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The characters normally have access to powerful abilities, which could greatly help them in their current situation, but are currently unable to use them for one reason or another. Common in series like Bewitched, where the characters are given almost unlimited powers at the beginning, and the writers have to come up with more and more arcane limitations to create a new conflict each week. Often involves a Fantastic Aesop about how using powers to avoid hard work is Bad™. Examples of Useless Superpowers include:

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  • The characters normally have access to powerful abilities, which could greatly help them in their current situation, but are currently unable to use them for one reason or another. Common in series like Bewitched, where the characters are given almost unlimited powers at the beginning, and the writers have to come up with more and more arcane limitations to create a new conflict each week. Often involves a Fantastic Aesop about how using powers to avoid hard work is Bad™. Examples of Useless Superpowers include:
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  • The characters normally have access to powerful abilities, which could greatly help them in their current situation, but are currently unable to use them for one reason or another. Common in series like Bewitched, where the characters are given almost unlimited powers at the beginning, and the writers have to come up with more and more arcane limitations to create a new conflict each week. Often involves a Fantastic Aesop about how using powers to avoid hard work is Bad™. A form of Holding Back the Phlebotinum. Compare Coconut Superpowers. For superpowers that are actually useless in and of themeselves see What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? or Blessed with Suck. When the depowerment happens just when it would've been necessary, then it's Plot-Driven Breakdown Examples of Useless Superpowers include:
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