Basic Trope: The Achilles' Heel of a superhero.
- Straight: Steven Ulysses Perhero is stripped of his powers and becomes sick if he is exposed to Green Rocks.
- Exaggerated: Poor Steven dies when he is exposed to Green Rocks.
- Downplayed: Steven's powers are weakened by Green Rocks, but nothing else happens.
- Justified: Steven Ulysses Perhero is an Expy of Superman.
- Inverted: Steven Ulysses Perhero gains powers when he's exposed to Green Rocks.
- Subverted: Turns out he isn't weak to Green Rocks...
- Double Subverted: ...But actually Apple seeds.
- Parodied: A Literal-Minded superhero's Achilles' Heel is figurative language.
- Nora, a Muslim, has bacon as her weakness, because pork is against her religion.
- Zig Zagged: Whether or not Steven Ulysses Perhero is vulnerable to Green Rocks depends on the writer.
- Averted:
- Steven Ulysses Perhero is not a superhero.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero is not affected by green rocks.
- Enforced: To show that no one is invulnerable.
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: Steven Ulysses Perhero is given an Achilles' Heel by his enemies.
- Exploited: Emperess Evulz gives him Green Rocks to further her evil plans.
- Defied:???
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
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