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* In the ''[[Knightfall]]'' arc of the [[Batman]] comics, this was Bane's key strategy in handing Batman a rare and devastating defeat: Releasing all the inmates of Arkham Asylum at once and letting him wear himself out trying to recapture all of them, then easily crumpling the exhausted superhero.

* This in fact was exactly why [[Superman]] [[The Death of Superman|died fighting Doomsday]]. Of course, being [[Contractual Immortality|Superman]] (and a [[Death Is Cheap|comic book character]]), he got better.

* During [[Daredevil]]'s first encounter with the Kingpin, he broke into Kingpin's vault which had the weight of the vault door as it's only defense. It's worth noting that a teenage [[Spider-Man]] had previously struggled hard to open the very same vault and that this was back in the day when Kingpin was still a house-wrecking, Spider-Man-pummeling monster of a mobster. DD decided to give it a try and pulled beyond his breaking limit (much like the [[Real Life]] example below). Using sheer willpower to pull until his limbs were literally about to come off. He got it open and when cornered by Kingpin himself, still managed to put up enough of a fight to hurt the big man... before running out of breath and being one-punched into oblivion.

* [[The Flash]] can run faster than sound without too much difficulty. When he runs [[Up to Eleven|faster than faster than light]], he risks being permanently absorbed by the "Speed Force" that powers all DCU speedsters. A number of other speedsters, such as Johnny Quick and Savitar, have met with this fate (which isn't considered a bad way to go; sort of like reaching nirvana). Wally West is the only person to consistently be able to return; his [[The Power of Love|love for his wife Linda]] provides a sort of "tether" to the real world.

** This trope is a regular thing for Tony, especially pre-[[Nanomachines|Extremis]].

* More literal than most of the versions here, [http://www.lifeinagame.com/pages/episode62.html Lollerskates uses this as an attack] to keep [[Halo (series)|the Master Chief]] from helping in the final fight against him in ''[[Life in A Game]]''.

* In an event in an ORPG(think about it) called ''Dragonfable'', which is advertising on this site, your mentor/mission control-ish character Warlic is revealed to have one. After a long "war" in which players have to collectively whittle down the huge number of enemies(standard practice), the generals confront his spoiled apprentice, who killed him and stole his power, and a fight occurs with the player controlling said apprentice. Now, normally the fight screen has a list of all your abilities with the mana cost, like "15", on the corner. In this fight, you start out with zero mana, and all the mana costs say things like "-350." When your mana meter fills, you DIE. After said apprentice realizes that Warlic was right in that she can't control his power, she resurrects him and apologizes. He forgives her, and uses his power to scare off said generals, who happen to be GODS.