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* The fairy tale ''The Seven Simons'' is about seven brothers named Simon, each of whom has one skill at which he excels?building an unbelievably fast ship, for example, or retrieving a piece of game no matter where it fell. Very specialized brothers, they are, and each skill just ''happens'' to be essential to winning the hand of a princess.
* ''The Seven Chinese Brothers'' tells about seven brothers who are all identical, and each of whom has a powerful ability (hearing, strength, [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|weeping]]) or immunity (to fire, to cold, etc.) All of these powers allow them to evade execution and live happily ever after.
* [[The Brothers Grimm (Creatorcreator)|The Brothers Grimm]] tale ''The Six Men Who Went Far in the World'', where an unemployed soldier teams up with a [[Super Strength|strong man]], a [[The Gunslinger|keen-eyed sharpshooter]], [[Super Speed|a super-fast runner]], a man who can [[Blow You Away|blow gale-force winds]] out his nose, and a man who can [[An Ice Person|generate a field of cold]] by straightening his hat to con a king out of a warehouse full of treasure.
* Subverted in an Ethiopian folk tale: three suitors of a princess were sent afar to study some special abilities: the first one learned how to tell what was going on far away, the second one learned how to travel really fast, and the third one learned how to resurrect people from the dead. After they finished their studies, the first found out the princess had just died, the second took them all quickly to the princess, and the third one brought her back to life. This lead to a heated argument between the three men regarding which one of them deserves her for having saved her life, and so she is still a virgin to this very day.
 
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== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Winx Club]]'' ep "Truth or Dare" had the Winx Eigen-ing up a simulacrum out of their fundamental powers.
* [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] of the ''[[Superfriends]]'' gave rise to [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|an infinite number of such plots]]. [[Superman]] is a member of the ''[[Superfriends]]'', and arguably pretty much every plot which involves him is kind of an inverse [[Eigen Plot]], as they have to use Kryptonite or otherwise disable him somehow to give everyone else something to do.
* [[Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Control Freak, a teenage TV addict super villain comes up with a [[Plot Tailored to the Party]] featuring a trial for all of the Teen Titans. He is upset to find that they're out of town and a secondary team is in their place. As the challenges were tailored to the exact limits of the main cast, the secondary team easily manages them. He has a temper tantrum and then returns with specific challenges for the substitutes.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' gives Ron's father, an actuary, a chance to demonstrate his heroism by coming up with a math-themed villain specifically for him to have a [[Let's Get Dangerous]] moment against. Being ''Kim Possible'', the implausibility of this is obviously [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded.]]
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