Power Bestowal



Power Bestowal is the power to grant supernatural faculty to ordinary people.

Capability
The user can give superpowers to ordinary people. The "paste" power. Depending on how high or low the users is it can either be permanent or temporary.

The powers granted are based on the subject's DNA structure, so the user can't choose powers to give.

Quicksilver (Marvel), temporarily had the ability to bestow powers to others as well as reactivating the powers of depowered mutants after the events of the House of M, due to Terrigen crystals growing on his back.

Universe Differences
In the series of Charmed, a magical entity, named Kali, indirectly grants powers through physical contact with a mirror.

Methods

 * Most powers are given by physical touching.


 * Seldom can grant from a distance (close proximity).

Limits
Can't give powers to those who already have them.

The Terrigen crystals, although they reactivated powers, were extremely unstable, to the point where some mutants were overpowered by their amplified abilites. A few, including the Blob (who had the power of a personal gravity field), killed themselves when their powers were reactivated.

Techniques
Most can perform:
 * “power activation”: to manifest the latent powers within potential others.

Known Users

 * Sage (Marvel)
 * Leon Nunez (Marvel) - via tattooing others
 * Synergy (Wildstorm)
 * Kali (Charmed)
 * Mojo Jojo (Powerpuff Girls) - via Chemical X
 * Captain Marvel, Black Adam, and Shazam (DC Comics)
 * Quicksilver (Marvel): Temporarily
 * Power Broker (Marvel) chemically gave normal people super strength for his wrestling federation, one out of ten cases horribly mutated the person.
 * Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon)
 * The Phoenix Force (X-Men)
 * Dr. Doom (Marvel)