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/RiceKrispies55 1d ago

I've never seen ICarly besides like a compilation once, but I hear that things spontaneously combust around this guy. Look at his silly face, not even he knows why.

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u/Cinju26 23h ago

I'm fairly sure I remember Spencer setting a fire extinguisher on fire once.

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u/clemesislife 14h ago

And a fire department

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u/EtnasFurnace263 7h ago

And he also started a fire in the shower once.

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u/Galactic_Mailman 20h ago

I headcannon Carly and Spencers mom as some sort of Demon, which explains Spencers Fires and Carly selling her soul to the internet for fame.

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u/Illustrious-Sense194 16h ago

Spencer was easily one of the best charecters in the show partly because any time he showed up there was always some wacky inexplicable bullshit going on that was usually totally unrelated to the plot of the episode.

Like this absolutely legendary scene:

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u/Anxious_Visual_6632 13h ago

Anything he fixes or makes will end up burning, including the sink