The ability to increase an individual's brain capabilities. Sub-power of Brain Manipulation. Variation of Physical Augmentation. Opposite to Brain Drain.
Also Called
- Brain Amplification/Amplifying/Boosting/Enhancement/Enhancing/Increase/Strengthening/Supercharging
- Cerebrum Amplification/Amplifying/Augmentation/Boosting/Enhancement/Enhancing/Increase/Strengthening/Supercharging
Capabilities
The user can enhance the thinking capabilities of oneself and others beyond the norm, not by increasing intelligence, but instead by enhancing the capability to use the already existing abilities to their maximum effect. This includes intuitive leaps and imagination, highly efficient memory and cognitive capacities and the ability to combine everything they already know in completely new ways.
Applications
- Enhanced Brain Capacity
- Epiphany Inducement
- Hyper Mind
- Intelligence Enhancement
- Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Intelligence
- Science Intuition/Omni-Intuition - As intelligence increases.
- Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Intelligence
- Intuitive Perception
- Adaptive Mind/Learning - Growing increasingly flexible in almost, if not all, situations.
- Infinite Resourcefulness - Being incrementally resourceful to get a way out to all scenarios.
- Panmnesia
- Sense Augmentation
Associations
- Augmentation
- Brain Manipulation
- Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Mind
- Intelligence Infinitum
- Maximum Brain Capacity
- Mental Manipulation
- Mental Inducement
- Mindshifting
- Neuro-Psychic Knowledge
- Physical Augmentation
- Telepathy
- Telekinesis
Limitation
- May cause users to produce crazy ideas to act as a solution to their problem.
- Does not give user Enhanced Wisdom, with all that implies included.
- May not work with users of Brainlessness.
Known Users
- Noukan Kihara (A Certain Magical Index)
- High Evolutionary (Marvel Comics)
- Maker/Ultimate Reed Richards (Marvel Comics)
- IQ (DC Comics)
- Baljeet Tjinder (Phineas and Ferb)
- Sheen (Jimmy Neutron)
- Cytherians (Star Trek: TNG)
- Users of NZT (Limitless)
Known Powers
- Speed/Sage Force (DC Comics)
Known Objects
- Glasses of Nerdicon (Adventure Time)
- NZT (Limitless)
- Brain Max (Regular Show)
- Devo Chamber (Super Mario Bros. film)
Gallery
The Glasses of Nerdicon (Adventure Time) greatly augment the user's intelligence and brain capabilities, though doing so may drive the wearer insane from the knowledge.
The Sage Force (DC Comics) is an energy field that radically enhances the minds of its conduits.
The Maker/Ultimate Reed Richards (Marvel Comics) can enhance his intellect and cognitive thinking by stretching his brain.
In addition to causing Devolution, the Devo Chamber (Super Mario Bros. film) can work in the opposite direction and increase cognitive thinking and comprehension, though it cannot increase a person's intelligence any higher than what they're neurologically capable of.