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** It was explained in 90s that sometimes Peter does not know why his spider-sense is tingling. The explanation showed a man with a hidden gun. Peter knew that man is a danger but was not sure why as the man was just walking on the street.

** Which is, quite frankly, [[Ass Pull]] bulls&@*. Peter as demonstrated on countless occasions the ability to use his Spider-sense to detect and react instantly to attacks from people sneaking up behind him, from above or below, in the dark, (even when there's no actual threat, he's even darkened an area deliberately to take advantage of his Spider-Sense a few times) when he's been blinded, when his eyes are closed, when hit with smokescreens. while ''stunned or knocked unconscious...'' Every time he's known about and reacted to threats he couldn't possibly have really known the source of.

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Xavier excusing Emma trying to mentally seduce Scott while she was treating him. As one who believes so strongly in his ethics, he would not have stood for that. He would have thrown her out, regardless of whether anything physical occurred. It's not as though Xavier never misused his power, but he still has standards (but now writers are trying to [[Retcon]] those standards away).

* There was a villain who blamed [[The Flash|Max Mercury]] for the death of his family, gained access to a time machine, and used it to try and destroy Max Mercury. He was temporarily incapacitated with horror when asked why he hadn't used it ''to save his family''.

* [[Superman]] and the Flash are probably the heroes most prone to these, given that one has ridiculously powerful [[Combo-Platter Powers]], and the other has the ability to move at [[Super Speed|several hundred times the speed of light without breaking a sweat]], and drain time and perception of time out of things.

** "What's that you say? Villains including a man who can absorb powers through touch, a woman who can turn into electricity on a whim, and a man powered by Kryptonite, my greatest weakness, are all after me? I'm gonna go punch 'em!"

* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'': Raven makes constant dives for the Idiot Ball. The first time, chronologically, was when she saved [[The Flash|Kid Flash]] from committing suicide via freezing to death in the Himalayas (points for creativity, Wally). She thought the best way to save his life was to make him fall in love with her using magic and then using the same magic to make him forget she did it. He went on with his life thinking she made him fall in love with her to get him on the team, ''not'' to save his life. Smooth move, Raven.

** Not only that, after realizing what a mistake it was to hide Trigon's existence from the Titans, what did Raven do when she sensed Trigon would attack a second time? Confided the information with no one, not even her ''best friend''. Needless to say, that didn't work out.

* One [[Super Mario Bros.]] story in the [[Nintendo Comics System]] involved an actual Idiot Ball, the Stupid Bomb. Anyone caught in its blast radius would be temporarily rendered mind-blowingly stupid (Save King Toadstool, who's already at the bottom of the IQ ladder as it is). By the end of the story, almost everyone (Good, bad) is made an idiot. The antidote for the Stupid Bomb was the Smart Bomb, but they were all used up making one lone Snifit smart enough to dethrone Bowser and take over- luckily, with the rest of Koopa's army dumbed down, he couldn't do anything.

* ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' hinges on "[[Batman|The World's Greatest Detective]]" and countless others {{spoiler|not checking phone records of the deceased}}.

 

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