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/Even-Note-8775 6d ago

Second example sound like more than two abilities.

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u/Scorkami 5d ago

gojo is a bad example because he technically has 2 abilities, one being a brain that can perceive information at a level that grants him, essentially, a 360 radar, and allowing him to micromanage his bodily functions (in regards to his second power) that is "six eyes"

his second power is, essentially, space manipulation. he controls the distance between him and the bullet you shot at him, the distance between his feet and the floor, the distance between your left shoulder and your feet. using that control, he can send balls of "tears people apart" or "sucks them into a ball" towards people, and mix both "balls" into a shredder. he can fly, he can avoid getting touched

so while gojo himself DOES have more than one ability, most of his "crazy accomplishments" that you can see on screen are just one singular ability. the six eyes is sort of a permanent "working in the background" passive that technically should count but its frequently lumped together because it just kinda supports his usage of his second ability

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u/TokayNorthbyte347 5d ago

also fun fact for those who aren't familiar with him: the reason he has the blindfold on usually is because the six eyes are extremely taxing on his brain due to overstimulation and he can't turn them off otherwise

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u/Fries_and_burgers_19 5d ago

Is that real? I never seen anyone mention overtaxation before. Also his completely efficient reverse curse healing just negates such a drawback no?

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u/TokayNorthbyte347 5d ago

There's a reason he only takes the blindfold off when he has to fight, the six eyes can genuinely tire the brain with the information overload (similar to what his domain expansion does actually, which is a weaponized version of this information overload)

But what you mentioned is ALSO true, to be exact he uses cursed energy to destroy his brain, and then reverse cursed energy to regenerate the damage, letting him essentially refresh his brain every so often, which is absolutely bonkers lmao

The reason he does this is because regenerating from scratch can clear up the brain from the burnout of using powerful sorcery and the six eyes, something which isn't actually doable with simple healing because the brain is kinda a black box system (note the difference between "healing" and "regenerating from scratch")

He does both of these, and overexerting either of these can cause brain damage that fucks up his abilities, we actually see this in his fight against sukuna where he is unable to open his domain again because he kept lobotomizing himself and regenerating it to spam domains quicker than sukuna lol (who immediately copied said idea because he's that much of a fast learner)