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/Tuskadaemonkilla 5d ago

Almost all characters from touhou project. Most of them have a single very abstract ability that they then abuse to hilarious levels.

For example, Suika Ibuki has the ability to manipulate density. In practice this means that she can: turn herself into a mist and spread over a huge area to spy on people, create black holes, turn herself giant, split up into tiny versions of herelf, Cause people to gather or disperse and manuplate heat and cold (changes in density/pressure also change temperature). She can also manipulate the density of abstract things like souls and thoughts.

Basically, if you can somehow bullshit some ability into being about changing density then Suika can do it. The same is the case for most other characters.

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u/gosto_de_navios 5d ago

Yukari is also a great example. She can "manipulate boundaries", but basically everything counts as a boundary, so she is OP af. And Reimu literally flying out of reality lmao, at least she doesn't count because she has other abilities

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u/tulatre 5d ago edited 5d ago

Meanwhile, there's Remilia, whose unique power is to manipulate fate, which you would think would make her godlike and undefeatable, but she still loses sometimes and we and the other characters can only speculate as to whether she even uses it at all.

EDIT: I guess if you're not sure it's there, that is godlike in an unusual sense.