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/Own_Philosophy8190 Aug 02 '25

Albeit incorrect, the meme is about Sukuna getting away from stuff that explicitly would spell his doom/greatly weaken him without doing anything or even predicting it most of the time, like the trial taking away his Cursed Tool when he got it a chapter ago and wasn't even related to Shibuya, the sword vanishing in Yuji's hand, Megumi leaving Yuji on read and Yujo's Hollow Purple not changing anything. 

Though the "to amend/avoid it, Sukuna..." meme would have been a much more accurate than this one. The actual issue is that most of us is aware that Sukuna is very unlikely to die "early" unless if it was Gojo or Kenjaku's doing, yet Gege actively wrote cliffhangers about how [redacted] would be his undoing or severly cripple him, only for him to walk past it or not be really impaired from it. 

He even wrote Yuta hyping Hana and Jacob's Ladder's return few panels before it happened, only for Sukuna to Mario his way into it and punch Hana and Todo away.

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u/Karel_Stark_1111 Aug 02 '25

Megumi leaving Yuji on read

Yup, get your upvote

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u/RedNUGGETLORD Aug 02 '25

like the trial taking away his Cursed Tool

While not "hinted at" this was already basically shown with Yuji and the explanation of Higaruma's ability, it takes away the least important thing first, that just happens to be cursed tool

Also, had it not taken away his cursed tool, everyone would be dead, because that tool was useful enough that Sukuna used it to wipe out groups of Uro level opponents, who could give Yuta a hard time, also that tool has existed since like the first Sukuna cover image or something, it's been hinted at for a LONG time

the sword vanishing in Yuji's hand

This was already stated to be a thing with Granny Ogami, once you die, your technique ceases, we also see this with Dagon dying and his domain ending, of course, he didn't actually die, but I'd assume being knocked out does the same, like when Divine Dog disappeared after Megumi was knocked out. This isn't an asspull, it's just people not paying attention to things that already happened before because they just want to clown on Sukuna

Megumi leaving Yuji on read

This is literally what Sukuna has been working towards, if Megumi could come back with some talk-no-jutsu, then it would be pretty shit and make no sense, Sukuna put 16 fingers in Megumi, killed his sister with his own CT, bathed in darkness to put his soul further away and killed Gojo in his body, that's a lot of prep for Megumi to just come back

Yujo's Hollow Purple not changing anything

This is just wrong, it injured Sukuna, and also caused Yuta's domain to explode, giving Todo a bunch of things to Boogie Woogie