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** To clarify, its used by his [[Bastard Understudy]] Kabuto for the puroposes of global war. Oro was crippled following that fight took several hundred chapters / episodes to recover, so he never really had the ''chance'' to use it again. It could also be a question of their different fighting styles- Oro used it mainly for psychological warfare, and he is ''more'' than willing and able to take on some of the toughest characters in the series man to man-, or that Oro is more [[Genre Savvy]] since most of these zombies are beaten by teamwork relatively easily (Oro used used them to overwhelm a single powerful opponent) and Kabuto is implied to overestimate how effective the jutsu actually is, especially since many of the zombies actually [[Explaining Your Power to the Enemy|tell their opponents how to beat them]] because they just don't like being controlled, or don't want to hurt their old teammates.
* While played straight for the most part in ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', one episode Big Cheese decided to build a giant killer robot that was an amalgam of every single one of the giant killer robots they used before. Not only did it look even more ridiculous than usual, but it was destroyed rather unceremoniously when Lucille panicked and unloaded her missile hairdo on it.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'':
* Inverted and downplayed in Battle City arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. In his the duel against Mai, Marik tries to set up the same combo (Jam Defender plus Jam Breeding Machine) he used against Yami through Strings, likely to summon Ra. Doesn't work this time; Mai is able to tear the lock down with ease.▼
** In the Death-T arc of the manga, Mokuba a good example of why it is ''not'' a good idea to recycle your schemes. He tries to defeat Yugi in Capsule Monsters with the same underhanded trick that didn't work the ''first'' time and only fails ''worse''.
▲** Inverted and downplayed in Battle City arc,
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