Adrenal Activation

The ability to activate your adrenal glands to make yourself into an unstoppable killing machine.

Also called (slang terms)
Amping up

Rushing

upping the ante

kicking it into high gear

over drive

Capabilities
This power grants the ability to activate your adrenal glands for as long as you want. Effects include increased strength, speed, reflexes, and the ability to withstand pain. Depending on the user, one might become stuck in your Adrenaline mode, or always have adrenaline running through them. A user may end up killing themselves via an overdose of adrenaline, or more advanced users may also be immune to this. If so, one could potentially release far more adrenaline into their body than any other person could withstand, becoming far stonger than would normally be possible.

Applications

 * Turn power off and on at anytime.
 * Strength levels are in the superhuman range, many times stronger than that of a normal human being.
 * Senses are more acute than the average human.
 * Pain can be numbed.
 * Speed is has increased to the finest competing athletes.

Limitations

 * Using adrenaline for a long period of time increases the risks of palpitations.
 * May have to limit the amount of time "amped up", which could range from seconds to minutes, to prevent harmful side effects.
 * Could potentially be only as strong and fast as you normally would be in a fight or flight situation.
 * May be unable to control the adrenaline completely.
 * Turning it on and off as you please comes with a great amount of time and effort.
 * The more adrenaline you release into your body, the less clear you head may work. One with this power could likely pre-emptively attack somebody innocent, merely out of paranoia.
 * Takes time to control in order to prevent an unwanted effect.
 * Turning off may cause severe exhaustion, and if they had sucumbed to pain during the time they were "amped up", they would have immediate, if not crippleing exposure to pain.

Known Users

 * Peyton Westlake (Darkman)
 * Wesley Gibson (Wanted)