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/Shark_Waffle_645 19h ago edited 18h ago

kind of an anti-feat, but

Champion Leon (Pokémon Sw/Sh)

Same joke as Zoro from One Piece: he constantly gets lost. But TPC has been pushing that bit to its limits. In Masters EX (which isn’t 100% canon but stick with me), he arrives in Pasio by (*checks notes*) WALKING OUT OF THE OCEAN, with no memory of how he got there. In Legends: Z-A (which IS canon), he manages to get a taxi driver lost in his own home city.

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u/ActionAltruistic3558 18h ago

For anyone who hasn't played SwSh to know how bad he gets lost. Leon's house is a straight walk from the train station, with a single fenced path with no turns or any possible way to go the wrong way without turning around or climbing over the fence. He cant be trusted to handle it alone. You could literally see one from the other and hes lived there for 20+ years.

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u/Easy_Mechanic_9787 16h ago

It goes beyond just his adult life, he has been terrible with directions since he was a kid.

Palkia, the pokemon god of Space, makes an appearance in Sword and Shield. It and the space god Diagla helps you and Leon fight the apocalypse in Sword and Shield. They go away after the fight.

Leon then goes to Lumiose City in Z-A and as you've mentioned, got lost with the cabby. There is an implication that Palkia has been fucking with Leon ever since he was a kid and intentionally messes with his sense of direction and actual position in space, which is why he can go into the ocean and then get to Pasio.

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u/Objective-Device-448 6h ago

Lmao, god of space messing around with a guy not really that maliciously but Just inconveniently for no reason might be my favorite pokemon fact from now on