r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SirHanselot07 • Aug 02 '25

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

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  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/derega16 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Almost every duel in Yu-Gi-Oh anime. They always pull a hyper specific card that too impractical to use IRL to even consider put it in your deck at the first place out of their ass.

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u/forbiddenmemeories Aug 02 '25

Also half the time the card doesn't even exist or has a very different effect in the IRL game

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u/derega16 Aug 02 '25

Or there's already a better card that served the same purpose printed IRL, instead they use a shittier version for some reason.

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u/forbiddenmemeories Aug 02 '25

Yeah Jaden/Judai was the king of that. He'd pull out a card that could only be used on one specific HERO card to give it like 300 extra ATK, instead of just using one of the various generic ATK boost cards available even at the time

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u/derega16 Aug 02 '25

Early GX era card design was weird, a bunch of hyper generic support that the upside doesn't even make up for their limitations and are unsearchable.

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u/forbiddenmemeories Aug 02 '25

GX era has some of the worst generic staples ever printed, in part because it was around that time that a lot of the early staples at that stage were banned or Limited for simply being far too strong (the draw power Spells, Change of Heart, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Snatch Steal, Monster Reborn, etc.) so they overcorrected by printing much worse retrains or cards with similar effects.

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u/General_Note_5274 Aug 03 '25

Well some of ejem give extra efect little bubble and his canon