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** Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoNgMVFQNBI Spider-Man 3 How It Should Have Ended].

{{quote| '''Spidey:''' I'm just sayin' there's only one way this is gonna go down, it happens every time. We'll fight for a bit, you'll tear my mask, but in the end I'm gonna leap outta the way and you're gonna do something that makes you kill yourself.}}

* Used in the tongue-in-cheek ''Punisher [[Kill'Em All|Kills the]] [[Marvel Universe]]'': [[The Punisher]] actually manages to kill the nearly unkillable [[Wolverine]]. How does he do this? By forcing good ol' Logan into a generator, using his metal bones as a conductor to electrically fry every cell in his body.

** [[Power Creep, Power Seep|It is worth noting]] [[Canon Sue|this wouldn't work these days]].

** A similar incident happened in ''[[Runaways]]'' - the teens discover that one of their newest companion is a vampire and, to save the others, Karolina offers herself to the vampire. When he goes to drain him, he realizes too late that Karolina is solar powered and he promptly explodes.

* Unus the Untouchable was a mutant criminal with a force field that protected him from all harm. Eventually, it got so powerful that not even air could get through.

* The ''[[Marvel 2099|Punisher 2099]]'' villain Fearmaster has a hand (later a claw) that can turn anything biological it touches into anything else. When the Punisher finally corners him, he tries to turn Frank's entire body to mud. Too bad he forgot that he chopped off one of the Punisher's hands two issues prior; all Frank has to do is reach out with his prosthetic hand, grab Fearmaster's arm, and shove the claw right back in his face.

* In ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' Terra died by accidental suicide when she imploded the HIVE complex out of sheer rage, trying to kill Deathstroke when she thinks he betrayed her.

* In ''[[Asterix]] and the Roman Agent'', [[Magnificent Bastard]] Tortuous Convolvulus has sown seeds of discord in our heroes' village, and for a time convinced them that Asterix, Obelix, and Getafix have been suborned by the Romans. After our heroes set their differences aside and pwn all four Roman garrisons, Asterix gives Convolvulus a gift and thanks him for "keeping your end of the bargain". Centurion Felix Platypus is enraged and has Convolvulus chained up and taken back to Rome as a traitor. Convolvulus is back up to his old tricks before long, however.

* [[Batman|"You committed a BONER, Joker! You were so busy forcing ME into a boner, you forgot you were committing one yourself!"]]

* In ''[[Flashpoint (Comic Book)|Flashpoint]]'', the Reverse Flash had suddenly appeared and began attacking Barry Allen while telling him {{spoiler|that the reason this timeline exists was because Barry tried to save his mother from Zoom and suceeded, only to screw up the rest of the world.}}. As he does, he tells him that, because how things are, Barry could never kill him lest {{spoiler|he break time again.}} As he said that, he learns of a loophole too late as {{spoiler|Thomas Wayne!Baman impales him with a sword.}}

* In the ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' comic, "Race To Death Valley", Mickey swipes a map out of Shyster's hand from a window, boating [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"It's an old Shyster custom I learned from you!"]].

* General Spears in ''[[Alien|Aliens: Nightmare Asylum]]'' is a General Ripper on a remote colony who does not believe the heroes when they tell him that {{spoiler|Earth has been overrun by the Aliens.}} He has been training Aliens to be his own personal soldiers by training their Queen with Pavlovian responses to fire. The moment they touch down on Earth and he plans to defeat the entrenched natives, the Queen turns her drones on him. She hadn't learned to fear him--she had ''[[Nightmare Fuel|learned to be clever]]''.

 

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