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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Super Heroes are expected to have a higher moral standard. No abusing your powers for personal gain. Sometimes this is enforced by the authority that granted their abilities, but most often, even if they are aware of the Mundane Utility, it is self-imposed. What constitutes "abuse"? That gets into a nebulous area. This trope usually involves the more obviously violent powers that could kill someone in a few seconds or violate a person's integrity, but even good powers can make bad people. However, if your family is down on their luck financially, what's a little arm wrestling wager at the pub going to hurt? Mostly this is a moral stance superheroes took early in their career to make sure they never hit the slippery slope to evil-dom. This happens fast; arm-wrestling for money at the pub will often signal temptation to evil within a few episodes, if not that very one. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })This was lampshaded in an episode of Bewitched where Samantha used her powers to do something but was seen by a mortal who wasn't supposed to see her. So she's considering "freezing" them until she can figure out what to do about it. But to do that, she would have to freeze others who would miss them if they weren't around for a few weeks while the person was gone, so they'd have to be frozen. She sort of realizes the ridiculousness of this when she considers maybe she should just freeze the entire human race, i.e. all mortals. Once you get started with potentially bad actions, each subsequent one becomes easier until you've crossed every line. In the hands of a poor writer, it is easy for this to turn into a Family-Unfriendly Aesop or Fantastic Aesop. For instance, a character Cursed with Awesome powers and unable to enjoy them in any way, trapped in a life they didn't choose can easily become You Can't Fight Fate and Hard Work Hardly Works, and is usually a one way ticket to Wangst-ville. It can also degenerate into the idea that benefiting from one's own talents or skills is wrong, and that trying to help others will only end in disaster, but that you are still obligated to do so even knowing that Failure Is the Only Option. The weight of the responsibility of the said great powers is often why heroes have Chronic Hero Syndrome. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Superheroes who follow this trope often become The Cape. Outside the superhero genre, this is not often a trope relating to the main characters, but many a Reasonable Authority Figure is deeply aware of the responsibilities that come with his post. Indeed, one way to detect whether such a figure is good is how he regards the misery or deaths of the faceless masses; even not knowing any of them, the Reasonable Authority Figure will not regard them as A Million Is a Statistic and if he must sacrifice them, will regard it as Dirty Business. Contrasted by Muggle Power and With Great Power Comes Great Perks. If the powers result in the character losing any sense of responsibility, see Drunk with Power and With Great Power Comes Great Insanity. Examples: |
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Cole from In FAMOUS. And everything Kessler puts you through? Preparation for when the shit really hits the fan. Of course, with the game's moral choice system, it's up to the player whether or not Cole embraces this trope or if he rejects it and is only looking out for himself. | |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John realizes this when the Terminator almost kills someone after he orders it to fight off the two guys who came to see if he was ok after he had just screamed for help. In the span of about thirty seconds, John goes from thinking about how cool it was to have his own Killer Robot to realizing that it meant that he literally had the power of life and death at his fingertips and lecturing it about not killing. His second official order note the first being that it help him rescue his mom is Thou Shalt Not Kill. | |
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A recent issue of New Avengers has superhuman mobster The Hood (who is a villainous deconstruction of the Marvel teenage superhero, and whose name happens to be Parker) explaining to his gang that they owe their enhanced abilities to him: | |
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In StarCraft, defying this trope is the entire motivation of the ultimate Big Bad of the series. Amon enjoyed the power that came with becoming a Xel'Naga, but balked when he realized that the Xel'Naga aren't gods, but shepherds. | |
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Occasionally averted in X-Men when a mutant is shown using their powers to aid in doing their day job. For example, Colossus used his superhuman strength and endurance to work as a farmer (in the comics) and a construction worker (on the TV series) before joining the team. While he is using his powers to do productive work for society, it is clear that he is getting paid for it. This was (and still is) a common trait of Communist superheroes (and supervillains!) in comics. Most if not all of them are on the government payroll. It's superhumans from non-autocratic countries who have the freedom to use their powers as they choose. This was also demonstrated in the 1990s Sleepwalker comics with Anti-Villain Spectra. Her initial criminal schemes give her amazing superhuman powers and transform her into a supervillain, and she seems ready to become a criminal, but by the next time Sleepwalker runs into her she's using her light-projecting abilities to make a living working for a glassware manufacturer. |
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It's Over, Isn't It (it's only just begun) Deconstructs this as well. In the wake of All-Might's Heroic Sacrifice, a culture of martyrdom begins to crop up among those who want to follow in his footsteps. Endeavor deliberately exploits this to encourage the heroes and interns in his employ to push themselves beyond their breaking points, which infuriates Nighteye when he finds out: | |
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Many characters in Marvels RPG, especially Spider-Man, as is to be expected. | |
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Appropriately, Super Sentai, and by extent Power Rangers, was inspired by Japanese Spider-Man. | |
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Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad occasionally used their powers for fun and games, including a game of Internet hide-and-seek. | |
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Hiro Nakamura, of Heroes, has explicitly quoted this trope, in full "Spider-Man" glory, to his more mercenary friend Ando — and was proved correct when Ando's argued-for cheating at cards got them in serious trouble. (Just because nobody knows how you're cheating doesn't mean they can't tell you're cheating!) And the other hero who exemplifies this philosophy is named Peter P. | |
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The final episodes of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann carry this theme in the revelation that reckless use of Spiral Energy can potentially destroy the universe. | |
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In Alice19th, Alice is encouraged to use her powers to help her studies. However, in a side story, a character loses her powers when she tries to charge money for the water she created using them. | |
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Given a stranger spin in the final part of Tuf Voyaging, where the main character, after twice failing to solve a planet's problems in spite of his Cool Ship's godlike powers, concludes that to give them a permanent solution to their situation, he must accept the responsibility and authority of a god alongside the powers of one. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall mocks this whenever it is encounter. "That's right people, don't have anything unique or special about you, perhaps it's not "normal"" | |
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Averted early in the Chuunin Exam Arc of Naruto, wherein everyone in the room is subtly encouraged to use their ninja abilities to cheat on the written portion, which is so impossibly hard that this is the only way they will be able to finish. They were really being marked on their ability to cheat without being caught. | |
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In Supergirl story Hellsister Trilogy, the reason because Superman thinks his cousin shouldn't go on retirement: | |
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The Canadian short Hot Stuff is about the responsibility of using fire and what could happen if one's careless with it. | |
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It's kind of subverted in the anime Eden of the East, in which twelve people called Seleçao are enrolled in a "game" where they get 10 billion yen and a concierge that allows them to do almost anything they want with it. It is later revealed the the goal of the "game" is for one of the Seleçao to use the money responsibly to "become a Messiah" who will "save Japan": Those who fail to do so are killed when they run out of money (or killed when one of the others win). "Noblesse Oblige" and "The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power" are Arc Words in the story. | |
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8-Bit Theater: Black Mage turns this trope completely and unapologetically upside down. As does Sarda. |
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More explored in The Amazing Spider Man 2, where Max uses all of his power as Electro to try to make everyone else feel as powerless as he once felt before getting his powers. Harry Osborn also refuses to accept any responsibility for his actions or for his condition. In reality, there is no one to blame for Harry's disease, but Harry blames Spider-Man and Menken for his crappy life, especially after he becomes the Goblin. Specifically, Menken had in fact framed Harry for Electro's creation so he can take over Oscorp, which still isn't a good way to handle responsibility of running a company, but Spider-Man's case, his apparent refusal to help him was only using his own responsibility to protect his friends and family, including Harry. Who still becomes the Green Goblin and decides to kill Gwen in retaliation. By the end, seems Harry now plans to use his power to create the future that Oscorp envisioned, starting with forming the Sinister Six. | |
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While not clearly stated or defined in Koihime†Musou: Tales of the Armored War Gods, all the Riders seem to have an understanding of this as none of them have ever abused their powers or used them for personal gain other than to make a living (usually as bandit hunters, but that is more of a public service) | |
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Subverted in Driver: San Francisco. Chapter 1 is even called With great power... but the first thing Tanner does with his ability to Body Surf into the drivers of other vehicles is gleefully abuse said power with precisely zero repercussions. | |
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The Specials plays it for laughs: | |
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In Powers, Walker gives Calista this speech in season 2 when she takes up Retro Girl's moniker. | |
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After promising her husband that she won't let their inventions fall into the hands of the military, Lady Spectra decides to use them to become a superhero instead. | |
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Harry in the Harry Potter x Ben 10 crossover Harry Tennyson plays with this. Despite Grandpa Max's wishes, he doesn't see having the Omnitrix to mean he has to fight every criminal he finds and rush into every dangerous situation to help people. Instead he believes using the Omnitrix responsibly means making sure he doesn't get anyone hurt with his recklessness. He outright states that he has no interest in being a hero and is only interested in helping someone if the police/firemen/etc. can't help them. | |
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Glowfic has some form of this/plays with this trope somehow. Bells use their power to give themselves all kinds of neat perks, such as The Needless and Living Lie Detector and Resurrective Immortality and such but they also always without exception use their Functional Magic or other Applied Phlebotinum to improve worlds/people's lives, for example terraforming mars and setting up portals to it and filling it with houses and free magical healing items and free food replicators, and they fix malaria and persuade everyone around them with any power to do the same. |
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In Spider-Man: Edge of Time the Alchemax CEO, an evil 2099 version of Peter Parker, has his own twisted version after falling to despair over losing everything he loved. | |
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Freefall: To his misfortune, Sam discovers that the absolute power of a starship captain comes with absolute responsibility. The "responsibility" part is why Sam doesn't want to hold Florence's remote control and "reset" scent vial. |
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The Dresden Files Wizard Harry Dresden embraces this trope, saying that he "follows the Tao of Peter Parker." He means it, too. Thomas Raith comments on this in the Dresdenverse story Backup, saying that Harry has a "half-divine, half-insane philosophy" about responsibility that "he's cobbled together from the words of saints and comic books." Subverted by many other wizards of the White Council. As long as they do not use black magic, they are free to use their powers for personal gain. If the White Council did not allow it, it would cause a civil war among the wizards. The Merlin, head of the White Council, however accepts this trope; he just interprets responsibility differently than Harry. Molly Carpenter arguing against her mother cites the Parable of Talents as a reason for her to continue practicing magic. Harry immediately points out to a Father this trope says the same idea, only simpler. The Father agrees but notes that "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" is harder to work into a sermon. Archangel Uriel and other angels hint at the idea of this trope. Uriel is one of God's strongest and most dangerous servants. However, as his Duty is the protection of Free Will, then respecting the choices mortals make, even if they are crimes of horrendous evil or just stupid, must be respected. Uriel states he has the power to destroy galaxies, but when a mortal villain mouths off to him and flicks the angel's nose, Uriel can only stand still. |
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The original Power Rangers were explicitly instructed not to use their powers for anything but fighting evil. This was actually subverted in the later Mystic Force season, though they were punished for it and technically later teams never had Zordon's three rules. Even the Theme Song says so. They know the fate of the world is lying in their hands. They know to only use their weapons for defense. Dustin of Power Rangers Ninja Storm got a light scolding from Sensei for using his abilities to stop a crime - an orchestrated hit on a store. Apparently they really are only supposed to fight the Monster of the Week and nothing else. Years earlier, Justin got scolded for teleporting to safety when he was falling out of a tree and could have broken his neck (or otherwise been seriously injured). Appropriately, Super Sentai, and by extent Power Rangers, was inspired by Japanese Spider-Man. |
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Whateley Universe: Lots of examples, including the headmistress of Whateley Academy, but Stormwolf (Adam Ironknife) is probably the best example. He's so devoted to the concepts of justice and law that he's letting bad stuff happen because he doesn't have proof of it. Also, every single person in the school club Future Superheroes of America is this way by definition. On the other hand, all of Team Kimba use their powers to make their lives easier, doing everything from Fey magically drying her long hair every morning, to Generator using her powers to earn money working in the Whateley Academy sewers. While Phase has few compunctions about using his powers to benefit himself through Mundane Utility, he is also very self-conscious about both the risks of misusing them and obligation to use them constructively, to the level of Chronic Hero Syndrome at times. While he explicitly denies wanting to be a superhero, he's been called out at least once for espousing this position in a lot more words. |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (The Movie), which is a detailed telling of their Origin Story, the girls learn the hard way what using their full power can do to an innocent town; a game of tag wrecks many buildings and streets, and generally panics the citizens. At the end, the message is subverted, and by the time of the series, the ridiculously large amount of collateral damage the girls wreak on Townsville is accepted by everyone as the cost of safety. | |
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Kamen Rider has this baked into the premise thanks to Shotaro Ishinomori's fondness for the Phlebotinum Rebel trope. In every single series, the Riders' powers come from the same source as their enemies, but the Riders choose to do good with them. This got special notice in the Post-Script Episodes of Kamen Rider Wizard, where the villain tries to claim that the Riders hide behind a facade of "justice" but are no better than the monsters they slay; the Riders counter by saying that they fight to protect humanity's peace and freedom against those who would destroy both, rather than for some arbitrary definition of justice. In Kamen Rider Gaim, Takatora Kureshima believes in this in the form of noblesse oblige; later in the series, his brother deconstructs it while they fight each other: In Kamen Rider Drive, Gou/Kamen Rider Mach uses the same Density Shift powers as the Roidmudes to intimidate some criminals for information; Shinnosuke/Drive chews him out for this, saying that they have a responsibility to be better than that. It helps that Shinnosuke was a By-the-Book Cop even before he became Drive. |
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Devil Survivor 2 has main protagonist Hibiki Kuze feel this way about his savant-like ability to summon the powerful demon Byakko. | |
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Mentioned during King Terenas' voiceover about his son Arthas in the Wrath Of the Lich King intro: However, this line is juxtaposed against Arthas resurrecting an undead dragon. |
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In Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland, Meruru and the Masked G will have a discussion about this if the player qualifies for the requirements of the Strongest Princess ending. Meruru is excited about being the "strongest princess," but comes to wonder just what power is and why it is or isn't important. | |
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InuYasha: Inuyasha isn't allowed to obtain Tessaiga without learning that he must protect humans if he wants to wield it. Thereafter, his ability to strengthen and master Tessaiga goes hand in hand with his increasing compassion. Sesshoumaru has to learn the same lesson. In his case, he is forced to inherit Tenseiga as a way of forcing him to learn the value of compassion. Only after he has learned this lesson is he able to realise his full potential and obtain Bakusaiga. |
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In Iron Man after building his Iron Man suit, Tony understands that its power must be used to help people and begins an arduous transition from a glorified douchebag Arms Dealer to a humanitarian hero and champion of world peace. ...Who is still kind of a douchebag. | |
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Naturally this comes up in Spider-Man (PS4), but with a cruel subversion at the end of the game; it's a mentally corrupted and freshly-defeated Otto Octavius, having gone mad with vengeance and infected Manhattan with a deadly bioweapon, declaring that he and Peter Parker have a responsibility to do what's best for people in an attempt to get Peter to help him. At first Otto seems to be describing this very trope, but he perverts the very concept right after by proclaiming it's to do it for "those beneath us, whether they understand it or not." Peter, already beside himself in grief over his father-figure and mentor in this continuity becoming such a twisted man, immediately flips his lid. | |
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In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, Paul utters a cynical variation of this: “With great power comes a lot of people pestering you to use it on their behalf.” | |
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Gary from Early Edition once uses the paper to bet on horse races. He was so busy making money that he didn't read the part about a friend of his who died in a car crash. | |
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In Kamen Rider Drive, Gou/Kamen Rider Mach uses the same Density Shift powers as the Roidmudes to intimidate some criminals for information; Shinnosuke/Drive chews him out for this, saying that they have a responsibility to be better than that. It helps that Shinnosuke was a By-the-Book Cop even before he became Drive. | |
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DC Nation: Fauna points out to a couple of her fellow (non-powered) activists that if someone obtains metahuman abilities, their options are surprisingly few. Try to hide them? Well, you don't have any control or training, so your abilities end up using you instead and you're a target for people who want to exploit you. Embrace them, but still don't take up the hero position? Well, if someone could have been helped by your abilities and you refused to use them, good luck dealing with the guilt. You can't get rid of them most of the time, even if you want to, and it still makes you a target. Heroism is a dirty, dangerous job, but at least you're not a lone target, and you might be able to eke some good out of it. | |
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In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, this was the standard code of behavior for all player characters. The standard mantra was "If your character lacks a Code Against Killing, you need to ask yourself why not." | |
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The Order of the Stick parodies it. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): Jessica gives a rebuttal to someone who tries to pull this sort of remark on her, saying, "If you say ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, I swear I’ll throw up on you.” | |
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In Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, the Saints are absolutely forbidden from using their Clothes for personal gain, having to don them exclusively to protect Athena and humankind. If they do use their Clothes for personal gain, Sanctuary law has it that they shall be executed. This is also present in the original series: at the start the protagonist Saints are using their Clothes to fight in the Galaxy Tournament, and the Sanctuary, upon hearing of this, sends another powerful Saint (Hyoga in the manga, Ikki in the anime) to execute the lot of them. |
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Mentioned in Undertale, but only under rather specific circumstances — if you kill Papyrus, but aren't going full Kill 'Em All, Sans will meet you in the Last Corridor and insinuate he knows about your Save Scumming, and ask, if you have a special power, doesn't that mean you also have a responsibility to do the right thing? Regardless of what your response is, it leads to him calling you out for killing Papyrus. | |
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In Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker essentially condenses this trope and his origin story to one simple phrase: | |
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Schlock Mercenary sees Petey say this to the Rev (who identifies it as "the Gospel of Uncle Benjamin"). Given that Petey's put himself in charge of a defensive war, and understands that (directly) helping his friends can impact it even indirectly, he seems to believe it. | |
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The phrase people most often think of, "With great power comes great responsibility" (heard in, among other things, the 2002 film), is actually a Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The original quote came from a narration box in the final panel of "Spider-Man!" in Amazing Fantasy #15, with the narrator telling the viewer how Peter has learned that "with great power there must also come — great responsibility!" The first time this was contracted this way and attributed in-page to Uncle Ben was in Christopher Priest (comics)' Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1. | |
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It's also the underlying moral of the Superior Spider-Man storyline: Doc Ock takes over Peter's body before his gives out and decides he can be a better Spidey than Peter ever was. While he creates his own company, gets his degree and creates an army to protect New York City with, it ends up alienating him from virtually everyone because of his massive ego. When the Goblin King brings everything down around his ears, Otto's forced to accept that Peter was the better Spidey because he allowed himself to have those chances to be better slip away because he felt he didn't deserve them. This is turned on its head in Nick Spencer's first issue of Amazing Spider-Man as a Take That! towards everything after that - Peter is exposed as a plagiarist when it's revealed that a paper Otto wrote to get his diploma in Empire State University was similar to what Otto actually wrote (in Superior, a man caught note of what "Peter" had done, but Otto stops him by using one of his old devices to pretend Otto had convinced him to accept it). After he's fired from the Daily Bugle, laughed at by Mary Jane and brushed off by Aunt May, Peter comes to realize that he screwed up big time - he should have dumped everything Otto had built up (he even admits the paper Otto wrote was on a subject he knew about just as well) and by taking in everything Otto built, he wasn't taking responsibility for it. |
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In ∀ Gundam Loran feels this way about the titular mobile suit. He's even unhappy about using the beam saber when he first finds it, long before he learns that he's piloting the most powerful mobile suit ever built. | |
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In the print- and webcomic PS238, the private school Praetorian Academy is founded on the ideals of teaching this to its (grade-school level) students. Their somewhat draconian methods of enforcing these ideals contrast it sharply to PS238 itself, which is more of a normal grade school (with a curriculum modified thereafter) for kids that happen to have superpowers. | |
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Various versions of Iron Man usually wrestle with this - Tony Stark's fortune is built on his engineering genius, but in the film, Tony decides to get his company out of the munitions business after seeing that his weapons were being sold in dirty deals to terrorists and criminals. In the comics, Stark quit selling weapons years ago, but he still frets about villains stealing and abusing his armor designs, sometimes to the level of paranoia that he manipulates, deceives and attacks his own friends. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins has Wynne asking the PC point-blank what it means to be a Grey Warden, and the rest of the conversation is more or less Wynne's Uncle Ben moment. | |
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In The Godfather game, Tom Hagen tells you as Aldo Trapani that becoming Capo is an honour that comes with great responsibility, should you speak with him immediately after the promotion cutscene. Given that Aldo's at best a Sociopathic Hero and at worst an out-and-out Villain Protagonist, though, one wonders if there was meant to be any moral behind it... | |
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The Knights Radiant of The Stormlight Archive had this as part of their oath. Specifically, "strength before weakness" is a pithy way of saying that those with power have an obligation to use it for the benefit of those without. | |
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Bob and George: How to get George to fight for a minor character? Remind him he's a superhero! | |
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Michael from Roswell has been known to use his telekinetic powers to cheat at dice games. | |
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In Mai Hi ME, the applications of the HiMEs' powers were explicitly unrestricted, which Dark Magical Girl Nao used to justify using her powers to rob unsuspecting men, posing as a child prostitute. | |
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In Smallville, Clark naturally feels compelled to use his powers to help others. Jonathan once had a line like that too. Chloe Sullivan too, after she received the meteor power of Empathic Healing, she insists on healing a dying Lex even though it killed her the first time. It killed her again, but she has Resurrective Immortality. Many others with powers, don't. | |
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Parodied in Kung Fu Hustle - in the original Mandarin, one of the dying Kung Fu masters says this line... in English. The people surrounding him say they don't speak English, what is he saying? (The English Dub replaces this with a joke about repeating iconic movie lines.) | |
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In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Xavier coming to terms with the responsibilities of his powers and his role as mutant leader (and the personal sacrifice it requires) is a major plot point. | |
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The wizards of Young Wizards have to swear an Oath before they get their power, and intentionally breaking it will result in the power being taken back. | |
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In Keychain of Creation, Misho was a Solar of the First Age, and therefore one of the rulers of Creation. Unlike many of his brethren, he ruled wisely and well. However, one day he saw the Loom of Fate, and due to his perfect memory, he could never forget it. He spent the rest of his First Age incarnation working non-stop, since with his power he knew every single second of his time could save hundreds of lives. It's implied that when the Usurpation came he didn't even notice until he was actually killed. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home revisits the idea as Peter finds himself being thrust into the spotlight as Tony Stark's successor. Feeling that the responsibility is too great for him to wield the power of EDITH, Tony's posthumous gift to him, Peter relinquishes it to Quinton Beck. Unfortunately, Beck proceeds to use that power to endanger the lives of everyone in London (including his classmates), forcing Peter to take responsibility for Beck misusing such power. | |
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Isaac brings Max with him to a secret location, and gets a surprisingly effective speech considering it's coming from someone with a doorknob for a face. | |
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In Gundam SEED, Mu La Flaga throws this at Kira near the beginning, one of the prime reasons Kira continues to take up arms and fight. | |
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...And that information from the future saved Doc's life in the first film. | |
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Deconstructed in the storyline Hunted as Curt Conners tells him that while Spidey does understand the idea of that, he doesn't understand it from the eyes of a parent, which is why he's willing to let loose the Lizard to save his son. | |
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The Invisible Man: The Official frequently tries to impress this upon Darien. He wants him to use his invisibility gland to help protect the country. Occasionally if he feels Darien is out of line he goes so far as to withhold the counteragent that prevents Darien from going mad. | |
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This was also demonstrated in the 1990s Sleepwalker comics with Anti-Villain Spectra. Her initial criminal schemes give her amazing superhuman powers and transform her into a supervillain, and she seems ready to become a criminal, but by the next time Sleepwalker runs into her she's using her light-projecting abilities to make a living working for a glassware manufacturer. | |
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Gundam In ∀ Gundam Loran feels this way about the titular mobile suit. He's even unhappy about using the beam saber when he first finds it, long before he learns that he's piloting the most powerful mobile suit ever built. In Gundam SEED, Mu La Flaga throws this at Kira near the beginning, one of the prime reasons Kira continues to take up arms and fight. |
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In Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet, Alanna is told early on that she can't hide from her magic and that she has an obligation to use her Gift for healing to make up for the lives she will take as a knight. | |
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Inverted for parodic effect in Clerks II tagline: "With no power comes no responsibility." | |
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Dustin of Power Rangers Ninja Storm got a light scolding from Sensei for using his abilities to stop a crime - an orchestrated hit on a store. Apparently they really are only supposed to fight the Monster of the Week and nothing else. Years earlier, Justin got scolded for teleporting to safety when he was falling out of a tree and could have broken his neck (or otherwise been seriously injured). | |
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Kim Possible has no superhuman abilities, but her ability to call in favors comes close. She can usually line up global transport and any needed equipment from people she had helped in the past, at any hour of the day, to anywhere on Earth. She is reluctant to use it for her personal gain from an ethical standpoint, but in a more practical sense, she knows that abusing this ability might make it go away, since it's tied to her character and reputation. | |
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The Animorphs agree to an unwritten code of conduct in the way they use their powers: don't use them to steal, don't morph sentient beings, and so on. In early books they're fairly studious about this code, aside from their tendency to use their powers for opening-chapter hijinks. Later in the David Trilogy they break the rules for the first time, leading to new Sixth Ranger David deciding to take that idea and run with it. In the aftermath, the Animorphs swear to follow their code more strictly. They don't. Jake also notes in MM 3 that their power traps them in a bind: they have enough power to fight and make them responsible, but they don't have enough power to actually win. |
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SheZow has a pretty strict set of over 2000 rules that must be followed. | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Somewhat deconstructed: This theme is explored in the parallel between Spidey and the Lizard. Both believe in this, but they disagree on what their responsibility is. Peter believes that his responsibility is to help other people and to take care of Aunt May. Connors believes that his responsibility is to give everyone else his powers. More explored in The Amazing Spider Man 2, where Max uses all of his power as Electro to try to make everyone else feel as powerless as he once felt before getting his powers. Harry Osborn also refuses to accept any responsibility for his actions or for his condition. In reality, there is no one to blame for Harry's disease, but Harry blames Spider-Man and Menken for his crappy life, especially after he becomes the Goblin. Specifically, Menken had in fact framed Harry for Electro's creation so he can take over Oscorp, which still isn't a good way to handle responsibility of running a company, but Spider-Man's case, his apparent refusal to help him was only using his own responsibility to protect his friends and family, including Harry. Who still becomes the Green Goblin and decides to kill Gwen in retaliation. By the end, seems Harry now plans to use his power to create the future that Oscorp envisioned, starting with forming the Sinister Six. |
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Dishonored: The Outsider grants his gifts of magic to people purely because he finds them interesting and wants to see what they'd do with an extra catalyst. He even tells Corvo outright that what he choses to do with his newfound powers is entirely up to him. In a meta sense, Corvo's (and the player's) actions throughout the game drastically alter the tone of the setting. It could thus be said that this trope is the entire game's moral. |
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In Back to the Future Part III, Doc constructed a giant machine with the sole purpose of creating ice cubes before the technology became common, which sounds like something one would do if they were trying to randomly change the timeline. That's all it does too; no Chekhov's Gun here. He probably had no intention of publicizing his inventions anyways, and nobody in town would probably figure out how it worked. |
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Averted in Ben 10. Ben uses the Omnitrix for personal gain or personal amusement every chance he gets. His idiocy, however, usually brings about the worst possible result. | |
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In the W.I.T.C.H. episode "The Stone Of Threbe", the girls have trouble getting the smelly character Blunk to take a bath, so they decide to transform to make it easier to catch him. A few minutes after doing so, their powers are stripped away by a side-effect of the Stone of Threbe's presence, and they spend the rest of the episode wishing they'd used their powers more responsibly. The loss of the girls' powers isn't directly related to their misuse, but it seems like Karma chose to bite them in the butt. Which leads to Fridge Logic and a Broken Aesop since cleaning Blunk up was supposed to keep his stink from hurting Hay Lin's family-owned restaurant's business; since the restaurant's basement acts as the Guardian's HQ and Hay's grandmother/WITCH's mentor lives there it's in the best interests of the entire universe that it stay open. Karma does pay them back at the end when Blunk rolls into a car wash and gets clean. The girls usually experience similar cosmic backlash when they use their Astral Drop clones to make life a bit easier for them. In the third volume of the original comic, overuse of the Astral Drops actually leads to the girls' lives getting wrecked for a while, while in the second season animated series episode "H is for Hunted", Nerissa uses her powers to make one of Will's Astral Drops a living, breathing person... with heartrending consequences. Also in "H is for Hunted" they transform to decorate their gym for the farewell party of one of their teachers and mostly get away with it, though they do come close to getting caught. The more realistic Aesop ("Don't neglect your responsibilities") is mixed in with the Fantastic Aesop fairly well and the Astral Drops are not used at all for the rest of the season, though more likely because of Nerissa's ability instead of the girls actually learning their lesson. |
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It is also the aesop of the first arc of Ultimate Spider-Man, an expanded version of the classic origin story. Ben explained the concept to Peter, and cited the phrase, which was actually coined by Richard Parker, Peter's late dad. Peter was very angry at the time, and run away from him. He eventually realized that he was right, and returned home to apologize himself and reveal his new powers. The thief scene played out in a similar way, but added a Never Got to Say Goodbye to the mix. | |
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Something interesting — fansub group Janime translates a line from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX as "With great responsibility comes great power." The speaker is not referring to any superpower, but Judai's super-charisma and inherent ability to inspire people and get them to follow him just by being himself. That's not as good as it sounds. | |
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire books, the Iron Throne is a Cool Chair made from the thousand swords of Aegon the Conquerer's enemies. It's incredibly uncomfortable to sit on and is rumoured to have killed Aegon's son, Maegor. The entire point is to remind anyone who sits on it that supreme power is supremely dangerous, not something to be trifled with and one can never slouch and grow complacent while they sit in the throne. The overwhelming majority of people in these books completely miss this point. | |
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Dead Like Me: If the reapers abuse their powers they face supernatural consequences. When George tries to directly speak to her mother she finds she can no longer remember memories she could talk about to prove she really is Joy's daughter (her appearance is altered to the living). Also when George tries to mess with fate, weird and unpleasant things start happening to her. | |
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A What If? story depicts Spider-Man stopping the burglar for self serving reasons—he know he'll get good publicity off of it. As a result, Peter Parker becomes a pampered movie star and millionaire with beautiful women jumping into his bed on a nightly basis. He doesn't learn the "with great power..." lesson until Daredevil sacrifices his own life to protect him. | |
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A bit of a subversion and Aesop in The DCU. Rita Farr's inability to control her size-changing abilities ended her film career. The only movie she made after it was a knockoff of "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." Likewise, her adopted son (Gar "Beast Boy" Logan) also went into acting, and had a good run on a Star Trek knockoff, using his shapechanging ability to play an alien...however, neither of them were able to find more acting work, since their reputations as "freaks" made them un-castable in anything else. Other DCU examples were Victor "Cyborg" Stone and Cliff "Robot Man" Steele. Their Emergency Transformations enhanced them, but also rendered them ineligible to participate in the athletic abilities they loved because their cybernetics were considered cheating. For all of the above, it's arguable that they're in the hero business because they can't do anything else. | |
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Last Child of Krypton: Shinji decides to use his powers to help people because he thinks it is his responsibility to use them wisely and he does not like seeing people hurt. | |
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This is going to be a main theme in Spider-Man: Homecoming after Peter nearly gets an entire ferry filled with people killed, Tony Stark reads him the riot act and demands his suit back. When Peter claims that he's nothing without the suit, Tony tells him that if he needs the suit to be a hero and a better person, then he shouldn't have it to begin with. | |
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Poor President Bartlet from The West Wing has a very strong sense of this trope that invariably leads to enormous guilt, to the point of declaring that he would not be able to stomach the prospect of remaining President if he ever walked willingly to a bunker during a crisis. The trope was not just limited to his personal feelings: it screwed him over badly on numerous occasions, most sadistically in the third season finale, because it's part of his job. | |
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Man of Steel: Jonathan tells the young Clark that he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be, since with his powers he can change the world. Though Jor-El's primary concern is his son's survival, he's not ignorant of the implications Kal-El's superpowers will have on Earth, among humans, so he or his avatar tells him to live in humanity's service. Though Clark was already helping people due to his own morals, but not yet as a career. Martha offers a beleaguered Clark a different twist on this come the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice; where she explicitly tells him to be everything the world wants him to be or be none of it, that he's under no obligation to do what he does and that in the end he must do what he does because he chooses to. |
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The Bible in the Parable of the Faithful Servant: "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." | |
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The main theme of Bruce Almighty is Bruce learning to use his omnipotence to help others, rather than just himself. | |
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The Dreamland Chronicles: It's not easy, being queen. | |
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In Mega Man ZX, it's noted at multiple points that the Chosen Ones who become Mega Men have the potential to change the very state of the world with the power of their Biometals. The heroes are the ones who choose to use that power to protect the innocent from Mavericks to keep them from suffering the same fates their own loved ones suffered or for the sakes of those who helped them when no one else would, while most of the villains want to use their powers to rule the world and institute their own brands of order on it for their past traumas. | |
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Spoofed in Psychonauts. After Ford Crueller teaches Raz how to use pyrokinesis, he tells him not to use it unless it's REALLY important, or unless it's REALLY funny. The dev team ensured it would always be funny, encouraging guaranteeing a flagrant abuse of the power. | |
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Inverted in Questionable Content by the AnthroPCs which are fine with having no civil rights because having power would mean having to take responsibility For the Lulz. Given how most of them seem free to run around doing whatever they please instead of serving as an actual computer, it seems like they've gotten the better part of the deal. Also, Hannelore points out that her mom could have never gotten to where she was as a businesswoman if she believed that. |
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Spider-Man: Noir has its own turn on the concept with a lesson Peter learned from his Uncle Ben, who was a pilor in WWI: | |
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The protagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Josuke Higashikata, despite his Chronic Hero Syndrome is originally content to allow his older nephew Jotaro handle the Stand-using Serial Killer that is menacing his town. After his grandfather is murdered and he realizes his Healing Hands cannot solve all his problems, he resolves to rid Morioh of evil Stand users. | |
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The House of Night: Said verbatim to Zoey by her grandmother in Marked. Stevie Rae doesn't use her powers to "rule the world or anything crazy like that", because of this trope. Stevie Rae also reads comic books. |
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Explicitly invoked in the Healer's Adsum Domine, a Gabrielite hymn in the Deryni works. Rhys Thuryn sings it in the short story "Healer's Song", and Duncan McLain sings it during the dedication of Camber's chapel in King Kelson's Bride. The English translation of the first verse makes the point: | |
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Sarah in Tales of an Mazing Girl feels, this given her awesome powers. However it really cuts around into her lounging around time. | |
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In Danny Phantom, Danny has occasionally used his powers to retaliate against bullies. However, when he really lays on Dash, he comes to regret it when a nerdish ghost confuses him as a bully. Danny using his powers for any personal gain never works out well and sometimes puts Amity Park and its people in world-ending danger. In an alternate future he created by cheating on an ersatz SAT turned Danny into a monster after his family was killed in an extremely unlikely accident... because his English teacher wanted to make a point. Averted with Vlad who used his powers to amass a fortune through clearly unethical means... yet played staight in that he's a lonely and bitter man who wants to be loved. Well, that's what he says as he tries to repeatedly kill Jack Fenton and endangers innocent people on a regular basis. You would think Vlad alone would be enough of an example to not need the other Aesops, but Danny can be an Idiot Hero on occasion. |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power: Bow learned this lesson when he abused the power of a wand he took from Shadow Weaver in "Bow's Magical Gift". However, the biggest problem wasn't how he used the power but how often he used it. | |
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Martha offers a beleaguered Clark a different twist on this come the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice; where she explicitly tells him to be everything the world wants him to be or be none of it, that he's under no obligation to do what he does and that in the end he must do what he does because he chooses to. | |
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In Mob Psycho 100, Mob has an incredibly mundane, mediocre life...and god-like Psychic Powers. However, he almost never uses his powers because when he was younger, his future mentor Reigen told him that he shouldn't ever view himself as superior to ordinary people, and that misusing his abilities would be like misusing a knife (but on a much grander scale). An early story arc introduces a Shadow Archetype character who actually does use his powers to basically rule his school; After getting curb-stomped by Mob, he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and becomes much more humble. | |
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The eldest immortal of the Underworld (2003) series feels that it is his responsibility to clean up after his kid's messes but the protagonist says that if he was really being responsible then he'd have stopped his offspring along time ago, as he's the only one capable of doing so. | |
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Jurassic Park: Ian Malcolm talks about how a hypothetical martial artist, by the time he can kill someone with his bare hands, should also have learned the wisdom not to do so recklessly. He says that most other forms of power are similar. He then compares it to science, which allows people "to stand on the shoulders of giants" without developing the necessary wisdom. The film had a similar speech, though it could be summarized by the line | |
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In the evilest ending of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Peter has fallen so far that he rejects his former motto, claiming that he never knew what power was and he likes it. | |
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The Firebird Trilogy: The Sentinels are well aware of the dangers their Psychic Powers entail, and therefore hold themselves to a high moral standard. | |
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Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: After being shown Jor-El's message Asuka strives to live up to the ideal of hope that Kal-El could have been. The responsibility of being a superhero is also one of the major overarching themes of the story. | |
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Then it's subverted in the Secret Wars (2015) story Renew Your Vows as Peter gives up being Spider-Man to protect MJ and their daughter Annie, making him the last superhero alive in a world ruled by the mysterious Regent. Even more, he goes so far as to ignore cries for help just to deal with his kid. | |
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Superman: In War World, after helping him find Supergirl, The Spectre reminds Clark that power must be used responsibly. Used in All-Star Superman, although not spelled out. Lex Luthor gains Superman's powers at the end and goes on a rampage, stopping every so often as his Super Senses give him new insights on the universe. Just as his powers run out, he declares that life is beautiful and everyone needs to stick together - implying that anybody with Superman's godlike perspective would naturally choose to become an altruist. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue implies that Luthor mellowed out considerably after the experience. Although Luthor is smart and would be capable of recognizing the beauty of the universe with his new Super Senses... and it didn't completely stop him from trying to defeat Superman anyway. If anything it's a combination of Superman's godlike perspective and being raised well that makes Clark Kent who he is. Superman isn't above using his powers to get a good news story if doing so doesn't interfere with fighting evil. In one of the earliest comics he scooped Lois on a story about a dam bursting by outrunning her train, stopping the flood, and phoning the story in. Sort of justified in that his heroing makes his job more difficult far more often than it makes it easier — like Peter Parker, the guy deserves a break. |
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That phrase, Spider-Man's trademark, is parodied in Marvel Ultimate Alliance in a conversation with Spider-Man: | |
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In Kamen Rider Gaim, Takatora Kureshima believes in this in the form of noblesse oblige; later in the series, his brother deconstructs it while they fight each other: | |
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The Infinite Loops: Twilight Sparkle takes to this attitude as soon as she realizes Equestria is stuck in a time loop. It swiftly expands to the inhabitants of the entire looping multiverse. | |
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The Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode "Regrets... I've Had A Few" features this. Shortly after the Young Hercules Pilot Movie, Hercules has become brash and arrogant, acting bored and too good for Cheiron's lessons. One of the local gangs attempts to initiate a new member (Bartoc) by siccing him on Hercules. During the confrontation, Hercules treats it as a joke and just messes with Bartoc, until he accidentally breaks the guy's neck. It's a wake-up call for Herc, and he spends the remaining flashbacks dealing with the fallout (including delivering the news to Bartoc's family). | |
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In Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey, after Ilmeria decides to open an atelier of her own and sends a letter to her parents informing them of such, she receives a letter back stating that alchemy brings great power, so wielding it without purpose would be a foolish thing to do. However, by choosing her own path, she has become a respectable alchemist. | |
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Erfworld is set in an RPG-Mechanics Verse where this trope is a game mechanic: "Commander" units feel a sense of "Duty", which motivates them to use their talents for the betterment of their Faction, even to the point of enabling a Zeroth Law Rebellion if they doubt their Ruler's ability to act in their Faction's best interests. | |
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra establishes that the Avatar Cycle exists primarily because Wan came down with Spider-Man Syndrome. | |
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In War World, after helping him find Supergirl, The Spectre reminds Clark that power must be used responsibly. | |
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Ironclaw's section on Necromancy states "with unlimited power comes unlimited irresponsibility." | |
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Used in All-Star Superman, although not spelled out. Lex Luthor gains Superman's powers at the end and goes on a rampage, stopping every so often as his Super Senses give him new insights on the universe. Just as his powers run out, he declares that life is beautiful and everyone needs to stick together - implying that anybody with Superman's godlike perspective would naturally choose to become an altruist. The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue implies that Luthor mellowed out considerably after the experience. Although Luthor is smart and would be capable of recognizing the beauty of the universe with his new Super Senses... and it didn't completely stop him from trying to defeat Superman anyway. If anything it's a combination of Superman's godlike perspective and being raised well that makes Clark Kent who he is. | |
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Kick-Ass sums it up with "With no power comes no responsibility. Except that's not true." | |
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In Dragon Age II, this was how the hero's father, Malcolm, viewed being a mage. | |
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Genius: The Transgression calls its Karma Meter "Obligation". High Obligation, you're a Reasonable Authority Figure and Science Hero. Low Obligation, you're either a cackling lunatic or Mengele. The Peerage's view on it subverts it slight; you do have a responsibility, but it's a responsibility to keep your head down, remain quiet and don't do anything too insane. To them, a Genius trying to help has the risk of getting carried away and having weird ideas on what helping means. | |
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Inverted in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: After the secret is revealed Nadia's firm belief in this trope combined with her own self-hatred leads her to attempt suicide because she's convinced she could never handle such power responsibly. | |
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In Geneforge, this is a major theme of the Shapers. While they're not good guys (Gray and Grey Morality rules the roost), they know exactly how dangerous Shaping is, and while they use this technology as the basis of their civilization, they consider containment procedures and keeping Shaping under control to be just as important as continuing to develop the art for the good of their people. Their black labs have security procedures that make the CDC look lax, and they forbid the use of Upgrade Artifacts because a core element of their philosophy is that developing one's power naturally means developing the discipline to use this power wisely, while giving power to amateurs before they're ready will lead to chaos. | |
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In The Bridge, Godzilla Jr. states that because he's so powerful, it is his job to assure the safety of those around him, to face threats that he can fight but they cannot. | |
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Elijah Valentine could, theoretically, save the starving by magical means, but the world is made of connections - change one thing, you break another. So he mostly avoids using his powers, citing responsibility, and helps people in mundane ways. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Cool Hand Peter", Peter, Joe, Quagmire, and (a visiting) Cleveland decide to take a roadtrip down south to get away from their wives for a bit. While traveling, they're pulled over by a Corrupt Cop who arrests them on trumped up charges simply because Cleveland is black. When it looks like their stay in prison may be indefinite, the gang opts to escape on their own, back to Quahog. When they arrive, it turns out the police force followed them, only for Joe to reveal that he anticipated this and called in Quahog's police force. The episode ends when Joe gives a speech that a lot of people, in-universe and out, should listen to. | |
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Mage: The Awakening: The Karma Meter is enforced more harshly for mages than for Muggles. Mages are blocked from the highest levels of Wisdom just for using magic for its Mundane Utility, Magic Misfires are worse for low-Wisdom mages, and Spirits dislike low-Wisdom mages on sight. Mages need to be careful about the spells they cast, because flagrantly throwing around extremely obvious magic threatens the various Magic Misfires of Paradox. This belief is what separates the Silver Ladder from the Seers of the Throne. The Silver Ladder believe they're supposed to rule over Sleepers, but that this rulership is for the Sleepers' own good — they're supposed to guide Sleepers towards enlightenment and generally rule well. Seers don't believe that control over Sleepers has any real responsibilities apart from not spooking the herd, and abuse both mystical and manipulative power for personal gain on a grimly regular basis. |
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A Crown of Stars: During their conversations with Shinji and Asuka, Daniel and his wife Rayana explain to them the more powerful you are the more responsible you must be, especially if you are a god. You have great powers so you MUST use them to help people because is the right thing to do, but you have to be careful because if you interfere with their lives too much or start to punish whoever displeases you, you risk going down the slippery slope (how happened to Daniel a long time ago). | |
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Parodied in the 2018 relaunch of Fantastic Four. Spidey attempts to psyche up Franklin Richards, who is afraid his power isn't enough to stop the Big Bad of the storyline, using his motto, but the Thing, annoyed Spidey's going this route, grabs him by the back of his shirt, lifts him aside, and psyches up his godchild his own way. | |
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In the New World of Darkness: Muggles can win free points on the Karma Meter for exceptional acts of heroism, whereas the various supernatural splats always have to spend Experience Points for the same. This is explicitly explained as a responsibility of the powerful to tend to the well-being of their own souls. Mage: The Awakening: The Karma Meter is enforced more harshly for mages than for Muggles. Mages are blocked from the highest levels of Wisdom just for using magic for its Mundane Utility, Magic Misfires are worse for low-Wisdom mages, and Spirits dislike low-Wisdom mages on sight. Mages need to be careful about the spells they cast, because flagrantly throwing around extremely obvious magic threatens the various Magic Misfires of Paradox. This belief is what separates the Silver Ladder from the Seers of the Throne. The Silver Ladder believe they're supposed to rule over Sleepers, but that this rulership is for the Sleepers' own good — they're supposed to guide Sleepers towards enlightenment and generally rule well. Seers don't believe that control over Sleepers has any real responsibilities apart from not spooking the herd, and abuse both mystical and manipulative power for personal gain on a grimly regular basis. |
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In Charmed, the sisters were prohibited from using their power for "personal gain" to the point where they couldn't even use it to save Piper's life when she was about to die from natural causes, even though it would preserve their special Power-of-Three-ness and presumably save many lives in the long run. Later on, the writers played with this trope a bit. In S6 Phoebe's empath power is taken away because the Elders feel she abused it. In S7 the sisters use their powers to help the avatars try and create utopia but this comes at a heavier price than they realise and then they have to put things right. Towards the end of S8 the magical community turns on the sisters for not living up to their responsibilities. |
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Gert has her own opinion of the motto in Runaways. | |
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The multiple phrasing is discussed during Spider-Verse. During one story, a very angry Spider-Girl confronts an Uncle Ben who gave up being a Spider because his world's Green Goblin killed his May and Peter. May, already angry that her brother was in the hands of the Inheritors, snaps at Ben for abandoning his role as a hero. She starts to use the motto before Ben corrects her with the real phrasing and uses it as the reason why he quit. Also in Spider-Verse, Ben reminds everyone that the actual quote is 'With great power there must also come great responsibility', implying that responsibility is at once a choice, and an inherent part of the package with great power. | |
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In C. S. Goto's Blood Ravens trilogy, the amnesiac Rhamah's first serious doubts about Ahriman stem from his actions — and Rhamah's rebuke is that knowledge brings power, and power brings responsibility. | |
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The film version of Superman borrows the trope and plays it straight, when Pa Kent tries to lecture the teenage Clark about not showing off. "You are here for a reason," he says... Right before he dies of a heart attack that Clark can't prevent. |
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This is also present in the original series: at the start the protagonist Saints are using their Clothes to fight in the Galaxy Tournament, and the Sanctuary, upon hearing of this, sends another powerful Saint (Hyoga in the manga, Ikki in the anime) to execute the lot of them. | |
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In "True Q" on Star Trek: The Next Generation, when trying to justify killing Amanda if she were a half human/Q hybrid, Q states "With unlimited power comes responsibility." Being that it's Q, you can't be sure if he isn't being disingenuous, but the episode still does make the point when Amanda is forced to face the fact that living as a human would mean not making use of her powers. | |
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On Ella the Elephant, Ella can use her magic hat to help others, but it will start acting funny and not work properly if she tries to use it do something like getting out of doing work. | |
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