Trait:Drug-Based Powers

Drug-Based Powers
With the aid of the neo-steroid Venom, Bane (DC Comics) is able to enhance his physical abilities, including his strength and healing process, to superhuman levels.
Power/Ability to:	Obtain superpowers by ingesting specialized drugs.

"Imagine if you could be smarter, stronger, healthier. What if you could even have amazing powers, light fires with your mind… That's what Plasmids do for a man."

― Atlas (BioShock)

"Wanna get high?"

― Towelie (South Park)

"Come to the purple light, Meg. Come taste infinity!"
"Don't listen to him, Meg!"
"But he's so talented and he's got so many drugs."

― Prince and Chris and Meg Griffin (Family Guy)

"Evolution has given animals countless abilities we can only dream of. So much power, por favor. All the genetic potential hidden in our DNA just waiting to be released. But with your investment, one day, a pill that lasts forever. Stop wishing. Start doing. Find your power."

― Biggie (Project Power)

The trait for a power or set of powers that is gained from drugs. Sub-power of Drug Manipulation. Variation of Chemical-Based Powers. Not to be confused with Serum-Based Powers.

Also Called

• Drug Augmentation
• Drug Enhancement
• Drug Usage
• Powers Via Drugs

Capabilities

The user can obtain superpowers by taking special drugs. Unlike Serum-Based Powers, the powers gained from drugs are temporary and the user must continue to take the drugs to maintain their strength.

Applications

• Decelerated Aging/Longevity/Semi-Immortality/Immortality
• Emotion Metabolization
• Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Durability/Invulnerability
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Endurance
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Stamina
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
  • Peak Human/Enhanced/Regenerative Healing Factor/Supernatural Regeneration
• Self-Power Augmentation
• Self-Sustenance

Associations

• Bioweapon Physiology
• Chemical-Based Powers
• Drug Manipulation
• Esoteric Drug Proficiency
• Lethal Dose
• Medicine Manipulation
• Potion Creation - The ability to make these special drugs.
  • Potion-Based Powers
• Power via Radioactive Serum
• Powerful Objects - The drugs are known to be a powerful object.
• Powers Via Object - Powers are obtained via the object.
• Serum Creation
  • Serum-Based Powers
  • Serum Pill Empowerment

Limitations

• May become overdependent and/or dangerously addicted.
• User may be powerless without the drugs.
• May cause drowsiness.
• Unless users is immune they may suffer from an overdose or withdrawal.
• Many other potential side-effects.

Known Drugs

Anime/Manga

• ZenMetsu-gan Pill (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
• Celebre (GANGSTA.)
• Catastrophe-A (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
• Trigger (My Hero Academia)
• Three Coloured Pills (Naruto)
• Mind Awakening Pill (Naruto)
• Military Rations Pill (Naruto)
• Blood Increasing Pill (Naruto)
• Rumble Ball (One Piece)
• Energy Steroids (One Piece)
• Biceps Brachii King (One Punch Man)

Cartoons/Comics

• Velocity 1-9 Serums (Arrowverse/DC Comics)
• Venom (DC Comics)
• D-Lite (Marvel Comics)
• Extremis Serum (Marvel Comics)
• Miraclo (DC Comics)
• Goblin Formula (Marvel Comics)
• Infinity Formula (Marvel Comics)
• Mutant Growth Hormone (Marvel Comics)
• Pym Particles (Marvel Comics)
• Super Soldier Serum (Marvel Comics)
• Super Serum (DC Comics); Kryptonian powers only
• Xemorene (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic)
• Compound V (The Boys)

Video Games

• Titan (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
• ADAM (Bioshock)
• EVE (Bioshock)
• Plasmids (Bioshock)
• Salts (Bioshock Infinite)
• Vigors (Bioshock Infinite)
• Draysha Gas (Champions Online)
• 5-U-83-R (Injustice: Gods Among Us)
• Joy (LISA)
• Drive (Xenogears)
• Superadine (City of Heroes)

Live Television/Movies

• Harun-El (Arrowverse/Supergirl)
• GH.325 (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Centipede Serum (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Neurochem (Altered Carbon)
• Empathin (Altered Carbon)
• Chems (The Bourne Legacy)
• Crank (Crank)
• The Formula (Heroes)
• NZT-48 (Limitless franchise)
• Nightshade (Luke Cage)
• CPH4 (Lucy)
• Regimen (Nikita)
• Power (Project Power)
• Bullshark Testosterone (GTA Online)

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Akame (Akame ga Kill!)
• Kurome (Akame ga Kill)
• Amado (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
• Seiko Kimura (Danganronpa)
• Basil (Dragon Ball Super)
• Twilights (GANGSTA.)
• Tadao Yokoshima (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
• Akimichi Clan (Naruto)
• Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
• Orochimaru (Naruto)
• New Fishman Pirates (One Piece)
• Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece)
• Vinsmoke Sora (One Piece)
• Black Maria (One Piece)
• Motoki Yaze (Strike the Blood)
• Muragori (One Punch Man)

Cartoons/Comics

• Bane (DC Comics)
• Elongated Man (DC Comics)
• Hourman (DC Comics)
• Johnny Quick (DC Comics); Earth-3
• NKVDemon (DC Comics)
• NKVDemon (DC Comics)
• Snowflame (DC Comics)
• Captain America/Steve Rogers (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum
• Diamondback (Marvel Comics)
• Mr. Hyde (Marvel Comics)
• Patriot (Marvel Comics)
• Sentry (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum but 1000X more powerful
• Popeye (Popeye comic strip)
• Lois Lane (DC Comics/All-Star Superman) via Super Serum
• Lex Luthor (DC Comics/All-Star Superman) via Super Serum

Live Television/Movies

• Mike Peterson/Deathlok (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
• Neurochem users (Altered Carbon)
  • Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon)
• Empathin users (Altered Carbon)
• Harun-El users (Arrowverse/Supergirl)
  • Ben Lockwood
  • Lex Luthor
  • Eve Teschmacher
  • James Olsen
• Velocity Serums users (Arrowverse/The Flash)
  • Eliza Harmon/Trajectory
  • Hunter Zolomon/Zoom
• Treadstone Assassins (The Bourne Identity)
• Members of Operation Outcome (The Bourne Legacy)
  • Aaron Cross
  • Number Three
  • LARX-03
• Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• All Initiative Operatives (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Erich Ludendorff (DC Extended Universe)
• Ando Masahasi (Heroes)
• Barbara (Heroes)
• Issac Mendez (Heroes)
• Mohinder Suresh (Heroes)
• Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
• Niki Sanders (Heroes)
• Several humans (Heroes); alternate future
• Tracy Strauss (Heroes)
• Scott (Heroes)
• Eddie Morra (Limitless series)
• Brian Finch (Limitless series)
• Lucy Miller (Lucy)
• Bushmaster (Luke Cage)
• Misfits Gang (MisFits); they had they're powers reversed when they took ecstasy
• Guardians (Nikita)
  • Owen Elliot/Sam Matthews
  • Patrick Miller
  • Jeff Shore
  • Dana Winters
  • Brandon
  • Tim

Video Games

• Octane (Apex Legends)
• Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum); via Titan
• Titan Henchmen (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
• Splicers (Bioshock)
• Jason Brody (Far Cry 3)
• Immortal Ship Committee (Knights of Sidonia)
• Dr. Mario (Super Mario)
• Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten (Xenogears)
• Trolls (City of Heroes)
• GTA Online Protagonist (GTA Online)
• Brucie Kibbutz (GTA HD Universe)

RPG

• Juicers (Rifts)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Kurome (Akame Ga Kill) was given drugs to enhance her combat strength as her natural talent was less than that of her sister's, though this caused her life to be dependent on it.

Akame (Akame ga Kill!) once resorted to using drugs to enhance her strength in order to fight with Esdeath.

Trigger (My Hero Academia)

Military Rations Pills (Naruto) are made of powerful stimulants and nutrients that replenish chakra.

The Three Coloured Pills (Naruto) is used by the Akimichi Clan.

Sakon (Naruto) giving Sasuke a Mind Awakening Pill to have his Cursed Seal of Heaven evolve into Level 2.

Created by himself, Tony Tony Chopper's (One Piece) Rumble Ball is a type of drug that enhances and empowers his Zoan-type Devil Fruit power, but intake of more than one within six hours has consequential effects.

An Energy Steroid (One Piece) temporarily doubles the taker's strength two-folds per pill, exponentially, at the cost of accelerating their age proportionally...

...over-dosaging on Energy Steroid led Hody Jones to go insane and become monstrously muscular.

In an attempt to save her children, Vinsmoke Sora (One Piece) took a lethal drug to humanize her sons, but only worked for Sanji.

Through the usage of a special drug, Black Maria (One Piece) is able to alter the hybrid form of her Kumo Kumo no Mi/Spider-Spider fruit Model: Rosamygale Grauvogeli, making her resemble a jorōgumo.

Comics/Cartoons

The NKVDemon (DC Comics) possesses enhanced strength and near-immunity to physical pain as a result of experimental steroid usage.

Venom (DC Comics) is a highly addictive super-steroid that greatly enhances the user's physical strength.

Donatello (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II) has injected himself with a new strain of Venom created from the TMNT universe's mutagen.

Robert Reynolds/Sentry (Marvel Comics) gained his powers from the Super Soldier Serum, but 1000X more powerful which gave him...

..."the power of a million exploding suns".

Compound V (The Boys) is a drug that grants powers to anyone who is injected with it, (temporally or permanently depending on purity) and is the source of every single superhero and The Boys' powers.

Kobra-Venom (Young Justice), a deadly combination of Bane's Venom drug and the Project Blockbuster formula, is three times as potent as Venom and permanent, inducing extreme growth in muscle mass and hardened skin.

Wolf (Young Justice) is one of many subjects enhanced by Kobra-Venom.

Video Games

Titan (Batman: Arkham Asylum), a far more potent version of the Venom steroid, only requires a small amount to trigger a transformation but tends to drive the infected insane in the process.

A henchman of the Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum) enhanced by the Titan formula.

5-U-93-R (Injustice: Gods Among Us) is a Kryptonian nanotech drug that increases the user's strength and durability to superhuman levels.

Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten (Xenogears) having enhanced herself with the 'Drive' that gives her Ether boost but makes her go berserk.

Due to a remote-controlled device embedded in her chest, Jill Valentine (Resident Evil) was unwillingly infused with P30, a performance enhancer that enhanced her strength, speed, and agility to superhuman levels while rendering her a mindless slave to Wesker and his control.

Octane (Apex Legends) can use his Stim to drastically increase his running speed to superhuman levels.

Trolls (City of Heroes) are a gang of mutated thugs addicted to the Superadine drug.

Live Television/Movies

Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) was secretly fed strength-enhancing drugs by the Initiative.

Guardians (Nikita) take a highly addictive series of drugs called Regimen to enhance their physical abilities.

NZT-48 (Limitless), a drug that vastly increases the user's intelligence. However, it is highly addictive, and withdrawal is fatal.

Chems (The Bourne Identity/The Bourne Legacy) are a specialized drug cocktail given to Treadstone assassins and members of Operation Outcome in order to boost their mental and physical abilities.

The Genetic Modification Formula (Heroes) is a chemical compound that can grant special powers to the ones who weren't born with them.

CPH4 (Lucy; 2014 film) is a drug that allows the user to slowly access 100% of the user's cerebral capacity.

GH.325 (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), created from the blood of a Kree corpse code-named G.H., promotes cellular growth to heal mortal wounds and even resurrect the recently deceased, but also has drastic effects on the psyche of any human who takes it.

The Centipede Serum (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is a superpower-granting formula created by mixing the Super-Soldier Serum, the Extremis virus, GH.325, metal from salvaged Chitauri technology, and a blood sample from Chan Ho Yin/Scorch, and then exposing the mixture to gamma radiation.

The 'Power' pill (Project Power) is a drug that grants temporary superpowers to those who use them but at the cost of putting their lives at risk in the case of an overdose.

Lena Luthor (Supergirl) made the Harun-El into a supernatural drug that when injected into humans it gives them superpowers that can go toe-to-toe with solar-powered Kryptonians.

Hunter Zolomon/Zoom (The Flash) invented a speed drug called the Velocity serums that are a series of drugs that can artificially enhance his speed but at a cost cause a cellular degeneration as well as turn his lightning sapphire blue.

Eliza Harmon/Trajectory (Arrowverse) reformat the extracellular matrix for Velocity 9 by reverse-engineering the formula so it could give a non-speedster the abilities of a legitimate one.

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