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* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', full stop. To put it simply, anyone who becomes a MagicalGirl '''IS DOOMED'''. The only question is how.

* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', full stop. To put it simply, anyone who becomes a MagicalGirl '''IS DOOMED''. The only question is how.

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation]]

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situatio

**** I think the ultimate reveal is his level-2 power. While other powers revolve around changing one object to another, Ueki's power allows him to infinitely transform tree parts (trash) into trees, which influences his level-2 power of [[spoiler reversing the objects his opponents have changed, returning them to their original state]]. More interesting is that his candidate, Kobasen suggests that he deliberately chose his power knowing that it'd eventually have a high pay off. Despite the fact that in it's initial state it's not a bad power, it's just not as cool as the others.

* Law of Ueki Plus, sequel to the above series brings back Kosuke, having lost all his cool [[MutuallyExclusivePowerups heavenly powerups]] and his original powers. He's sent to a new world full of naturally born power users and is forced to choose a new power to survive. By chance he accidentally picks the power to wield a mop. [[ItGetsBetter Things get more interesting]] when he learns how to make it grab stuff. In the end turns out that the mop is actually [[spoiler a [[UpgradeArtifact Artifact]] that allows Ueki's new [[LoyalAnimalCompanion]] to reach it's final form.]]

** Shunsui Kyoraku's Shikai has arguably one of the most [[SuperPowerLottery diverse and powerful]] benefits introduced in the series. The major drawback is Shunsui is also susceptible to the effects of everyone of his own abilities making it a massive double edged sword.
*** The diversity also works in his favour - if the opponent doesn't realise the rules, or notice that they apply equally, they can't gain the upper hand.

** Ranma Saotome's [[GenderBender Spring of Drowned Girl]] would, of itself, be a fairly neutral curse, but though less extreme than the others here, it's still a genuine curse to Ranma, though one he is pragmatic enough to take advantage of. His FairWeatherMentor, the DirtyOldMan & OldMaster Happosai, routinely gropes, fondles and otherwise molests him, as well as trying to force him into female underwear- which makes his {{Tsundere}} fiancee Akane Tendo get angry (and she's already ticked off over the fact Ranma's female form is [[MostCommonSuperpower better built]]), which usually means Ranma gets pummeled. He has two [[StalkerWithACrush love-crazed stalkers]], one of whom is a [[SelectiveObliviousness deliberately oblivious]] ''guy'', who routinely try to MurderTheHypotenuse, figuring that the same-gender form is a different person and a rival for the affections of the opposite-gender form. His alternate form got him a (symbolic) KissOfDeath from [[HotAmazon Shampoo]] that forced him to leave China before getting cured, a matter which got resolved... [[AccidentalMarriage unsatisfactorily]]. He later spends much of the series being forced to avoid his long-lost mother because he and his father have every reason to believe his curse will force him to commit {{Seppuku}}.

*** The recoil is clearly [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v42/c361/5.html more than she can handle]], necessitating the use of a ginjotan, essentially a steel sash, to anchor herself before firing. The worst part? Regardless whether she hits the target, or not, it drains so much of her reiatsu that it normally takes her three days to recover before she can safely use it again. Otherwise, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v43/c370/1.html this]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v43/c370/2.html happens]].

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation. The price to pay is that the eye used to perform the Izanagi permanently goes blind. But then, losing an eye is much better than losing your

** This is Soi Fon's general attitude [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v42/c360/17.html towards her bankai]]. For all its power, the weight of it renders her immobile, stripping her of one of her primary advantages: speed. The size of it also makes it impossible for her to fight as she normally does, further limiting her ability; nor can she conceal it.
*** [[SarcasmMode But wait, there's more]].

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation. The price to pay is that the eye used to perform the Izanagi permanently goes blind. But then, losing an eye is much better than losing your life,

** This is Soi Fon's general attitude [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v42/c360/17.html towards her bankai]]. For all its power, the weight of it renders her immobile, stripping her of one of her primary advantages: speed. The size of it also makes it impossible for her to fight as she normally does, nor can she conceal it.

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation. The price to pay is that the eye used to perform the Izanagi permanently goes blind. But then, losing an eye is much better than losing your life, especially in the Naruto Univer

*** [[SarcasmMode But wait, there's more]].
*** The recoil is clearly [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v42/c361/5.html more than she can handle]], necessitating the use of a steel sash to anchor herself before firing. The worst part? Regardless whether she hits the target, or not, it drains so much of her reiatsu that it normally takes her three days to recover before she can safely use it again. Otherwise, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v43/c370/1.html this]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v43/c370/2.html happens]].

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation. The price to pay is that the eye used to perform the Izanagi permanently goes blind. But then, losing an eye is much better than losing your life, especially in the Naruto Universe where you can transpla

*** [[spoiler: There is also the Izanagi, which lets you cast an illusion on yourself to ''convert reality to illusion'' potentially letting you escape a difficult situation. The price to pay is that the eye used to perform the Izanagi permanently goes blind. But then, losing an eye is much better than losing your life, especially in the Naruto Universe where you can transplant eyes within a wink, and stack them up in your ''arm''.]]
* Czeslaw Meyer from ''{{Baccano}}'' is a potential champion of this trope. Despite his [[{{Immortality}} immortality]] he DOES feel pain and gets to [[spoiler: spend a couple hundred years as [[GuineaPig an experiment]] to underscore how many ways he can [[FateWorseThanDeath die and come back]]]] This eventually leads Czes into living as strange hybrid of [[CrazySurvivalist ''paranoid survivalist'']] and [[TheWoobie ''woobie'']].
** He gets away by [[spoiler:killing his parent figure/torturer and inheriting not only the knowledge of killing someone, but having all of his guardian's memories of joyfully abusing himself]]. Anyone questioning how the kid got so screwed up?
** He also seems to serve a purpose on the show of being mercilessly killed at every potential occasion. It ranges from the typical [[spoiler: gun exploding his head]] to his rather gruesome encounter with [[spoiler: Claire]].
* Raid from ''MahoujinGuruGuru'' is a formidable MagicKnight. His magic is powerful - however it has the drawback of requiring ''really'' stupid dance moves to cast. Worse yet, his attempts to remedy this have backfired because he was so focused on style he ignored the effects and twice cast ''recovery'' spells on his opponent.
* Brook from ''OnePiece'' ate the Yomi-Yomi Fruit, which brings the Devil's Fruit user back to life. Once. And makes no distinction as to what state of decay the user is in when they're brought back, which left him in a [[DemBones skeletal state]] upon revival.
** YourMileageMayVary on that part, as Brooke is pretty badass. The BWS part comes in when you realize that after you eat the Yomi-Yomi Fruit, he was given no readily apparent supernatural abilities as well as all the [[SuperDrowningSkills drawbacks]] that come with standard DF powers.
*** Brook may be badass, but the Suck goes even beyond the drowning curse. When you're that horrifically disfigured, well let's just say he's lucky he's so charismatic for a dead guy and they're headed into a part of the world where looking freaky isn't THAT big a deal. He's still been told he's disgusting and has no place in the world and probably should have just killed himself, and that wasn't exactly wildly incorrect. (His inner monologue while losing to Ryuuma indicates he's not as happy-go-lucky about being a skeleton as he acts, either.)
*** Bear in mind that Brooke isn't the only one with a DF power that isn't a GameBreaker, and that the biggest difference between who can still kick ass and those who everyone makes fun of is what you actually DO with your lame powers. Brooke is one such character that makes use of his situation by taking advantage of what little benefits there are to be had. For instance, his physical prowess hasn't decreased one bit, but he IS significantly lighter, which allows him to perform feats such as leaping insane distances and running across water. Oh, and because he's made of bones, he can heal by drinking milk. Because calcium builds strong bones ([[LampshadeHanging even the Straw Hats thought that one was far-fetched]])
*** In addition, being undead could mean that he's immune to poisons and such. He also has no vital organs for his opponents to take advantage of.
*** Ehhhh not really. He can eat stuff, informs Luffy early on that yes, he does poop, and when he does fall into the water, he's clearly gasping for breath afterward. While he may not exactly have organs to pierce or cut, he still somehow functions as if he still had lungs to clog or a stomach to fill.
*** But remember- When he was fighting Ryuuma, if his opponent's sword didn't hit his bones, was completely ineffective. He took several swords-through-where-his-gut-should-be and suffers no negative effects. It seems he needs to carry out the basic functions of life, but as none of those systems still exist, they cannot be harmed.
**** That actually leads to a FridgeHorror version of this trope - Brooke doesn't have lungs to fill up and wouldn't drown... but he still [[SuperDrowningSkills can't swim]] and would clearly feel the pain of drowning (as shown when he's fallen in before)... but [[FateWorseThanDeath would never die from it]].
** Pierre is a giant bird that ate the Uma Uma no Mi and now is able to transform into a horse, or into a hybrid form that (suposedly) resembles a pegasus. However, since he already flies and is able to carry his owner in his original form, this is completly useless, so it just became unable to swim.
*** It would not be able to swim anyway, since it doesn't have flippers, so the Devil Fruit was completly useless in this case.
* The Ginzouishou of ''SailorMoon'' is the most powerful object in the universe and it kills you if you use it's full potential. Even if you don't use all the power it offers, it weakens you to use it at all in most cases.
** While true in the anime this is not true in the manga. The only thing preventing her from using the full power of the Ginzouishou in the manga is her immaturity.
** Not to mention every single Inner Senshi is rejected for their skills before meeting Usagi. Ami is shunned for being a TeenGenius, Rei for having PsychicPowers, Makoto for [[HugeSchoolgirl being abnormally tall and strong]], and Minako for [[MagicalGirl being a senshi before]] anyone else. The Outers don't fare much better. Michiru and Haruka are strong, intelligent, and mature - and they have to stop the end of the world, which they're ''not'' happy about. Hotaru has the power of death and rebirth, but she is [[IllGirl sickly]] and [[GrandTheftMe possessed]] because of it. Setsuna [[TimeStandsStill controls time]], but must be alone and live much longer because of it. Basically, being a senshi sucks when you think about it.
*** Well, in as much as being a superhero with responsibilities sucks, anyway. All of the problems mentioned here get better, including death-by-ginzuishou, which can resurrect anyone at the user's discretion; the only one of these that never gets better is Setsuna's Time Guardian limitations, but even that's moot because even if she breaks all the taboos, the Silver Crystal will still restore her to life. In other words, yeah, they're blessed with suck, but they have unlimited continues.
**** Eh, unlimited continues can be BlessedWithSuck too. See: HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi - [[spoiler:Rika]]
* Simon from the anime TengenToppaGurrenLagann it seems he is blessed with suck in everyday aspects of his life, Poor boy.
* The Diclonii from ''ElfenLied'' are considered a new species of human, destined to supplant ''Homo sapiens'', are more resilient than H.sap and have deadly psychic powers. They are also easily identified from the horns with which they are born and the ones that are not outright killed are taken into custody before their powers can manifest and have spent their short lives being brutally tortured and treated as experimental animals (at the same time).
* Grove Marcus in ''VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''. Grove can astral project himself into a virtually unstoppable being of pure energy, but he requires an injected serum to do so, and his power seems to have left him a bedridden invalid.
* In ''SpeedGrapher'' The protagonist, Tatsumi Saiga, gained the power to [[StuffBlowingUp destroy anything that he takes a picture of]]. Which is cool but not only does he need a camera to use his power but he can't turn that power off. That means that he can't take pictures without killing anyone, which is pretty hard for him because he used to be a passionate photographer. Oh and [[spoiler: Every time he uses his power, he weakens his eyes and eventually goes blind in one eye, and the other one EXPLODES.]]
* Tiffa Addil of ''AfterWarGundamX'' is a [[YamatoNadeshiko sweet, beautiful and gentle girl]]. Who is also a Newtype, and maybe the ''last'' one alive. Not only the poor child is treated like a BarrierMaiden and persecuted by pretty much ''everyone'' in the world... her powers let her [[SpiderSense see the future]] ([[MindRape and her visions are NOT pretty]]) and [[TheEmpath sense the thoughts and feelings of everyone]] (which either [[LonersAreFreaks alienates her from others]] or lets her feel ''what people feel as they horribly die in battle'' [[spoiler: thanks to a beam weapon that * she* helps Garrod to set up in self defense]]. Wow, no wonder Tiffa is [[ShrinkingViolet terribly withdrawn]] and [[HeroicBSOD prone to seizures]] once in a while.
* Yoite's Kira technique from ''{{Nabari no Ou}}''. You can basically control someone's life force however you please, but at the cost of your own. Basically, you're guaranteed a very early death. Yoite lasts about two years of using Kira.
** [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Miharu]], of course. [[spoiler: Also [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Kouichi and Shijima.]]]]
* Early in ''{{Kamichu}}'', the characters meet the god/spirit of poverty. His power? To bring financial bad luck to everyone around him, merely by existing. As a consequence, he was forced to wander from place to place all alone because people had always chased him out of town.
* The pilots of Zearth in ''{{Bokurano}}'' - each child takes turns to pilot an insanely powerful Mech that is indestructible by conventional means, and fights humans from alternate universes to save their own. Except piloting takes your life force and you die after the fight. [[spoiler:Oh, and you destroy an entire alternate universe and kill all those inside when you win.]]
* Most of the main characters from ''{{xxxHolic}}'' seem to have this problem.
** [[TheWoobie Watanuki]] can see and attract supernatural creatures, but they all hunt him attempting to kill him and what not, and he's constantly running for his life. Eventually, he does get the ability to do things like talk to the dead and inanimate objects in his dreams (ItMakesSenseInContext... sort of) which proves useful. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:if he uses it too much, he could vanish]].
** Himawari [[spoiler:[[DoomMagnet brings bad luck to almost anyone she's near]]. She killed at least two people with just her presence, and almost got Watanuki offed at one point.]]
** Kohane's powers allow her to see spirits and exorcise them, a useful power by itself. [[spoiler:If only her [[AbusiveParents psychotic abusive mother]] hadn't forced her into the spotlight where she would be ridiculed relentlessly.]]
** Far before the beginning of the series, [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper Clow]] discovered a new power when he accidentally brought Yuko BackFromTheDead. Had he not done this, the BigBad wouldn't have started destroying realities, and the whole series (along with its sister series TsubasaChronicle) probably wouldn't have happened.]]
** Yuko seems to [[TheOmniscient know everything]] and is an intimidating sorceress with phenominal powers... [[spoiler:which she can use ''only'' if someone [[EquivalentExchange makes a wish and pays the price]]. Due to the nature of her job, she can't act on her own and even those she cares about must work under her policy]].
* Tadayasu Sawaki from ''{{Moyashimon}}'' has the ability to see, and communicate with, microbes. One can imagine seeing talking anthropomorphic bacteria and fungi wherever one goes can get old after a while. It's especially disturbing walking into the [[TrashOfTheTitans (extremely messy)]] room of your new roommates and seeing one big wall of mold spores, or when [[LetsMeetTheMeat the bacteria in yogurt encourage you to eat them]].
** They're beneficial flora. If they're telling you to eat them, they're pretty much only asking you to give them a job.
* Yuki Giou from ''UragiriWaBokuNoNamaeWoShitteiru'' is born with a power to heal others, but the consequence of healing is that he brings the pain upon himself. This apparently brings sympathy of many, especially Luka.
* Yakumo Fujii of [[ThreeByThreeEyes 3x3 Eyes]], in order to save his life, has his soul removed, making him immortal. However, until he TookALevelInBadass, this results in him suffering fatal wounds repeatedly, including, but not limited to:
** Getting hit by a bus
** Being shot so many times in a gunfight that one character finds it difficult to believe he can move around while carrying all that lead inside him.
** Having a concrete overpass collapse on him, which results in a crushed, mangled body with a severed head.
** Being impaled on a pitchfork as a result of having been thrown off the roof of a three story mansion and through the wall of a gardener's shed. (While still carrying around a body full of bullets from the previously mentioned firefight.)
* Similarly, the immortals in Rumiko Takahashi's ''MermaidSaga'' are neither indestructible nor immune to pain. In ''Mermaid's Scar'', Mana is tied up with barbed wire by the main villain, who gleefully informs her that it's too bad there's nothing in mermaid flesh to counteract pain. At the end, Yuta informs Mana that the villain will die [[spoiler:if the fire from the car crash he was in '''burns through his neck''' all the way]]. Squick.
* ''{{Durarara}}'''s Shizuo Heiwajima was born without (or burned out) the unconscious limiters most people have on their physical abilities, effectively granting him SuperStrength (as well as tendency to go into {{Unstoppable Rage}}s at a moments notice). Awesome, right? Well, turns out that those limiters are there for a reason -- namely, preventing you from utterly ''destroying'' your body through overextension. The only reason he doesn't shatter his arms every time he uproots a vending machine ''now'' is because he's already [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower put his body through enough hell over the last fifteen years to effectively develop low-level invulnerability]]
* In the world of ''FullMetalAlchemist'', State Alchemists have great power and have access to a bounty of resources of all types. They're also effectively ''slaves'' to the military, and are [[HeroWithBadPublicity widely despised]] by the normal populace, who either view them as freaks or sellouts.
* All of the Contractors in ''DarkerThanBlack'' have ConditionalPowers tied to some sort of price. Said price can vary from the simple but annoying (eating a specific food, say, or smoking) to the weird (writing poetry) to the very, very bad ([[{{Fingore}} breaking their own fingers]], [[ChildEater drinking children's blood]]). It might not even be an action; RapidAging, MerlinSickness, and partial paralysis are all possible remunerations, [[spoiler:and all eventually fatal, at that]]. The only way to get around it is for the Contractor's original body to die, which [[{{Understatement}} isn't usually a real good trade]] unless their ability is [[BodySurf possession of humans]]. And even then, they've still [[TheSociopath lost a lot of their morals, emotions, and empathy for other people]]. (Of course, depending on the whims of the SuperpowerRussianRoulette and SuperpowerLottery, there's the odd Contractor who ends up CursedWithAwesome instead)
* In {{Mai-HiME}} a HiME gains abilities to protect those she cares for from monsters called 'Orphans'- Never mind that they're the reason the Orphan is there in the first place, and [[spoiler:if they ever lose a fight, [[EquivalentExchange someone dies]].]]
* Being a {{Claymore}} is a perfect type 4 mixed with type 3. While everyone will agree that not aging, being stronger and faster than a regular human, able to detect shapeshifting monster, and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking being as resistant to alcool as you want it]] are very cool abilities, you soon understand why there had only been one person who willingly become a Claymore. Not aging isn't very useful if your boss's [[WeHaveReserves policy]] means that you will live at most seven years of active duty (which means that you will die around 30 if you are very very lucky), all your physical abilities are absolutely necessary (and in the worst case insufficient) to survive your new existence of neverending battle, and last but not least, all those cool abilities come from your HalfHumanHybrid nature, which give by itself a lot of drawbacks; people are terrified of you (good luck to find a drinking buddy), you can if you are pushed too far (which, thank to your life, means that you won't last if you aren't [[TheStoic stoic]]) become a demon who take his pleasure in eating human guts (while the victim is alive, generally).
* In PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, Kyubey not only grants wishes, but gives girls [[MagicalGirl magic powers]]! Awesome, right? [[spoiler: Too bad that being a MagicalGirl means that your soul is now in a constant state of decay and once it decays completely you turn into a [[EldritchAbomination witch]]...]]
* In ''NatsumeYuujinchou'', Takashi Natsume was born with [[ISeeDeadPeople the ability to see spirits and youkai]]. Unfortunately, people generally do not react well to [[CreepyChild small children who insist they see ghosts and monsters everywhere and are prone to bizarre outbursts over what appears to be nothing.]] At best, he was considered an attention-seeking pathological liar. Normally, people thought he was emotionally unstable or schizophrenic: Chapter 35 indicates that [[GoAmongMadPeople he was even temporarily institutionalized at some point during his childhood.]]
* Being a witch in UminekoNoNakuKoroNi sounds awesome at first. Magic can essentially let you do whatever you want. However, its limitations become more and more apparent as the arcs pass. First off, there's the problem that being able to create and destroy anything you want makes everything pretty boring. Then, there's the fact that the anti-magic toxin makes it almost impossible to do magic where there are other people around without a lot of preparation. Also, most of the witches were [[BreakTheCutie broken pretty hard]] before they gained magic powers and as a result are a little messed up in the head. [[spoiler:In fact, almost all magic would be deemed objectively (and cruelly) to be a psychotic break. That's why the anti-magic toxin exists. Magic can really only be cast within the witch's internal world]].
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', Kyuusai tries to convince Yuuichi of the benefits of being a member of a supernatural, vampire-like clan that steals other people's life forces. Since this means he does not actually love his lover and will kill him (and Iori will give his life willingly, because he is also not in love but under the same delusional rapture between predator and prey), Yuuichi really cannot see this as a blessing.

* Being a witch in UminekoNoNakuKoroNi sounds awesome at first. Magic can essentially let you do whatever you want. However, its limitations become more and more apparent as the arcs pass. First off, there's the problem that being able to create and destroy anything you want makes everything pretty boring. Then, there's the fact that the anti-magic toxin makes it almost impossible to do magic where there are other people around without a lot of preparation. Also, most of the witches were [[BreakTheCutie broken pretty hard]] before they gained magic powers and as a result are a little messed up in the head. [[spoiler:In fact, almost all magic would be deemed objectively (and cruelly) to be a psychotic break. That's why the anti-magic toxin exists. Magic can really only be cast within the witch's internal world]].

* In ''NatsumeYuujinchou'', Takashi Natsume was born with [[ISeeDeadPeople the ability to see spirits and youkai]]. Unfortunately, people generally do not react well to [[CreepyChild small children who insist they see ghosts and monsters everywhere and are prone to bizarre outbursts over what appears to be nothing.]] At best, he was considered an attention-seeking pathological liar. Normally, people thought he was emotionally unstable or schizophrenic: Chapter 35 indicates that [[GoAmongMadPeople he was even temporarily institutionalized at some point during his childhood.]]

* In ''UruseiYatsura'', [[TheLeisureSuitLarry Ataru]] [[UnluckyEverydude Moroboshi]] considers his AccidentalMarriage to [[MagicalGirlfriend Lum Invader]] an example of this, while the other guys at his school consider him CursedWithAwesome. A reader/viewer could swing either way; it's undeniable that, particularly in the early stories where she was supposed to be a villain until [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan popularity prompted a redirection of focus]], she is a {{Tsundere}}, possessive, and something of PsychoElectro (particularly her tendency to shock him as a sign of affection)... but, on the other hand, much of her angry reactions are prompted by Ataru's constant attempts to bluntly ditch her and/or chase other women, and Ataru's biggest objections are rooted in "being married to her means I can't go trying to pick up other girls"... despite the fact Lum is beautiful, genuinely affectionate and more than willing to go to bed with him.

* In PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, Kyubey not only grants wishes, but gives girls [[MagicalGirl magic powers]]! Awesome, right? [[spoiler: Too bad that being a MagicalGirl means that your soul is now in a constant state of decay and once it decays completely you turn into a [[EldritchAbomination witch]]...]]

* Being a {{Claymore}} is a perfect type 4 mixed with type 3. While everyone will agree that not aging, being stronger and faster than a regular human, able to detect shapeshifting monster, and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking being as resistant to alcool as you want it]] are very cool abilities, you soon understand why there had only been one person who willingly become a Claymore. Not aging isn't very useful if your boss's [[WeHaveReserves policy]] means that you will live at most seven years of active duty (which means that you will die around 30 if you are very very lucky), all your physical abilities are absolutely necessary (and in the worst case insufficient) to survive your new existence of neverending battle, and last but not least, all those cool abilities come from your HalfHumanHybrid nature, which give by itself a lot of drawbacks; people are terrified of you (good luck to find a drinking buddy), you can if you are pushed too far (which, thank to your life, means that you won't last if you aren't [[TheStoic stoic]]) become a demon who take his pleasure in eating human guts (while the victim is alive, generally).

** A story arc centers on Ryoga getting a special mark on his stomach that made him unbeatable in battle. Unfortunately, not only does the mark look ridiculous, but the only was to remove it was to defeat him in battle. Worse yet is that the mark shows up on his piglet form too, compromising his identity. He only got out of it by [[spoiler: moving his stomach so the mark distorted and Ranma could defeat him.]]
** Rouge hovers between this and CursedWithAwesome. As an [[PhysicalGod Ashura]], she can fly, has [[ManyArmedAndDangerous multiple arms]], [[MultipleHeadCase several faces]], can [[KillItWithFire breathe fire]] and [[ShockAndAwe hurl lightning]]... but, all those arms means she gets ''horrific'' backache. How bad is it? When Pantyhose Taro steals her magnetic backpain relievers, she goes on a rampage and chases him all the way from China to Japan to get them back, it hurts that much.

* Being a {{Claymore}} is a perfect type 4 mixed with type 3. While everyone will agree that not aging, being stronger and faster than a regular human, able to detect shapeshifting monster, and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking being as resistant to alcool as you want it]] are very cool abilities, you soon understand why there had only been one personn who willingly become a Claymore : not aging isn't very useful if your boss's [[WeHaveReserves policy]] means that you will live at most seven years of active duty (which means that you will die around 30 if you are very very lucky), all your physical abilities are absolutely necessary (and in the worst case insufficent) to survive your new existence of neverending battle, and last but not least, all those cool abilities come from your HalfHumanHybrid nature, which give by itself a lot of drawbacks : people are terrified of you (good luck to find a drinking buddy), you can if you are pushed too far (which, thank to your life, means that you won't last if you aren't [[TheStoic stoic]]) become a demon who take his pleasure in eating human guts (while the victims is alive, generally)

* Most of the main characters from ''xxxHolic'' seem to have this problem.