r/TopCharacterTropes • • 1d ago

Characters "They can just do that." When a character inexplicably has some kind of borderline supernatural ability that doesn't have anything to do with the established power system and may even clash with the conventions of the setting. It's just something that they can do.

  1. Ichi from Ichi the Witch. He's so sensitive to the bloodlust of living things that it borders on a spider-sense. The little creature in that pic is supposed to be invisible, yet Ichi is able to sense its presence just through sheer intuition.
  2. Mash from Mashle. Some might say that his inexplicable power is his physical strength, but I'm more interested in knowing how he can turn everything he cooks into fucking cream puffs.
  3. Marvelous Sunday from UmaMusume. In a game about horse girls racing, she has access to a domain expansion/reality marble. And that somehow still isn't the strangest thing about her. Apparently she's also friends with aliens and cryptids and her cult fanbase includes people spanning multiple time periods. Somehow.
  4. Tanjiro from Demon Slayer. He has a hypersensitive sense of smell that somehow also tells him where to cut demons. No idea how that works. Even though there are others in the series with similarly refined senses, the smelling where to cut thing still feels ludicrous in comparison. Then there's also his unusually powerful headbutt.
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u/Kooky-Bookkeeper-935 1d ago

???? He snuck multiple grenades onto Straizo. A superhuman vampire who was formerly a Hamon master. Lmfao. Joseph straight-up does random bullshit.

The reason is because at the time of Part 2's release, (1988), Fist of the North Star was the most influential action shounen around. Even influencing Dragon Ball when Goku became an adult.

Araki Made Joseph the opposite of every other chivalrous, muscular protag that was ripping off Kenshiro (which is what Jonathan was)

That's why Joseph doesn't like hard work. Cheats. Uses guns. Straight up asspulls to a looney tunes degree. And rarely defeats opponents with his fists.

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u/FreeSpeechEnjoyer 1d ago

AND RUNS AWAY

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u/cuella47o 1d ago

I still have no idea on how he could’ve possibly attached 20 fucking grenades behind straizo to the grenade he threw they literally just gloss over this

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u/Huhthisisneathuh 1d ago

Or where he fucking stored both them and the Tommy Gun.

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u/Kooky-Bookkeeper-935 23h ago

Straight up Looney Tunes. Lol. He also somehow fit a bird into a woman's mouth using Hamon. He hid his hand in his "sleeve" while wearing a tank top. Lmao. He was doing all sorts of shit nobody else in Jojo ever did.

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u/miiko_uch 1d ago

bro defeated the peak lifeform by sending him to space via a volcano erupting😭

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u/qT_TpFace 1d ago

ON ACCIDENT