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** Late into the ''Blood Runs in the Family'' arc, Belkar tames an ''Allosaurus''. To prevent the Order from having the might of a dinosaur at their beck-and-call, an enemy wizard hits it with ''[[ForcedTransformation Baleful Polymorph]]''. However, its smaller size allows the Order to easily carry it around, all it takes to bring back the ''Allosaurus'' is a a ''greater dispell magic'', and even as a lizard it still finds ways to help the party from time to time. The party refrains from restoring his ''Allosaurus'' form for the next arc though since most of it is spent on an airship that wouldn't accomodate for its full size, and another good portion is spent in cramped mountain caverns that still wouldn't accomodate its size.
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* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': By the end of Part 5 Volume 8, the protagonist is technically [[spoiler:both the reigning archduchess of a greater duchy and a Zent candidate, which allows her to use powerful large-scale magic that is restricted to those positions for a good reason]]. Part 5 Volume 9 gives her [[spoiler:a phobia of feystones, which are an extremely common coponent of the magic system, that is bad enough that she can't stand seeing them anymore]] to navigate, which balances the power she's wielding by that point.
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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', a consistent rule with Stands is that a Stand can have range, power, or control, but not all three at once. Stands with a long range tend to either be abnormally weak when operating at those ranges, or give their user little to no control over what they're doing. Given that the main downside of a Stand is that the user can be attacked, this ensures that characters with long-range Stands can't just assassinate any target with impunity at no risk to themselves.

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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', a consistent rule with Stands is that a Stand can have range, power, or control, but not all three at once. Stands with a long range tend to either be abnormally weak when operating at those ranges, or give their user little to no control over what they're doing. Given that the main downside of a Stand is that the user can be attacked, this ensures that characters with long-range Stands can't just assassinate any target with impunity at no risk to themselves. In fact, some fights (Sheer Heart Attack, for instance) are fueled by the protagonists realizing that such a powerful Stand with an apparently long range ''has'' to have some kind of weakness.
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* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', a consistent rule with Stands is that a Stand can have range, power, or control, but not all three at once. Stands with a long range tend to either be abnormally weak when operating at those ranges, or give their user little to no control over what they're doing. Given that the main downside of a Stand is that the user can be attacked, this ensures that characters with long-range Stands can't just assassinate any target with impunity at no risk to themselves.
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** The show's fourth season would prove to be the first adaptation not specifically focused on Superman in which the heroes of the DC universe encounter major Superman adversary [[KneelBeforeZod General Dru-Zod]]. Although Superman can overpower him eventually, with some difficulty, his overall threat level (think Superman if he didn't hold back and was willing to kill enemies) makes him a more powerful antagonist for other heroes who do not typically encounter Kryptonians. To compensate, [[spoiler:the season builds him up as a threat by focusing more on his teenage son Lor-Zod traveling through time to orchestrate the defeat of his enemies and attempt to free his family]]. Even then, [[spoiler:when Dru-Zod and his wife Ursa, later joined by Faora Hu-Ul and Non, finally do get out in the final three episodes of the season, they arrive on Earth hours before sunrise, giving them minimal exposure to Earth's sun. Ursa gets around this handicap by bonding with the Eye of Ekron to become Emerald Empress, but Zod, Faora, and Non get no such benefits, forcing them to fight Superman and the Team while not at full strength (notably, Non can be overpowered by the [[BadassNormal non-powered]] Nightwing and Tigress because of this). On the other hand, while Lor-Zod is at full strength, he receives a different handicap in that his powers are instead weakened by his age, evening out the drawbacks against his family, which also played a part in him being more of a manipulator who used a Time Sphere in earlier episodes to covertly deal with his enemies, and only finally started getting into fights as he got closer to winning]].

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** The show's fourth season would prove to be the first adaptation not specifically focused on Superman in which the heroes of the DC universe encounter major Superman adversary [[KneelBeforeZod General Dru-Zod]]. Although Superman can overpower him eventually, with some difficulty, his overall threat level (think Superman if he didn't hold back and was willing to kill enemies) makes him a more powerful antagonist for other heroes who do not typically encounter Kryptonians. To compensate, [[spoiler:the season builds him up as a threat by focusing more on his teenage son Lor-Zod traveling through time to orchestrate the defeat of his enemies and attempt to free his family]].family from the PhantomZone]]. Even then, [[spoiler:when Dru-Zod and his wife Ursa, later joined by Faora Hu-Ul and Non, finally do get out in the final three episodes of the season, they arrive on Earth hours before sunrise, giving them minimal exposure to Earth's sun. Ursa gets around this handicap by bonding with the Eye of Ekron to become Emerald Empress, but Zod, Faora, and Non get no such benefits, forcing them to fight Superman and the Team while not at full strength (notably, Non can be overpowered by the [[BadassNormal non-powered]] Nightwing and Tigress because of this). On the other hand, while Lor-Zod is at full strength, he receives a different handicap in that his powers are instead weakened by his age, evening out the drawbacks against his family, which also played a part in him being more of a manipulator who used a Time Sphere in earlier episodes to covertly deal with his enemies, and only finally started getting into fights as he got closer to winning]].
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** The show's fourth season would prove to be the first adaptation not specifically focused on Superman in which the heroes of the DC universe encounter major Superman adversary [[KneelBeforeZod General Dru-Zod]]. Although Superman can overpower him eventually, with some difficulty, his overall threat level (think Superman if he didn't hold back and was willing to kill enemies) makes him a more powerful antagonist for other heroes who do not typically encounter Kryptonians. To compensate, [[spoiler:the season builds him up as a threat by focusing more on his teenage son Lor-Zod traveling through time to orchestrate the defeat of his enemies and attempt to free his family]]. Even then, [[spoiler:when Dru-Zod and his wife Ursa, later joined by Faora Hu-Ul and Non, finally do get out in the final three episodes of the season, they arrive on Earth hours before sunrise, giving them minimal exposure to Earth's sun. Ursa gets around this handicap by bonding with the Eye of Ekron to become Emerald Empress, but Zod, Faora, and Non get no such benefits, forcing them to fight Superman and the Team while not at full strength (notably, Non can be overpowered by the [[BadassNormal non-powered]] Nightwing and Tigress because of this). On the other hand, while Lor-Zod is at full strength, he receives a different handicap in that his powers are instead weakened by his age, evening out the drawbacks against his family]].

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** The show's fourth season would prove to be the first adaptation not specifically focused on Superman in which the heroes of the DC universe encounter major Superman adversary [[KneelBeforeZod General Dru-Zod]]. Although Superman can overpower him eventually, with some difficulty, his overall threat level (think Superman if he didn't hold back and was willing to kill enemies) makes him a more powerful antagonist for other heroes who do not typically encounter Kryptonians. To compensate, [[spoiler:the season builds him up as a threat by focusing more on his teenage son Lor-Zod traveling through time to orchestrate the defeat of his enemies and attempt to free his family]]. Even then, [[spoiler:when Dru-Zod and his wife Ursa, later joined by Faora Hu-Ul and Non, finally do get out in the final three episodes of the season, they arrive on Earth hours before sunrise, giving them minimal exposure to Earth's sun. Ursa gets around this handicap by bonding with the Eye of Ekron to become Emerald Empress, but Zod, Faora, and Non get no such benefits, forcing them to fight Superman and the Team while not at full strength (notably, Non can be overpowered by the [[BadassNormal non-powered]] Nightwing and Tigress because of this). On the other hand, while Lor-Zod is at full strength, he receives a different handicap in that his powers are instead weakened by his age, evening out the drawbacks against his family]].family, which also played a part in him being more of a manipulator who used a Time Sphere in earlier episodes to covertly deal with his enemies, and only finally started getting into fights as he got closer to winning]].

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** J'onn J'onzz is a martian who is as powerful as Superman and also an extremely capable psychic and shapeshifter. He is usually taken out very quickly or has his mind scrambled by the villain somehow.

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** J'onn J'onzz is a martian Martian who is as powerful as Superman and also an extremely capable psychic and shapeshifter. He is usually taken out very quickly or has his mind scrambled by the villain somehow.


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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', throughout its run, had to address this when it came to Kryptonians.
** Even accounting for the fact that a pure Kryptonian in this continuity cannot [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathe in space]] and has no [[BreathWeapon breath-related attacks]], the presence of Superboy among the main cast had to be mitigated by explaining that due to being half-Kryptonian, he doesn't get all the known Kryptonian powers. A storyline in the first season saw him receive an item to mitigate this and unlock his full powerset, but it made him much more agitated, and he eventually burned through all of them. Drama is therefore maintained by Superboy needing to use the few powers he still has strategically, rather than directly overpowering his enemies.
** The show's fourth season would prove to be the first adaptation not specifically focused on Superman in which the heroes of the DC universe encounter major Superman adversary [[KneelBeforeZod General Dru-Zod]]. Although Superman can overpower him eventually, with some difficulty, his overall threat level (think Superman if he didn't hold back and was willing to kill enemies) makes him a more powerful antagonist for other heroes who do not typically encounter Kryptonians. To compensate, [[spoiler:the season builds him up as a threat by focusing more on his teenage son Lor-Zod traveling through time to orchestrate the defeat of his enemies and attempt to free his family]]. Even then, [[spoiler:when Dru-Zod and his wife Ursa, later joined by Faora Hu-Ul and Non, finally do get out in the final three episodes of the season, they arrive on Earth hours before sunrise, giving them minimal exposure to Earth's sun. Ursa gets around this handicap by bonding with the Eye of Ekron to become Emerald Empress, but Zod, Faora, and Non get no such benefits, forcing them to fight Superman and the Team while not at full strength (notably, Non can be overpowered by the [[BadassNormal non-powered]] Nightwing and Tigress because of this). On the other hand, while Lor-Zod is at full strength, he receives a different handicap in that his powers are instead weakened by his age, evening out the drawbacks against his family]].

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* Taking after other movies that use this plot point to deal with a major character simply flying, ''WesternAnimation/DuckDuckGoose'' sees main character Peng break his wing, leaving him flightless and forcing him to team up with the ducklings he separated from their flock.



* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' could have been resolved much earlier had Star Boy remembered to take his schizophrenia medication prior to pursing the escaped villains through time. By forgetting to take his medication (which he cannot replenish as it has not been invented in the present day), he ends up being locked into Arkham for a while until the villains he was pursuing resurface, and even then it is not until Miss Martian looks into his mind that the full picture of who the League is up against is assembled.

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* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' could have been resolved much earlier had Star Boy remembered to take his schizophrenia medication prior to pursing pursuing the escaped villains through time. By forgetting to take his medication (which he cannot replenish as it has not been invented in the present day), he ends up being locked into Arkham for a while until the villains he was pursuing resurface, and even then it is not until Miss Martian looks into his mind that the full picture of who the League is up against is assembled.
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* During his time with the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans New Teen Titans]], Kid Flash contracted a mysterious illness that worsened the more he used his SuperSpeed. This is because Marv Wolfman notoriously found Kid Flash's speed powers difficult to write without making the rest of the team look useless.

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* During his time with the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans New Teen Titans]], Kid Flash contracted a mysterious illness that worsened the more he used his SuperSpeed. This is because Marv Wolfman notoriously found Kid Flash's speed powers difficult to write without making the rest of the team look useless. ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'', written when the character had now grown up, become a version of Flash himself, and had become much faster and more powerful, had to also deal with writing around his powerset, such as having the first storyline feature his enemy Abra Kadabra intentionally trying to have him run himself into the Speed Force, or him developing a heart condition that required a pacemaker (thus running the risk of his heart stopping in the field).

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