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* In ''[[Raideen]]'', the titular mecha has the powerful "God Voice" attack, which ends up ruining his vocal cords every time he does it. In the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' games, Akira will actually end up being unable to speak if you use this too many times before a certain point.

* The kemonozume technique in ''[[Kemonozume]]'' involves ''cutting off your own arms''. Ther is also a large risk of going berserk if the user's willpower isn't strong enough.

* The GUND format of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ~~the~~ Witch from Mercury]]'' allows pilots who have been injected with "[[Green Rocks|permet]]", a rare substance found on Mercury and (later) Earth's moon, to have a [[Brain-Computer Interface]]. Originally designed for controllable [[Artificial Limbs]], it was eventually adapted to giving pilots superior control over [[Humungous Mecha|mobile suits]]. While lower levels of "Permet score" like two are relatively safe (though still feel like "a hand reaching so roughly into [the user's] brain"), the score can be increased higher and higher for more effectiveness at the risk of causing permanent physical damage to the user. This is the (at least official) reason the ruling [[Mega Corp]]s agree to violently ban the technology during the episode ''Prologue'', branding its users as [[Black Magic|witches]] and slaughtering ([[Genocide Backfire|almost]]) the entire development team responsible for weaponizing it.

* The GUND format of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'' allows pilots who have been injected with "[[Green Rocks|permet]]", a rare substance found on Mercury and (later) Earth's moon, to have a [[Brain-Computer Interface]]. Originally designed for controllable [[Artificial Limbs]], it was eventually adapted to giving pilots superior control over [[Humungous Mecha|mobile suits]]. While lower levels of "Permet score" like two are relatively safe (though still feel like "a hand reaching so roughly into [the user's] brain"), the score can be increased higher and higher for more effectiveness at the risk of causing permanent physical damage to the user. This is the (at least official) reason the ruling [[Mega Corp]]s agree to violently ban the technology during the episode ''Prologue'', branding its users as [[Black Magic|witches]] and slaughtering ([[Genocide Backfire|almost]]) the entire development team responsible for weaponizing it.

== Comic Books ==

* In the Marvel universe, there exists a weapon called the Ultimate Nullifier which can [[Ret-Gone]] anyone or anything the user chooses. ~~'''~~''But~~'''~~'' if the target isn't visualized perfectly by the user, then ''the user'' is the one who gets erased.

* In the Marvel universe, there exists a weapon called the Ultimate Nullifier which can [[Ret-Gone]] anyone or anything the user chooses. ''But'' if the target isn't visualized perfectly by the user, then ''the user'' is the one who gets erased.

* The "Demon Ball" technique in ''[[Bowling King]]''; Its creator injured himself badly attempting to perfect it and was forced to retire from professional bowling.

* in the [[DC]] universe, the Anti-Life Equation is a Technique like this long associated with [[Darkseid]] and [[The New Gods]]:

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** While the Anti Life Equation is often viewed as an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Life Equation, a similar formula that implants the belief that life does have meaning and that concepts like hope and love are potent forces, it should be noted that the Life Equation [[Light Is Not Good| can be just as dangerous]] in the wrong hands. Consider the leader of a [[Church of Happyology]] using something like this to “share” his vision with entire planets, turning his cult into a galactic empire. Highfather once tried to use the Life Equation against Darkseid, but started to realize it was making him [[Not So Different| just as much a tyrant]] as his foe. He eventually relinquished it after concluding that, good or evil, [[No Man Should Have This Power]].

== ~~Films~~ ==

== Film ==

* The entire point of [[The Dark Side]] of [[The Force]] in ''[[Star Wars]]''.

** Per [[All There in the Manual|The Expanded Universe]], the [[Implausible Fencing Powers|lightsaber]] form [[Ax Crazy|Juyo/Vaapad]], which is the most powerful of them all but [[Power At a Price|relies on the heavy use of aggression]]. For that reason, it's forbidden to most Jedi except those who demonstrate they're capable of handling it safely (eg. [[Badass|Mace Windu]]).

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* In Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' series (''Sabriel'', ''Lirael'' and ''Abhorsen''), the last of the bells of the necromancer throws everyone that hears it deep into Death. What's it called? [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Astarael]].

== Live Action TV ==

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'' features the Ju-Ju-Zenshin-Hen, which allows the user to take on a super-powerful beast-like form. The bad news: transformation is permanent. The worse news: if your technique isn't perfect, your life's gonna ''suuuuuuck.'' A Wolf Fist user winds up transforming into an out-of-control werewolf periodically, but at least he gets restored into his human form. The Fly Fist user (no, really) isn't so lucky, winding up an anthropomorphic fly who is about the size of a mouse. He ends up getting swallowed by an evil Chameleon Fist user and is resurrected along with her after she dies...

* ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' also has one. Anyone who uses Chronogel's forbidden time spell will die via getting sucked into a wormhole that appears on their chest while it sucks other things like matter and time into it. This curse was deliberately placed on it - apparently, the use of time magic is so dangerous that ''making sure the universe is screwed if you use it'' is the best way to protect it. Yeeeah.

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* Technical wrestlers generally avoid this as most submissions don't actually put that much pressure on the body.

== Tabletop ~~RPG~~ ==

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'',

** Among the most potent of magic items are two magic staffs, the ''staff of power'' and the artifact ''staff of the magi'' which, while very powerful items in themselves, can be broken for a "retributive strike" which releases every spell inside the staff at once, centred on the caster. Given that the [[Squishy Wizard]] is the norm in D, anyone attempting this strategy had better hope that the 50% chance of getting sent to another dimension comes up.

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