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Premature Empowerment
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Some group of mysterious superpowered types gain their powers through a Super Empowering process that is permanent and irreversible. They want to induct a new member into their ranks-so they put him through that process with little or no explanation and then ask him to join them. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Hint: Phlebotinum Rebel.) | |
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Played with in Megamind. After the titular villain realises that Victory Is Boring, he decides to create a new superhero for himself to fight, so he secretly empowers Hal Stewart and tries to train him into heroism while disguised as his "space dad". Hal, however, decides that Being Good Sucks, and Megamind's plan goes south very quickly. | |
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The ultimate example of how this trope can go wrong for those empowered this way is Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Kyubey frequently makes contracts with girls without informing them of everything that being a Magical Girl entails — namely, being turned into Liches, getting broken by the use of their powers, becoming the very monsters they fight, and getting their souls eaten in the end so that Kyubey and his Incubators can try to avert the heat death of the universe. | |
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In K, Kings aren't given a choice in the matter and most of then haven't really heard of Kings and Clans before Awakening as Kings. Their reactions vary, from Shiro's outright rejection of his responsibilities and retreat from the world, to Munakata's Awakening in the middle of a plane hijacking, saving everyone with his new powers, and going straight from the plane's landing to Scepter 4 headquarters to start his work. | |
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In The Matrix, Morpheus feeds Neo a line about how nobody can explain the Matrix — but doesn't exactly try very hard before giving Neo the choice of which pill to take. (Later, Cipher complains about Morpheus having done this when recruiting him, citing it as one of the reasons for his Face–Heel Turn.) Justified, as trying to do this when you're in the Matrix itself is one of those things that the Machines' search programs tend to pick up on (which generally means the Agents will be after you — and before Neo became the One, you did NOT want to mess with the Agents). Besides, any explanation of the reality (or lack thereof) of the Matrix is a lot more believable once the person in question is actually out of the Matrix. Not to mention that it seems like most of the blue-pills had already picked up on something wrong with the Matrix. Parodied by xkcd here. |
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From Tokyo Mew Mew, all five girls had this (they were given their powers without being asked) and Ichigo's quest was to find the others after Ryou had injected them. Zakuro and Lettuce had the worst reactions to it: Zakuro just didn't want to join them, feeling that Ryou should've asked her first, while Lettuce's powers went out of control until she was told what was happening to her. | |
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Parodied by xkcd here. | |
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This often happened in Vampire: The Masquerade, with people being Embraced (turned into a vampire) without being asked first, then being taught how to act in their new lives. It was a standard procedure of the Sabbat, which performed mass Embraces, with the victims being buried and those who dug themselves out being brought into the group. The adventure "Blood Nativity" was about a group of people being Embraced simultaneously and being forced to fend for themselves without any training. Those who survived could join vampire society. |
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Often happens in Kamen Rider shows, such as Kamen Rider 555 (where the protagonist has the Transformation Trinket applied to him before he even knows what's going on), and Super Sentai as well. It was once extremely common for Riders to be created by bad guys implanting kidnapped victims with technology, intending to make them their brainwashed warriors. You'd think they'd brainwash first and empower second, but they never do, and spend the rest of the season paying for it. | |
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Happens to Wee Hughie in The Boys, when Butcher injects him full of Compound V, and he understandably gets a bit angry about it. He later decides to join the team, though. | |
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In the webcomic Panthera, the newest member of the group is asked to join the "Adventuring Club" and then knocked out and injected with gene-altering treatments to turn her into a were-jaguar with elemental powers. And only then is she told what she's really let herself in for. This was largely the work of the group's mentor and Mission Control, who -perhaps not surprisingly- turned out to have his own agenda. He also neglected to mention that his Super Serum will drastically shorten a user's lifespan. | |
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In Sanctuary, Nikola Tesla became a vampire with electrical powers after injecting himself with vampire blood (all true vampires having been killed off long ago). His goal throughout the series is to re-create the vampire race in his own image. His first attempt fails miserably, as the vampires are mindless savages with no free will. He then moves to Mexico and opens a rehab clinic for rich American kids, while covertly performing genetic experiments on them. Each of them is implanted with vampire DNA that is slowly changing their internal makeup and will not actually activate until decades later. Then one gets into a car accident and dies, triggering a premature transformation. He then proceeds to find and shoot everyone who visited the clinic, doing the same to them. Unlike Tesla, they have no electrical powers. They then try to take over the world... Tesla does not approve. | |
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