Logical Weakness / Western Animation

Logical Weaknesses in western animated shows.

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• Adventure Time:
  • In "The Silent King", Finn overthrows the evil Xergiok, king of the goblins. When Xergiok returns with an army of hulking ear-headed monsters called "Earclopses", Finn easily defeats them with loud noises.
  • In the Grand Finale "Come Along With Me", GOLB, an embodiment of primordial chaos comes to Ooo. At first it seems that all is lost, as nothing they do seems to do more than annoy his minions, until BMO's singing repels one of his minions. Bubblegum then realizes that as an embodiment of discord, GOLB is weak to harmony.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Because benders channel their powers through martial arts, binding or paralyzing their limbs is an effective means of defeating or imprisoning them, though sufficiently skilled benders are able to get beyond this. For example, when King Bumi is locked into a coffin with only his face poking out, he is able to Earthbend fairly effectively using only his chin. Then again, he is 110-years-old (really, not the Human Popsicle 110-year-old that Aang technically is), so he's had a lot of time to master Earthbending with any part of his body.
  • Both Earth and Waterbenders have a wide variety of moves to choose from, but require quantities of the element to bend, giving them a disadvantage in ocean and desert environments respectively.
  • Fire and Airbenders always have their element at hand, but also have their own weaknesses. Fire requires stable breath control to use (making it easier to lose control or tire from using the element), is less effective in the cold or at night, and lacks many defensive moves. Likewise, Air Bending has fewer offensive moves, and the culture surrounding it is quite pacifistic, making it especially difficult to finish a fight.
  • Mainstream firebending has the problem that it's powered by the user's emotions to a much greater degree than the others. The result is that a change in the powering emotion can have massive effects; for instance Zuko was nearly powerless when he gained control of his anger issues. The original version, which very few people know about, is based on balance and doesn't have this problem.
  • Toph Bei Fong was born blind, but uses Earthbender skills as a Disability Superpower to feel vibrations in stone, compacted soil and metal. This means she can't "see" things that aren't touching the ground and her "sight" is severely impaired if she's not in contact with her element. She's extremely apprehensive riding on Appa, gets a view comparable to static when on sand (though it is possible for earthbenders to control sand, and she has gained enough skill with it to create a mini Ba Sing Se out of sand in the first part of the Grand Finale), and is seen having to hold on to her companions when traveling on a wood-built village. Traveling on a metal boat is bearable, but she throws up within minutes of boarding a submarine. In a world without Braille, she's also illiterate. But if she's on an earthen surface, she can see all around her, even behind things. None of this stops her from intercepting catapult weapons fired from another ship on water, though that may just be her inherent skill. Word of God states that she can detect earth even when it isn't in contact with the ground (catapult weapons used by firebenders are nothing more than boulders covered with flaming oil), which also explains how she can even counter Earthbender attacks coming at her from the air.
  • While Toph's senses that allow her to be a Living Lie Detector can be fooled by a sufficiently skilled liar, Azula gets a Touché reaction from her. they can also be fooled by someone who genuinely believes what they say, such as when Jet was brainwashed.
  • One episode has her and Katara get locked up in a cell made of wood, something neither of them can bend. They get out by working up enough of a sweat for Katara to weaponize.
  • With Metalbending having become a full-fledged bending discipline by the time of The Legend of Korra, the sequel series also shows the bending style's weaknesses: they are very susceptible to electric attacks due to using reels of metallic cord to attack with as well as the metal-covered suits they wear. Their metal suits also make them vulnerable to powerful magnets built into special mecha-tanks used against them. Metalbending works by bending the earthy impurities in most metals. As such, most villains in Korra got around this with weapons and Tailor Made Prisons made of more purified elements (specifically platinum).
  • Also in Korra there is Ming-Hua, a waterbender without arms who bends water into tentacle-like appendages to compensate. While her control makes her a very hard opponent for any waterbender, a firebender can evaporate her Combat Tentacles if she doesn't have a water source to replace them from, and keeping the water attached to her body makes her extremely vulnerable to electrocution by a firebender who can bend lightning.
  • The combustion benders in both series use a special third-eye tattoo to channel their explosions. Attacking this point in any way can disrupt their powers. They're also not immune to their own explosions, so obstructing their target at close range can be lethal to them.
  • Chi-blocking in both series also goes both ways of this trope. Against benders, it exploits how they usually need space and momentum to quickly and efficiently take them down. However, they, specifically the Equalists, are consistently on the receiving end of this trope in either going against a bending style that's both rare and evasion-focused (airbending) or a non-bender that naturally fight up close to begin with (ex. Asami Sato).
  • The Mini-Mecha built by the Equalists become commonplace in Book 4. Despite being advertised as bending-proof, they can still be immobilized by a waterbender who can cover them in ice, or an earthbender who can bury them in rocks. Their true Achilles' Heel is lavabending, which not only immobilizes them, but makes staying inside them lethal due to the heat.
  • Last Airbender introduced a creature called the shirshu, a large wolf/gaint anteater/Star-nosed mole used as a mount/track beast by the bounty hunter Jun due to it relying entirely on its sense of smell. The Gaang are able to beat it by spilling and breaking jugs of perfume around it; all the contradicting and overpowering smells overwhelm the beast.
• This comes up a lot in Ben 10:
  • Ben himself; in order to use the Omnitrix, he has to dial between aliens and push the plunger down. If he can't do that, then he can't transform.
  • Heatblast; aside from the usual weaknesses of fire-based powers (water, fire extinguishers, etc.), the fact he's made of fire means that he can't touch certain materials without burning them.
  • While Diamondhead's crystalline body is Nigh-Invulnerable to most damage, sonic attacks can cause him to crack or shatter.
  • Ripjaws, coming from a piscine species, can't stay out of the water for too long, lest he risk suffocation.
  • Upgrade; magnetic forces disrupt his abilities since he's effectively a living pile of liquid metal.
  • Shocksquatch's primary method of generating electricity involves building up a static charge in his fur and releasing it, which he can't do if he's covered in an insulating material.
  • Toepick's Nightmare Face is useless against anyone who can't see or feel fear.
  • One of Whampire's powers is the ability to fire small bat-shaped projectiles that can control whoever they come in contact with. But in order to work, they need to make contact with the target's actual skin, as Ben finds out when he tried to use them on Exo-Skull, who is covered in armor.
  • Because Wildmutt relies entirely on his sense of smell to percieve his environment, anything that impares that can leave him helpless, as seen in the episode "Side Effects" where the congestion of Ben's cold leaves him completely blind.
  • Sludgepuppies are living mud. Dunk one in a large enough body of water, it'll dissolve. Expose one to too much heat, it'll dry out and become stone.
  • P'andor (and by extension, NRG) is a radioactive Energy Being who has to be contained in a specifically made containment suit to keep the radiation he emits from affecting anyone. As Kevin notes, a containment suit that can hold P'andor can obviously touch him, so he absorbs the material the containment suit is made of in order to make it possible for him to hit P'andor.
  • Celestialsapiens have to come to a unanimous decision by their two personalities (three in Ben's case when he's Alien X) before they can do anything. The Galactic Gladiator has mostly overcome this weakness, until Ben realizes he can present him with way too many decisions to make at once. By duplicating Alien X dozens of times over, Ben causes the Galactic Gladiator to fall into a standstill where his personalities argue over which one to attack first, then strikes before they can agree.
  • In one episode, during a fight with Captain Nemesis, the not-so-good captain fights in a high-tech suit of armor that puts out a lot of heat. Ben simply turns into Water Hazard, hoses down Nemesis, and sucks out the water vapor. The rapid cooling embrittles the armor, causing it to crumble.
  • One of Ben's recurring foes, Michael Morningstar aka Darkstar, can drain the life energy from other beings like a vampire. At one point, he tries to use his ability on Ghostfreak, who, true to his name, has no life energy to be stolen.
• On a Cartoon Network bumper, Zan of the Wonder Twins says "I could get beaten by a sponge! It wouldn't even have to be an evil sponge!"
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • The Delightful Children From Down The Lane are perfect, goody-goody children who are hardwired (as it turns out, quite literally due to brainwashing) to obey adults at all times. This includes all adults, including ones who are obviously not on their side. Numbuh 1, when he was temporarily turned into an adult, took advantage of this in order to get them to hand over an age-changing device.
    Adult Numbuh 1: Alright, you brats. Gimme that device.
    Delightful Children: Why would we give it to you?
    Adult Numbuh 1: Because I'm an adult, and goody-goody brats like you have to obey adults. So gimme.
    Delightful Children: (look at each other, then hand the device to Numbuh 1) No fair.
  • Father's powers take the form of being able to summon fire and use it to cover his body or shoot blasts from his hands. While normally quite formidable, anything that can put fire out, such as ice cream or melted ice, or reacts to intense heat, such as popcorn, can make those powers far less threatening.
• Danny Phantom:
  • In "My Brother's Keeper", Spectra is able to avoid Danny's Ghost Sense (which appears as a puff of cold breath) by having the AC turned down low, causing Danny to mistake it for regular breath.
  • The Ghost Writer, the villain of "The Fright Before Christmas", is capable of Rewriting Reality, but his powers depend on him being able to keep a rhyme scheme going. Danny manages to break himself and some of his usual Rogues Gallery free of the Ghost Writer's control by picking up an orange.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • Megavolt is an electricity-based villain shorted out by water.
  • The Liquidator is intimidated by "a common cleaning sponge" and (in a Shout-Out to John Kendrick Bangs' "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall") by being locked in a freezer, as well as by cement and even pudding mix!
  • Bushroot's plantlike body gives him a lot of advantages including extending arms and high resilience, but since it's plant tissue it's easy to cut. He is also vulnerable to weed-killer, and his feelings are easily hurt.
  • All of this is totaled up when Negaduck uses magic to steal the powers of all three of the above. He gets all the powers and all the weaknesses.
• In Di-Gata Defenders, Seth's Guardian Kragus is a being made of stone who draws on the earth around him to take form. However, Seth was unable to summon him while on a boat, even one that had Dakocite stone as its cargo, because the summoning would likely sink the boat (Seth later weaponised this when he wanted to sink the boat). Also, in an earlier episode, when getting into a testosterone-fueled duel with Seth, Adam deliberately chooses a location where the ground is "Sigil-hardened" (i.e.: magically reinforced), forcing Kragus to be formed from nearby trees, instead — which isn't a good thing for Seth and Kragus, since Adam's Guardian is called Firefox for a reason.
• In Exo Squad, Neosapiens are stated to have heightened senses. Early on in the show they flashbang one to great effect.
• H2Olga, a nemesis of the Crimson Chin from The Fairly OddParents! is made of water, so she's defeated by an ultra-absorbent diaper. In a later episode, Catman defeats her by pouring cat litter on her feet.
• Gargoyles:
  • The show made a point of mentioning in one episode that you had to see and hear a magical spell being performed on you to be affected by it. When Demona casts her spell to turn every human in New York into statues at night (broadcast via TV), the only ones left unaffected are the blind (like Hudson's friend Robbins) and those who didn't see the broadcast (like Xanatos and one random woman who everyone thought was crazy the following morning after she said she didn't watch television).
  • The Gargoyles themselves don't fly, they glide. This imposes some reasonable limitations on their ability to use their wings.
  • The in-universe explanation for a gargoyle's stone form is that it allows them to absorb solar energy to fuel their Super-Strength. As such, when a gargoyle turns to stone indoors, they're far weaker the following evening.
• Generator Rex: Rex once countered Circe's Super-Scream buy tilting his Boogie Pack in her direction; it made a louder noise and drowned out her voice.
• Gumby and his friends are made out of clay, so it's a plot point in several shorts that he's vulnerable to extreme cold (which causes him to freeze up) and extreme heat (which causes him to melt).
• Gravity Falls:
  • The Living Statues in "Headhunters" are made of wax, and therefore, can melt from heat.
  • The clones created by the copy machine in the episode "Double Dipper" are made of ink and paper, so naturally, they dissolve when doused with liquid.
  • The baby pterodactyl from the episode "Land Before Swine" has its eyes on the sides of its head like a horse, and as Soos points out, this means it can't see anything standing directly in front of it.
  • In "Sock Opera", Bill Cipher possesses Dipper's body. But while Bill is all-powerful in the mindscape, being in Dipper's body makes him only as dangerous as a noodle-armed twelve-year-old, especially facing someone who knows where he's ticklish. The fact that Dipper had gone several days without sleep and Bill had been purposely injuring the body to experience pain only compounds the problem, as Mabel is quick to point out when she and "Bipper" fight.
  • In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls", the unicorn hair shield prevents Bill and the Henchmaniacs from damaging the shack. However, Shacktron's limbs are outside the shield, allowing a giant Bill Cipher to rip off the mech's leg and beat it into submission with it.
• In Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series, a monster steals the powers from heroes and demigods. Hercules then realizes that some of the powers carry crippling weaknesses, such as bright lights interfering with super vision, and uses that to trip up the monster.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series: One Monster of the Week, Heckler, is designed to annoy, humiliate, and demoralize people with his cutting insults. When he starts mocking Pleakley's stand-up act, Pleakley switches to self-deprecating jokes, and Heckler is at a loss for words. It turns out Heckler can't make fun of people who are making fun of themselves.
• The Mask:
  • Often employed by the hero, combined with Rule of Funny — Putty Thing has been defeated by being mixed with canola oil, falling into the ocean and being tricked into entering a cement mixer among other things; and three villains who escaped a comic book were defeated by destroying the comic.
  • Funny enough, Stanley himself was subject to this trope in one episode. Deciding to no longer be an Extreme Doormat, his civilian life is going great though his powers as The Mask weaken to the point he can't even stay transformed with a talk with his shrink realizing that he essentially needs to be a doormat as "Clark Kent" in order to be a fully-powered "Superman." While this initially sounds like Status Quo Is God it's actually some surprisingly good Fridge Brilliance considering the mask is basically a Catharsis Factor. No repression to unleash means no power.
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)' title character has been able to disable the blinding effects of Bright Man's Flash Stopper simply by wearing sunglasses.
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • Hawk Moth's power is to empower others; while this makes him difficult to track, it also means he has to rely on whichever random Parisian he Akumatizes that day. Akumatization drives the target insane, but Sanity Has Advantages— while Akumas still have minds, their obsession with whatever caused them to be akumatized causes them to prioritize their goal over Hawk Moth's, misinterpret his commands, or make stupid choices Hawk Moth himself wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole (villains who can cause Forced Transformation have a bad habit of transforming Cat Noir, therefore making his Miraculous irretrievable). Hawk Moth has even been attacked by some who were far too obsessed with their own objectives to feel like taking orders. While he does have a failsafe in the form of withdrawing the akuma, he needs to activate it. Robostus is able to betray him by hacking into his defenses, leaving him too busy dodging his own missiles to interfere.
  • All the Miraculous' powers are voice-activated; this means the Silencer, who can steal voices, serves as a Power Nullifier towards Miraculous users.
  • The ladybug Miraculous allows the wearer to summon an object that is key in defecting the wearer's current foe but the wearer has to figure out the how and execute it. Also the how that the key fits into also depends on the person's way of going about things, since Ladybug tends to overcomplicate everything, the how the key fits into is also overcomplicated.
  • The Cat Miraculous allow the user to destroy anything or anyone they touch with their right hand but they have to touch the object or person with their right hand first.
  • The Snake Miraculous's Second Chance is incredibly useful, since it allows for infinite Save Scumming of a five-minute period. But not only does this make its wielder a top-priority target for anyone who knows how the power works, the power can still be worked around — the wielder is bound to the one power per transformation rule like all the others, and activating the power requires the wielder to manually turn back a counter on his bracelet. Party Crasher is able to force Viperion to use up his Second Chance and finish him after the time's up, and when Viperion is mind-controlled in "Miracle Queen", Ladybug and Chat Noir are able to stop him by grabbing his arms and physically preventing him from reaching his Miraculous bracelet.
  • Lady WiFi gets her power from her smartphone, so she gets weaker where there's little reception.
  • The Evillustrator can create anything that he draws on his pad; when deprived of a light source, however, this is basically useless.
  • The Collector can imprison people and objects inside his sketchbook. He has to hit you with the book to do it, though, which means he can only trap one target at a time, and each sketch takes up a full page, so once he runs out of pages, he can't use his power anymore unless he releases some of his victims to free pages up.
  • Gigantitan is an akumatized baby named August; much to Hawk Moth's frustration, August still has the mentality of a baby, so he's easily distracted and doesn't follow Hawk Moth's orders because he's a baby and can't understand them.
  • Troublemaker can turn intangible by clicking her pen. However, this means that her control over her power is limited to an on/off switch — so if she wants to interact with things, she has to make herself vulnerable to do so, and if she needs to turn intangible to dodge an attack, she'll have to drop anything she's holding, which prevents her from keeping the Ladybug earring she stole.
  • Gorizilla has a super sense of smell, so getting deodorant in his nose debilitates him. He's also unable to get the Miraculous he was after because his hands were just too big, since the Miraculous are pieces of jewelry.
  • Chameleon can take the shape of anything she kisses. To beat her, Ladybug tricks her into kissing a clam, rendering her defenseless and unable to transform back because clams don't have lips and can't move on their own.
  • Oni-chan can switch places with people who answer her phone messages. The catch is that the ability is passive; she can't make people answer their phones, or control who answers the messages and when or where they do so. Cat Noir prevents her from taking Ladybug's Miraculous by having a fireman answer the phone in a different location, teleporting her away, and Ladybug eventually defeats her by answering while being tied up, which puts Oni-chan into her bonds. The only Required Secondary Power she does have is magically knowing peoples' phone numbers so she can text anyone who has a phone.
  • Truth can, well, force people to tell the truth. But just because what they're saying is truthful, it doesn't mean that it's the particular truth he wants to know, and he can't force someone to tell him something that they don't themselves know. When Truth asks about "Marinette's secret" (i.e. that she is Ladybug), the secret he gets is "she's in love with Adrien Agreste". From everybody he asks. Of course, as Truth himself states in his frustration, that's hardly a secret, but since she hasn't told Adrien yet (and he still hasn't managed to figure it out for himself despite the mountains of evidence that has smacked him in the face up to this point), it still counts. Additionally, those affected by Truth's powers will answer questions from anyone, not just him, so Chat Noir is able to prevent Ladybug from revealing her identity by interrupting his questions and turning them into different ones.
  • Lies paralyzes anyone in her sphere of influence who has ever told a lie, no matter how small. Because every human, including the heroes, has lied at some point, this means that nobody can get close to her. The power, however, has no influence on things which cannot lie — Ladybug uses Fang (an animal who doesn't understand the concept of lying, and even if he did, he can't talk and therefore can't lie himself) and a drone (inanimate object) to reach her through her paralysis sphere.
  • Light Eye is a giant floating eye that can paralyze anyone in its line of sight. Being a single eye, it lacks depth perception, and because of its paralyzing gaze, it doesn't expect whatever it looks at to move. Put these two together, and you can guess why it fell for the cardboard cutouts Ladybug used to take him down.
  • Optigami can camouflage itself and record anything it sees and send whatever it sees back to Nathalie's tablet. Of course, it needs to actually open its eyes when its recording, so it can't hide itself and do that at the same time.
  • Wishmaker can only turn people into their childhood dreams. He can't control what people turn into or undo the transformation, so if said childhood dreams become hostile to him, all he can do is run away.
  • Psycomedian can impose emotions on anyone he makes eye contact with. The heroes get around this by closing their eyes or blindfolding themselves.
  • Safari's homing arrows use advanced technology to visually scan and register a target, then chase them down relentlessly. It turns out to be too specific, as the arrows hunted down anything that looked exactly like Ladybug and Cat Noir, even being fooled by a wax statue at one point. Once Ladybug and Cat Noir no longer look like Ladybug and Cat Noir (read: transforming back to Marinette and Adrien), Safari loses their scent.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Unicorns are stated to have a small suite of spells related to their special talent that they can use well (outside of telekinesis). This means that if faced with a situation where those spells aren't any use, they aren't much help. In addition, even if a unicorn has an appropriate spell, they need to be able to concentrate to use it. Panic, sensory overload, being manhandled, etc. will render them unable to use spells. It has also been shown that even lightly hitting a unicorns horn will disrupt any spellcasting they are attempting.
  • The Elements of Harmony are meant to represent The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship as condensed magic sources (so, literally, friendship is magic). This means that if the users of the Elements aren't in sync, or otherwise fighting with each other, they won't work. Discord used this to his advantage by corrupting the Mane Six, preventing the Elements from stopping him.
• The Golden Guard from The Owl House doesn't have any innate magic of his own, and is completely reliant on his staff for casting spells. He's not helpless without it, but it does place him at a significant disadvantage against any opponents that can still use magic. For this reason, he also has a very bad track record when battling against Abomination witches, since he can't exactly hold a staff when his hands are encased in a lump of clay.
• In an episode of Phantom 2040, Kit meets the Amazing Steele, an expy of Mandrake the Magician. Steele states that he had to give up crimefighting when robots became common, as they weren't affected by his illusions.
• The Secret Saturdays: Zak's cryptid powers are explicitly stated to only influence them, not outright control them. He can't force them to do something that goes against their basic instincts, like hunting, and he needs to find whatever part of their minds that wants to do what he wants them to do in order to actually issue commands. Also, if he's trying to use his power on multiple minds, Zak needs to be aware of how many cryptids he's trying to influence; he fails to rein in the creature in "Where Lies The Engulfer" because he's trying to find a single mind to latch onto when the creature is actually a colony of microscopic organisms.
• The Simpsons: In the Treehouse of Horror segment "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores," all of Springfield's giant advertisements come to life and start destroying the town. When Lisa seeks out the company that made the advertisements, the CEO explains that since advertising relies on people watching it to be effective, distracting the populace will drain the monsters of their powers. Lisa turns to Paul Anka for help, and they compose a catchy jingle—"Just Don't Look"—encouraging all of the townspeople to ignore the creatures; sure enough, they all immediately keel over and die from a lack of attention.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: The first time he fights the Rhino, Spidey can't do even a little bit of damage, but then he realizes Rhino's suit covers his entire body save for his face, making it the only place he can perspire out of. Spidey then takes Rhino down by tricking him into breaking a bunch of steam pipes so he collapses from heat exhaustion.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The Dirty Bubble, archnemesis of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, has "awesome surface tension" that can't be broken by any physical attack. SpongeBob defeats him in one episode by popping him with a pencil while asking for an autograph, and Patrick accidentally beats him in another by ducking when the Bubble was charging at him, thus causing him to run into Patrick's pointy head.
  • In the Superhero Episode, Sandy gains the power of invisibility, but then gets hit by a car whose driver would have avoided her otherwise.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: The stupid-but-strong Pakleds serve as an Arc Villain to the Cerritos. Lacking the intelligence to develop their own advanced technology, they instead steal from other races and glue it all together into giant, Frankenstein-esque warships. The weakness in this comes from their computers, which are extremely insecure from having to network with so many disparate alien technologies. Other civilizations might be able to get around this vulnerability with some work, were they in the business of making hybrid ships, but that kind of foresight isn't exactly what Pakleds are known for.
• Star Wars Rebels has Obi-Wan demonstrate the logical weakness of Maul's saberstaff: the handle is a giant hole in your defense. In their final battle he swings only once, straight through the staff and into Maul's body.
• Static Shock:
  • The protagonist has electromagnetic powers that goes on the fritz along with every other gadget in the world when there is a lot of sunspot activity.
  • Static is also weak to water when he's charged up since it can short-circuit him. Though the same also happens to foes who copy his powers.
  • However, in a move that shows his smarts, he defeats a water-based villain using an electric current, thus breaking the water down into its components (he even calls the process, electrolysis, by name).
  • Being essentially a human capacitor, he was also unable to generate his own current and was sometimes on the verge of defeat until he could locate a power source. This aspect was not depicted as consistently as others, however, and became moot once Richie managed to cook up some super-batteries he could carry around.
  • Static also has trouble with insulators. This caused problems for him during battles with Rubber-Band Man (Pre-Heel–Face Turn) and Replikon (a Voluntary Shapeshifter who, among other things/people, turned into a wooden mannequin). However, he managed to find a work-around by using a lot of electrical power, ergo heat, to cause melting or burning.
  • During a crossover with Superman: The Animated Series, Toyman tries to fight Static and Superman with robotic army men made of a kryptonite/plastic polymer, having cottoned on to Static's weakness to insulators. Static gets around this by shorting out there processors.
  • Being a Living Shadow, Ebon is vulnerable to intense light.
  • Hot Streak is also vulnerable to water.
• Steven Universe:
  • Garnet’s power to predict the immediate future is hindered by the fact that there are numerous possible paths someone can take at any time, occasionally overloading her with the sheer number of possibilities and information. She nearly has a nervous breakdown when she has to see the futures of five cats at once. She also has trouble predicting improbable (but not impossible) events and what she foresees is sometimes affected by her personal biases; she fails to predict Steven giving himself up to Aquamarine not only because it’s unlikely, but also because she fails to understand that Steven is growing up and not likely to make the same sort of decisions he would when he was younger. Also, to predict something, she must be looking for it; she can't see the resolution of "Cry for Help" because she was looking for the Crystal Gems capturing Peridot, but Peridot didn't have anything to do with the episode beyond instigating it — Pearl was actually the one behind everything, which blindsides and infuriates Garnet.
  • Blue Diamond has an Emotion Bomb of grief that even Yellow Diamond has trouble resisting. Then she tries using it on Lapis Lazuli.
    Lapis: I've felt worse. (wipes away a Single Tear)
  • Speaking of Lapis, she is apparently unable to actually generate any water save the water that makes up her wings, so while she's incredibly powerful somewhere where there's a large supply of water, which is useful for the Hostile Terraforming she was created for, she's significantly less powerful on the apparently waterless Homeworld, or just somewhere inland.
  • Tools designed to shatter, incapacitate or imprison gems aren't built to perform the same functions for organisms. So a half-gem like Steven can pass through a force-field door and block a destabiliser with no ill effects, while a gemless human like Lars can shield a gem from a Robonoid.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012):
  • In "Cockroach Terminator", the Turtles face off against a cyborg mutant cockroach. While it's Nigh-Invulnerable they're able to ward it off using a can of bug spray.
  • Being exposed to cold temperatures weakens the Turtles, who, despite being mutants, are still cold-blooded. In the second season finale, the Foot exploit this weakness by ambushing Leo and dunking him in freezing water.

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