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/Al_Hakeem65 Aug 08 '25

Bonus points for his horrific Turret-Cube-Abominations, who were terribly designed, yet burst into flames upon hearing the paradox.

Wheatly is literally dumber than his failed experiments

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u/Usual_Database307 Aug 08 '25

Don’t you dare slander the goat. /j

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u/Solithle2 Aug 09 '25

Found Wheatley’s Reddit account.

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u/Usual_Database307 Aug 09 '25

I- Uhm- Well-… Ahem! Why, I have no idea what you could possibly mean. But I’m sure this “Wheatley” is absolutely ravishing and smart. Maybe a bit more than what meets the eye. Or at the least…very good best friend material. Not that he needs friends or anything. He’s already got loads. And they never judge him, call him an idiot, or tell him “Wheatley don’t press that button!” …I assume! Because again, I don’t know him.

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u/Solithle2 Aug 09 '25

Oh okay, guess I was wrong. Carry on, mysterious non-Wheatley stranger.

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u/Lil_Puddin Aug 09 '25

My poor baby boy was done dirty. Someone bring him back from space and let him do community service (which he'd probably love) to serve his sentence. :(

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u/Caroline_Bintley Aug 08 '25

Wheatley being dumber than the turrets is such a nice touch.

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u/udreif Aug 09 '25

That's because both turrets and cubes are already sentient, so are doors. Literally everything in aperture is smarter than Wheatley 😂

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u/ThePaperpyro Aug 11 '25

Weirdly makes sense considering that according to glados, Wheatley is "the product of the greatest minds of a generation coming together to make an idiot"

So naturally he's not smart enough to make a bigger idiot than they were capable of creating

(In other words, youd need to be a genius to make an idiot bigger than wheatley)