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* [[FoxTrot]] gives us Grandma, Andy's mom, who has apparently traveled the world, is a world-class chef and well-informed in most all subjects. However, she [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] the trope when Andy finally reveals that living under her and her [[Monty Oum]] levels of awesome has made her almost unable to connect with her and feel seriously inferior to her.
* Samuel Steele from [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'' is a perfect example of The Ace. Not only does he give Scrooge a run for his money, but he [[Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate|stands unscathed as a warehouse full of kerosene explodes in his face point-blank]] (while everyone around him ends up with [[Amusing Injuries]]), simply because it is not ''proper'' for a superintendent of the North-West Mounted Police to be 'blown up'.
* ''Rex the Wonder Dog'' from [[DC Comics]] is quite possibly the first and only instance of this being applied to a non-talking, non-anthropomorphic dog. Rex can and has literally done everything and anything. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105113559/http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/2860252.html He can drive boats and cars. (?) He's a great fisherman]. He can ski. He can rope cattle. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080506030854/http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/2888811.html And he once killed a Tyrannosaurus rex using an atomic bomb]. (?!) All without opposable thumbs. Did we mention that he's a lauded investigative reporter and camera man? Or that he's a decorated [[World War II]] veteran and [[Super Soldier]]? And that [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|nobody seems to find any of this the slightest bit strange?]] One only hopes that this was just meant as a huge satire. He ''can'' talk ''now'', after having drank from the Fountain of Youth some time in the late '80s, but by that point his glory days were behind him.
* In early strips of ''[[Zits]]'', Jeremy's [[Aloof Big Brother|older brother]] Chad was this (at least in the eyes of his [[Always Someone Better|jealous]] brother) to the extent that he was [[The Faceless]]
* The reason for Solaris The Tyrant Sun's second [[Face Heel Turn]] in [[DC One Million]] was that every single descendant of Superman proved far nobler than him, causing great jealousy on his part.
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