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** The Good Hunter is [[NighInvulnerable essentially unstoppable]] due to his [[ResurrectiveImmortality unlimited revives]] and [[LightningBruiser being head and shoulders above the rest in terms of speed, strength and durability]]. This guy is [[CurbStompBattle guaranteed to win any fight that he gets into]] while being hardly serious. As if he cannot get even more broken, [[spoiler:the fact that he obtained the ''Childhood's Beginning'' ending from ''VideoGame/BloodBorne'' means he is a [[EldritchAbomination great one]] posing as a [[HumanoidAbomination man]][[note]]though this is only implied in the remastered version[[/note]]]]. Both versions of the story go around this via the following methods: putting the Hunter in situations where he is disincentivised to use excessive force[[note]]e.g., [[NoHarmRequirement defeating Olga and bringing her back to the South unspoiled]][[/note]]; putting him in situations where he demonstrates skills besides combat[[note]]e.g., choosing to stealthily enter a building instead of wasting time killing things to complete his objective faster[[/note]]; making him WillfullyWeak[[note]]i.e., he [[spoiler:uses his ComboPlatterPowers as a great one sparingly because he wants to [[{{Masquerade}} conceal everything related to Yharnam]] and prevent collateral damage]][[/note]]; having him experience setbacks in spite of his sheer power[[note]]e.g., the Good Hunter is able to stop the ArcVillain, but [[YouAreTooLate fails to save everyone in time]], leading to a PyrrhicVictory[[/note]]; giving the spotlight to other characters[[note]]e.g., in Chapters 17-22 of the original version, the Hunter is in Scathlocke hunting down the current ArcVillain, while other characters like Lily and Soren are gaining intel to deal with a future ArcVillain[[/note]]; creating conflict born of the Hunter's own traits (e.g., him being an enigmatic, GoodIsNotNice AntiHero) rather than making the story hinge on a confrontation between TheProtagonist and the BigBad; and giving the Good Hunter HiddenDepths.

** The Good Hunter is [[NighInvulnerable essentially unstoppable]]. A [[CombatPragmatist shrewd]] LightningBruiser with [[ResurrectiveImmortality unlimited revives]], he is guaranteed to win any fight that he gets into. As if he cannot get even more broken, he's [[spoiler:a [[EldritchAbomination great one]] [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith posing as]] a [[HumanoidAbomination man]].]] The story goes around this by making him WillfullyWeak -- he uses [[spoiler:his [[ComboPlatterPowers great-one powers]] sparingly so that anything related to Yharnam will be [[{{Masquerade}} concealed]], and no innocent will be [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven insane]].]] Furthermore, dramatic tension/angst is still retained by having Kyril [[YouAreTooLate failing to save everyone in time]] (e.g. arriving late to stop Michelle from [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty raping]] Maia, arriving late to save the civilians of Rad from [[PlayingWithSyringes mass experimentation]], [[RuleOfThree arriving late]] to stop Chloe from being [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], etc.), in order to [[AnAesop hammer home]] that no one, not even an [[InvincibleHero overpowered protagonist]], gets a [[PyrrhicVictory clean win]] in [[WarIsHell warfare]].
** [[spoiler:The Plain Doll [[ResurrectiveImmortality cannot be killed permanently]] like her Good Hunter]], as well as being the only character confirmed to have [[spoiler:MindOverMatter]] in the story, to the point of averting JustHitHim. Readers have no idea [[spoiler:how much control does she have with this [[LovecraftianSuperpower power]]]], together with whether [[spoiler:she]] can do this without immunity. The reason why [[spoiler:she]] is not shown rending enemies in the battlefield is because this would [[OutOfCharacter heavily contradict]] [[spoiler:her]] established personality in ''VideoGame/BloodBorne'' canon.

** ''Xrd'' newcomer Bedman is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin true to his name]], a young man strapped to a bed. He also happens to possess various supernatural powers connected to a dreamlike world he resides within while asleep (which he can drag others into to subject YourMindMakesItReal on them in a rather hellish fashion), and his first appearance in ''-SIGN-'' establishes him as a NoNonsenseNemesis capable of streamrolling several heavy hitters, [[TheWorfEffect chief among them the aforementioned Slayer]]. Only two characters in ''-SIGN-'' (a BackFromTheDead [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Zepp's president]] [[HavingABlast Gabriel]][[labelnote:*]]noted to be a former sparring partner of and WorthyOpponent to Slayer, unsurprisingly[[/labelnote]]) are able to drive him off, and Bedman ends up catching ''That Man'' by surprise and [[DeusExitMachina whisking him away to parts unknown]] late in the story. It's only when Slayer returns for a grudge match in ''-REVELATOR-'' after tapping back into his full power ([[PersonOfMassDestruction which allows him to demolish mountains with but a flick of his finger]]) that Bedman truly finds himself on the defensive... at which point he reveals [[spoiler:[[IAmNotLeftHanded he's only been using approximately]] '''[[IAmNotLeftHanded 8%]]''' [[IAmNotLeftHanded of his full power]]]]. Bedman's powers do have a critical drawback in that [[spoiler:he cannot manifest in the real world while awake without his very existence eroding away due to an unspecified form of PowerIncontinence]], a double-edged sword exploited by the previously defeated Venom in order to [[spoiler:forcibly awaken Bedman and kill him]].

*** Ironically, this is exactly the reason he loses to [[spoiler:Shirou]] in the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' anime. Gilgamesh relies so much on having the best possible weapon for any situation that he doesn't know how to wield most of his massive arsenal to its full potential, only being averagely proficient with a small dozen or so weapons. When he's finally forced to go mano-a-mano, his swordsmanship is average at best, and even when he pulls out Ea [[spoiler: his hesitation to use it makes him slow on the draw that Shirou [[AnArmAndALeg literally]] disarms him before he can swing it]]. ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'' reflects this weakness of his the best, with his slow melee speed being his biggest downside as a playable character, and during the story proper Karna advises Tamamo to get up-close in order to have the best chance of beating him.

** Jin, can move and attack faster than most characters can blink, making him unbeatable in combat. Even [[CombatClairvoyance Foresight]] is useless when he can hit faster than an opponent can get out of the way, [[spoiler:and it gets worse, since this is born from the power to control elementary particles. Even weapons like particle beams are useless as he can manipulate them to not hit him, and he can chill and area to absolute zero to rob Blades of their powers ([[MinovskyPhysics since Ether particles lose the energy to do work under those conditions]]).]]. The only thing keeping him in check is [[spoiler:the fact he's following Malos a bit passively since his loyalty comes from Malos being his OnlyFriend, and Jin being near the end of his lifespan and at risk of dying from ether stagnation when he exerts himself]]. He only loses three fights in the whole game, and all of them come from outside influence: a PowerNullifier, [[spoiler:[[SuperMode Pneuma]] awakening to [[IRejectYourReality cheat right back]], and a wound from that fight he never completely recovers from.]]

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2807017 Rooster Shenanigans and Other Miraculous Tomfoolery]]'' is a collection of one-shot ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfics exploring potential story-breaking usage of the various powers in that show, with a primary focus on the Rooster Miraculous, which had been shown to have the power to [[MetaPower give its wielder any power they define]]. The number of different ways the show's entire conflict is ended with a single use of Sublimation -- [[TheBadGuyWins and not always by a good guy]] -- shows pretty clearly why canon is actively avoiding using Orikko to his full potential, but even a handful of other powers get a day in the story-breaking spotlight.

** The Energized Protodermis Entity, an EldritchAbomination who basically unwittingly set the entire ''BIONICLE'' story into motion, can destroy or transform anything with a slight touch. It's also a liquid, so pretty hard to avoid if you're in a room with it. However, it doesn't have control over whether the things it touches cease existing or get transformed. The being itself very rarely appears, its substance acting mostly as AppliedPhlebotinum. Its only known weakness is gravity -- it flows down big holes. It's also an AllPowerfulBystander; it has no ''interest'' in anyone else's affairs.
** The fully collected Great and Noble Masks gave the Toa Mata a massive assortment of stock superpowers that really should have made a lot of conflicts far easier. They ended up losing all those powers with their Toa Nuva upgrades, having to gather them a second time, then losing them again permanently.

** The Skakdi race (the species to which the Piraka belong) has access to elemental powers (but [[TeethClenchedTeamwork only when working as a team, which they hate]]), each has a unique but highly powerful special ability (like AdaptiveAbility, bringing objects to life, conjuring [[TailorMadePrison Tailor-Made Prisons]], PowerCopying, etc), and eye-based or mental powers. And one of them called Zaktan is a WormThatWalks who can fly, shapeshift to a limited extent, and become an insect swarm. Fans cried foul when six of them [[CurbStompBattle easily beat]] the Toa Nuva (the most powerful heroes of their universe [[note]]To be fair, the writer later stated that the Piraka only one that battle through [[MillionToOneChance dumb luck]][[/note]]), so at the end of the story, they got devolved into weaker sea serpents by MutagenicGoo... but then they came back as the Golden-Skinned Being and... well, see below.

** Utsuho Reiuji controls [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear fusion]], the thing that powers stars. In her debut she created a miniature sun and was preparing to [[PersonOfMassDestruction cover the surface with nuclear fire]], and afterwards she spends her spare time [[MundaneUtility powering a makeshift fusion reactor]]. It's a good thing all she wants to do is make her master Satori happy.

** "Goodspeed You Black Emperor" can combine existing waves together... including light. Therefore, it can use light to create [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]], [[EnergyWeapon laser beams]], or enough [[ILoveNuclearPower gamma radiation]] to replicate the effects of a low-power [[NukeEm nuclear bomb]].

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

** Subverted by MadOracle Jadis. Her power is being TheOmniscient: Having seen the shape of the Universe from the outside, she knows everything inside of it. Only removing her from creation itself would prevent this power. However, rather than breaking the story, Jadis is the ''weakest'' character in the comic: Her omniscience is absolute, including knowledge of her own future actions. To Jadis, the future is as set in stone as the past: She cannot change anything, has no agency, and can't do anything she doesn't already know she'll do. Able to see everything and unable to do anything about it, Jadis has become a MadOracle [[AndIMustScream entombed in glass]] whose [[DeathSeeker dearest wish is to die]] (while being fully aware of everything that will happen after her death).

** Jadis, by contrast, is omniscient: Having seen the shape of the Universe from the outside, she knows everything inside of it. Only removing her from creation itself would prevent this power. On the flip-side, it has also turned her into a MadOracle [[AndIMustScream entombed in glass]] whose [[DeathSeeker dearest wish is to die]]. This madness presumably either limits her ability to use her omniscience to solve the story, [[GambitPileUp or the story as currently told is one messed-up way for Jadis to do so]].

** As noted above, Thor becomes this in ''Infinity War'' on account of Stormbreaker, an enchanted axe he personally forges with the help of Eitri for the sole purpose of enacting revenge on Thanos. With it, he's able to summon the Bifrost on his own for quick travel across space (getting around the issue caused by [[spoiler:Thanos killing off Heimdall early in the film]]--itself done to [[spoiler:prevent the heroes from easily teaming up to counteract the Mad Titan]]), effortlessly turns the tides of the Battle of Wakanda mere moments after his arrival, and even proves capable of curb-stomping Thanos while he's wielding '''all six Infinity Stones''' (albeit via the element of surprise). He's scaled back in ''Endgame'' by [[FormerlyFit having him gain a lot of weight]] due to depression over his failure to prevent the Snap and [[DrowningMySorrows wallow in a alcohol-induced haze]] over the next five years.

* One of the things that contributed to ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' 1960s DorkAge was the introduction of the "Space Coupe" and all its accompanying crime tracking and weaponry. Once you give the heroes a device that can go anywhere and track any kind of crime, the villains don't really have a chance. This led to the plot "Villains Try To Steal The Space Coupe" repeated ''ad nauseum'' for a while. When the new creative team started to reintroduce past elements to the current story, one of the first things they did was have Diet Smith tell Tracy that he mothballed the Space Coupe basically ''because'' of the "Villains Try To Steal The Space Coupe" factor.

** According to WordOfGod, this is a major reason both the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] were excluded from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. They're so much more powerful than most of the other heroes that they'd tilt the balance of power ridiculously in favor of whichever team they ended up on. Vision is also used very sparingly during the airport fight scene, not doing much until the end of the battle, while Spider-Man and [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]], normally powerful but not ridiculously overpowered superheroes, quickly turn the tide of battle for their respective sides.

** The legendary hero Hakumen is hands down the strongest character in the setting, with the possible exception of Azrael. However, he doesn't truly exist as we understand; he's stuck in another dimension called the Boundary, and the threads binding him to the physical world are tenuous at best, [[spoiler:and getting weaker]]. Hence, he can only access a fraction of his true power. In one of the drama [=CDs=], [[spoiler:he absolutely [[CurbStompBattle thrashes]] the two {{Big Bad}}s of the story with only 15% of his power, but he was transported away before he could finish them off]]. It's suggested that currently he can only use 40% of his power. If he could use all of it, there probably wouldn't be much of a plot. ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction Central Fiction]]'' explains why: [[spoiler:Hakumen's body is known to all as the Susanō'o Unit. The truth is it ''is'' Susanō'o, as in the Japanese god of storms. Hakumen is not the body's original user. [[CardCarryingVillain Yūki Terumi]] is. And he gets it back, killing Hakumen in doing so. Terumi knows everything that the Susanō'o Unit can do and is at full power, and his first act upon regaining his true form is to one-shot five of the most powerful characters in the franchise, including the below mentioned Jubei, without breaking a metaphorical sweat.]] It only occurs [[EleventhHourSuperpower for the finale]]. [[spoiler:The only reason the game doesn't end right there in a bad ending is because Terumi hasn't yet fully bonded with his original body, allowing Ragna to rip his soul back out of it.]]

** Nine of the Six Heroes, who would eventually marry Jubei, also counts; she is probably the most powerful magic user in the series, even [[spoiler:the goddess of death and one of the CoDragons]] think so. She can manipulate the elements (though fire is her favourite); control gravity; fly; enhance her physical abilities; [[spoiler:control the mind of someone as powerful as Terumi]]; and[[spoiler:, after becoming Phantom, look into alternate timelines]], the last of which Terumi abuses like a cheat sheet to successfully play XanatosSpeedChess with the entire cast. Her magical abilities, in fact, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal are the reason]] Jubei is sidelined for a large portion of the series' run. However, this is all mitigated by her nuclear temper and arrogance leading to poor decision making; the fact that she is on some level [[spoiler:refusing to follow orders from the bad guys]]; her love for her sister holding her back; and that once your get past all the power, [[SquishyWizard she has the endurance of wet tissue paper]] -- [[spoiler:as soon as he gets an opening, Ragna takes her out in one hit]].

** Kokichi Oma is the Ultimate Supreme Leader. While he doesn't have access to the NebulousEvilOrganization he claims to lead, his ability to plan ahead and manipulate others is top-notch and he's a capable lockpicker, allowing the students access to rooms long before they were supposed to.

** [[NinjaMaid Sakuya Izayoi]] is one big ShoutOut to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]] above, and as such has the mandatory TimeStandsStill ability. On top of that she can also [[TimeMaster slow time, speed it up, deflate it, compress it, erase it and invoke]] {{Temporal Paradox}}es, and because of RequiredSecondaryPowers her Time manipulation also allows her to manipulate space, doing things like making the Scarlet Devil Mansion BiggerOnTheInside and making a {{Hammerspace}} pocket filled with infinite [[KnifeNut knives]]. In canon she doesn't kill people ([[DarkAndTroubledPast anymore]]), but the third ''WebAnimation/FantasyKaleidoscope'' episode gives a terrifying glimpse of what she's capable of.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': Though, to date, they have only been hinted-at in-game or have been mentioned dripping in heavy metaphor, there exist several "[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended]]" metaphysical states in the ''ES'' universe. (Each has been further fleshed out by [[AllThereInTheManual developer]] [[LooseCanon supplemental texts]].) The first of these states is [[CapitalLettersAreMagic CHIM]], where one becomes aware of the nature of [[GodOfGods Anu's]] Dream but exists as one with it and maintains a sense of individuality. (Dunmeri PhysicalGod Vivec claims to have achieved this level, while [[BigBad Mankar Camoran]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' claims that the DeityOfHumanOrigin Talos has also achieved it.) Even these works don't make it clear ''exactly'' what CHIM is, though the ''ES'' lore community posits that it is the [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall realization of being a fictional character in a fictional world]], followed by breaking loose from the laws of said world using "powers" and abilities normally reserved for a PlayerCharacter (ex. SaveScumming, PauseScumming, use of the MasterConsole, use of the Construction Set LevelEditor, etc.) Naturally, these abilities make the user appear divine and otherworldly to the mortals of the settings. Included are Vivec flooding the island of Vvardenfell to kill Akaviri invaders, Talos performing a CosmicRetcon to turn Cyrodiil from a tropical jungle to a temperate forest, as well as both [[MultipleChoicePast rewriting their own pasts]]. Take, for example, Vivec's explanation of what happens when he "dies", which sounds suspiciously like reloading a saved game:
--> '''Vivec:''' ''"When I die in the world of time, then I'm completely asleep. I'm very much aware that all I have to do is choose to wake. And I'm alive again. Many times I have very deliberately tried to wait patiently, a very long, long time before choosing to wake up. And no matter how long it feels like I wait, it always appears, when I wake up, that no time has passed at all."''

* ''Fanfic/LaterTraitor'': Dogen's powerful psychic abilities allow the trio to not only free Linda from her brainwashing early (and skip Lungfishopolis) but they also skip the fights against Jasper and Dingo by just CuttingTheKnot. Jasper is less than pleased. And just as Frazie is about to enter the upper levels of Thorney Towers, Dogen and Lili leave her behind to search for the campers' brains so they cab safely return them to Whispering Rock, taking them out of the story.

* ''Fanfic/LaterTraitor'': Dogen's powerful psychic abilities allow the trio to not only free Linda from her brainwashing early (and skip Lungfishopolis) but they also skip the fights against Jasper and Dingo by just CuttingTheKnot. Jasper is less-than-pleased.

** Between a variety of talents, characters and a MagnificentBastard of a BigBad, no power seems to be able to outdo Luck in the ''Dangan Ronpa'' universe. This is even lampshaded in the third case of the game, when the killer says that one of the reasons for their murder was that they wanted to test their talent against Makoto's luck, and naturally, they lose. In the second game, Nagito, who is even luckier than Makoto ends up [[spoiler:orchestrating his own death, through an insanely complicated method, so the person he wanted would be blamed for it and allowed to escape]].
** Among ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', two talents in particular stand out in being the most broken. Kyoko Kirigiri's [[spoiler:Ultimate Detective]] talent, and Chihiro Fujisaki's Ultimate Programmer talent. The former was so good at solving murder cases that the Mastermind had to give her a DramaPreservingHandicap [[spoiler:in the form of LaserGuidedAmnesia]] to not have her figure out every mystery by herself, and even then is far and away the driving force of every Class Trial. Chihiro Fujisaki, meanwhile, has [[spoiler:him]] managed to [[spoiler:even in death]] take full control of the Hope's Peak Academy interface to [[spoiler:save Makoto's life]], provide crucial information to escape as well as therapy for the students with Alter-Ego, with the applications of [[spoiler:his]] talent being effectively limitless. The only two weaknesses the two have to their talents are Kyoko's InferioritySuperiorityComplex and even her logic being not flawless all the time, and Chihiro's [[ShrinkingViolet crippling lack of confidence]] and [[spoiler:[[WholesomeCrossdresser true gender]]]].

** Nine of the Six Heroes, who would eventually marry Jubei, also counts; she is probably the most powerful magic user in the series, even [[spoiler:the goddess of death and one of the CoDragons]] think so. She can manipulate the elements (though fire is her favourite); control gravity; fly; enhance her physical abilities; [[spoiler:control the mind of someone as powerful as Terumi]]; and[[spoiler:, after becoming Phantom, look into alternate timelines]], the last of which Terumi abuses like a cheat sheet to successfully play XanatosSpeedChess with the entire cast. Her magical abilities, in fact, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal are the reason]] Jubei is sidelined for a large portion of the series' run. However, this is all mitigated by her nuclear temper and arrogance leading to poor decision making; the fact that she is on some level [[spoiler:refusing to follow orders from the bad guys]]; her love for her sister holding her back; and that once your get past all the power, [[SquishyWizard she has the endurance of wet tissue paper]]--[[spoiler:as soon as he gets an opening, Ragna takes her out in one hit]].

** Sol Badguy, the main protagonist, is a Gear SuperPrototype who can easily {{curbstomp|Battle}} most of the cast while holding back massively. Fortunately, he practically never goes even halfway to going all out, partly because he's aware that doing so [[PersonOfMassDestruction would probably destroy everything for miles around him]], and partly because [[BrilliantButLazy he's a lazy bastard]]. By the time of ''Overture'', it's stated that his [[SuperMode Dragon Install]] is "encroaching", meaning his PowerLimiter is no longer able to fully restrain the entirety of Sol's power as he ages and evolves. For all his brilliance, however, Sol's being played a sucker by the series' enigmatic BigBad and his power as a Gear does little to affect the [[GovernmentConspiracy political intrigue]] many of his allies and rivals are wrapped up in. Following the original game (but especially since ''XX''), the series has also brought in several other Story-Breaker Powers who can counter or even surpass Sol's level of power, including the aforementioned BigBad.
** Justice is a Commander Gear capable of [[MindControl exerting her influence over nearly every other Gear in existence]], turning them to her side; only Sol is immune to her commands on account being the prototype Gear. [[note]]Presumably, other Commander Gears like Solaria and Dizzy are also immune, but Justice died before either character came into prominence.[[/note]] She additionally possesses physical and magical abilities superior to most other lifeforms (reflected by her serving as an unrelenting SNKBoss in the original game and being flat-out broken whenever she's playable [[note]]save for ''Accent Core Plus R'', which rebalanced her from a LightningBruiser MasterOfAll to a more of a MightyGlacier[=/=]StoneWall LongRangeFighter[[/note]]) and, in the backstory, was responsible for [[NukeEm nuking Japan]] with her [[WaveMotionGun Gamma Ray]]. (To wit, ''Xrd'' features the ruins of Japan as a stage, which can be accurately described as ''a hole in the Pacific Ocean''.) In two of her three run-ins with Sol, she beat him clean, even when he had the [[AmplifierArtifact Fireseal]] boosting his magic to cover for his PowerLimiter. It's also implied in ''Overture'' and outright shown in ''Xrd'' that Justice was capable of becoming a Megadeth-type Gear (read: {{Kaiju}}), suggesting she might not even have been at the apex of her power when Sol did manage to kill her.

** That Man is the creator of the Gears and main villain of the setting, with a brilliant mind, access to high-level magic, and several [[InexplicablyAwesome unexplained powers]], including the ability to age backwards. Players are introduced to him [[NoSell effortlessly shrugging off Sol's attacks]] and exhibiting knowledge bordering on prescience despite being an "ordinary" human, and when Sol finally gets the chance to fight him in ''Overture'', complete with Sol assuming his Gear form for the first time on-screen, it's a largely indirect battle [[StealthMentor serving as a test to see if Sol is capable of taking care of a more immediate threat]]. Complicating matters is That Man's [[AffablyEvil affable nature]] and [[AmbiguouslyEvil questionable acts]], to the point that he spends more time giving cryptic hints and reining in one of his subordinates (a TimeMaster witch with StupidEvil tendencies) than he does doing anything even remotely evil. [[spoiler:This is because, as revealed in ''Xrd'', [[GoodAllAlong he's not a villain at all]]--''he's the BigGood'' and the one person who truly knows what's going on, [[PoorCommunicationKills though he's really bad at being forthright with information]]. When he finally comes clean to Sol late in ''-REVELATOR-'' about everything he's been up to over the years, he spares no time in devising a plan that effectively derails the true villain's schemes.]]

** ''Xrd'' newcomer Bedman is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin true to his name]], a young man strapped to a bed. He also happens to possess various supernatural powers connected to a dreamlike world he resides within while asleep (which he can drag others into to subject YourMindMakesItReal on them in a rather hellish fashion), and his first appearance in ''-SIGN-'' establishes him as a NoNonsenseNemesis capable of streamrolling several heavy hitters, [[TheWorfEffect chief among them the aforementioned Slayer]]. Only two characters in ''-SIGN-'' (a BackFromTheDead [[CastingAShadow Zato-1]] and [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Zepp's president]] [[HavingABlast Gabriel]] [[note]]noted to be a former sparring partner of and WorthyOpponent to Slayer, unsurprisingly[[/note]]) are able to drive him off, and Bedman ends up catching ''That Man'' by surprise and [[DeusExitMachina whisking him away to parts unknown]] late in the story. It's only when Slayer returns for a grudge match in ''-REVELATOR-'' after tapping back into his full power ([[PersonOfMassDestruction which allows him to demolish mountains with but a flick of his finger]]) that Bedman truly finds himself on the defensive... at which point he reveals [[spoiler:[[IAmNotLeftHanded he's only been using approximately]] '''[[IAmNotLeftHanded 8%]]''' [[IAmNotLeftHanded of his full power]]]]. Bedman's powers do have a critical drawback in that [[spoiler:he cannot manifest in the real world while awake without his very existence eroding away due to an unspecified form of PowerIncontinence]], a double-edged sword exploited by the previously defeated Venom in order to [[spoiler:forcibly awaken Bedman and kill him]].
** Bedman himself serves as TheDragon to [[spoiler:Ariels]] aka [[spoiler:the Universal Will]], who proves to be nearly as dangerous in ''-REVELATOR-''. From a physical standpoint, she's near the top of the list, as evidenced by the fact that she can fight against Sol, Ky (one of the heroes of the Crusades [[spoiler:who also recently acquired Gear powers]]), and Sin (Ky's part-Gear son raised by Sol) at once and spank all of them without any visible effort (though Sol had a DramaPreservingHandicap preventing him from using Dragon Install). She also has command of a potentially limitless CloneArmy in the form of the Valentines, some of which have the potential to rival Sol and Commander Gears like Justice and Dizzy in terms of strength. If that wasn't enough, she's perhaps the ultimate example of a VillainWithGoodPublicity, serving as [[spoiler:the Sanctus Maximus Populi, the leader of the world's most popular religion,]] and therefore having access to some of the strongest magic around, including a nigh-impregnable defensive spell (Absolute Defense: Felion) that can only be breached by Sol and That Man [[EnemyMine working together]] in a manner that, [[{{Technobabble}} in the latter's words]], could've ended up destroying the planet if they weren't careful. Basically, imagine [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/ThePope as a top-tier MagicKnight]] and you're not too far off. [[spoiler:This isn't getting into the fact that this is only describing the Universal Will in her "human" form. Before she became Ariels, the Universal Will merely coming into contact with Justice from within [[GeniusLoci the]] [[EldritchLocation Backyard]] inflicted MindRape upon Justice and caused a RealityBleed that would've ran unchecked if That Man didn't take control of Justice and manually fire her Gamma Ray upon Japan.]] Fortunately, [[spoiler:Ariels]] is something of an AlmightyIdiot, especially once [[MaskOfSanity the mask]] [[AxCrazy slips]], as her IrrationalHatred of humans prevents her from [[UnderestimatingBadassery taking them seriously]]--which proves fatal when the coalition in opposition to her includes various [[SpannerInTheWorks unexpected parties]] including [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack Ramlethal Valentine]], one of her "daughters" that Ariels tried to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on]] and, even more unexpectedly, [[spoiler:a time-traveling Axl Low who comes through with [[BigDamnHeroes a last-minute save]] on Sol's behalf]].

** Both Omega and Dr. Weil in the ''Zero'' series repeatedly come into this. When wearing his special armor and harnessing the power of the Dark Elf, Omega has the ability to control every Reploid on Earth. Only X and Zero (due to them [[SuperPrototype technically not being Reploids]]) are safe from its effects. [[spoiler:And even when his armor is destroyed, his true form is that of Zero's original body, itself an incredibly powerful war machine and one of two contenders for WorldsStrongestMan in the setting (the other being X).]] Meanwhile, Dr. Weil, for his role in causing [[TheGreatOffScreenWar the Elf Wars]] (wherein he harnessed Omega's power to kill off the majority of the population of the entire planet in a few years' time), was "punished" with an immortal cyborg body with a HealingFactor so strong that he can recover from a direct hit by the [[KillSat Ragnarok]], and has an unintended side effect of allowing him to fuse with machinery. [[spoiler:Even when he's seemingly KilledOffForReal after fusing with Ragnarok and destroyed by Zero, the ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' series very heavily implies that Model W -- the multiple [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts Of Doom]] that can grant massive power boosts to their users in exchange for [[EmotionEater feeding on their negative emotions and eventually devouring them]], and at full power possesses world-ending capabilities -- is Weil's consciousness still fused with the fragments of Ragnarok.]]

** In ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', Infinite gets outfitted with the Phantom Ruby from ''VideoGame/SonicMania'', giving him the ability to warp reality. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he can create illusions that warp his victims' perception of reality, but the [[YourMindMakesItReal effects are the same]].]] He repeatedly routs the Resistance armies, and the limits by which he's able to warp reality are ill-defined. Consequently, he never seems to use the Phantom Ruby to its fullest potential in his actual boss fights, preferring to create harmful obstacles and do charging attacks.

** Tabuu's Off Wave in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' has the power to revert all the characters back into trophies, which allowed it to completely curb stomp nearly the entire cast in seconds, with only a ChekhovsGun allowing one to get free and revive the others. After that, they were only saved from another Off Wave by [[spoiler:a DeusExMachina BigDamnHeroes moment from Sonic, which depowered the Off Wave enough to ''only'' be a OneHitKill that covers the entire screen and can only be avoided through rolling and air dodging.]]
** Galeem in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' can completely bathe an entire galaxy in [[LightIsNotGood light]], enough to destroy the bodies of all the characters who become the game's spirits and turn most of the playable roster in to vessels used to make puppet fighters. The only thing preventing him from immediately taking over the entire ''Smash'' universe is Kirby pushing his Warp Star to its absolute limit, leaving him as the SoleSurvivor.

*** Thanks to his [[MagicalEye Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]], Shiki [[OneHitKill kills things in one hit]]. Period. No matter what, [[RealityWarper if you have a concept of death, he can kill you]]. The limiter factor he has during the story is A. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop no one tells him what he needs to know]], B. [[ThouShaltNotKill he thinks killing is wrong]], C. initially he can't fight properly unless [[SuperpoweredEvilSide put in Nanaya mode]], D. [[HeroicRROD overuse will implode his mind]] since a human mind [[BrownNote can not continuously perceive death]]. Also he has a nasty scar that likes bleeding and making him pass out. All of these (except for D) are essentially dealt with by the end of the story, so the sequels so far have given him opponents that he ''can't'' [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer simply kill, even if he could beat them.]]
*** The direct sequel handles things a little more interestingly. Due to story reasons, Shiki outright forgets his ability, and every time he ends up using it the world melts down, sending him back to the first day of the time loop he's in. When he finally remembers his ability though, he instantly kills the BigBad of the story with little to no fanfare after a grueling battle detailing how there was no way Shiki could defeat the BigBad normally.

* In ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'', the story breaking power is NOT [[AllYourPowersCombined Mimicry,]] but rather [[spoiler:Altair's combined soul-stealing and erasure powers. The more he kills, the stronger he gets and with no one even capable of remembering his victims. Well, photos excluded.]]

** Yukari Yakumo is a powerful {{Youkai}}, a [[TheArchmage master]] of UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}}, TheChessmaster with SuperIntelligence and a legion of spies, and a [[PhysicalGod nine-tailed]] {{kitsune}} as her [[{{Familiar}} shikigami]], but much of her ShroudedInMyth status comes from her power to manipulate boundaries. While in-story this ability has mostly manifested as creating [[CoolGate portals]], and once as manipulating the border of night and day so that it could be both night and day at the same time, [[FictionalDocument Akyuu writes]] that it is far more powerful... at least, [[UnreliableExpositor according to Yukari]]:

* Not unlike its SpiritualSuccessor ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', ''Franchise/GuiltyGear'' has its fair share of these.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 The first iteration of the brand]] featured no less than four giant Transformers that [[GeniusLoci could transform into entire cities and battle stations]].[[labelnote:*]]Though this is often an InformedAttribute thanks to [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scale this confusing thing.]][[/labelnote]] Given how even one of them should reasonably completely destroy all but a few of the Autobots/Decepticons, it's probably no coincidence that they have relatively scant appearances in both G1 and later franchises, and when they do appear, they're often weakened in some way (Scorponok is often downscaled to a regular size, for example).