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NoUsername
Since: May, 2012
12th Apr, 2021 11:29:45 AM
Unique Protagonist Asset and Purposely Overpowered generally cover this. the inversion would be Standardized Leader
Edited by NoUsername
Is there a trope for when the “leader” of your RPG party has some overpowered ability, or something that lets them break rules that the other party members have to follow to set them apart from the rest of the party?
For example: Joker in Persona 5 can equip multiple personas and “craft” better ones, allowing him a huge amount of versatility compared to all other party members who only get 1 persona.
Shulk in Xenoblade Chronicles has a full set of Arts he can use like everyone else, but his Monado also allows him to use another separate set of Arts with a wide variety of effects designed to best exploit the system of seeing enemy’s future attacks.
Rex in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is partnered up with his Blade, Mythra, who has a wide variety of incredibly powerful abilities, such as being able to completely negate the cooldown between using Driver Arts and being able to greatly increase the entire party’s evasion chance. She also has a unique element in Light, which almost no other Blades have. Later in the story, Rex himself can also use any one of his ally’s Blades, while everyone else can only use their own.
A non-example would be Octopath Traveler, where your chosen protagonist may be higher leveled than the other party members, but ultimately they receive no greater potential than anyone else in the party.
Edited by PTpirahna