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** As well the Goa'uld hand devices, healing and ribbon, only usable by someone who has or has had a Goa'uld symbiote.
** Also, a lot of technology is created so that the Goa'uld ''can't'' use it. Whether or not they're problematic for Jaffa such as Teal'c or ex-hosts such as Carter varies.
* Occurs in ''[[
* Stairs were impossible for [[Doctor Who
== [[Literature]] ==
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** In Bradley's ''The Heritage of Hastur'', the Sword of Hastur is protected by two force fields. Only a telepath (there are many on [[Darkover]], where the story takes place) can pass through the first one, but only a ''non''telepath can pass through the second one.
** Noted in ''The Forbidden Tower'': Terrans, who are usually right-handed, often have trouble using implements designed by/for Darkovans, who are usually left-handed. (Note related entry in "Real Life" section.)
* In one ''[[
** Ax actually says something like, "I now believe this ship was meant to be piloted by a Taxxon with twice the usual number of appendages." [[Alternative Character Interpretation|This may just be his way of complaining about having to pilot a ship meant to be piloted by a normal Taxxon.]]
* In the [[Liaden Universe]], Val Con, a guy who's around 5'5, tries to operate a spaceship designed for a larger species of human. He gets seriously injured from this.
* One of the characters in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s [[Worldwar
* The ''[[My Teacher Is an Alien]]'' series involves thousands of alien species living peacefully on one massive space station. This leads to some rather complex
* Similar to the situation in ''The Colors of Space'', the Tyr in C S Friedman's ''The Madness Season'' claim that FTL travel can only be performed by them because the method that they use causes a state of absolute terror for any other living thing in hyperspace. {{spoiler|It is later uncovered that there is more than one method of FTL travel, but the Tyr suppressed those in order to maintain control of the galaxy.}}
* In Anne Mason's ''The Stolen Law'', Vallusians have six fingers on each hand. This leaves our human protagonist unable to work the gun they want her to train with; more seriously, when an important piece of technology is sabotaged, it reveals the existence of a Vallusian traitor, as none of the other known races would have been capable of manipulating the necessary controls.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Terror from the Stars''. The Mi-Go have a [[Lightning Gun]] which they fire by grasping it and altering its electrical resistance. Humans who want to fire it have to clip one of its wires.
* ''The Mechanoids'' from Palladium Books features telekinetic aliens. Their devices usually have the activation switches on the inside of the casing for a cleaner look. Human intruders who want to, say, use the elevator have to saw a hole and flip the switch manually.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Halo
* The [[Fallout: New Vegas|Pimp Boy 3 Billion]] isn't designed to be used by [[Double Standard|female Couriers]], and will always be held at an awkward angle. [[Sarcasm Mode|Way to go, Bethesda]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** On the flipside, an attempt to hang Belkar fails because he doesn't weigh enough to pull the noose taut enough to snap his neck.
* A painless execution method, invented by a shapeshifting race in ''[[Starslip]]'', requires 21 appendages, so humans can't use it. Female humans, anyway.
* [[Subnormality
* ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* CAPTCHAs, those things where you have to prove that you're a human and not a bot by entering the text from an image, have quite a difficult time distinguishing between bots and blind
* A remarkable number of tools assume (often with dangerous consequences) that the user is right-handed.
** This includes nearly all bullpup firearms (magazine well behind the trigger), as attempting to fire them left-handed will fling red-hot cartridge cases into the user's face or down their collar. Many newer bullpup weapons can be adjusted for left-handed firing in the field, but heaven help you if you then pick up the wrong rifle by mistake, or a right-handed soldier picks up yours.
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