Power Nullifier/Playing With

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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