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*** No love for Captain Black? He gets bonus points for being the show's resident skeptic.
* In the world of ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power|She Ra Princess of Power]]'', almost every female character is either a super powerful [[Action Girl]] or [[Magical Girl]], and even the [[Dude in Distress]] [[The Archer|Archer]] male was a [[Master of Illusion|pretty good illusionist]]. Even then, the sniper Netossa and the space pirate Sea Hawk manage to hold their own when they're in battle despite their lack of magic powers.
* Jake's Dad in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' is this. Jake is a dragon, Rose is a born dragon hunter [[Action Girl]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|Spud]] [[Book Dumb|is the embodiment]] of a [[Genius Ditz]], and Trixie just has street smarts. Jake's Dad is a Cougar Scout, has extreme parent insticts, and that's it. However, he unknowingly defeated the Jersey Devil with a trombone and a can of bear spray. He also held his own against [[Badass]] dragon blood drinking vampires for over four minutes with his bare hands in the episode, "Bite Father, Bite Son". During the final episode, he used a vase to kill an army of demons. Pretty good, considering he did it without knowing his son was a dragon (except the last one of course and even then he had just learned). All the above had powers, he didn't.
** Arguably, the Huntsclan considered themselves normals.
* Elisa Maza in ''[[Gargoyles]]''. She can't fly, break rocks with her fingers, zap things, or even have access to high technology like practically everybody else, but all she needs is her handgun, a running start, and an attitude to help take down characters with far more advantages than she has. Sure, she loses quite often, but then so does pretty much everybody.
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** In the final episode, we find out that Norm Abram, host of The New Yankee Workshop, is also this, holding his own against Freakazoid's [[Rogues Gallery]]. [[Fan Boy|Not that Freakazoid minded.]]
* Lt. Dwayne Hunter in ''[[Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'' proves his military skills in Double-Time part one, rigging up a pair of [[Arm Cannon|Arm Cannons]] powered by an [[Iron Man]] style chest piece in an abandoned mechanics shop to take out four Seek and Destroy scouts from Legion Ex Machina after the Big Guy suit has been heavily damaged.
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' brings us self proclaimed boy genius Jack Spicer, who is generally too incompetent to be holding a lot of the show's [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]], too lazy to learn physics bending Xiaolin arts or Heylin sorcery, and about as fit as you'd expect from someone who travels exclusively by helicopter backpack. {{spoiler|Now -WHO- actually ends up taking over the world in the alternate future?}}.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]''. Especially during ''So The Drama'' and any time she fights someone with superpowers, such as her frequent run-ins with Shego, her generally mopping the floor with Team Go in ''Stop Team Go'', and even going toe to toe with an [[Eldritch Abomination]] for a few seconds before he kicked his [[Taken for Granite|magic]] in on her.
* Megan from the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' is just a normal preteen girl, surrounded by magical talking Ponies and other fantasy creatures. She's surprisingly resilient, especially in the Pilot where she fights a giant dragon with her bare-hands. Earth Ponies also typically count.
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* Applejack from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', despite not having any overt magical or reality-bending talents, can keep up with the rest of the Mane 6 and often surpasses them with her physical prowess, ropesmanship, and herding skills that she gained through pure hard work and practice. Though it's hard to determine what a talking magical horse is considered normal relative to a human being, especially when some of the things she does seems to put her into [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] territory.
* ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' faces off against powerful evil wizards [[Once an Episode]].
* Definitely Lucas Amato from [[Cybersix]] counts. He saves the life of the titular heroine almost as many times as she saves his, despite having no super powers to speak of.
** Also Yashimoto, Meridiana's most renowned detective from the episode "Yashimoto, Private Eye," who effortlessly figures out Cybersix's secret identity after being blackmailed into doing so.
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