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* In the ''Fanfic/TheSumOfOurSins'' It is told that the royal sisters' normal, tall, sparkly forms are this. Twilight reaches this form when she is in a fit of rage after finding out Rainbow Dash had been absorbed by the God's Sin. Turns out in this universe every race can ascend to a higher form, if they just break their body's magical limits. It's also worth mentioning that the Rainbow powers are used like this.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'',
** [[BadFuture Dark World!]]Derpy and Traitor Dash's Elements (Loyalty and Treachery/Free Will) give them forms of this. Derpy's [[LimitBreak turns off all her body's natural limiters]] and increases her strength to the point she can do the work of an entire team off Pegasi by herself. At first this does have a toll on her body (though Rarity and Applejack have [[HealingHands Healing Hooves]]), but she gradually builds up her endurance to use it more frequently. In Traitor Dash's case, she can transform into Ender Dash, her already incredible speed increasing to the point she can perform a FlashStep and both her Pegasus magic and strength. [[spoiler:She retains this after her HeelFaceTurn, possibly even becoming stronger, to the point her Sonic Rainboom (called Sonic Endboom in this form) can allow her to ''escape the atmosphere'' and even break through Nightmare Paradox's armor.]]
** In the Dark World Drabbles ExpandedUniverse fic, Applejack eventually unlocks one of her own that grants her SuperStrength and far stronger illusions, complete with a similar transformation to Rainbow Dash.
** [[spoiler:The main universe Fluttershy was turned into an Alicorn after being purified of being [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Whisper]], but her power is sealed in a butterfly as she's decidedly not ready for it at the time. When she eventually does use it in the FinalBattle, it turns out due to the nature of how she became one, her Alicorn form only has a mortal's mana pool to work with. As such, it acts more like this in practice, as she can't permanently maintain it and has to switch into it when she needs the power.]]
* ''Fanfic/OjamajoDoremiRiseOfTheShadows'': The Queen gets one in the form of her Super Witch Form. In it, she is described as looking more like an Angel than a Witch, she is granted powers far beyond her normal capabilities, and she is given a ''"keyblade"'' with which to fight. Majorin is set to get one of her own in the sequel ''Witches at World's End''.
* ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': During the second season's FinalBattle, the Elements of Harmony merge with the Mane Six's weapons, and then merge with them directly, in order to give them the power to destroy [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Demise]]]] once and for all. Afterwards, it's revealed that the Elements have permanently fused with them.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' not only features Mega Evolution and Bond Phenomenon as in the anime, but also adds BREAK Evolution from the TCG, first hinted in a sidestory, and later featured in Chapter 28 of the main story.
* ''Fanfic/TheGodSquad'' reveals that Nightmare Moon was this for Luna (and is in fact her unleashing 10% of her power) and that all the gods can trigger such a transformation (and Discord tends to stay at 10% all the time). Lord Tydal has even gone up to 40% and become an elder god monster.

* ''Fanfic/StarfallStarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': The Mewberty form from canon shows up. Several people call it a "battle form," and Star has to awkwardly explain that battle [[MatingSeasonMayhem isn't exactly its primary purpose]]. It's also noted that while the physical and magical enhancements are quite helpful, even at the best of times it greatly increases the queen's base instincts. [[spoiler:While fighting Empress Ishtar, Star is able to beat her by threatening Tom. Ishtar is already a MamaBear, but in her Mewberty form she can't even consider that it might be a trick, and is led into a trap]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheNorseHeroFenrir'', when Izuku is at his most enraged, is in a life or death situation or if his loved ones are in that situation, he takes on a form he dubs "Ragnarök". He grows to be 13-feet tall, he grows a pair of horns on his head and his eyes and embers go from orange to purple.
* ''Fanfic/FairiesOfTheShatteredMoon'': In addition to Dragonforce from ''Manga/FairyTail'' canon, the state where Gray and later [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]] get demonic black markings over their bodies is named the Full Demon Form, their Devil Slayer equivalent to Dragonforce. However, their enemies, the Gates also get the Eclipse Etherious Form, though while this does provide a radical increase in strength (none of the heroes have been able to defeat on alone), it straddles the line between this and OneWingedAngel, as the user often gains additional monstrous limbs in addition to the power boost.

* Jagganoth from ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' is normally a gigantic, fairly plain-looking humanoid PhysicalGod who can fight off all the other [[DimensionLord Demiurges]] by himself. When he actually gets serious, he turns into [[spoiler: "Chakravartin Jagganoth", not so much gigantic as mountainous, with a ''[[MultiArmedAndDangerous lot]]'' of arms (possibly 500) with a [[MultiWielding weapon in each]], red skin, and a skull-head with numerous faces. ''Kill Six Billion Demons'' is known for its huge {{Splash Panel}}s that show so much detail of, say, a cityscape that the comic page offers the opportunity to view a larger-resolution version of the image to look at all that detail; Chakravartin Jagganoth is so humongous he gets a page like that all to himself more than once. Aside from just being bigger, one obvious effect the transformation has is that he can use those arms to make some serious combo attacks. And he gets a BreathWeapon too.]]

* Jagganoth from ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' is normally a gigantic, fairly plain-looking humanoid PhysicalGod who can fight off all the other [[DimensionLord Demiurges]] by himself. When he actually gets serious, he turns into [[spoiler: "Chakravartin Jagganoth", not so much gigantic as mountainous, with a ''lot'' of arms (possibly 500) [[MultiArmedAndDangerous with a weapon in each]], red skin, and a skull-head with numerous faces. ''Kill Six Billion Demons'' is known for its huge {{Splash Panel}}s that show so much detail of, say, a cityscape that the comic page offers the opportunity to view a larger-resolution version of the image to look at all that detail; Chakravartin Jagganoth is so humongous he gets a page like that all to himself more than once. Aside from just being bigger, one obvious effect the transformation has is that he can use those arms to make some serious combo attacks. And he gets a BreathWeapon too.]]

** The [[LittleBitBeastly canine people]] ruled by Baylord Yama have inherited a power that allows some of them to use "partial tranformation" that gives them some monstrous features -- say, a big clawed hairy arm -- and makes them more powerful as well as at least sometimes giving them specific special powers. Only Yama himself can use the ''complete'' transformation.

** The Lightning Pill is a power used by electricity-magic users, where they basically make a ball of that magic and eat it to boost themselves up for a few minutes, though they can't even walk after that. Their hair also stands on end and they get a small mark on their face indicating what's going on. Khun Ran uses it frequently, and the memory of young Khun Maschenny Jahad uses it in her final battle. The head of the family, Khun Edahn, considers it too dangerous to be useful.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "The Promised Land", he gets his light bee upgraded to Diamond Light mode, which allows him to not only switch between hard and soft light an instant, but can also manipulate other objects into doing so and can move at super speed. Unfortunately, this burns out his battery and forces him to plug his light bee into a wall socket, leaving him dependant on extension leads until [[spoiler: Lister charges him up with the Anubis stone.]] This mode gives him newfound confidence [[spoiler: until he's forced to sacrifice his new found powers to save Kryten.]]

* At some point in ''Series/RedDwarf'', a third holographic mode known as diamond-light is invented. When the crew stumble across a ship with diamond-light technology, Rimmer insists on being upgraded, which temporarily gives him the ability to be both hard-light and soft-light at the same time, to convert solid matter into light and move it through walls, and to turn into a glowing orb.

* ''WesternAnimation/Kim Possible: In the [[GrandFinale]]: Graduation, Ron taps into the Mystical Monkey Power to defeat Warhok and Warmonga. He sends them flying into their Spaceship which ultimately kills both of them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang can enter the "Avatar State", during which he acquires the combined warrior skills of his previous lives, turning him into [[PersonOfMassDestruction a god of destruction.]] The drawback is that if the Avatar is killed in this state, he [[DeaderThanDead will not reincarnate]] and will thus [[FinalDeath cease to exist]], which almost happened in the season 2 finale thanks to Azula. The only reason he survived being trapped in an iceberg for a century was that he was in the Avatar State the entire time. Aang is pretty much on auto-pilot in the Avatar State and will attack anything perceived as a threat with maximum force. Avatars who achieve willful control over the Avatar State through spiritual mastery and experience are considered "fully realized," [[PhysicalGod and are usually nigh unstoppable]]. In the SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the Red Lotus's plan is to poison Korra so she goes into it on instinct so they can kill her. The problem is that they underestimated the raw power she wields and it goes about as well as can be [[CurbStompBattle expected]]. Fully realized Avatars have done things like stop erupting volcanoes, split a peninsula off from the mainland as an island, tank and bend the energy of the equivalent of a FantasticNuke, and create spirit seals that last for ten thousand years.

* Building these is fairly simple in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' but a particularly funny example appears in the Biotech supplement where the [[CatGirl Felicia]] parahuman template has a Super Mode that causes their libido to go into overdrive afterward.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WITCH'' the Guardians are able to transform into their elements. It's extremely dangerous and the most powerful they can become. [[spoiler: They only do it once, and nearly lose their humanity doing it. Luckily, their friends and family are able to bring them back]].

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'': nearly all the characters have a super mode, which increases their already powerful abilities. The Ancient Power users have modes where they're able to use the full extent of the powers and can cause some serious damage. However, they do have lesser forms, which simply increase their physical and magical powers exponentially, but these can have side-effects.

** To be slightly more precise, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response fight-or-flight response]] that arises in such stressful situations is technically our Super Mode; however, the fact our [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system sympathetic nervous system]] is impossible to control consciously makes such outbursts of power, indicated by a tremendous jump in basal metabolism, a borderline case of PowerIncontinence. In short, you ''do not know'' when and how will your Super Mode activate. There's no need to worry however; in the case our body comes to recognise am imminent danger, the power ''will'' come to you.

** To be slightly more precise, the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response fight-or-flight response]] that arises in such stressful situations is technically our Super Mode; however, the fact our [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system sympathetic nervous system]] is impossible to control consciously makes such outbursts of power, indicated by a tremendous jump in basal metabolism, a borderline case of PowerIncontinence. In short, you ''do not know'' when and how will your Super Mode activate. There's no need to worry however; in the case our body immediately recognises danger, the power ''will'' come to you.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': Steven gains one at the beginning of the epilogue, which makes him [[PowerGlows glowing pink]] and gives him super speed and super strength. Deconstructed, as it turns out that [[spoiler: it's the result of Steven's untreated PTSD and traumas from [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the original series]] and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie movie]], that causes his body to react at any stressful situation, even the minor ones, out of proportion, and to randomly swelling. And since he never learned how to heal from his trauma, he has no way to control it.]]

* Two of these appear in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'':

* ComicBook/{{Superman}} achieves his Super Mode by literally flying into the sun and staying there for a little bit. His power grows to the level where he can defeat ''{{ComicBook/Darkseid}}'' with minimum effort.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', Super Modes were quite abundant in the pre-Super Genesis Wave universe. Besides the established Super Sonic and Super Shadow, there were Hyper Knuckles (which was Super Knuckles taking his other Super Mode's name), Turbo Tails (which was Tails with a cape and more magically inclined), Master Mogul (Mammoth Mogul powered up with the emerald power of Enerjak, Super Scourge (which, unlike Sonic, made him weaker after reverting back) and a few others. One memorable scene had Ray the Flying Squirrel drive off invading Legioneers by hopping on the Master Emerald and ''pretending'' to go Super Ray.

%%* Super Hottie Goddess from ''FanFic/Hottie3TheBestFanFicInTheWorld''.

* In the ''FanFic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', Danny has unlocked such a mode that triggers under moments of extreme duress. While Danny gains a major boost in power in this form, he is unable to control it, and overuse of it could cause his body to burn out. [[spoiler:However, it has been shown in the first story of the series that not only will Danny get control of it, but Sam will unlock one too]].

* In the ''FanFic/TheSumOfOurSins'' It is told that the royal sisters' normal, tall, sparkly forms are this. Twilight reaches this form when she is in a fit of rage after finding out Rainbow Dash had been absorbed by the God's Sin. Turns out in this universe every race can ascend to a higher form, if they just break their body's magical limits. It's also worth mentioning that the Rainbow powers are used like this.

* ''FanFic/OjamajoDoremiRiseOfTheShadows'': The Queen gets one in the form of her Super Witch Form. In it, she is described as looking more like an Angel than a Witch, she is granted powers far beyond her normal capabilities, and she is given a ''"keyblade"'' with which to fight. Majorin is set to get one of her own in the sequel ''Witches at World's End''.
* ''FanFic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': During the second season's FinalBattle, the Elements of Harmony merge with the Mane Six's weapons, and then merge with them directly, in order to give them the power to destroy [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Demise]]]] once and for all. Afterwards, it's revealed that the Elements have permanently fused with them.

* ''FanFic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'':

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterPokemonMaster has the Arts, many of which offer super modes:

* Rachel can do this in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' The Return, thanks to Crayak. She morphs into a bigger, more muscular version of herself with long claws.

* Fairly common in religions of Indian origin such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} Hinduism]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhism]]. This is a notable trait of several deities and tutelary spirits, often triggered in a bout of wrath against evildoers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', [[FusionDance Fusion]] normally creates a unique entity with a mixture of AllYourPowersCombined and the components powers mixing to form new ones. However, Steven and Connie's Fusion, Stevonnie is different and in practice serves as this for their components in an actual fight. Connie is a WeakButSkilled BadassNormal, so Stevonnie only has Steven's power set with Connie contributing a sizable power boost and her skill in sword fighting. This results Stevonnie being powerful enough to [[spoiler:go head to head with [[ArcVillain Jas]][[TheBrute per]]]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', [[FusionDance Fusion]] normally creates a unique entity with a mixture of AllYourPowersCombined and the components powers mixing to form new ones. However, Steven and Connie's Fusion, Stevonnie is different and in practice serves as this for their components in an actual fight. Connie is a WeakButSkilled BadassNormal, so Stevonnie only has Steven's power set with Connie contributing a sizable power boost and her skill in sword fighting. This results Stevonnie being powerful enough to [[spoiler:go head to head with [[ArcVillain Jasper]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': Steven gains one at the beginning of the epilogue, which makes him [[PowerGlows glowing pink]] and gives him super speed and super strength. Deconstructed, as it turns out that [[spoiler: it's the result of Steven's untreated PTSD and traumas from the original series and movie, that causes his body to react at any stressful situation, even the minor ones, out of proportion, and to randomly swelling. And since he never learned how to heal from his trauma, he has no way to control it.]]