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{{quote|'''Fry''': When you were a kid, what was your greatest fantasy?
'''Leela''': [[Myth Arc|To have parents]].
'''Fry''': Whatever. The ''correct'' answer is: To be a superhero! We ''have'' superpowers, and we're Americans. Now's our chance!|''[[Futurama]]'', "Less Than Hero"}}
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* ''[[Sanctuary]]'' did it twice, in ''Hero'' and ''Hero 2'', with a living suit which gives people superpowers but makes them unstable.
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' did it in the episode ''Mild Mannered''; given the show's premise it was easy for an artifact to give someone super-powers.
* ''[[Bewitched]]'' had the episode ''Super Arthur'' in which Uncle Arthur turns into [[Superman]] after Dr. Bombay gives him a pill.
* ''[[The Monkees]]'' turn into "Monkeemen" in a few episodes. While they can fly, the rest of their powers consist of exchanging insults to bruise someone's ego.
* While ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' '''was''' a superhero series, Lois Lane was most definitely not a
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* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Less Than Hero," in which Fry and Leela gain [[Super Strength]], [[Super Speed]], and [[Not Quite Flight]] [[Wall Jump]] as side effects of a [[Super Serum|medicated muscle rub]]. They are soon joined by Bender (despite his being "more on the supply side of crime"), who could [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|do cool things already]].
** They did not have [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|the power to command crustaceans]], though (one of the potential side effects of Miracle Cream).
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had Bart and Lisa (as Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl) attempting to foil the Villain Comic Book Guy (the Collector) during one of their [[A Day
** In a canon episode, Homer becomes the vigilante Pie Man, who throws pies at people while wearing a pie-tin mask on his face. The episode was largely a parody of the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider Man]]'' movies.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' had the family mutated by a crashed toxic waste truck. Most of their powers were "[[Stock Super Powers|normal]]", but [[Butt Monkey|Meg]]'s power was [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|super amazing fingernail growth]].
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''' Big Superhero Wish episode turned ''everyone'' in the world into a superhero/villan.
** ''Fairly Oddparents'' loves superhero episodes. Timmy is, after all, Cleft the Chin Wonder. And the Masked Magician. And occasionally Crash Nebula. And his parents are Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad.
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** Followed up immediately by a [[Shout-Out]] to, in the eyes of just about all back then and still many today, some real-life superheroes... the US Marine Corps.
*** ...leading the USMC to officially induct Bugs as an honorary private in the Marine Corps. He was regularly promoted until "retiring" at the end of the war as a Master Sergeant.
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** Also from ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', we have [[Daffy Duck]] as "Stuperduck".
* An episode of ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' had this. Apparently, his "Magic Bag" wasn't super enough on its own to count as making him a superhero, but it ''could'' just give him tights, super-powers, and a big beefy physique.
* In ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim and Ron each have a
* The ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "The Green Loontern", where Dodgers accidentally gets [[Green Lantern]]'s uniform and ring from the dry cleaners.
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had an episode where Jade was inflicted with all the powers of the talismans. She then dons a cape and calls herself "T-Girl." She reprises this role in another episode although with fewer powers. In season five, Jade's friend Larry gets the power of the Earth demon and starts behaving like a superhero with disastrous results.
* In the first-season ''[[Pac-Man]]'' episode "Super Ghosts", Mezmaron's formula gives the Ghost Monsters super strength and other powers. Afterward, Pac-Man and his wife eat special power pellets that enable them to fly.
* ''[[Monster Buster Club]]'' has an episode ("Comic Book Heroes") that features an alien nerd using the Earth as a place to store his billions of comic books. Cathy gets a hold of one series, "Liberty Lass", and pronounces herself a superheroine, Cathy Lass. She doesn't gain any ''new'' powers, but that doesn't matter because [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|she usually has whatever wacky alien power she needs for any given situation anyway]].
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* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' One episode has Spongebob, Patrick, Sandy and Squidward all gain superpowers to fight Mermaid Man's enemies. Amusingly, their powers come from wearing the [[Clothes Make the Superman|ridiculous costumes]].
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' featured an episode in the first season wherein the main characters became Power Squid and Spaghetti Beezy, though unlike the typical formula for this trope, the powers were [[Stock Super Powers|incredibly]] [[Averted Trope|unorthodox]] and season 2 would [[Continuity Nod|occasionally]] have the characters become their superhero forms again if the need arose.
* Interestingly, ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had one of these despite the main characters already being superheroes- after reading comic books, the girls decide to copy their favorite heroines in order to become better heroes, with Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles taking on new heroic identities as Liberty Belle (notably the actual name of a [[Legacy Hero
* Played around with Irma in the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|1987 TMNT]]'' episode "Super Irma".
** The 2003 series has several, as a Justice League type team actually exists in this world, and Michelangelo occasionally dips into his persona as "The Turtle Titan". Then there's the [[Alternate Reality Episode]] where he encounters the main cast in a world where they are ALL superheroes and {{spoiler|Splinter is their archenemy.}}
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* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' had the N-Men episode, where in an homage to the ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', the kids are on their way back to Earth in their space ship (won on a game show in a previous episode) and accidentally get superpowers while passing through the Van Allen belt, each powers coming from what they were doing at the point.
** Jimmy was drinking OJ (becoming orange and going into a Hulk-like state), Cindy was armwrestling (becoming Wonder Woman, essentially), Libby was putting on vanishing cream (gaining invisibility and force field abilities), Sheen was on a massaging chair (becoming the Flash... his bladder suffered) and Carl belching while drinking soda (gaining super sonic belching abilities).
* ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' notably had a superhero character added into the second season in Gizmo Duck, but one episode entitled "The Masked Mallard" notably featured Scrooge becoming a masked vigilante.
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