"Okay, I know it's filthy rich coming from ME... But your powers are bullshit!"
—Alucard, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Youmu: I will defeat anyone opposing Yuyuko-sama. After all, the things this blade can't cut are... (starts imagining other characters)
Keine: I can just devour the history of ever being cut.
Tewi: I'm a robot from the future,and am made out of adamantium , which cannot be cut by anything. (lies)
Yukari: Slash at me in your dreams, and you best wake up and apologize.
Reimu: As the heroine, I somehow win every fight I'm in, even against clearly superior opponents.
Marisa: Mere swords cannot defeat the magic of love!
Youmu: When you think about it, Gensokyo's filled with a bunch of cheating jerks.
Keine: I can just devour the history of ever being cut.
Tewi: I'm a robot from the future,and am made out of adamantium , which cannot be cut by anything. (lies)
Yukari: Slash at me in your dreams, and you best wake up and apologize.
Reimu: As the heroine, I somehow win every fight I'm in, even against clearly superior opponents.
Marisa: Mere swords cannot defeat the magic of love!
Youmu: When you think about it, Gensokyo's filled with a bunch of cheating jerks.
—a certain Touhou Project comic
"I think if you put too much magic in your Fantasy it overwhelms the plot, and it starts to make the plot nonsensical. If you do have a sorceress or a wizard who can speak a word and wipe out an army, why would you even assemble an army?"
"Such power cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of Optimus Prime!"
(such power falls into Optimus' hands at the episode's end)
"We Decepticons now face our darkest hour."
(such power falls into Optimus' hands at the episode's end)
"We Decepticons now face our darkest hour."
— Megatron, Transformers: Prime
"I think this comic clearly demonstrates why the Author should not be a regular character in the comic, and why I try to avoid having the Author interact directly with the rest of the characters at all. I mean, he's the Author. He can do anything. What's the point of having anything happen in the comic if he's around? Where's the challenge if he can just wave his hand and the problem goes away? When you introduce a character that can do anything, whether it's a god or a Mary Sue, whether it's in a comic or a book, it takes all the fun and thrill and danger out of the story.
That being said, let's get back to the comic, with several more comics with the Author in them!"
clearly demonstrates why the Author should not be a regular character in the comic, and why I try to avoid having the Author interact directly with the rest of the characters at all. I mean, he's the Author. He can do anything. What's the point of having anything happen in the comic if he's around? Where's the challenge if he can just wave his hand and the problem goes away? When you introduce a character that can do anything, whether it's a god or a Mary Sue, whether it's in a comic or a book, it takes all the fun and thrill and danger out of the story. That being said, let's get back to the comic, with several more comics with the Author in them!"
— David Anez, Bob and George
"Saitama... You really are way too strong."
— Boros, One-Punch Man
"Never bring Time Travel, the Cthulu Mythos, or Giant Robots into an established setting, because if you do, all it will ever really BE about from then on, is Time Travel, or the Cthulu Mythos, or Giant Robots. Or Giant Robots traveling through time to fight the Cthulu Mythos."
Jin: Your struggle is pointless. My power gives me control over all elementary particles.
Rex: Parti-what?
Jin: Heh. This allows me to accelerate my body to the speed of light. No matter how far ahead you can predict, your movements themselves are limited. You are no match for me!
Rex: Parti-what?
Jin: Heh. This allows me to accelerate my body to the speed of light. No matter how far ahead you can predict, your movements themselves are limited. You are no match for me!
"It stops time? It's a Stand that can stop time and keep moving? That's too dangerous! Way too dangerous!"
— Joseph Joestar, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
"If he can read all my attacks, and I can't even realize that he's dodged them, then his ability surpasses all others in its invincibility."
"The boss's Stand makes time disappear, and the boss is the only one who can freely move in that state. He's invincible. It doesn't matter who it is. Anyone's attack becomes useless before that Stand."
"This is... Requiem. What you're seeing is indeed the truth. You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Gold Experience Requiem. This is unknown even to Giorno Giovanna, who controls me."
— Gold Experience Requiem, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
"[Force Healing] is a big plot hole because of the fact that it completely ruins death. There's no tension anymore. Death is a complete joke in this film. This person dies; comes back. This person dies; comes back. So, you do not give a shit when somebody dies! And not only that, but it completely ruins the series for the future. Like, you've got Force Ghosts that can do stuff [...], lightning strikes [...], and now we've got Force Healing [so] nobody can fucking die... I don't want to see Episode X! I don't want to see XI; I don't want to see XII! ...They have to go away. They have to go back into the past."
— The Angry Joe Show on Force Healing in The Rise of Skywalker
''I hold that all God Mode Sues inevitably end up with idiot plots. If - and that's a pretty big if - not by virtue of the suethor failing to grasp the implications of all the powers they have heaped and keep on heaping onto the Sue, then by virtue of the suethor being far more interested in showing off how awesome their character is and/or indulging in their personal power/revenge/harem fantasies than actually bringing the story to a conclusion. In either case, we end up with a character who, despite trivialising every encounter, consistently fails at actually bringing things to an end, seemingly caring far more about their own self-aggrandisement than their supposed heroic motivations.
—Bastethotep, Fundies Say the Darndest Things
