- "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)
Obtain abilities by ingesting specialized drugs. Though not a power in itself, it does grant powers to the user. Variation of Chemical-Based Powers and Powers Via Object.
Also Called
- Drug Augmentation
- Drug Empowerment
- Drug Enhancement
Capabilities
The user can obtain superpowers by taking special drugs. However, most of the time the powers are either temporary or single use effect, and the user must continue to take the drugs to maintain their strength.
Applications
Associations
- Chemical-Based Powers
- High Empowerment
- Lethal Dose
- Medicine Manipulation
- Potion Creation - The ability to make these special drugs.
- Powerful Objects - The drugs are known to be a powerful object.
- Powers Via Object - Powers are obtained via the object.
Limitations
- May become overdependent and/or dangerously addicted.
- User may be powerless without the drugs.
- May cause drowsiness.
- User may suffer from an overdose or withdrawal.
- Many other potential side-effects.
Known Drugs
Comics/Cartoons
- Velocity 9 (DC Comics)
- Venom (DC Comics)
- D-Lite (Marvel Comics)
- Extremis Serum (Marvel Comics)
- Goblin Formula (Marvel Comics)
- Infinity Formula (Marvel Comics)
- Mutant Growth Hormone (Marvel Comics)
- Pym Particles (Marvel Comics)
- Super Soldier Serum (Marvel Comics)
- Xemorene (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic)
- Compound V (The Boys)
Anime/Manga
- ZenMetsu-gan Pill (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
- Celebre (GANGSTA.)
- Catastrophe-A (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
- CPH4 (Lucy)
- Three Coloured Pills (Naruto)
- Mind Awakening Pill (Naruto)
- Military Rations Pill (Naruto)
- Blood Increasing Pill (Naruto)
- Rumble Ball (One Piece)
- Energy Steroids (One Piece)
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)
Live Television/Movies
- 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)
- Regimen (Nikita)
Known Users
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 (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum
- Mr. Hyde (Marvel Comics)
- Patriot (Marvel Comics)
- Sentry (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum but 1000X more powerful
- Popeye (Popeye comic strip)
Anime/Manga
- Akame (Akame ga Kill)
- 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)
- Motoki Yaze (Strike the Blood)
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)
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)
- 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)
- 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
Gallery
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.
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.
Anime/Manga
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 drug to enhance her strength in order to fight with Esdeath.
Military Rations Pills (Naruto) are made of powerful stimulants and nutrients that replenish chakra.
The Three Coloured Pills (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden) 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 (One Piece) holds his Rumble Ball a type of drug that enhance 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) temporary 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.
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.
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), 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.
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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.