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(Funny Trope) Character is completely immune to another character's powers for a very specific reason
Teodora vs Ghost of Medusa (Legend Quest)
Medusa (who as a ghost can only petrify other ghosts) failed to petrify Teodora because it would be later revealed that Teodora isn't actually a ghost but instead an astral projection
Usopp vs Perona (One Piece)
Usopp can't be made depressed by Perona's hollows because he's already depressed giving him the upper hand that no one else has
Not to mention the audio manipulation would more help than hinder daredevil unless it was extremely loud because it would contribute to his radar sense.
Yeah, Daredevil’s audio processing kind of improves with input until it gets overwhelmed
A lot of noise is good, a loud noise can be good, but a lot of loud noise and sensory inputs can overwhelm his other senses. Such as when a sprinkler system’s alarms and fetid water fried his hearing, smell and a lot of his sense of touch all at once
Mysterio would need to do sooooo much prep work for his illusions to catch DD off guard, and at that point it would probably just work better on anyone but Matt
Like if he just uses speaker, matt would know, so he’d need to build a facsimile of whatever he is pretending exists, which if it’s a human would mean a working hearbeat and breathing
I'm pretty sure since he can kind of map out a room like a bat using echolocation type shit and hear heartbeat, tell if someone is lying, etc... a speaker from a machine is very unlikely to fool him.
Kevin Smith wrote that arc (Guardian Devil), his illusions weren't really used directly against Matt, but on the people around him to create a situation that caused him to believe he was dealing with a real-deal Catholic antichrist/second coming moment. And he was drugged, classic Mysterio.
This reminds me of the time on South Park when a bunch of taxi drivers tried to stop Timmy by breaking his legs, except he’s a kid in a wheelchair so his legs don’t work anyways.
It's what I liked about the furious 5, Po is showing no signs of potential but none of them are really antagonistic towards him apart from Tigress, they kind of just awkwardly tiptoe around it, even Tigress gives him a fair shot and when she rejects him, she's harsh but not cruel about it.
Monkey and Crane were kind of cliquey about Po being the dragon warrior.
Mantis and snake were really the only ones that didn’t judge him on how he looked because they didn’t have typical bodies for kung fu either. Mantis even brings it up that he’s not really in a position to judge others based on their size because of his.
When you go into their back stories it tracks with Mantis and Snake being failures who became something thanks to Kung Fu and someone believing in them.
I feel like it’s because, at least according to most sources I recall, Tigress was the only one raised in the temple. The rest were vagrants and normal people, so they’re still amazed to have been found to have the potential and risen to be masters.
Po just serves as an award reminder to them of how they started out.
Yeah she was raised in the temple similar to how Tai lung was except she was actively sought out and adopted from a orphanage where she was treated like garbage because she was a tiger and she just like Tai lung also trained her whole life under the thought that she may become the dragon warrior of course she was never actively told that she would be she just really hoped that she would achieve it eventually. So she was just really disappointed when Po became the dragon warrior instead of her. And pretty upset about it.
It wasn't that he was too fat persay. It was that pandas being as fat as they are have caused the points to be out of position compared to most animals/people. Mantis is using a specific guide earlier in the movie and even with that he still has difficulty with the points.
And, given the panda village genocide as of the second film, there’s also a good reason neither Mantis nor Tai Lung have any familiarity with panda anatomy. Po is likely the first they’ve encountered and needed to use such technique.
In the Team Fortress comics, Demoman is immune to the blood-sucking robots because he has so much alcohol in his system his blood is toxic to them. His body is somehow capable of fermenting his own bones to make more alcohol to make him more drunk and therefore more protected.
True but with demoman it's really funny, his body will literally perceive solid food and clean water as poison and his body learned how to make alcohol from itself as a defense mechanism from 'the posion'
Also, it's now thought to be the cause of spontaneous combustion! The alcohol produced makes your breath flammable, and can cause full body immolation if it ignites.
Heh, kinda reminds me of the comic where Superman accidently kills Dracula, the bite is magical so breaks Supe's skin but all the solar energy in his cells blows ol' Vlad up
Futurama - Fry is immune to the intelligence absorbing powers of the giant alien brains because he lacks a Delta brainwave, caused by his being his own grandfather and effectively being far too stupid.
Grim - Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Big Boogie Adventure
In the film, the boogie man was searching for Horror’s Hand, a device that shows people their greatest fear. When the hand went for Grim, he revealed he wasn’t affected by it because he already lives his greatest nightmare: living with Billy and Mandy.
The entire Hand sequence is one of the best in the whole show. The buildup of the hand utterly fucking with everyone else, until Grim makes a declaration that's been building since the pilot? Awesome as it was hilarious.
It does make sense in a way. Eddie Brock sure didn't like Peter or Spiderman either. But the Symbiote hid him. Its the same way in this case. But I respect your opinion too
I think it was only supposed to be descendants of Venom (like Carnage) because they’re retaining the powers Venom has but someone must have messed it up down the line and made it all symbiotes
The real reason Peter's spider-sense doesn't warn him about Venom is because it would be constantly alerting him that the symbiote is nearby, just because it wanted to stalk him like the toxic ex-girlfriend it is.
Naw, the theory is that capsaicin evolved because it stopped bugs and rodents from eating the seeds and instead would be eaten by bird, whole, who would then fly far away before pooping the whole seeds, which helped the plants spread farther and thus more evolutionarily successful
I have discovered this brand of pepper sauce that uses caroline reaper called "the garlic reaper". I have gone through five bottles in a year with how much i slap that shit on everything
It's the evolutionary equivalent of "Task failed successfully" - a large mammal that can't naturally spread your seeds actually enjoys your unpleasant defense mechanism and starts eating you more, but they end up enjoying it so much that they actively cultivate your reproduction on a large scale and effectively guarantee you will never go extinct.
Nope, because they're the intended spreader. Mammals like to chew on things, which can destroy the seeds, so peppers developed capsaicin to deter mammals from eating them while allowing birds to eat them and effectively spread them in order for them to reproduce. This didn't work that well considering humans like the pain.
Or you could say that it worked extraordinarily well in an unintended manner, since there are now more pepper plants growing on Earth than ever before due to human cultivation.
I always love the capsaicin story because it's basically cascading Uno reverse cards.
Plant creates capsaicin so that mammals won't eat it, because only birds spread its seeds.
Humans evolve and decide we like capsaicin, so we eat it like crazy. Uno reverse!
Humans like it so much we deliberately spread capsaicin-bearing plants all over the globe, far more effectively than birds ever have. The molecule that was supposed to repel us became so desirable that it flipped from being an evolutionary failure to a wild success via the exact opposite mechanism as intended. Uno reverse again!
In Avengers, Loki tried to mind control Tony Stark using his scepter to reach Tony's heart. Tony has his core reactor over his heart, blocking the scepter's powers.
Considering in myth Loki has been known to sleep with pretty much anything (as a male or female) he probably has a high option of his bedroom performance. Imagine some mortal implying that you're losing your (sexual) edge. That would definitely tilt you.
They do something similar in Age of Ultron when Wanda tries to mindcontrol Hawkeye, but he’d developed a resistance/immunity to it after being controlled by Loki.
While not really a immunity The Hulk can't be Spied on vis Astral Projection due to his ability to see Ghosts and Astral Projections stemming from a childhood fear that his dead dad was going to come back and haunt Bruce Banner
Apparently this ability was developed because of that fear since Hulk apparently has some sort of reactive adaptability or can get new powers due to his psyche as another example had him development increased lung capacity to even not needing to breath due to how many times he drowned and suffocated developing into a small phobia that caused his body to develop a way to counter act them. He also developed the ability to smell liars due to hating people constantly lying to him
In Home on the Range, Grace is immune to the hypnotic yodeling because she has what she claims is “perfect pitch” (in reality she sings so poorly the vultures circle at one point).
That movie was real? I had meningitis when I was a kid and all this time I assumed that movie was a fever dream I had.
Or is it an SCP cognitohazard where a percentage of the population collectively remember a bizarre and surreal movie about a yodeling cattle rustler that never actually existed?
Dude, same. I had entirely thought this was something I saw as a kid but never seen again. I thought I was misremembering another movie. Gonna go watch this now.
Context: She was on Homeworld's side during the war against the Crystal Gems of Earth, but during a battle, she got poofed (her hardlight body got disrupted) and before she could regenerate, she was found by other Homeworld soldiers and mistaken for a Crystal Gem, so they slapped her into a mirror and interrogated her through it for who knows how long trying to get info on the Crystal Gems. Information she didn't even have. Then when the planet was blasted and all of the other gems were corrupted, she was trapped in the mirror and stored away, unable to reform her body for thousands of years.
Normally, gems that are imprisoned are placed in a "bubble" of energy that essentially places them in suspended animation. They don't experience the passage of time while bubbled. Lapis wasn't bubbled, she was physically stuck to an object that was preventing her from forming her body again. Basically "I have no mouth and must scream." She was trapped in this state for several thousand years until being found and freed by Steven.
Blue Diamond has the power to project her own emotions onto others, and she unleashes a wave consisting of the "thousands of years of grief" she felt mourning the loss of Pink Diamond, but thousands of years of grief doesn't quite compare to thousands of years of being trapped in confined, solitary, formless torment.
this also doesn't cover however long she was in the ocean after she was freed from the mirror (which happens pretty damn soon AFTER she was freed iirc)
some other gem named Jasper (I think) tried to fuse with her in an attempt to attack the surviving Crystal Gems. instead of allowing Jasper to hurt them, she accepted the fusion and became Malachite, who was then dragged into the ocean and imprisoned by Lapis's water powers
Lapis willingly kept Jasper locked in that fusion and trapped in the ocean for a very long time
it's been a while since I've seen it, but iirc the fusion broke at some point and Jasper hunted Lapis down again later to beg/threaten her to fuse again just because Jasper loved how strong fusion made her feel. it didn't work out
Mahito (that's the patchwork motherfucker on the right) has the power to mess with peoples' souls and warp them into all manner of horrific forms that are forced to do his bidding whilst still being conscious and aware of what's happened to them. That's why he's one of the evilest bastards in Jujutsu Kaisen.
Yuji Itadori (pink boy on the left) is immune to this because he's possessed by, if anything, an even eviler bastard named Ryomen Sukuna. That possession means that Mahito can't touch Yuji's soul without touching Sukuna, who gets VERY slash-happy when that happens, even by accident. As a result, Yuji is one of the exceptional few who can fistfight the little bastard while being relatively safe from his technique.
(And, as a side note, Mahito can also use his technique to fix himself, meaning very few others can actually hurt him in a meaningful capacity. Yuji, being Sukuna's soul cage, naturally can.)
if anything, an even eviler bastard named Ryomen Sukuna
In a bit of an unrelated note, I remember seeing a discussion around whether Yoru from chainsawman was more evil than Sukuna and there was a really good answer that applies here.
It comes down to their natures, sure, Mahito is horrible, Sukuna just doces people up, mostly as collateral and is implied to eat them as well but Mahito literally violates your very soul and physical form for fun, it's killing + Torture.
Despite being called a curse, Sukuna is still human at the end of the day, he could have stopped his wanton slaughter at anytime or done even a little more introspection to realise the real reason he resented the world but he never did until after his actual death.
Mahito has no choice but to be a curse, he's given sentience and sapience but just like every other curse, he will only ever be just a mirror of humanity's wickedness.
So Sukuna is seen as more evil because he has a choice not to be.
Ash, Pikachu, Jesse, and James (Pokémon Black and White): When a group of aliens mind control an entire city- people and Pokémon alike -looking for their lost item, only the listed 3 are immune. This is because, by the Aliens own admission, they are too stupid for it too work.
This one always annoyed me because it makes no sense based on their powers have a physical impact on the world around them. But whatever. Its all make believe.
Minor Batman villain the Ventriloquist has a split personality that manifests as his dummy puppet, Scarface the Gangster. This makes him immune to the emotion controlling abilities of the Psycho-Pirate, because as Scarface says: “No one controls the Ventriloquist but me.”
One of the last antagonists of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is Cioccolata, whose Stand, Green Day, causes any living thing who loses elevation in any way to be affected by a supernatural fungus that rots them to dust in seconds.
Bruno Bucciarati, however, is immune to the fungus by virtue of already being dead, meaning the fungus doesn't recognize him as a valid target even if he falls.
Josuke Higashikata from jojos bizzare adventure was immune to Rohans stand when he fighting him because he was in such a blind rage from his hair being insulted that Rohans power to open up people who looked at his paper didnt work
In the "Mystery Incorporated," episode "Dance of the Undead," a Ska Band allegedly comes back from the dead, and makes everyone start dancing when they play their song.
Shaggy and Scooby however are immune, as they had no sense of rhythm in the first place, and so, while the Hex girls play against the ska band, and start to fail, Shaggy and Scooby step in to save the day.
in Hotel Transylvania the human dude is immune to Dracula's mind control eyes
because he wears contacts.
in delicious in dungeon there's these succubus mosquitoes that take the form of what you like (sexy person, person ur in love with, or a mother) and then suck your vital fluids via a stinger
Izutsumi is immune because she has two souls so the succubus either does her mother or a panther. she doesn't fall for either of them.
The One Ring could not best one Samwise Gamgee, Gardener of the Shire.
"Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, the armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dûr. And then the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. He had only to put on the Ring and claim it as his own, and all this could be."
"...he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such villains were not mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardner was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."
NOBODY is immune to The One Ring, but some people, those who don't have grand desires and ambitions, it has a real difficult time getting its hooks into
Remember, Sam WAS tempted, even if only for a second
Well there are characters who are immune to The One Ring, one being Tom bombadil. Unfortunately Tom bombadil is such an enamatic figure we aren't 100% sure why he's immune but he is.
While we’re never shown, I think it’s safe to assume the Ring would have no sway over the Valar. As their power is so much greater than Sauron. Plus this goes without saying since they are the one above, but the Ring would be a just a piece of his own design to
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Ilúvatar and would be completely useless as a tool against him.
Which is why Gandalf was fine with the ring being amongst hobbits, and bringing the hobbits along in the first place.As a people, they are naturally resistant to the ring because they don't want anything but a simple life.
Sam is a quintessential hobbit whereas; Merry is from the clan that lives on the edge of Hobbit society, Pippen is Took (warrior adventure blood) and Frodo who is a cousin of Pippen.
He isn't invincible to it, no one is. But, as the other person has mentioned, its much more difficult to tempt those who dont have grand desires and who know their limits. Hobbits just happen to be very resistant people because of their mindset and how they live their lives. Even after many years have passed using the ring, Bilbo DID manage to give it up by his own will, even if it was hard for him.
He's the only one in the show who's immune to Saiki's mind-reading powers because he's too dumb. Like, he literally doesn't have a single thought in his head so Saiki can't read his mind.
He’s also immune to Taskmaster copying him—because even Wade doesn’t know what move he’s going to do next in a fight. Unlike regular humans who eventually settle into a pattern even subconsciously, Wade doesn’t cause of the personalities. He’s truly random.
Similarly Taskmaster cannot copy Spider-Man anymore due to his fighting style relying on the Spider Sense.
He outright refuses to copy Moon Knight because of his self destructive tendencies. “Never met a punch you didn’t want to take, huh?!”
Not sure if this counts but in Frieren, Ubel is apparently the worst possible matchup for the First class mage Sense.
In this particular case, sense is a mage of the highest caliber that enchanted her hair so she could control it. It's strong, easily expandable and thanks to magic is resistant to most attacks.
Ubel on the other hand is a novice first class mage whose signature spell is one that can cleave and cut things. The thing that makes her so especial is that she somehow subconsciously believes stuff, regardless of whether her logic mind tells her otherwise. This already makes her a mage with a lot of potential, but it makes her dangerous by allowing her to cut basically everything just as long as she once believed or saw it being cut. In her first example she accidentally killed a mage with a highly enchanted cloak, one that nearly everyone failed to damage or touch, but Ubel grew up with her seamstress sister seeing her cut fabric, so deep down for her fabric is fabric no matter the enchantment, everyone else knew that but seeing the enchantments made them unable to imagine being able to cut it. Same goes for Hair, as she knows it's something that can be cut and sense knows this, calling her her worst matchup. Which we later see after she kills a perfect copy of her.
Later we even see more of her unique power after she cuts an entire stone tower to pieces, and one of her opponents theorized that she might've seen rocks being cut in quarry and that belief is stilled in her so deeply she can cut large stone while no other mage can.
In this world magic is limited only by your imagination, which at first glance seems like it would be limitless only for you to realize that often our imagination is limited by what we know and believe. Enter someone crazy who believes regardless of logic and you have a very dangerous individual.
I haven't read the manga, but I can't wait for her to cut spells/magic itself.
Fate/Stay verse has a character that can do this, as in they can see a magic line in everything that if they just get to the line and cut it with a simple knife the thing is destroyed.
In the Gumball episode "The Game", the characters are playing basically Jumanji. At one point, they all draw a card that alters them in some way. Darwin (the orange one) gets Reverse Mermaid... and nothing happens, since he's already a fish with legs.
Elster (SIGNALIS) is immune to the Corruption, a metaphysical disease that turns those infected by it into insane flesh zombies that cannot die permanently unless via fire. There are two possible reasons for this.
1) Her wife is the unwilling progenitor of the Corruption, and even in the depths of delirium and radiation sickness is unable to bring herself to harm her love
2) She’s already corrupted. It’s just that her personal brand of insanity requires her to keep her faculties intact, along with her flesh.
Chloe is immune to Lucifer’s mojo as he calls it. He can make people tell him their greatest desire. Also, he basically is desire so it makes people want to have sex with him.
This is because God sent Amenadial down to perform a miracle on Chloe’s mother who hadn’t been able to have children so she’d have her. She was therefore the only human to see Lucifer for himself and not be affected by him.
Maito Guy is one of the few who can fight Sharingan users without any kekei genkai or "power," and his method is genius: don't look into the eyes of the eye-powered characters
Immune to True Assassin's Noble Phantasm Zabaniya that targets the heart... because Kirei has no conventional heart and only lives due to Grail Mud replacement
That allows him to surprise and stunlock Assassin and go after Zouken, Assassin's master
In the Avengers movie Loki can tap people on the chest with his scepter to mind control them. When he tries this on Iron Man it fails because he has the arc reactor protecting his heart.
For further explanation, this is Enel, whose power is lightning. Luffy meanwhile possesses the dual properties of both rubber and gum, making him fully immune to Enel’s lightning powers.
To further elaborate, Enel has been portrayed as a god till this point and has seemed absolutely unbeatable. This is his first priceless reaction to someone not being affected by his abilities.
To even further elaborate, rubber doesn’t exist on Sky Island where Engel lives. He has no clue that there is a magic substance that is immune to electricity and that Luffy has a devil fruit for it.
This actually made me really happy as it flipped the whole, at the time, idea of logi devil fruits being the strongest.
The Usopp one is just incredible cause it really says “this is undeniable proof that this man is depressed, and he will still get up, go to work, and kick your fucking ass when he needs to.” Just a great characterization, especially because we still see him struggle with all the same issues afterwards. He didn’t overcome his depression, it’s still there, but he’s not reduced to it.
Chronos (and a few other bosses) from Hades 2 is immune to Twilight Curse, your ability that turns opponents into sheep, because "This is my chosen form".
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Blindside couldn't make Daredevil blind because he was already blind (The Amazing Spider-Man #600)