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Powerful, but Incompetent

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Powerful, but Incompetent	comment	This character is the local winner of the Superpower Lottery — either the World's Strongest Man or damn close to it. They have enough power to be able to succeed or accomplish almost anything... ...if they weren't a complete and utter moron. Capable of using Flight to go anywhere they want? Doesn't matter, because they get lost easily. Can shrug off most attacks or weapons with their Super-Toughness? Irrelevant because any tiny injury will make them panic and cry. Able to chase anyone down with their Super-Speed? Too bad that they get distracted too easily. And this all assumes they even know what powers they have; Forgot About His Powers is the norm for this guy. The best way to think of this trope is not as a character trope, but a narrative trope about failure. While it can overlap with Unskilled, but Strong or Dumb Muscle, it's not quite the same. Those archetypes can still win if they hit hard enough that their relative lack of skill or planning doesn't matter. At the very least, their allies or teammates can help use traps or strategies that enable them to unleash their massive power at the best time. The character described by this trope, however, is so incompetent that people weaker than them are either more reliable teammates or regularly defeat these idiots with little trouble. Planning or help from others often won't work either, because this idiot will find some way to fail even the most basic role. They may also be Lethally Stupid, and thus almost as much of a danger to their allies as the enemy is. In anyone else's hands, their abilities would be a Story-Breaker Power... but for better or worse, in this character's hands, they might as well be stage tricks. Merely being Incompletely Trained, having an Weaksauce Weakness or losing ONE fight to someone better is not this trope. This character fails despite their amount of training, or their flaws make them impossible to train in the first place. Other characters with the same weaknesses have either overcome them or at the very least learned to work around them. Their losses and failures are total embarrassments that someone of their power or level should have been able to handle. Failure has to be the norm for this character, or so common that no matter how skilled or powerful they become, the outcome is never certain. NOTE: To qualify as this trope, the example MUST explain how stupidity either negatively-affects the use of the character's powers or negatively-affects the outcomes of their usual battles/missions. Compare Idiot Hero and Brains Versus Brawn, with the trope referring to the "Brawn" side, as well as Almighty Idiot for cases where the power is godlike but the foolishness below human levels. Also compare and contrast the Almighty Janitor. Compare Super Weapon, Average Joe, for when the user is weak and incompetent, but their weapon is mighty. May overlap with Inept Mage, whose spells and abilities tend to backfire due to incompetence. Also see Power Incontinence, when someone doesn't know how to turn their powers on or off. Contrast Heart Is an Awesome Power. A potential consequence of Giving the Sword to a Noob. One way it's demonstrated that it's mere incompetence holding a character back is when an Alternate Self is just that much better. Do not confuse with Powerful, but Inaccurate. The exact polar inverse is Invincible Incompetent.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_13679a09	comment	Ward: Torso is a superpowered Anti-Villain who can't talk (at least in costume, and possibly at all), has terrible balance, stumbles around everywhere, needs to be in touch-range to use his power, can't even effectively be carried by someone else with superpowers due to power interaction shenanigans, and has a pretty ugly and restrictive costume. But when he does manage to land a blow, he hits hard enough to One-Hit KO Kaiju, cause earthquakes, and in at least one instance damage the fabric of reality. This is still not enough to win the battle at hand nor gain him the respect of other capes.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: War of Kings Big Bad Vulcan is this. Being a high-order energy manipulator empowered to Physical God levels during M-Day, he's one of the strongest mutants alive and has near-Phoenix level command of cosmic energy. Unfortunately for him, he's also an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild who rarely thinks anything through and prefers to just charge in slinging energy blasts willy nilly. This usually leads to him being beaten by weaker opponents who exploit his Unskilled, but Strong handicap. Holocaust/Nemesis, the son of Apocalypse, is another high-tier power jockey who's rather a bit of an idiot. Nate Grey the X-Man has handily beaten him in every encounter, even the ones where he was suffering Power Incontinence (and therefore not so far out of Holocaust's league it wasn't even funny), just because ol' Holly never has any strategy beyond "blast it to hell, then blast it again for good measure". Captain America even tricked him into taking out his own ally Post during the time when he was working for Onslaught.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Yammy Llargo is Espada #10, which makes him the 10th strongest of the entire Hollow species. However, Yammy is The Brute and is exceptionally moronic and short-tempered. When faced with enemies close to his power level, he inevitably takes a beating. It's later revealed that he's actually Espada #0, which means he's actually the strongest of all the Hollow... but only in terms of raw spiritual energy. Yammy's ability, "Ira", allows him to get stronger as he gets angrier... but that's all. He's still all brute force, and he's still an idiot, which leads to him getting trounced so badly even in his strongest form that one of the Court Guard Captains who defeated him, Kenpachi, considered the fight to be "boring as hell". While the other Espada manage to defeat or at least fight on-par with Ichigo and other Captains, the only victories Yammy manages to claim are on people much, much weaker than himself or suffering some sort of handicap, with anyone on an equal scale basically treating him as a Butt-Monkey.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The Solarian League Navy has spent literal centuries as the biggest, baddest space navy that absolutely nobody dares mess with. Unfortunately for them, this makes them complacent about their superiority, they fill their officer ranks through nepotism and cronyism far more than due to ability, and disregard the technological advancements coming out of the Star Kingdom of Manticore's and Peoples' Republic of Haven's bloody, decades-long war even as they're repeatedly warned of the potential threat either nation might pose. When Manticore and the League end up in a shooting war, the League almost universally sees heavy losses despite massively outnumbering their enemies because Manticore's missile technology has advanced to the point of being able to fire on League ships from well outside those ships' ability to reliably fire back, if at all, and commanders too stupid or stubborn to back off when this is made clear to them. The main problems Manticore has with regards to the League are literally running out of missiles before the League runs out of ships and, more seriously, that the League's much larger R&D program might actually start to match Manticore's capabilities once it has enough incentive to begin trying to do so. When the League finally takes its atrocities one step too far, the war ultimately concludes with Honor taking a fleet right into the heart of the League, Old Earth itself, and forcing a surrender while making it absolutely clear that the Solarian League was no threat and they could have done this at any time they chose.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_2a826df6	comment	Cardfight!! Vanguard: Katsumi Morikawa is one of the most skilled Vanguard fighters in the series, able to give Aichi Sendou, the current Asian Continental Champion, a hard time. Problem is, that's only when you give him a balanced deck. He's so fixated on Grade 3's that if left to build his own deck, he'll fill it with so many Grade 3's that it's useless.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_2dae76e9	comment	Bungo Stray Dogs: Akutagawa struggles with this, which is Lampshaded frequently. His Ability, Rashomon, enables him to manifest a sort of monster in the clothes he wears, enabling him to create razor-sharp Combat Tentacles, armor and even swallow space. Unfortunately, he has a one-track mind and isn't particularly creative, severely limiting the effectiveness of his powers as he is unable to come up with more effective uses for them and tends to become extremely Ax-Crazy. However, he learns to be more inventive over time.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Three homunculi qualify. Envy is an near-immortal homunculus with the unique power of shapeshifting, though the usefulness of this ability is hampered by their numerous flaws. Envy is easily provoked and extremely impulsive, which others will take advantage of to defeat them, but sometimes Envy will just screw themself over. Their drive to kick any and every dog they find causes them to make very bad decisions as they'll go out of their way to upset someone even if it's an obviously terrible idea. This officially places them in the Too Dumb to Live category when they fight Mustang after having forgotten he burned Lust to death. They use their One-Winged Angel form to fight, not realizing that makes them an easier target and intentionally provoke him into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge beforehand. Their only trick left at that point is a Shapeshifter Guilt Trip, and they have absolutely no fallback when it fails and just makes him even angrier. Needless to say, things do not go well. Like Envy, Gluttony is a near-immortal homunculus who can easily overpower most human characters with his massive bulk; and when he gets angry, he can turn his jaw and ribcage into a fake Portal of Truth which can teleport anything and anyone in his way into a dimension between reality and Truth, from Mustang's extremely powerful flame alchemy, to other homunculi, as he accidentally swallows Envy. However, he's very childish and dim-witted, and although agile, he's also a rather sluggish fighter. As a result, he's usually takes a lot of abuse when fighting characters to the point where he almost dies from exhausting his regenerative abilities. Possibly the biggest offender is Sloth. He is also a near-immortal homunculus, although he's shown to be significantly stronger physically. He takes the appearance of a colossal muscular behemoth, and his skin is so tough that he's impervious to bullets, thus it takes a significant amount of effort to even damage him. Oh yeah, he's also the self-proclaimed fastest homunculus, and can move so fast, that he can't be traced by the human eye. However, true to his sin, he is extremely lazy and sluggish, thus wasting his potential strength and making him a very poor fighter. In addition, he can't even use his immense speed properly, and he's so uncoordinated that he ends up randomly dashing into walls.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Every main character is skilled but inept in some way, but the most standout one is Black Mage, whose Kamehame Hadoken can level mountains but is able to miss when aimed at mountains. He once manages to take over Hell, which only lasts for a few minutes. And generally, whenever he might get a pang of competence, the world smacks him back down to stay in one piece (without killing him, of course, lest he take over Hell again).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck has a Superman parody named Comet Guy who is far more powerful than all of the other heroes. He's also dim witted, easily manipulated, and-until training with Darkwing Duck-could be disabled by a ringing bell.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The T-Shirt of the Living Dead, stolen by Shake in the eponymous episode, grants the wearer the ability to know and do anything... but it winds up Shrunk in the Wash before Shake can do anything with it. Meatwad gets it, and uses it to summon whatever random desire comes to him... resulting in Santa Claus getting burned alive by a giant fire-breathing Easter egg. While the shirt could potentially heal Santa, Meatwad getting Drunk with Power on top of his usual stupidity means it never occurs to him, and the Aqua Teens are stuck Saving Christmas (poorly, again despite Meatwad's power).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Zigzagged with Cinder Fall. She is intelligent and possesses Maiden powers alongside a deadly Semblance. However, she's very unstable and has serious self-worth issues stemming from her Freudian Excuse. At her best she's one of the most effective agents on Salem's side, as she can play an effective game of Xanatos Speed Chess and her fighting abilities and the Maiden powers she gained in Volume 3 are a threat to all the heroes, even Professor Ozpin. At her worst her name might as well be Leeroy Jenkins, as she ruins several of Salem's plans by either attempting to solve problems by brute force or by biting off more than she can chew. For bonus points, her sadistic tendency to be extra-cruel to defeated foes has resulted in them gaining a Heroic Second Wind and her getting maimed more than once. Despite how good she can be, Salem keeps her on an increasingly short leash because she just can't trust Cinder to not mess everything up at the last second. All of this, combined with her almost pathological need to steal more of the Maiden powers, results in her becoming a Spanner in the Works for both sides, kneecapping herself due to her own pride. Adam Taurus is a force of nature on the battlefield, a powerful and vicious warrior capable of casually defeating Hunstmen, Grimm, or entire squads of soldiers. He's also a deeply mentally unstable megalomaniac who is prone to being Blinded by Rage, turning allies and average people alike against him due to his bloodthirsty ways, obsessing over petty grudges to the point that it undermines his greater goals, and such a General Failure that in Volume 5 he causes his terrorist faction to implode due to his terrible leadership abilities mere months after taking it over. In Volume 6 he kills most of the remains of his group in a fit of rage when they refuse to acknowledge or follow him any longer, reducing him to a crazed and increasingly delusional fugitive whose only remaining motivation left is lashing out at the ex-girlfriend who refused to stay under his thumb.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): Supes fight crime and are generally around to protect the world from evil. However, most of their heroics are publicity stunts set up by the Vought Corporation (who actually created Supes by bribing pregnant women to be injected with Compound-V and tell the world how God gifted them with such an amazing child), and when they are thrown into an actual emergency they have no idea how to handle the situation, such as when Homelander and Queen Maeve intercept a highjacked plane, botch the rescue, and allow it to crash.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_3ac36a5c	comment	The various Transformers: Generation 1 based comics have Skywarp, the only Cybertronian to demonstrate the power of teleportation. Later continuities would establish him as an Outlier, sort of the Cybertronian equivalent of a mutant in X-Men. Walls, force fields, solid rock, it doesn't matter; Skywarp can teleport past it as long as there's someplace on the other side for him to emerge. In theory, you'd think this would make him the ultimate infiltration agent, able to steal any data, assassinate any officer, sabotage any base. In practice, Skywarp's childish stupidity prevents him from actually thinking about how to use these powers in a meaningful way, instead using his special ability as a means to suddenly appear behind people and perpetrate some kind of sadistic practical joke at their expense. He's only useful when directed by a smarter Decepticon, but the list of people he respects enough to obey generally begins and ends with Megatron.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_3ddddb25	comment	Xiaolin Showdown: Jack Spicer has the intellect to create futuristic machines and claims a considerable amount of Shen Gong Wu throughout the series, but his immaturity, low self-esteem and cowardice cause him to lose a number of battles he should have otherwise won. As a result, he becomes a laughing stock among the antagonists, though he would ultimately subvert this trope come the final episode, in which he unexpectedly manages to take over the Xiaolin Temple during Omi's absence, leading to a Bad Future.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_3ec0e37	comment	Full Frontal Nerdity: One strip has the guys decide to play a superhero RPG with the twist that they have characters who have massive power but no skills. This means that they wind up accidentally devastating the city they're attempting to defend before accidentally creating a black hole that destroys the world, which they decide is probably the best outcome for those characters.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_46a4b34d	comment	The Elenium: Evil Overlord Otha was given tremendous power by the dark god Azash, but he is an absolute idiot when it comes to actually applying that power. Most ably demonstrated when a horde of undead guards raised by Otha proves ridiculously easy to walk around because they're set to guard specific cobbles of the street and nothing else. Mostly for their amusement, the protagonists push one of them into the other and watch the domino effect cause the entire squad to turn on itself since Otha also didn't consider friendly fire.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_4797fe95	comment	Hunter: The Parenting (by the same people behind If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device below) has Norfolk's Tremere Regent. While she is a 7th-generation vampire and thus exceptionally powerful, she's completely out-of-touch with modern society and downright dumb, ignoring Kevin when he pointed out a major flaw with her handling of her mortal minions (namely, that just taking all their money will make people suspect fraud), and she forgets to renew her Blood Bond with Guy Chapman for eight months, leaving a fomerly loyal minion so desperate for his fix that he decided that being ghouled to anyone would do).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_4f59fb39	comment	War of Kings Big Bad Vulcan is this. Being a high-order energy manipulator empowered to Physical God levels during M-Day, he's one of the strongest mutants alive and has near-Phoenix level command of cosmic energy. Unfortunately for him, he's also an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild who rarely thinks anything through and prefers to just charge in slinging energy blasts willy nilly. This usually leads to him being beaten by weaker opponents who exploit his Unskilled, but Strong handicap.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid and Kamen Rider Zero-One, both written by Yuya Takahashi, use this as a recurring style of villain. Each show has at least two villains with an absurdly broken power like Resurrective Immortality, the ability to stop time without limit, Power Copying that only requires touching the opponent once to permanently gain all of their powers, or Combat Clairvoyance that perfectly predicts everything their opponent will do hours in advance. While they start out as an overwhelming threat, each of these villains is so reliant on their broken power that once the heroes develop a countermeasure, the villain is swiftly reduced to a punching bag.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_52a7b781	comment	Kamen Rider Geats features an exaggerated example with Chirami, the first Kamen Rider Glare2 and a Pointy-Haired Boss of the highest caliber. Not only is Glare2 a Sucksessor to the original Glare, with all of the same powers but much lower stats, but the suit is eventually stolen and used by another character who reveals it to actually be much more powerful than the original Glare. Chirami is just so bad at using Glare's power that it actually makes the suit itself become weaker simply because he's the one wearing it.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_534f0200	comment	Kamen Rider Saber has a downplayed example with Kamen Rider Durendal, who has the power to erase time. While Durendal is a skillful swordsman in regular combat, he's so used to being able to defeat any opponent by using his power to stab them in the back that he fails to come up with any new tactics once his opponents figure out what he's doing, letting them trivially turn his attempts at a surprise attack back on him.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: The villain of the comic's final arc, the Andromedan Pa'anuri, are incredibly powerful, possessing a zero-point energy generator that uses the rotation of the entire Andromeda galaxy as a power source, a Long Gun that can shoot at things inside the Milky Way from Andromeda, and an armada of warships so big that the biggest Milky Way warships can punch holes the size of a small moon in them and it pretty much amounts to scratching their paintjob. On top of this, the Pa'anuri are individually powerful enough to use planets as projectiles, and supernovas as hand grenades. Despite (or perhaps exactly because) their impressive hardware and biology, however, the Pa'anuri are really bad at fighting an actual war: Individually, they can inflict a horrible Curb-Stomp Battle on anyone who tries to take them on, but they suck at planning and executing an extended campaign and have next to no contingency plans. This means they are utterly incompetent in a lot of vital aspects of war-fighting, chief of all operational security: The Gatekeepers were able to fight them to a standstill in the past, their attempt at taking over the Milky Way in the Core War was quickly rebuffed once someone with foreknowledge of their secret weapon came back to inform everyone, and their final attack against the Milky Way was defeated thanks to a Spanner in the Works moment and some spectacularly poor decisions, primarily in letting baryonics repeatedly board, hack and subvert their war machines and communications network. Just before hacking their Long Gun so it shoots the transponder attached to it, thereby destroying itself, Ennesby refers to them as "utterly transcendent idiots".
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Fantastic Four: Owen Reece, the Molecule Man, has the power to transmute anything into anything else and telepathically control his creations, and yet he's only a minor villain because he lacks imagination, intelligence, and a killing instinct. If he was actually competent he'd be one of the biggest threats in the world. When he does level up, realising that what he arguably manipulates is narrative, his sole limitation is his occasionally weak will... and even then, a newly empowered Lifebringer Galactus treads very carefully around him, noting that Reece could eradicate him with a thought. The Incredible Hercules: Hercules has often been written as this type of character. As the Olympian god of strength, Hercules has physical might roughly equal to that of The Hulk or Thor, in addition to several skills and abilities of his own. However, he's also a drunken, womanizing, sexist (in some depictions, misogynistic, though in the 2010s he's grown out of both), quick-tempered Manchild and Blood Knight. On more than one occasion, his failure to stay sober, take orders or plan properly has led to humiliating defeats and even endangering other members of any team he's on. Later depictions of the character have him come to understand that his behavior is unacceptable for "heroes" of the modern day and try to clean up his act. Even so, when Hercules shows up to a team or crisis, many of those in attendance groan and desperately wish that there were someone else to ask for help. But during the time when he lost his powers, he suddenly showed much greater skill and forethought. The Incredible Hulk: The U-Foes are a quartet of villains who gained superpowers by deliberately staging a space expedition identical to the one that mutated the Fantastic Four. They consist of Simon Utrecht/Vector, a powerful telekinetic; Ann Darnell/Vapor, who can transform into any type of gas she desires; Ann's brother Jimmy/X-Ray, who became a living field of quasi-solid radiation; and Mike Steel/Ironclad, a man whose body is entirely made of metal with the extra power to control his density. When you look at their abilities, the U-Foes are actually far above the Fantastic Four in terms of power and could easily be a dangerous threat to the Avengers or the X-Men. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for the rest of the world), the U-Foes are too stupid and lazy to truly take advantage of their gifts (half the time they are beaten due to their powers going haywire because they still have a novice-level grasp of them at best), and, more importantly, would much rather work as hired thugs or go around spoiling for a fight with the Hulk than put in the effort to advance themselves as a team. Spider-Man: A lot of Spider-Man's higher-end villains tend to be handicapped by this trope, probably because if they had any common sense, most of them would be using their powers to become fabulously rich and famous legally and without even bothering Spidey. Hydro-Man and Sandman are the undisputed kings, being Elemental Shapeshifters that are still regularly defeated by Spidey because they're too dim-witted to anticipate his (usually very obvious) strategies or use their powers in any ways more imaginative than "drown/smother the Wall-Crawler". Sandman at least is a Depending on the Writer case, qualifying for this trope depending on whether he's on the Heel side of his Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door on any given day, but with Hydro-Man it's so bad that he's one of the Marvel poster boys for Too Dumb to Live. Scorpion is physically superior to Spidey, like Venom, but unlike Eddie, he always gets his butt kicked because he never plans anything, he just charges in swinging and expects to win. Morlun, despite being much stronger than most people in Spidey's rogues gallery, pretty much operates the same way, to the point that Spidey recognizes it and gives him "The Reason You Suck" Speech. There's also Electro, who's hindered as much by his cripplingly low self-esteem as his lack of imagination, but like Hydro-Man and Sandman still falls into this as a force of nature-tier character who still operates on the level of a common thug (and usually gets beaten like one). When he does start thinking, he cracked open the Raft and nearly killed a young X-Man. The Spot has the ability to create portals anywhere, including over his own body. These portals allow him to place anyone or anything anywhere he wants at any time, could potentially make himself untouchable, and could allow him to blindside or ambush his opponents from anywhere. Fortunately for the Wall-crawler, however, Spot is a complete idiot and never realizes the full potential of what his powers are capable of. Thus, while his abilities may annoy and inconvenience Spidey for a time, the hero will usually adapt and defeat Spot without too much trouble. X-Men: War of Kings Big Bad Vulcan is this. Being a high-order energy manipulator empowered to Physical God levels during M-Day, he's one of the strongest mutants alive and has near-Phoenix level command of cosmic energy. Unfortunately for him, he's also an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild who rarely thinks anything through and prefers to just charge in slinging energy blasts willy nilly. This usually leads to him being beaten by weaker opponents who exploit his Unskilled, but Strong handicap. Holocaust/Nemesis, the son of Apocalypse, is another high-tier power jockey who's rather a bit of an idiot. Nate Grey the X-Man has handily beaten him in every encounter, even the ones where he was suffering Power Incontinence (and therefore not so far out of Holocaust's league it wasn't even funny), just because ol' Holly never has any strategy beyond "blast it to hell, then blast it again for good measure". Captain America even tricked him into taking out his own ally Post during the time when he was working for Onslaught.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Nappa is one of the strongest Saiyan warriors and, when introduced to the story, greatly outclasses almost all of the heroes. However, he's such an idiot that when Krillin yells out that it's "his turn", Nappa stops and waits to abide by it. He also thinks that Krillin's Destructo Disc is a frisbee and tries to catch it with his teeth, only being saved from decapitation by the fact that he missed. Goku is the World's Strongest Man and easily the most powerful fighter, but he is so stupid that whether or not he'll win is completely unreliable. For example, he stops to eat on Snake Way and thus arrives seconds too late to save most of his friends; he spaces out in the middle of a fight and allows Frieza to nearly blow up the planet they're on; he chose not to take heart medicine because it was grape flavored (thus causing him to have a heart attack in the middle of a battle, though some of Roshi's comments about Goku 'sweating purple' as a result of grapes suggests Goku has a severe grape allergy); and almost left one of his friends to die because he forgot that he had the ability to teleport.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_636e8e35	comment	Azure Striker Gunvolt 2: It's very difficult to believe Teseo's Septima is stronger than the Azure Striker despite being merely a nuisance in the great scheme of things and being outmatched by Merak (who has a less powerful Septima) in an audio drama CD. It's implied that he's held back by his Smug Snake tendencies and he usually uses his Septima to pull pranks for fun. Plus if he were any stronger he could had been just erased Gunvolt or Copen from existence before any fight can commence.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: The titular hero is able to end all his fights in a single punch. The problem is he has No Sense of Direction and so the giant monsters are often able to cause huge amounts of destruction before he finally runs into them. It's uncertain if this is an intellectual blind spot of his or just another symptom of his terminal lack of enthusiasm â€” being so powerful, nothing registers as a threat to him, so things like â€œnot missing the sale at the grocery storeâ€� take priority in his mind.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Frost is stated to be her master Sub-Zero (a.k.a. Kuai Liang)'s equal in cryomancy — possibly even capable of surpassing him someday. Unfortunately, she is so arrogant and impatient that she sees any criticism or difficult training as "holding her back". She thus betrays Sub-Zero in two separate timelines, and in both cases, he bemoans how much of a waste it was. Also, even other villains often mock or refuse to team up with her because they view her as a complete failure whose flaws outweigh whatever assets she could possibly provide. Johnny Cage is noted by many to be surprisingly powerful in terms of both martial arts ability and spiritual power. It's even revealed that he's one of the last descendants of an ancient tribe of monks with power that could defeat Elder Gods. Unfortunately, he is an arrogant prima donna and has Skewed Priorities that make him more concerned with his image and career as an actor than taking his fights seriously. This leads to him getting defeated and/or killed on numerous occasions in the franchise. After most of the more competent fighters wind up killed and Johnny settles down with a family, he finally learns to take his responsibilities (somewhat) seriously, becoming a much more competent fighter (although still not as skilled as some others, like Liu Kang or his daughter Cassie).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_6d2aec8f	comment	Ungalo, of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, is practically the pinnacle of this in the franchise. Ungalo's Stand is Bohemian Rhapsody, which lets him bring characters to life. As in, any character, anywhere, created by anybody, as long as they exist in some kind of visual medium. These characters have all the abilities they did in their original stories, with the added benefits of being able to draw people that empathize with them into their stories and reenact their events. The power has infinite range and no clear limitations, and would enable just about any person able to think about the power for more than five minutes to do just about anything with it. However, it also happens to be in the hands of Ungalo, an Addled Addict and Lazy Bum who has no interest in using the power to actually do anything creative. The only use he can come up with is to activate the power worldwide while he's on a plane flight and hope that the resulting chaos kills the main characters while he never so much as sees them. Because he has no control or care for how to use the power, he ultimately gets defeated by himself when Weather Report (with the help of a painting of Vincent van Gogh) creates the character Put Back, whose power is to negate Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: General Adon Coborlwitz of the Tudor Empire fancies himself the greatest military genius of the hundred year war, and despite his delusions of grandeur he technically has the means to succeed on the battlefield. He can cut down two armored men at once with his impressive strength, and leads strong troops including a Big Little Brother with an Epic Flail. The problem is that his foolish overconfidence always makes him reckless until he realizes heâ€™s bitten off more than he can chew, at which point he resorts to We Have Reserves and abandons his soldiers like a Dirty Coward, thus earning no respect from anybody. When he has the gall to report back alive after getting his whole unit killed in an attempt to get revenge on Guts, General Boscogn relieves Adon of his command and relegates him to garrison duty at Doldrey so he canâ€™t mess anything else up...and then he manages to mess that up too!
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Nintendo Wars: Kanbei from the first Advance Wars game has very powerful units at the cost of them being more expensive to deploy, getting a universal 20% attack boost for units that are 20% more expensive than normal. However he's also so hotheaded and has such poor tactical abilities that his daughter Sonja basically spends every second of her screen time explaining that he needs intel to succeed, the importance of having bases (the second battle you can deploy new units but he can't), and the importance of the location of those bases (he has a base on the final battle, on an isolated island where they're completely harmless). He'd have curb stomped you if he'd just listened to her. He gets much better in the sequel but still remains something of an Idiot Hero. The official explanation for Flak's wildly-varying luck and why he can randomly do higher or lower damage is that he's this:
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_755d59cb	comment	God of War RagnarÃ¶k: The reason Heimdall is ultimately a mid-game boss despite having the power to foresee his opponents' moves is that he rests on his laurels, relying almost entirely on this ability to the detriment of his actual skills as a warrior. Kratos finding a way around his precognition isn't the end of the fight, but as Heimdall goes through a Villainous Breakdown over no longer being untouchable, he goes from needing to set Draupnir Spear traps to hit him, to being vulnerable to the spear's normal attacks, to being vulnerable to any weapon as he gets so rattled he forgets how dodging works.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_7a4c8fec	comment	Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General: Team RX as a whole falls into this, their reputation increasing solely by virtue of misunderstandings or unintentional badassery: The Boss has genuinely destructive Psychic Powers, but he rarely if ever uses them, and is far too much of a chuunibyou to actually be useful. The Scientist can create powerful hybrids and weapons, but while they are powerful in one way they're made useless in other ways: Miss Water B, a human-tardigrade hybrid who's functionally invincible... when hibernating, meaning her only use is a Human Shield. A handheld gun with a blast radius far greater than its range. Black Lion, a human-lion hybrid able to fight toe-to-toe with a superhero, but passes out if he spends too long in direct sunlight. The titular Black General is capable of surviving huge amounts of damage (not her clothes though) but is obsessed with getting the hero Braveman to sleep with her, with every scheme she tries backfiring. The only actually competent members of the team are the Secretary, who has explosion powers but is determined to remain the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder / Ignored Enamored Underling to the Boss, and GG, a girl who wanted to become a ninja so the Scientist equipped her with cockroach traits that embarrass her in combat (like making skittering noises when she fights). Balor, a cyclops with Eye Beams who looks like an RPG endboss but faints at the slightest provocation (or after using his abilities).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Den-O: Ryutaros is the most powerful of Den-O's four Imagin and the only one that has a ranged weapon, but his childish personality makes him even less reliable than the other three, and his habit of dancing mid-battle makes his aim atrocious. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid and Kamen Rider Zero-One, both written by Yuya Takahashi, use this as a recurring style of villain. Each show has at least two villains with an absurdly broken power like Resurrective Immortality, the ability to stop time without limit, Power Copying that only requires touching the opponent once to permanently gain all of their powers, or Combat Clairvoyance that perfectly predicts everything their opponent will do hours in advance. While they start out as an overwhelming threat, each of these villains is so reliant on their broken power that once the heroes develop a countermeasure, the villain is swiftly reduced to a punching bag. Kamen Rider Saber has a downplayed example with Kamen Rider Durendal, who has the power to erase time. While Durendal is a skillful swordsman in regular combat, he's so used to being able to defeat any opponent by using his power to stab them in the back that he fails to come up with any new tactics once his opponents figure out what he's doing, letting them trivially turn his attempts at a surprise attack back on him. Kamen Rider Geats features an exaggerated example with Chirami, the first Kamen Rider Glare2 and a Pointy-Haired Boss of the highest caliber. Not only is Glare2 a Sucksessor to the original Glare, with all of the same powers but much lower stats, but the suit is eventually stolen and used by another character who reveals it to actually be much more powerful than the original Glare. Chirami is just so bad at using Glare's power that it actually makes the suit itself become weaker simply because he's the one wearing it.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_8281aef3	comment	KonoSuba: Each of the three main heroines fall under this trope: Aqua is a water goddess with the power to cleanse impurities from any source of water and One-Hit Kill all but the most powerful undead creatures. However, she is not only a complete idiot, but her ability to "cleanse" water is actually more of a hindrance in most cases. For example, if she makes contact with a beverage, potion, or even hot spring, her powers will "cleanse" the foreign elements and turn whatever the useful item was back into normal water. Darkness is a warrior with extremely high defense and resistances... but absolutely NO attack accuracy whatsoever. This means that even attacks from Demon Generals have a hard time scratching her, but she'll also never do any damage because her attacks all miss. On top of this, Darkness is a masochist who enjoys being hurt, meaning she will be overcome with pleasure while being attacked, often rendering her useless even as a damage sponge/distraction. Megumin is an extremely powerful mage whose crowning achievement is Explosion — a Fantastic Nuke that can destroy anything within several square kilometers of the impact. The problem is, she has specced her growth into only making the flashiest, most powerful Explosion she can. She has no other spells, no other abilities, and only enough MP to cast ONE Explosion. Running out of MP in Konosuba means that the spellcaster loses total control of their body and is completely defenseless until it regenerates. Because of this, she is absolutely useless as a mage most of the time.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_888b3155	comment	Demon Lord, Retry!: Luna is the most powerful character in the entire Kingdom of Holy Light (aside from Kunai and his aides, of course). Even amongst the Holy Maidens, she has the most destructive magical power and is noted to have seemingly endless potential for growth. However, being the hot-tempered idiot she is, she usually fails to utilize her magic and abilities properly, leading her to be defeated by enemies even her ostensibly "weaker" sisters could manage.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Apex Cybernetics, the human villains of Godzilla vs. Kong, are this trope comparative to the guerrilla eco-terrorists of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Apex have far more resources as a leading hi-tech corporation 20 Minutes into the Future, as well as a decent public image; yet unlike the eco-terrorists, whom were able to think on their feet against Monarch, deployed contingencies when Monarch came close to catching onto them, and technically achieved the best of their end-goals in a roundabout way; Apex place all their eggs in one basket, they have no in-case-of-emergency backups (at least not any that come into effect), and they're defeated entirely by their own hubris (without the heroes needing to do anything) when they unwittingly unleash the mirror opposite of what their agenda was all about upon Hong Kong.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Bizarro has all the powers of Superman (with some slight reversals like flame breath instead of cold breath and ice vision instead of heat vision) and generally tries to be a superhero like him, but his skewed morality and diminished intellect causes him to screw it up. Part of the reason Bizarro World exists is because Bizarro wanted a place where his idea of heroism would be appreciated. In All-Star Superman, Bizarro Green Lantern has a ring that can create any object he imagines; but he can't use it, since his mind is always blank.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: Visser Three, the main antagonist for most of the series, is near-undefeatable in combat because of the bewildering array of horrible monsters he can turn into thanks to his Andalite host body, but is easily outwitted and tends to slaughter his own subordinates when they speak against him, or if things start going badly, or if he's annoyed, or... By contrast, Visser One has a regular human body, but was a far more dangerous enemy (figuring out that the Animorphs were humans and not Andalite bandits as Visser Three believes).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_942349dc	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: In contrast to most of the other Monster of the Week Stand-users in the part, Rubber Soul has a terrifyingly powerful ability in the form of Yellow Temperance: a shapeshifting Blob Monster that can expand in size by consuming organic material, take on virtually any form and color, and surround the user to serve as a shield. It's impervious to blunt force or slashing, can't be burned or frozen, and its shapeshifting means it can also serve as a perfect disguise for the user. All told, it's not for nothing that Rubber Soul brags about being invincible. Fortunately, the Stand does have one weakness: Rubber Soul himself. Not only does Rubber Soul put no effort into the "disguise" part of the Stand, such that Jotaro figures out he's a fake within minutes, but he's also so swollen with ego that he passes up countless opportunities to kill Jotaro in favor of random acts of violence and sadistic playing with his food. Ultimately, Jotaro defeats him by luring him over a drop into a nearby bay—as it turns out, his Stand can't protect him from drowning.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Some characters possess Devil Fruit powers or other abilities that on paper, would make them some of the most powerful individuals in the setting. Problem is, a lot of them have personality traits or flaws that make them too stupid, uncreative, lazy, or arrogant to figure out how to utilize their powers in effective ways, which allow their opponents to defeat them with relative ease. A noteworthy example is Kurozumi Orochi, who has a Mythic Zoan that allows him to turn into the legendary eight-headed serpent he's named after, but is so cowardly and inept at fighting that he ends up as a Non-Action Big Bad of the Wano Arc.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	The Boys: While some of the supes are actively malicious, most of them are just amazingly bad at being superheroes, causing untold damage through sheer incompetence. They are also all either unwilling or unable to learn to be better (and their corporate masters are similarly uninterested in improving them - as long as they look good they can be used to support massive franchises, so actual competence doesn't improve the bottom line much).
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Slaking is a Lightning Bruiser with incredibly high physical attack, high HP and physical defense, and high speed. However, its ability "truant" makes it so lazy it can only be bothered to move every other turn. Its PokÃ©mon GO incarnation has the highest possible CP in the game, but its only Fast Attack is Yawn, which is functionally useless save for charging its Charged Attack, meaning that Charged Attacks are the only way to do damage with it.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: Akuta has exceptional magical ability, allowing any Servant fighting under her to battle at full strength for an extended period of time. Because of this, she should logically be an extremely formidable Master in the same vein as Illyasviel von Einzbern. In practice, she's a complete General Failure who has no idea how to get a team to work together. Even with Servants as powerful as the Prince of Lan Ling and Xiang Yu on her side, she still fails to crush Chaldea due to her insistence that her victory be effortless and flawless. When Lan Ling and Xiang Yu are pitted against her in her own interlude, she asks if they were holding out on her because of how much more effective they are under the protagonist's leadership than her's. It should be noted, however, that this only applies to her abilities as a leader; as a solo fighter who is an immortal fairy-vampire she's as dangerous as you might expect that description to be, and in fact comes closest to crushing Chaldea when she's on a one-woman Roaring Rampage of Revenge after releasing her true powers as Yu Mei-ren. Lostbelt ORT is the most powerful entity in the entire FATE universe, but it's also mindless until it can use its Cannibalism Superpower. The reason it was initially defeated in its backstory was simply because when confronted with someone it couldn't just kill (Camazotz, who became an immortal Beast), it was completely incapable of not repeating the same useless tactics over and over, resulting in the much weaker Camazotz winning by sheer attrition. And when Camazotz ripped its heart out, it was ultimately sealed away with a rather simple trick that led it into an infinite loop of trying to get its heart back->thinking the heart was still there->attempting to do something->failing miserably because the heart was gone->repeat. It's fully capable of just regenerating its heart, but never actually does so because it's programmed to try retrieving said heart first.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: Rumia is a youkai with power over darkness, usually manifesting as a bubble of pure black around her. While this sounds like a Big Bad ability, she can't actually see through the dark, and so bumps around into things.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_af604a95	comment	The Awesomes: The superhero Teleportation Larry, as his name implies, has the ability to teleport almost anywhere at anytime. This would make Larry one of the most powerful and versatile characters in the setting if not for his extreme alcoholism, which results in him being a liability to other heroes most of the time.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Certain Stand Users with extremely powerful abilities have very little in the brains or cleverness department—which is a major problem for their users, as Stand combat relies a lot on Semantic Superpowers and lateral thinking, and as soon as your opponent figures out your gimmick, that's usually curtains unless you can come up with a new one on the spot or counter by figuring out said opponents' own gimmicks. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: In contrast to most of the other Monster of the Week Stand-users in the part, Rubber Soul has a terrifyingly powerful ability in the form of Yellow Temperance: a shapeshifting Blob Monster that can expand in size by consuming organic material, take on virtually any form and color, and surround the user to serve as a shield. It's impervious to blunt force or slashing, can't be burned or frozen, and its shapeshifting means it can also serve as a perfect disguise for the user. All told, it's not for nothing that Rubber Soul brags about being invincible. Fortunately, the Stand does have one weakness: Rubber Soul himself. Not only does Rubber Soul put no effort into the "disguise" part of the Stand, such that Jotaro figures out he's a fake within minutes, but he's also so swollen with ego that he passes up countless opportunities to kill Jotaro in favor of random acts of violence and sadistic playing with his food. Ultimately, Jotaro defeats him by luring him over a drop into a nearby bay—as it turns out, his Stand can't protect him from drowning. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable has The Hand, a Stand with a speed and physical strength that's almost on par with Star Platinum, and has the ability to erase space just by swinging his right hand. This bestows its user with short-range teleportation, and allows him to not only to No-Sell any attack aimed at him he can hit in time, but also erase anyone and anything from existence. The problem is that its user, Okuyasu, is, for lack of a better word, a Hot-Blooded dimwit who often acts first before thinking through, and is also just too nice to make full use of his power, since it would be extremely lethal. Okuyasu himself admits that he's not that bright. Ungalo, of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, is practically the pinnacle of this in the franchise. Ungalo's Stand is Bohemian Rhapsody, which lets him bring characters to life. As in, any character, anywhere, created by anybody, as long as they exist in some kind of visual medium. These characters have all the abilities they did in their original stories, with the added benefits of being able to draw people that empathize with them into their stories and reenact their events. The power has infinite range and no clear limitations, and would enable just about any person able to think about the power for more than five minutes to do just about anything with it. However, it also happens to be in the hands of Ungalo, an Addled Addict and Lazy Bum who has no interest in using the power to actually do anything creative. The only use he can come up with is to activate the power worldwide while he's on a plane flight and hope that the resulting chaos kills the main characters while he never so much as sees them. Because he has no control or care for how to use the power, he ultimately gets defeated by himself when Weather Report (with the help of a painting of Vincent van Gogh) creates the character Put Back, whose power is to negate Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b2700e28	comment	If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device has a few notable examples: The stand-out one is likely Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red. He's a powerful sorcerer, a brilliant scholar, and capable of whipping up plans on the fly. The problem is that his plans are never properly thought through, so there's always at least one overlooked detail that brings the entire thing crashing down and makes sure he doesn't get the result he wanted - and given that, despite all his impressive skills and knowledge, he wants to be a brilliant manipulator and was formerly a servant of Tzeench, well... The Emperor has even noted this trait and plans his own schemes around it, though Magnus denies it to be an issue and claims that it's his former second-in-command Ahriman who really embodies it. As Ahriman is essentially a "lesser" version of Magnus, he's not entirely wrong. Other examples include the Fabulous Custodes; while each one is a Super-Soldier the likes of which would make ordinary men weep in awe, able to take on and win against the regular Space Marines, whose physical prowess and skill in combat is second only to the Primarchs and the Emperor himself, who could rout entire armies singlehandedly... this isn't that kind of series. As a result, their incredible abilities in fights tends to be glossed over or ignored - like mentioning dealing with an Eldar assassin squad as an offhanded comment and moving on - instead focusing more on their personal flaws, neuroses, and several shortcomings. Babysitting a near-corpse for almost ten thousand years has done their mental state no favors, as they've all developed some flavor of insanity, their Stripperific outfits and homoerotic tendencies being only one portion of their issues, if the most obvious.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: King Joffrey Baratheon is the official king of the Seven Kingdoms, but only uses his position to inflict pain and suffering for fun, while leaving all the important things to his uncle and grandfather.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: A lot of Spider-Man's higher-end villains tend to be handicapped by this trope, probably because if they had any common sense, most of them would be using their powers to become fabulously rich and famous legally and without even bothering Spidey. Hydro-Man and Sandman are the undisputed kings, being Elemental Shapeshifters that are still regularly defeated by Spidey because they're too dim-witted to anticipate his (usually very obvious) strategies or use their powers in any ways more imaginative than "drown/smother the Wall-Crawler". Sandman at least is a Depending on the Writer case, qualifying for this trope depending on whether he's on the Heel side of his Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door on any given day, but with Hydro-Man it's so bad that he's one of the Marvel poster boys for Too Dumb to Live. Scorpion is physically superior to Spidey, like Venom, but unlike Eddie, he always gets his butt kicked because he never plans anything, he just charges in swinging and expects to win. Morlun, despite being much stronger than most people in Spidey's rogues gallery, pretty much operates the same way, to the point that Spidey recognizes it and gives him "The Reason You Suck" Speech. There's also Electro, who's hindered as much by his cripplingly low self-esteem as his lack of imagination, but like Hydro-Man and Sandman still falls into this as a force of nature-tier character who still operates on the level of a common thug (and usually gets beaten like one). When he does start thinking, he cracked open the Raft and nearly killed a young X-Man. The Spot has the ability to create portals anywhere, including over his own body. These portals allow him to place anyone or anything anywhere he wants at any time, could potentially make himself untouchable, and could allow him to blindside or ambush his opponents from anywhere. Fortunately for the Wall-crawler, however, Spot is a complete idiot and never realizes the full potential of what his powers are capable of. Thus, while his abilities may annoy and inconvenience Spidey for a time, the hero will usually adapt and defeat Spot without too much trouble.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim has the Irken Empire as a whole. The Irkens are the main technological and military superpower in space, and are shown to far outclass any of their erstwhile rivals, but they have absolutely no tactical sense, are superficial to the extreme, and are led by a pair of incredibly incompetent leaders who were chosen solely based on height. Zim himself is regularly shown to be incredibly dangerous even by Irken invader standards, and has created machines or plans of world-destroying scale, only to then bungle them due to his own recklessness and arrogance. He once created a device that drained all the world's oceans for the sake of winning a water balloon fight.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: The U-Foes are a quartet of villains who gained superpowers by deliberately staging a space expedition identical to the one that mutated the Fantastic Four. They consist of Simon Utrecht/Vector, a powerful telekinetic; Ann Darnell/Vapor, who can transform into any type of gas she desires; Ann's brother Jimmy/X-Ray, who became a living field of quasi-solid radiation; and Mike Steel/Ironclad, a man whose body is entirely made of metal with the extra power to control his density. When you look at their abilities, the U-Foes are actually far above the Fantastic Four in terms of power and could easily be a dangerous threat to the Avengers or the X-Men. Unfortunately for them (and fortunately for the rest of the world), the U-Foes are too stupid and lazy to truly take advantage of their gifts (half the time they are beaten due to their powers going haywire because they still have a novice-level grasp of them at best), and, more importantly, would much rather work as hired thugs or go around spoiling for a fight with the Hulk than put in the effort to advance themselves as a team.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_b99da0d	comment	The Incredible Hercules: Hercules has often been written as this type of character. As the Olympian god of strength, Hercules has physical might roughly equal to that of The Hulk or Thor, in addition to several skills and abilities of his own. However, he's also a drunken, womanizing, sexist (in some depictions, misogynistic, though in the 2010s he's grown out of both), quick-tempered Manchild and Blood Knight. On more than one occasion, his failure to stay sober, take orders or plan properly has led to humiliating defeats and even endangering other members of any team he's on. Later depictions of the character have him come to understand that his behavior is unacceptable for "heroes" of the modern day and try to clean up his act. Even so, when Hercules shows up to a team or crisis, many of those in attendance groan and desperately wish that there were someone else to ask for help. But during the time when he lost his powers, he suddenly showed much greater skill and forethought.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: As a species, the orks are the single most powerful faction in the game and could easily crush the others by weight of numbers alone, their basic footsoldiers are more than seven feet tall and about half as wide, and they're also able to create weapons, armor and vehicles from almost any random junk. Fortunately, they aren't a unified faction (and will gladly fight each other given half a chance), and for the most part their tactics involve running at the enemy and shooting while screaming (they missed the memo when an Eldritch Abomination made every other species afraid of dying), meaning they die in thousands to enemies with the firepower to keep them at bay. The few times an ork leader actually has the brains for warfare beyond just relying on Large and in Charge, it's a threat to the entire galaxy.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Upon his debut, Gotenks was one of the most powerful fighters in the setting, being able to take on Super Buu with multiple tricks at his disposal and was able to reach Super Saiyan 3 with little effort. However, he's a fusion of two hot-headed children, and as such is often reckless, overconfident, and at times downright dumb, so for all his amazing power he can't be relied on at all. In Super, this trait causes Goku to disqualify him as a potential Tournament of Power competitor, since he's just as likely to be a liability as an asset.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_d11cd383	comment	Kamen Rider Den-O: Ryutaros is the most powerful of Den-O's four Imagin and the only one that has a ranged weapon, but his childish personality makes him even less reliable than the other three, and his habit of dancing mid-battle makes his aim atrocious.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine has Saminga, Prince of Death. He's the most skilled necromancer in history, has world-shaking raw power based on a near-invulnerable concept, is the ruler of a good chunk of Hell and has armies of the undead working for him on earth. However, he's also a lazy idiot who's content to spend his life sitting in a wasteland monologuing about how great he is and randomly murdering people he stumbles accross. As such, rather then the major infernal power he could easily become, he's ended up more of an embarrasment to Hell and retains his status primarily because his fellow Princes find him pathetically easy to manipulate.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_d908efc	comment	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Upper Moon 5 Gyokko is able to teleport, and his Blood Demon Art can unleash devastating sea-themed attacks from his various pots. And then there's his extremely broken "true form" which gives him immense speed and flexibility, scales as hard as diamonds, and the ability to transmute anything he touches into fish. Personality-wise however, he's an arrogant braggart who has a habit of underestimating his opponents. In addition, doing anything that hurts his ego as an artist makes him completely lose his composure. These traits allow him to be easily and comically defeated by an enhanced Muichiro Tokito.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_de48ce05	comment	Splendid from Happy Tree Friends is a Superman Substitute who never manages to actually save someone (and if he does, they usually don't stay alive for long afterwards) due to a combination of stupidity, carelessness, and a lack of interest in his "job". For example, in "Helping Helps", he doesn't look where he's flying after he rescues Giggles, leading to her getting decapitated by a tree branch, and in "Wrath of Con", he lets go of the chunk of debris he's holding up to sign an autograph for Sniffles, leading to the latter getting crushed.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_debf52f2	comment	Darwin's Game: Wang is certainly not an idiot. He figured out the real purpose of the Treasure Hunt event shortly after Kaname did. His petty sadism, delusions that he is the "hero" of Darwin's Game, and the fact he never faced anyone on his level before negate his intelligence and powerful sigil. He kills a hostage, destroying all his leverage, just to hurt Kaname. All it does is cause Kaname to realize that some people can't be reasoned with and need to be killed. He always uses the same move in his fights so Shuka easily counters him. When Shuka is about to kill him, he teleports himself 100 meters into the air. He was only ever able to teleport himself 10 meters before, implying that his sigil is far more powerful than he thought. He only realizes his mistakes as he is being disintegrated for losing the clan battle.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_df073316	comment	In All-Star Superman, Bizarro Green Lantern has a ring that can create any object he imagines; but he can't use it, since his mind is always blank.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_e270b7e1	comment	Genius: The Transgression: Geniuses are mad scientists capable of creating devices beyond the laws of physics and often capable of more power than other supernatural creatures; even Mages can be matched, to the point even their own organizations can get them mixed up. However, they're mad scientists and often fail because of poor planning, bad decisions, or because their goal was nonsensical and impossible in the first place. Then again they can also blind side everyone by pulling of schemes that are Crazy Enough to Work.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_e4b5f973	comment	Holocaust/Nemesis, the son of Apocalypse, is another high-tier power jockey who's rather a bit of an idiot. Nate Grey the X-Man has handily beaten him in every encounter, even the ones where he was suffering Power Incontinence (and therefore not so far out of Holocaust's league it wasn't even funny), just because ol' Holly never has any strategy beyond "blast it to hell, then blast it again for good measure". Captain America even tricked him into taking out his own ally Post during the time when he was working for Onslaught.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_ec522504	comment	Groo the Wanderer is a Barbarian Hero capable of taking down entire armies with only his two swords... which is a problem because he is a Walking Disaster Area with the intelligence of a toothpick. Stories of his heroics usually end with him being chased away by furious villagers while he wonders, "Did I err?" Inverted in an issue where Groo gets fed up being a failure as a hero and decides to become a villain instead, which backfires when his attempts at being a bad guy accidentally end up saving the day.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Owen Reece, the Molecule Man, has the power to transmute anything into anything else and telepathically control his creations, and yet he's only a minor villain because he lacks imagination, intelligence, and a killing instinct. If he was actually competent he'd be one of the biggest threats in the world. When he does level up, realising that what he arguably manipulates is narrative, his sole limitation is his occasionally weak will... and even then, a newly empowered Lifebringer Galactus treads very carefully around him, noting that Reece could eradicate him with a thought.
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Powerful, but Incompetent / int_f42befdb	comment	Captain Underpants The titular Captain is a prime example of this. Created when a high school principal was hypnotized into believing he was a superhero created by two kids, his superhero and civilian identities know nothing of each other. He doesn't understand the difference between his real adventures and those written in the comics (thinking at one point that spray-starch was his kryptonite) and usually loses the first time he fights the villain.
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