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John has one or more superpowers of the genetic and/or magical variety. He may have gained them from birth thanks to Superpowerful Genetics, genetic experimentation, or after conception thanks to Super Serum, a Mass Super-Empowering Event or a Disposable Superhero Maker. Alternately, he has mystic powers in a setting where The Power of Blood and Blood Magic are very real, so his blood contains a measure of his magic. In short, his powers course through his blood in a very real sense. Suddenly, his friend Jack gets shot by one of his enemies, and has only minutes to live before even his copious blood supply runs out! Just by luck, Jack and John are the same blood type, and a quick emergency transfusion ensues... which results in an Emergency Transformation. Thanks to the blood-borne nature of John's powers, Jack now has those same abilities! They might be temporary and last only as long as John's blood is in his system, or they may trigger a similar reaction in Jack's body and give him permanent (and potentially different) powers. It bears mentioning that in Real Life blood transfusions in no way transfer the donor's genes into the recipient's DNA. The red and white blood cells last only a few months before dying without leaving a trace. If John's powers are biological/genetic/chemical in nature, and/or Applied Phlebotinum is involved, Jack getting these powers is often justified by The Professor explaining that the donation triggered dormant super-genes in Jack, or actually did somehow overwrite parts of his genome. If John's powers are magical in nature, then the reason Jack gets similar powers may have to do with Blood Magic. In these cases "John" might not even be the same species as Jack, such as dragon or vampire blood, note of the mystical, non viral based types endowing the imbiber with power. If John's powers are from a (symbiotic) virus then it reasonably would be able to transfer via blood transfusion, though you can probably count characters with these powers on one hand. A subtrope of Super-Empowering. See also How To Give A Character Super Powers. Unrelated to Blood Upgrade, where a character becomes deranged and/or powerful at the sight of their own blood. |
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When Megamind finally succeeds at removing his Worthy Opponent Metro Man and is left with nothing to do, he ends up creating a new hero to fight by accidentally injecting some random joe off the street with Metro Man's DNA. This really doesn't work out, though. | |
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In Operation Darkness, a Werewolf giving his blood to someone changes them and gives them some kind of power... if they survive. | |
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Coppelion has Aether, an injected medicine derived from the Coppelions' blood that grants temporary radiation immunity and enhanced healing. Direct transfusions may not have the same effect, since the Medical Team called a helicopter carrying more Aether instead of attempting a transfusion when short on time. | |
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The main character of Tokyo Ghoul was transformed into a human/ghoul hybrid due to receiving an organ transplant from a ghoul. | |
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X-Men: Jonathan "Jono" Starsmore, a.k.a. Chamber, loses his powers during M-Day. This is very bad for him since the first manifestation of his powers destroyed part of his body, including some vital organs, and his power was what kept him alive. However, Jono's family the Starsmores are also a part of Clan Akkaba, descendants and followers of Apocalypse. Clan Akkaba, hoping to convince Jono to join them, gives him a transfusion of Apocalypse's blood. This heals his body and gives him some of Apocalypse's features, such as gray skin, red eyes, and blue lips. | |
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In Dark Angel, when Max gives an emergency transfusion to Logan, her stem-cell-laden blood starts to repair his spine. Unfortunately, it doesn't last, but he eventually gets a hold of a mechanical exoskeleton that lets him walk again. Later, a transfusion from another transgenic has longer-lasting effects, which when added to the support from the exoskeleton let him be stronger and faster. | |
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Hellboy: In Hellboy: The Island, Hellboy gets drained of his blood and a prophet of the Ogdru Jahad absorbs it. This causes the prophet to begin transforming into a copy of Anung un Rama, the demon that Hell wanted HB to be. The man is then driven insane. | |
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A running theme in the Fire Emblem series is dragons giving humans their blood in order to empower them, generally giving them the ability to use powerful "Holy Weapons." This always happens in the ancient backstories of each game, though, while the current heroes are descendants of the heroes given the dragon transfusion. | |
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One of the early Hank the Cowdog books includes a silly song about an elderly cowboy who has his youth restored by a doctor replacing all the blood in his body, but then starts acting crazy and getting into trouble. It turns out the doctor accidentally gave him diesel instead of blood. | |
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Rosario + Vampire Humans can be injected with monster's blood, temporarily gaining the powers of whatever monster injected them. Too many infusions will permanently turn the human into that species of monster... with consequences. Tsukune receives a few Emergency Transformations from Moka this way, usually as a result of him protecting his friends. Eventually, it becomes permanent; he gets a holy lock from the headmaster, which holds back the feral ghoul in his blood. At the end of the series, he tears off the lock in an act of desperation and discovers it wasn't just holding the ghoul back, it was actually adapting him to the vampire blood; he goes into his junior year a full-blood vampire. It's revealed near the end of Season I that the leader of the Anti-Schoolers, Hokuto, was also a human who attended Yokai Academy, and similarly received a life-changing infusion of the same sort. Season II reveals this also works in specific monster-to-monster cases. Certain vampires known as 'first ancestors' have abnormally powerful blood, which can only be given to other vampires (or taken from them) by the reception of the first ancestor's blood. When Moka was stillborn, her mother Akasha gave her first ancestor blood to heal Moka, with the side effect of them sharing the first ancestor's power. A fatal blow during the final volume provokes the above-mentioned desperation act as Tsukune returns Moka's favor and gives her blood back to heal her, resulting in the two of them sharing first ancestor power. |
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In Heroes, Claire's blood can be used to heal other people through transfusion. | |
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The plot of one Teen Titans Go! episode has the Titans having to deal with their out of control animal urges because they have Beast Boy's blood in them... after he himself can't be bothered to control his own and causes the mess in the first place. When they can't, it falls upon Beast Boy to deal with four rowdy animals. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Last Supper", a Mad Scientist pursues an immortal woman so that he can collect her unique blood and inject it into himself to both heal his own wounds and reverse his aging. He does manage to get hold of it but miscalculates the stuff's potency, eventually shriveling up into a pool of cells. | |
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The Night Unfurls: Chapter 7 of the original reveals that Sanakan and Hugh are given their mentor Kyril's blood to become empowered Hunters. Presumably, this also applies to Lily and Soren. | |
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The Special Children in Supernatural gain psychic powers after the Yellow-Eyed Demon feeds them his blood at 6 months of age. | |
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There's a Penny Arcade comic where, after a car-crash, Gabe and Tycho end up in the hospital and get blood-transfusions. Gabe ends up getting blood donated by Spider-Man, and immediately develops web-shooting abilitiesnote Taking this into account, he most likely got his transfusion from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man due to his organic webbing, as most Spider-Men need a web shooter for web slinging., much to his joy. Tycho gets monkey-blood. | |
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In Misfits, Nikki inadvertently gains the ability to teleport by a heart transplant from Ollie. However, she never learns to control it. | |
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Scott from Leprechaun 3 gets some of the Leprechaun's blood in a wound, which causes him to begin mutating into a leprechaun. | |
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PS238: Tyler is cured of an alien virus via a blood transfusion from Julie to briefly give him her super-health, but it has to be removed before the cells started attacking his own. | |
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She-Hulk: After being shot and critically injured, Jennifer Walters needs a blood transfusion and her cousin Bruce Banner is on hand; afterwards, she is permanently changed into a Hulk, although she retains her personality and intellect. It later turns out that the Hulk's drastic change in personality is caused by a multiple personality disorder which is exacerbated by his transformation. She-Hulk's personality does change, but instead of going into an Unstoppable Rage like Bruce does, she just gets sassier and more confident. She also doesn't have the insane number of alternate transformations that Bruce does. | |
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In Freedom Force, this is how Liberty Lad got his powers; Minuteman gave him a blood transfusion after his Reckless Sidekick behavior got him shot. | |
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BNA: Brand New Animal eventually reveals that Michiru and Nazuna were transformed into beastmen with unusual shapeshifting abilities after an accidental transfusion of modified beastman blood that was used in Sylvasta Pharmaceutical's genetic experiments. It later turns out that Michuru and Nazuna's blood can cure the Nirvasil syndrome ravaging Anima City, without suppressing the Beast Factor like Sylvasta's "vaccine". | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade borrows Anne Rice's method of vampire creation, called "the Embrace". In this case draining the mortal's blood is imperative to transform them into a walking corpse, otherwise they temporarily develop some vampire powers as a ghoul. Vampire blood can be addictive to mortals, and feeding off the same vampire three times binds them to that vampire. | |
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Late into Tales of Symphonia, Zelos Wilder claims that he has received a transfusion of elven blood, thus solving a cinch in their endgame plan that only a descendant of elves can wield the Eternal Sword. Although he later pulls a Fake Defector gambit (or a proper Face–Heel Turn, depending on the player's choice) and the party acquires a means to let a human wield the Eternal Sword, one of the possible conversations the night before reveals that some elven blood is required for any kind of magic; given that Zelos has a Magic Knight moveset, it's likely he's telling the truth. | |
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Ennui GO!: In part 2, Alpha Bitch cheerleader Brittany cracks her skull after a fall and loses a lot of blood. After she wakes up in a hospital, she's told by a doctor that she needed an emergency blood transfusion and her cousin offered to give her his blood since 1) they both have the same blood type and 2) her mother (who also has their blood type) was unavailable. Brittany's cousin turns out to be Omegaman and, as a result, she receives the same powers he has. | |
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There is an episode of Krypto the Superdog where Streaky the cat gets his powers this way. | |
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Savage Dragon: The Dragon once let his blood be used in an attempt to cure a friend's AIDS. It seemed to work at first — restoring him to full health, making him stronger, even giving him green skin and a fin — but within minutes, he exploded. Years later, after the Vicious Circle steals a supply of his blood from the hospital, their Evil Geniuses figure out a way to keep people alive much longer after being injected. But it turns out that regular doses are necessary in order to keep delaying the explosion, so when Dragon-blood-enhanced supercriminals get arrested, they end up exploding while in custody. | |
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Superman: In Superman #6, 1940, Clark Kent opens his own vein to transfuse an injured Lois Lane; not only is she healed of injuries, but the doctor remarks that "his blood conforms to all four types". In another Golden Age story, Lois Lane dreams she gets a blood transfusion from Superman and gains superpowers, becoming Superwoman. This actually does happen in Action Comics, February 1965. Linda Danvers donates blood (using Red Kryptonite to de-super her arm for this purpose). Her classmate Debbie has a head injury and the blood is used in her surgery. However, her brain damage makes her evil, so now an evil Supergirl flies around freeing crooks and baffling police. Linda catches on when Deb tells her she's read an entire mystery novel in a single night, because altogether human speed readers apparently don't exist. Fortunately super-powers gained this way last only 48 hours. In a Bronze Age Superman story, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Lana Lang are exposed to alien microbes from a vial that Lana accidentally drops and breaks — the same alien microbes that infected Clark's adopted parents, leading to their deaths prior to his becoming Superman. However, Superman discovers that his Kryptonian immunity system was able to fight off the microbes when he was exposed to them, thus creating a vaccine that he passes on to both Lois and Lana through a blood transfusion that cures them of the microbe infection. |
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In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, the vampire Scathach gave Joan of Arc an emergency transfusion of her own blood after rescuing her from being burned at the stake. It didn't turn her into a full vampire, but it did make her immortal. | |
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Spider-Geddon shows us one Alternate Universe where Peter managed to give blood to Uncle Ben, saving his life and making them a Spider-Man duo. (Peter also happens to be about 13, essentially making him a Kid Sidekick.) | |
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In the web-serial Heretical Edge this is how Natural Heretics are created, and the only way to make Heretics before Hieronymus Bosch invented the Heretical Edge. A Natural Heretic gains all the abilities of the Stranger which bled on them, but it takes a while for the powers to grow into their full potential. | |
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Getting bitten by a zombie in Sankarea has this effect: the hydrangea that runs through their veins makes other people temporarily impervious to death or pain. | |
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Done deliberately in Darths & Droids; Jim had Qui-Gon give Anakin a blood transfusion so the mini-chlorines [sic] would make him Force-sensitive for the podrace. A later strip says that the Jedi tried it a few centuries ago, but the results were unpredictable, and it is stated that this creates mental instability. | |
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In Mega Man ZX, a "Mega Man" is a Maverick Raid survivor who harnesses the blood of the Big Bad Master Albert via donation. His blood (or rather, the contained DNA) is the key to unlocking the Biometal's power and allowing them to Megamerge with it. This may not be a straight example: it's implied that Albert used his influence to get trace amounts of his DNA into everyone through the upgrades that make Reploids and Humans essentially the same. The DNA lets them megamerge, but they still need the biometal to have superpowers. Not to mention the DNA may just be stored as data in both cases (since Reploids and Humans both have machine parts) and is simply submitted as a confirmation code when the person says "megamerge!" |
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Spider-Man: Inverted early on in The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko), when Peter gives blood to save Aunt May. Neither of them gets much out of it: Peter is too woozy to fight for much of the issue, and his radioactive blood nearly kills Aunt May later on, sparking another "race to find a cure" story in If This Be My Destiny...!. Spider-Geddon shows us one Alternate Universe where Peter managed to give blood to Uncle Ben, saving his life and making them a Spider-Man duo. (Peter also happens to be about 13, essentially making him a Kid Sidekick.) |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Being injected with Harrison's bio-augmented blood temporarily grants others his Healing Factor, although it's not implied to last beyond the initial healing. | |
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In Young Justice (2010), Beast Boy's Animorphism (and green skin), instead of coming from Super Serum as in the comics, is a side-effect of a life-saving blood transfusion from Miss Martian. | |
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In the manga Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest, Akira gives blood to Chiba after Haguro nearly kills him, and Chiba is healed by it and becomes a werewolf — and crazy, with the ability to change at will into some mutated-looking wolf-beast, unlike Akira's transformation. So, not a completely identical transference of abilities, but Akira didn't realize his powers would transfer at all. | |
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In Stargate Universe, Chloe Armstrong is able to cure Lieutenant Scott with a blood transfusion in the episode "Cloverdale". | |
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The 4400 has an inversion. Isabel, the first child born to two returnees, produces pure promycin. When all the other returnees are suffering from an anti-promycin drug, her blood cures Shawn, who goes on to use his own healing powers on everyone else. | |
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The Iron Giant: Hogarth is shown watching a cheesy horror movie about killer brains. A scientist in the movie claims that porpoises can communicate telepathically and theorizes that humans could gain the ability to read minds by injecting porpoise brain matter into their brains. | |
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Rat-Man (1989): In one story, the protagonist gets Spider-Man's powers this way... and being an incompetent Jerkass, he proceeds to abuse the hell out of them while acting as a jerk. Luckily, it turns out to be Spider-Man's coma dream, and when he awakes it turns out that he got a transfusion from Rat-Man... and thus got infected with his bad luck. | |
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In the Metroid series, Samus Aran, as a child, was given a transfusion of Chozo blood in order to save her life. This has given her enhanced strength and reflexes (and, presumably, the ability to fit into a ball a third her height). Most importantly, it allows her to make use of Chozo technology, most of which can only be properly used by a Chozo. | |
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Charmed (1998): In the episode "Astral Monkey", Dr. Williamson is experimenting with the Charmed Ones' blood (long story, but he believes it could be the key to a "universal antibody") and unintentionally gives himself and his test subjects (three monkeys) their collective powers (he injected the monkeys with a mix of their blood, and they injected him). Unfortunately, mortals can't properly handle that kind of power, and it starts warping his body and mind; he "does good and saves innocents" by killing criminals and harvesting their organs for those that need them. Crossing mortal blood with a magical creature's come back in the episode "Hulkus Pocus", where it creates a deadly virus. |
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The Invaders (Marvel Comics): Spitfire gains superpowers from a blood transfusion from the first Human Torch, even though he's an android, because as an Artificial Human, he has synthetic analogs to all human parts. In fact, this regularly occurs as he is a universal donor. Aside from its rejuvenating properties, it's implied that his blood is a catalyst for latent superhuman abilities; Spitfire is implied to be a latent mutant and Toro, his sidekick, has his dormant mutant genes/Inhuman heritage partially activated by a transfusion. | |
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In Futaba-kun Change! Misaki gets the temporary ability to turn into a boy when she's transfused with Futaba's blood. Later justified as her latent Shimeru genes (apparently quite widespread in the Japanese population) being activated by Futaba's active genderbending factor. | |
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In The Saga of Darren Shan the vampires/vampaneze are recruiting new members to their clans this way. This is usually achieved by both donor and recipient cutting their fingertips on both hands, and keeping their wounds pressed to one another's until the transfused blood has run a full circle between their bodies. While this is the traditional method, injection with syringes also works. A few days later the recipient will turn into a dhampyr or a full vampire depending on the amount of blood transfused. | |
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In the final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Rex has a transfusion of Jack's blood in order to sneak some into the Blessing site. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that doing so has granted him Jack's immortality after the Blessing's mortality/immortality settings are reversed back to normal. | |
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This actually does happen in Action Comics, February 1965. Linda Danvers donates blood (using Red Kryptonite to de-super her arm for this purpose). Her classmate Debbie has a head injury and the blood is used in her surgery. However, her brain damage makes her evil, so now an evil Supergirl flies around freeing crooks and baffling police. Linda catches on when Deb tells her she's read an entire mystery novel in a single night, because altogether human speed readers apparently don't exist. Fortunately super-powers gained this way last only 48 hours. | |
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Young Avengers: During the first arc, Patriot claims that this is how he got his powers: his grandfather, Captain America's supersoldier prototype, gave him a blood transfusion. It turns out be a lie (Patriot was addicted to a drug that gave super-powers), but then he takes a shot from a Kree blaster for Cap. When he gets to the hospital after the battle, Cap is all set for this, except "the other super-soldier beat you to it." | |
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Deadpool: This is Deadpool's backstory; his healing factor is derived from Wolverine's blood. Notably, he was one of many test subjects, most of whom didn't survive, and Deadpool himself suffered some rather severe side effects. | |
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