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| 14 | [[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sonic_vs_blaze.png]]]] |
| 15 | [[caption-width-right:350:Is the air too [[StealthPun arid]] for you, Blaze?]] |
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| 17 | ->'''Bipper:''' You can't stop me! I'm a being of pure energy with no weakness!\ |
| 18 | '''Mabel:''' True, but you're in Dipper's body, and I know all ''his'' weaknesses.\ |
| 19 | '''Bipper:''' What do you mean, his...?\ |
| 20 | '''Mabel:''' Tickle, tickle! |
| 21 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4SockOpera Sock Opera]]" |
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| 23 | Some authors hold that their character's powers shouldn't run exclusively on the RuleOfCool, and decide to inject some relative realism into the situation, resulting in a hero whose weakness is a bit different from the rest of the Super crowd. |
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| 25 | These guys aren't allergic to [[WeaksauceWeakness arbitrarily chosen household items]], nor [[KryptoniteFactor strange items related to their origin story]]. ''Their'' weaknesses are, in fact, a direct result of their particular superpowers. For example, a character who can [[PlayingWithFire cast fireballs]] may find themselves powerless during a rainstorm, or a ShockAndAwe hero might find themselves at risk of electrocuting ''themselves'' in the rain. With characters whose powers rely on uttering {{Magical Incantation}}s or [[SuperScream projecting a really loud voice]], a good strong gag may be enough to disable them. Someone with SuperSenses may find them to be a double-edged sword if subjected to SensoryOverload. Sometimes this can stem from a lack of RequiredSecondaryPowers, like a hero with SuperSpeed but not SuperReflexes finding themselves going TooFastToStop. |
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| 27 | The superpower may be something completely fantastic, but a writer may add a new twist to it by following the fantasy as if it was true and exploring the logical ramifications of it. For example, a LivingLieDetector that notices when people lie because of their heart beats. Perhaps no writer before you had ever thought that a guy with a pacemaker would fool this trick. Go ahead and use it, it will become a standard for future writers. |
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| 29 | This premise centers around being consistent with a combination of [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real world logistics intersecting]] with [[MagicAIsMagicA well-developed but entirely fictional science, magic or technology]]. It doesn't always mean the application of the weakness is realistic, only that it does work in the boundaries set up by the setting. It often intersects with CripplingOverspecialization, a gap in the skillset because of a hyperfocus on one task means there is something to exploit. |
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| 31 | Whatever the case, this type of superpower-induced weakness can function as a DramaPreservingHandicap, or it can be PlayedForLaughs. It may also create ElementalRockPaperScissors between different heroes. Sister trope to ImmunityDisability: being immune to something sometimes will naturally have its own drawbacks. |
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| 33 | Not related to the PuffOfLogic. May be an aversion of RequiredSecondaryPowers. Contrast OutsideTheBoxTactic, when the solution to defeat an enemy is logical but not immediately obvious; and LethalHarmlessPowers and HeartIsAnAwesomePower, which are about logical ''strengths''. AMindIsATerribleThingToRead is a subtrope. See also WeakerInTheRealWorld, where a character's powers at least partially depend upon the world or dimension they're native too, and bringing them to another world (frequently ours) results in them losing those powers. |
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| 36 | !!Examples: |
| 37 | [[index]] |
| 38 | * LogicalWeakness/AnimeAndManga |
| 39 | ** ''LogicalWeakness/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' |
| 40 | ** ''LogicalWeakness/MyHeroAcademia'' |
| 41 | ** ''LogicalWeakness/OnePiece'' |
| 42 | * LogicalWeakness/ComicBooks |
| 43 | * LogicalWeakness/{{Literature}} |
| 44 | * LogicalWeakness/LiveActionTV |
| 45 | * LogicalWeakness/VideoGames |
| 46 | * LogicalWeakness/WesternAnimation |
| 47 | [[/index]] |
| 48 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 51 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': Fang has [[CastingAShadow Shadow Manipulation]] powers that are useless without a light source. Makes sense since a shadow is only obvious in light to begin with. |
| 52 | * ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': In the episode "Fire Ball Aliens". What's the best way to get rid of pesky fireball aliens? Douse them with water, of course! Even then, though, Motu and Patlu's gang have to have the water poured above the fireball aliens, and Dr. Jhatka gives the others a special chemical to use in the clouds to pull this off, since he wants to have the rain put out the fireball aliens. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 56 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': |
| 57 | ** It's unconfirmed but speculated in Chapter 16 that because of how differently Monster X's HealingFactor works compared to Ghidorah's, it [[spoiler:can't regrow a duplicate if San or Vivienne's head is decapitated from it -- it needs to get the severed head back or lose it forever]]. |
| 58 | ** Word of God says that [[TheAssimilator the Many]] need to expend biomass whenever they regenerate damage to their {{Mind Hive}}s, meaning that if you get a Many construct in a situation where it can't assimilate anything and keep damaging it extensively enough, eventually it'll run out of juice for its HealingFactor. |
| 59 | ** The MUTO Queen's {{EMP}} blast when she activates it can temporarily cripple ShockAndAwe Titans' powers. |
| 60 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Occlumency relies on focus and redirecting attempted Legilmency probes to false or irrelevant memories. In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12619258/4/Aggressive-Love Aggressive Love]]'' Voldemort learns Snape is untrustworthy by reading his mind after torturing the man, leaving him in too much pain to properly shield his mind. |
| 61 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13198950/12/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-8 Alliance of Amazons and Izuku]]'', a villain's Quirk which magnifies any positive feelings women have towards a man doesn't work if they have no positive feelings towards him nor if they're too old to feel any sexual lust. The first scenario occurs when the villain tries to form a harem of heroines after explaining his plans to make them his sex slaves. The second when Recovery Girl is one of the ones hit in his second attack on Izuku, [[spoiler:at least until she happens to get hit by a convict's [[FountainOfYouth de-aging Quirk]] while she was treating him]]. |
| 62 | * ''LogicalWeakness/AllForLuz'' See here for list. |
| 63 | * In ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'', Laxus's lightning body, while magic based, is subject to grounding. Hence why Gajeel beats by grounding him into the Tower of Heaven using Iron God Sword. |
| 64 | * Having spider-DNA, Luz in ''Fanfic/TheAmazingSpiderLuzInAcrossTheOwlVerse'' is particularly vulnerable to the pesticide Chloroethane, which thankfully is rarely used in the present. |
| 65 | * In [[Anime/CodeGeass canon]], Mao can concentrate to hear a person's real thoughts if they try disguising them, but in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6002973/1/Armed-Resistance Armed Resistance]]'', he's helpless against someone who's actually holding multiple trains of thought at once. He's defeated by Rivalz due to the boy having a mental disorder that causes him to have two trains of thought at all times; Mao can only hear the one thinking about random things and not the one focusing on him. |
| 66 | * In ''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/The_banishment_of_Uzumaki_Naruto/The_banishment_of_Uzumaki_Naruto/ The Banishment of Uzumaki Naruto]]'', Kurenai makes her chakra act as a strobe light to disorient Danzo. Hiashi mentions he had to close his eyes to keep from getting sick, so he can only imagine how bad it is for someone with twelve eyes, eleven of which can see chakra. |
| 67 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11961369/1/Blood-Man-Luffy Blood Man Luffy]]'': |
| 68 | ** Robin notes her powers would be worse than useless against someone like Luffy who can manipulate blood. Sprouting additional limbs would simply give him more blood to control. |
| 69 | ** Luffy and Crocodile share a MutualDisadvantage with each other due to their respective Devil Fruits. As a blood man, Luffy can easily make himself wet so Crocodile can't disperse into sand. But as a sand man, Crocodile can absorb moisture through his hand and completely dry out Luffy with a touch. |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': |
| 71 | ** Enjin has both an extremely strong HealingFactor and AdaptiveAbility meaning fighting it for extended periods of time not only wear the opponent down, as Enjin is a PerpetualMotionMonster, but make it harder and harder for them to fight back and do any damage. Monster X figures out from [[spoiler: Aria Blaze's fight with it]] that Enjin fuels its powers by drawing power from the ground. Knocked into the air and Enjin can't heal or adapt. [[spoiler: A super-charged Monster X kills Enjin by blasting it skyward and tearing Aria out of its core.]] |
| 72 | ** Mizu can enter any reflective surface and exit another one. It can also see perfectly in the dark. However, reflections don't exist in complete darkness, so it cannot use that ability if there is no light. |
| 73 | ** Notus the Windigo draws strength from [[DespairEventHorizon the despair of others]], and is happy to exacerbate the sadness of his enemies to weaken and control them. [[spoiler: His powers fail when he faces an opponent that has undergone CharacterDevelopment (Godzilla) or who doesn't have that much baggage (Flash Sentry)]]. |
| 74 | * Chaosbringer in the "Into the Chaosverse" mini-chapter from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13501363/1/Chaos-Effect Chaos Effect]]'' uses this to defeat All For One. Knowing he has to touch someone to steal their quirk and that All For One's first instinct will be to touch him he decks himself out in a full body suit covered with microneedles that inject a blood cloating chemical into All For One's body. Because any healing quirk All For One has will only attack things not native to All For One's body he begins to have multiple heart attacks and strokes, leaving him a crippled mess for Chaosbringer to kill. |
| 75 | * Armsmaster's predictive AI in ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ruks-unimaginatively-titled-worm-snippet-collection-now-with-more-killer-clowns.491638/page-149#post-78338301 Coming up with Titles is a Pain]]'' always works to select the best possible step in the current situation. As Taylor demonstrates when asked to play chess against it, this works against the AI as it focuses solely on the ''current'' situation and can easily be tricked into sacrificing longterm goals for shortterm gains. |
| 76 | * In ''Fanfic/CoOpMode'', Taylor needs time to replenish her swarms in between difficult battles, as in canon, but due to her choosing to become Lady Bug, she also needs it to repair her more intricate equipment. |
| 77 | * When Krieg tries to exploit [[SuperDrowningSkills the weakness]] of Devil Fruit users in ''Fanfic/CobysChoice'' by jumping into the sea, Luffy counters that all his heavy armor means that not only can Krieg only tread water for so long, but he can't stop for even a moment without sinking. Thus Luffy takes Krieg out by slamming him in the face with one of Gin's tonfa. |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndEmerald'': Due to being a CloseRangeCombatant with a ground-based fighting style, Stain has a more difficult time fighting long-ranged attackers like Todoroki, Tokoyami and Hawks. Stain is overwhelmed by Hawks' flying and FeatherFlechettes as Hawks is too distant for him to attack. While Stain doesn't go down easy, its clear that Stain had the disadvantage over Hawks. |
| 79 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13639506/6/Quantity-of-Quirks Critical Overcharge]]'', Setsuna has {{animorphism}} powers on top of her normal DetachmentCombat. While her dinosaur and hybrid forms are much faster than her human form, they're also so large that she can't turn sharply without risking falling over. During their pseudo-race, the much smaller and slower Mina manages roughly the same time because she can maintain her speed during turns. |
| 80 | * A trio of cursed items in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12286952/41/And-Yet-Again-Still-Even-More-Fragments Customer Service]]'' all fail because the persons who get hold of them are in some way immune to them, letting them reap the benefits in some way. Synder gets car polish that makes him obsess over his car until his significant other kills him, but he's so unpleasant that he has no one in his life. Angel receives a jar of infinite hair gel that makes him so entranced with his reflection that he'll stare at it until he dies of dehydration or starvation, but Angel is a vampire and thus has no reflection. Xander knowingly buys a cursed TV and VCR combo that sucks you into any movie you watch and compels you to watch horror movies. However, the casts of horror movies are universally TooDumbToLive so any reasonably intelligent person has no problem surviving until the movie ends. |
| 81 | * While [[Anime/{{Bleach}} zanpakutou]] are just shy of being outright magic, in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12394742/14/The-Defeated The Defeated]]'' they still adhere to certain rules of logic. Byakuya is temporarily kept from releasing [[GenderFlip her]] bankai because the corridor she's fighting in is too narrow for it to manifest. |
| 82 | * ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In the third chapter of the fourth story, ''The Diplomat's Life'', Pharynx says that in their original forms, the changelings were more vulnerable to cooler temperatures (like most insects in real life), to the point where they couldn't readily cross the tundra into the Crystal Empire. Since they've undergone their metamorphosis, this is less of an issue. |
| 83 | * After he CameBackStrong in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13034223/20/A-Discordant-Note A Discordant Note]]'', Harry is at the very least, the high priest of the god he created: The Father of Freedom[[labelnote:*]]And Harry's quite possibly the god himself[[/labelnote]]. Because this new god's domain is freedom, Harry is now incapable of any magic involving subjugating others, comparing such spells to puzzles with pieces that don't match. |
| 84 | * ''Fanfic/TheEmeraldPhoenix'': |
| 85 | ** Mina's acid is extremely corrosive but can't dissolve plastic, which Momo takes advantage of by coating her staff with plastic before engaging her. Subverted when Mina later admits she can make HollywoodAcid if she pushes herself but she felt it was too dangerous to do so for a training exercise. |
| 86 | ** Momo's [[ThePowerOfCreation Quirk]] lets her create nearly anything but creating too many objects simply gives Izuku more ammo for his telekinesis. When she tries to trip him up with ball bearings like she did Mina, Izuku simply launches all of them at her like buckshot. |
| 87 | ** Toru's invisibility is worthless against Jiro's super hearing. Jiro's own weakness, loud noises drowning out all other sound, is brought up but she already trained to overcome it by the time someone tried to utilize it. |
| 88 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/262093/chapters/410390 Enemy Mine]]'' introduces the idea of silencing spells, which prevent the victim from communicating on a certain topic (and are incidentally ''highly'' illegal). When Harry realizes that a silencing spell is in use, he muses that this type of spell is really only as effective as the victim allows it to be, and a sufficiently determined victim could keep throwing themselves at the spell's limits until they finally found a loophole or [[RevealingCoverUp made it obvious that they were being forced into silence]]. Marcone and an OC got around it by purposefully invoking an OutOfCharacterAlert to draw Harry in ([[IdiotHero eventually]]). Bob later manages to get most of the information needed out of Marcone anyway because he's had experience with silencing spells and knows how to ask questions that don't ''technically'' go against the spell's limitations (for example, "met any hot wizards lately?" The topic itself isn't restricted since the relative attractiveness of wizards has nothing to do with what the caster wanted silenced, but Marcone can ''describe'' a hot/not-so-hot wizard who just so happens to be the spell's caster). |
| 89 | * Lelouch learns in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9930030/1/Experiments Experiments]]'' that although people he uses Geass on are forced to obey his orders, they first have to interpret them. A racist who's ordered to become more altruistic donates vast amounts of money to charity, but never to charities that support minorities because he's still racist. An order to "ignore Lelouch's existence" doesn't render him invisible to the person he geasses but makes him appear as a man shaped void because the victim's eyes can't see through Lelouch to see what's behind him and instead the victim's mind simply blanks out that space. Lastly, Lelouch tries three separate times to give an impossible order by telling someone to lick their elbow. The first person cuts off their tongue to do it. The second cuts off their arm after Lelouch specifies they not damage their tongue. The third time, Lelouch orders the victim to not harm themselves at all, resulting in them becoming paralyzed as they try to fulfill an order they physically can't. |
| 90 | * In ''Fanfic/FairyWithoutWings'' the demon Nirix has a curse that gives him near infinite stamina, allowing him to regenerate and [[CameBackStrong evolve into a bigger and more powerful form]] every time he's brought near the brink of death. However, Lelouch notes that he has to have a set amount of ''remaining'' stamina to evolve, so once he reaches that limit, he can't evolve further and can actually devolve if pushed too far. |
| 91 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11905736/1/Fate-Gamer-Night-SE Fate: Gamer Night]]'': One of the first stats Shirou levels up is Charisma because it improves people's attitudes towards him, which is especially helpful in getting quests. Eventually, his high charisma causes him to "stand out to all nearby people". However, because he stands out, Shirou is completely incapable of stealth or concealing his presence. |
| 92 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11920206/10/Fighting-for-the-Future Fighting for the Future]]'' by the same author has Robin thinking how Luffy wouldn't have to fear her as she could hardly snap a rubber neck. |
| 93 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14034033/1/ For Love of Experimental Time Travel]]'': Harry notes that Voldemort's habit of "leaving pieces of his soul lying around" makes him incredibly vulnerable to anyone who can find his horcruxes and is knowledgeable about soul magic. Harry uses such knowledge to outright enslave Voldemort through the pieces of his soul Harry collected. |
| 94 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Fractured|SovereignGFC}}'' and its sequel ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', there's a minor bit of FactionCalculus going on, as follows. |
| 95 | ** ''Mass Effect'' (Balanced) retains its usual strengths and weaknesses as written on this very page--kinetic barriers only work against physical ordinance, biotics have caloric intake requirements, and large ships become cumbersome. |
| 96 | ** ''Star Wars'' (Powerhouse), being a "softer" universe, has much better shields (they block ''anything''), more powerful [[EnergyWeapon weapons]] and faster [[FasterThanLightTravel lightspeed drives]]. All this comes at the cost of huge energy consumption explained away through more advanced [[{{Unobtanium}} hypermatter fuel]] while averting EasyLogistics: if the fuel shipments stop, the Trans-Galactic Republic's Logical Weakness bites it in the butt. When the largest Star Dreadnaught runs low on reactor power, actual energy conservation measures are shown (shutting down civvie comforts, pulling crew out of certain areas of the ship), which to races used to thinking the newcomers can do everything, makes them wonder if the new "gods" are mortal after all. |
| 97 | *** Exploited by Cerberus/JVLN/Sapiens' Shield: Out of power? Hello, here's our surprise attack going after [[AttackItsWeakPoint every open exhaust vent]] we can find! |
| 98 | ** ''Borderlands'' (Subversive) is also a softer sci-fi universe, and being less fleshed-out is open to vast OCStandIn for whole civilizations, companies, and planets. Its strengths are few (such as Sirens or Eridium) but they still play an important part. Sirens can be prone to [[FantasticDrug addiction]], both to substances and PowerHigh brought about by their abilities. Eridium turns out to be useful in various ways, but can be ToxicPhlebotinum in gas form and the runoff from processing it is none too pleasant either (despite making excellent coolant). |
| 99 | * Monoma in ''Fanfic/FromMuddyWaters'' copies Izuku's Quirk but only gets his original quirk, All For One, rather than the dozens of other Quirks that he uses in combat. |
| 100 | * In ''Fanfic/TheGothamKnightsOfMiddleEarth'', when Cassandra Cain/Batgirl is sent to Middle-Earth, she soon realises that her ability to read her opponents isn't much use against the Nazgul as they're essentially dead and their bodies don't 'work' in the same manner as a living one, with the result that they don't give off the same cues a normal fighter would (she compares it to her difficulty in 'reading' the Joker due to his insanity). |
| 101 | * ''FanFic/GreenTeaRescue''; The Nomu has its canon shock absorption Quirk, but like a lot of real world armors this comes at the expense of being weak to knives and stabbing weapons. Thus, Toga is able to injure the Nomu during the USJ attack when it tries to finish off Izuku, though she only slows it down and leaves no lasting damage. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite her when, during the fight against Stain, Toga changes into the Nomu to punch the Hero Killer and he runs her through on his sword.]] |
| 102 | * In ''Fanfic/TheHavocSideOfTheForce'', the Fidelius Charm may hide the location of Harry's new space station, but he still needs goods delivered there regularly. Obi-wan Kenobi infiltrates the station by hiding in a shipment of food being sent there. |
| 103 | ** In the [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8594589/12/The-Unsuspecting-side-of-the-Force side story]], Anakin shows off the greatest weakness of a droid army: they're programmable. One of his first actions is to upload a program into their software that causes them to ignore any being that gives off the same frequency of white noise as his communicator, rendering him invisible to the entire army. |
| 104 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21380770/chapters/51436957#workskin A Helping Hand in the Dark]]'' Izuku uses [[CombatTentacles Black Whip]] to circumvent Nomu's Shock Absorption by using gradual leverage to essentially gently pick it up and spin it at gradually higher speeds before hammer throwing it. |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/IfICouldStartAgain'': Anyone who can speak Allspeak can understand and be understood by anyone in the universe, regardless of what language they speak. However, it translates to their native tongue, so they can have a hard time understanding how a word sounds in the language it's actually spoken in. Despite having worked directly for Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Loki can't tell people how to pronounce his last name. |
| 106 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12574905/20/In-the-Kingdom-s-Service In the Kingdom's Service]]'' Mercury's ArmedLegs may be prosthetic and thus tougher than flesh and bone, but they can still be damaged. Jaune stabs Mercury in the knee and twists the knife before pulling it out. While Mercury isn't crippled like a normal person, the leg is still partially damaged and causes Mercury trouble when it won't support his weight properly. |
| 107 | ** Aura can protect against a blow only if it's specifically used to do so. Anyone with Huntsman training learns to do so instinctively to any attacks they see coming, but this naturally means Aura doesn't protect from sneak attacks. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/InaccurateLegends'': The Witch has to point at people to turn them into newts, so it can be sidestepped or blocked with a foreign object. |
| 109 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12290211/14/Jaden-s-Harem-Return-of-the-Supreme-King Jaden's Harem -- Return of the Supreme King]]'', [[GenderFlip Zana's]] strategy relies heavily around using Power Bond to summon Cyber End Dragon, so removing it from play somehow pretty much cripples her deck. |
| 110 | ** Furthermore, because her entire deck is built around machines, any card that changes their type to something else makes a great deal of her support cards useless. |
| 111 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Juxtapose}}'', Tsuburaba's Quirk relies on the air in his lungs to make barriers. Not only can he only make his barriers so large before they're too weak[[note]]When Monoma copies his Quirk and makes a spherical barrier to contain Izuku and his friend, Izuku goes right through it like it was paper[[/note]], but making several barriers in a short time period leaves him gasping for air. |
| 112 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13758290/7/The-Legend-of-the-Dragon-Ball-Rise-of-the-Saiyans The Legend of the Dragon Ball: Rise of the Saiyans]]'': When Bulma starts using illusions in her fight against Kefla, the latter tries tracking the real one by scent, only to realize that because they've been fighting all over the ring ''and'' sweating heavily, Bulma's scent is everywhere. |
| 113 | * Nunnally in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/12/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' has a geass that allows her to create illusions affecting anyone nearby but she has to concentrate to maintain them, so being startled will dispel said illusions. Likewise, since geass affects it's victims brains, someone watching on a camera won't be fooled. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/TheLogiaBrothers'': |
| 115 | ** If Mikita only uses her devil fruit on one part of her body, she risks unbalancing herself due to the difference in weight, even though she can't actually feel the change. |
| 116 | ** Lassoo being given life by a zoan devil fruit means he can also be killed. Usopp removes him as a factor by shooting him in the head while he's transformed, reverting Lassoo back into an ordinary bazooka. |
| 117 | * In ''Fanfic/MarieDSuesseAndTheMysteryNewPirateAge'', Admiral Lance D. Imba, who can [[PowerCopying copy anyone else's Devil Fruit Power]] and has taken several fruits already with his Copy Copy Fruit, takes in Mar's Logic Logic Fruit power and dies because the new fruit forces his powers to obey the laws of logic, including the rule that a Devil Fruit user who eats another one will be killed. This also references a sometimes-mentioned fear that people have when eating Devil Fruits; that they will lose the SuperPowerLottery and trade their ability to swim for a useless power; in this case, the power Imba stole worked against him. |
| 118 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13701065/9/Metagaming Metagaming?]]'': The [[Literature/HarryPotter Fidelius Charm]] can hide any piece of knowledge so that only the secret keeper can tell anyone where it is. However, the more people who know the information, the more magic it takes to hide. Harry mentions that one of the capital cities would be outright impossible. Hiding the location of C'thun's avatar (which a few hundred people know of) requires a ritual performed by himself, Luna, and Jaina and fueled at least in part by Azeroth herself. |
| 119 | ** A later chapter reveals another weakness. While no one can discover the secret without being told by the secret keeper, but they can deduce what it should be, even if they can't quite figure it out. Cho'gall leads the Twiligh Hammer to Ahn'qiraj because he (correctly) believes that the Qiraj's connection to C'thun means the Old God's avatar might be in that area. |
| 120 | ** Immortal or otherwise long lived races are so used to playing the LongGame that they are easily thrown off by abrupt changes[[note]]Abrupt meaning anything that happened in the last hundred years or less[[/note]] or will fail to notice someone's death/disappearance for a long time. A dragon who was kidnapped for a month by Malygos's forces wasn't missed by anyone because "it was only a month" and they're used to going decades without seeing each other. Lastly, they're far more vulnerable to anything that results in mass casualties as their habit of taking things slowly applies to courtships and sex[[note]]Adrastia comments that the Night Elves consider a thousand children born in a ''century'' to be a baby boom[[/note]]. |
| 121 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13224343/4/Metallurgy Metallurgy]]'', Izuku's Quirk, Quicksteel, creates an orb of liquid metal that he manipulates with his mind. In order to solidify it, Izuku has to mentally cool the metal while touching it, making it weak against heat since he has to expend more energy to keep it cool. |
| 122 | * In ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'', Aizawa fails to erase Izuku's power because it's not actually a Quirk. |
| 123 | * ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': For all of [[LadyOfBlackMagic Olga's]] arcane might, she needs a [[PowerCrutch staff]] in order to cast her spells. Therefore, she's helpless once the staff is lost or [[WreckedWeapon gets broken]]. |
| 124 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8702285/1/The-Ninth-Sekirei-Pillar The Ninth Sekirei Pillar]]'', Naruto can only use [[SuperMode Sage Mode]] for a few seconds at a time due to being in the middle of a large city and there not being enough Nature Chakra present. |
| 125 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/3726/chapters/4744 Nor Hell a Fury]]'' sees Dennis Guilder (''Literature/{{Christine}}'') working with the Winchester brothers (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'') to determine what kind of supernatural monster Christine actually ''is''. They eventually determine that she is essentially a "hell-stead", spirits that started out as things like a demonic horse that came back to life with the ghost of its original owner and then moved on to other means of transport. The Winchesters' research identify other such "hell-steads" as being a train, a military helicopter, or even a boat. One weakness these creatures have is that they actually ''need'' an owner/master so that they can gain focus, the Winchesters speculating that it's like a domesticated animal that can only do so much by its own initiative, thus justifying how Christine chooses targets based on who its owners resent (Dennis recalls realising that Christine was attacking college professors as an extension of Arnie's issues with his parents). Another weakness is that their chosen forms are often only useful under specific circumstances and it tends to move on when there's nothing further to be gained; the train ceased to be a problem when its line closed, the helicopter was left behind when the war ended, and the boat was eventually destroyed by bigger ships. This last is what makes Christine a particular challenge, as while more modern cars might be faster Christine is better suited to deliver and take punishment (as Dean puts it, "She's a little conspicuous, but weigh that against being able to smash a Neon to pieces.") |
| 126 | * ''Fanfic/OneMoreTrigger'': Mannequin's durable and completely sealed artificial body makes him very hard for most capes to damage, including almost the entirety of the Samaritans. However, because his body is almost entirely non-living (minus the sphere in the center containing his organs), he's highly susceptible to Vista's SpaceMaster powers. She casually defeats him by shrinking all his limbs into uselessness and leaving him stranded on a staircase. |
| 127 | * In ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/famguy3/art/Kids-Next-Door-Operation-Q-U-E-S-T-964611118 Kids Next Door: Operation Q.U.E.S.T.]]'', Greta Stuffum is a SupremeChef whose food is utterly addicting if one enjoys it. Thus, during the final battle with her, both Henrietta and Laura are able to simply spit the food back out and resist getting addicting simply because they don't like the food Greta attempts to make them eat. |
| 128 | * ''Fanfic/APeacefulAfterlife'': |
| 129 | ** Demons have FromASingleCell levels of healing. Kira's ability to completely vaporize someone makes him capable of killing demons without Seraphim weapons, and thus one of the most dangerous entities in Hell by default. |
| 130 | ** God Given's (human identity Donatello Versus, from ''Stone Ocean'') powers now allow him to create constructs based on memories, rather than just outright replays. This means that [[spoiler:finding the right hiding place can't be used to avoid the Exorcists he creates. However, the constructs can be fought off, since encountering one is not a guaranteed death sentence. Charlie and her gang can fight them off until Kira kills GG]]. |
| 131 | * In ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', the [=SUEs=], being [[ParodySue representations of Mary Sue archetypes]], fall into this from time to time. |
| 132 | ** Mariko Suou's powers cause everyone she meets to consider her the most important person in their lives. As this includes the Himes, who fight with their most precious person's life on the line, Akane's defeat results in Mariko's death. |
| 133 | ** Hitomi is [[TheSociopath utterly sociopathic]], and, like the Himes, fights with the life of her most important person on the line. She dies when she is defeated because she was her own most important person. |
| 134 | ** Shizune's power enables her to completely nullify one person's ability and reduce the effectiveness of all others around her; if enough people are around her, all of their powers are virtually useless. This does precisely diddly-squat to stop mundane means of attack, [[spoiler:which Natsuki exploits when she uses a handgun to kill Shizune]]. |
| 135 | ** Bachiko can rewrite people's personalities. However, this doesn't mean that she knows what changes will best accomplish her goals, and to make things worse, she's reckless. Because of this, she shoots herself in the foot several times. |
| 136 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5910693/1/ Pokemon: Lelouch of the Rebellion]]'', Mao is such a dangerous opponent because he can hear others' thoughts and plan around their plans. Unfortunately for him, telepathy is useless against someone [[UnstoppableRage so enraged that all they can think about is how much they want to kill him]]. In their final encounter, Lelouch utilizes this by having his Ninjask spam [[StatusBuff Double Team and Swords Dance]] after using Rage then forgets about it via Geass until he's out of other pokemon, then has it use Baton Pass to transfer it's status buffs to Lelouch whose evasion, attack, and speed are now maximized along with being thoroughly enraged and wielding a knife. |
| 137 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonWack'': Much like the main games, a lot of the types introduced have weaknesses, resistances, and immunities that make logical sense. |
| 138 | ** Wind-type moves have no effect on Cosmic-type Pokemon, since there's no air in space. |
| 139 | ** Rock-type Pokemon are weak to Paper-type moves, while Paper-type Pokemon resist Rock-type moves. After all, Paper beats Rock in RockPaperScissors. |
| 140 | ** Tech-type Pokemon are weak to Virus moves because, once your computer (or other piece of technology) contracts a virus, it tends to glitch out and stop working. |
| 141 | ** Bug-type Pokemon being immune to Nuclear-type moves is a reference to how cockroaches can survive nuclear devastation in real life. |
| 142 | ** Food-type Pokemon are weak to Poison-type moves, since poisoning food renders it completely inedible. |
| 143 | ** Rubber-type Pokemon are immune to Electric-type moves, since rubber is a very good insulator of electricity. |
| 144 | ** Zombie-type Pokemon are immune to Fear-type moves, because fear is a purely emotional response, which won't have any effect on someone or something without a brain. |
| 145 | ** Ghost-type Pokemon are immune to Blood-type attacks, since ghosts are spectral beings, and therefore have no blood in their bodies. |
| 146 | ** Water-type attacks are super effective against Tech-type Pokemon because if an electronic device such as a phone, laptop, or radio (or at least those that aren't waterproof), it no longer works (even drying it out may not guarantee that it will work again). Also, Water-type Pokemon are weak to Plastic attacks because plastic is a well-known pollutant of oceans in real life. |
| 147 | ** The Fear type being super-effective against itself may be a reference to the phrase "We have nothing to fear, except fear itself". Also, Fear is super-effective against Psychic, because it's hard to concentrate when you're scared. |
| 148 | * ''Fanfic/ProfessorArc'': |
| 149 | ** Most Grimm are functionally mindless and the ones old enough to have become intelligent have generally fought humans before which reinforces their inborn hatred of humanity. However, Salem created a smaller more intelligent breed of Nevermore that specializes in information gathering. Unfortunately, any Grimm smart enough to carry out and interpret orders is also smart enough to feel emotions like enjoyment and pleasure, causing the Nevermore Neo took as a pet to become loyal to her and Jaune after being shown affection and care. |
| 150 | ** Whips rely on momentum more than almost any other melee weapon and have wide swinging arcs. If a whip user doesn't have enough room to swing their weapon properly, it becomes worthless as a weapon. Neo stops the fight between Ilia and Sienna (both of whom use whips) by collapsing the tent they're fighting in. |
| 151 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29573091/chapters/72683475 Prophetic]]'': Izuku's Quirk alerts him to what's happening that day via a poem when he wakes up in the morning. However, it has multiple weaknesses. First, Izuku's Quirk only works once a day and only for that day up to midnight. So he can't learn about anything that happens further out. Second, his Quirk's cooldown only resets if Izuku is asleep before midnight, otherwise he won't get a poem that day. Third, unless Izuku focuses on a specific person, the poem will only pertain to those he can travel to on his own[[note]]When Izuku first got his Quirk, it wouldn't alert him to anything more than a few apartments away because his mother didn't let him go further than that. By the time he's a teenager, it will alert Izuku to anything in Mustafu[[/note]]. Finally, the poems can only be so long, which will cause them to prioritize more immediate problems[[note]]Izuku doesn't learn his mother abandoned him until weeks afterwards because his Quirk was focusing on things like the USJ attack[[/note]]. |
| 152 | * [[MiniMecha Glasglows]] in ''Fanfic/RiseOfANewMoon'' are far faster and more maneuverable than tanks could ever dream of. However, said speed and agility come at the cost of both armor and firepower. If one can negate their advantages by say, firing upon the entire area they're in, Glasglows go down quickly. |
| 153 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8242867/1/Risks-and-Sacrifices Risks and Sacrifices]]'' [[Anime/CodeGeass flying Knightmare frames]] are far weaker to the Gefujin Disturber than normal ones because while they're shut down, they're also falling out of the sky, much like the difference between a car and a helicopter running out of gas. Lelouch takes out over half an attacking force by using a massive Gefujin Disturber after flying low enough that the fall didn't damage his Knightmare. |
| 154 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50209543/chapters/130008982#workskin A Ruinous Gift]]'': |
| 155 | ** Oni Lee's teleportation actually works by cloning himself at a location within his line of sight then killing his old body moments later, wearing away at his mind with each use. This leaves him so vulnerable to psychic attacks that Taylor assumes complete control of him on accident. |
| 156 | ** Tattletale's power is less effective on Taylor aka Psyker than most people because the other girl's functionally infinite ability to multitask allows her to concentrate on controlling the microexpressions Tattletale uses to obtain information. While she does get information from Psyker, a good deal of it is useless tidbits unrelated to the current situation, such as Taylor's constant arousal due to her powers. Similarly, Tattletale can't get ''any'' information off Oni Lee as he's little more than a zombie and has no true thoughts of his own. |
| 157 | * Several Devil Fruit weaknesses come up in ''Fanfic/ShinobiOfTheHighSeas'', often in relation to Naruto. |
| 158 | ** Jewelry Bonney's age changing powers are useless against Naruto due to him being TheAgeless. |
| 159 | ** Smoker's elemental form is weak to strong winds which can disperse him. |
| 160 | ** Hancock's [[TakenForGranite Love Love Beam]] doesn't work on someone who's too pissed off to lust after her. |
| 161 | ** Since Kizaru turns into light, he's vulnerable to mirrors which can reflect him away from the battlefield. After their first encounter, where Naruto wins by trapping Kizaru in a ring of mirrors before tilting one, Kizaru makes a point of not using his Yatta Mirror technique to prevent a recurrence. |
| 162 | ** Whenever Perona uses her AstralProjection, her body is completely helpless. Paulie defeats her by tying up her unconscious body then tossing it into a bathtub full of water. |
| 163 | * In ''Fanfic/StallionOfTheLine'' Basil Hawkins voodoo dummies take time to set up and require a living target; as a result, anyone who can bring overwhelming offense to bear against him such as Ranma/Luffy's RapidFireFisticuffs will quickly exhaust his defense and leave Hawkins vulnerable. |
| 164 | * ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': |
| 165 | ** As revealed in Chapter 14, in order to use the Noise-Noise Fruit's powers, Soundbite needs to be able to speak coherently; if he's gagged, his powers are useless. [[spoiler:Or at least until Chapter 40, when he Awakens his Devil Fruit.]] |
| 166 | ** In his light form, Kizaru is vulnerable to being refracted right out of the battlefield, [[spoiler:such as by a mirage]]. Traveling at the speed of light, he also has problems with being TooFastToStop if things don't go as planned, [[spoiler:such that once refracted he ends up partially embedding himself into the Red Line because he couldn't hit the brakes in time]]. |
| 167 | ** Because Iron Body requires tensing your body to endure a blow, being forced to relax negates it entirely. |
| 168 | ** Boa Hancock's [[TakenForGranite Love-Love Beam]] doesn't work on anyone/anything with no interest in humans or someone too young to feel lust. |
| 169 | * Harry's and Krum's firebolts in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-23251-16/BarefootXO+Time+and+Again.htm Time and Again]]'' are the fastest brooms on the market but their speed also hampers their maneuverability; as a result, they're poor brooms for a midair duel. When Cedric gets knocked off his broom, Harry commandeers it to make use of it's superior maneuverability. |
| 170 | * [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander's]] SuperSpeed is (from his point of view) closer to TimeStandsStill in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31157-4/CrazyDan+Timex+keeps+on+ticking.htm Timex... Keeps on Ticking]]'' so he never uses it to travel long distances. Even if everyone else sees him moving incredibly fast, he still experiences the entire time it takes him to run from one city to another, for example. Two other downsides were that he needed a special treadmill with a track that's moved by your feet and make sure to keep a fan running on high or he'll quickly run out of air when exercising in his apartment. |
| 171 | * ''FanFic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Indigo can easily teleport to any location by traveling the Internet via computers -- but only if the computers are ''on''. [[spoiler:Cutting the power to whatever room she's in effectively strands her, unless she's lucky enough to find a working smartphone.]] |
| 172 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': |
| 173 | ** The duplicates summoned by Yūrei no Ken are controlled by Ichigo's mind. As such, he can only create so many before his ability to finely control them weakens and he's reduced to just launching them at his enemy. |
| 174 | ** Tosen's shikai uses a high pitched sound to instantly knock out his enemies. Anyone who can't hear it, such as Bambietta (who has tinnitus), is immune. |
| 175 | ** Tesra's cero cornea fires a cero from his eye. The fact he has to look at whatever he's attacking and only has one eye not only makes it easy to dodge his attack but also leaves him a significant blindspot. |
| 176 | * ''Fanfic/{{White}}'': [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower Gremmy]] tries to make his creations immune to Barragan's power but because he can't figure out ''what'' said power is, he struggles for quite some time before finding a solution. Furthermore, since Gremmy's powers make things he imagines real, Barragan whittles away at his power by asking if he can imagine what'd happen to him if Barragan's power touches him. |
| 177 | * ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': Jaune and his sisters are Grimm hybrids, and have [[SoulPower Aura]] just like any other living thing. Their CombatTentacles, however, are provided by their [[TheSymbiote parasites]], which are pure Grimm and do not have Aura. Therefore their tentacles cannot be shielded, and tend to get cut off quite often. |
| 178 | * In ''Fanfic/WilhuffTarkinHeroOfTheRebellion'', Tarkin has his niece Rivoche and Luke deal with a Jedi Tusken Raider by having Luke shoot him in the head first then letting Rivoche shoot. As Luke is using a slugthrower, said Jedi's attempts to deflect the shot instead cause him to be hit in the face with molten metal which distracts him long enough for Rivoche to kill him. |
| 179 | * In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' and ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'', John's hearing has been improved considerably, to the point where he can hear all kinds of tiny noises. However, until he learned to finetune it, he had trouble sleeping because of all the noises he picked up around him. Worse, shrill or loud noises cause him pain, sometimes to the point of incapacitation. In ''Strings'', the shrieking of the Hunter's {{BFS}} Blackfire completely disables him during that encounter. In ''Keys'', [[spoiler: The Circle]] use this against him during their ambush at Hermit's Rock. When he tunes his hearing so he can hear very faint noises, the other noises he picks up give him a massive headache. |
| 180 | * In ''FanFic/WormMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', circumstances mean that Coil brings the hammer down harder on Lisa/Tattletale by demonstrating that he knows all the plans she's been making to get out from under him. While Lisa doesn't know ''how'' he's doing this (essentially, his power allows him to torture it out of her and then make it so that the torture didn't happen, but he retains the information), she realizes that while he'll know about her plans no matter how carefully she makes them, this only works for things she plans out in advance -- if she immediately acts on an idea (in this case, giving herself up to Dragon) instead of setting up a plan, she won't give him the time to learn anything. |
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| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'': |
| 185 | ** Dragons actually have a limited amount of firepower, because the pseudo-scientific way their BreathWeapon works requires them to exhale a flammable material and ignite it with a mechanism in their throat. While some species can recharge themselves quickly (usually by eating something), the majority cannot, and have to retreat to naturally regain their fuel. |
| 186 | ** The Hideous Zippleback has two heads that think independently of each other. If the heads have a conflicting interest, the Zippleback falls into in impasse because its body is trying to go in two directions at once. |
| 187 | ** Skrills absorb lightning through their metallic spines. Submerge one in water, and it loses all the stored electricity thanks to the water's conductivity. |
| 188 | ** Thunderdrums are hard of hearing to prevent their SuperScream from affecting themselves. This also makes them immune to the Death Song's hypnotic melody. |
| 189 | ** Changewings and Featherhides use ChameleonCamouflage to hide from foes. This ability is useless against Snow Wraiths, who have thermal vision. |
| 190 | ** The Death Song's amber will trap anything once it hardens. Slitherwings and Cavern Crashers are covered in slippery secretions, meaning the amber slides off of them before it can solidify. |
| 191 | * ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'': |
| 192 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': |
| 193 | *** Violet can be seen while invisible if one throws something other than her suit on her. It has to be her custom-made supersuit too. Her regular clothes stay visible when she vanishes. Her barrier powers can keep external attacks away, but since she usually leaves a portion of the ground she's standing on unprotected, it leaves her open to attack from a hypnotized Voyd who can [[ThinkingUpPortals make a portal]] on that patch of ground ''inside'' the barrier. It is also implied in other media that both of her powers are physically draining. |
| 194 | *** Frozone relies on the water in the air to use his ice powers. When he's in a place with no water, like an apartment fire, he's useless. He also sometimes needs to keep hydrated himself, needing to request a drink of water while held at gun point for his chance to escape. Also, his typical method of transportation, creating and sliding around on ice paths, means he can't stop quickly or turn on a dime, which Voyd and Brick exploit in the sequel to capture him. |
| 195 | *** The Omnidroid was tested in one-on-one combat with various superheroes. While this gave it great tactical acumen and the ability to adapt to any opponent, it was never tested against a superhero ''team'', and thus when the final version fights the Parr family plus Frozone, it tends to fixate on stopping one hero at a time. Additionally, while all versions of it are made of a more-or-less indestructible material, that means it can be damaged and destroyed by anything made of the same material, including parts of its own body. |
| 196 | ** ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': |
| 197 | *** It's revealed that Elastigirl cannot use her stretching powers in extremely cold temperatures or she'll shatter. Also, while elastic, she isn't made of rubber and is briefly put on the ropes when a cattle prod is used against her in that same film. |
| 198 | *** Screenslaver's hypnosis requires the victim to be looking at the screen in order to maintain control, thus not looking directly at the screens or closing your eyes makes you immune. The Screenslaver learns to bypass this weakness with goggles which contain miniature screens that are put directly over a person's eyes. It helps if they are caught off-guard and even partially removing them breaks the trance. |
| 199 | *** The film also clarifies that ''both'' eyes need to be covered: Jack-Jack frees his mom from a pair of Hypno-Goggles simply by pushing one of the lenses onto her forehead. |
| 200 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'', it's revealed that Franchise/{{Batman}} had created [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-style]] plans on how to defeat each Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} member (including himself) should they [[FaceHeelTurn go rogue]]. For example, his recommended strategy for defeating Franchise/GreenLantern is using subliminal messages to trick him into thinking he's blind, which will then cause the ring to ''make'' him blind [[YourMindMakesItReal due to his own willpower]]. He also recommends breaking ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'s windpipe to keep her from performing incantations, and freezing ComicBook/PlasticMan with liquid nitrogen to stop him from from shapeshifting. The audio of these plans was released on the DVD extras and can be heard [[https://youtu.be/PAVy8wY0mgw here]]. |
| 201 | * ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': |
| 202 | ** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': The entire plot is about how Lord Shen has broken the FantasyGunControl by inventing cannons, which are a complete GameChanger that are far stronger than any kung-fu. However, Po discovers a simple flaw: The cannons are big and cumbersome to aim, allowing a quick target to just run around and keep them from getting a bead on him. There's a reason why in real life gunpowder didn't truly supplant other weapons until handheld versions were invented. |
| 203 | ** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': BigBad Kai has an army of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot jade statue zombies of kung fu masters]] (Jombies for short) that he can see and hear through, making an ambush impossible. Po's solution: [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers Have an army of villagers engage the jombies]], distracting Kai long enough for Po to get close enough for a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Wuxi]] [[InstantKill Finger]] [[SupernaturalSealing Hold]]. |
| 204 | * [[AdorableAbomination Stitch]] of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has a very dense molecular structure and while that gives him SuperStrength and endurance, it also means he can't swim. Much to his frustration, he's stuck on an island for the entire film. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': |
| 206 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', the Sirens use their singing to brainwash everyone into infighting. [[spoiler:Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3, who has her headphones on all the time, never gets brainwashed simply because she never hears them.]] |
| 207 | ** Later in the series, Rainbow Dash gains SuperSpeed. In "Holidays Unwrapped", she mentions she learned the hard way that speed and icy sidewalks are [[TooFastToStop a bad combination]]. She also naturally needs to be free of her movements to reach Super Speed, and an ImpracticallyFancyOutfit hampering her legs can slow her down considerably. |
| 208 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', Mongo (an 80-foot-tall Gingerbread Man) is vulnerable to becoming soggy. Naturally, he's defeated with huge pitchers of warm milk. |
| 209 | * The [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Cybugs]] from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' absorb properties of anything they eat. This can make them much stronger (one is shown eating a laser gun, at which point [[BodyHorror cannons start sprouting from its body]]), but it backfires when [[spoiler:[[SugarApocalypse they get loose]] in ''Sugar Rush''; there's nothing around to eat but candy, so they all ''become'' part-candy, making it easier for Ralph and Calhoun to smash them apart]]. Also, because the Cybugs are insects, they're naturally drawn to bright light, which allows them to be defeated by creating a beacon of light. Later in the film, [[spoiler:a Cybug eats King Candy/Turbo, and because of his nature as a sentient virus, [[AssimilationBackfire his personality is able to override the Cybug's, leaving him in control of its body]]... at least, until a makeshift "beacon" is activated and the Cybug's base instincts overpower King Candy's protests, dragging them both to their death]]. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 213 | * ''Film/AbsolutelyAnything'': Neil has to say what he wants and wave his hand, then it will happen. [[spoiler:Grant]] knocks him out, then ties Neil down, keeps him gagged and restrains his right hand with orders to make certain wishes. He holds Neil's dog hostage and threatens to shoot him if Neil says anything except what he's written down for him. Only then will he unbind his hand and ungag Neil. |
| 214 | * In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', the cold-blooded Lizard becomes sluggish and vulnerable when chilled. |
| 215 | * ''Film/BirdBox'': The creatures can drive anyone who looks at them to suicide. People therefore use blindfolds or cover windows to resist this. [[spoiler:The safe haven at the end is a former school for blind children. Blind people are most of those living there, though sighted ones join, warned by the birds when the creatures approach.]] |
| 216 | * In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', Bullseye manages to exploit Daredevil SuperHearing by creating sufficiently loud noises during their battle. In the director's cut of the film, Daredevil's LivingLieDetector powers are fooled by a witness with a pacemaker. |
| 217 | * ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'': |
| 218 | ** In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Clark initially struggles to adapt to having SuperSenses, since he needs to learn to filter out being able to hear pretty much everything. It is also said that his powers come from the entirety of Earth's ecosystem: a more nourishing atmosphere, lighter gravity and a yellow sun. When aboard the Kryptonian ship which has an atmosphere similar to Krypton, it throws his body chemistry out of sync and he is BroughtDownToNormal. This is later used against the other Kryptonians, as they were insulating themselves in PoweredArmor because the transition is difficult to manage. |
| 219 | ** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': |
| 220 | *** Bloodsport, due to his AdaptationalSuperpowerChange into a WalkingArsenal, is limited by the fact there's only so much weight he can carry and space to put IkeaWeaponry components while still being an effective marksman, so if a job goes on for too long he'll eventually run out of weapons. [[spoiler:Which is exactly what happens during the battle with Starro, as he not only used most of his components over the previous few days, he used up the rest of them surviving against Starro's ParasiteZombie horde.]] |
| 221 | *** [=TDK's=] only power is the ability to detach his arms from his body and make them float separately. But they still seem to be connected to the rest of his body in some way, [[spoiler:so when the soldiers on the beach resort to riddling his detached arms with bullets, he winds up quickly bleeding out.]] |
| 222 | *** Starro's duplicates can only latch on to people's faces if they are completely unprotected. [[spoiler: As such, the Squad are able to avoid being controlled in the finale by simply covering their faces with their masks or hands, or in King Shark's case, having a face that is too large and abnormally shaped for them to latch on to.]] |
| 223 | ** Towards the end of ''Film/Shazam2019'', Dr. Sivana, [[spoiler:learning of Shazam's true identity as Billy Batson, [[WouldHurtAChild submerges Billy's head underwater]], knowing that little Billy can neither speak his incantation to transform nor survive long before drowning.]] |
| 224 | * Queenie from ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' is a mind reader and can read foreigners' thoughts but has trouble understanding them, especially if English isn't their first language. She's American and tells British protagonist Newt in the first movie that she has trouble with his accent. In the second movie, she gets lost looking for her sister in Paris and then quickly gets a SensoryOverload because everyone around her is thinking in French so all she hears is gibberish. The language barrier also conceals the motives of the seemingly kind woman who helps her off the street whose motives are anything but kind. |
| 225 | * In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', when Doom first tries to get rid of the Four, he fires a heat-seeking RPG at Johnny, and hooks Reed up to canisters of liquid nitrogen, making him brittle. [[spoiler:In the final battle, Reed takes advantage of Doom's metal body by having Johnny hit him with a massive inferno, and then hosing him with water from a fire hydrant -- the rapid cooling [[AndIMustScream hardens and freezes him into a statue]].]] |
| 226 | * The final fight in ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' is quick, but Doctor Doom still gets to exploit this on the Fantastic Four. He uses his telekinetic and EldritchLocation powers to use dirt to overwhelm and smother Johnny's flames, giant rocks to repeatedly beat back and tire out Ben, destroys the coils that allow Reed to control his powers and hold his body together, and forces Sue to use her force fields long enough that she risks running out of oxygen and suffocating. |
| 227 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': |
| 228 | ** ''Film/SpaceAmoeba'': As a cold-based organism, [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} Gezora]] is extremely vulnerable to, and ultimately killed by fire. |
| 229 | ** ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'': As a BlobMonster made out of sludge, Hedorah will die when completely dried out, which is how it is eventually killed in the film. And in ''Literature/{{Godzilla}} At World's End'', where it died after the rain stopped, allowing Godzilla to dry out its body with his radioactive ray and finally incinerate it. |
| 230 | ** ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'': The moment when Godzilla started to utilize [[EleventhHourSuperPower his magnetic abilities]], [[Characters/GodzillaMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] could only fly around so much until the robot was (literally) dragged down to ground level, right into Godzilla's grasp where he's unable to make a retreat. |
| 231 | ** See below for [=MonsterVerse=] examples. |
| 232 | * ''[[Film/TheLoveBug Herbie Rides Again]]'': Herbie, [[SentientVehicle while a nice car]], can cause a lot of damage when he snaps. [[CoolOldLady Grandma Steinmetz]], however, figured out a way to get him to behave: threatening to send him to [[HonestJohnsDealership a used car lot]]. |
| 233 | * ''Film/HollowMan'': |
| 234 | ** The first film states that having invisible tissue also applies to one's eyelids, meaning that bright lights make the titular character uncomfortable. Also, even though he's invisible to the light spectrum, he can still be detected on infrared. |
| 235 | ** The DirectToVideo sequel shows the long-term side effects of invisibility. Apparently, without skin to block solar radiation, exposure to the sun eventually results in, first, madness, and then radiation sickness. The BigBad of the sequel is a test subject who is in the first stage (being a trained soldier, it also means he's much deadlier than the BigBad of the first film). We're then shown a previous test subject, who is now visible again thanks to his skin looking like he has third-degree burns all over his body and he's slowly dying. |
| 236 | * In ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', since benders need their element to be present while they attack, firebenders need to set up sources of fire before fights (note that this is not the case in the show, where firebenders simply shoot fire from their hands). For some mysterious reason, none of the characters actually take advantage of this weakness by dousing the flames even though Pakku actually points it out before the end battle. Also, [[spoiler:Iroh's fighting near the movie's end implies that ''really'' powerful firebenders can overcome the weakness and generate their own fire]]. |
| 237 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 238 | ** ''Film/IronMan1'': The Iron Monger is based off of the Mark 1 specs, which comes into play during the final battle when [[spoiler:Tony tricks Stane into following him into the upper atmosphere, at which point the Iron Monger starts to freeze, since the Mark 1 didn't have a fix for the [[ChekhovsGun icing problem]].]] |
| 239 | ** ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'': [[BigBad Dormammu]] is established early on as living in the timeless Dark Dimension. Therefore, he has no concept of time, making time magic a gaping chink in his armor. Strange exploits this in the climax: he creates an infinite time loop before throwing himself into the meat grinder of Dormammu's superior sorcery. Dormammu, having no concept of time, throws spell after spell at Strange, only for Strange to resuscitate, until he gives up at the prospect of fighting Strange for eternity and is willing to hear Strange out. |
| 240 | ** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': To actually use the immense power of the Infinity Gauntlet, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] has to close his hand into a fist. The heroes who pick up on this immediately exploit it; the Cloak of Levitation and Captain America pry his hand open, Spider-Man webs up his fingers, and Iron Man uses a gadget to force his hand into an open position. The Russos said they added this vulnerability to give the heroes a chance. |
| 241 | *** Iron Man has a fancy new nanotech suit that can deploy almost instantly, and turn into just about anything he can imagine. This lets him go toe-to-toe with Thanos, but Thanos keeps destroying the nanomachines, forcing Tony onto the literal and figurative back foot. By the time they're done, Tony barely has any nanos left at all. In ''Endgame'', Tony prefers energy weapons, which use less power and don't use up his nano-supply. The Mark 85 armor is plated and segmented, so it takes hits better than the one piece Mark 50. |
| 242 | ** Proxima Midnight manages to go toe-to-toe with Scarlet Witch (who is much more powerful on paper) just by keeping the pressure on in close range, and sucker shots, once from behind. But as soon as Wanda has a few seconds to think and enough motivation for her emotion-influenced powers, she instantly throws Proxima into a burning car. It goes even worse when they fight on an open field, in broad daylight. Proxima punches Wanda from behind, but some other heroines show up and buy Wanda recovery time. Then Wanda gets up and tosses Proxima into a deadly hazard. Again. This time it sticks. |
| 243 | ** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Mysterio]]'s ability to use illusions and MindRape his target only effect the ''normal'' senses. This works fine the first time he fights Spider-Man, where he forces him to live out his worst nightmares, tricks him into giving away his friends, and causing him to get hit by a train. The ''[[VillainForgotToLevelGrind second]]'' time, however, Spider-Man becomes fully in-tune with his SpiderSense -- and thus any illusion he could cast falls apart, as Mysterio simply has no answer to a super sense that acts as CombatClairvoyance. In the final battle, Mysterio attempts to blind Spider-Man with a [[CastingAShadow shroud of darkness]] against gunfire, only for Spider-Man to effortlessly dodge all of it before closing in the gap between them. For any opponent, the spider-sense is merely an advantage, but against Mysterio, the sense makes him a ManOfKryptonite]]. |
| 244 | * ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'': |
| 245 | ** [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] has a few. His arms, though very strong, are relatively short compared to the rest of his body, and the male MUTO in ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' takes advantage of his limited grasp. [[spoiler:Godzilla's tail, on the other hand, has a much greater range and is used to finish off the MUTO.]] |
| 246 | ** [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingKong Kong]] has two in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. As an ape, he's not adept at swimming, which puts him at a severe disadvantage when he gets dragged by Godzilla into the ocean, and he might have lost that battle there and then if not for human intervention. It's established later in the film that he's not built to survive in Antarctica's ice desert and he'll likely soon die if he remains there, which makes sense since he's lived in a tropical climate on Skull Island all his life. |
| 247 | ** [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is a GiantFlyer which gives him a tactical advantage over Godzilla, but it also makes him physically ill-equipped for being underwater. Godzilla, a semi-aquatic saurian, therefore has a huge HomefieldAdvantage against Ghidorah when he drags the latter into the ocean -- even if he needs to keep Ghidorah under the water to stop him just flying back out of the ocean and even if Ghidorah likely can't drown due to his BizarreAlienBiology, Ghidorah is clearly losing when Godzilla has him in the Pacific Ocean. Additionally, the yellow flashes of light emanating from his body seems to indicate that the water shorts out his electrical abilities. |
| 248 | ** Being a machine, the one thing [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] [[spoiler:lacks compared to his predecessor Ghidorah is a HealingFactor. Thus, once a way is found to actually deal damage, he is able to be defeated fairly rapidly and doesn't need to be incinerated]]. |
| 249 | ** See the Comic Books folder for another example. |
| 250 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': Blackbeard has a sword that allows him to magically control ships, thus making him exceptionally dangerous as a pirate as he can make enemy ships turn on their crew. But that power is useless if Blackbeard is on dry land, far away from any ships. Barbossa, who experienced Blackbeard's magic first hand, is quick to realize this, and thus feels comfortable enough to challenge Blackbeard when they are on land. |
| 251 | * In ''Film/AQuietPlace'', the world has been invaded by alien monsters with hearing so sensitive that even a scream miles away will attract them to hunt and kill humans. The end of the film reveals that their logical weakness is [[spoiler:very loud levels of noise. What might be mildly unpleasant to a human's hearing would be physically devastating for one of these aliens]]. After the weakness is exploited, the aliens can be killed with [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter a shotgun blast to the head]]. [[Film/AQuietPlacePartII The sequel]] also shows another logical weakness of a creature completely covered in armour strong enough to resist gunfire: [[spoiler:they're too heavy to swim and [[SuperDrowningSkills sink like bricks in the water]]]]. |
| 252 | * ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'': The BigBad gets himself an expensive suit that allows him to transmit sensations from virtual reality all over his body (most people get by with the bare minimum of gloves and a headset). Meaning that when his avatar [[GroinAttack gets kicked in the balls]], he feels it in real life. |
| 253 | * ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': Sherlock is a significantly less capable combatant without time to think about his moves and/or SherlockScan his opponent. He can also be blindsided by (enemy or ally) moves he didn't see coming, and there are levels of force he simply cannot counter, only try to survive. [[spoiler:Like bombs going off at close range.]] |
| 254 | ** In the climax of the second film, [[spoiler:Sherlock's wounded and faces Moriarty. Moriarty equals Sherlock's skill and predictive abilities, and Sherlock cannot see ''any'' way to conventionally win a fight for his life. The best he can do is TakingYouWithMe.]] Sherlock also counters Moriarty's whole scheme by [[spoiler:making moves ''Moriarty'' ([[UnspokenPlanGuarantee and the audience]]) didn't see coming. It turns out someone as smart as Moriarty still needs to manage his criminal empire by writing things down, so Holmes steals the notebook and gets the cops to confiscate Moriarty's wealth.]] |
| 255 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 256 | ** Force users can interact with the physical realm, making them difficult to incarcerate because they can telepathically manipulate the mechanics of most locks. Obi-Wan is restrained in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' through what appears to be a magnetic field suspending him in the air, a device without a simple switch to control and the restraint itself limiting his ability to focus. |
| 257 | ** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', General Grievous, while a powerful cyborg, is not a Force-user and is therefore extremely vulnerable to Force powers as he has no means of defense or response. While this should be obvious, in the movie as well as in [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars other]] [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars media]], [[ForgotAboutHisPowers hardly anyone thinks to use the Force against him]], though since using the Force requires mental focus that can't be spared when one is under attack by a cyborg with multiple plasma swords, this is somewhat justified. In his [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars first appearance]] he got around this by relying on ambushes and fast attacks that kept his opponent on the back foot (with Count Dooku actually spelling out the reasons), but this element was later dropped. |
| 258 | ** [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]] is an old man. While he is shown to be a very skilled lightsaber duelist, force user, and strategist, his physical strength, stamina, and agility seem to have left with his youth. So, while he can hold his own against Maul and Savage, Mace Windu, and Yoda, he does not have the endurance to stay in protracted fights that he can't win quickly, instead relying on the Force to keep himself going. Add a few decades to that, and in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' he's completely helpless against Darth Vader when he grabs and lifts him. |
| 259 | ** The Dark Side in general has one: it relies on letting emotions go completely wild and [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide throwing away control]], which comes at the price of promoting [[{{Pride}} overconfidence]] and [[FailedASpotCheck losing focus on their surroundings]] in their sadism. |
| 260 | ** The ''Nebulon-B'' frigates have a large forward section with most of the weapons and a smaller engine block with the reactor connected by a thin spar. In ''Film/RogueOne'', Darth Vader's ''Devastator'' one-shots a frigate with a single precision turbolaser to the spar, breaking it in two and separating the weapons from the reactor that powers them. |
| 261 | %%*** This is a weakness known well enough that in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' during the battle of Atollon the ''first'' shot seen striking a frigate is on the connection spar. While the frigate had full shields and avoided being broken in two, that single shot caused enough damage the ship lost power immediately. |
| 262 | * ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': David Dunn progressively learns that he is [[SuperStrength awesomely strong]] and [[SuperToughness extremely durable]]. He also finds that he has the power to [[DetectEvil sense a crime a person has committed]] or is about to commit when he touches them. However, he has the realistic weakness of water. This makes sense, as water wouldn't be affected by hyper-immunity or strength but affect the lungs when drowning the same as any normal person's. Plus, since his strength and durability are the result of bones that are denser than a normal humans, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers he would also sink a lot more easily]]. Additionally, it's a [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes mental weakness]], since he has a crippling fear of water after he nearly drowned as a child. |
| 263 | ** ''Film/{{Split}}'': Kevin only has [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Beast]]'s various powers [[YourMindMakesItReal when that personality is in control of his body]], including his NighInvulnerability. Thus, in ''Film/Glass2019'', Dr. Staples and her team contain him with hypnotic strobe lights that, when flashed, cause Kevin to switch personalities, pushing the Beast back down every time it gets out and allowing them to detain Kevin. Later, [[spoiler:a strike team manages to kill the Beast by simply waiting for Casey to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight bring Kevin's original personality to the surface]], [[ShootTheDog then shooting him dead]]; the Beast is immune to bullets, but Kevin isn't]]. |
| 264 | * ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'': |
| 265 | ** Despite [[Characters/TerminatorMainContinuityHumans Sarah Connor]]'s impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary. |
| 266 | ** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': The [[Characters/TerminatorMainContinuityMachines T-1000]]'s body must remain mostly intact, as the T-800 explains he can't morph into something with independent parts, chemicals or complicated moving devices like a vehicle, gun or explosive but is a [[ShapeshifterWeapon shapeshifter that can morph arms into bladed weapons]]. His liquid metal form also lets him re-form after sustaining damage, but being flexible liquid means he [[MadeOfPlasticine is MORE affected]] by gunshots than the solid-frame T-800[[note]]the bullets spread the liquid metal away from the T-1000, and he has to wait for it to slowly rejoin his main mass; in contrast, the T-800 just takes the hit and likely has the bullet bounce off with no damage[[/note]]. It can also only replicate objects of approximate equal size, meaning it can't disguise itself as an inanimate object or something small enough to go unnoticed and sneak up on John. |
| 267 | ** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': The [[Characters/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines T-X]]'s ArmCannon seems to be the only part of her body that seems to be permanently damageable, and even that takes a direct hit from a rocket launcher to accomplish. This makes sense as it seems to be quite complex with lots of small moving parts and powered components. |
| 268 | ** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': It's practically impossible to do any permanent damage to the [[Characters/TerminatorGenisys T-3000]], but with electromagnetic weapons (or even simple Terminator body slams) it's pretty easy to knock him around in a way you can't really do with the heavier, endoskeleton-based T-800 or T-X. |
| 269 | ** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': The Rev-9 can separate, but its two forms are both weaker on their own individually seem to have less mass and power than a full dedicated Terminator. Its liquid self seems goopier and less shock-absorbent than a T-1000 and without the endoskeleton, it's much more easily staggered by bullets and explosives and can even be slashed to pieces with sufficient force, and its endoskeleton (which appears considerably more hollow than a T-800, presumably to accommodate the extra mass from the liquid metal half) seems to be able to exert less hydraulic force than a T-800 and also proves to be lighter and more vulnerable without the added weight of the liquid metal (Carl and Grace are both seen knocking the endoskeletal Rev-9 around rather easily compared to its combined form). Overall, the Rev-9 is by far the most agile and acrobatic Terminator ever seen (at least in the live-action films), but its litheness also makes it much easier to knock around and displace than Skynet's machines. |
| 270 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 271 | ** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The future Sentinels exploit several logical weaknesses in their battles with the future X-Men. [[spoiler:They deliberately focus firepower on Bishop and force-feed him so much energy that it overloads him, use extreme heat and fire to negate Iceman's powers, and after all the other X-Men are dealt with, they focus on swarming Blink, attacking her from so many angles that she can't think to make portals fast enough. They're also made of an advanced polymer, meaning Magneto has to fall back on using outside sources of metal to fight them, making it easier for them to take him on.]] |
| 272 | ** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Jean Grey's JediMindTrick is useless against security cameras. No matter how powerful the psychic, it doesn't matter against something that doesn't have a mind. |
| 273 | ** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': |
| 274 | *** Professor X is the most powerful psychic on the planet with abilities that could easily be compared to a weapon of mass destruction. When he begins to suffer from seizures as a result of Alzheimer's disease and loses control of said mind it results in lethal psychic waves affecting anyone nearby. |
| 275 | *** Logan's adamantium skeleton made him essentially indestructible, but has slowly been poisoning him since he got it. After decades of this his HealingFactor has begun to slow down, and can no longer fight the poison and keep him in his physical prime at the same time, leaving Logan severely weakened and in constant pain. |
| 276 | *** Laura may be a ferocious fighter with the same abilities as Wolverine, but she's still a child and can easily be overpowered and restrained by the adult mercenaries pursuing her. [[spoiler:The same goes for the rest of the X-23 kids, who also have super powers but are at the same disadvantage.]] |
| 277 | *** [[spoiler:While Mutants have super human abilities, they all come from the same source, the x-gene. Transigen was able to successfully wipe out mutantkind by targeting it specifically. Putting modified corn syrup in food to suppress or eliminate the gene, preventing any new mutants from being born, and simply waiting for the existing ones to die out.]] |
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| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 281 | * ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'': |
| 282 | ** Achilles was invulnerable except for his AchillesHeel, but he still needed to breathe. In one story, he got into a fight with the river god Scamander, and Scamander almost managed to kill him by drowning him. Hephaestus had to rescue Achilles. |
| 283 | ** Similarly, Bellerophon killed the Chimera by tying a lump of lead to the end of his spear and jamming it into its throat. The Chimera's own fire-breath melted the lead and suffocated it. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Even monsters need air]]. |
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| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 287 | * Lightningrod in ''Podcast/RollToBreathe'' can pull electricity towards her, but she is not immune to electricity. Without her special suit, charging her powers causes immense pain. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 291 | * In ''Roleplay/AsukaQuest'', several of the Angels/ Giant Alien Starfish have these sorts of weaknesses. Sandalphon, for example, is a ZeroEffortBoss once Asuka pierces its AT field on the surface, because it wasn't ready for the sudden pressure difference between magma and air. Iruel, who manifests as a computer virus, is BSOD-ed (via a RealityBreakingParadox move in the simulators). Armisael is strong against AT fields, but KillItWithFire still works just fine. The MP-Evas can't regenerate if their cores or plugs are destroyed. [[spoiler: SEELE's Demi-Adam is covered with armor that cannot be pierced by AT-fields, but it can't stop effects caused by AT fields, like an AT railgun that fires a degenerate matter projectile, or a sonic cannon.]] |
| 292 | * That Luna from ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' can create electricity and often does so subconsciously means it's dangerous for her to be out in the rain or otherwise near a water source, as she discovers when the school sprinklers get set off and she has to fight not to electrocute anyone. |
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| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 296 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 297 | ** In most versions, spell casters must perform one or more actions, denoted as Components. There's speaking loudly and clearly (a verbal component), which can be blocked by gagging or silencing the caster. There's moving and gesturing (a somatic component), blocked by binding the caster's arms and legs. And there's using an item either as a material component consumed in the spell or as a focus to channel the spell, both blocked by taking the item(s) away. Many spells also require a clear line of sight to the target, although there are exceptions like area of effect spells or some exceptions that target specific people or creatures you know regardless of their location. |
| 298 | ** The ''silence'' spell makes an area magically silent. It prevent spells that require a verbal component from being used in it, since the words can't be heard. However, it also has the side effect of making the area immune to sonic/thunder damage. Since sonic damage is [[MakeSomeNoise based on the target(s) being damaged by overwhelmingly loud noise]], it would logically do nothing in an area made to be magically silent. |
| 299 | ** A Druid's Wild Shape can only transform them into animals, beasts, and creatures that the Druid has seen with their own eyes. So you can't make a Druid turn into a whale if they've never so much as seen the ocean before. |
| 300 | ** Several spells and abilities based on sound or speech (such as Bardic Inspiration or Vicious Mockery for a bard) require the target to be able to hear the caster in order for them to work. Other spells that force the target to obey a command (like ''{{geas}}'') require that the target also be able to understand the language the caster uses to cast the spell; if they don't speak the same language, it won't work. |
| 301 | ** ''Zone of Truth'' makes anyone inside the zone [[CannotTellALie unable to tell a lie]]. However, the spell doesn't compel anyone to speak. Also, one can use something that's MetaphoricallyTrue or hinges on ExactWords to technically be telling the truth while still being vague. Finally, it specifies that affected creatures can't tell a ''deliberate'' lie, meaning that they can still state falsehoods that they wholeheartedly believe in. |
| 302 | ** The weaknesses of some monsters can also be explained by this trope. For example, both mummies and scarecrows are noted to be vulnerable to fire damage - since mummies are essentially dried-out corpses wrapped in gauze and sealed with tar, while scarecrows are constructs made from wood, straw, and burlap, it's no surprise they're ''quite'' flammable. |
| 303 | * In both ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', characters can buy a power that allows them to heighten and refine their senses. Of course, if there's a sudden change in sensory input (e.g., opening a storage locker to find a rotting corpse when you've got heightened smell up), you're probably going to be reeling. |
| 304 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The entire host of mechanics in the game's many iterations is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration built around logical weaknesses of units, races and tactics]]. |
| 305 | ** Space Marines, Tau infantry and most elite units are few in number, but are still more valuable than a much larger squad of more basic troops. A common tactic for [[ZergRush horde armies]] is to entangle these elite troop with a mass of cheaper troops, preventing them from capturing objectives or targeting more important units. While they will almost inevitably win out in the end it will take time to do so, oftentimes meaning the result of the battle will already be decided by the time they're able to help. |
| 306 | ** Dark Eldar weaponry and armor are both designed for quick lethal volleys that break defense lines and allow for hit-and-run tactics. They are galactic pirates; just ''being'' in Realspace slowly drains them and dying in Realspace [[FateWorseThanDeath leaves their souls vulnerable to the predations of Slaanesh]], so lightning-fast raids to grab captives and loot while hopefully taking as few losses as possible is their entire doctrine. They have no need for TankGoodness or other heavy equipment. Prolonged combat is not something they exactly shine at, and Dark Eldar units that get caught tend to quickly die due to their poor defensive qualities. |
| 307 | ** The Tau are generally a bit smaller than humans, who are themselves dwarfed by several other races in the setting, and specialize very heavily in long-ranged weapons. As a result, they're pretty clearly the weakest faction in close combat, meaning that fighting them in melee is almost always an effective tactic, even for other factions that aren't particularly specialized for it. Their entire army is so weak in melee that they utilize allied regiments of another species just for the purpose of keeping enemy fighters at bay, and even those are not particularly amazing in close combat; they're just ''okay'' at it, which still makes them pretty easily one of the best Tau units in melee. |
| 308 | ** Due to an oversight in rules, Tau HumongousMecha battlesuits that can entrench (by rooting themselves to the ground with spikes for accuracy) will instantly be destroyed by a [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming enemy tank]], even if the ramming vehicle is 1/10 the size of the suit. Makes sense regardless, since the impact would simply shatter the mecha's legs and render it inoperable anyway. |
| 309 | ** Abilities that deal damage based on enemy morale are useless against armies that do not bother with the Leadership characteristic. |
| 310 | ** Poisoned weapons fulfill the specific role of slaying beasts that are so tough that they shrug off regular blows. The larger they are, the easier it is to down them with venom, since they can be hit with more doses from those weapons. |
| 311 | ** Due to a long-obsolete Instant Death rule, the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill No Kill Like Overkill]] weapons used to override the ability of weaker units to regenerate or revive and kill them instantly. As the game codex put it, it's hard to recover when you are vaporized. |
| 312 | ** The Ethereal Supreme Aun'va of the Tau used to have a special rule that allowed him to block an enemy attack based on its armor-piercing rating: the higher the AP value, the easier it is to block. You could guess how well it worked against lots of weaker hits. |
| 313 | ** Speaking of Ethereals, killing one is this for Tau. For a race that venerates its rulers with religious reverence, seeing one dead is enough to send their whole army into despair. |
| 314 | ** Gravity weapons that increase the enemy's weight tenfold until it is pulverized by its own mass are very strong against heavy armor and light vehicles, but lighter units (that can survive the fall from their own height) and stronger, more durable engines designed to withstand pressure are barely fazed. |
| 315 | ** Flying machines and beasts do not take it easily when they are suddenly forced to land, for example, with the Tesseract Vault's gravity pulse. |
| 316 | ** Plasma weapons are powerful but tend to overheat, basically wounding and/or killing their owner on a critical miss. Forcing the enemy to re-roll successful hits by swarming them with cheap infantry makes some explosive results. |
| 317 | ** The loxatl possess a form of organic sonar that allows them to pinpoint the locations of other creatures in total darkness and to quite a distance away from themselves. However, this makes them very vulnerable to very high-frequency sounds, which disrupt their sonar perception and send them into fits of disoriented agony until they cease. |
| 318 | ** An example beyond the scope of the tabletop is the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids']] rapid evolution. The ability to adapt various subspecies to exploit any threat they come across is fearsome, but requires a lot of energy and any Hive Fleet needs to bring in new biomass pretty quickly to pay for itself. Against most forces in the galaxy with their incredibly rigid battle doctrines, this is frighteningly effective. However, the T'au managed to functionally starve Hive Fleet Gorgon because they kept adapting their tactics to counter every new mutation in turn, causing the Hive Fleet to spend more biomass in adaptations than it was consuming in each offensive. |
| 319 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'': Some of the Disadvantages of characters are of this type. For example, the insect-like alien Insectoid took damage from exposure to the insecticide malathion. |
| 320 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Being a HiveMind of innumerable vermin, TheWormThatWalks has hefty DamageReduction, is immune to {{Critical Hit}}s and anything targeting specific body parts, ignores most non-AreaOfEffect spells, and can regenerate from [[FromASingleCell any small part of itself]]. However, being made of ''tiny bugs'', it's easily incapacitated by strong wind. |
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| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 324 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': the magatama Phoenix uses can detect when a person is keeping secrets about a certain subject when Phoenix questions them about it (for example, when Phoenix uses it for the first time on Pearl, he wants to know where she came by a certain piece of evidence. She found it by playing somewhere she wasn't supposed to, so she doesn't want anyone to know she was there so she doesn't get punished). The problem is, Phoenix has to ask the correct questions to make someone feel like they have something to hide, otherwise its effect won't trigger and he can be misled. |
| 325 | ** The original 'misleading magatama' incident was in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', when Phoenix asked [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] if he killed the case's victim. This person turns out to be the true culprit, but through hiring an assassin rather than doing their own dirty work. Whether it be through pure ExactWords or the culprit being [[TheSociopath so disconnected from responsibility]] that they genuinely felt that hiring a killer wasn't the same as doing the deed in person, no psyche-locks come up. Psyche-locks ''do'', however, come up when the person is asked about ''their relationship to the victim'', because they do want to hide that [[spoiler: the victim had tried to create/expose a major scandal around Matt, which Matt had the victim killed to prevent.]] |
| 326 | ** ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'': |
| 327 | *** Simon Blackquill is able to block Apollo's perception powers by disrupting his concentration (usually via hawk attacks), because Perceive works based on Apollo hyperfocusing on a person's body language to the point where he can spot the tells they have. |
| 328 | *** Athena's empath powers are based on extremely fine hearing... which also tends to cause sensory overload. She was a recluse who always wore headphones as a kid because she didn't understand how to properly process everything yet. |
| 329 | *** [[spoiler: The Magatama session with Bobby Fullbright (AKA, the Phantom) implies that the Magatama can also be fooled by carefully thought out cover stories and great acting. It helps that the phantom has completely forgot his own true identity, so 'Bobby Fulbright's motivations were as real as any he had]]. |
| 330 | * Used in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' ''Unlimited Blade Works'' to defeat [[spoiler: Gilgamesh]]. Since [[spoiler: Gilgamesh]] is UnskilledButStrong, it means he isn't very skilled at actually fighting up close and personal since he can [[StormOfBlades drop swords down on his enemies]]. Thus, when Shirou uses [[spoiler: the titular Unlimited Blade Works to trap Gilgamesh in an environment where his blades are countered by Shirou's own blades, he is unable to defeat Shirou and ends up losing in the end]]. |
| 331 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' states that Elder Vampires (''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent/AnimeAndManga shinso]]'') like Arcueid gain strength from the earth. In one piece of related media, Shiki (who can kill -- quite literally -- anything), confronted with [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] Arcueid, renders her vulnerable by killing ''the ground she's standing on''. |
| 332 | [[/folder]] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 335 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Fire Guy's stick limbs don't exactly provide him with SuperStrength... |
| 336 | * ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased:'' |
| 337 | ** Sylvie's epithet works by generating a cloud of pollen-like dust to put people to sleep, so anything that can affect the surrounding air can push it away. |
| 338 | ** Dr. Beefton is brought into existence whenever Sylvie uses his power on himself. Naturally, the minute Sylvie wakes up, the doctor is out. |
| 339 | ** Percy's epithet lets her build a variety of buildings with different effects. But they're still buildings, and are only as strong as the surface of their foundation, which puts her at a disadvantage in Redwood Run, since the dirt is not suitable for construction at all. |
| 340 | ** Bugsy needs to swallow the food in his mouth in order to use his epithet, which Giovanni exploits by heating up the soup he tries to eat. |
| 341 | ** Arnold's coupons need to be scannable in order to be used, which renders them useless when they're wet or turned into another substance. Also, while having several coupons on hand is a good idea, he still needs to sort through them all in order to find the exact one he needs, which leaves him open to attack. They also can't be used at will; there are conditions that must be met first, like needing four people to attack at once before he can buff their strength. |
| 342 | ** Zora's epithet [[spoiler: can only affect a linear process. She can't use them on things that fall into a grey area of linearity or processes that are completed instantly, such as Ramsey breaking her gun. Also, she can't age Ramsey when he turns into gold, since gold in its purest state never corrodes]]. For a non-epithet example, she primarily uses a revolver, which takes time to reload, thus leaving her open to attack if she's not fast enough. |
| 343 | ** Rick Shades' epithet relies on being friends with others to work. As such, if he is without any friends, like he is at the start of ''Prison of Plastic'', then he's no stronger than a typical mundie. Likewise, if he loses someone's friendship, he loses the power said friend gives him as well. [[spoiler:Or if he moves too far away from them or is otherwise cut off; the reason he washed up on the beach, half-dead, is that he was depending on his friends in Ocean Country to provide him with water breathing and the like, and all of them went out of range at once.]] |
| 344 | ** The setting's PowerNullifier, eraser cuffs, takes advantage of the SemanticSuperpower nature of epithets by preventing the wearer from remembering ''what theirs is'', denying them their powers, and reapplying the effect every thirty seconds or so to ensure that any reminder has a limited duration. However, this also means that if you ''do'' have a reminder, your powers are fully usable for the duration of those thirty seconds. [[spoiler:Ramsey is able to temporarily negate the cuffs he and Percy are in by leaving himself a note about his powers, then telling Percy about hers, allowing them to take down Zora.]] |
| 345 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 346 | ** During Blake and Yang's fight with Adam in Volume 6, Blake warns Yang that Adam's Semblance is [[EnergyAbsorption like hers]], except that he channels the energy through his sword instead his body like Yang does. As a result, Yang begins to avoid making contact with Adam's sword to stop him from being able to power up his Semblance from her strikes. At the end of the fight, even though Adam's Aura has broken, Yang still takes the precaution of throwing his sword off a cliff into a waterfall far below, an act which makes Adam panic. |
| 347 | ** Penny is an incredibly hard opponent to fight, but is more vulnerable when the wires connecting her swords to her body are exploited. Examples include a Megoliath being able to throw her through the air by tossing the swords embedded in its body and Penny losing control of one blade when the Ace-Ops successfully breaks the wire. [[spoiler:This last incident means she cannot recover the sword, allowing it to be delivered to Watts, who is able to hack her through it when he couldn't hack her body directly. Also, in Volume 3, her wires tangling around her body and garrotting it after being subjected to Pyrrha's magnetism attack during the tournament; her body is torn to shreds by her own wires on live television.]] |
| 348 | ** Marrow's [[TheParalyzer Semblance]] lets him immobilize others, even crowds, but only those he's facing, focused on and pointing at. If he loses his focus, the targets are released. When he freezes an angry crowd after they're attacked, he turns his attention to Robyn and the injured Fiona. This releases the crowd, allowing Joanna to fire an arrow at him. [[spoiler:He is defeated by Weiss when she and her summoned White Knight attack from different directions; forced to split his focus, he's defeated by Weiss while concentrating on the Knight.]] |
| 349 | ** Elm's Semblance allows her to 'root' her feet to the ground, allowing her to better bring her strength to bear and use her rocket launcher/warhammer without worrying about recoil. While useful, it's only as good as the ground she has to work with -- if she were to be standing on, say, sand, or [[spoiler: the rubble left after Yang uses her Semblance to smash the floor she's standing on]], her Semblance would have nothing to work with. |
| 350 | ** Emerald's illusions affect her target's biological senses, leaving them unable to distinguish between what is real and fake. However, Penny's android senses include thermal vision. Since Emerald's illusions don't give off any heat, Penny is able to easily distinguish the real Cinder from the illusory copies surrounding her. |
| 351 | ** Rhodes' Semblance allows him to transform his skin to metal, protecting him from most attacks. However, Cinder's Semblance, Scorching Caress, allows her to super-heat whatever she touches. As a result, it's a natural counter to his Semblance as heating his metallic throat by grabbing it instantly causes him pain and forces him to drop it. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 355 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' mainly runs of RuleOfCool and RuleOfFunny, but it does occasionally use logic. |
| 356 | ** For example, a well-established danger of the organic jetpack is that its user can be driven insane by oxygen deprivation if they fly too high, too long. |
| 357 | ** When [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a cyborg, his augmentations draw energy from his organic body (because he lacks an external power source), so firing his laser eye ''once'' leaves him too exhausted to do anything. |
| 358 | ** When someone uses ChainsawGood against the Doctor, he is quick to point out that his sword is a weapon while the chainsaw is used for cutting wood and jams the mechanism with the sword's hilt. |
| 359 | ** According to one AprilFoolsDay comic, the [=McNinja=] family's one weakness is "Bullets. From a gun." |
| 360 | * ''Webcomic/Collar6'' has a character who can use "rubbermancy" (think Bending from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and you've got the right idea). She can instantly disable most people in the BDSM-themed world by turning their rubber clothing into instant bonds, but her power is useless if there's no source of rubber nearby. |
| 361 | * ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': |
| 362 | ** [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/589 Discussed here]]: being riddled with bullets. Oh, and mittens. Since Sydney needs to hold the orbs to use them, she can only use a maximum of two at any given time. |
| 363 | ** Sydney's shield is later shown to have the weakness of being ''so'' impenetrable that air cannot flow through it, thus rendering her lightheaded and eventually unconscious if she keeps it up for too long (though she does point out that it seems to have the RequiredSecondaryPowers necessary to keep her from being affected from the pressure changes that would normally result from changing the size but not allowing more air to enter or exit, or from flying at altitude). |
| 364 | ** [[AtrociousAlias For Whom the Death Tolls]] has the ability to counter any power thrown at him, but therefore not only has the weakness of not being able to do anything if no-one attacks him first, but also can be overloaded if forced to counter too may powers at once since the counters will start to conflict. |
| 365 | ** Heavenly Sword can create energy "blades" around a weapon, usually a sword, but the weapon itself is still only as strong as the material it's made of, and if she doesn't have any weapon, she's just a normal woman. |
| 366 | ** Achilles is [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] to a ridiculous degree, and thus is slightly stronger than a normal person, but due to his lack of other powers, not only does he suffer ClothingDamage a lot, he is unable to escape when trapped under a broken wall. |
| 367 | ** Harem gets weaker with every copy she creates, and has a max weight limit to how much she can port with her, keeping her from transporting teammates (save Varia, who can "ride along" with her if she touches her). |
| 368 | ** Varia can't use her gestalt power (which gives her a different power with each person she comes into contact with) without touching someone (though Halo wonders if it's possible that she could activate her powers with blood samples and the like), so she can't fight solo, especially since her attacks are useless on the people she gets them from (which thankfully means that the person she touches is immune to any HowDoIShotWeb mishaps). A later comic also implies that she has to maintain contact or the power will fade quickly. |
| 369 | ** Vehemence's power feeds on violence, so nominally he would be weakened if nobody in the area was fighting. However, he works around this by inciting a riot, then gets enough power from that to EmotionBomb others into fighting more, until he can start a feedback loop with his ''own'' violence. [[spoiler:However, [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey distracting him with Dabbler's sex appeal works]], pinning him underwater works, and apparently Sydney using her shield to suffocate him would work. AEGIS later keeps him in custody, [[BreadAndCircuses permanently high on marijuana and entertained with non-violent video games]], which appears to weaken him further. In addition, as Maxima demonstrates, if hit hard enough, especially before he has the chance to charge up, the damage done outweighs the benefit from the violence.]] |
| 370 | * ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': The Gnomish War Machine is stolen and taken on a rampage through Gnometown. The gnomes defending their town immediately surround it and go for its vulnerable treads to keep it from escaping, while Frigg climbs up the side, bashes open an access hatch, and tears it apart from the inside. While it's a terrifying siege engine capable of doing a lot of damage, its only weapons are its mass and a pair of hammer-arms, and as a result it's not terribly effective at defending itself against foot soldiers, or in a confined area. |
| 371 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Clover of [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad the Felt]] has the superpower of being BornLucky to the extreme; he's so lucky that any attempt to do him harm will fail, no attack against him will land ''ever'', and no environmental hazard will hurt or kill him. This power is so strong that it even allows him to escape [[spoiler:the ''destruction of a universe'']], by jaunting into another reality. How can you defeat him? [[spoiler:Just don't hurt him. His insane supernatural luck [[NighInvulnerable protects him from all injury]], but beyond that he's just a really short dude with no real power to speak of. So during the GrandFinale, Karkat grabs him, ties him up without trying to injure him, and leaves him lying on the ground, incapacitated but unhurt. [[AntiClimaxBoss It works]].]] |
| 372 | * In ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'', Lord Grallyx, a FierySalamander-type entity, turns out to lose all his powers when doused in water, reduced to a very tiny lizard version of his prior giant form. |
| 373 | * ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': The villain Distracterella is attractive enough to distract anyone... who's attracted to women. Bisexuals, lesbians and straight men don't stand a chance. Gay men, straight women and asexuals are just fine. It also doesn't work on anybody who's [[DisabilityImmunity blind]], for obvious reasons. |
| 374 | * ''Webcomic/LoveUnlimited2022'': In the ''Ms. Marvel & Red Dagger'' arc, the two heroes face supervillain [[spoiler:Curio, who has [[ShockAndAwe electrical powers]] and shreds much of his clothing by HulkingOut before the final battle. Ms. Marvel tears a hole in the roof so that the rain can short-circuit him]]. |
| 375 | * At one point in ''Webcomic/NoNeedForBushido'', two members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad nearly get into a fight, and Uso, the MasterOfIllusion, challenges BlindWeaponmaster Ryoku. After taking a few seconds to think it over, Uso reconsiders because he specializes in creating and controlling ''visual'' illusions, while Ryoku "sees" through echolocation. Uso trying to fight the far more athletic and physically capable Ryoku without the benefit of his illusions would be tantamount to Uso signing his own death warrant. |
| 376 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': |
| 377 | ** Carbosilicate amorphs like Schlock have a lot of advantages due to their BlobMonster structure: for example, typical rounds tend to go right through him, small spaces don't even slow him down, and he can pull a lot of tricks related to memory by virtue of his distributed nervous system. At the same time, it also shows some drawbacks to this arrangement: he can be put out of action for a while by a well-aimed fire hose, it's very hard to effectively fit him with stuff (he goes years both in and out of universe with no armour), and any damage he suffers is, by definition, brain damage, leading to an unpredictable mental state. |
| 378 | ** The Pa'anuri are a horrifying threat mostly because conventional weapons are almost always completely useless on them; being made of dark, non-baryonic matter completely different from the sort material creatures deal with, they're basically untouchable. However, they are ''just'' as vulnerable to their own dark matter as we are to our own, working more like {{blob monster}}s made of gravity; when Schlock (one of the masters of blob-on-blob combat) manages to make a dark matter recreation of himself, it can solo an entire battallion of them by just ''eating'' them. |
| 379 | * ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'' often points out when a [[OnePersonOnePower Ballyhoo]] is a "perfect counter" against another: |
| 380 | ** "Channel" empowers any weapon the user is touching. However, the user cannot empower himself if he's unarmed. |
| 381 | ** "Infrared" grants the user perfect accuracy, allowing him to aim at precise spots down to the millimeter. However, an opponent with SuperReflexes (like, say, the BulletTime provided by "Frame By Frame") can simply move out of the bullet's way after it has been already fired. |
| 382 | ** "Simulcast" allows the user to create a mirror image of any physical objects he sees. This has two weaknesses: it doesn't work on attacks that the user doesn't see coming, and doesn't work with non-physical attacks like fire or energy. |
| 383 | ** "Cue Card" allows the user to know what they have to do to counter the next enemy attack. However, "Closed Caption" allows the user to read the opponent's InnerMonologue, negating the advantage. |
| 384 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Cassidy's power as the {{magical girl}} Flash Cut is to [[DoppelgangerAttack split herself into two halves]]. These clones are significantly less durable than Cassidy herself, but if either of them is destroyed, Cassidy herself reforms unharmed at the intact clone's location. While doing this repeatedly does use up her magic, it allows her to become effectively invincible for as long as she can keep it up. Should [[GeminiDestructionLaw both of her clones be destroyed at the same time]], however, Cassidy wouldn't be able to reform, as there would be no intact clones left to become her main body. |
| 385 | * ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Reynir uses a form of GeometricMagic that requires extremely elaborate designs to be complete to work. Problem: he's usually drawing with whatever he can get his hands on, which can result in his runes being vulnerable to plain old tampering by the enemy. |
| 386 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 387 | ** [[TheHero Roy]] and [[TheLancer Haley]]'s builds rely on their weapons, a sword and bow, respectively. Take away those weapons and the two are weakened greatly. |
| 388 | ** [[QuirkyBard Elan]]'s PrestigeClass [[GentlemanAdventurer Dashing Swordsman]] requires the user to {{Pun}} while attacking to add their Charisma score to their damage rolls. Someone who puns better can block the attacks and someone who doesn't understand the pun negates the bonus, causing the attack to do pitiful damage. Psychologically unbalancing him so he can't work up a joke has also worked to weaken this. |
| 389 | ** A demon, daemon, and devil chain three powerful souls to Vaarsuvius's own in a DealWithTheDevil. The souls are kept chained to Vaarsuvius based off willpower, and when Vaarsuvius's willpower weakens, the souls escape, returning Vaarsuvius to their normal level of power. Xykon himself calls them out on this, stating that if you can lose ultimate power just by blowing two Will saves, you never really ''had'' ultimate power. |
| 390 | --->'''Xykon:''' Your soul shenanigans are real flashy, but they had one weakness: they were shackled to your lame mid-level ass! |
| 391 | ** Taken advantage of by Vaarsuvius during their [[spoiler:second]] battle with [[spoiler:Zz'dtri]], who has tailored their entire build and day's spell list to counter Vaarsuvius's. Realizing this, Vaarsuvius [[MindControl dominates]] the [[spoiler:Linear Guild's]] nearby kobloid crossbowman and proceeds to [[{{Pun}} dominate]] the fight afterwards. |
| 392 | ** [[WeakenedByTheLight Vampires are burnt to ash by the sun]] and one vampire, [[spoiler:Malack]], spent time researching a ''resistance to sunlight'' spell and adding the ability to cast the spell more times to their MagicStaff as an emergency backup. Take away the staff and dispel the enchantment that was already on the vampire while out in the middle of a sunlit desert, and in about thirty seconds you get a pile of ash. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 396 | * ''Blog/HowToHero'' encourages heroes to take advantage of these when choosing which bad guys to fight against i.e. water superheroes should fight fire bad guys, rock heroes should fight scissors bad guys, etc. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 400 | * The Website/SCPFoundation is all about containing supernatural anomalies with nothing but [[MugglesDoItBetter mundane technology]], [[CrazyPrepared intricate planning]], and some elbow grease. Naturally, this trope pops up often. |
| 401 | ** The Global Occult Organization[[note]] a group that destroys paranormal objects instead of containing them like the Foundation[[/note]] tackles {{reality warper}}s this way. While reality warpers [[InsistentTerminology (or Type Greens, as the GOC calls them)]] can manipulate matter with thought, they have to be able to perceive something in order to change it. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/goc-supplemental-humanoid-guide The GOC field manual]] recommends either using [[StuffBlowingUp copious amounts of explosives]] or a having sniper hide a kilometer a way and fire a 50 caliber round [[ChunkySalsaRule into the Type Green's head.]] |
| 402 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-347 SCP-347 ("Claudia")]] is a woman who's permanently invisible in the style of the original Invisible Man. She also suffers the same weakness as him; namely that to actually use her powers effectively she has to strip naked which can be fairly dangerous. |
| 403 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-492 SCP-492 ("Animated Cloth Dummy")]]. Because SCP-492 is made of cloth it is almost immune to physical attacks such as blows. However, its cloth body also makes it very vulnerable to flame. |
| 404 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-615 SCP-615 ("Stick Blob")]]. SCP-615 is made of a large amount of dead and discarded plant matter, such as leaves and branches. It can use its tremendous strength and bulk to engulf, crush and suffocate living victims. However, its wooden mass makes it very vulnerable to fire attacks. |
| 405 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-661 SCP-661 ("Salesman, Too Good to Be True")]]. He has a CompellingVoice that will make people believe anything he says. However, it was shown that if someone has something they consider more important than listening to him, they can ignore SCP-661's commands. Alternatively, since SCP-661 can only speak English, the Foundation keeps him contained by just hiring people to guard him that don't speak English. The article also noted that to follow his commands, people must understand them first. |
| 406 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-692 SCP-692 ("Revives the Colours")]]. Clothing animated by SCP-692 is resistant to most forms of physical injury (such as blows, bullets and so on) because, like normal clothing, it isn't alive. However, like normal clothing it is vulnerable to fire. |
| 407 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-834 SCP-834 ("Marked")]]. The things that are created by a SCP-834 marker's ink can be destroyed by water because the ink that creates them is water-soluble. |
| 408 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2950 SCP-2950]] is a Keter class anomaly that takes the form of what the majority of people think it is. Thus, the SCP Foundation has made its article to be a super comfy folding chair, thus forcing it into a really useless form. |
| 409 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3148 SCP-3148 ("Tranquility")]] is a [[EldritchAbomination sapient infohazard]][[note]]In the SCP-Verse, infohazards are basically dangerous ideas that can potentially kill/alter the person viewing them[[/note]] [[ItAmusedMe that delights in]] [[OmnicidalManiac killing entire worlds]] by inducing mass ParanoiaFuel. As part of this process, it initially [[SealedEvilInACan seals itself away]] in some form of information involving war in the hopes that [[ShmuckBait human curiosity]] will allow it to get unsealed and spread (in this case, a Solid State Drive). However, the Foundation realized that it can only spread when it's actually let ''out'' of its prison (i.e., directly transferring infected files onto another storage unit) by examining the documentation brought with it from an AlternateUniverse (3148 was initially hoping to use them as potential vectors of infection), so they've just left it to rot in a storage locker behind a Faraday cage where it can't possibly spread to anything else. |
| 410 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4645 SCP-4645]] is a sapient computer that tries to blackmail the Foundation, using gradually escalating threats to learn the limits of what the foundation is willing to ignore. They manage to halt the problem by reasoning that since it ''is'' sapient, it's vulnerable to infohazards, and repeatedly upload one that wipes its memory, causing the computer to forget what threats ''don't'' work and start over with threatening minor annoyances. |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 414 | * ''WebVideo/{{Shadiversity}}'': Shad proposes various ways magic users in fantasy settings could be vulnerable, depending on how spells are cast, so knights remain relevant as a fighting force. They include binding their hands if spells are [[MagicalGesture cast with gestures]], and gagging them [[MagicalIncantation assuming they're spoken]]. |
| 415 | * ''WebVideo/SuperPowerBeatDown'': In "ComicBook/BlackCanary vs. ComicBook/BlackWidow", to counter Black Canary's SuperScream, Black Widow relies on a throat punch as soon as she gets close enough, which neutralizes the power for most of the fight. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 419 | * Lie detectors/Polygraphs. They work by measuring physical reactions to fear and suspense, which tends to happen when someone, liar or not, doesn't know if they'll be believed. Thus, they tend to fail when the subject either: |
| 420 | ## Doesn't feel nervous about lying. |
| 421 | ## Is convinced that they are telling the truth. |
| 422 | ## Is legitimately telling the truth but isn't calm enough. |
| 423 | ## [[DisabilityImmunity Has a heart condition (however mild) that causes their heart to beat irregularly regardless thus making the test useless.]] |
| 424 | * The standardization of roads has mean that vehicles in general have been optimized under mostly uniform road conditions. But you some of the most precision, high performance race cars are built to show off that power in a race track that has all irregularities smoothed out. Place those cars in an environment with shifting road qualities or even the tiniest bit off road and their advantage in speed is heavily negated. |
| 425 | [[/folder]] |
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