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* In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' (and can lean towards [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} its sister series]]), Jaune finds and decides to play with Team RWBY's weapons. He can't hold Crescent Rose properly (and it's noted in the main series that Ruby and her uncle Qrow are the only two who have the skill to use scythe weapons) and he's blown away by an accidental discharge of Ember Celica, showing that he lacks the body strength to not get blow away by arm-mounted shotguns.

** It's explained that the Freelancers' AI granted them the RequiredSecondaryPowers needed for individual armor abilities. When Griff tried out the SuperSpeed armor ability without an AI, everything, including his mental processes and metabolism, was sped up, and he ran [[CrowningMomentOfFunny straight into a wall]] because he had no way of knowing when to slow down.

* ''WebVideo/{{Drawfee}}'':
poked fun of this in one of their "super power roulette" and point out that without healing factor, some degrees of body manipulation or means to grow more bones, the ability of "Projecting bone bullet" will be extremely painful, impossibly visceral, and leave the user in the state of a useless sack of meat after excessive use.

* ''WebVideo/Drawfee Drawfee'':

* ''WebVideo/Drawfee'' poked fun of this in one of their "super power roulette" and point out that without healing factor, some degrees of body manipulation or means to grow more bones, the ability of "Projecting bone bullet" will be extremely painful, impossibly visceral, and leave the user in the state of a useless sack of meat after excessive use.

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote: note]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20241_6-awesome-superpowers-that-would-suck-in-real-life.html A later cracked.com article then pointed out that if you could stop time you'd go blind because light would stop reaching your eyes.]][[/labelnote]]

This only covers if the power in question is not explicitly defined. While Cyclops from the ''Comicbook/XMen'' doesn't hurt his own eyelids with his EyeBeams every time he shuts his eyes, this is defined as an explicit ability of his (and his brother).

** The Rahi-nui was defeated because the toa metru figured out that it lacked a certain required power. It had the ability to change its size but not its mass. By making it lose control of its size it grew so large that it evaporated from the loss of density.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Matoran actually have Required Secondary Powers, but have a minuscule amount of ElementalPowers. Of course, when they do become Toa, they will have the necessary secondary power for their element.

!!Examples:

* RequiredSecondaryPowers/FanFics

* RequiredSecondaryPowers/{{Manhua}}
* RequiredSecondaryPowers/{{Music}}
* RequiredSecondaryPowers/MythAndLegend
* RequiredSecondaryPowers/TabletopGame
* RequiredSecondaryPowers/{{Toys}}

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote: note]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower. For an episode about the lack of required secondary powers, they did, however, forget to mention that if you stop time that means you go blind because light stops traveling to your eyes.[[/labelnote]]

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote: note]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower. [[Main/Irony For an episode about the lack of required secondary powers, they did, however, forget to mention that if you stop time that means you go blind because light stops traveling to your eyes.]][[/labelnote]]

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote: note]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower. [[Irony For an episode about the lack of required secondary powers, they did, however, forget to mention that if you stop time that means you go blind because light stops traveling to your eyes.]][[/labelnote]]

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote: note]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower.[[/labelnote]]

This only covers if the power in question is not explicitly defined. While Cyclops from the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' doesn't hurt his own eyelids with his EyeBeams every time he shuts his eyes, this is defined as an explicit ability of his (and his brother).

* RequiredSecondaryPowers/AnimatedFilms

* RequiredSecondaryPowers/{{Film}}

All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's RequiredSecondaryPowers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a LogicalWeakness. Compare LethalHarmlessPowers. Also, many accusations of MisappliedPhlebotinum rely on the assumption that the characters or factions in question have the [=RSPs=] needed to pull out all the theoretical potential. One way for people to learn ways to cope with, or even surpass the limits of their powers as outlined by this trope is to take BoxingLessonsForSuperman, as the new skills and knowledge they can acquire from such training will let them better understand the scope of their powers and find ways to better control it, or work around said limits of their power.

'''Warning: Exploration of this Trope may result in brain breakage.''' But you [[MyBrainIsBig probably have]] [[SuperIntelligence something to]] [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist counter that]], [[RequiredSecondaryPowers right]]?

All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's RequiredSecondaryPowers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a LogicalWeakness. Compare LethalHarmlessPowers. Also, many accusations of MisappliedPhlebotinum rely on the assumption that the characters or factions in question have the [=RSPs=] needed to pull out all the theoretical potential.

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote]]In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower.[[/labelnote]]

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]'' [[labelnote]] In case you were wondering, they determined that the ability to manipulate time was the best superpower. [[/labelnote]]

-->-- '''Soren''', ''[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo&feature=kp The Best Super Power (Is Not What You Think) | After Hours]]''

[[caption-width-right:217:[[http://superredundant.com/?p=539 Even if you have them, make sure your leverage point does too.]]

[[caption-width-right:217:[[http://superredundant.com/?p=539 Even if you have them, make sure your leverage point does too.]]]]

->''"'''Invulnerability:''' Not much of a downside to this, as long as you're also invulnerable to things you might want to get a shot for. And your hair and fingernails aren't invulnerable. And you're not planning on getting into the piercing and tattooing scene. And your skin doesn't have the texture of cold bicycle tires as a result.''"
-->--'''Lore Sjöberg''', ''The Book of Ratings'', "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20100810180456/http://www.bookofratings.com/superpowersrating.html Superman's Powers]]"

All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's RequiredSecondaryPowers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a LogicalWeakness. Compare LethalHarmlessPowers. Also compare MisappliedPhlebotinum; many accusations of this assume that the characters or factions in question have the [=RSPs=] needed to pull out all the theoretical potential.

All these tropes are especially good targets for subversion or aversion, because the absence or malfunction of a superhero's RequiredSecondaryPowers creates a dramatically useful limit on their primary powers. A slight lack of these may oftentimes cause a LogicalWeakness. Compare LethalHarmlessPowers.