History PlayingWith / StoryBreakerPower

* '''Deconstructed''': Because of her overwhelming advantage, nobody is irrational enough to fight her anymore. Those who do have a use for Carol, have to be immensely intelligent and convincing. The people who literally can't catch up with her are beyond jealous, and want to do other things besides getting nearly killed. Fighting is pointless and any real-life story with Carol is literally too predictable, while the objectively weaker members are more interesting.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Carol starts with a usable power level, but SerialEscalation makes her TooPowerfulToLive. So she dies, and when she's resurrected, her power is back to how it started. She regains her power over time, but a villain comes up with a useful counter, and tells everyone. Then Carol gets even ''[[UpToEleven more powerful]]''...

** Several good {{Fix Fic}}s and series like ''Anime/OnePunchMan'' have shown us that you can still craft excellent stories, even with this trope in play, as long as you make them compelling enough by having great characters, clever twists, a solid emotional core, etc.
** ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' also has this kind of situation. [[BadassAdorable The Archive]] automatically knows ''every single thing that has ever been written or typed'' in the past few thousand years, if not in the entire history of writing. In a world where knowledge directly correlates to magical power, this is a ''lot'' of power. However, she is constrained by certain rules, meaning that she can usually only pass on hints and not get directly involved in situations-otherwise every book would be about five pages long.

** Several good {{Fix Fic}}s and series like ''Anime/OnePunchMan' have shown us that you can still craft excellent stories, even with this trope in play, as long as you make them compelling enough by having great characters, clever twists, a solid emotional core, etc.

* '''Defied''': Carol relinquishes enough power to not be overpowering, but retains enough to be useful.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Because of her overwhelming advantage, nobody is irrational enough to fight her anymore. And those who do have a use for Carol, have to be immensely intelligent and convincing. The people who literally can't catch up with her are beyond jealous, and want to do other things besides getting nearly killed. Fighting is pointless and any real-life story with Carol is literally too predictable, while the objectively weaker members are more interesting.

* '''Straight''': Carol can warp {{Spac|eMaster}} and {{Time|Master}} in a setting where the best everyone else has are elemental powers.

* '''Straight''': Carol can warp [[SpaceMaster Space]] and [[TimeMaster Time]] in a setting where the best everyone else has are elemental powers.

* Her powers become a main point in the plot.
* Carol was lying about her powers.

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* '''Subverted''': Her powers become a main point in the plot.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...because they broke the story so much.

* '''Downplayed''': She uses her time powers for SaveScumming.

* '''Reconstructed''': Carol is TheOmnipotent, not TheOmniscient - she can fix any problem ''that she knows about'', but she can misjudge a problem, or simply miss problems until it's too late. Or vice-versa, she knows how to best act to resolve any problem - but can't fix things on her own, and can only really afford to pay attention to the major (or easily fixed) problems. Either way, the story becomes much LighterAndSofter, but preserves some drama.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Carol wins. The villain gets [[DeathAsComedy an automatic]] DarwinAward. Everyone eats cake.

* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Carol wins. The villain gets [[DeathAsComedy an automatic]] DarwinAward. Everyone eats cake.
%%** The '.
** From ''WebOriginal/{{Worm}}'' fanon:
--> "Path to -Victory- nine pages of complaining about Contessa."

* '''Deconstructed''': Because of her overwhelming advantage, nobody is irrational enough to fight her anymore. And those who do have a use for Carol, have to be immensely intelligent and convincing. The people who literally can't catch up with her are beyond jealous, and want to do other things besides getting nearly killed. Fighting is pointless and any real-life story with Carol is literally too predictable, while the objectively weaker members are more interesting.

** Several good [[FixFic fix fics]].
* '''Played For Laughs''': Carol wins. The villain gets [[DeathAsComedy an automatic]] DarwinAward. Everyone eats cake.
** The ''Anime/OnePunchMan''.

* '''Played For Drama''': Carol used her power to OneHitKill [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]]... and the realm is now run by the PointyHairedBoss.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

%%* '''Deconstructed''': Because of her overwhelming advantage, nobody is irrational enough to fight her anymore. And those who do have a use for Carol, have to be immensely intelligent and convincing. The people who literally can't catch up with her are beyond jealous, and want to do other things besides getting nearly killed. Fighting is pointless and any real-life story with Carol is literally too predictable, while the objectively weaker members are more interesting.

** Carol is TheOmnipotent, so it's a guarantee that she'd [[{{Understatement}} overpowered]].

* '''Defied''': Carol relinquishes enough power to not be overpowered, but retains enough to be useful.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Justified''': The enemies they face require that she have these powers.

** Alice power is so great that it threatens to cause HeroicRedRingofDeath if used

** Which she later overcomes because screw tension

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Basic Trope: A character with overwhelming power compared to the locals.
* Straight: Carol can warp [[SpaceMaster Space]] and [[TimeMaster Time]] in a setting of elemental powers.
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* Deconstructed:
** Because Carol's so overwhelmingly powerful, [[OhCrap she makes people so afraid]]. They band together to kill her before she goes nuts.
* Reconstructed:
** [[RealityEnsues And then, they gets their asses whooped because they challenged a Space-Time bending demigod with only elemental powers]]. [[BadassNormal How does Batman do it?]]