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[[Exactly What It Says
The trope is an exaggeration of the idea that a good breakfast gives you enough energy for the day. Expect the comment "along with hard work, exercise and sensible diet" to be [[Rattling Off Legal|casually thrown in]] somewhere once in order to be ''technically'' true. It will also have to be consumed as [[Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast|part of a complete breakfast]], or the magic won't work.
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* The print ad for Chef Boyardee's ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' pasta is a two-page comic in which the Turtles catch [[Those Two Bad Guys]] Rocksteady and Bebop stealing their supply of the pasta being advertised. Before taking them down, the Turtles munch down on the pasta because it gives them "[[Crunchtastic|total turtle power]]".
* Subverted in a Sprite ad. A boy drinks Sprite on a basketball court and then tries to dunk while a voicover says, (paraphrasing) "If you want to play like the NBA stars..." And he falls on his face. "...practice."
* In the 1940s, [[DC Comics]] had a series of one-page ads featuring [http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2009/05/cartoon-cops-battle-bears-with-power-of.html Pepsi The Pepsi-Cola Cop], which was [[Exactly What It Says
** Well, if Spider-Man can foil criminals through the strategic use of Twinkies...
* While not consuming the product per se, various Holiday Inn Express commercials feature this.
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** It turns out that powdered toast can not actually give kids the power to fly, despite having Vitamin F.
* [[South Park|"Mintberry CRUUUNCH!!"]] Only the power of mint and berry combined can defeat [[Cthulhu Mythos|the Dark One]].
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* Referenced in the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "What You Want" -- [[Jerk Jock|Dash]] wanted to be a monster to crush the opposing football team, and after [[Jackass Genie|Desiree]] turns him into one, one of the announcers for the game comments, "Wow! It looks like those high-protein breakfasts are really paying off!"
* During the early 90ies, the Norwegian soft drink Solo ran a series of adverts that would always start out as stereotypical adverts of this kind... Only for nothing to really happen when they drank it, or [[Diabolus Ex Machina|for things to somehow get even worse]]. The tagline used was that Solo was "probably the only soft drink that does nothing ''but'' quench your thirst".
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