This trope only applies in settings where Everyone Is a Super. Batman is merely a Badass Normal.
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Would droid count in Star Wars? They have no connection to the force, and the Jedi have no qualms about slaughtering them, but their lack of life makes the (advanced assassin droids) perfect Jedi hunters. With the force or emotion, or intention to kill, droids cannot be detected the ways any other being would be before being able to shoot a Jedi, which means they been used to hunt down Jedi a lot in the Expanded universe (although not so much in the movies, where droids are Mooks).
No, Mecha-Mooks don't count. If a work has any Muggles at all, it's automatically barred from having this trope.
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Is having some kind of advantage that the supers don't have a necessity for this trope? A few examples are just non-powered people amongst the supers
Hey! This is cool. I wrote an FMA character for a Fate campaign in 2012 that was a Badass Normal, I'm glad I read this page to differ her from this trope since this one is too appealing. I think the above about 'everyone needing to be special' is the most important part of this, since in FMA even alchemists are rare enough that being a badass normal is actually rather possible, and her only special difference was that her rifle had some specialanium rounds that were anti-transmutation, and her weakness (no alchemy in a world where alchemy genocides) is also her strength (denying their alchemy too in close range fights if she stays calm/accurate but limited by the speed of bolting a rifle) and then taking advantage of the vulnerability. Pretty much precisely Batman-like, now that I think about it.
It's also a pretty common way to make a more relatable hero or member of the cast of heroes, since they don't get to magic their way out of things when they go bad. Even Bruce Wayne spent some time in a prison looking buff. Several times.
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Does Fry from Futurama count? Everyone else has the delta brainwave, but Fry doesn't have it.
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Shouldnt Batman Be here? He Might be the most notable example. I would add it myself, but it seems to be only for entire populations, not just teams. Is there a seperate trope for the only normal guy in a team? that trope should be on this page as a "Related To" sort of thing.
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