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* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'': The [[RingOfPower three rings]] Lotto recovered during the [[WarArc Demon War]] are together an in-universe example. They could, if used improperly after the battle they were devised for, ''completely'' unbalance the game. Lotto chooses to defend its integrity and [[ComesGreatResponsibility refrains]] from using them, save in truly hazardous situations.

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* Kinuba in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' is a [[BloodSport motorball]] player armed with the ultra-deadly Grind Cutters, which turn his fingers on one hand into chainsaw-like whips that can shred through almost anything. Since they’re pretty much the closest thing to projectile weapons as you can get in a setting where projectile weapons are banned, he’s effectively unstoppable on the track and begins rising up the ladder far quicker than everybody else. [[spoiler:[[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest So Vector kills him for screwing up the carefully rigged odds and breaking the game]], stealing his weapons to use them against Alita off the track.]]
* In ''{{Literature/Armada}}'', in the in-universe game Armada, the aliens start using Disrupters which are almost invincible. The people start complaining that this is a game breaker.

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* Kinuba in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' is In ''Manga/FairyTail'', during the Magic Tournament arc, one game has a [[BloodSport motorball]] player armed house with 100 monsters inside, whose strengths vary from scary (D class) to indescribably scary (S class). Each competitor picks the ultra-deadly Grind Cutters, which turn his fingers on one hand into chainsaw-like whips number that can shred through almost anything. Since they’re pretty much they want to fight at one time, but only gets 1 point per monster (regardless of class), and can't leave until they give up or the closest thing to projectile weapons as you can get in a setting where projectile weapons monsters are banned, he’s effectively unstoppable on dead. [[spoiler: So Erza picks all of them. Even though she only needs 51. When she's done, the track and begins rising up the ladder far quicker than everybody else. [[spoiler:[[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest So Vector kills him for screwing up the carefully rigged odds and breaking the game]], stealing his weapons to use them against Alita off the track.]]
* In ''{{Literature/Armada}}'', in the in-universe game Armada, the aliens start using Disrupters which
other 7 competitors are almost invincible. The people start complaining that this is reduced to punching a game breaker. device to measure their [[PowerLevels power level]].]]



* Economy is not immune to this either. There is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme The Pyramid Scheme]], something that if allowed would turn our capitalistic economy into a monarchistic one. The basic principle is simple. There is one guy offering a job to you. You offer him a part of your money to do the job, which is to recruit people doing a job for you in exchange of a part of their money that is partially for you and partially for your boss. The job this guy is going you do is to recruit people to do a job in exchange for a share of their revenue which is going to get shared with you and your boss and the guy recruited for the job has as a job to... I think you get the point by now. As you can imagine, the fact that the system seldom if ever sells goods or services to customers leads plenty of governments to do everything in their power to forbid those systems from being in circulation in their country.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Elementary Dear Data", Data has a simple one for the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' simulations he tries on the holodeck- as the simulations were meant to follow the plots of [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Conan Doyle's]] original stories, simply having committed the stories word-for word to memory (possible for Data's android brain) makes him able to "solve" the mystery without playing through the game and picking up the clues. The other characters have to explain to him this is missing the point (the challenge of solving the mystery being what makes the game fun) and set about reprogramming the simulations to provide Data with an actual challenge. (It backfires in the shape of the Moriarty character gaining sapience and trying to take over the ship.)
* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': [[AchievementsInIgnorance Due to having no experience with video games]] prior to her friend Risa getting her into ''New World Online'', Kaede maxes out her toon Maple's defense stat, making her such a StoneWall that almost nothing can injure her. As a consequence of the way the game's SkillScoresAndPerks system works, she {{No Sell}}s high-level monsters and players and gains increasingly absurd skills, provoking multiple {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es from the development team. The devs eventually just give up trying to balance her because they notice her sheer silliness has actually become a selling point for the game.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': BigBad Kamen Rider Chronus is an InUniverse example, as he is basically a GameBreaker in human form, and entirely by design. It was created to be the reward for the player who could defeat all twelve of the bosses in ''Kamen Rider Chronicle'', which unlocked the FinalBoss Gamedeus, who's so powerful that Chronus is said to be the only thing that could possibly defeat it. When Chronus falls into the hands of [[TheChessmaster Masamune Dan]], he ''starts'' with the power to [[TimeStandsStill "Pause" time]] and develops several more powers that allow him to completely dominate the rest of the cast for the final third of the series.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MagiNation''. A power gem could be bought for 8 animite and sold for 12 animite. However, while animite is the currency of the realm, you never need to buy items, as you can recover health naturally, and you need infused animite anyways to forge rings. Basically, its a game breaker in the most technical sense that you need animite, but you don't need it that badly.
* When ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' create a virtual reality game, Candace gets sucked in, with a ModestyTowel and, more important to the trope, a hairdryer reducing the use of "jumping and ducking."
* In Creator/EdwardDHoch's short story "Centaur Fielder for the Yankees", the New York Yankees [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sign on a centaur]]. Think about that.
* A parachute can turn an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_contest egg-drop competition]] into a joke: if it can handle a ten-foot drop, a parachute-equipped egg can survive being dropped from any altitude up to the point where you need to worry about surviving orbital re-entry. Consequently, many egg-drop competitions [[ObviousRulePatch ban the use of parachutes]].

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* Economy is not immune to this either. There is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme The Pyramid Scheme]], something that if allowed would turn our capitalistic economy into a monarchistic one. The basic principle is simple. There is one guy offering a job to you. You offer him a part of your money to do the job, which is to recruit people doing a job for you in exchange of a part of their money that is partially for you and partially for your boss. The job this guy is going you do is to recruit people to do a job in exchange for a share of their revenue which is going to get shared with you and your boss and the guy recruited for the job has as a job to... I think you get the point by now. As you can imagine, the fact that the system seldom if ever sells goods or services to customers leads plenty of governments to do everything in their power to forbid those systems from being in circulation in their country.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Elementary Dear Data", Data has a simple one for the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' simulations he tries on the holodeck- as the simulations were meant to follow the plots of [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Conan Doyle's]] original stories, simply having committed the stories word-for word to memory (possible for Data's android brain) makes him able to "solve" the mystery without playing through the game and picking up the clues. The other characters have to explain to him this is missing the point (the challenge of solving the mystery being what makes the game fun) and set about reprogramming the simulations to provide Data with an actual challenge. (It backfires in the shape of the Moriarty character gaining sapience and trying to take over the ship.)
* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': [[AchievementsInIgnorance Due to having no experience with video games]] prior to her friend Risa getting her into ''New World Online'', Kaede maxes out her toon Maple's defense stat, making her such a StoneWall that almost nothing can injure her. As a consequence of the way the game's SkillScoresAndPerks system works, she {{No Sell}}s high-level monsters and players and gains increasingly absurd skills, provoking multiple {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es from the development team. The devs eventually just give up trying to balance her because they notice her sheer silliness has actually become a selling point for the game.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': BigBad Kamen Rider Chronus is an InUniverse example, as he is basically a GameBreaker in human form, and entirely by design. It was created to be the reward for the player who could defeat all twelve of the bosses in ''Kamen Rider Chronicle'', which unlocked the FinalBoss Gamedeus, who's so powerful that Chronus is said to be the only thing that could possibly defeat it. When Chronus falls into the hands of [[TheChessmaster Masamune Dan]], he ''starts'' with the power to [[TimeStandsStill "Pause" time]] and develops several more powers that allow him to completely dominate the rest of the cast for the final third of the series.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MagiNation''. A power gem could be bought for 8 animite and sold for 12 animite. However, while animite is the currency of the realm, you never need to buy items, as you can recover health naturally, and you need infused animite anyways to forge rings. Basically, its a game breaker in the most technical sense that you need animite, but you don't need it that badly.
* When ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' create a virtual reality game, Candace gets sucked in, with a ModestyTowel and, more important to the trope, a hairdryer reducing the use of "jumping and ducking."
* In Creator/EdwardDHoch's short story "Centaur Fielder for the Yankees", the New York Yankees [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sign on a centaur]]. Think about that.
* A parachute can turn an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_contest egg-drop competition]] into a joke: if it can handle a ten-foot drop, a parachute-equipped egg can survive being dropped from any altitude up to the point where you need to worry about surviving orbital re-entry. Consequently, many egg-drop competitions [[ObviousRulePatch ban the use of parachutes]].

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* During both World Wars the British Royal, British Commonwealth, and American Navies had access to the then current uncensored editions of ''Jane's Fighting Ships''. This might not seem like much of a game breaker until you realize that those books contain very detailed technical information about almost every major surface warship that was afloat during both of those wars. All of the following was contained in one easy to reference source:
** Silhouette line drawings and/or photographs of almost every class of ocean going surface warship (including obsolete and minor ones) in the world.
** Many of the silhouette line drawings tell you how thick the side armour was and how it was distributed.
** The planview line drawings almost always showed the weapon layout and often included information about firing arcs.
** Many entries include information about deck armour and underwater protection. Some have a thick line in the silhouette drawings indicating where, in elevation, the deck armour is located and/or vertical dashed lines showing the location of the watertight transverse bulkheads.
** Information about things like fuel bunkerage, fuel consumption, fuel type (coal, oil, diesel, or mixed), engine horsepower, maximum speed, and cruising range is extensive.
** The WWI editions had some fairly detailed information about individual models of naval artillery (shell weight, powder charge, muzzle velocity, range, and more), charts of major harbors with depth and tide information, and information about the size and number of the dry dock, floating dock, and refueling facilities available at those harbors.
** [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battleship_Mikasa_from_JFS1906.png This is the 1906 entry for the Japanese Battleship Mikasa.]] It is fairly representative of the typical capital ship entry.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', during the Magic Tournament arc, one game has a house with 100 monsters inside, whose strengths vary from scary (D class) to indescribably scary (S class). Each competitor picks the number that they want to fight at one time, but only gets 1 point per monster (regardless of class), and can't leave until they give up or the monsters are dead. [[spoiler: So Erza picks all of them. Even though she only needs 51. When she's done, the other 7 competitors are reduced to punching a device to measure their [[PowerLevels power level]].]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (set in an RPGMechanicsVerse based on 3rd Edition D&D) parodies this when Roy meets a half-ogre with a "perfect" character build. Due to his size, his wielding a spiked chain (a reach weapon), and his combat reflexes, he was able to score multiple attacks on Roy every time he approached by jumping backwards. After [[TemptingFate boasting about how invincible he was]], he ended up jumping back a little too far and going off a cliff.

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* During both World Wars Kinuba in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' is a [[BloodSport motorball]] player armed with the British Royal, British Commonwealth, and American Navies had access to the then current uncensored editions of ''Jane's Fighting Ships''. This might not seem like ultra-deadly Grind Cutters, which turn his fingers on one hand into chainsaw-like whips that can shred through almost anything. Since they’re pretty much of the closest thing to projectile weapons as you can get in a setting where projectile weapons are banned, he’s effectively unstoppable on the track and begins rising up the ladder far quicker than everybody else. [[spoiler:[[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest So Vector kills him for screwing up the carefully rigged odds and breaking the game]], stealing his weapons to use them against Alita off the track.]]

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* In ''{{Literature/Armada}}'', in the in-universe game Armada, the aliens start using Disrupters which are almost invincible. The people start complaining that this is
a game breaker until you realize breaker.
* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': [[AchievementsInIgnorance Due to having no experience with video games]] prior to her friend Risa getting her into ''New World Online'', Kaede maxes out her toon Maple's defense stat, making her such a StoneWall
that those books contain very detailed technical information about almost every major surface warship that was afloat during both of those wars. All nothing can injure her. As a consequence of the following way the game's SkillScoresAndPerks system works, she {{No Sell}}s high-level monsters and players and gains increasingly absurd skills, provoking multiple {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es from the development team. The devs eventually just give up trying to balance her because they notice her sheer silliness has actually become a selling point for the game.
* In Creator/EdwardDHoch's short story "Centaur Fielder for the Yankees", the New York Yankees [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sign on a centaur]]. Think about that.

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* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': BigBad Kamen Rider Chronus is an InUniverse example, as he is basically a GameBreaker in human form, and entirely by design. It
was contained created to be the reward for the player who could defeat all twelve of the bosses in ''Kamen Rider Chronicle'', which unlocked the FinalBoss Gamedeus, who's so powerful that Chronus is said to be the only thing that could possibly defeat it. When Chronus falls into the hands of [[TheChessmaster Masamune Dan]], he ''starts'' with the power to [[TimeStandsStill "Pause" time]] and develops several more powers that allow him to completely dominate the rest of the cast for the final third of the series.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Elementary Dear Data", Data has a simple
one easy for the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' simulations he tries on the holodeck- as the simulations were meant to reference source:
** Silhouette line drawings and/or photographs
follow the plots of almost every class of ocean going surface warship (including obsolete [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Conan Doyle's]] original stories, simply having committed the stories word-for word to memory (possible for Data's android brain) makes him able to "solve" the mystery without playing through the game and minor ones) picking up the clues. The other characters have to explain to him this is missing the point (the challenge of solving the mystery being what makes the game fun) and set about reprogramming the simulations to provide Data with an actual challenge. (It backfires in the world.
** Many
shape of the silhouette line drawings tell you how thick Moriarty character gaining sapience and trying to take over the side armour was and how ship.)
* ''Series/ThumbWrestlingFederation'' has several moves that could qualify, but what stands out is Senator Skull's "Super Skull", which results in both a pinned opponent & ''a wrecked arena". It is also so violent that
it was distributed.
** The planview line drawings almost always showed
has to be censored, so [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't know exactly what happens when Senator Skull uses it.]]

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* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'': in their metagame to determine which player is
the weapon layout and often included information about firing arcs.
** Many entries include information about deck armour and underwater protection. Some have a thick line in
best Mario Party player, the silhouette drawings indicating where, in elevation, the deck armour is located and/or vertical dashed lines showing the location of the watertight transverse bulkheads.
** Information about things like fuel bunkerage, fuel consumption, fuel type (coal, oil, diesel, or mixed), engine horsepower, maximum speed, and cruising range is extensive.
** The WWI editions had some fairly detailed information about individual models of naval artillery (shell weight, powder charge, muzzle velocity, range, and more), charts of major harbors with depth and tide information, and information about the size and
core four decided that if they tried to determine it on number of stars (as in the dry dock, floating dock, first series), that the ''Mario Party 6'' board Faire Square would do this, as thanks to their star mechanics-a player can buy up to five stars at once, and refueling facilities available at those harbors.
** [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battleship_Mikasa_from_JFS1906.png This is
night the 1906 entry for the Japanese Battleship Mikasa.]] It price is fairly representative of the typical capital ship entry.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', during the Magic Tournament arc, one game has a house
randomly set with 100 monsters inside, whose strengths vary from scary (D class) to indescribably scary (S class). Each competitor picks the number that they want to fight at one time, but only gets 1 point per monster (regardless chance of class), it being as low as five coins-it would be possible for someone lucky with both getting coins and purchasing stars at the right time to build a sizable lead the others can't leave until catch up on, which is why they give up or switched to a points system for the monsters are dead. [[spoiler: So Erza picks all of them. Even though she only needs 51. When she's done, [=SuperSalt=] series. (Incidentally, when they played Faire Square for that series, in which they explained the other 7 competitors are reduced to punching a device to measure above, Mr. Doom proved their [[PowerLevels power level]].]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (set in an RPGMechanicsVerse based on 3rd Edition D&D) parodies this
point by ending the board with ''26'' stars, when Roy meets a half-ogre with a "perfect" character build. Due the others couldn't breach 15.)
* Alluded
to his size, his wielding a spiked chain (a reach weapon), and his combat reflexes, he was able to score multiple attacks on Roy every time he approached by jumping backwards. After [[TemptingFate boasting about how invincible he was]], he ended up jumping back a little too far and going off a cliff.in the title of PC gaming site ''Rock Paper Shotgun''.



* Alluded to in the title of PC gaming site ''Rock Paper Shotgun''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' Bob's [[DoAnythingRobot Glitch]] lets him be a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating bastard]] in every game he's in. Then there was the one time he (mistakenly) brings a bomb into a racing game, and the explosion crashes the game. And the one time Matrix pulled out his Gun, in a Golf Game.
* Series/ThumbWrestlingFederation has several moves that could qualify, but what stands out is Senator Skull's "Super Skull", which results in both a pinned opponent & ''a wrecked arena". It is also so violent that it has to be censored, so [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't know exactly what happens when Senator Skull uses it.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': InUniverse. The "Beast Snare" card in the in-universe card game ''Bring Out Your Beast'' makes the user basically unbeatable because it allows the player to permanently take any number of their opponent's cards. The card was only printed during [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the game's first edition]] before the creators realized how incredibly broken that is and is now exceptionally rare (although for some reason it's still considered a legal card). The Beast Snare card of course parodies some of the [[GameBreaker/MagicTheGathering early overpowered cards]] of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and the allowing of "[[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ante anteing]]" (gambling) your cards early in the game's history.
* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'': in their metagame to determine which player is the best Mario Party player, the core four decided that if they tried to determine it on number of stars (as in the first series), that the ''Mario Party 6'' board Faire Square would do this, as thanks to their star mechanics-a player can buy up to five stars at once, and at night the price is randomly set with the chance of it being as low as five coins-it would be possible for someone lucky with both getting coins and purchasing stars at the right time to build a sizable lead the others can't catch up on, which is why they switched to a points system for the [=SuperSalt=] series. (Incidentally, when they played Faire Square for that series, in which they explained the above, Mr. Doom proved their point by ending the board with ''26'' stars, when the others couldn't breach 15.)

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* Alluded to ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (set in the title of PC gaming site ''Rock Paper Shotgun''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' Bob's [[DoAnythingRobot Glitch]] lets him be a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating bastard]] in every game he's in. Then there was the one time he (mistakenly) brings a bomb into a racing game, and the explosion crashes the game. And the one time Matrix pulled out his Gun, in a Golf Game.
* Series/ThumbWrestlingFederation has several moves that could qualify, but what stands out is Senator Skull's "Super Skull", which results in both a pinned opponent & ''a wrecked arena". It is also so violent that it has to be censored, so [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't know exactly what happens when Senator Skull uses it.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': InUniverse. The "Beast Snare" card in the in-universe card game ''Bring Out Your Beast'' makes the user basically unbeatable because it allows the player to permanently take any number of their opponent's cards. The card was only printed during [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the game's first edition]] before the creators realized how incredibly broken that is and is now exceptionally rare (although for some reason it's still considered a legal card). The Beast Snare card of course
an RPGMechanicsVerse based on 3rd Edition D&D) parodies some of the [[GameBreaker/MagicTheGathering early overpowered cards]] of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and the allowing of "[[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ante anteing]]" (gambling) your cards early in the game's history.
* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'': in their metagame to determine which player is the best Mario Party player, the core four decided that if they tried to determine it on number of stars (as in the first series), that the ''Mario Party 6'' board Faire Square would do this, as thanks to their star mechanics-a player can buy up to five stars at once, and at night the price is randomly set
this when Roy meets a half-ogre with the chance of it being as low as five coins-it would be possible for someone lucky with both getting coins a "perfect" character build. Due to his size, his wielding a spiked chain (a reach weapon), and purchasing stars at the right his combat reflexes, he was able to score multiple attacks on Roy every time to build a sizable lead the others can't catch he approached by jumping backwards. After [[TemptingFate boasting about how invincible he was]], he ended up on, which is why they switched to jumping back a points system for the [=SuperSalt=] series. (Incidentally, when they played Faire Square for that series, in which they explained the above, Mr. Doom proved their point by ending the board with ''26'' stars, when the others couldn't breach 15.)little too far and going off a cliff.



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* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': InUniverse. The "Beast Snare" card in the in-universe card game ''Bring Out Your Beast'' makes the user basically unbeatable because it allows the player to permanently take any number of their opponent's cards. The card was only printed during [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the game's first edition]] before the creators realized how incredibly broken that is and is now exceptionally rare (although for some reason it's still considered a legal card). The Beast Snare card of course parodies some of the [[GameBreaker/MagicTheGathering early overpowered cards]] of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and the allowing of "[[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ante anteing]]" (gambling) your cards early in the game's history.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MagiNation''. A power gem could be bought for 8 animite and sold for 12 animite. However, while animite is the currency of the realm, you never need to buy items, as you can recover health naturally, and you need infused animite anyways to forge rings. Basically, its a game breaker in the most technical sense that you need animite, but you don't need it that badly.
* When ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' create a virtual reality game, Candace gets sucked in, with a ModestyTowel and, more important to the trope, a hairdryer reducing the use of "jumping and ducking."
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' Bob's [[DoAnythingRobot Glitch]] lets him be a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating bastard]] in every game he's in. Then there was the one time he (mistakenly) brings a bomb into a racing game, and the explosion crashes the game. And the one time Matrix pulled out his Gun, in a Golf Game.

[[AC:Real Life]]
* Economy is not immune to this either. There is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme The Pyramid Scheme]], something that if allowed would turn our capitalistic economy into a monarchistic one. The basic principle is simple. There is one guy offering a job to you. You offer him a part of your money to do the job, which is to recruit people doing a job for you in exchange of a part of their money that is partially for you and partially for your boss. The job this guy is going you do is to recruit people to do a job in exchange for a share of their revenue which is going to get shared with you and your boss and the guy recruited for the job has as a job to... I think you get the point by now. As you can imagine, the fact that the system seldom if ever sells goods or services to customers leads plenty of governments to do everything in their power to forbid those systems from being in circulation in their country.
* A parachute can turn an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_contest egg-drop competition]] into a joke: if it can handle a ten-foot drop, a parachute-equipped egg can survive being dropped from any altitude up to the point where you need to worry about surviving orbital re-entry. Consequently, many egg-drop competitions [[ObviousRulePatch ban the use of parachutes]].
* During both World Wars the British Royal, British Commonwealth, and American Navies had access to the then current uncensored editions of ''Jane's Fighting Ships''. This might not seem like much of a game breaker until you realize that those books contain very detailed technical information about almost every major surface warship that was afloat during both of those wars. All of the following was contained in one easy to reference source:
** Silhouette line drawings and/or photographs of almost every class of ocean going surface warship (including obsolete and minor ones) in the world.
** Many of the silhouette line drawings tell you how thick the side armour was and how it was distributed.
** The planview line drawings almost always showed the weapon layout and often included information about firing arcs.
** Many entries include information about deck armour and underwater protection. Some have a thick line in the silhouette drawings indicating where, in elevation, the deck armour is located and/or vertical dashed lines showing the location of the watertight transverse bulkheads.
** Information about things like fuel bunkerage, fuel consumption, fuel type (coal, oil, diesel, or mixed), engine horsepower, maximum speed, and cruising range is extensive.
** The WWI editions had some fairly detailed information about individual models of naval artillery (shell weight, powder charge, muzzle velocity, range, and more), charts of major harbors with depth and tide information, and information about the size and number of the dry dock, floating dock, and refueling facilities available at those harbors.
** [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battleship_Mikasa_from_JFS1906.png This is the 1906 entry for the Japanese Battleship Mikasa.]] It is fairly representative of the typical capital ship entry.

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* Kinuba in ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' is a [[BloodSport motorball]] player armed with the ultra-deadly Grind Cutters, which turn his fingers on one hand into chainsaw-like whips that can shred through almost anything. Since they’re pretty much the closest thing to projectile weapons as you can get in a setting where projectile weapons are banned, he’s effectively unstoppable on the track and begins rising up the ladder far quicker than everybody else. [[spoiler:[[ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest So Vector kills him for screwing up the carefully rigged odds and breaking the game]], stealing his weapons to use them against Alita off the track.]]
* In ''{{Literature/Armada}}'', in the in-universe game Armada, the aliens start using Disrupters which are almost invincible. The people start complaining that this is a game breaker.
* Ratings Games, the tightly-regulated arena combat Devils use to test each other in ''Literature/HighSchoolDxD'', ban the use of Balance Breakers[[note]]''Not'' directly named for their power, it's a category of AmplifierArtifact[[/note]] and certain other spells and abilities that have an unreasonable chance of killing the target outright before they could be retired to the holding area. Note that this only applies to Ratings Games, in life-or-death combat these abilities are used with wild abandon. At one point Rias demonstrates the power of a new spell by pointing out it would be illegal in Games.
** Rias' Peerage is a collective GameBreaker in ratings games. In theory every Devil in a peerage is attuned to a type of [[ChessMotifs Chess piece]], limiting the headcount and roles of stronger members by superior pieces, as well as the amount of grunts/cannon fodder pawns. A particularly adept JackOfAllStats might take several pawns to reincarnate/sign up. Issei is eventually worth ''twelve'' pawns , plus her bishop Gaspar is another mutated (read: overpowered) piece, and both can be fielded without taking penalties elsewhere. The only thing balancing this [[StoryBreakerPower story-breaking advantage]] is a serious manpower problem, as Ratings Games take place in large arenas where tactics matter and she's outnumbered nearly two-to-one, and the major villains have no interest whatsoever in playing Hell's internal power games.
* Economy is not immune to this either. There is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme The Pyramid Scheme]], something that if allowed would turn our capitalistic economy into a monarchistic one. The basic principle is simple. There is one guy offering a job to you. You offer him a part of your money to do the job, which is to recruit people doing a job for you in exchange of a part of their money that is partially for you and partially for your boss. The job this guy is going you do is to recruit people to do a job in exchange for a share of their revenue which is going to get shared with you and your boss and the guy recruited for the job has as a job to... I think you get the point by now. As you can imagine, the fact that the system seldom if ever sells goods or services to customers leads plenty of governments to do everything in their power to forbid those systems from being in circulation in their country.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Elementary Dear Data", Data has a simple one for the ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' simulations he tries on the holodeck- as the simulations were meant to follow the plots of [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Conan Doyle's]] original stories, simply having committed the stories word-for word to memory (possible for Data's android brain) makes him able to "solve" the mystery without playing through the game and picking up the clues. The other characters have to explain to him this is missing the point (the challenge of solving the mystery being what makes the game fun) and set about reprogramming the simulations to provide Data with an actual challenge. (It backfires in the shape of the Moriarty character gaining sapience and trying to take over the ship.)
* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': [[AchievementsInIgnorance Due to having no experience with video games]] prior to her friend Risa getting her into ''New World Online'', Kaede maxes out her toon Maple's defense stat, making her such a StoneWall that almost nothing can injure her. As a consequence of the way the game's SkillScoresAndPerks system works, she {{No Sell}}s high-level monsters and players and gains increasingly absurd skills, provoking multiple {{Obvious Rule Patch}}es from the development team. The devs eventually just give up trying to balance her because they notice her sheer silliness has actually become a selling point for the game.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': BigBad Kamen Rider Chronus is an InUniverse example, as he is basically a GameBreaker in human form, and entirely by design. It was created to be the reward for the player who could defeat all twelve of the bosses in ''Kamen Rider Chronicle'', which unlocked the FinalBoss Gamedeus, who's so powerful that Chronus is said to be the only thing that could possibly defeat it. When Chronus falls into the hands of [[TheChessmaster Masamune Dan]], he ''starts'' with the power to [[TimeStandsStill "Pause" time]] and develops several more powers that allow him to completely dominate the rest of the cast for the final third of the series.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MagiNation''. A power gem could be bought for 8 animite and sold for 12 animite. However, while animite is the currency of the realm, you never need to buy items, as you can recover health naturally, and you need infused animite anyways to forge rings. Basically, its a game breaker in the most technical sense that you need animite, but you don't need it that badly.
* When ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' create a virtual reality game, Candace gets sucked in, with a ModestyTowel and, more important to the trope, a hairdryer reducing the use of "jumping and ducking."
* In Creator/EdwardDHoch's short story "Centaur Fielder for the Yankees", the New York Yankees [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sign on a centaur]]. Think about that.
* A parachute can turn an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_contest egg-drop competition]] into a joke: if it can handle a ten-foot drop, a parachute-equipped egg can survive being dropped from any altitude up to the point where you need to worry about surviving orbital re-entry. Consequently, many egg-drop competitions [[ObviousRulePatch ban the use of parachutes]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Vanellope Von Schweetz is an InUniverse game breaker. She possess a glitching that allows her to suddenly appear in front of her opponents in the Random Roster Race, which is a very useful ability in a racing game. [[spoiler: Even after crossing the finish line and resetting her game, she keeps this advantage.]]
* During both World Wars the British Royal, British Commonwealth, and American Navies had access to the then current uncensored editions of ''Jane's Fighting Ships''. This might not seem like much of a game breaker until you realize that those books contain very detailed technical information about almost every major surface warship that was afloat during both of those wars. All of the following was contained in one easy to reference source:
** Silhouette line drawings and/or photographs of almost every class of ocean going surface warship (including obsolete and minor ones) in the world.
** Many of the silhouette line drawings tell you how thick the side armour was and how it was distributed.
** The planview line drawings almost always showed the weapon layout and often included information about firing arcs.
** Many entries include information about deck armour and underwater protection. Some have a thick line in the silhouette drawings indicating where, in elevation, the deck armour is located and/or vertical dashed lines showing the location of the watertight transverse bulkheads.
** Information about things like fuel bunkerage, fuel consumption, fuel type (coal, oil, diesel, or mixed), engine horsepower, maximum speed, and cruising range is extensive.
** The WWI editions had some fairly detailed information about individual models of naval artillery (shell weight, powder charge, muzzle velocity, range, and more), charts of major harbors with depth and tide information, and information about the size and number of the dry dock, floating dock, and refueling facilities available at those harbors.
** [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battleship_Mikasa_from_JFS1906.png This is the 1906 entry for the Japanese Battleship Mikasa.]] It is fairly representative of the typical capital ship entry.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', during the Magic Tournament arc, one game has a house with 100 monsters inside, whose strengths vary from scary (D class) to indescribably scary (S class). Each competitor picks the number that they want to fight at one time, but only gets 1 point per monster (regardless of class), and can't leave until they give up or the monsters are dead. [[spoiler: So Erza picks all of them. Even though she only needs 51. When she's done, the other 7 competitors are reduced to punching a device to measure their [[PowerLevels power level]].]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (set in an RPGMechanicsVerse based on 3rd Edition D&D) parodies this when Roy meets a half-ogre with a "perfect" character build. Due to his size, his wielding a spiked chain (a reach weapon), and his combat reflexes, he was able to score multiple attacks on Roy every time he approached by jumping backwards. After [[TemptingFate boasting about how invincible he was]], he ended up jumping back a little too far and going off a cliff.
* The spartan from Series/DeadliestWarrior the Series/DeadliestWarrior video game is a bit of game breaker. His spear range attack flies at head level (and attacks to the head are almost always one hit kills), and can end a match within a second if the opponent doesn't move out of the way IMMEDIATELY.
* Alluded to in the title of PC gaming site ''Rock Paper Shotgun''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' Bob's [[DoAnythingRobot Glitch]] lets him be a [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating bastard]] in every game he's in. Then there was the one time he (mistakenly) brings a bomb into a racing game, and the explosion crashes the game. And the one time Matrix pulled out his Gun, in a Golf Game.
* Series/ThumbWrestlingFederation has several moves that could qualify, but what stands out is Senator Skull's "Super Skull", which results in both a pinned opponent & ''a wrecked arena". It is also so violent that it has to be censored, so [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't know exactly what happens when Senator Skull uses it.]]
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* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'': in their metagame to determine which player is the best Mario Party player, the core four decided that if they tried to determine it on number of stars (as in the first series), that the ''Mario Party 6'' board Faire Square would do this, as thanks to their star mechanics-a player can buy up to five stars at once, and at night the price is randomly set with the chance of it being as low as five coins-it would be possible for someone lucky with both getting coins and purchasing stars at the right time to build a sizable lead the others can't catch up on, which is why they switched to a points system for the [=SuperSalt=] series. (Incidentally, when they played Faire Square for that series, in which they explained the above, Mr. Doom proved their point by ending the board with ''26'' stars, when the others couldn't breach 15.)
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Compare DiscOneNuke and SequenceBreaking. A LethalJokeCharacter may be one of these, as will the OneManParty if the game's balance is easily skewed. {{Lightning Bruiser}}s are also common candidates. Some BoringButPractical moves/tactics may border on this. ThatOneAttack, when available un-nerfed to players, usually becomes this, as will any particularly powerful MinMaxersDelight. The ObviousRulePatch is typically a response (but not necessarily a typical response) to the presence of this trope. Contrast TheComputerIsACheatingBastard, as well as SkillGateCharacters that appear this way to newbies but can be taken apart by experts. DifficultButAwesome characters can also be this when they're so overwhelmingly powerful when mastered that there's no way to beat a skilled user. Often overlaps with TierInducedScrappy. Often the cause of ComplacentGamingSyndrome.

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Compare DiscOneNuke and SequenceBreaking. A LethalJokeCharacter may be one of these, as will the OneManParty if the game's balance is easily skewed. {{Lightning Bruiser}}s are also common candidates. Some BoringButPractical moves/tactics may border on this. ThatOneAttack, when available un-nerfed to players, usually becomes this, as will any particularly powerful MinMaxersDelight. The ObviousRulePatch is typically a response (but not necessarily a typical response) to the presence of this trope. Contrast TheComputerIsACheatingBastard, as well as SkillGateCharacters that appear this way to newbies but can be taken apart by experts. DifficultButAwesome characters can also be this when they're so overwhelmingly powerful when mastered that there's no way to beat a skilled user. Often overlaps with TierInducedScrappy.HighTierScrappy. Often the cause of ComplacentGamingSyndrome.
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Note that this is not another word for 'overpowered'. To be a true Game-Breaker, the ability or character in question must be so hideously unbalanced that it makes people just quit the game in disgust. '''It's so powerful that there are only two kinds of people: the ones that use it, and the ones that lose to it.''' That's why people quit in disgust: it destroys all semblance of choice, and quite possibly all semblance of fun. Your available tactics are now limited to one--the one that works. And what if you don't ''like'' that tactic? What if it's a gun in a game where you prefer swordplay? What if it involves AttackAttackAttack when you're more of a defensive turtler? What if it requires you to play the MightyGlacier but you're a FragileSpeedster player? Well, then, it sucks to be you. You can play the game the way you want to, and lose... or you can follow the crowd, and maybe win. Small wonder some players TakeAThirdOption and RageQuit instead.

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Note that this is not another word for 'overpowered'. To be a true Game-Breaker, the ability or character in question must be so hideously unbalanced that it makes people just quit the game in disgust. '''It's so powerful that there are only two kinds of people: the ones that use it, and the ones that lose to it.''' That's why people quit in disgust: it destroys all semblance of choice, and quite possibly all semblance of fun. Your available tactics are now limited to one--the one that works. And what if you don't ''like'' that tactic? What if it's a gun in a game where you prefer swordplay? What if it involves AttackAttackAttack when you're more of a defensive turtler? What if it requires you to play the MightyGlacier MightyGlacier, but you're a FragileSpeedster player? Well, then, it sucks to be you. You can play the game the way you want to, and lose... or you can follow the crowd, and maybe win. Small wonder some players TakeAThirdOption and RageQuit instead.
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An often controversial element of gameplay that unexpectedly trumps all others, a Game-Breaker is an element of a game that, due to underestimated abilities (whether on its own or when it's combined with another item/mechanic) or players coming up with creative ways of using it, ends up making the game ''hugely'' easy.

For example, in a game where the player's capabilities are meant to be limited by their access to currency, an easy trick that [[MoneyGrinding reaps a lot of money for little effort]] can become a game breaker. Or a particular gun having extreme firepower, high accuracy, ''and'' a high ammo capacity; or a FightingGame character having a fast, unblockable move with very high [[ActionInitiative priority]] (the ally equivalent to the SNKBoss). In games with a choice of playable characters, one may be much easier than the others and allow for [[SequenceBreaking skipping parts of levels]] that other characters would have to wade through slowly.

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An often controversial element of gameplay that unexpectedly trumps all others, a Game-Breaker [[TitleDrop Game-Breaker]] is an element of a game that, due to underestimated abilities (whether on its own or when it's combined with another item/mechanic) or players coming up with creative ways of using it, ends up making the game ''hugely'' easy.

For example, in a game where the player's capabilities are meant to be limited by their access to currency, an easy trick that [[MoneyGrinding reaps a lot of money for little effort]] can become a game breaker.Game-Breaker. Or a particular gun having extreme firepower, high accuracy, ''and'' a high ammo capacity; or a FightingGame character having a fast, unblockable move with very high [[ActionInitiative priority]] (the ally equivalent to the SNKBoss). In games with a choice of playable characters, one may be much easier than the others and allow for [[SequenceBreaking skipping parts of levels]] that other characters would have to wade through slowly.



Patches will often seek to rectify this. However, this often leads to an [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks outcry among players]] who favored the original tactic. Worse, sometimes the {{nerf}}ing of one Game-Breaker results in [[NiceJobBreakingItHero another Game-Breaker being discovered as a result]], prompting the developers to consider whether they should apply a patch for the second one, or undo the previous patch so the two Game Breakers will balance each other out as they used to.

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A power-up that would be a game-breaker, except that it only appears when the game is essentially over, is PurposelyOverpowered -- note that most examples of these tend to be single-player affairs, where there are no other opponents to become offended over it. For stats that, once boosted to a high enough degree, make the character into a Game-Breaker, see OneStatToRuleThemAll.

Note that this is not another word for 'overpowered'. To be a true game breaker, the ability or character in question must be so hideously unbalanced that it makes people just quit the game in disgust. '''It's so powerful that there are only two kinds of people: the ones that use it, and the ones that lose to it.''' That's why people quit in disgust: it destroys all semblance of choice, and quite possibly all semblance of fun. Your available tactics are now limited to one--the one that works. And what if you don't ''like'' that tactic? What if it's a gun in a game where you prefer swordplay? What if it involves AttackAttackAttack when you're more of a defensive turtler? What if it requires you to play the MightyGlacier but you're a FragileSpeedster player? Well, then, it sucks to be you. You can play the game the way you want to, and lose... or you can follow the crowd, and maybe win. Small wonder some players TakeAThirdOption and RageQuit instead.

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A power-up that would be a game-breaker, Game-Breaker, except that it only appears when the game is essentially over, is PurposelyOverpowered -- note that most examples of these tend to be single-player affairs, where there are no other opponents to become offended over it. For stats that, once boosted to a high enough degree, make the character into a Game-Breaker, see OneStatToRuleThemAll.

Note that this is not another word for 'overpowered'. To be a true game breaker, Game-Breaker, the ability or character in question must be so hideously unbalanced that it makes people just quit the game in disgust. '''It's so powerful that there are only two kinds of people: the ones that use it, and the ones that lose to it.''' That's why people quit in disgust: it destroys all semblance of choice, and quite possibly all semblance of fun. Your available tactics are now limited to one--the one that works. And what if you don't ''like'' that tactic? What if it's a gun in a game where you prefer swordplay? What if it involves AttackAttackAttack when you're more of a defensive turtler? What if it requires you to play the MightyGlacier but you're a FragileSpeedster player? Well, then, it sucks to be you. You can play the game the way you want to, and lose... or you can follow the crowd, and maybe win. Small wonder some players TakeAThirdOption and RageQuit instead.



* ''Webcomic/Plus99ReinforcedWoodenStick'': The protagonist is a newbie in an MMO that tries upgrading a simple wooden stick, and due to a bug or design oversight, is able to turn it into a super weapon able to destroy landscape and kill swathes of players with one swing. It's more literal than usual, too -- at one point he destroys the game's planet and crashes the servers from unleashing too much power.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'': InUniverse. The "Beast Snare" card in the in-universe card game ''Bring Out Your Beast'' makes the user basically unbeatable because it allows the player to permanently take any number of their opponent's cards. The card was only printed during [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the game's first edition]] before the creators realized how incredibly broken that is and is now exceptionally rare (although for some reason it's still considered a legal card). The Beast Snare card of course parodies some of the [[GameBreaker/MagicTheGathering early overpowered cards]] of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and the allowing of "[[https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Ante anteing]]" (gambling) your cards early in the game's history.
* ''Webcomic/Plus99ReinforcedWoodenStick'': The protagonist is a newbie in an MMO that tries upgrading a simple wooden stick, and due to a bug or design oversite, oversight, is able to turn it into a super weapon able to destroy landscape and kill swathes of players with one swing. It's more literal than usual, too -- at one point he destroys the game's planet and crashes the servers from unleashing too much power.

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->''"Collecting all Chaos Emeralds unlocks Super Sonic to play with, or as I call him, the Destroyer of Souls. I'm serious. [..] He has the best speed, the best handle, the best acceleration, and has a double jump to boot. If you're gonna get Super Sonic, prepare to make the rest of the game boring, and prepare to lose friends in multiplayer."''
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->''"The Assyrians were the first people to start using iron weapons instead of bronze which, to put into a modern perspective, is sort of like showing up for a knife fight with the Death Star. Using iron made the Assyrians so near-invincible that, really, the other guys might as well have been swinging around bananas."''
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_16972_5-most-terrifying-civilizations-in-history-world.html "The 5 most terrifying civilizations in the history of the world."]]''

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->''"The Assyrians were the first people to start using iron weapons instead of bronze which, to put into a modern perspective, is sort of like showing up for a knife fight with the Death Star. Using iron made the Assyrians so near-invincible that, really, the other guys might as well have been swinging around bananas."''
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_16972_5-most-terrifying-civilizations-in-history-world.html "The 5 most terrifying civilizations in the history of the world."]]''

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