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** Linkara's review of the Superman Grounded storyline took a further look at how the story applies to this trope and story's general stupidity. At the beginning of Grounded, one woman publicly criticizes Superman for not saving her husband from a brain tumor while Superman was saving Earth. Linkara points out that not only was Superman busy with saving millions of lives, but that there is no indication that Superman's heat/x-ray vision can treat cancer nor does Supes have the necessary medical training. http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2012/04/superman-701.html

** Superman's creators wrote a story for ''Look'' magazine detailing [http://supermanthrutheages.com/look/?page=2 how Superman would have cleared up World War II in a matter of minutes]. Naturally, nothing of the sort ever happened in the actual comic books. It couldn't. Nothing else in history would have been unaffected and the worlds would have had to diverge until the one in the comic book no longer resembled reality at all.

** This is also intentionally invoked in ''[[Superman Red Son|Red Son]]'', where Superman changes the entire world in a few short decades. He even acknowledges that he could change the world in a day if he beat it into submission.

** This is also intentionally invoked in ''[[Superman: Red Son|Red Son]]'', where Superman changes the entire world in a few short decades. He even acknowledges that he could change the world in a day if he beat it into submission.

* In a 1982 issue of ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', [[The Phantom Stranger]] makes opposing sides' ammo wet and unusable. The solution? Bludgeon each other with the guns, of course.

* It has been suggested that the reason that [[Batman]]'s villains keep [[Cardboard Prison|escaping from Arkham]] and [[Joker Immunity|why nobody has killed them]] is that there is some supernatural curse protecting them. No explanation has been given as to why DC's sorcerer heroes have not taken care of this curse (or even try).

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== Web Original ==

* Justified in ''[[Fine Structure]]'', which makes this a plot point. Scientists would like to use The Script for teleportation and other discoveries, but they'll only work until the ''the fundamental laws of the universe'' are changed by Something so it can never be used again.

* The ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' could have changed the world with the SCPs...[[Justified Trope|if they weren't so dangerous]] and most of those that aren't are mostly used to help containing other SCPs. And the Serpent's Hand still consider the Foundation enemies, because they do not want to improve the world with [~~[[SC Ps]]~~=].

* The ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' could have changed the world with the SCPs...[[Justified Trope|if they weren't so dangerous]] and most of those that aren't are mostly used to help containing other SCPs. And the Serpent's Hand still consider the Foundation enemies, because they do not want to improve the world with [SCPs=].

* ''[[Superdickery]].com'' presents [http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=846:superman-joins-the-army the most inefficient use] of ''[[Superman]]''. "Again, couldn't he pretty much instantly win the war if he wanted to?"

* [[Chuck Norris Facts|Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer]]. Too bad [[Reed Richards Is Useless|Chuck Norris has never cried]]. [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|Selfish bastard]].