Needs Help: Power Copying

Kirby is currently the page illustration for both Power Copying and its Sub-Trope Cannibalism Superpower when Kirby is a specific example of the former. Additionally, I'm not sure Kirby is even a straight example, since the description states that characters learn the techniques of others by watching them, as opposed to Power Parasite for the likes of Rogue and Parasite.

edited 21st Nov '16 1:16:39 PM by Morgenthaler

Opened.

Yes, Kirby himself is an example Power Parasite, but in the pic he just copy Mario's powers.

edited 22nd Nov '16 10:22:12 AM by rafi

It can't be a supertrope to those tropes while at the same time excluding those methods for itself.

However it may be, the image illustrates the trope well enough.

Yeah, really the description needs to be loosened. It suffers from a bit of Example As Thesis where it describes an instance of the trope, rather than the general trope. Heck, it's so narrow that literally none of the subtropes are actually subtropes (the only one that involves "watching" is Awesomeness by Analysis, and that one doesn't necessarily have any Power Copying involved) and excludes some really major examples.

Also Kirby isn't Power Parasite since enemies (if they survive) keep their power. And the image is really solidly showing Power Copying.

For the record (even if it's the wrong thread for it), I deleted Awesomeness by Analysis from the subtrope list. It's just plain false.

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