Basic Trope: A character with ordinary parents has supernatural or magical abilities.
- Straight: Ronnie has magical powers, despite her parents being ordinary humans
- Exaggerated: Ronnie is born and turns out to be the God of her world
- Downplayed: Ronnie isn't born with powers, but her normal human capabilities far excel those of her parents
- Justified:
- Ronnie's ancestors have been cursed so their descendants for cannot manifest their powers. Her mother was able to finally break the curse before Ronnie was born, allowing her to have powers.
- Ronnie have magic ancestors, and the gene has reappeared.
- Mage genes are recessive, both of Ronnie's parents are carriers of the mage gene, and Ronnie inherited both mage genes (one from each parent).
- Inverted: Ronnie has no powers of her own, even though her parents do.
- Subverted: It turns out, Ronnie's parents actually did have powers, but they had to hide them for many years.
- Double Subverted: ...But it also turns out that Ronnie was adopted, and her biological parents were ordinary humans.
- Zig Zagged: ...Except her ordinary parents who seemed like ordinary humans were also hiding their own powers.
- Parodied:
- Ronnie is literally born as an eldritch abomination with reality warping powers, but her parents still treat her like a normal human child. The fact that she is an eldritch abomination is never even acknowledged by anyone at all.
- Ronnie believes she is the only person in her family with magical powers, but it turns out that she's only a really bad drug trip.
- Averted: Ronnie and her parents are all ordinary humans, living in a society of mages.
- Enforced: "What if the main character had these amazing magical powers, but came from an ordinary family, so they can be more relatable?"
- Lampshaded: "How could you have powers if nobody in your family does?"
- Discussed: "Being the only person in the family with powers, Ronnie must have a lot of pressure on her."
- Conversed: "Imagine being the only person in your family with powers, like the girl from that show?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Ronnie's parents find out from an ultrasound that Ronnie would be born with destructive powers, and they have to come to the decision to abort her, to prevent any damage she could cause.
- Implied: Ronnie is a mage, though her parents are never seen using any powers.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Laughs: Ronnie is said to be destined for greatness, yet she only ever uses her powers to get out of work or pull pranks.
- Played For Drama: Ronnie's parents see her powers as demonic, and kick her out of the house at a young age, leaving her to grow up as an orphan.
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