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* The Dark Knight in ''[[Harry Potter Comics]]'' is a squib and can't use wands or magic on his own. But he's highly practiced as a magical artificer, welding magic into everyday objects, including his own battle armor (kevlar-lined full plate) that makes him highly resistant to bullets, swords, AND magic attacks. |
* The Dark Knight in ''[[Harry Potter Comics]]'' is a squib and can't use wands or magic on his own. But he's highly practiced as a magical artificer, welding magic into everyday objects, including his own battle armor (kevlar-lined full plate) that makes him highly resistant to bullets, swords, AND magic attacks. |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140601203709/http://battlefieldbabysitter.blogspot.com/ Battlefield Babysitter] features Kat, whose parents and brothers all have superpowers. She has... pink hair. She also has experience in ballet, gymnastics and karate from when her parents tried to prepare her for potential powers. She also has the experience of being around other heroes so that she is uniquely qualified to babysit for other heroes superpowered kids. |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140601203709/http://battlefieldbabysitter.blogspot.com/ Battlefield Babysitter] features Kat, whose parents and brothers all have superpowers. She has... pink hair. She also has experience in ballet, gymnastics and karate from when her parents tried to prepare her for potential powers. She also has the experience of being around other heroes so that she is uniquely qualified to babysit for other heroes superpowered kids. |
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* [[Atomic Laundromat]] owner David is actually an aversion. He may be the son of an alien empress and earth's greatest super hero and the only one of his siblings without powers, but he firmly believes that one doesn't need powers to make a difference in the world so he's not the least bit bitter about it. Nor is he |
* [[Atomic Laundromat]] owner David is actually an aversion. He may be the son of an alien empress and earth's greatest super hero and the only one of his siblings without powers, but he firmly believes that one doesn't need powers to make a difference in the world so he's not the least bit bitter about it. Nor is he pa]thetic. If anything, he's frustrated that most people seem to expect him to be bitter or pathetic. |
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had it subverted with Tedd. Who as a son of two wizards ''[[Superpowerful Genetics|had to]]'' be a wizard, but didn't show any magic ability at all in tests with [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2008-11-11 magic analysis wand]. Enough of repeated tests that he retained fear response to its sound in late teens. It turned out that the |
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had it subverted with Tedd. Who as a son of two wizards ''[[Superpowerful Genetics|had to]]'' be a wizard, but didn't show any magic ability at all in tests with [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2008-11-11 magic analysis wand]. Enough of [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-07-20 repeated] [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2012-07-09 tests] that he retained fear response to its sound in late teens. It turned out that the problem was in the wand being too crude. Not only does it fail to tell apart different and non-mixable (at the time) systems of magic (which a guy with [[Aura Vision]] later saw immediately), as senior Verres admits on the next page, but it cannot even discern failure due to resistance. Tedd has extremely high magic resistance from birth, and the sound kept scaring him, so he [https://www.egscomics.com/?id=2374 kept resisting] whatever accompanies it, resulting in a very repeatable false negative. |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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