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Super Serum

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Super Serum	comment	A hero who doesn't have his powers or abilities naturally, but has to get them from a process of digestion or injection of a specialized compound. For obvious reasons, depictions of this took a nosedive due to Moral Guardians, as depicting heroes taking what seemed to be drugs became a strict no-no. Heroes nowadays may get such treatments only once, often involuntarily (due to evil experimentation) or as formal medical treatments. You're most likely to see this being done by villains, with an Anvilicious addiction metaphor in effect. Power-Up Food is the case when the abilities come from common foodstuffs. Applied to enough people at once, and it becomes a Mass Super-Empowering Event. If (as in the case of Captain America) only one person gets it, it's a Disposable Superhero Maker. A Superhuman Transfusion (especially if it's from someone who drank Super Serum) usually has the same effects. If the superpower being given is Super-Intelligence, it overlaps with Genius Serum. Compare Psycho Serum and Bottled Heroic Resolve. See also Power Source and Higher Understanding Through Drugs. For a similar trope in commercials, see Cereal-Induced Superpowers. In many ways, this is the science fiction and pulp equivalent of the Magic Potion.
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Super Serum / int_12fd5db0	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_12fd5db0	comment	Megamind: After defeating his arch-nemesis Metro Man, Megamind decides to give Metro Man's superpowers to a random guy who would become the next champion of Metro City. He extracts Metro Man's DNA from some dandruff on his cape and accidentally injects it into Hal the cameraman.
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Super Serum / int_1367cea0	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, one of the major ongoing plot threads deals with Cauldron, a manufacturer of these. The Serum is derived from pieces of the corpse of a dead Cthulhu-like alien god.
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Super Serum / int_13b6da8c	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_13b6da8c	comment	In the comic prequel to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Dr. Horrible makes a super-serum using Captain Hammer's DNA. However, while he does gain Hammer's Super-Strength and endurance, his intelligence is reduced to his level as well, resulting in a mindless series of Megaton Punches, until Horrible takes the antidote, becoming smart again but also scrawny and weak.
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Super Serum / int_176e6280	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_176e6280	comment	We Are Our Avatars: As part of his training to be a Feccian Bladesman, Zeke was given alchemical infusions that increased his strength and durability (and, by proxy, a certain degree of his other physical attributes) to preternatural levels. Both were already heightened by the training itself, however, with his infusions simply raising the bar further.
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Super Serum / int_1937dd14	comment	The Sentry is a metafictional send-up of many Comic Book Tropes. Not only did he get his powers by taking "the Professor's secret serum", but comics-that-never-happened from the 1980s showed it blossoming into a full-on addiction metaphor. Later, it's revealed that he originally drank it hoping to get high.
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Super Serum / int_1bd623c5	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1bd623c5	comment	In the comic, it has a bit of a Psycho Serum effect as well:
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Super Serum / int_1bdeba5a	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1bdeba5a	comment	While his mainline self does not use it, in Ultimate X-Men (2001), this version of Colossus needs the mutant enhancement drug "Banshee" to be able to so much as move his limbs in his organic steel form.
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Super Serum / int_1beec425	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1beec425	comment	Scary Go Round: The VitRx potion makes you big, strong, and attractive, even if you are an animal. Mayor Davies's body was too old to handle it, so instead of improving his musculature, it made him prone to outbursts, and barely intelligent enough to communicate.
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Super Serum / int_1ccc80e	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1ccc80e	comment	Chronomistress: Out of Time: Sassafrass syrup, also known as "chronoserum". For most ponies it's just alcohol, but the Royal Order of Timekeepers knows meditation techniques which make it work as a Super Serum.
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Super Serum / int_1fd2699e	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_1fd2699e	comment	The Girl with the X-Ray Mind: As posing as Lena Luthor, Supergirl villain Lesla-Lar pretends she has gained powers because she drank a serum created by Lena's brother Lex.
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Super Serum / int_22147342	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_22147342	comment	A subplot in the second season of Arrow involves a drug called "Mirakuru", which was developed by the Japanese during World War II in order to create an army of Super Soldiers. It ends being what grants both Slade Wilson and Solomon Grundy their powers.
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Super Serum / int_246147c9	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_246147c9	comment	In The Secret World of Alex Mack, Alex is doused in the chemical GC-161, which not only gives her the power to melt, levitate things and shoot lightning bolts, but also sets the Corrupt Corporate Executive to hunting her down.
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Super Serum / int_251e67c5	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_251e67c5	comment	In the Justice League of America comics, Johnny Quick, the Crime Syndicate of Amerika counterpart of The Flash, uses an extract of his predecessor's blood to give him super-speed powers.
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Super Serum / int_26042b84	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_26042b84	comment	Interestingly, in Avengers: The Initiative, it turns out that Erskine discovered similar results could be achieved with a perfect diet and an extremely specialized exercise program, which resulted in his great-grandson Michael Van Patrick having the same peak physical condition naturally. The research was not classified or ever used by the military because they wanted a quick fix; the natural super soldier would take a lifetime of dedication to produce, unless you get your hands on one and just clone him over and over.
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Super Serum / int_2675c915	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Centipede serum, which is a cocktail containing Chitauri metal (from The Avengers), Gamma radiation (from The Incredible Hulk), the Super-Soldier Serum (from Captain America: The First Avenger) and Extremis (from Iron Man 3). In the second season, Mr. Hyde shows up with his own serum, made from a bevy of experimental drugs, as well as gorilla testosterone and peppermint. A full dose gives him enough Super-Strength to break through bulletproof glass and enough Super-Toughness to survive getting rammed into a wall by a car, with the only side effect being a minor physical transformation and increased aggression. However, it's implied that using it has caused the effects to last longer and possibly even become permanent; even when not using the serum, he has performed feats of strength and endurance that might not be superhuman but are definitely improbable. In the fourth season, it is revealed that the U.S. government created a serum and gave it to Jeffery Mace, in order to allow him to pretend to be an Inhuman so that they could put an Enhanced person with a good public face in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. And the serum was based on Hyde's serum.
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Super Serum / int_293ae150	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_293ae150	comment	As Underdog tells us, "The secret compartment of my ring I fill / With my Underdog Super Energy Pill." Cue the Wingding Eyes each time he takes one! The film, naturally, opted for the Freak Lab Accident origin. Sometimes, Underdog says "Energy Vitamin Pill" instead of "Super Energy Pill." This may have been an exhortation for children to take their daily vitamins. Then, perhaps because the notion of popping pills for speed and strength became bad, later broadcasts omitted the pills and had Underdog spontaneously (without explanation) recovering his superpowers.
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Super Serum / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	By Season 3 of Heroes, Mohinder has developed a serum that gives people powers and uses it to give himself Super-Strength.
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Super Serum / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Although his abilities don't center around them, Chouji's Food Pills can increase his chakra supply dramatically, allowing him to use more powerful attacks more often. These leave him burnt out afterwards at best, in critical condition at worst. As do Kiba and Akamaru's battle pills, which had been mostly abandoned by the ninja corps due to the side effect of not being able to move for three days after a ten-minute dose.
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Super Serum / int_30b255fb	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl: The Girl with the X-Ray Mind: As posing as Lena Luthor, Supergirl villain Lesla-Lar pretends she has gained powers because she drank a serum created by Lena's brother Lex. The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot: Subverted. When Superman unmasks the imposter Supergirl, he finds out it is Black Flame, one of his cousin's Rogues who had been depowered a while back. Superman asks how Black Flame got her powers back, and the woman claims she invented a super serum which gave her most of them back, but trading her invulnerability to nearly everything for invulnerability to Kryptonite. However, it is soon revealed that Mr. Mxyzptlk was impersonating Black Flame, and the "super serum" was nothing but humbug.
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Super Serum / int_358d8450	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_358d8450	comment	The 39 Clues is all about gathering 39 ingredients, or "Clues", to create a Super Serum that confers the abilities of each of the four "branches" of the family searching for it — the cunning of the Lucians, the intelligence of the Ekaterinas, the strength of the Tomas, and the artistic talent of the Janus — feasibly allowing the user to rule the world. These Clues include all kinds of ingredients, from harmless ones that can be found in a grocery store such as honey, salt, and mint to highly toxic substances like mercury, lead, and king cobra venom.
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Super Serum / int_38ce5997	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_38ce5997	comment	In The Boys (2019), all supes are created by giving babies Compound V. In already super-powered adults, Compound V is like a cross between cocaine and steroids. In Season 3 Vought International develops a temporary variant to be used on adults with the intent of selling it to the military, which the Boys get their hands on to become Empowered Badass Normals.
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Super Serum / int_3b182a22	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_3b182a22	comment	Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reveals that during a war with the Klingons, Dr. M'Benga developed a serum called "Protocol 12", enhancing the user's combat abilities such that a human could fight multiple Klingons.
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Super Serum / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: A serum made from Spinal Fluid is used in the process of giving a person Titan powers. This is first hinted when Eren has glimpses of his father with a needle, about to inject him with something. The serum can be tailored to produce different results, modifying the size and function of the Titan as desired. While gaining the power of one of the Nine Titans requires eating one of the current owners, some of their abilities can be transferred via specialized serums. Eren gains the ability to harden his Titan's skin after consuming a serum labeled "Armor". If someone is injected with Zeke (a.k.a. the Beast Titan)'s serum, he can force them to transform into mindless titans by screaming. Nobody knows why, but presumably it's due to his royal blood.
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Super Serum / int_4522fd1	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Most of the Super-Soldier experiments performed during World War II by both the Axis and the Allies involved various Super Serums, most of which proved to have, uh, undesirable side effects. For those whose test serum proved to be a Psycho Serum, both sides chose to use the victims as shock troops, with the Axis also using them as propaganda meant to terrify Allied soldiers (the U.S. and U.K. preferred to keep the test low-key). Even the 'successful' tests often led to breakdowns after the war, with many 'Flag Heroes' becoming villains after the war. After the war, Super Serums continued to be common experimental projects for Mad Scientists, with a lot of them turning out to be Psycho Serums. This results in the creation of quite a few supervillains; however, some successful ones create superheroes instead. Even these usually have some kind of price; for example, Dr. Venus' super-treatments wear off over time, and eventually stop working, often with crippling side effects for the 'studmuffins' whom she used them on.
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Super Serum / int_49a87cb3	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII's SOLDIERs are "infused with Mako energy", which gives them strength enough to lift their favored BFSes, as well as Glowing Eyes of Doom, a hallmark side effect. Other side-effects involve the hearing of voices and general loss of sanity.
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Super Serum / int_4b790c7b	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_4b790c7b	comment	Maya Hansen's Extremis formula, the basic version being the one seen in the film, is refined by Arnim Zola to become its infinitely more terrifying comic book variant — it allows you to reprogram someone's genetics to, essentially, do whatever the hell you want them to, within certain ill-defined power limitations. Zola being Zola, immediate uses include Elite Mooks and a strange human... griffin... thing that mostly seems to want to be put out of its misery.
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Super Serum / int_4d30cecb	comment	Not to mention the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" when Wile. E. Coyote takes "leg muscle vitamins".
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Super Serum / int_4f01368	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_4f01368	comment	An explosion of "meta-gas" during a gang feud in Static Shock gives Static and a bunch of other troubled teenagers in Dakota different powers. One Teen Genius Monster of the Week learns how to control it and can grant himself different short-term powers through short-term exposure.
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Super Serum / int_4f115950	comment	The young revolutionary Dava Sborsc from Robin (1993) takes a mixture called Aramilla that gives her temporary superspeed, though it dulls the user's sense of morality. She ends up drugging Robin with it and accidentally (and temporarily) kills Lady Shiva, though he resuscitates her.
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Super Serum / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye: It's not technically Super Serum, but Popeye gets his powers explicitly by eating a can of spinach. Why no one else tries this is unknown. The movie implies that the ability to get super-strength from spinach was a family trait. In the original comics, the Sea Witch does try it on Alice the Goon. It's uncertain if it actually worked, partly because Popeye added milk to his spinach diet to make himself even stronger and partly because the Goon fell in love with Wimpy shortly after, leading the way to her sympathizing with Popeye and the gang. The last fight she has with Popeye breaks up rather quickly, as he sees the Goon has a child and won't hit a mother. There actually is one cartoon in which after Bluto starts sobbing about how he Popeye always beats him up, Popeye responds by feeding Bluto some of his spinach, causing Bluto to power up, and he immediately launches into a song about what a great guy Popeye is, while pausing to clobber him at every pause in the melody. Furthermore, there are cartoons where Olive Oyl and a mouse each eat spinach (accidentally in the latter case). Olive instantly develops feminine but obvious bulging biceps and promptly uses them to bring the squabbling Popeye and Bluto to heel: the mouse ends up jamming Popeye into its hole in the wainscotting and takes his bed for the night.
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Super Serum / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build has Nebula Gas, an alien compound that grants whoever's injected with it super strength and toughness along with the ability to use belts fueled by the same gas, as long as they were already physically capable. If they're not tough enough to handle the injection, then the serum will instead turn them into a monster or kill them.
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Super Serum / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: It seems that almost everything in the Ultimate universe involving superpowers is derived from attempted recreations of Captain America's Super Serum, which Ultimate Origins reveals was in turn reverse-engineered from Wolverine, in the same experiments that created mutants. While his mainline self does not use it, in Ultimate X-Men (2001), this version of Colossus needs the mutant enhancement drug "Banshee" to be able to so much as move his limbs in his organic steel form.
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Super Serum / int_5aba741f	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_5aba741f	comment	Most of the heroes from Heroes Inc have taken serums that give them various powers and slow down their aging process.
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Super Serum / int_5b344855	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine's enemy Omega Red is a failed Soviet attempt at making the serum as well as giving Red tendrils in his arms made of carbonadium (an alloy intended as a more feasible substitute for the astronomically expensive and rare adamantium). While Omega Red did gain most of Cap's powers, he is constantly dying and has to drain the life-force of others in order to livenote Some issues have it that instead of (or alongside) life-draining, he has a "death spore virus" that will eat him alive if he doesn't transmit it to others. (fortunately for him, his mutant powers along with his tendrils can do just that). Apparently, something called the "Carbonadium Synthesizer" will cure him of his condition. It's his best weapon — your average opponent can't even try to fight him. He considers himself Blessed with Suck (despite being the type who would not pick a different career if cured or feel bad about the fact that he must kill to survive) and seeks the C-Synthesizer, as carbonadium is the only thing that can neutralize the virus. However, it's hard to know if he was born with this or if it's part of what was done to him.
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Super Serum / int_5bd0554b	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_5bd0554b	comment	The Goblin Alchemist from Warcraft III has an ability called Chemical Rage which greatly empowers his Ogre ride.
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Super Serum / int_5e91c7e	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_5e91c7e	comment	In Resident Evil 5, Wesker needs a frequent and precise dose of the virus running through his body in order to keep his superpowers and still stay (relatively) human-looking. This becomes the major gimmick of the penultimate boss fight, in which the protagonists give Wesker an intentional overdose of the serum and send him into a Villainous Breakdown.
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Super Serum / int_5ecbc244	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_5ecbc244	comment	Bamse gets his super-ursine strength from "dunderhonung", thunderhoney, which is disqualified from being Power-Up Food because it is not just regular honey but has to be mixed correctly with various herbs and spices (the working ingredient is apparently a rare flower that only grows on a single island in the Aegean, guarded by a seven-headed monster). However, something like Ralph Dibney's metagene above must also be involved, since most people just gets three days of stomach cramps from eating dunderhonung, and it seems to run in the family.
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Super Serum / int_61aa9ed4	comment	The Elysium Project has the eponymous Elysium formula, which grants those exposed to it the power to manipulate reality in accordance with their desires.
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Super Serum / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Puny Steve Rogers became Captain America thanks to the Super-Soldier serum created by Dr. Abraham Erskine, and failed attempts to recreate it are common plot points in both the regular and Ultimate universes. For instance, the 1950s impostor Captain America used a Nazi German variant of the formula to enhance his body. However, he learned the hard way that is not enough; the subject taking the serum then has to have it activated and stabilized in his body by a radiological treatment using "vita-rays" in order to take it into his system safe. Without the stabilizing agent, the serum caused mental instabilities, including paranoia; in the imposter's case, fueled by the Red Scare propaganda of that era, it caused him to see Communist enemies of America everywhere, leading to his being put on ice (literally) by the U.S. government and his fan-given nickname of "Commie-Smasher Cap". Wolverine's enemy Omega Red is a failed Soviet attempt at making the serum as well as giving Red tendrils in his arms made of carbonadium (an alloy intended as a more feasible substitute for the astronomically expensive and rare adamantium). While Omega Red did gain most of Cap's powers, he is constantly dying and has to drain the life-force of others in order to livenote Some issues have it that instead of (or alongside) life-draining, he has a "death spore virus" that will eat him alive if he doesn't transmit it to others. (fortunately for him, his mutant powers along with his tendrils can do just that). Apparently, something called the "Carbonadium Synthesizer" will cure him of his condition. It's his best weapon — your average opponent can't even try to fight him. He considers himself Blessed with Suck (despite being the type who would not pick a different career if cured or feel bad about the fact that he must kill to survive) and seeks the C-Synthesizer, as carbonadium is the only thing that can neutralize the virus. However, it's hard to know if he was born with this or if it's part of what was done to him. Interestingly, in Avengers: The Initiative, it turns out that Erskine discovered similar results could be achieved with a perfect diet and an extremely specialized exercise program, which resulted in his great-grandson Michael Van Patrick having the same peak physical condition naturally. The research was not classified or ever used by the military because they wanted a quick fix; the natural super soldier would take a lifetime of dedication to produce, unless you get your hands on one and just clone him over and over. Cloak and Dagger were phased out for a while because their back story involved pharmaceutical testing (of the extremely involuntary kind). This is lampshaded in every scene they appear in when they make a comeback in the Runaways series. Every time they explain their backstory, another character says "So you got your powers from drugs, I bet the parent groups love you", to which Cloak usually declares that he is not supposed to be a role model. This is brought up again later where a modified version of the drug that gave Cloak his powers is mixed with mutant growth hormone and sold on the black market as the drug Darkforce, with the slogan "You wanna go night flying?" Superpowers are quite the buzz, apparently. The Sentry is a metafictional send-up of many Comic Book Tropes. Not only did he get his powers by taking "the Professor's secret serum", but comics-that-never-happened from the 1980s showed it blossoming into a full-on addiction metaphor. Later, it's revealed that he originally drank it hoping to get high. After receiving an emergency transfusion of Bruce Banner's blood, She-Hulk gained Hulk powers of her own (not quite as strong, but more controllable). It has been more or less established that anyone receiving a transfusion of Bruce's blood can receive Hulk powers temporarily, but presumably only a close relative like Jen can keep them. In Spider-Gwen's Earth-65, Jesse Drew (a male version of Jessica Drew) was bitten by alien moon spiders, and the antidote that saved his life also granted him the abilities of his Prime Earth counterpart. He was made to believe that he needed to keep taking regular doses of the "antidote" in order to stay alive, but in actuality it simply allowed him to keep his powers. The various Green Goblins and Hobgoblins from Spider-Man comics used a serum that involved this trope mixed with a little bit of Psycho Serum since the Goblin formula increased a person's strength and intellect but also made them Ax-Crazy. The original Hobgoblin claimed that his variant didn't induce insanity while Phil Ulrich, who fell into a vat of another variant made by Harry Osborn, had a slow onset of insanity long after his heroic career had ended, pushing him into villainy. Ultimate Marvel: It seems that almost everything in the Ultimate universe involving superpowers is derived from attempted recreations of Captain America's Super Serum, which Ultimate Origins reveals was in turn reverse-engineered from Wolverine, in the same experiments that created mutants. While his mainline self does not use it, in Ultimate X-Men (2001), this version of Colossus needs the mutant enhancement drug "Banshee" to be able to so much as move his limbs in his organic steel form. More in the superpower-causers-equaling-drugs: There's an article in one issue of Year in Review, a tongue-in-cheek in-universe magazine, about Pym poppers, kids who take Pym particles to shrink and grow. This always backfires. Patriot (Elijah Bradley) from Young Avengers is the grandson of Isaiah Bradley, the "first" Captain America, but his mother was conceived before Isaiah was experimented on, so he did not inherit his grandfather's powers. When Iron Lad came to recruit Elijah's brother, Elijah claimed to have gained superpowers through an emergency blood transfusion, but really was gaining powers artificially with MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone), an illegal street drug that causes brief periods of super-human abilities. Once discovered he stopped taking the MGH but went into battle anyway, was grievously wounded... and got an emergency blood transfusion from his grandfather, thus gaining superpowers.
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Super Serum / int_65d07453	comment	Captain America: The First Avenger: Steve Rogers receives the Super Soldier Serum from Dr. Erskine, giving him his iconic power set. It's later revealed that Johann Schmidt used a prototype version of the same serum on himself, but because it was incomplete scarred his face into a red skull.
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Super Serum / int_671d5c19	comment	In The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Mojo Jojo gives a group of kids Powerpuff-styled superpowers via exposure to Chemical X. This was played up as a Very Special Episode as it was shown to be super addictive to them (that, or they were addicted to the powers) as they demanded more and were promised that if they could defeat the girls.
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Super Serum / int_67855503	comment	Elixir in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle, which has variable effects depending on dose and whether the user has undergone Baptism (a surgical procedure to prepare the body to better accept Elixir). A low dose and an un-Baptised user grants temporary resistance to the sanity-eroding power of Iblis. A high dose and an un-Baptised user results in a transformation into a Nocturnal, a creature with black skin, white hair, massively increased physical abilities and also increased negative emotions. Oh, and Nocturnals also have a high probability of running out of life energy and dying. If the user is Baptised, the Elixir will heal any injuries they have and even restore stamina. It's eventually revealed that Elixir is refined from the life energy of living things and is more effective the closer the source of the life energy is to the user, so all of the Elixir seen in the series comes from the life energy of humans.
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Super Serum / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder has the Alchemist, which trades almost exclusively in super serums, with their Jekyll & Hyde Mutagens, as well as many beneficial infusions (spells in potion form).
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Super Serum / int_69d15cc0	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Centipede serum, which is a cocktail containing Chitauri metal (from The Avengers), Gamma radiation (from The Incredible Hulk), the Super-Soldier Serum (from Captain America: The First Avenger) and Extremis (from Iron Man 3). In the second season, Mr. Hyde shows up with his own serum, made from a bevy of experimental drugs, as well as gorilla testosterone and peppermint. A full dose gives him enough Super-Strength to break through bulletproof glass and enough Super-Toughness to survive getting rammed into a wall by a car, with the only side effect being a minor physical transformation and increased aggression. However, it's implied that using it has caused the effects to last longer and possibly even become permanent; even when not using the serum, he has performed feats of strength and endurance that might not be superhuman but are definitely improbable. In the fourth season, it is revealed that the U.S. government created a serum and gave it to Jeffery Mace, in order to allow him to pretend to be an Inhuman so that they could put an Enhanced person with a good public face in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. And the serum was based on Hyde's serum. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Much of this show deals with attempts to replicate the Captain America super soldier serum over the decades since World War II. The attempts were met with varying degrees of success. In the show's present, Helmut Zemo vehemently opposes the creation of new super soldiers because of his You Killed My Father backstory.
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Super Serum / int_6ceabc	comment	In The Iron Teeth, people known as Vessels or more informally as Sloshers consume a special elixir created and sold by mages to gain superhuman abilities. The power granted by an elixir needs to be replenished by consuming more. Not everyone can use it though as some people who take it die and others can become addicted.
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Super Serum / int_6d564c8	comment	In Freedom Force, the Domain's secret weapon is Energy X, which they have used to conquer all dimensions except this one. In order to have some fun, Lord Dominion decides to give Energy X canisters to Earth's worst criminals and watch them tear apart the planet. An alien named Mentor steals the ship containing the canisters and takes it to Earth, hoping to give it to good people to defend themselves and the others. The ship is shot down in orbit, and the canisters fall all over Patriot City and other parts of the world (Bullet is exposed all the way in Vietnam). Both good and bad people get hit with Energy X and transformed into superheroes and supervillains, respectively. Apparently, a super's blood can also act as super-serum, as Liberty Lad gets his powers from a transfusion of Minuteman's blood.
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Super Serum / int_7149a731	comment	In Wonder Woman (2017), Dr. Poison gives General Ludendorff capsules with a gas that gives him temporary Super-Strength and toughness, enough to put up a fight against Diana.
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Super Serum / int_72c283cc	comment	In "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse", Tom tries to do away with Jerry by putting various poisonous substances in his milk, but it makes Jerry strong enough to violently body-slam Tom instead.
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Super Serum / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]'s Super Soldiers get their superhuman abilities from being injected with a strain of The Virus that has beneficial properties and none of the downsides.
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Super Serum / int_755997ac	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_755997ac	comment	Doom: The Berserk Pack grants the Marine full health and ten times more damage when using his fists for the remainder of the level. It also makes his eyes bloodshot, tinting the player's screen red for about 20 seconds. In the comic, it has a bit of a Psycho Serum effect as well: Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal's protagonist, the Doom Slayer, is a human who has been augmented with refined Argent particles, giving him physical immortality, super-strength, and the ability to regenerate health as he executes enemies. Finding more of this stuff augments the Doom Slayer's stats.
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Super Serum / int_76b8cb10	comment	In addition to Fallout's smorgasbord of experimental drugs to military-grade combat enhancements, certain varieties of Nuka Cola deliver a fair bit more than a carbonated sugar rush.
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Super Serum / int_76f42810	comment	The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot: Subverted. When Superman unmasks the imposter Supergirl, he finds out it is Black Flame, one of his cousin's Rogues who had been depowered a while back. Superman asks how Black Flame got her powers back, and the woman claims she invented a super serum which gave her most of them back, but trading her invulnerability to nearly everything for invulnerability to Kryptonite. However, it is soon revealed that Mr. Mxyzptlk was impersonating Black Flame, and the "super serum" was nothing but humbug.
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Super Serum / int_79b17f0f	comment	More in the superpower-causers-equaling-drugs: There's an article in one issue of Year in Review, a tongue-in-cheek in-universe magazine, about Pym poppers, kids who take Pym particles to shrink and grow. This always backfires.
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Super Serum / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Bane (who also appeared in Batman: The Animated Series) gets his superhuman strength from Venom, a steroid-like chemical derived from Miraclo. In a Continuity Nod, it later appears in Batman Beyond as a street drug and future-Bane has become a wheelchair-bound invalid due to the damage a lifetime of Venom use wrought on his body. In the comics, he also suffers severe problems from continued Venom use, but eventually gets himself clean and now relies solely on his (considerable) natural strength... or at least he did, and he was forced back into it. He tries not to use it as much, though. Mark Desmond (Blockbuster) took an intelligence-reducing but physique-enhancing drug at the behest of his criminal mastermind brother. Later, his brother Roland Desmond took the same drug and made a deal with the demon Neron to maintain his intelligence, becoming the second Blockbuster and Nightwing's nemesis. The mainstream comics continuity Harley Quinn, although it isn't often mentioned in the comics, has mildly augmented strength, agility, and healing due to an herbal elixir Poison Ivy gave her in her first appearance. This is probably to give some justification for how a thin, petite woman can beat up guys who are much bigger than her and have martial arts training. The Creeper gets his strength and agility from a super serum, later changed into nanocell serum. In Batman: The Animated Series, his powers come from the very same acid bath that created the Joker, combined with a blast of the Joker's very own laughing gas.
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Super Serum / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: Downplayed with the nanomachine-based Healing Potion from the Precursors called the Old World, that repair a human body based on a certain set of standards that, thanks to the Old World's Transhuman augmentation, are stronger than those of a modern-day human. The way the potential of a Super-Strength Differently Powered Individual is awoken is taking these while putting great stress on the body to make them repair it to those standards. There is also a more direct serum that makes its users capable of Voluntary Shapeshifting, Pulling Themselves Together, Self-Duplication (which can be into other forms like a spider bot and recombine) and regenerating virtually From a Single Cell. This serum is based on medical nanomachine Lost Technology procured by Yatsubiyashi as part of a deal with the A.I. Tsubaki where he helps sabotage hunter efforts to pilfer her domain. First giving an earlier version to the Back from the Dead Tiol. The Tyke Bomb Haruka uses it to its full potential as a Super-Soldier.
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Super Serum / int_7cdeac0d	comment	The lead character in Senseless gains Super-Senses through a regimen of injections given to him as part of a pharmaceutical test.
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Super Serum / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014), the Velocity drug can not only temporarily boost a speedster's, well, speed, but can also be used to temporarily turn a normal human into a speedster. It does have some nasty side effects, however. In addition to hallucinations, speedsters who overuse it will eventually lose their speed entirely, while non-speedsters will not only be affected by the hallucinations faster but also eventually disintegrate as they move faster than their bodies can handle.
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Super Serum / int_7f0dc53a	comment	In Intrepid, Panacea's ambrosia can be used to give a minor Brute power, along with other effects.
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Super Serum / int_807563b0	comment	One of the ongoing plot threads in Empire centers around discovering the secret of the production of Eucharist, a highly addictive substance that supercharges the abilities of those who take it. People under its influence can dodge bullets, and the high is described as being "Better than Sex". It's so addictive that anyone who stops using has a good chance of being driven permanently insane during withdrawal. It turns out that it's derived from the blood of the defeated superhero Endymion.
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Super Serum / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: The Henshin One-Shot in Kamen Rider 555's movie Paradise Lost allows the user to be able to use Kamen Rider Kaixa's Rider Gear. But, like its name states, it's only good once. After that, it causes the Kaixa Gear to dissolve into dust. Kamen Rider Kiva has the Kivat-family belts work by first biting the user's hand, injecting them with a serum that activates their dormant vampiric powers. The same serum also works on a regular human, but at the eventual cost of death from the strain. Kamen Rider Build has Nebula Gas, an alien compound that grants whoever's injected with it super strength and toughness along with the ability to use belts fueled by the same gas, as long as they were already physically capable. If they're not tough enough to handle the injection, then the serum will instead turn them into a monster or kill them.
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Super Serum / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Mario's Fire Flower, and by extension, all other items that Mario characters can get upgrades from, from Super Mushrooms to Feathers to Doki Doki Panic's Hearts.
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Super Serum / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape has the Combat Potion made from Harralander herbs which can improve your strength and reflexes but most of all the herb in general has energy stimulating properties.
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Super Serum / int_8601c91f	comment	Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal's protagonist, the Doom Slayer, is a human who has been augmented with refined Argent particles, giving him physical immortality, super-strength, and the ability to regenerate health as he executes enemies. Finding more of this stuff augments the Doom Slayer's stats.
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Super Serum / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: The JÃ¤germonsters are the result of humans drinking a concoction first created by the Heterodyne family, brewed from the waters of a strange river (the Dyne) that they built their castle over. The resulting "JÃ¤gerdraught" killed a significant number of the humans who drank it, but those who survived became nearly unkillable, immortal soldiers. The water of the Dyne itself can grant incredible healing, but it's even more likely to kill anyone who bathes in it. The original Heterodyne did the unthinkable and drank it, gaining superhuman strength and stamina and becoming revered as the consort of the local battle goddess. The JÃ¤gerdraught uses the water of the river as a key component. When in England, Agatha encounters a scientist who has attempted to replicate the JÃ¤gerdraught, with minimal success. The drink transforms him into a stronger form, but only temporarily — he requires an increased dosage each time, if he stays like that for too long he'll become psychotic, and when it wears off, he is left in an imbecilic state. He offers to serve Agatha if she transforms him with the true JÃ¤gerdraught, but unfortunately, she hasn't learned how to make it yet. And she probably couldn't have anyway without the waters of the Dyne.
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Super Serum / int_87c2b177	comment	An episode of The Invisible Man has a scientist rob a sperm bank full of sperm of geniuses and make a serum out of it that gives anyone he injects with it enormous intelligence. It turns out that people weren't meant to be so smart, as all of them end up burning out within days.
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Super Serum / int_87ffda3d	comment	In Final Crisis, Tawky Tawny is able to defeat Kalibak thanks in part to his legendary tiger tea, which briefly grants one The Strength of Ten Men.
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Super Serum / int_882f1fdb	comment	Parodied in the classic Bugs Bunny Wartime Cartoon "Super-Rabbit".
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Super Serum / int_89dd130e	comment	In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bruce Banner's mutation into the Hulk is due to his experimentation with the original Rebirth Project super-soldier serum. A combination of the fact that he didn't know what he was doing (the military had told him the work was for radiation resistance) and his replacing vita-rays with gamma radiation led to his transformation. The source of the Abomination's powers is a double dose of the serum combined with a blood transfusion from Banner. This appears to have been done as part of an effort to provide visible ties between Marvel Studios' adaptations of their canon characters — in this case, laying groundwork for the Captain America film.
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Super Serum / int_8a13d4af	comment	Blackcollar has several of these used to create the titular Blackcollar commandos, the most important one being "Backlash", which vastly enhances reflexes and motor control.
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Super Serum / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The Extended in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny are three human mobile suit pilots who have been taking the drug called Gamma Glipheptin to boost their combat powers to the same level as the Coordinators. The drug also doubles as a Psycho Serum with profoundly negative effects on the user, including fatal withdrawal symptoms, which were added on purpose in order to keep the Extendeds loyal (you can't rebel against the only people who can keep you alive).
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Super Serum / int_8f1542e0	comment	It seems that almost everything in the Ultimate universe involving superpowers is derived from attempted recreations of Captain America's Super Serum, which Ultimate Origins reveals was in turn reverse-engineered from Wolverine, in the same experiments that created mutants.
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Super Serum / int_90b916ba	comment	Bane (who also appeared in Batman: The Animated Series) gets his superhuman strength from Venom, a steroid-like chemical derived from Miraclo. In a Continuity Nod, it later appears in Batman Beyond as a street drug and future-Bane has become a wheelchair-bound invalid due to the damage a lifetime of Venom use wrought on his body. In the comics, he also suffers severe problems from continued Venom use, but eventually gets himself clean and now relies solely on his (considerable) natural strength... or at least he did, and he was forced back into it. He tries not to use it as much, though.
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Super Serum / int_9440423a	comment	The movie implies that the ability to get super-strength from spinach was a family trait. In the original comics, the Sea Witch does try it on Alice the Goon. It's uncertain if it actually worked, partly because Popeye added milk to his spinach diet to make himself even stronger and partly because the Goon fell in love with Wimpy shortly after, leading the way to her sympathizing with Popeye and the gang. The last fight she has with Popeye breaks up rather quickly, as he sees the Goon has a child and won't hit a mother.
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Super Serum / int_958b331	comment	One of the first things Penny does in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain is create the "Super Cheerleader Serum", which her friend Claire uses to get athletic enough to join the cheer squad. Her friend Ray drinks the rest, gaining a much larger boost in his physical powers, to the point that he's at roughly Captain America's level despite being thirteen. Penny explains that enhancing musculature is actually easy, it's just that most villains insist on adding aggression and combat skills and whatnot, which always goes horribly wrong.
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Super Serum / int_980c3316	comment	The Shazam! comics have the minor villain Captain Nazi, who has similar Flying Brick powers, but unlike the big red cheese whose powers come from a magic transformation, Nazi gained his from a scientific serum.
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Super Serum / int_98b5378a	comment	Static and the rest of the Dakota Bang Babies received their powers from being exposed to an experimental mutagenic gas during a massive gang fight. The police thought it was tear gas meant to track the gangs to capture them later.
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Super Serum / int_997387b2	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_997387b2	comment	In Turbo, Theo the snail acquires Super-Speed, and other car-like traits, after being dunked in nitrous oxide inside a race car's engine and swallowing some of it.
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Super Serum / int_9a29f3a4	comment	The Top 10 comic series, which is a Homage to comic book tropes to begin with, has a whole subculture of power-granting drugs, such as "goose juice" that gives Super-Speed.
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Super Serum / int_9a99a5c5	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_9a99a5c5	comment	8 Man After is a Cyberpunk Superhero who recharges himself (and his powers) through special cigarettes. His are the only cybernetics that don't eat one's soul in the series. The OVA revival 8 Man After, he uses plain old experimental Super Serum, in contrast to the Psycho Serum all the other cyborgs have to use.
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Super Serum / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In the Fishman Island arc, Hody Jones and his crew of fishmen consume great quantities of an "energy steroid" which increases their strength. Hody and one of his allies end up overdosing on it. Instead of dying, however, they transform into stronger forms. This is only temporary, and their abuse of the drug cuts years off their lives — literally, as they age from their prime to old men within a day.
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Super Serum / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	In The Boys, Compound V is what gives people superpowers. Usually, samples just give temporary powers, but the pure kind gives you powers permanently (or at lower doses, a permanent boost to physical abilities, immune system and longevity). Guess which sort Billy Butcher injects Wee Hughie with? The problem with Compound V is that it's manufactured by a company with more interest in the bottom line than actual competence. The compound finds itself transmitted through multiple vectors, resulting in Traumatic Superpower Awakening for people who had little to no connection to the company at all. Mother's Milk is so named because his mother worked with V while pregnant and now not only has to regularly be breastfed by her or he'll lose his powers, he'll die. His mother also mutated into a huge pile of flesh with prehensile breasts, so now he can't even see a documentary about big snakes without throwing up.
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Super Serum / int_9ffb41a9	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_9ffb41a9	comment	Galerians centers around a boy named Rion, who has powerful latent psychic abilities that he needs to consume drugs to use. His addiction causes him to waste away slowly.
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Super Serum / int_a03824e8	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Batman: Bane (who also appeared in Batman: The Animated Series) gets his superhuman strength from Venom, a steroid-like chemical derived from Miraclo. In a Continuity Nod, it later appears in Batman Beyond as a street drug and future-Bane has become a wheelchair-bound invalid due to the damage a lifetime of Venom use wrought on his body. In the comics, he also suffers severe problems from continued Venom use, but eventually gets himself clean and now relies solely on his (considerable) natural strength... or at least he did, and he was forced back into it. He tries not to use it as much, though. Mark Desmond (Blockbuster) took an intelligence-reducing but physique-enhancing drug at the behest of his criminal mastermind brother. Later, his brother Roland Desmond took the same drug and made a deal with the demon Neron to maintain his intelligence, becoming the second Blockbuster and Nightwing's nemesis. The mainstream comics continuity Harley Quinn, although it isn't often mentioned in the comics, has mildly augmented strength, agility, and healing due to an herbal elixir Poison Ivy gave her in her first appearance. This is probably to give some justification for how a thin, petite woman can beat up guys who are much bigger than her and have martial arts training. The Creeper gets his strength and agility from a super serum, later changed into nanocell serum. In Batman: The Animated Series, his powers come from the very same acid bath that created the Joker, combined with a blast of the Joker's very own laughing gas. B'Wana Beast used a mystic elixir from somewhere in Africa. His mask-slash-helmet allowed him to control animals, though the elixir allowed him to fuse two animals into one, which he could control with the helmet. The Elongated Man gets his stretchy power from a substance called Gingold — usually fatal in its pure form, Elongated Man's metagene fortunately allows him to drink it as much as he wanted. In Final Crisis, Tawky Tawny is able to defeat Kalibak thanks in part to his legendary tiger tea, which briefly grants one The Strength of Ten Men. The Golden Age version of The Flash, Jay Garrick, had a professional rival named Eric Clarris who managed to work out his Secret Identity and the cause of his superpowers (inhaling hard water vapors during a smoke break) and used the source of this to gain Super-Speed himself... but only temporarily, and he had to keep using it like a drug to maintain his powers. He became the Rival, the very first Reverse-Flash. In the Justice League of America comics, Johnny Quick, the Crime Syndicate of Amerika counterpart of The Flash, uses an extract of his predecessor's blood to give him super-speed powers.
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Super Serum / int_a0913a6c	comment	Ashes 2063: Super serums are known as Stims, and have various effects: Regenerating Health (Regen), vastly increased combat reflexes (Frnzy/Brute), total immunity to radiation (Purge), and even the ability to shrug off any injury past a certain point (TITAN). If asked, a doctor NPC reveals that these stims all need to be used with care for the risk of unpleasant side-effects, but Scavs, a type of mutant that the Player Character belongs to, can use them with impunity.
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Super Serum / int_a0b3a75e	comment	In Superman & Lois, X-Kryptonite can be turned into a gas that temporarily grants a human Kryptonian strength and powers. The DOD develops the gas, but so do a bunch of drug dealers who begin selling it in Smallville (especially to high school athletes). Jonathan begins taking X-K in order to improve his football performance and also because he's jealous of his twin brother Jordan, who has their father's powers. In the Inverse World (AKA Bizarro Earth), green Kryptonite has the same effect on humans and can also boost Kryptonians. One human who becomes superpowered thanks to Kryptonite is Lana-Rho, while the Superman of that world begins abusing Kryptonite to get stronger and faster (jealous of his son's popularity). It eventually begins affecting him physically and mentally, giving him the appearance of Bizarro from the comics.
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Super Serum / int_a131f925	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_a131f925	comment	In the 101 Dalmatian Street the fanfic I AM A DE VIL Thomas injects Dyrant De Vil with the super serum giving Dyrant enchanced superhuman levels.
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Super Serum / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: Sgt. Hatred is a product of a Captain America-style serum given to him by the O.S.I. It turned out to be a bit more of a Psycho Serum, as it gave him pedophilic tendencies, which led him to defect from the O.S.I. and join the Guild of Calamitous Intent. After defecting again from the Guild to become Dr. Venture's new bodyguard, the O.S.I. supply him with "Nomolestol" to calm those urges, but the new side effect of that was... breasts. The Action Man of original Team Venture was also generally on a serum during his heyday. It is implied to have been addictive, and possibly to have had psychotic side-effects. For instance, a tipsy Col. Gentleman baits him about the time he killed a baby, which the Action Man insists was a werewolf. There is no indication of whether this serum is related to Sgt. Hatred's.
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Super Serum / int_ae94c9e6	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_ae94c9e6	comment	Project Power: A new street drug called "Power" gives people a random superpower for five minutes, or they simply explode. A given person gains the same superpower every time they use, and some of them clearly get intoxicated from the rush.
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Super Serum / int_af9ca1e7	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_af9ca1e7	comment	Brother Complex: This is the secret behind Rose's massive growth spurt from a little girl to a ball and busty one in just a year. It also seems to improve her intellectually, as she's able to solve an equation the teacher provided in response to her... flirtatious advances with Jack. She actually got it courtesy of her father, after she ended up overdosing in response to Jack's abroad trip. In desperation, Frank used an experimental serum to keep her alive. The government found out, and Rose volunteered to partake in tests regarding the serum's effects, with Frank as the project's director, and they'll manage to keep normal lives, especially for Rose. Using data from this research on Rose, she slipped in a formula based on that for Mimi, who then offers one to Eclaire.
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Super Serum / int_afb7052	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_afb7052	comment	In Batman & Robin, Bane is created by Dr. Woodrue using a super soldier serum "codenamed venom, to which [he adds his] very own recipe of steroids and toxins." Woodrue's goal was to sell Bane or his services on an international market as a Super-Soldier.
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Super Serum / int_b369b223	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_b369b223	comment	John Grimm from Doom is injected with a 24th chromosome which boosts his physical capabilities enormously, enabling him to plow his way through a building full of ravenous mutated monsters. In turn, those monsters also have the chromosome, and said chromosome mutates you into a horrible monster if you're a bad person and turns you into a Super-Soldier if you're a good person. They first tested it on a convicted murderer.
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Super Serum / int_b4996199	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_b4996199	comment	The various Green Goblins and Hobgoblins from Spider-Man comics used a serum that involved this trope mixed with a little bit of Psycho Serum since the Goblin formula increased a person's strength and intellect but also made them Ax-Crazy. The original Hobgoblin claimed that his variant didn't induce insanity while Phil Ulrich, who fell into a vat of another variant made by Harry Osborn, had a slow onset of insanity long after his heroic career had ended, pushing him into villainy.
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Super Serum / int_b4bfc3d0	comment	The Gummi Bears are a target for all number of villains because their magical Gummiberry juice temporarily grants superhuman strength to humans who drink it. (The juice allows the bears themselves to bounce much like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.) While the bears can drink it as often as they want, humans only get a strength boost every 24 hours.
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Super Serum / int_b67b702b	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_b67b702b	comment	Baki the Grappler has X-4, a super-steroid that increases muscular growth and overrides the effects of over-training. It turns Jack Hanma from a stick of a person to a monster of a human.
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Super Serum / int_b6d60e4	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_b6d60e4	comment	In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Dr. Jekyll keeps several vials of his serum that allow him to temporarily turn into Hyde. One vial is stolen by The Mole and copied by the Big Bad in order to allow him to create a whole army of Hydes. One of his lieutenants drinks a lot of the stuff and turns into a huge monster that even Hyde has trouble fighting. Ditto for Skinner's blood, which is used to recreate the formula for Griffin's invisibility serum. Presumably, Mina's blood is used to figure out how to turn people into vampires.
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Super Serum / int_b7f1d3d7	comment	In Superheroes Anonymous, Mobium is effectively a Super Serum, providing superpowers to the individual it's provided to. Unfortunately, its adaptive nature makes subjects difficult to control and prone to insanity.
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Super Serum / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Part of the extensive, complex, long and dangerous process of creating Space Marines is being steadily injected with a serum derived from the gene-seed of the chapter's Primarch — in turn derived from the Emperor himself (the other steps include bionics, numerous organ implants, and Training from Hell). The Apothecaries, the Chapter's group of medics, have their main role of reclaiming the gene-seed out of their fallen battle-brothers' bodies and monitor the gene-seed organs of recruits and neophytes. They also tend to the wounded, but the survival of the gene-seed is more important than the Marine it's in, considering that most Primarchs are either dead (save for Roboute Guilliman), missing (such as Rogal Dorn and Jaghatai Khan), fallen to Chaos (such as Fulgrim), or am mixture of the above (Horus and Alpharius Omegon), so getting more gene-seed is nearly impossible. In James Swallow's Red Fury, Rafen and his company come up against foes who inject themselves; Rafen is familiar with Bottled Heroic Resolve, and explicitly aware that this is far more. For one thing, they rise up from apparent death with them. Chaos Space Marines of Slaanesh and the Dark Eldar also have access to a variety of combat drugs which can boost their stats temporarily... or kill them.
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Super Serum / int_bd41836e	comment	In StarCraft, Terran infantry have access to stimpacks, drugs that increase movespeed and attack speed at the cost of 10 hitpoints (and have long-term effects in the novels). When they had no way of healing their troops, this was slightly risky (Marines only have 40 HP), but Brood War introduced medics that made them pretty much mandatory. In the sequel, the much tougher Marauders get them as well (though not in the campaign and at the cost of double the health), allowing them to do horrible things to enemy vehicles and structures and kite combined with their concussive grenades, kite or chase down nearly anything.
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Super Serum / int_bd6b6be4	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_bd6b6be4	comment	Cloak and Dagger were phased out for a while because their back story involved pharmaceutical testing (of the extremely involuntary kind). This is lampshaded in every scene they appear in when they make a comeback in the Runaways series. Every time they explain their backstory, another character says "So you got your powers from drugs, I bet the parent groups love you", to which Cloak usually declares that he is not supposed to be a role model. This is brought up again later where a modified version of the drug that gave Cloak his powers is mixed with mutant growth hormone and sold on the black market as the drug Darkforce, with the slogan "You wanna go night flying?" Superpowers are quite the buzz, apparently.
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Super Serum / int_bf4abb02	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_bf4abb02	comment	The mainstream comics continuity Harley Quinn, although it isn't often mentioned in the comics, has mildly augmented strength, agility, and healing due to an herbal elixir Poison Ivy gave her in her first appearance. This is probably to give some justification for how a thin, petite woman can beat up guys who are much bigger than her and have martial arts training.
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Super Serum / int_c511c682	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_c511c682	comment	The Asterix books concern a Gallic town which fends off Roman domination by use of a magic potion which grants superhuman strength. In one entry, Asterix entered the (original) Olympic games in Greece, only to be penalized for use of the potion (rather like steroid use in the modern Olympics, which is sort of funny since the original Olympics encouraged the use of performance enhancing drugs since it made for more interesting competitions). He finally won a race by tricking all opponents into using the potion previously mixed with a blue food colorant. Obelix is the only character who doesn't need the potion to have superhuman fighting powers... because someone dropped him in a cauldron of the potion when he was a baby, giving him its effects permanently. The Gauls were prevented from intentionally dropping any other babies in cauldrons by Getafix, because Asterix and Obelix All at Sea reveals that an overdose of the potion turns the drinker to stone. Obelix was a lucky survivor when he was a child, and he made the mistake of sneaking into Getafix's hut amidst yet another Curb-Stomp Battle against the Romans and drinking a whole cauldron of it, turning to stone and causing a grueling journey to bring him back.
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Super Serum / int_c61f3112	comment	A live TV example would be the 1960s show Mr. Terrific — essentially Hourman again (not related to the comic book Mister Terrific). A government agency comes up with a pill that makes 99% of humans sick but gives nerdy Stanley Beamish the buffs (BFS — bulletproof flying strongman). Whenever a secret mission comes along, Stanley is be given the 1-hour main pill and two 15-minute boosters — one of which he needs in every episode due to power cutout.
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Super Serum / int_c62995ba	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Erskine's original serum is in Steve and his descendants, as it turns out, with what initially appear to be diminishing returns — Alison, his daughter by Peggy, is a fully fledged super-soldier, but her children are only marginally above human if at all, and their children don't appear to be enhanced at all. However, as his great-granddaughter Carol Danvers demonstrates, it's mostly just dormant, and simply requires a sufficient kick in the genetic pants to get working. On more than one occasion, it is observed that almost every attempt to replicate it has failed, however, there have been a few successes. Bruce turning into the Hulk, if you want to call that a success. Ditto the Abomination. The Russian Infinity Formula, given to Natasha, Ivan Petrovitch and the Winter Soldier, in the latter case to stabilize his enhancements by Zola, mostly just slows aging and provides minimal enhancements within human parameters. S.H.I.E.L.D. also has the Infinity Formula, implied to have been used by Nick Fury, who offers it to Coulson (who turned it down) and to the Flamels in exchange for them working for him, a primary inducement being that the formula repairs everything... including reproductive systems. Maya Hansen's Extremis formula, the basic version being the one seen in the film, is refined by Arnim Zola to become its infinitely more terrifying comic book variant — it allows you to reprogram someone's genetics to, essentially, do whatever the hell you want them to, within certain ill-defined power limitations. Zola being Zola, immediate uses include Elite Mooks and a strange human... griffin... thing that mostly seems to want to be put out of its misery.
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Super Serum / int_c6cc3085	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_c6cc3085	comment	In Kurozuka, the blood of the immortal vampire Kuromitsu can give both immortality and Super-Strength to those who take it — if they survive, which most don't.
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Super Serum / int_c72021c5	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex has "physiopharmaceutical" augmentation for the Men in Black, which among others gives them serious Super-Toughness.
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Super Serum / int_c757e439	type	Super Serum
Super Serum / int_c757e439	comment	7-Second Riddles: Some riddles will involve the audience finding pills that grant them temporary super-powers. The riddle involves figuring out which pill would help them deal with their situation.
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Super Serum / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Teen Titans: Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, received increased strength, speed and endurance through an experiment conducted by the U.S. Army.
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Super Serum / int_c836d79	comment	In Cavewoman, Mona develops pills that temporarily confer on her (and later Carrie) Meriem's heightened endurance and Nigh-Invulnerability) for a limited period. However, the pills have to be specifically tailored to the individual's biochemistry.
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Super Serum / int_c961059a	comment	In Limitless, the main character uses a drug to become super-smart.
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Super Serum / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Centipede serum, which is a cocktail containing Chitauri metal (from The Avengers), Gamma radiation (from The Incredible Hulk), the Super-Soldier Serum (from Captain America: The First Avenger) and Extremis (from Iron Man 3).
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Super Serum / int_cba3559b	comment	Every single character in Survival of the Fittest: Evolution that takes part in the game gets their power via an injection of chemicals. Some of the powers are... questionably useful, though.
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Super Serum / int_cde25326	comment	Roger Ramjet gets his powers from "Proton Energy Pills".
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Super Serum / int_cf6f9a97	comment	The origin story of the hero of City Hunter is a bizarre instance of attributing cool powers to an actual illegal drug. According to the story, Ryo was born in poverty in Central America, and ended up used as a test subject and injected with a form of LSD. Rather than screwing with his mind, this instead gave him superhuman reflexes and a heightened sex drive, including a Gag Penis.
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Super Serum / int_d120122a	comment	Kamen Rider Kiva has the Kivat-family belts work by first biting the user's hand, injecting them with a serum that activates their dormant vampiric powers. The same serum also works on a regular human, but at the eventual cost of death from the strain.
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Super Serum / int_d19351c3	comment	In Ex-Superheroes, all superpowers come from a drug called Ephemera. The world's seven leading economies (the S7) have signed a treaty restricting the use of Ephemera only to themselves, making it illegal for other countries to get superheroes of their own. Ephemera smuggling is a profitable business (a single canister is worth about $10 million), but also a dangerous one, and there are plenty of illegal Ephemera manufacturers, although Ephemera that's less than pure can have kill the subject, and even if it doesn't, the powers they get can range from useless to dangerous to themselves. The main character Hunter McNeil was caught smuggling Ephemera to freedom fighters in several countries hurt by the S7. He himself was given Ephemera by the U.S. military and became a Barrier Warrior.
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Super Serum / int_d29e22a2	comment	The Source Blood in Sanctuary (2007) is a vial of pure vampire blood (the vampires having been destroyed millennia ago) that the Five use to create a serum that gives each one different powers. Helen Magnus becomes The Ageless, John Druitt becomes a teleporter (agelessness may also be included in the package), James Watson becomes a super-genius, Nigel Griffin becomes invisible (the only one of the Five that appears to pass his core power to his offspring), and Nikola Tesla becomes a vampire with electric powers. Later, the Source Blood is stolen by the Cabal and used to make Helen's daughter Ashley and several "blank slate" humans into Superpowered Mooks.
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Super Serum / int_d3381e70	comment	Captain America: The Winter Soldier: It's revealed through flashbacks that Bucky Barnes also received a different version of the Super Soldier Serum developed by Dr. Arnim Zola just before Steve broke him out of his restraints. It's the reason he was able to survive his fall from the train late in the previous movie, and why Zola continued experimenting on him and turned him into the Winter Soldier.
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Super Serum / int_d4263e4c	comment	Wild Cards plays the "Super Serum = drugs" thing for all it's worth with Captain Trips, a genius biochemist, "the world's last hippie", and one of the most powerful Aces on the planet. He manages to bring each of his "friends" (alternate personalities each with their owns set of superpowers) out with "special concoctions" he makes himself. His first accidental transformation was primarily fueled by his first hit of acid.
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Super Serum / int_d4d2054b	comment	In Big Trouble in Little China, Egg Shen gives the heroes a potion just before the final showdown that will make them more heroic. It seems to work. Wang, at least, is able to jump superhuman distances. It at least somewhat overlaps with Liquid Courage, since they're all obviously drunk after drinking it.
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Super Serum / int_d97a1c83	comment	The Elongated Man gets his stretchy power from a substance called Gingold — usually fatal in its pure form, Elongated Man's metagene fortunately allows him to drink it as much as he wanted.
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Super Serum / int_da25a6a8	comment	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Much of this show deals with attempts to replicate the Captain America super soldier serum over the decades since World War II. The attempts were met with varying degrees of success. In the show's present, Helmut Zemo vehemently opposes the creation of new super soldiers because of his You Killed My Father backstory.
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Super Serum / int_da275e44	comment	Late in the third series of The 4400, the government trains up a squad of superpowered soldiers through a programme of injections of promicin, the neurotransmitter that gives the 4400 their abilities.
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Super Serum / int_de90693a	comment	In Spider-Gwen's Earth-65, Jesse Drew (a male version of Jessica Drew) was bitten by alien moon spiders, and the antidote that saved his life also granted him the abilities of his Prime Earth counterpart. He was made to believe that he needed to keep taking regular doses of the "antidote" in order to stay alive, but in actuality it simply allowed him to keep his powers.
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Super Serum / int_dec15009	comment	In the Alterien series, Theseus, a chemical genius, developed a serum through his company that produces enhanced soldiers. The Alterien businessman called it the Superion Serum. He worked with the British military to begin the Actualized Augmented Soldier Programme. The Actuals, as they're called for short, receive impressive enhancements to their senses, muscles, organs and tissue. The serum makes them as powerful as other super soldiers such as the SABERs of the U.S. or the Red Hammers of Russia. However, they require regular monthly injections in order for them to remain at top level performance.
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Super Serum / int_e11715a2	comment	The Perfect Run: Elixirs, which are the source of superpowers in the world. Colour-Coded for Your Convenience, they are a result of evil experimentation by Eva Fabre, aka The Alchemist. After she encountered a crashed alien spaceship and used the technology and knowledge in it to empower herself, she produced the Elixirs that caused the Mass Super-Empowering Event in a misguided attempt to uplift mankind into a universal master race at any cost.
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Super Serum / int_e275c4e2	comment	Looney Tunes: Parodied in the classic Bugs Bunny Wartime Cartoon "Super-Rabbit". Not to mention the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" when Wile. E. Coyote takes "leg muscle vitamins".
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Super Serum / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Forrest used this initially.
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Super Serum / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: The enzyme Wraith inject into their human victims during the feeding process actually makes the human much stronger, so that the victim doesn't die as quickly and the Wraith can feed off of them longer. Lieutenant Ford begins taking the enzyme on a regular basis (and gathers his own group of human soldiers to take it, too) to help him fight the Wraith. Unfortunately, the enzyme turns out to be highly addictive.
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Super Serum / int_e66a25a9	comment	In Rifts, the "Juicer" character class gain their superhuman abilities from a constant feed of intravenous drugs. The drawbacks are addiction, permanent organ damage in two years (making removal problematic), and death within seven. As most are shock troops and mercenaries, many die in combat long before that.
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Super Serum / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Ako's artefact, as revealed in chapter 304 of Negima! Magister Negi Magi.
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Super Serum / int_e86ee9b9	comment	Rex the Wonder Dog got one suspiciously similar to that received by Captain America, complete with Nazi attack destroying the rest of the serum and killing the inventor. It made him strong and smart enough to win medals during the war (among other increasingly ludicrous accomplishments), and then survive for forty years naturally (after that, he drank from the Fountain of Youth and lives unnaturally).
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Super Serum / int_e966997	comment	One episode of Mighty Mouse ends with the titular hero contently smelling a flower. Some over-zealous Self-Appointed Moral Guardians, however, asserted that the Mouse was snorting opium poppies, and this eventually snowballed into the urban legend that Mighty Mouse gets his powers from cocaine (!).
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Super Serum / int_ed8afeac	comment	Super Chicken, in his segment on George of the Jungle, drinks a concoction known as Super Sauce... from a martini glass. The double-strength and triple-strength varieties of Super Sauce cause the mild-mannered Henry Cabbot Henhouse the Third to explode, hospitalizing him and any schmuck who happens to be standing at Ground Zero with him.
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Super Serum / int_ef4c300f	comment	Assassin's Creed III: "The Tyranny of King Washington" DLC has three examples: It shows an Alternate History where George Washington got his hands on a Piece of Eden and, after the power went to his head, declared himself king and forced his army of "bluecoats" to subjugate the land. After Connor's mother (still alive in this reality) tries to steal the artifact, Washington is determined to destroy the Frontier and enslave or kill its inhabitants. The village elder decides to make tea from the boughs of the Great Willow in order to imbue its warriors with strength to resist the king's army. Connor's mother is against this, as the tea has some nasty side effects. Later, Connor drinks the tea and, after a vision quest, is imbued with the spirit of the wolf. He gains the ability (Cast From Hitpoints) to become virtually invisible in plain sight and can also summon spirit wolves to attack enemies. It's implied that different people get different abilities from the tea. The tea is not mentioned in the original game, nor is the Great Willow present there, implying it's All Just a Dream. The second episode of the DLC introduces another power granted by a second sip of the tea. This one allows Connor to literally turn into an eagle and fly to any ledge/branch/enemy in the vicinity. There are three episodes, so the third may bring yet another spirit power. The third episode has Connor gain the power of the bear with the ability to Ground Pound. The end reveals that it was all a shared vision between Washington and Connor who both touch an Apple that a Templar has given to the general. Horrified, Washington has Connor get rid of the Apple (by tossing it in the ocean) and, later, gets angry when someone (supposedly) suggests that he declare himself king.
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Super Serum / int_f10a65b	comment	In Legends of Tomorrow, the Nazis are given a sample of a super serum by the Reverse-Flash. When used by a Nazi Nobleman named Baron Krieger, it temporarily turns him into a Hulk-like berserker immune to most damage (but not to a barrage of bombs from a B-17). After capturing Ray and Amaya, Krieger threatens to kill Amaya, if Ray doesn't figure out how to make more of the serum for the entire Wehrmacht. While working on the serum, Ray modifies it slightly in order to use it on himself to gain superpowers (without Hulking Out). After Nate is badly hurt and is dying because of his hemophilia, Ray uses the serum on him to help his body heal. In the next episode, Nate develops the ability to become a Chrome Champion and starts calling himself "Steel", also finding out that he is no longer a hemophiliac.
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Super Serum / int_f120845f	comment	Many games have stat-boosting powerup potions, but the sheer number of them in Kingdom of Loathing makes it a notable example; it's not uncommon to boost yourself to over 1000% of your normal strength. Not all potions are, strictly speaking, potions (many are oddball things like horoscopes or trivia cards), but most of the actual potions consist of questionable substances like "gremlin mutagen", were-seal blood, or dangerously high-pressure spheres of something concocted by evil mer-people.
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Super Serum / int_f42befdb	comment	Captain Underpants didn't have superpowers initially but gained them after drinking some literal Super Serum off of an alien spaceship in book three. This simply complicated things further, naturally.
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Super Serum / int_f845f81d	comment	The Dracula Dossier: Edom makes extensive use of Seward Serum. Billed as a combat drug, it boosts users to the physical equivalent of Renfields (people granted limited vampiric powers by Dracula or one of his servants). Which only makes sense, since it's derived from vampire blood...
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Super Serum / int_f95c488f	comment	Arrowverse: A subplot in the second season of Arrow involves a drug called "Mirakuru", which was developed by the Japanese during World War II in order to create an army of Super Soldiers. It ends being what grants both Slade Wilson and Solomon Grundy their powers. In The Flash (2014), the Velocity drug can not only temporarily boost a speedster's, well, speed, but can also be used to temporarily turn a normal human into a speedster. It does have some nasty side effects, however. In addition to hallucinations, speedsters who overuse it will eventually lose their speed entirely, while non-speedsters will not only be affected by the hallucinations faster but also eventually disintegrate as they move faster than their bodies can handle. In Legends of Tomorrow, the Nazis are given a sample of a super serum by the Reverse-Flash. When used by a Nazi Nobleman named Baron Krieger, it temporarily turns him into a Hulk-like berserker immune to most damage (but not to a barrage of bombs from a B-17). After capturing Ray and Amaya, Krieger threatens to kill Amaya, if Ray doesn't figure out how to make more of the serum for the entire Wehrmacht. While working on the serum, Ray modifies it slightly in order to use it on himself to gain superpowers (without Hulking Out). After Nate is badly hurt and is dying because of his hemophilia, Ray uses the serum on him to help his body heal. In the next episode, Nate develops the ability to become a Chrome Champion and starts calling himself "Steel", also finding out that he is no longer a hemophiliac. In Superman & Lois, X-Kryptonite can be turned into a gas that temporarily grants a human Kryptonian strength and powers. The DOD develops the gas, but so do a bunch of drug dealers who begin selling it in Smallville (especially to high school athletes). Jonathan begins taking X-K in order to improve his football performance and also because he's jealous of his twin brother Jordan, who has their father's powers. In the Inverse World (AKA Bizarro Earth), green Kryptonite has the same effect on humans and can also boost Kryptonians. One human who becomes superpowered thanks to Kryptonite is Lana-Rho, while the Superman of that world begins abusing Kryptonite to get stronger and faster (jealous of his son's popularity). It eventually begins affecting him physically and mentally, giving him the appearance of Bizarro from the comics.
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Super Serum / int_fa5e90fd	comment	In City of Heroes, the enemy group the Freakshow are cyberpunks powered by a drug called Excelsior, the Troll gang by massive overdoses of street drug Superadyne (or superdyne, or just 'Dyne), and with the release of the Superscience booster pack, players can change their costume by way of emotes that have them either drinking a potion from an Erlenmeyer flask or shooting up in the arm with a vial of the titular trope.
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Super Serum / int_fab6bdd9	comment	Patriot (Elijah Bradley) from Young Avengers is the grandson of Isaiah Bradley, the "first" Captain America, but his mother was conceived before Isaiah was experimented on, so he did not inherit his grandfather's powers. When Iron Lad came to recruit Elijah's brother, Elijah claimed to have gained superpowers through an emergency blood transfusion, but really was gaining powers artificially with MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone), an illegal street drug that causes brief periods of super-human abilities. Once discovered he stopped taking the MGH but went into battle anyway, was grievously wounded... and got an emergency blood transfusion from his grandfather, thus gaining superpowers.
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Super Serum / int_fe8ef766	comment	Sgt. Hatred is a product of a Captain America-style serum given to him by the O.S.I. It turned out to be a bit more of a Psycho Serum, as it gave him pedophilic tendencies, which led him to defect from the O.S.I. and join the Guild of Calamitous Intent. After defecting again from the Guild to become Dr. Venture's new bodyguard, the O.S.I. supply him with "Nomolestol" to calm those urges, but the new side effect of that was... breasts.
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Big Trouble in Little China / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Captain America (1990) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Captain America: The First Avenger / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Deadpool (2016) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Garuda Superhero / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Limitless / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Outpost / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Project Power / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Senseless / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Amazing Bulk / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Strongest Man in the World / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Universal Soldier / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Wonder Woman (2017) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Dune (Franchise) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Witcher (Franchise) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Rebuild World / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Alterien / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Assassin's Pride / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Awaken The Stars / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Captain Underpants / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Chum / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Conciencia y Voluntad / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Divine Will / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Ex-Superheroes / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Firefly: Life Signs / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
HermeticMillenium	seeAlso	Super Serum
Kurozuka / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Mr Gum / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Nemesis Series / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Playing for Keeps / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Rebuild World / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Spirit Animals / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Superheroes Anonymous / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Chronicles of Jegra / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Inquisitor Cycle / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Iron Teeth / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Perfect Run / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Tokyo Demons / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Two Percent Power / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Worm / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
BlueBeetle	seeAlso	Super Serum
CerealInducedSuperPowers	seeAlso	Super Serum
GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse	seeAlso	Super Serum
Hourman	seeAlso	Super Serum
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Super Serum
NanoMachines	seeAlso	Super Serum
NormanOsborn	seeAlso	Super Serum
Poisoned Weapons / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
RedAlter	seeAlso	Super Serum
TheGoldenAge	seeAlso	Super Serum
UltimateMarvel	seeAlso	Super Serum
War of the Pacific	seeAlso	Super Serum
AKIRA (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Baki the Grappler (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
High School Exciting Story: Tough (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Sumomo Mo Momo Mo (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Trash Skill Gacha (Manga) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Priest (1998) (Manhwa) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
ShamanWarrior	seeAlso	Super Serum
The Breaker (Manhwa) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Global Guardians PBEM Universe (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Super Serum
Survival Of The Fittest Mini (Roleplay) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Shadow of Greed (Roleplay) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
All of Us Are Dead / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Alphas / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Black Lightning (2018) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Bugs / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Eureka / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Flander's Company / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Gen V / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Luke Cage (2016) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
No Ordinary Family / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Simon & Simon / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Stargate Atlantis / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Boys (2019) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Flash (2014) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Secret World of Alex Mack / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Titans (2018) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Voltes V: Legacy / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Achtung! Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Dracula Dossier (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
World of Synnibarr (Tabletop Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Ashes 2063 (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Asterix Operation Getafix (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Bio Force Ape (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Blacksad: Under the Skin (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Brigador (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Darkwood (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Decaying Winter (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Fallen Hero (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Galerians (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Huntdown (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Pit-Fighter (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Red Resurrection (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Rise of the East (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Superhero League of Hoboken (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Sims (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Way (RPG Maker) (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
To Arms (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Wizards & Warriors (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Grisaia no Rakuen (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Hakuouki (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Riddle Joker (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Shigatsu Youka (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Eden of Grisaia (Visual Novel) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Bowser's Kingdom (Web Animation) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Pokémon-X (Webcomic) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
TheMagnificentMilkmaid	seeAlso	Super Serum
White Heron (Webcomic) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Onion (Website) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Adventures of the Gummi Bears / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
All-Star Superman / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Bartok the Magnificent / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Batman Beyond / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Battletoads / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Danger Mouse / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Fly Tales / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
My Little Pony: Pony Life / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Napoleon Dynamite / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Spider-Man: The Animated Series / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Static Shock / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
SuperMansion / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Awesomes / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Venture Bros. / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
What Ifâ€¦? (2021) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Young Justice - Original Series / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Zig & Sharko / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
The Undertaker (Wrestling) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Young Avengers (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
superserum	sameAs	Super Serum
LISA (Video Game) / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Underdog / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum

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