History Main / ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman

** I don't fully understand why they can't just seal up the passages with concrete or something.

* An episode of GarfieldAndFriends has some X-men [[{{Expy}} Expies]]. Our Gambit expy had... super Yogurt control powers... Fortunately, Jon, being a complete moron, had been scammed into buying a very expensive yogurt-dispenser with a warranty(Well made, just priced the same as a mansion). Cue said Yogurt powers saving Jon a ton of money.

** Subverted later on as Ron's chess skillz, which were set up earlier in the same book, are never useful again for the whole rest of the series. (Of course, if they were continuously useful, it would have ended up being a hugely ridiculous example of this trope.)

* There was an episode of the 2002 ''HeMan'' remake devoted to Mekaneck complaining about his relatively useless power. Almost every obstacle in the episode (a maze of long narrow corridors, toxic gas that remains low to the ground, and the villain holding the Artifact Of The Week from a high altitude) seemed tailor-made for a person whose neck extends.

*** Early on in the first Prime game, you run into a pair of locked doors. The key to unlocking these doors? ''[[WallBanger Placing a 1m-diameter metal sphere in the middle of the room.]]''
** Space Pirates just love them TUUUUUUBES

** Happens in every single episode of the original 1973/74 season, usually in the form of a villain-caused problem occurring on or under the ocean. There were also several water-based opponents on the show as well, such as the episodes "Dr. Pelagian's War", "The Weather Maker" and "The Watermen".

** Averted in one episode of the {{Superfriends}} where he and Black Vulcan (who has ''electricity powers'') go to save a nuclear submarine, and Aquaman utterly fails at being a help at all, mostly making things worse.

** Happens in every single episode of the original 1973/74 season, usually in the form of a problem occurring on or under the ocean that he's best equipped to deal with. There were an astounding number of water-based BigBads on the show as well.

** Averted in one episode of the {{Superfriends}} where him and Black Vulcan (who has ''electricity powers'') go to save a nuclear submarine, and Aquaman utterly fails at being a help at all, mostly making things worse.

* {{Aquaman}}, of course, was notorious for such convenient obstacles, both as an EigenPlot as part of a team, and alone in his {{Filmation}} cartoon (down to Aquaman actually becoming an astronaut because they needed to explore a water planet). Modern Authors usually subvert this however, pointing out that he's at least a BadassNormal on dry land, having him use his additional minor powers or a skillful application of his RequiredSecondaryPowers.

The exact opposite of this would be KryptoniteIsEverywhere.

* ''{{Zoolander}}'' is a comedy thriller set in an alternate New York City that revolves around male modeling. The two top male models must team up to stop a worldwide fashion conspiracy from using their specialized physical form and low intelligence to create programmed assassins!

* {{Aquaman}}, of course, was notorious for such convenient obstacles, both as an EigenPlot as part of a team, and alone in his {{Filmation}} cartoon (down to Aquaman actually becoming an astronaut because they needed to explore a water planet). Modern Authors usually do their best to subvert this however, making sure he's at least a BadassNormal on dry land, giving him additional minor powers, or skillful application of RequiredSecondaryPowers.
** Specifically, they've taken his "ability to survive crushing ocean depths" and "ability to swim really fast" and extrapolated to generally superhuman levels of strength and toughness. His telepathy is also shown to have some limited degree of usefulness with non-marine species DependingOnTheWriter.
*** More specifically, some writers go to extremes by combining "can summon and control sea creatures" with "every living thing on Earth has evolved from sea life" to giving him power over more or less everything.

* ''{{Chew}}'': It involves a detective who gets superhuman levels of information from ''eating''!

* By season two of ''DinoSquad'', the writers were apparently at a loss as to why vain, fashion-obsessed Caruso was still a member of the team. The result was an episode devoted to his battle against the BigBad's guards and a horde of voracious giant ants - both of which helpfully turned out to be terribly vulnerable to yoga and scented hand cream.

*** They may not be useful very often, but they are mentioned occasionally; Ron plays a few games against Harry, Hermione, and possibly other characters and wins. It'd be extremely unlikely that something like that would come up often.

* Subverted By ''TeenTitans''. While Aqualad does specialize in underwater missions, he's proven that he's perfectly capable of fighting on dry land. (Most people tend to forget he's also got super strength - AND Hydrokinesis)

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** Subverted later on as Ron's chess skillz, which were set up earlier in the same book, are never useful again for the whole rest of the series.

** Sort of subverted later on as Ron's chess skillz are never useful again for the whole rest of the series.

** Well, let's face it. Dumbledore knows Voldemort is just as good as him, so no matter what Dumbledore puts up, Voldemort will be able to get through it without a problem. I'm sure Dumbledore just put them up to ensure that the Trio doesn't go after Voldemort unless they're absolutely ready. Dumbledore would rather Voldemort get his hands on the Stone than let Harry be killed so early into his XanatosGambit.