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Working Title: ExcessivelyPowerfulAbility: From YKTTW
Burai: Amputated ...
- Real Life* Anyone think America's military is like this? I mean, they've cruise missiles, stealth bombers, nuclear weapons... and yet they're stuck in going up against combatants in urban environments where any powerful weapon will likely kill many innocents causing more to support their enemy in the long run. Nuclear bombs are also hard to make use of as any use of them will likely lead to other countries using them, possibly against America.** The US is currently stuck in Arthur C. Clarke's short story, Superiority. The military's tech level is too high for its own good, and maintaining and upgrading all those advanced armaments (you're not even mentioning [[http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/episodes/episodes.html the really fun stuff) costs too much in the long run to maintain proper control.
... because it just isn't really descriptive of a "Story Breaker Power" — it doesn't "handily solve the plot". An SBP (as described) is one that moots potential problems, making it more difficult to challenge the power-holder; this example is describing a 'power' whose excessiveness becomes the challenge, which would be a different trope (either Power Incontinence or Blessed with Suck). And once outside the boundaries of the trope definition, everything else is Thread Mode.
Dausuul: Removed From a Single Cell. It's an awesome power to have, sure, but it's generally pretty hard to break a plot with it.
