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 Equipment Usage.
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
- Conditional Powers
- Healing - Sometimes the drugs taken by the user holds healing abilities.
- Lethal Dose
Associations
- Chemical-Based Powers
- High Empowerment
- Medicine Manipulation
- Potion Creation - The ability to make these special drugs.
- Power Bestowal - Is used when the drugs grants special but temporary power to the user.
- 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 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
- NZT-48 (Limitless franchise)
- Rumble Ball (One Piece)
- Energy Steroids (One Piece)
- Three Coloured Pills (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Mind Awakening Pill (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Military Rations Pill (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Blood Increasing Pill (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Venom (DC)
- Titan (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
- Plasmids (Bioshock)
- Supersoldier Serum - Captain America (Marvel)
- Extremis Serum - Iron Man (Marvel)
- Infinity Formula (Marvel)
- Pym Particles (Marvel)
- Velocity 9 (DC Comics)
- 5-U-83-R (Injustice: Gods Among Us)
- Goblin Formula - Green Goblin (Marvel)
- D-Lite (Marvel)
- The Formula (Heroes)
- Crank (Crank)
- Regimen (Nikita)
- ADAM (Bioshock)
- EVE (Bioshock)
- Catastrophe-A (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
- Draysha Gas (Champions Online)
- Chems (The Bourne Legacy)
- Celebre (GANGSTA.)
- CPH4 (Lucy)
- GH.325 (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Centipede Serum (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Drive (Xenogears)
- Xemorene (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Known Users
- Immortal Ship Committee (Knights of Sidonia)
- Titan Henchmen (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
- Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Seiko Kimura(Danganronpa)
- All Initiative operatives (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Bane (DC Comics)
- Hourman (DC Comics)
- NKVDemon (DC Comics)
- Twilights (GANGSTA.)
- Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
- New Fishman Pirates (One Piece)
- Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece)
- Snowflame (DC)
- Akimichi Clan (Narutp/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Orochimaru (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
- Captain America (Marvel); via Super Soldier Serum
- Sentry (Marvel); via Super Soldier Serum but 1000X more powerful
- Eddie Morra (Limitless)
- Brian Finch (Limitless series)
- Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
- Dr. Mario (Super Mario)
- Splicers (Bioshock)
- Misfits Gang (MisFits); they had they're powers reversed when they took ecstasy
- Everyone (DWP)
- Scott (Heroes)
- Issac Mendez (Heroes)
- Mohinder Suresh (Heroes)
- Ando Masahasi (Heroes)
- Nathan Petrelli (Heroes)
- Tracy Strauss (Heroes)
- Niki Sanders (Heroes)
- Barbara (Heroes)
- All Humans (Heroes); Alternate future
- Johnny Quick (DC); Earth-3
- The Dark Sage (Ninjustsu series) gave Human Rashi a special pill which unlock power but had a side effect
- Patriot (Marvel)
- Popeye (Popeye comic strip)
- Mr. Hyde (Marvel)
- Elongated Man (DC Comics)
- Guardians (Nikita)
- Owen Elliot/Sam Matthews (Nikita)
- Patrick Miller (Nikita)
- Jeff Shore (Nikita)
- Dana Winters (Nikita)
- Brandon (Nikita)
- Tim (Nikita)
- Motoki Yaze (Strike the Blood)
- Tadao Yokoshima (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
- Jason Brody (Far Cry 3)
- Lucy (Lucy)
- Treadstone Assassins (The Bourne Identity)
- Members of Operation Outcome (The Bourne Legacy)
- Aaron Cross (The Bourne Legacy)
- Number Three (The Bourne Legacy)
- LARX-03 (The Bourne Legacy)
- NKVDemon (DC)
- Mike Peterson/Deathlok (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
- Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten (Xenogears)
Gallery
The NKVDemon (DC) possesses enhanced strength and near-immunity to physical pain as a result of experimental steroid usage.
Kurome 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.
5-U-93-R (Injustice: Gods Among Us) is a Kryptonian nanotech drug that increases the user's strength and durability to superhuman levels.
Sakon (Naruto) gives Sasuke a Mind Awakening Pill to have his Cursed Seal of Heaven evolve into Level 2.
Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece) holding the Rumble Ball which is a type of drug he created to enhance his 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.
Energy Steroid over-dosage led Hody (One Piece) to go insane and monstrously muscular.
Venom (DC) is a highly addictive super-steroid that greatly enhances the user's physical strength.
The 'Three Coloured Pills' used by the Akimichi Clan (Naruto/Naruto: Shippuden)
Sentry gains his powers from the Super Soldier Serum but 1000X more powerful which gave him "the power of a million exploding suns".
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, though said increase in muscle mass also causes the skin to split open.
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) has been enhanced by the Titan formula.
Wolf (Young Justice) is one of many subjects enhanced by Kobra-Venom.
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.
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.
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.
Elhaym "Elly" Van Houten (Xenogears) having enhanced herself with the 'Drive' that gives her Ether boost, but makes her go berserk.