Badass Abnormal/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Badass Normal gaining superpowers.
 * Straight: Jason, a black belt martial artist, gains the ability of superhuman strength, speed, and Shapeshifting.
 * Exaggerated: Jason can turn his body into Shapeshifter Weapon, though he hardly ever needs to.
 * Downplayed: Jason, the kung fu master, gains the ability of flight.
 * Justified: Though Jason is already awesome, more powers can only make him more awesome.
 * Inverted: Badass Normal, Power Loss Makes You Strong, Brought Down to Badass.
 * Subverted: Jason has his virus powers, but is powered down afterwards.
 * Double Subverted: But he gets them back later.
 * Parodied: Jason starts out as the Badass Normal, than gets a bunch of useless powers, like Meat Vision.
 * Deconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power, which ends up making him less badass.
 * Reconstructed: The Badass Normal doesn't know how to handle his newfound power at first, but slowly learns how.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Jason never obtains any superpowers.
 * Enforced:
 * "Jason is awesome enough as he is, but we can make him even more awesome."
 * "Alright, Jason might be pretty badass for a muggle, but he's getting outshined by his super-powered partners. Time to give him an upgrade"
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: Jason injects himself with The Virus in order to make himself more powerful.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: Jason never uses his newfound powers.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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