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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power and ability to continuously grow stronger through battle. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. It says a lot that ''Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegito'' is required to counter him]]. ''Super's'' producer even calls him a cheat character even by ''Dragon Ball'' standards]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power and ability to continuously grow stronger through battle. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. It says a lot that ''Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegito'' is required to counter him]].him. ''Super's'' producer even calls him a cheat character even by ''Dragon Ball'' standards]].
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** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan was broken, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood [[spoiler: as he was in the Buu saga at least.]].
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** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan was broken, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood [[spoiler: as he was in the Buu saga Saga at least.]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black. It says a lot that Merged Zamasu is this trope to such a degree that ''Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegito'' is required to counter him]]. ''Super's'' producer even calls him a cheat character even by ''Dragon Ball'' standards]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power.power and ability to continuously grow stronger through battle. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black. It says a lot that Merged Zamasu is this trope to such a degree that ''Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegito'' is required to counter him]]. ''Super's'' producer even calls him a cheat character even by ''Dragon Ball'' standards]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black. It says a lot that Merged Zamasu is this trope to such a degree that ''Super Saiyan Blue Vegito'' is required to counter him]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black. It says a lot that Merged Zamasu is this trope to such a degree that ''Super Saiyan Blue God Super Saiyan Vegito'' is required to counter him]].him]]. ''Super's'' producer even calls him a cheat character even by ''Dragon Ball'' standards]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black]].
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god. When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black]].Black. It says a lot that Merged Zamasu is this trope to such a degree that ''Super Saiyan Blue Vegito'' is required to counter him]].
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** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan was broken, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
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** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan was broken, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.godhood [[spoiler: as he was in the Buu saga at least.]].
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** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1, at least in the anime. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the god forms, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
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** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1, at least in the anime. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the god forms, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character. [[spoiler: By the time he makes a comeback in ''Super'', Goku and Vegeta had individually surpassed Vegito's previous level, which makes Vegito far more powerful than before and gives him access to Super Saiyan Blue himself. Ironically it seems he doesn't really break the story this time, as he's reborn to fight an opponent ''actually qualified'' to fight him.]]
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
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** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]] When Goku Black and Future Zamasu fuse, Merged Zamasu gains Future Zamasu's immortality and can grow stronger from battle like Goku Black]].
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** Given all the times Goku arrives late, is dead, or [[DeusExitMachina just not in the picture for whatever reason]], Toriyama seems to think he's a story-breaking character. He's one of the strongest, most dependable beings in the series, and later he can teleport instantly anywhere in the universe as long as he can sense energy. Many of the sagas would end early if Goku was around from the start, and the time he wasn't around ''once'' was enough to plunge Earth into a BadFuture. [[spoiler: He becomes even more powerful in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' where he can combine the Kaio-Ken with his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form, going up to ''10X'', making him by far the strongest mortal in Universe 7. Goku moves so quickly when using this combo that he utterly {{No Sell}}s Hit's time stopping power, meaning he's literally shattering time]]. The drawback, [[spoiler: since Goku is still working on this technique, it has a 90% failure rate and can severely harm or even kill him]].
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** Given all the times Goku arrives late, is dead, or [[DeusExitMachina just not in the picture for whatever reason]], Toriyama seems to think he's a story-breaking character. He's one of the strongest, most dependable beings in the series, and later he can teleport instantly anywhere in the universe as long as he can sense energy. Many of the sagas would end early if Goku was around from the start, and the time he wasn't around ''once'' was enough to plunge Earth into a BadFuture. [[spoiler: He becomes even more powerful broken in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' where he can combine the Kaio-Ken with his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form, going up to ''10X'', making him by far the strongest mortal in Universe 7. Goku moves so quickly when using this combo that he utterly {{No Sell}}s Hit's time stopping power, meaning he's literally shattering time]]. The drawback, [[spoiler: since Goku is still working on this technique, it has a 90% failure rate and can severely harm or even kill him]].
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** Gohan can easily become the strongest mortal character in the entire universe, far surpassing his father and fellow hybrids, if he had a love for training and growing stronger. If Gohan had kept up his training during the seven year timeskip, he probably could have easily killed Fat Buu without any help. Also specific to Gohan is his Ultimate form, the state he gains after Old Kai unleashes all his hidden power. Gohan in his Ultimate state is stronger than both Super Saiyan 3 Goku and Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, and because his power is unlocked in his base form Gohan doesn't have the power drain issue that cripples the Super Saiyan 3 form. So he can fight at full power for a long time without losing any stamina, making it the best power-up in the series before the introduction of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
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** Gohan can easily become the strongest mortal character in the entire universe, far surpassing his father and fellow hybrids, if he had a love for training and growing stronger. If Gohan had kept up his training during the seven year timeskip, he probably could have easily killed Fat Buu without any help. Also specific to Gohan is his Ultimate form, the state he gains after Old Kai unleashes all his hidden power. Gohan in his Ultimate state is stronger than both Super Saiyan 3 Goku Gotenks and Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, Goku, and because his power is unlocked in his base form Gohan doesn't have the power drain issue that cripples the Super Saiyan 3 form. So he can fight at full power for a long time without losing any stamina, making it the best power-up in the series before the introduction of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
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** [[TimeMaster Guldo's Time Freeze]]. As long as he holds his breath, he stops time for the entire universe. With time stop, he can move around freely to escape fatal attacks or attack his opponents while they're defenseless. He's the only being in the series able to manipulate time to this level except for [[spoiler: Whis and Hit]]. This power is balanced by Guldo being completely out of shape and not being particularly strong. If someone who is truly powerful had this ability, they would be nearly unbeatable. If that wasn't enough, he has ''another'' technique, Mind Freeze. When he uses this, he paralyzes any opponent even if they're many times stronger than him. He uses this to nearly kill Gohan and Krillin, and would have succeeded if Vegeta didn't save them. The only known drawback is that this technique uses a lot of energy and Guldo only uses it when he's desperate.
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** [[TimeMaster Guldo's Time Freeze]]. As long as he holds his breath, he stops time for the entire universe. With time stop, he can move around freely to escape fatal attacks or attack his opponents while they're defenseless. He's the only being in the series able to manipulate time to this level except for [[spoiler: Whis and Hit]]. This power is balanced by Guldo being completely out of shape and not being particularly strong. If someone who is truly powerful had this ability, they would be nearly unbeatable. If that wasn't enough, he has ''another'' broken technique, Mind Freeze. When he uses this, he paralyzes any opponent even if they're many times stronger than him. He uses this to nearly kill Gohan and Krillin, and would have succeeded if Vegeta didn't save them. The only known drawback is that this technique uses a lot of energy and Guldo only uses it when he's desperate.
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** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not and can even go into other universes) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only seven named characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
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** Speaking of advanced broken techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not and can even go into other universes) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only seven a handful of named characters in the entire series and at least two of them are dead.
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** Buu's transformation ray can turn ''anyone'' into food or an object of Buu's desire, and is also unblockable. The only saving grace is that it can be dodged if a person is fast enough or expects it. However, one slip and you're dessert. This is on top of Buu being able to reform from a single molecule, and his absorption technique, [[TheAssimilator taking in any fighter and gaining their knowledge, techniques, and power]], though the latter can backfire and make him weaker if he absorbs the wrong type of person. Buu becomes even more powerful, after he learns how to teleport, destroying a planet, regenerating, teleporting to the next planet, and repeating, turning him into a galactic wrecking ball.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the Godly tier, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan is seriously powerful, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the Godly tier, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan is seriously powerful, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
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** Buu's transformation ray can turn ''anyone'' into food or an object of Buu's desire, and is also unblockable. The only saving grace is that it can be dodged if a person is fast enough or expects it.it, or blown back if there's a vast power difference. However, one slip and you're dessert. This is on top of Buu being able to reform from a single molecule, and his absorption technique, [[TheAssimilator taking in any fighter and gaining their knowledge, techniques, and power]], though the latter can backfire and make him weaker if he absorbs the wrong type of person. Buu becomes even more powerful, broken, after he learns how to teleport, destroying a planet, regenerating, teleporting to the next planet, and repeating, turning him into a galactic wrecking ball.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan1.1, at least in the anime. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the Godly tier, god forms, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyanis seriously powerful, was broken, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan
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** [[spoiler:Zamasu's counterpart from Future Trunks' timeline is immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even complains about how unfair this is]].
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Fusion Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Fusion Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
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** [[spoiler:Zamasu's counterpart from Future Trunks' timeline is an immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even complains about how unfair this is]].
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse intoFusion Merged Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into
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** [[spoiler: Zamasu eventually becomes an immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even complains about how unfair this is]].
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** [[spoiler: Zamasu eventually becomes an [[spoiler:Zamasu's counterpart from Future Trunks' timeline is immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even complains about how unfair this is]].is]].
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Fusion Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
** [[spoiler:Future Zamasu and Goku Black eventually fuse into Fusion Zamasu, combining the former's CompleteImmortality and the latter's Super Saiyan Rosé power. Naturally, he proclaims himself to be the supreme god.]]
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** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form. [[spoiler: By the very end of XY anime series Ash [[PutOnABus releases Greninja]] so it can protect Kalos alongside Squishy and Z2. Thus Greninja isn't likely to be recalled for future league battles.]]
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** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form. [[spoiler: By the very end of the XY anime series Ash [[PutOnABus releases Greninja]] so it can protect Kalos alongside Squishy and Z2. Thus Greninja isn't likely to be recalled for future league battles.]]
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** There are so many characters that are explicitly so powerful that, if they are put anywhere else, that story will probably end in moments. Accelerator can casually shatter continents and defeat opponents while sleeping. Vento of the Front can make you fall into a coma if you ever think even the slightest negative or confrontational thing about her anywhere in the universe that's undefendable except with a PowerNullifier or AntiMagic. And these are just the ''human'' characters that appear in the anime season 1 and 2, and the list increase exponetially (in both numbers and effectiveneess) as the novels go on.
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** There are so many characters that are explicitly so powerful that, if they are put anywhere else, that story will probably end in moments. Accelerator can casually shatter continents and defeat opponents while sleeping. Vento of the Front can make you fall into a coma if you ever think even the slightest negative or confrontational thing about her anywhere in the universe that's undefendable impossible to defend against except with a PowerNullifier or AntiMagic. And these are just the ''human'' characters that appear in the anime season 1 and 2, and the list increase exponetially exponentially (in both numbers and effectiveneess) effectiveness) as the novels go on.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' gives its protagonist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lelouch]] the Geass, a miraculous mind-control power... that he actually uses a lot less than his favored BatmanGambit and military strategy. To combat this, the show gives him a RestrainingBolt in the fact that the Geass can only be used once on any specific person, though there is no specific limit to [[FridgeLogic how complex, long, and detailed that one instruction is]], which means that a pre-planned use of the Geass could allow Lelouch to command the actions of a person's entire life over the course of several hours.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' gives its protagonist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lelouch]] the Geass, a miraculous mind-control power... that he actually uses a lot less than his favored BatmanGambit and military strategy. To combat this, the show gives him a RestrainingBolt in the fact that the Geass can only be used once on any specific person, though there is no specific limit to [[FridgeLogic how complex, long, and detailed that one instruction is]], is, which means that a pre-planned use of the Geass could allow Lelouch to command the actions of a person's entire life over the course of several hours. He also values free will and is TheFettered; once he loses his fetters, he starts ordering people "become my slave," which gives him unlimited control over them.
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* ''AquarionLogos'': The titular mecha has the power to erase entire concepts from reality and by extension anything associated with them. Add a wide arsenal of powers from the pilots and an InfinityPlusOneSword and you get its final form, the Aquarion Logos Genesis.
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* ''AquarionLogos'': ''Anime/AquarionLogos'': The titular mecha has the power to erase entire concepts from reality and by extension anything associated with them. Add a wide arsenal of powers from the pilots and an InfinityPlusOneSword and you get its final form, the Aquarion Logos Genesis.
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** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form.
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** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form. [[spoiler: By the very end of XY anime series Ash [[PutOnABus releases Greninja]] so it can protect Kalos alongside Squishy and Z2. Thus Greninja isn't likely to be recalled for future league battles.]]
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** Pain. There's a reason fans accuse him of being a GodModeSue: His Rinnegan gives him ridiculous amounts of chakra that rivals the Nine-Tails, a virtually unlimited number of summons, and the ability to use all five elements (in addition to another two), level entire cities, create miniature moons, read minds, rip souls from peoples' bodies, and revive the dead all while being in a '''wheelchair'''.
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** Pain. There's a reason fans accuse him of being a GodModeSue: His Rinnegan gives him ridiculous amounts of chakra that rivals the Nine-Tails, a virtually unlimited number of summons, and the ability to use all five elements (in addition to another two), level entire cities, create miniature moons, read minds, rip souls from peoples' bodies, and revive the dead all while being in a '''wheelchair'''.
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** Pain. There's a reason fans accuse him of being a GodModeSue: His Rinnegan gives him ridiculous amounts of chakra that rivals the Nine-Tails, a virtually unlimited number of summons, and the ability to use all five elements (in addition to another two), level entire cities, create miniature moons, read minds, rip souls from peoples' bodies, and revive the dead all while being in a '''wheelchair'''.
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* ''Manga/BokuNoHeroAcademia'': All for One's quirk is able to take, steal, mix, give, amplify and force others to use their quirks, virtually making him almost invincible besides the implications that he is also immortal, [[spoiler:on his first appearance to the heroes, after playing as the mastermind behind the curtains, he ends up being defeated by All Might and thrown into jail. This was though, part of a XanatosGambit for Shigaraki to become the BigBad]].
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** Seiko Kimura turns out to be one, though it's only found out in Side:Hope. Although she is a skilled fighter on her own, her real story breaking power was the fact that she was able to create "Antagonist" a drug capable of slowing down the poison injected by the NG Code for hours, enough for someone else come to the rescue and save the life of the victim of poison, rendering NG Codes useless on the game. She is killed after making the medicine, but before she could tell anyone about it, but it's enough to save Kirigiri's life.
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** Being a robot, [[spoiler:Miaya Gekkougahara]] was complete immune to the drugs and poisons given to the participants of the final killing game. This means that violating her Forbidden Action won't effect her, and she can stay active during the sleep cycles. That being said, once [[spoiler:Monaca]] relinquished control of her, she was quickly destroyed before Komaru, who briefly controlled the robot, or the auto-pilot robot itself was able to use this ability to their advantage.
** Izuru Kamakura is easily the most talented character in the entire series. However, due to his BystanderSyndrome, he rarely uses his full potential. When working with Junko, he mostly just observes her actions and rarely acts unless it's to defend himself. His biggest, intended, contribution to Junko's cause is when he gave Nagito a GameBreakingInjury, if only because Nagito's own StoryBreakerPower would have resulted in him killing Junko. Even when he decided to work against Junko, he still gave Junko a fighting chance to win just to see if her despair is more unpredictable than hope.
** Between his keen intelligence and overwhelming luck, Nagito was one of the few people that could have actually stopped Junko, in a story [[ForegoneConclusion that ultimately has to end]] with [[TheBadGuyWins Junko winning]]. In order to prevent Nagito from beating Junko, he was conveniently PutOnABus when she first arrived at Hope's Peak, and didn't return until Junko was near the final stages of her plans to cause the Tragedy. When he does face off against Junko, he ends up receiving a GameBreakingInjury from Izuru, who has an even greater StoryBreakerPower than Nagito. His injury ends up putting him out of commission during Class 77-B's attempt to save Chisa, a situation where his classmates needed his help the most.
** Ryouta Mitarai caries around a brainwashing video in his phone. Naturally this would handily diffuse almost any conflict he was faced with, so his [[DramaPreservingHandicap NG Code]] prevented him from using his Ultimate Animator talent, which in turn prevented him from brainwashing anyone. Once the NG Codes stop being a problem, he starts brainwashing people liberally.
** Being a robot, [[spoiler:Miaya Gekkougahara]] was complete immune to the drugs and poisons given to the participants of the final killing game. This means that violating her Forbidden Action won't effect her, and she can stay active during the sleep cycles. That being said, once [[spoiler:Monaca]] relinquished control of her, she was quickly destroyed before Komaru, who briefly controlled the robot, or the auto-pilot robot itself was able to use this ability to their advantage.
** Izuru Kamakura is easily the most talented character in the entire series. However, due to his BystanderSyndrome, he rarely uses his full potential. When working with Junko, he mostly just observes her actions and rarely acts unless it's to defend himself. His biggest, intended, contribution to Junko's cause is when he gave Nagito a GameBreakingInjury, if only because Nagito's own StoryBreakerPower would have resulted in him killing Junko. Even when he decided to work against Junko, he still gave Junko a fighting chance to win just to see if her despair is more unpredictable than hope.
** Between his keen intelligence and overwhelming luck, Nagito was one of the few people that could have actually stopped Junko, in a story [[ForegoneConclusion that ultimately has to end]] with [[TheBadGuyWins Junko winning]]. In order to prevent Nagito from beating Junko, he was conveniently PutOnABus when she first arrived at Hope's Peak, and didn't return until Junko was near the final stages of her plans to cause the Tragedy. When he does face off against Junko, he ends up receiving a GameBreakingInjury from Izuru, who has an even greater StoryBreakerPower than Nagito. His injury ends up putting him out of commission during Class 77-B's attempt to save Chisa, a situation where his classmates needed his help the most.
** Ryouta Mitarai caries around a brainwashing video in his phone. Naturally this would handily diffuse almost any conflict he was faced with, so his [[DramaPreservingHandicap NG Code]] prevented him from using his Ultimate Animator talent, which in turn prevented him from brainwashing anyone. Once the NG Codes stop being a problem, he starts brainwashing people liberally.
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** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only seven named characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
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** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) not and can even go into other universes) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only seven named characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
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* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[GodModeSue the very best]] in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
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* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[GodModeSue the very best]] best in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
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** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only four characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
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** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only four seven named characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
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* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Raizen is stated to have once been the most powerful demon in existence. His power was so great that the other Two Kings of Demon World could be easily defeated if he was currently in his prime. What is preventing Raizen from using this power? He's starving. Raizen's power comes from eating human flesh and he gave up the practice hundreds of years ago. Notably on his '''death bed''' Raizen still has S class demon power on par with Yusuke's current powers who as far as S class demons are concerned is a runt in the litter. Raizen is said by everyone who knew him in his prime as the most powerful demon that had ever lived and that his power was so great that his enemies would "piss their pants" if they saw him in action.
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* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Raizen is stated to have once been the most powerful demon in existence. His power was so great that the other Two Kings of Demon World could be easily defeated if he was currently in his prime. What is preventing Raizen from using this power? He's starving. Raizen's power comes from eating human flesh and he gave up the practice hundreds of years ago. Notably on his '''death bed''' Raizen still has S class demon power on par with Yusuke's current powers who as far as S class demons are concerned is a runt in the litter. Raizen is said by everyone who knew him in his prime as the most powerful demon that had ever lived and that his power was so great that his enemies would "piss their pants" if they saw him in action.action.
* [[BigBad Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is already by far the most powerful fighter in the series with a ridiculous HealingFactor, but when she dons her ultimate weapon Shinra-Koketsu, it truly becomes ridiculous. Shinra-Koketsu grants her the ability to completely subjugate Life Fibers, which means that '''nobody''' using Life Fibers to power themselves up can even lift a finger to harm Ragyo. And since the only real way to fight Life Fibers is more Life Fibers (nothing else packs the necessary power), Ragyo is basically invincible. The only saving grace is that [[spoiler:Fiber-human hybrids like Ryuko and Senketsu can resist it]], but even that is a moot point because Shinra-Koketsu '''cannot be harmed by Life Fibers at all''', which makes it completely immune to the Scissor Blade... it's to the point that it takes what some viewers considered a DeusExMachina to actually beat her.
* [[BigBad Kiryuin Ragyo]] from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is already by far the most powerful fighter in the series with a ridiculous HealingFactor, but when she dons her ultimate weapon Shinra-Koketsu, it truly becomes ridiculous. Shinra-Koketsu grants her the ability to completely subjugate Life Fibers, which means that '''nobody''' using Life Fibers to power themselves up can even lift a finger to harm Ragyo. And since the only real way to fight Life Fibers is more Life Fibers (nothing else packs the necessary power), Ragyo is basically invincible. The only saving grace is that [[spoiler:Fiber-human hybrids like Ryuko and Senketsu can resist it]], but even that is a moot point because Shinra-Koketsu '''cannot be harmed by Life Fibers at all''', which makes it completely immune to the Scissor Blade... it's to the point that it takes what some viewers considered a DeusExMachina to actually beat her.
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* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[ GodModeSue the very best]] in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
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* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[ GodModeSue [[GodModeSue the very best]] in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
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** [[spoiler: Zamasu eventually becomes an immortal, allowing him to survive any injury including being impaled and blasted by a Final Flash and a Kamehameha that disables Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku and Future Trunks. Goku even complains about how unfair this is]].
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** Another one from Part 4 is [[spoiler:Echoes ACT 3, which has enough power to go head to head with Kira and make him flee which is something that not even Star Platinum with the ability to stop time could do. [[PutOnABus Koichi also never really had many fights after that moment]]]].
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** Another one from Part 4 is [[spoiler:Echoes ACT 3, which has enough power to go head to head with Kira and make him flee which is something that not even Star Platinum with the ability to stop time could do. His ability is also to make anyone around him a sitting duck by making them fall due to their weight and could make body parts sink into concrete. [[PutOnABus Koichi also never really had many fights after that moment]]]].
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** Another one from Part 4 is [[spoiler:Echoes ACT 3, which has enough power to go head to head with Kira and make him flee which is something that not even Star Platinum with the ability to stop time could do. [[PutOnABus Koichi also never really had many fights after that moment]]]].
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** Also from Part 5 (that part sure has a lot of examples), Panacotta Fugo and his Stand, Purple Haze were so hard to write into interesting fights that he was PutOnABus after using his power just once. Purple Haze's fists have capsules containing a deadly flesh-eating virus which practically guarantees a gruesome death for whoever gets caught in its area of effect. This means that as soon as he gets his enemy in range, the fight is over, and a character who instantly wins as soon as he uses his power would be boring to watch, so he was written out of the story.
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** Also from Part 5 (that part sure has a lot of examples), Panacotta Fugo and his Stand, Purple Haze were so hard to write into interesting fights that he was PutOnABus after using his power just once. Purple Haze's fists have capsules containing a deadly flesh-eating virus which practically guarantees a gruesome death for whoever gets caught in its area of effect. This means that as soon as he gets his enemy in range, the fight is over, and a character who instantly wins as soon as he uses his power would be boring to watch, so he was written out of the story.
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* The Key Of The Twilight from ''Anime/DotHackSign'' is rumored for being this within the confines of The World. It is said it allows the user to contradict the rules of the system and basically do whatever the hell they feel like doing. The REAL Key of the Twilight is Aura. She herself can do this (As her daughter later demonstrates) and is more or less the world itself.
* ''Manga/AkameGaKill''
** Akame's [[PoisonedWeapon Murasame]] injects a lethal venom into the blood of whomever it cuts, killing them once it reached their heart. There's no known cure for it either. Naturally, most of her important fights are against enemies that can get around it in someway. The two most obvious weaknesses (poison doesn't work on machines or zombies) come up more than once, and of course enemies turn up that are very hard to hit in the first place.
** Mine's [[SniperRifle Pumpkin]] increases in power the more danger Mine is in, becoming a WaveMotionGun at its strongest level. The [[CriticalStatusBuff nature]] of Pumpkin means that moreso than any other Night Raid member, Mine can punch far above her weight.
** Chelsea's [[ShapeShifting Gaea Foundation]] allows her to take on the form of anything from a cat to another human being, voice and all. From what was shown, there doesn't seem to be any limitations on what Chelsea can transform into.
** Esdeath's [[AnIcePerson Demon's Extract]] can create ice from nothing, lots of ice. Because she can create ice without limitation, her powers can be used for all sorts of tasks. She can use ice to create bridges, give her a vantage spot, restrain or kill individuals, and flight, etc. Esdeath even took her power to another level by developing Mahapadma, an ability to freeze time within a certain area once a day. She later shows the ability to created entire armies of ice soldiers. Quite literally, the only things that limit the usage of her Teigu are both her own stamina and imagination.
** Zank the Beheader's Spectator, is among the most versatile Teigu in the story. It grants Zank ''five'' abilities (CombatClairvoyance, MasterOfIllusion, SuperSenses, {{Telepathy}}, XRayVision) that when properly used in conjunction allows him to fight on par with ''Akame''. In the hands of a much more experienced combatant, it would have made them invincible.
** Syura's [[{{Teleportation}} Shambhala]] can teleport himself or others to fixed locations. In the manga, Syura once mentioned he had a last resort plan to defeating his opponents by teleporting them in the middle of an active volcano. Naturally with such overpowering ability, [[spoiler:the story finds ways to prevent Syura from ever doing just that before his death and his teigu destroyed]].
* ''AquarionLogos'': The titular mecha has the power to erase entire concepts from reality and by extension anything associated with them. Add a wide arsenal of powers from the pilots and an InfinityPlusOneSword and you get its final form, the Aquarion Logos Genesis.
* In ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'', Alice Fujii has a DisabilitySuperpower that lets her [[SuperReflexes see things in slow motion]], learn [[InstantExpert loads of information amazingly fast]] and [[IndyPloy make up complex plans in instants]]. This is coupled with the Kumoito, a RazorFloss weapon that fires a mind-controlled knife that lets out thread traps over a large range. Sooner or later, she gets anyone AllWebbedUp to be garroted to death. And oh boy, Alice eats CrazyPrepared for breakfast and is MadeOfIron. It gets to the point Alice [[spoiler:no scopes a sniper sitting miles away from her, which causes her to lose the Kumoito for the rest of the story]].
* Claire Stanfield from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a story-breaking CharlesAtlasSuperpower - despite being ostensibly a [[BadassNormal normal human]], he's strong enough to take on anyone in the series (and a few in other series), including the resident [=demon/=]EldritchAbomination and a ''vampire''. WordOfGod is that he purposely didn't give Claire his own plotline because there's no one in the series who could possibly challenge him, which generally doesn't make for the most interesting story. He says he is tied for the third strongest character in TheVerse, only losing out to an EldritchAbomination that's a black hole and a character whose defining characteristic is being the strongest man ever.
* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'': Hanma Yuujiro, the strongest creature on Earth. Able to fight anyone and win, earthquakes and the USA included. Just by CharlesAtlasSuperpower, because [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours he fights so good]].
* ''Manga/BlackCat'' invokes this with Leon, a twelve-year old boy who can manipulate air. As Eve notes, Leon could kill any member of the cast that he wanted to, simply by dispersing the air around them. Luckily he's too young to think of this, and instead resorts to trying to blow Eve away, enabling her to defeat him.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Aizen's Shikai is complete control over the five senses. Once hypnotised by the Shikai, a person will always be so vulnerable to the illusions they won't even know they're ensnared. Since everyone of note in Soul Society has been hypnotised, it's impossible for them to beat him, even when working together. Ichigo only stood a chance because he had not been ensnared [[spoiler:and, by the time they fought, Aizen was so drunk on power that he willfully discarded his sword due to the belief he had gained even better Story Breaker Powers than ever]].
** Letzt Stil vastly inflated Uryuu Ishida's abilities to such a degree he was capable of one-shotting both a captain and his bankai at the same time. It gives him complete control over spiritual particles. In a world made entirely out of those, it can destroy the world itself to give him limitless power. The ability is temporary, though, burning out the Quincy who uses it, destroying their power forever. Uryuu later regains his power due to ParentExMachina [[spoiler:and eventually the story introduces a different variant of this technique called Vollständig, ''which can be used freely because it doesn't burn out the Quincy's power afterwards'']].
** Ichigo's Final Getsuga Tenshou easily defeated Aizen when Aizen was at his most powerful. [[spoiler:As with Uryuu's Letzt Stil, using this form was temporary and burned out Ichigo's powers quickly. Also like Uryuu, ParentExMachina ensures that he eventually does regain his powers.]]
** Orihime possesses a RealityWarper power that is an in-universe mystery. Characters have speculated that she can do anything if she believes she can and that she's never tapped into her full potential. She is exactly as strong as she believes she is, which is both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness. Her personality is her limitation. She's so gentle, pacifistic, kind and unassuming that she cannot harm others, not even enemies. Later [[BarrierWarrior combining]] her weak offensive powers with her defensive ones does make for a potent technique, however.
** Yamamoto's Shikai is capable of killing every person for many miles around and he has to erect barriers to protect humans living outside the battlefield before he'll use it. The only way to combat Yamamoto is to seal his power and then fight him physically. Even then, Yamamoto is so overpowering, he can thrash the enemy with his bare fists alone... and if that's not enough, his spiritual power is enormous as well. His Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, is ThePowerOfTheSun. Activating it will destroy the world ''by accident'' if switched on for too long.
** As the Quincy progenitor, Yhwach possesses all Quincy powers, as well as the [[GreenLanternRing ability]] to give people power by lending them pieces of his soul. He can call back the soul shards at will, depriving the recipient of their power and life, to increase his strength. In battle, Quincies unknowingly infect their opponents with his soul shards, allowing Yhwach to steal life and power from both Quincies and their enemies. He can use this power recall to resurrect fallen Quincies, literally choosing who lives and dies at any moment. [[spoiler:Once he understands someone's power, his Schrift ability kicks in, allowing him to see into that person's future, allowing him to develop counters before their techniques have even been used.]] It's not for nothing that his Sternritter title is "The Almighty".
*** Recently, it's been revealed that the true power of the Almighty is the power to [[spoiler:change the entire future. It isn't really well defined, but he's used it to instantly break Ichigo's bankai and set up traps in all the places Ichigo steps.]]
** If not for Yhwach's even greater power countering him, Ichibē Hyōsube of the Royal Guard would've been this. He has the ability to [[IKnowYourTrueName inherently know the true name of everything]], in a universe where names and power are one and the same, and are actually crucial. And his ultimate ability is to seal away and alter names, changing or eliminating people's powers and very identity in any way he sees fit. [[spoiler:Against Yhwach, he erased his name to take away his powers and memory, then gave him the name of an insect so that he could be effortlessly squashed. Against absolutely anyone else, this would've been an unbeatable attack, and even Yhwach could've been killed by it...if his own "The Almighty" power hadn't kicked in first to preemptively counter Ichibē.]]
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** There are so many characters that are explicitly so powerful that, if they are put anywhere else, that story will probably end in moments. Accelerator can casually shatter continents and defeat opponents while sleeping. Vento of the Front can make you fall into a coma if you ever think even the slightest negative or confrontational thing about her anywhere in the universe that's undefendable except with a PowerNullifier or AntiMagic. And these are just the ''human'' characters that appear in the anime season 1 and 2, and the list increase exponetially (in both numbers and effectiveneess) as the novels go on.
** Even counting all of the magical human characters, almost nobody can really top [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the angels]] on the power scale, which have the capability to utterly annihilate all life on Earth within minutes, and that's nowhere near their full strength. Fortunately, angels are not particularly hostile: the two times one has been fought, it was being compelled to fight against its will. The only human character (not counting the AmbiguouslyHuman ones) that can take them on is [[spoiler:[[BigBad Fiamma of the Right]]]].
** Taken UpToEleven in the second half of the series, ''New Testament''. It introduces a character ([[spoiler:One-Eyed Othinus]]) that can [[spoiler:destroy and create universes at will]]. And she is the BigBad. The only reason why there is even a plot is because there are people who could do similar things and they [[spoiler:either lets her be (Aleister Crowley) or are using her (the True Gremlin group)]].
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' gives its protagonist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lelouch]] the Geass, a miraculous mind-control power... that he actually uses a lot less than his favored BatmanGambit and military strategy. To combat this, the show gives him a RestrainingBolt in the fact that the Geass can only be used once on any specific person, though there is no specific limit to [[FridgeLogic how complex, long, and detailed that one instruction is]], which means that a pre-planned use of the Geass could allow Lelouch to command the actions of a person's entire life over the course of several hours.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Angemon, and later MagnaAngemon]], both seem to be on par with Digimon one level above their own. Patamon first digivolved to Angemon in order to defeat Devimon (the first BigBad). Much later when all of the Digimon evolved to their highest-level forms in order to face Myotismon (Ultimate for all 7 others), it was Angemon's attack that destroyed Phantomon, one of Myotismon's most powerful subordinates at the Ultimate level, and his attack had a debilitating effect on Myotismon himself whereas no-one else could touch him until Angewomon came along. Angemon finally gets to Digivolve to Ultimate just before the end of the show, and does the majority of the work in defeating Piedmon, a Mega-level digimon that had already beaten the combined might of [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] ''twice''. This is explained by Angemon, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin being an angel]], being naturally strong against evil Digimon, while being no more powerful than another of his level against anything else. Angemon then spent most of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]].
*** Omnimon, introduced in the movie ''Our War Game'' immediately leapt to being the most powerful Digimon in the anime at the time and remains one of the top 5 strongest Digimon in the animated franchise (his exact spot on the list is debatable, as his opening feat remains probably the most extreme examples of power in the series. The other top class digimon appeared in 1 v 1 battles). In his first appearence he faces off against at least 16,000 (upped to a million in the dub) Mega-level digimon, each one more powerful than either [=WarGreymon=] or [=MetalGarurumon=] individually, and ''annihilates'' them. In his first move he reflects hundreds of attacks back on them and at no point appears to even try. The only reason the final copy (changed to be the original in the dub) lasted as long as it did was that with room to move, it could actually flee in abject terror. Like Angemon, Omnimon was severely nerfed in his 02 appearance. The nerfing was spectacularly undone in "Digimon Adventure Tri" when he goes up against Alphamon, a digimon with powers equal to his own in ''Our War Game''. After literally ignoring everything thrown at him (including [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=]) he takes one look at Omnimon and powers up to his strongest form. The shockwaves from their first connection leveled the surrounding buildings, and Omnimon goes on to gain the upper hand before Alphamon's tactical retreat.
** In ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', Arkadimon is pretty much the most powerful Digimon period. It can damage a Mega-level digimon ''at the in-training stage.'' Not just any Mega, but the above-mentioned Piedmon (to be fair he was already injured but that is a five level difference for a monster that still had five more levels to evolve to!).
*** The protagonist's very own partner, Zeromaru. As pointed out, it's usually more than just his uncanny strength that gets him by in fights (since many of his opponents are higher leveled) but when he reaches his Mega stage... [[spoiler:he unlocks the Ulforce, a HealingFactor so strong that he can recover from [[OneHitKO instant death attacks!]] Even [[BigBad Daemon]] had to negate it before he started whooping ass.]]
** Taiki Kudo and Shoutmon serve as an in-story example in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''. As the legendary general and the Digimon King respectively who saved the world in the preceding ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', the Watch Man is understandably concerned that his very presence will destabilise the balance of the Digimon-hunting game. So far, he's being proven ''very'' correct - Taiki and Shoutmon have spent most of the series so far effortlessly curbstomping everything that Tagiru and Yuu have trouble handling.
** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' itself has Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode. [[spoiler:He digixrosses with Thousands, if not, ''millions'', of digimon that appeared in the entire digital world, and one shots the big bad with it in one slash.]] Consequently, it has NEVER appeared again since.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** Given all the times Goku arrives late, is dead, or [[DeusExitMachina just not in the picture for whatever reason]], Toriyama seems to think he's a story-breaking character. He's one of the strongest, most dependable beings in the series, and later he can teleport instantly anywhere in the universe as long as he can sense energy. Many of the sagas would end early if Goku was around from the start, and the time he wasn't around ''once'' was enough to plunge Earth into a BadFuture. [[spoiler: He becomes even more powerful in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' where he can combine the Kaio-Ken with his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form, going up to ''10X'', making him by far the strongest mortal in Universe 7. Goku moves so quickly when using this combo that he utterly {{No Sell}}s Hit's time stopping power, meaning he's literally shattering time]]. The drawback, [[spoiler: since Goku is still working on this technique, it has a 90% failure rate and can severely harm or even kill him]].
** The one-shot villain from the first story arc Boss Rabbit. He has the ability to turn ''anyone'' who touches him into a carrot. Touch this guy in anyway and you're product. Thankfully, he's a weakling who gives up just by being hit by Goku's Power Pole and is never seen again since he can easily take out people who don't know about his powers.
** The devil Akkuman emits waves that amplify every evil or impure thought, causing even saintly people to ''explode from within''. He was defeated only because Goku has [[IncorruptiblePurePureness a totally pure heart]] and could not be affected. Unsurprisingly, he never appeared again after the story arc featuring him.[[note]]He did, however, appear in one DBZ fighting game where he retains the attack; while normally very weak, the attack does MASSIVE damage to evil characters, turning him into a LethalJokeCharacter who even gets a What-If story where he ends being the one to stop Freeza and King Cold by exploiting the move.[[/note]
** Garlic Jr, from the {{Filler}} and {{Non Serial Movie}}s, has CompleteImmortality. Both times he's popped up, he had to have [[WhatAnIdiot a sudden bout of stupidity]] and open a portal to an inescapable pocket dimension to finish off the protagonists, even though he could beat every single character in the series [[GradualGrinder simply by virtue of attrition.]] Both times, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the protagonists promptly shoved him into his own portal,]] because there simply wasn't any other way to get rid of him.
** Gohan can easily become the strongest mortal character in the entire universe, far surpassing his father and fellow hybrids, if he had a love for training and growing stronger. If Gohan had kept up his training during the seven year timeskip, he probably could have easily killed Fat Buu without any help. Also specific to Gohan is his Ultimate form, the state he gains after Old Kai unleashes all his hidden power. Gohan in his Ultimate state is stronger than both Super Saiyan 3 Goku and Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, and because his power is unlocked in his base form Gohan doesn't have the power drain issue that cripples the Super Saiyan 3 form. So he can fight at full power for a long time without losing any stamina, making it the best power-up in the series before the introduction of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
** Several characters by the start of the Saiyan Saga have the ability to use [[BlindedByTheLight Solar Flare]] (temporarily blinds any enemy with eyes, effective against even much more powerful opponents) and [[DeadlyDisc Destructo Disc]] (unblockable, cut-anything attack; can't be blocked, but can be dodged), but they never think to use them together. However, after Freeza, it becomes a moot point because the main villains can all [[FromASingleCell regenerate]].
** [[TimeMaster Guldo's Time Freeze]]. As long as he holds his breath, he stops time for the entire universe. With time stop, he can move around freely to escape fatal attacks or attack his opponents while they're defenseless. He's the only being in the series able to manipulate time to this level except for [[spoiler: Whis and Hit]]. This power is balanced by Guldo being completely out of shape and not being particularly strong. If someone who is truly powerful had this ability, they would be nearly unbeatable. If that wasn't enough, he has ''another'' technique, Mind Freeze. When he uses this, he paralyzes any opponent even if they're many times stronger than him. He uses this to nearly kill Gohan and Krillin, and would have succeeded if Vegeta didn't save them. The only known drawback is that this technique uses a lot of energy and Guldo only uses it when he's desperate.
** Captain Ginyu's body switch technique. As far as we know, it's unblockable and paralyzes the person in place. The only thing that can stop it is another living creature getting between the beam and its intended victim. If Ginyu wanted to, [[HijackingCthulhu he could probably body jack Frieza]].
** Surprisingly, Frieza. The monster Goku and the others fought on Namek was ''naturally'' that powerful. Without training a day in his life, Frieza was the most powerful mortal in the universe. When he did trained, he surpasses Goku in pure power after he ascends past godhood in just ''four months''. His biggest failing is that he didn't bother to master his GoldenSuperMode, causing his stamina to tank after only a short time of fighting. He truly would have been unbeatable on Namek if he had Goku's work ethic. There is also Frieza's species extreme survivability. He can survive in a vacuum and even live if he's chopped to pieces. This rigs many battles in his favour since, while any fighter stronger than Namek Saga Frieza can survive a planetary explosion, only a select few can survive in outer space. [[spoiler: He actually kills Vegeta this way after the latter had him completely beat, but Whis reverses time on him.]]
** The regular Super Saiyan transformation itself. After defeating Frieza and his immediate family, there are no more naturally occurring individuals in the universe that are powerful enough to even threaten the Super Saiyans. This is why the only serious threats afterwards had to be machines with infinite power sources, a biological android made from [[LEGOGenetics the DNA of Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, and Frieza]], an EldritchAbomination created by absorbing all the evil in the universe, the {{Top God}}s of the Kais, and the God of Destruction.
** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only four characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
** Cell can survive in any environment or with any injury due to having Frieza's cells, regenerate endlessly FromASingleCell thanks to inheriting the Namekian regeneration ability, and can grows stronger after suffering severe damage like a Saiyan. Under the right conditions, he could possibly surpass every being ever depicted in the series. Which is why he needed to go after surviving his own self-destruction.
** Dabura's SuperSpit that can turn anyone hit by it into [[TakenForGranite stone]], regardless of power. If you're not expecting it, you're almost guaranteed to be a lawn statue. Once hit, you are for all intents and purposes dead and the spell can only be reversed with Dabura's death. Thankfully, spit tends to be slow (by the standards of a series where everyone who's anyone has SuperSpeed), making it somewhat easy to dodge and if the spit hits clothing, it can be removed without harm.
** Buu's transformation ray can turn ''anyone'' into food or an object of Buu's desire, and is also unblockable. The only saving grace is that it can be dodged if a person is fast enough or expects it. However, one slip and you're dessert. This is on top of Buu being able to reform from a single molecule, and his absorption technique, [[TheAssimilator taking in any fighter and gaining their knowledge, techniques, and power]], though the latter can backfire and make him weaker if he absorbs the wrong type of person. Buu becomes even more powerful, after he learns how to teleport, destroying a planet, regenerating, teleporting to the next planet, and repeating, turning him into a galactic wrecking ball.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the Godly tier, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan is seriously powerful, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
** Beerus, the God of Destruction from the ''Battle of the Gods'' movie, shames all of the above in terms of raw power. Not only he can destroy entire galaxies and curb-stomp Super Saiyan 3 ''Goku'' with a finger, he can also fight one-on-one with Super Saiyan God Goku (whose sheer power threatens the universe), while holding back roughly one-third of his power.
** Forget Goku, Gohan, Vegito, and Beerus, [[spoiler:the real story-breaking character is Whis]]. Toriyama put his power as a '''15''' on a 1 to 10 scale, beating the God of Destruction himself who ''only'' scores a 10. [[spoiler:He also has the ability to rewind time by three minutes so he can undo the mistakes of himself or others ''and'' he is a RealityWarper]]. We then find out that [[spoiler: Whis]] has a older sister who may be ''stronger'' than him and has almost the same power set.
** Botamo can transfer damage he would've taken to another dimension, negating all the damage. This unique damage absorption ability can even keep him safe from Saiyan Beyond God Goku's Kamehameha. If Botamo was in a regular fight, he would certainly beat most opponents simply by wearing down their stamina before finishing them off. Lucky for Goku, Botamo was in a tournament with ring out rules, allowing Goku to defeat him without showing any of his real strength.
** Frost has the same potential and extreme survivability as Frieza since they come from similar clans, and while he lacks an ultimate form he already is stronger than the tyrant in the same respective forms. [[spoiler: He also has a hidden poison needle that can affect fighters even stronger than himself.]]
** [[spoiler: Hit is a TimeMaster similar to Guldo who can freeze time for everyone except himself. He can only do it for 0.1 seconds, but since Hit has SuperSpeed on top of his ability, he can mortally wound an opponent before they even have the chance to move. Also, unlike Guldo, he can use his ability as many times as he wants since it seems to take no stamina. He uses this technique to decimates Vegeta in his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form. Vegeta never even lands a blow on him. Even scarier, he manages to ''improve'' it, taking his Time-Leaping power from 0.1 to 0.5, and it ''keeps'' increasing]].
** Zen-O is not a fighter according to Beerus, but he's by far the most powerful being in all the Dragon World, bar none. He can wipe out anything. Evil people, planets, galaxies, even universes. [[spoiler: Whis says that there was once 18 Universes. Zen-O destroyed 6 of them when he was angry]].
* Lucy becomes this by the end of the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' manga. Her vectors become so strong that she can [[spoiler:single-handedly combat an entire army with little apparent effort]]. Partially subverted in that [[spoiler:she was unable to sustain that level of power for long, and ignoring her limitations caused her to [[TooPowerfulToLive turn to mush]].]]
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has the eponymous Hokuto Shinken. Every move it has is essesentially a fight ender, and it has a technique for everything. [[CrazyPrepared Everything]]. Kenshiro is ''very'' rarely ever really challenged, and his fights tend to end after he gets his first hit in. Only a selective few ever give him a true challenge, or even last for more than a couple of chapters, once they seriously begin fighting.
* Roy Mustang from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a perfect example of StockSuperpowers taken UpToEleven. His power is just stock [[PlayingWithFire elemental fire]] but he uses it to singlehandedly kill 2 near immortal homunculi and he's the only alchemist [[TheDragon Pride]] is worried about. [[spoiler:He's given a DramaPreservingHandicap in the finale and still kicks his fair share of ass.]]
* Fans often describe Yuki from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' as the strongest character ever made. Although this is probably an exaggeration, she does demonstrate NighInvulnerability, SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and RealityWarper powers. Her crowning achievement would be [[spoiler:''hijacking Haruhi's full power'' to retroactively depower everyone and rewrite the universe to her liking]]. Her job is only to observe, however, so her overt actions are limited.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':
** In a world where everybody is extremely powerful, we have Ophis, a dragon who is also known as [[RedBaron The Infinite One]]. She's fully capable of wiping out ''anybody'' in this series, and {{No Sell}}ing the strongest weapon in existence. She has a few quirks of her own such as not really being interested in any fighting as long as someone can kick out Great Red from the Dimensional Boundary so she can "attain silence". [[spoiler:Then when she joins the protagonists group, she gets hit with the {{Nerf}} stick twice; first from [[AchillesHeel Samael the dragon eater]], and by using up half of her already reduced powers to create a body suitable for Issei seeing as he died trying to save her.]]
** Great Red, ''the strongest character'' of the series bar none, [[spoiler:capable of wiping out a gigantic monster ''who has an instant regeneration power'', something that ultimate devils even have a hard time ''scratching''. [[ATasteOfPower Issei's combined form with Great Red]] was specifically stated by the author as a one-time form only]]. Fortunately, he prefers chilling in the Dimensional Boundary.
** Sun Wukong, who's just as powerful here as he is in the original story. To clarify, he stopped [[spoiler: True Longinus]], the single most powerful weapon in the entire series, ''with one finger!''
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Bakusaiga was introduced towards the end of the story just before the FinalBattle, and was said that the BigBad didn't stand a chance against it, since it's capable of killing anything that merely comes into contact with anything it's cut and it can kill ''thousands'' with a single swing. As a result, the BigBad immediately steals the sword owner's MoralityPet and traps her inside his body for most of the rest of the story. When Sesshoumaru does finally rescue Rin and use the sword, Naraku's body starts being destroyed.
** Miroku's [[PowerOfTheVoid Wind]] [[PowerPalms Tunnel]], what amounts to his own personal black hole in his hand, which he can use to suck any foe into oblivion. As a result, Naraku constantly manages to find a way to stop him from using it, such as [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere the Saimyosho]], whose poison spreads to Miroku should he suck them in.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Superior abilities abound. The main reason is because Creator/HirohikoAraki explores the [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower logical implications]] of various abilities, so powers that should be story-breaking ([[NighInvulnerability invulnerability]], [[OneHitKill disintegration]], [[TimeStandsStill almost]] [[SuperSpeed anything]] [[TrickedOutTime time-related]]) are treated as such.
** The first example is Cars, the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Pillar Men]] leader from Part 2, who had achieved CompleteImmortality via the Red Stone of Aja. His abilities includes an AdaptiveAbility cranked UpToEleven, an immunity to Hamon due to being capable of using it UpToEleven in power and finally an immunity to sunlight. This made Cars nearly invincible and is established that only sunlight and Hamon could kill vampires. The nearly part comes from two facts, one [[spoiler:Joseph had to fire him out of the Earth via volcano into space, where he eventually stops thinking from the isolation of being unable to do anything]] and second the Stand powers, specified below.
** From Part 3, Dio Brando's Stand The World can [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]]. The only reason the Jotaro and the survivors are able to triumph is because [[spoiler:Star Platinum has the same power.]]
** Vanilla Ice's Stand can create dimensional voids by literally eating itself, and whoever is hiding inside it. While inside his void sphere, Vanilla Ice is invulnerable to pretty much any attack, and can disintegrate enemies by merely coming in contact with them, and is literally invisible! Its only flaw is that the invisibility realistically prevents himself from seeing as well, so the only way he can adjust his aim to a target is to expose himself momentarily.
** From Part 4, [[AuthorAvatar Rohan Kishibe]] has Heaven's Door. Any person who sees an image of the Stand (which Rohan can simply draw in the air with his finger) has their body unravel into pages containing their memories and characteristics written on them, which Rohan can read and rip out. If incapacitating people by turning them into paper wasn't enough, Rohan can also write in the margins of these pages to give the targets fake memories, new characteristics (such as "I can speak fluent Italian") and rules that they are unable to break (such as "I cannot attack Rohan Kishibe). He can also write on his own body to modify himself to any extent that he pleases. The only thing stopping Rohan from simply writing "I am invincible and I will never lose at anything" on himself is his Pride as a Mangaka, and belief that if he used his Stand that way, it would... well, [[ShapedLikeItself break the story.]]
** From Part 5, Notorious B.I.G., [[spoiler:a psychic manifestation of a dead man, which takes the form of a blob that relentlessly consumes ''any'' matter, and has infinite durability, range and speed]]. The only reason it failed to wipe out the good-hearted members of Passione was because one of them had an ability almost ideal to counter it (to an extent), and they managed to make excellent use of their surroundings. Even then, Giorno and the others never truly defeated it...
** Giorno Giovanna, the hero of Part 5, may very well be the strongest individual in his reality, and that says ''a lot''. [[spoiler:In the final battle against the [[BigBad final enemy, Diavolo]], his Stand, Gold Experience is shot by the Requiem Arrow, becoming Gold Experience Requiem. and gains the ability to more or less ''nullify any and all actions an opponent takes'', even ones he cannot himself see. In addition, if said opponent is actually hit by the Stand, the victim is doomed to experience death for all eternity.]] Needless, to say it's fortunate that this only occurred at the very end of the part.
** From Part 6, [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]] started out as simply clever and dangerous, whose Stand, [[PowersAsPrograms Whitesnake]], was versatile but lacking in a [[{{Pun}} stand]]-up fight. Then he made it [[DiscardAndDraw evolve into]] [[GravityMaster C-Moon]], which had less flexibility but a lot more power. [[spoiler:Then, just as the heroes figured out C-Moon and had him on the ropes, he evolves it again. Cue [[TimeMaster Made in Heaven]], whose power over time allowed him rip most of the heroes to shreds and ''remake the universe.'' He does, but still falls to the [[FinalGirl final boy]] Emporio Alnino, and even then it is mainly because of his arrogance.]]
** Funny Valentine, the BigBad of Part 7, is dominant in his own way. [[spoiler:His Stand, D4C, accesses [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]], with which he could use WeaponizedTeleportation, trapping people in them, where [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet if alternate selves touched each other, they would simultaneously disintegrate]] (an effect Valentine himself was conveniently immune to), [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap transfer his consciousness to alternate selves if his current body was killed]], [[WeHaveReserves summon aforementioned alternate selves to]] [[MesACrowd his universe to assist him]] and, with the help of another, [[KarmaHoudini redirect all "misfortune" targeting him to hit another random stranger on the opposite side of the planet]].]]
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'':
** The Ten-Year Bazooka has the ability to swap you with a version of oneself from 10 years in the future for 5 minutes. Before the GenreShift. it was just a gag weapon used by a hell raising 5-year-old to become a teenager, but afterwards the implications of its use in a FightingSeries were discovered. Difficult fights could be won by replacing weaker ones for stronger versions of themselves in the heat of battle and as shown during the events regarding the Varia, one can be shot by the weapon more than once to summon older and older versions of themselves as long as they were still in the 5 minute limit.
** where TimeTravel is as easy as getting yourself shot by a bazooka, Byakuran's ability is to [[spoiler:sync with all his selves in different {{Alternate Universe}}s, with at least ''8 tetratrillion'' worlds where he successfully takes over]]. Later, a potential weakpoint of his was revealed: none of [[spoiler:his alternate selves encountered the Vongola Boxes]], leaving him unaware of their powers, and killing him in one timeline kills him in all of them.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Reinforce Eins, [[AllYourPowersCombined who could use any spell known to a mage whose linker core had been drained with the Book of Darkness]], except that her versions of the copied spells were ''far'' more powerful than the originals. She was also able to completely negate ''simultaneous'' high-level bombardment spells from Nanoha and Fate, and even when Nanoha did manage to penetrate her shields [[NighInvulnerability she didn't take any visible damage]]. So naturally, she was TooPowerfulToLive after her HeelFaceTurn, because none of the other enemies would have posed any threat to her.
** By ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', the main characters (who were already [[PersonOfMassDestruction People of Mass Destruction]] to start with) became obscenely powerful after the TimeSkip and had to have their powers weakened by the use of {{Power Limiter}}s and extensive use of AntiMagic fields. The ''[[Audioplay/StrikerSSoundStageX SSX Sound Stage]]'' and the ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid ViVid]]'' manga solved this issue by completely switching focus to follow the new, weaker targets, but ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'' went the opposite direction by introducing villains with the ''even more'' convenient power of ''complete immunity to all magic'', forcing the characters to essentially ditch their old powersets in favor of new weapons of [[FlawedPrototype questionable reliability]].
** The protagonist of ''Force'', Tohma. He starts out rather basic for this series, but then [[spoiler:he becomes fully infected and is turned into a Zero Divider, [[CursedWithAwesome a person who can cause everyone around him to fall unconscious and possibly die, doing so completely subconsciously.]].]]
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Jack Rakan is referred to as a "real-life broken video game character" in canon. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Through skill alone]] he tosses around skyscraper-sized swords with ease, copies physics-defying sword techniques with a glance, and destroys pocket dimensions by ''flexing'', explicitly defying the laws of magic with [[BoisterousBruiser sheer]] [[CrazyAwesome awesomeness]].
** Thousand Master Nagi is established to somehow be even ''worse'', though the effect is mitigated by his reliance on a cheatsheet to cast spells and his greatest feats [[SecondHandStorytelling taking place off-camera]]. His "power"? Being invincible.
** Fate also has a game-breaking ability: [[spoiler:access to the power of the mage who created the Magic World, effectively making him a RealityWarper as long as he remains there.]]
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Evangeline AK McDowell]], whose implied power level is so high that Fate ran away from her, stating that he would be at a disadvantage fighting against her. And when she loses any fight, most of the time it's suggested that [[ILetYouWin she wanted to lose]].
** Negi had his own Pactio card for a short while, which [[AllYourPowersCombined gave him access to every single one of his harem's pactio cards for his own use, and their additional powers]]. He only used it [[spoiler:to fight Rakan, and even then, it took a ridiculous amount of additional planning to just scrape a de-facto draw]]; after that, he had it cancelled immediately.
** The Lifemaker, who goes beyond mere RealityWarper to RealityMaker: [[spoiler:within the realm of the Magical World, he's practically omnipotent (logical enough, since he created said Magical World). He's vulnerable to "real" mages, from the physical world, but even compared with them he's tremendously strong.]]
* TheHero of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha'' is this in a nutshell. If he ever got in a fight, ''any fight'', he's guaranteed to win. The only thing that's stopping him is that he's not trying to cause a war, but instead have world peace by working alongside Demon Queen.[[spoiler: He is however vulnerable to an entire rifle using army firing enchanted bullets at him.]]
* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' has the BigBad [[spoiler: All For One]], whose power is to literally steal anyone's quirk. Among that, there are the side effects of stocking all quirks he ever stole, being able to use various at the same time to enhance their effects, including if he has more than one of the same quirk, forcing someone else to activate their quirks and using the sreal itself as a form of attack, as it seems to make people fell in a state similar to a coma.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Itachi Uchiha. His genjutsu was so powerful he could MindControl others without making eye contact with them. An exaggerated portion of the anime is spent detailing how the main character learned how to counter this kind of technique, only for it to be revealed that Itachi's version can't be countered the normal way. And that's before he brings out his [[PowerArmour trump card]] which just ''happens'' to be equipped with a shield that can counter almost any attack, ''and'' a sword which can trap the victim in a world of eternal drunken dreams!
** Madara Uchiha. His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan gives him access to the most convenient abilities in the series, and this at some point evolved into the Rinnegan, THE most powerful and exalted eye power in the shinobi world, allowing him to resist a [[OneHitKill Rasenshuriken]]. His fire-based jutsu, an element notorious for being ineffective, would have killed many shinobi had it not been for a number of skilled Water users, including a Kage. He can summon meteors, and if the first one fails, he can summon another to crash into another one, killing many people, and they question whether it can even be compared to ninjutsu, and Gaara believed it to be a power comparable to a god's. He can also use Wood Release, an element that Uchiha shouldn't be able to use (due to stealing the 1st Hokage's DNA). Oh, and let's not forget that [[spoiler:he's an immortal zombie with unlimited chakra that will regenerate from any damage done to him. And he hijacked the resurrection jutsu controlling him, meaning no one can control him anymore]]. Then he was [[spoiler:truly resurrected in a living body and become the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki.]]
** The Sage of the Six Paths. Not ONLY did he CREATE the techniques that descended to the series's present day, he also saved the world from the original EldritchAbomination and split the beast in half, creating nine beasts that threatened the world on their own. With his own power, the Sage also created Earth's moon as a prison for the original beast's corpse. On his deathbed.
** [[spoiler:Obito, as host of the Ten-Tails,]] has a working facsimile of the Sage of the Six Paths' powers, and has shown the ability to negate aforementioned [[spoiler:zombie regeneration]], fire Tailed Beast Bombs and erect impassable barriers, as well as use a new element that is as malleable as the Kazekage's sand (although in a more fluid and highly cohesive fashion) and is as destructive as the Tsuchikage's Dust Release or beyond it (essentially meaning liquid black holes that violate the Law of Conservation by erasing all matter not protected by natural energy); [[spoiler:Naruto's Sage Mode]] is just about the only thing shown to be capable of hurting him, but his regeneration is on par with Tsunade's.
** Kaguya [[spoiler:ate the forbidden fruit of the Shinju which gave her godlike powers]]. She was singlehandedly able to end wars and destroy opposition, so much so that she was worshiped as a goddess. When we see her fight [[spoiler:she is virtually indestructible, with the only thing that can truly stop her being a sealing justsu her sons created to stop her.]]
* Eva Unit-01 from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which effectively becomes a [[GodModeSue particularly power unit]] after [[AppendageAssimilation absorbing Zeruel's S2 Engine]]. She's kept in stasis or on standby for most of the remaining episodes, and Shinji spends much of ''End of Evangelion'' [[HeroicBSOD too distraught]] to pilot her. The same holds true in the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie, where Eva Unit-01 [[spoiler:is used to power Misato's CoolAirship, while Shinji is forced to pilot Eva Unit-13 as a replacement]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Whitebeard [[spoiler:can cause tsunamis with his Earthquake causing devil fruit, in a world consisting almost entirely of small islands]]. Specifically referred to in-universe as the power that can destroy the world. No wonder he's been in the background so much.
** The Logia fruits as a whole have the potential to be this, as one characteristic that almost all of them share is the ability to allow their user to become the element on which they are based, albeit with the element's weaknesses (for example, Crocodile, the user of the Sand Sand fruit, cannot turn into sand if he is wet), thus rendering them virtually immune to physical attacks. Eneru can turn into electricity, and would've just effortlessly steamrolled over everyone in the Skypeia arc if Luffy's powers [[ContrivedCoincidence didn't just happen to make him a living insulator.]] While Blackbeard's Devil Fruit lacks that ability, it has the ability to cancel all other Devil Fruit powers if it hits the target. [[spoiler: He also has access to a (currently unknown) method to give himself a secondary Devil Fruit power (something that would normally kill the user,) which he uses to steal Whitebeard's power after his death.]]
*** Eneru in particular was so ridiculously powerful that the story had to let him [[TheBadGuyWins get away with his master plan to travel to the moon]] just so he could be PutOnABus (though fortunately his secondary goal to destroy Skypeia on his way out was ultimately foiled.)
*** This is deconstructed a bit after the TimeSkip. As it turns out the most powerful characters, including many of those who reside in the [[DeathWorld New World]], have access to KiAttacks that can bypass the NighInvulnerability that Logia fruits grant. One New World-based character even states that Logia users tend to not last long in the New World, since they're so used to their powers being an example of this trope that they tend to find out the hard way that they aren't anymore. True to that, three villainous characters with Logia powers have been introduced since the TimeSkip, every one of them [[CurbstompBattle taken down with very little effort.]]
** Apart from being a Pacifista with FrickinLaserBeams, NighInvulnerability and SuperStrength, Kuma can use his Devil Fruit power to essentially teleport anything anywhere he wants to by 'pushing' whatever he touches. He can defeat absolutely anyone in a single hit by teleporting a fruit user into, say, [[SuperDrowningSkills the ocean]] or anyone else into an active volcano. He can also "push" things that aren't even physical, like pushing the fatigue out of somebody and into somebody else, and pushed the pain out of Luffy's wounds. [[spoiler:Luckily, he seems to be a mostly decent fellow, or at least to have no pressing reason to kill the Straw Hat crew, considering he beat them all at once easily. He also was once on the Revolutionary Army's side, and thus willing to help Dragon's son, but now that he's been roboticized, he is now the Straw Hats' enemy.]]
** Sugar, who serves Doflomingo, has the Hobby-Hobby power. She can turn anything she touches into a toy. From great big animals, to people, to giants, there seems little she can't turn into a toy with a single touch of her body, though she has to touch you. A person restraining her won't be affected. And once a toy, she can place a {{geas}} on the person to make them loyal to the crew, so the toy cannot fight back no matter how much it wants to. And as for rescuing the cursed people [[spoiler:it likely wouldn't happen because once you become a toy all of history forgets you even existed. Friends, family, loved ones, and enemies will no longer remember you or even that there really was a person with your name.]] Even worse, when she ''was'' eventually beaten, a perfect way to foil her power was implemented (which proved a foil in her attempt to gain revenge) and spoiled most ways to expand on any other confrontation.
** Robin's Devil Fruit allows her to sprout limbs on any surface. She almost never gets into fights post-TimeSkip, because then, fights went two ways for her: she immediately sprouts two arms on the enemy's shoulders and snaps their neck, or she gets nullified before she can do exactly that. Although, after the TimeSkip, having trained herself in its use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSxa8I-4Go and discovered]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYy1Uuiw1kI several unique ways to use it]], she's involved in quite a few fight scenes; [[OneManArmy just not against individuals.]]
** Trafalgar Law's Devil Fruit allows him to generate "Rooms" where he can control anything inside. He can cut people to bits and rearrange them as he likes with the person still alive, swap around people and objects instantly, cut through whatever he wants including armored Haki and whole mountains, rip out organs, swap souls, and inflict an unhealing wound. Unlike most Devil Fruit users, there is one special check on this power: unlike all other fruits, ''any'' use saps his stamina. But even with this drawback, it requires specific targets and situations for him to not instantly win fights.
** Magellan, the warden of Impel Down, has the Toxin-Toxin Devil Fruit, one of the most effective Devil Fruit in the series. Everything about him, from his sweat, to his skin, to even his breath are all poisonous and he has different varieties from poison that acts like tears gas to poison that can make your skin melt. He can also generate massive waves of poison out of himself, create hydra heads of pure poison to attack people, and any contact with him or his attacks instantly poisons the target. His poison is so powerful that it can kill a person within minutes unless an antidote is administered. However, if you get hit by too many poisons, you're too far gone to be cured and are sentence to a slow and painful death. The worst part is even if you have some sort of ability that could block the poison, such as Mr 3's Wax Wax Fruit, he can just make his poison so strong that it melt steel. Plus, he isn't even a logia type, so he doesn't have any of the usual weaknesses of a logia Devil Fruit user.
* Saitama in ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' can, as the title suggests, beat anything in one punch. ANYTHING. In a world where ''{{kaiju}}'' make regular appearances. The manga usually parodies this concept, as the main character is a total InvincibleHero who is bored out of his mind because no one is strong enough to make him use even a third of his true strength and whose backstory is disappointingly simple to the point of boring (he literally just does push-ups, sit-ups, and squats every day).
* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''. The name alone says it all. Our main protagonist finds himself "trapped" in the body of his video game character, a premise which is common enough, but he also happens to be [[{{Cap}} max level]], outfitted with legendary artifacts, specialized in [[OneHitKO one hit kill spells]] (which are '''not''' {{Useless Useful Spell}}s in the setting), '''and''' has a massive dungeon's worth of devoted followers to do his bidding. On top of that, the world where he winds up is actually significantly lower "level" than the game of origin, with beings that can pose much of a threat to even a level 40-50 foe being virtually unheard of. Thankfully, the series seems pretty self-aware about how overpowering he is, with most of the audience's enjoyment being derived from the myriad of ways he can administer an [[RuleOfCool awesome]] CurbStompBattle to his foes, or from watching him deal with the daily problems that come with administering a dungeon full of monsters [[EmotionSuppression and the emotionlessness that comes with becoming an undead lich]]. It helps that he quickly becomes a VillainProtagonist, and villains are usually given a free pass with being [[AntagonistAbilities far more powerful than anyone else]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** During the final climatic battle of the Yellow chapter in ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', it turns out that Yellow apparently has the ability to absorb energy directly into her body as to amplify her ''other'' ability, SuperEmpowering. Giovanni states that the attack she and Pika unleashed, "Megavolt", is ''10x stronger'' than a regular Thunderbolt, an attack with the base power of ''95''. Thankfully, with the constantly rotating cast, she has never really had the chance since to try this again.
** Most Legendary Pokémon are portrayed as very strong demigod-like beings in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]]. Naturally, this means that Ash will never have the chance to actually capture and own them in the same way player characters can in the games. He can befriend them (and has done so many times, especially in the movies), and has beaten a few that do belong to other trainers, but actually capturing them would not only be disastrous for the world, but it would also make Ash almost invincible.
** Many of Ash's Pokémon from previous regions such as Charizard, or Sceptile. He could have easily won most of his gym battles in the new regions, and might give him a higher chance of winning in the Pokémon Leagues. But that would remove the need to catch and train newer Pokémon (which is kind of bad for a MerchandiseDriven Show).
** [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]]. In the games, Mega Evolution is powerful, but only a select few Pokémon benefit enough from it to be a GameBreaker. The mechanic as a whole is balanced out by the fact all Mega Evolved Pokémon (except Rayquaza, who was so powerful, Smogon had to [[UpToEleven ban it from their banlist]]) have to give up their held item to hold a Mega Stone. In the anime, where held items are nonexistent, Mega Evolutions are a free powerup, and the only Pokémon qualified to fight them are other Mega Evolved Pokémon, the above-mentoined Legendaries, and [[TheHero Ash's]] [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe Pikachu.]]
** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form.
* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[ GodModeSue the very best]] in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Sailor Saturn can end the world simply by bringing her glaive down. She uses her power a grand total of once - to essentially kill everything on Earth in a BatmanGambit to chase away Master Pharaoh 90. The [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] dodges it by showing people ''stopping'' Saturn from ending the world.
** Sailor Pluto ''controls time itself'' and is aware of the future. The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] depicts her stopping time a grand total of once at the cost of her life. In the anime. she only pretends to die instead of actually dying, though whatever foreknowledge she has, she refuses to divulge and she has a strict code of honor about not interfering with the flow of time. She largely spends the series as a background character except when needed to move the plot, and largely falls out of the series entirely after ''Sailor Moon S''.
** The title character [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist explicitly has the power of resurrection]] and in the present revives everyone on Earth, while her future self reincarnates Sailor Pluto as a human in the present day. In the anime she does not explicitly have resurrection as a power and reviving people after death is nearly impossible (only twice in the series do the main characters recover from death, and largely only because of the way they died in the second instance).
** Beyond this, Sailor Moon's final power has her getting the combined power of the other eight Sailor Senshi poured into her, including the above mentioned Saturn. By the final story arc this renders the rest of the cast canon fodder.
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'':
** Alastor is the God of Atonement. Manifesting physically is his "I Win" card. In the novels (and movie), he plays this to incinerate the first villain. The anime saves this for the climax of the first season, in which [[spoiler:he blows up everything, sends the {{Big Bad}}s fleeing, and saves the city from an impending overload of energy all by just showing up]]. He doesn't even have to fight at all--he's ''just that powerful''. However [[spoiler:it's supposed to kill the Flame Haze that does it (Shana thankfully is capable of surviving it)]] and the manifestation requires a ''truly '''MASSIVE''''' amount of [[LifeEnergy Power of Existence]]; unless there's an external source nearby, his mere presence in the human world would create a [[ApocalypseHow reality-killing distortion]].
** The Snake of the Festival is the God of ''Creation'', and is just as powerful as Alastor is. What makes him even more this trope is because of his host, [[spoiler:''the main character'']]. With the host's own power, who possesses an amulet that [[spoiler:grants immunity to flame]], and a sword that [[spoiler:causes anyone who tries blocking it to sustain heavy injuries (Blutsager)]].
* ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'': The Mushrambo upgrade makes the trio (Mushra, Saago, and Kutall) unstoppable when they [[FusionDance fuse together]]. His first appearance is bad enough and further alterations make him even stronger. The villains recognize they can't beat him and so their plans involve exploiting the transformation somehow. At the end of the first season, all they can do is summon an ''evil'' Mushrambo because nothing else is up to the task.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Shinigami started Shibusen to have humans fight kishin because he could not. If he had been freed from Death City when Asura was, the main cast would have had nothing to do because he was strong enough to defeat him on his on. As it is, he's kept effectively useless (combat-wise at the very least) [[BarrierMaiden within]] Death City while the students and his beleaguered staff do the dirty work for him. Aside from the one fight when Asura was inside the city, all we get is tantalising hints via flashbacks and his son, of what this grim reaper's capable of.
** Deconstructed with Excalibur; it is the most powerful sword in existence, but he is too annoying to be tolerated by anyone.
** Asura himself. Only Shingami was strong enough to defeat it, and even by the end of the series the protagonists are no match for him. [[spoiler:And he's got CompleteImmortality]], explaining why Shinigami didn't kill him.
* ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki]]'': Tenchi and Z, who is introduced later, possess powers from something that's even more powerful than [[spoiler:''the Choushin that made the multiverse''.]] Even ''before'' the feats of the 3rd [=OVA=], the 2nd not only has Tenchi effortlessly escaping from inside the event horizon of a black hole, he did this not by moving faster than light or teleportation, but by ''sheer brute force'', as he ''destroyed the black hole in the process''.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** The Blue-Eyes White Dragon is the most powerful monster in the original manga and first 2 Duel Monsters anime that could be summoned without any secondary requirements. Any monster around or above Blue-Eyes needed a summon condition fulfilled to be played. Having 3000 Attack Points back when the game started players with 2000 Life Points meant the White Dragon could win almost any duel just by being played as soon as you drew it, giving birth to the idea in-universe that the Blue-Eyes brings victory. Pegasus only made 4 copies of the card ever because it was so powerful, and Seto Kaiba getting 3 of them was treated as the greatest OhCrap moment in the manga's history. The overwhelming advantage of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon began to wain the [[PowerCreep longer the franchise went on]], starting with Battle City requiring 2 tributes to summon it normally, and ending with the once mighty dragon [[OvershadowedByAwesome no longer impressive in the face of newer monsters with powerful effects and easier summoning methods]].
** [[Manga/YuGiOh The manga]] zig-zags the trope with the Exodia cards, which singlehandedly gave Yugi his second victory against Kaiba's much more powerful deck. Not long afterward, they were pitched into the sea by a rival using a cheap ploy. It's anyone's guess how much an instant win would have helped out Yugi in the following arcs. As time went on, however, Exodia was shown to be the very definition of AwesomeButImpractical, riddled with weaknesses and drawbacks, the least of which being the issue of drawing all five cards out of a deck of at least forty without Yugi's insane luck of the draw on your side. Unless someone had a deck specifically revolving around Exodia, using the thing was extremely difficult, and even then there were inherent problems, as shown when Yugi fought the first Rare Hunter. The individual pieces could be dead draws when a duelist needed a strong monster, and they vulnerable to attacks on the hand. One Card Destruction could spell ruin for the mighty Forbidden One. Ultimately, Exodia stopped showing up in its vanilla form, and duelists instead went for different incarnations of it: Gozaboro Kaiba's Exodia Necross, or Adrian Gekko's Exodius, the Ultimate Forbidden Lord.
** Pegasus' Toon World can turn regular monster cards into "Toon" type monsters that are impervious to battle destruction, and can hide inside Toon World on Pegasus' turn to become totally impervious to all harm. Much like the Blue-Eyes White Dragon above, Pegasus never released Toon World to the general public because every duelist having an army of [[ToonPhysics Bugs Bunnies and Daffy Ducks]] would be a disaster for game balance. When Kaiba and Yugi dueled Pegasus, they had to come up with creative ways to destroy the Toons instead of relying on brute force. Toon World became less powerful after the Duelist Kingdom arc ended and the anime updated the card's rules to match its real-life counterparts (i.e. No turning every monster you want into a Toon, and Toons weren't NighInvulnerable anymore).
** Pegasus' Millennium Eye allows him to read the minds of anyone he wished, even during a duel. Pegasus used this to read Bandit Keith's mind and humiliate him by asking a child in the audience to play the perfect counter to Keith's move. Pegasus basically couldn't be surprised, ever, by any strategy any opponent came up with because he could read their minds to see it and prepare accordingly. Kaiba countered the powers of the Eye by topdecking without looking at his cards, and Yugi switched minds with Dark Yugi after each played a card to do the same.
** The Egyptian God Cards are immune to basically everything except massive brute force. By the end of Battle City, Yugi had obtained all three, and he spent the rest of the series, filler, or spinoffs either getting them stolen or just not drawing them.
** The worst one was the Devil's Avatar from ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', used by the main villain - on top of possessing godly immunity, being unaffected by even the other God Cards bar Ra, it was also impossible to overpower with brute force, with its ATK always being slightly higher than the strongest card on the field. It required a custom card to elevate another God enough to force a ''draw.''
** Ishizu's Millennium Tauk allows her to see into the future, and her visions are frighteningly accurate. Like Pegasus, she would be unbeatable in a normal duel because no strategy could surprise her. She uses her powers to reverse Seto Kaiba's entire Crush Card strategy against him by seeing what he would play beforehand and preparing for it. If Kaiba didn't have his own connection to a Millennium Item, he would have played into Ishizu's hands and lost their duel.
** The Seal of Orichalos from the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' FillerArc grants its owner massive advantages over their opponent, up to and including control over the God Cards without having to be of actual Egyptian descent, making anyone that plays the card dramatically more powerful than whomever they were dueling. The ArcVillain, Dartz, possessed 2 separate upgrades to the Seal that made him into an SNKBoss in his duel against Yugi and Kaiba.
** One that is a literal GameBreaker, is Golden Castle of Stromberg. It cannot be destroyed, and forces your opponent to attack every turn... and any monster he attacks with is IMMEDIATELY destroyed, and the opponent takes damage. Furthermore, your opponent has to sacrifice half his deck every round. It cannot be destroyed, either. It's so powerful... because it was intended as a single-release promo and illegal for play in-universe. The villain of the arc hacked the systems to recognize this card as legal and also to add more effects to create an even bigger advantage for his representative.[[note]]What is inferred from commentary is that the cost of giving up half the Deck was supposed to apply to the ''user'' of the card, not the opponent, and that the destruction invulnerability was also absent on the original version of the card.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Yugi defeats it anyway, because he's THAT darn good.]]
** Because all duels start with 4000 Life Points in the anime and manga, Effect Damage becomes a far more powerful option. Dark Bakura is the first person to demonstrate this with his "Just Desserts" Trap Card. In real life, its effect of dealing 500 Effect Damage per monster on the opponents field wouldn't be worth a second glance, but during the Duelist Kingdom arc, it was one of the most devastating Trap Cards existing thanks to each duel beginning with 2000 Life Points. Dark Yugi almost ''lost'' his first duel with Dark Bakura thanks to one use of "Just Desserts". Kaiba banned all Effect Damage cards from his Battle City tournament for this reason later in the series.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has Super Fusion, a focal point of the third season and gained permanently in the fourth. This little number could fuse together any two monsters, even if the opponent was controlling them, essentially letting the user make their own cards. Every time it was used, it immediately shifted the balance of the duel - and that was just in the game; the card could also fuse together just about anything, including living beings and entire universes. It was only used to fuse something besides cards once, and its user, Judai, spent most of the final season either playing friendly duels that didn't warrant ungodly power or conveniently not drawing it.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' has the Shining Draw ability possessed by the protagonist Yuma Tsukumo when fused with Astral, which allows him to create any ZEXAL Weapon he wants... and later, any card he wants. Every ZEXAL Weapon conveniently possesses [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands exactly the correct abilities to win the current duel,]] and they can be alarmingly complex - presumably, the only reason Yuma doesn't just declare that the cards he creates with Shining Draw automatically win the Duel is out of fairness. Add in the fact that Yuma's deck is very OTK-friendly, and Yuma spends much of the second series either out of commission or unable to fuse with Astral just so that every single episode didn't become "summon Hope, Shining Draw, win."
** Also from ''ZEXAL'' is Number 7: Lucky Straight. Anyone who possessed this card was given WindsOfDestinyChange powers, as demonstrated by the original owner Charlie [=McCoy=]. Charlie was able to roll 6's on his dice roll effects whenever he needed to, and gave him a come from behind victory against a duelist that would make Judai and Atem jealous. Against Yuma, Charlie was able to gain ''100,000'' life points thanks to Lucky Straight's powers and a continuous spell card requiring dice rolls. Yuma could only win after breaking the BargainWithHeaven that granted Charlie Lucky Straight's powers, which only happened because Charlie played a very convenient spell card that allowed the prophecy to be fulfilled. Even though Charlie could no longer use the power, anyone he transferred ownership of the card to still could. This is why Yuma and Astral don't get Lucky Straight like they usually do after beating a Number Holder, they'd be functionally unbeatable otherwise.
** Don Thousand in ''ZEXAL'' takes this trope UpToEleven, even by series standards. His Deck makes use of a Field Spell that lets him activate Spells and Traps from his Deck at will, some of which include ''changing what Spell or Monster that an opponent has activated or Summoned''. It also lets his own Xyz Monsters use their effect without needing Xyz Materials, blatantly ignoring the limiting factor inherent in the Xyz Monster design, and with minimal resources, employ a combo that can OneHitKO his opponents. When that's beaten, he switches up to Summoning a monster with ''10,000 ATK'' along with other effects that let him steal the protagonists' monsters for his use. And when that is defeated, he gets to Summon a monster with '''[[SerialEscalation 100,000 ATK]]''' that resists destruction and forces the opponent into a MortonsFork of attacking into its ridiculous ATK score or getting an instant loss. It takes the protagonists' own Story Breaker Power to defeat him.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Raizen is stated to have once been the most powerful demon in existence. His power was so great that the other Two Kings of Demon World could be easily defeated if he was currently in his prime. What is preventing Raizen from using this power? He's starving. Raizen's power comes from eating human flesh and he gave up the practice hundreds of years ago. Notably on his '''death bed''' Raizen still has S class demon power on par with Yusuke's current powers who as far as S class demons are concerned is a runt in the litter. Raizen is said by everyone who knew him in his prime as the most powerful demon that had ever lived and that his power was so great that his enemies would "piss their pants" if they saw him in action.
* ''Manga/AkameGaKill''
** Akame's [[PoisonedWeapon Murasame]] injects a lethal venom into the blood of whomever it cuts, killing them once it reached their heart. There's no known cure for it either. Naturally, most of her important fights are against enemies that can get around it in someway. The two most obvious weaknesses (poison doesn't work on machines or zombies) come up more than once, and of course enemies turn up that are very hard to hit in the first place.
** Mine's [[SniperRifle Pumpkin]] increases in power the more danger Mine is in, becoming a WaveMotionGun at its strongest level. The [[CriticalStatusBuff nature]] of Pumpkin means that moreso than any other Night Raid member, Mine can punch far above her weight.
** Chelsea's [[ShapeShifting Gaea Foundation]] allows her to take on the form of anything from a cat to another human being, voice and all. From what was shown, there doesn't seem to be any limitations on what Chelsea can transform into.
** Esdeath's [[AnIcePerson Demon's Extract]] can create ice from nothing, lots of ice. Because she can create ice without limitation, her powers can be used for all sorts of tasks. She can use ice to create bridges, give her a vantage spot, restrain or kill individuals, and flight, etc. Esdeath even took her power to another level by developing Mahapadma, an ability to freeze time within a certain area once a day. She later shows the ability to created entire armies of ice soldiers. Quite literally, the only things that limit the usage of her Teigu are both her own stamina and imagination.
** Zank the Beheader's Spectator, is among the most versatile Teigu in the story. It grants Zank ''five'' abilities (CombatClairvoyance, MasterOfIllusion, SuperSenses, {{Telepathy}}, XRayVision) that when properly used in conjunction allows him to fight on par with ''Akame''. In the hands of a much more experienced combatant, it would have made them invincible.
** Syura's [[{{Teleportation}} Shambhala]] can teleport himself or others to fixed locations. In the manga, Syura once mentioned he had a last resort plan to defeating his opponents by teleporting them in the middle of an active volcano. Naturally with such overpowering ability, [[spoiler:the story finds ways to prevent Syura from ever doing just that before his death and his teigu destroyed]].
* ''AquarionLogos'': The titular mecha has the power to erase entire concepts from reality and by extension anything associated with them. Add a wide arsenal of powers from the pilots and an InfinityPlusOneSword and you get its final form, the Aquarion Logos Genesis.
* In ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'', Alice Fujii has a DisabilitySuperpower that lets her [[SuperReflexes see things in slow motion]], learn [[InstantExpert loads of information amazingly fast]] and [[IndyPloy make up complex plans in instants]]. This is coupled with the Kumoito, a RazorFloss weapon that fires a mind-controlled knife that lets out thread traps over a large range. Sooner or later, she gets anyone AllWebbedUp to be garroted to death. And oh boy, Alice eats CrazyPrepared for breakfast and is MadeOfIron. It gets to the point Alice [[spoiler:no scopes a sniper sitting miles away from her, which causes her to lose the Kumoito for the rest of the story]].
* Claire Stanfield from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a story-breaking CharlesAtlasSuperpower - despite being ostensibly a [[BadassNormal normal human]], he's strong enough to take on anyone in the series (and a few in other series), including the resident [=demon/=]EldritchAbomination and a ''vampire''. WordOfGod is that he purposely didn't give Claire his own plotline because there's no one in the series who could possibly challenge him, which generally doesn't make for the most interesting story. He says he is tied for the third strongest character in TheVerse, only losing out to an EldritchAbomination that's a black hole and a character whose defining characteristic is being the strongest man ever.
* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'': Hanma Yuujiro, the strongest creature on Earth. Able to fight anyone and win, earthquakes and the USA included. Just by CharlesAtlasSuperpower, because [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours he fights so good]].
* ''Manga/BlackCat'' invokes this with Leon, a twelve-year old boy who can manipulate air. As Eve notes, Leon could kill any member of the cast that he wanted to, simply by dispersing the air around them. Luckily he's too young to think of this, and instead resorts to trying to blow Eve away, enabling her to defeat him.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Aizen's Shikai is complete control over the five senses. Once hypnotised by the Shikai, a person will always be so vulnerable to the illusions they won't even know they're ensnared. Since everyone of note in Soul Society has been hypnotised, it's impossible for them to beat him, even when working together. Ichigo only stood a chance because he had not been ensnared [[spoiler:and, by the time they fought, Aizen was so drunk on power that he willfully discarded his sword due to the belief he had gained even better Story Breaker Powers than ever]].
** Letzt Stil vastly inflated Uryuu Ishida's abilities to such a degree he was capable of one-shotting both a captain and his bankai at the same time. It gives him complete control over spiritual particles. In a world made entirely out of those, it can destroy the world itself to give him limitless power. The ability is temporary, though, burning out the Quincy who uses it, destroying their power forever. Uryuu later regains his power due to ParentExMachina [[spoiler:and eventually the story introduces a different variant of this technique called Vollständig, ''which can be used freely because it doesn't burn out the Quincy's power afterwards'']].
** Ichigo's Final Getsuga Tenshou easily defeated Aizen when Aizen was at his most powerful. [[spoiler:As with Uryuu's Letzt Stil, using this form was temporary and burned out Ichigo's powers quickly. Also like Uryuu, ParentExMachina ensures that he eventually does regain his powers.]]
** Orihime possesses a RealityWarper power that is an in-universe mystery. Characters have speculated that she can do anything if she believes she can and that she's never tapped into her full potential. She is exactly as strong as she believes she is, which is both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness. Her personality is her limitation. She's so gentle, pacifistic, kind and unassuming that she cannot harm others, not even enemies. Later [[BarrierWarrior combining]] her weak offensive powers with her defensive ones does make for a potent technique, however.
** Yamamoto's Shikai is capable of killing every person for many miles around and he has to erect barriers to protect humans living outside the battlefield before he'll use it. The only way to combat Yamamoto is to seal his power and then fight him physically. Even then, Yamamoto is so overpowering, he can thrash the enemy with his bare fists alone... and if that's not enough, his spiritual power is enormous as well. His Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, is ThePowerOfTheSun. Activating it will destroy the world ''by accident'' if switched on for too long.
** As the Quincy progenitor, Yhwach possesses all Quincy powers, as well as the [[GreenLanternRing ability]] to give people power by lending them pieces of his soul. He can call back the soul shards at will, depriving the recipient of their power and life, to increase his strength. In battle, Quincies unknowingly infect their opponents with his soul shards, allowing Yhwach to steal life and power from both Quincies and their enemies. He can use this power recall to resurrect fallen Quincies, literally choosing who lives and dies at any moment. [[spoiler:Once he understands someone's power, his Schrift ability kicks in, allowing him to see into that person's future, allowing him to develop counters before their techniques have even been used.]] It's not for nothing that his Sternritter title is "The Almighty".
*** Recently, it's been revealed that the true power of the Almighty is the power to [[spoiler:change the entire future. It isn't really well defined, but he's used it to instantly break Ichigo's bankai and set up traps in all the places Ichigo steps.]]
** If not for Yhwach's even greater power countering him, Ichibē Hyōsube of the Royal Guard would've been this. He has the ability to [[IKnowYourTrueName inherently know the true name of everything]], in a universe where names and power are one and the same, and are actually crucial. And his ultimate ability is to seal away and alter names, changing or eliminating people's powers and very identity in any way he sees fit. [[spoiler:Against Yhwach, he erased his name to take away his powers and memory, then gave him the name of an insect so that he could be effortlessly squashed. Against absolutely anyone else, this would've been an unbeatable attack, and even Yhwach could've been killed by it...if his own "The Almighty" power hadn't kicked in first to preemptively counter Ichibē.]]
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** There are so many characters that are explicitly so powerful that, if they are put anywhere else, that story will probably end in moments. Accelerator can casually shatter continents and defeat opponents while sleeping. Vento of the Front can make you fall into a coma if you ever think even the slightest negative or confrontational thing about her anywhere in the universe that's undefendable except with a PowerNullifier or AntiMagic. And these are just the ''human'' characters that appear in the anime season 1 and 2, and the list increase exponetially (in both numbers and effectiveneess) as the novels go on.
** Even counting all of the magical human characters, almost nobody can really top [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the angels]] on the power scale, which have the capability to utterly annihilate all life on Earth within minutes, and that's nowhere near their full strength. Fortunately, angels are not particularly hostile: the two times one has been fought, it was being compelled to fight against its will. The only human character (not counting the AmbiguouslyHuman ones) that can take them on is [[spoiler:[[BigBad Fiamma of the Right]]]].
** Taken UpToEleven in the second half of the series, ''New Testament''. It introduces a character ([[spoiler:One-Eyed Othinus]]) that can [[spoiler:destroy and create universes at will]]. And she is the BigBad. The only reason why there is even a plot is because there are people who could do similar things and they [[spoiler:either lets her be (Aleister Crowley) or are using her (the True Gremlin group)]].
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' gives its protagonist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Lelouch]] the Geass, a miraculous mind-control power... that he actually uses a lot less than his favored BatmanGambit and military strategy. To combat this, the show gives him a RestrainingBolt in the fact that the Geass can only be used once on any specific person, though there is no specific limit to [[FridgeLogic how complex, long, and detailed that one instruction is]], which means that a pre-planned use of the Geass could allow Lelouch to command the actions of a person's entire life over the course of several hours.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Angemon, and later MagnaAngemon]], both seem to be on par with Digimon one level above their own. Patamon first digivolved to Angemon in order to defeat Devimon (the first BigBad). Much later when all of the Digimon evolved to their highest-level forms in order to face Myotismon (Ultimate for all 7 others), it was Angemon's attack that destroyed Phantomon, one of Myotismon's most powerful subordinates at the Ultimate level, and his attack had a debilitating effect on Myotismon himself whereas no-one else could touch him until Angewomon came along. Angemon finally gets to Digivolve to Ultimate just before the end of the show, and does the majority of the work in defeating Piedmon, a Mega-level digimon that had already beaten the combined might of [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] ''twice''. This is explained by Angemon, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin being an angel]], being naturally strong against evil Digimon, while being no more powerful than another of his level against anything else. Angemon then spent most of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' getting [[TheWorfEffect Worfed]].
*** Omnimon, introduced in the movie ''Our War Game'' immediately leapt to being the most powerful Digimon in the anime at the time and remains one of the top 5 strongest Digimon in the animated franchise (his exact spot on the list is debatable, as his opening feat remains probably the most extreme examples of power in the series. The other top class digimon appeared in 1 v 1 battles). In his first appearence he faces off against at least 16,000 (upped to a million in the dub) Mega-level digimon, each one more powerful than either [=WarGreymon=] or [=MetalGarurumon=] individually, and ''annihilates'' them. In his first move he reflects hundreds of attacks back on them and at no point appears to even try. The only reason the final copy (changed to be the original in the dub) lasted as long as it did was that with room to move, it could actually flee in abject terror. Like Angemon, Omnimon was severely nerfed in his 02 appearance. The nerfing was spectacularly undone in "Digimon Adventure Tri" when he goes up against Alphamon, a digimon with powers equal to his own in ''Our War Game''. After literally ignoring everything thrown at him (including [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=]) he takes one look at Omnimon and powers up to his strongest form. The shockwaves from their first connection leveled the surrounding buildings, and Omnimon goes on to gain the upper hand before Alphamon's tactical retreat.
** In ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', Arkadimon is pretty much the most powerful Digimon period. It can damage a Mega-level digimon ''at the in-training stage.'' Not just any Mega, but the above-mentioned Piedmon (to be fair he was already injured but that is a five level difference for a monster that still had five more levels to evolve to!).
*** The protagonist's very own partner, Zeromaru. As pointed out, it's usually more than just his uncanny strength that gets him by in fights (since many of his opponents are higher leveled) but when he reaches his Mega stage... [[spoiler:he unlocks the Ulforce, a HealingFactor so strong that he can recover from [[OneHitKO instant death attacks!]] Even [[BigBad Daemon]] had to negate it before he started whooping ass.]]
** Taiki Kudo and Shoutmon serve as an in-story example in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''. As the legendary general and the Digimon King respectively who saved the world in the preceding ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', the Watch Man is understandably concerned that his very presence will destabilise the balance of the Digimon-hunting game. So far, he's being proven ''very'' correct - Taiki and Shoutmon have spent most of the series so far effortlessly curbstomping everything that Tagiru and Yuu have trouble handling.
** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' itself has Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode. [[spoiler:He digixrosses with Thousands, if not, ''millions'', of digimon that appeared in the entire digital world, and one shots the big bad with it in one slash.]] Consequently, it has NEVER appeared again since.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** Given all the times Goku arrives late, is dead, or [[DeusExitMachina just not in the picture for whatever reason]], Toriyama seems to think he's a story-breaking character. He's one of the strongest, most dependable beings in the series, and later he can teleport instantly anywhere in the universe as long as he can sense energy. Many of the sagas would end early if Goku was around from the start, and the time he wasn't around ''once'' was enough to plunge Earth into a BadFuture. [[spoiler: He becomes even more powerful in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' where he can combine the Kaio-Ken with his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form, going up to ''10X'', making him by far the strongest mortal in Universe 7. Goku moves so quickly when using this combo that he utterly {{No Sell}}s Hit's time stopping power, meaning he's literally shattering time]]. The drawback, [[spoiler: since Goku is still working on this technique, it has a 90% failure rate and can severely harm or even kill him]].
** The one-shot villain from the first story arc Boss Rabbit. He has the ability to turn ''anyone'' who touches him into a carrot. Touch this guy in anyway and you're product. Thankfully, he's a weakling who gives up just by being hit by Goku's Power Pole and is never seen again since he can easily take out people who don't know about his powers.
** The devil Akkuman emits waves that amplify every evil or impure thought, causing even saintly people to ''explode from within''. He was defeated only because Goku has [[IncorruptiblePurePureness a totally pure heart]] and could not be affected. Unsurprisingly, he never appeared again after the story arc featuring him.[[note]]He did, however, appear in one DBZ fighting game where he retains the attack; while normally very weak, the attack does MASSIVE damage to evil characters, turning him into a LethalJokeCharacter who even gets a What-If story where he ends being the one to stop Freeza and King Cold by exploiting the move.[[/note]
** Garlic Jr, from the {{Filler}} and {{Non Serial Movie}}s, has CompleteImmortality. Both times he's popped up, he had to have [[WhatAnIdiot a sudden bout of stupidity]] and open a portal to an inescapable pocket dimension to finish off the protagonists, even though he could beat every single character in the series [[GradualGrinder simply by virtue of attrition.]] Both times, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the protagonists promptly shoved him into his own portal,]] because there simply wasn't any other way to get rid of him.
** Gohan can easily become the strongest mortal character in the entire universe, far surpassing his father and fellow hybrids, if he had a love for training and growing stronger. If Gohan had kept up his training during the seven year timeskip, he probably could have easily killed Fat Buu without any help. Also specific to Gohan is his Ultimate form, the state he gains after Old Kai unleashes all his hidden power. Gohan in his Ultimate state is stronger than both Super Saiyan 3 Goku and Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, and because his power is unlocked in his base form Gohan doesn't have the power drain issue that cripples the Super Saiyan 3 form. So he can fight at full power for a long time without losing any stamina, making it the best power-up in the series before the introduction of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
** Several characters by the start of the Saiyan Saga have the ability to use [[BlindedByTheLight Solar Flare]] (temporarily blinds any enemy with eyes, effective against even much more powerful opponents) and [[DeadlyDisc Destructo Disc]] (unblockable, cut-anything attack; can't be blocked, but can be dodged), but they never think to use them together. However, after Freeza, it becomes a moot point because the main villains can all [[FromASingleCell regenerate]].
** [[TimeMaster Guldo's Time Freeze]]. As long as he holds his breath, he stops time for the entire universe. With time stop, he can move around freely to escape fatal attacks or attack his opponents while they're defenseless. He's the only being in the series able to manipulate time to this level except for [[spoiler: Whis and Hit]]. This power is balanced by Guldo being completely out of shape and not being particularly strong. If someone who is truly powerful had this ability, they would be nearly unbeatable. If that wasn't enough, he has ''another'' technique, Mind Freeze. When he uses this, he paralyzes any opponent even if they're many times stronger than him. He uses this to nearly kill Gohan and Krillin, and would have succeeded if Vegeta didn't save them. The only known drawback is that this technique uses a lot of energy and Guldo only uses it when he's desperate.
** Captain Ginyu's body switch technique. As far as we know, it's unblockable and paralyzes the person in place. The only thing that can stop it is another living creature getting between the beam and its intended victim. If Ginyu wanted to, [[HijackingCthulhu he could probably body jack Frieza]].
** Surprisingly, Frieza. The monster Goku and the others fought on Namek was ''naturally'' that powerful. Without training a day in his life, Frieza was the most powerful mortal in the universe. When he did trained, he surpasses Goku in pure power after he ascends past godhood in just ''four months''. His biggest failing is that he didn't bother to master his GoldenSuperMode, causing his stamina to tank after only a short time of fighting. He truly would have been unbeatable on Namek if he had Goku's work ethic. There is also Frieza's species extreme survivability. He can survive in a vacuum and even live if he's chopped to pieces. This rigs many battles in his favour since, while any fighter stronger than Namek Saga Frieza can survive a planetary explosion, only a select few can survive in outer space. [[spoiler: He actually kills Vegeta this way after the latter had him completely beat, but Whis reverses time on him.]]
** The regular Super Saiyan transformation itself. After defeating Frieza and his immediate family, there are no more naturally occurring individuals in the universe that are powerful enough to even threaten the Super Saiyans. This is why the only serious threats afterwards had to be machines with infinite power sources, a biological android made from [[LEGOGenetics the DNA of Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, and Frieza]], an EldritchAbomination created by absorbing all the evil in the universe, the {{Top God}}s of the Kais, and the God of Destruction.
** Speaking of advanced techniques, the Instant Transmission. With this technique, Goku can teleport anywhere in the universe and even the afterlife, as long as he can sense life energy. He can even gain access to the World of Kais which is supposed to be off-limits to mortals. Goku can also use his Instant Transmission to move around opponents who are faster than him like Beerus, escape lethal attacks like Cell's Kamehameha, or move dangerous objects or people to another location. Only the Kais themselves have a better version of the Instant Transmission (Instant Movement where the person can teleport ''anywhere'' in the lower realm regardless if it has life or not) and even Beerus must rely on Whis to ferry him across the universe. There's a reasons why this technique remains limited to only four characters in the entire series and two of them are dead.
** Cell can survive in any environment or with any injury due to having Frieza's cells, regenerate endlessly FromASingleCell thanks to inheriting the Namekian regeneration ability, and can grows stronger after suffering severe damage like a Saiyan. Under the right conditions, he could possibly surpass every being ever depicted in the series. Which is why he needed to go after surviving his own self-destruction.
** Dabura's SuperSpit that can turn anyone hit by it into [[TakenForGranite stone]], regardless of power. If you're not expecting it, you're almost guaranteed to be a lawn statue. Once hit, you are for all intents and purposes dead and the spell can only be reversed with Dabura's death. Thankfully, spit tends to be slow (by the standards of a series where everyone who's anyone has SuperSpeed), making it somewhat easy to dodge and if the spit hits clothing, it can be removed without harm.
** Buu's transformation ray can turn ''anyone'' into food or an object of Buu's desire, and is also unblockable. The only saving grace is that it can be dodged if a person is fast enough or expects it. However, one slip and you're dessert. This is on top of Buu being able to reform from a single molecule, and his absorption technique, [[TheAssimilator taking in any fighter and gaining their knowledge, techniques, and power]], though the latter can backfire and make him weaker if he absorbs the wrong type of person. Buu becomes even more powerful, after he learns how to teleport, destroying a planet, regenerating, teleporting to the next planet, and repeating, turning him into a galactic wrecking ball.
** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta is (discounting the movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where Gogeta, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta using a different method, gives him a run for his money) the single most powerful mortal being in the universe, capable of defeating Majin Buu's most powerful form with ease, not even needing to go beyond Super Saiyan 1. Even after being turned into ''a piece of candy'', he was still too much for Buu. However, after he gets Buu to absorb him (as part of his [[BatmanGambit plan]] to free those absorbed by Buu before defeating the demon) ''something'' about Buu's insides makes Vegito defuse. Prior to the introduction of the Godly tier, Vegito was the undisputed strongest canon character.
** If you thought a regular Super Saiyan is seriously powerful, that is nothing compared to Super Saiyan God. Goku went from being beaten in two hits by Beerus as a Super Saiyan 3 to fighting almost evenly with him, [[spoiler: at least up to 70% of his full power]]. Even better, Goku absorbs the power of godhood into himself, making his base form vastly stronger than he ever was as a Super Saiyan and he can merged his god power with a regular Super Saiyan creating a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Only a handful of people in the universe can compare and most of them are beings like Beerus and [[spoiler: Whis]]. Not even ''Vegito'' can compete against Goku and later Vegeta who also gains the power of godhood.
** Beerus, the God of Destruction from the ''Battle of the Gods'' movie, shames all of the above in terms of raw power. Not only he can destroy entire galaxies and curb-stomp Super Saiyan 3 ''Goku'' with a finger, he can also fight one-on-one with Super Saiyan God Goku (whose sheer power threatens the universe), while holding back roughly one-third of his power.
** Forget Goku, Gohan, Vegito, and Beerus, [[spoiler:the real story-breaking character is Whis]]. Toriyama put his power as a '''15''' on a 1 to 10 scale, beating the God of Destruction himself who ''only'' scores a 10. [[spoiler:He also has the ability to rewind time by three minutes so he can undo the mistakes of himself or others ''and'' he is a RealityWarper]]. We then find out that [[spoiler: Whis]] has a older sister who may be ''stronger'' than him and has almost the same power set.
** Botamo can transfer damage he would've taken to another dimension, negating all the damage. This unique damage absorption ability can even keep him safe from Saiyan Beyond God Goku's Kamehameha. If Botamo was in a regular fight, he would certainly beat most opponents simply by wearing down their stamina before finishing them off. Lucky for Goku, Botamo was in a tournament with ring out rules, allowing Goku to defeat him without showing any of his real strength.
** Frost has the same potential and extreme survivability as Frieza since they come from similar clans, and while he lacks an ultimate form he already is stronger than the tyrant in the same respective forms. [[spoiler: He also has a hidden poison needle that can affect fighters even stronger than himself.]]
** [[spoiler: Hit is a TimeMaster similar to Guldo who can freeze time for everyone except himself. He can only do it for 0.1 seconds, but since Hit has SuperSpeed on top of his ability, he can mortally wound an opponent before they even have the chance to move. Also, unlike Guldo, he can use his ability as many times as he wants since it seems to take no stamina. He uses this technique to decimates Vegeta in his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form. Vegeta never even lands a blow on him. Even scarier, he manages to ''improve'' it, taking his Time-Leaping power from 0.1 to 0.5, and it ''keeps'' increasing]].
** Zen-O is not a fighter according to Beerus, but he's by far the most powerful being in all the Dragon World, bar none. He can wipe out anything. Evil people, planets, galaxies, even universes. [[spoiler: Whis says that there was once 18 Universes. Zen-O destroyed 6 of them when he was angry]].
* Lucy becomes this by the end of the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' manga. Her vectors become so strong that she can [[spoiler:single-handedly combat an entire army with little apparent effort]]. Partially subverted in that [[spoiler:she was unable to sustain that level of power for long, and ignoring her limitations caused her to [[TooPowerfulToLive turn to mush]].]]
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has the eponymous Hokuto Shinken. Every move it has is essesentially a fight ender, and it has a technique for everything. [[CrazyPrepared Everything]]. Kenshiro is ''very'' rarely ever really challenged, and his fights tend to end after he gets his first hit in. Only a selective few ever give him a true challenge, or even last for more than a couple of chapters, once they seriously begin fighting.
* Roy Mustang from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a perfect example of StockSuperpowers taken UpToEleven. His power is just stock [[PlayingWithFire elemental fire]] but he uses it to singlehandedly kill 2 near immortal homunculi and he's the only alchemist [[TheDragon Pride]] is worried about. [[spoiler:He's given a DramaPreservingHandicap in the finale and still kicks his fair share of ass.]]
* Fans often describe Yuki from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' as the strongest character ever made. Although this is probably an exaggeration, she does demonstrate NighInvulnerability, SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and RealityWarper powers. Her crowning achievement would be [[spoiler:''hijacking Haruhi's full power'' to retroactively depower everyone and rewrite the universe to her liking]]. Her job is only to observe, however, so her overt actions are limited.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':
** In a world where everybody is extremely powerful, we have Ophis, a dragon who is also known as [[RedBaron The Infinite One]]. She's fully capable of wiping out ''anybody'' in this series, and {{No Sell}}ing the strongest weapon in existence. She has a few quirks of her own such as not really being interested in any fighting as long as someone can kick out Great Red from the Dimensional Boundary so she can "attain silence". [[spoiler:Then when she joins the protagonists group, she gets hit with the {{Nerf}} stick twice; first from [[AchillesHeel Samael the dragon eater]], and by using up half of her already reduced powers to create a body suitable for Issei seeing as he died trying to save her.]]
** Great Red, ''the strongest character'' of the series bar none, [[spoiler:capable of wiping out a gigantic monster ''who has an instant regeneration power'', something that ultimate devils even have a hard time ''scratching''. [[ATasteOfPower Issei's combined form with Great Red]] was specifically stated by the author as a one-time form only]]. Fortunately, he prefers chilling in the Dimensional Boundary.
** Sun Wukong, who's just as powerful here as he is in the original story. To clarify, he stopped [[spoiler: True Longinus]], the single most powerful weapon in the entire series, ''with one finger!''
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Bakusaiga was introduced towards the end of the story just before the FinalBattle, and was said that the BigBad didn't stand a chance against it, since it's capable of killing anything that merely comes into contact with anything it's cut and it can kill ''thousands'' with a single swing. As a result, the BigBad immediately steals the sword owner's MoralityPet and traps her inside his body for most of the rest of the story. When Sesshoumaru does finally rescue Rin and use the sword, Naraku's body starts being destroyed.
** Miroku's [[PowerOfTheVoid Wind]] [[PowerPalms Tunnel]], what amounts to his own personal black hole in his hand, which he can use to suck any foe into oblivion. As a result, Naraku constantly manages to find a way to stop him from using it, such as [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere the Saimyosho]], whose poison spreads to Miroku should he suck them in.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Superior abilities abound. The main reason is because Creator/HirohikoAraki explores the [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower logical implications]] of various abilities, so powers that should be story-breaking ([[NighInvulnerability invulnerability]], [[OneHitKill disintegration]], [[TimeStandsStill almost]] [[SuperSpeed anything]] [[TrickedOutTime time-related]]) are treated as such.
** The first example is Cars, the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Pillar Men]] leader from Part 2, who had achieved CompleteImmortality via the Red Stone of Aja. His abilities includes an AdaptiveAbility cranked UpToEleven, an immunity to Hamon due to being capable of using it UpToEleven in power and finally an immunity to sunlight. This made Cars nearly invincible and is established that only sunlight and Hamon could kill vampires. The nearly part comes from two facts, one [[spoiler:Joseph had to fire him out of the Earth via volcano into space, where he eventually stops thinking from the isolation of being unable to do anything]] and second the Stand powers, specified below.
** From Part 3, Dio Brando's Stand The World can [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]]. The only reason the Jotaro and the survivors are able to triumph is because [[spoiler:Star Platinum has the same power.]]
** Vanilla Ice's Stand can create dimensional voids by literally eating itself, and whoever is hiding inside it. While inside his void sphere, Vanilla Ice is invulnerable to pretty much any attack, and can disintegrate enemies by merely coming in contact with them, and is literally invisible! Its only flaw is that the invisibility realistically prevents himself from seeing as well, so the only way he can adjust his aim to a target is to expose himself momentarily.
** From Part 4, [[AuthorAvatar Rohan Kishibe]] has Heaven's Door. Any person who sees an image of the Stand (which Rohan can simply draw in the air with his finger) has their body unravel into pages containing their memories and characteristics written on them, which Rohan can read and rip out. If incapacitating people by turning them into paper wasn't enough, Rohan can also write in the margins of these pages to give the targets fake memories, new characteristics (such as "I can speak fluent Italian") and rules that they are unable to break (such as "I cannot attack Rohan Kishibe). He can also write on his own body to modify himself to any extent that he pleases. The only thing stopping Rohan from simply writing "I am invincible and I will never lose at anything" on himself is his Pride as a Mangaka, and belief that if he used his Stand that way, it would... well, [[ShapedLikeItself break the story.]]
** From Part 5, Notorious B.I.G., [[spoiler:a psychic manifestation of a dead man, which takes the form of a blob that relentlessly consumes ''any'' matter, and has infinite durability, range and speed]]. The only reason it failed to wipe out the good-hearted members of Passione was because one of them had an ability almost ideal to counter it (to an extent), and they managed to make excellent use of their surroundings. Even then, Giorno and the others never truly defeated it...
** Giorno Giovanna, the hero of Part 5, may very well be the strongest individual in his reality, and that says ''a lot''. [[spoiler:In the final battle against the [[BigBad final enemy, Diavolo]], his Stand, Gold Experience is shot by the Requiem Arrow, becoming Gold Experience Requiem. and gains the ability to more or less ''nullify any and all actions an opponent takes'', even ones he cannot himself see. In addition, if said opponent is actually hit by the Stand, the victim is doomed to experience death for all eternity.]] Needless, to say it's fortunate that this only occurred at the very end of the part.
** From Part 6, [[SinisterMinister Enrico Pucci]] started out as simply clever and dangerous, whose Stand, [[PowersAsPrograms Whitesnake]], was versatile but lacking in a [[{{Pun}} stand]]-up fight. Then he made it [[DiscardAndDraw evolve into]] [[GravityMaster C-Moon]], which had less flexibility but a lot more power. [[spoiler:Then, just as the heroes figured out C-Moon and had him on the ropes, he evolves it again. Cue [[TimeMaster Made in Heaven]], whose power over time allowed him rip most of the heroes to shreds and ''remake the universe.'' He does, but still falls to the [[FinalGirl final boy]] Emporio Alnino, and even then it is mainly because of his arrogance.]]
** Funny Valentine, the BigBad of Part 7, is dominant in his own way. [[spoiler:His Stand, D4C, accesses [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]], with which he could use WeaponizedTeleportation, trapping people in them, where [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet if alternate selves touched each other, they would simultaneously disintegrate]] (an effect Valentine himself was conveniently immune to), [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap transfer his consciousness to alternate selves if his current body was killed]], [[WeHaveReserves summon aforementioned alternate selves to]] [[MesACrowd his universe to assist him]] and, with the help of another, [[KarmaHoudini redirect all "misfortune" targeting him to hit another random stranger on the opposite side of the planet]].]]
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'':
** The Ten-Year Bazooka has the ability to swap you with a version of oneself from 10 years in the future for 5 minutes. Before the GenreShift. it was just a gag weapon used by a hell raising 5-year-old to become a teenager, but afterwards the implications of its use in a FightingSeries were discovered. Difficult fights could be won by replacing weaker ones for stronger versions of themselves in the heat of battle and as shown during the events regarding the Varia, one can be shot by the weapon more than once to summon older and older versions of themselves as long as they were still in the 5 minute limit.
** where TimeTravel is as easy as getting yourself shot by a bazooka, Byakuran's ability is to [[spoiler:sync with all his selves in different {{Alternate Universe}}s, with at least ''8 tetratrillion'' worlds where he successfully takes over]]. Later, a potential weakpoint of his was revealed: none of [[spoiler:his alternate selves encountered the Vongola Boxes]], leaving him unaware of their powers, and killing him in one timeline kills him in all of them.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Reinforce Eins, [[AllYourPowersCombined who could use any spell known to a mage whose linker core had been drained with the Book of Darkness]], except that her versions of the copied spells were ''far'' more powerful than the originals. She was also able to completely negate ''simultaneous'' high-level bombardment spells from Nanoha and Fate, and even when Nanoha did manage to penetrate her shields [[NighInvulnerability she didn't take any visible damage]]. So naturally, she was TooPowerfulToLive after her HeelFaceTurn, because none of the other enemies would have posed any threat to her.
** By ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', the main characters (who were already [[PersonOfMassDestruction People of Mass Destruction]] to start with) became obscenely powerful after the TimeSkip and had to have their powers weakened by the use of {{Power Limiter}}s and extensive use of AntiMagic fields. The ''[[Audioplay/StrikerSSoundStageX SSX Sound Stage]]'' and the ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid ViVid]]'' manga solved this issue by completely switching focus to follow the new, weaker targets, but ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'' went the opposite direction by introducing villains with the ''even more'' convenient power of ''complete immunity to all magic'', forcing the characters to essentially ditch their old powersets in favor of new weapons of [[FlawedPrototype questionable reliability]].
** The protagonist of ''Force'', Tohma. He starts out rather basic for this series, but then [[spoiler:he becomes fully infected and is turned into a Zero Divider, [[CursedWithAwesome a person who can cause everyone around him to fall unconscious and possibly die, doing so completely subconsciously.]].]]
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Jack Rakan is referred to as a "real-life broken video game character" in canon. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Through skill alone]] he tosses around skyscraper-sized swords with ease, copies physics-defying sword techniques with a glance, and destroys pocket dimensions by ''flexing'', explicitly defying the laws of magic with [[BoisterousBruiser sheer]] [[CrazyAwesome awesomeness]].
** Thousand Master Nagi is established to somehow be even ''worse'', though the effect is mitigated by his reliance on a cheatsheet to cast spells and his greatest feats [[SecondHandStorytelling taking place off-camera]]. His "power"? Being invincible.
** Fate also has a game-breaking ability: [[spoiler:access to the power of the mage who created the Magic World, effectively making him a RealityWarper as long as he remains there.]]
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Evangeline AK McDowell]], whose implied power level is so high that Fate ran away from her, stating that he would be at a disadvantage fighting against her. And when she loses any fight, most of the time it's suggested that [[ILetYouWin she wanted to lose]].
** Negi had his own Pactio card for a short while, which [[AllYourPowersCombined gave him access to every single one of his harem's pactio cards for his own use, and their additional powers]]. He only used it [[spoiler:to fight Rakan, and even then, it took a ridiculous amount of additional planning to just scrape a de-facto draw]]; after that, he had it cancelled immediately.
** The Lifemaker, who goes beyond mere RealityWarper to RealityMaker: [[spoiler:within the realm of the Magical World, he's practically omnipotent (logical enough, since he created said Magical World). He's vulnerable to "real" mages, from the physical world, but even compared with them he's tremendously strong.]]
* TheHero of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha'' is this in a nutshell. If he ever got in a fight, ''any fight'', he's guaranteed to win. The only thing that's stopping him is that he's not trying to cause a war, but instead have world peace by working alongside Demon Queen.[[spoiler: He is however vulnerable to an entire rifle using army firing enchanted bullets at him.]]
* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' has the BigBad [[spoiler: All For One]], whose power is to literally steal anyone's quirk. Among that, there are the side effects of stocking all quirks he ever stole, being able to use various at the same time to enhance their effects, including if he has more than one of the same quirk, forcing someone else to activate their quirks and using the sreal itself as a form of attack, as it seems to make people fell in a state similar to a coma.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Itachi Uchiha. His genjutsu was so powerful he could MindControl others without making eye contact with them. An exaggerated portion of the anime is spent detailing how the main character learned how to counter this kind of technique, only for it to be revealed that Itachi's version can't be countered the normal way. And that's before he brings out his [[PowerArmour trump card]] which just ''happens'' to be equipped with a shield that can counter almost any attack, ''and'' a sword which can trap the victim in a world of eternal drunken dreams!
** Madara Uchiha. His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan gives him access to the most convenient abilities in the series, and this at some point evolved into the Rinnegan, THE most powerful and exalted eye power in the shinobi world, allowing him to resist a [[OneHitKill Rasenshuriken]]. His fire-based jutsu, an element notorious for being ineffective, would have killed many shinobi had it not been for a number of skilled Water users, including a Kage. He can summon meteors, and if the first one fails, he can summon another to crash into another one, killing many people, and they question whether it can even be compared to ninjutsu, and Gaara believed it to be a power comparable to a god's. He can also use Wood Release, an element that Uchiha shouldn't be able to use (due to stealing the 1st Hokage's DNA). Oh, and let's not forget that [[spoiler:he's an immortal zombie with unlimited chakra that will regenerate from any damage done to him. And he hijacked the resurrection jutsu controlling him, meaning no one can control him anymore]]. Then he was [[spoiler:truly resurrected in a living body and become the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki.]]
** The Sage of the Six Paths. Not ONLY did he CREATE the techniques that descended to the series's present day, he also saved the world from the original EldritchAbomination and split the beast in half, creating nine beasts that threatened the world on their own. With his own power, the Sage also created Earth's moon as a prison for the original beast's corpse. On his deathbed.
** [[spoiler:Obito, as host of the Ten-Tails,]] has a working facsimile of the Sage of the Six Paths' powers, and has shown the ability to negate aforementioned [[spoiler:zombie regeneration]], fire Tailed Beast Bombs and erect impassable barriers, as well as use a new element that is as malleable as the Kazekage's sand (although in a more fluid and highly cohesive fashion) and is as destructive as the Tsuchikage's Dust Release or beyond it (essentially meaning liquid black holes that violate the Law of Conservation by erasing all matter not protected by natural energy); [[spoiler:Naruto's Sage Mode]] is just about the only thing shown to be capable of hurting him, but his regeneration is on par with Tsunade's.
** Kaguya [[spoiler:ate the forbidden fruit of the Shinju which gave her godlike powers]]. She was singlehandedly able to end wars and destroy opposition, so much so that she was worshiped as a goddess. When we see her fight [[spoiler:she is virtually indestructible, with the only thing that can truly stop her being a sealing justsu her sons created to stop her.]]
* Eva Unit-01 from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which effectively becomes a [[GodModeSue particularly power unit]] after [[AppendageAssimilation absorbing Zeruel's S2 Engine]]. She's kept in stasis or on standby for most of the remaining episodes, and Shinji spends much of ''End of Evangelion'' [[HeroicBSOD too distraught]] to pilot her. The same holds true in the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie, where Eva Unit-01 [[spoiler:is used to power Misato's CoolAirship, while Shinji is forced to pilot Eva Unit-13 as a replacement]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Whitebeard [[spoiler:can cause tsunamis with his Earthquake causing devil fruit, in a world consisting almost entirely of small islands]]. Specifically referred to in-universe as the power that can destroy the world. No wonder he's been in the background so much.
** The Logia fruits as a whole have the potential to be this, as one characteristic that almost all of them share is the ability to allow their user to become the element on which they are based, albeit with the element's weaknesses (for example, Crocodile, the user of the Sand Sand fruit, cannot turn into sand if he is wet), thus rendering them virtually immune to physical attacks. Eneru can turn into electricity, and would've just effortlessly steamrolled over everyone in the Skypeia arc if Luffy's powers [[ContrivedCoincidence didn't just happen to make him a living insulator.]] While Blackbeard's Devil Fruit lacks that ability, it has the ability to cancel all other Devil Fruit powers if it hits the target. [[spoiler: He also has access to a (currently unknown) method to give himself a secondary Devil Fruit power (something that would normally kill the user,) which he uses to steal Whitebeard's power after his death.]]
*** Eneru in particular was so ridiculously powerful that the story had to let him [[TheBadGuyWins get away with his master plan to travel to the moon]] just so he could be PutOnABus (though fortunately his secondary goal to destroy Skypeia on his way out was ultimately foiled.)
*** This is deconstructed a bit after the TimeSkip. As it turns out the most powerful characters, including many of those who reside in the [[DeathWorld New World]], have access to KiAttacks that can bypass the NighInvulnerability that Logia fruits grant. One New World-based character even states that Logia users tend to not last long in the New World, since they're so used to their powers being an example of this trope that they tend to find out the hard way that they aren't anymore. True to that, three villainous characters with Logia powers have been introduced since the TimeSkip, every one of them [[CurbstompBattle taken down with very little effort.]]
** Apart from being a Pacifista with FrickinLaserBeams, NighInvulnerability and SuperStrength, Kuma can use his Devil Fruit power to essentially teleport anything anywhere he wants to by 'pushing' whatever he touches. He can defeat absolutely anyone in a single hit by teleporting a fruit user into, say, [[SuperDrowningSkills the ocean]] or anyone else into an active volcano. He can also "push" things that aren't even physical, like pushing the fatigue out of somebody and into somebody else, and pushed the pain out of Luffy's wounds. [[spoiler:Luckily, he seems to be a mostly decent fellow, or at least to have no pressing reason to kill the Straw Hat crew, considering he beat them all at once easily. He also was once on the Revolutionary Army's side, and thus willing to help Dragon's son, but now that he's been roboticized, he is now the Straw Hats' enemy.]]
** Sugar, who serves Doflomingo, has the Hobby-Hobby power. She can turn anything she touches into a toy. From great big animals, to people, to giants, there seems little she can't turn into a toy with a single touch of her body, though she has to touch you. A person restraining her won't be affected. And once a toy, she can place a {{geas}} on the person to make them loyal to the crew, so the toy cannot fight back no matter how much it wants to. And as for rescuing the cursed people [[spoiler:it likely wouldn't happen because once you become a toy all of history forgets you even existed. Friends, family, loved ones, and enemies will no longer remember you or even that there really was a person with your name.]] Even worse, when she ''was'' eventually beaten, a perfect way to foil her power was implemented (which proved a foil in her attempt to gain revenge) and spoiled most ways to expand on any other confrontation.
** Robin's Devil Fruit allows her to sprout limbs on any surface. She almost never gets into fights post-TimeSkip, because then, fights went two ways for her: she immediately sprouts two arms on the enemy's shoulders and snaps their neck, or she gets nullified before she can do exactly that. Although, after the TimeSkip, having trained herself in its use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSxa8I-4Go and discovered]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYy1Uuiw1kI several unique ways to use it]], she's involved in quite a few fight scenes; [[OneManArmy just not against individuals.]]
** Trafalgar Law's Devil Fruit allows him to generate "Rooms" where he can control anything inside. He can cut people to bits and rearrange them as he likes with the person still alive, swap around people and objects instantly, cut through whatever he wants including armored Haki and whole mountains, rip out organs, swap souls, and inflict an unhealing wound. Unlike most Devil Fruit users, there is one special check on this power: unlike all other fruits, ''any'' use saps his stamina. But even with this drawback, it requires specific targets and situations for him to not instantly win fights.
** Magellan, the warden of Impel Down, has the Toxin-Toxin Devil Fruit, one of the most effective Devil Fruit in the series. Everything about him, from his sweat, to his skin, to even his breath are all poisonous and he has different varieties from poison that acts like tears gas to poison that can make your skin melt. He can also generate massive waves of poison out of himself, create hydra heads of pure poison to attack people, and any contact with him or his attacks instantly poisons the target. His poison is so powerful that it can kill a person within minutes unless an antidote is administered. However, if you get hit by too many poisons, you're too far gone to be cured and are sentence to a slow and painful death. The worst part is even if you have some sort of ability that could block the poison, such as Mr 3's Wax Wax Fruit, he can just make his poison so strong that it melt steel. Plus, he isn't even a logia type, so he doesn't have any of the usual weaknesses of a logia Devil Fruit user.
* Saitama in ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' can, as the title suggests, beat anything in one punch. ANYTHING. In a world where ''{{kaiju}}'' make regular appearances. The manga usually parodies this concept, as the main character is a total InvincibleHero who is bored out of his mind because no one is strong enough to make him use even a third of his true strength and whose backstory is disappointingly simple to the point of boring (he literally just does push-ups, sit-ups, and squats every day).
* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}''. The name alone says it all. Our main protagonist finds himself "trapped" in the body of his video game character, a premise which is common enough, but he also happens to be [[{{Cap}} max level]], outfitted with legendary artifacts, specialized in [[OneHitKO one hit kill spells]] (which are '''not''' {{Useless Useful Spell}}s in the setting), '''and''' has a massive dungeon's worth of devoted followers to do his bidding. On top of that, the world where he winds up is actually significantly lower "level" than the game of origin, with beings that can pose much of a threat to even a level 40-50 foe being virtually unheard of. Thankfully, the series seems pretty self-aware about how overpowering he is, with most of the audience's enjoyment being derived from the myriad of ways he can administer an [[RuleOfCool awesome]] CurbStompBattle to his foes, or from watching him deal with the daily problems that come with administering a dungeon full of monsters [[EmotionSuppression and the emotionlessness that comes with becoming an undead lich]]. It helps that he quickly becomes a VillainProtagonist, and villains are usually given a free pass with being [[AntagonistAbilities far more powerful than anyone else]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** During the final climatic battle of the Yellow chapter in ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', it turns out that Yellow apparently has the ability to absorb energy directly into her body as to amplify her ''other'' ability, SuperEmpowering. Giovanni states that the attack she and Pika unleashed, "Megavolt", is ''10x stronger'' than a regular Thunderbolt, an attack with the base power of ''95''. Thankfully, with the constantly rotating cast, she has never really had the chance since to try this again.
** Most Legendary Pokémon are portrayed as very strong demigod-like beings in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]]. Naturally, this means that Ash will never have the chance to actually capture and own them in the same way player characters can in the games. He can befriend them (and has done so many times, especially in the movies), and has beaten a few that do belong to other trainers, but actually capturing them would not only be disastrous for the world, but it would also make Ash almost invincible.
** Many of Ash's Pokémon from previous regions such as Charizard, or Sceptile. He could have easily won most of his gym battles in the new regions, and might give him a higher chance of winning in the Pokémon Leagues. But that would remove the need to catch and train newer Pokémon (which is kind of bad for a MerchandiseDriven Show).
** [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]]. In the games, Mega Evolution is powerful, but only a select few Pokémon benefit enough from it to be a GameBreaker. The mechanic as a whole is balanced out by the fact all Mega Evolved Pokémon (except Rayquaza, who was so powerful, Smogon had to [[UpToEleven ban it from their banlist]]) have to give up their held item to hold a Mega Stone. In the anime, where held items are nonexistent, Mega Evolutions are a free powerup, and the only Pokémon qualified to fight them are other Mega Evolved Pokémon, the above-mentoined Legendaries, and [[TheHero Ash's]] [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe Pikachu.]]
** Ash-Greninja, the unique Mega Evolution-like transformation exclusive to Ash's Greninja. It provides a power boost on par with a Mega Evolution, perhaps even stronger, and allows Ash to see the battle from Greninja's POV, which is an immense tactical advantage. At first, Ash and Greninja still had some trouble with it and tended to [[PowerStrainBlackout pass out]] from fighting too hard. However, as their proficiency with the form improved, they were able to challenge [[WorldsBestWarrior Diantha]] to a close fight, and upon completing the forme, not even Wulfric's Mega Abomasnow, which had a ''massive'' Type Advantage, had much of a chance. The only real drawback is that Ash [[{{Synchronization}} shares Greninja's pain]], but even this becomes manageable after mastering the form.
* Hiko Seijuro XIII of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has been described by the author as a "Joker in the Card Deck", being the [[ GodModeSue the very best]] in the world. The fact that the author realizes this is also the reason why he rarely appears.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Sailor Saturn can end the world simply by bringing her glaive down. She uses her power a grand total of once - to essentially kill everything on Earth in a BatmanGambit to chase away Master Pharaoh 90. The [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] dodges it by showing people ''stopping'' Saturn from ending the world.
** Sailor Pluto ''controls time itself'' and is aware of the future. The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] depicts her stopping time a grand total of once at the cost of her life. In the anime. she only pretends to die instead of actually dying, though whatever foreknowledge she has, she refuses to divulge and she has a strict code of honor about not interfering with the flow of time. She largely spends the series as a background character except when needed to move the plot, and largely falls out of the series entirely after ''Sailor Moon S''.
** The title character [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist explicitly has the power of resurrection]] and in the present revives everyone on Earth, while her future self reincarnates Sailor Pluto as a human in the present day. In the anime she does not explicitly have resurrection as a power and reviving people after death is nearly impossible (only twice in the series do the main characters recover from death, and largely only because of the way they died in the second instance).
** Beyond this, Sailor Moon's final power has her getting the combined power of the other eight Sailor Senshi poured into her, including the above mentioned Saturn. By the final story arc this renders the rest of the cast canon fodder.
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'':
** Alastor is the God of Atonement. Manifesting physically is his "I Win" card. In the novels (and movie), he plays this to incinerate the first villain. The anime saves this for the climax of the first season, in which [[spoiler:he blows up everything, sends the {{Big Bad}}s fleeing, and saves the city from an impending overload of energy all by just showing up]]. He doesn't even have to fight at all--he's ''just that powerful''. However [[spoiler:it's supposed to kill the Flame Haze that does it (Shana thankfully is capable of surviving it)]] and the manifestation requires a ''truly '''MASSIVE''''' amount of [[LifeEnergy Power of Existence]]; unless there's an external source nearby, his mere presence in the human world would create a [[ApocalypseHow reality-killing distortion]].
** The Snake of the Festival is the God of ''Creation'', and is just as powerful as Alastor is. What makes him even more this trope is because of his host, [[spoiler:''the main character'']]. With the host's own power, who possesses an amulet that [[spoiler:grants immunity to flame]], and a sword that [[spoiler:causes anyone who tries blocking it to sustain heavy injuries (Blutsager)]].
* ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'': The Mushrambo upgrade makes the trio (Mushra, Saago, and Kutall) unstoppable when they [[FusionDance fuse together]]. His first appearance is bad enough and further alterations make him even stronger. The villains recognize they can't beat him and so their plans involve exploiting the transformation somehow. At the end of the first season, all they can do is summon an ''evil'' Mushrambo because nothing else is up to the task.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** Shinigami started Shibusen to have humans fight kishin because he could not. If he had been freed from Death City when Asura was, the main cast would have had nothing to do because he was strong enough to defeat him on his on. As it is, he's kept effectively useless (combat-wise at the very least) [[BarrierMaiden within]] Death City while the students and his beleaguered staff do the dirty work for him. Aside from the one fight when Asura was inside the city, all we get is tantalising hints via flashbacks and his son, of what this grim reaper's capable of.
** Deconstructed with Excalibur; it is the most powerful sword in existence, but he is too annoying to be tolerated by anyone.
** Asura himself. Only Shingami was strong enough to defeat it, and even by the end of the series the protagonists are no match for him. [[spoiler:And he's got CompleteImmortality]], explaining why Shinigami didn't kill him.
* ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki]]'': Tenchi and Z, who is introduced later, possess powers from something that's even more powerful than [[spoiler:''the Choushin that made the multiverse''.]] Even ''before'' the feats of the 3rd [=OVA=], the 2nd not only has Tenchi effortlessly escaping from inside the event horizon of a black hole, he did this not by moving faster than light or teleportation, but by ''sheer brute force'', as he ''destroyed the black hole in the process''.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** The Blue-Eyes White Dragon is the most powerful monster in the original manga and first 2 Duel Monsters anime that could be summoned without any secondary requirements. Any monster around or above Blue-Eyes needed a summon condition fulfilled to be played. Having 3000 Attack Points back when the game started players with 2000 Life Points meant the White Dragon could win almost any duel just by being played as soon as you drew it, giving birth to the idea in-universe that the Blue-Eyes brings victory. Pegasus only made 4 copies of the card ever because it was so powerful, and Seto Kaiba getting 3 of them was treated as the greatest OhCrap moment in the manga's history. The overwhelming advantage of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon began to wain the [[PowerCreep longer the franchise went on]], starting with Battle City requiring 2 tributes to summon it normally, and ending with the once mighty dragon [[OvershadowedByAwesome no longer impressive in the face of newer monsters with powerful effects and easier summoning methods]].
** [[Manga/YuGiOh The manga]] zig-zags the trope with the Exodia cards, which singlehandedly gave Yugi his second victory against Kaiba's much more powerful deck. Not long afterward, they were pitched into the sea by a rival using a cheap ploy. It's anyone's guess how much an instant win would have helped out Yugi in the following arcs. As time went on, however, Exodia was shown to be the very definition of AwesomeButImpractical, riddled with weaknesses and drawbacks, the least of which being the issue of drawing all five cards out of a deck of at least forty without Yugi's insane luck of the draw on your side. Unless someone had a deck specifically revolving around Exodia, using the thing was extremely difficult, and even then there were inherent problems, as shown when Yugi fought the first Rare Hunter. The individual pieces could be dead draws when a duelist needed a strong monster, and they vulnerable to attacks on the hand. One Card Destruction could spell ruin for the mighty Forbidden One. Ultimately, Exodia stopped showing up in its vanilla form, and duelists instead went for different incarnations of it: Gozaboro Kaiba's Exodia Necross, or Adrian Gekko's Exodius, the Ultimate Forbidden Lord.
** Pegasus' Toon World can turn regular monster cards into "Toon" type monsters that are impervious to battle destruction, and can hide inside Toon World on Pegasus' turn to become totally impervious to all harm. Much like the Blue-Eyes White Dragon above, Pegasus never released Toon World to the general public because every duelist having an army of [[ToonPhysics Bugs Bunnies and Daffy Ducks]] would be a disaster for game balance. When Kaiba and Yugi dueled Pegasus, they had to come up with creative ways to destroy the Toons instead of relying on brute force. Toon World became less powerful after the Duelist Kingdom arc ended and the anime updated the card's rules to match its real-life counterparts (i.e. No turning every monster you want into a Toon, and Toons weren't NighInvulnerable anymore).
** Pegasus' Millennium Eye allows him to read the minds of anyone he wished, even during a duel. Pegasus used this to read Bandit Keith's mind and humiliate him by asking a child in the audience to play the perfect counter to Keith's move. Pegasus basically couldn't be surprised, ever, by any strategy any opponent came up with because he could read their minds to see it and prepare accordingly. Kaiba countered the powers of the Eye by topdecking without looking at his cards, and Yugi switched minds with Dark Yugi after each played a card to do the same.
** The Egyptian God Cards are immune to basically everything except massive brute force. By the end of Battle City, Yugi had obtained all three, and he spent the rest of the series, filler, or spinoffs either getting them stolen or just not drawing them.
** The worst one was the Devil's Avatar from ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', used by the main villain - on top of possessing godly immunity, being unaffected by even the other God Cards bar Ra, it was also impossible to overpower with brute force, with its ATK always being slightly higher than the strongest card on the field. It required a custom card to elevate another God enough to force a ''draw.''
** Ishizu's Millennium Tauk allows her to see into the future, and her visions are frighteningly accurate. Like Pegasus, she would be unbeatable in a normal duel because no strategy could surprise her. She uses her powers to reverse Seto Kaiba's entire Crush Card strategy against him by seeing what he would play beforehand and preparing for it. If Kaiba didn't have his own connection to a Millennium Item, he would have played into Ishizu's hands and lost their duel.
** The Seal of Orichalos from the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' FillerArc grants its owner massive advantages over their opponent, up to and including control over the God Cards without having to be of actual Egyptian descent, making anyone that plays the card dramatically more powerful than whomever they were dueling. The ArcVillain, Dartz, possessed 2 separate upgrades to the Seal that made him into an SNKBoss in his duel against Yugi and Kaiba.
** One that is a literal GameBreaker, is Golden Castle of Stromberg. It cannot be destroyed, and forces your opponent to attack every turn... and any monster he attacks with is IMMEDIATELY destroyed, and the opponent takes damage. Furthermore, your opponent has to sacrifice half his deck every round. It cannot be destroyed, either. It's so powerful... because it was intended as a single-release promo and illegal for play in-universe. The villain of the arc hacked the systems to recognize this card as legal and also to add more effects to create an even bigger advantage for his representative.[[note]]What is inferred from commentary is that the cost of giving up half the Deck was supposed to apply to the ''user'' of the card, not the opponent, and that the destruction invulnerability was also absent on the original version of the card.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Yugi defeats it anyway, because he's THAT darn good.]]
** Because all duels start with 4000 Life Points in the anime and manga, Effect Damage becomes a far more powerful option. Dark Bakura is the first person to demonstrate this with his "Just Desserts" Trap Card. In real life, its effect of dealing 500 Effect Damage per monster on the opponents field wouldn't be worth a second glance, but during the Duelist Kingdom arc, it was one of the most devastating Trap Cards existing thanks to each duel beginning with 2000 Life Points. Dark Yugi almost ''lost'' his first duel with Dark Bakura thanks to one use of "Just Desserts". Kaiba banned all Effect Damage cards from his Battle City tournament for this reason later in the series.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has Super Fusion, a focal point of the third season and gained permanently in the fourth. This little number could fuse together any two monsters, even if the opponent was controlling them, essentially letting the user make their own cards. Every time it was used, it immediately shifted the balance of the duel - and that was just in the game; the card could also fuse together just about anything, including living beings and entire universes. It was only used to fuse something besides cards once, and its user, Judai, spent most of the final season either playing friendly duels that didn't warrant ungodly power or conveniently not drawing it.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' has the Shining Draw ability possessed by the protagonist Yuma Tsukumo when fused with Astral, which allows him to create any ZEXAL Weapon he wants... and later, any card he wants. Every ZEXAL Weapon conveniently possesses [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands exactly the correct abilities to win the current duel,]] and they can be alarmingly complex - presumably, the only reason Yuma doesn't just declare that the cards he creates with Shining Draw automatically win the Duel is out of fairness. Add in the fact that Yuma's deck is very OTK-friendly, and Yuma spends much of the second series either out of commission or unable to fuse with Astral just so that every single episode didn't become "summon Hope, Shining Draw, win."
** Also from ''ZEXAL'' is Number 7: Lucky Straight. Anyone who possessed this card was given WindsOfDestinyChange powers, as demonstrated by the original owner Charlie [=McCoy=]. Charlie was able to roll 6's on his dice roll effects whenever he needed to, and gave him a come from behind victory against a duelist that would make Judai and Atem jealous. Against Yuma, Charlie was able to gain ''100,000'' life points thanks to Lucky Straight's powers and a continuous spell card requiring dice rolls. Yuma could only win after breaking the BargainWithHeaven that granted Charlie Lucky Straight's powers, which only happened because Charlie played a very convenient spell card that allowed the prophecy to be fulfilled. Even though Charlie could no longer use the power, anyone he transferred ownership of the card to still could. This is why Yuma and Astral don't get Lucky Straight like they usually do after beating a Number Holder, they'd be functionally unbeatable otherwise.
** Don Thousand in ''ZEXAL'' takes this trope UpToEleven, even by series standards. His Deck makes use of a Field Spell that lets him activate Spells and Traps from his Deck at will, some of which include ''changing what Spell or Monster that an opponent has activated or Summoned''. It also lets his own Xyz Monsters use their effect without needing Xyz Materials, blatantly ignoring the limiting factor inherent in the Xyz Monster design, and with minimal resources, employ a combo that can OneHitKO his opponents. When that's beaten, he switches up to Summoning a monster with ''10,000 ATK'' along with other effects that let him steal the protagonists' monsters for his use. And when that is defeated, he gets to Summon a monster with '''[[SerialEscalation 100,000 ATK]]''' that resists destruction and forces the opponent into a MortonsFork of attacking into its ridiculous ATK score or getting an instant loss. It takes the protagonists' own Story Breaker Power to defeat him.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Raizen is stated to have once been the most powerful demon in existence. His power was so great that the other Two Kings of Demon World could be easily defeated if he was currently in his prime. What is preventing Raizen from using this power? He's starving. Raizen's power comes from eating human flesh and he gave up the practice hundreds of years ago. Notably on his '''death bed''' Raizen still has S class demon power on par with Yusuke's current powers who as far as S class demons are concerned is a runt in the litter. Raizen is said by everyone who knew him in his prime as the most powerful demon that had ever lived and that his power was so great that his enemies would "piss their pants" if they saw him in action.
