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* During ''[[Batman|A Death In The Family]]'', the Joker makes a visit to the Middle East and Africa to wreak havoc and ends up killing Jason Todd. The worst part of the storyline is what happens later; a man with the likeness of Ayatollah Khomeini appoints the Joker as Iran's UN Ambassador, thus granting him Diplomatic Immunity. Granted, it was 1989, and this particular method of painting countries evil has been in use since [[World War II]]; but the idea of ANY world leader in their right mind making the [[Axe Crazy|Jo]][[Monster Clown|ker]] an official diplomat with official diplomatic immunity is, um, insane.

** The idea that any world leader in their right mind would attack the embassy of a country capable of removing their own nation from the map and hold its personnel hostage for over 400 days is also insane, but Khomeini did that shit in real life so apparently he sorta ''was''.

* ''[[Cry for Justice]]'' #7 and its aftermath. ''To expand'', the death of Lian Harper, Roy Harper's young daughter. Killed off for no reason in a particularly brutal example of [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]].

** Somehow, it's getting worse. It seems that they're using Lian's death to [[Character Derailment|derail]] Roy Harper from a stable, well adjusted single father into a [[wangst]]y drug addict who sinks to using Black Canary's infertility as a point to lash out at her <ref>which in fact is a [[Series Continuity Error]] since Dinah's infertility was cured when she took a dip in a Lazarus Pit a few years back when she was dating Ra's Al Ghul, which just shows how poorly the series was researched</ref> calling Donna Troy a whore and blaming her for ''her'' family's death, and blaming Mia for Lian's death. It sends several decades' worth of [[Character Development]] down the drain to make some half-assed Punisher clone out of Roy.

*** This could be [[Handwaved]] by saying that the depowering was just God (the story is ''called'' "Act of God") arbitrarily choosing people to render mortal, what with him being God and all. This is [[Voodoo Shark|even stupider.]]

*** [[Wonder Woman]] herself suggests this and '''becomes a Christian and begins praying in church'''. Wonder Woman is from an ancient society of Greek Amazons who worship the Greek Pantheon, who Wonder Woman got her powers from; and she has '''met her own Gods'''! She's practically a demi-God herself. Did getting [[Hijacked by Jesus]] become ''so literal'' in that story that the Greek Gods don't exist anymore—wait, maybe it is, what with magical beings disappearing, but we are getting into thorny ontological territory here. It's as if Marvel's Thor became Jewish.

*** The story involves ''every single'' super-powered being losing their powers. [[Big "What?"|WHAT?!]] HOW is that possible?! This isn't [[Marvel Comics]], and they aren't mutants - they got their powers from different sources, for different reasons. At least some of them should have kept their powers!

*** And as [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] rightly pointed out, alien heroes like Superman or the Martian Manhunter shouldn't have been de-powered at all because ''they don't have superpowers in the first place''. Their "powers" are the natural abilities of their respective species. Being a [[Flying Brick]] with laser-vision and a shape-shifting telepath is ''normal'' for them. It's like if the moon had an atmosphere, was habitable, the population consisted of weakling deaf people, and a human arrived on it. The human would be six times as strong as the weakling deaf people and could hear. Then this Act Of God happened, and all of a sudden the human is now deaf and is 1/6th as strong as he used to be.

** Oh, Wallbangery in Star Wars gets better with the "The Clone Wars" Volume comics. The FIRST issue already had gaping plotholes. The Banking-Clan was found building seperatist battle cruisers in their shipyards, so the Jedi proposed to destroy it. All fine and good, but Palpatine gives the explanation that the Banking-Clan is neutral in the war and an attack on their ships would make them side with the Confederacy. This would be the Banking Clan whose chairman San Hill verbally signed on with Dooku in "Attack of the Clones" while Obi-Wan was watching. That makes them about as neutral as the Trade Federation.

*** It seems that in ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' cartoon series, the Trade Federation was still part of the Republic and disavowed Nute Gunray while one of the Holonet News broadcasts seemed to have a neutral/Republic supporting Techno Union guy. It may be that the Commerce Guilds had internal divisions with regard to the war (or more likely, maintain a veneer of plausible deniability to play both sides against the middle and exploit the situation for maximum profitability).

* S storyline in ''[[Peanuts]]'' where Charlie Brown goes up to bat, but loses the game because he got distracted by the fact that the Red-Haired Girl is watching him. What cheesed me off was the fact that, on the third pitch, Charlie was clearly looking the other way when the pitcher threw the ball. In other words, the pitcher deliberately threw the ball when Charlie had his back turned. And that somehow counts as strike three?! If you ask me, it provides proof of my theory that the reason Charlie Brown's team keeps losing is that the other teams are cheaters.

** For extra concussion, see the [[Wall Banger/Western Animation|Wall Banger section on Western Animation]]. The Peanuts animated 'toons cranked it up to eleven.