I Love Nuclear Power/Playing With

Basic Trope: Exposure to radiation = instant super powers.
 * Straight: Alice is exposed to radiation and becomes Amazing Girl.
 * Exaggerated: After NukeCo dumps radioactive waste in the small burg of Troperville, every citizen gains super powers.
 * Downplayed: Alice was already a superhero, but radiation makes her somewhat stronger.
 * Justified: Genetic mutation.
 * Inverted: Amazing Girl loses her powers when she is exposed to radiation.
 * Subverted: Alice exposed to radiation and becomes...violently ill with leukemia.
 * Double Subverted: But a side effect of the chemo gives her superpowers.
 * Parodied: NukeCo uses the super mutations in their PR campaign.
 * Zig Zagged: Alice - diagnosed with leukemia - gets super powers as a side effect of chemo. But that turns out to be a hallucination.
 * Averted: No one gets superpowers from radiation.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "What's with everyone getting superpowers? I though radiation was deadly..."
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: Alice exposes herself to radiation so that she can get superpowers.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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