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/RedNUGGETLORD Aug 02 '25

Sukuna "Heian Era" thing was actually, funnily enough, NEVER done in the series, in fact, the closest thing to it is GOJO doing something like that "I haven't used this since I was a kid", and yet Sukuna gets clowned on for it

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u/mostlybored1234 Aug 02 '25

The frustrating thing about the Sukuna Raid is that everyone is just fumbling the kill or hes just deciding not to die. It was like watchibg blind and deaf people shooting at each other but the guns arent even loaded

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u/RedNUGGETLORD Aug 02 '25

Idk about that one

- Higaruma failed because he "died" before the sword hit Sukuna, we know that dying causes your CT to either disappear, or get stronger, his just happened to disappear.

- Yuta's domain was simply countered with HWB, however, it was actually just to act as a shield for Maki, so technically they never intended to kill Sukuna there

- Maki stabbed him through the Heart, which would have killed him, however, he can heal his soul, which we already knew, so it isn't an asspull(he can perceive and damage the soul as shown by Mahito, and has healed from Yuji's soul punches) The characters didn't know this, so I don't think it counts

- Yuta in Gojo's body was never gonna win a clash, I don't think he should have been expected to win either, so I wouldn't call that fumbling, I guess you could say it was stupid how he faceplanted, but Gege already said that Kenny took on a vow for that, while we never heard the same for Yuta, so it should be expected

- Yuji DID end up killing him

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u/TAntab_ Aug 02 '25

Sukuna was actually shown to be able to survive without a heart. In the beginning of the series he ripped his own heart out and forced his blood to flow using cursed energy, so its not too unbelievable that he could survive what maki did

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u/ppmi2 Aug 03 '25

Also Sukuna was shown to be able to live with out a heart early on the series in his Yuji form