Basic Trope: A character gains superpowers through intimate contact with one who is already super.
- Straight: Bob, a Muggle, becomes a wizard after having sex with Alice, a witch.
- Exaggerated: Bob becomes a Physical God after having sex with Alice.
- Downplayed:
- Bob only gains a small portion of Alice's powers: where she can destroy armies with a fireball, he can light a campfire.
- The powers Bob attains by having sex with Alice are only temporary.
- Justified:
- An explicit Sex Magic ritual planned and executed by Alice was involved in Bob's Super-Empowering.
- Alice's powers were previously established to be contagious, so she empowered Bob simply by being near him.
- The Power of Love is established to be a strong force in the setting.
- Bob was a latent carrier of magic powers, and having sex with Alice simply awoke what he already had.
- Alice is a vampire, and vampirism is transmissible through vaginal fluids, not just blood.
- Inverted: Alice loses her own magic after having sex with Muggle Bob. See also Virgin Power.
- Subverted:
- Alice believes that having sex with Bob will grant him magic powers, but it turns out not to.
- Everyone believes that Alice having sex with Bob granted him magic powers, but it turns out that the true explanation had to do with completely unrelated Green Rocks.
- Double Subverted: Alice's Sex Magic ritual doesn't initially appear to have worked, but later at a climactic moment his new powers manifest, and Alice realizes nothing in her spellbook said the ritual would take effect immediately.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The prospect of Alice's powers passing to non-magic Bob through intimate contact is never brought up.
- Enforced: The show's producer wanted to increase the number of magic-users in the show but they couldn't afford to hire additional actors, so the writing room came up with the idea that when Alice and Bob had Their First Time, her powers would pass to him.
- Lampshaded: "Yeah, uh Bob? Magic can be passed on through sex. Did I forget to mention that?"
- Invoked:
- Alice has sex with Bob with the explicit intent of Super-Empowering him, and succeeds.
- Bob has sex with Alice with the explicit intent of gaining magic powers, and succeeds.
- Exploited: Alice uses the fact that her powers are transmissible through sex to create a Battle Harem.
- Defied: Bob doesn't want magic powers and therefore, despite being The Casanova, specifically refuses Alice when she propositions him.
- Discussed: "Bob, before we go any further, you need to know that there's a chance having sex with me could turn you into a wizard, too. I love you, but I want you to be sure."
- Conversed: "Darn, I was really hoping Bob would get superpowers when he slept with Alice. Maybe I'll write an Alternate Universe Fic."
- Implied:
- Bob's new abilities are firmly in the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane category.
- It's suggested that sex with Alice gave Bob magic powers, but other potential explanations are also suggested, like the fact he had a close encounter with a Vorlon a couple episodes ago.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob gains magic powers by having sex with Alice... along with all the various Necessary Drawbacks like a shortened lifespan.
- Unsavory types seek out superpowered individuals to rape so they can gain powers.
- Reconstructed
- The Power of Love that makes the Super-Empowering work requires attraction and consent.
- Played for Laughs: Bob's sudden acquisition of magic powers results in Destructo-Nookie that leaves them both naked in the middle of the crater that used to be Alice's house, with their baffled neighbors looking on.
- Played for Drama: Bob refused Alice, so Alice drugged him and forces him to be her apprentice and boytoy afterwards.
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