Power-Up (Jared & Friends)

**Power-Up** is a special element introduced around late Season 2/early Season 3

## Overview

In late Season 2, the Imagination Posse all used their imaginations to unlock their basic power-up forms, in order to better use their make believe powers, especially since Wicked had risen on her quest for power.

### Looks

#### Normal

The color scheme is often extremely simplistic with usually two-or-three-color color schemes. The clothing is very simple, but still intricate and detailed with a combination of fashionable mini skirts, shorts, jeans, tops, pants, dresses, simple superhero-like jumpsuits, etc. For various accessories, there is a combination of hats, gloves, bracelets, wrist cuffs, arm bands, goggles, brooches, chokers, tiaras, headphones, headbands, earrings, utility belts, and helmets. Hairstyles often remain unchanged or very slightly changed. Shoes are often in some form of heeled boots and altered glittered metallic shoes and sneakers. The style of the outfits match the wearer's personality and power

#### Corrupted

The outfits become darker and the accessories change shape and color, sometimes gaining rips or signs of deterioration, seen when Jared was under hypnosis by Wicked, transforming into Dark Jared

### 2.0

The looks become much more mature and more intricate, leveling up the status of the powers. For example, the boys have upgrades in their superhero-style jumpsuits or attire, with them becoming sleeker with more detail, while the girls have outfits inspired by Enchantix fairies.

### Requirements

Anyone (by using their imaginations) is usually able to transform when they fully believe in the power of imagination and wish really hard

## Power Sources

When in their Power Forms, someone gets their power from a certain source, sometimes pertaining to their individual personalities, making their powers very effective and authentic

* Jared - Power of Friendship and Imagination Energy
* Barney - Power of Love and Imagination
* Baby Bop - Power of Flowers
* BJ - Power of Sports
* Riff - Power of Inventive Rhythms (Music, tinkering with inventions)
* Sarah Jackson - Power of Light, Flames, and Feelings
* Alycia Helliwell - Power of Starlight
* Madeline Cabral - Power of the Waves
* Madeline Macgowan - Power of Sweet Stuff
* Jessica Mensink - Power of Gemlight
* Ella Nafzinger - Power of Harmony
* Abby Lintner - Power of Illusions
* Emira Jakupi - Power of Emotions

## Ways to Acquire

* Posse: Just by wishing really hard and using their imaginations to the max, as well as saying Barney's magic words "Shimbaree, Shimbarah"
	+ As for the 2.0 version, each Posse member has to overcome an extreme personal difficulty or their biggest fears, learning to come out of their shell and open their hearts, no matter how small, very much like their Charmix transformations, as well as perform a sacrifice for ones they love and with that, their powers become stronger as well as their understanding of themselves and others
		- For example in Race for the Prime Stars, Jared realizes he can't let his flaws keep dumping on him and stop him from protecting his friends, so he makes the sacrifice by holding off the Bug-A-Boo swarm and using up all his power to protect himself and his friends, until he uses the "Robinson's Wail" attack, using all his Winx to protect everyone, proving himself worthy of the new power level.

## Trivia/Notes

* The characters call their power "Winx", a reference to Winx Club, particularly the 4Kids dub, where the word Winx itself means that it is a fairy’s magical energy that can be drawn from a power source
* The transformation sequences are animated, and for the regular power-ups/Charmix, it is a mixture of Magic Winx and Magic Charmix (with a touch of Believix & Enchantix), and an instrumental of the Basic transformation theme from the 4Kids dub of Winx Club is used in all versions of the show
* This is the Jared & Friends version of Magic Winx, in a way and the 2.0 version is the J&F version of Enchantix

## See Also/Various Levels, Items, & Powers

As a result of the imaginary versatility, there are also many more aspects and levels to the Power-Up concept:

* Charmix
* Dimension Twist
* Power of the Stars: StarSparx
* Sirenous - Power of the Ocean
* Power Bracelets