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Getta Since: Apr, 2016
#1: Sep 8th 2016 at 2:53:57 AM

How does Mundane Utility relate to Misapplied Phlebotinum and With Great Powers Come Great Perks? They look so close.

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AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#2: Sep 9th 2016 at 10:42:18 AM

Mundane Utility is about using a power for more mundane use than the usual heroics supers engage in (or against).

With Great Power Comes Great Perks to me seems like a subtrope of the above, where someone with powers don't engage in any of that kind of stuff. It's a character trope, while the above is about specific uses.

Misapplied Phlebotinum is more like the opposite, where a power or technology is limited to what it's designed to do according to the plot, with no relation to how mundane it is. It's more about the authors not realising the impact and applications that kind of technology would actually have. Could still overlap with either of the above.

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