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Bisected8
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(Primordial Chaos)
6th Dec, 2017 06:03:16 AM
The Worf Effect or The World's Expert (on Getting Killed), maybe?
Edited by Bisected8 TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faer
So this trope is about an amount of "something" (generally a size, or amount of money, or power level...) being marked as gigantic... just to fall short before actually getting to show off, generally just to show how awesome that new element is.
something like "hahahaha! I have absorbed the energy of an entire star!!" —Episode end— —Next episode— "OMG, that new guy just beat the power of an entire star with one punch!"
(something close to "did you just punch out cthulhu" but more targeting the "cthulhu" part