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A form of [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]. Compare [[Coconut Superpowers]]. For [[Stock Super Powers|superpowers]] that are actually useless in and of themeselves see [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]] or [[Blessed With Suck]]. When the depowerment happens just when it would've been necessary, then it's [[Plot Driven Breakdown]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Keine's superpower is theoretically unstoppable - she can consume history, and rewrite it at her whim, theoretically making her capable of consuming a person's ever being born. In-game, it seems she can't even make characters forget that the human village existed, much to her chagrin, and, due to its lack of flashiness, is generally ignored in fanon, for her much more visceral, but far less dignified head-butting of opponents.
** Rumia is given a far more humiliating reason for her power's uselessness - her "darkness" superpower was meant to sound scary, but is actually completely useless, because it's also her own [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - using her power blinds her, and she is canonically recorded to fly into trees whenever she uses it.
** Yuyuko Saigyouji has the power to kill humans. Of course, she is trapped in the underworld, where everyone is already dead. When she does encounter the living, they are [[One
*** There's more to it than just that. Anything that enters the Netherworld is counted as dead for the duration of their stay, hence Yuyuko's own home is a [[Restraining Bolt]] on her power.
*** Also, Yuyuko actually doesn't like her power very much (the reason she's a ghost in the first place is that she committed suicide due to the fear of her own power), so she uses it very sparingly.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used constantly on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''. This series mostly avoids the problems ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'' had, however, by [[Magic
** Then again, half the time they simply give Timmy the [[Idiot Ball]], and in many episodes he probably could've found a way around a restriction if he really thought it out.
*** In this specific example, the [[Idiot Ball]] is named Cosmo.
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