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Not to be confused with only [[Precision F-Strike|allowing one swear word in a work]].

 

* In the ''[[Berserk]]'' universe, a person who's already been branded for sacrifice by the Godhand on behalf of another cannot be made a sacrifice by anyone else. Since most people who get branded do not survive their initial sacrifice, cases of branded survivors are vanishingly rare so this seldom comes up, but during the third major manga arc (the last one before the Golden Age arc), the Count tries this with Guts only to be told by the Godhand that he can't sacrifice him because of what Guts already went through during the Eclipse, and because Guts is an enemy, not someone the Count loves.

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' universe, once your name is written in a Death Note, you can't be affected by any other Death Note. Of course, since you're going to die within the next 23 days ''at most'', it's rather cold comfort (but see the movie, below).

* In ''[[Dragon Pink]]'' a magic sword obtained after defeating a monster had a death curse on it: Santa immediately falls sick and his lifeforce is slowly being drained away, but Pink (who's already cursed) is not affected.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' eating a second [[Cursed with Awesome|Devil's Fruit]] is supposedly fatal. {{spoiler|Stealing powers however is perfectly okay. Though there seems to be something unique about Blackbeard that allows him to do it.}}

 

== Film ==

* In the movie version of ''[[Death Note]]'', {{spoiler|Kira couldn't kill L with his Death Note}}, because he had already "cursed" himself with another one.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''Princeps' Fury'', book five of the ''[[Codex Alera]]'', Amara is able to resist the effects of a Discipline Collar, a [[Slave Collar]] that causes ecstasy in the wearer, by having one put on her by someone else prior to getting captured.

* Inverted in Patricia Wrede's short story "The Sixty-Two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd". {{spoiler|The cure for the unbreakable curse the family is under turns out to be having a different curse put on them, which displaces the first.}}

* In ''[[Alcatraz Series|Alcatraz versus the Scrivener's Bones]]'', Attica Smedry foils a [[Deal with the Devil]] by {{spoiler|realizing that the trick is to not own your soul when you sign it away, and bequeathing ownership of his soul to his son Alcatraz first.}}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* Averted in ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'', where the rules state that curses (or traps) may be played at any time. A player can get a pile of curses at once, but then, driving your opponents to tears is a viable strategy if it makes you win...

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' 1st Edition AD&D. Insane creatures were immune to psionic attack.

 

== Video Games ==

* Warlocks in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' work this way, in that a Warlock can only apply one curse-type spell, such as Curse of Weakness or Curse of Tongues, on a target at a time, with any new curses overriding the previous. In fact, two strong spells that were once curses had to be made into a new type (Banes) so that Warlocks could use them with their other curses. Though it is played with since a target can have multiple curses at a time so long as each curse was placed by a different Warlock.

** A spell specific to the Affliction specialization, Unstable Affliction, has this relationship with its counterpart in the other two specs, Immolate.

 

== Web Original ==

* In the second season of the [[Random Verse]], Joker's attempt to turn all the heroes into brainwashed [[Darker and Edgier]] versions of themselves doesn't work on Spider-man because Mephisto has already altered his mind.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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