Discussion Main / WeaksauceWeakness

I had never heard of vampires having the compulsion to count small objects—but it certainly would explain Count von Count of "Sesame Street" over and beyond the punny name!

Maybe someone should update the first example since neither the mythological vampires nor dracula as he appears in bram stoker´s original are killed by sunlight

The Saucer Men were melted by light?

Should this page have a bold disclaimer making it absolutely clear what is and isn't a weaksauce weakness? I ask because I see this trope being misused on character pages as "this character is supposed to be threatening but then they got killed - LAME!"

Examples I've seen and corrected include a badass knight being unhorsed when his mount is spooked by a loud bang, a robotic lifeform being defeated by very strong electromagnetism and a superweapon being destroyed by having a entire spaceship rammed down its nozzle. None of these should count as Weaksauce because these are all reasonable things to be defeated by. It seems like people are using this trope to complain about character defeats they personally dislike.

What's the trope namer for this?

Fey have DR/cold iron however there are templaces in suplamental D20 mateial for 3rd and 3.5 that you can add yo fey that makes them more powerfull, but vunerable to mere iron

Can we please come up with a better name for this?

I cut the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series example (Marik can only mind-control people named Steve) again. That's What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?, not a weakness.

Double post; disregard.

When I came to this article to add a new example to the Real Life section, I saw that most of it was dominated by one big piece of Thread Mode Natter. It was so bad there were tropers adding sub-examples, casually referring to the main page as a "thread."

I've gone through and tossed out most of the back-and-forth discussion, and condensed the wording of some of the other examples.