History PlayingWith / WeakButskilled

* '''Downplayed''': Alice has average strength, but she knows many tricks to stun or trap her foes so she can get key hits in.

* '''Inverted''': UnskilledButStrong

** However, due to the fact that power, rather than skill, is the deciding factor in most in-setting battles, this rarity works in Alice's favor: She's effectively an OutsideContextVillain for all the UnskilledButStrong opponents she faces, making her very hard to deal with.

** However, due to the fact that power, rather than skill, is the deciding factor in most in-setting battles, this rarity works in Alice's favor:
She's effectively an OutsideContextVillain for all the UnskilledButStrong opponents she faces, making her very hard to deal with.

* ‘‘‘Implied''': Plenty of others seem more powerful than Alice, though its never made clear if her strength is from skill or simple ability limitations.

* ‘‘‘Played For Laughs''': Alice repurposes all her skills for battle, varying from the reasonable skill of dance to questionable skills like pitch variation.
* ‘‘‘Played For Drama''': Alice causes her body horrible stress just to keep up, developing crippling health issues as a result.

** Alice gets her arse kicked by someone who has equal skill but more power.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Justified''': Alice knows she's not very strong, so she studies and trains to maximize the efficiency of her attacks.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Watch out for Alice. She may not look like much, but she knows how to hit you where it hurts."
* '''Invoked''': After getting outpaced by her teammates, Alice decides to study and train to keep pace.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice keeps seeking out the BiggerStick so she is never left wanting for power.
* '''Discussed''': "Alice is probably the most dangerous fighter in this tournament, since she's smart and skilled, she can adapt to any opponent."
* '''Conversed''': "This show's author must really hate the trope HardWorkHardlyWorks, because Alice is beating down a bunch of those characters."

%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Alice reveals that she prefers to get by on her smarts, but when push comes to shove, she's packing some SuperStrength.
* '''Double Subverted''': That's her version of a LimitBreak and she can't access it regularly.

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* '''Straight''': Alice is a frail warrior with weak attacks, but with some combination of training and intelligence, she is as effective as the heavy bruisers.

'''Basic Trope''': They're not very strong...but they know how to use what they've got.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is tiny and looks like she shouldn't be fighting at all - but she's so skilled that she wallops deities with ease.

* '''Subverted''':
** Alice reveals that she prefers to get by on her smarts, but when push comes to shove, she's packing some SuperStrength.
** Alice ''looks'' like this, but it turns out that her "skill" was actually a mean streak of luck that has gotten her MistakenForBadass.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** That was her version of a LimitBreak, and she can't access it regularly.
** After realising what she's gotten herself into, she decides to train and get some real skills, since luck alone can't hold out forever.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is so weak she can't even lift her own weapon, and is so hilariously clumsy that her opponents fall down laughing... which means the judges grant her victory after victory since a full body takedown is a win.
* '''Zig Zagged''': She usually fights using smarts, but she can call on SuperStrength...occasionally. But it happens often enough to where it's semi-reliable. She just fights smart the rest of the time.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** When Alice fights someone who [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman has as much skill but is more powerful]], she gets her arse kicked.
** Sometimes the power gap is just too huge that no amount of skill and {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m can close the gap. A Muay Thai expert can't walk away from getting nuked or punch out a battleship after all.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** ... so Alice decides to learn how to be CrazyPrepared and pull a BatmanGambit so the strong and skilled opponents don't win (at least not in the long run).
** A gap which Alice closes by using FlawExploitation and a PowerNullifier while combining a DefensiveFeintTrap with GeoEffects.
* '''Averted''': She's a reasonable mix of skilled and strong.
* '''Enforced''': The setting has robots built in very specific power tiers, thinkers with frail bodies and fighters with limited processing ability. Since Alice-tron is a thinker model, she studies and trains to use her frail body in ways that a fighter model isn't adapted to.

* '''Invoked''':
** After getting outpaced by her teammates, Alice decides to study and train to keep pace.
** Bob TheBigGuy uses a PowerLimiter to make himself WillfullyWeak so that he has to build up skill.
* '''Exploited''': Bob, who is unskilled ''and'' weak, pretends to be WeakButSkilled [[MilesGloriosus as a bluff.]]

* '''Discussed''': "Alice is probably the most dangerous fighter in this tournament, since she's smart and skilled she can adapt to any opponent!"
* '''Conversed''': "This show's author must really hate the trope HardWorkHardlyWorks, because Alice is beating up a bunch of those characters."

* '''Subverted''': Alice reveals that she prefers to get by on her smarts, but when push comes to shove, she's packing some SuperStrength.

* '''Double Subverted''': That was her version of a LimitBreak, and she can't access it regularly.

* '''Deconstructed''': When Alice fights someone who [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman has as much skill but is more powerful]], she gets her arse kicked.

* '''Reconstructed''': ... so Alice decides to learn how to be CrazyPrepared and pull a BatmanGambit so the strong and skilled opponents don't win (at least not in the long run).

* '''Invoked''': After getting outpaced by her teammates, Alice decides to study and train to keep pace.

** Sometimes the power gap is just too huge that no amount of skill and {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m can close the gap. A Muay Thai expert can't walk away from getting nuked after all.

** Sometimes the power gap is just too huge that no amount of skill and {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m can close the gap. A Muay Thai expert can't walk away from a nuke after all.

** Sometimes the power gap is just too huge that no amount of skill and {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m can close the gap.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': When Alice fights someone who has as much skill but is more powerful, she gets her arse kicked.

* '''Defied''': ???