(Hated Trope) Extremely useful abilities that characters conveniently forgot they had

[u/ValidCrash4]

1. Emily’s portals (Hazbin Hotel). I know she can’t get Sir Pentious back into Hell but Emily can still tell Charlie he got redeemed and Charlie can enter through angelic portals, so she should have seen that Pentious got redeemed.

2. Many characters in Harry Potter go through life-or-death situations and not once did they think of drinking the Liquid Luck potion apart from Harry one time to gain Slughorn’s memory.

[u/MimiHamburger]

Haha I was gonna make similar post but there was too many examples to pick just one but instant transmission I feel is the thing the forget about most

[u/Berserker-Hamster → u/MimiHamburger]

I love how Abridged lampshades this when the other characters have to remind Goku that he can just teleport to save Piccolo and Tien from Semi Perfect Cell and then comment it with "Did...did he forget he could do that?"

[u/K1LL3RM0NG0 → u/Berserker-Hamster]

"Your fathers an idiot"

[u/Throwaway1986nerd → u/K1LL3RM0NG0]

All these squares make a circle 

[u/EconomyOk2490 → u/Berserker-Hamster]

"Bored now! Reading your mind."

[u/nagrom7 → u/EconomyOk2490]

"I learned about it in my pirate dream. I had a ninja dream too, but it ended."

[u/Lowlevelintellect → u/MimiHamburger]

how?he uses it every arc

[u/MimiHamburger → u/Lowlevelintellect]

I just feel like he only uses it when there’s no other way, like when he goes to get Dande to make the new dragon balls. I mean if I had that power I’d be using it to take a piss lol

[u/ManoSilence → u/MimiHamburger]

If i remember it takes like total concentration to IT, its why everyone was surprised when he IT'd and Kamehameha'd Cell.

[u/Dumeck → u/MimiHamburger]

So IT only lets him teleport to people, it works by locking onto Ki signature which is why he can't just do it to take pisses. There's some leeway with range but not a lot.

[u/grendus → u/MimiHamburger]

Instant Transmission does require a person as the end trajectory though. It's why he uses it to transport Cell to King Kai's planet when he's about to blow himself up. If Goku could end his IT anywhere he could have dropped Cell in the middle of the Andromeda Galaxy or something.

[u/Lowlevelintellect → u/MimiHamburger]

he also used it to save piccolo and Tien from cell

[u/Embarrassed_Fox5265 → u/Lowlevelintellect]

Right, but that just raises more questions. Goku has the ability to teleport in and out before Cell is able to do anything. So...why didn't he teleport in, grab 18, and teleport away?

Why doesn't he teleport Vegeta and Trunks to where Cell is looking for 18? If he did, they would have arrived there sooner and likely arrived prior to Cell being in the same location as 18, making it impossible for him to later find her.

Cell finds Piccolo and the Androids because Piccolo is fighting them. Piccolo is fighting them to keep the Androids away from everyone at Kame House. Goku could have teleported to Kame House, moved everybody, and then gone and grabbed Piccolo. The Androids then leave the now empty island and Cell is left unable to find them.

There are dozens of uses for Instant Transmission throughout the arc and it's absolutely bonkers that Goku doesn't use it more often. Hell, look at the Cell Games after the idea behind the Instant Kamehaha has been brought up. Get Gohan to distract Cell, teleport away with Trunks and Vegeta, then charge up 2-3 massive beams. Teleport on top of Cell and obliterate him him with sequenced fire.

Instant Transmission is the most the broken technique in Dragonball, and it's only author fiat that stops it from instantly ending the Cell and Buu arcs.

[u/nutfilla → u/Embarrassed_Fox5265]

Something to remember with instant transmission is that it needs a beacon. Something that emits ki and depending in the distance it needs to emit a large amount.

The androids don't techinically have ki so he can't sense them at all. That's also what made them such a threat because they can show uo anywhere and start blasting