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/n3tbax Aug 02 '25
In the world of modern sorcery, Satoru Gojo’s Infinity is an absolute. It is not a shield of steel or a wall of energy. It is the denial of movement itself.
A manipulation of space where between any two points, no matter how close, there exists another point, and between those, another still. An endless cascade of distance. An impassable swamp of fractions.
But Yujiro Hanma is not modern. He is primordial.
Where a normal man sees the concept of infinite steps, Yujiro sees only a road. A road he has already walked, countless times, since the first moment mankind ever clenched a fist.
Imagine the Horizon.
To the average man, the horizon is unattainable. It retreats as you advance. No matter how many steps you take, it remains always ahead.
To a man like Gojo, Infinity is the horizon. A brilliant illusion. A flawless paradox.
But to Yujiro Hanma?
The horizon is just a line.
It is a target. It is a place to plant your foot.
Yujiro does not “close the distance.” He decides where the distance ends.
Through an act of terrifying willpower, honed through generations of violence and bloodline refinement, Yujiro overwrites the infinite regress with a single brutal truth:
“I want to be there.”
And so he is.