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Author: KJMackley

Mar 13th 2013 at 6:21:51 PM

Or you can keep it objective and make it an actual ''downgrade'' of powers rather than just complaining about varying power levels or them not taking full advantage of their powers. Cause the same problem seeped into AdaptationalBadass where some examples cropped up that were merely observations about varying strength (like Superman lifting a mountain in one continuity and struggling with an oceanliner in another, it's still on the high end of SuperStrength). As a result most of these examples are just bad, Aquaman's problem in SuperFriends was not power level or incompetence but being so hopelessly specialized the writing had to strain to justify his presence in the story. But for a better example...
* WonderWoman was famously depowered in a 70's TV movie before the more faithful Linda Carter series. She was actually semi-based on the [[DorkAge notorious]] comics retool in the 60's that, while still arguably an ActionGirl, made Diana into a secret agent along the same lines as Emma Peel from ''Series/TheAvengers'' tv show.