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Being a Super Hero ain't easy. Most of the original Flying Bricks have the good Achilles heels covered, and the pharmacy is even out of Psycho Serum to give you a cheap Backstory gimmick to explain your powers. What's left for the modern hero and villain to do? Make do with a Weaksauce Weakness. It's great for comedic effect, but just as often it ends up being an Achilles' Heel that makes your average Mundane Solution seem perfectly reasonable by comparison. The weakness isn't a common household cleaning agent like Mundane Solution, but something so incredibly, stupidly embarrassing you'd think the Super Hero would never use his power out of shame in the off chance someone found out about it, or because it shows up regularly in the course of their super heroing. The "weakness" might come in the form of the fuel for the super power, a humiliating Transformation Sequence or activation phrase, an Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit, or just a set of restrictions on the powers that really are begging to get laughed at. Therefore, this is one of the most popular ways to Bless your hero With Suck. If the weakness is a Logical Weakness, it can be pulled off. If not, it can seriously stress the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, unless it's Played for Laughs. Especially cruel writers will have clever villains make it a Weaponized Weakness. However, a Kryptonite-Proof Suit can even the odds. This is also commonly exploited in an Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion, where Bizarre Alien Biology is probably to blame. A Super-Trope to: Cannot Cross Running Water Can't Use Stairs Cold Iron (depending on the definition of "cold") Kill It with Water Salt Solution Super Drowning Skills Vampires Hate Garlic Verbal Weakness Weakened by the Light Related to Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? See also Kryptonite Factor, which is a weaksauce weakness for superheroes. If played for laughs, the one so harmed may Fight Off the Kryptonite. In extreme cases, the character will defend themselves from the weakness with a Cross-Melting Aura. For the inversion, of being at risk from a lack of something, see Phlebotinum Dependence. |
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In Munchkin, a Limburger Sandwich is a +3 item that also gives an instant victory against the Floating Nose. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: At one point, the bad guys have robotic water-coolers that short circuit on contact with water. Yeah, someone really didn't think that one through. There is an alien race that is nigh-invulnerable to anything except nerf guns, which to them are a dangerous weapon. With Santa being a toy manufacturer, they mistake him for a weapons provider and move against him as their first strike for an alien invasion. The Evil, a litter of kittens made invincible, bloodthirsty fiends by Satan still suffer the psychological limitations of being kittens: give them milk, balls of string, or some toy mice, and they'll be too distracted and contented to murder you. The demons of the Dimension of Pain can't stand the smell of flowers. This means that they can't enter the sewers in the Dimension of Lame, that place being a real Sugar Bowl. It turns out that, in addition to some normal vampire weaknesses, Vrykolakas vampires turn to ash when exposed to too much stupidity. That only comes up after Sam becomes their king, though. |
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JonTron discovers that the Scissorman's weakness is a slice of ham, which causes him to dissolve. | |
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Group of Weirdos: The Iron Knuckles are completely invincible, unless tag-teamed and attacked repeatedly by Link, the hero of time, and Ganondorf, a dark wizard with great power. Or you can just slash them a few times with a Deku Stick. | |
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My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic: Because he is a Living Shadow, Mysterious gets hurt by standing in any form of light. | |
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Rule 221 of the Evil Overlord List Cellblock B discusses invoking a fake weaksauce weakness, both to hide any real weaknesses and to catch the hero offguard when he tries to use it. | |
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Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip finds evidence of one of the megaspells Twilight Sparkle created during the war, an epic defensive spell that could protect against any attack. The problem? It only works when it's sunny. Even in a world where the weather is created by ponies, that's a glaring flaw; the enemy (zebras or otherwise) could just wait until the ponies brought some rain clouds in and attack then, or until the sun sets. By the time of the story, the Pegasus Enclave keeps the Wasteland constantly covered in clouds, meaning it's never an option at all even if a unicorn finds the megaspell. | |
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A Minor Variation: Rarity dismisses Tirek as a minimal threat due to him being apparently afraid of rainbows. | |
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Eiga Sentai Scanranger might have not only the lamest but most exploitable example on this list. The blue-clad team member, who's empowered by comedy movies, is rendered powerless by swear words and toilet humor until his suit is specially modified so that reality becomes like a movie censored for TV for him. This evidently goes as far as to include imitations of the Tasmanian Devil, even! | |
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In one Bob the Angry Flower strip, Bob thinks that a superhero has the Weaksauce Weakness of bacon. He turns out to be wrong, but we never find out what the weakness actually is. Another one has Bob running a hot peanuts stand, recognizing a customer and his friends as a band of supervillains, and instantly and correctly deducing that they are actually buying ammunition for an attack on Anaphylactic Man's fortress. (He sells it to them anyway.) Yet another has Bob defeating an evil skeleton with the obscure knowledge that skeletons have a fatal weakness to raisins. Yeah, it's that kind of comic. |
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The Vampire of Steel: Zol-Am is a Kryptonian vampire, so normal vampire weaknesses don't apply, forcing Buffy and the gang to obtain a piece of Kryptonite. Zol-Am is still vulnerable to stakes, though, provided that the stake is carved from a Kryptonian species of tree. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-723-D was a nigh-invulnerable man who kept escaping Foundation custody. Finally, two SCP workers took him to a bar, where SCP-723-D died of a peanut allergy from ingesting too many bar nuts. Just to be safe, though, they put SCP-723-D's corpse inside a block of concrete. SCP-1160 was a massive 85-meter bird that attacked and killed humans, and was extremely hard to kill because of a Healing Factor and 360-degree vision. However, it had a rather odd weakness — it grew weaker and smaller for each person that knew of its existence. The Foundation thus contain it by turning it into a global cereal mascot alongside subliminal messaging about its nature on the cereal boxes, and it's now 25cm and far weaker than it used to be. SCP-2256 was a species of gentle, kilometer-tall sauropod-like creatures that gradually "corroded" any information about themselves, and had a Perception Filter that made them effectively invisible to those not under mnestic effects. Shortly after the Foundation began to study them via mnestics, the SCP-2256 instances started suffering from mysterious illness, stillbirths, and infertility. It turns out that SCP-2256 was hurt by being directly observed, and when a device that fully suppressed their anti-memetic ability allowed the Foundation to take a close-up photo of one, it instantly died. As a result of studying SCP-2256, the Foundation inadvertently brought them to eventual extinction. |
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In the Whateley Universe, The Fair Folk (and mutants who are turning into Fae) are vulnerable to Cold Iron. Wrought iron benches, cast iron skillets, and so on. But Fey is also vulnerable to synthetic fabrics which give her a burning rash. She could be incapacitated by rayon lingerie! (Or The '70s.) | |
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In Heavy Gear the advanced Black Mamba Gear — one of the more powerful designs in either of the two superpowers' armies — had exceptionally weak rear armour. The result is that Black Mambas could be (and routinely were in gameplay) easily defeated by lightweight Cheetah scout Gears. While the fluff text initially ignored this, the game's designers eventually acknowledged and lampshaded this weakness by having Mamba pilots clamoring for a solution to the "glassback" problem. | |
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Comes a Crossover: Future Trunks is taken out by Principle Kuno with a shot from a Super Soaker filled with Pineapple. Turns out Trunks is allergic to Pineapples and never knew it, partly because he thinks that they are no longer around in his future. As a result he has a violent allergic reaction and needs to be rushed to a hospital because there are no epipens nearby. | |
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Charby the Vampirate: "Classic" vampires have all the classic weaknesses of the vampires, while "elites" possess none of the weaknesses, save one... Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. If they come across a pile of identical objects (a pile of rice, beans, the beads from a woman's dress that had accidentally come apart), they have to count it, regardless of the circumstances. For classic vampires, this can cause them to count until the sun comes up, and they die. For elites, trying to use this on them just ends up pissing them off, since the sun has no effect on them. And Elites can still go around that with mathematics: Charby is seen weighting both a small sample and the whole heap on pocket scales, and deducing the total number from the sample size. |
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Blackbirds RPG: All of the Outsiders that Theurges can summon to perform feats of magic have some kind of weakness that prevents them from using their powers. Some of these make sense — such as an Outsider who manifests in reflections needing a nearby reflective surface in order to appear — but others are very random. Examples include Tabernacle, who is banished if doused in egg yolk; Asisaxasias, who refuses to manifest in the presence of cats and whose powers do not affect felines; and Father Longlegs, who will hide in a corner until sundown if he witnesses a sincere act of physical affection. | |
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In A Girl and Her Fed, the agents with the Pocket President chip installed get incapacitating migraines when exposed to really bright light. It's why they all wear the Cool Shades. | |
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Origins: The "hibridium"-based cloaking devices aboard Trans-Galactic Republic and Republic Intelligence Service ships fail to conceal the ship's magnetic properties, meaning if one drops a strong enough magnet near the ship its presence will be revealed as said magnet is pulled toward the physically-invisible target. Aria T'Loak, never one for games, exploits this to blackmail RISE. It starts off okay but ultimately doesn't end well... | |
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Shinobi of the High Seas: Kizaru has been beaten twice by using a mirror to reflect him away. | |
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In Nodwick, the Evil Sorcerer Ildomir went to a school for wizards called the Heractium Dark Arts Academy, where teachers punished students with a song called "I Write the Spells" (a Song Parody of the pop classic I Write the Songs) which also made them more evil. Unfortunately, this punishment was too much for Ildomir, and ever since, simply hearing the song would drive him to the brink of madness. | |
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In Rusty and Co. The male vampire was killed by a pizza — not because of the garlic, but because of his gluten intolerance. Cube's weakness is synthetic fabric. And gnolls are vulnerable to dog whistles! |
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Exalted: Lands of Creation describes the Adamant Oriole Sanctuary, a country filled with many species of songbird. If all the birds ever go silent, the Primordial that sleeps beneath the land will wake up and destroy it. | |
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Pretending to Be People has The Residue, an amorphous, all-devouring blob that is repelled by water and can be absorbed by fish. | |
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DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything: Water neutralizes the Cloaking ability. | |
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Awful Hospital: The Double Doors are a malevolent entity of uncertain motivations that was determined to make Fern eat a sloppy joe made from her own ground-up flesh. It was even capable of overriding commands from the readers with its own intent. The weakness that allows Fern to defeat it? An out-of-order sign, which caused it to explode, ejecting all Hospital patients and staff from the cafeteria. | |
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The Big Bad of episode 200 of Scott The Woz, the Blue Border Watermark that surrounded all his video gains enough power to surround the entire Earth, gloating that it is now eternal life incarnate. Scott then realises he possesses the one power that can counter eternal life: Virginity. Cue Scott beating the border down with his entire Nintendo Wii games collection. | |
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A Dead World: Downplayed. Alex, being a virus, does not do well when exposed to alcohol, which kills viruses on contact. He also is not a fan of water, because even though it doesn't cause lasting harm, it apparently hurts. A lot. He also takes a great deal more pain from the Cloud than a human, Super Mutant, or ghoul would due to the fact that he doesn't technically have skin. | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, Rarity thinks she's allergic to water. Applejack calls her out on the stupidity of this, but Rarity points out that every time she hangs out in the rain for extended periods of time, she gets a cold. Then Rarity develops a nasty rash all over her face. "I told you I was allergic!" | |
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In Pathfinder, the plant creatures called Ghorans were originally created as a food species. As such they take an extra 5 damage each time someone or something bites them. Additionally if anything is big enough to clamp on a Ghoran with their jaws, they take a -2 difficulty penalty in trying to escape. | |
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Sydney in Grrl Power has seven orbs that grant her powers. But she has to hold an orb in her hand to use it, so she can only run two powers at a time. When asked what her weakness is, she said: | |
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Bob and George: Tomahawk Man is lethally allergic to Plant Shield, something Mega Man considers to be the crummiest power in the series. However, what really takes the cake is Ran Mark II, a monstrosity so intimidating it makes Bob virtually shit his pants. However, he is vulnerable to one of the most common substances in the Bob and George setting: Ran Mk I corpses. Bob, a demigod of fire, is flat fucking terrified of Pokémon. | |
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Hellsister Trilogy: Knowing Daxamites are fatally hyper-allergic to lead, Satan Girl plans to exterminate their race by scattering lead fragments all across the surface of Daxam. | |
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Kara of Rokyn: In the second-to-last story arc, Nasthalthia Luthor narrates the history of the feud between Superboy and her uncle Lex Luthor. Unsurprisingly, Lex devised every imaginable Kryptonite-based weapon in order to destroy Kal-El, including Kryptonite living beings. | |
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The robots in Gunnerkrigg Court have the strength and speed of a machine, and some are safe even against Kat's electro-disruptor. But they have a big red button on top of their heads. Yep, they have a large, highly visible, easy-to-reach off switch. | |
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Christian Humber Reloaded: Vash, a God-Mode Sue with countless superpowers, multiple super modes, and an arsenal of high-tech and legendary weapons, who can take on entire armies and the main villains of several works of fiction without breaking a sweat, is vulnerable to Paralysis, a Useless Useful Spell in RPGs that rarely affects anything stronger than a common enemy. | |
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Dance with the Demons: Catwoman gets shot with a poisoned dart, and Green Lantern's Power Ring can't extract the poison out of her body. Hal Jordan glumly reckons some of its components must be yellow.note The Green Lanterns' greatest weakness is the color yellow and, by extension, the Yellow Lanterns. One of them, Alan, was also weak to wood, but in that case it was forced on him for being drunk with power. | |
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A Force of Four, set in the Golden Age DC universe: The Amazons keep their initial weaknesses: they lose their powers if chained by a man and they are vulnerable at a spot on the backs of their heads. The villainous foursome exploits said weaknesses wantonly. | |
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In Eldritch (2009), while most Eldritch wolves are allergic to silver, any bullet in the heart or head would do them in just as easily. | |
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Tonin: After being made indestructible, Vilano-san is told to avoid dairy. He doesn't understand the full implications behind the warning until the hero hits him with a hunk of cheese during Season 1's climax. During Season 4, one of his sons tries to obtain that same power in spite of knowing that weakness comes with the package. | |
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It's possible to give a character in Champions such a weakness via the Susceptibility Disadvantage. Water, for example, could be worth quite a few points depending on how many dice the character takes from it since it's one of the most common substances in practically any game world. This would make it impossible for your character to do such simple things as bathe or shower, and any kid armed with a Super-Soaker and/or a bucket of water balloons would become a credible threat. | |
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Axe Cop's weakness is being surprised. He melts. And his second weakness is cherry rainbow. | |
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Murder Drones: How do you disable the abilities of the incredibly-powerful Disassembly Drones (aka the titular Murder Drones) or Worker Drones who have been designated users of the series' Digital Abomination, the Absolute Solver, and thus can harness its Reality Warper powers? Simply apply a magnet to their heads. Though if the Absolute Solver possesses one of its users, no amount of magnets will stop them. | |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if they had a chance to do it all over?", the Animorphs realize that Yeerks really are just slugs, so they can be killed with salt. They dump a massive amount of salt into the Yeerk Pool, and kill over one hundred thousand Yeerks. | |
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In the second season of XIN, Dimir seems to be an unstoppable combatant. When the eponymous hero realizes he has weak stamina and restricts his movements to conserve it, he's beaten like a red-headed stepchild. | |
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The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1: Bizarro-Martian Manhunter's weakness is human salive, as befitting the opposite duplicate of the pyrophobic Martian Manhunter. | |
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Another spoof of The Wizard of Oz comes from Magicians & Munchkins; the Wicked Witch simply took this disadvantage to get a few additional levels in magic. | |
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It's more of a tribute than a spoof, but in Namesake, the Wicked Warlock of the West has the exact same weakness as his predecessor. | |
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In Sequential Art, the Denizens (little black shadow creatures) are dependent on their leader when they try to conquer the Earth. When he is killed, they just mill around the house, helping out or watching soap operas. And this leader can brandish a chainsaw, but just like the rest of them was small enough to be placed in a drinking glass and thrown out a window. Also, apparently Kat's evil former teacher's life is somehow linked to the ruler she waves at her students while yelling at them. When Kat breaks it in a fit of anger, the teacher has a heart attack and dies. And There Was Much Rejoicing. | |
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Cheshire Crossing (by the creators of Casey and Andy) delves into the weakness from The Wizard of Oz: The Wicked Witch of the West explains that all witches are vulnerable to water (while in Oz, at least)—she was keeping the water on hand should Glinda the Good Witch launch a surprise attack. (In a later scene, the bucket is labeled "In case of Glinda".) She just never expected her enemy to bully a little girl into doing the deed. | |
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The Bible: The great Samson got his Super-Strength from Nazirite rituals (not cutting your hair, taking alcohol, or touching the dead), and breaking them was his big weakness. He attempted to mask this by making up a bunch of equally weaksauce fake weaknesses, only to kill anyone who actually tried them. He was still stupid enough to tell his true weakness to Delilah, despite her being the only one who knew of his "weaknesses" and therefore the only one who could have told them to his enemies. By the time she cut his hair in his sleep, he'd already violated other parts of the Nazirite rituals, such as drinking alcohol, and handling dead bodies. Cutting his hair was the last straw, so to speak. Considering that Samson continued consorting with Delilah long after she'd made it ridiculously obvious that she was committed to selling him out to the Philistines, and even told her his real weakness, it could be argued that his worst Weaksauce Weakness was pretty women. Some scholars believe Samson is in fact an Expy of an earlier Hebrew Sun God, and that his long blond hair was symbolic of the sun's rays/corona. Hence, cutting it off took away his powers. |
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In Magic: The Gathering, the reason that most large creatures ultimately fall under Awesome, but Impractical is because they can easily be dealt with using simple, cheap, and ubiquitous removal spells. A great specific example is Marit Lage, an ancient Eldritch Abomination summoned from Dark Depths who, at 20/20, is capable of killing a planeswalker in a single hit, requires 30 mana to summon under normal circumstances, and cannot be destroyed by anything, can be undone with a single one-mana Unsummon (being a token instead of a card, returning it to its owner's hand instead causes it to cease to exist). For this reason, a lot of powerful creatures come with abilities to get around this, such as hexproof (cannot be targeted by opponent) and the inferior shroud (cannot be targeted by anyone, not even its controller) and ward (opponent needs to pay an extra cost, usually more mana, to target the creature). | |
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Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation: Several generations before the beginning, the sorceress Lady Hecate put a hex on the descendants of Superman and Supergirl so exposure to saltwater would kill them. | |
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The various "Van Richten's Guide to..." books from the Ravenloft setting show that finding and exploiting these is Van Richten's favored strategy. Considering how dangerous Ravenloft monsters tend to be, it's generally good advice. | |
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Toothgnip the goat in Goats gets his Kavorka Man powers from "The Panties of Potency". This had nothing to do with the artist having trouble drawing Toothgnip standing on all fours, honest! | |
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In L's Empire, The SLIPs turn out to be weak to powdered milk, which also doubled as a three year long Brick Joke. | |
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ASDF Movie: "Kitten Fight!" "No wait, I'm allergic to adorableness!" | |
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My Immortal: Vampires are vulnerable to steak. Early in the fic, the protagonist, herself a vampire, contemplates committing suicide with one she hides in her bedroom. Also, vampires are not only vulnerable to crosses, they apparently can't even write the word "cross." Of course, the story sometimes forgets all that and depicts vampires wearing cross earrings. | |
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Mendacity: The Fae are vulnerable to "the most common metal in the world" and to "randomly chosen plants, creatures, and objects". According to the Bugul Noz, Discord created them this way as a cruel joke. | |
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PvP parodied the Wicked Witch of the West melting from water weakness here here. | |
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Tales of the Questor subverts this with the fey. General belief is that they are vulnerable to "Cold iron" but this proves to be false. Research into why the iron did not work reveals that the ancient documents that the information was obtained from were actually misprinted versions found in an ancient garbage dump and that the symbol for cold and the symbol for north are very similar. Turns out the weakness is not cold iron but "north seeking iron" (lodestone), they are vulnerable to strong magnetic fields. Unfortunately only the weakest fey have this vulnerability, the strong ones can shrug it off (though with immense pain). | |
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In Dork Souls 3, High Lord Wolnir's weakness is Played for Laughs when Shez shatters his bracelets with a single tap with his sword. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, the fire-summon mooks have a weakness to water, despite not actually being on fire. Trying to make flaming creatures with a summon spell that can't allow it (the creatures would incinerate themselves) causes the effect. | |
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Hope for the Heartless: Water causes the Horned King severe burns. Snow causes that also if it melts on him. Diluted water (such as tea) burns him as easily as pure water, though not as severely. However, he seems to be able to digest wine. | |
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This Bites!: Justified with Soundbite's weakness to salt; he is, after all, a snail. Also to a lesser degree, flour, as it clogs up his throat and renders him temporarily mute. | |
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You Got HaruhiRolled!: How do you defeat your own author? Well, here, just show him a disgusting Doujinshi. He'll be so Squicked out that he will be unable to resist you forcing him back through the dimensional portal whence he came. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series video "Marik Plays Slender", Marik theorises that The Slender Man has a weakness against bathrooms, since he doesn't show up in the tiled corridor (actually a bug that was fixed in later releases of the game): | |
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Changeling: The Lost has the concept of "frailties", little weaknesses that certain fae (and overly-powerful changelings) are prey to. Some of them are the classic faerie weaknesses, others can be as odd as "must drink alcohol instead of water" or "cannot cross lines of ants". The only universal weakness is iron, which isn't as dangerous as you think because pure iron is rare... and steel does nothing. These weaknesses differ from subject to subject; the fiction for one book has a Genre Savvy mortal invoking every bane she knows from the old tales in an attempt to scare off one of the Gentry. None of them work. | |
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In The Dresden Files RPG, all creatures who take some sort of supernatural toughness, regeneration, or physical immunity must take something called "The Catch", which, when used against them, will bypass their ability to shrug off damage. The more common/easily accessible and known the material(s) needed to fulfill "The Catch" is, the more points you can rebate. So, fairly unique Catches like "Swords Of The Cross", "Wizards Born Under Special Circumstances", "Soulfire", and "Nuclear Detonations" won't reduce the point costs for the power(s), while more common and known substances (like iron vs Fey, holy items vs Black Court Vampires, or physical attacks like a brick loaded sock against a magically immune creature) will give you back more points to potentially work with. | |
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The Centaurians in The Pentagon War are cold-blooded. They automatically hibernate whenever it gets too chilly. | |
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In The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, the Salamandyrs are deathly afraid of lavender, even trace amounts of which cause them to turn from humanoid Frog Men back into normal, harmless, tiny salamanders. | |
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Eddsworld: In one of the early Christmas specials Edd is saved form death when he finds the Grim Reaper's one weakness: Gravy. | |
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In Deadlands, there are some creatures and villains who are immune to anything except one weakness. For example, a Hangin' Judge is vulnerable to a weapon held by a legitimate lawman on duty, a Tummy Twister to hot chili peppers, and Jasper Stone to suicide. That last one is technically correct, but it's so much more. The conditions are actually "Stone can only be killed by a gun fired by his own stone-cold hands", so suicide counts... but so would redirecting his shot before it hit its target. So would having Young Stone and Old Stone shoot each other. One of the most absurd such vulnerabilities is that possessed by the Boogieman, a vicious, sadistic little monster that revels in tormenting children thanks to it being largely invisible and inaudible to adults, as well as having a psychic aura that compels children to cover up for it if adults question them. The Boogieman's weakness? Children. If a child can overcome their terror and actually strike the Boogieman, that one touch will kill it stone dead. |
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In The Walkyverse, it was revealed that all Abductees have a mental block that leaves them unable to break free from duct tape (A few can apparently resist). Head Alien (the one who created the block) found himself falling victim, even though he was inhabiting someone else's body. | |
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d20 Modern has a table of random weaknesses... including some really stupid ones, such as: Clowns, the number 8, math, and books written by William Blake. | |
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Heroes Save the World: Austin Smith can control fire, but apparently it slowly raises his body temperature as he's doing it. You can see how this might pose a problem. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Not only does Stephanie's Mind-Control Music only work on males, but if anyone gets a hold of her mic, her songs can be used against her. | |
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In DNA, Species X can have their powers disabled by getting them wet, especially on the hands, so they can easily be disarmed with squirt guns or sprinklers, although just getting a little mud on their hands doesn't seem to affect them. | |
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In GURPS, the disadvantage Supersensitive makes having any other sort of sentient creature with 20 meters a serious weakness. With Combat Paralysis your greatest weakness is being put in any sort of danger. Naturally such disadvantages are not recommended for Player Characters. | |
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In Rifts, vampires have all the "classic" weaknesses found in folklore; crosses, garlic, wooden stakes, sunlight, as well as a couple usually attributed to other monsters (wolfsbane, silver). One weakness that's rather unique to Rifts, and the most weaksauce of all, is running water, in any form. Which means a vampire that can shrug off nuclear detonations and hails of rail gun bullets can be taken down by a squirt gun. Do bear in mind, however, that this is After the End, so getting that squirt gun is not nearly as easy as visiting a toy store. | |
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Liz's beast-man of a boss in Dead Winter whom fought in Vietnam, yet is still able to take on Monday pretty effectively due to his sheer giganticness and indestructibility. Monday stabs him in the shoulder, kicks him in a certain area, etc. but never really fazes him; the heroes end up smashing him in the head with a metal pole attached to a fast-moving car, but this only stuns him temporarily. His weakness? Germs—the imaginary kind. He's such a hypochondriac that slapping him in the face with a dirty mop will give him a panic attack. He gets over his fear of zombie infection pretty quickly, though... | |
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In Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes, Klik, a sentient metallic being able to fly, morph into anything, and absorb genetic information from flesh-based life-forms, is corroded when coming into contact with blood. The website explains later that every Klik has a plus, a substance that heals them, and a minus, which is something that harms them, which are different for each Klik. |
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The Darklords of the Lone Wolf gamebooks are (were, as of Book 12) crippled by clean air and can only unleash their full strength in toxic habitats. Half the reason they waged a centuries-long campaign ruining Magnamund (the other half being that they are Always Chaotic Evil embodiments of evil) is (was) to make the world a paradise for themselves. Even in their weakened state they can still put up a good fight with their mastery of Black Magic and immunity to conventional weapons. In one story arc, the Darklords develop a magical engine that allow them to retain their full strength outside their realm. About a dozen of them are on the frontlines of their war when the protagonist smashes the engine, singlehandedly ending their reign of terror. | |
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Anything in Bleak World with the water weakness is going to be this, as such vampires can go out in neither sunlight or rain. Don't even get us started on the GM who decides to put the MacGuffin at the bottom of a lake. | |
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Sock Series: How to keep an eldritch demon's powers in check? A plastic hamster cage, as its powers cannot affect plastic, no matter how powerful they are. | |
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Spirits in Mage: The Awakening and Werewolf: The Forsaken have either "Bans", which are essentially geases, "Banes", which are vulnerabilities to specific things, or both. Whilst Bans can be used to destroy spirits in some circumstances, Banes more accurately conflate to this trope. Each spirit's Bane is unique, and whilst spirits of shared backstory often do have similar Banes, every individual spirit is different, so what hurts one spirit might do nothing to a second. For example, if you have two disease spirits, one may be harmed by boiling water, whilst the other may be harmed by medical disinfectant. | |
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The Last Daughter: Intentionally averted. Word of God stated he was avoiding stuff like Kryptonite, or red sunlight to hurt the main character. | |
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Queen of All Oni: Jade gains the weakness to onions Oni have in canon after eating an Oni mask. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The Plague Zombie monsters that seem to have wiped out most of humanity and their ghost counterparts are weak to sunlight. Some of them also get groggy from the cold. The problem is that the crew's mission makes them go inside buildings a lot and the bad winter weather means that those that are weak to light but not cold have some leeway. | |
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A New Jedi in an Old Republic: The armies of the CIS are droids. Implacable, able to operate in vacuum, tireless... too bad that Kyle has a directed EMP gun that he just turned over to the Republic for reverse-engineering. The Jedi's empathic abilities are a great strength... except that in battle against the droid armies, the only thing they'll be able to feel in the Force is the deaths of their friends and allies. |
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Mission to Zyxx has the K'hekk, an insect race dreaded for their militaristic expansion and gruesome reproduction by laying eggs in living hosts. They flee because Dar is running a fever that day. | |
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