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** And then there's Martin, who is basically the Hulk, who uses his ability to...advertise his chain of super-markets. {{spoiler|Oh, and do work for the mafia}}.
** But easily topping them both: Using a [[Time Travel|Time Portal]]... for [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p36/ garbage disposal.] And a septic tank, somehow.
* Heroically averted in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. If someone didn't think of a good use… someone else will.
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** The Wormgates themselves can be considered an evil aversion of this trope as well: after all as long as people are seen going in one place and coming out the other, there's nothing to worry about what goes on in between...[[Cloning Blues|right?]]
*** Or,
{{quote|'''Narrator''': Every non-compromised mini-gate in the system begins {{spoiler|[[Macross Missile Massacre|spouting dangerous, semi-sentient military hardware]]}}.
'''Narrator''': It should surprise no-one that the F'sherl-ganni use their gate-copy technology for mass-production of manufactured items. Oddly enough, [[Mass "Oh Crap"|it surprises almost everyone]]...}}
** And even before the introduction of the Teraport there was the ubiquitous gravitic technology; if you have gravity manipulation<ref>not creation, just manipulating the gravity generated by a sphere of Neutronium</ref> on your ship then you already have forcefields, tractor-beams and a reactionless drive as well.
*** ...not to mention the ability to rip other ships apart with a careful application of gravitics.
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