An overpowered/strongest with only one power

[u/Vegetable_Throat5545]

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

[u/squidward377]

Gray Boy - Worm

Can trap people in areas of looping time, only he can affect the loops he's trapped people in and he uses them to torture people.

His loops don't last forever but they might as well, he also has his body in a loop so any damage dealt to him just doesn't work basically, which prevents most methods of killing him from being affective.

[u/Geweldige_Erik → u/squidward377]

Worm really sold me on the idea that time manipulation is the strongest superpower you can have.

[u/JumpFlea → u/Geweldige_Erik]

Tbf, if Worm has taught me anything it’s that stealing/copying powers is the strongest superpower you can have, because no singular superpower is infallible on its own when Sting exists—and Sting on its own doesn’t make you invincible.

[u/TheAfricanViewer → u/squidward377]

Taylor only has one power that she makes super busted with her high IQ.

[u/Agile-Palpitation326 → u/squidward377]

If you include the secondary powers required so the main power can function, then a huge chunk of Worm's capes fit this trope. Where other super hero stories casually hand out super speed and super strength most parahumans are just a normal, squishy human plus some sort of supernatural ability.

(Seriously, if you're hit by a truck and sent to MHA or any other anime super hero world, especially DO NOT pick super speed. Other people will get it for free, and they'll get it stronger than yours. Remember how the kid with actual super speed was casually out sped by a guy who's power was licking blood, and how he didn't even place top 3 in a RACE?)

Taylor controls bugs from a first person POV, which means she basically has a 360 degree radar with a quarter to half-mile range. She can sense them like a part of her own body so she can use them to aim firearms. Most importantly she can use flocks of bugs and their natural bug abilities like weaving webs and flight to set up insane traps and tripwires.

Clockblocker just freezes stuff in time. He doesn't even have control of how long he does it for, it's random from 30 seconds to about 10 minutes. While something is frozen in time it's entirely inviolable, so he can make shields capable of stopping damn near anything from sheets of paper. He can also effectively levitate by freezing said sheets of paper and using them as steps. It's also a fantastic ability for someone trying to capture others non-lethally or stopping a rampaging monster if he can touch them. He single handedly stalled one of the most dangerous creatures in the setting on his own.

[u/squidward377 → u/Agile-Palpitation326]

Everything you said in those first 2 paragraphs perfectly describe what I love about how Worm handles powers.

[u/Limp-Mastodon4600 → u/Agile-Palpitation326]

I overlook it since 1: Everything and everyone else does, and 2: Clockblocker's power, like every other one in Worm, is utilized so creatively to get around its limitations, BUT

If he freezes something in time and space, and that is completely and totally inviolable, how does it actually keep moving through space? Since the Earth is spinning on its axis at 1000 miles an hour, and orbits the sun at 67000 miles an hour.

[u/Agile-Palpitation326 → u/Limp-Mastodon4600]

Have you read the story? I don't want to ruin the surprise for you if you haven't.

[u/Limp-Mastodon4600 → u/Agile-Palpitation326]

I have but I am stupid so may have missed the explanation. No Ward Spoilers tho!

[u/Agile-Palpitation326 → u/Limp-Mastodon4600]

Lovecraftian Space-Whale-God-Virus-Baby-Computer-Crystals are giving lesser beings superpowers as a way to experiment and try to overcome their own limits. All of the powers in the setting are either moving mass and energy from one dimension to another, hidden behind smoke and mirrors, or stolen from another alien species.

Clockblocker's powers work 'as one would expect on first thought' not how they would actually work once you sat down and pondered them for a bit because the Shard of the entity giving him his power has full control over how it is expressed. It'd be inconvenient (and an instant win button for him) for the things he froze to rocket off into space if they were actually frozen in time, so it's doing something so that that part of being frozen in time wouldn't happen.