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Author: CommanderPanda

Aug 12th 2011 at 5:20:56 PM

If I had a nickle for every addled, poisoned, charmed, dazed, stunned, and sleeping Robot.

Any character or creature whose Bravery stat falls below a certain threshold turns into a chicken in {{Final Fantasy Tactics}}.  The closest this comes to making sense is a Chocobo turning into a chicken.  Oracles and Mediators have a small arsenal of similarly head-tilting status effects.  For example, Charm, when used on a human only works on a human of the opposite gender, but will work on all beasts.  Kinda like {{Everyone Is Bi}}.

{{Final Fantasy IX}} had Mustard as a status effect.

{{World of Warcraft}} has a handful of these, mostly due to the impact of stun-effects in PVP, they're constantly being re-balanced. One example, the rogue's sap ability (knock unconscious with an unseen blow-to-the-head) now works on the headless.  On that note, the neckless can be Garroted (strangled with piano wire or analog) just as easily.

Averted in {{Magic The Gathering}}, common kill cards, Terror and Go For the Throat, and a form of evasion known as Fear/Intimidate don't work on Artifact creatures (Robots and constructs), as they don't have a jugular, and lack the emotional capacity for fear. With the card base what it is though, I'm positive there are countless examples of this trope in action.  How about a Lightning Elemental killed by a Lightning Bolt?

Averted-except-not, in {{Ragnarok Online}}, wearing cloth over your eyes reduces your vulnerability to blind-effects. I also recall poisoned Ghosts, blinding eye-less enemies with card effects, and freezing fire elementals; all this, despite how every enemy has a complex list of personalised vulnerabilities and resistances.

SeenItAMillionTimes. I'm sure this can amass several examples.