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* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual NEXT]] glow blue when they use their powers. Except for the members of Ouroboros, who glow orange [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience because they're totally evil.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': Persona, [[GuardianEntity Guardian Entities]] that allow you to use FunctionalMagic, are covered in a glowing blue aura of flames when summoned.

* As the trope image shows, the holy Gold Clothes(armors) from ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' sometimes glow...very much so.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Excalibur, the "ultimate weapon of humanity", able to convert the user's {{Mana}} into light energy and fire it as a destructive wave. Since it takes in the user's own power, it also [[GoodColorsEvilColors changes color according to alignment]].

* Pretty much a common trope in comics, especially as regards PsychicPowers. One should apparently be able to spot a telepath with ease thanks to the glowing energy field that emanates from their heads and usually flows out from them around the heads of those that they are using their powers on. Telekinesis likewise tends to consist of a colored energy field surrounding the affected objects. This does however depend somewhat on artistic preference of the creators:
** This has become more and more common over the years in Creator/MarvelComics, to the point where virtually any use of a super power will glow, even if the energy involved (magnetic, psionic, etc.) should not be visible to the naked eye. Justified due to RuleOfPerception (i.e. the glow is the visual cue to the reader that something is happening.)
*** Amusingly, this one tends to vary a great deal with the depiction of the Invisible Woman of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''. Often her force fields, which are supposed to be invisible, were drawn with dotted lines or shading so that the reader knew where they were, even while it was presumed that characters could not see them. This invisibility was used dramatically during John Byrne's run, where the identity of the super-villain Malice and her powers were a mystery as she systematically took down the members of the team using completely unseen forces. It is only when Daredevil, who "sees" via a radar sense, shows up and asks about the "amorphous blob" they are fighting that they realize that it is Sue and her invisible force fields, thus saving the team from another ReedRichardsIsUseless incident. More recent depictions, however, sometimes show Sue's power as a crackling energy field, not unlike those of other psionic characters.
*** In the early days of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics, the powers of characters like ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, ''Comicbook/JeanGrey'' and Professor X were often depicted with wavy lines, implying that they were not visible to others characters. Now they cannot seem to use their powers without unleashing incredible amounts of glow. This has been especially true whenever Jean or her daughter ''Comicbook/RachelSummers'' is channeling the Phoenix Force. In that case just performing a simple mindlink will result in actual ''flames'' flowing between them and the other person (often ''Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}'' or ''Comicbook/{{Cable}}'').

* ''[[Comicbook/{{Doom}} Doom Comic]]'': "[[MightMakesRight Might makes]] light." '''''BLAM!''''' ''CLA-CLACK'' "And I feel mighty!" '''''BLAM!'''''

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', Ragna, Hakumen and Bang glow when their {{Super Mode}}s are active. For the first two, having the SuperMode permanently switched on is part of their [[SNKBoss Unlimited]] package.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', anything even vaguely related to phazon is always glowing. In the rest of the series, all powerups glow.

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange typically has a glow around his hands when spellcasting.

* Early ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' games had Mega Man get PowerGlows when charging the Mega Buster. Because of the way NES graphics worked, the powerups scattered around levels would exhibit the same pattern in time with his. Later games added SuckingInLines.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' will sometimes use this trope to display the power upgrade the release of a shinigami's zanpakutou or an arrancar's resurrection may cause.

* ''Manga/OnePiece:

** The Fourth Raikage (A)'s ''Raiton: Yoroi'' (Lightning Armor) cover his body in lightning.
* In Manga/YuYuHakusho, B Class and higher beings like Toguro, Yusuke, Bui, and Sensui often display bright auras when either manifesting their full power or when using a powerful attack. Especially powerful auras can cause adverse things to the wielder's surroundings: Toguro's can disintegrate anything drastically weaker than him, and the combined power of Sensui's [[spoiler:Sacred Energy]] and Yusuke's [[spoiler: new-found demonic power]] created massive earthquakes and twisters strong enough to kill A-Class beings in an instant.

* The [[RuleOfCool Spiral Energy]] of Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann. While the glowing energy powered by [[HotBlooded Fighting Spirit]](aka. [[RatedMForManly Pure Manliness]]), is present from the first episode, it reaches new extremes nearly every other episode, until by the end, the main characters are piloting [[spoiler: a {{Humongousmecha}} 100 times the size of THE MILKY WAY GALAXY, which is not even actually a machine but a materialization of Spiral Energy. Its energy-based nature is shown by the fact that the torso of the mecha is mostly comprised of a flaming, glowing mass Spiral Energy. ]]

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%% * The seraph blades, the angels and Magnus' hands all do this in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments''.

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* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', Rapunzel's golden hair glows whenever she uses its powers of healing and immortality. She manages to take advantage of this when she and Flynn get trapped in a flooding cave and need to find a way out.

* The Gods (save for Hades) in ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' glow. Hercules did glow as a baby but lost that when he was turned mortal, he regains his godly glow at the end

*** This is because the glowing BattleAura is a product of [[KiAttacks ki energy]], the source of nearly all DBZ fighters' superhuman powers. All, that is, except the Androids. The fact that their power is so different in nature was part of what made them so dangerous: all of the heroes can sense powerful ki from miles away, but one of the Androids could be standing right behind them and they wouldn't even know it. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what happens to [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]]. The results include a fist-shaped hole from his back to his chest.]]

* Shinsoo, the AppliedPhlebotinum in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', glows when it is used in it's most basic form. That means, [[ZigZaggedTrope the more advanced and dangerous a technique is, the less it glows]].

* In the second ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, to save Lugia, the three legendary bird Pokémon, and resolve all conflict, Melody had to play a tune on what looked like some sort of ocarina. The stones she played it next to glowed depending on what note she used, and then glowing water came out from nowhere and entered into the sea.

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', this trope is enforced as [[spoiler: Harry's powers start to come through]].

* In "WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture", [[spoiler:whenever Steven uses his [[SuperMode super mode]], his entire body glows bright pink.]]

* ''Franchise/Dragonball'' may not be the [[UrExample oldest example]], but it might be [[TropeCodifier the definitive one]].

* The ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' TV series: There is always one of those just when [[SecretIdentity Diana Prince]] [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spins]] [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction to change clothes into]] Franchise/WonderWoman. (Notice that there wasn't any AudibleGleam nor PowerGlows in "The Feminum Mystique Part 1", the only episode in the series where Wonder Woman changes back into Diana Prince.

* The ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' TV series: There is always one of those just when [[SecretIdentity Diana Prince]] [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spins]] [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction to change clothes into]] Franchise/WonderWoman. (Notice that there wasn't any AudibleGleam nor PowerGlows in "The Feminum Mystique Part 1", the only episode in the series where Wonder Woman changes back into Diana Prince.