Ok... so I had this dark twist on superhero AUs in my head at like 9pm last night. This is a long ramble, but pretend this makes sense.
Everyone can get powers, but you have to take someone else's will to live to get them. You just have to be the reason somebody gets really traumatized, and wishes they were dead. Your power is a reflection the thing they longed for the most in that moment. It's normalized in this society, they are the ones fighting off "villains" (people who want to become heroes by being menaces, or heroes gone bad, sometimes even the one they hurt). Heroes are seen as well... heroes, and you are expected to just forgive them like everyone else does when they make the world a better place.
Like seriously, there are so many dark twists to seemingly normal powers, (invisibility: you outed someone who wasn't ready, super strength: you made someone feel irreversibly powerless and weak, flight: you pushed someone off a 2 story building as a kid, super speed: you were a stalker and they just wanted to get away, bulletproof: betrayed someone close to you, etc.) It's messed up, but normalized.
I'm especially thinking about a made up one calling projection (a phantom version of you every time you meditate, and can't die), cause: someone is going through a tough time and just wanted a moment of peace, and you made things much worse (eg. A pranked B on the worst day of their life). If I ever write this (unlikely), that's 100% the power the main character is getting.
Like, this needs to be it's own dystopian novel series, but I'm not going to write it (feel free to though). But let me know if you want snippets from that world from me in the lab.