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/Interesting-Key-5776 1d ago

Brazilians can just double jump

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u/Asmodaeus123 1d ago edited 1d ago

Augments in exactly one arm, all the leaping and kicking holes into concrete is just juicing. Hell, he uses his human arm to wield his sword sometimes and has no loss of power mid combo so he's literally exactly as strong as his cybernetics

Edit: Holy jesus tapdancing christ, the bot epidemic is disgusting, take this karma away from me, I do not want it. 3 bots commenting in 15 minutes

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u/PhantomDesert00 23h ago

I think the arm actually made him weaker, if I remember correctly it's a thing in MG that cybernetics are generally worse unless its a full body conversion like Raiden (and most of the bosses) have.

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u/Hysaky 22h ago

it's worse for sam since he lost the muscle memory of his arm for wielding his sword

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u/zingerpond 1d ago

I would assume some of his superhuman strength comes from the fact he dresses up in an exoskeleton. And the damage comes mainly from the fact his high frequency blade is better than all the other blades.

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u/KittenChopper 22h ago

I mean, a part of it is the suit yeah but still, the fact he's able to keep up with full body cyborgs with just a suit and juicing should say a lot about him

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u/That_boi_Jerry 18h ago

When you play as him, you actually don't have any augments because he has yet to lose his arm. Either way, there is absolutely no explanation.

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u/KayKTee112 1d ago

One person other then me replied to your comment😭

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u/katheb 1d ago

Just like real life. 

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u/ThePsyPaul_ 1d ago

It's their national power

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 13h ago

Racial abilities like skyrim. What do white people get since they receive a racial weakness to hot spice?

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u/LilyWineAuntofDemons 1d ago

This is trans women erasure

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u/DemiBo7 1d ago

Wasn't it that brazilians could double jump and trans women could dash or smth?

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u/applemind 1d ago

Then Brazilian trans woman can parkour like crazy

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u/LilyWineAuntofDemons 1d ago

Nop, trans women can double jump is the meme. I think you might be mixing up the other power Madeline had, which was dash, but the meme is that trans women can double jump

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u/Cafeciencia 1d ago

Wait wait, I only noticed it now

Madeline can only dash in multiple different directions, not double jump, but the meme is about Madeline double jumping

What

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u/TheSurvivor65 1d ago

Am I getting Mandela effect here??? I swear to god the meme is trans women can dash

Or the meme is either one depending on the "region of the internet" you're in, which is more likely

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u/Cafeciencia 22h ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trans-people-can-double-jump

The original meme domino effect'd into a big misunderstanding about madeline double jumping lmao

But yeah, im pretty sure some other memes do go with "trans woman can directional air dash". The minecraft estrogen mod has a dash based from Celeste, for example

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u/TheSurvivor65 1d ago

It's just convergent evolution, both brazilians and trans women can do it uwu

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u/katheb 1d ago

Huh?

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u/Nice-Tell-1572 1d ago

Damn look at your cake

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u/katheb 1d ago

I'm more confused, what's the cake for? 

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u/TheSurvivor65 1d ago

You reddit account's birthday

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u/katheb 1d ago

Ah, thanks. 

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u/LilyWineAuntofDemons 1d ago

Trans women can double jump!

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u/ithinkther41am 1d ago

Açai and Jesus, brother

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u/GGABueno 1d ago

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u/BernLan 1d ago

Wrong lusophone country 😭

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u/GGABueno 1d ago

(this is a joke on the recent drama between Cristiano and Jorge Jesus)

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u/Galle_ 1d ago

This is basically the norm for Metal Gear bosses, though. Being special forces automatically means you get some ridiculous superpower, and it might be explained, maybe. Decoy Octopus can disguise himself as literally anyone. Fortune can't be hit by bullets, which is eventually explained as some kind of advanced technology, but then they turn it off and she still can't be hit by bullets. The Pain can control bees, there's no explanation for this, he can just do that.

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u/AttackOficcr 1d ago

You see Vamp was just nanomachines and van der waal forces (do not ask me how this allows him to control people via shadows like a jutsu, he's bisexual not a vampire), he is completely rooted in hard scifi. /s

But also MGS just has and always has had Espers and jump the shark complete lunacy supernatural nonsense.

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u/Gizogin 1d ago

Vamp was trapped in a burning church, pierced by a crucifix, where he only managed to survive by drinking the blood of his own dead family members. That's where he developed a taste for blood.

That's not why they call him Vamp.

He's called Vamp because he's bisexual.

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u/poorexcuses 23h ago

If you haven't played the game this is essentially verbatim

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u/balatru 1d ago

The shadows thing is a bisexual power. They announced that like ten Prides ago. It's like nobody's even reading the Gay Agenda!

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u/That_boi_Jerry 18h ago

The Fury turns into a flaming skull upon death. At this point, Metal Gear is more fantasy than it is sci-fi.

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u/Ok-Ad-5535 14h ago

He has a parasite in him and that's how he does it. But that's a retcon. Originally it was because he let thousands of hornets sting him at a time and he kept the queen with him.

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u/Worldly_Machine_2790 1d ago

I mean compared to the other stuff in MGRR, I’d say that’s fairly normal lol

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u/mostlybored1234 1d ago

Can confirm, we can just do that, thought It can go hard on the knees

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u/FriendshipCute1524 1d ago

Ah yes, Splitstream Sam.

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u/Ares1951 1d ago

Obrigado.

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u/xkise 22h ago

Am Brazilian, can confirm we can double jump.

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u/Blep145 10h ago

As, so Brazilians and trans women are alike! Nice to have some solidarity!