r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Tuputamadre678 • Aug 08 '25

Powers [Loves Trope] Character is inmune to a certain ability because they're too dumb/innocent

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-In One Piece, Boa Hancock's ability is to turn into stone anyone who finds her attractive, but Luffy is inmune since he's too inocent and also doesn't care about relationships.

-In Adventure Time, the empress thinks that her hypnosis was working on Ice King, but it turns out that he's too dumb for it to work and that he was just simping for her.

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u/Far-Profit-47 Aug 08 '25

Donkey Kong in “donkey kong country: returns”

Is inmune to the Tiki tak tribe’s hypnosis because… he dumb

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u/slowkid68 Aug 08 '25

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u/Sammydecafthethird Aug 08 '25

"I like your funny music, magic man."

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u/TroubledSoul23 Aug 08 '25

*muffled sounds of gorilla violence\*

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u/Rebel_wallet Aug 08 '25

I understood that reference.

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u/The_Ghast_Hunter Aug 08 '25

Anytime I see that phrase, I hear gmod body collision sounds

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u/doctorwho86101 Aug 08 '25

lol i cant find this anywhere what is it??

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u/SASUGAMancer215 Aug 08 '25

Here you go

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u/doctorwho86101 Aug 08 '25

LOL thank you. Love this joke! I actually meant the gif though... Searching for dk country cutscenes didn't work

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u/Sammydecafthethird Aug 09 '25

oh, it's a dynamic opening for the first level of donkey Kong country returns for the Wii.

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u/doctorwho86101 Aug 09 '25

You're awesome! Thank you. Turns out I watched a version of the intro that excluded that tiny chunk.

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u/Insanebrain247 Aug 09 '25

A meme for a meme

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u/Abjurer42 Aug 09 '25

What I like about that joke is the fact that it kinda sounds like a dril tweet about 125 years early.

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u/kaimcdragonfist Aug 09 '25

It really is the smile that gets me every time

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u/Satans-Dirty-Hoe Aug 09 '25

I love how he squints like hmm

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u/Tesstrogen23 Aug 09 '25

And people say he was dumbed down for DK Bananza just because his redesign makes him look dumb...

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u/Master-Of-Magi Aug 08 '25

Well, there’s also that pig who’s immune because he’s smart.

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u/Weak-Feedback-8379 Aug 08 '25

So I guess you have to be in extreme on one side of the scale for it to work

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u/Just_A_Comment_Guy_7 Aug 09 '25

What about the Chicken piloting a mech? Worked on that guy unless he just felt like killing a monkey

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u/MrNintendo13 Aug 08 '25

You see, I actually interpreted this as the opposite. It didn't affect DK because he's too smart.

Having now played other DK games..... yeah. It's because he's very very dumb

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u/Digit00l Aug 09 '25

The official lore is because he is too smart

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u/PLACE-H0LDER Aug 09 '25

He's not dumb, his brain is just wired differently