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  • Definition 1 (Reimagination): A character's powers are altered, as part of a re-imagining of the character.1
  • Definition 2 (Temporarily Powerless): A character's powers are temporarily lost, after which they gain new powers/regain their powers, as a result of an in-story process.2
  • Definition 3 (Power Altered): A character's powers are altered, as a result of an in-story process.

1: This "re-imagining" definition comes from the summary of the trope on the page of Discard and Draw. It is unclear if it is intended to be a part of the description of Re-Power, due to the trope's poor description.

2: This is the current definition of Discard and Draw.

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No matter how powerful you are — I'll always be better! You'll never beat me, Superman! Never!'
Cyborg Superman, The Death of Superman

  • Characters.Wild Cards (Power Altered)
    • Repower: Stays awake for about a week, sleeps for a month, wakes up with new powers - and a new appearance - every time. Since there's a very real chance of him waking up dead from this, it's also Superpower Russian Roulette.

  • Characters.X Factor (Temporarily Powerless)
    • Well-Intentioned Extremist: In Tryp the Eldest's timeline, X-Factor was able to Re-Power the Mutants who lost their powers during M-Day. Unfortunately, the Mutants used their powers to wipe out humanity and then turned on each other with no one else to conquer. Tryp the Eldest's goal is to prevent this from happening.

  • Fanfic.Winter War (Temporarily Powerless)
    • Re-Power: Jirobou Ikkanzaka, Jidanbou’s little brother, who lost his powers to Ishida in canon voluntarily underwent hollowfication to gain new abilities. There's also Grimmjow, who loses his hollow powers when Orihime "purifies" him and gains shinigami ones instead.

  • Characters.Kamen Rider Wizard Protagonists (Temporarily Powerless)

  • First Law of Gender Bending (Temporarily Powerless)
    • Ayakashi Triangle begins with the evil spirit Shirogane turning Matsuri female just before having most of his power sealed away. The only one who can turn Matsuri back is Shirogane himself, and only if his powers are restored. Obviously, Matsuri doesn't want to empower a monster that tried to eat his friend Suzu, especially when he can't seal his power away a second time. Personally, Matsuri would rather just exorcise Shirogane and accept that he won't change back. Suzu objects, and together they embark on the rather difficult task of reforming Shirogane so he'll willing make Matsuri male and not harm humans any more. Later on, Suzu discovers she could potentially restore him under her own power, but it's far beyond anything she can do now. Shirogane ends up befriending Suzu relatively quickly, but loses his power permanently right before he may have changed Matsuri back. After that, their best bet is for Suzu to learn to Re-Power Shirogane, with no idea if or when she'll be able to.

  • Characters.Kamen Rider Zi O Protagonists (Temporarily Powerless)
    • Re-Power: Tsukuyomi becoming a Kamen Rider returns her time powers that Swartz stole.

  • ComicBook.Venom Mike Costa (Temporarily Powerless & Power Altered)
    • Re-Power:
      • Flash Thompson was stripped of the Venom symbiote by the FBI and tracked it down to Eddie Brock. Unable to choose between its two favorite hosts, the symbiote tried to bond to both of them at the same time. When Spider-Man tried to kill the symbiote by dousing them in a serum derived from the Anti-Venom symbiote, this turned the half of the Venom symbiote that had bonded to Flash into a replica of the Anti-Venom symbiote.
      • Lee Price lost the Venom symbiote at the end of Venom Vol. 3, but after getting out of jail he beat the snot out of Mania to steal her symbiote and become Maniac.
      • Lee Price infected Mac Gargan with part of the Maniac symbiote to see what it would do to the remnants of the Venom symbiote inside him, transforming the Scorpion into Ven-orpion.

  • VideoGame.Marvel Vs Capcom (Power Altered)
    • Magneto: Capcom pretty much gathered every single power (except Psychic Powers) Magneto has ever had since his debut, so yeah, in the hands of some writers the Master of Magnetism indeed was capable of creating Force Fields that were not limited to deflecting just metal; attacking with Beams and Energy Blasts that were said to be just a Second Mutation of his already powerful control over magnetism. Simply put, Magneto isn't shown to have all these powers in the same continuity.

  • Recap.Supernatural S 15 E 11 The Gamblers (Temporarily Powerless)

  • ComicBook.Thunderbolts (Power Altered)
    • Photon. Having just ended a period as a Reality Warper with a god complex, he was given a Repower that simultaneously drew power from the beginning and end of time; if left unchecked, his powers would have destroyed the universe. He begged Zemo to let him live long enough that he could use his Cosmic Awareness to find a timeline in which the universe survived, but Zemo deemed him too much of a threat to take that risk.

  • VideoGame.Shantae And The Pirates Curse (Temporarily Powerless)

  • Characters.A Game Of Gods Infinities Champions (ZCE)
    • Repower: As Rey's powers have been slowly changing over time.

  • WesternAnimation.The Batman (Power Altered)
    • Re-Power: When Sinestro visits Gotham to hunt down Hal Jordan and steal his Power Ring, the nearly-depleted ring eventually winds up on the hand of Batman. The moment was brief, but it's as good as it sounds.

  • Poke in the Third Eye (Reimagination)
    • Kingdom Come: The Spectre has Norman McCay as an ethereal observer to all of the events of the comic. However, The Flash's Re-Power allows him to see Norman, and he plucks him into the "real" world, which leads to a confrontation with Superman. It's hinted that Spectre may have allowed Flash to do this so Norm would impart a specific prophecy to him.

  • ComicBook.X Factor 2006 (Temporarily Powerless)

  • WesternAnimation.Static Shock (Temporarily Powerless)
    • Eating the Enemy: In the series finale, Ebon and Hot Streak, in all their quarreling, create a new Big Bang explosion which gives them and Virgil and Ritchie's powers back. However, in the case of Ebon and Hotstreak, it works too well as the two fighting so close to the explosion causes their powers to meld together, ultimately fusing the two into a big fiery, shadowy Eldritch Abomination. The monster catches and tries to eat Gear but, Static is able to free him. Then the monster's stomach turns into a suction vortex. Before they can get sucked in, Static is able to throw an oil tank into the portal and blow the beast up.

  • Fanfic.Sonic World Adventure Rush (Reimagination)
    • Repower: Espio the Chameleon gained slightly more chameleon-like abilities, and his clothing can't turn invisible with him anymore.

  • Characters.Symphogear Symphogear Wielders (Power Altered)
    • Re-Power: She loses Gungnir to Hibiki, but had kept what was left of Serena's relic as a keepsake, giving her a new white-and-silver costume with a sword-based Armed Gear. It breaks after one use, but lasts long enough to give her something to use during the final battle. She then gets it back for permanent use with the help of Elfnein.

Results

  • Checked Wicks: 50+1
  • Definition 1 (Reimagination): 5
  • Definition 2 (Temporarily Powerless): 20
  • Definition 3 (Power Altered): 18
  • ZCE: 5
  • Sinkhole: 1
  • Unclear: 2

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