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Corrected powered armor feedback to negative from positive to avoid maiming the poor guy in the suit.


The most straightforward version of the super suit is PoweredArmor, the logical extreme of MiniMecha. These use some form of mechanical system, like artificial muscles, electric motors, or hydraulics to drive their actions. They may be controlled by positive feedback, responding to the operator's body movements to keep the pressure in the suit balanced, or they may use a mind interface, either wireless or cybernetically implanted. These suits are hard, armored and inflexible, making them hard to wear under civvies or pack for trips. These are the most likely to be mass-produced in a Sci-Fi setting, as a souped-up space suit, hostile environment gear, or infantry body armor.

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The most straightforward version of the super suit is PoweredArmor, the logical extreme of MiniMecha. These use some form of mechanical system, like artificial muscles, electric motors, or hydraulics to drive their actions. They may be controlled by positive negative feedback, responding to the operator's body movements to keep the pressure in the suit balanced, or they may use a mind interface, either wireless or cybernetically implanted. These suits are hard, armored and inflexible, making them hard to wear under civvies or pack for trips. These are the most likely to be mass-produced in a Sci-Fi setting, as a souped-up space suit, hostile environment gear, or infantry body armor.
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* Creator/MollieHunter's novel, ''A Stranger Came Ashore'', has a character named Finn Learson, a TallDarkAndHandsome young man who turns out to be the Great Selkie, lord of all the other selkies. When protagonist Robbie realises that Finn intends to take Robbie's older sister Elspeth away under the sea, he approaches Elspeth's suitor Nicol for help by asking Nicol to ensure that he is chosen as the Scudder, a figure in local mythology on the night of Up Helly Aa, as the folk magic of that date means that whoever wears the Scudder's costume ''is'' the Scudder in a mythological sense, allowing Nicol to channel the power of earth-magic against Finn's sea-magic so long as he fights Finn above the high-water mark left by the tide.

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* Creator/MollieHunter's novel, ''A Stranger Came Ashore'', has a character named Finn Learson, a TallDarkAndHandsome young man who turns out to be the Great Selkie, lord of all the other selkies. When protagonist Robbie realises that Finn intends to take Robbie's older sister Elspeth away under the sea, he approaches Elspeth's suitor Nicol for help by asking Nicol to ensure that he is chosen as the Scudder, a figure in local mythology on the night of Up Helly Aa, as Aa. As the folk magic of that date means that whoever wears the Scudder's costume ''is'' the Scudder in a mythological sense, allowing acting as the Scudder will allow Nicol to channel the power of earth-magic against Finn's sea-magic so long as he fights Finn above the high-water mark left by the tide.

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Da Pacem Domine underwent a change in direction, this trope fell out of effect.


* In ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat: Da Pacem Domine'', the already exceptionally powerful Cassandra Cain gets her first taste of genuine superhuman strength when she becomes the wearer of the Suit of Sorrows, making her inhumanly fast and able to stop a bullet while barely breaking her skin. However, as Cassandra is usually trying to keep damage to her opponents at an absolute minimum, she ends up CursedWithAwesome and forced to exert far more control than she already was.

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* Creator/DaleBrown features "Tin Man" suits, a lightweight form of PoweredArmor made from material similar to Batman's cape in ''Film/BatmanBegins''/''Film/TheDarkKnight'', in his later novels. It starts out as simply bulletproof, but later additions (namely a detachable exoskeleton) bring SuperStrength, jet boots, ShockAndAwe anti-personnel weapons, and the ability to wield and feed power to BFG-grade weapons like [[GatlingGood an M61 Gatling]] or [[MagneticWeapons railguns]]. It's remarked that a single ten-man Tin Man team against a military base is overkill, and nothing short of anti-tank or anti-materiel weapons even bothers them.
** In an [[CanonWelding originally separate]] string of novels, the CID suits straddle the line between PoweredArmor and MiniMecha due to the operator riding in it rather than wearing it, wielding a ShoulderCannon, being able to [[InASingleBound leap great distances]], keep up with vehicles, and [[spoiler: push a stalled bus out of a semi-irradiated area]]. The original operator is deemed a "lab nerd," and manages to engage in close combat with a helicopter gunship at one point.

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* Creator/DaleBrown features "Tin Man" suits, a lightweight form of PoweredArmor made from material similar to Batman's cape in ''Film/BatmanBegins''/''Film/TheDarkKnight'', in his later novels. It starts out as simply bulletproof, but later additions (namely a detachable exoskeleton) bring SuperStrength, jet boots, ShockAndAwe anti-personnel weapons, and the ability to wield and feed power to BFG-grade weapons like [[GatlingGood an M61 Gatling]] or [[MagneticWeapons railguns]]. It's remarked that a single ten-man Tin Man team against a military base is overkill, and nothing short of anti-tank or anti-materiel weapons even bothers them.
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them. In an [[CanonWelding originally separate]] string of novels, the CID suits straddle the line between PoweredArmor and MiniMecha due to the operator riding in it rather than wearing it, wielding a ShoulderCannon, being able to [[InASingleBound leap great distances]], keep up with vehicles, and [[spoiler: push a stalled bus out of a semi-irradiated area]]. The original operator is deemed a "lab nerd," and manages to engage in close combat with a helicopter gunship at one point.

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