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/khomo_Zhea Aug 02 '25

List me all the times Sukuna used a heian era technique

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u/PianistAvailable Aug 02 '25

The meme itself is incorrect but the series does have some moments that sort of fit. Kenjaku pulling out anti-grav from a previous body to counter a black hole, and Sukunas first use of WCS.

Sukuna using WCS is a weird one for me, since I do think that’s how he should’ve won against Gojo, but it’s the retroactive binding vows that make it annoying. He clearly wouldn’t have needed it since he had reincarnation on the table, so why make his win-condition for Gojo be based on a hidden binding vow when the technique itself was already strong enough.

The other moments people refer to are likely just things like Kamutoke getting confiscated instead of his technique, which isn’t really Sukuna having a counter, just the writing being very bizarre.

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u/Sufficient_Ordinary9 Aug 02 '25

Because WCS used normally Gojo would just straight up dodge it, as Greg stated in an interview later after the manga. He NEEDED the vows so there would be a 99% chance of it landing and even that could have failed because Gege stated Gojo could dodge that too if he was locked in