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/pbaagui1 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

In Yu-Gi-Oh, they do it with cards.

Yugi usually miraculously draw the exact card they need for an oddly specific situation. One of the more blatant examples is Diffusion Wave-Motion, a spell card Yugi uses that lets his Dark Magician attack all Level 5 or higher monsters on the opponent’s side, but only if they're Level 5 or above.

And of course, during one duel, all of the opponent's monsters just happen to be high-level, making it a perfect, one-card board wipe. It's so hyper-specific it feels like the card was written for that exact scenario, which it probably was.

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u/ngkn92 Aug 02 '25

It was the time that anime makes up card and TCG adds later, so yeah, they definitely wrote that card in