Basic Trope: An item or character intended to be unbalancingly strong.
- Straight:
- In Tales of Troperia XI, the Final Boss drops the Infinity Blade, which deals three times as much damage as any other weapon. However, as the main questline is over once you get it, it is only usable in the Playable Epilogue for cleaning up remaining sidequests.
- In Tales of Troperia X, the Emperor pulls a Heel–Face Turn, wanting to atone for his actions, and joins your party, his stats as a playable character are the highest in the game, with each stat not lacking in anything, but due to the main questline being over now, he's only really useful for the Playable Epilogue and/or for cleaning up unfinished sidequests.
- Exaggerated:
- The Infinity Blade deals max damage with every hit.
- The Emperor's stats are all at their maximum Caps possible within the game.
- Downplayed: It deals 10% more damage than the next best weapon, still immensely powerful but not overly so.
- Justified: The Infinity Blade was crafted by the gods themselves and stolen by the Big Bad, a Fallen Angel, to use in ruling humanity.
- Inverted: Joke Item, Joke Character
- Subverted: It is only available in the Playable Epilogue, but there are new sidequests unlocked including a Brutal Bonus Level.
- Double Subverted: ...which can be beaten using standard equipment with only slightly more difficulty.
- Parodied:
- Zig-Zagged: The Final Boss drops the Infinity Blade, which deals three times as much damage as any other weapon, but is only usable in the Playable Epilogue. However, there is a Harder Than Hard setting unlocked after beating the game which is impossible to beat without using it.
- Averted: Nothing in the game is unbalancingly powerful.
- Enforced: The game is based on a book in which Hiro receives the blade from the Big Bad where it is explicitly more powerful than anything else in the setting. The dev team programmed it in to be faithful to the source material.
- Lampshaded: Party member Quirby comments upon using the blade for the first time "holy shit, this entire quest would have been a cake walk with that thing".
- Exploited:
- Defied:
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed: The blade is so powerful because the Big Bad has been using to absorb the souls of his victims and using it yourself drains your Morality Meter as fast as killing innocents.
- Reconstructed: ...but a sidequest opens up in the epilogue which allows you to purify it, putting those souls to rest at the cost of 25% of its damage, making it weaker but still the strongest sword in the game, and it can now be used without a morality penalty.
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
