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* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029130101/http://www.johnnysaturn.com/2006/01/18/book-one-page-01/ "Johnny Saturn"], at the end of issue eleven, the Utopian betrays the ideals that grant him his powers and kills a man from behind. At this point he loses all his powers.

* Komodo in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers: The Initiative]]'' had her powers removed by SPIN technology after refusing to go along with HAMMER's sinister perversion of the Initiative. Note: without her powers Komodo doesn't have any legs. Thankfully, a "cure" of sorts was eventually fashioned and she's back in action.

** Then, in a recent story taking place in an [[Alternate Universe]], Knuckles (who had also become Enerjak) was stripped of his powers in the exact same way by his daughter.

** In issue 232, Ixis Naguas ends up restoring Bunnie's former flesh and blood limbs after crystalizing them an issue before, removing the abilities she had as a cyborg.

* There's one episode of ''[[Winx Club]]'' where, as punishment for sneaking out of the school and causing trouble, the principal strips the main characters of their powers ("Secret Guardian"), forcing them to stop a monster using brooms and soap ("Grounded").

** ''[[Winx Club]]'' also did a variation on this as [[Story Arc]] later in season 1, with Bloom losing her "Dragon Fire" powers to villain witches ("Senior Witches Go To Earth"). Several episodes later ("The Great Witch Invasion"), she is under a lake with her sister/secret guardian Daphne, and it's revealed that Bloom's powers never left her (even though all signs pointed otherwise, starting with the fact that she was stuck in her regular form all these episodes), but her [[Heroic BSOD]] blocked her from summoning them. Once she stops moping, she gets her powers back.

** There was also an episode were Mandy lost her nerve (as in a little [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of her attitude living her head) and it moves to Billy's head. This downgrades her from [[Heroic Sociopath]] to meek little girl and Billy up to a bully (though he's still stupid). She later decides she doesn't need the nerve and returns to her usual state while making the nerve vacate Billy's brain.

* In "Gwen 10", the [[What If]] episode of ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben wakes up without the Omnitrix, but remembering the series so far. Upon realizing that it's the day he got the Omnitrix, he tries to get it back... And fails. He kinda mopes for the rest of the episode, but nothing else is shown of how it would have gone from there; it's a one-shot "What if?" style episode, complete with [[Shout-Out]] at the end.

 

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