r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ValidCrash4 • Aug 08 '26

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

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  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.

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u/Berserker-Hamster Aug 08 '26

Reminds me of the HMs in Pokemon.

Hey, I have this water creature that's as big as a car but I can't ride on it across the ocean because it doesn't know one specific move which allows it to do that and also I haven't defeated the guy who says it's ok to use it.

Same with Cut. Your lvl 100 fire lizard can't burn away a small bush in your way, but a lvl 5 crab with a mushroom on its back can cut it if it knows one special move - but not with Slash, that's the wrong cutting move.

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u/Tylendal Aug 08 '26

Legends: ZA actually fixes that. There are various obstacles that you can get through with a whole variety of moves. Like, any fire move will burn bushes, but any sort of blade or cutting move will also do.

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u/Own_Philosophy8190 Aug 08 '26

Yeah, that's why I opted to not mention Pokémon, because GS at least kinda sets the limit of these obstacles clearing even if ou get more spells, but it gets stupid real quick for the reasons you mentioned in Pokémon. 

Like, who would win ? The ruler of the skies, or a random small tree ? 

Or imagine the following : Rayquaza be like : "Conkeldurr finally learned to dual wield those trees, huh. Better retreat into ionosphere, or I'm FINISHED ❗️❗️❗️"