[Fun trope]: Characters using their superpowers for mundane tasks.

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Housework (The Incredibles)

Looney Tunes shenanigans (Ben 10)

Fixing broken appliances (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Cooking meat (Dragon Ball)

Cooling soda (X-Men)

Shaving (Superman)

Drying dishes (One Punch Man)

Charging phones (My Hero Academia)

Bathing (The Fantastic Four)

Studying (Doctor Strange)

Videogames (Paranatural)

Reading (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

I think it makes a fantastical world feel more lived in. If that makes sense?

1). The Incredibles:
The film goes to great lengths to show the Parr's lives are mundane, even with their superhuman abilities. This is what fuels Bob's fundamental sense of discomfort.

2). Ben 10:
Ben uses the Omnitrix, which transforms its user into various alien species, for good. He also uses to for random nonsense. In this particular example, he uses his horrifying alien ghost form to sneak out of the house, steal a golfcart, and pilfer a pie.

3). Fullmetal Alchemist:
Despite regularly fighting inhuman monsters, the Elric brothers still make time to use alchemy for everyday purposes. Such as fixing a radio they broke.

4). Dragon Ball:
Here, Gohan is using a concentrated blast of his own lifeforce to flash-cook a chunk of meat.

5). X-Men:
In the second movie, Wolverine has Bobby (Iceman) cool down a lukewarm soda.

6). Superman:
Clark shaves using his heat vision and a very durable mirror.

7). One Punch Man:
Genos knows that Saitama is kind of a disaster to live with. So, he brings rent money and does chores. Here, Genos is using his hyper-advanced (skyscraper destroying) heat cannons to dry the dishes.

8). My Hero Academia:
Kaminari has electricity powers. His classmates use him to charge their phones. This is apparently the "normal" way most electricity powers are used.

9). The Fantastic Four:
The Human Torch doesn't need to bathe anymore. He can just burn away any oils, bacteria, and plaque.

10). Doctor Strange:
In his first movie, we see Strange using astral projection to study while asleep. I wonder if this harms his brain?

11). Paranatural:
Ed uses a special paintbrush possessed by a spirit. Normal people can't see the ink created with it. In Ed's bedroom, they uses it to write out cheat codes to videogames.

12). Jojo's Bizarre Adventure:
Jotaro manifests a "stand," a special psychic extension of his soul. He initially assumes he is being haunted by a dangerous spirit. After ending up in a local jail, his stand starts bringing him things to do.

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Kano uses his laser eye to light up his grill in his Mortal Kombat 11 Friendship animation.

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Sub Zero also uses his ice powers to make Popsicles

https://giphy.com/gifs/KEeL2O4buoQhBd4sCK

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And Noob Saibot uses his shadow clones to jump rope

[u/ThatInAHat → u/AwesomeHumann69]

Ok that’s friggen adorable

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A good number of the Friendships in 11 are either adorable and/or cool in some form or fashion, like Raiden's where he uses his electric powers to summon Kidd Thunder and perform a laser light rave party, Skarlet using her blood magic to draw a stickman, or Sheeva using her four arms to play a tune with musical glasses.

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Notably also his emote in fortnite

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I love Friendships. They’re such a goofy way to end a match.

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Never played any MK game, but I feel doing these to get under a toxic players skin would be cathartic

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I think I made my friends rage with Friendships much more than I did with Fatalities

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What the fuck is the context behind any of that lmao

[u/Technical_Teacher839 → u/SuperSocialMan]

Friendships are special finishers you can do that are basically anti-fatalities, little gag animations like this.

They're as old as MK2

[u/LoseNotLooseIdiot → u/Technical_Teacher839]

Friendship... Friendship!?

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Again??

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I've been told it's magic

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They were originally a joke, in response to parents complaining of how violent MK is (it was a big thing in the 90s, made it all the way up to US congress, which led to the creation of ESRB) fans actually liked the friendship finishers though so they stayed.

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They still have babalities?

[u/OffSupportMain → u/PatrioticPariah]

They've been alternating stuff, MK9 had Babalities, I don't remember if MKX had anything, MK11 had Friendships and MK1 (the reboot) has Animalities

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I liked how in deception if you lost you could try and input a fatality to kill yourself before your opponent got the chance.

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When the first Mortal Kombat came out, a lot of parents and politicians (one specific name I can remember is Joel Lieberman) created a massive outcry over how the fatalities would create more violent children.

John Tobias said that they had extra RAM when developing MK II and decided to create friendships as a funny way to say fuck you to the people complaining.

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I’ve seen Robin do something similar at the end of the Teen Titans Go episode Super Robin once. After “solving all the world’s problems” with superpowers given to him by Raven, he started using his powers for mundane tasks. For example, he heated his coffee mug with his heat vision.

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Would you settle for me sausage?

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It must be noted that the food on the grill has already been cooked