Basic Trope: The superpower of being made out of a hero’s one weakness.
- Straight: One of Amazing Girl's many foes is the Fluromite Golem, an animated mass of Fluromite. Fluromite happens to be her one weakness.
- Exaggerated:
- Amazing Girl has several foes that all run on this theme.
- Nemesis has the ability to become the one weakness of any superhero he meets.
- The Superhuman Annihilator's power is the capacity to unleash an aura that weakens and hurts all non-Badass Normal superheroes in his vicinity, regardless of what kind of origin their powers has - aliens get the typical reaction, technology of a level above gunpowder gets disrupted, super serums get a rather nasty case of spontaneous rejection, Enlightenment Superpowers are yanked back down to Earth, The Magic Goes Away, and so on.
- Downplayed: The Fluromite “golem” is in fact just a guy who carries a large chunk of Fluromite around.
- Justified:
- Golems already exist, and so does Fluromite… And plenty of it. It was only a matter of time before they were combined.
- Water Hazard is a water-controlling supervillain; of course he would be the instant counter to Electro Man’s Logical Weakness of water.
- Inverted: Amazing Girl keeps Firebrand around because she can absorb fire to make herself more powerful. Effectively, Firebrand is a walking power-up for Amazing Girl.
- Subverted: It turns out the Fluromite Golem is actually shale made to look like Fluromite, and doesn’t have any effect what so ever except for being intimidating.
- Double Subverted: Under the shale is the ACTUAL Fluromite.
- Parodied:
- Amazing Girl hates eating broccoli, and so broccoli-bot is made to exploit this “weakness”... And it works!
- After facing the Fluromite Golem, Amazing Girl creates the Anti-Fluromite bot as its Man of Kryptonite. The Golem makes an Anti-Anti-Fluromite bot, so Amazing Girl makes an Anti-Anti-Anti-Fluromite bot...
- Evulz created Fluromite golem and boasts that Amazing Girl won't be able to stop him as he goes to rob a bank. The police arrives and promptly arrests him and the golem without even pulling their guns.
- Zig Zagged: It turns out Amazing Girl’s weakness was only psychoactive, but it also turns out the Fluromite Golem was made to exploit a DIFFERENT superhero’s weakness. The other superhero, Bombastic Man, turns out to have a Fake Weakness to Fluromite, but is still weak to magic, allowing the Golem to kill him.
- Averted: No-one makes creatures out of other people’s one weakness like this.
- Enforced: “I’m having trouble threatening Amazing Girl… if only I had some reason to work in her one weakness week after week…”
- Lampshaded:
- “OH COME ON! Where did you even FIND that much Fluromite?”
- “I am built to destroy you, and I am very well equipped to do so.”
- Invoked: A wizard makes the Fluromite Golem to finally kill Amazing Girl once and for all.
- Exploited: Amazing Girl throws her Evil Twin at the Fluromite Golem to kill two birds with one stone.
- Defied:
- Amazing Girl smashes the experiment before the Fluromite Golem can be made.
- Amazing Girl has her super-team take care of it, preventing the Fluromite Golem from hurting her.
- Amazing Girl snipes the Fluromite Golem's head off with an assault rifle before it can get into its effective range.
- Big Bad Evulz refuses to allow the creation of a Fluromite Golem because he doesn't sees the utility in creating a walking chunk of Fluromite when lacing every bullet on his mooks' guns would be just as lethally effective and a whole lot cheaper and tactically flexible.
- Fluromite is Amazing Girl's greatest weakness, but it's not an instant effect. She is able to smash the Fluorite Golem in the time it takes for her body to start weakening, and she still has enough left on her reserves afterwards to kick the crap out of her creator and run to safety.
- Discussed: “You can tell a super-villain made this, can't you? Nothing says “I hate you” like a robot made from your one fear.”
- Conversed: “Well, let’s face it, if I had to make a machine to fight Amazing girl, I’d pretty much do that as well.”
- Deconstructed:
- The Fluromite Golem doesn’t really have any other abilities aside from being a walking Kryptonite Factor, and so is easily defeated by a Kryptonite-Proof Suit or another group of superheros without the weakness.
- Fluromite is an element too unstable and dangerous... and not even somebody literally made of it is safe. The Fluromite Golem requires a variety of additional gadgets to keep from exploding like Three Mile Island and/or fatally poisoning any piece of it that isn't Fluromite
- Reconstructed:
- Flaw Exploitation or no, the Fluromite Golem is still a solidly-built, radioactive Rock Monster and is not an easy fight for anyone, let alone Amazing Girl.
- The explosion is the entire POINT- The Fluromite Golem is a literal Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb, intended to fight Amazing Girl just long enough to lure her into its explosive range. The fact that it can already hurt her without exploding is just bonus.
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