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Today's trope is Glass Cannon. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlassCannon

In short: they can dish it out, but they can't take it. The Glass Cannon is characterized by insane attack power coupled with pathetic defensive ability.

Prevalent in RPGs and fighting games, as the cast needs to be big enough that "takes hits like a chump" becomes a viable character trait. In RPGs, the Glass Cannon tends to be a Squishy Wizard. Not all Squishy Wizards are completely Glass Cannon, though. A Squishy Wizard still can have decent or good magical defense but abysmal physical defense (and the aforementioned good magical defense may be undermined by low hit points), and likewise, a brawler may have good physical defense but poor magical defense (though physically-oriented units are more likely to have a good amount of hit points). Artillery or archer units in Real-Time Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy games also tend to have this trait, as they're meant to be far away from combat, or at least in the back of the formation.

TL,DR: A character with incredible offensive power, but very poor defenses.

Nominations:
Hypno Disc (Robot Wars)
King Crimson (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Mega Beedrill (Pokemon)