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* ''[[The Guardians]]'', human-angel hybrids, can choose to Fall and become normal humans. They will still have highly diminished versions of their superpowers. The longer they spent as Guardians, the stronger those superpowers will be when they Fall. Many Guardians regarding Falling and being human as a retirement, after a long career of fighting evil.

* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], ysalamiri are creatures that "[[Power Nullifier|push back]]'' the Force for a space of a few meters each. Their planet of origin has so many that on that world, the Force is inaccessible, which makes Luke Skywalker have some difficulties when he's [[The Thrawn Trilogy|imprisoned on it]] and later has to go through a forest crowded with beasts that hunt Force-Sensitives.

** Interestingly, in ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]'' Corran Horn notices that when in a ysalamiri's field Luke seems younger and more optimistic, since not sensing the greater galaxy also means a reprieve from sensing his overwhelming responsibilities.

* In ''The Waterless Sea'' by Kate Constable, second book in the ''[[Chanters of Tremaris]]'' series, {{spoiler|the heroine Calwyn loses her powers of chantment after she tries to mend the "wounded land" of Merithuros.}} She doesn't like that very much. Actually, she says she'd have rather had her hands cut off. {{spoiler|But she gets it back after she has a swim in a magic pool so she can then go on and becomes the Singer Of All Songs like she's supposed to.}}

* The same kryptonite thematic episode of ''[[Smallville]]''.

** Plus the one where a kid steals Clark's power with [[Green Rocks|Kryptonite]] and [[Lightning Can Do Anything|thunder]]; when that same kid steals them again with [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|more Kryptonite]] and a power generator; when he and Lex are trapped in a series of tunnels with just enough Kryptonite to make Clark normal; the episode with Perry White and the solar flare thingies ([[Power Incontinence|half the time]]); when Jor-El takes his powers at the start of the ''Zod'' arc; when Jor-El takes his powers at the end of the ''Veritas'' arc; when the clone of Zor-El tricks the clone of his mom into tricking him into taking the [[Power Limiter|Blue Kryptonite ring]]; when Jor-El takes '''Kara's''' powers (and memories) for the vaguely plot-centric reason that [[Sibling Rivalry|her dad was evil]]; when they followed Brainiac into [[Time Travel|Krypton in the past]]; cloned Zod's [[Bad Future]] with the artificial red sun (and cloned Zod and his army of cloned Kryptonians have artificial powers, of course); and all the cloned Kryptonians count, too, though as clones they've technically never had poweres; and... all in all, ''[[Smallville]]'' writers just '''love''' to [[True Art Is Angsty|take their character's powers away]].

* A comedic pseudo-example is an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' where George finds himself getting very bad at lying.

* Barney Miller, the "backup bionic guy" in ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', had his bionics "throttled back" to normal human level after his initial appearance.

* ''[[The Monster Girl Encyclopedia]]'' has a [[Cute Monster Girl]] version of a doppelganger. A girl in a black dress, she can read the mind of a man who was rejected by the woman he loved, and use her shapeshifting ability to become the ideal version of said woman. When she approaches him, the man can't help but love her as well. However, should the man see the doppelganger in her true form, and love her as she is, then she will lose the shapeshifting ability. Not that she needs it anymore though.

* [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/25763912/#p25765681 from the discussion] on [[Image Boards|/tg/]] of takes on [[Powered Armor]] via ([[Organic Technology|Bio]]-)[[Magitek]]:

'''Gropey_the_clown''': To this day, I don't know if it was kindness or cruelty to let him live.

}}

* "Power Outage" from ''[[Static Shock]]''. Every Bang-Baby in the city, including Static and Gear, gradually lose their abilities. Most of them like it that way. {{spoiler|Static and Gear are restored at the end -- they have to be, "Future Shock" confirms that they're members of the Justice League in forty years -- but the rest of the Bang-Babies are implied to be permanently depowered. This ''was'' the last episode.}}

* In the ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' episode "The Out to Pasture Syndrome", in a climactic battle with Alpha, Jay turns one of his weapons on him and destroys all his alien appendages, reducing him to a (horribly emaciated) human. He is then locked in a highly-advanced prison cell.

'''Zed''': No. You're a mere mortal now. You'll be punished like one. }}

** Of course, {{spoiler|1=this comes back to bite MiB in the butt in the next season when Alpha escapes, gains new ''robotic'' appendages and helps the Ixions attempt to invade Earth.}}

* Makes up the plot for an episode of ''[[Ace Lightning]]''.

* Disney comic artists lamented they couldn't overuse the [[Born Lucky|Gladstone Gander]]-loses-his-luck plot because it would lose its value. It was finally used in the [[Animated Adaptation]] ''[[DuckTales]]''' episode "Dime Enough For Luck."

* Raiden of ''[[Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm|Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm]]'' loses his godly powers during an episode involving a magical orb. He's still [[Badass Normal]] thanks to the fact that he has been fighting for thousands of years.

** During the episode, Raiden does show distress and unease at losing his powers, explaining that for him, being a [[Physical God]] ''is'' normal.

* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' delivers this to series [[Big Bad]] Van Kliess. After bringing him back from the dead (long story) Rex agrees to join him if he lets his friends go. He then shakes Van Kliess's hand... and promptly cures him, sapping him of his powers, and reverting him back to a normal human. Needless to say, Van Kliess quickly makes a hasty retreat courtesy of [[Back From the Dead]] Breach

* ''[[Max Steel]]'' did this near the end of the first series. After an argument between Max and Rachel about Max relying on his powers over his training, he (naturally) loses them for the episode. However, he hates this fact and is all too willing to get his powers back.

'''Max''': Human. I hate it. }}

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', for the better part of a season {{spoiler|Aang lost the ability to go into the [[Super Mode|Avatar State]]}}.

* The ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Duck Blind" has Darkwing lose his sight after exposure to Megavolt's new magnetic superweapon. After a period of self-pity, he manages to overcome the initial loss by shutting down all lights in Megavolt's lair, bringing the fight to his advantage thanks to his now enhanced hearing. [[Status Quo Is God]] is followed by a second exposure to the superweapon restoring his sight.

* The [[Superhero Episode]] of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has everyone become heroes or villains. The Nega-Chin then changes the world so only the villains remain.

'''Janitor''': Right! Now surrender! Or face the wrath of we everyday heroes! }}

* In ''[[Trollz]]'', this happened when the girls and boys accidentally broke the Sacred Altar, causing {{spoiler|magic to disappear}}. It gets better.