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** Similarly, in ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'', your hero is the son/daughter of Ortega. When you break into the treasure chamber of your liege's castle, the guard recognizes you and says that he respects your father too much to stop you. He still mildly [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls you out for it]], particularly since the king will actually give you permission to raid the treasury late in the game...
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "Midnight" took on the oft-used idea that the Doctor could show up with no history, no credentials, and a lot of knowledge which he refuses to explain, be detained for two minutes, and then be treated like an authority because there's a crisis going on. In this one story, these traits actually make everyone else ''suspicious'' of the Doctor as would happen in reality.
** Which is only highlighted by the fact that Donna's absent from the episode. With a human to vouch for him, the Doctor's okay, but when this man shows out of nowhere with no ties to anyone and he seems to know ''everything''...
* The [[Retcon|revised]] [[J. Michael Straczynski|JMS]] origin for [[Spider-Man]] which says that a [[A Wizard Did It|"spider-totem"]] made him [[Because Destiny Says So|fated]] to get the power, and explains why Spider-Man has a lot of villains who are themed around animals. Of course, this just calls attention to the fact that lots of ''other'' superheroes also have a gallery of themed villains with no explanation whatsoever.
** [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/origin.htm Another such explanation] was given by writer Mark Gruenwald in ''Quasar''; That all superheroes and villains in the [[Marvel Universe]] are the result of a cosmic being's influence, and that "themed" beings are naturally drawn to each other. This also counts as '''One Shot Revisionism''', as the idea's never been acknowledged by other writers; of course, since this was in Quasar, it's likely no one knows about it.
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* In [[One Piece]], everyone is [[Made of Iron]], except for Kuina, who [[Death by Falling Over|dies when she trips and falls]]. A character comments on her death by remarking that "people are so fragile."
* [[Power Rangers RPM]] did a lot to decrease some of the worn out clichés of the series and even came up with some decent [[Hand Wave|hand waves]] for others. Such as the rangers' morphing call being a voice reading security device. However it does still cause some head scratching when the rangers need to shout '''POWER RANGERS RPM!''' when using the Megazord finisher (and even then, not every time).
* Some campaign missions in ''[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]]'', Harry's friends take a rare luck potion before the Death Eaters show up at Hogwarts. This [[Justified Trope|justifies]] the Death Eaters' [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship]] and it's suggested afterwards that many of Harry's friends would have died had they not taken the potion. However, the Death Eaters having bad aim was played straight in the climax of [[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|the previous book]].
* ''Seven Sorcerers'' by Caro King averts [[Nobody Poops]]... exactly once in the beginning when Nin, fresh from the normal world, asks for a pause to relieve herself. Afterwards, one could think humans in Drift don't have to use toilets. (Magical being get a pass as they are literally based on imagination).
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