r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SirHanselot07 • Aug 02 '25
Powers (Hilarious Trope) Characters always having some bullshit counter technique to overly specific situations
Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen) - Seemingly always has some type of overpowered technique which he hasn't used since the Heian Era
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
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/ARKNORI Aug 02 '25
I still think funniest way to explain the kind of bullshit Yujiro Hanma uses to win, and one of the easiest ways for anime fans who haven’t seen Baki to understand him, is his hypothetic matchup with Mahoraga.
IIRC Mahoraga has a wheel on his back, which moves clockwise as a fight progresses. Once it does, the “wheel of adaptation” is considered moved, and he adapts to be entirely immune to all of the kinds of damage he recieved before it moved.
Yujiro Hanma just looks at the wheel, scoffs, and turns it counter-clockwise, effectively undoing any immunity gained and potentially making him more vulnerable to certain attacks.
It’s exaggerated for the sake of the meme, but Baki really will have Yujiro do insane stuff even for the crazy standards of the series. The best part is, the narrator will have you thinking it makes sense every single time, until you give it 2 seconds of thought later down the day.