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* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', [[Person of Mass Destruction|Saffron]], [[The Phoenix]] King, is given unbelievable [[Playing with Fire|fire- and light-emitting powers]] because he's supposed to function as his subjects' "power plant," providing them with heat and light so they can carry on with their everyday lives (while he perches quietly on his throne.) Unfortunately, the latest incarnation is quite the [[Spoiled Brat]], and interrupting his maturation process resulted in a psychotic personality with zero control over his powers and is all too happy to use them destructively.

** Possibly lampshaded, in that Ranma points out, after hearing about this, that the Phoenix People could just get ordinary heating and lighting installed, what with their considerable wealth and bevy of [[More Than Mind Control|magical eggs that reduce people to mindlessly obedient slaves]]. Then again, he could have simply been venting, due to believing that his chance at a cure was being threatened with destruction over something so mundane.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Zoro vigorously complains about using his swords to drop a heated rock into a soup pot. Robin uses her extra limbs to read more easily and carry pieces of Island Cloud out while digging a hole in Skypiea, Luffy's rubber powers allow him to [[Big Eater|eat more]] by stretching his stomach, [[Playing with Fire|Ace]] lights Sanji's cigarette, Magellan's favorite food is poison, and Wapol's cover story shows he made a living by using his [[Extreme Omnivore|powers]] to turn trash into toys and selling them, becoming a millionaire in the process.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Zoro vigorously complains about using his swords to drop a heated rock into a soup pot. Robin uses her extra limbs to read more easily and carry pieces of Island Cloud out while digging a hole in Skypiea, Luffy's rubber powers allow him to [[Big Eater|eat more]] by stretching his stomach, [[Playing with Fire|Ace]] lights Sanji's cigarette, Magellan's favorite food is poison<ref>Although in his case, eating it also makes him a lot stronger and tougher, a side effect of his powers.<ref>, and Wapol's cover story shows he made a living by using his [[Extreme Omnivore|powers]] to turn trash into toys and selling them, becoming a millionaire in the process.

* In ''[[Zone of the Enders]]: Dolores, i'', Dolores and James spend time [[Locked in a Freezer|Locked in a Base in a Snowstorm]] with an enemy pilot they shot down. Honest to a fault, they decide to pay for the power and resources used during their time there with a necklace worn by the pilot. Dolores decides she should get a job to pay the pilot back for the pendant. Incidentally, Dolores is a [[Humongous Mecha]]. She's a sweetie.

* The fourth part of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' includes a couple of Stands that are primarily utility: Pearl Jam (allows the body to undo its maladies with ingested food ''much'' more rapidly than normal; not a birth or Arrow Stand, but just awakened by Tonio's culinary zeal), and Cinderella (alters someone's features in a sort of psychic cosmetic surgery, and amplifies that someone's luck in the process).