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[[File:VampireSunscreen_8446.jpg|link=Vampires Suck
[[Weaksauce Weakness|Weaksauce Weaknesses]] are great to exploit, but [[Captain Obvious|suck to have]]. However, clever and enterprising creatures of the night, aliens, mutants, robots or what-have-you's can create a limited resistance or immunity by counteracting its effects. [[Kill It
Usually this resistance is [[Power At a Price|limited in some way]], it may be bulky or conspicuous, [[It Only Works Once|only works once]], or rubs off over time. It's also possible for an enemy to somehow nullify the resistance with a counter... [[Crazy Prepared|unless they have a counter to that counter]].
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* The vampires in ''[[Daybreakers]]'' have built a civilization around this with sun-proof cars, sub-walks, and UV-insulated excursion suits.
* Similar to the ''Daybreakers'' example, The Strangers in ''[[Dark City]]'' have {{spoiler|created a world where it's always night, so they can experiment on people without being injured by sunlight}}.
* ''[[The Twins Effect]]'', a Hong Kong [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|vampire action romance]] film, has a similar gag to the one in ''[[
* In ''[[Highlander:
* In ''[[Gremlins 2 The New Batch]]'', the Brain Gremlin injects the Bat Gremlin with "Genetic Sunblock" which allows the latter to fly outside in the sunlight without dying.
* Another vampire example comes from the source of the page image ([[Seltzer and Friedberg]]'s ''[[
== Live Action TV ==
* In an early episode of ''[[
** And in a much more DIY example, in ''Buffy'', Spike had his car with all the windows blacked out.
* Raj in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' can never get a girlfriend because he is unable to speak to women due to his selective mutism. He's able to get around this by getting drunk. Unfortunately, when he's drunk, he acts like a bit of a dick. In one episode, he signs up to try an experimental drug that would allow him to talk to women. The drug has strange side effects, like causing him to repeat actions over and over. {{spoiler|In the end, it wears off ''just'' as a beautiful woman is expressing interest in him.}}
== Tabletop Games ==
* One group in ''[[
== Video Games ==
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** [[Fridge Logic|Though to be fair, Leela didn't actually use a paradox.]]
* The plot of the Cuban animated feature ''Vampiros en la Habana'' revolves around the creation of a vampire sunscreen.
* ''[[Superman:
** He had a much simpler (and weirder) solution to fighting Live Wire and her electric powers... Supes pretty much just laminated himself in a thin layer of rubber, since it doesn't conduct electricity.
* In one episode of the ''[[
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