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Commonly used to bring a character [[Back From the Dead]].
Giving a character a [[Green Lantern Ring]] avoids this. Compare [[Magic
[[Suddenly Always Knew That]] is the same type of retcon as this, but instead of "Neither did I", the character will explain that [[You Didn't Ask]].
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* The ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' villain "The Quiz" had "every power you haven't thought of". Literally; to fight her, you had to start shouting power names so she couldn't use them.
** Gives you a bit of fridge logic as to why declaring 'the power to have every power I haven't thought of' wouldn't eliminate the power and render her powerless since she can't have any power you've thought of and her root power is told to you.
* Inverted in an arc of ''[[
* While not powers, per se, [[Batman]] seems to always have that one thing in his utility belt that saves the day, despite there never being mention of it before. This was especially true in the [[Silver Age]], on [[Batman (TV series)|the TV Show]] (shark-repellent bat-spray), and on the [[Superfriends]] ("You're a mouse? I'll put you in the bat belt mouse compartment!"). Fans have come to expect him to have all sorts of basic toys there (as well as a chunk of kryptonite in a lead-lined pouch because you can't be too careful), and the better writers either have him specifically preparing for a fight or have him [[MacGyver]] a solution out of things you would expect him to have.
** For the record, he actually ''does'' have a chunk of kryptonite. Superman gave it to Batman so he could use it to stop him if he ever went insane and became a threat.
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Although that's mostly Superman trashtalking to use psychological warfare on Doomsday, since the very things he says weakens Doomsday in no way have ever stopped Superman because being sentient in no way keeps Doomsday from overcoming that fear and fighting on anyway. There's no reason why Doomsday can't be emboldened by his ability to always return from the dead, plenty of other characters get by just fine with far less power than Doomsday has beyond the ability to return from the dead. }}
** Doomsday's power could be summarized as, each time he dies and comes back, his overall strength and power increase AND he's made immediately and instantaneously invulnerable to and has the capacity to kill or destroy whatever it was that killed him.
* ''[[
* In the children's comic ''Korgi,'' the magic korgi spontaneously develops the ability to breathe fire.
** Don't forget Ivy suddenly revealing that she has wings a la [[The Dark Crystal]]. These sudden powers are perhaps more jarring because the main story has no dialog whatsoever, and the only indication that the korgis are magical comes from the introduction - we're never given any hint as to ''how'' this magic manifests.
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* [[The Mighty Thor]] was explicitly intended to be the most powerful superhero in the Marvel Universe, and in the early days this seemed to mean "modeled after the [[Silver Age]] [[Superman]]." He whipped out abilities like time travel and even super-ventriloquism on occasion (making his lame-ass early villains even less challenging) before his powers became more clearly defined (and his villains got much more dangerous).
* A very '90s miniseries called ''The Psycho,'' by James Hudnall and Dan Brereton, is set in a world where people gain superpowers by taking [[Psycho Serum|various drugs.]] At one point the title character develops the ability to breathe water-- or maybe he had it from the start; after all, there's no way of knowing until someone's trapped you in a flooded room...
* The eponymous [[
* The female [[Green Lantern]] Arisia, a one-time fling of Hal Jordan's, was thought to have perished. She was found years later (somewhat randomly) on the planet Biot in a pod. We were then told that Arisia's species can go into a deep state of mental and physical hibernation while only ''appearing'' dead. All this was done so Geoff Johns could put Arisia into the ''Green Lantern Corp'' ongoing. Not the most elegant way of bringing someone back to life.
* Hawk and Dove. Holy crap, Hawk and Dove. Geoff Johns likes them so much that one of them will just have whatever powers they need for the plot to work. Army of unstoppable zombies? Well hey, Dove just happens to have an anti zombie laser inside her. Boyfriend dies? Dove can totally hear ghosts all of the sudden. Dove's in trouble? Hawk just happens to have the ability to sense when Dove's using her powers even though he's never had that power before. Sigh.
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