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"Imagine Breaker is just one card in your deck? You're the one in control? Don't make me laugh, you snot-nosed brat. Once this right hand's taken from you, what have you got left? Who would ever accept you as Kamijou Touma now?"..."How can you call yourself Kamijou Touma without this? It's time you learned firsthand what happens once it's gone."
Clone of Touma Kamijou, A Certain Magical Index

Thor: She's too strong. Without my hammer, I can't...
Odin: Are you Thor, the god of hammers? Hmm? That hammer was to help you control your power, to focus it. It was never your source of strength.

Captain America: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
Iron Man: [...] You're a laboratory experiment, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle.

"Without your silly sword, you're no longer He-Man. I mean... you're barely a man!"
Skeletor to Prince Adam, Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Sly Cooper: I don't get it, you're so familiar with my family, you must've known my father had a son. If you hated the Coopers so much, why did you let me live when you stole the Thievius Raccoonus?
Clockwerk: Because I wanted to show the world that without your precious book, the Cooper line was nothing!
Sly Cooper: Ah, well, there's where you're wrong. The Thievius Raccoonus doesn't create great thieves, it takes great thieves to create the Thievius Racoonus.

Bane: I have studied your weaknesses.
Firestorm: Yeah. What's mine?
Bane: You are nothing without your powers.

Supergirl: I've heard of you, Bane.
Bane: That it is I who broke the Bat?
Supergirl: That without Venom, you're nothing.

"I am curious however...what would happen if we turned the magic off? Anti-magic Field. Fascinating. It appears that you cease to be a mighty wizard and become a fragile pointy-eared monkey. While I? I am still a dragon."
The Black Dragon Mother, The Order of the Stick

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