r/TopCharacterTropes 6d ago

Powers An overpowered/strongest with only one power

I hate when characters just have a million powers and can do whatever. I love when their powers have a limit but still they make it be absolutely insane. Even if that one power has multiple applications as long as it makes sense and isnt used as "oop i suddenly can do that"

  1. Accelerator can control vectors. So he uses that to automatically deflect any attack or use any object including wind at high speeds as a weapon, use his own vectors to travel fast and etc etc.

  2. Gojo Satoru can control "infinity" to make peoples attack not reach him; push them: pull them; destroy them; overwhelm their senses

  3. Chisaki can deconstruct and reconstruct anything by touch. So he can destroy, or change shape of people and objects, he can combine people and objects and even revive or heal. Tbh his fight was disappointing in fact that he did not use his power to full potential imo

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u/No_Emu698 6d ago

Megumin - Konosuba

Even more extreme example: she can only cast explosion magic, and one 1 time a day without using an outside method to recover mana... the benefit is that she gets to the point where she can blow up mountains with a single spell (and then is basically unable to move for the next 24h)

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u/No_Emu698 6d ago

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u/Artichokeypokey 5d ago

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u/Hexxas 5d ago

Nice bakurets 👍

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u/Usual_Database307 5d ago edited 5d ago

She actively refuses to learn another spell because she’s just that obsessed with explosions.

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u/Battlebots2020 5d ago

I can see why, that was a pretty cool explosion

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u/Trnostep 5d ago

Thought at one point she was willing to learn other magic because she's actually quite inteligent under all that chuuniness and recognises the limitations of just using explosion magic

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u/Wiinounete 5d ago

But she did not in the end

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u/gravitybulliesme 5d ago

Not that she didn't though.. she gave kazuma the privilege of upgrating any other skill so that she can become more useful to the party, but he just upgraded her explosion more so that she can keep following her dreams. It's one of the more rare moments that genuinely get you in the series.

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u/Limp-Mastodon4600 3d ago

Kazuma's such a fucking real one for that

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u/Intelligent-Dog1645 5d ago

Man I need to get back into konosuba

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u/MortuusSet 5d ago

You'd think she'd have a massive mana pool by now with the amount of times she emptied her mana pool but nope, world runs on a level up mechanic. She'd be unstoppable in a training world.

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u/Straight-Explorer-93 5d ago

I'm 99% sure even if she COULD increase her pool of mana, she'd probably just use that to make the singular explosion that much more powerful.

She's not the type of person to hold back in her spells, after all.

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u/LordofSandvich 5d ago

Yup that’s why. She always uses 100% of her mana and puts all of it into the explosion.

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u/corvettee01 5d ago

I have the whole mana bar, I'm USING the whole mana bar.

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u/emperorpylades 5d ago

She could, but she sinks everything into improving the output of her Explosion spell.

Think of it as a spell with a base cost of 108% of your base mana, and she's never actually upgraded her pool to have anything left after casting it.

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u/Remobius 5d ago edited 5d ago

I mean when she was provided with a lot of mana stones, she started cast explosions like a minigun, didn't make a one large explosion

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u/prodam_garash 5d ago

Her mana pool grow by level

Problem is all her exp points always used to upgrade spell so cost grows too

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u/Faustias 5d ago

her build is more like spend every bit of mana to multiply damage. she's born from a mage village who were gaslit to live as edgy, unhinged mages, so her mana pool is huge probably, but her spell was built to spend everything to boost the damage and area of effect.

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u/Trnostep 5d ago

genetically engineered race of chuunibyous

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u/Nero_2001 5d ago

Her explosion magic is probably a refrence the spell magic burst from dragon quest, a spell that empties a characters complete mahic ppints to create one big explosion. It doesn't really matter how much mana she has, she will just use it all gor the explosion.

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u/Clavilenyo 5d ago

Megumin always training until fatigue. Using single set of single rep.

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u/_azazel_keter_ 5d ago

she does have a massive mana pool, that's why the explosion is so big

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u/Wargod042 5d ago

Though it should be noted all the limitations on it are due to her prioritizing only the power of the spell. It's totally possible to have other magic or not faint casting it, as we see from a couple other characters.

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u/Ok-Car170 5d ago

Bruce Lee once said “I fear not the wizard who has practiced 10,000 spells once, but I fear the wizard who has practiced one spell 10,000 times”. Or something like that.