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** One of the Shadowrun developers used to recount an incident when a fan described how his party had setoff a Briefcase Nuke the moment they met Harlequin, sacrificing themselves to [[Beyond the Impossible|kill the unkillable]]. Their GM had let it work because "there was no way even Harlequin would be walking around with a custom anti-nuke protection spell". The developer responded that he would have ruled that knowing Humanity the way he did & being the kind of guy he was, Harlequin would have dropped everything to create an anti-nuke protection spell about 10 min after the first test in 1945 & would not have let it lapse since then.
*** In 1st edition he wouldn't even have needed a custom spell. Blast Barrier was an absolute effect... if you had it up, explosions of any magnitude wouldn't touch you. This is why they got rid of Barrier spells.
** As of late 4th edition Harlequin has stats, and is officially killable (even if it would still be difficult). This is justified in-setting as him having gone through a grueling event that stripped him of most of his power, bringing him down to (mostly) mortal.
* One ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' book has a section called "Rules for Fighting Caine", the first vampire, specifically for this purpose. It consists of the [[Two Words|two words "You lose."]]
** The third edition of the book made sure to give all vampires of third generation and below at least one Plot Device power to keep the players from just killing them willy nilly.
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