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* ''[[ComicBook/SunnySeries Sunny Side Up]]'': Sunny's older brother Dale teaches her some driving skills while they're out buying milk for their mom [[spoiler:and in part does this so she'll help cover up him buying drugs]]. When Myra, one of the residents of her grandpa's retirement community, wanders off [[ScatterbrainedSenior due to her "confusion"]], Sunny grabs one of the community golf carts to help search for her faster than she and Buzz can walk around.
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* In ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'', Kenton is introduced as man with excellent memory of the law and obsession with all legal loopholes, as this is the only way he can advance in highly-competitive AsskickingEqualsAuthority society. Later, he manages to use the same knowledge to get the upper hand in his argument with the Taishin.

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* In ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'', Kenton is introduced as a man with an excellent memory of the law and obsession with all legal loopholes, as this is the only way he can advance in a highly-competitive AsskickingEqualsAuthority AsskickingLeadsToLeadership society. Later, he manages to use the same knowledge to get the upper hand in his argument with the Taishin.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'' Vladek's ability to speak English (a rarity among Polish Jews in the 1930s, but an ability that makes perfect sense for someone intending to emigrate to the US) saves his bacon on a number of occasions. It allows him to translate for a French camp inmate, who rewards him with life-saving food. It gets him special treatment from a Polish Kapò, who wants to learn English to improve his prospects after the war. It allows him to speak to the American soldiers who eventually liberate him, and gain countless favors from them. Finally, it allows him to build a new life in the US after the war.
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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler:destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* ComicBook/MegaMan's {{ComicBook/Mega Man|ArchieComics}}'s [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler:destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'s embarrassing and apparently useless parlor trick of turning her suit invisible is demonstrated in a one-off story from the first volume (she is not affected, cannot wear anything over or under it, and was trying to affect only her mask instead of everything but). Turns out it had a use after all, some volumes later.

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* Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'s ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'s embarrassing and apparently useless parlor trick of turning her suit invisible is demonstrated in a one-off story from the first volume (she is not affected, cannot wear anything over or under it, and was trying to affect only her mask instead of everything but). Turns out it had a use after all, some volumes later.



* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] was seen skateboarding early on, such as when he first met [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]], but had never been seen doing so in his own series until he had to fight opponents on roller blades and realized he couldn't keep up on foot after getting thoroughly trounced and only taking down one of them. He dusts off his skateboard so that he has his own wheels the next time he faces them and defeats them handily.

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* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'': Tim Drake]] Drake was seen skateboarding early on, such as when he first met [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]], but had never been seen doing so in his own series until he had to fight opponents on roller blades and realized he couldn't keep up on foot after getting thoroughly trounced and only taking down one of them. He dusts off his skateboard so that he has his own wheels the next time he faces them and defeats them handily. handily.
* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'', the Man of Steel travels to the future, runs afoul of the law, and is sent to a retirement home for old-superheroes, in where he makes acquaintance with a retired Franchise/GreenLantern, a hero with telekinetic powers, and another who can shoot lightning bolts. Later, when the Metropolis government begs the retired heroes save them from a silo storing explosive material which is about to blow up, the three old heroes use their powers to gather the hardest substances in the galaxy so Superman can forge an alloy to coat the building with.
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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler:destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler:destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].
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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying [[spoiler:destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].
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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'' ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].
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* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] was seen skateboarding early on, such as when he first met [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]], but had never been seen doing so in his own series until he had to fight opponents on roller blades and realized he couldn't keep up on foot after getting thoroughly trounced and only taking down one of them. He dusts off his skateboard so that he has his own wheels the next time he faces them and defeats them handily.
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* When Nomi Sunrider is training her battle meditation in ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'', Odan-Urr tells her that it is possible to use the art to sever someone from the Force entirely, but that it should not be done except in the most extreme of cases because of how devastating such a thing would be. At the end of the Great Sith Wars, she does this to [[spoiler:her former love Ulic Qel-Droma when he cuts down his brother Cay in a lightsaber duel]].
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* In ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'', Kenton is introduced as man with excellent memory of the law and obsession with all legal loopholes, as this is the only way he can advance in highly-competitive AsskickingEqualsAuthority society. Later, he manages to use the same knowledge to get the upper hand in his argument with the Taishin.
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* Hyde's heat-sensitive vision in ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', which he very wisely does not tell Griffin about.

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* Hyde's heat-sensitive vision in ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', which he very wisely does not tell Griffin (the invisible man) about.
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* MegaMan's [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].

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* MegaMan's [[SonicTheHedgehog ComicBook/MegaMan's [[ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].
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* MegaMan's [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] Shot in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide Worlds Collide]]'' is instrumental in restoring Sonic's roboticized friends to normal, as well as [[spoiler: destroying Eggman and Wily's super-powered mecha when using Super Sonic as a projectile]].
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* In the final chapter of ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Nite Owl, still trying to make sense of the huge BatmanGambit that [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] pulled off ([[YouAreTooLate thirty-five minutes ago]]), tries to explain to him that one part of his plan--where he staged his own assassination attempt--couldn't have worked because the assassin might have shot him first instead of his secretary. [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] just innocently smiles and says "Well, I supposed I would have had to catch the bullet, wouldn't I?" Nite Owl finds the very idea of this ludicrous. Later, after [[spoiler:Ozymandias vaporizes Dr. Manhattan]], Silk Spectre shoots him. As she approaches his body, his hand opens and she discovers that [[OhCrap he caught the bullet!]]
** Something of a subversion - after doing it, [[spoiler: Ozymandias]] admits that he didn't actually know if he could do so. On the other hand, one bit much earlier on mentions that he used to boast he probably could do it.
* Hyde's heat-sensitive vision in ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', which he very wisely does not tell Griffin about.
* Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'s embarrassing and apparently useless parlor trick of turning her suit invisible is demonstrated in a one-off story from the first volume (she is not affected, cannot wear anything over or under it, and was trying to affect only her mask instead of everything but). Turns out it had a use after all, some volumes later.
* In Preacher, the main character learns to fight with Jody, the bastard. That skill is used often in the series, in fact, once he doesn't even think about using his special abilities.
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