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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E57ThePrimeMover The Prime Mover]]", Ace Larson employs Jimbo Cobb's telekinesis to help him win at gambling.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E57ThePrimeMover "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E21ThePrimeMover The Prime Mover]]", Ace Larson employs Jimbo Cobb's telekinesis to help him win at gambling.
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Adam uses [[ResurrectionTeleportation slitting his own throat]] as a handy way to escape a building being searched by the cops in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan", as well as doing the same to Henry as a "favor" in "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths" when Henry is lying helpless with a broken neck, about to be discovered by Jo. Henry is seriously freaked out by how casually Adam kills himself in "Skinny Dipper" just to prove that he's really immortal.
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* Series/{{Heartbeat}}: In the premiere we see the protagonist vampire use his powers of levitation and super strength to fight off a dozen attackers. We later see his two vampire sidekicks use the same powers to more efficiently clean his mansion.
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* ''Series/BlackLightning'': All metahumans have (at least) a low-level HealingFactor. While this has obvious applications for recovering quickly from combat, Anissa is happily surprised to discover that it eliminates menstrual cramps completely.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. Starlight uses her powers to dim the lights when she's about to make love to Hughie, rather than break their embrace to reach over and turn off the lamp.

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* ''Series/BlackLightning'': ''Series/BlackLightning2018'': All metahumans have (at least) a low-level HealingFactor. While this has obvious applications for recovering quickly from combat, Anissa is happily surprised to discover that it eliminates menstrual cramps completely.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Starlight uses her powers to dim the lights when she's about to make love to Hughie, rather than break their embrace to reach over and turn off the lamp.



* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', it seems to be common practice to use various objects for mundane tasks, or to repurpose them. The automated vacuum sweeper, Claudia's use of a snow globe that freezes things to chill a bottle of cola, and Pete using [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Lewis Carroll's mirror]] to play ping pong with himself are evidence of this.
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': Moiraine uses her magic to heat up the water of the bath she's sharing with Lan at his suggestion.
* In ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain'', Alex, instead of using his knowledge of the future to buy lottery tickets or predict world events… tries to impress the girl he has a crush on. Lampshaded by Simon, but justified in script - Alex specifically says that he doesn't perfectly remember the first time he lived through the year, and if he had known he was going to have to relive it, he would have tried harder to remember things.

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* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', ''Series/Warehouse13'', it seems to be common practice to use various objects for mundane tasks, or to repurpose them. The automated vacuum sweeper, Claudia's use of a snow globe that freezes things to chill a bottle of cola, and Pete using [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Lewis Carroll's mirror]] to play ping pong with himself are evidence of this.
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Moiraine uses her magic to heat up the water of the bath she's sharing with Lan at his suggestion.
* In ''Series/TheWorstYearOfMyLifeAgain'', Alex, instead of using his knowledge of the future to buy lottery tickets or predict world events… events.... tries to impress the girl he has a crush on. Lampshaded by Simon, but justified in script - the script: Alex specifically says that he doesn't perfectly remember the first time he lived through the year, and if he had known he was going to have to relive it, he would have tried harder to remember things.

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** Howard brings a prototype robotic arm he designed to show off to the guys by using it to pass out their Chinese take-out (although it took 28 minutes because he has to type the instructions). Later he has it giving him a massage, which gives him the idea to have it give him... [[ADateWithRosiePalms another type of massage]]. It doesn't end well.

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** Howard brings a prototype robotic arm he designed to show off to the guys by using it to pass out their Chinese take-out (although it took 28 minutes because he has to type the instructions). Later he has it giving him a massage, which gives him the idea to have it give him... [[ADateWithRosiePalms [[BreakingInOldHabits another type of massage]]. It doesn't end well.

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter honed the killer aim that makes him a formidable assassin for Wilson Fisk as a child to be an expert pitcher on his childhood Little League team.


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** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter honed the killer aim that makes him a formidable assassin for Wilson Fisk as a child to be an expert pitcher on his childhood Little League team.

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* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' is the king of this trope.
** Out of all 40 of his switches, most of them are completely useless in most battles (ex. Water, Aero, Hand, etc.) so most of the time Fourze is shown using them for more creative purposes[[note]]Most occur in the intro such as using Aero as a leaf blower or Net to catch a butterfly but there are a few occurrences in the show such as using beat to as a guitar amp.[[/note]] but some, like Freeze become quite useful once Cosmic is introduced.
** Meteor Storm used his Staff as a golf club in his golf match with Taurus.
* ''Series/KamenRiderWizard''
** Wizard's connect spell has been used more than once to retrieve donuts for Haruto.
** Dress Up gives Haruto a Tuxedo. No wonder it was used in one episode.

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* ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' is the king of this trope.
** Out of all 40 of his switches, most of them are completely useless in most battles (ex. Water, Aero, Hand, etc.)
trope: the Fourze Driver is a highly advanced spacesuit, so most very few of the time Fourze is shown using them 40 Switches it can use are actually meant for more creative purposes[[note]]Most occur in the combat. The show's intro showcases some of the more mundane uses of the Switches, such as using Aero as a leaf blower or Net to catch a butterfly but there are butterfly, and Fourze often experiments with a few occurrences new Switch by practicing its mundane applications. Even Kamen Rider Meteor, whose suit ''is'' made for combat, gets in on the show such as using beat to as trope: when he's forced into a guitar amp.[[/note]] but some, like Freeze become quite useful once Cosmic is introduced.
** Meteor Storm used his Staff as a golf club in his
golf match with Taurus.
Taurus, he uses his bo staff as a golf club.
* ''Series/KamenRiderWizard''
** Wizard's connect spell
''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' has been used more than once to retrieve donuts a number of magical rings which are mostly useful for Haruto.
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mundane tasks, such as Dress Up gives Haruto Up, which only has the effect of putting him in a Tuxedo. No wonder tuxedo. Out of the rings that ''are'' useful for combat, Connect tends to stay on his finger most of the time because ThinkingUpPortals is just as useful for fetching [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] as it was used in one episode.is for fighting.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': [[EvilSorceress The Dweller]] uses her powers to make a campfire for her group.
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* Phasers in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' get used for a staggering number of mundane utility purposes, in addition to being Starfleet's WeaponOfChoice. Heating food and beverages. Heating rocks to serve as a campfire in wilderness survival. Cutting through doors and walls. Drilling and mining. Cleaning bulkheads and starship hulls. And so on.

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* Phasers in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' get used for a staggering number of mundane utility purposes, in addition to being Starfleet's WeaponOfChoice.preferred weapon. Heating food and beverages. Heating rocks to serve as a campfire in wilderness survival. Cutting through doors and walls. Drilling and mining. Cleaning bulkheads and starship hulls. And so on.
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. Sara Lance uses the ninja skills taught to her by the League of Assassins to instantly vanish when someone walks in on her making out with Director Ava Sharpe in her office.

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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. In "Tender is the Nate", Sara Lance uses the ninja skills taught to her by the League of Assassins to instantly vanish when someone Hank walks in on her making out with Director Ava Sharpe in her office.
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. Sara Lance uses the ninja skills taught to her by the League of Assassins to instantly vanish when someone walks in on her making out with Director Ava Sharpe in her office.

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