The ability to enhance the powers of oneself and/or others. Sub-power of Superpower Manipulation. Variation of Augmentation. Opposite to Power Reduction and Downgrading.

Also Called

• Power/Ability Enhancement/Enhancing/Increase/Increasing
• Power/Ability Build-Up
• Power/Ability 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

• Ability Mastering
• Bio-Augmentation
• Condition Augmentation
  • Physical Augmentation
• Efficiency Augmentation
• Potential Enhancement
• Quality Enhancement
• Self-Power Augmentation

Techniques

• Glowing Eyes - When the user’s powers are active.
• Power Overload
• Power Restoration - By reversing the weakening effects of abilities like Power Negation.

Variations

• Effect Stacking
• Energy Amplification
• Healing Augmentation
• Life-Force Augmentation
• Luck Augmentation
• Magic Augmentation
• Neural Jumpstart
• Physical Augmentation
• Power Augmentation Field
• Power Apex Inducement
• Power Bestowal
• Power-Boosting Blood
• Psionic Augmentation
• Restoration Augmentation
• Song Augmentation
• Sound Augmentation
• Supernatural Arts Augmentation
• Superpower Evolution
• Temporary Powers

Associations

• Affinity/Affinity Manipulation
• Alien Physiology
• Life-Force Manipulation
• Powerful Objects
• Remolding
• Superior Human Physiology
  • Prime Superior Human Physiology
• Support Powers

Limitations

• May have a limit to how much you can actually enhance something.
• Target effects usually fade over time, sometimes only lasting moments.
• May have limited range, including touch only.
• Amplified abilities may get to the point where their user harms themselves.
  • If we take Enhanced Strength as an example, we can assume that the user is only increasing the Strength and not the Durability of the individual he is touching, and therefore making him lift excessively heavy loads beyond his Enhanced Durability, for instance.
• 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.
  • If the user increases the healing abilities of a Regenerative Healing Factor user and enhances it to an excessively high level, the latter may develop Leukemia, or any other type of Blood Cancer by causing an exponential multiplication of White Blood Cells and potentially of a Malignant Cancer Cell.
• May be limited to enhancing themselves or enhancing others.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

Literature

• Cole Randolph (Five Kingdoms); amplifies shaping power of others
• Demigod Children of Bellona (Heroes of Olympus)
  • Reyna Ramírez-Arellano
• Invisible Dragon (Invisible Dragon)
• Clary Fray (The Mortal Instruments); empowers angelic runes
• Blue Sargent (The Raven Cycle); amplifies magical/mystical energy of others
• Anos Voldigoad via Nirvana Seven Steps Conqueror <Gili Eliam Naviem (The Misfit of Demon King Academy)
• Enhancers (Keeper of the lost cities)

Live Television/Movies

• Empaths (Charmed)
• Billie Jenkins (Charmed); via Projection
• Wyatt Halliwell (Charmed); via Projection
• Guy (Free Guy)
• Shinichi Ozaki (Godzilla: Final Wars)
• Ando Masahashi (Heroes)
• Paulette Hawkins (Heroes)
• Users of the Holy Pearls (Holy Pearl)
• Various Power Rangers (Power Rangers) via upgraded morphers and weapons
• Lucifer (Supernatural)
• The Sculk (The Fungus Among Us); only on Mirabel via Anger Inducement
• En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (X-Men Movies)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Video Games

Podcasts

• Flanagan (The Adventure Zone: Commitment)

Web Original

• Adam El Ansem (SCP Foundation); via The Crown of Apollyon
• Jaune Arc (RWBY)
• SCP-423 - Self-Inserting Character (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-826 - Draws You into the Book (SCP Foundation)
• Mobile Task Force Omega-9 ("The Scrubs")/Gloria Stanfeld (GRRGRL)/Jim Yearden (WTF_STFU)/Thomas Warden (BOOGER)/SCP-2639 - Video Game Violence (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

Known Locations

• Afterlife (Age of Empires)
• Full Moon (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Rising Sun (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Known Powers/Techniques

• Astrology (Age of Empires)
• Monotheism (Age of Empires)
• Atonement (Age of Empires II)
• Block Printing (Age of Empires II); game mechanic only
• Redemption (Age of Empires II)
• Aura Amp (RWBY)

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/Soul Reapers and Arrancars.

Goku (Dragon Ball Z) using the Kaio-Ken to boost his Power Level.

Guru (Dragon Ball Z)

John White/The Beast (InFamous 2) enhances Cole's Radar Pulse, enabling him to identify the Conduit gene and the Ray Field Plague.

Danny Fenton/Phantom (Danny Phantom) can use his ghostly energy he has or absorbs to briefly increase his powers or increase/call his physical strength to break out of anti-ghost restrains.

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.

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.

All For One (My Hero Academia) can combine the Quirks he obtained to have them augment each other.

The Power Gem (Marvel Comics) can augment the power of its wielder infinitely.

Turbo K.O. (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes) was able to temporarily increase his power by eating glorbs.

Haki Users (One Piece) can grow stronger if the user trains or fights stronger opponents, advancing in their Observation, Armament or Conqueror's Haki' to their highest potential'…

…Observation Haki at its peak can evolve into being able see into the future…

…Armament Haki at its peak can evolve into emit his Haki without the use of a medium and at a higher level, destroy opponents from the inside out…

…a "handful" of the strongest Conqueror's Haki users can evolve it into being able to infuse it into oneself and/or their weapons, granting them an immense boost in power.

The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics) can enhance the powers of its host.

En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)

Fabian Cortez (Marvel Comics)

Nico Minoru (Marvel Comics)

Hope Summers (Marvel Comics)

Jaune Arc's (RWBY) Semblance, Aura Amp, enables him to control spiritual energy to boost others' Auras and souls, enabling him to recharge Weiss' Aura to allow her to heal from a fatal stab wound...

...augment others' Semblances...

...and directly augment Penny's soul to increase her resistance to Dr. Watts' virus.

As Catalyst, Nathalie Sancoeur (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) has the power to augment and enhance other powers.

The Elemental Princesses (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) amplifying their abilities by generating their respective auras.

The Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) can increase an elemental master's powers.

Chaos Emeralds (Sonic the Hedgehog)

When Blackfire (Teen Titans) had the Jewel of Charta it increased her natural alien abilities giving her a resistance against her sister Starbolts, changed her purple starbolts to red, and allowing her to create an energy force field to defend herself against Starfire’s rapid star blast.

Rooster Booster (Xiaolin Chronicles)

Harlan Cooper (Umbrella Academy)

The Eleusinian Stone (Blood of Zeus) greatly enhances the abilities of the deity who wields it

Vila (Reverse: 1999) uses her singing to empower her allies, granting them durability, stronger power, as well as healing them.

Guy (Free Guy)

Cosmo Stones (Dinosaur King) empower the dinosaurs base on their respective elements, but at a cost of making them act wild and erratic. Therefore the green cosmo stone strengthens Paris/Parasaurolophus, but makes her out of control and aggressive.

Videos

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