History Main / ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman

** He DID manage to get them tickets to a {{KISS}} concert, though. :D

*** So... He's hyper-sensitive to the tiniest glimmer of light. Maybe ''he'' [[YouFailBiologyForever needs to think about that one a little more]].

* In the first ''HarryPotter'' book, the obstacles protecting the Stone seem to be specifically tailored to Harry, Ron, and Hermione's abilities. For Harry, there's a Quidditch-like challenge of catching a flying key on a broomstick. For Ron, there's a giant game of chess. For Hermione, there's a logical puzzle involving seven potions. [[spoiler:Seeing how it's hinted Dumbledore may have let them deal with Quirrell by themselves on purpose, it's possible he set the whole thing as some kind of rite of passage.]]

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** Similarly, in SuperSmashBrosMelee, the best character for the sandbag minigame is Yoshi, who is normally one of the worst characters in the game (he is the only character that has both no up-B and no extra natural jumps.), because one of his attacks does very good damage without any knockback if you land it right.

* ''AdvanceWars'' has maps that, while normally quite the challenge, become ridiculously easy when the right CO steps up to the plate, and that's NOT counting COs already established as {{Game Breaker}}s. The map Megalopolis is a prime example: There are no less than 6 Comm Towers on the map, and Javier dominates any map when four or more are in his control.

* An episode of ''[[TheTick The Tick]]'' had Arthur and the Tick follow the normally useless Sewer Urchin on a mission into the sewers where it turns out his abilities are phenomenally useful, he has a cool hideout, he is respected and feared by the natives, and he is unflappable in the face of the sewer's strange and horrifying obstacles. [[strike: The Tick comments that Sewer Urchin]] He describes himself as "the apotheosis of cool" in his realm.

** In the Justice League, his required secondary powers are actually enough to [[spoiler:have the advantage over Wonder Woman even before he enters the ocean and becomes far stronger. Superman still trashed him after he beat her, but it was rather awesome.]]

* How has nobody mentioned ''{{Chew}}'' yet? It involves a detective who gets superhuman levels of information from ''eating''!

Compare WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway.

* ''[[Zoolander]]'' is a comedy thriller set in an alternate New York City that revolves around male modeling. The two top male models must team up to stop a worldwide fashion conspiracy from using their specialized physical form and low intelligence to create programmed assassins!

-->--'''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]]''', [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1756-Alan-Wake describing]] ''AlanWake''.

* Related to the above the first showing of Aquaman in the DCAU is in SupermanTheAnimatedSeries, he's shown having been captured and imprisoned by luthor looking pretty weak. It turns out he was trying diplomacy first to stop one of Luthors projects that was damaging the ocean particularly badly. When one of Lex's mooks tries and shoot him in the back with a harpoon gun (the kind used to kill whales), he catches it, summons forth a fucking scary naval armada and obliterates Luthors state of the art boat without even blinking.

*** They blinded his evidently hypersensitive eyes with their light based powers and then went for a beer?

* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has Celes' AwesomeButImpractical Runic ability. While being able to absorb enemies' magic attacks and earn MP back from them sounds cool, against weak enemies in RandomEncounters there's kind of no need since they don't use magic that often and are easily dispatched anyway, and is only useful if you really need to refill your MP. As a result some bosses were deliberately designed to be near impossible to beat WITHOUT using Runic. In fact, the first boss you fight right after recruiting Celes fits this--it casts a lot of magic and the GenreSavvy Celes recognizes this and tells the player to use Runic in anticipation of its spells.

* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has Celes' AwesomeButImpractical Runic ability. While being able to absorb enemies' magic attacks and earn MP back from them sounds cool, against weak enemies in RandomEncounters there's kind of no need since they don't use magic that often and are easily dispatched anyway, and is only useful if you really need to refill your MP. As a result some bosses were deliberately designed to be near impossible to beat WITHOUT using Runic. In fact, the first boss you fight right after recruiting Celes fits this--it casts a lot of magic and the GenreSaavy Celes recognizes this and tells the player to use Runic in anticipation of its spells.

* In ''Starcraft II'', a lot of of the new units are introduced in missions specifically designed in such a way to make the new unit obscenely useful. The worst example of this is the Diamondback--its a unit that can attack on the move and does bonus damage to armored targets, and just so happens to be introduced in a mission where you need to chase down fast-moving armored trains. After this mission you'll never build them again because they're rather expensive and frankly aren't very useful in comparison to more versatile cheaper units like the goliath and siege tank.

* ''FinalFantasyVI'' has Celes' AwesomeButImpractical Runic ability. While being able to absorb enemies' magic attacks and earn MP back from them sounds cool, against weak enemies in RandomEncounters there's kind of no need since they don't use magic that often and are easily dispatched anyway, and is only useful if you really need to refill your MP. As a result some bosses were deliberately designed to be near impossible to beat WITHOUT using Runic just to give it a purpose.
** Subverted, as ThisTroper found some boss battles, such as the Ultima fight on the FloatingContinent, to be insanely difficult no matter what I did, but I have Runic to thank for finally getting past it.
** Incidentally, almost every character power in the second half of the game amounts to a SlapOnTheWristNuke at best. With a [[UpgradeArtifact well-kitted]] team, it's almost always preferable to use Fight or cast [[FantasticNuke Ultima]], as most other special powers wind up doing damage somewhere between [[FireIceLightning Fire 2 and 3]]. Exceptions can be made for [[MagikarpPower Gau]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Terra]] ([[FridgeLogic but only to use "Fight" or "Magic" the next round]]), and [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Shadow]].
*** And of course, Edgar can still use his [[ChainsawGood tools,]] and [[PowersAsPrograms Gogo can do all of the above, except for the 'shapeshifting' part.]]

* At the end of ''{{Sky High}}'', [[spoiler: all the kids with "lame" powers such as melting, turning into a guinea pig, and controlling plants work together to thwart the villain and save their parents]].

* Comedian Dara O'Briain had a bit about various actors who'd played the Milky Bar kid. He asked the audience what superpower a hypothetical Milky Bar kid superhero might possess, to which they provided a series of bizarre answers such as "super-taste", "the ability to turn people into chocolate", etc. O'Briain promptly mused that, if the hypothetical superhero possessed such a superpower, each episode of the hypothetical TV series would consist of this (and then provided an example of how absurd a crime for which "super-taste" would be necessary to solve it would be like).