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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Sonic Screwdriver can do anything with any device. Unless it's wood or "deadlock sealed". It also doesn't seem to work too well on stone.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* According to [[Word of God]], magic in the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' universe is more powerful if you give it [[Min -Maxing|some sort of get out clause]] (even an absurd one). Hence the series' premise that the petrification spell on the Gargoyles was undone by the criteria "until the castle rises above the clouds."
** A regular gimmick on the show. The aforementioned spell is broken in modern times when the castle is moved stone by stone to the top of a skyscraper. Another spell is set to end "when the sky burns" - this condition is met by having robots spread a layer of combustible gas in the atmosphere over the city, then igniting it. Demona and [[Macbeth]] have a spell of immortality on them - they will live forever, unless one of them kills the other.
* In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]],'' Hephaestus creates an invincible, sentient suit of armor for Ares, but like all his creations, he builds it with one fatal flaw that he keeps secret if it were to be used against him (or possibly because Zeus considers it blasphemous for perfection to exist in anything except gods): the suit is powered by conflict, so [[Sheathe Your Sword|if nobody is fighting around it, it shuts down,]] which may not sound like much of a weakness until, say, someone throws rocks at you from 10 miles distant, too far away to activate the amour.
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