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*** Beast built the device so that its effects could be reversed—he was using it to blackmail Unus into surrendering in order to save his own life. Henry McCoy is fricking hardcore.
*** Unus is so [[Blessed with Suck]], his powers manage to kill him ''twice''. In the ''Son of M'' mini-series, starring [[Quicksilver]], Unus showed up alive without explanation, but depowered. He & several other depowered mutants are exposed to the [[Green Rock|terrigen mists]] by the titular character, despite [[The Inhumans|the Inhumans']] warnings that exposing any non-Inhuman will end in tragedy. Everyone exposed has their powers returned, but to extreme levels, leading to madness, misery and (in Unus' case) death. Again.
*** Skids was a Morlock with powers similar to Unus, who like him, had no control over it; but she got lucky, after surviving the assault by the Marauders that killed most of the Morlocks, the New Mutants managed to help her learn to control it.
** There is a character in volume 2 of ''New Mutants'' called Wither. [[Touch of Death|Guess what ''his'' power is?]]
*** And when his power manifested, he happened to be touching his father at the time, thus killing Dad and turning Wither permanently into an [[Emo Teen]] who tends to [[Wangst]] quite a lot.
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* The newish Mutants from the marvel universe, Generation Hope, all have powers like this, or at least linked to this. You have Velocidad, who's a superspeedster who ages up with each use of his power as it just makes time move slower/faster/whichever would be relevant for him, Sadie (can't remember hero-name) who's trapped forever in some blue alien looking body, some guy who got super-animal strength and senses... and the mind to go with them. Another one of them's walking [[Body Horror]]. Being one of the new generation of mutants sucks.
** Idie is the one exception. Too bad her upbringing convinced her that just being a mutant was bad enough.
* In one ''[[Justice League|Justice League Europe]]'' story, [[Power Girl]] is dying and needs surgery to save her life. But doctors cannot operate on her for a simple reason: Her bulletproof skin makes it impossible. They have no scalpel or surgical laser capable of cutting through her skin. Fortunately the rest of the League think of something: they have former [[Green Lantern Corps]] member [[Gadgeteer Genius| Kilowog]] put together a helmet that lets [[Superman]] focus his heat vision like a super-powered laser, which is able to do the job.
* Isca the Unbeaten from ''[[New Mutants]]'' can never be defeated - literally. Her omega-level mutant power is that she cannot lose at anything, be it a game of ''[[Candy Land]]'' or multi-planetary [[Gladiator Games]]. Should she not have the skills needed for a contest, her powers will provide them, if any amount of luck is required, probability is altered in her favor, and should she be part of a group that is at risk of losing due to factors not concerning her (like say, a high-ranking general in an army making a stupid mistake or being assassinated) her powers compel her to defect to the winning side. To put this bluntly, if she threw down her weapon and surrendered, telling her foe to take her life and then kneeling down so he could do so, the foe would probably trip and impale himself on his weapon before he could. And of course, Isca has no control of her powers. While clearly an asset, she sees this as a curse for the same reason [[One-Punch Man| Saitama]] does, as not only is her life no challenge at all, the "clause" in her powers that compels her to join the winning side has given her the reputation of a turncoat, leaving her with few allies and even fewer friends.
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