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{{quote|"The issue in an ongoing series is once you've done it [used [[Time Travel]]] and it wasn't a fluke, it's like you've shown that one of your characters got [[Superman]] powers. And then in the next episode when a building is about to fall over on someone, Superman's running around in circles saying "Oh no what do we do? Frig frig frig" and the audience is sitting there, furrowing their brows, one hand on their chin."|''the [[Alt Text]] for [[Dinosaur Comics]], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1307 9/18/08]''}}
A situation, most common in [[Speculative Fiction]], where an amazingly useful power or device is revealed in one episode, and would be amazingly useful in later episodes, if it weren't for the fact that nobody seems to remember it. Sometimes the power or device is remembered under circumstances where it proves mostly useless, but not remembered when it would do any good.
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