History MundaneUtility / WebOriginal

* WebOriginal/{{Inglip}}, being incorporeal, signs for packages by [[http://i.imgur.com/Nv7DS.jpg possessing the delivery boy]].

** One of the Winter session Special Session courses is entitled 'Finding the Job Only You Can Do', for students with unique or hard to utilize powers. Among those suggested (for Tennyo) are in-place satellite repair and replacing nuclear fuel rods without special equipment; most of the other ideas a good deal more prosaic, but still useful.

** One of the Winter session Special Session courses is entitled 'Finding the Job Only You Can Do', for students with unique or hard to utilize powers. Among those suggested (for Tennyo) are in-place satellite repair and replacing nuclear fuel rods without special equipment.

** One of the previous students, an Underdog codenamed Molefinger, turned his seemingly useless ability to instantly dig holes into huge contracts with several construction firms and city utilities, to the point that the unions made him only take jobs that would have taken more work than would be affordable otherwise - for six-figure contracts.

** One of the previous students, an Underdog codenamed Molefinger, turned his seemingly useless ability to instantly dig holes into huge contracts with several construction firms and city utilities, to the point that the unions made him only do take jobs that would have taken more work than would be affordable otherwise.

* Identifying and cultivating Mundane Utilities is one of the primary missions of [[WhateleyUniverse Whateley Academy]], because few people are actually cut out to become superheroes (or villains.) Some of the characters have used their powers to dry off after a shower (Phase and Chaka both), dry her hair (Fey), shave her legs (Verdant), unpack suitcases (Bugs), keep her clothes clean (Pristine), have {{Snowball Fight}}s (a lot of Poe cottage), mop floors and fold laundry (Chaka), paint a room (Plastic Girl), move furniture, shop, and on and on.

*** Phase has cultivated a lot of relationships through his ability to spot patentable mundane utilities for the various wacky devices his fellow students are constantly inventing and then playing honest broker on their behalf.
* In ''DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', what does the AntiVillain MadScientist title character want to use a freeze ray that stops time for? To help him get over his nervousness about talking to a cute girl.
** No, he CONSIDERS it, then loses his nerve. [[TheWoobie You've got to love someone so pathetic.]]

* MadScientist [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Dr. Insano]] once fixed a broken AtariJaguar system (although, being the Jaguar, it didn't last).

* [[WebOriginal/{{Inglip}}]], being incorporeal, signs for packages by [[http://i.imgur.com/Nv7DS.jpg possessing the delivery boy]].

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s John Cheese suggests in [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-new-season-heroes-can-avoid-sucking_p2/ 4 Ways the New Season of 'Heroes' Can Avoid Sucking]] that the writers of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' make the 2014 volume less boring by showing characters "using their powers to do normal, everyday things like making coffee with telekinesis or removing snakes from their yard with that snake tornado spell."

* CorridorDigital's ''Sync'' series involves a secret agent who can jump into a realistic android body. He uses it for covert ops, and to help him propose to his girlfriend ina a humorous manner.

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' made clones of himself in a dream only so they could play ''Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' on NES. He later lampshades this.

** The usage of the {{Hammerspace}} backpacks as tents and sleeping bags due to their infinite volume.

** Narwhal creates a tiny forcefield to act as a bookmark, and her strange scaly bodysuit is actually a mesh of forcefields. Tailor even notes she's using the suit forcefields as a sports bra.

** Narwhal creates a tiny forcefield to act as a bookmark.

* [[Wiki/TheWorldbuildProject The Treaded Path of the Rohomajeshi]] find a lot of mundane uses for channeling spirits.

*** Phases has cultivated a lot of relationships through his ability to spot patentable mundane utilities for the various wacky devices his fellow students are constantly inventing and then playing honest broker on their behalf.

* Some of the WhateleyUniverse characters have used their powers to dry off after a shower (Phase and Chaka both), dry her hair (Fey), shave her legs (Verdant), unpack suitcases (Bugs), keep her clothes clean (Pristine), have {{Snowball Fight}}s (a lot of Poe cottage), mop floors and fold laundry (Chaka), paint a room (Plastic Girl), move furniture, shop, and on and on.

* Abounds in ''TalesOfMU''.

* Skitter from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' uses her insect control powers to clear out rat infestations in her neighborhood.

** Plus there are the [=SCPs=] who ''only'' have mundane utility ([[www.scp-wiki.net/scp-458 a pizza box that makes your favorite pizza]]) and the ones that just ''look'' like have mundane utility but can have interesting applications, including a coffee machine that can give you cups of any liquid, including someone's blood.

** Plus there are the [=SCPs=] who ''only'' have mundane utility (a pizza box that makes your favorite pizza) and the ones that just ''look'' like have mundane utility but can have interesting applications, including a coffee machine that can give you cups of any liquid, including someone's blood.

* ''TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' made clones of himself in a dream only so they could play ''Videogame/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' on NES. He later lampshades this.