Basic Trope: A character performs extremely at well doing certain tasks, often overly-specific ones, at the cost of not being able to do other tasks as well as other characters.
- Straight: Tasha was turned into a Super-Soldier for organization T.R.O.P.E. Her brain and body were rewired to greatly enhance her ability as a stealth agent and assassin with abilities such as night vision, sharp claws, and Super-Speed. But she is left unable to operate in fair combat, social gatherings, or the use of a smart phone...
- Exaggerated: ... read, understand humor, understand mathematics, tolerate alcohol, learn any new skills or from mistakes, highly regard human life, experience empathy, love, hate, any human emotion, think for herself, hand-eye coordination outside the context of killing, and in some cases breathe.
- Tasha is unbeatable and invincible at one thing, but useless at everything else.
- Downplayed: Tasha's enhancements as an assassin come at the slight cost of her ability to fight fairly, as she is a specialist.
- Justified: The experiments have caused Tasha to think and operate differently than a normal human should, robbing her of basic life skills and cognitive functions that would come naturally to others.
- Tasha is a specialist in her trade, so it's only natural she struggles to operate in other situations.
- Inverted:
- Amazing Alex volunteered for an experiment meant to enhance his ability to perform in every imaginable aspect of life, all at the cost of his ability to swim.
- Tasha was enhanced to be slightly above-average in basically every area, at the cost of not being ''really'' good at anything.
- Subverted:
- It turns out Tasha's clumsiness in everyday tasks is a result of her repressed social anxiety, and she becomes very competent once no one else is looking.
- The experiments done on Tasha have no ill effect, though to use her powers she needs more rest and body material, so she is put on a special diet.
- Double Subverted: ... But her team soon begins to notice her inability to perform basic tasks without asking for help.
- Parodied: The Elite Four, all in whom have been trained to hunt and kill mammals, enter a collective panic when a mosquito flies into the room.
- Zig Zagged: Tasha first displays a lack of hand-eye coordination, but therapy quickly fixes it. She begins failing missions where she ends up having to fight targets 1-on-1. She finds a work around but the applications of said workaround cause her intelligence to deteriorate. She end up fixing that, and suddenly lacks hand-eye coordination again.
- Averted: The experiment does not negatively affect Tasha at all.
- Enforced: "We want to show any potential side-effects of a super soldier experiment."
- "We need an angst of some sort to help develop Tasha's character."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: The Mole within the experiment attempted to sabotage it by relentlessly enhancing Tasha's assassin abilities even though it ruined other important skills.
- Exploited: General Drake knows Tasha plans to assassinate him, and has a higher command to examine her files. When they fight, he takes advantage of her weaknesses and/or emotional trauma to gain the upper hand.
- Defied: Doctor Tavitian takes extra precautions to make sure their experiments on Tasha do nothing but enhance her abilities, as opposed to taking away in some aspect.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed: With Tasha being sub-par to helpless in everyday life, she needs at least one chaperone/servant to do everything outside of combat. Making her feel inadequate and dread her eventual retirement.
- Reconstructed:
- Her chaperone decides to spend his time teaching her these skills so that she is not helpless when he is unable to assist her.
- Tasha retires in a military caring facility meant for people like her, clearing away any fears of losing access to assisted living.
- Played for Laughs: Tasha's lack of basic human skills leads to many awkward situations. Many are amused by how this unstoppable assassin is a Cute Clumsy Girl the second she steps off the battlefield.
- Played for Drama: After retiring, Tasha has an existential crisis about no longer having a place in the world. It's like typical veteran ennui but worse because Tasha is inherently unfit for anything but combat.
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