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1->To be fair, Superman’s had like 30 years of soaking up the sun to charge him up, and Nuclear Man’s only been around for five minutes. But at the same time, it does kind of seem like a pretty awful move to kick off a master plan that can be foiled by Venetian blinds.
2-->--'''Chris Sims''' on ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''
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4->You meet someone called the Dragon Sage, who is literally a dragon that's going to help you. She'll tell you that there's another dragon up ahead, and he's "a terrible bastard" and he keeps children hostage. But she tells you the one way to beat him: He's absurdly weak against ''magic missiles''. Weak against magic missiles? That puts this dragon in the front-running for '''''THE MOST PUSSY DRAGON OF ALL TIME.'''''
5-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' plays ''Advanced TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons: Dragons of Flame''
6
7->JELLYBEANS! MY ONE WEAKNESS!
8-->-- WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, imitating the villain of ''Film/ThreeNinjas''
9
10->We learn a bit more on how the mecha work through Shinji's training sessions. All I can say is... Extension cords? This huge battling 'bot can be transported all throughout the cityscape but can be defeated by a careless cat on Christmas Eve?
11-->--'''[[http://spoonyexperiment.com/neon-genesis-evangelion/ Christopher Kinsey]]''' on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''
12
13->At first glance, Green Lantern seems like the only Superfriend who's up to Superman levels of power. He can make anything he wants just by thinking about it, plus he has a snazzy outfit. But then there's his weakness: yellow. A primary color, for God's sake! 'Big Bird! You have defeated me once again!' 'Lemon-scented dishwashing liquid! Lo! I am foiled!' 'Marshmallow peeps! [[BigNo Nooooooooooo!]]'
14-->-- '''Lore Sjoberg''', '''''The Book of Ratings''''', "More Superfriends"
15
16->Make no mistake: I have a $70,000 sliver of a radioactive meteor to stop [[{{Franchise/Superman}} the one from Metropolis]]. [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter With you]], all I need is a penny for a book of matches.
17--> -- '''Franchise/{{Batman}}''', ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]''
18
19->Aah! Teddy bears thrown at me! My one weakness!
20--> -- '''Sigma''', ''Videogame/MegaManX: the Maverick Breakdown''
21
22->I used to make fun of Green Lantern for being vulnerable to the colour yellow! Then I choked on my orange juice one morning and nearly suffocated.
23-->--'''[[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1582 T-Rex]]''', ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''
24
25->'''Arthur''': Whoa whoa WHOA, you're saying they've set it up so that Franchise/GreenLantern's greatest weakness is -
26->'''Sheldon''': The color yellow. ''Yes.''
27->'''Arthur''': Oh man, that is so tremendously lame. It's like having a vulnerability to... ''hexagons'' or something.
28-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}''
29
30->But for every very mild super power, there's a very mild super weakness too: I get nauseous 'round the smell of bins, I'm afraid of certain shop mannequins, I hate the cheese that's individually sliced and vacuum-wrapped in plastic, I can never tell when people are being sarcastic.
31-->--'''David O'Doherty''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4f_e02RFM Very Mild Superpowers]]''
32
33->You're one of ''those'', right? Can't stand sunlight or smelly vegetables, or silver things. The masters of the night which for some reason have tons of weaknesses...
34-->--'''Marisa Kirisame''', ''VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil''.
35
36->I'm a vampire, nothing can hurt me! Well, except for stakes... and daylight... and holy water... and garlic... oh, hey, whoa! There are a ''lot'' of things that can hurt me!
37-->--'''Orson''', ''Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy''
38
39->'''Susan''': Now... you won't be coming around here again, will you? Otherwise it's the ''blanket'' next time.\
40'''Boogeyman''': No!\
41'''Susan''': I mean it. We'll put your head under the blanket.\
42'''Boogeyman''': No!\
43'''Susan''': It's got ''fluffy bunnies'' on it.\
44'''Boogeyman''': ''No!''
45-->-- ''{{Literature/Hogfather}}''
46
47->'''Rory''': It doesn't do wood? That's ''rubbish''!\
48'''Doctor''': Oi! Don't diss the sonic!
49-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Hungry Earth"
50
51->'''Raj''': I like ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', I'm just saying it's pretty lame that he can be defeated by the color yellow.\
52'''Sheldon''': Only the modern Green Lantern is vulnerable to yellow.\
53'''Leonard''': [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern was vulnerable to wood.\
54'''Raj''': Great. So I can take them both out with a number 2 pencil?
55-->-- ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
56
57->My heat vision will ignite the carbon-laden ground around us, creating a ring of fire — the greatest weakness of all Martians!
58-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/WarWorld''
59
60->'''Claptrap''': "Damn you, Jack! How did you know stairs were my only weakness? Next to electrocution, and explosions, and gunfire, rust, corrosion, being kicked a lot, viruses, being called bad names, falling from great heights, drowning, adult onset diabetes, being looked at funny, heart attacks, exposure to oxygen, being turned down by women, and pet allergens!"
61-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''
62
63->'''Robin:''' ''(seeing Batman's contingency plan to kill ComicBook/MartianManhunter)'' Fire's his one weakness!\
64'''Batman:''' Yeah, fire's everyone's weakness, it's fucking ''fire.''
65-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship''
66
67->"My name is Yutaka Takenouchi, and I have only one weakness ... I am ''very'' susceptible to motion sickness!"
68-->-- ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''
69
70->The man in the green, black, and white costume focused the energy of his power ring on Selina Kyle's body. As before, he knew it would be enough to sustain life, but not to cure.\
71Hal Jordan, the Franchise/GreenLantern, knew that there had to be some yellow material in the poison that ravaged the former Catwoman. Even the ring had limits. It always would.\
72Sometimes, those limits cost lives.
73-->-- ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons''
74
75->''Sam's wife throws a tropical drink at one of the mini-Jacks and it actually dies! She brings the cocktail back to Bobby to find out what's in the drink and he tells her it's his famous Island Daiquiri, which contains lots of Bananas. BANANAS ARE WHAT CAN KILL JACK FROST!?!?!?''
76-->-- ''Website/IMockery'' on ''Film/JackFrost1997'''s sequel
77
78->'''Batman:''' And you... (''looks at the Green Lantern'') ...your weakness is ''the color yellow.''\
79'''Superman:''' Wait, are you serious?\
80'''Green Lantern:''' Yeah, so what? If a meteor is crashing down to Earth, I'd like to see ''you'' stop it. What're you gonna do, throw a batarang at it?\
81'''Batman:''' Well, for situations like that? [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman You're right. You're needed.]] But if you're gonna stop a mugging and the guy's wearing all yellow, what're ''you'' gonna do?\
82'''Green Lantern:''' [[LameComeback ...fuck you, Bruce.]]\
83'''Batman:''' Yeah, that's what I thought.
84-->--''WebVideo/SolidJJ'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9e7ZNnC-M Batman Destroys the Justice League with Facts and Logic]]"
85
86->'''King:''' [Demons] live only to create chaos and misery. Our only weaknesses are purified water and passive‐aggressive comments. Sometimes.\
87'''Luz:''' Oh, you guys are sensitive.\
88'''King:''' Even demons have ''inner'' demons.
89-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
90
91->"Incredible. The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic field, yet he was destroyed by a harmless pointed stick."
92-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[Recap/FuturamaS1E5FearOfABotPlanet "Fear of a Bot Planet"]]
93
94->''"You know, I learned all kinds of interesting things while I was one with the robot. Here's one tiny tidbit:'' he's got an off button right on his back.''"''
95-->-- '''Tucker Carbunkle''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', [[Recap/MyLifeAsATeenageRobotS1E3AttackOfThe512GeekDoomWithAView "Doom With a View"]]
96
97->'''Miss Pauling:''' Poor [Demoman]. What'd they dose him with? Sodium pentathol?\
98'''Spy:''' Solid food and water. His body's spent ten years wrestling nutrients out of grain alcohol and aspirin. I expect it thinks it's been poisoned.
99-->-- ''Webcomic/TeamFortress2'' Part 5: "Old Wounds"
100
101->'''Diesel 10:''' You're not clever enough to stop me!\
102'''Mr. Conductor:''' Oh, yes I am!\
103'''Diesel 10:''' No, you're not!\
104''(Mr. C. holds up a bag of sugar.)''\
105'''Diesel 10:''' [[OhCrap AHH! IS THAT--?!]]\
106'''Mr. Conductor:''' That's right, it's sugar, Diesel! And if I throw this in your tank, it'll seize you up for good!\
107'''Diesel 10:''' ''(growls)'' Make the most of tonight, Twinkle Toes, because you won't like tomorrow!
108-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad''
109
110->'''Austin:''' Who sent you?!\
111'''Mustafa:''' You'll have to kill me!\
112'''Austin:''' Who sent you?!\
113'''Mustafa:''' Kiss my ass, Powers!\
114'''Austin:''' [[Main/RuleOfThree Who sent you?!]]\
115'''Mustafa:''' Dr. Evil!\
116'''Vanessa:''' ...That was easy.\
117'''Austin:''' That ''was'' easy.\
118'''Vanessa:''' Why did you tell us?\
119'''Mustafa:''' I can't stand to asked the same question three times. It just irritates me.
120-->-- ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe''

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