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* As ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/09/19 strip] on ''[[Fracture]]'' pointed out: when you start to think about how the terrain deformation might work and other applications for its principles, it becomes even sillier.
** They also came up with another use for the ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' gun.
* All the technology Tony invents in ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' is used by Greg for disturbingly mundane purposes. [
* Mad inventor Riff (well, he's more of a [[The Stoic|"Meh"]] inventor) in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has ended up playing this trope for laughs by using such things as his dimensional portal for cheap magic tricks, and generally using his prodigious intellect on ray guns and toaster cannons. Is it any wonder his [[Catch Phrase]] is "Let me check my notes"?
** In [[Alternate Reality|4U City]] Alt-Riff's nanomachines fairly avert this trope allowing the citizens nearly magical abilities in healing and allowing the near instantaeous conversion of matter such as converting tranquilizer darts into live fire ammutition.
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