History Main / PowerLimiter

** The Eight Inner Gates are limiters of a ninja and only the more powerful and truly skilled can remove them, such as Might Guy, a master of Taijutsu and when he unlocks the all Eight Gates, he surpasses the five Kage, [[spoiler: and becomes powerful enough to injure ''Ten-Tails Madara''!]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', [[BonusBoss Alilat]] served as one of these. While now Metatron can siphon a bit of his power back, it means now [[ThatOneBoss Demiurge's]] power lines just got unclogged...

** [[WarmUpBoss Stage 1 boss]] [[DarkIsEvil Rumia]] wears a ribbon-like amulet that she cannot take off or even touch. What exactly the amulet does has never been shown in canon, but a popular and likely theory goes that it's a power limiter. The fandom refers to the hypothetical unsealed entity as "[[BonusBoss EX]] Rumia", and she is usually portrayed as [[SuperpowerLottery excessively powerful]], [[PowerGivesYouWings winged]] and [[{{BFS}} wielding a giant sword.]]

** It's eventually revealed that [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]] is naturally immensely powerful, but suffered from dangerous PowerIncontinence. Whereas Gambit's usual power is to charge an unliving object he touches with kinetic energy, his full energy manipulation powers could potentially explode anything - or anyone - he can perceive. He can even assume an energy form, step between worlds, or possibly even twist time. At least one of his AlternateUniverse versions killed everyone on his Earth in a moment of PowerIncontinence. When his powers started to increase and slip out of his control, long before he joined the X-Men, Gambit made a bargain with villain Mister Sinister to surgically apply an artificial limit, avoiding this fate on the main Marvel earth.

** Jinchuriki have the seals containing their Tailed Beasts tend to act as limiters, restricting the flow of chakra until their host activates it when in need. When they master their Tailed Beast, the Jinchuriki can fully unlock the seals to use their full power and can enter a transformation call Tailed Beast Mode.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', [[GreaterScopeVillain The Imprisoned]] has an involuntary one in the Sealing Spike in his head. Normally, the spike serves as a [[SealedEvilInACan seal]] on him, keeping him imprisoned in the Sealed Grounds. But due to the weakening seal, he manages to emerge in a monstrous, [[ClippedWingAngel albeit weakened]], state due to the spike sealing his power. [[BigBad Ghirahim]] aims to remove said seal by [[spoiler:sacrificing Zelda's soul to give The Imprisoned the strength to break it an return to his true form, Demise.]]

* This was the intended purpose the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' had for convincing [[RealityWarper SCP]]-[[LittleMissAlmighty 239]] that she was a witch, thus limiting her power to a few "spells" that she needed a book and wand to do. It worked for a while, but then Incident 239-B happened and they just opted to put her in a coma.

** Freeza has an interesting variation: his transformations. His final and most powerful form is his natural state: all of his weaker forms are deliberately designed to keep his power in check. It's obvious why: when he finally does go all-out against Goku, he starts strong, almost evenly matched, but quickly burns out and loses power at a drastic rate.

** Soul Reapers aren't allowed to release their Zanpakuto into either Shikai or Bankai without permission. This applies to both Soul Society and the living world. The damage they can wreak is too much to contemplate without power limiters. As a result, they also have a further limit on their power. To protect humans in the living world, Soul Reaper of Captain and Vice-captain ranks have to wear a limiter that reduces their power by 80% in the form of a tattoo of their division's symbolic flower. They again can't release this without express permission.

** When Ichigo first encounters the true form of [[PetalPower Senbonzakura]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Senkei]], he realises that being [[DeathInAllDirections surrounded on all sides]] by thousands of swords puts him in a very bad position. Byakuya [[FlechetteStorm guesses what he's thinking]] and tells him not to be concerned. Apparently Byakuya once made a [[PillarsOfMoralCharacter vow]] to only ever use Senkei on someone he intended to kill [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy with his own two hands]]. As a result, he can't maximize the [[StormOfBlades potential]] of his bankai's [[DeathByAThousandCuts thousands of swords]] because he can only wield the blades [[HonorBeforeReason one or two at a time]] from the palms of his hands. [[spoiler:As of the Thousand Year Blood War arc, Byakuya can now easily call upon every single sword of Senkei to strike down his opponent. It's only been seen once (as Bleach ended), but we can assume he would go back to limiting his power after the Quincies are defeated.]]

* We see a couple of instances of this in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss.'' The first is [[spoiler:Tomoe]] who had one placed on him when he became a familiar. Next we find out that the reason Kurama's powers in the human world are very weak is because a tengu's powers are derived from the mountain they were born on and the further away they are they are, and the longer they are away, the weaker those powers get.

* In ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' there's a special medicine known as "Seven Day Ointment", which keeps a person's eyes forcibly closed during a week. Since this is a story with extremely powerful ninjas, if anyone gets a dose of this to the eyes, they're ''severely'' limited -- and double if their superpowers '''involve their eyes'''. [[spoiler:Gennosuke, whose power is basically a '''literal''' DeathGlare, has a dose of it thrown at him and spends quite a bit of the story as a HandicappedBadass. On the other hand his girlfriend Oboro, whose own powers involve [[PowerNullifier neutralizing ninja powers with her own glate]], willingly seals her eyes with the ointment after she accidentally uses her skills against one of her clansmates.]]

* One ''Bleach'' story shows Yachiru's entire uniform is covered in power limiters similar to Kenpachi's. They're also stated to be the reason she appears as a little girl as they seal away too much power for Yachiru to maintain her adult form.

** As well as Sol Badguy,who wears a pseudo-magical headband which suppresses his true nature as a SuperPrototype of a gear Gear, a race of magical living weapons of mass destruction, and allows him to retain his sanity. However, this comes at a cost of somewhere in the vicinity of 90% of his power. Given his already amazing battle skill, and his ability to destroy commander-level Gears with minimal effort, his true potential can be rather frightening to consider.

* In ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa2'' if you kill Rockbouquet before Noel, he will not allow you to make peace with him and will attack at full power; it is even worse if he is the only remaining hero since he will be the penultimate boss in the final dungeon; he will be in his second form and without the limiter, meaning he will use every technique at his disposal.

* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' there's a unit item actually named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Limiter]] that reduces all your stats. However, if you get 20,000 kills with it equipped, it becomes an Adept, which raises all stats and cuts MP consumption.

** The [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals Adepts]] of the [[MegaCorp Sumeragi Group]] are kept under control through the use of Glaives that contain their extracted septimosome, the physical source of their powers, though they can still use at least a weakened version of their powers. By merging with them, they can regain access to their powers [[AmplifierArtifact and then some]] to achieve a state called "weaponization"/"Armed Phenomenon" and they can summon them remotely from the Sumeragi Headquarters when needed for combat. [[BigBad Nova]] takes the cake, however, in that he's so strong that he needs ''three'' of these Glaives to restrict his power (most need only one)...and even then he's strong enough that he can rival the power of his strongest underlings when they've ''released'' their Glaive. [[OneWingedAngel His fully-released form]] is compared to [[AGodAmI a god more than a man by both himself and others]]. By ''Azure Striker Gunvolt 3'', these types of Glaives are considered "old-fashioned" and a new type that can inhibit Septimas as a field effect without extracting the septimosome are the standard.

* Abel Nightroad in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' is the only [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Crusnik]] who can release his powers in three stages (40%, 80%, and 100%). These restrictions are self-imposed, following a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment long before the series' begin.

* Peacemakers in ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' have four "modes": compressed [[spoiler:(when they look and behave like ordinary little kids)]], normal [[spoiler:(adult mages of tremendous powers)]], limited battle form [[spoiler:(levitating monstrosities that level entire cities within minutes)]], and fully released form [[spoiler:(clearly OverNineThousand and forbidden to use inside the atmosphere)]].

* [[Manga/SgtFrog Sergeant Keroro]] wears a power limiter during the monsoon season to prevent him from turning into "Keroro From [[NoodleIncident Back Then]]".

* Yuki Nagato from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' requests permission from her boss to use her powers, and later adds a second layer of restriction in the form of Kyon.

* [[ComicBook/GhostRider Ghost Riders]] are their own power limiters. The human Riders limit naturally only use a mere fraction of the potential power of their Spirits, who, it’s been said, essentially have the power of a god when carrying out their duties. The Rider job is to focus and direct that power, in whatever way they choose. If the Rider is knocked out or gives control to the Spirit, the limit is removed, but the Spirit might stop the fight if they don’t approve of the opponent, as they only fight the guilty and sinful. The best example of this is in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', where Johnny Blaze attempted to talk the Hulk out of his rampage, then attempted to get him out of the city when he couldn’t. Hulk ended up hurting Johnny enough he blacked out, giving control over to Zarathos, his spirit. Zarathos, however, dropped the fight, as he felt Hulk was innocent and the injured party in the matter.

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* ''LightNovel/TsuyokuteNewSaga'': Seran turns out to be wearing not one but dozens of them, and one said restraining bracelet increases the weight by five times.
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* Done by choice in the ''Taltos'' novels of the Literature/{{Dragaera}} series, where [[spoiler:Sethra Lavode]] is revealed to be one and the same with [[spoiler:Kiera the Thief]], and in this persona achieved success with hard work and minimal use of magic, refusing to use any resource or knowledge she didn't gain as [[spoiler:Kiera]], even though in her true form she is an equal to the gods. Her explanation was simply that she got bored.

* In the digital card game ''Videogame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' we have the card 2 mana cost card [[http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/File:Ancient_Watcher(153).png Ancient Watcher]] which has a massive 4 attack and 5 health but has a limiter which prevents it from attacking. Silencing the card will disable this limiter and makes it a potent threat.

* The Elona+ expansion for ''Videogame/{{Elona}}'' has the fourth-level god gifts, which are equipment pieces that provide lots of armor, but decrease that god's favored attributes and skills by an extraordinary amount. They're meant to be used for training; attributes and skills that are very high gain levels slowly, but by lowering those attributes and skills and setting up the right situation, you can continue to train them in a time-efficient manner.
* In the ''Ringed City'' dlc content of ''Videogame/DarkSoulsIII'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:the Darksign]] is apparently a power limiter. [[spoiler:Gwyn placed a "seal of fire" on the Pygmy Lords and their Ringed Knights to cut them off from the power of the Abyss which they could command due to their mastery of their Dark Soul fragments. This now waning seal bears an eerie resemblance to the Darksign.]]

* In ''Videogame/DeusExMankindDivided'' Adam Jensen is revealed to have a bevy of experimental augmentations that while very potent will severely destabilize him if he activates them on top of his existing augs. He can get around this by either disabling certain mods (including HUD elements) or obtaining a MacGuffin that will allow his surgeon (presuming that he's still alive) to eventually remove the limiter entirely.

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** The [[PsychicPowers Adepts]] of the [[MegaCorp Sumeragi Group]] are kept under control through the use of Glaives that contain their extracted septimosome, the physical source of their powers, though they can still use at least a weakened version of their powers. By merging with them, they can regain access to their powers [[AmplifierArtifact and then some]] to achieve a state called "weaponization"/"Armed Phenomenon" and they can summon them remotely from the Sumeragi Headquarters when needed for combat. [[BigBad Nova]] takes the cake, however, in that he's so strong that he needed ''three'' of these Glaives to restrict his power (most need only one)...and even then he's strong enough that he can rival the power of his strongest underlings when they've ''released'' their Glaive. [[OneWingedAngel His fully-released form]] is compared to [[AGodAmI a god more than a man by both himself and others]]. By ''Azure Striker Gunvolt 3'', these types of Glaives are considered "old-fashioned" and a new type that can inhibit Septimas as a field effect without extracting the septimosome are the standard.

** The Coven system functions as one of these. When a Witch joins a Coven, all magic not related to that Coven's particular focus is locked off forever with a special sigil. As demonstrated by Eda and The Emperor's Coven, those without it are insanely powerful. A few students from Hexside break this rule by studying two Covens at once, while Luz, a human who uses glyph magic, studies everything. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out that sigils are vital to Belos' plan on the Day of Unity, and will allow him to enact genocide on the entire population in a single stroke.]]
** Speaking of Luz, she can't do any type of magic modern day witches use because she's not magically empowered due to being human; instead she uses glyph magic, which was a practice used in the old days before witches evolved their own internal magic supplies. This stops working when she's in the human world [[spoiler:and the [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds In Between Realm]]]].

** The [[PsychicPowers Adepts]] of the [[MegaCorp Sumeragi Group]] are kept under control through the use of Glaives that contain their extracted septimosome, the physical source of their powers, though they can still use at least a weakened version of their powers. By merging with them, they can regain access to their powers [[AmplifierArtifact and then some]] to achieve a state called "weaponization"/"Armed Phenomenon" and they can summon them remotely from the Sumeragi Headquarters when needed for combat. [[BigBad Nova]] takes the cake, however, in that he's so strong that he needed ''three'' of these Glaives to restrict his power (most need only one)...and even then he's strong enough that he can rival the power of his strongest underlings when they've ''released'' their Glaive. [[OneWingedAngel His fully-released form]] is compared to [[AGodAmI a god more than a man by both himself and others]].

* ComicBook/TheSpectre's power is severely limited when sealed in a mortal host. The Spectre still has near-omnipotent power but can only use it to punish murderers (and not every murderer at that). During the Day of Vengeance event, the Spectre was between hosts and fell prey to Eclipso's manipulations and decided that magic was an affront to the Presence's will and had to be destroyed. The Spectre declared war on all magic in the universe. And pretty much won. Without anything holding him back, the Spectre [[BalefulPolymorph turned Phantom Stranger into a mouse]], forced Blaze and Satanus to flee for their lives, kicked a souped up Captain Marvel's ass, killed Shazam in the place where he was strongest, and killed all of the Lords of Order and Chaos. Unfortunately for the Spectre, that last one was the final straw for the Presence. The Presence promptly demonstrated the difference between near-omnipotent and truly omnipotent power by sealing the Spectre into his new host.

** The seals containing the tailed beasts tend to act as limiters, restricting the flow of chakra until their host activates it when in need.

* The [[PsychicPowers Adepts]] of the Sumeragi Group in ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' are kept under control through the use of Glaives that contain their extracted septisome, the physical source of their powers. By merging with them, they can regain access to their powers [[AmplifierArtifact and then some]] and they can summon them remotely from the Sumeragi Headquarters when needed for combat. [[BigBad Nova]] takes the cake, however, in that he's so strong that he needed ''three'' of these Glaives to restrict his power (most need only one)...and even then he's strong enough that he can rival the power of his strongest underlings when they've ''released'' their Glaive. [[OneWingedAngel His fully-released form]] is compared to [[AGodAmI a god more than a man by both himself and others]].

* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': During Saitama's fight with Boros, the armor the latter is wearing turns out to be one when it gets broken weathering one of Saitama's trademark punches.
-->'''Boros:''' This set of armor, which was used to seal in my immeasurable, irresistible power, has now been broken.\\
'''Saitama:''' (''[[DullSurprise deadpan]], [[ArtShift drawn in a more simplified art stye]]'') OK.

* In ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', on the Floor of Death in the Hell Train arc, Urek Mazino wears an anklet that masks the aura of his power to keep him from being detected by Princess Garam, and which will break if he uses more than 5% of his power, making it an effective Power Limiter. All this really serves is to show off how powerful he is, because a small fraction of his power is still enough to CurbStomp [[spoiler:Karaka]], who's a very powerful character by most standards.
* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''WebComic/GRRLPower''. Superpowers in the setting are extremely varied, and their origins are unknown (mostly, [[JackOfAllTrades Halo's]] are alien artifacts and [[EmotionEater Vehemence's]] is magical), so any "one size fits all" power limiter is impossible. [=ArcAEGIS=] is, however, very creative when it comes to {{Tailor Made Prison}}s; A superhero who creates portals is kept in a pressurized cell, so any attempt at teleporting would cause explosive decompression, and an EmotionEater who gains power from violence is kept high of his ass and provided with cutesy, non-violent entertainment. On the few cases where they let him out for "feeding", they keep Halo around so she can dump him into outer space the moment he gets uppity and let him choke until he surrenders.

** Kakashi keeps his eye patch for most fights, because without his EyepatchOfPower his power is always on and will cost him all his energy too quickly. He also has a limit on his [[spoiler: Mangekyō Sharingan (which punch unavoidable holes into reality taking body parts of his enemies apart)]] - twice in one fight! That power could end any threat real quick if not for the 3 limits... the [[spoiler: holes in reality]] take a long while to get started, 2 weeks of recovering in bed for doing them, and not being able to train this dangerous power means he can't aim [[spoiler: holes in reality]] well... yet.

* ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'': Crossbone Gundam X3 has two variations on this trope. Its built-in [[BeehiveBarrier I-field]] generators have a cool-down period longer than their operational period (which finally gets fixed in Steel Seven by simply adding two more generators). And its Muramasa Blaster initially has a safety Tobia doesn't know about - which isn't a huge problem, as that just makes it a club rather than a beam saber.

** There's also [[spoiler:Tsukune's Holy Lock, which keeps Moka's blood in his veins]] from turning him into a [[spoiler: mindless massacre machine.]]

* Power Limiters are essential in ''Manga/PsychicSquad'', as the girls' powers at their max can wreck an entire city block. At first, they were in the form of chokers, but Minamoto's persuasion changed them to a bracelet, earring and ring - much more stylish and less degrading. However, the limiter can only be deactivated when the emergency levels are at their highest.

* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', Fay's phoenix tattoo (which covers his entire back) restrains his huge innate magical powers. When he trades it to Yuuko for a place in the traveling party, he swears off using his magic for fear of what might happen without the limit in place. Although, [[spoiler: it turns out he's MORE dangerous with it than without, due to being cursed to kill the first person he meets whose magic exceeds his own. Suppressing his magic only makes it more likely he'll run across someone stronger]].
** Just as a reminder, without that limiter, [[spoiler: Fay's magic can destroy an entire world/dimension/at least country when he has a SuperPowerMeltdown]].

* We see a couple of instances of this in ''Manga/KamisamaKiss.'' The first is [[spoiler: Tomoe]] who had one placed on him when he became a familiar. Next we find out that the reason Kurama's powers in the human world are very weak is because a tengu's powers are derived from the mountain they were born on and the further away they are they are, and the longer they are away, the weaker those powers get.

* The Build Burning Gundam of ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'' has a unique one - it was hidden within the shell of a MS-09 Dom.

* In ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' there's a special medicine known as "Seven Day Ointment", which keeps a person's eyes forcibly closed during a week. Since this is a story with extremely powerful ninjas, if anyone gets a dose of this to the eyes, they're ''severely'' limited - and double if their superpowers '''involve their eyes'''. [[spoiler: Gennosuke, whose power is basically a '''literal''' DeathGlare, has a dose of it thrown at him and spends quite a bit of the story as a HandicappedBadass. On the other hand his girlfriend Oboro, whose own powers involve [[PowerNullifier neutralizing ninja powers with her own glate]], willingly seals her eyes with the ointment after she accidentally uses her skills against one of her clansmates.]]

** In the 80's, a retcon introduced the idea that Professor Xavier placed a mental block in ComicBook/JeanGrey's mind as a child to keep her more extreme powers from manifesting.

* Harriett Potter, in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'', is overwhelmed by the maturation of her magical core on her thirteenth birthday, bedridden and in pain from being bloated with magic. She then learns that her mother had a similar problem and wears a power-suppressing bracelet all the time. Even once Harry recovers from the initial shock, her magic reserves are just too big for her to handle, overloading her spells and potions, so she commissions a power-suppressing ring. The results are mixed; she regains control, but it becomes much harder to use high-level magic, and she's advised by several experts that the underlying problem will only get worse the longer she tries to squash that part of herself. [[spoiler: Eventually, the choice is taken away from her, when her ring is destroyed and she has no alternative but to come to terms with herself and her magic.]]

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': The entire guild lobby was outfitted with runes that suppress [[spoiler: Mia's hammerspace ability]] so she can control it instead of turning into a blackhole.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', Wataru (the titular hero) has his [[spoiler: {{Dhampyr}} and]] Rider abilities are chained in two ways: symbolically in that being a [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid denies him most of the powers of his vampiric heritage]], and literally with the chains adorning Kiva's armor that bring its power down to manageable levels. When he unlocks [[SuperMode Emperor Form]], the TransformationSequence actually begins with one of his sidekicks shattering the chains.

** Limiters are used in a lot of ways, not just to ensure that surfacers and Solarians can't attain their full power. [[spoiler: Fei also gets a Limiter that keeps his SuperpoweredEvilSide under control, with a system that allows him to release his Id powers in a controlled fashion. It breaks later.]]

** The Heaven's Feel scenario has Shirou [[spoiler: losing an arm and having Archer's arm (and Magic Circuits) grafted on (supposed to be impossible, [[MyFutureSelfAndMe but...]])]], which would kill him if he used it much at all, thus forcing him to utilize a magical shroud to block it off.

** When the final battle comes, you tear off the plates to defeat him [[spoiler: only for his body to transform into a DraconicAbomination capable of single-handedly killing any of the other Aspects and ending the world in a minute flat]].

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' has an interesting example. Raiden's new cyborg body has all the bells and whistles, including systems to allow him to fight on while injured/damaged. [[spoiler: It turns out these are also keeping "Jack the Ripper", his long-suppressed ChildSoldier side, in check. When an attempt to [[BreakThemByTalking break Raiden by talking]] works [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well]], he demands Doktor turn ''off'' his supposedly-helpful pain inhibitors, allowing his CombatSadomasochist SuperpoweredEvilSide to let rip.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'', Hazama explained that Noel's Nox Nyctores Bolverk actually functions as a limiter to sustain her emotions, thus when Bolverk broke, Noel unlocked her true form - Mu-12. This only happens because he was riling her up at the time, however. When Rachel takes Bolverk from her in an alternate timeline, she instead loses all self-confidence and dissolves into tears.

* It is revealed near the end of ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' that [[spoiler: the Siphon actually limits Elizabeth's powers at the request of Comstock to better manage and keep her under control. By destroying the Siphon Tower using Songbird, Elizabeth gains the full potential of her powers which allowed her to see through the multi universe of the world and its truth.]]

* Agatha's brooch in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' inhibits her "[[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder spark]]" of [[MadScientist Mad Science]] genius [[spoiler: and later prevents her from being [[GrandTheftMe taken over by her mother]]]].

* In ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', on the Floor of Death in the Hell Train arc, Urek Mazino wears an anklet that masks the aura of his power to keep him from being detected by Princess Garam, and which will break if he uses more than 5% of his power, making it an effective Power Limiter. All this really serves is to show off how powerful he is, because a small fraction of his power is still enough to CurbStomp [[spoiler: Karaka]], who's a very powerful character by most standards.

** In this universe, there's "Fledgling Forbearance", a spell used to curb a foal's PowerIncontinence. It was introduced in the episode "The Crystalling", [[GooGooGodlike Baby Flurry Heart]] has said incontinence to UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom levels, [[spoiler: but she's curbed at the end with Sunburst's help]].

* The U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights acts as one for the American Government. Despite [[CommonKnowledge popular belief]], the Constitution does not "grant" people rights such as Freedom of Speech or the right to bear arms, but rather asserts the rights as naturally belonging to the people by virtue of their existence (i.e. "God-given"), and protects those rights by explicitly restricting the ability of lawmakers to interfere with them. The distinctive wording is a big part of why it takes such enormous, coordinated, overwhelming effort (2/3 of Congress and ''3/4'' of states) to add or repeal Constitutional Amendments (so that, unlike normal laws, they can't simply be arbitrated into or out of existence by whichever party happens to hold majority at the time).

* ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'' has Hikitsu put an eyepatch (or [[BandageBabe bandages]]) over his right eye, where his symbol is located. If it isn't covered, he can easily see into another person's heart, make them relive horrible memories to make them remember details, [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands inexplicably view the memories held within an inanimate object]] and similar.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': [[spoiler:The "golden contract" functions as this for Azul's [[PowerParasite unique magic]]; without it, he'll rob his victims of ''all'' of their powers due to its powerful nature and thus he'll [[OneWingedAngel overblot]] very quickly.]]