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M*A*S*H pothole
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Character A is given a supposed magic [[MacGuffin]] that will give them special/exceptional abilities. The character does amazingly well, but then they lose the item. They go back to their [[Mentors]] and it's revealed that it was just a useless placebo, and "[[It Was with You All Along|The magic was inside you all along!]]" Sometimes the audience knows, or at least suspects, that the character's power is from within, but other times [[The Reveal]] is just as much a surprise to them as to the hero.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Unsurprisingly for the series, ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' has an example in "Samurai".
* On ''[[
** More seriously, when the camp runs out of morphine, they pass the pills off as painkillers via psychology, telling the current batch of wounded soldiers they can only have one each of these "super-powerful" new wonder drugs. The scene is subverted on a somber note as the doctors discuss the results, noting that it didn't work for everyone.
* Played relatively straight in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', with Hiro, who believes he needs a particular sword to recover his abilities. Of course, it turns out (and the viewing public finds out long before Hiro does) he never lost his abilities in the first place.
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