Power Nullifier/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: Something that can turn off superpowers.

    • Straight: The nullifier is used to deactivate the powers of heroes or villains as the wielder requires.
    • Exaggerated: The nullifier can strip skills and abilities from anyone, reducing their physical and mental capacity to infant level.
    • Downplayed: ???
    • Justified: ???
    • Inverted: ???
    • Subverted: The nullifier is explained and put into use, but then has no effect on the hero.
    • Double Subverted: That's because they used the wrong type or setting of nullifier for the hero's particular power. When they use the correct one, it depowers them just fine.
    • Parodied: Nullifiers are so common that there are commercially-made guns which can launch them at super-villains. The villains keep trying to rob banks and take over the world anyway, but are constantly thwarted by random people on the street who pull out a nullifier and incapacitate them.
    • Zig Zagged: ???
    • Averted: There is no way to remove powers.
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: Heroes learn enough martial arts to become Badass Normal, just in case one of their villains uses a nullifier.
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: "That wouldn't work! You can't just turn off a physical attribute like a light switch!"
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???

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