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Examples of [[Idiot Ball]] in [[Comic Book|Comic Books]].
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* The "[[One More Day]]" storyline in ''[[Spider-Man]]'' sees Peter Parker doing the [[Atlas Pose|Atlas gig]] with an Idiot Ball of truly gargantuan proportions. Making a [[Deal
** Parker supposedly went to those contacts, but it was shown that all of those people couldn't help him. That means guys who could take a left arm, brain, and half a heart and ''[[From a Single Cell|rebuild a person from those pieces]]'' couldn't heal a gunshot wound. [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]], a man without any real medical knowledge, managed to build a super pacemaker [[Memetic Mutation|IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]], but there was no one who could take care of a simple gunshot wound. This wasn't an idiot ball, this was a galactic-scale [[Idiot Plot]].
*** It was stated (exactly once, probably in an attempt at an [[Author's Saving Throw]]) that by the time Peter started making the rounds looking for help, May was already brain dead. There was, for all intents and purposes, no one left to save. Still doesn't explain why none of Spidey's allies stepped up to offer assistance when word got out.
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* ''[[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''.
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** "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 [http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1116 ONISGS ("Oh No, I Suddenly Got Stupid!")]
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** Brash thinking is exactly what brought Thor on Earth first time: cultivating humanity cured him of his massive ego (the "Reigning" Thor, devoid of his human side, reverted quickly to a massive jerk, hinted to be no more worthy of Mjollnir until [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]), but still may not be enough to turn Thor into a leader. Odin is a leader, Thor is a warrior. The two things rarely come into the same being.
** Lampshaded during ''[[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Fear Itself]]'': {{spoiler|Odin himself chides Thor's heroic optimism in thinking he could save Earth and Asgard by simply charging at the Serpent and punching him really hard, but admires his selflessness and bravery, deciding to keep putting Asgard first anyways, but letting Thor know how proud he is}}.
* 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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