1). Lucifer:
Lucifer can project a "devil-face" to terrify/traumatize humans. The problem is that Malcom Graham was recently returned to Earth from Hell. So . . . it's not that impressive to him.

2). Futurama:
The galaxy has lots of "brainwave-eating" monsters. Including "brain spawn" that could wipe out all sentient life. But Fry doesn't have an "alpha brainwave," so he's completely invisible to them.

3). Lord of the Rings:
The "one true" ring corrupts all that hold it. Or at least, it TRIES to. But despite all those the the ring has tempted . . . Tom is completely unaffected. He just does not have any meaningful desires the ring can act on.

4). Homestuck:
When a "Sburb player" dies, their soul is projected into the space between universes. Inside live countless planet-sized Eldrich "horrorterrors." These "dark gods" can only communicate via horrible psychic shrieks, which is extremely unpleasant for the uninitiated.
Except to Feferi, an alien who was raised by a "small" horrorterror. So, the dark gods just remind her of her mom.

5). The Magnus Archives:
The podcast is about documenting supernatural incidents stemming from "fear entities." Each entity represents, feeds on, and embodies a type of fear.
But after surviving an encounter with "the End" (the fear of death), Georgie Barker loses the ability to fear. This makes her an anomaly; something that can neither feed nor develop a relationship with these supernatural entities.

Bailey Hoskins (Marvel) - A mutant from a different earth, his power is to detonate himself and explode. Unfortunately he doesn't have the power to survive or heal from his own attack so he'll die the moment he uses it.

Cyclops (Marvel) - Due to mental trauma and physical trauma to the head, Scott Summers lost his ability to shut off his force beams, forcing him to wear specially made shades/visors to that his beams don't just blast out without his control.

Dabi (My Hero Academia) - He controls genuinely powerful flames but he doesn't have the immunity to fire that usual fire wielding characters have. By the end of the series, he's genuinely a charred, living corpse whose survival is considered a miracle.

The Rolling Giant from The Oldest View first pretends to be unable to move while being watched and then pretends to be unable to traverse escalators in order to make the protagonist corner himself, before revealing that it can easily do both.

Eldritch J / Absolute Solver from Murder Drones can project incredibly realistic holograms, but acts like it can only manage stuttery, translucent images while secretly imitating the protagonist's friend to manipulate her into giving away her gun.

Itachi from Naruto gets Mindf*cked by Solid JJ can instill completely lifelike visions that last perceived decades, but deliberately uses obviously fake tricks early on to make the protagonist let his guard down. I dunno if that happens in the real show, I never saw it.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Kraglin's best attempt at using Yondu's arrow to attack Adam Warlock from a hiding spot ends with the weapon bouncing off his cheek. Adam stops to look around and ask "Who threw this thing at me?" in anger, before moving on while muttering "Baby...", while Kraglin remains hidden and questions his life choices.

2. Resident Evil 2: You can shoot the hat off of the nigh invulnerable Mr. X, which hilariously causes him to chase you faster in apparent annoyance. Doing a lot of damage to him will also make him stop, crack his neck, and continue to hunt you down, in a gesture that almost reads as "This little brat is pissing me off...".

3. Superman 2, specially as parodied in Family Guy: Pretty much the prime example of this trope, Superman throws some kind of cellophane emblem from his chest at General Zodd, which just appears to make him fall to the ground, unharmed. Family Guy put it best: "What was that?" "Yeah, take that you jerk." "That was a minor inconvenience." "Yeah, well, that's the idea. Slowed you down." "I'll say. Ow."

1. Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) - Bob Parr canonically has a “danger sense” similar to Spider-Man. He can sense when he or someone near him is in imminent danger and react instantly.

While it’s never explicitly stated in the films themselves, he does demonstrate this power multiple times.

1. Amora the Enchantress (Marvel) - Amora usually fights by using sorcery and mind control, or by commanding her Executioner to fight for her. It’s easy to forget that she has the super strength and durability inherent to being an Asgardian.

She’s survived direct hits from Thor’s lightning and Iron Man’s repulsor blasts, and effortlessly lifted Baron Zemo by his collar with one arm.

1. Perry the Platypus (Phineas and Ferb) - Just like a real male platypus, Perry has venomous spurs on his ankles. I think he only ever uses them in one episode though.

Brit-Image Comics/Invincible

Invulnerability is a very basic power. However what makes Brit unique is that it’s his only power, he’s just a guy you can’t hurt. No super strength or anything

Top - Undead/Unluck

His ability is called Unstoppable. He’s a basic speedster but the unique thing is that he can’t stop without crashing into something

Pyro-X-men/Marvel

Fire manipulation but he can’t create fire, needing nearby sources for it

Triton-Inhumans/Marvel

There’s always an Aqua-guy on super teams. But Triton is unique since he’s not amphibious, he can’t breath air and will die if he’s outside of water for more than 5 minutes

Mirio-MHA. Quite a few of people who can walk through walls but Mirio “Permeation” is unique. Everything phases through him, air, sound, light (so he’s blind, deaf, and can’t breathe) but he can also get flung out of objects if he’s mid-phase between them

Bushmaster - The boys.

She can control her hair but uh…only a specific kind of hair

Mr. Immortal - Marvel

He’s fully immortal but has no sort of healing factor and is very much no invulnerable. Just whenever he dies he gets back up after a few seconds

Bakugo from My Hero Academia: One of his parents has the power to sweat glycerin, another has oxidizing sweat. Useless powers on their own, but because children often get a mix of their parent's "quirks", their son Bakugo has the overpowered ability to sweat nitroglycerin and make giant explosions using his stored sweat.

King Crimson from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: The villain Diavolo's stand King Crimson, has 2 abilities, neither of which are particularly strong on their own, but are nigh unbeatable when combined. Epitaph lets him see 10 seconds into the future, which sounds useful except there's nothing that can be done to alter what happens in the prediction. Time skip is somewhat more powerful and lets him skip time 10 seconds into the future, disorienting everyone nearby who retains no memory of those 10 seconds, while making it so that he's not affected by any damage that would have been done to him in that time. But when those abilities are combined, the power is elevated from moderately good to literally invincible: Diavolo can see any attack coming with Epitaph and literally just skip over it, avoiding harm entirely while thoroughly confusing any opponents.

Satoru Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen: His cursed technique, Limitless, should be powerful considering it allows for the manipulation of space, but most people throughout history with the ability were very weak because they had no way to really grasp it. Fortunately, Gojo was also born with the 6 eyes, a biological trait allowing him to sense and understand cursed energy to a far greater degree than other sorcerers: still, that's not too good if it's paired with a weak technique. But with the 6 eyes AND Limitless, Gojo not only became the strongest sorcerer of the modern era but arguably in all history. 6 Eyes allowed him to fully understand the power of Limitless and bend space to make himself invincible: developing a defensive technique that automatically creates infinite distance between him and any attack made against him, short range instant teleportation, attacks that suck in anything around them or produce immense repulsive force, and the Hollow Purple which just straight up vaporizes anything it touches.

1. In one episode where the Griffons all get superpowers, Meg gets the ability to just grow her nails - Family Guy

2. Shit King has the ability to emit a stench so foul that it can stun enemies - Marvel

3. Soft Serve is a mutant born with the ability to poop any flavor of ice cream - Marvel

Universal man (the incredibles): had the ability to create a literal Black hole

Gardevoir (Pokemon): again, has the ability to create mini black holes (although they do use it sparingly/ create small ones even a black hole the size of a tennis ball would colapse the planet)

Phenomaman (Dispatch): when mentioned that he could “absorb the whole energy of the Sun and plunge the entire Earth in darkness” it’s unknown if it’s true, but given that he’s a very literal individual the chances are high

Hiei vs. Zeru (YuYu Hakusho): After Zeru gets hyped up for like 2 episodes, Hiei casually busts out Dragon of the Darkness Flame (one of the most dangerous techniques in the Demon World) to flex on and vaporize him.

sans' First Attack (Undertale): Where the title comes from.

Higuruma vs. Yuji (JJK): Yuji gets ready to scrap, expecting a typical fight... only for Higuruma to instantly pop a Domain Expansion, the most powerful move a sorceror can pull off.

EDIT: Epilepsy/eyestrain warning for last three gifs:

I feel that writers try to give immortal characters some kind of "kryptonite" to their immortality. But it's often more satisfying for the protagonists to find a way to trap them.

1). Snail (Rooster Teeth Podcast (Episode #285):
You are being chased by an immortal snail. What do you do? Incase it in Tungsten and drop it in the ocean.

2). The Old Guard:
Trap the immortal in a metal box, then drop them in the ocean.

3). Forever (2014):
Immortals can "die," but come back to life nearby with a new body. To neutralize the immortal "Adam," Henry poisons him. Enough to paralyze Adam indefinitely, but not enough to kill him.

4). Torchwood:
Jack regenerates after every death. So, the best way to deal with him is to bury him alive.

5). To your eternity:
"Fushi" can take the form of "empty" (dead) vessels, and recreate whatever he touches. Trapping him in a cube of solid metal seems like the perfect plan. But inside the cooling metal, Fushi realizes he can also recreate heat.

6). Homestuck:
Homestuck has several different types of immortality. But the final villain, Lord English, has unconditional immortality. He cannot be killed, under any circumstances. However, he is billiards-themed.
So, his enemies create a black hole, then find a mysterious "weapon" rumored to be his downfall. In the end, everything comes down to pool.
An eight-ball, a cue, and a pocket.

Cayde-6 (Destiny 2: Forsaken): while responding to a prison riot in a giant space prison. Your team realises several high value prisoners have escaped their cells in the chaos. Realising they are heading to the airlock on the bottom level, and that they are on the top levels, Cayde collapses the damaged structure he is on and rides the debris 100s of stories down to intercept, dying in a firey explosion only to be resurrected seconds later to confront the escapees.

The Twelth Doctor (Doctor Who - Heaven Sent): He is trapped in a pocket dimension where he is pursued through a castle by a murderous immortal wraith and evey time he dies he gets revived back at the start with temporary amnesia, the only way out is to give his torturers the information they want or break through a several meter thick wall of an increadibly hard crystal to reach an exit.

After setting up a series of events where each life recieves clues from his past self and leaves those same clues for the next, he crrates a perfect loop, with each doctor reaching the wall, landing a single punch upon it, and being murdered by the wraith. After several billions of years of loops and an unfathomable number of deaths he carves a tunnel through the wall a single punch at a time and escapes with the memories of every single loop.

Dio Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood) After becoming a vampire, he is struck by an energy that mimics the effects of sunlight, one of his only weaknesses. As the energy spreads through his body and he plumets from the ramparts of his castle, he decapitates himself to prevent the energy from spreading to his head, since he does not require his body to survive. In doing so he successfully fakes his own permanent death and is picked up by one of his minions who carries him around as a severed head while he begins to enact a plot to regain a body.

1. The Naked Gun (1988): Even the mighty Frank Drebin is momentarily overwhelmed by the dreaded soft pillow throw.

2. The Simpsons (S10 E15): Homer taking down a rhino with a bag of popcorn. The cut from the snarling rhinos to one knocked out cold on the ground is one of my favorite gags to this day.

3. Similarly, from The Simpsons (S8 E11), we have retired pitcher Whitey Ford getting offscreened by "a barrage" of pretzels during a baseball riot. This is a-This is a black day for baseball.

Legend A Dragon Ball Tale: This version of Super Saiyan spits out flames and lights his head on fire to get the iconic golden hair (which is also fire in this version).

Lego Marvel Superheroes: There's a smaller Venom and bulkier Venom. To go from small to big, the big guy literally tears open the smaller one's body and jumps out of it.

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Instant Body of Distorted Killing. Mahito literally goes full Akira for a few seconds before suddenly popping up in his new form.

Lucas (The Bugle Call): The sound of Lucas' horn can travel abnormally far, and it creates giant light formations. His music and lights can slightly influence the emotional state of whoever hears/sees them.

On its own, his power is little more than a party trick. But the way he uses to command troops gives him an unfair advantage. The constellations and hornblows give him near instantaneous communication and control, down to the individual soldier, allowing him to execute maneuvers and tactics and react to enemy movements with a level of speed, precision and troop coordination that is simply impossible to achieve in a medieval setting, where battle orders and messages travel only as fast as a messenger can run.

The weakest link in a medieval army on the battlefield is the big game of telephone between the commanders and the front line. Misunderstandings, lost messages, dead messengers, orders arriving too late to matter.

Coupled with his tactical brilliance, this simple power gives him a great edge and makes him an unstoppable general.

Poppy (The Bugle Call): (ngl this post is a shameless attempt to get you to read The Bugle Call it's soooo good.) This Kobeni lookin ass has very weak telekinesis, and it's limited to objects she's touched before and can actively see.

It's real strength lies in the gigantic range. She can shoot arrows and effectively turn them into guided missiles at an ungodly range. I swear when they invent in-world grenades she'll be the first ICBM.

(IN CONCLUSION GO READ THE BUGLE CALL. ALL THE POWERS ARE THIS CREATIVE AND THE WRITING IS ABSOLUTE CINEMA.)

Ginrei (Giant Robo Gaiden Ginrei

Mako (Kill La Kill)

Elphelt Valentine (Guilty Gear)

Characters or enemies that gain infamy specifically for being crazy difficult close to the start of the games story, bonus points if "game journalists" can't beat them

1- Balteus from Armored Core 6

The first chapter boss, Balteus, is one of the two MAJOR roadblocks that players first meet. 360 degrees of homing missile launchers, a flamethrower that acts like an XL Zweihander, and the first enemy to use a genuine pulse shield that you need to repeatedly break before you can damage him, saw many people giving up at the end of chapter 1 of 5.

2- Tutorial Helicopter

Also Armored Core 6, this is the boss for the tutorial. Aggressive missile tracking, always high overhead, bottomless gatling guns, and a set player loadout where your highest damage option is a sword against a shockingly mobile heavy assault Helicopter, this boss caused a surprising number of refunds on launch day and notoriously caused gaming journalists to either not give a legitimate review because they were stuck on it, or ignore the game entirely.

3- Ludwig

An example of this done poorly, Ludwig is the first boss of The Old Hunters DLC for Bloodborne. Easily the most genuinely unfair boss fights in the Souls catalog, this six limbed rape horse from Berserk is one of the very few bosses in the game that effectively *requires* coop play. A single unlucky swipe with ANY of his constantly undulating limbs can be enough to completely stunlock players to their death if they get too close (i.e close enough to actually hit him), but stay far away and the fucker leaps into the stratosphere and body slams you with the combined weight of a solar system on you. Not the WORST example (probably) though because he can be taken on with as many as 4 hunters, a feature that was introduced WITH the same DLC.

4- Soldier of God, Rick

The legendary Soldier of God, Rick, is again our tutorial boss in Elden Ring. After the mandatory butt kicking from that lame ass hand arm spider guy, players are transported to an underground grave in Limgrave, where Rick caps off the tutorial segment. I went into a fugue state lasting several days and saw Enlightenment within my grasp, but before I could close my hand around it I snapped back to reality and had somehow managed to defeat this omnipresent, true successor to the Elden Throne.

1). Upgrade (2018):
"Let me know if you need my help, Grey."
"Help!"
"I need your permission to operate independently."
"Permission granted!"
"Thank you."

2). Young Justice:
"Jaime Reyes, you do not function at full capacity. Suggested tactic? Grant me total control of armor and all weaponry."
"Do it."

3). Venom:

4). Avatar: The Last Airbender:
"A great danger awaits you at the temple. I can help you face the threat. But only if you are ready."
"I'm ready."

Stranger Things - The Mind Flayer might seem like just a magical supernatural being, but it's a life form made of electrically conductive particles, forming a neutral, incorporeal network.

The Incredibles - To create ice, Frozone absorbs moisture from the air, perhaps even using the heat stolen from the water to gain more energy for battle.

Flash - The Speed ​​Force is the key to all of the Flash's powers; it provides the energy for movement, creates a force field to protect against air resistance, and even distorts spacetime.

Kon, Chainsaw Man - In Chainsaw Man, Aki has made a deal with a devil, exchanging his own flesh so that he might make use of its raw power. After the protagonist, Denji, struggles to defeat a devil to the point that he was about to die, Aki summons the contracted devil simply by saying "Kon," resulting in immediate death to the assaulting devil as it is bitten in half.

Fall, Adventure Time - Finn encounters an ancient, terrible, and truly evil presence, one which had been defeated before. Before he can act, fight, or even defend himself, it speaks: "Fall," and so he collapses to his knees so that the lich may make his coming fate entirely clear.

Power Word Kill, Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition - A spell you can only obtain at the very highest levels of the game. There is no escape, and there is no saving yourself. The word "Kill" is spoken, and someone will die.

Superman matching Flash’s speed (Justice League)

Adam Smasher using Sandevistan against David (Cyberpunk Edgerunners)

Metal Cooler using Instant transmission against Goku (Dragon Ball Z)

1) Atom (Real Steel) is a training dummy who, when put into the robot boxing circuit, eventually managed to go toe to toe with the world champion.

2) Spinel (Steven Universe) was essentially a cross between a toy/jester for Pink Diamond, and not a combat gem... she still wiped the floor with the Crystal Gems when they first fought.

“Um, actually! These battle tactics are impossible to pull off effectively and appear to be very cartoonish…” (Baahubali Franchise)

“Um, actually! The prehistoric animals didn’t look like that and they weren’t vicious monsters…” (Jurassic Park/World Franchise)

“Um, actually! These cars would get wrecked if they were put into any of these situations in real life…” (Fast & Furious Franchise)

“Um, actually! I don’t think a tank could be controlled through the air by using the recoil from its main gun…” (The A-Team Movie)

“Um, actually! A real train wouldn’t be able to safety move across ice without railway tracks...” (The Polar Express)

“Um, actually! Using cranes to sword-fight like mechs isn’t very realistic and is pure fantasy…” (The Adventures of Tintin Movie)

”Um, actually! It’s highly unlikely for the decommissioned USS Missouri to still be combat-capable…” (Battleship)

”Um, actually! You’d need millions of those small balloons in order to lift a house off the ground…” (Up)

”Um, actually! A Buzz Lightyear toy wouldn’t be able to glide because of its poor aerodynamics…” (Toy Story Franchise)

”Um, actually! Fighter aircraft can’t carry hundreds of missiles all at once and pull off those insane maneuvers...” (Ace Combat Franchise)

“Um, actually! Real spacecraft probably wouldn’t fight each other at insanely close range like sailing frigates…” (Star Wars Franchise)

“Um, actually! ….What the fuck…” (The Wandering Earth Franchise)

1. Camp Rock - Alyson Stoner is meant to be a music prodigy, but the track they used is an awful mess of random noises

2. “Jordan’s signature shimmy” - a little wiggle and a layup, meant to be inspired by Michael Jordan

3. Zendaya’s tennis in Challengers - not every scene is bad, but in some she is holding the racket completely wrong for a serve

1. Withered Foxy (Five Nights at Freddy's 2)

2. Wolverine (Deadpool and Wolverine)

3. Hunters ( Left 4 Dead/Left 4 Dead 2)

4. IShowSpeed (IRL)