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* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' does something similar with ''breathing''. The real secret to Kenshiro's [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] is harnessing the traditionally untapped 70% of his breathing. The Ripple in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' works that way, too.

* The Stone Mask-created [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' gain their power through the activation of unused parts of the brain via acupuncture. This awakens the human's evolutionary potential (with abilities like [[Wall Crawling]], liquid eye beams, superspeed/strength, regeneration, sucking blood through their fingers, and creating zombies) and it inverts the lifeforce energy in their bodies (making them undead-like beings weak to sunlight and [[Battle Aura|Ripple]], the amplified essence of life)

* Played straight in ''[[To ~~Aru~~ ~~Majutsu no~~ Index]]'' as the eponymous character can only retain 1 year of memory in her mind, because 85% of it is taken up with an eidetic recollection of the [[Neuro Vault|complete contents of 103,000 spellbooks]]. {{spoiler|That is, until it gets subverted with a sledgehammer when a professor reveals that the "15% left over for a year's memories" is complete BS and even ''gives a proper explanation of how the mind works'' in the series. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] as the hero realizes that he's been played for a sucker.}}

* Played straight in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' as the eponymous character can only retain 1 year of memory in her mind, because 85% of it is taken up with an eidetic recollection of the [[Neuro Vault|complete contents of 103,000 spellbooks]]. {{spoiler|That is, until it gets subverted with a sledgehammer when a professor reveals that the "15% left over for a year's memories" is complete BS and even ''gives a proper explanation of how the mind works'' in the series. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] as the hero realizes that he's been played for a sucker.}}

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'''s Universal Century:

** ''[[Chars Counterattack|Char's Counterattack]]'' (where it is mentioned) may use this explanation for why [[Psychic Powers|Newtypes]] exist—that people used only a part of their brains on Earth, and began to use the rest after moving into space. However, it was said to be "half" of the brain being used, not 10%. Also the conversation was between a couple of teenagers, so they may simply not know what they're talking about (they also take a fairly romantic interpretation of the idea/purpose of Newtypes, which Gundam [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|goes back and forth on)]].