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Super-Power Meltdown

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Super-Power Meltdown	comment	Superpowered individuals are, believe it or not, closely related to nuclear reactors. Sure, they don't (usually) eat uranium, or even have a nuclear accident to credit with their powers, but when facing critical injuries or mental attacks, they run the risk of losing control of their powers and going into a Superpower Meltdown the likes of which could make Chernobyl look like a radioactive cough by comparison. This depends on the power in question and its source. Nuclear and radiation-based powers have a distressing tendency to go nuclear under duress, but any super with enough raw power can have a meltdown, no matter the source: psychic, mystic, or technological. Sometimes the power builds up inside the body by themselves; not releasing it regularly may mean disaster. Normal people using a Artifact of Doom can inadvertently cause it (or their body) to self-destruct. This can also happen to heroes abusing Explosive Overclocking, who may enter Heroic RRoD and start showing Volcanic Veins. Characters who need Containment Clothing may completely overload if it's breached. Villains who are Drunk on the Dark Side might take One-Winged Angel a level too far and peter out humiliatingly. A genetically empowered hero may discover the hard way that pure humans have a longer lifespan. Shapeshifters will usually go lose control of their Shapeshifter Mashup and go into a Shapeshifter Swan Song. A common side effect of Going to Give It More Energy. Less lethally, if the hero/villain is only modestly powered or hit with Green Rocks to cause a short circuit, then the meltdown might only take the form of their normal power causing random effects, like telekinesis mimicking a poltergeist rather than de-atomizing everything or a pyrokinetic setting nearby objects on fire rather than exploding. Should their power require constant concentration to keep stable, then any effect that destroys their concentration could be potentially fatal for all involved. A common occurrence is for a hero going into meltdown to be coaxed back from the brink using Heroic Willpower, or forced to do a Heroic Sacrifice and fly away to save those nearby. If a love interest is nearby, a Cool-Down Hug can reliably stop the meltdown. Occasionally, a hero or villain might purposefully trigger this in an attempt to kill their rival, since the Sphere of Destruction such a meltdown generates tends to be pretty devastating. Whether this works on not depends on if they're the lead. Compare Spontaneous Human Combustion, Load-Bearing Boss, Phlebotinum Overload, Unstoppable Rage, Superpowered Evil Side, Action Bomb, Power Incontinence, and Taking You with Me. The less evil twin of Eldritch Transformation. Contrast Heroic RRoD, wherein the meltdown is mostly contained within the hero. See also Power Degeneration, Clone Degeneration, Hoist by His Own Petard (if lethal) and Flawed Prototype.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV mostly averts it, with about half of the population of Infernal Tokyo becoming "demonoids" through demon fusion. A few unlucky ones do suffer from a version of this, though.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: The giant squid Ozymandias plans to drop on New York is expected to die in transit, causing a psychic wave killing millions, driving millions more insane, and scaring the hell out of the rest of the planet. It works. When confronted with reporters regarding being a living carcinogen and being responsible for the deaths of people he cared about, Dr Manhattan abandons his composure and uses his teleportation abilities to transport everyone in the studio en masse before teleporting himself to Mars.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a magical girl's soul gem becomes somewhat dark and tainted after they use magic. This can be undone with grief seeds, but if they neglect to do this and their gem turns completely black, they lose control and turn into witches. This happens to Sayaka, and Madoka in previous timelines. Every other witch in the series was created by an unnamed magical girl's power meltdown. For example, the one who killed Mami, Charlotte, used to be a normal girl with Technicolor Eyes called Nagisa.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1360882c	comment	The going theory in Gone is that Little Pete caused the FAYZ by having a panic attack... in the middle of the catastrophic meltdown of the Perdido Beach Nuclear Power Plant. Later confirmed.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: This seems to be a habit of dinosaur based digimon and their partners going all the way back to Tai in Digimon Adventure. He purposely puts himself in danger which causes Greymon to turn into his evil corrupt form and promptly pummel everything within reach until his power burns out and he reverts to one of his lowest stages. Not exactly a superhero, but in Digimon Tamers, Takato's rage and despair forces Guilmon to digivolve to Meggidramon...whose very existence starts to shatter the fabric of the Digital World and the real world. Beelzemon saved the day. In Digimon Data Squad, Masaru forces ShineGreymon into a Ruin Mode, which then proceeds to go on a rampage until the power consumes it, killing Agumon (he gets better).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1b7f85df	comment	In K when a King uses a considerable amount of power their abilities start to get more and more out of hand, until eventually their Swords of Damocles begin falling apart and eventually crash to the ground, causing catastrophic damages. In the backstory, this already happened to the previous Red King Genji Kagutsu. The result of his Democles Down resulted in a 100 km wide radius of Japan getting a bite chewed out of it that is known as the Kagutsu Crater. Twice this becomes a possibility of happening again. First in season one, Mikoto Suoh (then current Red King) is pushing his limits and ultimately breaks them, resulting in Reisi Munakata, the Blue King, having to kill him before a new crater incident. And then in season two Reisi, suffering from the backlash mentally, emotionally, and power wise from the previous incident, starts to risk having that happen.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: A fairly common problem for mutants, especially when their powers first manifest since most of them have no idea that they even are mutants, much less any advance warning of what powers they have. Can also occur if physical or psychological trauma causes an individual to lose control of their powers. This was also the means by which the Legacy Virus (usually) killed mutant victims. The degree of damage produced depended on exactly what the powers of the mutant in question did. This could be weaponized by Fabian Cortez, one-time second-in-command for Magneto. His mutant ability focused around modifying the powers of other mutants, which could cause cellular damage if ramped up too high. In fact, he attempted to kill Magneto himself by causing all of his victim's powers to flare out as much as possible.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1cc09117	comment	The bakkoutou in Bleach cause this in their wielders fairly regularly. The less powerful generally just get devoured by the bakkoutou after excessive use, but a strong enough user might just get to blow up instead. The first time Ichigo took on a Gillian also resulted in one of these. The powerful upgrade he had just received was beyond his body's current ability to handle and would have resulted in a nasty death if Ishida hadn't saved him. Gremmy tried to defeat Kenpachi by imagining he was physically stronger. However, Gremmy had come to believe Kenpachi was an insanely powerful monster and the strain of trying to make his body stronger than that tore him apart.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy: Liz Sherman already suffers from some Power Incontinence, but when she was eleven, she lost control of her pyrokinetic powers, and destroyed an entire block, with thirty-two casualties (among them her parents and brother).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun, RSPK Syndrome is a term used for when an esper becomes severely traumatized or stressed, causing their powers to go completely out of control and rampage through the city. It can also happen if espers with similar AIM (psychic energy) fields resonate together. Normally, this is very mild, as most espers aren't that powerful, but enough of them suffering all at once can cause poltergeist activity and earthquakes.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_207208a9	comment	This could be weaponized by Fabian Cortez, one-time second-in-command for Magneto. His mutant ability focused around modifying the powers of other mutants, which could cause cellular damage if ramped up too high. In fact, he attempted to kill Magneto himself by causing all of his victim's powers to flare out as much as possible.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_2212773a	comment	And Illyria came within moments of having one (or rather did have one, until it caused time to cycle back) in Season 5 of Angel. It would've taken out, at minimum, all of Los Angeles. Possibly the whole state.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_242eb4cc	comment	When Goku delivered the killing blow to Broly in Dragon Ball Z: Broly â€“ The Legendary Super Saiyan, he underwent a Superpower Meltdown and seemingly exploded.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_25c6b6a3	comment	During a part of the Steven Universe Alternate Universe comic called Amnesia Au, Nora ends up triggering a sonic scream upon thinking that her sister, Connie, and her adoptive mother knew she wasn't human at all and that she'd have to live out the rest of time after everyone died. Connie was thankfully able to calm her down with a Cooldown Hug, saying that she wasn't alone. While it doesn't do a huge amount of damage to Beach City, it still does a good amount of damage to the pavement.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_25d10644	comment	The Guyver armor does this if its Control Medal is torn out. Among the things that happen is that the armor EATS the user.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_2675c915	comment	Scorch is defeated in this manner in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Melinda May injects him with a serum that boosts his pyrokinetic abilities, but as a result, they become too powerful for him to control, and he explodes.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_27c708b3	comment	In Rosario + Vampire, Tsukune's vampire blood injections power him up immensely, but they slowly eat away at both his body and his humanity. He's gained some measure of control over those powers at this point, but he still occasionally loses control
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_282429e	comment	Grey Area (2023): Getting all items in the third chapter unlocks the ability to launch a ghostly projectile. Using it consecutively will cause Hailey's eyes to darken, and continuous overuse will kill her unless you give her some time to go back to normal.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_28989d81	comment	Negation: Things work differently in the Negation universe (as opposed to our "bright" universe), so superpowered individuals from the "bright" universe tend to go meltdown. Atlanteans turn out to be immune to this, and other empowered individuals can eventually acclimate themselves.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_28df3e79	comment	There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton: Besides combining the Black Cat and Ladybug (when temporarily swapping their Miraculouses in this AU, Adrien and Marinette had to take off their originals for fifteen minutes beforehand and they still felt the urge to unite them pretty strongly), a Miraculous Holder can still use two at once here, but it's more difficult, though it can be done full-time with age and experience. Using three or more at once though, and you'll last a few minutes at best even with that experience before the power incinerates you. Even collecting several and not using them would be too much, according to Lady Noire, as even when the Kwamis don't inhabit the Miraculouses there's a magical link between the wielder and Kwamis, a give and take. You barely notice this lifeline with one, but with several it's too much, as humans weren't just built to handle that much magic coursing through them at once. And this is with the powers restrained; more powerful beings than humans might be able to handle more, but even Supergirl wouldn't last very long with the unfiltered power of a Kwami flowing through her.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_2ba3e3b9	comment	Almost every human. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey's Jiminez fuses directly with Bugaboo successfully, though he did go crazy afterwards.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	One of the crises of the first season of Heroes was the fear that Ted Sprague would use his literal nuclear powers to level New York. In the end, it wasn't Ted they had to worry about. Ted did have a Super-Power Meltdown earlier in the series. It just wasn't as big as they thought. Instead of blowing up New York City, he burned down a house in Odessa, Texas. Still caused quite a bit of damage, and made quite a crispy Claire. It probably would have been as big as they thought, but fortunately Claire was on hand with a tranquilizer gun. In Season 3, Future Sylar loses control and vaporizes Costa Verde after his son is killed. Also Elle went all electric explosiony when Sylar starts to skullcap her, shorting out the circuits of Level 5 releasing its inmates. In the volume 3 finale, Meredith, the pyrokinetic, is injected with a syringe full of adrenaline by Sylar. She goes into Super-Power Meltdown mode, which sadly ends quite tragically for her and anyone else who might not have escaped the Company building.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League Unlimited has Ace in "Epilogue", who might suffer a major aneurysm, causing a psychic backlash capable of killing thousands. While the aneurysm does happen, killing her, there's thankfully no backlash.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, Smug Snake Deidara eats his own explosive clay made by him, in the hopes of killing Sasuke as well, and goes nuclear. It didn't work, as Sasuke survived... and Deidara's partner Tobi escaped too.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, this is Father's ultimate downfall. After he uses the souls of Amestris to suppress the Truth within his body, Hohenheim's countermeasure strips him of the energy, leaving him with only the souls of Xerxes he originally had. Father is then forced to use up a great portion of his Philosopher's Stone in a battle against nearly all the heroes, dramatically weakening him the more he fights. Eventually, he is left so weak he can't defend himself, and he is finally done in by Hohenheim's son, Edward Elric, who deals the finishing blow by destroying Father's Philosopher's Stone with a punch through the chest. This leaves Father completely stripped of all his power to keep Truth inside of him, allowing Truth to break free and drag him into the Gate.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_38ce5997	comment	In The Boys (2019), Captain America expy Soldier Boy was experimented on by the Soviets, turning him into a radioactive Walking Wasteland. When he happens to hear some Russian pop music after escaping, it pushes his Trauma Button and triggers an explosion that destroys a restaurant and kills 19 people.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol. 2: Circe warns that the White Magician will soon be overwhelmed by the ridiculous amount of magic he's forced into his twisted body several pages before he lights up and burns to ashes during his fight with Wondy. He doesn't cause too much damage to the surroundings compared to what the fight itself was doing but leaves a scorch mark where he was standing.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_39fe00f1	comment	In the Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC "Trespasser", the Inquisitor's Mark begins flaring up occasionally, building power at an accelerated rate and causing ever-increasing amounts of pain. By the end, the mark goes into a full meltdown, building power extremely quickly. If not deliberately discharged before it reaches maximum strength, it will detonate and cause massive damage to everyone nearby, the party included. Without Solas' intervention, the Inquisitor would have been killed.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_3eb3a36f	comment	This turns out to have been the driving force behind the entire plot of Assassination Classroom, for it is the natural consequence of being implanted with tentacle cells. These grant the bearer unmatched physical prowess and multiple appendages, but have the consequence of driving the user into bloodlust and will eventually break down and explode, killing the user. The explosion that that left the moon a permanent crescent? That was not caused by Koro-sensei. Rather, it was caused by an experiment involving a mouse being implanted with tentacle cells Gone Horribly Wrong. Koro-sensei merely took the blame to cover up his own origins. Koro-sensei's threat to destroy the Earth within a year's time if Class 3-E doesn't kill him? As it turns out, it's not a matter of choice but rather a matter of inevitability; the calculations made during the experiment that turned him into what he is now predicted that the tentacle cells in him would eventually break down in about a year, causing him to wipe out much of the Earth in the ensuing explosion. However, it turns out this danger had been all but neutralized all the way back in Volume One via the "poison" that Okuda gave to Koro-sensei, which was revealed in Volume Seventeen to have reduced the likelihood of his tentacle cells exploding to less than 1%. A more direct example occurs with both Itona Horibe and Kaede Kayano/Akari Yukimura, who have tentacle cells implanted into them only to be eventually consumed by the rage that comes with using them. After he loses to Koro-sensei for the third time and is discarded by Shiro, Itona starts breaking down into a rage as he is consumed by his obsession with defeating Koro-sensei. It takes Terasaka attempting to calm him down before Koro-sensei can remove his tentacles. As for Kayano, she was able to keep the effects at bay for over a year by not using her tentacles at all as well as using Nagisa's emotions to cover her own. When she does finally use them, her body starts breaking down as her tentacles cause flames to spout around her, Volcanic Veins appear on her face, and her eyes become bloodshot with flames. It takes Koro-sensei feinting her into thinking she's finally killed him (as her rage is driven by her mistaken belief that Koro-sensei killed her sister) followed by Nagisa subduing her with The Big Damn Kiss to knock her out and abate her bloodlust before Koro-sensei can remove her tentacles.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_43027e66	comment	An unnerving example in If on a winterâ€™s night a traveler, where the (nameless) character doesn't even realize he's having a superpower meltdown (superpower being erasing things temporarily from existence) until he's erased everything in his city (and maybe even the world), and realizes he can't bring them back.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_43041cff	comment	The whole "Omni Energy" outbursts thing and the self-destruct mechanism that threatened to take the whole universe along with it when it went in The Secret of the Omnitrix.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, Deathwing, the former Dragon Aspect of the Earth, had stolen power from the other four Dragon Aspects. However, this much power nearly rips apart his body, forcing him to have goblins weld adamantium plates to his body in order to keep it intact. Much later on, after marinating in the corruptive power of the Old Gods, even adamantium proves to not be enough, and he has the plates replaced with the even stronger "elementium".
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: Miroku's power is a meltdown. More precisely, he has a black hole in the palm of his hand called the Wind Tunnel, held at bay with an enchanted string of prayer beads. While it's potentially the most destructive power anyone on the team has, it will eventually melt down and eat him like as it did his father and grandfather before him. While he can delay it through by avoiding overuse and occasional repairs to its walls, the Wind Tunnel's collapse is inevitable. This got worse by the end as a result of Miroku absorbing a lot of Big Bad Naraku's poison. Though Kikyo purified some of it, the poison that's left cuts deeper into his body every time he uses the Wind Tunnel. Considering that he's continually forced into situations that compel him to use it, his only chance of survival lies in the other characters killing Naraku before his Wind Tunnel swallows him up. Which they ultimately do. This also occurs in the first movie, in which Miroku fights a villain who copies his Wind Tunnel ability, presumably without knowing the consequences. In the final battle, she realizes that the larger the hole is, the stronger the wind, so she takes a blade and intentionally makes the hole wider. You can guess what happens next.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_4b790c7b	comment	Iron Man 3 has the Extremis characters. With control over their powers, they can raise their body heat to 3,400-plus degrees, which is enough to cut through Iron Man armor. If they lose control over their powers, or suffer a high-temperature attack, they explode at 3,400-plus degrees.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_4d97191f	comment	Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow: Dmitrii Blinov thought that by just possessing Dracula's Power of Dominance rather than being born with it like Soma did, he could become the next Dark Lord. Sadly for Dmitrii, his human soul could not contain nor control the sheer demonic power causing it to torn his body asunder as his gathered souls erupted, amalgamating into a gargantuan horror simply called Menace.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_4ff41a9c	comment	In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, this is subverted. It could have happened if Mordin Solis wasn't around, but thankfully the salarian proved able to defuse over-charged Eezo nodules.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5084d29e	comment	Captain Marvel: Captain Marvel was given the Nega-bands, but it should be noted that they were turned into an apocalyptic Nuclear Option in Operation: Galactic Storm and used to blow up the Kree Galaxy and effectively mutate what little life made it through (it was just as rough on the life in the Negative Zone, as it turns out). The Nega-bomb is ironic in that it hangs a lampshade on the best-played example of Super-Power Meltdown ever, and the least over-the-top, one ironically also caused by Nitro. In The Death Of Captain Marvel, Captain Mar-Vell actually died of cancer caused by Nitro blasting a toxic storage and leaving Mar-Vell to suffer catastrophic radiation poisoning, but by the time his own powers let it be detected, they were all that was keeping him alive, AND prevented anyone trying to operate or magic-spell out the carcinoma. That death remains the best Permanent Exit in comics history.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_50bcf7a6	comment	When Sollux from Homestuck gets all Brainwashed and Crazy as a result of Vriska's Mind Manipulation, he's forced to brutally murder Aradia, his friend, and raze her home to the ground by causing a major, explosive Super-Power Meltdown with a drug that changes his regular Eye Beams into Wave-Motion Gun-Eye Beams. What happens when he wakes up from his... uh, misadventure, is never explicitly shown, but he struggles with major depression and self-loathing, as well as never really smiling for almost the rest of the series.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_51455a02	comment	In Claymore, the only people effective at finding and killing monstrous youma are the titular Claymores, women with youma flesh implanted in them; this also grants them increased physical abilities, and lets them draw on even more physical abilities if they choose to. If they draw too much, though, they risk 'awakening' and transforming into a murderous, human-eating Awakened Being that, due to its composite origin, is vastly more powerful and dangerous than the monsters they were supposed to be fighting in the first place. In actual practice, by the time the story takes place, the 'serious' threats are all Awakened Beings, and youma are little more than mooks... and yet they keep producing more Claymores to fight the Awakened Beings they produced when the previous Claymores went insane. It's eventually revealed that the obviously insane nature of this strategy is deliberate on the part of the organization that creates Claymores, and their real goal was to create and test Awakened Beings from the start.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_52e7a4e4	comment	Kamen Rider Kuuga has a rare case of the meltdown being external rather than internal: the stronger his powers become, the bigger the defeat-induced explosions created by his Finishing Move become. They quickly grow big enough to level city blocks, and it's implied that his final form's kick is powerful enough to produce an Earth-Shattering Kaboom if he were to ever use it.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_53110f82	comment	Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor: It's discovered that Dire Wraiths possessing Transformers ends horribly for both parties; the biomechanics of a Transformer wrecks havoc with Wraith magic, resulting in a deranged mutant who's powers are wildly out of control. This eventually leads to the Wraith overloading its new body and exploding into flames. Vekktral manages to figure out a safe method that avoids the meltdown, but that technique has its own problem; the victim retains their individuality and is able to fight back against the possession.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_53a0bd8b	comment	An episode of The Twilight Zone (1985) had a story, "Nightcrawlers" (adapted from the short story by Robert R. McCammon) about a traumatized Vietnam War veteran with the power to make his thoughts come to life. It worked best when he was dreaming, but all his dreams were about horrific battles. It got messy.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5b3f67f1	comment	Psychic Squad: Kaoru is nearly killed when her psychic powers begin to go haywire, slamming a helicopter carrying herself and others into a building and being crushed on the ground by the weight of her power. She's saved when her supervisor shows something similar to The Power of Friendship; she has the guts to then stop her own heart, resulting in the cancellation of the meltdown. Later, a lesser case occurs - when Minamoto quits his position as the supervisor of The Children (due to the new head of BABEL being too much of a Manipulative Bastard for him to endure), The Children responds by breaking into tears - and spontaneously calling up a huge whirlwind of mixed ESP that nearly dismantles the BABEL tower. In the last episode of Unlimited Psychic Squad, Kyousuke's powers go out of control due to overuse of his Unlimited Mode. Fortunately, Andy manages to shut them off before it was too late.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5c600b17	comment	This seems to be a habit of dinosaur based digimon and their partners going all the way back to Tai in Digimon Adventure. He purposely puts himself in danger which causes Greymon to turn into his evil corrupt form and promptly pummel everything within reach until his power burns out and he reverts to one of his lowest stages.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5d56e229	comment	The plot of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission involve an anti-Quirk global cult called Humarise trying to carry out a Final Solution via Trigger Bombs which cause Quirk users to self-destruct due to their now too-powerful-to-be-controlled abilities.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5e91c7b	comment	Resident Evil 2: After infecting himself with the G Virus, William Birkin progressively gained new mutant forms every time he was encountered. By the end of the game, the damage sustained from all the fights caused his Healing Factor to go awry in a futile effort to keep him alive: he degenerated into a crawling mass of flesh, teeth and tentacles.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_5ec0f48	comment	In ∀ Gundam, when the Turn A and Turn X are fighting one another at the end, both begin releasing their Moonlight Butterflies against the pilots' wishes. The last time that happened, Earth was knocked back into the Stone Age and its ecosystem was shattered, and it has taken over 2,000 years to repair the damage. It's hinted that the two machines were programmed to destroy one another at any cost, so were utilizing the greatest power they possessed in order to do so. This ends with the Moonlight Butterflies malfunctioning and sealing the two machines inside a solid cocoon of nanomachines, locking them in an eternal stalemate. Loran barely makes it out in time. Ghingham isn't so lucky.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_638718bd	comment	The Gifted (2017): In Season 2, Reed Strucker's long dormant mutant abilities reactivate, and are revealed to be a corrosive power that destroys everything he touches. He spends all season trying to control these powers, but realizes that sooner or later they'll overwhelm and kill him. Come the Season Finale, he makes the decision to take advantage of this during the Mutant Underground's assault on the Inner Circle — he marches into Reeva Payge's sanctum and provokes her into using her own powers (which cause people to lose control of their bodily functions) on him. As such, his powers essentially go nuclear, killing them both and destroying the building they're in.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_68237790	comment	In Pathfinder's second edition many oracle curses function this way. As they draw upon their power the curse that came with it intensifies to make them more powerful but more vulnerable. An oracle of flames becomes surrounded with fire and smoke that blinds them and burns them to death without constant effort to tamp it down, but scorches their enemies even more fiercely. A life oracle's powerful spells are always accompanied by waves of healing magic, but this energy leaks from their own bodies, and they are incapable of healing themselves, while a lore oracle is flooded with so much knowledge that acting on it is difficult and communicating it to those around them becomes impossible.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_694ab80	comment	In Batman Beyond, Blight, described as a walking meltdown, meets his end when his son's betrayal throws him into rage. He was heavily implied to have survived but didn't have appearances for the rest of the series. He does reappear in the tie-in comics, having apparently lost his mind due to the degrading effects of his powers.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6afce7a4	comment	In The Umbrella Academy (2019), Vanya loses control completely twice. The first time happens in the first season finale. She ends the world with destructive bursts of energy. The second time happens in season two. She's strapped down and drugged with LSD by the FBI, which ends up forcing her to suddenly remember her whole life, which she had previously repressed. The result? The entire floor of the building is wrecked, everyone on it dies, and she lets out wave after wave of energy, nearly killing Diego, Allison, and Klaus (who came to save her). Fortunately, Ben snaps her out of it in time, saving the three living siblings (though not Ben himself).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Near the end of Bob and George, Bob attempts to detonate himself to kill the Author once and for all. He makes a Shout-Out to Heroes as he does so.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series X-Men: The Last Stand features this in the form of Phoenix. Sure, she had total control of her powers, but she was still going completely batshit. At least until she asked Wolverine to kill her and end it. Logan sees nonagenarian Professor X suffering from a unknown neurodegenerative disease (speculated in the film to be Alzheimer's or ALS), and shows what happens when the world's most powerful psychic's brain starts deteriorating. Xavier needs to be heavily medicated to keep him from having seizures that induce paralysis in everyone in the area. One such seizure years before the film caused hundreds of casualties, including most of the X-Men.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6d01949d	comment	Tess in Roswell does this, deliberately, to take out a military base and protect her baby and the other alien teenagers. She doesn't survive.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6d564c8	comment	Manbot in Freedom Force had this as his Fatal Flaw: his power made him prone to causing violent explosions, one of which killed his brother after making him a containment suit.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6ec3ba16	comment	Gabriel Ashlocke (AKA Patient Zero) in Mutant X. The first person to be experimented on by Adam Kane and the first known new mutant. Unlike all other new mutants, which are separated into categories (elementals, ferals, moleculars, and psionics), Ashcroft has powers from all four categories (although not all possible powers). He's also a murderous psychopath. However, so many powers cause his cells to slowly destabilize. Ashlocke's first attempt to save himself involves awakening an ancient sorceress, then he tries to Make Wrong What Once Went Right, then he tries to bully Adam into helping... ultimately, he explodes, taking half the team's base with him.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	In Digimon Data Squad, Masaru forces ShineGreymon into a Ruin Mode, which then proceeds to go on a rampage until the power consumes it, killing Agumon (he gets better).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_72b6933f	comment	In Heroic Age, the result of two or more Nodos fighting each other for long enough is "Frenzy", wherein the Nodos succumbs to pure rage, gains greatly amplified powers (considering what they're capable of normally, this is kinda scary), starts mutating in decidedly painful-looking ways, and generally destroys everything in its path (ships, fleets, planets, etc) until eventually releasing an amount of energy comparable to a supernova, which also kills the Nodos.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_7393c0ce	comment	In Hellsister Trilogy, Supergirl defeats the Galactic Golem by wrapping him up with her cape, Power Girl's and Superboy's and then punching the radiation-leaking starburst on his forehead. Her blow sets off an explosion which could have destroyed the whole city, but fortunately the Golem's meltdown was constrained by their indestructible Kryptonian capes.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_76e539c2	comment	Subaru's famous berserker scene in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was apparently her first use of her cyborg abilities as well as using her normal armaments as hard as she possibly could. Afterward, her gear is horribly damaged and she nearly destroyed her intelligent device entirely. Couple that with not bothering to dodge or block attacks and she was pretty seriously injured after that.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_793c3360	comment	H₂O: Just Add Water: The girls lose control of their mermaid powers when they see a full moon. When it was Rikki's turn, her thermokinesis went out of control and started heating everything near her, causing drinks to explode into vapor and popcorn to pop. She escapes to Mako Island, where she causes a forest fire just by brushing past a few plants. Cleo and Emma were able to get her into the Moon Pool, where she nearly boiled away the water until the moon finally set.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_7ceff43d	comment	In Super Powereds, this is a problem for any Powered (Supers with Power Incontinence) with a strong enough ability. Some are only an inconvenience to themselves (e.g. a girl who levitates when experiencing a strong emotion or a guy who randomly teleports when sneezing), while others can threaten a large group of people (e.g. a guy who can accidentally cause a state-wide blackout by absorbing all that electricity, necessitating that he be kept in total isolation in order to slowly bleed off that energy; or a guy who unintentionally causes the laws of probability to be in flux around him).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Stronger never actually goes through with the meltdown, but when he uses his Charge Up Super Mode, he has 60 seconds to vent all of the excess energy before it makes him explode. Kamen Rider Kuuga has a rare case of the meltdown being external rather than internal: the stronger his powers become, the bigger the defeat-induced explosions created by his Finishing Move become. They quickly grow big enough to level city blocks, and it's implied that his final form's kick is powerful enough to produce an Earth-Shattering Kaboom if he were to ever use it.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_852cd21c	comment	Sburb Glitch FAQ has something it calls berserk triggers: at least once a playthrough, you'll be channeling your Aspect so much that you'll instinctively cast an endgame ability with no regard for your co-players' (or your own) safety. A notable example is the Aspect of Law, of which the berserk trigger generally involves continuously Min-Maxing for one battle, starting out with things like "I'm going to punch hard, but I can't cast other abilities" and ending with things like "I'm going to punch that guy THROUGH SKAIA and then MY HEART WILL EXPLODE like an OVERCOOKED POTATO". Or the Aspect of Rhyme, which is the only one where players actually target their own teammates when on a berserk trigger.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): Terra overextends her Earth-control powers stopping a volcanic eruption, which petrifies her. Red Star's Atomic Superpower is highly unstable, requiring him to regularly vent his excess energy with a machine. Then he discovers a leak in the storage created the monster terrorizing his village and pulls a with Heroic Sacrifice destroying it. (He gets better.) Beast Boy was believed to be undergoing this in "The Beast Within". After a fight with Adonis, B.B. suddenly begins acting ruder and more aggressive towards the other Titans, and picking up some very... non-typical traits such as an appetite for meat. After B.B. transforms into a Were-beast and apparently attacks Raven, Cyborg analyzes him and discovers that his constantly changing DNA finally appears to be destabilizing from all his animal transformations through the years, meaning B.B. is literally falling apart from the inside out. As it turns out, the changes were caused by an unknown chemical compound that B.B. was exposed to during the fight with Adonis, who was also exposed to it; Beast Boy hadn't attacked Raven after all, he was protecting her from the Were-beast Adonis who had gone after Raven for his earlier defeat. Thankfully, once the compound is identified, Cyborg is able to make an antidote and get Beast Boy back to normal.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_8d32e966	comment	Squadron Supreme: In the original limited series, Nuke has a meltdown which ends up killing him, as he burns up all the oxygen inside the force field that's keeping him from incinerating the countryside.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Who Took the Super out of Superman?, villain Xviar plots to destroy Earth by turning Superman into a living planet bomb. After secretly placing in Clark Kent's apartment a device that turns Superman into a walking bomb, Xviar puts the Man of Steel through an enemy gauntlet so that his solar reserves build up until reaching critical mass and blowing up both Superman and Earth. He fails.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_8e2aba6a	comment	Lightning Lad in the Legion of Super Heroes (2006) episode "Lightning Storm" when his powers leak out of the hole previously occupied by one of his arms.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_8f2bdf4b	comment	Deviant: The Renegades has the End Stage Condition. All Deviants have their powers linked to metaphysical Scars that must be kept stable through their pursuits. Should a Deviant reach full Instability, their Scars go out of control, which potentially unlocks new powers but will kill them by the end of the scene unless they find and destroy a Conviction Touchstone (i.e., something representative of the bastards that did this to them).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_909ca4b1	comment	In an episode of ReBoot, Bob removes Hexadecimal's mask in an effort to get her to stop. As it turns out, doing that causes an explosion of energy from the hole in her face, which threatens to overload and destroy everything. Oops.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs Book #12, Rachel loses control of her shapeshifting ability and starts randomly changing into things like elephants at inopportune moments, like the middle of a scouting mission over the ocean. It turns out to be the result of an allergic reaction to the crocodile DNA she'd acquired earlier in the book, and the only way to cure it was to ride out the meltdown until her body can expel the crocodile. And by expel, it means she morphs uncontrollably until a 20-foot Nile crocodile forces its way out of her back. Book #35, Marco's emotional turmoil from his father remarrying causes him to start morphing into hybrid forms. It's not as cool as it sounds, as it first turns him into an osprey-lobster that can't breathe or fly, then a trout-gorilla that faces a similar problem. At least the poodle-polar bear was more effective.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: A major risk with channeling, though it's rarely shown. Every channeler has a certain "strength," corresponding to how much of the Power they can draw safely. Go further than that and they might sever themselves. Or render themselves brain-dead. Or kill themselves. Or disintegrate themselves in a Pillar of Light that results in a volcano and a brand-new mountain, called "Dragonmount" because that's where The Dragon killed himself, if there's enough strength. More likely to happen to people who have The Gift but no training. The series does a good job of making The One Power sound dangerous. Lews Therin Telamon, Aginor's first body, and eventually Egwene al'Vere fall victim to this.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_924b6d63	comment	Xenogears opens with Fei as a peaceful painter in a quiet village helping his best friend to get ready for a wedding. Unfortunately, after Grahf repeatedly hits his Berserk Button, he goes on a frenzy of Unstoppable Rage in his newly-acquired Gear and destroys his home village. This happens several times throughout the game, due to the fact that Fei has a super-powered hidden personality called Id with a penchant for wanton destruction.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_95599923	comment	Quasar: The original Quasar got his Power Bands because the previous two users incinerated themselves by trying too hard to control them, while Wendell Vaughn's more laid back go-with-the-flow attitude allowed him to "calm them down", so to speak.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: In the Joint Training Arc, Midoriya suffers one that nearly kills both his team and his opponents, and does a number on the training ground they're in. One for All has reached the point where the quirks of the previous wielders (which were stored in One for All all along) can be utilized by the current wielder. Midoriya accidentally activated a One for All-powered Blackwhip, and had no idea of its existence, even less how to properly use it. The fear of and therefore averting this fate turns out to have been the goal of All For One. Each generation of quirk users gets stronger but his own body has limits. While his quirk can take any kind and any number of quirks from others, his body hasn't changed and a time will come when his power is too much for his body to handle. His funding of Dr. Ujiko's research was to find a way to enhance his body to handle the greater power of holding more powerful quirks. And when it looks like he himself won't be able to benefit from the research, he makes sure to leave his quirk and the necessary research in the doctor's safekeeping for his own successor, Tomura Shigaraki to take them both up and become an even greater villain. About the spoiler above Dr. Ujiko is the author of the Quirk Singularity theory that postulated that mankind will eventually suffer a Super-Power Meltdown at a global scale. It explains that quirks become more powerful and complex every passing generation, thus becoming harder to control as well. There will come a point when Quirks will become too overpowered and complicated, and no one will be able to control them anymore. No one believed it and Ujiko was lambasted and ostracized from society as a result, losing all his credibility and at some point, he went missing. All For One was the only person who believed him for the reasons stated above. In appreciation, Ujiko became one of his most loyal allies. As the series went on, the theory gained some credibility but even then, most people deem it fringe thinking reserved for insane conspiracy believers. The plot of My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission involve an anti-Quirk global cult called Humarise trying to carry out a Final Solution via Trigger Bombs which cause Quirk users to self-destruct due to their now too-powerful-to-be-controlled abilities.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super: Future Zamasu and Goku Black fusing turned out to be a big mistake as an immortal being fusing with a mortal being results in the fusion's immortality to malfunction, causing the right side of Fused Zamasu's body to start melting into purple goo. This also results in him going completely insane at this point.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_986e857e	comment	In Ben 10, the Omnitrix has been involved in a few of these. When Ben removed the faceplate, it turned him into hybridized forms of the aliens he wanted, most of which had contradictory powers. The whole "Omni Energy" outbursts thing and the self-destruct mechanism that threatened to take the whole universe along with it when it went in The Secret of the Omnitrix. And let's not forget what it did to Kevin when he tried to absorb its energy.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_9e7f27c6	comment	The Atom: The Atom (the original Golden Age one with an "atomic punch," not the shrinking Silver Age one) was once used by a time-traveling villain who plotted to turn him into a human atom bomb, destroying Washington, killing President Truman and ensuring that superheroes would be hated and feared forever. (He failed.) The Atom's son, Damage, almost destroyed Atlanta when he built up all his explosive power in a rage to take out a villain who had disfigured him. (They stopped him.) Damage actually does have one of those at the end of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! when he's fighting Parallax. Just as well, since they were the only living beings left in the DCU by then; Damage created a Big Bang that recreated the DCU as something mostly resembling pre-Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! continuity.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla is going through one of these in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, causing him to glow red and be perpetually angry. Also, there's a fear that his literal meltdown will probably blow up the atmosphere. Luckily, all this radiation is absorbed by Godzilla Junior, mutating him into the next Godzilla, so that's okay. The Super-X3 thankfully also kept the now dead Godzilla's energy from rising high enough to burn the atmosphere, which if it had then Godzilla Junior's body would have burned up before it could save the city from the fallout. So man saves the world, and unwittingly a dead body, and the dead body saves Tokyo from the radiation and is brought back to life.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_9ffb41a9	comment	In Galerians, if Rion uses the drugs that fuel his powers too much, he will suffer from "shorting" which is instant death to all nonbosses within the radius but does damage to him over time. It can be stopped by using a specific drug. Notably there's another drug which can trigger this instantly.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_a1d44b1d	comment	Damage actually does have one of those at the end of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! when he's fighting Parallax. Just as well, since they were the only living beings left in the DCU by then; Damage created a Big Bang that recreated the DCU as something mostly resembling pre-Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! continuity.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_a3129642	comment	A storyline in Spinnerette involves the titular heroine going into one after an altercation with two supervillains stealing a "Genetic Infusion Chamber" powered by a "Cherenkov-Kirby Reactor". Note that in this case the trope is completely literal — with the way superpowers work, a super can go into an actual meltdown, causing a local nuclear disaster.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ac484a35	comment	Isako in Den-noh Coil deliberately triggers one of these in order to close a portal to the Other Side.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b0c8849e	comment	In Kid Radd, this is why Radd is the most powerful being in cyberspace. Given a long enough charge time, he could wipe out every computer connected to the internet. Best of all, it's all the result of a very minor bug in his programming.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b2301052	comment	A major plot point in the Justice League/Naruto crossover Connecting the Dots. Ino, having accidentally gained telepathic powers from J'onn J'onnz slowly begins to go insane as she struggles to control her new abilities. She almost drives everyone else insane too.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b3690647	comment	X-Men: The Last Stand features this in the form of Phoenix. Sure, she had total control of her powers, but she was still going completely batshit. At least until she asked Wolverine to kill her and end it.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b43f69f	comment	In the spin-off game Necromunda, rogue psykers known as Wyrds are prone to this, usually of the Your Head Asplode or Spontaneous Human Combustion variety.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: After the events of Onslaught, where the Hulk and Bruce Banner got separated (again), the Hulk's radioactivity went into overdrive. Eventually, it and the government covering him in molten metal killed him... and he remained so radioactive nothing could get close. And then he sprang back to life, radioactivity fixed.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b62af1fa	comment	My Hero Academia Marvel-verse: Hobgoblin's powers are unstable and after he takes too much damage during his battle with All Might they go out of his control. This results in Hobgoblin blowing himself up in a giant fiery explosion.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	A mild version happens to Iris in the first Sakura Wars, although she only blows the roof off a movie theater.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_b9b796cf	comment	At the end of the Heavens Feel route in Fate/stay night, Sakura loses the ability to control the Grail's energy, resulting in a potentially world destroying God of Evil nearly being born from the Greater Grail. This requires the use of Rule Breaker to separate Sakura from the Grail and then either Shirou or Ilya's Heroic Sacrifice to keep the god from birthing itself. Also in Heavens Feel, there's Archer's arm. Once the seal is removed so Shirou can use its power, his body and mind begin to break down because he can't withstand its innate magic.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ba3d2f37	comment	Logan sees nonagenarian Professor X suffering from a unknown neurodegenerative disease (speculated in the film to be Alzheimer's or ALS), and shows what happens when the world's most powerful psychic's brain starts deteriorating. Xavier needs to be heavily medicated to keep him from having seizures that induce paralysis in everyone in the area. One such seizure years before the film caused hundreds of casualties, including most of the X-Men.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: The original appearance of Wildfire had him do a meltdown as a Heroic Sacrifice (he was an Energy Being in a containment suit, who released his whole self as an attack that was exponentially more powerful than his 'normal' energy blasts.) He got better a few issues later. Wildfire set up a special chamber in the basement of Legion HQ with a series of spare containment suits, in case he ever had to use his not-as-permanent-as-you'd-think Heroic Sacrifice stunt.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Extremely common in psykers in Warhammer 40,000, and one reason why psykers are feared by normal humans. The omnipresent risk of daemonic possession being another. The Orks have (or at least had) psykers of their own, called Weirdboyz. Being an extremely psychic race to begin with, Ork Psykers tended to cause other nearby Orks' heads to explode. It gets worse when Weirdboyz get near each other. Of course Orks think this is funny as hell. The Eversor Assassin, whose body is so laden with strength and reflex-enhancing combat drugs that upon death they react violently and cause his corpse to explode. In the spin-off game Necromunda, rogue psykers known as Wyrds are prone to this, usually of the Your Head Asplode or Spontaneous Human Combustion variety.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, the supervillain Damien triggers his own Super-Power Meltdown when his failure to defeat Fallen Grace makes him realize that he may not be a god after all.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_bd67c74c	comment	CthulhuTech's parapsychics have a non-zero chance of going into "Burn" every time they use their powers.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_c21df7ae	comment	The End Times: Vermintide and Vermintide II: Sienna's pyromancy causes Overheating as a Pragmatic Adaptation of the tabletop game's magic system. If the meter exceeds its maximum, she writhes in agony for a few seconds and explodes, downing her instantly and causing Area of Effect damage.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor's regeneration was a mild case of this; previous regenerations weren't nearly as explosive. This may be due to him absorbing all the nuclear radiation he did. Plus, suppressing the incoming regeneration so he could say goodbye didn't help either. Happens again with 11th Doctor's regeneration. When the Doctor starts to die of old age, as he is out of regenerationsnote twelve regenerations, thirteen incarnations. The Doctor has the War Doctor as one and 10 used one when transferring the energy into his old hand allowing the 11th Doctor to be the final incarnation. he is granted a new cycle of regenerations and starts to regenerate. The energy from the regeneration is enough to destroy a Dalek mothership along with smaller ships. Becoming somewhat of a theme, the 12th Doctor's regeneration is explosive to the point that it damages the Tardis and throws the new 13th Doctor outside the flying Tardis over London. This time the 12th Doctor held in his regeneration for a long time, meeting up with the 1st Doctor who was also holding in his regeneration (though the 1st Doctor did not have a explosive regeneration).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne averts this with the Demi-fiend, who became half-demon through parasitic infection, but otherwise retained control of his humanity and his newfound powers.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_d2bb929d	comment	In the Soulcalibur III start-up trailer, Nightmare seems to have one of these because he consumed the souls of a whole army, all at once. It doesn't seem to hurt him, though.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon uses this as a Hand Wave as to why Mega Evolution only works for a short amount of time (as opposed to the permanent change and increases in stats usually seen with regular evolution in the games) - one case, Mega Scizor, literally melts down according to researchers if left in that state too long. However, in a bit of Gameplay and Story Segregation, nothing bad will happen if someone activates a Mega Evolution and drags out the fight for as long as they can.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_d794a2a2	comment	Near the end of the classic anime movie AKIRA, Tetsuo, who has spent much of the second half of the movie being an unstoppable psychic juggernaut, loses control of his powers after he is forced to fashion a new arm for himself after the original one is blasted off by SOL. This combined with the strain he is already putting on himself results in Tetsuo's body starting to mutate out of control in the most horrific scene of the movie.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_d8c349bd	comment	In Witchblade, bionical Cloneblades work well (though not as good as the real thing) and do not causes problems (unlike the self-willed Witchblade) until some minor damage happens to trigger deterioration. Shortly afterwards, their transforming power's failure ensues and the user ends up crystallized (and usually shattered). And of course it's irremovable. The Witchblade itself can quickly overload a human body.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_d8cdb77	comment	Inverted in Mega Man Zero 4. The Big Bad Dr. Weil tries to crash his Kill Sat into Earth, destroying the only naturally habitable place left on the planet. When Zero tries to stop him, he merges with the kill-sat's computer core for the final boss fight. This trope forms the premise of the last stage of the fight (the boss's second form); if Zero destroys him, the resulting superpower meltdown will destroy the kill sat, averting the crisis. The fact that Zero would (and does) also get blown to smithereens in the process is a mere trifling technicality.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime's Tohno Shiki has the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which perceive the nature of death in the form of lines and dots on virtually everything. He potentially risks this trope every time he takes off his ability-sealing glasses, and (later on) when his eyes become too strong to be suppressed. It has been stated that it wouldn't be strange for everything to fall apart around him, just from his being nearby.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_e381e71f	comment	Not exactly a superhero, but in Digimon Tamers, Takato's rage and despair forces Guilmon to digivolve to Meggidramon...whose very existence starts to shatter the fabric of the Digital World and the real world. Beelzemon saved the day.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_e5ea79ee	comment	The Authority: In The Authority: Revolution, during a fight on the White House lawn, a superhuman with radioactive powers ends up losing control of his abilities, and the resulting explosion levels the city.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_e64b0d38	comment	In the manga of Elfen Lied: Lucy going into a literal meltdown due to abusing of her telekinetic powers while destroying some planes and then for healing Kouta's injuries.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures: In the Italian Disney comic, Donald Duck has a superhero identity and Xadhoom, one of his allies, is the sole survivor of a destroyed planet who has literally absorbed the power of her star (yeah, it's a bit of a Superman shout-out) gaining control over matter and energy. The energy she has at disposal is immense, and if she were to release it fully it would cause her to go nova. Really. After she finds out that a few hundreds of her people, including her lover, survived the destruction of their planet, but are doomed to die anyway sooner or later because the new planet they colonized has no sun, she ends up sacrificing herself to become a sun. We later see a straight example of this from Evron scientist Zoster, who just acquired Xadhoom's powers and went bombastic with his newfound powers. He lasts five seconds before his Family-Unfriendly Death.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening has the phenomenon known as The False Awakening, wherein a Sleepwalker who's studied under a mage believes that not only have they Awakened, they've discovered a magical path that no one else has before. In reality, they've become infected with a strange form of magical energy that pretty much allows them to go from initiate to godhood in the space of a week... before they pretty much explode from all the power and take out a city block.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Chiaotzu, Android 16, and Vegeta each triggered Super Power Meltdowns to try and defeat The Dragon or Big Bad of separate arcs as part of a Heroic Sacrifice. It never works. When Goku delivered the killing blow to Broly in Dragon Ball Z: Broly â€“ The Legendary Super Saiyan, he underwent a Superpower Meltdown and seemingly exploded. When Cell threatened to destroy the planet by triggering his own, Goku teleported them both away. Ironically, while he was the lead, his Heroic Sacrifice was partly in vain since Cell survived and Gohan had to beat him. Vegeta does this on purpose in an attempted Heroic Sacrifice against Majin Buu, expending all of his life force and ki in one suicidal blast, turning his body to stone. Unfortunately, Buu can regenerate From a Single Cell, and renders it a Senseless Sacrifice.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Nova Flares from Johnny Storm (one destroyed the Empire State University campus, I believe) have long been a staple in Marvel.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_f0995ac8	comment	Pyrogenes do this all the time in the Evil Genius Trilogy, usually before they even learn how to properly harness their pyrokinetic powers. However, Cadel never witnesses these events himself, though he often ends up soaked by the sprinklers that activate whenever a pyrogene self-combusts.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_f2da188a	comment	Firefly in The Batman gained super fire powers that went beyond his control to the point that if he kept on going, he will become a living embodiment of a meltdown and melt down to the Earth's core and destroy Gotham City in the process.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_f3580d48	comment	Katsumi in Silent MÃ¶bius after she finds Robert DeVice dead, her grief and anger make her magical power leash out, blowing up the apartment building in a Pillar of Light as she screams inside the fire with Glowing Eyes of Doom.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_f74b5f80	comment	Untrained telepaths in Babylon 5 tend to have these frequently, one of the primary reasons behind the Psi Corps.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_f826285a	comment	In the Zachary Nixon Johnson novel The Radioactive Redhead, Zach's psychic secretary Carol nearly suffers from one when an attempt to amplify her powers causes her to almost lose control of them.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_fa450b74	comment	Carrie (2002) implies that the title character's telekinetic rampage is a case of this, with her seemingly going into a trance after being humiliated at the prom. (Other versions of the story, including the original novel, paint it as a straight Roaring Rampage of Revenge, with Carrie remaining in full command of her powers and knowing exactly what she's doing throughout.)
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_fa5e90fd	comment	In the MMORPG City of Heroes, a sector of Paragon City, known as Siren's Call, was sealed off for several years due to a hero with radioactive powers supposedly going 'boom' there, conveniently allowing the villainous Evil Overlord Lord Recluse to establish a beachhead there. note The trope itself is averted, however, in that the real reason for the explosion is either an android replica of the hero specifically made to explode by the Evil Overlord, or (according to the canonically-dubious Strategy Guide) a major villain disguising himself as a small-time crook to lure the hero into the area, before detonating a specially-made bomb and using the hero as a scapegoat. With an added Cyborg Booster Pack, players gained access to a Self Destruct power, causing them to explode violently after a ten second countdown, doing immense damage to anything unlucky enough to be in range. It will usually wipe out anything below boss level. The down side? You just died. And it took an hour to recharge. In the game's backstory, Overbrook (now called "Faultline") was supposedly leveled by the earthquake machines of an archvillain known as Faultine. In truth, though, Faultline was a mutant hero who wouldn't have needed them; a villain named PsyCurse used a gadget known as the PsychoChronoMetron to rewrite Faultline into a villain. Unfortunately, feedback from the PsychoChronoMetron caused Faultline to lose control of his powers, resulting in the earthquake that leveled Overbrook.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_fe1b5414	comment	In Mob Psycho 100, when pushed too far, Mob loses control of his Psychic Powers and his explosive Superpowered Evil Side ???% comes out.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_fede15f7	comment	Shadows Awakening: During the Final Battle, Uncle and Tohru use a spell to invoke one of these in The Queen, causing the target to lose control of their chi, which was destabilized when they went One-Winged Angel.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ff8dd2b2	comment	The Wheel of Time (2021): Channelers who draw too much of the One Power can die as a result. In the books it was called "burning", but rarely left visible damage to bodies. Here, burning usually is literal. In s1e2, Moiraine recounts the fall of Manetheren, when Queen Eldrene drew enough of the power to obliterate a Trolloc army, but was herself destroyed by the same power. In s1e4, Liandrin begins to overdraw while fighting Logain, exemplified by light beginning to flow under her skin, but she suffers no ill effects. In s1e8, Amalisa channels a great deal of the One Power by forming a circle along with Nynaeve, Egwene and two other women to strike down Trollocs with lightning. However, it overpowers her, killing her, the other two women and wounding Nynave (though Egwene heals her).
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ff9ca30	comment	A plot point in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. After getting infected with Phazon, Samus has the ability to go into Hyper Mode and use Phazon powered attacks, which is powerful, but causes the Corruption to spread, and if the PED Suit malfunctions, the process can be irreversible, leading to devastating consequences to those around them, as seen with other hunters like Ghor, whose own corruption devastated Elysia.
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Super-Power Meltdown / int_ffee7ef9	comment	Captain Atom: Captain Atom inadvertently caused the U.S. Midwest to become a radioactive wasteland when the Parasite ruptures his containment suit in Kingdom Come. This has almost happened to him a few other times in mainstream DC continuity, since unlike other Energy Beings he's made of nuclear radiation. Captain Atom, or a quantum duplicate anyway, went on to become the insane villain Monarch. In Countdown to Final Crisis, after some building up including absorbing all the other versions of Captain Atom, he has his suit ripped open by Superman-Prime. The explosion wipes out all life in an entire universe.
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Ãœber (Comic Book) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
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Copacetic (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Dominoes (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Fate of the Clans (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Hail to the King (Thuktun Flishithy) (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Hellsister Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Kill Them All (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
My Hostage, Not Yours (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Short Way Around (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Sora's Misadventures in Equestria (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Stealing Dreams (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Ultimate Video Rumble (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
What it Means to Be a Hero (Fanfic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Iron Man 3 / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Lucy / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Naruto 7 The Last	seeAlso	Super-Power Meltdown
The Rise of Skywalker / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
X-Men: The Last Stand / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Testament of Sister New Devil / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Fake Saint of the Year / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Gone / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Hell's Kitchen Sink / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Is This A Zombie? / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Rising Ã— Rydeen / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Super Powereds / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Satanic Verses / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Testament of Sister New Devil / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Worm Ouroboros / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Wizarding School Mysteries / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Earth2150	seeAlso	Super-Power Meltdown
ShapeshifterSwansong	seeAlso	Super-Power Meltdown
SuperpowerMeltdown	sameAs	Super-Power Meltdown
Vapor Queen	seeAlso	Super-Power Meltdown
Angel Crush (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Chirality (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Claymore (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Elfen Lied (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Fire Force (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Hell Teacher Nube (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Inuyasha (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Psychic Squad (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Rosengarten Saga (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Samurai Deeper Kyo (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Ushio and Tora (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Yakuza Girl (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Dark Air (Manhwa) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Crisis on Earth-X / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
H₂O: Just Add Water / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Kamen Rider Decade / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Misfits / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Mutant X / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Umbrella Academy (2019) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Wheel of Time (2021) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Ultraman Orb: The Origin Saga / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Deviant: The Renegades (Tabletop Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Armed Police Batrider (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
City of Heroes (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Galerians (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Grey Area (2023) (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Metroid Prime Trilogy (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Coμ - Black Dragon in a Gentle Kingdom (Visual Novel) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Anarchy Dreamers (Webcomic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Crossoverkill (Webcomic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers (Webcomic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Supermegatopia (Webcomic) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
X-Men Unlimited (2021) (Webcomic) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Batman Beyond / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Galaxy High / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
K / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
All-New Ghost Rider (Comic Book) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
The New Universe (Comic Book) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Zero Hour! (Comic Book) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Manga) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- (Manga) / int_af1894f1	type	Super-Power Meltdown
White Knight Chronicles (Video Game) / int_deb7c4d1	type	Super-Power Meltdown

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