Anime Characters with Unique Abilities

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C-Moon and Stone Free - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6

C-Moon is a stand with the power to turn anything it hits inside out. Jolyne's stand has the power to turn her body into string, including forming it into mobius strips, a shape that can't be turned inside out due to already technically being both "inside-out" and not.

2/3. Zora Salazar and Ramsey Murdoch - Epithet Erased

Zora is a bounty hunter of a notorious terrorist group, with the power to slow or speed up the rate of things. She uses this power to do lots of things, from growing a tree instantly to launch herself, to halting someone mid-fall and using them as a platform, to even being able to rapidly age people and objects to the point where they corrode and decay away.

Ramsey is a con-man with the power to transform anything into pure gold, a material that can't corrode or decay away.

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Aduro95 · 1 month ago

Rock Lee vs. Sasuke in Naruto.

Sasuke's sharingan allows him to understand and even imitate the majority of techniques. However even if the sharingan can see a martial arts move, that doesn't mean Sasuke is physically capable of blocking it.

Lee is min-maxed into martial arts skill and physical fitness because he has no aptitude for genjutsu (illusions) or ninjutsu (basically magic). This means that all the sharingan does for Sasuke is let him see how he's gonna get kicked in the face.

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pon_3 · 1 month ago

Going martial arts only counters a surprising number of things in Naruto. Kisame lost to Guy because he only realized afterwards that Guy wasn't using any ninjutsu. To be fair, I'd also assume it was a magic technique if my opponent summoned fiery tigers.

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Butwhatif77 · 1 month ago

It makes a little bit of sense. Those who are martial arts only need to also be very creative since they are working with less tools and in a way always go into a fight assuming they are at a disadvantage. Plus their endurance is likely much higher than most others.

Throughout the story those who come up with new ways of doing things are shown to be the best and excel. So many mid characters can be countered in this way, because they are just using their skills in a very standard way and only expecting the basic counters. They wouldn't think someone could use a skill they have a counter for to literally counter the counter haha.

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catpetter125 · 1 month ago

Jojo is at its best when the fights are as much actual "fighting" as they are chess matches. Like in pt5, the enemy(who can freeze anything he touches and has a thick suit of ice) is surrounded by an impenetrable wall of invisible frozen air, so the MCs use their spraying blood to reveal the pieces before ricocheting the bullets off a lamppost to hit the enemy's weak spot, and then the enemy reveals he covered the weak spot and redirects the bullets back, then the MC reveals his true intent was to carve the lamppost into a spike and then makes the ice guy lose his balance so the weight of the suit impales him on the spike, then that guy reveals he froze the blood from where the spike pierced his neck into a scaffold to stop him from going further down, then they shoot and redirect the bullets at each other until eventually the ice guy is distracted long enough for another MC to kick him further onto the spike, killing him.

This is probably my favourite fight lmao

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RandomRedditorEX · 1 month ago

Another similar fight in this vein is in part 7 is during the Mandom guy (I forgot his name) vs Gyro Zeppeli, in this fight the stand is just an undo button but as with any good stand user it's become incredibly memorable since it's essentially two dudes duking out physically and mentally. Gyro basically has to think in both the present and future simultaneously to have an upper hand to beat him. Honestly most of Part 7 fights fit the puzzle aspect since it stars the most disadvantages protagonists, Gyro literally doesn't have a stand and Johnny is crippled so they both rely much more on thinking and strategy to win

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Leukavia_at_work · 1 month ago

Testosterone-laden teenagers the size of an early 30s bodybuilder doing the playground make-believe levels "Nuh uh! My X power counters your Y power!" for over 6 seasons

Until the universe resets to make it Androgynous Teenagers built like mid-20s runway models doing the playground make-believe levels of "Nuh uh! I have an everything-proof forcefield!"

JoJo is a wonderful time

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Bluelore · 1 month ago

That time when a Jojo main villain almost got killed by an immobilized cat.

Kiras ability is to turn everything his stand touches into a bomb. However Stray Cat, a cat that died and was reborn as a flower due to its stand, has the ability to control air and can completely remove the air around it, turning Kiras bombs into complete duds while they are inside Stray Cats bubble. Like normally the ability to remove the air in like a 2cm radius around you wouldn't be strong, but here it negated Kiras main method to attack.

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Chaos_Crow1927 · 1 month ago

Which he then later used to make invisible bubble bombs to fight the protagonists, who exploit this by walking up to him since he can only have one bomb at a time and detonating the bubble that close to himself is going to cause some serious damage

Like, 80% of JoJo fights are just figuring out how to punch a guy

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Bluelore · 1 month ago

I've once saw someone describe the later Jojo fights like 4 dimensional puzzles and that honestly describes it pretty well.

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Minoto4567 · 1 month ago

There's a Fanfic where Josuke lost his hand, like his pops, to one of Kira's bubble bombs.

Edit: It's called Fathers and Sons

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14252154/1/Fathers-and-Sons

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Seyi_Ogunde · 1 month ago

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Also Perona vs Usopp. Her ghosts cause people to be depressed and unable to move. Usopp has always had depression.

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PrufReedThisPlesThx · 1 month ago

My favourite part of this matchup is that Perona and her negative ghosts start trying to comfort him and cheer him up. Not only because the very concept of someone being so negative that it counters her ability is honestly kinda sad in itself, but also because cheering him up is the only way she'll actually be able to defend herself against him at her full strength. In the end, >!Usopp wins by literally scaring the spooky ghost girl so badly, she falls unconscious!< which is hilarious

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [2]

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Characters who make effective use of a power the most people would initially dismiss as silly, stupid, useless, or relatively mundane.

Posted by Pizza-Meister45 · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 2 months ago

Nana (Banana no Nana) - Can manipulate bananas and their properties, allowing her to create things like banana swords and banana armor

Formaggio (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) - His Stand, Little Feet, can shrink things. While this is dismissed by his companions, Formaggio had been able to use his Stand's power for both espionage (by shrinking himself to be virtually undetectable to the naked eye) and assassination (by potentially shrinking an object, waiting for it to be unwittingly consumed by the target, and then returning the object to normal size after it has been consumed.

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u_slashh · 2 months ago

Bucciarati and Sticky Fingers (JJBA)

What I find so cool abt him his how creative he gets with his zippers

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Broad-Leopard-9415 · 2 months ago

I am pretty sure it's either magicens red or killer queen, magicens red because he said that fire powers were too strong so he wrote Abdul out of the story, and killer queen because there was simply so much options and attacks that cane with explosions

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Human_Situation5033 · 2 months ago

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Panty transforms her panties into a pistol, and Stocking transforms her stockings into swords

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Silviana193 · 2 months ago

To be fair, despite appearance and unconvencional summoning, those things are probably count as holy weapons.

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wasnew4s · 2 months ago

They actually do. I recall a scene where Panty uses her gun to shoot a human and it basically acts as a pellet gun, meanwhile the same weapon can make demons explode.

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Strider794 · 2 months ago

You can't just say that and not explain, why are the panties and stockings considered holy weapons?

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Fish_N_Chipp · 2 months ago

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The Shoveler-Mystery Men

He’s really good with a shovel

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Sly__Marbo · 2 months ago

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Lloyd Frontera too

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some-kind-of-no-name · 2 months ago

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Pesci, Jojo

Kneel before the power of fishing rod

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kigurumibiblestudies · 2 months ago

one of the most terrifying fights in that series

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Clean_Web7502 · 2 months ago

It has the properties of both bubble and gum

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Labmit · 2 months ago

Araki is pretty good with this stuff but I remember him saying in an interview that there was a Stand he had to change cause he can't think of anyway to make it useful.

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [3]

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You can't even HIT them (without specific powers/equipment/etc.)

Posted by Ok_Insect4778 · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 3 months ago

Kurogiri's power is that he is a pocket dimension: He's made out of a shadowy substance that can absorb people and transport them elsewhere. Attacks phase right into him.

Gojo's power causes any force enacted on him to become a supertask: You complete half a punch, then 75% of a punch, then 83.5%, repeating up to and including 99.999% yet never reaching 100%.

The mf who reflects Physical, true to his name, causes physical attacks to damage that attacker. (more of a meme example though, as Persona characters have access to non-physical moves)

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DienekesMinotaur · 3 months ago

Smoker and other Logia users from One Piece, they can only be hurt if they allow it, you use Haki or have some form of elemental advantage.

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PhanThief95 · 3 months ago

Don’t forget Sea Prism Stone which also negates their powers.

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ThunderCube3888 · 3 months ago

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Sans Undertale (Undertale)

just really good at dodging. can't be hit until you break the rules of the turn-based battle system and attack twice in a row

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onepunch_caleb3984 · 3 months ago

Deltarune Chapter 3-4 Spoilers

>!Gerson and Jack also do this!<

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ThunderCube3888 · 3 months ago

>!Gerson!<is a way better example of the trope considering you NEVER get to land a hit on him, but I didn't want to pass up Mr. Dodge Your Attacks himself in favor of a major spoiler so soon after release

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Solid-Pride-9782 · 3 months ago

I saw this post and was like whistles Megalovania

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toonboy01 · 3 months ago

Kurogiri does actually have a physical form. Bakugo was able to pin him down and pointed out that if he really were a shadow, he wouldn't need that armor.

But to add an example, there's Ghost from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Her only real weakness is high frequency sounds.

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Huh_well_we_are_dead · 3 months ago

Of course, that weakness was used continuously solely because of her in Thunderbolts.

Plus, she can only hold intangibility and invisibility for a minute at a time, which is still really good. And, she can get lost in large walls.

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Prismarineknight · 3 months ago

And also REALLY strong guys

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SartenSinAceite · 3 months ago

Reminds me of when Luffy does a similar thing in a fight vs a mind reader, he empties his mind and fights solely on reflexes.

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Mihnea24_03 · 3 months ago

He called it "Gomu Gomu no Baka" I think

He literally turned himself into a (rubber) idiot

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RobotPirateGhost · 3 months ago

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Ghost Pokemon in Red and Blue.

They appear as a generic ghost sprite and attacks have no effect unless you have the Silph Scope in your inventory. Having it makes them appear as their actual species and you can then battle/catch them as normal.

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r/Animesuggest • [4]

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Anime where different characters have different special abilities and there's good world building and power system

Posted by kk_213 · in r/Animesuggest · 4 years ago

Characters should have different special abilities or powers. Something like quirks in BNHA, OPM, charlotte, Toaru series or cursed techniques in Jujutsu Kaisen or imperial arms in akame ga kill. Should have a good plot and badass fight scenes are a bonus. Would like if the world building is good and the powers are well defined and well explored

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Nerrve_ · 4 years ago

That time i got reincarnated as a slime

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JeSSisuub · 4 years ago

That time I got reincarnated as a slime

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Naruto

HxH

One Piece

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SynthismS · 4 years ago

{tower of god}

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Roboragi · 4 years ago

Kami no Tou: Tower of God - (AL, A-P, KIT, MAL)

^(TV | Status: Finished | Episodes: 13 | Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery)

^{anime}, <manga>, ]LN[, |VN| | FAQ | /r/ | Edit | Mistake? | Source | Synonyms | ⛓ | ♥

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AnimeBuddy · 4 years ago

Jojo

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flamboyantsalmonella · 4 years ago

Jojo

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [5]

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Characters with superpowers that you have never seen anywhere else

Posted by DemoWeek · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 3 months ago

Ognepoklonnik (Fire Worshiper) from Major Grom comics. He can implant intrusive thoughts in people's heads. For example, he gave random people the idea that they should burn themselves alive. And after some time of that thought not leaving their minds, they did.

Seike Taroumaru from Toaru Majutsu no Index. He can control the coefficient of friction within a meter of himself.

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Da-No80 · 3 months ago

Manipulating metal itself isn't that unique, but what is unique for me is one of the ways how to get this: Extracting iron from living organism which results in really brutal scenes

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higorga09 · 3 months ago

It doesn't have to be from living organisms, it's just that since JoJo isn't marketed for kids you can have crazy shit like vomiting razor blades, but Risotto can manipulate all iron in his vicinity, one of his more famous quotes is literally "You can find iron anywhere in this world"

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Da-No80 · 3 months ago

I know it doesn't have to be but it's probably the most characteristic power from his Stand

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Da-No80 · 3 months ago

Damn, I guess I forgot that Magneto has this ability to control iron from organism, didn't watch or read X-Men in a long time

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magic-weegee · 3 months ago

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Baoh Shooting Bees Stinger Phenomenon (Baoh the Visitor)

Combustible hair bullets.

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WafflezMan_420_Died · 3 months ago

What a bizarre power

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CorneliusB1448 · 3 months ago

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Dabura's "Stone Spit"

It'll petrify the target if hit

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Abed_is_Batman3 · 3 months ago

Ne Zha fights a demonic troll creature whos spit also turns people to stone. Might just be a trait of demons in east Asian mythology.

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Soft_Door_9866 · 3 months ago

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Charlotte Katakuri (One Piece) with his ability to control mochi, and despite this sounding niche and silly, he somehow made it into an insane power and showed a lot of creativity in using it

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BlackDwarfStar · 3 months ago

He was the second character in the franchise to be introduced with a bounty over 1 billion and dogged Luffy for a long time during their fight. Dude was a menace

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AcceptableWheel · 3 months ago

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The Silence- Doctor Who
The moment you stop looking at them, you forget they exist.

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xx_swegshrek_xx · 3 months ago

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Forget me not - Marvel The same thing

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [6]

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Characters with incredibly specific/niche abilities that turned out to be a hard-counter against a major villain.

Posted by NewGenMurse · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 6 months ago

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tomtadpole · 6 months ago

Happens a bit in JJK, mainly with Mahito.

Yuji is his "mortal enemy" because he's Sukuna's vessel. Having two souls inside his body allowed him to hit and damage Mahito despite him altering the shape of his soul to avoid any damage. Mahito also needs to touch someone's soul to use his cursed technique on them, but because he couldn't isolate Yuji's soul from Sukuna's (and because Sukuna was so powerful he could directly attack Mahito if he made contact with his soul) Yuji was immune to his technique.

Happens later with Mahito again, but this time he realizes Nobara is also his natural enemy because her resonance technique can not only damage him directly, bypassing his damage immunity, it also rebounded between him and his clone as it targets cursed energy, resulting in a greater effect.

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tomtadpole · 6 months ago

Also from JJK, a villainous example:

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Yuki's technique, star rage/bom ba ye allows her to add "virtual mass" to herself. The mass increases her striking power but otherwise doesn't actually affect her up to a point. If she keeps adding mass to herself indefinitely, she can actually transform herself into a black hole... which she did in order to kill Kenjaku.

Lucky for Kenjaku, he had an anti-gravity technique that he had somehow kept from the time he stole Yuji's mother's body, which he used to completely ignore the black hole that spawned next to him, rendering Yuki's final attack completely pointless.

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LCB-Traitor · 6 months ago

wtf?

"Ah yes, my Anti-Gravity technique that I haven't used since the Heian Era" head ass

bro's main power is Greg's bullet proof plot armor

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penanceffect · 6 months ago

I know time stop is exactly what he needed to take on Dio but I wouldn’t say it’s niche either- being able to stop time is incredibly useful both in combat and in every day life

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MisterVictor13 · 6 months ago

Two other better examples I can think of are Josuke’s Crazy Diamond being able to reverse damage, which gives him an edge during his battle with Kira, even allowing him to save someone after >!getting blown up by Killer Queen!<.

Also, in Part 6, Enrico Pucci is defeated by >!a combination of Emporio’s Burning Down the House used alongside Weather Report, which he received usage of after getting a Stand Disc punched into him; Emporio uses Weather Report to increase the oxygen levels of the Ghost Room to dangerous levels that effect Pucci faster due to MIH’s time acceleration and beats him to death with the same Stand!<.

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Kamken · 6 months ago

"Extremely niche abilities"

>Look inside

>Nullification of all an enemy's actions

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richardsphere · 6 months ago

"extremely niche abilities"

1th example is a superpower duplicator, "what if Marvel's Taskmaster copied your weapons and magical stuff and didnt actually need to see your secret techniques to copy them" as well as an outright realitywarper.

There is nothing "niche" about UBW.

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the_lazy_ronin · 6 months ago

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Luffy being made of rubber against Enel a guy who's entire body is made out of lightning

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Danface247 · 6 months ago

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>!Not entirely hard countered, but if he didn't fall asleep, Sans' ability to just stay on his turn would really ruin the player.!<

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personman000 · 6 months ago

I don't think it was an ability as much as it was common sense. Something a lot of people underground don't have

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Bread_Enjoyee · 6 months ago

I would not call GER niche or specific. It can just revert any action to zero, and it wasn't really a coincidence. Of course fate exists in jojo's but moreso than that the arrow most likely went into what Giorno needed in that moment. Of course that's more fan theory-esque but I like that theory and it seems to make the most sense on why requiem stands would get those powers that they got.

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NewGenMurse · OP · 6 months ago

You’re probably right, GER came to mind because it’s ability is a direct response to King Crimson. You’re right that it would be pretty broken elsewhere too.

Edit: Now that I’m thinking about it, most JoJo stands would probably fit this description. I would probably replace GER with Jolyne because her ability wasn’t really a hard counter until later in the story.

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [7]

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Simple, almost underwhelmingly bad power becomes extremely powerful in the right hands

Posted by Broad_Beautiful8869 · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 1 month ago

Mirio, My Hero Academia: When activated, without exception parts of his body will phase through anything and everything. This also applies for air phasing through his lungs and ears making him unable to breathe or hear, light passing through his eyes making him unable to see, and him generally even passing through the ground below him, making him fall through it if not careful. With training, the power made Mirio practically invincible, with nothing being able to hit him, or stop him.

Hisoka, Hunter x Hunter: Hisoka's "Bungee Gum" has both the properties of rubber and gum. That's it. However, in Hisoka's hands, he currently has (manga spoilers ahead)>! the most lethal criminal group in the world chasing him for revenge, whilst being recognized as one of the most lethal assassins in the whole series, making him an important pawn in a war between the members of a royal political family.!<

Fern, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: in a magical world where anything you can imagine can be, Fern is taught by his master to only use the most basic offensive and defensive magic. Because of her prowess she is still able to overpower most enemies with the magical option equivalent of a sword and a shield (against a rocket launcher).

Todo, Jujutsu Kaisen: When clapping his hands, Todo can switch the places of two objects or people if they are imbued with cursed energy. With Todo's incredible IQ, he relies on trickery and mastery of his ability to make fights completely unpredictable, making him and his friends untouchable.

I love this trope to the moon and back, Jojo's has a bunch of these and I am eager to everybody else's favorites!

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Level_Counter_1672 · 1 month ago

Most stand powers in Jojo's bizarre adventure like Bruno bucciarati who uses his powers of creating zippers onto anything as one of the best abilities in the series

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_sephylon_ · 1 month ago

Many weird powers in JoJo are actually normally good powers with a goofy exterior

For instance Bruno just make portals, yes they're zipper portals but still portals

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sekkiman12 · 1 month ago

the thing that makes all the "simple" stand abilities so powerful in execution is that they are, generally, limitless. Bucciarati can put zippers on ANYTHING, unzip ANYTHING, hide inside ANYTHING.

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EvilChefReturns · 1 month ago

To be fair, it demands more explanation than that. He can open a zipper and hide inside an extra dimension space created by his power, he can “unzip” his own limbs to extend his reach or even completely dismantle his own body without harming himself.

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Mister-E_92 · 1 month ago

I also love how JJBA has the complete opposite of this trope as well. The Hand would be one of the most terrifying Stands in the right hands, but Okuyasu is too much of a dumbass to capitalize on his power

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3Rr0r4o3 · 1 month ago

I love when the user itself is the nerf, like Heavens Door is one of the most broken stands in all of JJBA. Rohan Kishibe, the user, could very feasibly use it to take over the world, or do literally anything to anyone. But since all he wants to do is make manga, he just uses it for mundane shit like checking the expiration date on chicken and to get cool stories from people for his manga

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blue4029 · 1 month ago

I once had a concept for a character that could control lemon juice.

basically liquid manipulation but it only works on a specific liquid

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RKO-Cutter · 1 month ago

Also from My Hero

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Best Jeanist

His quirk lets him control fibers, usually resulting in the fibers in people's clothes, but can go as far as steel cables and more. That said, even the quirk-obsessed/quirk stealing villain All For One outright tells him his quirk isn't worth stealing, because despite Jeanist being the #4 hero, that's through dedication and hard training, and that the quirk itself isn't powerful at all

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spnsman · 1 month ago

MHA is full of examples like this. I recently saw a post talking about the look of Kirishima’s Unbreakable form. What this form does is use his quirk “hardening” (making any part of his body solid like rock) make him Unbreakable. As obvious as that sounds, it’s not just him pushing his exterior to a greater extent, but his interior. All his ligaments, guts, bones, tendons are all solid. Due to this, he can’t hold it for very long because he’s not longer breathing, and his heart has stopped. In my favorite moment of his, him being pummeled by Rappa, his skin is broken off and he has to harden the tissue underneath to make up for it. If he can do that in only a couple years of really training his quirk, what can he do after years of being a pro?

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Iamfabulous1735285 · 1 month ago

Also ALSO from Hero

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Minoru Mineta (Grape Juice)'s quirk is using sticky balls on his hair as projectiles

It may sound useless but since the balls can't stick to him, so it bounces, Mineta can use it as a trampoline

Minoru is also one of the smartest characters, so he can effectively use his balls to his advantage. For example, Ms. Midnight uses his weakness (Minouru likes pretty women), she seems to be on a winning side, but Minoru ambushed her by incapacitating her and her weapon with his sticky balls, being the only few students to win against a teacher solo.

Not to mention that he was able to avoid succumbing to Midnight's mist by using tape from his teamate (he has a tape quirk) to cover his nose and mouth to avoid breathing it and falling asleep.

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Yuuwaho · 1 month ago

There’s a webnovel I read recently about a magical girl world. One monster has the power to turn liquids into orange juice.

He actually has a very well known company that manufactures orange juice, and his goal in life is just to pursue the perfect orange juice.

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rcburner · 1 month ago

Brian from Misfits acquires the ability to control dairy products like milk or cheese, and initially enjoys his five minutes of fame as one of the first public superhumans. However, as more people with cool/interesting superpowers went public, people stopped paying attention to him and his agent dropped him. attention to him and his agent dropped him. He decides the only way to get people to notice him again is to start killing people, which he does so by doing stuff like suffocating people with the yogurt they recently ate or severing a character's nervous system with mozzarella.

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r/TopCharacterTropes • [8]

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When weaker people get creative with their abilities and become nearly unstoppable

Posted by SableZard · in r/TopCharacterTropes · 3 months ago

Mirio (My Hero Academia): Can't do anything except pass through solid objects. No phenomenal brain power, no super strength beyond what an unreasonably jacked 17yr old can muster, he can't even breathe when he's using his quirk. But he figured out he can generate momentum by bouncing between surfaces, and eventually learns to use that to his advantage. When he's introduced to the series, he picks a fight just to prove a point and wins a 1vAll against the main character, the main character's rival, and their entire superhero class.

The Animorphs (Animorphs): Five kids are given access to alien technology that lets them shapeshift for two hours at a time. The aliens who invented it intended its use to be used for scouting and espionage. Instead, the kids start turning into lions and tigers and bears and throwing hands with brain-slugs. Jake uses a peregrine falcon morph to drop an alien supersoldier off a cliff and acquire its form on the way down to the ground. Marco uses a cobra morph to catch and kill an alien speedster. Rachel convinces the team to turn into cheetahs and nearly assassinates the alien's leader. They drown an extraterrestrial swarm of flesh-eating insects by turning Cassie into a humpback whale and dropping her on the swarm. They make friends with God, stop World War 3, and murder their universe's version of Bill Gates with arson. Shit gets crazy.

Corran Horn (Star Wars Legends): A Rebel-turned-New-Republic fighter pilot who inherited Force sensitivity from his grandfather. But due to a genetic defect in his family, he can't use any of the well-known Force abilities like telekinesis and Force lightning. At all. All he can do is make people see illusions, as well as absorb and redirect heat and electricity. But he eventually gets good enough that he can resist blaster fire and expand the area of effect of his illusions. There is a point where he tanks an explosion big enough to destroy a Hutt palace, redirects all the fire and kinetic energy into the air above the palace, and then makes everyone in the surrounding city hallucinate a scary image of himself inside the flames, just to mess with some space pirates (but his clothes burned up, so he had to walk home naked).

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Sir-Toaster- · 3 months ago

It's hilarious how MHA has characters with weaker powers and intelligent users like Mirio or Kiochi, but then there are those with op powers who are dunces in their power

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Asheyguru · 3 months ago

Worm does this a lot, too. The very smart main character manages to leverage 'can mind-control bugs' very far, but frequently gets frustrated by seeing people with obviously busted powers be very stupid about using them.

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Mordetrox · 3 months ago

Slide and Glide is >!actually completely busted without the mental block that prevents Koichi from using it on the air. In its base state it's incredibly flexible flight, and after awakening it he became a physical powerhouse. It's by no means a weak Quirk, Koichi just got screwed over by his mother's conditioning.!<

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ThyHolyPaladdin · 3 months ago

Todoroki for more than half of the story does jack squawk with his powers either the cold or hot part of it bro is a combination of the human torch and iceman and yet all he does is spam big dumb attacks

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Sir-Toaster- · 3 months ago

Kurogiri is a zombie, he's only as useful as Shigaraki knows how to utilize him. I was thinking more of Momo.

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Joemama_69-420 · 3 months ago

90% of JJBA characters

Your power is breathing? Good not only you can harness the power of the sun, you can change people’s biology and turn ANYTHING into a weapon.

Wait your spiritual manifestation can allow you to control rods? Great you can cause massive organ failure by heat absorption.

Wait you can absorb heat yourself? Great you can leave traps that burn your enemies or even burn them by simply touching them?

But switching objects from your left to right hand is lame… well get a dangerous weapon then and catch your enemy off guard.

Wait your spirit animal just talks to you? Well maybe listen to him and you’d MIGHT be lucky.

Yeah theres a lot of examples, I cant list em all.

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Littleboypurple · 3 months ago

Daniel J D'Arby could have potentially beat the Stardust Crusaders by himself despite his Stand having no combat abilities. He simply knew how to use Osiris extremely well alongside his love of Gambling that after defeating both Polnareff and Old Joseph, if he simply called Jotaro's bluff, he would have defeated them all in the span of an hour or so.

One notable Stand that seems really weak but, is devastating is from Purple Haze Feedback Light Novel. Vladimir's Rainy Day Dream Away was apparently so deceptively powerful, not even the main villain of part 5, Diavolo, wanted to antagonize him. Rainy Day Dream Away's ability is that if you're in range, it can lock a person in any emotional state even if they only think of it briefly. The feeling can last your entire life and it will be the only thing you feel. Like during the battle against Fugo, Vladimir was able to make Fugo permanently feel like he was off balance and constantly falling while making another person feel completely hopeless in their idea that Vladimir was completely unbeatable.

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AceOmega2 · 3 months ago

Don’t forget the weakest stand, Survivor. All it does is make people really angry. To nearly take out the main character by trying to drown her in enemies in a prison riot.

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camilopezo · 3 months ago

Many isekai attempt this premise, but they usually fail for one of two reasons.

* Anyone with common sense would know how to take advantage of those abilities, and for some strange reason, the protagonist is the only one who knows how to do it.

* Many cases turn out to be less "The protagonist learned to take advantage of a weak ability" and more "The weak ability turned out to be overpowered anyway" cases.

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GogoDiabeto · 3 months ago

My favorite is a recent one where everybody dunks on the main character for having the worst ability ever. What is his ability? 100% hit rate on any control spells; Spells which include: paralysis, blindness, poisoning... Like, how the fuck is it even supposed to be a bad ability?

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Alastor15243 · 3 months ago

How do you lead a raid on a school for superheroes, have a guy on your team who can teleport, and not steal a few hundred guns for your lackeys? If even one of those mooks with "shooting quirks" had an actual gun then Eraserhead would have been swiss cheese.

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Sir-Toaster- · 3 months ago

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The entire story is centered on him using his hyper intelligence to avoid suspicion as he uses the Death Note

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r/anime • [9]

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What The Most Creative And Unique Anime Superpower You Know?

Posted by Playful_Barber_8131 · in r/anime · 3 years ago

I really like creative and unique superpowers far more than uncreative and overused ones.

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iftair · 3 years ago

Charloette - most of the main characters have powers their powers are half - baked (i.e. there's always a catch). It is a very creative & unique way to nerf them.

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Playful_Barber_8131 · OP · 3 years ago

Never heard of Charloette before. Got any example powers so I can see what you mean by half-baked?

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iftair · 3 years ago

One character has a power where they are invisible but only to one person. Another has a power to know which other people have power ,what sort of power, and where they are but they must be fully wet in their clothes.

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irisverse · 3 years ago

Ah yes, the extremely creative and unique concept of "what if superpowers had a weakness?"

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Chow0914 · 3 years ago

Darker than Black did it better

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mee8Ti6Eit · 3 years ago

Seikon on Qwaser? The characters have control over the elements. Not fire/water, but Iron/Hydrogen/Mercury/etc.

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Pirate_of_Dark_Water · 3 years ago

Periodic elememts, not the five basic elements.

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TheKitsuneKing · 3 years ago

sexy no jutsu

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Some_Seaworthiness90 · 3 years ago

Bungee Gum. It has the properties of both rubber and gum.

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randomawarenessman · 3 years ago

Accelerator - Vector Manipulation

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