Basic Trope: A seemingly useless character that can be effective if used in a certain way.
- Straight:
- Bob's party gets the Teddy Hunter as a character, who has no strong abilities. However, if you use his Teddy Trap combined with an ability that stuns the opponent, it results in a very damaging combo.
- In Fighting Game, Alice is the weakest, slowest, has lowest defense, and most of her attacks have really short reach in comparison to other characters. Her comical super move does no damage, only stunning the enemy. However, her short height means many moves will go over her head. While most of her moves are hard to hit with, all of them can used to start a long combo. The combo still does pitiful damage, but should the player manage to pull off a combo consisting of all of her special attacks, then she'll automatically execute a One-Hit Kill Megaton Punch to finish off her enemy.
- Exaggerated: The Teddy Hunter has only basic attacks and one skill as well as horribly poor stats, but if you equip him with a specific, and otherwise useless, Joke Item he's capable of One Hit Killing every game's enemy, no matter how strong they might be.
- Downplayed:
- The Teddy Hunter doesn't have any good skills, but his stats are actually pretty good and using just basic attacks ends up doing more damage than anybody else can without using up any MP to do so.
- The Teddy Hunter has multiple attacks which hit many times but they don't do all that much damage on average even if they connect. However, give him enough equipment that boosts his Scratch Damage minimum value and he becomes third most damaging character but available a third of the game earlier.
- Alice is the weakest fighter but her speed and agility means that she slowly wear down her enemies.
- Justified:
- The Teddy Hunter has access to good tools and has the skill to use them in together in non-obvious ways.
- Alice is much smaller than the other contestants.
- Inverted: The Teddy Hunter joins Bob early on his adventure, and ends up being a Crutch Character.
- Subverted: The combo ends up not doing any damage to characters at later levels with higher defense, which reduces all damage to 0.
- Double Subverted: Unless you go out of your way to boost Teddy Hunter's damage output with stronger equipment, buffs or Rare Candy, which raises his damage back to his initial levels.
- Parodied: The Teddy Hunter is noted as being the most feared and deadly thing walking the planet. The first meeting with him is... underwhelming, but once he joins it turns out to be true, despite only having silly attacks.
- Zig Zagged:
- The Teddy Hunter starts off each mission as a liability, but quickly gains power from Gathering Steam until he is as reliable as the rest of the party - that is, until the next mission starts and Teddy Hunter goes back to being a joke.
- The Teddy Hunter is meant to be a Joke Character, but then the above trick is discovered. Turns out it's a bug, and when it gets patched out, it's back to him being useless.
- The Teddy Hunter's sole joke is that he's banned from multiplayer for simply being too overpowered.
- Averted:
- Useless characters stay useless.
- The Teddy Hunter is as viable as everyone else.
- Enforced: The programmers wanted to reward really devoted players with an easily dismissed powerful character that takes time to master.
- Lampshaded: "So, this man who looks like he's never fought a serious battle in his life is currently taking down gods?"
- Invoked: The Teddy Hunter started his training because he realized that being "normal" wouldn't allow him to find new ways to take down monsters, so he went for the silly approach instead.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "No, you're going to take me seriously! I'm going to take you down like a man!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: People make their own unique characters for the game. One listed as "Teddy Hunter" has a high win rate, but also skills and stats most could consider bad.
- Deconstructed: Due to confusing character design and "misleading" power distribution, critics bash the game for being odd and counterintutive.
- Reconstructed: However, players love the game despite the critic reaction, and like how funny and enjoyable it is, especially the funny and powerful Teddy Hunter.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Although it's mentioned in game, the Teddy Hunter's power is never touched upon aside from a single time where he uses it to save the party. When asked about it, he just says he does what he thinks is fun.
- Played For Laughs: The Teddy Hunter is very odd, to the point where his self-proclaimed "unique" armor is just random junk.
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