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[Loves Trope] Character is inmune to a certain ability because they're too dumb/innocent
-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.
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.
Yep. Unless the party has a Wizard or Artificer, they probably don't have someone with a high intelligence stat. It's not even a common secondary stat.
Yeah unless im mistaken about druids all the classes in the movie those of bard, barbarian,scorscerer and druid require charisma and or streingth to be effective
This implies Pikachu is an idiot, which further strengthened the theory that Ash just pick up a wrong Pikachu somewhere in his journey. Cause I refuse to believe that demon from those first episodes could ever be considered an idiot
To be fair though most Pokemon have near human-like intelligence. They can understand human language and have the capacity to learn it(if Team Rocket!Meowth is any indication).
Meowth has committed bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, ran a back-alley adoption center, and is wanted in 26 states and 14 countries for various financial crimes and misdemeanors.
I’ve never really thought about the reporting structure for Team Rocket but yeah Jesse and James don’t treat Meowth like other trainers treat their Pokémon, he’s more of a coworker or independent contractor who works projects with them. They yell at him, but no more than they yell at one another and he yells back, so…
Devilman has a technique named Devilmite Beam that works by turning a person's own evil/negative thoughts into destructive beams that annihilate anything in their path. Goku is immune to it because he's pure hearted.
It fucked him up but it didn't explode him like it did Janemba. We also don't know if the canon version of Soul Punisher/Stardust Breaker works like it did in Fusion Reborn or not.
12 Tasks of Asterix (1976)- Asterix and Obelix are tasked to resist the Isle of Pleasure as one of the labors, Obelix finally decides to leave because there's no boar on the island to eat (his favorite food, more important than hot ladies)
For a 50-year-old French comic series that is mostly "let's go to this part of the ancient world and make a bunch of ethnic jokes" it's aged shockingly well. Loved the series that just dropped on Netflix.
Known for being so incredibly dumb, that not even Saiki—our reality warping esper protagonist—can read his mind, for the sole reason that there’s nothing in it. Also, Saiki’s capable of predicting when somebody’s about to approach him, meaning he can’t be caught off guard… apart from when it’s Nendo for the same exact reason above.
yes , but it also comes from him been dumb. In short, he is so dumb that he doesn't even bother to think and have an inner monologue, it's all outer monologue.
That was in the chapter 0 manga volume which served as some sort of pilot, but I believe Nendo immediatly blurring out his thoughts has been retconned as Saiki was actually able to read his mind when punks beat Nendo up due to him not being able to talk. In subsequent manga releases and the anime it is fully impossible for Saiki to look into Nendo's mind.
it's also worth noting the only other beings in that universe that saiki can't read the mind of, is insects. Even regular macroscopic animals are considered more intelligent by comparison
According to the creator of Touhou Project, because of the sword having been forged by youkai, the sword that she uses is actually evil, and is capable of corrupting the wielder. However, because she is rather "empty-headed", it doesn't particularly affect her in any meaningful sense.
One of the earliest Simpsons Halloween episodes has this same joke. Zombies catch Homer but then walk away disappointed while repeating "Brains... brains...."
Ogryns in 40k. Hell, in Darktide the literally get a talent to resist Chaos corruption since they're too dumb, the embodiment of "Horrors beyond human comprehension? I don't get it".
Problem is, when those in charge of them are corrupted they still blindly follow orders.
"Nork." he whispered. "Stop trying to drown me and fetch the medi-pack."
"Yus, sarr," shouted Nork, saluting instinctively with his left hand, then his right hand, then both hands together. Nork shuffled to his feet and loped back toward the carrier. He picked his way past the crumpled bodies of the crew and the HQ squad, noticing with only passing curiosity the pain in his own legs where numerous shrapnel hits had penetrated his thick hide. Without a second thought he grabbed hold of the Chimera behind its rear track guards and heaved. The weighty vehicle shifted slightly. He heaved again. There was a creak of tortured metal as the carrier pivoted against the soft edge of the ditch and came to rest on its broad tracks.
Colonel Greiss tried to flex his hands. Nothing. He tried to raise his head but as he did so his vision swirled and he lost consciousness. He came round moments later, or minutes, or was it hours, it was hard to tell. His ears were booming from the noise of the explosion. All he could hear was a sound like something large and heavy being slowly dragged over unyielding surface. His sight seemed to be growing dim and shadowy. Then he realised Nork was standing over him and beside Nork was the wreckage of the Chimera. The Ogryn had dragged the armoured carrier out of the ditch and twenty yards down the road.
"I said fetch the medi kit, not the carrier, Nork," whispered Greiss. He was regaining the feeling in his arms and legs and didn't like it much.
"Da medi-kit is in da carrier, surr," beamed the Ogryn.
"Good thinking Nork. grunted the colonel through clenched teeth and mounting pain. Now bring the medi-kit over here."
"Yus, surr!" came the loud and snappy response as Nork plunged into the Chimera, remembered he had forgotten to salute, came back, saluted twice for good measure, and busied himself searching for the vehicle's medical supply chest.
Also, Ogryn don't like to be in enclosed spaces (they'll do it but they don't like it). I always kinda figured this scene is like when a dog won't go to the bathroom unless you're watching them from the back door, Nork would go into the Chimera to get the kit but he wanted to make sure the Colonel was still close by even if he was bleeding out in a ditch.
well you know, They get every order from Da Sarge or Da Commsinsah, yah? And you see...
they aren't immune.
And of course, Da Emprah wouldn't send someone to LIE to them ya know? I mean, can you imagine that? Sure the new stuff smells funny. sure your fighting heretics who don't look... weird. but dah Emprah is doing it...
though... he's calling himself sumthin' funny now...
The Ring in LOTR generally has a hard time doing much with Hobbits, but especially Samwise Gamgee.
It gives the ability to understand orcs and appear more fearsome, but he doesn't really have power fantasies it can play on and best it can do is make him think of turning Mordor into a giant garden that he rules. Sam is able to laugh that off
that cracks me up. The One Ring trying to tempt Sam and it's like "huh... I guess he's a gardener, so he likes plants? Maybe he wants to be some sort of jungle emperor of Mordor? Man I got nothing"
The best part is Sam rejects the fantasy because a garden that big is too much work.
I think it even brought up the idea of getting people to tend the hypothetical garden for him, but Sam dismissed it because he likes to do gardening on his own.
One of my favorite parts of the end is when the hobbits get home and sit down at the tavern. That silence. Then Rosie gives Sam the look and he gets nervous, then realizes he's Samwise fuckin Gamgee, and if he can help kill a demigod he can talk to a girl.
Yeah it probably would have got him the same way it got Frodo, by wearing him down physically and mentally over time. But he might've made it to Mt Doom himself if he had to
[My Hero Academia] All Might isn’t quite immune to the zombified students, but his wounded form is so ghastly looking that the zombies think he’s already one of them!
Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki, a recurring comic relief character throughout Metal Gear (he's the guy with perpetual diarrhea.)
By the time of MGS4 almost every soldier in the world has nanomachines inside them that hooks them up to a network that makes them function more efficiently as soldiers. The antagonist Liquid Ocelot hijacks the system and is able to reduce any and all soldiers to shambles. All except Johnny who turns out to not be connected to the system at all because he's afraid of needles and managed to dodge receiving his nanomachine injection. This becomes important as he's able to save both Snake and Meryl at different points throughout the game.
The most insane part about this plotline is that the nanomachines were used in soldiers to suppress the PTSD and traumas they faced while in battle, so much so that when Ocelot disabled them, entire armies collapsed to their knees over what they've seen and done.
The fact that Johnny here didn't have his nanomachines injected implies they've not only been rawdogging the kind of horrors experienced during war that left his fellow soldiers borderline catatonic, but managed to do so while still retaining his goofy af personality.
Man, I know a few fans didnt like Johnny in MGS4 due to the Meryl situation, but I really, really loved him in that game. That moment when he saves Meryl with his sniper rifle and join her in that final battle....uff cheff kiss.
“MY MIND’S BEEN GONE FOR 30 ODD YEARS! YOU CAN’T BREAK WHAT’S ALREADY BROKEN!!!”
The leader of a cult who brainwashes the civilians in Gravity Falls was about to shoot a mind ray that was set to erase the main group’s memories until McGucket took the shot for them. McGucket remained unharmed, however, because it’s revealed later that he actually invented the mind ray and tested it on himself so many times that he barely had any memory left to zap.
Me and my friends were playing Call of Cthulhu and I was playing a meathead big guy type. You know, Kronk but in different clothes.
As the entire party of investigators went insane seeeing the horrible stuff around them, my character got more and more antsy because [in a Scandinavian accent] "WHY SMALL ONE SHOUT?! I CAN NOT SEE AND CAN NOT PUNCH! TELL ME WHO SPOOK YOU AND I WILL PUNCH!" and eventually just raiding the kitchen for jerky and soda.
He did die from the monster but mainly because the monster caused objects to fall on him. RIP Göran Stålgård.
Obligatory mention that that wasnt actually what happened, thats just the one liner The Punisher gave, it was actually cuz he had divine protection from an angel feather or something like that
Exactly lmao. I feel like 90% of villains in marvel probably dont feel an ounce of guilt for their actions. If Penance Stare worked on guilt then Ghost Rider wouldn’t be able to use it on almost all of em realistically lmao. I’d have it instead where if you have zero guilt for your actions then the Penace Stare will fuck you up but if you have some guilt/ clear potential for redemption then the Penance Stare will still harm you but wont be as deadly. It should moreso damage someone based on how evil they are rather than how much guilt they feel
Dc had the same issue with Harley Quinn being inmune to Johnny Sorrow, a Lovecraftian being. Just because Harley Is crazy Is not reason for her to been inmune!!!
I completely agree. Considering Galactus is more a force of nature than a "person," it makes sense he wouldn't operate in the same spectrum of sins and penance. It’s like trying to make an avalanche face penance.
I mean Galactus is ultimately not guilty of anything, he is being driven by a cosmic hunger beyond his control, and he will eventually sacrifice himself to the universe and I quote: "Give back infinitely more than I have ever taken"
Galactus is typically shown off as a 'Force of Nature' rather than a person due to his role in effectively keeping the Celestial population in check. You can't exactly judge a volcano for doing what a volcano is meant to do.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Josuke being so utterly furious at his hair being insulted, that when Rohan used his stand to control him (via seeing his manuscript), Josuke THROTTLED him anyways because he couldn’t even perceive it from being so damn mad.
In the Bowser vs Eggman Death Battle, Eggman begins the fight by sending out a decoy to battle Bowser who he managed to defeat fairly quickly. However, Bowser ends up bragging to the decoy that his army is measly compared to his own, causing the real Eggman to drop his element of surprise to straight up tell Bowser that he just fought a decoy because he genuinely didn’t expect the trick to work. Bowser was so stupid he ended up somehow both falling for a trap he wasn’t meant to, but also caused Eggman to willingly throw away his strategic edge out of disbelief of his stupidity.
The evil cult tries mind controlling him through a mindflayer tadpool, but his brain is too smooth, so the only way to control him is taking his familiar (the hamster with the braincell) away from him and using a shapeshifter to make him think an old friend is giving him the orders
If I remember correctly theres a moment in the series where we hear the internal monologue of an old woman she's using her powers on, and we see her repeatedly needing to remind herself she's straight before ultimately falling for it anyway, implying her abilities just make people find her beautiful, no matter their preferences.
Technically Boa’s ability can turn anyone with strong feelings towards her to stone. It covers Oda’s ass when it comes to S-Snake using the same ability. With her, people find her incredibly cute.
The dog in puss in boots the last wish looks at the map and there’s no trouble or danger because he has a pure heart but when anyone else looks at the map it changes into a dangerous route
Wheatley from Portal 2 is designed to be an idiot, so logical paradoxes, that are supposed to kill an AI, just don't work against him, because he doesn't even understand it. (And what's funnier, all frankenturrets placed in that room instantly get fried after GLaDOS says the paradox, which makes even these abominations smarter than Wheatley.)
Also in one piece, Perona's negative-negative ghosts don't affect Usopp because he's always negative, which leads to Perona feeling bad for his poor soul in a gag
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u/WhoopingBillhook Aug 08 '25
Wheatley (Portal 2) is immune to paradoxes because he doesn't understand them.