History RequiredSecondaryPowers / MarvelUniverse

*** Another embarrassing moment had Spidey lose his Spider-Sense and having it revealed that he uses it to make sure his webline doesn't hit anything that could break it, like a loose piece of a wall. He hits one and embarrassingly slams onto the hood of a police car.
*** Most comics allow normal-strength people to hold their own weight on one arm for some reason, it's interesting that writer remembered. Another didn't, and had him able to web-swing fine with his powers gone, except without his spider-sense he had to actually ''concentrate'' on things like aiming.

*** Spider-Man's super-strength is not a Required Secondary Power at all; he's always been presented as having the proportionate strength, speed, and agility of a spider. It all stems from the same simple concept: a misunderstanding of the SquareCubeLaw.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'':

** Ultimate Pyro is able to generate flames, but he is not immune and is covered with gruesome scar tissue as a result.

* In ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', mutant [[SuperSpeed super-speedster]] Quicksilver has a RequiredSecondaryPowers battle against Hurricane, an enemy speedster who'd got her powers from advanced surgery, and who wears a reinforced suit designed to resist friction. He grabs her and starts accelerating. Her skin bursts into flames around Mach 4 or so, and she completely disintegrates moments later. So much for the suit. Quicksilver, whose mutant power includes all required secondary abilities needed to move at an acceptable fraction of the speed of light, reminds her smoking body that he'd been easily hitting Mach 10 since he was a teenager. The moral of the story: if you fight someone with the same primary power set as you, make sure your RequiredSecondaryPowers are up to their standard.

** Creator/ChrisClaremont usually averted this, giving the X-Men their RequiredSecondaryPowers explicitly and having some of them learn to use them on their own. However, he wrote one of the [[ComicBook/NewMutants junior team]], Sunspot, as super-strong but not invulnerable, which led to a letters-page discussion about why the character didn't break bones while lifting things.

** The Human Torch has the fireproof skin/lungs/etc. secondary power.

*** The miniseries ''Galacta: Daughter of Galactus'' suggests that the mutant gene does not actually confer superpowers on people but, as a result of extensive engineering by [[AbusivePrecursors the Celestials]], alters reality to make mutant powers possible, thereby making every mutant a low-level, unconscious reality warper, [[HandWave handwaving]] every impossible thing that mutants do.