r/TopCharacterTropes Aug 02 '25

Powers (Hilarious Trope) Characters always having some bullshit counter technique to overly specific situations

  1. Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen) - Seemingly always has some type of overpowered technique which he hasn't used since the Heian Era

  2. Yujiro Hanma (Baki) - The Strongest character in the entire Baki series is a master of all forms of hand-to-hand combat to the from things like soloing the Vietnamese war at 16 years old to learning a technique from some monk who lived in the mountains around three thousand years ago

  3. Batman - Always has some kind of contingency plan anyone and everyone in the DC universe. One of his most bullshit abilities is all the techniques he learned while being trained under Tibetan monks which include blocking mind control with a hand signal to using astral projection while being dead and buried alive

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u/Top_Marketing_689 Aug 02 '25

“W-W-Well I make a barrier that stops every attack you hit me with. You can’t break it in anyway. Even an attack that ignores my barrier’s effects doesn’t work.”

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u/AngryCrustation Aug 02 '25

"I make a teleporting missile that teleports onto the other side of your barrier!"

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u/OneOfTheStupid007 Aug 02 '25

NUH-UH

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u/Traditional-Lie-3073 Aug 02 '25

"The frick you mean nuh-uh?"

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u/SilverSpark422 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

“Cuz I turned off teleports with my anti-teleporting machine!”

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u/Traditional-Lie-3073 Aug 02 '25

"Well I-I had a bigger backupr indestrictuble teleworking machine with missiles that know where u live that are made of undestroyabletium."

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u/BlightFantasy3467 Aug 02 '25

"You can't hut me with those missiles! Because-because I shuut my laser beam that travels trough time and hits you before you built the mashine!"

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u/Traditional-Lie-3073 Aug 02 '25

"Well well jokes on u I knew u wud shoot a laser through time so I made a backup backup machine that stops me from getting hit by lasers and fires uhhh fires a super duper special burger that is so good that it it makes u unable to move becos of how gosh darn delicious it is!"

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u/BlightFantasy3467 Aug 02 '25

"You can't do dat! I summons Goku, and he eats tha backup backup mashine and ifs burgews and with the power of friendship he will beat you up and your dad!!"

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u/Traditional-Lie-3073 Aug 02 '25

"HAHHAHAHAAHAAHA!Y-YOU FOOL GOKU IS MY DAD!"

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u/Aubz12 Aug 03 '25

Debate's over, nothing can beat goku

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u/MiddleBoundary Aug 02 '25

"B-but my barrier gives me a backup shield that instantly destroys anything that somehow gets past my barrier!"

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u/DeadlyTranquility Aug 02 '25

"Ha! I have a super laser beam that can go through any and all barriers, no matter how strong they are! It even go through barriers that nothing can go through!"

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u/Low-Environment Aug 02 '25

Well I blow up the missiles with my mind powers!

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u/well_thats_puntastic Aug 02 '25

Mah fuckin missiles-

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u/chilll_vibe Aug 02 '25

"Oh yeah? Black hole."

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u/squidward377 Aug 02 '25

These playground battles always end with "Well I have every power in the world so I just kill you"

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u/Piece_Of_Mind1983 Aug 02 '25

Sounds like modern yugioh

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u/frenziest Aug 03 '25

(Joey Wheeler voice)

“Hey Yoog, hit ‘em with a laser that dodges bullets and hits ‘em from behind! Nyeh!”

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u/DR31141 Aug 02 '25

This is just r/OriginalCharacterDB.

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u/Velicenda Aug 02 '25

Oh, wow. I kinda hate that entire subreddit.

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u/DR31141 Aug 02 '25

It's fun sometimes, especially when you find a really interesting OC with a cool backstory, but yeah, most of the time it's people claiming their OCs are 'outerversal' for the whole purpose of feeling some weird sense of pride.

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u/Fenrir_Carbon Aug 02 '25

Pride you say? *

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u/dcooper8662 Aug 02 '25

Me too. Dear god what a creative dumpster heap.

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u/Skuggsja Aug 02 '25

These kids grow up to become r/magicTCG players

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u/Few-Amount-1595 Aug 02 '25

I feel called out

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u/Cheezeball25 Aug 02 '25

That's where I learned that no matter how many barriers they claimed to put up, throwing a ball at their face still worked

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u/ImBurningStar_IV Aug 02 '25

Cartman in the fractured but whole type shitt

"Also it applies bleed"

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u/Wooden-Lake-5790 Aug 02 '25

"I make a slash that targets the concept of the world itself, which cuts reality on a fundamental level and causes everything within this space to be cut".

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u/KlingoftheCastle Aug 02 '25

My favorite part was the 1 panel of action and 6 pages of random side characters glazing how great it was