History LogicalWeakness / ComicBooks

** [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]] can turn himself into organic steel completely, including all the internal workings of his body. Apparently he does not have blood in this form (and neither does it require it). One downside to this is that if something does manage to injure him through the [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] status, turning back into the more frail and bleeding human form would be a Very Bad Idea. Fortunately he can still heal with time. In his metal form, the equivalent of setting broken bones requires heavy machinery. Also much like Wolvie, he is vulnerable to magnetism, leading to problems fighting Magneto.

** Superman's powers are fueled by solar energy and his body can only contain a limited amount. Each use of his powers consumes a bit of his stockpile, but certain ones use much more energy than others. Normally, this isn't a problem as he's constantly absorbing energy when in sunlight, but if he's ever cut off form the sun for an extended period, he's left with a fixed supply of energy and will slowly weaken as his reserves drain. Forcing him to use more of his powers, especially something as expensive as [[EyeBeams heat vision]], will drain him exponentially faster.
** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Lobo}} uses a sonic grenade to neutralize ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}. On the one hand, it works and Kara passes out because of the extreme pain. On the other hand, she's '''real''' mad when she comes to.

** Superman's powers are fueled by solar energy and his body can only contain a limited amount. Each use of his powers consumes a bit of his stockpile, but certain ones, especially heat vision, drain his energy much faster than others. Normally, this isn't a problem as he can refuel himself with a few minutes of sunlight exposure, but if he's ever cut off for an extended period, he's left with a fixed supply of power and will slowly weaken as his reserves drain. Forcing him to use more of his powers, especially something as expensive as heat vision, drain him exponentially faster.

* ''Comicbook/Shazam2023'' has the seven gods that provide Billy with his powers decide (without informing him) to take turns in giving him a power boost, influencing him more in the process. The logical weakness is that he gets ''their'' mental weaknesses; Solomon's arrogance, Hercules's recklessness, Atlas's gullibility, Zeus's lechery, Achilles's overconfidence and Mercury's prankishness.

* ComicBook/{{Batman}} finally figured out a weakness for ComicBook/WonderWoman, who has no WeaksauceWeakness. Her upbringing was highly competitive and she won the right to represent her culture in man's world by winning a competition. Batman guessed correctly that her body would give out before she ever willingly gave up and came up with a way to force her into FightingAShadow, as seen in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel''.

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': The Ghost Rider has an ability called the Penance Stare, where he looks into his enemy's eyes and bombards their very soul with all of the suffering and pain they have inflicted on others. However, this doesn't work if the target is A) soulless, B) void of any regrets, C) so sadistic that they don't even care (looking at you, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]), D) draw power from pain, or E) [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bli]][[MundaneSolution nd]], though it should be noted how this ability works is portrayed inconsistently as DependingOnTheWriter something such as lack of regret won't stave off the effects of the Penance Stare.

** One issue of ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' made use of this in offense: A villain named Scarecrow (no, [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow not that one]]) had been imbued with a healing factor which seemed to make him practically immortal. Ghost Rider decided to solve the problem at least temporarily by breaking all of his limbs and holding them in place crooked while the bones mended.

** For a time, [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] ([[LegacyCharacter the Third Flash]]) had his powers reduced to more "realistic" levels with some obvious drawbacks. His upper limit was about the speed of sound (any faster would tear him apart), he required massive amounts of calories to fuel his metabolism, and his uniform had to be made of special low friction materials (and required frequent repair and replacement). Eventually the "Speed Force" was discovered, which not only increased his powers to a level even greater than his predecessor Barry Allen, but also provided numerous RequiredSecondaryPowers to remove these weakness[[note]]as explained, all these previous weaknesses were down to Wally being smart enough to recognize the scientific impossibilities of his super-speed, so he unconsciously developed these weaknesses; the Speed Force causes its users to self-actualise, so they're as weak or as powerful as they believe they are, which is also why some have powers the others don't[[/note]]. He's still a BigEater, but that has nothing to do with the powers, Wally just likes it that way.

* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': For a Green Lantern, anything that affects their concentration or undermines their resolve can weaken their effectiveness given that their power is directly dependent on their willpower. Indeed, each color of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum represents a specific emotion, and lacking that emotion weakens the corresponding Lantern. From red to violet these emotions are Rage, Greed, Fear, Will, Hope, Compassion, and Love.
** Speaking of Greed, it comes with its own logical weakness: anyone with enough greed to be granted an Orange Lantern Ring is too greedy to share the power, so the Orange Lantern Corps has (almost) always had only one member.

** Likewise ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'''s Marvel Family gets their powers ByThePowerOfGreyskull -- Billy and Mary say "Shazam!," while Freddy says "Captain Marvel!" Especially in the Golden Age, they got gagged a lot to create tension. (You'll also notice that Freddy's weakness goes an extra step -- since his code name is Captain Marvel Jr., he can't say ''his own name'' without [[HenshinHero changing back to his mortal form]]. Hence why he kept wanting to change it.)

* Franchise/MonsterVerse: In the graphic novel ''Kingdom Kong'', [[Characters/MonsterVerseKaiju Camazotz]] has developed super-sensitive hearing to navigate in darkness and make up for lost eyesight, so he can be disoriented by something like, say, the sonic screech of a Raptor jet flying right by the [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic Titan]]'s head.
* The Absorbing Man (a ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' villain) is often defeated by taking advantage of logical weaknesses of substances he absorbs. For example, Spider-Man beats him by tricking him into absorbing one chemical, and then burying him in another chemical [[StuffBlowingUp that reacts explosively with the first]]. He can be shattered if he turns into a brittle substance, diluted if he turns into liquid (although he later figured out how to keep himself together), and if you trick him into touching toilet paper, then he's going to be as fragile and easily torn as toilet paper. He also once absorbed all the properties of Thor's hammer -- including 'Thor can control this hammer'.

** Midnighter's brain is an advanced supercomputer that can run simulations of a fight almost a thousand times in a single second, allowing him to predict his enemy's every move. There's two ways to exploit this: first, good old fashioned ConfusionFu, like when he tried to use his abilities on the Joker and basically had a seizure. Second, a power gap that no amount of foresight can compensate for, like when he fought ComicBook/CaptainAtom in ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon'', or a guy who could literally see a short way into the future and counter all of his moves.

* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009'': In one arc, Stephanie goes up against a speedster named Slipstream, whose powers are derived entirely from his suit. Eventually, Stephanie realizes the suit increases his movement but not his reflexes, meaning he can only run in straight lines lest he get disoriented and he needs to map out truck routes and road maps in order to pull off a heist. Stephanie exploits this by tricking Slipstream into running into a bunch of electromagnetic gooparangs.

** Robo is a super-strong, ImmuneToBullets metal robot. This means that he can be shut down by EMP attacks, and powerful magnets cause him certain significant issues. Plus, in his original body, his construction in the 1920s meant that he is not compatible modern technology and must learn learn to operate it the same way as a human would. A RunningGag is his frustration with his inability to operate modern touchscreen devices with his metal fingers.

** Robo is a super-strong, ImmuneToBullets metal robot. This means that he can be shut down by EMP attacks, and powerful magnets cause him certain significant issues. Plus, in his original body, his construction in the 1920s meant that, for example, his fingers were not designed to cope with modern touchscreens.

* ''Comicbook/Shazam2023'' has the seven gods that provide Billy with his powers decide (without informing him) to take turns in giving him a power boost, influencing him more in the process. The logical weakness is that he gets ''their'' mental weaknesses; Solomon's arrogance, Hercules's recklessness, Atlas's gullibility, Zeus's lechery and Achilles's overconfidence (Mercury hasn't had his go yet).

* Franchise/TheFlash:

* The ComicBook/GhostRider has an ability called the Penance Stare, where he looks into his enemy's eyes and bombards their very soul with all of the suffering and pain they have inflicted on others. However, this doesn't work if the target is A) soulless, B) void of any regrets, C) so sadistic that they don't even care (looking at you, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]), D) draw power from pain, or E) [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bli]][[MundaneSolution nd]], though it should be noted how this ability works is portrayed inconsistently as DependingOnTheWriter something such as lack of regret won't stave off the effects of the Penance Stare.
* Mr. Immortal of the ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'' has CompleteImmortality and will return from death perfectly healed no matter what. When he ends up in a fight against the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}, they just knock him out without killing him.
* For a Franchise/GreenLantern, anything that affects their concentration or undermines their resolve can weaken their effectiveness given that their power is directly dependent on their willpower. Indeed, each color of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum represents a specific emotion, and lacking that emotion weakens the corresponding Lantern. From red to violet these emotions are Rage, Greed, Fear, Will, Hope, Compassion, and Love.

** ComicBook/{{Loki}}'s frequent cohort [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheEnchantress The Enchantress]] is one of the most powerful sorceresses in the Marvel Universe. Unfortunately, she needs her hands and voice to cast spells most of the time. Sturdy bonds and a gag are enough to do her in, as both the Frost Giants and Comicbook/DoctorStrange's partner Clea have demonstrated several times.

** Likewise ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'''s Marvel Family gets their powers ByThePowerOfGreyskull -- Billy and Mary say "Shazam!," while Freddy says "Captain Marvel!" Especially in the Golden Age, they got gagged a lot to create tension. (You'll also notice that Freddy's weakness goes an extra step -- since his code name is Captain Marvel Jr., he can't say ''his own name'' without [[HenshinHero changing back to his mortal form]]. Hence why he kept wanting to change it.)

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* Franchise/{{Batman}} finally figured out a weakness for Franchise/WonderWoman, who has no WeaksauceWeakness. Her upbringing was highly competitive and she won the right to represent her culture in man's world by winning a competition. Batman guessed correctly that her body would give out before she ever willingly gave up and came up with a way to force her into FightingAShadow, as seen in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel''.

** Speaking of Greed, it comes with it's own logical weakness. Anyone with enough greed to be granted an Orange Lantern Ring, they are too greedy to share the power, so the Greed Lantern core has (almost) always had only one member, and

* Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}} eventually developed a "secondary" mutation with a new power (no, not [[MostCommonSuperpower that one]], she ALWAYS had that): being able to become living diamond, much like Colossus' organic steel above. Also much like him, she became [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], almost totally impervious to physical attacks, temperatures, etc. The downsides were that she lost her psychic powers (though she was also now fairly invulnerable to others'), and while she's yet to be actually "beaten down" the occasional writer remembers that diamonds are hard but they're ''brittle''. When struck properly her form cracks, and she was once [[LiterallyShatteredLives completely shattered]], needing the walking DeusExMachina known as the Phoenix Force to be put back together.

** X-23's ArchEnemy Kimura's body is indestructible; not even adamantium blades can damage it. She has no protection from telepathic attacks, and she still needs to breathe. She once suffered a MindRape by Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}}, and in ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', X-23 kills her by drowning her in the ocean.