History Main / LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe

In modern times, this has largely been abandoned. Readers are expected to be familiar with the characters or use the internet to fill in their knowledge gaps. [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks More recently]], [[DramatisPersonae introductory text pages at the beginning of the issue]] have come into fashion. Also, fans can just look up whatever the character can do online these days, anyways. Even if it's someone really obscure like Stiltman. (But then, perhaps surprisingly, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his name pretty much says it all]]. He was a pretty lame villain. [[RuleOfThree You can read about him on the Internet.]])

* The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of ComicBook/{{Storm}} a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between "Luckily My Powers Will Protect Me" and a mystic incantation. Storm's verbal commands were lampshaded during the '90s [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man animated series]] in the first X-Men crossover episode. Upon witnessing Storm's dramatic "[[CallingYourAttacks Power of lightning, strike again!]]", Spidey jokingly raised his hand and declared, "Power of webshooters, get... really sticky!" Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it. Storm also has the odd habit of trying to attack Magneto with lightning in every fight, at which point Magneto will shout something like "Fool! Have you forgotten that electricity and magnetism are related?"

** ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': Whenever someone pulls out a gun and shoots him, he'll say something along the lines of "Ha! My other protects me from the bullets!" Similarly, every time another character takes advantage of one of his main weaknesses, he'll say, "No! My symbiotic other cannot stand fire/loud noises!" Although arguably, that creates a bit of fridge logic because the only time you don't hear the bang of a gun is when you're hit with it, but seeing as the symbiote protects him, it really shouldn't.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** Any old issue will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue. Even in the late 90s Chris Claremont's run, when the characters had been around for almost 40 years, would sporadically show Johnny addressing Reed as "brother-in-law".
** Mr. Fantastic finds himself trapped in a small room, slowly being filled with poisonous gas. "Luckily," he says aloud, "I can expand my lungs to hold my breath for an extended time!" He could have had more air in his lungs if he hadn't said that out loud, especially since a thought bubble would've worked just fine.
** In #17 he talks about how he can slip through the air holes in cement, and how he must quickly slip through.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** For several ''years'', ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} managed to say "Only my ruby-quartz visor can contain my optic blasts," in literally every single issue of ''Uncanny X-Men''.

* LampshadeHanging in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', when ComicBook/WonderGirl makes fun of ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s tendency to explain that he's using tactile telekinesis. Kon-El (and by extension, the writers who want to make him distinct from Super''man'') protests that he has a very unusual power and it's not always clear to onlookers how it actually works. ''Everyone'' on YJ made fun of that. At least once every issue, Superboy will explicitly state that he's doing something with his tactile telekinesis, and at least once every issue, [[Franchise/TheFlash Impulse]] will Lampshade the fact that at least once every issue, Superboy will explicitly state that he's doing something with his tactile telekinesis. It started in the very first issue:

* ''Franchise/StarWars: ComicBook/{{Legacy}} 28'', introducing new readers to the ''Legacy'' series and the ''Vector'' CrossThrough at once, was probably the most egregious example of this in ''Star Wars'' comics, when almost all characters engaged in this kind of exposition.
* Brittney from ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' tended to have a hard time with this, especially in earlier comics when it was just getting off the ground. Her super-speed, her inability to avoid telegraphing her blows, the fact that only "Magic, another were-creature, or silver" can hurt her. Oh, she does it a LOT. Gets better once continuity and the reader-ship is better established.
* When ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' included stories about other Creator/{{Sega}} games, the magician Xavier in the ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'' adaptation was prone to declaring, "Your barbaric weapons are no match for the power... of magick!" or something similar. Unfortunately, [[{{Narm}} his magic never actually seemed to work very well.]] However his staff ''was'' sufficient enough to turn brains to jelly.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' tended to lapse into this for magical battles. ("I cast the Fangs of Farallah!" "Ah, but Mordo, your spell cannot withstand the Winds of Watoomb. And now I shall confuse you with the Images of Ikkon!") Modern writers have tried various ways to get around this, such as putting the spell name in different text at the bottom of the panel.
* The ''ComicBook/MetalMen'' were kinda-sorta an "educational" superhero team, with its members being robots constructed of the metals that give them their names. Naturally, their personalities and powers are informed by the properties of those metals. In their earliest appearances, they never passed up a chance to talk about those properties out loud. For instance, in Metal Men #2, a fallen power line is repaired by Lead, who notes that he's a non-conductor and can safely handle exposed electrical wiring. This facet was lampshaded during DC's 52 event. While Will Magnus was repairing Mercury, he became prone to constantly and excitedly asking, "Did I ever tell you I was the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?" (Long after most of the metallurgy lessons were phased out of the book, Mercury was still prone to reminding everyone that he's the only metal that's liquid at room temperature, generally in a tone that suggested this made him superior somehow. At one point Copper snarks that he keeps forgetting about gallium[[note]]which strictly speaking, has a melting point slightly above room temperature, but can form alloys with lower ones[[/note]], but he just ignores her.)
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'' has several silly examples combined with a good bit of PurpleProse thrown in as well. During the battle between Prometheus and the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]], he explains to ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} that he is about to shoot her with a [[MagicBullets magic bullet]] that will wound her despite her FlyingBrick status.
* Mandy lampshades and ridicules this in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Future Tense" (Cartoon Network Block Party, issue #36) as Grim seeks advice from Nostradamus as to his fate. When Nostradamus' sage turns out to be too enigmatic, Grim says that luckily he can figure out what he's saying with his Scythe.
-->'''Mandy:''' ([[BreakingTheFourthWall to us]]) Oh, that's not ''too'' convenient, is it? Doesn't this comic have ''any'' standards?

* The [[ComicStrip/SpiderMan newspaper comic]] version of Franchise/SpiderMan plays this trope straight. Spidey spends more time telling the audience what he can do than he does actually doing it.

** ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' used to do this all the time, constantly reminding readers what the kids' powers were. Sunspot: "Careful Bobby, you're strong, not invulnerable!"; Cannonball: "Good thing ah'm invulnerable when ah'm blasting."; Magik griping about Limbo; etc.

* The ''ComicBook/MetalMen'' were kinda-sorta an "educational" superhero team, with its members being robots constructed of the metals that give them their names. Naturally, their personalities and powers are informed by the properties of those metals. In their earliest appearances, they never passed up a chance to talk about those properties out loud. For instance, in Metal Men #2, a fallen power line is repaired by Lead, who notes that he's a non-conductor and can safely handle exposed electrical wiring. This facet was lampshaded during DC's 52 event. While Will Magnus was repairing Mercury, he became prone to constantly and excitedly asking, "Did I ever tell you I was the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?"

* After acquiring the ability, Tony Stark in ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' is incredibly fond of explaining what Extremis is and what it does whenever he uses it, which is about once every episode, usually by giving a play-by-play exposition about him accessing the bad guy's computer system. It gets to the point where "it's called Extremis!" becomes a kind of CatchPhrase.

* Satori Komeji of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fame will ''not'' shut up about her mind-reading powers. Deconstructed, as this is implied to be part of the reason she's [[NotGoodWithPeople incredibly unpopular with other youkai and humans]].

* ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' tended to lapse into this for magical battles. ("I cast the Fangs of Farallah!" "Ah, but Mordo, your spell cannot withstand the Winds of Watoomb. And now I shall confuse you with the Images of Ikkon!") Modern writers have tried various ways to get around this, such as putting the spell name in different text at the bottom of the panel.

* Satori Komeji of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fame will ''not'' shut up about her mind-reading powers. Deconstructed, as this is implied to be part of the reason she's [[NotGoodWithPeople incredibly unpopular with other youkai and humans]].

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** Spider-Man can't enter a fight without letting everyone there know he is using his SpiderSense to anticipate and dodge their attacks. One would think he would would try to keep his most valuable and hidden ability a secret to ''at least'' his most ingenious enemies. But no, of course not. This makes Spider-man's thoughts particularly funny later in a ''Civil War''-based issue where he becomes suspicious of Tony Stark for ''somehow'' knowing about his spider-sense, stating he had only told Aunt May and Mary Jane about it. Sure.

If a character explains their powers directly to an opponent, it’s ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy. Not to be confused with LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe.

If a character explains his or her powers directly to an opponent, it’s ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy. Not to be confused with LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe.

->''"I love how in old comics, the superheroes will bust out with some sort of sonic device that has the bad guys doing their best Edvard Munch impressions. They always make some comment like 'Luckily, my earplugs will protect me from the effect!' ...It's like eating a bunch of Chinese food then remarking out loud, 'Luckily, my small intestine will extract the nutrients from that meal!'"''