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* Eddings' ''[[The Redemption of Althalus]]'' featured both one protagonistic and one antagonistic [[Five-Man Band]], both with similar power arrays. The villains included the evil mind-leech Koman, with telepathy and mind-warping abilities... who was defeated when Althalus thought about random numbers. ''Fractions'' of numbers, even.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' examples:

*** Non-incarnated Auditors can be killed by getting them to say "I", "me", or otherwise admit individuality. Since it's widely known that (a) only living things have individuality, (b) all living things die after some amount of time and (c) any living thing's lifespan is practically no time at all compared to the universe's, any Auditor who admits individuality instantly dies. By the perspective of the rest of them, this isn't much of a loss, since there are more Auditors than there is ''anything else in the universe'' and, by definition, any given one of them is supposed to lack any defining characteristics.

*** Discworld vampires play this trope in a weird, [[All Myths Are True]] way. ''All'' weaknesses you might have ever heard of apply to ''some'' vampire, but you may have to do trial and error to find out which ones apply to the particular one who's trying to eat you right now. There are also a few with psychological problems that compel them to do things that directly address their particular weakness (such as the vampire flash photographer who works for The Truth, who has a weakness to bright light, and the one who worked at such jobs as pencil maker, garlic stacker, and whole-sale holy water clerk).

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', fairy magic can be completely stopped by animal fat. That's right, magic that can make you invisible, hypnotize people, heal nearly anything, and in some cases ''travel through time'' can be stopped by ''lard''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry0TyIJXgoU Praise the Lard!]

** Also not forgetting some of the laws that (most) fairies have to adhere to thanks to some very old, powerful magic—the most commonly seen are the Ritual for restoring magic (has to be done with an acorn, at the full moon, under an oak next to a bend in the river... or at least to start with. By the second book that's already been thrown out as mere myth.), the 'fairies cannot enter human houses without permission' rule, and by extension, the 'fairies cannot disobey a direct command given by a human eye to eye' rule. Of course, {{spoiler|These are handwaved away by No1 in the 6th book.}}

 

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