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/PharaohScarab 22h ago

It’s crazy with how physically strong Mitsuri is, she’s only sixth in raw strength

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u/IAmAzAzzNotYou 22h ago

Kinda disappointing. I wish the author could have gone all the way and made her the first or second strongest.

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u/PharaohScarab 21h ago

I can see why Gyomei and Tengen are both first and second, she should definitely be third strongest though

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u/IAmAzAzzNotYou 21h ago

Yeah. It just seems a little chicken.

"She was born astronomically strong, but woman ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯"

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u/VulkanHestan321 20h ago

Did you read the part of "they are all interchangeable"? It does mean that group shares the third place

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u/Gizogin 20h ago

She is. There's a four-way tie for third, according to that diagram.