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* ''WesternAnimation/SponegebobSquarepants'' episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V". In order to stop the super villain team EVIL, Mermaid Man enlists the help of Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward and Sandy by loaning them the super hero costumes of the original IJLSA, thus granting them their respective super powers temporarily. Spongebob gains super speed and becomes The Quickster, Squidward gains the power to shoot lava from his head and becomes Captain Magma, Patrick gains super elasticity and becomes The Elastic Waistband, and Sandy gains invisibility and becomes Miss Appear.

->''"[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]], this is so cool. How come you didn’t tell me it was like this?"''

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''

* In Series/{{I Dream of Jeannie}}, Jeannie temporarily transfers her powers for 24 hours to avoid causing any trouble at the NASA banquet. Tony,not realizing that they were transferred to him, unknowingly causes a lot of chaos at work and ends up transferring them to Dr Bellows.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Hide and Q," Riker gets Q-powers.
** Likewise in "The Nth Degree" Barclay gets Q-like super-intelligence -- though it's hinted to be somewhat permanent, but it's uncertain how.
* In one episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' Jonas Quinn acquires precognitive abilities.
** This was the result of a brain tumor (given to him by Nirrti's DNA manipulator), which had to be removed at the end of the episode to save him.

* In one episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', [=McKay=] gains super senses, mind reading abilities, telekinesis, and became much smarter as a result of an accidental encounter with an Ancient device. Unfortunately, the machine is designed to induce [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascension]] meaning that the subject will die if they don't figure out how to Ascend in time.

* The [[Series/DoctorWho Tenth Doctor]] gets a number of powers for a few minutes by having all the population of Earth concentrate on him at the same exact moment, joined into a single psychic network by the Master's satellites. He reverses his physical age, flies, forms a DeflectorShield around himself, and uses telekinesis to disarm the Master.

* Happens all the time in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Princess, Mojo Jojo, the Gangrene Gang, the Mayor, and a group of the girls' classmates all have episodes where they gain superpowers temporarily, usually through Chemical X.

* Inverted in the aptly-named ''{{Supergirl 2015}}'' episode "Human For A Day", which sees Kara ''losing'' her superpowers and having to deal with living as an ordinary human, until she gets them back at the end of the episode.

* Inverted in the aptly-named ''Supergirl2015'' episode "Human For A Day", which sees Kara ''losing'' her superpowers and having to deal with living as an ordinary human, until she gets them back at the end of the episode.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' has Earl get superpowers from rolling around in toxic waste. His powers include being able to guess weight of any person at a glance, EyeBeams, flight, super-strength, super-toughness, etc. It's all find and dandy until his CorruptCorporateExecutive boss finds out the truth and forces him to use his powers for the good of the company (as per the "[[CrazyPrepared superpower clause]]" in his contract), meaning to sell cheap household items on infomercials. He refuses to shower, as he's afraid to lose the powers, but does so at the very end, only to realize that the powers are still there.

-->All right, everyone, get your final affairs in order and take one thousand shots.

* In issue 456 of ''[[CreatorDCComics Detective Comics]]'', the ComicBook/ElongatedMan gets himself captured when [[PhlebotinumBreakdown his powers wore off]] [[FinaglesLaw at the worst possible moment]]. This results in a cliffhanger that leads into the next issue, in which his {{Muggle}} wife [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/tec457.jpg becomes the Elongated Woman]]. Interestingly, while Ralph gets his powers from [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gingold]], Sue is allergic to it, so she instead gets her powers from technology.

* One Creator/IsaacAsimov short story "[[http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/82105/The_Secret_Sense.html The Secret Sense]]" had an Earthman gain a Martian sense via a special drug. The effects only lasted for a few minutes and ItOnlyWorksOnce. However, it arguably wasn't worth it, because as the Martian points out, the Earthman won't be able to experience that sense again. Metaphorically speaking "You entered a normal man! [[SenseLossSadness You leave blind-blind-BLIND]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': One episode has Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Libby, and Cindy gain superpowers via the Fantastic Four origin story (they flew through a radiation belt in Jimmy's spaceship). Sheen gets super speed, Libby gets invisibility and force fields, Cindy gets flight and super-strength, Carl gets super-burps, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jimmy turns orange]]. Jimmy and the others initially think he got no powers, until Cindy pisses him off so much that he accidentally reveals he got The Hulk's powers with The Thing's appearance.

* Thanks to a power-transferring meta, Iris from ''Series/TheFlash2014'' gets to experience what it's like to be Barry for an episode.

May overlap with SuperheroEpisode and with MuggleBestFriend. Contrast with BroughtDownToNormal.

* In ''Series/{{I Dream of Jeannie}}, Jeannie temporarily transfers her powers for 24 hours to avoid causing any trouble at the NASA banquet. Tony,not realizing that they were transferred to him, unknowingly causes a lot of chaos at work and ends up transferring them to Dr Bellows.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Halfway through the episode [[spoiler: "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat"]], Stumpy and Mr. Cat are granted invisibility powers, which they lose by the end of the episode.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Bob once got powers after being exposed to several superhero origins [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] in rapid succession. He tried to become a superhero, but [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a disastrous attempt at stopping a bank robbery]] and his powers being transferred to a houseplant put a stop to that.
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