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** '''You'd Expect''': That he'd just use his new power-amplifying weapon if he was that worried. Or if he didn't want to drain his light powers, he has a blaster that could do it for him.
** '''Instead''': He uses his new shadow power ''without the amplifier'', winning the fight but freaking his friends out and making them think he might be one of the evil shadow-slinging [[Shape Shifter|shapeshifters]] flying around.
* Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets and their home arena, the Pepsi Center, is faced with the genuine possibility that his team might make the NBA playoffs. Problem is, he'd already scheduled a ''[[WWE]] Monday Night Raw'' broadcast during playoff week when, should the team actually make the playoffs, there's a 50/50 chance they'd be playing a home game.
** '''You'd Think''': That Kroenke would alert WWE to the possible conflict months in advance, and allow them the possibility that they may need to find another venue for that date.
** '''Instead''': He waits until the Nuggets make the playoffs ''and'' the playoff schedule was officially announced (which deemed the Monday night game a home game), thus giving WWE all of six days to move their event somewhere else. And offered them a much, ''much'' smaller venue to run their broadcast from. And did all this to Vince McMahon, widely acknowledged as the world's richest carny. The whole thing spun into a vicious firestorm of negative publicity for Kroenke, the Nuggets, and the NBA, which Vince was only too happy to stoke, making the rounds of various sports shows to talk about how little confidence Kroenke had in his team. The Nuggets' playoff rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers, got in on the Nugget-bashing by giving WWE ''their'' arena, the Staples Center, to do the broadcast. All in all, the whole fiasco meant tons of lost revenue for Denver and a whole lot of egg on Kroenke's face.
* The titular monarch in the song "There Lived a King" from ''The Gondoliers'', who was grieved that not everyone was as well-off as he.
** '''You'd Expect''': He call together the best minds on economics and try to work out a policy that prospered as much of the population as possible, and revisit it from time to time.
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