Basic Trope: A character is more powerful than is justified by the story.
- Straight: In Tales of Troperia CXIII, Anya is Hiro's little sister who has no combat training and fights using a hairbrush. When she joins the party, she has stats on par with actual trained warriors.
- Exaggerated: Anya is the strongest playable character in the game.
- Downplayed: Anya is the weakest playable character, but still stronger than an untrained civilian in the setting has any right to be.
- Justified: Explicitly impossible per trope definition - "A character is not 'underrated' if the plot draws attention to, or provides justification for, the fact that this character is able to keep up with allies that would otherwise appear to be more powerful than they are."
- Inverted: Overrated and Underleveled
- Subverted: Anya's stats are indeed on par with the party's trained warriors, but having no combat experience, she goes into the "fright" status whenever she takes damage and cannot move for two turns after, limiting her usability.
- Double Subverted: Once she gains experience by leveling up ten times, Anya loses the "fright" status and becomes an effective party member.
- Parodied:
- Zig-Zagged: Anya joins the party with stats on par with the actual trained warriors, but gains the "fright" status when struck in combat and is unable to move for two turns after. After gaining ten levels, the added experience allows her to become an effective party member. However, being untrained in any formal way, she has much more limited abilities than any other party member.
- Averted: Anya is every bit as weak as one would expect an untrained little girl to be, a Joke Character essentially.
- Enforced:
- The producers, worried about the cast gender balance, require that all of the female characters be made stronger, even Anya.
- Anya's playable state is the result of an indexing error that takes her stats from the adjacent Region 1 Color Palette Table instead of the Character Stats Table.
- Lampshaded: Hiro audibly wonders why Anya is capable of fighting on the level of trained warriors despite having no experience.
- Exploited:
- Defied: Despite the classic setup of the trope, Anya is every bit as weak as one would expect a character like her to be such a setting.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed: Anya joins the party and is inexplicably as strong as a trained warrior. Just as Hiro gets comfortable with using her in battle, she suffers a gut-wrenching Plotline Death at the hands of an opponent who defeats her thanks to his combat experience, imparting the lesson than someone Unskilled, but Strong can be a liability on the battlefield.
- Reconstructed: Hiro manages to save Anya from dying. Afterward, she spends time learning battle strategy from the party's actual trained warriors and becomes more well-rounded.
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama: This is actually deliberate foreshadowing for The Reveal that Anya was part of a series of morally questionable magical Super-Soldier experiments as an infant, which Hiro and Anya's desperate parents consented to because it was their only hope to save their frail and sickly baby girl.
- Played for Horror: If she's this strong without training or proper equipment, imagine how strong she'll be when…
You've only been here a bit, but you can go back to Underrated and Overleveled. And hey, why are your stats so high?
