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** 2.0 actually both subverts it and plays it straight. Chuck can only use it when he's not overly emotional, which means he can use it when he's not in danger. The moment things get stressful he can't use it, until he really needs to, at which point he emotionally either enters the eye of the storm (if somebody else is in danger) or has to use a calming mantra (if he's in danger). |
** 2.0 actually both subverts it and plays it straight. Chuck can only use it when he's not overly emotional, which means he can use it when he's not in danger. The moment things get stressful he can't use it, until he really needs to, at which point he emotionally either enters the eye of the storm (if somebody else is in danger) or has to use a calming mantra (if he's in danger). |
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* Possibly a bit different, but in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Weeping Angels turn to stone when they are being looked at. |
* Possibly a bit different, but in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Weeping Angels turn to stone when they are being looked at. |
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{{quote|'''Tenth Doctor:''' They have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved.}} |
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** When they reappear in "The Time of Angels", it is clarified that they aren't just ''stone''--you cannot, for example, break them with a hammer--but somehow out of phase with the universe in such a way that they cannot be damaged at all in stone mode. The word quantum may be involved. |
** When they reappear in "The Time of Angels", it is clarified that they aren't just ''stone''--you cannot, for example, break them with a hammer--but somehow out of phase with the universe in such a way that they cannot be damaged at all in stone mode. The word quantum may be involved. |
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* Maya on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', who goes all [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]] when she gets scared, and can originally only counteract it [[Wonder Twin Powers|in the presence of her twin brother]]. |
* Maya on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', who goes all [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]] when she gets scared, and can originally only counteract it [[Wonder Twin Powers|in the presence of her twin brother]]. |
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