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** Bonus: Because of his invulnerability, they had to perform the surgery with an industrial strength oil drill.

** Double Bonus: He refused anesthesia for the operation.

* A storyline in ''[[The Muppet Show Comic Book]]'' featured Animal taking pills to become calmer. Unfortunately, his drumming ability suffered (because [[All Drummers Are Animals]]), and the Electric Mayhem had to replace him until he stopped taking the tablets.

** This may be based on the [[Real Life]] story of jazz drummer "Witty Ticcy Ray" (see below).

* The mutant [[Awesomeness By Analysis|Prodigy]] of the ''[[X-Men]]'' can copy the knowledge or skills of anyone nearby but a mental block keeps him from remembering any of the knowledge after they leave. When he asks Emma Frost to remove the mental block, his exponential intellect makes him an uber-successful world leader who solves a lot of the world's problems [[Utopia Justifies the Means|through immoral means]] like [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|carving up his best friend to cure major diseases]]. He believes himself a benevolent dictator and decides to nuke any country that doesn't go along with him, and his former comrades have to engage in a suicide strike on the White House to stop him. David then [[All Just a Dream|wakes up from Emma's telepathic hallucination]] and realizes he needs to keep a lid until he can handle the knowledge on his own.

** Sabertooth once took one of Wolverine's claws to the brain, which resulted in him becoming peaceful and relaxed. It took a while, but eventually his [[Healing Factor]] repaired the damage, and he was a psychopath again.

* One issue of a Polish comic book series "Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek" dealt with the misguided education of Tytus (who happens to be a talking, civilized chimp). In order to make him less [[Book Dumb]] and more adjusted, [[Mad Scientist|professor T. Alent]] first mindwipes him back to kindergarten, then proceeds to educate Tytus using his crazy inventions, to the point of force-feeding the ape's brain with information. Over the next weeks Tytus gains professor-grade education, receives several academic awards and finally starts burning out. In the end, he breaks into T. Alent's lab, resets his brain again, this time to college level (in his own words, "just a bit above Romek") and resumes his former life.

* One ''[[Justice League of America]]'' arc has a hyper-dimensional force seperate the league and their secret identities into different beings, allowing the heroes to be full-time heroes and the civilian-modes to have normal lives. The only one not happy about this is Plasticman's normal self Eel O'Brian, who doesn't like the idea that he can't be Plasticman again. When talking about this to [[Martian Manhunter]]'s civilian identity John Jones, he even mentions ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]''.

* Bailey used a [[Magic Feather|placebo]] to raise London's intelligence in an episode of ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]''. After she realizes that it's just a placebo, she reverts to her normal self. [[Too Dumb to Live|Then she takes a different one.]]

* In ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', around the end of season 4, Carlos {{spoiler|goes permanently blind.}} Less than halfway through season five though, {{spoiler|his vision is completely restored.}}

 

== [[Theatre]] ==