r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Crashoutbop • Jul 04 '26

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Sailor moon -usagi tsukino door level even tho she’s a powerful character

Spider-Man 2 - Peter is fridge level even tho we seen him take down powerful villains

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Jul 04 '26

Darkseid getting mugged.

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u/Wuta_Goatkotsu-1 Jul 04 '26

Batman is such an anomaly, his presence has forced all of Gotham's criminals to enter an evolutionary arms race of constantly getting stronger to keep going

The average Gotham Goon can throw hands with Superman, 2 can take down the League, 3 can take down Apokolips.

Just once, 5 Goons worked together. They ended a Crisis level threat so badly it got retconned out of the entire comics medium

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u/Veridas Jul 04 '26

On top of that there has to be something going on with how they recover.

If we assume Batman is Batmanning seven days a week and further assume that at any given day at least five, just five, of his rogue's gallery is escaped from Arkham and out to cause trouble, Batman probably beats up, what? Anywhere between seven and ten goons per rogue? And when he does this it's not just battering and bruising. It's broken bones, internal bleeding, possibly brain damage, to say nothing of the psychological trauma he inflicts entirely deliberately just by existing.

Those kinds of injuries take a long time to recover from, but there's never any news of Gotham's hospitals or mental institutions struggling to cope with demand.

More than that, Batman does the same to his rogue's gallery. The same beatings, the same injuries, without discrimination to men and women, but mainly men, of all different ages, builds and body types.

But all of them are entirely fine next time they're seen. Okay some have an excuse, it's probably harder to fight Bane than it is the Penguin, but still.

I think Gotham is a city of people who have healing factors. It's the only explanation. They've all got a little bit of Deadpool in them somehow even though that's the wrong Universe.

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u/TheSquishedElf Jul 04 '26

To be fair, Gotham is apparently earth’s supernatural zit. Between portals to hell and the Lazarus Pits it’s also where earth’s negativity just kinda… coalesces. The place is quite literally overflowing with evil magic energies. I can see how that manifests as unnatural recovery times for the villains and mooks.

(plus as I understand it there’s an implication that the Lazarus Pits are in the groundwater too, so everyone in Gotham drinking the tap water is microdosing Ras Al Ghul’s immortality juice)

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u/SignificantHippo8193 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

The ground water granting semi-immortality would be an interesting plot point to explore 🤔.

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u/Veridas Jul 04 '26

Okay I knew about some of that stuff but not the implications of it all at once that's amazing. No wonder everyone and their dog falls into chemical vats and just walks it off.

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u/Caleibur Jul 05 '26

This is my new canon

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u/Normal-Pianist4131 Jul 04 '26

Nope, it’s because Gotham is secretly purgatory

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u/slowdruh Jul 04 '26

I feel like you're joking but at the same time describing things that have actually happened in some series.

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u/KhiteMakio Jul 04 '26

Nononononono, see now THIS ONE, I need explained! Someone explain how the hell Darkseid got mugged like that!

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u/Trezzie Jul 04 '26

Looking at the entire picture, he seems to have lost his powers one way or another.

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u/czarczm Jul 04 '26

It's literally written right there, how is this being missed...

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u/BigBradWolf07 Jul 04 '26

Ok but I see that. What I'm looking for is how that happened

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u/LordIlthari Jul 04 '26

He was depowered at the time and just basically a normal dude.

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u/Log_Out_Of_Life Jul 04 '26

Did they just mug his boom tube remote?