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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