History Main / HybridPower

* [[spoiler:Yusuke]] of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is revealed to be the descendant of a very powerful demon who had fallen in love with a human. After his demon genes become active, he gains the ability to use both Spirit Energy and Demon Energy, eventually creating something akin to Sensui's Sacred Energy by [[YinYangBomb combining the two]].

* [[spoiler:Yusuke]] of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is revealed to be the descendant of a very powerful demon who had fallen in love with a human. Once his demon genes become active, he becomes able to use both Spirit Energy and Demon Energy, eventually creating something akin to Sensui's Sacred Energy by [[YinYangBomb combining the two]].

* Ligers,The offspring of a male lion and female tiger. They are massive due to a defective growth inhibitor (up to 900lbs, compared to a 400lb tiger)and much more powerful than either parent. That said, such size might work against them were they ever wild.

** Saiyan-human hybrids have far more inherent power than pure members of either race. The effect seems to get stronger with successive generations.

** Ichigo is the offspring of a human and a shinigami. Thanks to the quirks of his parentage, he therefore possesses all the known power types of the story. [[spoiler: His mother was a Quincy whose soul was affected forever by one of Aizen's hollow experiments, and to save her life, his father underwent a procedure to change him from a pure shinigami into a shinigami/human hybrid. As such, Ichigo was born with quincy, hollow, human (fullbringer) and shinigami power, all of which have awakened at different speeds throughout the story.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius'', the offspring of Beorc and Laguz are known as the Branded (from the marks they have somewhere on their bodies, [[MarkOfShame usually kept hidden]]) or Parentless. They often have special abilities, but it's generally considered a great stigma, until ''Radiant Dawn'' when it turns out [[spoiler: the Apostle and Empress of the Begnion Empire is a Branded, the descendant of the Laguz Heron Lehran and the Beorc woman Altina, which enables them to hear the voice of the Goddess Yune]]. Also, aside from Ike's army, most of those unaffected by [[spoiler: Ashera [[TakenForGranite turning the entire population to stone]]]] are Branded.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', this happens whenever a player uses Half-Breed with a single race card -- he gets bonuses against anyone that race card gives bonuses against, but doesn't take penalties when fighting monsters who have an advantage over that race.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'': This happens whenever a player uses Half-Breed with a single race card — he gets bonuses against anyone that race card gives bonuses against, but doesn't take penalties when fighting monsters who have an advantage over that race.

* ''Series/Supernatural'': Jane the Nephilim was physically stronger then Castiel or Metatron and tosses them around in the fight.

* ''TabletopGame/Munchkin'': This happens whenever a player uses Half-Breed with a single race card — he gets bonuses against anyone that race card gives bonuses against, but doesn't take penalties when fighting monsters who have an advantage over that race.

** While it hasn't fully developed yet, Ichigo's mother was [[spoiler: a Quincy and that his Quincy powers were awakening.]] This with his Soul Reaper powers [[spoiler: from his father]] and Hollow powers from being a Visored, gives him the powers of all the major groups of the series.
** Fullbringers are another class of being who are the result of a mother-to-be surviving a Hollow attack, and the residual energy being passed on to her future child - they have powers over physical matter that no other group possess. [[spoiler: Ichigo is one of these too.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 4]]'':
** Angus wonders why Dante was more powerful than he. While he [Dante] never gives Angus a straight, it pretty munch boils down that he [Dante] has the power of the demons and determination or soul of a human that makes him powerful.

* In the fourth series finale of the rebooted ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[spoiler: the Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality.]] More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]].]]

* [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Devil May Cry 4 ]]

* In ''Film/SkyHigh'', the protagonist thinks he's powerless because his abilities are rather late to bloom. Turns out he gets both his dad's brute strength and his mom's flight (at different times), making him a FlyingBrick.

** ''VideoGame/{{DmC}}'' has a better example with that version of Dante who is half demon and half angel, and thus has access to weapons with both demonic and angelic power.

** Fullbringers are another class of being who are the offspring of a Shinigami and a living person; they have powers over physical matter that no other group possess. [[spoiler: Ichigo is one of these too.]]

* Demigods in ''Lierature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' are often chosen by the gods to do their work because being half-god and half-mortal, they straddle both worlds and can go places and do things that either mortals or gods cannot.

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* ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'':

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': the titular half-demon is more powerful for it. Due to his incredibly powerful father he has more power than most demons, and his human side grants him use of the sword forged from his father's fang, which lets him take out any demons his own powers can't take.

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* In ''TabletopGame/Munchkin'', this happens whenever a player uses Half-Breed with a single race card -- he gets bonuses against anyone that race card gives bonuses against, but doesn't take penalties when fighting monsters who have an advantage over that race.

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* ''Franchise/{{Blade}}'', a classic {{dhampyr}} has all the strengths of vampires, but none of the weaknesses, barring a much weaker [[HorrorHunger desire for blood]] which he treats with a serum.

* The Comicbook/{{Witchblade}} is a living weapon that has been used by females, and some males, over the generations. It was the offspring of the Darkness and Angelus. It has the power to create a blade, fire energy beams, create wings for flight, and can cover the host in body armor, most of the time. It also doesn't have any of its parents' weaknesses; The Darkness can't function in light, while the Angelus can't fight in the dark.

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* In ''Film/SkyHigh'' the protagonist thinks he's powerless because his abilities are rather late to bloom. Turns out he gets both his dad's brute strength and his mom's flight (at different times), making him a FlyingBrick.

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* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': The offspring of Beren (a Man) and Lúthien (an Elf with Maiar heredity) have the ability to choose which race they belong to, which determines their ultimate fate.

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* On ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' a common witch power is telekinesis and a common power for [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Whitelighters]] is [[TeleportersAndTransporters orbing]]. Paige, Chris, and Wyatt, who are all half-witch/ half-whitelighter, they each combine these powers into orb-telekinesis.

* Inverted in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' by [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius]], the offspring of a Sebacean and a Scarran. He inherited both the Scarran bodily trait of massive internal heat generation, and the Sebacean inability to regulate body temperature easily--requiring him to use cooling rods inserted in his head to survive, which created a certain vulnerability. Other than that he was quite {{Badass}} however, both physically and mentally.

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** Angus wonders why Dante was more powerful then him. While he never gives him a straight, it pretty munch boils down that he has the power of the demons and determination or soul of a human that makes him powerful.
** VideoGame/DmC has a better example with that version of Dante who is half demon and angel, and thus has access to weapons with both demonic and angelic power.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', all humans on the world of Sanctuary are the descendents of the Nephalem, offspring of renegade angels and demons. The Nephalem had power that potentially far outstrips their parent races, and in fear of them the angels tuned the [[CosmicKeystone Worldstone]] to diminish their power, resulting in the mostly ordinary human race.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius'' the offspring of Beorc and Laguz are known as the Branded (from the marks they have somewhere on their bodies, [[MarkOfShame usually kept hidden]]) or Parentless. They often have special abilities, but it's generally considered a great stigma, until ''Radiant Dawn'' when it turns out [[spoiler: the Apostle and Empress of the Begnion Empire is a Branded, the descendant of the Laguz Heron Lehran and the Beorc woman Altina, which enables them to hear the voice of the Goddess Yune]]. Also, aside from Ike's army, most of those unaffected by [[spoiler: Ashera [[TakenForGranite turning the entire population to stone]]]] are Branded.

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* In ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'', Uryuoms frequently have several parents adding their genes to an egg, as they don't have typical genders. This ultimately results in a character being a hybrid of four different creatures, conserving many of their powers.

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* According to an anecdote told variously about GeorgeBernardShaw and Isadora Duncan, Shaw and Sandra Bernhardt, AlbertEinstein and MarilynMonroe, etc., the woman says to the man, "You are the greatest brain in the world and I have the most beautiful body, so we ought to produce the most perfect child." He responds, "What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?"