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* [[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!"
* Comics blog Polite Dissent refers to this phenomenon as [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207091859/http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1116 ONISGS ("Oh No, I Suddenly Got Stupid!")]
* ''[[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.
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* 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}}.
* In ''X-Men vs. Avengers'' (the first one), the Supreme Soviets get an ''epic'' idiot ball moment. If your available assets were a mildly-enhanced super-soldier wielding metal melee weapons (Vanguard), two guys in metal power-armor (the Crimson Dynamo and the Gremlin), and one guy who turns into a bear (Ursa Major), would... okay, by now you've noticed the recurring use of the word "metal" and remembered what trope page you're on and deduced they made a run at [[Magneto]]. You're right, they did. And it went exactly how you'd expect.
** But they were still tactical geniuses compared to the Stereotypical Evil Government Agents in a later issue of that limited series. 'All right, we're half a dozen normal humans with submachine guns and we just booted a door and found the room full of mutant women and children! Quick! Machine-gun the entire crowd before any of them can use their freak powers on us!' 'What about that old guy in the corner with the purple bucket on his head?' 'Eh, he's probably nobody'. Really. Fortunately for them, this was one of Erik's "face turn" months so they actually survived. Barely.
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