear. He storms Tal-Rho's fortress in the Badlands by firing a Kryptonite RPG, thus weakening Superman and Tal. He then inhales some X-Kryptonite and proceeds to beat the crap out of both aliens, while also using his new Eye Beams to overpower Superman's. Bizarro goes to help them after Anderson shoots Superman with Kryptonite bullets, which Tal intercepts with his own body. While Superman is busy saving his brother, Bizarro fights Anderson. He's winning at first, especially after Anderson shoots him with Kryptonite, which makes him stronger. But then he discovers that X-K weakens Bizarro and uses it to weaken him enough to break his neck.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a3411dd1	comment	In In Fury Born Alicia Devries is a highly decorated ex-marine, ex-cadre genius of literally superior genetic stock. After spending the first half of the book establishing her as a Badass Normal, she then becomes possessed by a demi-goddess of vengeance and shortly after bonds with the AI of an experimental warship.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a43c65b6	comment	A number of episodes give Batman superpowers. One time, he gained bat-themed superpowers from a magical artifact. Another episode caused a mishap by a villain's laser beam to give Batman Plastic Man's powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Suzaku Kururugi may count. Already a Badass Normal (he was a skilled Knightmare Frame Pilot and martial arts prodigy) for most of the first season, he slips into this near the end of the first season and into R2. His most obvious upgrade was having the "Live!" Geass cast upon him by Lelouch, allowing him to survive situations that would normally have killed him and allowing him to become much stronger and faster than a normal human being in order to do so. However, it had been hinted throughout the series that Suzaku had some as-of-yet unidentified connection to Geass... that was never explained or elaborated upon.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a5fe3567	comment	A bit of a meta-example is Jonah Hex. For much of his comics career, he got by on his wits and his skills, yet no matter where he ended up, he always kicked ass and took names. When The Movie was made, they gave him the power to temporarily resurrect the dead.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a6262214	comment	Shampoo becomes one in Teen Titans Tokyo after an Evil Sorcerer performs a dark ritual on her that is implied (and confirmed out-of-universe) to have awoken a slumbering demonic lineage. The result is that somebody who already had Super-Strength, Super-Speed and Super-Reflexes courtesy of Supernatural Martial Artists has now boosted all of those traits (as well as becoming a Statuesque Stunner and possibly an Amazonian Beauty), at the cost of becoming a Cute Monster Girl.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a67289b	comment	Relic of the Future: Raven's philosophy in training young Jaune comes down to this. She believes that huntsmen and huntresses rely on aura and semblances too much, so she wants her student to become a level of Badass Normal before empowering him with aura.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy: Upon promoting, the Fighter and Thief go from being magically inept to being able to cast white and black magic, respectively, on top of their physical prowess. Final Fantasy V: The party start out as Freelancers who can only attack, defend, and chuck items. By the end of the game, they will probably be Freelancers... who have gained a multitude of unique abilities, magic, knowledge of chemistry, et cetera after mastering the job classes granted to them by the crystal shards. Final Fantasy VI: Terra and Celes are the only two members with access to magic for the very first portion of the game (in fact, this makes them highly valuable to La RÃ©sistance). After meeting with Ramuh, the rest of the party gains access to magicite and start learning magic themselves. Final Fantasy VII: Vincent Valentine was a Turk, one of Shinra's elite Men In Black who enforced the company's will and guarded their VIPs. And then Hojo got a hold of him and turned him into an unaging shapeshifter. Cloud was also quite skilled despite being an infantry as he managed to kill Sephiroth and lift the masamune even impaled, and that was before Hojo forcibly injected Jenova cells into him and exposed Cloud to Mako to turn him into a Super-Soldier. In Remake Tifa is already an immensely strong Kick Chick martial artist with Charles Atlas Super Power abilities on par with SOLDIER members, before she even breaks out her Chi powers. Final Fantasy VIII: Although the main party themselves don't really count, having been trained to use Guardian Forces and Junctioning, they do turn Laguna and his friends into this whenever they share a consciousness thanks to Ellone. They're already capable, well-trained veterans... but now they have access to para-magic, summons, and Junctions years before Garden made these things familiar to the world. Final Fantasy XIII has the whole party turned into L'Cie, esper-like humans with magical powers, by Anima after defeating it. Anima is a sort of god like monster. In fact, for one character, Snow Villiers, he becomes an Empowered Badass Normal twice. It's implied he always knew martial arts, but getting hold of an experimental bulletproof Badass Longcoat which enhanced his strength lets him make the most of his inherent strength and skill. And then, he becomes a L'Cie, granting him magic powers and the ability to summon ice spirits that can transform into a motorcycle, to put the cherry on the cake.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, the card Muraganda Petroglyphs grants a large bonus to creatures without abilities. Also shown by the power creep in cards such as Woolly Thoctar, a 5/4 for a mere 3 mana.note That's partially balanced by each of those 3 mana being of a different color; the only deck that can play this card at any time, much less on Turn 3, is one that was designed specifically to do so.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_a949e666	comment	In Elysium: Max goes from an ex-convict stricken with extreme radiation poisoning to a superhuman with Powered Armor grafted directly into his body. Kruger goes from being a badass Ex-Special Forces sociopath to an augmented badass Ex-Special Forces sociopath.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b4290f43	comment	Remo Williams, in The Destroyer series of books, has trained in the "sun source" martial art of Sinanju, which functions as a Charles Atlas Superpower to allow him amazing abilities.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b4967d43	comment	Happens to Amy Rose of Sonic the Hedgehog during the Dreamcast era games as a result of chasing Sonic. In Sonic CD Amy is pretty much a normal girl whose running speed is slower than Sonic's walking speed. Then comes Sonic Adventure, and thanks to her Hammer, she becomes very acrobatic, nimble and is able to defend herself effectively once she gets used to fighting. Once Sonic Adventure 2 comes up, she's gotten a bit better, able to run faster and perform basic spindash techniques. However, when Sonic Heroes comes around, she's able to execute nearly every move Sonic can (if not in a weaker form), and is even able to go toe to toe with him when the situation calls for it. This also applies to Big the Cat, who went from being a slow runner with a poor jump who can move cars and possesses impeccable fishing skill to a full-on Power type character, able to run at super speed and spindash just as easily as everyone else.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Black Cat started out as a skilled thief, acrobat, and martial artist. Feeling like she was a liability to Peter because of her lack of powers, she underwent a procedure that granted her the ability to affect probability. Unfortunately, these powers also affected Spider-Man negatively (not surprising as it was a scheme by The Kingpin to screw with Spider-Man). Doctor Strange was able to remove these abilities from her and she was left with enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes, reitractable claws and night vision. She later lost those abilities too thanks to a device created by the Chameleon and Brand New Day saw her probability-manipulating powers restored.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Nerevarine in Morrowind also has the option of Vampirism (as well as Lycanthropy with the Bloodmoon expansion). The drawbacks are more significant than those in Daggerfall, but the "Empowerment" is quite powerful in each case. In addition, you'll contract the Corprus Disease during the main quest. On the positive side, it will make you The Ageless, give you Ideal Illness Immunity, and permanently boost your Strength and Endurance. However, the negatives include a severe case of Body Horror and having your mental faculties decreased to animalistic levels. As part of the main quest, the negatives are cured while the positives remain.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b6c9037f	comment	Melanie King in The Magnus Archives is a paranormal investigator turned academic with a fiery temper, and being infected by the Slaughter, Eldritch Abomination embodying senseless violence and bruality, results in her taking on the Boneturner and beating him up so thoroughly that he runs away scared, apparently without suffering any lasting injuries herself.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b704a08a	comment	Reborn! (2004): Hibari Kyouya is already a very badass fighter with power level way above the rest of the characters. He is still getting every single Next Tier Power-Up along with everybody else, staying ahead of the curve.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b77e5fb6	comment	In Krut: The Mythic Wings you're already a badass Krut warrior - an eagle-headed Bird People - and a capable fighter who defeated multiple giant monsters. And then you obtained the titular Mythic Wings halfway through, granting you powers from the gods to single-handedly destroy the stone ogre army and take on their kaiju-sized warlord, Zurah.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Prior to receiving his extensive suite of top-of-the-line Sarif Augmentations, Adam Jensen was already a well trained SWAT team leader in the Detroit Police Department before taking a job as Sarif Industries Chief of Security. This is displayed in the gameâ€™s prologue where Adam with no augmentations guns down dozens of Belltower mercenaries invading Sarif HQ, and it required a heavily augmented â€œOgreâ€� Jarun Namir to put him down. Once he gains all his augments, Adam becomes an unstoppable One-Man Army.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_b9b796cf	comment	The nature of Servants in Fate/stay night and its various spinoffs is such that even historical figures with no superhuman qualities to speak of will become far stronger than the average human. For example, Mata Hari was nothing more than a skilled spy in life, but as a Servant, she can crush a normal person with her bare hands, even with the lowest rank of strength.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bab66e95	comment	Near the end of Blackest Night, Ganthet triggers an emergency mechanism in the rings of the highest-profile member from each Corps, prompting them to create a temporary duplicate ring and 'deputize' the nearest suitable individual. Most of the resulting Lanterns already had powers (Star Sapphire Wonder Woman, Indigo Tribe Atom, Blue Lantern The Flash), but we also get Orange Lantern Lex Luthor and Sinestro Corps The Scarecrow. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for the Orange Ring to drive Lex mad(der) with greed, and the first ring he steals is Scarecrow's.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bbd08e9c	comment	The Medallion: The main protagonist Eddie Yang starts out as a cop with impressive martial arts skills. After he is killed and resurrected by the eponymous medallion, he gains superhuman strength, speed, agility and a Healing Factor.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bc810180	comment	52: After a fallout with her uncle John Henry, Natasha Irons enlists in the Lex Luthor Everyman Project and gains actual superpowers, going from a human in Powered Armor to a human capable of crushing Powered Armor. John Henry is infected with a metagene against his will and transforms into a being composed of stainless steel, capable of deflecting bullets and hurling blobs of molten metal. These changes are temporary.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Sisters of Battle are for all intents and purposes normal humans, albeit trained to elite levels, and equipped with Powered Armor, and a Boltgun. Their faith in the God-Emperor though is so strong that it gives them incredible powers on par with psionics (only explicitly not warp derived, therefore without possibility of invoking Perils of the Warp). These used to be so good that many players preferred to design their army specifically around Acts of Faith to make a competitive list, although the sixth edition codex has kicked the entire faction down to low-tier. There's also the Stormtroopers of the Imperial Guard. For reference, the Imperial Guard are an entire army of human Badass Normals, and the very best of them are inducted into Stormtrooper squads, or the Kasrkin squads, if it's a Cadian army. They are given special equipment not normally afforded to rank-and-file guardsmen, such as carapace armor and plasma weapons, as well as a few minor biological and cybernetic augmentations that increase their strength and speed by a small amount. This is actually the basic idea behind the Space Marines, really. Start with a prepubescent Badass Normal, then fill him full of bio-mods to turn him into a Space Marine. While the fluff tends to focus on the ones that were formerly Chaos Marines, Daemon Princes are this trope. Ordinary mortals who become veritable Physical Gods in recognition of their sheer badassery. Like Ax'Senaea the Thrice-Possessed, an ordinary human who consumed three of Slaanesh's Greater Daemons to make herself young and hearty again, and was aiming for number four when Slaanesh made her a Daemon Princess. In recognition of her feat, she was allowed to keep the souls of those daemons to empower herself. The above can happen with loyal Imperial soldiers, but they instead become Living Saints.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun you can build a heavily-chromed street samurai with no magical abilities whatsoever and the team mage can then increase all of your attributes even further (such as motion sense through walls). They can also provide you with preparations, small normal objects set to trigger to cast a specific spell when something specific happens (such as an apple casting a "Rot" spell when someone takes a bite). Additionally, a technomancer's sprite can run Diagnostics on a vehicle (increasing it's abilities beyond the normal) and potentially allow it to take additional actions. If you already had a killer rigger on the team in that vehicle...
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bcdcf629	comment	Sari Sumdac of Transformers: Animated. A Badass Normal in her initial mostly human form, once she gets an upgrade to seem more machine than human, she gets nifty hand blasters and a processing unit boosted even beyond the Cybertronian standard! Not to mention temporary weapon generation.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bd310eaa	comment	Tedd from El Goonish Shive starts out magically impaired, meaning that he can never have his own spells. His response to that can be summed up as "Screw you, I'll make my own magic", and he does just that, manufacturing various Magitek tools designed for everyday use. Then an immortal gives him magic powers. And then we find out later that he had an extra-normal ability all along — the ability to physically perceive magic and intuit its workings — and wrote it off as I Thought Everyone Could Do That (The test that should've revealed this years ago was thrown off by young Tedd's fear of the test itself).
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bd61868d	comment	Vampire Batman. The trilogy of stories ended with everybody dead, including Batman himself.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bdc49dbe	comment	In The Laundry Files protagonist Bob Howard and his Love Interest Mo both start off as ordinary people, albeit knowing how to use Functional Magic (which in this series is a confluence of computer science, advanced math, and astrophysics). In book two Mo acquires an Instrument of Murder (a Brown Note-producing violin made from human bone with a demonic intelligence attached to it), while in book three Bob gains True Sight and the ability to eat souls.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_bf1a4389	comment	In Mistborn Adventure Game, you can spend a bunch of Advancements to manifest Allomantic powers if you don't have them already. Since non-powered characters start with better Attributes and Standings, this can make for a very powerful Hero.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c0da5437	comment	The Punisher: In a What If? story, the Venom symbiote joins with Frank Castle instead of Eddie Brock. Using his new powers, the Punisher's war on crime becomes more brutal than ever and he succeeds in killing several Marvel supervillains before a team of superheroes manages to stun the symbiote, allowing Punisher to tame it by telling it that he'd commit suicide and destroy them both unless the symbiote gives him complete control over it. Punisher then tells the superheroes that he's in control now before escaping. The Purgatory miniseries gave Frank, who was resurrected by an angel after a demon-assisted suicide, divine powers that allowed him to pull any kind of (divine) weapon he wanted from his Badass Longcoat. In The Punisher MAX, Garth Ennis makes his own supernatural upgrade part of Frank's backstory: During the battle of Valley Forge (depicted in Born miniseries), an enigmatic voice gave him the choice to either die in battle or be its agent on Earth. This entity is implied to be Death Itself, and it apparently guides The Punisher's hand.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c169bc7	comment	The various men who have gone by the title of Black Knight have tended to be skilled swordsmen and equestrians in their own right even before taking up the Ebony Blade. The sword (sometimes cursed, sometimes just evil) gives the Black Knight various powers, including a Healing Factor, a bit of resurrective immortality, flight, magic armor, and things like that.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c1b6188c	comment	In FREAKIN GENSOKYO, Brad becomes this way after gaining a few levels, learning a few spells and beginning his long-awaited danmaku training.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c2374a54	comment	Red Sonja is an Action Girl in peak human condition that only needs common blades and weapons to take on evil magic-users and monsters. Yet, from time to time, she gained certain power-ups including but not limited to: gaining a Ring of Power that made her virtually immortal, being turned into a vampire, becoming a Witchblade host and being transformed into the avatar of a living goddess. These changes don't last because Status Quo Is God and she is always back to being a Badass Normal.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c2463c46	comment	Final Fantasy: Upon promoting, the Fighter and Thief go from being magically inept to being able to cast white and black magic, respectively, on top of their physical prowess.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c2463c53	comment	Final Fantasy V: The party start out as Freelancers who can only attack, defend, and chuck items. By the end of the game, they will probably be Freelancers... who have gained a multitude of unique abilities, magic, knowledge of chemistry, et cetera after mastering the job classes granted to them by the crystal shards.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c3e63db7	comment	Lynnette from The Zombie Knight. Even back when she was just a girl with a sword she was able to give enemy servants a surprising amount of trouble, and greatly helped the queen to escape from Abolish's clutches. Later on, she gets a gauntlet made from aberration bones, which allows her to use an aberration shadow and might eventually allow her to use its special ability as well.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c3fdb989	comment	Fairy May Cry: As an experiment, Arkham implants a lacrima into Lady. It's not until the Tenrou Island Arc that it takes effect, giving her Steel Devil Slayer Magic, on top of her extensive arsenal of firearms and explosives.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c423806f	comment	Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: Shampoo, a Chinese Amazon who is already strong enough to smash through walls with her bare hands, eats a Devil Fruit after being trapped in the world of One Piece. Zig-Zagging Trope in that the precise fruit is the "Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit", a Zoan that grants its user all the powers of a rabbit — something that those around her bluntly admit doesn't sound very impressive. The kicker is that those powers are actually pretty badass. For starters, just from Shampoo's perspective, the unexpected fusion of Jusenkyo curse and Zoan Devil Fruit strips her of her Forced Transformation curse, meaning she no longer has to turn into a small cat when splashed by cold water, and turns her into a cabbit, meaning she no longer triggers her beloved Ranma's ailurophobia. Then there's the standard physical boosts common to all Zoans, which in Shampoo's case consists of currently unspecified levels of Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Reflexes, Super Jumping and Super-Senses (predominantly Super-Hearing, but her sense of smell is noted to have improved too). Then there's the other, more esoteric powers that Shampoo either hasn't figured out yet or is only starting to explore, such as her retractile talons and ability to dig through almost anything, or her potential for learning/mastering leg-based martial arts tricks, such as Shave, Moon Walk and Tempest Kick.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c43df4d8	comment	Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood is this. He starts out a badass former time-agent who can easily keep up with the Ninth Doctor in terms of action. Then he dies and is brought back. Permanently.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c47df322	comment	In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, thanks to the Time Breakers screwing up history, Hercule goes from being a genuine Badass Normal (albeit one with a bad case of Testosterone Poisoning and overconfidence) to being able to fly under his own power, fire Ki blasts, and even bring a Super Saiyan Goku to his knees.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm gives Carol - who already beat a giant werewolf to death with a crude shield - the Green Lantern Ring. However, her use of it is relatively restrained, as she only got the very quick summary of it and as she explains in the sequel's spin-off, Unfinished Business, quite quickly realised how stupidly powerful (and thus, dangerous) it was and decided that she didn't want to accidentally flatten a city. As a result, she's very reluctant to put it back on again.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_c694d5e1	comment	In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Barry was the fastest in the League of Assassins when it came to drawing and using a weapon. He was so fast that his League name was Al Sa'iqa or "The Lightning"; he got his League name five years before gaining Super-Speed. Kara was also a superb fighter years before her powers surfaced.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ca846d7d	comment	Jameson Locke: A former bounty hunter and ONI agent who was an expert tracker.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_cae652c	comment	Leorio from Hunter Ã— Hunter is the only member of the main cast without nen abilities. While the weakest of the four, he's still stronger than your average human, is a skilled doctor, and displays a large amount of street smarts. Then after a Long Bus Trip, he returns with a nen ability that allows him to transmit his punches through the floor, which he immediately uses to lay out legendary hunter and Gon's father Ging.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_caf902ee	comment	In The Games We Play, Adam had already been making a name for himself as a badass even before he had had his Aura and Semblance awakened.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! Seto Kaiba may not be an Item-wielder, but he does have some untapped mystical abilities, letting him wield Obelisk and Critias. Jonouchi was about five seconds away from beating the Big Bad of Season 2, with no magical artifacts or one-of-a-kind super cards. Then in Season 4 he gets The Claw of Hermos, a plot device card that lets him face the threat of Orichalcos alongside Yugi and Kaiba.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: Bullseye was an Ax-Crazy assassin with Improbable Aiming Skills. After falling from a building, many of his bones were replaced with strips of adamantium, the metal covering Wolverine's entire skeleton. This has increased his resistance to injury in unarmed combat and allows him to perform acrobatic maneuvers that would fracture ordinary human bones.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_cefd252d	comment	Scarlet Lady: Marinette is a Badass Normal trained in martial arts who, in this fic's version of the episode, "Reflekta", temporarily gets the Black Cat Miraculous to become Maotif. Eventually, she becomes a permanent Miraculous holder when Master Fu gives her the Bee Miraculous, becoming the hero Marigold.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: Tigra started out as The Cat, a lab assistant who used a super suit to make her comparable to Captain America, and give her finger claw grapples. Said suit also played a part into turning teen humor character Patsy Walker into Badass Normal superhero Hellcat. She later developed some vaguely defined psychic abilities, placing her squarely in this trope. The Avengers (Jason Aaron): Echo, a supporting character from Daredevil, becomes a host to the Phoenix, the powerful cosmic entity known for its destructive power. Previously, she was just an ordinary but well-trained woman.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d083372a	comment	Seven Star Fighting God Guyferd: Gou Kazama, in the vein of Takeshi Hongo above, was kidnapped by an evil organization and gained the power to transform into the mutant cyborg Super-Soldier Guyferd. He's also a skilled and capable martial artist, and can put up a good fight even outside of his transformation.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	The Second Apocalypse: For most of the first two books, AnasÃ»rimbor Kellhus is about as badass as you can get while still being something like normal. He's hyper-intelligent and has exceptional strength, endurance, and reflexes, due to two thousand years of breeding and a lifetime of training. However, he doesn't actually have any supernatural abilities ... until Drusas Achamian teaches him the Gnosis, the most powerful sorcery in the modern world. Kellhus, already extremely influential and capable, becomes almost horrifyingly powerful.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d27c007d	comment	Satsuki Kiryuin, of Kill la Kill, starts off the series as having no powers besides an extremely dangerous sword, her wrought-iron will, and a hell of a lot of training. When the main character, Ryuko, gets her hands on a Kamui and proves nearly able to match her in a fight, Satsuki eventually acquires one of equal power, and starts wearing it for most of their fights. Ryuko herself could qualify, being able to take down superpowered One-Star Uniform wearers even before gaining her Kamui, but she obtains the outfit in the first episode and rarely takes it off thereafter. Plus, she's not exactly "human" to begin with...
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d3381e70	comment	Captain America: The Winter Soldier also makes the titular soldier one of these, but parts ways with the comics on how exactly. The comics Winter Soldier's metal arm is his only enhancement, whereas here, Bucky was injected with super serum as a POW of Zola's, giving him abilities roughly on par with Cap's with or without the arm. The movie version of it doesn't have any of the comics version's special abilities (like an EMP) either; in fact, it's vulnerable to them (Black Widow shuts it down for a few seconds with a shock disc), though it is stronger than his intact arm.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d3896703	comment	Stars and Stripes — Star Spangled Kid got Starman's cosmic rod and technology, while Stripesy built a mech for himself. Their successor, Stargirl continues to use Starman's technology.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Kino Makoto was already an experienced brawler before she even entered the story, and marked her debut episode by punching out Zoicite. Then she got her Senshi powers... Minako is an even better example. In the anime it's not really visible, even if her moments as a Plucky Girl hint to that. In the manga, she can One-Hit KO Makoto (done when Makoto had been brainwashed by the Dark Kingdom). In the live action, she provoked a collective Oh, Crap! in a group of youma by kicking one in a column so hard to break concrete, without transforming!! Not to say she was a slouch in the anime. She leaps onto Usagi's balcony untransformed. She also outruns a car after getting her Pure Heart Crystal taken out, even when every other senshi simply passed out from sheer pain and exhaustion.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d8040caa	comment	Throughout Space Jam, Michael Jordan keeps up with the Looney Tunes and the Monstars by being the Badass Normal basketball legend that he is, until it comes Down to the Last Play and he figures out how to use Toon Physics.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_d861bfb	comment	Everywhere in The Infinite Loops as loopers are sent to places were they can gain powers, leaving most Badass Normal characters as these.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_daff6a21	comment	Crow from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds is introduced as a Badass Normal and is so until the end of the season, when his willingness to fight alongside his Signer friends and help defeat Rex Goodwin causes the Crimson Dragon to make him a Signer as well.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_db2eaaa1	comment	Joaquin from The Book of Life, is a skilled warrior, but the Medal of Everlasting Life makes him unbeatable. Jorge has confirmed that, if the sequel happens, Joaquin will be able to 'see things' with his injured eye, specifically the dead in the Land of the Living and other things depending on the Land he's in.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats has a few examples: Lionblaze starts out as a very strong, yet very normal, warrior. Then in Outcast, he starts developing the powers of invincibility, becoming exceptionally strong. Becoming a Clan Leader works this way. They start out as normal warriors like everyone else note Normal warrior = Major badass, but when they become a leader, they receive nine lives, the powers of StarClan, and any other gift the authors decide to give them.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: In Book Three, a Mass Super-Empowering Event gives Airbending to various non-benders around the world. Three major examples include: Zaheer, the season's Big Bad, was a non-bender considered just as dangerous as the other members of the Red Lotus, each of whom had an unusually strong Bending ability. Unfortunately, he proves to be an Instant Expert and quickly breaks out of prison, since his cell wasn't designed for a bender and the guards were caught completely off-guard. By the end of the season, he's even gained a legendary Airbendering technique that allows him to fly. Bumi, a retired Commander in the United Forces and former Muggle Born of Mages (he's Aang and Katara's eldest child) Opal Bei Fong (Toph's granddaughter and Lin's niece) of the Metal Clan. Avatar Wan himself is this in Book 2's "The Beginnings", first as he gains the elements from the lion turtles, and again when he permanently merges with Raava to become the first Avatar.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_dbd793bc	comment	From d20 Modern: Take a Fast Hero 5/Gunslinger 10/Sniper 5, already a force to be reckoned with, despite having no magic/cybernetics/mutations.. Give him/her cybernetics implants (D20 Future), Mutations (D20 Future), and/or FX items/Magical inherent enhancements/both (Urban Arcana). Then hope you are not going to face him/her.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_dc757598	comment	Esther Diamond: During his stint as a vampire hunter, Max worked with a Serbian villager who'd manage to kill an undead vampire, and turned out to have drank blood from its corpse in order to gain superhuman strength to protect the village from the rest of the vampires. Unfortunately, he has to be killed due to having trouble controlling his new thirst for blood.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_dc8a7178	comment	In Vermintide II, some of the Downloadable Content packs give magical powers to the previously non-magical protagonists (except for Sienna Fuegonasus, so far). Markus Kruber becomes a superhuman Grail Knight, Bardin Gorrekson becomes a Gatling-wielding Outcast Engineer, Kerillian becomes a part-plant Sister of the Thorn, and Victor Saltzpyre becomes a hammer-swinging Warrior-Priest of Sigmar.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_dcb78c8c	comment	The Sentinels in Resistance 2, a team of badasses who all survived the infection through the Chimeran Virus and thus have the same abilities as Hale.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: The Silver Agent was created after a postman named Alan Craig touched a mysterious floating glob of silver in a cave. It gave him a perfect body with enhanced strength, speed, senses, and reflexes. The second Confessor uses magic to supplement his Badass Normal training, as he lacks the vampiric abilities that his predecessor used. The Black Rapier is a Badass Normal who used a rejuvenation serum to prolong his crimefighting career. Even so, time catches up with him eventually. While most of the First Family are various forms of Half Human Hybrids, Julius and Augustus Furst are normal humans augmented by "vitalons" they've absorbed in their adventures.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_de38bcf4	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), the Shredder was introduced by beating up a Foot ninja while his arms were tied behind him. Then he gets a suit of powered armor.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e0300f0c	comment	Dalinar Kholin aka "The Blackthorn". In his flashbacks in Oathbringer we get to see the campaign to unite Alethkar. Despite having no Shardblade or Shardplate to call his own, he's still considered one of the most dangerous men alive. At one point Sadeas says they need to get him some Shards, not for his own safety, but because he makes everyone else look bad by doing what he does without them. He ends up winning both Plate and Blade by the end of the campaign, becoming basically unstoppable. Much later he also bonds with the Stormfather, becoming a Bondsmith, of which apparently only 3 can exist at any given time. Like above, there is some implication he had been using Stormlight long before this without realizing it.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e199d649	comment	Murtagh of the Inheritance Cycle started off as an extremely skilled but otherwise mundane swordsman, being the only human to match Eragon's swordsmanship skills and at one point hitting Durza between the eyes with an arrow. Once his dragon, Thorn, hatches, he becomes a real force to be reckoned with.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e30b9261	comment	In New Avengers, Mockingbird receives a mix of Super Soldier serum and Nick Fury's Infinity Formula to save her life — an upgrade she has yet to fully exploit.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e556181c	comment	In Skin Game, we find out that Butters has become Batman of Chicago, combining his grasp of magical theory with Bob's power to create magical artifacts which allow him to, for example, create Mind Fog at will, and skate at almost 30 mph. Still, they're just toys compared to the odds he faces. It isn't until the end of the book, where he becomes the newest (Jedi) Knight of the Cross, that he crosses over into Empowered territory.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e5dc17d8	comment	This trope is the origin story of every character in Rift, although the means of gaining powers depend on the faction. On the Guardians faction intro, the narration specifies that you were not chosen because of your faith, but because of your strength.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e5de447c	comment	X-COM: Surviving soldiers with high psi strength. They (mostly) start with poor stats, but will become Badass Normal. And when you unlock the Psi-Lab... May god have mercy on their souls... You can also do this in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. True, a perfectly ordinary squaddie with a rifle can hold his/her own against the aliens, but later on you can turn them into truly dangerous psionic Super Soldiers, Mind Rape enemies to death, conjure up psychic shields or take control of enemies. Enemy Within adds bio-enhancements which allow soldiers to heal miraculously from injuries, jump over buildings or turn invisible, and cybernetic enhancements which allow the soldier to take control of a Mini-Mecha which laughs off firepower and is armed with weapons ranging from a flamethrower to a grenade launcher to a Power Fist.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces Saga games spent the entire first game and first 3 levels of the second as just a Badass Normal (during which he bests Boba Fett and takes out at least one Kell Dragon with just his fists). He then learns about his Force Sensitivity and gets a lightsaber. A villainous example occurs in the third game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast with the Reborn, warriors who were artificially imbued with the Force using the Valley of the Jedi and made into Dark Jedi by The Remnant of The Empire. However, they proved to be no match for the more experienced natural-born Force users and were wiped out by Luke Skywalker's Jedi. Most of The Exile's party in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords are this — they're already war veterans, trained fighters, spies, bounty hunters, etc. But most of them turn out to be Force Sensitive as well, allowing the Exile to train them as Jedi (or Sith). It's also a common fan theory that Carth Onasi from the first game is an untrained Force Sensitive as well. The Fan Game Knights of the Old Republic III: The Jedi Masters continues the trend, as the Player Character has five Force-sensitive potential companions they can choose to train as Jedi/Sith in the second act but can only select two. Your options include the son of Mandalore, a Trandoshan warrior whose Establishing Character Moment is killing a group of thugs in a bar, and a Devaronian spacer.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this for Ku Fei, who goes from "Martial Artist" to "Martial Artist that can shoot beams out of her hand and has a magic staff" as she gains the ability to use Ki around the time the second major arc begins. This is actually noted in-universe by the Meta Guy as being more impressive to watch than the stronger full-on magic users, as she's "closer to being human" and thus you can understand exactly how good she is. It's hard to compare to someone who can blow up mountains, after all.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e6c59cd1	comment	Quake IV: Matthew Kane is a hardass Space Marine. But then he gets captured by the Strogg and, in an utterly harrowing sequence, subjected to the Stroggification process. However, he is saved at the last minute by his fellow marines, leaving him with a new Strogg-like physiology that proves invaluable to the eventual defeat of the Strogg.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e6fcc408	comment	In Tokyo ESP, Rinka, Kobushi, and Nadja were all asskicking fighters before the glowing fish showed up. Then, they became asskicking fighters with superpowers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e7a9c06c	comment	In Paperinik New Adventures, Donald Duck is a Badass Normal in a world of aliens, cyborgs, robots, etc. However, he gains psychic powers in issue 40 of the series only to lose them at the end of the issue.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e86ee9b9	comment	Rex the Wonder Dog drank from the Fountain of Youth, gaining longevity, the ability to talk (to any human or animal), and unspecified magical abilities. Overkill, considering Rex was already a decorated war veteran (for both World War II and the Korean War), a successful newspaper photographer, and had won fights with bears, woolly mammoths, and even Tyrannosaurus Rex before getting powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_e8af156	comment	At the end of Jennifer's Body, during the final battle between the Final Girl Needy and her demon-possessed former best friend Jennifer, Needy gets bitten by Jennifer and later learns that she gained some of Jennifer's demonic powers, including hovering and Super-Strength. She uses these powers to break out of the psychiatric hospital where she's locked up and go after Low Shoulder, the Satanic emo band responsible for Jennifer's possession and the events of the film. As she puts it, she finally got lucky for once in her miserable life.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ea91a4bf	comment	The Agent in Daggerfall has the options of Lycanthropy (werewolf and wereboar) and Vampirism. Both offer powerful buffs, at the cost of some (ultimately minor) drawbacks.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_eb260a8	comment	Partway through Ben 10: Unlimited, Ship decides to help Batman during a fight. He does so by covering him and turning his costume into a mechanical Bat-tle suit (complete with Bat ears!) Batman has no complaints.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_eb3f3551	comment	Ryder embodies this to a slightly larger extent in the beginning of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Unlike Shepard who had already established themselves as a badass N7 commander, Ryder had just started his/her career in the Alliance Marines, when they were forced to leave and join the Andromeda Initiative. They prove themselves on Habitat 7 by gunning down about a dozen Kett enemies, optionally rescuing a captured squad mate, helping other stranded squad mates hold out against a Kett onslaught and even assisting their N7 father Alec in activating alien technology that allows them all to escape. It is only after this that Ryder becomes merged with SAM and gains all their combat, tech and biotic powers. Later, when their connection to SAM is temporarily removed, Ryder still leads an assault on Meridian, defeats the Kett Archon and rescue their sibling.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII: Although the main party themselves don't really count, having been trained to use Guardian Forces and Junctioning, they do turn Laguna and his friends into this whenever they share a consciousness thanks to Ellone. They're already capable, well-trained veterans... but now they have access to para-magic, summons, and Junctions years before Garden made these things familiar to the world.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII has the whole party turned into L'Cie, esper-like humans with magical powers, by Anima after defeating it. Anima is a sort of god like monster. In fact, for one character, Snow Villiers, he becomes an Empowered Badass Normal twice. It's implied he always knew martial arts, but getting hold of an experimental bulletproof Badass Longcoat which enhanced his strength lets him make the most of his inherent strength and skill. And then, he becomes a L'Cie, granting him magic powers and the ability to summon ice spirits that can transform into a motorcycle, to put the cherry on the cake.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z The series gives us Videl, the daughter of Hercule (a genuine Badass Normal who, sadly, doesn't hold a candle to the heroes or the villains they fight). Before meeting Gohan, she could give her old man a run for his money in the martial arts. After meeting Gohan, she learns to fly in the same manner as Gohan and his allies. The Human/Earthling fighters Yamcha, Krillin, Tien and Master Roshi. Although they lack godly buffs and training of the Saiyans and Piccolo, are still through training the strongest Earthlings in existence, make the aforementioned Videl and her dad look as harmless as kittens and thanks to Ki Manipulation, have become Flying Bricks (with the exception of Roshi) who possess enough power to reduce Earth to space dust, if they werenâ€™t such nice dudes. Yamcha and Krillin in particular, displayed feats of Charles Atlas Super Power well before learning how to use Ki. Villainous examples with Spopovich and Yamu both are normal human fighters who were already strong in their own right, but after meeting Evil Sorcerer Babidi gained Ki-enhanced abilities and techniques making them truly formidable compared to most Muggles.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ec63f5fa	comment	The basis for The Last Witch Hunter. Kaulder starts off as the man who slays the world's most powerful witch and because of this, ends up with immortality. Eight hundred years later, he's The Dreaded.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ecd2d797	comment	At the start of Baldur's Gate, CHARNAME is just an ordinary teenager with 1 level in an adventuring class. By the end of the first game, he/she is a certified badass after going toe to toe with Sarevok. By the middle of the sequel? A godling capable of flattening armies and transforming into the Slayer. May or may not ascend to full godhood by the end of the game as the God of Murder.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_ed113c02	comment	The Boss gains superpowers in Saints Row IV, though only in the simulation. They also gain superpowers in the finale which occurs in the physical world thanks to Powered Armor. Before that, in Saints Row: The Third, the Boss briefly got superpowers in the final part of the DLC campaign "The Trouble with Clones", courtesy of an irradiated energy drink.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f00d733b	comment	World of Darkness: Mirrors has the "Dark Hero" template, which (on top of a few inherent abilities such as a power stat and greater durability and healing) allows one to utilise "Skill Masteries", specialized powers based in mundane Skills. The weakest of these constitute Charles Atlas Superpowers, while the greatest are positively superhuman. Due to the relatively "fair" balance between supernatural and non-supernatural abilities (mundane skills, for instance, grant essentially the same increase in capabilities as ranks in a Mage's spheres), it is not uncommon for a The World of Darkness game to start with a bunch of badass normal "hunters" and then have them gain supernatural templates only after a certain number of sessions. Hunters are this in Hunter: The Reckoning and Hunter: The Vigil, especially in the older Reckoning line, where it is strongly recommended your hunter is a thoroughly normal person before they gain their powers.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Lance was a master martial artist trained by the League of Assassins and was basically second only to Oliver Queen in hand-to-combat. In season 5, she temporarily gains precognitive powers. In season 6, she is killed (again) and resurrected in an alien-human hybrid body that grants her a Healing Factor.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f2da188a	comment	One episode of The Batman has Batman borrowing Green Lantern's ring to fight Sinestro. It looked like Batman was going to hand Sinestro a fairly heavy beatdown, but then the ring ran out of power. He hands it back to GL, saying it isn't his style.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl's Domovi Butler consistently beats out his magically-inclined Fairy opponents with his decidedly non-magical style of shooting, punching, and kicking until he wins the fight. Later on he employs Fairy technology (which is much too small for him) and magic with tactical precision to take on hordes of Goblins, deranged Fairies, and all sorts of mythical creatures.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f5d65775	comment	This is at least partially true for Nick Fury, who is badass and... virtually immortal, thanks to an anti-aging formula he took so he wouldn't age out of useful service. That near-immortality applies only to natural causes of death, though; Nick's survival in combat is purely a result of his badassitude. It later turns out that it's a lie. Nick Fury is actually pretty old, but still a badass chessmaster with robotic duplicates, as revealed in Original Sin.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f6300440	comment	This is the main premise of the first story of the Facing the Future Series in which Sam gains ghost powers of her own.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f73f989a	comment	Kyon: Big Damn Hero does this to Kyon, first making him a Badass Normal via martial arts training in Yuki's error correction spaces. Then in chapter 21 he starts getting cool toys. Initially an extra-dimensional super gun, a watch with body armor, and a very nice coat. Then an AI PDA. Then a beam saber. Then an upgrade to his watch to give him gravity powers. Then another extra-dimensional super gun. Then Asakura Ryoko.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Several characters get Touched by Vorlons, and receive added abilities because of it. Talia Winters (already a telepath) develops telekinesis, Lyta Alexander (another telepath) receives a massive power boost, and John Sheridan not only gets brought Back from the Dead, but also develops a resistance to telepathic control.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f91f25d8	comment	Brandon Heat of Gungrave was a great Mafia sweeper who was a skilled hand to hand fighter and a great marksmen. Then, he was killed and become Necrolized. He became much stronger and could take a lot of damage.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_f95c488f	comment	Arrowverse: Arrow: As in the comics, Slade Wilson starts out as an accomplished martial artist, swordsman and tactician. The flashbacks in season 2 focus on him as a human before he is injected with Mirakuru, granting him enhanced strength, speed, reflexes and durability. Even after he's cured, he can still fight off Oliver and Thea single-handed. Roy Harper received archery and martial arts training from Oliver. He later got injected with Mirakuru as well, with all the benefits and drawbacks before it was purged from his system. Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Lance was a master martial artist trained by the League of Assassins and was basically second only to Oliver Queen in hand-to-combat. In season 5, she temporarily gains precognitive powers. In season 6, she is killed (again) and resurrected in an alien-human hybrid body that grants her a Healing Factor.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_fe1b5414	comment	Reigen Arataka from Mob Psycho 100. Despite being a self proclaimed world-renowned psychic and Mob's (an actual esper) master, he actually has no powers at all, but through smarts and extreme luck, he manages to usually end up conveniently looking like a badass. And then, at the end of the first season of the anime, he inspires Mob so much his sheer admiration powers him up to a degree where his new acquired powers surpass even Mob's. He then proceeds to No-Sell all the villains' attacks with ease and even give them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech before this temporary boost runs out.
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Empowered Badass Normal / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: This used to come and go for Steve Rogers, with him gaining and losing superhuman levels of strength depending on the writers, before it was finally decided that his iconic status in the Marvel Universe was partly founded on him being a slightly-above-pinnacle of human physical ability (being the Living Symbol of America didn't hurt either). Super Serum wasn't too super, though given what Steve Rogers was before then it's still damn impressive. Steve Rogers' power was eventually set at a hair above normal (non-mutant) human maximum. This is not the case for the Ultimate Marvel version, however, who is clearly superhuman from the get-go. While he was a Badass Normal when serving as Captain America's sidekick, Bucky Barnes now sports an artificial arm that grants him various nifty abilities such as an EMP and an electric shock.
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I'm Nobody (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
J-WITCH Season 1 (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
J-WITCH Series (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Jujutsu Kaisen: Gojo's New Students (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Ladybug in a Half Shell (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Life Ore Death (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Miraculous Alliance (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
My Hostage, Not Yours (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
My Miraculous Academia (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
No Plumbers Allowed (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
One Helluva Broken Day (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
One Punch-Gamer (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Pacifica's Revenge (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Pokemon Forum Battle NET (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Purple Days (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Ryuugi's The Games We Play (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
Security! (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Spider-Ninja (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Spider-Ninja (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Starchaser (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Stardust (Arad) (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Switchblade (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Accidental Warlord And His Pack (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Gamer – Restart (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Games We Play (The Gamer/RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Loud House: Revamped (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Wizard in the Shadows (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Ultraman Hero Academia (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Wonderful (Mazinja) (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
All Superheroes Must Die / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Doom / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Elysium / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Gundala / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Iron Man 3 / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Knights of Badassdom / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Maniac Cop / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Overlord (2018) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Resident Evil: Retribution / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Last Witch Hunter / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Medallion / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Power (1968) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Thor: Love and Thunder / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Universal Soldier / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Violent Night / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Wonder Woman (2017) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Alien (Franchise) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Resident Evil (Franchise) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Shadowchasers (Franchise)	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
High School D×D / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Carry On / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Changes / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Codex Alera / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dark Heavens / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Drassil / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Enchanted, Inc. / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Halo: New Blood	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
High School DÃ—D / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Horus Heresy / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Knights of Jebalot / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Last Legionary / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Lone Wolf / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Magika Swordsman and Summoner / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Mark Of The Fool / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Midnight Mass (2004) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Moonrunner / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Nightside / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Remember To Always Be Brave / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Rhythm of War / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Skin Game / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Snuff / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Beyonders / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Black Parade / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Daily Grind / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Elric Saga / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Fortress of the Black Cauldron / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Laundry Files / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Way of Kings (2010) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Way Of Kings (2011) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Zombie Knight / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Wolfsong / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Starlit Heroics	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
Arata: The Legend (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
DigimonD-Cyber	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
Gun×Clover (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Kilala Princess (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Linebarrels of Iron (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Magi: Labyrinth of Magic (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sengoku Youko (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Tenjho Tenge (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Zatch Bell! 2 (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Cavalier of the Abyss (Manhwa) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Shin Angyo Onshi (Manhwa) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dreams and Destiny: A One Piece Quest (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Gundam Seed Destiny Project R (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Lost And Found Of The Multiverse (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Empowered Badass Normal
Mudy Quest (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Star Army (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Evermore (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Warhammer Fantasy A Dynasty Shrouded In Mist (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Your Avatar In The Multiverse (Roleplay) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Birds of Prey (2002) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Iron Fist (2017) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Preacher (2016) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
PokéRole / Table Top Game / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Black Crusade (Tabletop Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Godbound (Tabletop Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Star Wars: Roleplaying Game (Tabletop Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Cataclysm (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Conan (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dragon Ball Xenoverse (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dying Light 2 Stay Human (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Exmortis (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Hard West (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Krut: The Mythic Wings (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Limbus Company (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Majyuo (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Maneater (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Pathways into Darkness (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Predator: Hunting Grounds (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Resident Evil Village (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Schwarzerblitz (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Shadow Warrior (2013) (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Solid & Shade (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Star Wars: Uprising (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Super Robot Wars Z (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sylphia (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Telepath RPG (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Telepath RPG: Servants of God (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Terraria Calamity (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Toukiden (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Vanquish (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Vermintide II (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Never Dead (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dies Irae (Visual Novel) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dead Fantasy (Web Animation) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Glitchtale (Web Animation) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Meet the Amazing Team (Web Animation) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Stan Frederick (Web Video) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
A Girl and Her Fed (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Bleach: Happy to Serve You (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Daily Grind (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sweet Home (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sweet Home (2017) (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Gamer (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Thunderstruck (Grayson Towler) (Webcomic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Aladdin: The Series / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Blood of Zeus / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Elena of Avalor / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Justice League: Doom / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Loonatics Unleashed / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sonic SatAM / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Star Trek: The Animated Series / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Powerpuff Girls Movie / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Turtles Forever / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Young Justice - Original Series / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Batman Nemesis Fight / Fan Fic / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Parallel Realities / Fan Fic / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Akame ga Kill! (Manga) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal

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