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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Partway through ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', {{spoiler|Ozymandias gives a bunch of people cancer and tricks nigh-omnipotent Dr. Manhattan into thinking he caused it, prompting him to take a vacation on Mars. Doc comes back for the finale, but doesn't arrive until after the villain's plan has been carried out.}}
* In the 1960s, when Adventure Comics featured the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], the Legion had several one-off encounters with some guest character (often a stranger applying for Legion membership) who harbored a secret, and who often turned out to be (in disguise) someone whom the Legion already knew. In each of these stories, Saturn Girl was conveniently called away on some separate emergency and wasn't able to participate in the main adventure. Saturn Girl is a telepath: if she had been available to read the stranger's mind, the story would've ended on the first page.
* This is practically the ''raison d'etre'' for [[Marvel Comics]] superhero [[The Sentry]]. He's a throwback to heroes (well, okay, mostly just Superman) from the Silver Age, with all that entails; he has "the power of a million exploding suns" and is recognized as pretty much hands-down the strongest super in the world. And he could handle pretty much any threat that emerged with one hand tied behind his back...if it weren't for the agoraphobia and super-evil split personality that incapacitates him whenever he'd be most useful.
* During the early issues of ''[[The Defenders]]'' (Marvel Comics, we're going off the original series here), the writers had trouble coming up with halfway decent reasons why [[Doctor Strange]] couldn't just wave his hand and eliminate the problem in one page.
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