Basic Trope: The person loses their powers, which can be permanently reduced in effectiveness.
- Straight: Bob depowers Alice from a powerful superhuman to a human.
- Exaggerated: Alice is weakened so much, she can't use any of her five senses.
- Downplayed: Alice is only 20% weaker due to Bob's botched up taking of her power.
- Justified: Alice was undergoing extreme instability due to her powers. Had Bob failed to weaken her and taken her powers, she would have died.
- Inverted: Alice is made even more powerful than before.
- Subverted: Alice pretends to be depowered to put her in a better position to take out the Big Bad quickly and easily.
- Double Subverted: Alice tries to use her powers and discovers she really did lose her powers.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Some of Alice’s powers are gone, some are weakened, and some are the same.
- Averted: Depowering Alice was never attempted.
- Enforced: The viewers were tuning out thanks to the main character being an Invincible Hero, so the writers de-powered them to increase the drama and improve the ratings.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: The only way for the antagonist to defeat Alice is to depower her.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Depowering Alice is not possible, since she transcends the concept of convenient seizure of her powers and abilities. She would rather find a method of being intentionally weaker without being in an overly vulnerable state or lose her abilities' full effectiveness when she wants or needs to be quite serious.
- The antagonist is a Noble Demon who could depower Alice but sees it as dishonourable.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice isn’t seen for several episodes with the characters mentioning she was off with an injury from something she wouldn’t usually be injured by due to her powers.
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