Mundane Utility: Difference between revisions

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[[Martial Arts and Crafts]] is a subset of this trope, for when martial arts abilities are used for reasons other than fighting. Also an opposite of sorts to [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]], [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]], [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] and [[Useless Superpowers]]. If this is applied to killing someone (such as, say, a gigantic nuke against a feeble human), it may become [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]].

[[Couldn't Find a Lighter]] and [[Reinventing the Telephone]] is one of common variations. For an adult variation, see [[Power Perversion Potential]]. For a sister trope which takes this [[Up to Eleven]], see [[Boxing Lessons for Superman]]. When done with wishes and boons, this might be a [[Mundane Wish]]. Diametric opposite to [[Just Think of the Potential]].

[[Couldn't Find a Lighter]] and [[Reinventing the Telephone]] is one of common variations. Occasionally, an [[Improvised Umbrella]]. For an adult variation, see [[Power Perversion Potential]]. For a sister trope which takes this [[Up to Eleven]], see [[Boxing Lessons for Superman]]. When done with wishes and boons, this might be a [[Mundane Wish]]. Diametric opposite to [[Just Think of the Potential]].

Also compare [[Utility Magic]], for when the primary purpose of something which is awesome (magic, in this case) is something mundane.

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** Maxim 44 postulates that "If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool". That one came handy when [[Mad Bomber|Pi]] first [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-11 shot] a DIY 5-megaton warhead from portable launcher and ''then'' started looking for [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-18 cover].

** Post-Trans-Uranium alloys are used almost exclusively to make annihilation plants, due to being so energy-expensive to produce that availability of this stuff is one of the main factors defining exact place of a space civilisation on [[Kardashev Scale]]. The ancient Oafans used this material for spaceship hulls - not only ''warship'' hulls, but all of them, down to small boats.

*** Chinook ~~proposed~~ to ~~use one of~~ Oafan super-~~freighters 8 km in diameter that can split into two hemispheres ''and'' are [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-03-31 absurdly expensive] just for construction material alone~~ as~~... [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-02-22~~ "a pair of mountain-sized, armored umbrellas"].

*** Chinook used an ancient Oafan super-freighter as "a pair of mountain-sized, armored [[Improvised Umbrella|umbrellas]]".

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''/''[[Magick Chicks]]'' has magic and other powers used in many and frivolous ways. Jacqui, for one, uses her skill with glamour as instant cosmetics. Melissa once convinced her coven to summon their goddess because her lip gloss was the wrong color - we [[Noodle Incident|didn't get to see that one]], but it earned her a condescending remark from Hekate the next time.

* ''[[League of Super Redundant Heroes]]'': The government [http://superredundant.com/?comic=948-civic-duty#comment-450205 recruits a heroine named Gale] (an obvious expy of [[Storm]]) to reverse climate change.