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** Presumably it doesn't work in Narnia either, else she surely would've used it there when she realized she was about to become lion-chow.

*** Popular opinion holds that because [[An Ice Person|Jadis's powers]] [[The Magic Goes Away|are diminished]] in The Wood Between Worlds / Narnia / Earth, she simply didn't have the juice necessary to use the Word as she did in Charn. Plus, the Word was her absolute last resort, since she preferred destroying everything than submitting to her sister and her armies. Besides, destroying everyone and everything on Earth or in Narnia before she had a chance to conquer would [[Pragmatic Villainy|just be silly]].

** In fairness to Lewis, the [[Atomic Hate|Bomb]] ''is'' the first weapon humanity has ever invented that ''seriously'' has the potential to depopulate the planet. Given the antagonistic politics of the day, and the fact that the Soviet Union had until recently been ruled by a genocidal madman, and well, the ongoing danger of nuclear weapons, he was right to be worried.

*** And despite the fact that the [[Cold War]] has ended and the Soviet Union disbanded, the fact that the United States and China still hold more nukes to destroy the world at least four times over more or less turns this into an allegory for "''He who launches a single nuke on a populace effectively ends all humanity''".<ref> Reminder: cockroaches are immune to nukes as well as damn near anything but a whole lot of blunt trauma, so it wouldn't be the end of all life on earth, just everything but cockroaches and microscopic organisms underneath the Earth.</ref>

** The new Jabberslythe unit for ''Warhammer'' Beastmen apparently drives enemy units insane. Understandably, it's the only unit without a picture in its entry. Good luck modeling it.

* ''[[Earthdawn]]''. Simply reading about the Horrors can cause psychological problems and attract their attention upon the reader.

* It's quite possible for Malkavians with high Dementation and Auspex in [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] to booby-trap books, paintings or songs with their discipline's powers. It's even possible to modify your aura in that way, to punish curious Auspex users.

** And the Daughters of Cacophony have many ways to screw you over with their singing.

** The fan-favorite ending of "Band Geeks" features [[The Power of Rock]] so awesome, {{spoiler|it gives Squilliam Fancyson a heart attack.}}

* Used in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' when Demona used a spell broadcast via TV to turn everybody who saw and heard the recitation into stone by night. Those who didn't catch the transmission as well as those who did but were deaf or blind and thus logically couldn't [[Exact Words|both see]] ''[[Exact Words|and]]'' [[Exact Words|hear]] it were unaffected.

* On one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' Peter is warned not to watch [[The Ring|a video that kills anyone who watches it]]. He scoffs and takes the [[Schmuck Bait]], and promptly keels over. The film? ''Mannequin''. [[Take That|A certain amount of]] [[Truth in Television]], to be sure....

** On another episode Quagmire tells Peter a dirty joke with the punchline {{spoiler|"P.S.: Your vagina's in the sink!"}}, which Peter finds so funny he poops himself every time he hears it. So Quagmire and Joe keep telling him the punchline through various means (texting him, having [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] tell him in a dream).