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In short: they can dish it out, but they can't take it. The Glass Cannon is characterized by insane attack power coupled with pathetic defensive ability. Occasionally referred to as a Glass Dragon, Glass Cannons are prevalent in RPGs and fighting games, as the cast needs to be big enough that "takes hits like a chump" becomes a viable character trait. In RPGs, the Glass Cannon tends to be a Squishy Wizard. Not all Squishy Wizards are completely Glass Cannon, though. A Squishy Wizard still can have decent or good magical defense but abysmal physical defense (and the aforementioned good magical defense may be undermined by low hit points), and likewise, a brawler may have good physical defense but poor magical defense (though physically-oriented units are more likely to have a good amount of hit points). Artillery or archer units in Real-Time Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy games also tend to have this trait, as they're meant to be far away from combat, or at least in the back of the formation. If a boss happens to be a Glass Cannon, that's a Rush Boss. This can even apply in real life. Some military weapons and vehicles can deal a lot of damage, but they're easily destroyed if they take a hit. Athletes who play contact sports can also count if they run up really good statistics but are also easily injured. Make the Glass Cannon incapable of taking any punishment at all and you've got a One-Hit-Point Wonder. A matchup between two of these usually results in Rocket-Tag Gameplay. When the enemy tries to take out the Glass Cannon as fast as possible, it's Shoot the Mage First. They may have a Full Health Bonus ability as another way to encourage them to avoid getting hit. The Glass Cannon is very much a Red Oni method. Since it promotes aggressive, reckless tactics over patience and endurance. Glass Cannons can very easily lose their cool, since they're taking a lot of damage leading to a beserker-like rage which, in their case, won't last very long before they're defeated. This trope is one of the most flexibles of the Competitive Balance: Glass Cannons often overlap with the Fragile Speedster; characters of that type tend to put out high damage and dodge most incoming attacks, but go down quickly if they do get hit. Alternatively, the Fragile Speedster may be the only one able to dodge or may be more acrobatic while the Glass Cannon may be quick, but stuck on the ground. Also often overlaps with Long-Range Fighter, using range to keep out of harm's way. A vessel mounted with a Wave-Motion Gun may have some aspects of this immediately following its use, as the Power Limiter of the weapon often is that it leaves the vessel defenseless for a time. See also: PVP Balanced and Instakill Mook. Opposite Trope of Stone Wall, which has very high survivability, but can't scratch any opponent. Compare and contrast Mighty Glacier, who can dish out at the expense of speed rather than toughness, and Lightning Bruiser, who can do the same without sacrificing anything (or sacrificing a "secondary" characteristic, such as range). Not to be confused with actual cannons made of glass, which would be its Trope Namer. For those, see Glass Weapon. |
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The Rise of Skywalker: The Xyston-Class Star Destroyer can blow up planets, but has no shields while in the turbulent atmosphere of Exegol, and can be blown up with one or two shots to its main cannon. | |
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Part of the reason why Ashley Massaro's momentum was killed in WWE. She only wrestled for three years, yet suffered about as many injuries as someone who had been wrestling for ten. | |
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Suppression: Charlie is a electricity-wielder who was kidnapped by the villains so that he could power their entire facility. He can give off enough electricity to blow off Maxwell's arm. He is also skinny as a rail and has neither armor nor the ability to take a hit. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Torg is capable of killing just about anything when his Cool Sword Chaz is powered up and starts glowing. While his sword is unbreakable and nearly unstoppable, however, Torg himself is as physically vulnerable as your average human being. It doesn't help that the sword's true potential can only be unleashed when it's fueled by the blood of the innocent, a cost Torg is understandably reluctant to pay. | |
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Dominic Deegan: Dominic is physically weak while mentally untouchable. He describes himself as his body being "frail and weak, but [his] mind is a fortress you have no hope of conquering." | |
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This was excellently highlighted in an episode of MythBusters, where the cannon was recreated and fired. Their prototype replica cannon successfully damaged the targets, but broke on the first firing. They still considered it a successful recreation because the output of the cannon was comparable to a period iron cannon, and because of its historical reliability issues. | |
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Masakatsu Funaki in both pro wrestling and mixed martial arts, the latter even more so. Susceptible to take downs and no chin, he relied on simply submitting you before you hit him. | |
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The Mighty Ducks: The titular team provides an athletic example. They use lots of Confusion Fu on offense, but their defense is rather lacking. This is pointed out in the third movie by Coach Orion, who teaches them how to play "two-way" hockey. | |
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Real Steel: Metro beats down Atom badly but gets taken out by one hit. | |
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Left POOR Dead: The zombies are clearly dangerous, but never seem to manage to do any damage and are felled by even a gentle push. | |
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In Back to the Future, George is a lanky kid who gets manhandled pretty easily by the much taller and burlier Biff, but when he finally gets serious he one-shots Biff with a single punch. | |
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The Queen of Cats La Felina in the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation. Able to go entire matches taking virtually no offense from opponents only to lose in the end. | |
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8-Bit Theater's Black Mage described himself in these words, a few days after this page was launched. | |
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The Hunger Games: Katniss is a quickdraw with a bow and takes out several competitors in seconds. Compared to the opposition, she is untrained in how to fight up close, and is slowed down significantly by relatively minor injuries. | |
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Rocky: Apollo Creed is strong, fast, and has decent stamina but can't take lots of punishment. It should be noted that this is a downplayed version to the usual; Apollo doesn't really have a glass jaw, but his ability to take damage is merely average compared to Rocky’s more impressive ability to absorb his opponents’ blows and keep standing even against overwhelming odds. Apollo was strong enough to deal with most opponents in the ring before this became an issue, but Rocky and Drago were durable enough to hold out against Apollo’s earlier blows and do more serious damage later when he was less prepared to fight back. In Rocky III, Rocky’s opponent Clubber Lang is ultimately a variation of this, with his weakness being stamina rather than defence. While Lang is a powerful fighter who hits hard and generally demolishes his opponents quickly, his reliance on this strategy means that he puts too much power into his initial assaults. He defeats Rocky in their first bout because Rocky was out of practice and emotionally shaken by his manager’s recent fatal heart attack, but when they engage in a rematch Rocky has worked hard to get back in shape and manages to provoke Lang into a rage where he makes mistakes, resulting in Lang exhausting himself while Rocky utilises his greater endurance to strike back and win. |
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Mad Max: A psychological application of the trope in the form of the Nightrider. While most of the pursuit has him in total control of both the situation and his faculties, taunting the MFP relentlessly over the radio, one near-miss with Max reduces him to a blubbering, insecure, terrified wreck. | |
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In Rocky III, Rocky’s opponent Clubber Lang is ultimately a variation of this, with his weakness being stamina rather than defence. While Lang is a powerful fighter who hits hard and generally demolishes his opponents quickly, his reliance on this strategy means that he puts too much power into his initial assaults. He defeats Rocky in their first bout because Rocky was out of practice and emotionally shaken by his manager’s recent fatal heart attack, but when they engage in a rematch Rocky has worked hard to get back in shape and manages to provoke Lang into a rage where he makes mistakes, resulting in Lang exhausting himself while Rocky utilises his greater endurance to strike back and win. | |
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Battleship correctly shows that modern-day missile destroyers are this. They carry lots of missiles and the Aegis system allows them to Macross Missile Massacre an enemy, but they lack any real armor to protect them from return fire. The CIWS guns do an admirable job trying to protect the ships from the alien attack, but the enemy employs the More Dakka tactic to overwhelm the defenses. Their aforementioned Aegis systems also failed to work given that the attackers were often too close and failed to properly show up on radar. | |
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Rogue One: The AT-ACT has the same offensive power as the Mighty Glacier AT-AT, but much weaker armor. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: The flashback to the DL-6 incident shows that young Edgeworth was able to bite Yanni Yogi hard enough to distract the bailiff from hitting his father, and later threw a gun at him hard enough to knock the guy out. When Yogi shoves him hard enough to be knocked against a wall though, Edgeworth collapses almost immediately. Given that he's a kid, it's pretty justified. | |
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Antares from Sequinox can dish out a decent level of damage, but has next to no defence and therefore has to hide behind her Scorpie minions. | |
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La Rosa Negra's self appointed bodyguard Noemi Bosques. One the top ten bantam weight boxers in the world, top three in the country, most of Rosa's would be assailants shrink away from her fist and those that don't get floored. Boxing bantam weight's 110-118lbs, making Noemi noticeably smaller than her charge and quickly brushed aside by the few who managed to get her before she could land a punch. | |
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Donald Duck: In "Canvas Back Duck", Donald ends up in a boxing match against Pee-Wee Pete, and is only saved from a merciless pummeling when he accidentally discovers Pete has a (literal) glass jaw. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: The High Evolutionary's gravity powers are undoubtedly deadly — they can annihilate an entire roomful of enemies in a Sphere of Destruction at maximum output — but they (and his combat skills in general) are so crude and simple that they offer him zero defensive options. Once you get past that, he's a lightly-armoured Human Alien with perfectly ordinary durability and pain tolerance — which is even more of a problem than it sounds, since being a Gravity Master apparently requires some level of concentration on his part. Any reasonably serious injury will distract him so much that he essentially loses any meaningful ability to fight back against whoever injured him, leaving him entirely dependent on his first-strike capabilities. There's a reason his "fight" against the Guardians can be summarised as "Rocket shoots him, and then a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown ensues". | |
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The Order of the Stick: Vaarsuvius fits this trope. As with Black Mage, they fall pretty squarely in Squishy Wizard territory. | |
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus: Megaguirus is so fast she can Flash Step circles around Godzilla, and is strong enough to knock Godzilla down and even lift him into the air and throw him. Her main strategy involves confusing him with her high speed and painful wing frequencies, giving her the opening to fly past and strike Godzilla repeatedly and pick him up. Once Godzilla manages to catch Megaguirus's stinger in his mouth and bite it off, she's completely defenseless, and goes down to a single shot of his Atomic Breath. | |
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WSU has many examples, such as The Human Tornado (before they became an All Women's fed in 2007), Marti Belle (large spirit, small frame), the Fly Girls (Niya's really strong anyway but both tend to get tossed around simply because they're so short), the AC Express (great at countering moves, tend to be gone as soon as they don't). | |
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Batman Beyond: The assassin Curare is a deadly combatant with a sword, incredibly fast and agile, and very hard to lay a glove on, but when Batman actually manages to do so, it seems to hurt her badly. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Scarlet Witch has immensely powerful telekinesis, but she has to concentrate on whatever she wants to affect and seems to take a short time to ramp up to full strength. This makes her nearly unbeatable if she can focus on a single opponent (notably in Avengers: Endgame where she completely overpowers Thanos one-on-one), but much more vulnerable against unexpected attacks and any hit that does get through disrupts her current focus (such as in Captain America: Civil War where during a mission she accidentally destroys an office building). Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio has full control of his Attack Drones disguised as Elementals, whose holographic projections are capable of warping their senses as well as pelting them to death with bullets, which makes him incredibly deadly when out of reach. However, Beck himself has the resilience of an ordinary human to the point that, when Peter manages to close the distance and find him, he goes down rather easily without putting up much of a fight. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: The High Evolutionary's gravity powers are undoubtedly deadly — they can annihilate an entire roomful of enemies in a Sphere of Destruction at maximum output — but they (and his combat skills in general) are so crude and simple that they offer him zero defensive options. Once you get past that, he's a lightly-armoured Human Alien with perfectly ordinary durability and pain tolerance — which is even more of a problem than it sounds, since being a Gravity Master apparently requires some level of concentration on his part. Any reasonably serious injury will distract him so much that he essentially loses any meaningful ability to fight back against whoever injured him, leaving him entirely dependent on his first-strike capabilities. There's a reason his "fight" against the Guardians can be summarised as "Rocket shoots him, and then a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown ensues". |
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Pacific Rim: The Japanese Jaeger, Coyote Tango, has huge retractable cannons mounted on its shoulders, but is apparently the most lightly armored of the Jaegers. | |
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Bob and George: Ran Cossack is an exaggerated version. His Cossack Buster is the most powerful weapon in the comic amongst the various robots, but even a slight breeze can kill him. Death only annoys Ran, however; he has a Body Backup Drive at home, complete with teleporter to return him to the place he was last alive. | |
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X-Men Film Series: The ultimate example is Professor Charles Xavier, whose considerable telepathic powers are generally taken Up to Eleven by allowing him to take control of minds halfway across the world, potentially commit genocide, and even transfer his consciousness to his comatose twin brother. He can't take any more punishment than any other human, though, and he's paralyzed from the waist down and restricted to a wheelchair. X-Men: Apocalypse: Professor X is the second-most powerful mutant (third after Jean Grey accesses her Phoenix Force), and the story even makes a point about how a "god" is incomplete without his psychic ability ("To be everywhere, to be everyone"). But because his telepathy is ineffective against Apocalypse's Psychic Block Defense, Charles is totally defenseless; he's no more physically resilient than any other human, and as a paraplegic, he can't even try to run away from his captor. Quicksilver's Super-Speed, which normally gives him a huge advantage over his foes in combat (Apocalypse is flying through the air when Peter is punching him),note in physics, Mass x Acceleration = Force, so Quicksilver's ability generates Super-Strength in a fight situation is nullified after Apocalypse traps his foot into the ground and breaks his leg. In the vicious hands of the god-like mutant, Maximoff is as fragile as a toy. |
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CM Punk is a downplayed example, as his famous hour long matches and Garbage matches make it hard to view him as "fragile" but he's one of the few wrestlers who will actually sell for the notoriously non athletic Paul Heyman. Punk has only "sold" when Heyman was wielding a weapon, but Madusa and Chris Benoit wouldn't even do that much. Punk can hoist wrestlers like Raven and Samoa Joe up, if they get careless, and knocked the likes of BJ Whimter and Alberto Del Rio unconscious, so he could presumably harm Heyman much worse than Heyman could harm him. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: While firebending boasts immense raw power than other bending arts, one of its glaring downsides is that they have no special defensive abilities whatsoever, fitting for the element's confrontational and upfront nature. Their combat philosophy centers around overwhelming their opponents as soon as possible. True to the themes of how elements are similar to one another, this obvious weakness can be mitigated by applying other bending philosophies to firebending. Iroh, Zuko, and Jeong Jeong, all who subscribe to such innovative thinking, employ firebending as a defense, utilizing fire walls, redirecting flames, and doing circular motions to dispel attacks. In fact, one of the signs that a firebender is a master firebender if they can last long in a fight, which is taught at Dancing Dragon, an ancient firebending form that the Fire Nation forgot upon taking up their imperialistic ambitions to the world. In the Avatar State, Aang can be the most powerful bender to ever live, but if he is killed in it, the Avatar as a whole will cease to exist. |
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Shadiversity: In this video Shad discusses the idea by name, saying magic users having greater physical vulnerability to offset their magical powers is one way medieval-type knights could remain relevant in a fantasy setting (otherwise, they would just slaughter a knight every time, as demonstrated humorously at the beginning). | |
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Arcane: While Caitlyn's an excellent shot with a rifle, she proves easy to knockout in close combat. | |
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Kung Fu Panda has Master Shifu, a Red Panda. He's incredibly fast and strong, able run rings around and throw the far larger and heavier Po, a giant panda, but has a lack of stamina and reach against larger opponents. It often takes one blow from a sufficiently strong opponent to take him out, though getting that hit before being defeated is hard due to his aforementioned speed and own surprising strength. | |
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Many "high flier" wrestlers such as Matt Sydal, who showed these tendencies right out of Gateway Championship Wrestling, are also this trope, the commentators actually yelling at him for doing a cannon ball off a balcony after returning from injury. MÃstico became one when he went to WWE and was repackaged as "Sin Cara". | |
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The third GrailQuest book, Gateway of Doom, contains an interestingly extreme example with the Bota-Botas. Their only form of attack is their war-cry, and rather than fight back at you they will concentrate on absorbing enough energy from the earth to be able to make the war-cry. The moment one of them manages to do so, you will die. There are six of them in total, and each one has so few LIFE POINTS that one hit is enough to kill them... but you can only hit one of them per round, and they take six rounds of combat to absorb enough energy, so there is no room for manoeuvre at all. If even one of your attacks misses, you're dead. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio has full control of his Attack Drones disguised as Elementals, whose holographic projections are capable of warping their senses as well as pelting them to death with bullets, which makes him incredibly deadly when out of reach. However, Beck himself has the resilience of an ordinary human to the point that, when Peter manages to close the distance and find him, he goes down rather easily without putting up much of a fight. | |
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Mera Salamin in Epithet Erased has a powerful destructive epithet that can defeat the likes of Indus in one blow, but her stamina stat is tied for the lowest in the cast. Just kicking a box in frustration is enough to break one of her toes. This is mostly due to a case of Power Incontinence; her “Fragile� epithet allows her to weaken and break practically anything, but also weakens her body and causes her constant pain. Using it in combat actually causes her to take damage. | |
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The Night the Magic Died: This is the case with Gralo, the Big Bad. While immensely powerful and capable of causing a universe wide extinction on his own, he's only protected by being able to eat any magic sent his way to a Walking Wasteland level and isn't exceptionally durable without it. Once that's bypassed, he is easily wounded and easily defeated by the Princesses. | |
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The World's End: The Blanks have inhuman strength and agility, but you could burst their heads open with a well-thrown punch. This probably explains why our heroes, a bunch of a middle-aged, out-of-shape men, are able to deal with crowds of them. | |
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Scream: Ghostface, unlike most iconic Slasher Movie killers, is not an Implacable Man who can No-Sell any attack the heroes can come up with. Under the mask in each film is an ordinary man or woman without any supernatural abilities, armed with only a knife, who the heroes can easily push around if they get the chance. However, unlike the lumbering Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, Ghostface is fast and regularly runs after his or her targets, and one stab from that very large knife is usually enough to debilitate a victim and allow Ghostface to go for the kill. | |
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In Moana, demi-god Maui becomes this by the time of the final battle with Te K�, as his hook- the source of his power- was damaged in a previous battle, so that all it would take is one good hit to destroy it for good. Fortunately, Maui is fast and strong enough that he manages to hold Te K� back for some time even with that particular weakness to take into account. | |
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Outsider: Loroi warships have tremendous ranged firepower compared to the Umiak's, but aren't as robust. | |
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Brock Lesnar was known for his incredible speed and strength, which he used to ragdoll heavyweights and pummel them into paste... unless he got hit on the chin, in which case he'd instantly turtle up. | |
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Darths & Droids: Chirrut in the Rogue One adventure turns out to be this. Pete applied his usual extreme Min-Maxing to the character, making him formidable in combat, with a Dodge modifier so high that he was literally incapable of being hit by a direct attack... at the cost of having only 9 hit points, resulting in him dying the moment he was hit by an area of effect explosion. | |
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Scarlet Witch has immensely powerful telekinesis, but she has to concentrate on whatever she wants to affect and seems to take a short time to ramp up to full strength. This makes her nearly unbeatable if she can focus on a single opponent (notably in Avengers: Endgame where she completely overpowers Thanos one-on-one), but much more vulnerable against unexpected attacks and any hit that does get through disrupts her current focus (such as in Captain America: Civil War where during a mission she accidentally destroys an office building). | |
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What's Shakin': Coffinshaker is a fairly powerful fire mage, but without his reliance of fire, is mostly vulnerable to all other attacks. | |
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Kid Radd: Played with with the titular Kid. On the offensive side, his Mega Radd is technically only able to charge enough to deal 255 damage within his own game, but thanks to sloppy programming, there's actually no preset upper limit, meaning it's as powerful as the number of bits in the console he's on. When he's out on the internet, its power is effectively limitless, making him potentially strong enough to destroy the entire internet. On the defensive side, he can only take four hits before dying, but it doesn't matter what hits him. Getting hit with a nuclear bomb does the same amount of damage as having a Mook walk into him. | |
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XRS: Despite its vaunted capabilities, the XRS is extremely vulnerable when its energy shields are down. | |
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: Roarke compares himself to a flamethrower made of paper while explaining to Danny about his powers; he is unable to use his full power while in the human world because of his fragile human body. Thus, he needs to possess Danny, the boy being his son and all. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Soundwave can easily take on multiple Autobots at the same time with The Power of Rock, has a massive number of various gadgets, and can control machines, but he's made of Earth machines mashed together, which means that even Sari's little hand-blast can put a hole in his shoulder, and when he is forced into melee combat, he is smashed apart in single blows. This contrasts with normal Decepticons, which are both figuratively and literally Made of Iron. Swindle. As a result of his arms dealing he has some of the most impressive weapons in the universe, but is the only Decepticon in the whole show that Bumblebee's stingers have ever been effective against. |
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Many power wrestlers tend to be injury prone, such as Mark Henry and Gangrel and Jazz. Batista's case was lampshaded by Triple H, who teased an Evolution reunion to deal with Legacy, only to reject the idea because Randy was a jerk and Dave was always hurt. It was also lampshaded by AJ Styles in a wonderful Take That!. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: 'VRcade' shows that Evil Balloon is far stronger than he looks...but also as fragile as he looks. | |
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Minoru Suzuki was an example of a mixed martial artist, who in turn went back to pro wrestling as his injuries started to rack up. He was solid in taking down people and submitting him, but some hits were enough to stop him. | |
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The Runepunk podcast series from RPGMP3 features a character called Kieron Hammerfall, an Andari Rune caster. Kieron is imbued with momentous arcane power, as well as the durability of a dry twig. | |
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Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Red Lion is stated and shown to be a Fragile Speedster but it also has a heat beam that can melt starships and a back-mounted Wave-Motion Tuning Fork that can destroy whole sections of a massive space station. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: Professor X is the second-most powerful mutant (third after Jean Grey accesses her Phoenix Force), and the story even makes a point about how a "god" is incomplete without his psychic ability ("To be everywhere, to be everyone"). But because his telepathy is ineffective against Apocalypse's Psychic Block Defense, Charles is totally defenseless; he's no more physically resilient than any other human, and as a paraplegic, he can't even try to run away from his captor. Quicksilver's Super-Speed, which normally gives him a huge advantage over his foes in combat (Apocalypse is flying through the air when Peter is punching him),note in physics, Mass x Acceleration = Force, so Quicksilver's ability generates Super-Strength in a fight situation is nullified after Apocalypse traps his foot into the ground and breaks his leg. In the vicious hands of the god-like mutant, Maximoff is as fragile as a toy. |
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The three gods in the Sock Series have very destructive powers but can be killed in rather simple ways, such as being crushed by a magical shrinking cylinder, being cut in half by a tongue or being bitten in half. | |
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Cobra Kai has two notable examples, from that dojo: Hawk is a combination of The Berserker and Blood Knight. He thrives on fighting and throws some wicked shots that can overwhelm his opponent (as the tournament at the end of the first season showed). While it wasn't much of a problem in the first season, the second season brought this trope into full force. Training under Kreese, he would become surprised when a defense-oriented opponent (such as Demetri) held him off for a while. In such a case, it usually takes only one shot to lay him out (as both Robby and Demetri ended up doing). But in the third season, he neatly subverts the trope by internalizing Kreese's "fight smart" lesson — and utterly obliterating Brucks during tryouts. However, Unskilled, but Strong Tory plays this trope straight throughout: great at charging and has some wicked kicks and punches of her own. Problem: she's not much better defensively (especially against Sam, who is Weak, but Skilled) and tends to get pissy when she can't put away an opponent fast enough. Once she loses her cool, one good shot can stop her. |
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