Line #34 PlayingWith/WeakButSkilled


1	'''Basic Trope''': They're not very strong, but they make up for it with their skills.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is a frail warrior with weak attacks, but with some combination of training and intelligence, she's as effective as the heavy bruisers.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Alice is a {{Lilliputian\|s}} and looks like she shouldn't be fighting at all, but she's so skilled that she brings down giants with ease.
5	** Alice is a normal 7 year old who [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu consistently defeats beings powerful enough to threaten entire universes]] armed with only her wits and whatever she can get her tiny hands on.
6	* '''Downplayed''': [[BadassNormal Alice]] has average strength, but she knows many tricks to stun or trap her foes so she can get key hits in.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Alice knows she's not very strong, so she studies and trains to maximize the efficiency of her attacks.
9	** Alice doesn't look like much, so her opponents underestimate her until it's too late.
10	** Alice is a CombatPragmatist.
11	* '''Inverted''': UnskilledButStrong.
12	* '''Subverted''':
13	** Alice prefers to get by on her smarts, but when push comes to shove, she reveals some SuperStrength.
14	** Alice's "skill" is so extreme that it is in practice a CharlesAtlasSuperpower.
15	* '''Double Subverted''':
16	** That's her version of a LimitBreak and she has only irregular access to it.
17	** But it's still inferior to the "real" superpowers.
18	* '''Parodied''': Alice is so weak that she can't even lift her own weapon and is so hilariously clumsy that her opponents fall down laughing ... which means the judges grant her victory after victory since a full body takedown is a win.
19	* '''Zig-Zagged''': She usually fights using smarts, but she can call on SuperStrength occasionally. But it happens often enough to where it's semi-reliable. She just fights smart the rest of the time.
20	* '''Averted''': Alice is a reasonable mix of skill and strength.
21	* '''Enforced''': The setting has robots built in very specific power tiers, thinkers with frail bodies and fighters with limited processing ability. Since Alice is a thinker model, she studies and trains to use her fragile chassis in ways that a fighter model isn't adapted to.
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Watch out for Alice. She may not look like much, but she knows how to hit you where it hurts."
23	* '''Invoked''': After getting outpaced by her teammates, Alice decides to study and train to keep pace.
24	* '''Exploited''': Alice is assigned to [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman mentor]] Bob, who is [[UnskilledButStrong in need of help controlling his power]].
25	* '''Defied''': Alice keeps seeking out the BiggerStick so she is never left wanting for power.
26	* '''Discussed''': "Alice is probably the most dangerous fighter in this tournament, since she's smart and skilled, she can adapt to any opponent."
27	* '''Conversed''': "This show's author must really hate the trope HardWorkHardlyWorks, because Alice is beating down a bunch of those characters."
28	* '''Implied''': Plenty of others seem more powerful than Alice, though it's never made clear if her strength is from skill or simple ability limitations.
29	* '''Deconstructed''':
30	** Alice gets her arse kicked by someone who is StrongAndSkilled, equals in skill, but a huge gap in power, with Alice on the weaker end.
31	** Alice gets her arse kicked by someone who has so much more power that no amount of skill can close the gap.
32	** People like Alice are both rare and short-lived, because weaklings tend not to survive long enough to get skilled, and one mistake on Alice's part will destroy her outright.
33	* '''Reconstructed''':
34	** She also knows how to [[ISurrenderSuckers feign a defeat]], giving her enough time to formulate another strategy.
35	** She learned from her defeat and applied that to her strategies.
36	** She learns skills that will allow her to use the enemy's power against them.
37	** However, due to the fact that power, rather than skill, is the deciding factor in most in-setting battles, this rarity works in Alice's favor: She's effectively an OutsideContextProblem for all the UnskilledButStrong opponents she faces, making her very hard to deal with.
38	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice repurposes all her skills for battle, varying from the reasonable skill of dance to questionable skills like pitch variation.
39	* '''Played for Drama''': Alice causes her body horrible stress just to keep up, developing crippling health issues as a result.
40	* '''Played for Horror''': Alice is weak but skilled in finding AchillesHeel[=s=] and applying just enough force to those points to kill (bloodily) anybody she doesn't like.
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