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* In ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' Mistborn have the allomancy, power to "burn" metals to grant them the power associated with that metal. Some of them are obviously useful - pewter grants you enhanced strength and agility, for example, while others are useful in the world - copper hides your own use of allomancy and protects your mind from allomantic influence. Then there's gold, which allows you to see the person you would have been had you made different choices and is mostly good for traumatizing yourself, and aluminum, which just destroys all the metals you've swallowed. For extra fun, most allomancers are "mistings" who can only burn one metal. If that metal is aluminum or duralumin (which grants a massive power boost to the other metals you're burning except that you can't burn any other metals), congratulations, you have the power to do nothing, and get called an "aluminium/duralumin gnat".

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* In ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' Mistborn have Allomancy, the allomancy, power to "burn" metals to grant them the power associated with that metal. Some of them are obviously useful - pewter grants you enhanced strength and agility, for example, while others are useful in the this particular world - copper hides your own use of allomancy Allomancy and protects your mind from allomantic Allomantic influence. Then there's gold, which allows you to see the person you would have been had you made different choices and is mostly good for traumatizing yourself, yourself (because you don't just see them, you temporarily perceive yourself ''as'' them -- while still perceiving yourself as yourself), and aluminum, which just destroys all the metals you've swallowed. For extra fun, most allomancers Allomancers are "mistings" "Mistings" who can only burn one metal. If that metal is aluminum or duralumin (which grants a massive power boost to the other metals you're burning except that you can't burn any other metals), congratulations, you have the power to do nothing, and get called an "aluminium/duralumin gnat".



* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor:]] Master of time and space (with his TARDIS), frighteningly intelligent, knows everything about everything, can completely recover from being killed just about any way you care to kill him, and speaks fluent baby. (The Doctor is fluent in basically ''every'' language, which includes baby. And horse.)

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* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor:]] Master of time and space (with his their TARDIS), frighteningly intelligent, knows everything about everything, can completely recover from being killed just about any way you care to kill him, them, and speaks fluent baby. (The Doctor is fluent in basically ''every'' language, which includes baby. And horse.)
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** Superman used to have the power of Super-Ventriloquism, which he used surprisingly frequently (because being able to ''literally'' throw your voice gives you a way to communicate in the vacuum of space). Also whenever Superman -or other Kryptonian- used to use his powers to do something more efficiently writers would call it Super-<Insert Thing Here>, so "weaving at Superspeed" became [[http://images.paxholley.net/blog/superman/supes_weaving1.jpg "Super-Weaving"]]. The worst case of which is a simple multiplication, which Supes calls [[http://images.paxholley.net/blog/superman/supes_math1.jpg "Super-Mathematics"]] ''while he gets the answer wrong''. His "Super-Breath" is used only sporadically (volcano eruption, "Fire Wall of Doom"). In ''ComicBook/WarWorld'', Superman and Supergirl use their Super Ventriloquism to communicate in the vacuum of space.

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** Superman used to have the power of Super-Ventriloquism, which he used surprisingly frequently (because being able to ''literally'' throw your voice gives you a way to communicate in the vacuum of space). Also whenever Superman -or other Kryptonian- used to use his powers to do something more efficiently writers would call it Super-<Insert Thing Here>, so "weaving at Superspeed" became [[http://images.paxholley.net/blog/superman/supes_weaving1.jpg "Super-Weaving"]]. The worst case of which is a simple multiplication, which Supes calls [[http://images.paxholley.net/blog/superman/supes_math1.jpg "Super-Mathematics"]] ''while he gets the answer wrong''.wrong''[[note]]he comes to an answer of 32,000; the actual answer is 3,200[[/note]]. His "Super-Breath" is used only sporadically (volcano eruption, "Fire Wall of Doom"). In ''ComicBook/WarWorld'', Superman and Supergirl use their Super Ventriloquism to communicate in the vacuum of space.
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Of course, HeartIsAnAwesomePower can also apply, which means this power can allow nasty surprise or emergency exit if no one ever takes it into account or it's just too wildly out of line to suspect. Which means the character is "multi-classed" as a QuirkyBard or LethalJokeCharacter and standalone versions of these are avoided.

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Of course, HeartIsAnAwesomePower can also apply, which means this power can allow for nasty surprise surprises or emergency exit exits if no one ever takes it into account or it's just too wildly out of line to suspect. Which means the character is "multi-classed" as a QuirkyBard or LethalJokeCharacter and standalone versions of these are avoided.

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