History Main / HeroicRROD

* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', constant use of spoiler:his power erodes his body by the second.

Since this is an ending (and sometimes a DeathTrope) spoilers are unmarked. You've been warned.

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Named after a warning signal on Microsoft UsefulNotes/Xbox360 consoles.[[note]]They normally have a green four-part ring when they power on; when one gets the red ring instead, it usually means that the system can no longer physically function. The red ring generally doesn't appear until it's too late to do anything about it, at which point it's usually time for a new console. Originally there were 4 red ring codes in total, three red lights being the classic RROD and indicating the dreaded hardware failure (stemming from a bad soldering job on the motherboard). One red light indicates another kind of hardware failure, and two red lights mean the console is overheating. Four red lights (the only actual *ring*) is known as the Fake-out Red Ring and appears when the console is turned on without plugging the AV cables into the TV. But that just confused people and led to a lot of unnecessary returns, so in later models, the red ring always means something has GoneHorriblyWrong.[[/note]] See also {{Overheating}}, the underlying idea behind this.

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* An almost literal example happened during the shutdown of the original UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Live|Arcade}}. Because the servers couldn't be closed until everyone disconnected, a flurry of players continuously stayed home playing their favorite games online one last time until their consoles crashed from overuse, nearly a full month after the servers were planned to be shut down.

** [[NighInvulnerability Sebastian]] gets one in Chapter 65, nearly collapsing after =being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by the Undertaker, getting Ciel off a ship that's been ''chopped in half'', and eradicating the zombie horde, while on a rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic.]]

** Midoriya probably has it the worst, as his Quirk is too powerful for his own body to withstand, injuring him if he tries to use it. It is so extreme that he ends up permanently disfiguring his hand as well as coming dangerously close to permanently paralyzing his arms before he learns how to use only a fraction of All for One's power instead of running it only at 100%, and to spread this activation throughout his whole body instead of focusing it through one body part. He's since learned other ways to adapt to his quirk's power, such as adapting a fighting style based on kicking instead of punching (as the legs are stronger than the arms) or using tools made for him that help lesson the burden on his body or focus his attacks into more compact forms.

*** One of the reasons Endeavor, Todoroki's father from which he inherited his flame powers, married someone with an ice Quirk was in the hope the resulting child would have Todoroki's exact same Quirks and thus balance their side effects, thus not saddling him with his same weakness.