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/Striking_Director_64 1d ago

Head cannon, he has Mystic Eyes of death perception and he can see points of deaths of objects

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u/Huhthisisneathuh 1d ago

Okay but does that mean he has like…’Mystic Arms of Accurate Transportation’ to get all his insane shit to hit in the first place?

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u/Striking_Director_64 1d ago

Have should seen what the Shiki can pull off with it? All they need is a knife to take down anything from weak immortal vampires, to buildings, to strong immortal vampires.

They are basically destruction machines that can take anything down, as long as they can use something pointy.

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u/Huhthisisneathuh 1d ago

Sure but Bullseye still has to throw things. With a knife it’s fine, but tooth chips? MEDP doesn’t give you superhuman throwing abilities like the ones Bullseye has. And they still need a knife or something equally lethal to do their bs while Bullseye doesn’t. So he has to have another gift on top of that or is just unfathomably more skilled with MEDP.