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Join Rex and his friends on their journey through the world of Pokemon as they try to figure out how they wound up as Pokemon, and how they can get back to where they belong. This story follows the storyline of 'Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of time/darkness' with a twist here and there. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Of Darkness Free Romantic Poems. UpdateStar is compatible with Windows platforms. UpdateStar has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, Windows 8. Breeder Showdown! The Okido Laboratories/! The Water Field!/Round One - Begin!/! Moyer Instruments, Inc. 789 Pierre H. Matisse: An Artist of Love and Freedom, Pierre H Matisse 8818 The Bear with Sticky Paws Goes to School, Clara Vulliamy.

.:Current Events:.

Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Workplace
Semi-comfy chair

I can keep up with my profile, I said... it'll be a piece of cake, I said...

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.:Quick Info:.

Nickname: DL or Dragon
Occupation: Part-time mortal, full-time mythical beast

-Stories Currently Completed:-

Animorphs:
'Once a Boy'

The Black Magician Trilogy:
'Guard Duty,' 'Stay'

Fire Emblem:
'tremble,' 'Bunny Feet,' 'husk,'
'Just wait for to get a little taller, okay?'

Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians:
'the boogeyman's joy,' 'Midnight: Christmas Special'

Harry Potter:
'Pawn,' 'toxic,' 'too scary'

Neopets:
'The Darigan Eyrie'

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:
'It Isn't Stupid,' 'Settling In,' 'Keep Her Safe'

Pokemon:
'Coming Home,' 'Go Look It Up!,' 'His Fear,'
'Hope in Dreams,' 'I, the Original,' 'In a Perfectly Imperfect World,'
'It Sucks to be a Regi,' 'My Prince,' 'New Year,'
'Ninjas, Psychos, and Juggling Iron Thorns,' 'Nobody Likes a Ball,' 'Picking Seats,'
'Responsibility,' 'Small Doses,' 'Stupidity,' 'Through a Meowth's Eyes,'
'Chief,' 'Correspondence,' 'waves'

Sonic the Hedgehog:
'A Kind Heart, But An Evil Roommate,' 'No Time Left,' 'The Chosen One, How I Can Relate,'
'The Modified Shadow the Hedgehog Game'

Crossovers:
'AI IM'

-Stories Currently in Progress (released and unreleased):-

Avengers (movie canon)
'On the Job'

Fire Emblem:
'Just wait for me to get a little taller... okay?'

Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians:
'The Dragon Child,' 'the dragon child: snippets,' 'into the abyss'

Harry Potter:
'Draconem non est fabula'

Pokemon:
'Just to Satisfy,' 'Legendaries Need Love, Too: Literature Collection'

-Stories Currently on Hold:-

Harry Potter:
'Pawn'

Pokemon:
'Distortion,' 'DL and Legendary Friends,' 'Hearts of Gold,' 'Legends Have No Contest,'
'Life at the Legendary Muses Mansion,' 'Perfection of Thought,' 'When the World is Bored'

Rune Factory 2:
'Determination'

inFAMOUS:
'Reepurz'

Naruto:
'The Talk With a Stalker'

Neopets:
'Snake's Eyes'

Sonic the Hedgehog:
'A New Dawn,' 'Just Your Regular Daily Chaos,'
'The Fallen and the Broken,' 'The Perfect Harmony of Hearts'

-Stories Currently Discontinued:-

Crossover:
'Accepting What Isn't Originally Pokemon,' 'DLive'

Fossil Fighters
'Dinosaurs are Awesome'

Inuyasha:
'Silent Tears'

Naruto:
'Sharingan High'

Pokemon:
'Amber Eyes,' 'Searching for Forgiveness'

Savage Skies:
'Brutal Skies'

Sonic the Hedgehog
'A Lovely Chat,' 'The Chao Chronicles 1: The Supernovas,' 'The Desert Phoenix'

Warriors:
'Dawn's Arrival'

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ATTENTION, WRITERS!

A long time ago, I thought of a writing challenge, called Challenge of the Heart, where you take your favorite pairing, separate the characters and pair them up with different people. The idea was that, if you really loved the characters enough, you could try putting them into different pairings and writing them out, perhaps even finding a new pairing to love.

Now, I'm finally spreading the word on this challenge. CotH is something that should be fun and invigorating for any avid fanatic of any fandom, from Pokemon to Harry Potter to Bleach to who knows what else! There are no restrictions or rules for this, other than the guideline that you're writing two new pairings from the separation of your favorite couple. So, go nuts!

Awards I've Received

Legendary Muses Forums 2010 Awards Night

I was nominated for 'Best Overall Writer'
'Small Doses' was awarded 'Best Dialogue'
'Small Doses' was also in the running for 'Best Overall Fic'

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I really need to keep better track of my profile here. *ahem*

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Categories I currently love to write for:

Avengers/Marvel (movie canon)
Fire Emblem (Awakening specifically)
Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians
Harry Potter
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Undertale

Categories I currently love to read:

Avengers/Marvel
Fire Emblem (Awakening specifically)
Inuyasha
Harry Potter
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Undertale

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Future Ideas

Fire Emblem:

Title: You are not alone

Estimated Length: Long chaptered-fic (like, really guys, strap yourselves in for a long ride, it has about 60k words atm and I still have plenty of plot to make happen)

Genre: Adventure, Friendship, Humor, Romance, Drama, etc.

'Verse: Awakening

Characters: Maygen (OC), Lon'qu, M!Robin, Chrom, Basilio, Flavia, other OCs, etc.

Summary: The Mad King has been defeated, and Ylisseans can finally relax. Or they would, if Robin wasn't so sure there was a bigger plot behind it all. And then he asks a favor of Maygen that will place her within the twenty-yard 'no women' buffer zone around Lon'qu. Wasn't the adventure supposed to end with the war?

Excerpt:

'You want me to... train with him?'

Nodding, Chrom beamed at her with a clap of the shoulder. 'Lon'qu is a skilled warrior, but this one weakness threatens his everyday life. Sure, he can stomach it when adrenaline's pumping through his veins, but how's he going to get through dinner if he can't even ask a friend to pass the salt unless they're a man?'

'You have a point...' Still, she wasn't sure how her presence was going to help, or at least anymore so than any other female Shepherd would.

Seeing her doubt, Robin added logically, 'It's a productive way to spend your time as we wait for the citizens of both countries to settle down and be willing to listen to well-meaning people like you. Helping him conquer this fear will in turn give him more options to help others--and after all of our struggling, I think we'll need all of the help we can get.'

Maygen sighed, adjusting her cloak. 'You didn't need to tag-team to convince me,' she muttered, gaze on their feet. 'I'll do it, just... um, have you asked him about this?'

The tactician grinned. 'We were just on our way to do that. Care to join?'

'Um--what?'

o

Title: The Shepherd's Pie

Estimated Length: Undetermined, collection of semi-related oneshots

Genre: Humor, Friendship, Romance, Drama

'Verse: Awakening (Alternate Universe, modern)

Characters: Chrom, F!Robin, Frederick, Lissa, etc.

Summary: Waking up without your name is terrifying. Thankfully, good-hearted people were always willing to help others.

Excerpt:

Trying to get him to understand, her gesture to encompass how complete her amnesia was suddenly prompted the blonde to scream. The men jumped, the stranger faltered, and Frederick immediately stepped between them, shouting, 'What is it, Lissa?'

'Blood!'

Something had been trickling down her neck for the past minute, but she had placed it on the bottom of her list of priorities until that word had brought it to the fore. She glanced at the palm she had brought to her head and frowned at the red liquid smeared across it. 'Oh,' she said simply.

That was when her legs decided to give out on her.

o

Title: Special Homeland Espionage and Protection (subject to change)

Estimated Length: Long chaptered fic

Genre: Action, Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Angst, Romance, etc.

'Verse: Awakening (Alternate Universe, modern, secret agent fic)

Characters: Maygen (OC), Stahl, Frederick, Phila, Chrom, Lon'qu, Basilio, Aversa, Emmeryn, M!Robin, OCs, etc.

Summary: In the bustling city of Ylisstol, crime is running rampant, and the international terrorist organization GRIMA has been plotting something nasty for years. It is up to the dead and the forgotten to defend the citizens, and the world, against such an elusive yet potent threat.

Excerpt:

'This must be important, if you're willing to part with someone so valuable even for a time.'

Phila gave a light squeeze before releasing Maygen's shoulder.

'Of course. GRIMA is involved.'

A moment of silence was observed.

Despite Frederick's training, she let the name summon tension into her fists.

Gradually, Basilio turned in his seat to examine his own man. 'So! What do you think? Up for the job?' The agents waited for his answer.

His features weren't friendly, eyebrows furrowing as his lips drew up for a scowl. The reluctance was practically screaming for him to be dismissed. An unspoken message passed between the men. In the end, he gave a faint huff.

'I follow your orders, sir.'

o

Title: Gangrel the Ylissean (subject to change)

Estimated Length: Long chaptered fic

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, etc.

'Verse: Awakening (semi-related to fics 'husk' and 'How Prides Goes')

Characters: Gangrel, Gaius, Emmeryn, Chrom, Lissa, OCs, etc.

Summary: After war has decimated both nations, young Gangrel decides to hop the border into Ylissean lands and see what havoc he can wreak as a petty thief. Growing up in a nation he despises, and surrounded by people he should hate as a result, the gods see fit to throw obstacles in his path--not the least of which is his own neglected conscience.

Excerpt: N/A

o

Title: Oh, Brother

Estimated Length: Long chaptered fic

Genre: Humor, Friendship, Family, Hurt/Comfort, etc.

'Verse: Awakening (Alternate Universe, modern, college setting)

Characters: Maygen (OC), Gangrel, Chrom, Aversa, F!Robin, etc.

Summary: Going to college is bad enough, when you're not exactly the best student. It doesn't help when you have a guy like Gangrel as your dorm buddy. But he and Maygen go way back, so she's almost obligated. He could at least TRY not being an insufferable jerk, though.

Excerpt:

He grinned as he caught sight of someone entering the cafeteria. 'There's my girlfriend. Beautiful woman. Curves in all the right places... do you see her--'

His words became a gurgle. The brunette had grabbed his chin to force his head back, pretending to choke him so he'd stop talking.

'Don't be crude, Gangrene,' she muttered. The other women snickered as he forced her away with colorful insults. 'Focus on your girlfriend's notes for a change, since you refuse to take any yourself.'

o

Title: Feroxi High (subject to change)

Estimated Length: Short chaptered fic

Genre: Romance, Humor, Drama, Friendship, etc.

'Verse: Awakening (Alternate Universe, modern, high school setting)

Characters: Mainly Feroxi OCs, Maygen (OC), Lon'qu, Olivia, Gregor, etc. Later Ylisseans and Plegians make an appearance.

Summary: Senior year, and Zhent is prepared to coast on his good grades for a relaxing end to his pre-college education--no drama, whether it be from classwork or relationships. But then a girl transfers into Feroxi High, and his careful planning comes crashing down around him. His friends aren't any help, predictably. 'For the last time, I'm not interested in her!'

Excerpt:

Sinking into his assigned seat in first period, [Zhent] couldn't help the relieved sigh that escaped him. Just one more year to go and he'd be through with high school, off to college and moving on with his life.

These last two semesters were going to be different.

One week in, a new student transferred to Feroxi High.

o

Pokemon:

Title: Watch Me Disappear

Estimated Length: 4-5 chapters

Genre: Romance, Drama, generally emotionally- and inner-conflict-driven stuff (not exactly Angst, maybe Hurt/Comfort)

'Verse: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

Characters: Skuntank, Koffing, Zubat, Hero (Terris the turtwig), Partner (Gideon the cyndaquil), Grovyle, etc.

Summary: Skuntank's point-of-view is turned inside-out after a chance meeting at Sharpedo Bluff.

Excerpt: Suddenly, Skuntank felt out of the loop, and that was never a pleasant feeling for him. I want to know where these two have been . . . who this guy is . . . and why they’re hiding now. And then, I’ll expose them to the world! Who knew what nasty secrets these three could be hiding? Sneaking around town, probably stealing supplies and gossip from unsuspecting citizens . . . how ironically Skull-like. It had to be something juicy. Chaw to the haw-haw.

o

Title: (in progress)

Estimated Length: 100 chapters minimum, 250 chapters maximum

Genre: Humor, Friendship, Romance, etc.

'Verse: DPP

Characters: Volkner, Dawn (female player), Flint, Arceus, etc.

Summary: Using a god in battle would just be plain cheating. So, Dawn instead drops Arceus off at Volkner's to be babysat while she's doing Sinnoh Champion things. ZapPlateShipping, told in drabbles.

Excerpt: N/A

o

Title: (in progress)

Estimated Length: Around 100 chapters

Genre: Humor, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Adventure, Romance, etc. (in others words, I don't know yet)

'Verse: PMD Blue and Red Rescue Team

Characters: Hero (Kitsune 'Kitty' the umbreon), Partner (Sakura the venusaur), Absol (Blade), Gengar, Medicham, Ekans, etc.

Summary: There was nothing in the world that could convince Blade that Team Meanies wasn't up to something, so he decided to keep an eye on things to protect his friends. Little did he know that someone was watching him in return. Not directly related to 'Just to Satisfy.'

Excerpt: N/A

o

Title: (in progress)

Estimated Length: 100 chapters minimum, 250 chapters maximum

Genre: Humor, Adventure, Romance, Friendship, etc.

'Verse: PMD 2, Darkness/Time/Sky

Characters: Weavile (Lady Weavile), Gallade (Rain), Arbok (Corvax), Drapion (Toxi), Roserade (Melody), Rhyperior (Bobby), etc.

Summary: Sometimes, Rain really didn’t know what to do about Team AWD. They were a band of thieves, taking treasure and intimidating pokemon left and right. But then, there was Lady Weavile . . . AntiquityShipping, PMD2-style. Told in drabbles.

Excerpt: N/A

o

The Guardians of Childhood/Rise of the Guardians:

Title: into the abyss (part one of the Midnight trilogy)

Estimated Length: 20 chapters maximum

Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Humor, Friendship, Romance, etc.

'Verse: GoC/RotG-mix, set after movie

Characters: Pitch Black, Man in the Moon, OC, etc.

Summary: When Pitch finds that he DOES have at least one believer, he grabs at the opportunity with greedy hands. And so starts a series of life-changing events, for both the King of Nightmares and his reluctant follower. Written using LJ writing community challenge.

Excerpt:

“I am the King of Nightmares, in control of the darkest depths of humanity’s heart.” Growing larger with his rising fury, he spat, “I am Pitch Black, where no warm light may shine.”

Her hand fumbled with the doorknob to her bedroom, sweaty palms interfering with her ability to turn it.

“I. Am. The Boogeyman.” Shadows and sand from every corner of the room rose at his bidding, creating a looming mass of darkness that threatened to consume her. He narrowed his eyes. “I want to blacken your soul with fear, until you can only believe in me.”

o

Crossovers:

N/A

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Biography:

I am a brown-eyed brunette and was born in Bethesda, Maryland from my sweet mother and caring father. Then me and my mother moved to Hawaii (my parents divorced when I was three), then Florida, then Nebraska, then Colorado, then New Mexico, and then Florida again. My father and his family (he remarried) have moved around quite a bit, too. I currently have two half-brothers and a stepsister.

In fifth grade, I made a friend. He was weird. He was funny. So, in my book, he was cool. I talked to him during and after school, and we both discovered we loved Sonic, Pokemon, and multiple other things. It was weird, but cool at the same time. Then he told me about these funny things (like bloopers of sorts) about Sonic, and I loved it, and we decided to make our own. Eventually, we went on full throttle and made our own characters. (Shadowpaw was born in 2004, July 20th while I was at a youth group thing in church, so technically she's only a couple of years old)

My love of writing grew in Florida, and I decided to write a story about it. And then, I made an account here after another friend of mine recommended it. I've been here ever since, and it's really quite a lively place. The story hits, the flames, the RPs, the beta-readers - this place has something for everyone! I also have an account on DeviantArt, under the name ShadowpawMFur, but I'm not as active there as I am on here. I tried to branch out and made a MediaMiner account, but I haven't been on it for a while.

I went through my middle and high school years changing from a withdrawn, strange and quiet girl into a friendly, eccentric and silly young woman, and I graduated with my high school diploma on May 21st, 2011. It was the turning point of my life, walking away from the campus I had gone to almost daily for four years, and I currently am trying to live life to its fullest. After all, we only have one death, right?

Might as well make the most of it! I was in college for a time, but funds and life-changing events have thrown me off my game; currently, I'm trying to muster up the motivation to finish a bloody novel and actually pursue my dream of being a published author.

So! Have you lived today?

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-Note: Feel free to Control-F this section, in case you want to see if we have similar interests. Most things are referred to here in their full title.-

Shows I like/used to watch: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Ah! My Goddess, Pokemon, Trigun, Digimon, Yugioh, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Inuyasha, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy, Futurama, Sailor Moon, Princess Tutu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dexter's Laboratory, Kids Next Door, Double Dare, Nickelodeon gameshows, All That, Amanda Show, Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, Scooby Doo, Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club, Library Wars, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Blue Exorcist, Fairy Tail, etc.

Books on my/dad's bookshelf/I have read: Harry Potter books 1-6 by J. K. Rowling (haven't gotten around to DH yet), The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, Nightseer by Laurell K. Hamilton, The Sorceror's Son and The Crystal Palace in The Book of Elementals series and The Tales of Alaric the Minstrel series by Phyllis Eisenstein, The Warriors/New Prophecy/first book of The Power of Three series by Erin Hunter, Bloomability by Sharon Creech, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Pendragon book one by D. J. MacHale, The Hatchet and Brian's Winter and Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen, a bit of the Animorphs series and almost all of the Everworld series by K. A. Applegate, In the Shadow of an Eagle and Other Adventure Stories and No Pets Allowed which are collections of short stories, Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville, The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Millennium Madness by several authors, James Herriot's Cat Stories by of course Jame Herriot, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Gregor the Overlander and Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins, Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke, etc.

Manga/comics I've read (but probably never finished unless otherwise stated): Beast Master (finished), Trigun, Naruto, Alice 19th (finished), Inuyasha, Pokemon (The Electric Tales of Pikachu kind of manga, featuring Ash and them), Digimon, Peach Girl, Princess Tutu (finished), Ouran High School Host Club (finished), Black Bird, Millennium Snow (finished), Library Wars, Blue Exorcist, Fairy Tail, etc.

Movies I love: Cowboys and Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Unknown, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Bambi, Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, The Great Mouse Detective, The Land Before Time series, Pete's Dragon, The Princess and the Goblin, Homeward Bound 1 & 2, Mary Poppins, The Fox and the Hound, Pokemon movies, Digimon the Movie, Shrek, Balto, etc.

Games I love/used to play: Old Spyro games (Playstation), old Sonic games (multiple), I-Ninja (GC), Pokemon series (multiple), Digimon World series (PS/GC), Digimon: DATA Squad (PS2), FFX (PS2), FF8 (PS), Okami (PS2), Okamiden (DS), Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (DS), Rune Factory: Frontier (Wii), Musashi: Samurai Legend (PS2), Lair (PS3), Sonic the Hedgehog: 2006 (PS3), Shadow the Hedgehog (PS2), DrakenGard 2 (PS2), Animal Crossing series (multiple), Super Smash Brothers/Melee/Brawl (N64/GC/Wii), Drill Dozer (GBA), Sonic the Hedgehog series (multiple), Mario series (multiple), Yugioh something-about-roses-and-duelists (PS2), Pokemon/Digimon/Yugioh/Magic: the Gathering etc. trading card games (cards, der), Monster Hunter (Monster Hunter Tri and MH4U) etc.

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-Pairings:-

Of course, everybody groans. Calm down, I'll make it as short of a list as possible! I promise! These are just some I either like or can tolerate (I have yet to find a pairing I hate).

Current Obsessed Pairing(s):

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Darkness Codes

Canon chars/OCs or OC/OC, such as Draconem non est fabula or my Midnight: Christmas Special

Fire Emblem (Awakening specifically): Robin/Gaius, Gangrel/Robin, Robin/Frederick, Frederick/Cordelia, etc.

Pokemon: Too many to count, the main ones being: Hero (MD)/Gengar (CurseOfLoveShipping), Blue (game)/Leaf (ConflictingShipping), Mewtwo/Heatran (PsychicScrapShipping), Arceus/Volkner (ZapPlateShipping), etc.

Rise of the Guardians/The Guardians of Childhood: Jack/Tooth, Jack/OC, Pitch/OC, etc. (Jack/Pitch is okay)

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-Quotes to Live By-

Celebrities:

“In an age where humans seem to be confusing Facebook relationships with real intimacy
and Internet anonymity has given us carte blanche at rudeness and a general lack of civility toward one another
it would behoove us all to pause a moment and realize that art is something that evokes emotion
and that art is also in the eye of the beholder.
Why waste energy hating or making real people feel bad about what moves them?”
Patrick Nottingham

“There is no off position on the genius switch.”
David Letterman

'The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.'
Ogden Nash

'You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.'
Ogden Nash

'Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.'
Stephanie Piro

'If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun.'
Katherine Hepburn

'Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.'
Lao-Tze

'The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.'
Napoleon Hill

'No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.'
Napoleon Hill

'First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.'
Mahatma Gandhi

'As soon as anyone starts telling you to be 'realistic,' cross that person off your invitation list.'
John Eliot

'Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.'
Mark Twain

'I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.'
Garrison Keillor

'We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.'
Pablo Picasso

'Being a mad scientist doesn’t leave me with much time for friends. I don’t want to be one of those lame sad scientists. So I discovered that when life gives you lemons… you give lemons life! LEMONSTIEN!'
Cyadine and Happiness

'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.'
William Shakespeare

'Between two evils, I always pick the one I haven’t tried before.'
Mae West

'A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.'
E.M. Forester

'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'
Oscar Wilde

'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'
W.H. Auden

'Always be a poet, even in prose.'
Charles Baudelaire

'Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.'
Jessamyn West

'Any idiot can face a crisis - It's day to day living that wears you out.'
Anton Chekhov

'Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.'
Tim Roth

'Today's forecast: 70% chance of science!'
Adam Savage, Mythbusters

'Hopefully that's our job, to add rockets to everything.'
Adam Savage from Mythbusters

'We're popping popcorn with lasers!'
Tori Balleci

'Smells like...science!'
Adam Savage, 'Mythbusters'

'My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.'
Jack Nicholson

'Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk.'
Stephen King

'Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.'
Ned Rorem

'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'
Napoleon Bonaparte

'Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.'
G.K. Chesterton

'A true friend stabs you in the front.'
Oscar Wilde

'Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am powerful. I contain multitudes.'
Walt Whitman

'The dream is memory itself changing before your eyes.'
BertStates

'Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again, and this interdependance produces the highest form of living.'
Anais Nin

'A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask.'
Fox Mulder

'Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.'
Marsha Norman

'They tease me now, telling me it was dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream has made known to me the truth?'
Dostoevsky

'Dreams do not vanish, as long as people do not abandon them.'
Phantom F. Harlock

'I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.'
Andrew Wyeth

'Content, in dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.'
Patricia McKillip

'What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.'
Mary Shelley

'The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.'
Ashleigh Brilliant

'We live as we dream - alone.'
Joseph Conrad

'All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.'
Elias Canetti

'The proof of a poem is not that we have never forgotten it, but that we knew at sight that we never could forget it.'
Robert Frost

'Budded on Earth to bloom in Heaven.'
Baymond C.

'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.'
'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

'My house is never as clean as when I'm writing.'
Tammy Greenwood, instructor of The Writer's Left in Bethesda

'If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.'
Isaac Asimov

'If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.'
Doug Larson

'-And what would humans be without love?
-RARE - said Death.'
Terry Pratchett

'The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.'
Ansel Adams, photographer

'Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.'
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

'Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.'
--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Myself:

'It's just in my nature (and upbringing) to be humble!'
TheDragonLover's best line, according to SchwaWarrior

'I go to school because I have to, not because I wanna go snog a guy in the hallway. Geez.'
TheDragonLover

'Ouch. If there are any words to live by, 'never punch a frozen turkey' are some of them.'
TheDragonLover

'Oh, I could tell you some things, but then I'd have to tell other things, and those other things are the things that I don't want to tell, let alone some things. So, I will tell you nothings.'
ShadowpawMFur (DeviantArt account)

'Dracula's my homeboy, b-tches. -crosses arms like gangsta-'
TheDragonLover

'Yeah, my dreams make no sense. But sometimes, they’re freakin’ awesome.'
TheDragonLover

'If you try to avoid doing wrong, you prevent yourself from doing right.'
TheDragonLover

'Some people don't realize that failure comes from the fear of failure, and success comes from the will to take a chance despite the possibility of failure.'
TheDragonLover

'You know, I bet Subtlety had a heart attack when he learned that Chivalry had died.'
TheDragonLover

Food is wonderful! ...That's what Ambertwo said in Pokemon: The First Movie, right?
TheDragonLover

'You shouldn't have to wait until you sleep to have a good night!'
TheDragonLover

'Even if I ate clouds, I wouldn't be experiencing more fluffiness than this.'
TheDragonLover

'I curse a lot when my mind has been blown.'
TheDragonLover

'OH MY- I'm so stupid. I went to reheat my tea by putting it in the fridge. -headdesks-'
TheDragonLover

'BUTBUTBUT.' '...That is a very convincing argument. However, I must decline your offer.'
Dalsson and Co. trying to convince me (TheDragonLover) to do something

'-finds note taped to head-
'Dear Megan,
I quit! I can't take it anymore! You can go watch these acid-trips on your own, but count me out!
Signed, Your Brain'
TheDragonLover

' 'Quantity' of friends is not the same as 'quality' of friends, because you can have a hundred fake friends leave you on the streets and one real friend give you a place to stay the night.'
TheDragonLover

'So...good morning! Guten Morgen! -waves- Hope you have a good day (just pretend it's morning over there for a moment, the sentiment is nicer that way), and be happy!'
TheDragonLover, PM to a friend in Singapore

'Umm...I think we corrupted him to the Dark Side by accident -_-;'
'Accident? No, my dear, that was entirely intentional. I'm evil, you know.'
DB the Unknown and TheDragonLover

'A reminder is rarely a coincidence.'
TheDragonLover

'Team Hunters! We track down your criminals, scout out new places and hunt down lost and ancient treasure! We're always up for a good hunt!'
*heroic pose*
TheDragonLover after buying PMD: Explorers of Sky

Common sense, Megan is looking for you in the deli section, please reunite with her there.
TheDragonLover

'And I make typos soemtimes.'
TheDragonLover talking about why it sounds like she types a lot more than she actually does

I'd be your big sister, but I can't do that and be your little sister at the same time without some serious time paradoxes.
TheDragonLover

...wait, you mean my mind thinks?
*holds head*
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS?
TheDragonLover on Facebook comment

'But, when you’re a panicking woman, you throw all of the worst scenarios into the air and, well, PANIC. No need to be reasonable, after all, you’re a WOMAN.'
TheDragonLover talking to DB the Unknown over a story in-progress (Watch Me Disappear)

'Love life until you find something to love doing every day of your life.'
TheDragonLover

Well, when one uses paint, normally one gets covered in it. It's like the Universe is trying to make a joke, but it can't quite form the proper punchline.
TheDragonLover

Love is friendship; friendship is love. These two things I know to be true, for the marriages that last are fostered on friendship, and the friends that last are those who grow to love each other.
TheDragonLover

'Why is it smoking?'
'Cause it's on fire.'
TheDragonLover's little brother asking her a question when she's playing a video game

I had fun using the chicken wing as a puppet, though; tugging on certain muscles to make it wave at the vegetarian across the room. *slapped* Ohh, I'm so baaaad
TheDragonLover talking about dissecting in school

That's the problem with having a humongous country: You never get to go anywhere else.
TheDragonLover complaining about a friend's vacation outside of the country

Inspiration is such a fickle beast. I wish I could tame it.
TheDragonLover

Friends and Family:

“You know, I don’t get you–some days, you’re dead and we can’t get you out of bed or away from the computer, and others, you’re up before me and busy cooking and cleaning. It makes you a hard person to figure out. You amaze me.”
Guy named Mike talking about TheDragonLover

They need to put more practical sayings on those candy hearts. Like 'Take out the garbage' or 'Please change the basement lightbulb'. Or 'I'm sorry for your loss' for all of your funeral-candy needs. -shot-
Dashboard Dusk, talking about Valentines' candy

'When Dusk is called, Dusk... jumps out of a plane and DYNAMIC ENTRY! -guillotine'd-'
Dashboard Dusk

'Because I hoard books like a dragon hoards gold.'
EeveeCelebi749

'What do you think was the best thing that happened to you in your life?
Mine was being born; if I wasn't born, then I wouldn't be here!'
My silly little brother

That's because you're wise and wonderful.
Like a dragon.
SchwaWarrior

'The way I write is like battling using a Keckleon.'
SchwaWarrior

'You are the very definition of a hero, I hope you know.'
SchwaWarrior

'Love what is, don't hate what isn't.'
SchwaWarrior

Why must you boil water to make iced tea? o.O
Glory For Sleep

Don't be hatin' like Satan. D:
Glory For Sleep

Anyway...welcome back, Will. Hopefully a new era amongst the LM forum has begun - where the past can be muffled into silence and make room for the future to explode with bright new lights and sounds.
FIRE THE MISSLES. 8D
Glory For Sleep

Oh, don't be so modest DL. If SU is the brain of the forum, you're undoubtedly the heart.
Sgt. Shank, on the Chat Topic of LM

why does everything i glomp leave me D:
SnowSpirit6375, on the Chat thread of LM

-Dies again in a painful way- D:
...Y'know, dying this much can't be good for my health. -Would be mauled, but is already dead-
LM Forums, TheSunIsShining

Now you're smack-talking each other about weight? You two act more like teenage girls than the actual teenage girls here! (no offense)
DB the Unknown

...I'm an idiot. I kept refreshing and refreshing and refreshing the last page until I finally noticed: we're on page two. *mauled*
TheSunIsShining on the LM Forums

“Well, in my humble eyes, you're comparable to Glory and Dusk. XD”
“Well, you just might need glasses. *shot*”
Blazing Sceptile and TheDragonLover talking about the latter's apparently incredible writing talent.

One thing to say: Oshawott made me think 'Oh Sh*t what? D:
SnowSpirit6375

ShinyxBlazing - Rapistshipping
This is not something you expect to find in your alerts on a regular basis.
Celebi96 commenting on a rather strange post on LM

'Why're you always covered in spiders?'
Catzer talking to Dusk

'Midnight and I have class tomorrow. Am I crazy? No! I'm a college student!'
Sean Hoolihan

'I guess I can always walk up to him, flip my hair, give him a rose, and be all like 'It's for your beautifly.' '
'I love you.
:'D'
Glory For Sleep and TheDragonLover

'You'd be the Dragon and I'd be the Dragon Knight.'
'...don't you mean the DRAGONITE?'
Blazing Sceptile and TheDragonLover on being real life friends

Characters in Media/Fanfiction:

'Mutated excuse for an eel! Your mother was a hagfish and your father was a worm!'
Amaterasu, Ch.6 in 'Paths in Sakura' by Niana Kuonji

'I was created from your dreams. If you believe in me, there is nothing I cannot do!'
Entei from the third Pokemon movie

'If I wish hard enough, will you die?'
Viral, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

'If anybody's out there, you can come out. And if you're a monster or a ghost, you can stay where you are.'
Ash Ketchum, Pokemon

'Oh no. Staryu's in real pain.'
'How can you tell? It doesn't even have a face.'
'It's because I'm sensitive to others feelings.'
'Oh yeah, like I'm not.'
Ash and Misty, Pokemon

'That boy on the poster looks just like you, James.'
'He does? I think he looks pathetic.'
'That's what she meant, James.'
Jessie, James and Meowth, Pokemon

'Oh, I left my motorcycle at the front desk.'
Officer Jenny, Pokemon

'What kind of idiot would forcibly steal someone else's Pokemon?'
'Well, how many kinds are there?'
Bryce and James, Pokemon

'I can't see a foot in front of my face.'
'If you don't shut up, you'll see a foot in front of your face!'
James and Meowth, Pokemon

'My nose! What happened? The stink dissolved it off my face! (pauses) Hmm? Oh! Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. The cartoonist never gave me a nose.'
Team Rocket's Meowth, Pokemon

I'm not an actress, she thought, but not only am I onstage, I've completely forgotten my lines. No, I don't even know which play I'm in, and I walked onstage naked. I'm naked, I was prepared for a burlesque, and now I'm supposed to be performing kabuki and I have bronchitis. I'm naked, I have bronchitis, I'm supposed to sing opera and the yakuza are threatening to give my entire family concrete shoes if I don't bring in the crowds and give them the moneys.
KagomeCh. 6 of 'Tales from the House of the Moon' by Resmiranda on MediaMiner

Even at this age, Sesshoumaru is unapproachable. It's like his personality cancels out his cuteness.
Kagome, Ch.10 of 'Unspoiled' by forthright

'I think you like her more than you did when you first met.'
'Of course I do,' Sesshoumaru admitted as Kagome rushed into the kitchen. 'I was on painkillers then.'
'You're a jerk.'
'I do try.'
Sesshoumaru and Kikyo, 'Second Chance', Chapter 13

'She's talking about flowers, isn't she?'
'Hnn. How very astute, as they are standing in a garden.'
Miroku and Sesshoumaru, 'Matching Wits' by forthright

'Aha! The ionic defragulator!'
'Yay!'
'Do you even know what that does?'
'No!'
Eggman, Big, Rouge and Big again, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

'Ah, Green Hill Zone. We've had some good times here, haven't we, Tails?'
'Good times? You mean like Eggman turning our friends into robots and pitting them against us?'
'Yep. Good times!'
Sonic and Tails, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

“Sesshoumaru what is this?”
“That is a check Kagome. It is used to put money in a bank account.”
“I am surprised you have a sense of humor, but I am not finding it entertaining right now.”
Sesshoumaru and Kagome, 'Marriage of Convenience' Chapter 25

'Hey, you tripped me!'
'Or maybe you're just clumsy.'
Shadow and Rouge, Sonic Rivals 2

'Do I look like a ball to you?!'
Eggman, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

'Oh, great. Mama always told me that one day I'd get trapped in an alien dimension without a change of clothes.'
Rouge the Bat, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

'Oh, of all the lazy...Here I go to the trouble of waking that Dark Gaia thing up, and it causes me nothing but delays!'
'Dark Gaia had yet to reach maturity within the planet's core. Ergo, it was still incomplete at the time of its awakening. Ergo, it was unable to sustain its own weight upon its release. Ergo, it scattered around the world.'
'I don't want to hear about its weight issues.'
Eggman and SA-55 in Sonic Unleashed

“I thought of you as so cold and remote when we first arrived. Now I find you easy to confide in.”
“Probably because you’re on drugs.”
'Peace Treaty' Ch 17

“I knew you couldn’t resist me.”
“Keep it up, and my fist won’t be able to resist your face.”
Luke and Leah in my 'AAoL' story on FictionPress, Chapter 16

'Your skill at self-aggrandizement is unparalleled.'
SA-55 (the little robot) in Sonic Unleashed

'I know little girls who are better with a hammer than you. Well, one...anyway.'
Sonic talking 'to' Dark Guardian about Amy, Sonic Unleashed

'Whatever, you oversized letter opener.'
Sonic to Caliburn, Sonic and the Black Knight

“Ah,” Giratina commented, “the power of yesterday sits heavily on the mind.”
Ch16 of 'LNLT:PC:', Drabble Number 25 called 'Yesterday'

“I give up,” he finally relented as he pressed his back against the wall and sighed. “I have no idea who made this, but I wish I could shake his hand...before I ripped his arm from its socket.”
Sesshoumaru from Striking Falcon's 'A Cross of Blades'

'You're clean. Considerate. Well-spoken. You look at my face when I'm speaking to you.'
'What else would I look at?'
She laughed and he didn't know why. It was a legitimate question, wasn't it?
Yoko and Viral, Ch. 4 of 'Crush' by Jaswinder

'With Kagome, trying to kill her seems to be the surest way of making friends.'
'Explain.'
'It's actually kind of funny. I tried to kill Kagome the first time I met her. Miroku almost sucked her into his wind tunnel. Sango attacked us, too. Yup. It seems to be one of the best ways to get on her good side.'
'The wolf tried to kill her?'
'Uh, no. He just kidnapped her.'
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru, Ch 20 of forthright's 'Imperceptible'

'Does Sesshoumaru-sama really need three swords?' she asked, confusion creasing her face. 'Sesshoumaru-sama only has one hand.'
Rin, forthright's 'Undeniable' Chapter 19

'Love takes courage.'
Shippou, forthright's 'Faint Heart' Chapter 5

'What was that?'
'That was a full-fledged taiyoukai,' he replied with a grin. 'Or hadn't you noticed we kept one of them around these days?'
Kagome and Miroku, forthright's 'Imperceptible' Chapter 18

'Use whatever is at hand, be it friend or foe.'
Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club

'Everything seems stupid when it fails.'
Raskolnikov, from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

'Ich bin... FUCKING ANGRY!'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, after getting Molotovs (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'Now let's see you clap! Hahaha!'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, after shooting off a zombie's arm (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'Look at all the body parts. Someone get me a bag!'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, after blowing up a group of zombies (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'Ooh! This is much better than my Hitler Youth knife!'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, after knifing a zombie (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'Under what reich is that fair?'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, after getting the teddy bear from the Mystery Box (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'There is probably one big switch somewhere that powers EVERYTHING. We Germans are very efficient.'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Der Riese, at the beginning of the game (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'Mother said I shouldn't play with dolls...or myself, but I don't always do what mother likes.'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Shangri-La, when getting the 31-79 JGb215 (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

'I have earned un achievement!...(like a little kid) yay.'
—Doctor Edward Richtofen at Shangri-La, after getting an achievment (Call of Duty: Black Ops)

A burning skeleton! Damn, that's cool.
Alex, from TheDragonLover's original series Casters

'Can I have my pen back?'
'What pen? Oh. Do you mean the one that some immature boy threw at me earlier?'
'I was only trying to get your attention.'
Malcolm and Alex, from TheDragonLover's original series Casters

“I don’t understand why she won’t talk to me. Just because I’m popular and she isn’t doesn’t mean we can’t get along.”
Malcolm, from TheDragonLover's original series Casters

'Draco, come along. And don't look to your left, Greyback appears to be eating someone. We will talk about this at home.'
Lucius Malfoy, Chasing the Sun, Chapter 33, by Loten

'The curse of the perpetual overachiever,' he said, smirking, 'is that when people discover that you can make miracles happen, they expect you to walk on water to bring them tea.'
Severus Snape, The Fine Art of Fine Print by Mundungus42, Chapter Two

'. . . Kitty.' Her ear flicked at his voice, but she didn't turn around. 'You should stop blaming yourself for everything. You can save the world, but you can't save everyone.' She frowned and glanced over her shoulder to inquire about what he said, but he had turned around and was already walking away. She let him go.

It wasn't until the absol came back five minutes later that she realized Blade had left to give them privacy. It wasn't until she was coaxed into her bed once more that she realized he had also left her some supplies. And it wasn't until she was nearly asleep that she realized that Gengar was absolutely right.
Searching for Forgiveness, Chapter Two, by TheDragonLover (yours truly)

Armaldo: [The boss of a dungeon] probably won't listen to what you have to say. You'll likely be attacked often.
Igglybuff: Dungeon bosses don't have much patience, do they?
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Special Episode 2: Igglybuff the Prodigy

'Never laugh at live dragons.'
Bilbo Baggins

'Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.'
--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.
--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

--In all likelyhood, the test recipes for the anti-Crucio were probably hidden, or encrypted magically. The first thing Harry felt he needed to do was find a journal that was not what it seemed.
And then he had to decrypt it.
And then he had to understand the formula. Created by one of the most brilliant and paranoid Potions Masters to ever hold the title.
And then he had to recreate the bloody thing.
Perhaps there were some Dark Wizards he could go track down. He was much better at Dark Wizards.--
--Harry Potter fanfiction, 'Snape's Memories' by paganaidd, chapter thirteen

Miscellaneous:

'Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.'
Miss-Rogue's signature on DeviantArt

'A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter unread.'
The Talmud

'Bluffing... A pair of balls beats everything!'
smileyfox5150

'But it doesn’t make up for the fact that you’ll never love me.'
smileyfox5150

'No door is ‘closed’ more than temporarily. Remember that paper clip in your back pocket. Or that TNT you ‘borrowed’. That’ll work.'
smileyfox5150

'Did you just pour a bucket of beautiful on your face?'
smileyfox5150

'As an aside - I don't really have much personal experience with the gift-giving
rule for the Love Candidates. I apologize. I was side-tracked by saving the
world.'
Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon: Courting/Marriage Guide by otakuAera

'Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.'
Kai-ka's deviation 'Just A Word' on DeviantArt

leaf-lover: Jerk chicken? Is that like where you pit your chicken against other chickens and they bitch it out at each other? 'Sweetheart, your eggs are so damn small, you sure you ain't a robin, 'ho?' Other chicken: Kicks eggs out of first chicken's nest. 'Bitch, yo' eggs just fell out.'

'Team Edward vs Team Jacob: With the score at 2-3, players from both soccer teams were jostling for the ball. The Slovakian goalie was as entangled in the net as a Twilight plot.'
A newspaper sports article

'These are my values. If you don't like them, I have some more.'
Anonymous

'Drink coffee. You can do stupid things faster with more energy!'
Anonymous

'I will fight until I have nothing left. If my weapon breaks, I’ll fight with my hands. If my hands are cut off, I’ll kick them with my feet. If my feet get cut off, I’ll crawl along the ground and bite them. If they kill me, I will still win by getting my blood on them and ruining their clothes.'
Anonymous

'Start every day with a smile and get over it.'
Anonymous

'You’re only as strong as the tables you dance on, the drinks you mix, and the friends you roll with.'
Anonymous

'Never go to bed mad. Stay up all night and plot horrible revenge.'
Anonymous

'Haikus are easy,
but sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator.'
Anonymous

'There’s a little truth behind every 'just kidding,' a little curiosity behind every 'just wondering,' a little knowledge behind every 'I don’t know,' and a little emotion behind every 'I don’t care.' '
Anonymous

'Never take life seriously. No one ever gets out alive.'
Anonymous

'Smile so those around you don't see your pain. Hold your guard and never let it down. Protect your heart and believe in yourself.'
Anonymous

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Author Unknown

'Because nothing's more sexual than sex.'
Anonymous

Even darkness has its colours.
Rainbow In The Dark by =oO-Rein-Oo

When you view it from an adult perspective, first you're like, 'that's such a simplistic view of love.' But then you realize, maybe it is that simple.
'Friend Number Three' by riptey, chapter 20, author's note

'At least I got through the day without having any adventures, and only fell in love three times.'
tumblr dump 2 by Larkles on DeviantArt

Still, you realize that (from the movie Thor) Loki only strived so hard to become ruler of Asgard to be competitive with Thor, to make himself feel as Thor's equal; and when Loki let go of Thor in the end, Thor was left with nothing - but in a sense, Loki had nothing left either.
--Kathleen Xue from Facebook

perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. 'Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.'
--Unknown

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Darkness C…

oQo

-Speeches and Essays-

June 22nd, 2009

'For whatever reason, this party was started as a celebration of LM...somehow... w;

But, maybe we don't need a reason! After all, this is LM, the place of randomness, craziness and fun.

We may have different lives in real life, where we seem different than the way we act here...

But we know that, when we sit down to that moniter screen, we have friendly faces waiting behind their own to listen to us.

And so, it is my honor (to be forced) to make this speech. *raises glass that appears out of nowhere* To LM!'
For the Legendary Muses Forums first anniversary, made in the Legendary Muses' Chatango

August 12th, 2009

A leader is a person of great humility and respect, filled with knowledge they're willing to give without prejudice or a biased opinion. They cannot favor their friends or neglect their enemies - all relationships are broken before being mended in a limited fashion. Outside of their role, they may think and say whatever they wish, but once they don it again they have to become neutral to all they love or hate.

A leader must have the ability to swallow their pride in order to lay a calm and wise hand on important matters. They may hold their own beliefs, but they cannot force anyone to share them. They cannot disrespect others for not sharing them, either, for a leader must accept that their mind may not work the same way as others. If a problem arises from a misunderstanding or a lack of communication, the leader must listen to all sides if the dispute and choose the correct one to support, not they one that they agree with.

If a leader is offended by another leader or anyone that may have a differing opinion, they must not use their powers in anger. They must step back and purge themselves of all emotion so they may think rationally and logically. Setting their own feelings aside, they must confront the offender in a calm manner and never resort to violence of any sort (verbal abuse, attacking, etc.). If they're angry or jealous, it will only servce to tear them apart and ruin their imagine as an honorable leader. All thoughts must be shared or it will grow in the darkness of their heart.

A leader must follow the rules - in fact, more strictly than others. They cannot enforce them if they don't obey them themselves. Having power does not and should not excuse laziness, stubbornness or a lack of integrity. If a leader breaks a rule, even with good reasons, they must be punished harshly. They cannot be allowed to just do as they will; they must set the example for everyone around them.

A leader must be able to take responsibility and make sacrifices that the normal population can not and will not. All problems and mistakes weigh on their shoulders if they do not deal with them properly. They must cooperate with others to sustain harmony and peace, and at times they must place a firm and steady hand to keep it. A leader must be ready to lead as well as listen; to command as well as to assist; to be strict and yet flexible. Many things are expected of a leader; not just anyone can fill one's shoes.
Leader Speech, written in Physics class

December 10th, 2009

Today, I have lost a little more faith in humanity.

My day went fairly well, at first; despite my terrible shooting this morning, I realized my back sights had gotten loose and was the cause of my bad shooting on my standing and kneeling position (prone was pretty good, so I assume I loosened the sights afterwards). I had crazy bread (breadsticks from Little Caesar’s), green beans and pumpkin pie for lunch, thanks to some wonderful donations from my friends, and we weren’t attacked by a single bee that day. Marvelous.

So, after thanking my friend profusely for letting me borrow her book about dragons (beautiful artwork, I tell you), I walked to my Physics class, hugging it closely to me in fear of it getting damaged or stolen. As usual, the others were loud and obnoxious, so I sat in my seat and read through the rest of the book. When I finished, we played Jeopardy to review the test.

Afterwards, the most ludicrous thing happened.

I had known that my fellow classmates didn’t like our teacher, but I still didn’t understand why–she was a beautiful young woman who, despite a slight accent and using different terms than we do, spoke with clarity and precision on the subject of Physics. They complained, however, simply because she came from Lebanon and how “they couldn’t understand a word she was saying,” despite the fact that I, a person with below average hearing, can understand everything she said perfectly. She was light and humorous, trying to make jokes that no one would laugh to, and I watched as they mocked her behind her back–and even in front of her, right where she could see them. She was either too honorable or too confused to reprimand them, and so the teasing continued. A particular group of kids behind me now spend every class trying to make her as furious and exasperated as possible.

Today, though, after we were done reviewing, they asked for the answers to the review. She refused to give them to us. I didn’t care, because unlike everyone else I read and understood the book and her notes, simply because I bothered to listen and attempt to understand. (You can only help those that help themselves, and so I gave up on trying to coax them to listen. They, however, blamed her for their lack of knowledge and patience, and they mocked her for everything she was and called her a terrorist. I was furious but could not say a word, because of my terrible, terrible cowardice and my fear that they would attack me, physically or verbally.) So, they started to cause a riot in the classroom, screaming and hollering because they wanted the answers. I could understand why they were so angry, but she provided a much better reason than they could ever think of for their side of the debate.

The review she had given us was, in fact, the exact same as the mid-term exam. If she gave us the answers, she afraid we would simply memorized (or write down) the letters and use them for the test. She said that if she did give us the answers, she would have to change the test, and that caused even more of a racket. They continued to hassle her for answers, until finally, one girl uttered the words that caused my heart to plummet into the icy depths of disgusted disbelief:

“I think that she needs to go back to her Muslim country.”

Other unflattering phrases, such as “f*cking b*tch” and, again, “terrorist” were flung around, and once again, they were said right in front of her. She did not react like she should have, or throw angry words back in their faces like I would have–instead, she simply looked back down to her computer screen and worked on clearing the Jeopardy game that was still there.

It was there that I figured that the students couldn’t really be this naïve, this dense; surely, it was only a slight misunderstanding, and if I explained things to them, they would figure it out and feel ashamed of their incredible actions and words. But, as I tried to explain to a friend beside me, I realized I was the only one who thought this was possible–for I was the only one who realized they were wrong. Even he believed that she wasn’t speaking clearly and that she didn’t know how to teach, and I was dumbfounded as I heard even more criticism flow around me like a hateful river of boiling blood.

When the afternoon announcements, always made five minutes before school was out (3:30 p.m.), began, I found that I had to leave the classroom–I had to get out of there before I screamed at their idiocy. Before I threw my desk at them and throttled them to try to make the oxygen rise to their brains. Before I turned around and punched the guy sitting behind me and tell him to take back what he called the teacher. I needed to leave. So, grabbing my backpack as the others started to get ready, I walked to the door and, after waiting a minute until they crowded around (blocking me from the teacher’s sight), I slipped out the door and started walking to the bus loop. As I did, the friend that sat beside me followed, and he told me, “You know it’s only three twenty-eight, right?”

“Your point?”

I didn’t care to listen to him. I didn’t care to hear him complain about problems that he had caused, the misunderstandings that he refused to correct, the faults that he rejected and labeled as hers. I didn’t want to see his face, because I was sure I would throw my fist at it if I did. I was so angry, so furious, that I walked right past the principal as I left for the buses a few minutes early. I don’t think he cared, because he didn’t stop me. Maybe he knew it was pointless.

When I sat on the bus and stared out the window, I found myself crying. Crying for my Physics teacher, the woman who came to America to learn and be inspired and to teach and inspire others, and all she received was a disrespectful spit in the face. As I walked home from the bus stop in the bitter cold, I realized that the cold I felt in my heart made it feel like it was summertime.

What gives them the right to criticize her? Those who do not bother to listen, to learn, and only give insolence and malice in return? Those who sit and talk and laugh, ignoring the teacher’s words and then saying she didn’t teach them that and how she couldn’t teach right? How could they be so dense, so oblivious to the fact that they were the cause of the problem, not the victim–the problem maker, not the problem solver? What compelled them to speak about their faults as if they were hers, not the cracks in their persona that they cherished so much and struggled to uphold?

What gives them the right?

(To be honest, I do think the world is getting too sensitive. I really do. But, there is a difference between 'being too sensitive' and 'being insulted.' There is a difference between 'freedom of speech' and 'slander.' There is a difference between 'speaking your mind' and 'cutting someone down.' I will not stand for censorship, but I will not stand for cruelty of words.)
Rant about students in Physics class, first semester

February 23rd, 2010

Peter Singer's plan to rid the world of poverty is a fool's dream. To simply tell a citizen what to do with his money is not the wisest thing to do; he worked hard to collect his bounty, and he isn't going to donate it with wild abandon. Who's to say the man wants to send it out of his country? The money may do good elsewhere that could have easily been done in his own nation. Singer's plan is a direct attack on the people's rights.

To be fair, it is clear where he is coming from; he was raised to help others and do whatever good deeds he felt needed doing. Such a dream is admirable, but it doesn't change the fact that the idea is still a dream. There are no such things as superheroes flying around the world to save everyone from every little thing, and there never will be. To hope for Superman to burst through your front door and hand you a suitcase filled with money is childish. What right do we have to feed these hopes? And when the plan breaks down, who will it hurt? The victims will feel bitter towards the suppliers of these 'sugar-coated lies' and resent them for many years.

Infants need to learn to walk on their own, and so does every nation in danger. During the Great Depression, the United States didn't beg for assistance or plead for outside influences. American citizens instead voted a man into office who could dig them out of the Depression and back into business. It would be an insult to America's pride if we turn around and take another nation through its 'baby steps.' In the end, the nation would be unable to stand on its own and would crumble underneath the weight of the responsibilities it had neglected to take before. To simply give a nation money and expect it to be stable is ridiculous because if it was unstable in the first place, then it would need to fix more than its financial issues. It all returns to the nation being independent of others and having sovereignty.

The most important issue, however, is one all Americans have pondered at some time: 'What about us?' If we send this money overseas, it obviously won't be in the States where we all live. America has its own problems to deal with, its own poverty, its own hunger, and its own people. To help others before we even help ourselves would defeat the purpose of sending money in the first place–to end any and all poverty in the world, to give people better lives. Doesn't America care about its citizens, too? We should fix all of our problems before jumping into other people's nations to fix theirs. Caring about the world is pointless if we don't take care of ourselves.

Peter Singer is a man with a big heart and little foresight. He created a plan without thinking over the repercussions, and its flaws are blaringly obvious when examined closely. Good intentions do not excuse poor judgment and whimsical dreams.
Essay in Advanced Placement English Composition on Singer's article 'The Singer Solution to World Poverty' in The New York Times Magazine

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Well, I'll be completely honest and admit that this year sort of flew by; I was surprised when DB's PM came to remind me of LM's birthday, and when I looked at the date and realized it was only a few days away, I was like, 'Holy crap, I haven't had any time to prepare!' I had wanted to write something special, like the chapter of my LM Mansion story celebrating our first birthday, but between faulty internet connections and family issues, I haven't had the time, energy or patience to do so. I'm just glad that I was able to get on today at all, let alone talk to you guys.

And you know what? That's okay. I love spending any bit of time I can get with you guys, and I'd do nearly anything to help any LMer here (and not here, for that matter). People like SU and Glory have written inspiring stories that brought us together, and newcomers like Misstress and Sunny once were help keep our bond alive. It's hard to describe how much I love and care for LM, even though I've written and uploaded over 600,000 words in stories and over 11,000 posts in this forums. It's like...a hug.

A hug is something so simple yet meaningful that it's difficult to explain, and although people describe the action they can never truly tell others the feeling and emotions behind it. It's an embrace that pulls two hearts closer to one another, brings warm smiles to people's faces and reminds us that we have someone who cares about our well-being. It can be given freely or sparingly, but it means just as much no matter how often it's given or who distributes and who receives them. I've often just glomped people here or in the real world without a second thought, but I mean every hug that I give and love every person I give it to.

So, here's to another year full of hugs, hellos and good-byes! *offers cup for a toast* To the Legendary Muses Forums, and all of Fanfiction! Let's enjoy every day and make the most of it, shall we?
For the Legendary Muses Forums' second anniversary

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Lots of dragon-y love (and cookies!),
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Sooner or later, that something you really wanted nothing to do with is going to be what saves you.

A character has some 'terrible' curse placed on them (if they weren't born with it) that is actually pretty awesome. Often, such characters will bemoan their fate and go to great lengths to be rid of the 'curse' instead of taking advantage of whatever cool side effects the curse may have. Other times it's the 'reward' for Heroic Willpower. Sometimes a subset of people try to tell him this. The idea that the awesome is a curse may cause some forms of Internalized Categorism.

Immortality has been done to death under this heading, even garnering its own trope. While eternal life does have some understandable drawbacks, excessive emphasis on the negative side can push it straight into Cursed With Awesome territory, where it becomes another trope. The Emergency Transformation of a character often crosses into this, as the condition is considered literally de-humanizing. The Curse That Cures can skirt this depending on the severity of the curse and the illness or injury it's curing as a side effect.

Vampire protagonists are very frequently Cursed With Awesome.

The jury is out on the justification of the 'curse' of Awesome being Fantastic Racism; on one hand, superpowers aren't that much fun when the majority of the population believe suffocating you in your sleep is pest control. On the other, it's not like All of the Other Reindeer will have an easy time burning you. But if you keep driving off every Torch-swingingMuggle for a generation or so, you're just reinforcing the Fantastic Racism... On and on it goes.

This trope is a major source of Angst Dissonance — if not used carefully, then a character being Cursed With Awesome carries the risk of plummeting straight into Wangst or Deus Angst Machina territory, as nothing is guaranteed to piss an audience off more than a character complaining about having abilities that are, on the face of it, utterly fantastic and that the audience would kill to have. This is especially a risk if a balance between the awesomeness of the powers and the suckiness of the consequences of possessing them is not maintained; if the drawbacks are outweighed by the benefits, then the character just looks whiny. On the other hand, it can make for some great Character Development if the character is saddled with something that is genuinely difficult to live with, but later figures out a way to benefit from it.

There are also some cases where the drawback is just a straight-up Informed Flaw, or negated by a bit of Fridge Brilliance. The Super Mode can be legitimately terrifying if the person using it loses control of themselves while remaining aware of what they're doing, but not if they only do things that they could just as well have done anyway and are just as beneficial, but now they have an excuse for behavior that might be otherwise unacceptable. The Smart Guy may be so smart that it's said to alienate others and leave him lonely or anti-social, but if he's in a Five-Man Band, he almost certainly has at least four True Companions.

Occasionally leads to a 'World of Cardboard' Speech whether or not the character is unhappy about the effects of their curse.

The Punishment is an extreme form of this and usually done to someone that actually deserves it. Also compare Plague of Good Fortune. Compare Unishment, where the 'curse' turns out to be something that the character actually enjoys or wanted all along.

See also the inverse, Blessed with Suck, where the ability given is supposed to be good, but isn't. Compare I Just Want to Be Normal (where 'cursed with awesome' is taken in a different context). Contrast Super Loser. May result in a Curse Is Foiled Again or Living Forever Is Awesome. Both this and Blessed with Suck may connect with Muse Abuse. If a character actually gets over it by refusing to be tormented any longer by the downsides of their 'curse', they usually result in a case of Sweet and Sour Grapes; as the 'curse' is merely their own displeasure at their condition, then by moving past it they become purely Awesome.

Examples:

• While it also goes to show some of the really gruesome downsides of immortality, Baccano!! explicitly lampshades its Cursed With Awesome status: discovering that most of the Martillo and Gandor family gangsters mistook the two bottles of the elixir of life for some celebratory wine, Maiza attempts to apologize for dragging them into 'the harshness of having to live for eternity.' Their response is summarily summed up as, 'Are you kidding? This is awesome.' Considering the title of the episode ('Both those who are immortal and those who are not enjoy life equally'), it doesn't look like they're meant to be proven wrong.
• The god of the Bakugan, Code Eve, decided to imprison Emperor Barodius in a suit of armor created from his own evil and seal him away in an alternate dimension for eternity for trying to destroy the peaceful planet of Neathia. This ultimately made him stronger than before. However, in her defense, Code Eve wasn't aware of the Psychic Link that Barodius had to Dan which let him become strong enough to break free. If it weren't for that, it'd probably have been an And I Must Scream fate.
• Bleach:
  • Tousen claims that Komamura's Zanpakutou has a huge weakness because damaging the Zanpakutou automatically damages Komamura. Later on, Mayuri Kurotsuchi confirms that it's true that this is the Achilles' Heel of Komamura's Bankai, but it also gives Komamura an advantage over other Bankai-users: his Zanpakutou can be fully restored EVEN IF it breaks while in Bankai. It's just a matter of his own wounds healing, and his Bankai will heal with them. For any other Zanpakutou, damage taken while in Bankai is permanent—and reduces the wielder's raw power permanently as well.
  • The Hell Verse movie features the Togabito Kokuto, who is like any other Togabito chained to hell. However, despite wanting to get free from his chains, Kokuto uses his chains as weapons, offensively and especially defensively. And since the chains are invisible for the most time, his usage of the chains is unpredictable.
  • Several of the Fullbringers suffer a lot of power-related angst and they express desires to give up their 'curse' so that they can live out normal lives (especially Jackie). However, their powers have signficant benefits with no apparent downsides and their use appears to be entirely voluntary.
• In Code Geass:
  • Suzaku is Blessed with Suck in the form of the Geass command 'live', which subverts his Death Seeker mindset by forcing him to survive by any means necessary whenever his life is actually in danger. This is flipped in Turn 22, when Suzaku has decided to use the command to make himself a better fighter using its effects in his favor.
  • Nunnally too. While she's blind, that also serves as Plot Armor against Lelouch's Geass which requires eye contact (her eyes are permanently closed)... When Charles' Geass loses effect on her in the last episode and she regains vision, Lelouch instantly Geasses her into giving up the FLEIJA controls.
• The heroines of Coppelion are genetically-engineered humans with various forms of Cloning Blues, and many normal humans wax poetically on their tragic fate of being 'puppets.' This is hard to rationalize because they're exactly like normal humans, except they're immune to radiation, and many of them have additional powers like super-strength or super-animal-taming. They work for the military organization that created them, but they're treated with the same respect as normal human employees and they get to go on heroic rescue missions. Where's the downside? Courtesy of Clone Degeneration, they're expected to suddenly drop dead around age twenty.
• Allen Walker from D.Gray-Man was born with a deformed left arm that made his parents abandon him. After his adopted father died, Allen unknowingly had the Millennium Earl turn him into an Akuma, who then cut Allen's left eye and cursed him. Allen's arm can turn into an incredible weapon for destroying Akuma, and his left eye can see the soul bound to them, making him the only person on the planet who can tell which 'people' in a crowd are Akuma. A few other Exorcists are Cursed With Awesome too, particularly Krory (who was bitten by a plant and started drinking the blood of what he thought were humans at first) and Miranda (a perpetual loser who can now stop time). Miranda started as full-fledged Blessed with Suck until she was able to control it, though.
  • Remember, though, that when Lavi briefly saw an Akuma the way Allen always does, he declared it to be horrific and said he'd rather be looking over his shoulder all the time than have to deal with that. And when Allen sees whatever the soul of a level 4 Akuma has become, he immediately vomits in disgust.
    • On the other hand, something else that Allen can see that no other exorcist can is the souls bound to the Akuma being released when the Akuma is destroyed. To everyone else, the Akuma can easily be seen as simply monsters that need to be destroyed, but Allen gets a truer idea of what's really at stake.
• Most of the Contractors in Darker Than Black are eitherBlessed with Suck or Cursed With Awesome, largely depending on their remuneration. April can cause rainstorms and absolutely loves her remuneration (drinking beer). Louis, on the other hand, has gravity powers but has to break his fingers every time he uses them.
  • And then there's Wei. His power is to destroy things using his blood, and his remuneration is to cut himself, which he'd have to do anyway to use his powers. He might as well not have to pay a price, like the unabashedly Cursed With Awesome protagonist.
• In Darwin's Game, Suzune Hiiragi absolutely hates her feral Sigil because it gives her cat-ears and a tail. The Sigil gives her the senses of a feral, meaning that she is faster than normal; stronger than she ever was before and managed to use a narwhal-like horn to sense an opponent from afar, despite having been blinded earlier. Oh, and it also healed her heart condition, leaving her completely healthy and not in need of an expensive surgery.
• In Devilman Lady, Jun turns into a female Devilman, which grants her some badass superpowers. Unfortunately, due to the high tendency for Devilman to go Ax-CrazyAlways Chaotic Evil, her powers have her nearly constantly suspected of going evil to the point even her allies are ready to turn on her at a moments notice, and even though she's one of the very few of her kind able to retain most to all of her humanity and remains one of the most moral characters in the Crapsack World that is the series, even she feels the bestial urges try to overwhelm her from time to time.
• In Fruits Basket, everyone that is cursed by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac hate transforming into another animal. Most people would find this very cool, as they get traits from their animal, like agility and strength. Justified in that the curse keeps them from being close to anyone of the opposite sex, aside from those that are also cursed by the Zodiac.
  • Also, pity the poor sod who is cursed with the spirit of the cat...
  • That's probably the reason the author stopped displaying the 'animal control' power.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Al is an animated suit of armor and can't experience many of the simple pleasures that others take for granted, which does suck. Still, he has limitless stamina, far greater strength than he had as a human, and is impervious to pain. This was even used as a plot point in a chapter of the manga since he was the only person able to brave a blizzard because he couldn't feel cold or run out of energy. We find out later, however, that souls can't be permanently bound to objects, and that Al has a limited amount of time left before he separates from the armor and, having no body to go back to, presumably dies.
  • Hohenheim is an immortal human-shaped philosopher's stone. Admittedly, it is an actual curse, since living forever and knowing that the sole reason for that is entirely because a whole country died, that you helped cause it, and that over half a million murdered souls are still in your body keeping you alive would be horrible. But on the flipside, the awesome part comes in because he can completely ignore the laws of alchemy when transmuting and is bullet-proof.
  • Played straight with the four ex-military chimera who join Ed's group in the second half of the series. Unlike the imperfect chimera seen earlier, they retain their human bodies, though they can transform into their animal forms at will to take full advantage of their abilities. Aside from having enhanced strength and heightened senses (plus a few additional powers depending on what animal they were spliced with), they're exactly the same as they were before. Some of them even state outright that they aren't interested in returning to their original state, as they recognize the advantages that their new bodies give them.
• Gunnm: introduces us to DR. Desty Nova who likes to experiment with the brains of people who are almost dead and can get the craziest results out of them ranging from pure Body Horror to some great examples of this trope. There is Makaku who is an all kinds of creepy monster that eats brains and steals powerful cyborg bodies to terrorize people with. Which is exactly what he wants since no one ever even noticed his existence. Jasagun is a motorballer who got his brain fixed by Nova after a crash that would normally have been fatal. He only has a few years to live but in the mean time he can be the unbeatable emperor of motorball since his brain developed some truly God-like fighting skills. And then there is Zapan who got humiliated by Alita so badly he only wanted power so he could kill her. And that is exactly what he got an infinite supply of even though the berserker body would inevitably consume him in the long run.
• In The Hating Girl, the arrow through Asumi's head has caused her a lot of grief and pain (both emotional and physical), but is surprisingly useful at times. It's been used to reflect light, open things, and even saved her life once when she fell off the top of the school but was left hanging from the wall by the arrow.
• In High School D×D, this is immediately noted In-Universe and capitalized on. In order to access a Super Mode and have any chance of winning an Engagement Challenge he's about to throw down for, Issei has to sacrifice his left arm and have a dragon one grafted on in its place. Dragons aren't devils, and he immediately realizes this means he can now hold holy artifacts in his left hand and packs appropriately. After the Super Mode fails, it's the 'cost' that facilitates him delivering a incredibly satisfyingNo-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• InuYasha features Miroku, who is cursed by the series' Big Bad with the Wind Tunnel - essentially a gaping black hole in his hand that sucks in everything in front of it with phenomenal force. Eventually, we're told, it will rupture and draw himself in without warning, along with any friends or loved ones that might be nearby... but until then, he's willing and able to use it as a superweapon against his nemesis. Also subverted, since Naraku unsurprisingly comes up with a way to neutralize it via 'hell bees' that can seriously poison Miroku if sucked into the Wind Tunnel, preventing it from becoming a Story-Breaker Power, and by the risk Miroku takes when using the Wind Tunnel on foes wielding sharp-edged weapons (or limbs); one episode had the edge of the Wind Tunnel get cut while sucking in a mantis demon, causing it to begin widening faster than it was supposed to.
• Subverted beautifully in Kajika, where young Kajika appears to have an awesome curse grants him superhuman speed, strength, and toughness while giving him many special powers. Despite this, he works endlessly hard to break this horrible curse. Why, you ask? Because it's a downgrade from his normal form, which is even more powerful.
• Magical Project S: Sammy complains of being a magical girl because she has a lame outfit; this despite having reality-bending powers. Misao complains about having to transform into Pixy Misa (granted, it was an evil personality). However, at the end, both learn to enjoy their abilities.
• Mahou Sensei Negima! has Setsuna, a half-Tengu demon girl with albinism. This made tengu 'Bird Tribe' demons shun her as 'unlucky' since she has... wait for it... white wings. Her friends think this is awesome. It's hinted that she's never shown anyone her wings, until the Kyoto trip... which makes a certain amount of sense: if you had a trait that had caused your own family to exile you, you'd try to hide it at all costs, right?
• Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu Kara has this as more or less its central premise^note . Main character Yuzuka Hanami is able to transform into a Magical Girl with the ability to control water. The catch? Her magical girl outfit is a swimsuit. While it does serve a practical purpose - it stops her from getting wet while she's using her powers - Yuzuka finds it highly embarrassing and doesn't like transforming.
• Mai-HiME has a subversion. In most cases, the HiME really have some awesome powers, but some act like they are curses even before the real downsides come to light. However, once the truth is exposed, it's more of a case of Blessed with Suck... or just Cursed With Suck.
• Murasakiiro no Qualia has this in the form of Hatou's cellphone arm. She soon finds out she can use it to speak to parallel versions of herself. Plus, it also functions like a regular cellphone. However, she is the phone's battery and overuse leaves her physically drained. She keeps sugary snacks on hand after she loses two pounds in one day from making too many calls.
• Nabari no Ou: Rokujou Miharu was born with the ultimate ninja technique, the shinrabanshou, which basically gives you control over all the forces of nature plus the ability to learn complex ninjutsu arts in a snap...and he wants nothing to do with it. He doesn't believe in ninjas, he doesn't want to be a ninja, he definitely doesn't want to be the super high poobah of all ninjadom, and he wishes the whole deal would just go away and leave him alone. Which causes his mentor to do a lot of facepalming, since the only apparent drawbacks of being the shinrabanshou holder are that (1) every clan wants to recruit you and (2) everyone, but everyone, has a favor to ask.
  • Unless you're watching the anime, in which case it has less and less of an impact on the plot the more of its powers are unlocked.
• In Naruto, the character is the 'can' part of Sealed Evil in a Can because he houses a malevolent spirit inside him, the Nine-tailed Fox. Said spirit becomes the major reason for his extreme powers because its huge stock of Applied Phlebotinum supplies the chakra energy to all his strongest attacks (and having the Nine-Tails' chakra flowing through him since birth has also strengthened Naruto's own natural chakra, boosting his power even when he's not directly drawing from the beast). Supposedly, the village hates him for it, but most of the named characters (in a series with plenty) don't seem to mind. Oh, and he stops angsting about the beast after the first episode. However, the circumstances did cost him growing up without a family (or many friends), being considered a village pariah and having an organization of dangerous criminals after him by the age 12.
  • Most of the other hosts aren't as lucky: Gaara was ostracized even more from his village while the thing tried to take over his mind when he slept (so he doesn't) and hosts 2-7were all killed by Akatsuki. Most of the Jinchuuriki were made to be like superweapons, so how they're viewed varies on the village. However, the 8-Tailed Ox host, Killer Bee, has it even better than Naruto: he's able to control his beast and use it however he wants (that might have been something he needed to learn how to do), has no apparently risk of it getting out (even if he uses its full power), and his village actually respects him. It helps in Killer Bee's case that the Eight-Tails is considerably more mellow than the Kyuubi. The Kyuubi is constantly threatening to kill Naruto; the Eight-Tails just occasionally insults Killer Bee. So while Naruto might have gotten off a bit easier, a consistent reminder (big example with Gaara's initial personality when being introduced) was that Naruto could've become a much darker person.
  • Naruto now has control of Kurama (the Kyubi), and later on, he managed to befriend it in the same way Bee did, making him an aloof Tsundere who doesn't need to be restrained anymore, lending Naruto the fullest extent of his power.
• Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion gets to pilot a Humongous Mecha and hang out with the hottest girls at his school, who also pilot said Humongous Mecha. Evangelion being what itis, it becomes evident what kind of stress comes with fighting monsters without any prior training. That said, that stress is one of his lesserpsychologicalproblems.
  • A pair of Shinji's classmates certainly think Shinji is Cursed With Awesome. And then one of them is brought into the project himself. It ... doesn't go well.
• One Piece:
  • Every Devil Fruit curses the eater with a total inability to swim or, indeed, function at all in water. At the same time, it gives the eater amazing superhuman powers that far outweigh the downsides. Except for a few of them.
  • Word of God says that there are lots of Devil Fruits which either grant powers that are totally useless, or carry a negative side effect so harsh that they essentially ruin the user's life. Since there's no way to reverse the effects, and most fruits' powers are unknown until after you eat them (unless you happen to have access to Vegapunk's catalog of Devil Fruits...and if you're not high-ranking World Government agent, you don't), it makes eating a fruit into a huge gamble. How badly do you want to be cursed with awesome?
  • Another thing to note is that a Devil Fruit doesn't get stronger, the user gets more imaginative, which makes the 'cursed' part eclipsing the 'awesome' part a fault of the user more than anything. Brook is a perfect example, to his knowledge his fruit let him revive from being dead, once. Post time skip he's learned to bend the rules on what 'power over the soul' means to the point he can coat his sword in the cold flames of hell as his deadliest attack.
  • Played straight with Buggy, who complained when he accidentally got the power of Bara Bara no Mi, making him immune to all sharp blades in a world where there are skilled swordsmen loitering around in every direction. He's completely mastered his powers, but still bemoans them and curses Shanks over it because he was an awesome swimmer before he became an anchor. It blew his plans to sell the fruit and claim a valuable treasure hidden underwater.
  • in an aversion of the usual, many would consider being invulnerabe to damage and death to be great, unless you're Kaido so what was supposed to be a cursed with awesome is a very real case of Blessed with Suck for him
• Saitama, the titular One-Punch Man, is strong enough to defeat any of his enemies withone punch, fast enough to create afterimages, can see things moving at supersonic speeds, and is almost impervious to harm. He's also become bored and depressed with his life, since all he wants is a good fight and there's nobody that can challenge him. When the Subterraneans emerge, destroying the city and slaughtering most of mankind, Saitama actually feels happy and alive for the first time in years now that he can finally has worthy opponents. Then his alarm goes off, and he meets the real Subterraneans, who he effortlessly pulverizes just like all his previous foes.
• Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke gets cursed by a boar demon, which manifests itself in a gradually increasing nasty-looking scar which will eventually kill him, and turn him into a demon. (He comes pretty close to the deadline). The curse also grants him awesome powers, like super strength, which comes in very handy among all the hostility he gets faced with.
• In Puella Magi Madoka Magicathe Puella Magi tend to consider themselves no longer human when they learn that the reason they can improve their physical abilities with magic is because their soul is inside their Transformation Trinket and controlling their body remotely. This revelation actually plunges Sayaka into a horrifying downward spiral. Make no mistake, being a Puella Magi can genuinely be considered as being Blessed with Suck, but this is not the worst part of it, and Kyubey notes that if it weren't for Soul Gems, the girls would not be able to fight as the pain from wounds would be too unbearable.
  • As Kyubey points out, it's not a rational response, but it is understandable given that they've basically been turned into liches.
• Ranma ½. While it's never officially stated that Ranma Saotome has some sort of 'May You Live In Interesting Times' curse on him, it's a fair assumption to make in order to explain his status as a Weirdness Magnet. However, Ranma himself has no complaints about this curse, at least in abstract- it draws strong (if weird) martial arts challengers and beautiful girls to him like flies to honey. He complains when they personally get out of hand, but not about the situation itself. Many fans consider his Nyanniichuan curse to be a case of Cursed With Awesome too, but to Ranma it's more a case of Blessed with Suck.
  • It's implied that at least a few Jusenkyo springs can bestow this as well. Pantyhose Taro fell into a spring where a yeti that was riding an ox while carrying a crane and an eel drowned, and consequently transforms into a sort of giant flying minotaur when he gets wet. Perhaps because of this curse's mixed up nature, he's later able to assimilate a Drowned Octopus curse for Combat Tentacles. A character named Rouge fell into a Spring of Drowned Ashura, becoming a demon/goddess with three faces and six arms, a form in which she can fly, breathe fire, and hurl lightning bolts (as long as she has what she needs to keep at bay the killer backache stemming from having six arms).
• Played straight in Slayers, with Zelgadis Greywords. His great-grandfather, under the influence of a fragment of the world's ultimate Big Bad, cursed him into becoming a chimera: one-third golem, one-third blow demon, one-third human. This gives him Nigh-Invulnerability, superior reserves of magical energy, greatly augmented strength and speed, a much lower requirement for food, and tremendous stamina. However, he also has blue stone skin, rocky protrusions (which look vaguely like scales) all over his body, and weighs more than some boulders. Despite all the awesome powers, though, he just wantsto be human again.
  • Even though Zelgadis spends most of the series trying to find a cure to his affliction, this doesn't stop him from taking advantage of his powers every chance he gets.
    • It doesn't stop everyone else from taking advantage of his powers either. Lina once used him as an anchor, for crying out loud.
  • Zelgadis actually admits at one point that he wouldn't mind his 'curse' if Rezo hadn't shown him what he was really like by casting it. Until Rezo transformed him, Zelgadis saw him pretty much the same as everyone else did: as an exceptionally kind, powerful sorcerer who made miracles wherever he went. Rezo's experimenting on Zelgadis showed him that that was all a mask, and that he would do anything, to anybody, to cure his eyes.
  • Zelgadis also doesn't seem to mind the reaction of people to his appearance. While it's possible his misanthropy is a result of his appearance, he is often times called horrible things from misconceptions based on his appearance and actions, and he seems to find it at least somewhat amusing.
  Zelgadis: Heartless sorcerer swordsman?! ...Hmm... I think I like that.
• The 'yaka' in Sola closely resemble vampires minus the need for blood: immortality, super strength and agility, regeneration, ability to resurrect people by turning them, and sometimes other awesome unique powers, with only the vampire-like extreme weakness to direct sunlight (and the 'curse' of immortality) as a drawback. Another character has a unique body that overcomes even that, but he spends all his time angsting over not being a real boy. The ending highlights how unappreciated these abilities are by those who have them.
• Jun in Special A laments about his problem with girls, which explains why he stays away from relationships. When Sakura kisses him, he wakes up - Turns out his shameful secret is that he's got The CasanovaSplit Personality inside him. The split personality realizes how awesome this is, but the 'outer' Jun fails to see this.
• Tenchi Muyo! GXP plays with this trope. Protagonist Seina Yamada is cursed to be a Weirdness Magnet, with his mere presence causing accidents to harm himself and anyone else in the general area. His curse seems to reach new heights when he gets shanghaied into the Galaxy Police, and attracts a horde of space pirates almost as soon as he leaves orbit. But when he's rescued, it's brought to his attention that his curse led to one of the biggest blows against piracy in history — and he becomes determined to take the chance to have his luck serve a purpose for a change. Of course, the curse also leads to an Unwanted Harem... 'nuff said.
• Pretty much anyone who is an Accidental Pervert on a regular basis, particularly if they have an Unwanted Harem. Probably the most outrageous example is Rito Yuuki of To Love-Ru, known as the 'God of Falling' for his seemingly supernatural ability to trip and end up with his face in a girl's cleavage or crotch, somehow removing their clothes, or both.
  • Seemingly, nothing. The resident Omnidisciplinary Scientist (who is also a gorgeous woman) tests it and notes that a) the 'curse' appears to be the will of the universe and b) his constant accidental groping has given him an ungodly talent at it, and any girl he used it on would fall for him. Including her.
• In Toriko, Midora's curse is an insatiable appetite due to his futile attempts to eat away the pain of causing the death of one of the only people he ever loved. His ultimate attack is fueled by this appetite, giving him an 'Instant Death' Radius.
• Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura seesaws somewhere between this and Blessed with Suck in regards his Accidental Marriage to Cute Monster Girl Lum. On the one hand, she is a beautiful alien princess who genuinely does love him and sees his better qualities, and a lot of his protestations seem to be rooted in his being a particularly lustful example of the Casanova Wannabe who doesn't seem to realise how lucky he is. On the other hand, Lum does have her legitimate bad points, including having a bad temper and little tolerance for jealousy, being somewhat ditzy, enjoying higher levels of food spicethan humans are comfortable with, and, of course, her ability to generate electricity... not only does she use this to discipline him when he goes skirt-chasing, but she sometimes loses control of this when trying to cuddle him, giving him a painful shock (particularly early on, when she is the unofficial villain). And, on the meta-level, there's the fact he was originally supposed to marry Shinobu Miyake (who ended up crushing on Mendou after he was first introduced, then hooking up with Inaba, anyway), until Lum became the Ensemble Dark Horse.
• In Unlimited Fafnir, the girls with a D marking on their body, and Yuu, the main hero, can summon things using anti-matter, much like the dragons. Unfortunately they're also viewed with some skepticism and kept isolated from normal humans while learning to use their power for the good of humanity in stopping dragon attacks.
• In Witchblade Masane tries to remove or destroy the eponymous implant / symbiont... that is, docile piece of jewellery transforming her at will into a Stripperiffic death machine capable of ripping tanks apart and surviving its explosion. Naturally, the poor thing deigns to notice these efforts only when she's about to hurt herself, instantly wrecks an offending power tool and returns to its nap.
  • Note that there are implications in the anime that it is slowly destroying her.
• In ×××HOLiC, Watanuki constantly bemoans the fact that he is always stuck with Domeki Because Destiny Says So. Considering that Domeki has saved him from falling to his death (badly injuring his arm in the process), spent ten hours in the rain trying to pull him away from the brink of Hell, saved him from getting mauled by a possessed girl and her box cutter, gave his blood to save his life, and keeps him from being mauled by spirits on a daily basis just by being around him, you would think Watanuki would be a little more grateful — even if he does have to make Domeki lunch once in a while.
• In Re:CREATORS, Yuuya's curse manifests in the form of a Jojo-esque (or Shaman King-esque) spirit entity that gives him supernatural combat prowess and can be invoked seemingly at will. We're never shown any downsides of this.

• Spider-Man would be the trope namer if he had any cool catchphrase that related. Peter Parker is a genius, incredibly powerful (at least compared to us muggles), a successful photographer—who even published a book of Spider-Man photos — and a college student. Despite his poverty, he is able to provide for himself—including crime-fighting gadgets like web-shooters, webbing and costumes—his aged aunt and his supermodel wife. Remember? He bagged a chick so hot she should be using dorks like him as a paperweight. Not to mention Gwen Stacey, Betty Brant, Liz Allen, the Black Cat, Deb Whitman...
  • This is ultimately Deconstructed during the Superior Spider-Man saga. Otto Octavius, having hijacked'd Peter's body, uses it to be a superior Spidey. However, when the Green Goblin opts to bring everything down around his ears, he comes to realize that Peter purposesly stops himself from using his Awesome because of things like this.
• Subverted with The Juggernaut. Those who are bestowed with the power of Cyttorak through his crimson gem are also compelled to do evil, regardless of their previous nature. However, Cain Marko is a natural sociopath, and doesn't need much prodding. When Cain tried to turn over a new leaf and joined the X-Men, Cyttorak was very unhappy with this development. Thus, Cain's power was greatly reduced and he was pushed into returning to a life of evil to regain the lost power.
• In its early history, the X-Men themselves tended to have attractive heroes who felt awkward about their powers, while villains who reveled in their powers were ugly. This trend was reduced with the introduction of the Morlocks, who were bizarre but kind, plus the general escalating public fear of mutants becausethey could look just like anyone else.
  • The first X-Men movie in many ways reflected this; the heroes were all extremely gorgeous people with cool powers played by people like Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and James Marsden, whilst the bad guys - with the notable exception of Ian McKellen - were all freaks. The later movies began to balance this out a bit more with the inclusion of characters such as Nightcrawler. Other X-Men films, such as First Class imply a number of evil mutants become evil because they're ugly; visible mutations make them bigger targets for prejudice, which in turn makes them more cynical and bitter toward humans.
    • Also, some of the mutants who've wished to be cured over the years (and over the adaptations) have been mutants who looked human and didn't suffer from any lack of control.
  • The X-man Beak became an interesting, fairly literal example. At first, he was simply Blessed with Suck since his only mutant power was looking like a giant plucked chicken. Than the Exiles' boss The Timebroker decides to draft Beak onto the team, and forcibly yank him away from his home reality. Why? Because Beak will supposedly save The Multiverse some day. Essentially, the Timebroker just decided to hand Beak a great responsibility while Beak just wanted his life back, literally cursing him with awesomeness. Of course, the Timebroker turned out to be right when Beak found a way to defeat Hyperion.
  • This point's been lampooned in Toyfare's Twisted Toyfare Theater comic, with a villain exclaiming 'rich teenagers with superpowers? Yeah, I WISH I had your problems!'
  • Inverted with recent issues, especially after M-Day which de-powered almost all the mutants. There is, for example, a home dedicated to helping mutants adjust to life without powers. One resident is a former telekinetic who used to use his powers for construction work.
  • During the CinemaSins video of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Jeremy finally has had enough of Mystique claiming humans wouldn't find her attractive in her normal form: a nude, busty blue Action Girl. He retorts it would be almost impossible for a straight man not to be turned on by her.
• Deadpool was cursed by Loki to have Tom Cruise's face until his father forgave him. Deadpool was not happy at all. Remember Deadpool is ugly!^*
  • Course, this was before Tom Cruise's name became a dirty word. Who knows? Mebbe Deadpool can see into the future too?
  • Deadpool gets this again, in a sort of subversion. In Deadpool #64, Thanoscurses him with immortality. Where's the curse in that? Well, they both love Death, so Deadpool would actually be pretty happy being killable. Torn between Cursed With Awesome and Blessed with Suck - the curse only won out because that was Thanos's original intention.
    • Ironically enough, Thanos receives the same curse in The Thanos Imperative, and he goes completely omnicidally insane as a result.
• Thor's foe the Flame believes he is horrendously ugly in addition to having superstrength, fire control abilities, indestructible armour and a BFS. Of course, he is horrendously ugly by fire demon standards which makes him extremely handsome by human (or Asgardian) standards, but the Flame refuses to believe this.
• The Thing in Fantastic Four. Super-strong & nigh invulnerable. Sure he's not the best looking guy around, but despite this he's had several women attracted to him, Alicia Masters, Thundra, the second Miss Marvel, heck even Tigra seemed interested in him. Boo-hoo, poor Ben.
  • Although, this is pretty heavily subverted now. Ben doesn't hate his looks and is actually quite happy to be the 'Ever-lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing', as it's brought him great success and many new friends.
  • The most irrational thing he complained about was how he thought the first of these women would flee him if she were not blind. Dude, she has a pretty good idea that you are not normal-looking because your skin feels more like an animate pile of rocks than anything outwardly human.
  • In fact, Alicia played a very big factor in him as a character early on. He doubted that she would fall for 'plain old Ben' because she hadn't met him before he became the Thing, and tried very hard to resist his desire to become human again.
    • The Thing goes back and forth on the issue usually presenting himself as someone who has adjusted to the condition and enjoys the benefits, but sometimes something happens to remind him that not everybody accepts him.
  • The big issue comes from the fact that he inadvertably causes damage to structures around him. Buildings would have to be well-reinforced to support him and he probably wouldn't be able to take stairs or elevators. His fingers are too big and powerful to use normal, everyday things like telephones or cups, and everything in the Baxter Building had to be Thing-proofed just so he'd be able to live there. In terms of living his day-to-day life he's essentially handicapped.
  • The Ultimate Universe version of the Thing has his condition played for full angst value but this is a younger version of the character. Aside from looking like a monster, he laments that he can't even figure out how to kill himself because he's too tough.
• Thunderfoot, a homage to the character of Watership Down, is cursed in the Vertigo comic book series Fables by a dark magician hare to change into a horrendous, disgusting form—that of a human—until he gets the love of a pretty doe (female hare). Actually, Thunderfoot is the most awesome lad the readers may have seen. Ever. But his attempts to woo lady hares are constantly thwarted by their fearful cries of 'MONSTER! Monster!'
• Halloween Man, the eponymous hero of Drew Edwards' indie comic, is a pretty good example; though Solomon Hitch's 'origin story' disfigured half his face and left him with a skeletal hand, he gains superhuman strength and agility, virtual immortality, and even vague psychic powers. In addition, his wealthy, attractive, and brilliant girlfriend Lucy and demigod best friend Ron (son of Dionysus) accept him without hesitation, even if many of the other, more 'mainstream' heroes of Solar City do not. Subverted to an extent, as Halloween Man is still one of the undead and needs to gruesomely consume fresh organs from other monsters to maintain himself (rather than reverting to eating humans). It is also hinted that in at least some future time lines he flips to the dark side anyway, becoming a Jason Voorhees type slasher.
• Hellboy:
  • Johann Krauss and his wife died during the Chengdou disaster; fortunately he was in the 'Astral Plane' at the time. Now he's an effectively immortal cloud of mist, as long as he can find an empty 'body' to inhabit. The movie shows him pondering the difference between him and clockwork Implacable ManKroenen.
  • Abe Sapien was a human scientist who, while exploring an undersea ruin in the 1800s, became touched by an Eldritch Abomination after finding a mysterious 'egg' that turned him into a fishman. Subverted in that he doesn't feel cursed. Usually.
• In the comic Timespirits, Our Heroes encounter a dinosaur-descended space pirate who has supernatural luck. She can never fail to do anything she tries. And when Our Heroes offer to remove the 'Curse of Success' she jumps at the chance. Because, as she puts it, 'I am so incredibly bored!'. So she gets her luck extracted and has the ordinary chance of success and failure of anyone else - which she considers a blessing.
• This certainly happens to Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan. Being the only person with god-like powers in the entire known universe is a plus. But he lost his humanity, not really caring about anything but science. On the other hand, he doesn't care.
• Played with in Sillage. You would think that in a setting where everyone but the protagonist has psychic powers, to the point that she was not recognized as a person at first, might be a bad thing. Turns out it means she's an excellent spy/special agent, because she cannot be psychically detected like everyone else.
• In All-Star Superman, Lex Luthorendangers a space flight, forcing Superman to fly too close to the sun in the process of rescuing them. The damage to his body leaves him with one year to live. On the upside, it boosts his powers and intelligence, and renders him immune to kryptonite, which helps him deal with all his final year's problems.
  • Of course, in the long run he may wind up considering this to be the best thing that ever happens to him. It's all but outright stated that this version of Superman goes on to become Superman Prime of DC One Million, ensuring he eventually physically resurrects as nothing short of a god, living until at least the year 85200 and resurrecting Lois Lane to be as powerful and long-lived as him, so they can be together forever. Also, he LIVES IN THE GOD DAMNED SUN.
• Empowered's suit usually is more Blessed with Suck, but the fact it supercharges her orgasms? Gee, what a burden.
• For most folks who gain powers via Gamma radiation like the Hulk the Abomination, and General Ross, it's the opposite Trope but there are exceptions:
  • The page picture's subject, She-Hulk, started out as Bruce Banner's mousy cousin Jennifer Walters who transformed after being given a blood transfusion from Dr. Banner. She went from a shy, rather nebbish girl into... well, She-Hulk. Eventually, writers realized there weren't any real downsides to it, and she hasn't complained about the situation in years. (The trick is that, as the name implies, they were trying to make a Distaff Counterpart to the Incredible Hulk - but while Bruce Banner turns into a horrific, mindless force of destruction most of the time, Jennifer turns into a friendly, vivacious Amazon who is still mentally herself, just butch as fuck. Hard to see any downsides in that, especially since she didn't like who she used to be all that much to begin with.)
  • Lampshaded as early as the late-80s, when at the end of an issue, Mr. Fantastic sadly informs Jennifer that due to a burst of radiation she absorbed, she is now permanently stuck in her She-Hulk form. A couple of beat panels later she replies, 'So, what's the bad news?'
  • Jen isn't the only one to benefit from gamma radiation. The Hulk's enemy the Leader was once nothing more than a janitor until an accident involving gamma radiation turned him into a super-genius with Psychic Powers. (He considered the green skin and enlarged, mutated cranium a very small price to pay.)
  • Doc Samson transformed himself using stored energy siphoned from the Hulk in an attempt to turn the Hulk back into Bruce Banner permanently. Considering that it changed him from a somewhat nebbishy scientist into someone with the physique of a Greek god, the fact that it also made his hair longer and green was unplanned, but overall he admits it's still a good deal for him.
  • Indeed, one theory about gamma radiation is that it transforms the victim into a physical embodiment of deeply repressed emotions. While the Hulk embodies the hidden rage that Bruce felt towards his abusive father, She-Hulk is a liberated, daring side of Jennifer that she had never been able to show before. Abomination is an unlovable bastard because Emil Blonsky is an unlovable bastard (or believes he is). Doc Sampson always wanted to be a paragon-style superhero, so that's what he turned into.
• ROM and the other Spaceknights constantly bewail the loss of their humanity, even though they can still think, talk, feel, and do pretty well everything else humans can, while also having supercool cyborg armor, the ability to fly, virtual immortality, and, of course, survive attack by the Dire Wraiths.
  • Not being able to get out of their armor probably sucks pretty hard. For one thing, you couldn't have sex. Actually, do there really have to be any other reasons?
  • They also turned out to be right to bemoan their loss of humanity. A second generation of Space Knights was create which were more extremely transformed (and more powerful), and they all went Ax-Crazy and destroyed the rest of their race and the parts removed from all the Space Knights, preventing anyone from ever transforming them back.
• Zig Zagged with werewolves in Werewolf by Night. At their creation, werewolves weren't 'cursed' but merely given a useful ability; it later became a curse when the way to control those abilities got lost over time. So when Jack becomes a werewolf on his eighteenth birthday, it really is a curse: forced to painfully transformthree times a month with no control. But when he finally does learn how to control it, he starts to enjoy the abilities it gives him, being able to use his werewolf form to do good. Unfortunately, the curse seems to have a way of striking back. You can transform any time you want? Your uncontrolled werewolf form during the full moons will become stronger and more violent. You're happy you won't have to change at all anymore, not even during the full moon? You'll lose the ability, and from now on you'll be forced to have visions of hell when you transform.
• In the Astro City story 'Lucky Girl,' Hummingbird II discovers that her gods-granted powers are tainted with a curse that will eventually turn her into a real bird. She rejects an offer to be cured by having her powers removed, choosing instead to deal with her fate with the help of her Honorary Aunts.
• As an Expy of Ben Grimm, above, Pig-Iron was transformed into a hulking steel monster. While it made him Nigh Invulnerable and gave him Super Strength, it also makes it utterly impossible for him to have a Secret Identity or live any kind of normal, non-superheroic life. It also resulted in his death from drowning, as unlike the other heroes he couldn't possibly swim. He would be resurrected by Grant Morrison to be a background character in Final Crisis.
• Legends of the Dead Earth: In Superman Annual #8, the League of Supermen is made up of men and women who are empowered with just one of Superman's many Kryptonian abilities. Unfortunately, they can't shut them off. Shield is completely numb, See-Through has to wear lead shades to block his x-ray vision, Flyboy needs to be tethered when not consciously moving towards something, Pounder has to be fed like a baby, and Heat needs to let off excess heat energy every fifteen minutes or his insides burn up.

• In thisDilbert strip, Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, makes Dilbert choose between two 'hideous fates': having eternal high pay but having to see all his work burned in front of him at the end of each day, or having his work be useful and appreciated but suffering eternal poverty. Dilbert points out that they're both better than his current job and recruits Wally to get in on the deal.

• Axis Powers Hetalia 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...
• In Fullmetal Alchemist 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.
• The Child of Love: Shinji and Asuka's daughter Teri got her DNA altered when she was still a fetus, and she developed Psychic Powers and the ability to wield an energy barrier. She really does not like her powers, though, because she is afraid that people will think she is weird and will shun her out if they find out.
• An interesting example occurs in the Project Dark Jade fic Shadows Awakening, Jadeactuallylikes 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.
• 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.
• 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, who dies in Canon but is only presumed dead in this case, 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 totally manipulate Bhelen and his lackeys by faking Trian's death and getting himself framed for it deliberately, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A repeated theme in Diaries of a Madman. Particularly so with Discord, but Nav, Celestia, and Luna also stand out.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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...
• 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...
• 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.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.

• Beauty and the Beast: Sure, not being able to go outside of your castle without a mob of angry villagers trying to kill you sucks. And spending so many years locked up inside would surely start to grate the nerves. Plus you'll have to live with the knowledge that dozens, perhaps hundreds of your servants have been turned into household objects because of your jerkassery. But still there are a million cool things a massive gorilla-buffalo-boar-bear-wolf hybrid with amazing strength and agility can do.
• In Monsters vs. Aliens, the main character starts off believing that being turned into a giantess is a case of Blessed with Suck. However, by the end of the movie she has accepted her size, and uses her powers for good.
• Hoodwinked has Japeth, this mountain goat who lives in a shack in the middle of nowhere. When Red finds him on the porch, he's strumming on a banjo:
  Red Puckett: I'm looking for Granny Puckett's house?
  Japeth the Goat:[singing] Graaaaaaaanneeee Puckeeeet...
  Red Puckett: Could you stop singing for one moment?
  Japeth the Goat:[singing] No I can't, wish I could, but a mountain witch done put a spell on me, 37 years agoooooooo, and now I gotta sing every thing I saaaaaaaaayyyyyy...
  Red Puckett: Everything?
  Japeth the Goat:[speaking] That's right.
  Red Puckett: You just talked! Just now!
  Japeth the Goat: Oh, did I? [singing] Did I? Dididididodadidididoooo... [Red gives a pissed off Aside Glance to the camera]
  • A moment later, lampshaded:
    Red Puckett: Mr. Goat, my granny's in trouble! I've got to find a way around the mountain, fast!
    Japeth:[singing]' Well you came to the right goat! [pops off his rocking horns]'
    Red Puckett: Oh, good. More singing.
• Odette in The Swan Princess turns into a swan every day (but can regain her human form as long as she's on the lake when the moon rises). Being a swan does allow her to actually escape from her prison undetected and try to find help - as well as being pretty handy for combat. She's able to do many things she couldn't do as a human. It's sort of acknowledged in the first sequel - she's permanently a human but voluntarily changes herself into a swan, recognising that it has advantages and that her husband needs help.
• In Penguins of Madagascar, the penguins waste no time putting their horribly mutated bodies to good use in the final battle, their misshapen limbs making excellent bludgeoning weapons.
• Lampshaded by producer Phil Lord when discussing Batman's life in The LEGO Batman Movie.
  Lord: 'Wah, I’m so rich and handsome, and women like me, and I’ve got a Maclaren! Something about my parents!'
• Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen is able to project ice and snow. The curse portion comes from the fact that she can't control it, but when she's not constantly worrying about hurting people (and when she's finally accepted by her kingdom at the end) it goes straight back into awesome.

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• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Being cursed with an immortal life of eternal hunger and thirst (among other things) legitimately sucks for the crew of the Black Pearl; but they sure do make the most of immortality.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Will Turner in the finale, although Jack Sparrow views it more as Blessed with Suck due to the absence of port... er, making port.
• The Mummy Trilogy:
  • The 1999 version of The Mummy. Okay, Imhotep got eaten alive by scarabs and had to slumber for a few thousand years, but once released he became an immortal, invincible badass. And, the people who cursed him, and their descendants, were then forced to spend those thousands of years guarding his tomb, waging war on anyone who tried to open it, to prevent the badass from coming out. They thought the Egyptian afterlife was too good for him, but really, it would have been much easier to just kill him. The protagonists even directly state 'cursing people just seems to make them stronger, why not just kill them?'
  • In The Mummy Returns, the Scorpion King is cursed to serve the god Anubis for eternity. And as part of this curse, he becomes a humanoid scorpion, only killable by a certain weapon, and 5000 years later is set to revive and conquer the world unless stopped.
  • This was averted in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The Emperor already had superpowers while he was alive, the curse just turned him into a terracotta corpse.
• The main character from Shallow Hal is hypnotized to see a person's inner self. This means that every woman worth hitting on also looks like a supermodel.
• The premise for Phenomenon. John Travolta's character gains extraordinary mental powers as well as telekinesis all caused by a brain cancer that activates normally dormant regions of the brain. His first big problem is finding out why he got this power—since it scares the locals, it makes his personal life harder than it used to be (he's from a small town). Once he finds out, he takes it much better—yes, he takes a brain cancer that kills him in less than two years, and the inconveniences that go with treating such a cancer, much more peacefully than ostracism.
• In all three Spider-Man Trilogy movies, Spider-Man is constantly whining about how 'cursed' he is. In fact the only time he isn't whining about something is when he has the Symbiote suit, which enhanced his powers and made him far more badass, and therefore, cool. After he loses it he seems to be even more whiny and grating.
• Jason Bourne in The Bourne Series has had mad assassin training and can read every map, drive every vehicle, speak every language, fire every weapon, can enter anywhere and kill anyone with anything. All that for the little price of his personal memory, however. He also has to dodge a lot of assassins.
• At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we get to see what happened to all the bad kids. Violet is let off the easiest, and is pleased to find that she's much more flexible after becoming a blueberry and then getting juiced. Only her mother is bothered that she's still blue.
• Highlander: All of the immortals have perpetual youth and are nearly indestructible. They enjoy the benefits of many lifetimes worth of experiences, wealth and knowledge. However, they can never have children and must watch everyone they love grow old and die. There's also the whole problem of living your life worrying about other immortals trying to kill you.
• Batman. Yes, it's so hard to be one of the richest, most attractive, most intelligent men in the world with fighting abilities rivaling most Special Forces, and hi-tech gizmos that NASA would need a decade to reverse-engineer. The Burton/Schumacher movies actually have characters calling out Bruce Wayne on this. The Nolan movies, however, examine how physically and mentally taxing it is to live a double-life as Batman.
• In Dracula Untold, Vlad's abilities after he becomes a vampire are extremely powerful, being able to curbstomp entire armies in a single battle, but comes at the price of him having blood thirst and being an abomination in the sight of God and man, causing his allies to turn against him.
• In The Suicide Theory, Percival desperately wants to die, but keeps surviving his numerous suicide attempts, going so far has to hire a hit man, Steve, to off him (he survives three further attempts by Steve to fulfill that contract). Steve tries to convince Percival that as he is essentially invincible, he can do whatever he wants without any lasting consequences at all, but Percival isn't convinced, and his many attempt to die leave him looking increasingly chewed up throughout the movie.
• In the German film Boxhagener Platz, the cool granny protagonist has already survived five husbands. And number six and seven follow the course.
• In The Last Witch Hunter, the Witch Queen 'curses' Kaulder with immortality in attempt to exploit Who Wants to Live Forever?, but it only turns him into world's best witch hunter. Justified later, as it turns out she used him as 'storage' for her immortality, it being necessary to bring her back to life fully.
• In The Fly (1986), Seth Brundle finds that becoming a diseased mutant does have its benefits, including wall-crawling, superhuman strength, corrosive spit and an enhanced libido.

• In Christian folklore, the Wandering Jew is ostensibly 'cursed' with eternal—or at least unnaturally long—life for taunting Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion. Of course, this could double as a case of Blessed with Suck from the Christian perspective: If the Wandering Jew truly is immortal, then no matter what good deeds he does to atone for his sinful act, he can never go to Heaven, since one must die in order to enter the afterlife.
  • However, without the curse, he would never have had time to repent, and he almost certainly would have gone to Hell. Sure, not being able to go to Heaven sucks, but between the choice of 'Live forever and never go to Heaven,' or 'Go to Hell,' he easily got a good deal. As Hell is (pretty much by definition) the worst possible thing, then even floating in an empty universe after it undergoes heat death would be a step up.
  • Also, according to Christianity, second coming will bring kingdom of God anyways (with resurrection of dead and so on.), so technically, it is not necessary to die, the guy just has to wait a bit longer.
• According to legend, Thomas The Rhymer was captured by the Fairie Queen, and traded his ability to lie for his freedom. Since he could no longer speak an untrue word, every prediction he spoke about the future came true sooner or later.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Buffy, who is cursed to be a 'hot chick with superpowers', as Faith once put it. The curse part is she has to use said superpowers to fight for her life every night, and the world's existence every late Spring. All Evil is waiting for is for its 'one good day' to fall on one where they can end the world. And statistically, she's ancient - most slayers die the same year they're chosen. At fifteen.
  • In the episode 'Nightmares', Buffy is temporarily turned into a vampire... which gives her the strength she needs to defeat the Monster of the Week.
  • Angel is cursed with a soul. Good in that he's immortal with superpowers, irresistible to young girls, a shoe-in to be a Hunter of His Own Kind and the titular star of his own Vampire Detective Series. Bad in that he has a century of Charles Manson's memories in his head and said soul never lets him forget it.
  • Dawn. While being a giant and centaurette were annoying to her, she at least acknowledged they had some good points. Being turned into a doll though... not so much.
• Similar to Buffy, Dollhouse, another Joss Whedon project, has Echo, slave to the titular organization and all too aware that she and her fellow Actives are being exploited. This curse, however, comes with the ability to call on skills from any imprint she's ever received.
• Angel:
  • The Groosalugg was cursed with unmatched combat skill. As he recounts his life's story to Cordelia, he talks about how his human heritage in the demon world of Pylea got him banished to the Scum Pits of Ur, meaning for him to die. Unfortunately, his awesome combat skills prevent him from dying honorably, as he destroys every one of his opponents, making him The Groosalugg, or undefeated champion.
  • Angel is cursed with a soul (see above).
  • Doyle (and later Cordelia) gets visions from the Powers That Be about people who need Angel's help. And when we say 'visions' we mean 'great splitting migraines with pictures.'
• A number of characters on The Big Bang Theory have this.
  • Sheldon is by far the most brilliant and was a Child Prodigy. This, however, alienated him from his family and classmates and, as such, stunted his emotional development to the point where he has difficulty recognizing basic emotions in others. He's also stated that his eidetic memory causes him to not enjoy much of life because of the lack of challenge.
  • Leonard was driven strongly by academic parents to succeed and became world-renowned as an experimental physicist. But he also was denied basic comfort and affection by his family and has great difficulty relating to women.
  • Raj was brought up in great wealth surrounded by intense poverty. This privileged upbringing (probably caused by being surrounded by Yes-Man servants) causes him to not know how to act around people who aren't required to like him. The selective mutism around women probably came from somewhere in the same area once he had to get girls without his money.
  • Howard's lack of relationship with his father and overbearing mother cause him to act out. He is by far the most outgoing and talkative of the main four but is often unaware of how much he is disliked. He also excelled in school in order to impress and bring pride to his mother. This costs him the ability to take care of his own life and he expects his mother (and later Bernadette) to take care of him.
• Heroes touches on this a lot.
  • Chronologically, the first offender was Brian Davis, who wished he didn't have his powers. He gets his wish when Sylar kills him. Most other characters are somewhat angsty about the consequences of their powers, but quickly learn to make use of them.
  • But some cry about it throughout the entire series. Such as Claire Bennet: her ability is regeneration, and she cries about it nearly all throughout season one, mourning how she's the freakshow of the cheerleaders, despite the fact that nobody except for a very select few friends and family knows about her ability, nor is her ability all that apparent unless she severely wounds herself in plain sight. Then in season two, it gets even worse, because she cries that she can't go around showing her ability and how restrained she feels. Never mind the fact that the only way to show her ability to others is by injuring herself. Never mind the fact that all she has to do in order to avoid suspicion is lay off her masochistic tendencies. Then she realizes the possibility of the company finding her, because they'll run tests on her and stuff, poking and prodding her. She cries about this too, even though it seems that's all she wants to do to herself; if you find an episode with Claire in it in the first two seasons that doesn't involve a suicide attempt or self mutilation, you get a cookie. And then in season three, she loses the ability to feel pain, and cries about that because it apparently takes all the fun out of self-mutilation. At one point she mentions this to Elle, who is suffering horrific agony due to her Power Incontinence, and is, needless to say, not pleased to hear it.
  • Emma Coolidge in Volume Five, a deaf woman who develops the power to see sounds as multicolored lights. This not only looks pretty cool, but also makes her an Instant Expert at playing musical instruments. Her first reaction (after receiving independent verification that she's not hallucinating) is to demand that it be taken away and spend several episodes Wangsting about it for no readily apparent reason.
• Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie, after trying to find something she is good at, is not very happy to find out she is a rhythmic gymnastics prodigy, calling it a 'stupid talent' to have and does not enjoy taking part in a competition which she easily wins.
• Scott McCall from Teen Wolf. He doesn't see the awesomeness of lycanthropy when Derek Hale says the bite is a gift, arguing that being turned into a werewolf has made his life much more difficult and now he has to hide it from everyone around him. Justified at first by a Superpowered Evil Side, but now he has full control and seems to have grown out of the angst. His best friend, Stiles Stilinski, rejects the bite later as well because of a similar reasoning and states that he's perfectly happy being a normal human.
• Clark Kent on Smallville, constantly whines and angsts about how terrible it is to be an alien 'outsider' with such and awful secret. Yep, an outsider with: two unbelievably loving parents, some awesome best friends who are totally supportive when they eventually learn his secret (and one's a hottie that's totally in love with him to boot), an acceptable level of baseline popularity in school, gets to looks like Tom goddamn Welling so most chicks think he's hot-as... oh and the small matter of developing a wide array of earth-shattering superpowers that make him a virtually unkillable demigod. He's not even superficially distinguishable from a human. Yeah, boo-frikkety-hoo, Clark; cry me a river... If it weren't for kryptonite it would be win-win-win.
  • Admittedly, his whining becomes slightly more justified in later seasons as some people he loves die or move away, his would-be OTP starts getting really screwy, and increasingly more dangerous and determined adversaries are pitted against him. Still, you wish you could just tell him that a few years down the track he'll get the hot chick, be the universally beloved protector of the planet, hang out with a bunch of super buddies etc... SO JUST PUT A SOCK IN IT!
  • He does have the problem of potentially losing control of his strength at a bad time, like during sex, but he later gets a handle on this, making the lesson here 'Stop whining and practice controlling your strength so it won't be an issue.'
• Subverted in Reaper. At first it seems like the devil owning Sam's soul looks like the best thing that's ever happened to him: he gets a cool job as a hunter of escaped souls, powers specially designed for each soul so he shouldn't have too much trouble with them, and the big guy's inside advice on how to get laid. However, the devil also occasionally screws with Sam's life just for the hell of it, and he can't say anything about it to the girl he really loves since it would jeopardize her ownership of her own soul.
• In Stargate Atlantis, Teyla is understandably freaked out at first when she learns her telepathic abilities stem from the fact she's part Wraith. However, being a no-nonsense Action Girl, she quickly comes to terms with her background and quickly sets out trying to figure how she can use it against the Wraith.
• To some extent, David Banner of The Incredible Hulk. Turning into a green raging behemoth whenever you get angry is pretty lousy, yes, but as played on the show it nearly always kicked in to save him or someone else from life-threatening danger.
  • Justified in that David has no memory of what he does as the Hulk, and no conscious control over when he'll change or what he'll do when he does, and the Hulk's insane Super Strength means it could very easily kill people. If David could see the Hulk as the audience sees him, he'd be much more relaxed about the whole thing. As it is, put yourself in David's shoes, and you have every reason to be terrified of the uncontrollable giant green rage monster lurking inside you. (Yes, young Clark Kent, that means you.)
• Openly addressed in the first episode of Being Human (UK). 'How noble of you to take on the curse of immortality so that your friends could wither and decay in hospitals and old people's homes...'
  • Similarly, McNair sees lycanthropy as a blessing rather than curse: 'When bones break, they repair stronger, when skin tears, it heals tougher.'
  • Although in both cases, vampirism and lycanthropy do seriously suck, especially if you aren't prepared for it.

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• The Charmed Ones from Charmed seem to fit this. For the first three series they don't half go on about being spectacularly powerful witches (especially Piper) and are all somewhat inclined towards giving up their powers if given the chance (especially Piper...) in fact, they only stop complaining about their abilities (to freeze time or move things with their mind/astrally project or see into the future/levitate) in order to use them to save the day from demon of the week.
  • This may have more to do with the fact the writers set up the entire universe to ensure the sisters would never get to use their powers for anything besides demon-killing. Several episodes are centered around them trying to do something for themselves and getting punished for it.
• Acknowledged in the promotional ads for The Listener, about a guy who can hear people's thoughts: he used to think his power was a curse, but he's figured out a way to save people with it.
• Stefan, Damon, Bonnie, Elena and all other supernatural beings on The Vampire Diaries who possess special superhuman powers or abilities.
• Although Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood doesn't spend a lot of time bemoaning the fact that he can't die, he has clearly found the drawbacks to it, and there is a fair amount of subtext. He also has to watch almost all his friends, his lover, and at least one member of his family die, then step up and fix everything anyway. He's sort of expected to be emotionless - not cold, just unable to be emotionally hurt or depressed. This, ironically, has got to be depressing.
• Saturday Night Live: in one skit, a man is cursed to summon a sexy sax player named Sergio who immediately invokes everyone around him to dance.
• Lost: The Man in Black was thrown into the Island's source by Jacob, which stripped him from his body and turned him into the monster, which was said to be a fate worse than death, and he's trapped on the Island. However, he can shape-shift and impersonate dead people to manipulate others to do his bidding, is immortal and can't be killed by bullets or knives, and in his smoke monster form he can kill an entire group of people with ease.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation The android Data is stronger than a Klingon, smarter than a Vulcan, doesn't need sleep or food or drink, can survive in open space or on any planet, can interface with anything that moves and doesn't have to worry about fear, sadness, hatred, or any other negative emotions, even if he's constantly the victim of racism. But, poor guy, all he wants is to be more human. And even in Star Trek: Generations, when he finally retrieves his emotion chip from his Ax-Crazy brother, Lore, and it interferes with half of his regular operations, and makes him, frankly, a tool, he is still happy to hear LaForge say he's acting more human—in response to Data's chickening out and leaving LaForge in the hands of Dr. Soran and the Klingons. Averted in the next film, Data gets enough control over his emotion function to turn it off when it gets in the way. Lampshaded by Q in one episode, where he points out a great many species spend millennia trying to be as close as they possibly can get to what Data is by default, as a way of pointing out how absurd his desire to be human is.
  • Star Trek tends to go in for this trope a lot. Odo in Deep Space 9 and Seven of Nine in Voyager are other examples of characters with cool abilities and immunities who go through lots of angst over the fact that they aren't the same as everyone else.
  • Seven of Nine is perhaps an interesting subversion. Initially, she just wants to be a Borg again, since it's almost all she's ever known (she was assimilated as a young child). As the series progresses, she learns she can't go back, but doesn't entirely want to give up the positive things she's learned from the Borg (strive for efficiency and perfection). While she does set out to learn about and understand the positive aspects of humanity, she uses her differences in the best ways she can.
• The Middleman has a character who was cursed with immortality as a punishment for kicking someone else out of a lifeboat on the Titanic. This rather backfired, because he thinks Living Forever Is Awesome.
• Babylon 5 psychics, particularly in season 5, when they start whining about how they are all 'weapons' created by the Vorlons.
  • Their main issue is with the Mundanes hating them. According to the canon Psi-Corps trilogy, when the knowledge of telepaths first became public on Earth, it was followed by mass Witch Hunts for anyone who even seemed like they may be a telepath. This is despite the Pope (you know, the head of the largest religion on the planet) telling people that he approves of telepaths. The only time shown in the book where he is heeded is when an Italian mob boss lets a telepath go after cheating in his casino, provided he uses his gift to help him.
  • To be fair, there is a lot about being a telepath in Babylon 5 that sucks. In order to keep from hearing the stray thoughts that everyone around them is constantly 'shouting,' one has to keep one's mind occupied with nursery rhymes, multiplication tables, anything and everything to generate 'white noise' inside your own head. Because anything else is an invasion of privacy. Strong emotions are more difficult to block, so if someone's passionately intent on murder, you're going to hear it. And if you're hired to monitor a deal between two people, and one of them is preoccupied with 'rather erotic' thoughts, well. . .
• One episode of House implies that the title character may have Asperger's Syndrome, which allows him to focus intensely on his cases, at the expense of being a complete social incompetent and highly self-destructive (on the basis of an autistic boy he was treating deliberately meeting his gaze at the end of the episode, which he is stated to have never done before). On the other hand, House may just be a brilliant ass.
  • Wilson outright states at the end of the episode House doesn't have it — he's just an ass.
• The Sentinel's Jim Ellison sometimes feels his super-senses are a curse; his first request of Blair is how to make them go away.
  • There are a number of episodes when they are a detriment to him rather than a gift. There's the 'zoning-out' problem, which nearly gets him run over by a truck in the pilot, when he focuses his vision too much on a flying frisbee. Also, after his ears get flushed out from all the wax build-up, his hearing is Turned Up to Eleven, meaning he can't even focus at work thanks to all the tiny noises hitting him with the volume of a heavy metal concert. He's also extremely sensitive to pain, although Blair teaches him how to 'dial it down' (specifically, using the 'dial' imagery).
    • Funny thing is, it's never mentioned that the same super-sensitivity would also mean he would enjoy sex a lot more. Now imagine if two sentinels get it on...
    • Didn't that actually happen once? And with Jeri Ryan of all people. . .
• In Once Upon a Time, Rumpelstiltskin is cursed to be the most powerful sorcerer in the land and to have sparkly grey skin—which he may or may not be able to conceal with magic. This also comes with a bent toward dark, murderous urges. That this is a curse is established in the Season 1 episode 'Skin Deep,' wherein Belle almost ends it with True Love's Kiss. In a slight departure, while the show clearly wants us to see him as cursed, Rumpelstiltskin himself never complains about his powers, and is quite sensibly freaked out at the prospect of losing them and being at the mercy of the Evil Queen, not to mention losing any chance of finding his son.
  • The detrimental aspects are not emphasised as much, but the power of the Dark One is much like that of a djinn in that he has incredible power, but there is a magical item which grants the holder complete control over him (as well as the ability to take on the curse via You Kill It, You Bought It). As long as he has the dagger, he can't be killed or controlled, but the curse also makes you prone to evil and the magic always comes with some kind of cost. What the cost will actually be doesn't seem to be predictable.
• The Russian mini-series Wolf Messing: Seeing through time, based on the (possibly fictionalized) memoirs of a Real Life psychic of that name, portray Messing's abilities alternatively as a gift and as a curse. It's all fun when he uses them on stage to read people's thoughts or make them do something. The pilot starts with Messing being asked a trivial question during a performance (which hockey team will win the championship), and he ends up getting a vision so disturbing (one of the hockey teams will die in a plane crash) that he cuts the performance short and immediately calls the Kremlin. He also gets horrible visions about the two World Wars before they happen. When a character later remarks about how great it would be to see bad things coming and change them, Messing points out that the bad things he sees are too grand to change by him alone. Even the plane crash still happens, despite him warning Stalin about it. Strangely, he is unable to foresee his own people being exterminated by the Nazis. He is also once asked to find a dead girl's body based on a photograph, and he visibly breaks down after touching the picture and revealing the location. When the cops ask if he'd like to help them full-time, he opts to be in the circus instead.
• Becoming a zombie is usually treated as a Fate Worse than Death, but in iZombie, zombies like the heroine Olivia 'Liv' Moore get a lot of benefits. Liv retains her personality and intelligence as long as she routinely gets to eat human brain matter^note , and also gain the ability to absorb the memories, skills and knowledge from the brains they eat. Liv is exceptionally resilient to injury; she can be shot and stabbed multiple times, she doesn't feel pain, she loses very little blood and the wounds eventually heal like they would for a normal person. On top of that, Liv has a 'full-on zombie mode' where she gains Super Strength, able to chase down cars and overpower men much larger than her. She also doesn't need to sleep, and her alcohol tolerance is greatly increased. Against all that, the downsides of being a zombie are your taste gets dulled so you can't enjoy normal food again, you look like someone who hasn't seen in the sun and got a tan in years, and it can potentially alienate you from your friends and your career.
• In the Stick Stickly TV special Stuck, Stick discovers several advantages to having an ice skate stuck to his foot, such as being able to cut out coupons, slice giant marshmallows, and slice potatoes.
• Farscape: Normally, Jool's metal-melting scream falls into the inversion, as others routinely scare her or injure her specifically for that. But when someone hits on the bright idea of handcuffing her, she makes with the scream, and the cuffs are no more.

• 'Living Hell' by German Rock/Punk band Die Ärzte, in which a successful musician complains about all the sex, money and fame he gets. Inspired by... some real musician's complaint whose name escapes me right now.
• Kendall Payne's The Prayer is based on this: a series of curses then explaining why they're awesome:
  May you find every step to be harder than the last
• Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett had to use a piano in bad shape for his legendary Köln Concert. The unique sound of the piano is seen to have contributed to the quality of the performance.

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• Norse Mythology has the story of Nornagest, a person who, as an infant, was going to be given blessings from the Norns (the Norse goddesses of Fate), but his parents angered one, who, instead of a blessing, gave him the 'curse' that he would die when a specific candle finished burning. They manage to turn this 'curse' into a blessing by putting out the candle so it would never 'finish' burning... until he is forced to light it again three hundred years later.
  • A similar story from Scotland features three witches, a baby, and a piece of peat. No one told the baby, and on her wedding day she found the piece of peat and tossed it on the fire.
  • The Greek equivalent of that story was named Meleager. The Fates appeared to his mother and told her that he would only live as long as a certain stick in the fire remained unburned. Then when Meleager 'accidentally' kills two of his brothers, his mom goes insane and burns the stick, which results in him horribly melting in the arms of his wife-to-be Atalanta.
  • A similar situation occurs in The Simpsons, in 'Treehouse of Horror IV' -
    Homer: 'Hey, wait. If I don't finish this last bite, you don't get my soul, do you?'
    Devil Flanders: 'Well, technically, no, but...'
    Homer: 'I'm smarter than the Devil! I'm smarter than...'
• In a Greco-Roman myth recorded by Ovid in Metamorphoses a man named Lycaeon is turned into a wolf as divine punishment for being a cannibal and serving human flesh to the gods. It's strongly implied that he was happier in this form than as a human.
• According to the Roman writer Ovid, Scylla was a nymph cursed to become one of the most powerful, hideous, and feared monsters in existence, making this Older Than Feudalism. She also raised bemoaning her fate to an art form few since have matched, deciding that if she couldn't be beautiful anymore, she'd stay in the spot she was transformed for the rest of her life, devouring anyone who came near. Having around six wild dogs attached to her may explain the whole 'devouring people' deal.
• Diarmuid of The Love Spot from Celtic Mythology was 'cursed' with the titular spot, which caused every woman who looked upon it to fall madly in love with him. A terrible, terrible curse indeed. It DOES kind of, indirectly lead to his death, though...
  • In fact, the concept of the geas (or geis) often overlaps with this trope; in many stories, it brings great power if the associated certain conditions are not violated, but upon violation a nasty curse does tend to kick in.
• Egil, from Icelandic 'Egil's Saga'. Modern interpretation of it see his description as a clear sign of Paget's disease. It leads to many, many disadvantages but to one thing that is extremely useful for a Viking: a head that can even take the blow of an axe.

• Chris Hero has a naturally elevated testosterone level. Most men would think that would be awesome but in Hero's case, it causes him to fail drug tests.

• The 'curse' of lycanthropy in Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5 Ed., once the afflicted player character succeeds on a Wisdom check of moderate difficulty. See here.
  • This depends on the player and character, for whom in some cases lycanthropy could ruin the character's access to powers or destroy the player's interest in the character by making him evil. However, many players enjoy playing this sort of brutal character and would not see it as a drawback at all. A player who is playing The Hero, however, would probably see almost no drawback to becoming a werebear. 'Let's see; super strength, super toughness, and I remain Lawful Good?'
    • Taken Up to Eleven and toned down in 5th Edition. Regarding werebears, they are still the good werebeasts, but the Monster Manual states that there are some evil ones. On the other hand, lycanthropes now have complete immunity to nonmagical weapons that aren't silver, and they have this regardless of what form they are in. This means that even a good aligned character could still put the 'curse' to good use as long as they take the right precautions on the night of the full moon.
  • All editions of Ravenloft, and Paizo in Pathfinder, put the bite back in lycanthrope, where it is not Cursed With Awesome, or Blessed with Suck. It's downright horrific. The GM is practically encouraged to have you one day wake up naked, covered in blood, with a horde of angry peasants brandishing pitchforks and an order of paladins hunting you down. The player does not control his character during his transformed states and has no idea what he did while changed. (This, of course, besides smacking of 'Stop Having Fun' Guys, assumes the player character does not like to fight. That is...atypical of players.)
  • D&D 4e has the ability for player characters of level 11 or higher to transform into a lich, provided they have the money to cast the ritual. Oh, truly this is a horrible curse... which bestows the caster with almost doubled hit points, powerful regeneration, immunity to disease and poison, a significant bonus to all defences, and the ability to reconstruct yourself from a phylactery if killed. And there's no gradual drift towards evil in the gameplay mechanics, either. Why shouldn't the PCs try this again?
    • Of course, it does enthrall the player to Orcus. That's a significant downside for some. Besides, there's a far less amoral alternative, with Archliches; you need to be more powerful than a normal lich (level 20 and above, it's an epic destiny), but thanks to mixing in some Life Energy into the deal, you're fully alive and immortal, not to mention you have a nice aura that hurts anything you hate, alive or undead.
  • Conditional CwA, but for a transgender person, the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity (under rules as written) would be exactly this sort of thing.
  • Up to 3rd Edition, a drow was turned into a drider (a centaur-like creature that was the upper-body of a drow and a giant black widow spider from the waist down) by their dark goddess Lolth as a punishment for failing a Rite of Passage. Exactly why Lolth would turn one of her subjects into a likeness of herself and make them stronger in the process (letting them keep their divine spellcasting ability too if they happened to be clerics) did seem a little strange, and in the 4th edition, this was changed via retcon, making driders a privileged caste bestowed on drow as a reward. In 5th edition, however, this was changed back, playing this trope straight again.
    • Well, there is the agonizing transformation, plus your mind gets wiped in the process. It's not exactly fun.
    • For a while, the idea was that driders got 'stuck' — that is, they got powerful new abilities, but since they were now monsters they couldn't get class levels, so while vastly more powerful than the overwhelming majority of drow they weren't quite as powerful as the most powerful drow (Drow society pushing being The Social Darwinist, this was a valid reason for Driders to be looked down at). The problem came in when edition changes made it possible for driders to gain class levels without changing the drider/drow relationship in settings that had been around before 3E...
• Point buy based systems tend to allow your character to gain extra points to buy powers if you take disadvantages. Some of the more munchkin-prone players enjoy picking 'drawbacks' that may lack a certain sting. 'Berserker' may turn you into a rage-driven killing machine that causes you to attempt to destroy anything that crosses your line of sight... which is half the definition of adventurer in the first place. (The other half is taking their stuff afterwards.)
  • Starts to lean a little more toward the 'cursed' side of the equation if the character in question loses his ability to discern friend from foe in their rage-frenzy and winds up attacking their own allies. The players of such characters can still side-step any resulting angst over such occurrences by opting to play their characters with personalities that simply don't care whom they happen to be slaughtering, but such players may soon find their 'allies' having a bit of trouble discerning friend from foe in their own fashion...
  • Another common one is to be a Weirdness Magnet (in fact, GURPS is the Trope Namer). Weird, exciting things get to happen to you all the time - what's the downside? That's why you're playing an RPG!
• Some players have turned some 'cursed' items to their advantage, embracing this trope. The greatest example was the classic D&D Sword -1 Cursed, a Clingy MacGuffin which would, no matter what you did to get rid of it, would reappear in your hand when combat began. Many did not see a disadvantage of dealing with a -1 penalty for a weapon which was always available. This would eventually make an appearance in one of the Ravenloft novels in the hands of a villain.
  • This is parodied in Ninja Burger, where the cursed item card has no drawback, and means the 'cursed' item can now never be stolen or destroyed.
  • Another cursed sword (which makes an appearance in Baldur's Gate) actually gets a bonus to hit and damage to encourage people to use it. When practicing with it, there's no problem. When anyone attacks you, it causes you to go berserk and kill anyone in the vicinity, only calming down some time after all attackers are dead or have fled. In theory, this is a curse because of the risk of hurting your allies, but in practice, there are ways around this, and it may very well be your best available weapon if you're going the One-Man Army route.
    • Similarly, the 3.5 DMG goes so far as to list a sword that enrages the user as being boon or bane, depending on the wielder's own views. Seen here.
  • A Necklace of Strangulation chokes to death anyone who puts it on. It sounds like a horrible item to find. No one says you have to wear it. No one says you can't, say, bribe an enemy with it. Oops. There are many similarly wicked items enterprising players can abuse.
  • Another classic example is the Bag of Devouring, a cursed Bag of Holding that tries to swallow anyone who reaches inside it. Many players are quick to see the potential in a portable garbage disposal. The general consensus is that any player who can't find a use for a 'cursed' item isn't trying hard enough.
    • Which is why the DM Guide warns the Dungeon Master to never assume that players will 'automatically' discard cursed items on realizing their status. It even gives an example - Dust of Sneezing and Choking, which does Exactly What It Says on the Tin, can do it to either the owner... or those orcs over there that just had it thrown over their heads. (The item is only 'cursed' because it looks almost identical to Dust of Disappearance, which makes you invisible, and tracks as such when identifying it.)
• Speaking of Ravenloft, each domain—a subsection of the plane—is ruled, at least in part, by a darklord, an incredibly evil individual, though not always an unsympathetic one. They get all sorts of shiny powers out of the deal, but it also earns them a curse—which, in and of itself, is personally tailored to the person so that, it wouldn't be so bad for anyone else, but the darklord's personality makes it so that it becomes unberable.
  • The demon lord Baphomet, who was supposedly either a human or an animal (presumably a bull, given his minotaur links) 'cursed' to be a super-powerful demon lord ruling an entire layer of the Abyss and building his own monsters.
• Given that the world of Exalted has the Immaculate Order, an entire religion devoted to demonizing the Celestial Exalted, it's entirely possible for a Solar or Lunar with Immaculate sympathies to view having become an incredibly powerful demigod as a curse. (Terrestrials are venerated by the Order, and Sidereals a) have been forgotten by most of Creation, including the Order, and b) are recruited, trained, and disabused of any inaccurate notions about Exaltation and the world in general within days of the Second Breath.)
  • Sidereals have to deal with Arcane Fate... a unique astrological phenomenon that causes any being not Sidereal or in the employment of the Bureau of Destiny to gradually forget that they exist. While this is a grand boon to their ability to operate as covert agents (especially since they can 'invent' cover identities that are unaffected by Arcane Fate), it likewise means that if they don't watch their step, critical allies and loved ones will forget they ever existed.
• If you're really lucky in Warhammer 40,000, you'll end up like this. Example: The closest thing to retirement a Space Marine might ever get is having their mangled, mortally wounded body put on life support and encased in a Dreadnought, a heavily armed walking tank, for thousands of years. Getting to blow shit up from beyond the grave, and sleeping the rest of the time, seems pretty cool.
  • There's one tale Orks tell of a warband that ventured into the Eye of Terror, ending up on a demon world where they were all slaughtered... only to be raised again every morning to keep fighting, for the Blood God. Orks consider thisheaven.
  • The Eldar have an unusual version of this. In order to keep their emotions under control they dedicate themselves to a single career (called a Path), mastering that before leaving it behind and moving onto something else. However occasionally an Eldar will become 'stuck' on a particular path and be unable to switch. The downside is that when this happens they risk losing control of themselves, the upside is they become VERY, VERY good at it. In particular Eldar who have become stuck on the path of either the Warrior or the Witch (called Exarchs and Farseers) are the leaders of Eldar society.
  • Psykers in general in the setting. While it ranges from people being able to control their power to ones who would just implode and take half the city with him, most of them have some pretty awesome powers. Alpha-class human psykers are said to be able to destroy titans, Humongous Mecha that would make a Gundam look tiny in comparison, by crushing it with their minds. The aforementioned Farseers are able to see into the future and manipulate the strains of fate, but are otherwise cursed to crystallize slowly over time, becoming one with their own craftworlds.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Necrons also suffer from a case of this. They're more or less immortal (it's hinted that not a single Necron has ever permanently died, only to be reduced to atoms then teleported to a nearby tomb for repairs), possess strength on par with Space Marines or more, and have guns that strip you one molecule at a time to your bare bones. Necron Lords are even hinted to have sentience, and are able to command legions of his brethren. The cursed part? You're an antithesis to all living beings in the known universe and bar the select individuals (Lords) many Necrons no longer have sentience.
  • The Primarch Ferrus Manus killed a silver dragon in a lava flow and the dragon's metallic skin fused to his arms, covering them with living metal. With his iron hands he could forge weaponry by working the metal with his 'bare' hands and never needed gauntlets in battle, since his hands were already invulnerable. His Space Marines, the Iron Hands legion, have developed a habit of intentionally replacing parts of themselves with cybernetic augmentations in homage to him. However, Ferrus didn't like his metal arms, precisely because they were so useful. In his opinion, he is being made weaker by depending on them and had decided that after the wars were over he would strip the metal off his arms, reassert his own strength and curb his legion's reliance on machine parts. Sadly, he was killed in battle before that could happen and the Iron Hands have gone on trying to fix their 'weakness of the flesh'.
  • The Obliterators embody Body Horror by being a perfect mix of man, demon and machine. It begins with contracting the Obliterator virus, melding with your firearm, generating ammunition for your firearm, developing the ability to absorb other firearms and finally becoming a full-fledged Obliterator. The awesome part is how Obliterators are Walking Armory incarnate, with Bottomless Magazines and the capability to produce and wield any weapon for any situation.
• Some of the 'curses' in Palladium Fantasy give the character bonuses. For example, Glowing Red Eyes gives you a bonus to intimidation, and Frog Legs allow you to jump great distances.
• Some cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! have effects that look bad, but can be abused with certain combos. The poster child of this trope, however, is probably Mist Valley Falcon. He can be summoned at no cost, and has a whopping 2000 ATK, which is as high as it gets without drawbacks. The 'cursed' part? He can't use that high ATK score without returning one of your cards to your hand. The 'awesome' part? Try equipping Big Bang Shot to one of your opponent's monsters before attacking. Yes, you get a powerful attack, and you get to kill one of your opponent's monsters Deader Than Dead! He can also return a Fiendish Chain that you want to use again. That's saving a card. The best part? His effect can be used to trigger Divine Wind of Mist Valley, allowing you to summon something like resident Game-BreakerReborn Tengu.
  • An even more notorious example is Imperial Order, the only continuous spell negation trap in the game. Its intended downside is that it has a maintenance cost that you have to pay 700 life points during each of your standby phases or it's destroyed. This, however, wound up giving the person using it the option to cancel its effect before their turn really starts, allowing them to play their spell cards when they want to after denying the opponent the chance to play theirs. As spell cards are an important resource to the game (especially in spell based decks), this card gave a massive strategic advantage to the person playing it, resulting in the card being banned.
• Pathfinder has the Oracle class, divine spellcasters who all are cursed with disabilities. The good news is, these curses come with matching benefits, which get more powerful as you level.
• Accepting a Geist into your head in Geist: The Sin-Eaters means having a near-demonic old ghost bound to you for the rest of your life and having to put up with seeing ghosts. On the other hand, you get all sorts of cool necromantic powers and, most importantly, if you hadn't accepted the 'curse'? You'd be plain old dead. So, naturally, Sin-Eaters tend to see themselves as this In-Universe. Hell, the game's Tagline is 'A Storytelling game about Second Chances.' It's by far the most optimistic game in the setting (though admittedly, that's a pretty low bar.)
• The Accursed (subtle!) and Wounded Angel arcs in Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine provide a mixture of neat benefits and unpleasant drawbacks. Wounded Angel relies upon developing physical and mental injuries of various kinds, then gaining powers based on those, while caging something horrible that gets let out if you run out of Divine Health Levels; Leonardo de Montreal, the Wounded Angel pregen, has powers like ripping out his heart to make himself a being of heartless perfection in the dark (it doesn't work in the light because his heart may or may not be fuelling the replacement sun - it's complicated), and holds in that space a nightmare known as the Red World. Accursed, meanwhile, involves becoming imbued with the Power of the Void until you can erase things from reality, but at the same time reality itself is prone to some kind of backlash against you...
  • The tumblr arc Indomitable literally spells out its Curse as something that would be a more legitimate Curse except that it doesn't seem to have any actual drawbacks for you (and there's even a power that lets you inflict the drawbacks on other people).
  Jenna Moran: You’re like one of those vampires whose “dark curse” boils down to being immortal and awesome. Or maybe you’ve got a demon inside you, granting you all kinds of special abilities. It definitely feels very Curse-like but the violins informed people play for you will be pretty small.

• Ciel of Tsukihime has Nigh-Invulnerability so long as the vampire Roa remains alive thanks to the world itself, which will not let her die because technically, Ciel = Roa = Alive, and her death would be a paradox. Despite how incredibly useful this is in her line of work, she is dedicated to destroying Roa. Of course, she does have her reasons...
  • Although she can be killed by Shiki cutting her 'lines' due to their properties.
• Archer of Fate/stay night has access to every weapon but the drill-sword Ea at the cost of them all degrading a rank in power. However, he's able to use Broken Phantasms (greatly powering up one's Noble Phantasm at the cost of breaking it) because every weapon is a Noble Phantasm for him.
  • As to why this is a 'curse', this power is the external manifestation of his own soul. His soul manifests as a desolate Field of Blades surrounded by gears/flames. Yeah, Archer has issues.
• Fate/Apocrypha features Rider of Red, AKA Achilles, who is 'cursed' with the Curse of Immortality, which makes him invincible to any damage from people who have a lower Divine ranking than he does. This is as ridiculous as it sounds.
• Hatoful Boyfriend has Anghel Higure. He constantly produces hallucinogens from his own body, which cause a field of hallucination that gets bigger and more effective the more physically active he's being - and he's not immune to them himself. On the one hand, Anghel is constantly tripping and finds it hard to get people to take him seriously or even be nice to him because of how he acts. On the other hand, this ability somehow lets Anghel know way more than by any rights he should. And when even the super-strong Okosan can't fight the physically-enhanced Charon Virus Ryouta, Anghel can by making Ryouta play by the rules of his fantasy world, thus preventing the extinction of humanity.

• While the Negative Continuity of the series prevents it from being explored too in-depth, this strip of The Non-Adventures of Wonderella ends with Wonderita being cursed so that 'any blade she touches shall become as dull as a river-washed stone'. The final frame shows somebody futilely trying to chainsaw her to death.
• Sir Thane from Blooming Faeries is cursed with an eternal boner, non stop foul language during intercourse, and for any woman who sees him to irresistibly want to sleep with him. This starts out as a problem since this attracts 'any' woman nearby. Including ugly ones, elderly ones, married ones and even an orc woman who is ugly even by the standards of an orc. However all of that only lasts for moments as any woman who sleeps with Thane will become beautiful and incredibly buxom.
• The character Lorelei from Black Tapestries, who almost immediately gets transformed into a werefox with heightened strength (while retaining her capacity for rational thought during most circumstances) and is soon thereafter rendered immortal by Issac's meddling.
• Prince Sid from Fey Winds is supposedly 'cursed' so that whenever he becomes nervous, flustered, or scared, he becomes a dragon. This is, of course, lampshaded.
  Kit:'Sid, in what way is turning into a dragon a terrible curse?'
  • His family has a long tradition of hunting dragons and mounting their heads on the wall.
• The Corby clan in Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan are 'cursed' with the ability to turn into birds. Voluntarily. With absolutely no restrictions or drawbacks involved. The 'curse' is broken when another character points out that they can just stop doing it.
• Bug shows us that getting your hands cut off can be more handy than you think.
• Words of wisdom from XKCD: Some people consider 'may you have an interesting life' to be a curse. One, fuck them, and two, if you were actually cursed in this way...
• Terezi in Homestuck considers her blindness to be this. Sure, she can't see, but thanks to psychic help from her lusus, she can smell colors, and even read by licking her computer screen. This is only further helped along by her precognitive abilities and talent for manipulation.
  • The Handmaid, Aradia Megido's ancestor, is cursed with Immortality. She is subversion, though; given that she's a Death Seeker and a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, she's got genuine reason to consider it a curse. It's a shame her pre-scratch iteration Damara doesn't share those feelings.
• In El Goonish Shive, Ellen spreads her 'curse' to Vlad, turning her from a male bat-like monster into a human woman. Vlad is so happy to be human at all (the pain of trying to transform on her own nearly killed her) that she just decides that she was never a man in her life as far as she was concerned, and remains a woman without complaint.
  • While they started out as Blessed with Suck, Elliot's and Ellen's powers are beginning to turn into this, lighter on the 'cursed' and heavier on the 'awesome' as time goes on. At the beginning, they were cursed with Power Incontinence (regularly needing to turn into a girl for Elliot, regularly needing to zap people to change their gender (for males) or enhance their 'assets' (for females) for Ellen), but it is already beginning to lessen, and in Elliot's case he has gained a superheroine form in which he is pretty much a Flying Brick with a Healing Factor - the only downside being that he still has to be a girl while doing it.
• Raine from Twokinds suffers from Involuntary Shapeshifting, and relies on a Power Limiter slave cuff to stop her from going full Keidran. However, this also lets her see through magical illusions
• Goblins
  • Tempts Fate kills a demon lord... almost. Its eye swears to banish Tempts to the deepest level of hell once its body reforms in ten thousand years. In order to ensure this curse comes true, it furthermore curses Tempts with immortality so he can live long enough. Tempts is extremely enthusiastic about the whole thing.
  • Idle can come Back from the Dead once per day, with the caveat that she needs to die once per day. Much as she hates the dying part, she loves that the curse lets her get away with using overpowered Suicide Attack spells.
• In Bob and George, The Author is Trapped in Another World — except, he realizes, this means Stuff Blowing Up.
• Richard from Looking for Group - he is cursed, but aware of the awesome and fuels his own curse to keep the awesome.
• Fae curses are this in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures. When a Fae puts a curse on you, it's a bright wrist decoration that is a promise of a fae punishment to come at some undetermined point in the future. Fae truly despise anyone else killing their target of revenge before they can enact their vengeance; combine this with the fact that these usually end up being absurd pranks with little harm to them and you have protection from on high for as long as this curse lasts, which can be years, decades, sometimes the rest of your natural life. Dan once had such a curse and abused the hell out of it for his adventuring.
• Luke Surl: Hmm curse is the ability to see future events but nobody will be able to believe you... Is there a good use for that curse?
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
  • In strip 2793, someone realises this herself: being cursed by Heaven to die after a year means she's invulnerable until then.
  • Parodied in strip 4080: In Hell, you have to mine the acid mines every day forever — so you get job security and live forever.
• Oglaf:
  • Zigzagged with a man cursed to be the best in the world at blowjobs. He doesn't quite understand why that's a curse, until the ghost explains that from this point on he'll either be known only as the blowjob guy, or never be able to reveal his talent. Later, the city is threatened by an army that will only leave if the general is defeated in sexual combat and the man uses his ability to defeat the general, leading to him being crowned king and then proceeds to use the power to solve all the kingdom's problems, playing the trope straight in the end. He also finds that he actually enjoys giving oral sex, preventing him from being ashamed by his reputation as 'King Blowjob'.
  • Later a man goes to the 'curse emporium' to ask that a man be cursed with lots of awesome sex with hot chicks. He's asked how exactly this is a curse (possibly even by the same spirit who came up with the blowjob curse) and explains that people would be jealous and you wouldn't get a lot of work done. Giving in, the spirit asks who he wants cursed.
    Man: It's me. I'd like to curse myself please.
    [beat]
    Spirit: You couldn't even get someone else to come in and do this for you?
• Billy Thatcher of morphE awakens as an Obrimos mage capable of telepathic feats, flight, super speed, control of fire and electricity. When he awoke he was a chess grandmaster on his way to the World Chess Championship and the star of a successful reality TV show. These powers are the worst thing to ever happen to him.
• In Girl Genius, having The Spark sits somewhere between here and Blessed with Suck. On the one hand, you can make reality your bitch in the name of Science! On the other hand, the same disorder makes you crazy enough that Hoist by Their Own Petard and/or being butchered by an angry mob wielding Torches and Pitchforks are the de facto causes of death in your future.
• Ara's curse in Penny Blackfeather makes you incredibly magically powerful, blue-haired and generally cool-looking, although there's a small matter of turning into a parrot outside GoblinValley and the Superpowered Evil Side lurking over your shoulder.
• In the first arc of Dominic Deegan, Dominic is cursed to have a fish fall on him every time he tries to smoke. Dominic takes the curse in exactly the spirit it was intended — his cat, on the other hand...
• In Chivalry and Knavery Ulf the Barbarian has a cursed ring that makes him invincible, won't come off, and summons monsters a few times a day. Presumably it's supposed to make the wearer tire of constantly fighting or ostracize him as a danger to society, but Ulf considers that a bonus.

• Karen of Awkward. is 'different'. (It's never specified quite what this means, but it seems to cover some degree of geekiness.) On the one hand, it causes Jerkass Ernie to dump her. On the other hand, it happens to be what Dogged Nice Guy Kevin likes about her. He even has a slightly Narm Charm-y speech about it!
• Pretty much all of the protagonists in Dimension Heroes don't want their Guardian powers, despite how cool some of them think they are.
• In Paradise, human characters are randomly, permanently transformed into Funny Animals, though the change is Invisible to Normals who still see the Changed as their old selves. For all that the Change is disturbing and life-changing, it brings with it some advantages, including heightened senses, athletic ability, and a bit of Wish Fulfillment body modification (most commonly Breast Expansion). In 'Confession Building', it saved a character's life when he was abducted by robbers who shot him in the head—except that since he'd Changed into a shorter form, the bullet passed harmlessly over his real head.
• Scorpio, one of the main characters of The Questport Chronicles, is turned into a dragon by an evil wizard. He doesn't seem to mind.
• The title character of the erotic Sword & Sorcery series, The Wulf Archives, is always complaining how the Gods hate him. However, since he has continual fantastic adventures, dozens of exotic lovers who don't mind sharing and has an alternate well endowed lion furry form that femmes lustfully drool for, it's hard to see how exactly he is cursed.
• RWBY has Qrow and Raven who have the ability to turn into birds. While Yang, Raven's daughter, gets mad at Ozpin for giving them this ability, it's pretty clear from frequent use of the power and lack of any clear drawbacks that this isn't a curse, so much as a blessing. Later on, when Qrow explains to Yang that the ability was granted to them with their permission, she calms down, indicating that she thought the power was forced on them against their will.

• In Ben 10: Alien Force, Azmuth's assistant Albedo, after a failed attempt at replicating the Omnitrix, ended up trapping himself in the form of an albino clone of Ben. He treats it as a horrible condition, even though in practice he is now in a much taller and stronger body (Galvans, his natural species, are around the size of a frog, with matching physical abilities), he retains his Super Intelligence, and still has access to the Voluntary Shapeshifting granted by the Omnitrix (the 'Ben Twin' appearance is just his Shapeshifter Default Form which he automatically reverts to most of the time), making it an actually pretty sweet condition from a normal person's point of view. The problem is that Albedo is very arrogant, so he sees the body as ugly and primitive (from his point of view, it's like being trapped in the body of a primate), and can't stand all the side effects caused by being in a teenage body.
• In Justice League, Jason Blood betrays Camelot to Morgan Lefay, and as a punishment, Merlin binds his soul with the demon Etrigan - thus rendering him virtually immortal. Although Jason perceives this as a terrible curse, it's hard to see the downside, since the demon can't even come out unless Jason recites a specific short poem (although the demon also speaks inside his head constantly, so it can go either way).
  • The downside of the curse isn't directly the immortality. It's the fact that Jason feels so miserable he'd be suicidal, and CAN'T KILL HIMSELF to escape from it. Quick recap: the reason Merlin curses him is that he breaks his oaths of loyalty by betraying his fellow knights in order to be with the woman he (thinks he) loves, Morgan Lefay. She, in turn, promptly reveals she was just using him to give her son Mordred a shot at the throne. So basically, he murdered all his friends to be with a woman who thinks he's little more an inconvenience. You'd probably feel pretty sucky, too.
• Transformers Animated: Blackarachnia is constantly searching for a way to remove her organic half and angsting about everything she's had to give up because of it. However, her exile was self-imposed, her organic parts give her the ability to generate webbing and paralyzing venom, and her 'hideous' body has seduced pretty much every Autobot and Dinobot she's come in contact with.
• Gargoyles:
  • Demona gets this twice: The first, she and MacBeth are magically bonded so that each is immortal, unless slain by the hand of the other. Second, she was zapped by Puck to turn human in the day time instead of going into the normal stone sleep. Both 'curses' were meant to be punishment, but all they did was give Demona more time to plot against her enemies (99.9% of Earth) and gave her foes fewer ways to take her down for good. The curse does have negative effects however; she can't heal like normal gargoyles, so she just suffers until a wound is fully healed at a slow human rate, on top of which the transformation hurts quite a lot. There was the amount of time that she had spent alone as a monstrous pariah, she is likely insane by now.
  • The mutates. Normal humans transformed into anthropomorphic beasts by the unscrupulous Doctor Anton Sevarius. In case of Derek/Talon and his companions Maggie, Fang and Claw, they're turned into feline beast men (and woman) with enhanced strength and senses, bat wings allowing them to fly (as opposed to the gargoyles, who can only glide in air currents) and the ability to generate and shoot electricity, and later there is Wolf from The Pack, transformed into what looks like a werewolf, which instills him with superhuman strength, heightened senses and the ability to see in the dark. It's shown that Talon, Maggie and Claw do not like their new forms and wish they could turn back to humans, which they cannot unless an antidote is produced, which Sevarius refuses to, whereas the two villainous mutates, Fang and Wolf, are shown to love their new forms and wish to remain as they are.
• The Simpsons:
  • In the episode 'The Mansion Family', it was revealed that Mr. Burns suffers from every disease known to man, some of them discovered in him. However, 'Three Stooges Syndrome' basically causes the diseases to cancel each other out. Mr. Burns thinks he's indestructible because of this despite the doctor warning him that even a slight breeze can kill him.
    • This later came back to bite him in the boney butt later on in the series when a new disease managed to 'shove them through the door' and he suddenly found out how mortal he really was. Turns out it was his hatred and malice keeping him alive all these years, and he blissfully went back to the way he was, much to the chagrin of the rest of the town.
  • In the Treehouse Of Horror episode 'A Costume To Your Face', a witch punishes the town by cursing them to become their costumes after they refuse to let her win the costume contest, as she wasn't technically in costume. Of course, for people like Marge (A skeleton), Disco Stu (Steve Martin Arrow), or Hans Moleman (A mole, and also not a costume) it's a true punishment, but people like Bart (Wolfman), Sideshow Mel (Spiderman), or Milhouse (Muscular construction worker) ended up enjoying their 'fate' and not wanting to be changed back.
• An episode of Futurama had Fry get infested with alien worms from an egg salad sandwich. The worms then built a metropolis in his bowels and began overhauling his entire body, bringing him to a level of peak mental and physical capabilities. Everybody else treats this like a horrible affliction and resolves to remove his worms, but Fry thinks this is the best thing that's ever happened to him.
  • Incidentally the application of this trope also explained why no one else was eating bathroom sandwiches. Everyone thinks having worms is bad so the 'affliction' is gotten rid of before anyone realizes it's a good thing.
  • Really, the main reason it's treated like a curse by everyone else is that they just think having worms live inside you is too gross. They know about the benefits as they watch the worms mend a hole THROUGH HIS TORSO in seconds and see all the internal changes first hand. Leela spends time with Fry and falls in love with him because of how much they improve him. In the end, Fry sees them as a curse only because he can't tell if Leela loves him for him or for what the worms have made him.
• In one of the My Little Pony animated specials, the eponymous character of 'Come Back, Lily Lightly' is the only unicorn whose horn lights up, which she assumes will get her ostracized if anyone finds out. Thus, she runs off when she's accidentally outed, only for her friends to find her and tell her that a glowing horn is cool, and helpful for finding lost ponies on dark nights.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In 'Bridle Gossip', Poison Joke causes a different curse on those who come in contact with it. Fluttershy, the Shrinking Violet, is cursed with an unfitting deep voice, making talking even more awkward for her than usual. This becomes useful in the season four episode 'Filli Vanilli', when her deepened voice let her stand in for Big Macintosh in an acapella quartet.
  • In the season five episode 'Appleoosa's Most Wanted', the Cutie Mark Crusaders run into Troubleshoes Clyde, a saboteur who's been going around messing up rodeos. He turns out to be just a big, clumsy Gentle Giant who wanted to be in a rodeo as a colt, but believes his upside-down horseshoe cutie mark means he's Born Unlucky. It turns out his clumsiness makes him a natural at prat-falls, and the Crusaders help him achieve his dream by getting him a job as a rodeo clown.
• Recess has an episode where a new kid shows up and the main cast discovers he's better than them at everything. He's smarter than the smart kid, tougher than the tough kid, more poetic than the artsy kid. Except it turns out he never has any friends because everyone keeps forcing him to compete with them. Then a Secret Service agent shows up to ask for his help, and he flies away in a fighter jet.
• In South Park it has been revealed that Kenny dying in many episodes has been retconned to not be a case of Negative Continuity, but an actual superpower, he cannot die. Or more accurately, he does die, but is then instantly reborn, with all his memories intact. He remembers all his deaths, but nobody else does. He thinks this sucks, because he has to suffer all the pain of all those deaths over and over — and he's had plenty of extremely unpleasant deaths — and he's annoyed that nobody else remembers it. Still, it comes in handy for the occasional Heroic Sacrifice.
• In Sabrina: The Animated Series (in which teenage Sabrina is retconned into being a preteen or young teen), Sabrina's aunts Hilda and Zelda were punished for abuse of their powers by being transformed into being permanently looking 17. Being young and beautiful forever is something that many people through the ages in real life would drink potentially toxic elixirs in order to achieve. And all they had to do was overuse their powers. Since they're REALLY not 17, they don't have the age-related drawbacks, either. Not that it'd matter, since they could make their own alcohol, tobacco, porn, you name it, even if they weren't legally allowed to buy it. One of its draw backs however, is they can't get any real jobs that require someone to be at least 20 years old, and they were stuck working in a restaurant just to earn their own money.
• In an episode of Hey Arnold!, Arnold's grandpa believes he is dying of a 'curse' that causes men in his family to die at the age of 81...exactly at the age of 81. They never die young and always live several years past the U.S. male life expectancy. What a terrible fate! It becomes even sillier when Arnold notices that he did the math wrong; his predecessors died when they were 91.
• In season two of Young Justice, Superboy still looks the same even after a five year Time Skip. One of the side effects of the cloning process that created him is that he will never visibly age. He can still eventually die of old age, but he'll always look like a teenager/young adult. Superboy is less than happy about this and it's implied to be one of the reasons he broke up with M'gann.. Alanna tries to sympathize with him but judging by the way she says 'curse', she's clearly not seeing the downside.
• On Adventure Time,Finn buys a new grass sword that's 'cursed' with being supernaturally efficient and also wrapping around his arm and not coming off. On his quest to get it uncursed he realizes that this is actually pretty cool—and even better, once he accepts it the sword conveniently gains the power to turn into a sort of armband and back whenever he chooses.
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is all about this. At first, Rudolph's red nose and Hermey's talent for dentistry make both of them 'misfits', but Rudolph's nose is what saves the day at the end (and is a convenient light source), while Hermey's talent saves his friends from the Abominable. The Misfit Toys have this too. Apparently, at least one child in the world would love to have a toy cowboy that rides an ostrich or a choo-choo with square wheels on its caboose. It just takes an expert like Santa Claus to find such children.
• In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode 'Match Maker', Star accidentally turns her 50-something home-room teacher Miss Skullnick into a troll, and can't figure out how to change her back. This only serves to make Skullnick even crabbier... until in the episode 'Interdimensional Field Trip', where she learns more about trolls and the advantages that come with her new form, including Super Strength and a lifespan as long as four centuries. It helps that the only downside of being a troll is that they're ugly, and Skullnick wasn't exactly a looker even as a human.
  Miss Skullnick: I'm going to live to be four hundred? And here I thought I was going through 'the big change'. I'm a teenager again!
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode 'The Ballad of Badbeard', the kids hear that whoever finds the lost treasure of the Pirate Badbeard will be cursed with a bad beard forever. The kids (boys and girls both) think this sounds awesome, and go looking for the treasure. When they find it, it turns out—to their delight—that the 'treasure' is a chest filled with cheap fake beards.
• Kaeloo: Kaeloo is 'cursed' with the power of turning into a monster whose actions are beyond her conscious control, but the power does prove to have its advantages, such as restoring order when things get too chaotic or playing sports which require physical prowess. In addition, it's pretty much the only thing that can keep Mr. Cat and Olaf in check.
• Mistyque Sonia from Hero: 108 is 'cursed' with having anyone who tells her that he loves her three times in a row turning into a Yaksha... an adorable creature which she can wear on her head like a hat and which she is very close to. She especially takes advantage of this when her (presumably) first Yaksha gets destroyed by the ligers and soon gets replaced with another one because in the same episode, she has the luck of encountering a man who loves her and tricks him into saying that three times.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Katara grieves learning and having to use such a power as she doesn't want as bloodbending. Only a few episodes later, though, she is able to put it to good use during a side quest to avenge her and Sokka's mother, manipulating a Fire Nation soldier for information about said mother's killer.
  • Although an in-depth description would be massive spoilers, let's just say that both Aang and Korra learn in their series what it means for them to actually be the Avatar, and leave it at that.

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• Famed Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges wrote powerfully on the benefits of blindness, asserting that he could now 'see' the truths of the world more clearly.
• Autistic savants: They generally have superb mathematical abilities, despite being burdened with autism. However, it's generally with very severe cases and is extremely rare. Savants can also be gifted with artistic, musical, linguistic talent, etc., but they tend to only be skilled in that area and absolutely nothing else. It can get oddly specific, too; a savant might be able to draw a horse perfectly, but can't even draw a cloud in the background. There's also the fact that savants can be academically brilliant but have little to no social skills.
• It has been said that Howard Hughes would not have performed any of his accomplishments if he was not driven by his Super OCD. The same has been said with Howie Mandel.
• John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, since he never achieved anywhere near the fame of Jimmy Paige, Robert Plant, or even John Bonham, he was free to enjoy the rock and roll lifestyle and actually explore the many places they visited on tour because no one would recognize him on the street, while the rest of the band couldn't leave their hotel rooms without being swarmed by fans.
• With neurosyphilis, a recurrence of syphilis when latent Treponema bacteria start attacking the brain, it causes euphoria in its victims. They become more sexually active, happier, and more passionate. Because syphilis isn't very common anymore, this usually happens in old people. Now, you can imagine how being old and suddenly regaining your sex drive is unusual. A substory of House was inspired by this. That, in turn, was inspired by a real case study done by Oliver Sacks, which he wrote about in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. This 89 year old woman had been a prostitute in turn of the century Greece and contracted syphilis when she was 20. Since there was no treatment at the time, the spirochetes became latent and only affected her 70 years later. She started feeling horny for the first time in years, and sleeping with younger men. Her fellow prostitutes had nicknamed it 'Cupid's Disease' (brothels should know a thing or two about STDs). Sure enough, when they tested her CSF, it was positive for neurosyphilis. And just like in House, the old woman wasn't sure if she wanted it treated. But she didn't have to worry. Her brain had been permanently 'damaged,' so the spirochaetes could be killed without reversing the mild disinhibition. In House's words, she was 'cursed to feel happy'.
• In the late 1940s Harry Corbett used to play the piano in a band. Then he started going deaf (he was eventually cured by an operation). He took up conjuring instead, and before long he started using a teddy bear glove puppet as his assistant - and the restis history.
• More neurological awesome-curses: Geschwind syndrome occurs in some people with temporal lobe epilepsy and possibly other temporal lobe abnormalities. It consists of hypergraphia, a tendency to have heightened emotional and mental life and decreased sexual interest, and an inclination towards spirituality. Sure, seizures aren't fun, but the rest of it? Many writers would give anything to spend more time in that mindstate, especially the hypergraphia. Low sex drive is not much of a problem, you only lack the 'urge' to mate like 99% of the rest of the population, but you can appreciate sex physically as much as everyone else... You are also much less likely to do stupid things (although, low sex drive can be a symptom of another problem such as depression or a hormone imbalance. It would be wise to double-check.)
• The religious hierarchy of Egypt was so angry at King Tut's father for trying to switch to a monotheistic system that they did their best to completely erase any history that his son ever ruled. They were so successful that the tomb was only robbed twice months after the burial, the first of which stole limited items and the second of which the robbers were caught and the items returned. Which is why it was full of treasure when Carter discovered it, causing King Tut to be the best-known pharaoh of all time.
• Narcissists. They are much more confident, ambitious and sure of themselves than ordinary people, giving them a greater chance of success. On the other side, their relationships and self-control can become really serious issues, with a chance they end up putting themselves or others in danger.
• Russia is a vast country with extremely cold winters, two factors which drive up transport and living costs, and generally cause life in Russia to be an even greater pain. However, during the WorldWars, the vastness of Russia and the coldness of her winters played merry hell with the invaders' logistics - they were far more dependent on railways and, unlike the Russians, they didn't have enough horses to keep their troops fed and supplied properly over the massive distances involved.
  • Not just during the World Wars. People with eyes on Russia like the Teutonic Knights and Napoleon Bonaparte also got caught up in the winters, to the point that it was almost expected for a Russian Army to used a Scorched-Earth strategy - wherein they'd evacuate and then raze all the villages in the invaders' path to keep them hungry and exposed to the elements. Napoleon's failed invasion is considered (one of) his greatest failure(s). The Nazis also suffered this, and Hitler expected them to keep on going and not retreat. It's not for nothing that Russia's winter is sometimes nicknamed 'General Frost' or 'General Winter.'
  • Same applies to Finland. But also skiing or snowmobiling through the snowy wilderness in winter is far faster than walking or hiking through them in the summer, and the extremely difficult road conditions in the winter makes Finns skillful car and motorcycle drivers. If you wanna win, get a Finn is an old adage in motor sports. Many car manufacturers do their development work in Finland due to the Finnish winter and road conditions in wintertime.
    • Russian Lada had (and has still) an excellent reputation as a reliable winter car in Finland. While generally not liked, it was respected. It can be said Lada itself was cursed with awesome - the properties which made it a good winter car made it awful to drive in other seasons.
• Suspension with pay. You don't need to (in fact you can't) go to work, but you still get paid. Along the same vein, suspension from school: most kids hate school anyway, so you're going to 'punish' them with a couple of days off? Great! Some schools have gone to 'in-school suspension' (basically all-day detention) to counteract this, but this also fails because students aren't really forced to work. For those that do take the time to work, they're able to do so at their own pace since they're not at the mercy of period bells.
• Shows with a small or No Budget. Yeah, you may not get the best special effects or Scenery Porn of a better funded show, but by the same tokens, the writers realize this, and you oftentimes can get a show that's better written and better produced. The producers of Supernatural, the old series of Doctor Who and the British Being Human have all mentioned working on somewhat small budgets (especially for a sci-fi series) forced them to get creative and put more effort into quality instead of spectacle.
  • Good Indie titles are the Video Game version.
  • Adversity forces creativity. The original ending of Back to the Future (driving into a Nevada nuclear test range) was judged too expensive by the studio, so they wrote in the lightning strike at the clock tower instead. Many many classic movies had similar situations, where a unique solution to a budget issue became the most memorable part of the film.
• Avengers: Infinity War writers have credited this to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since Marvel Studios didn't have access to its top-tier superheroes like Spider-Man or the X-Men when the franchise began in 2008, they had to work with B-list heroes, which gave the studio more creative freedom in reimagining and altering the characters without having to live up to pre-existing expectations by the public. Furthermore, the lesser-known reputation of these heroes forced the writers to focus more on making the characters relatable instead of relying just on brand name recognition.
• Certain types of synesthesia. Most people who have it describe it as a sixth sense that allows them to memorize things like formulas and phone numbers better than the average person as well; some who perceive sounds as colors have composed music by literally looking at it without the aid of sheet music. The downside? You're basically constantly hallucinating and describing your experiences to someone who isn't familiar with your particular manifestation of synesthesia makes you sound like you just transferred in from Wonderland. Of course, there's also the fact that it cannot be controlled. What if, for example you meet someone who you think might be the love of your life, but merely speaking or hearing their name literally puts a bad taste in your mouth?
• Waardenburg Syndrome, which usually causes deafness or hearing loss. But many people with the mutation also have the most stunning, gorgeous blue eyes that are humanly possible. [1]◊
• Most if not all neurological disorders that give one the ability to feel Euphoria without having to work for it. Something that usually takes the average person drugs to achieve.
• Some people get very neurotic about being late to anything, even by a few minutes, and thus often insist on coming very early. They aren't fun to go to movies with, and suffer from anxiety often, but anyone who's ever been fired for repeated tardies knows that it's not without its benefits.
• Some people with bipolar disorder refuse to take medication for their condition, preferring the roller-coaster to a blandly-unpleasant existence of mild sedation and other drug side-effects.
• Super tasters. They have too many taste buds and as a result, they cannot enjoy delicious foods. But this forces them to actually enjoy healthy foods. YMMV though, since certain healthy foods can be overbearing while less healthy ones with less complex flavors will be preferred.
• Single people. While a relationship can be a good thing for a person, it can also be bad. Very, very bad. So while single people may feel lonely at times (and may even be ridiculed by others!) they have more freedom, less worry/drama, more focus on goals, no worries about fidelity/exclusivity/trust, etc. relative to people in romantic relationships. All this can apply to virgins as well: there can be no surer protection against STDs and unwanted pregnancies than not having sex!
• Some people require a lot of stimulation to orgasm, or simply can't climax at all. This can make it difficult if not impossible to use masturbation to 'blow off steam' and relax, and it can also foster feelings of inadequacy in one's partners - who may feel they are 'to blame' for you not climaxing. But on the plus side you may well be able to work up to a very, very high plateau of sexual pleasure - the kind most might only be able to reach for a moment before climaxing. And then stay there. In some cases, for hours. Cursed with awesome indeed.
• Human biology states that wisdom teeth should grow in, but some people have a hereditary condition that prevents this from occurring. While this is technically a genetic defect, it only works to one's favor in an era of modern dental hygiene.
• Working weekends. While any shift that requires this does not seem desirable, it has a large advantage that most don't realize unless they've done it: If your days off are normal business days, this means you have days off when everything is open and you can get errands done far easier and at less of an inconvenience to your normal schedule. It also allows one to go shopping at stores that are open 7 days but are far busier on weekends and beat the crowds. You can actually get far more done on your days off.
  • The same with working the night shift or early morning. Many radio hosts, for example, only work when doing their show, and then spend the rest the day doing whatever they want.
    • Some private schools require you to work on Saturdays, but because of this, the days off you normally would have are added to your holidays. For instance, in UK schools that do this you would get nine weeks summer holiday instead of six, plus extra weeks at Christmas and Easter too. You get a great feeling of vindication when people from other schools have to go back to school when you have several more weeks of holiday left. That's not to say it's not frustrating to lose your full weekend though.
  • Many computer programmers prefer working the night shift because it offers fewer distractions.
  • If where you work is a non-trivial commute from home, working at night and on weekends can have the benefit of not having to deal with the horrendous rush hour traffic.
• Some guy on twitter tried to threaten women with the 'curse' of not dating them. Which led to this hilarious five-act play by John Scalzi: [2]
• There are quite a few people with high metabolisms that wish they could actually pack on the pounds. This is despite them being able to eat as much as they want without gaining any weight, and svelte people being generally considered quite attractive (to the point where there's many a model who's little more than skin and bones).
• Poets/Writers/artists who've had horrible lives. In return of a lifetime of suffering (losing their parents very early, starvation, disease, etc.), they write far better works than ones whose lives were happier. A good example is Attila József, a young Hungarian poet whose father abandoned the family when he was three years old and mother died nine years later, ended up in the psychiatric ward, and died when he was crushed by a train. Still he wrote beautiful and amazing poems that were even melodized by some punk bands. Though some of them only get their appreciation they deserve after they die.
• Amtrak does not run any high speed lines outside the Northeast Corridor due to its lackluster federal funding, forcing it to take winding routes through mountainous terrain - giving train-riders among the best views you can get on any trip in the world. Few railroads in the world offer so much 'the journey is the destination' as Amtrak does. However, it can also become Blessed with Suck as Congress does not see tourism and sightseeing as something the federal government should spend money on.
• This turned out to be the case with Secretariat, considered the greatest race horse of all time. After his death an autopsy revealed that his heart was freakishly much larger than your average horse, and almost certainly the result of a genetic mutation, however this enlarged heart's ability to pump much more blood is the primary reason for his speed.
• Some people with Kallman Syndrome as told in this Cracked article. When the male recipients are too late to be treated, their semen can be infertile and are subjects for their kids' look. Yet the male recipients will not go bald much later than normal men treated or not. And hey, if they are treated they still have their youth for some time and their voice wouldn't crack.
• Small-name creators may not be making enough from what they produce for entertainment for it to be their main job, but they generally enjoy better relations with their fans (due to not being flooded with constant fan messages), are more likely to do what they do out of passion rather than just to make money, and don't have to deal with the downsides of being super-famous such as constant public scrutiny.
• Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is a condition where a woman is born effectively genetically male on the inside, yet still developed female genitalia and hormones. It leaves any recipient lacking reproductive organs and completely infertile. However the way it affects body development means that women with it often end up absolutely gorgeous.
• Underachieving students in school, who have to struggle and work hard to get average marks. They won't be getting any rewards for their academics anytime soon and they're likely to hate their time in school for how difficult it is, but they're also learning how to work hard and cope with failure. Once they're out of school and likely pursuing a career that doesn't require a high level of academic prowess, they're likely to find themselves excelling purely on the work ethic they developed.
• People in small or obscure cities may lose out when it comes to things to do around town or participating in big-name events (such as concerts of popular musicians) that are only held in bigger cities that people actually care about, but one of their perks is that where they live is less likely to be flooded by tourists who crowd places or disrespect the local culture.
• Having an eidetic memory, sure it's of great use when you're revising or remembering the most important things. However, you are going to be stuck with bad, cringey or even traumatic memories as well. An eidetic memory works both ways.
• Heterochromia can be either this orBlessed with Suck. Most people think it looks cool, and it usually doesn't have any side effects. In some cases though (depending on the cause)it can cause vision problems or be indicative of another health issue.
• Robbie Williams is quite possibly the most famous solo male pop singer alive, having sold 75 million records since leaving Take That in 1997, but the price of his fame is that he has never been successful in the United States, having only a few minor hits in the US despite being a juggernaut everywhere else. But rather than seeing this as a career frustration, Williams takes advantage of it by making his home in the US—Los Angeles specifically—since it's the only place in the world where he can live anonymously and give his family a normal life.

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