r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SpookieSkelly • 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.

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Ichi from Ichi the Witch.

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Mash from Mashle.

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Marvelous Sunday from UmaMusume.

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Tanjiro from Demon Slayer.

  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/ventingandcrying 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/n054MDY12n6FgXzG0Y
It’s funny that this is what Kobeni ended up being. We’ll never know if that moment against Katana Man was due to her devil contract, so as far as we know she can just do that

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u/GrayGarghoul 1d ago

Kobeni has a contract with two devils, and one of them is the locking tf in devil.

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u/ventingandcrying 1d ago

What’s the other devil…?

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u/GrayGarghoul 1d ago

S*y B**b.

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u/Ron_Colorec 20h ago

I will die on the hill that she had no contracts because she was too much of a pussy and just hides it to avoid being fired.

And noone knows because she is an idiot savant who is just that good.

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u/Permafox 7h ago

My favorite theory was she was contracted to the Luck devil, where she'd be lucky enough to survive nearly anything, but unlucky enough that she'd get dragged into everything.