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* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Debt of Honor]]'' features a light so bright it causes paralysis. Not mere incapacitation from blindness, but sensory overload so complete the subjects are entirely overwhelmed.
* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]] and the Time Paradox'', Holly incapacitates a villain by healing his sense of smell (which he'd been born without due to a congenital defect) - in the middle of a Tunesian tannery, which smells horrible even at the BEST of times. Since he'd never smelled anything before, the stench caused a complete sensory overload, knocking him out and inflicting some serious mental trauma in the process.
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' has [[Mundane Utility]] for this. The cuisine of Kuman Khalifate is all sweet—they put honey even in soups and the [[The Nose Knows|Master Scenter]] swears Kuman people themselves smell of honey from such a diet. And they have a dish named "The Summit of Sweetness". It's so sweet that it's not perceived as such, since the eater's taste buds are effectively "blinded" to sweet taste—at least until it's washed away. Speaking of Master Scenter, after it became common knowledge that Secret Investigations got a guy who can track by smell, he met more nose-disabling substances in a few years than he knew about in all his previous life.
* Jedi in [[Timothy Zahn]]'s [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novels can choose to make any or every sense keener the better to hear near-inaudible noises, see in the dark, identify chemicals by scent, etc. Virtually every time they do so, though, they're half-deafened by someone murmuring quietly to them, a dim light, etc. and have to rapidly ramp their senses back down to normal.
* In ''[[Tales of Kolmar]]'', Marik of Gundar dons an [[Invisibility Cloak]] which also lets him see in the dark. However this also makes any source of light piercing and painful; he likens the full moon to being stabbed in the eye, and is in agony when he suddenly comes upon a lit torch.
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