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* In the fourth book of the ''[[Ranger's Apprentice]]'' series Will is still suffering the after effects of drug addiction and has lost his Ranger conditioning.)
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Labyrinth Of Reflections]]'', one of the main plot points are a group of people in [[Cyberspace|Deeptown]] called Divers, who can see programming holes and backdoors visually and are able to voluntarily break the illusion of full-body presence, whereas everyone else requires timers to kick them out or "exit menus" to allow their consciousness to go back to the [[Real Life|real world]]. The protagonist is a Diver who, by the end, gains certain [[The Matrix|Neo]]-like abilities (except the book came out before the movie) after an encounter with a strange being (whose nature is left unexplained). The sequel starts with a [[Time Skip]] and the protagonist explaining that there significant changes have taken place in the Deep within the last few years. The kick-out timers are now mandatory, eliminating the need for Divers to pull people out. They also somehow lose their ability to see "holes", leaving cyberspace security work to hackers. The protagonist himself no longer has his powers that allow him to literally fly around the Deep and do anything he wants. He also can't connect to the Deep without the use of a computer (although it's not clear if this he actually had this ability). {{spoiler|By the end of the second novel, he regains his powers by embracing them}}.
* In the early 1970s, a weekly Sunday School periodical distributed in Protestant churches published a pair of stories entitled "Mike the Magnet" and "Wally Walk-Through-Walls", whose minimal plots were almost identical and practically ''celebrated'' this trope: Child gets superpower, parents freak and take him to doctor, doctor uses dubious (and, realistically, ''poisonous'') folk remedy found in an ancient source as a "cure" for child's "condition", child loses superpower and must embrace the joy of being normal. Given the political leanings of many Protestant churches even then, the stories' [[Unfortunate Implications]] -- that being exceptional and nonconformist in any way is an unwelcome condition that must be ''cured'' by any means possible, even outright medical quackery -- was no doubt entirely intentional.
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