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** Alice makes Bob waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, [[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
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** Alice makes forces Bob to waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, [[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his fingers into knives. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with an ordinary peeler and kitchen knife.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his fingers into knives. His mentor Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with an ordinary peeler and kitchen knife.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice makes Bob peel the potatoes with a peeler, but lets him use his finger-knives to chop them.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice makes Bob peel the potatoes with a peeler, but lets him use his finger-knives knife-fingers to chop them.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his finger-knives.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his finger-knives to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his finger-knives to chop them when she's in a good mood.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his finger-knives.
knife-fingers.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use hisfinger-knives knife-fingers to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his
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* '''Parodied''': Alice makes Bob waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, [[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
* '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
* '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** Alice makes Bob waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, [[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
** Students graduating from Tropewarts School of Magic are shown to be [[IneptMage severely lacking in skill]] because they spend so much time doing chores without magic in the name of "discipline" that they have little time to actually practice their magic.
*'''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility '''Averted''':
** Everyone uses their powers to do theirchores.]] chores. Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.all.
** MundaneUtility
** Alice makes Bob waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, [[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
** Students graduating from Tropewarts School of Magic are shown to be [[IneptMage severely lacking in skill]] because they spend so much time doing chores without magic in the name of "discipline" that they have little time to actually practice their magic.
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** Everyone uses their powers to do their
** MundaneUtility
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** Bob is so tired from all his chores that when a villain strikes the city, he's in no state to fight them.
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** Bob is so tired from all his chores that when a villain strikes the city, he's in no state to fight them.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Alice and Bob work out a healthy balance between Bob getting a good amount of practice with his powers and not forgetting how to get by without them.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Alice and Bob work out a healthy balance between Bob getting a good amount of practice with his powers and not forgetting how to get by without them.
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** Alice forbids Bob from completing his chores by normal means.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using his powers.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using his powers.
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** Alice forbids Bob from completing using a potato peeler to chop and peel the potatoes. He ''must'' use his chores by normal means.
knife fingers.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using hispowers.knife fingers.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using his
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* '''Justified''': Alice is trying to teach Bob not to rely too much on his powers in case he loses them.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** Alice is trying to teach Bob not to rely too much on his powers in case he losesthem.them.
** Bob had already learned how to use a peeler by the time he gained the ability to turn his fingers into knives. If it ain't broken…
** Alice is trying to teach Bob not to rely too much on his powers in case he loses
** Bob had already learned how to use a peeler by the time he gained the ability to turn his fingers into knives. If it ain't broken…
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with an ordinary peeler and kitchen knife.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms fingers into blades.knives. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with an ordinary peeler and kitchen knife.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice makes Bob peel the potatoes with a peeler, but lets him use his arm blades to chop them.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice makes Bob peel the potatoes with a peeler, but lets him use his arm blades finger-knives to chop them.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his arm-blades.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his arm-blades to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his arm-blades to chop them when she's in a good mood.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his arm-blades.
finger-knives.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use hisarm-blades finger-knives to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice makes Bob peel the potatoes with a peeler, but lets him use his arm blades to chop them.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his blade-arms.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his blade-arms to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his blade-arms to chop them when she's in a good mood.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his blade-arms.
arm-blades.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use hisblade-arms arm-blades to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his
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** Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets away.
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** Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what how to do use them when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets away.
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* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to waste time peeling and chopping potatoes for hours by hand when he could do it almost instantly with his blade-arms.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his blade-arms to chop them when she's in a good mood.
* '''Zigzagged''': Sometimes Alice makes Bob chop potatoes by hand, other times she lets him use his blade-arms to chop them when she's in a good mood.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice makes Bob spend hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, while Bob is silently seething with frustration at not being able to use his powers.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice makes Bob spend waste hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, while Bob is silently seething with frustration at not being able to use his powers.[[SkewedPriorities even when it's Christmas Eve and relatives are coming for dinner in 3 hours]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets away.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain getsaway.away.
** Bob is so tired from all his chores that when a villain strikes the city, he's in no state to fight them.
** Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets
** Bob is so tired from all his chores that when a villain strikes the city, he's in no state to fight them.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with a peeler and a knife.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with a an ordinary peeler and a kitchen knife.
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* '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice makes Bob spend hours trying to chop a single potato with the dullest knife imaginable, while Bob is silently seething with frustration at not being able to use his powers.
* '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens atall.all.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets away.
* '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens at
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice forbids Bob to use his powers for anything except superhero work. Because he doesn't practice with them often enough, he has no idea what to do when he's thrust onto the battlefield, and the villain gets away.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel a mountain of potatoes with a peeler.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel and chop a mountain of potatoes with a peeler.peeler and a knife.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel potatoes with a peeler.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him peel a mountain of potatoes with a peeler.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob is a wizard in training. Alice makes him clean the kitchen, and forbids him from using a cleaning spell.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Bob is a wizard in training. can turn his arms into blades. Alice makes him clean the kitchen, and forbids him from using peel potatoes with a cleaning spell.peeler.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Alice forbids Bob from using his powers to complete his chores.
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'''Basic Trope''': Someone with magical abilities, superpowers, etc. does menial labor without using said powers, usually as a punishment.
* '''Played Straight:''' Bob is a wizard in training. Alice makes him clean the kitchen, and forbidsBob him from using his powers to complete his chores.a cleaning spell.
* '''Played Straight:''' Bob is a wizard in training. Alice makes him clean the kitchen, and forbids
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* '''Subverted''':
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* '''Subverted''': Alice tells Bob to do his chores without the use of his powers, and he agrees, but later it turns out he secretly did use them in a non-obvious way.
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* ''Averted'': Everyone uses their powers to do their chores. Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
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* ''Averted'': '''Averted''': [[MundaneUtility Everyone uses their powers to do their chores. chores.]] Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
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* '''Played Straight:''' Alice forbids Bob from using his powers to complete his chores.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[ForgottenPhlebotinum No one has ever used their powers to do their chores.]] When Bob brings up the possibility, everyone is shocked and appalled at the idea.
* '''Justified''': Alice is trying to teach Bob not to rely too much on his powers in case he loses them.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice forbids Bob from completing his chores by normal means.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using his powers.
* ''Averted'': Everyone uses their powers to do their chores. Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[ForgottenPhlebotinum No one has ever used their powers to do their chores.]] When Bob brings up the possibility, everyone is shocked and appalled at the idea.
* '''Justified''': Alice is trying to teach Bob not to rely too much on his powers in case he loses them.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice forbids Bob from completing his chores by normal means.
** The chores are something impossible to do without Bob using his powers.
* ''Averted'': Everyone uses their powers to do their chores. Doing them in a mundane way never happens at all.
