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| - A Power Limiter, otherwise known simply as a "limiter", is a device manufactured by the Umbrella Corporation to prevent the uncontrollable mutations a Tyrant may experience, which prevent the B.O.W.s from being properly controlled.
- A plot device used to restrict a character's power level, often because their powers are too dangerous or too uncontrollable to be let loose at their fullest. Power limiters can lighten the load on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, or maybe just to give new characters a chance to shine. Releasing these limiters in time of need may be difficult; if the limiting was voluntary, it's Always Need What You Gave Up... then again, if the controls are in their hands, it's a non-issue. Releasing a previously unmentioned power limiter can provide a last minute save against a particularly powerful Big Bad. Of course, this can be done badly, especially if there were no clues that the limit was in place.
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| - A plot device used to restrict a character's power level, often because their powers are too dangerous or too uncontrollable to be let loose at their fullest. Power limiters can lighten the load on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, or maybe just to give new characters a chance to shine. Releasing these limiters in time of need may be difficult; if the limiting was voluntary, it's Always Need What You Gave Up... then again, if the controls are in their hands, it's a non-issue. Releasing a previously unmentioned power limiter can provide a last minute save against a particularly powerful Big Bad. Of course, this can be done badly, especially if there were no clues that the limit was in place. Often times, the justification is that the person may willingly be wearing a Power Limiter as a form of training, as training with their power suppressed sometimes helps increase their power. Weighted clothing is often used in this fashion, in fiction and Real Life. The upgraded version is the Power Nullifier, which downright removes superhuman abilities. See also Restraining Bolt, Weaksauce Weakness, Cover-Blowing Superpower, I Am Not Left-Handed and Holding Back the Phlebotinum. See Suppressed Mammaries for a limiter of the Most Common Superpower. Examples of Power Limiter include:
- A Power Limiter, otherwise known simply as a "limiter", is a device manufactured by the Umbrella Corporation to prevent the uncontrollable mutations a Tyrant may experience, which prevent the B.O.W.s from being properly controlled.
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