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== Literature ==
* [[Averted]] in the ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' series. What kind of lame power is "thread-magic?" While it's not quite as spectacular as, say, Tris' [[Shock and Awe|lightning magic]], Sandry still uses it to tear several villains apart, {{spoiler|escape a kidnapping}}, and [[Boring but Practical|make really durable clothes]].
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' reveals that Harry's special power is [[The Power of Love|his capacity to love]]. Dumbledore's explanations aside, Harry's immediate reaction -- "So what?"—seems a bit on-the-mark. Taking into account Dumbledore's explanations, though, it's the most [[Badass]] power of love ever. Just to drive this home, in ''Order of the Phoenix'', the essence of love can melt metal on contact. Further, just being capable of love can banish Lord Voldemort from you if he possesses your body. As well, when Voldemort, in book 4, uses blood from Harry to resurrect himself, he becomes more powerful due to stealing Harry's mother's protection... but in book 7, we learn this {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|protects Harry from Voldemort's killing curse, which gets the bit of Voldemort's soul in Harry's body instead. Harry's self-sacrifice in this instance also protected the inhabitants of Hogwarts from Voldemort]].}}
* Some of the magical talents in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Xanth]]'' are so widely useful and powerful that their possessors are known as Magicians and eligible to rule the magical land. And on the other hand are those with the power to make a small colored spot appear on the wall, play a magic flute, or make people in the vicinity age slightly faster. Much is made in the series out of finding real uses for even the feeblest talents, and a lot of crappy powers turn out to be surprisingly powerful, at least when facing [[Plot Tailored to the Party|the right plots]]. The spot-on-the-wall talent, for instance, can be used multiple times in order to make pictures, often quite convincing ones.
* Tim Burton's ''Oyster Boy and Other Stories'' features a whole array of kid heroes with this trope, one being Stain Boy whose only power is to make nasty stains.
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