Cursed With Awesome / Fan Works

• The Worm fic Atonement has Ruin. Her power can do some incredible damage and one use is enough to end most battles — but if she makes any sound outside of combat, she'll inadvertently kill everyone around her.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fanfic build your wings on the way down, Ed is burdened by knowing the dark side of alchemy. But he now knows the ins and outs of alchemy and can do feats thought to be impossible by regular alchemists. He knows how to directly bargain with the Gate and what are the set prices and transactions for Equivalent Exchange.
• In A Charmed Life Light angsts a bit over L and his father's assertion that Kira is cursed but later decides that if he is "cursed" than he couldn't have asked for a nicer curse to have.
• The CSI/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory crossover fic Death by Chocolate shows how Violet Beaureguard benefited from the incident of the blueberry pie gum from the film section below — she became a contortionist of such skill that she became a star of Cirque de Soleil. Her mother wasn't too happy about it, though...
• A repeated theme in Diaries of a Madman. Particularly so with Discord, but Nav, Celestia, and Luna also stand out.
• The Wise Prince protagonist in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns feels this way and even outright explains it when he and his elder brother Trian, make peace with each other after the dwarven noble returns to Orzammar incognito, while the female human noble plays the leader. Having been clever enough to manipulate Bhelen and his lackeys by faking Trian's death and getting himself framed for it, he admits that he believes he would make a great king but his cleverness would rub off on all the conniving politicians and actually cause them to become even more subtle in their backhanded dealing, meaning that he'd upgrade the game of bloody politics that he wants to see shattered. Add to that the fact that history would cause people to assume that only brilliant leaders like him can do any good, which goes against how he wants to see some luminosity in Orzammar as a whole. He argues that Trian can break the game because he's capable of Obfuscating Stupidity so he can kickstart a chain reaction that would, in the long run, lead to a higher way of thinking. So, he feels he'd make a bad king in the current situation because he'd be too god at it. The answer Trian gave? "That... is just so incredibly stupid!" And this is all before a king is decided upon.
• In The Fire Bird Act I Fleur Delacour feels this way about her flawless Veela beauty and allure and male humans' resultant inability to see her for her inner qualities. Actually a fairly common problem for Veela in Harry Potter fanfics; given an innate and nearly irresistible allure, veela find it almost impossible to find a partner that wants them for who they are rather than what they are.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, it happens to Supergirl. More powers than she can keep track of, to the point that she is able to time-travel by just flying fast enough. Yet still she feels those powers mean she can't lead a normal life, and they work as a magnet for every would-be cosmic conquerer/eldritch abomination looking for a pick or heroes needing to be saved from said cosmic conqueror/eldritch abomination.
  Mentally, she kicked herself. All this incredible power, she thought. The ability to fly faster than light, to exist in the vacuum of space, to pierce the time barrier and reappear whenever she wanted to, and most of the time she took that for granted. No wonder that so often, life was stupid, dull, and boring to her.
  No wonder that she'd never really managed to fully give her heart, or her body, to anyone yet. How many potential mates could understand the power and needs of a Kryptonian?
• Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfics Hakkōna and Kaitō Kokoro: Obake are creatures that can shapeshift into just about anything. Unfortunately, their powers made them feared by humans and massacred as a result with Kiku as the only survivor.
  Obake. A subcategory of Yōkai, supernatural creatures of Japanese Shinto myth. Obake are beings that can take on any shape, from an inanimate household object to the most ravenous of beasts. However, despite that, Obake can be of various species, possessing various base forms; cat, dog, monkey, even human are just some of them. Obake have generally lived in peace, respecting all those around them. Secluding themselves from people, they are one with nature, in perfect harmony with it and each other as they live through existences which aren't limited by the passing of time. Everything was perfect until that fateful day...
• Most loopers, especially anchors, in The Infinite Loops view the loops as this. Sure, time is on repeat for who knows how long and sometimes, you are the only one who knows what is going on, but on the plus side, you can never permanently die, you get to visit new worlds and learn new skills, have unlimited chances to fix any mistakes you made, and you tend to end up with your friends and family.
• In The Institute Saga, Rogue's powers mean that she cannot touch anyone who isn't a Kryptonian, until she finally gets a special bracelet.
• This is lampshaded and then kicked in the balls in Luminosity with this exchange.
  Edward: No, Bella, any of us would rather be human—
  Bella: What? Okay, Alice said that the three day initiation process or whatever it is is "not fun". I could buy that it is sufficiently not fun that you wish it hadn't happened to you, don't think it was worth it. It'd be a little hard to believe, but not impossible. But why in the world would you want to go back once you've already been through that part? I don't know how old the rest of you are, but you realize Alice would be dead by now, right? Humans generally don't live to be a hundred years old. Whatever it is she misses about being human, she wouldn't have it anymore anyway.
• In the One-Shot The New Recruit, Matt Garretty (along with his friends Steve and Andrew) received incredible powers during the events of his film. He can generate shields to protect himself from most attacks, can telekinetically move most objects, and can fly. However, those same powers led to Steve's death and Andrew's Face–Heel Turn (which destroyed part of Seattle and exposed their powers). Matt, by the time Coulson finds him, has this opinion about his powers due to his trauma.
• Prince Charming combines this trope with Blessed with Suck. Prince Adrien was blessed at birth with the gift of charm...which means that anyone who interacts with him is brainwashed into his devoted slave within minutes. He eventually summons the spirit of Misfortune to curse himself in hopes that Misfortune's curse can undo his blessing. While it works (albeit with a few side effects), the curse is still a curse. Which is a problem, since true love's kiss will break a curse...
• An interesting example occurs in the Project Dark Jade fic Shadows Awakening, Jade actually likes her new powers, and is only trying to remove them because of her Enemy Within/Superpowered Evil Side the Queen, who is slowly corrupting her.
• Referred to by name in Shinji And Warhammer 40 K, when one of the characters comments that while people could live just fine without the super-powerful, chainsaw-wielding and fruit smoothie making Evas, the current situation of invading giant monsters more or less forces governments to keep them around to survive.
• In Showa & Vampire, Shinichi and some of his friends are some of the most powerful beings on the planet, each have a pool of beautiful and loyal girlfriends, are the most popular kids in school, are either rich or best friends with someone who's rich... and none of it would've happened without the powers they feel so cursed with having.
• In Sixes and Sevens, which incorproates elements of the MCU, original comics, and Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing is given the Mask of Death in Latveria to heal from a vampire attack. Victoria explains that it was retrieved from atop Mount Wundagore by past generations along with other items, but was the only item considered safe enough to actually use in comparison to the other dark magic artifacts. The actual effects let the wearer heal from injuries and gain super strength, but if they ever leave the shadow of Mount Wundagore their blood will boil until they die.
• In Stallion of the Line, Ranma still has his Jusenkyō curse after reincarnating as Luffy. However, Urd forgot to include the water-attracting portion of it. So while Ranma still changes gender with water, he can now stay either gender for several days at a time, something he uses to build a reputation as a female bounty hunter while still acting as a male pirate.
• Strikers 89 has Merlin. She can't fly Strikers like a normal witch, but she can generate shields, guide missiles, and power up the gun of the plane she's in. She can also talk to machines.
• The Chronodata in Transcendence: Digital Curse stops Agumon from digivolving, but causes his natural form to grow much stronger. After having it for a certain amount of time, it allows him to evolve anyway, and into a form more powerful than any of his other evolutions. The only downside is that the change is his biology means he is capable of permanently dying in the digital world as well as the real one, and even then its power has saved him multiple times.
• White Sheep: After losing her arm, Jaune gives Yang a Grimm arm, complete with a sentient creature. Despite being horrified at first, Yang manages to use it to be unstoppable in combat.
• Wingfic (in which a character grows wings, wangsts about it and gets reassured by their partner) invariably causes Angst Dissonance because most readers think that having wings would be incredibly cool.
• Young Justice: Darkness Falls has Cyborg, who does NOT like his mechanized body, even though he is now a one-man army capable of using Apokolips weaponry.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Long Eventide, Brandywine has her rare ability to summon "echoes" of once-living creatures outright referred to as a curse. Downplayed, as while it's a very overwhelming and dangerous power to wield, she's still willing to makes use of it to get around her sunlight weakness while taking precautions to not be consumed by it.