- "You don't need a machine to amplify your powers. You have me."
- ― Apocalypse (X-Men: Apocalypse)
The ability to enhance the powers of oneself or others. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation. Variation of Augmentation. Opposite to Power Reduction and Downgrading.
Also Called
- Build-Up
- The Upgrade (Lab Rats)
- Power/Ability Amplification/Amplifying/Boosting/Enhancement/Enhancing/Increase/Strengthening/Supercharging
Capabilities
The user can enhance the powers of themselves or others' so that they can reach high level mastery and control instantaneously, even reach a level of power that is usually beyond their limits alone. Users cannot steal or give power, only enhance the ones their targets already have.
Applications
Variations
- Effect Stacking
- Energy Amplification
- Healing Augmentation
- Life-Force Augmentation
- Luck Augmentation
- Magic Augmentation
- Neural Jumpstart
- Power Apex Inducement
- Psionic Augmentation
- Restoration Augmentation
- Song Augmentation
- Superpower Evolution
Associations
Limitations
- Target effects usually fade over time, sometimes only lasting moments.
- May have limited range, including touch only.
- Amplified abilities may get to the point that their user harms themselves.
- May be limited to enhancing at certain places or times.
- Over-dosage may result in subject getting delirious, in some rare cases, death is likely.
Known Users
Cartoons/Comics
- Blue Lanterns (DC Comics); in the presence of a Green Lantern, the Green Lantern's Power Levels equal out to 200% capacity
- Zachary/Amp (Marvel Comics)
- Fabian Cortez (Marvel Comics)
- The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
- Hope Summers (Marvel Comics)
- Victor Alvarez/Power Man (Marvel Comics)
- Sage (Marvel Comics)
- En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)
- Nico Minoru (Marvel Comics); via “Caffeine Infection” spell
- Celestialsapiens (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Alien X (Ben 10: Alien Force)
- Poltis Altiare (Ben 10: Cosmic Destruction)
- Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom)
- Raven (DC Comics)
- Nathalie Sancoeur/Catalyst (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Amp (Generator Rex)
- Fandango (Slugterra)
- Jaune Arc (RWBY)
- William Walter Thompson/Wally T (Teen Titans Go!)
Literature
- Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments); empowers angelic runes
- Blue Sargent (The Raven Cycle); amplifies magical/mystical energy of others
- Cole Randolph (Five Kingdoms); amplifies shaping power of others
Live Television/Movies
- Ando Masahashi (Heroes)
- Paulette Hawkins (Heroes)
- Empaths (Charmed)
- Billie Jenkins (Charmed); via Projection
- Wyatt Halliwell (Charmed); via Projection
- Users of the Holy Pearls (Holy Pearl)
- Shinichi Ozaki (Godzilla: Final Wars)
- Lucifer (Supernatural)
Anime/Manga
- Guru (Dragon Ball Z)
- Old Kai (Dragon Ball Z)
- Babidi (Dragon Ball Z); via Mind Control
- Goku (Dragon Ball Z); via Kaio-Ken
- Hougkyoku (Bleach)
- Visored (Bleach)
- Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)
- Chandra (Kubera)
- Kyouka (Fairy Tail)
- Merlin (The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Vivian (The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Issei Hyoudou (Highschool DxD); via Boosted Gear
- Siegfried (Highschool DxD); via Twice Critical
- Sir Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott (Date A Live)
- Haki Users (One Piece); via actual combat or training
Video Games
- Warframes (Warframe)
- The Beast/John White (inFamous)
- Sister Ulicia (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold)
- Sister Armina (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold & Confessor)
- Sister Tovi (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold)
- Sister Nicci (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold)
- Sister Cecilia (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold)
- Sister Merissa (Sword of Truth series: Blood of the Fold)
- Sister Greta (Sword of Truth series: Confessor)
- Sister Julia (Sword of Truth series: Confessor)
- The Canadian (The Guardian 30)
- The Tick (The Tick); via "drama power" his other abilities increase as the situation becomes more dramatic
- The Beast (inFamous 2)
- Power Gear Users (Mega Man 11)
- Mega Man
- Block Man
- Impact Man/Pile Man
- Torch Man
- Blast Man
- Mawverne
- Wily Machine 11
- Pokemon that can use "Helping Hand" (Pokemon)
- Users of the Chaos Emeralds (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Geno (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)
- Madame Web (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions)
- Mithra (Asura's Wrath)
- Lumen (Azure Striker: Gunvolt)
- Hero (Patapon 2)
- Uberhero (Patapon 3)
- Satono Nishida (Touhou Project)
- Mai Teireida (Touhou Project)
Podcasts
- Flanagan (The Adventure Zone: Commitment)
Known Objects
- The Ultimatrix (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Potis Altiare (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction)
- X-Antibody (Digimon)
- Shikon Jewel Shards (InuYasha)
- The Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Double Gear System (Mega Man 11); via Power Gear
- Second Prana (Sidekicks)
- Holy Fluid (Sidekicks)
- The Chaos Emeralds (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
- The Master Emerald (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
- The Sol Emeralds (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
- Crystals (The Secret Circle)
- Crystal Skull
- Photostims (Alphas)
- Evil Eye (Charmed)
- Power Tripling Potion (Charmed)
- Jewel of Charta (Teen Titans)
- Wands (Wizards of Waverly Place)
- Blast Cores (Infamous and Infamous 2)
- Core Relays (Infamous: Second Son)
- Rooster Booster (Xiaolin Chronicles)
- Cristal de Caballero (Every Witch Way)
- Boosted Gear (Highschool DxD)
- Twice Critical (Highschool DxD)
- Trigger (My Hero Academia)
- Power Gem (Marvel Comics)
- Glorbs (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
Gallery
Vizards (Bleach) can supplement their Shinigami/Soul Reaper powers with Hollowfied spiritual energy, vastly boosting their abilities
Ichigo Kurosaki's (Bleach) powers were tremendously amplified after he fully hollowfied, transcending even the strongest Shinigamis and Arrancars.
Guru (Dragon Ball Z)
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John White/The Beast (InFamous 2) enhances Cole's Radar Pulse, enabling him to identify the Conduit gene and the Ray Field Plague.
The Blue Lantern Ring (DC Comics) can power up any and all Lantern Rings by 200% capacity.
The Blue Entity (DC Comics) can power a Green Lantern ring the same way as a Blue Lantern ring.
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Lucifer's (Supernatural) mere presence on Earth augments Jesse Turner's Cambion power to a godlike level.
Warframes' (Warframe) can become stronger with affinities.
Billie Jenkins (Charmed) boost Christy's Pyrokinesis, so that they could vanquish a demon thought impossible to be vanquished.
Enhanced by Ando, Hiro (Heroes) is able to teleport every carny away to an unknown location
Issei Hyoudou (Highschool DxD) via Boosted Gear.
Kyoka (Fairy Tail) can use her Enhancement Curse to increase her own power or others.
Mithra (Asura's Wrath) typically uses her power over Mantra to augment the powers of other demigods.
Merlin (Nanatsu no Taizai) uses Power Amplify to amplify the magic of her allies, making their techniques considerably more powerful.
Trigger (My Hero Academia) is a drug that enhances the quirks of individuals at the expense of their capacity to reason.
The Power Gem (Marvel Comics) can augment the power of its wielder infinitely.
Despite Haki (One Piece) being a finite source, being unusable for a set period if overused in battle. It can also grow stronger if the Haki User trains or fights stronger foes, advancing in their Observation/Kenbunshoku, Armament/Busoshoku or Conqueror/Haoshoku Haki…
…proven on various occasions to be able to grow as he fought against stronger foes, Monkey D. Luffy has evolved his Observation/Kenbunshoku Haki to able see into the future…
…later evolving Armament/Busoshoku Haki to emit his haki without the use of a medium and destroy opponents from the inside out.
The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics) can enhance the powers of its host.
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En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)
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Fabian Cortez (Marvel Comics)
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Nico Minoru (Marvel Comics)
Hope Summers (Marvel Comics)
As Catalyst, Nathalie Sancoeur (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) has the power to augment and enhance other powers.
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The Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) can increase an elemental master's powers.
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