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* Specifically called out in ''Creator/EEDocSmith'''s [[Literature/{{Lensman}} Galactic Patrol]]: Kim Kinnison has a massively [[Main/PoweredArmor over-powered and armoured suit]], specifically designed to survive a [[Main/MoreDakka gatling gun]] firing armour piercing shells. During training, the suit shrugs off the shells with no problem, but Kim is knocked down and thrown across the room by their kinetic energy, until he develops the required secondary skills to stand up and actually fight in it.

* Hellion and Ifrit from ''Literature/SuperMinion'' are both more or less fireproof, to prevent their [[PlayingWithFire super power and mutation respectively]] from killing them. Averted with Buzzer, who can [[MakeMeWannaShout manipulate sound]] but who can't turn it up to combat levels without hurting himself.

** And because using and being coordinated in a very different body shape that does some very complicated things, such as flying, would usually take considerable time and practice, TheMindIsAPlayThingOfTheBody to a certain extent, and "instincts" come with each morph. Practice is still helpful, but it's very important to know when to allow the morph to take over, or to use its reflexes.

* ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Brightly Burning]]'' has Lavan Chitward, who has the [[PlayingWithFire Firestarting Gift]]. In him it's so overwhelmingly strong that it's a {{Pyromaniac}} SuperpoweredEvilSide that really just wants to burn everything around him. He is ''situationally'' fireproof; during his TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening he was unharmed in a burning building until he tried to spare another kid's life, at which point the flames turned on him. Later in the book he's pressed into war and turning the fire on people and armies and small flames play in his hair and over his body without harming him. In his final SuperPowerMeltdown he wants to die while burning the world; fortunately for the world, he [[SelfImmolation immolates himself]] after only burning out a mountain pass, and with his death the fire subsides.

** Dragons generally range from 20 to 42 ft. long, with wingspans not anywhere near large enough to support that much weight in flight. Much later in the series, it's {{retcon}}ned that they're instinctively using telekinesis to help out the flight process. Since their [[PsychicPowers telepathic and teleportation abilities]] were known long before this, it's not a huge leap. Their bones aren't of the same material as Terran animals' bones -- lifeforms of Pern have some chemical differences (notably being high-boron), and dragons were engineered from native creatures -- which helps, but the native creatures in question are about the size of a hawk, so the SquareCubeLaw is still an issue for them. However since Kit Ping Yung, the creator of the dragons, was the only geneticist smart enough to be taught the Eridani secrets of gene manipulation, it's entirely possible she enhanced the telekinetic properties of the fire-lizards to make up for this.
** Important plot points in some books rely on the fact that teleportation is a dangerous business -- as suggested in the article, a bad mental image of one's destination resulted in a young dragonrider pair accidentally [[TeleFrag entombing themselves in stone]]. On the flipside, envisioning your destination TOO WELL may end up in TimeTravel as you travel to when the location actually looked like how you're envisioning it.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Assassin has only optical invisibility but not thermal, so Kiritsugu can find him perfectly well with an infrared scope.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'': In ''Crysis" Legion'', when he first cloaks, Alcatraz is surprised to see that his weapon also gets cloaked. This implies that existing methods of active camouflage don't do so.

* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers II: Same Time Next Year''. Two random kids who stumble upon a time machine. The notes show the inventor tested it, but never came back. One refuses to use it because it's potentially unsafe, the second gleefully hops in and heads to the future [[spoiler:in the exact same location: empty outer space. Because the machine didn't account for Earth's movement through space. The story doesn't say what frame of reference the machine was set to, but statistically, it doesn't really matter.]]

*** Carnifex doesn't have the eternal youth advantage of e.g. Wolverine, and with advanced age his healing has become less and less effective.

** Several [[ShapeShifter shapeshifters]] suffer from [[ShapeshifterBaggage mass-energy conservation issues]]:

* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': Humanity has developed teleportation technology that has distance and mass limits due to the Law of Conservation of Energy. Teleporting east-west doesn't generate many problems, but teleporting too far north-south generates problems because of the difference in orbital velocities between where you are and where you were. In short, teleport too far north or south, and you arrive at your destination as a human-shaped exploding nuclear weapon. This is a case of CriticalResearchFailure. Nearly ''all'' teleportation around the surface of a rotating sphere would cause lethal and destructive velocity issues, including east-west transfers. On Earth, 0º and 180º longitude are travelling at nearly mach 3 relative to each other. In fact, the only exception would be be traveling to the same lat/long in the opposite north/south hemisphere; all the relative velocities would be the same. There's still altitude-induced differences, but they would be very minor in comparison (about 3 mph difference between Mt Everest and Challenger Deep).

** Speedsters like Scrambler and Go-Go are Energizers, need to eat a ''ton'', and ''do'' have to worry about things like chafing. Well-endowed female speedsters like Go-Go also have to worry about [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncing]] -- which she pointedly states is rather uncomfortable, and that finding a good sports bra which is durable enough for it is a problem.

* Addressed for {{teleportation}} in the third ''Literature/YoungWizards'' novel, ''High Wizardry''. When Dairine first becomes a wizard [[PowersAsPrograms she gets a computer which does the spells for her]], with Dairine acting as the power source (sort of a training-wheels for wizards). After a long-range teleport renders her nauseous, [[PowersAsPrograms she opens up the source code for the teleportation spell]], determined to improve it... Only to find that it's highly complex, dealing with all the things that are needed to keep a human alive when teleporting over long distances. She wisely decides to leave it alone until she has a lot more experience.

* In [[http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/lukin_evgenii/lukin_evgenii_sila_deistviya_ravna/lukin_evgenii_sila_deistviya_ravna__1.html one of]] Yevgeny Lukin's short stories, a wife with telekinetic abilities constantly threatens to send her husband to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakum_Desert Karakum Desert]]. In the end, she does... and ends up in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukotka Chukotka]] herself.

* ''[[http://archive.is/yv7y0 Keeps The Autodoc Away]]'': Played straight; a couple hack the eponymous [=AutoDoc=] to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "cure" them of being out of shape]]. Al tells [[LiteralGenie the machine]] to, [[BiggusDickus among other things]], turn all his fat into a set of enormous, powerful muscles. Near the end, it is revealed, aside from his [[GagPenis seven-foot erection]] knocking him out from blood loss, that his enormous muscles had shattered almost every bone in his body. If it wasn't already obvious, this story [[NotSafeForWork isn't exactly safe for work.]]

---->'''Kirby:''' It's like taking a physicist to a ''Star Trek'' movie.

** In ''Literature/BloodRites'', Harry Dresden gets badly burned when a vampiric sorceress works out that the force fields he uses so much block force, but not heat. Two of her goons break out the flamethrowers, and while the shields block the napalm itself, the heat roasts Harry's hand requiring a great deal of recovery and physical therapy. When he finally makes a new shield bracelet, he ensure it shield protects against ''everything'', even things like ''sound'' and ''electricity'', but this has the drawback of using more of his energy.

** Harry also points this out himself when dealing with potions. While he can make a super-strength potion, he'd also need to make a corresponding potion to deal with the damage having said superstrength would do to his body. The issue with that of course is that mixing potions, just as with mixing drugs drug, is a ''bad'' idea.
** The problem with super-strength is further discussed when [[spoiler:Harry]] becomes the Winter Knight and among its many assets receives greater strength, to the point of being able to bench press 400 kilos[[note]]just shy of 900 pounds[[/note]]. Butters suspect that this isn't the Winter Mantle increasing strength as much as bypassing the natural inhibitors around the use of ones muscles. This would means that the Winter Knight will burn out more easily and will therefore be easier to remove if Mab is unhappy with him. Of course Butters is largely speculating and it is totally possible that [[spoiler:Harry]] ''does'' have the RequiredSecondaryPowers to use SuperStrength safely and recover from physical efforts faster. Both ''Literature/ColdDays'' and ''Literature/SkinGame'' feature fairly intensive workout routines, the former provided by Mab, and the latter being most of a year with nothing to do but fanatically practice LeParkour. Without any inhibitors overtraining should have had some pretty significant long-term negative effects, but instead it just made him much sufficiently strong and agile enough to [[spoiler:hold his own against Tessa while [[BroughtDownToBadass deprived both of his magic and Winter power.]]]]

** Eskarina demonstrates teleportation without an "anchor". Part of the ''Discworld'' narrative causality is things can be possible as long as you aren't told they aren't. Which raises the question of [[FridgeLogic how they figured out it was impossible in the first place]].

** Siberian is the only character who can do things like lifting a car by the door without breaking it, because her powers include the ability to selectively give invincibility to anything she touches. Others with super strength can lift cars, but have to be more careful and generally lift it by it's frame, since otherwise they'll just rip off whatever part they grab it by.

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*** Kid Dinosaur, who can change into any dinosaur he wants... But he can't increase or decrease his body mass. So he can become a T-Rex, but the T-Rex is only a 4 feet tall caricature. However, dinosaurs of corresponding mass are fully functional.