History PlayingWith / WeaksauceWeakness

** Alternative: His glaring weakness causes him to become the laughingstock of the superpowered world and he is forced to retire from crime-fighting because he has such a glaring weakness.
** After [[BigBad Senior Sinister]] finds out the Captain Awesome's weakness is plastic forks he tells his [[{{Mooks}} goons]] to attack Captain Awesome with plastic forks.

** Alternative: After dropping out of supering, he realizes he can still make a difference, he just needs to account for his glaring weaknesses. So he develops a suit that protects him from the forks or helps with disaster relief.

** "Gee, our villlain is [[VillainSue too powerful]]. [[OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow We need to find a way for the heroes to stand a chance against him]]".

* '''Downplayed''': Plastic forks give Captain Awesome a migraine.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Geez Captain Awesome, you can shrug off meteor impacts and eat plutonium, but a plastic fork makes you cower in fear".

** "Gee, our villlain is [[VillainSue too powerful]]. We need to find a way for the heroes to stand a chance against him".

* "Crap, Captain Awesome is a bit too awesome. He's making all the villains look laughable. How do we bring him down to their level. *frantically searches office, reaches into fridge* A FORK!"
* "Gee, our villlain is [[VillainSue too powerful]]. We need to find a way for the heroes to stand a chance against him".

* '''Enforced''': "Crap, Captain Awesome is a bit too awesome. He's making all the villains look laughable. How do we bring him down to their level. *frantically searches office, reaches into fridge* A FORK!"

** Captain Awesome is totally immune to plastic forks (and only plastic forks) in any situation in which one could harm him, however rare such situations may be

* '''Exploited''': Captain Awesome's sidekick isn't weak against plastic forks.

* '''Inverted''':

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Captain Awesome only has a slight allergy to plastic. His deep rooted fear of plastic forks actually comes from before him gaining his powers, when his abusive step-father molested him with them.
** Alternative: His glaring weakness causes him to become the laughingstock of the superpowered world and he is forced to retire from crime-fighting because he has such a glaring weakness.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** But Captain Awesome swore that he would stop people like his step-dad, so he made a deal with a supernatural being that allowed him great power at the cost that he be driven off by what scares him the most.
** Alternative: After dropping out of supering, he realizes he can still make a difference, he just needs to account for his glaring weaknesses. So he develops a suit that protects him from the forks or helps with disaster relief.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Geez Captain Awesome, you can shrug off meteor impacts and eat plutonium, but a plastic fork makes you cower in fear."
* '''Invoked''': ''From the Diary of Senior Sinister'' "Grr, All superheros have weaknesses, and I know I can find Captain Awesome's. I'll try everything from Aardvarks to Zygotes."

* '''Exploited''': Captain Awesome's sidekick isn't weak against plastic forks.
* '''Conversed''': "You know, it's a wonder there are any super powered people fighting or doing crime at all. They have so many weird allergies they ought to live in a bubble."
* '''Discussed''': "No, there is no cosmic balancer or something bandying out random weaknesses to superpowered people. If you run into someone who about to toss a truck at you, do not [[NorseMythology pelt them with mistletoe]], just run."

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** Captain Awesome is weakened by corn, [[IDontLikeSpam his least favorite food]]

** Captain Awesome is totally immune to plastic forks in any situation in which one could harm him, however rare such situations may be

* '''Inverted''': Captain Awesome draws his powers from plastic forks, giving him not a WeaksauceWeakness, but a weaksauce ''power source''.

* '''Exaggerated''': The mere mention of plastic forks sends Captain Awesome into sniveling fits.

* '''Subverted''': Turns out the plastic fork was laced with cyanide.

* '''Double Subverted''': But Captain Awesome can easily resist the cyanide, but not when he's suffering from the plastic allergy.

* '''Parodied''': KryptoniteIsEverywhere UpToEleven. Captain Awesome's secret identity works at a plastic fork factory, putting him a hair's breadth from death every day. All his villains have plastic in their armor, and they pointedly observe they are trying to [[EvenEvilHasStandards uphold standards]] by only fighting/doing crime with non-lethal... ''plastic'' weapons. Oh, and his nemesis? Plastic Neptune, who wields ''a giant plastic trident.''

* '''Deconstructed''': Captain Awesome only has a slight allergy to plastic. His deep rooted fear of plastic forks actually comes from before him gaining his powers, when his abusive step-father molested him with them.

* '''Reconstructed''': But Captain Awesome swore that he would stop people like his step-dad, so he made a deal with a supernatural being that allowed him great power at the cost that he be driven off by what scares him the most.

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* '''Enforced''': "Crap, Captain Awesome is a bit too awesome. He's making all the villains look laughable. How do we bring him down to her level. *frantically seraches office, reaches into fridge* A FORK!"

* '''Conversed''': "You know, it's a wonder there are any super powered people fighting or doing crime at all. They have so many wierd allergies they ought to live in a bubble."

* '''Downplayed''': Plastic forks give Captain Awesome a severe migraine.

* '''Downplayed''': Plastic forks rarely shows up.

** Captain Awesome is reduced to a catatonic mess by merely being watched by someone.

* '''Downplayed''': Plastic forks rarely show up.

* '''Invoked''': ''From the Diary of Senior Sinister'' "Grr, All superheros have weaknesses, and I know I can find Captain Awesome's. I'll try everything from Aardvarks to Zygotes.

* '''Discussed''': "No, there is no cosmic balancer or something bandying out random weaknesses to superpowered people. If you run into someone who about to toss a truck at you, do not [[NorseMythology pelt them with mistletoe]], just run.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Captain Awesome freaks out at the sight of a plastic fork but does nothing to him. Thinking he is over his plastic allergy, he picks up a second one, but it turns out this second plastic fork was not hypo-allergenic, and he promptly has a severe reaction. But turns out to be instead a reaction to Plastic Neptune's allergies-beam. But then it turns out that the plastic fork disabled Captain Awesome's immune system, making him vulnerable to Plastic Neptune's allergies-beam.