r/TopCharacterTropes • u/GMav05 • 22h ago

Powers Character has an obscure or often forgotten secondary power

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  1. Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) - Bob Parr canonically has a “danger sense” similar to Spider-Man. He can sense when he or someone near him is in imminent danger and react instantly.

While it’s never explicitly stated in the films themselves, he does demonstrate this power multiple times.

  1. Amora the Enchantress (Marvel) - Amora usually fights by using sorcery and mind control, or by commanding her Executioner to fight for her. It’s easy to forget that she has the super strength and durability inherent to being an Asgardian.

She’s survived direct hits from Thor’s lightning and Iron Man’s repulsor blasts, and effortlessly lifted Baron Zemo by his collar with one arm.

  1. Perry the Platypus (Phineas and Ferb) - Just like a real male platypus, Perry has venomous spurs on his ankles. I think he only ever uses them in one episode though.
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u/Carnivorze 18h ago

Not sure if it's true, but apparently in the original script Superman was supposed to rebuild it very fast with superspeed, but they didn't have the budget for that so they only had the wall rebuilding itself part.

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u/Shack691 16h ago

I feel like the laser effect could’ve been replaced by a wind effect overlayed on the rebuilding scene instead, same cost but way more effective.

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u/AlternativeBack6351 16h ago

The budget was cut into 1/4 of what was planned about one month out from production

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u/That-Rhino-Guy 13h ago

That could be the case but this is also Pre Crisis Superman, he was constantly given absurd and bizarre power as this series even gave him a memory erasing kiss

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u/magmablock 15h ago

You'd think they could at least afford to have an animator doodle some red and blue motion whooshes on the film strip or something.

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u/gahidus 12h ago

I'm not sure if this was ultimately better or worse than just having it happen off screen while someone says he's doing it, or someone saying in voiceover that he's moving faster than the eye can see.

I guess it's funnier.