Contact Agent, Reversed

Contact Agent, Reversed is not a canonical name for any enhancement, but due to the introduction of Blood Agent, Reversed for Blood Agent, gamers may speculate as to what an equivalent would be for Contact Agent.
==Function==
Blood Agent's normal function requires touching either an open wound or a mucous membrane of a target to affect them.
The "reversed" version is different though: it does not specifying allowing the attack to work if someone is merely touching your mucous membrane
==Etymology==
BAR was introduced in P100 and given a unique name in PU8p12 (similar to the Summonable enhancement variation in Powers later receiving a unique Conjured name for it's variant function).
This could lead a player to think that a variant of "Contact Agent" not given a unique name might later be given a unique name (though this has not yet happened).
You've Got the Touch does introduce a variant of Contact Agent with different functionality, however in reading the crunch it does not appear to match up.
Instead it's actually Touch-Based Reversed at merely -20% which holds the strongest similarity:
:"Your ability works only if you touch the target with your bare hand"
The specific requirement of "hand" is standard for Innate Attack originating from a particular body part. For it to be something other than a hand for a melee attack would require the default to be Breath. Both variations are seen with Leech and any melee attack (inherent or limited) would need a Cosmic enhancement to originate from different body parts, unless it took Aura.
"must make skin-to-skin contact" is how the YGGT variant of CA is defined, which is far more extreme than normal. Not only does this cancel out the "ignores DR" component the ability has, but also adds an unusual requirement of the attacker making skin contact (as with TBR previously) on top of the usual requirements of the Basic Set writeup for -30% Contact Agent.
Probably the reason for this is that Basic Contact Agent (being a penetration modifier) cannot normally be combined with other penetration modifiers like Malediction or Irresistible Attack.
The PU8 "got the touch" version does not note being a penetration modifier, so it might plausibly enjoy that legal combination normally forbidden, which could explain the unique pricing.
This is implied to be the version you would use with something like Leech, the normal version being implied to have Irresistible Attack kinda built into it.
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