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* Surprisingly averted in ''[[The Brothers Bloom]]'', in which Rachel Weisz's character is a "collector of hobbies" and has an untold number of skills revealed in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7_f1zlkHwM a humorous montage]. None of these skills actually come to help her in any way.

* Averted in ''[[Honeymoon In Vegas]]''. Although Nicholas Cage's character is a private investigator, this fact plays no part in his efforts to locate his fiancée.

* In ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'', Jack catches a bottle as it hurtles toward his face. Later he displays the same skill by catching a knife thrown at him.

* Subverted in ''[[Demolition Man]]''. Much is made of Spartan's implanted knitting skills, but the most that comes of it is when he makes Huxley a sweater by way of apology.