Current Events > Power leeches as a way to counter OP characters

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What do you think of the trope of characters who can absorb energy from others being used as a tool to solve the problem or even the playing field against a character who is too powerful to be defeated normally? Some recent examples being:

Agatha in WandaVision
Jack in Supernatural
Moro in Dragon Ball Super

A lot of the time it just seems kind of lazy or like the writers were backed into a corner, but at the same time it would be hard to find some other solution that isn't contrived. I think it works best in DBS because it would have been reasonable to have a new legitimately strong enemy, so it doesn't feel forced, and it also led to the development of new techniques that can be used in the future.

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Just ban the enemy's superpower. They can't use it if it's illegal.

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I mean, for heroes its fine as a one off, but usually itd be pretty boring for a normally-powerful character to be nerfed for the majority of their story.

sort of like how in Smallville, Clark couldnt walk ten feet without stumbling over kryptonite. It gets old. >_>

scale the threat to match the heros strength, or arrange circumstances so that the heros powers can solve some, but not all, conflicts.

as a tool to defeat villains? Its fine, so long as the act of draining the villain is treated as a conflict in and of itself.

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I prefer poison or radiation.

That way its like... yea. That makes sense.

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Parasite from DC Comics is basically the prime example of this right?

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

I prefer poison or radiation.

That way its like... yea. That makes sense.

Oh yeah, I liked how that was handled in Hunter x Hunter with Meruem.

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