History Main / KryptoniteIsEverywhere

** When JuliusSchwartz took over editorship of the ''Superman'' titles in the early 1970s, he had a story where a nuclear accident converted all the kryptonite on Earth to iron. Then he had that balanced out by Superman dealing with a sand doppleganger that takes 2/3 of his power level and Superman ultimately decides to leave it at that. Unfortunately, readers didn't take to this revision and Schwartz was forced to backtrack.

**** So the HeadButt is a WallBanger?

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* Lampshaded in ''ImAMarvelAndImADC After Hours''.
-->'''Superman, after being hit with Kryptonite yet again:''' Kryptonite! Where do you keep getting this stuff?!

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* [[Game/MegaMan Bass]] lampshades this trope in ''CaptainSNES'', telling [[DragonBall Vegeta]] that he isn't contacting Superman because he's pretty sure the god-level entity tearing up Nexus has magic powers, and Kryptonite is so common that the ice cream vendor they're meeting in front of probably has Kryptonite-flavoured ice cream. He in fact has two kinds.
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This trope is the exact opposite of ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman, where circumstances conspire to make a low-powered hero more useful. Compare DeusExitMachina, EveryoneHasAPowerRing; see also EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion and ContractualBossImmunity.

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* Forceful Leaf, a Chinese superheroine from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' is a faerie creature who takes damage from merely touching iron, or anything with a considerable iron percentage.
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** Just look around the room your in right now. How many wooden objects/furniture are there that a slayer could smash up and use as stakes in a fight? This troper can count eleven, more if you include the house itself. Potential stakes being everywhere is hardly an unbelevable concept...
* This trope was used in every medium of ''StarTrek'' to avoid the plots falling apart under the weight of the franchise's accumulated Phlebtonium. You can be guaranteed that any episode based around a problem that could be solved in seconds with the use of the transporter, the tractor beam or the ship's sensors will be drawn out because the appropriate equipment is mysteriously not functioning or out of range. Of course, [[TropesAreNotBad the show would have been awfully boring if they had a commonplace solution for every scenario]].

** Just look around the room your in right now. How many wooden objects/furniture are there acould a slayer smash up and use as stakes in a fight? This troper can count eleven, more if you include the house itself. Potential stakes being everywhere is hardly an unbelevable concept...

This trope is the exact opposite of ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman, where circumstances conspire to make a low-powered hero more useful. Compare DeusExitMachina; see also EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion and ContractualBossImmunity.

* Once Miroku joins {{Inuyasha}} and gang, his Wind Tunnel - effectively a black hole in the palm of his hand - proves nearly impossible to use effectively thanks to the scores of poisonous insects which Naraku keeps handy and lends out freely to his flunkies and pawns for just such a purpose. This and the Wind Tunnel's other drawbacks mean that Miroku rarely gets much opportunity to use his best weapon effectively, although there are several instances in which he demonstrates his willingness to open it up in spite of the danger... including one epic {{Determinator}} moment in which he ignored the massive amounts of poison he was taking in to try to get rid of the BigBad for good, even after he began [[http://randomc.net/image/InuYasha/InuYasha%20-%20The%20Final%20Act%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2030.jpg bleeding heavily from the eyes and mouth]].

* Once Miroku joined {{Inuyasha}} and gang, his amazing Wind Tunnel that acted as a portable black hole turned out to be completely unusable in most fights. If it wasn't wasps Naraku designed to sting him from ''inside'' the Wind Tunnel, it was the presence of InnocentBystanders, or simply being too far away or hurt. And of course, using it excessively would eventually kill him. After being introduced his most effective "use" of the Wind Tunnel was when a [[AllYourPowersCombined power copycat]] copied his power and [[SuperPowerMeltdown self destructed from overusing it.]]
** This was once parodied in a flash animation were Miroku is sitting on a lawn chair, reading a book, saying "Would love to help ya pal but, y'know, poison insects and all that."
** This weakness though does give him an opportunity to pull off a totally badass {{Determinator}} moment where he keeps using the Wind Tunnel in an attempt to stop the big bad once and for all, in spite of the presence of Naraku's poison. Even to the point where {{HighPressureBlood}} starts shooting out of [[http://randomc.net/image/InuYasha/InuYasha%20-%20The%20Final%20Act%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2030.jpg his eye sockets]]. [[spoiler: Though his friends stop him, saving his life but allowing the enemy to get away with the {{MacGuffin}}.]]

Circumstances always seem to work out so the hero faces [[KungFuProofMook just the right sorts of opponents]] to still give him a challenge. If he has psychic powers, then his enemies will have [[PsychichBlockDefense psychic shields]], or computer brains, or be TooSpicyForYogSothoth. If his powers are [[GreenLantern useless against a particular color]], then guess what color the incoming dangerous meteor happens to be ... Basically, the KryptoniteFactor shows up far more often than one would expect. Otherwise [[TropesAreNotBad the episode would be over too quickly]].

Circumstances always seem to work out so the hero faces [[KungFuProofMook just the right sorts of opponents]] to still give him a challenge. If he has psychic powers, then his enemies will have psychic shields, or computer brains, or be TooSpicyForYogSothoth. If his powers are [[GreenLantern useless against a particular color]], then guess what color the incoming dangerous meteor happens to be ... Basically, the KryptoniteFactor shows up far more often than one would expect. Otherwise [[TropesAreNotBad the episode would be over too quickly]].

* [[MegaMan Bass]] lampshades this trope in ''CaptainSNES'', telling [[DragonBall Vegeta]] that he isn't contacting Superman because he's pretty sure the god-level entity tearing up Nexus has magic powers, and Kryptonite is so common that the ice cream vendor they're meeting in front of probably has Kryptonite-flavoured ice cream. He in fact has two kinds.

* GreenLantern Hal Jordan's SilverAge weakness? The color yellow. His Kryptonite was ''literally'' everywhere.

** At least it generally takes a little effort to find something that's both yellow and suitable for use as a weapon. The GoldenAge Green Lantern's weakness was ''wood''.

The TropeMaker is of course {{Superman}}, originating back in the days of the radio show. It seemed that every bank robber and common criminal had a chunk of Kryptonite to threaten ol' Supes. FridgeLogic showed that if that many Kryptonite meteorites fell just on Metropolis, then based on the quoted distance from Krypton to Earth, planet Krypton would have to have been several times as large as our sun.

* In the 1990's [[{{X-Men}}]] series, the X-men and several other characters with powers had to fight an alien creature in the subway tunnels under New York. Things were [[CurbStompBattle going pretty badly]] until the thing [[LightningCanDoAnything hit the third rail]]... of course, Storm was nowhere to be found in that episode.

*** A PowerNullifier
*** A man who can [[SpiderSense see the future]], letting him be right where he needs to be to sucker punch Hiro.
*** A guy who had already copied Hiro's TimeMaster powers, as well as [[AllYourPowersCombined dozens of others]].
*** A speedster who's so good that time-stops merely slow her down to moving as fast as he does

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Circumstances always seem to work out so the hero faces [[KungFuProofMook just the right sorts of opponents]] to still give him a challenge. If he has psychic powers, then his enemies will have psychic shields, or computer brains, or be TooSpicyForYogSothoth. If his powers are [[GreenLantern useless against a particular color]], then guess what color the incoming dangerous meteor happens to be. Basically, the KryptoniteFactor shows up far more often than one would expect. Otherwise [[TropesAreNotBad the episode would be over too quickly]].