Thanos using the Power and Space Stones to send a Moon down at Iron Man.

The Flash using the Speed Force to shoot an energy ball.

Plastic Man picking things up hands free.

Toph Earthbending to create a mini city.

When the characters would realistically be extremely overpowered in any other form of media but because of the genre or nature of their medium they're not

The Numbertaker [Numberjacks] - This applies to most of the Meanies, but with him it's the most evident. His power is to take away (and in some instances add) numbers. While it seems ridiculous, the show explicitly shows that he can also take away amounts of things or as well as change rules of reality if they relate to a number (in one instance he makes it so that someone isn't allowed to use one of their legs).

One of the characters even mentions that he is able to take away clouds. He also has other powers such as teleportation and manipulation of objects as long as they are in the quantity he is after.

The Miraculous(es) [Miraculous Ladybug] - This one can moreso be attributed to poor writing. Two Miraculous powers can gift people with powers, with one of them having no limit to the type of power that can be gifted. A Miraculous capable of creating life, and under certain conditions that life becomes autonomous. Two miraculouses are for time travel, one reverses time to a set point and the other allows for unlimited travel to any time period. The list goes on.

On top of all this, if you are an "adult" (this seems related to a person's maturity rather than their physical age) there's no limit to the amount of times you can use your power, with the only caveat being that most powers only work once at a time. The worst part is that when some of these powers are utilized for something more, the heroes receive some sort of plot armor.

The Bubblegum Gentleman [@Cheesymanfredo comic] - Self Explanatory.

Cheap Trick (Jojo part four) is essentially an annoying back demon that will annoy you to death and kill you if anyone looks at your back

Limb Detachment (Arm fall off boy from DC) all he can do is detach his arms, which are just normal arms

Self Destruct (Bailey Hoskins from X Men) his power is to explode himself, but only once, since it would kill him

I think it makes a fantastical world feel more lived in. If that makes sense?

1). The Incredibles:
The film goes to great lengths to show the Parr's lives are mundane, even with their superhuman abilities. This is what fuels Bob's fundamental sense of discomfort.

2). Ben 10:
Ben uses the Omnitrix, which transforms its user into various alien species, for good. He also uses to for random nonsense. In this particular example, he uses his horrifying alien ghost form to sneak out of the house, steal a golfcart, and pilfer a pie.

3). Fullmetal Alchemist:
Despite regularly fighting inhuman monsters, the Elric brothers still make time to use alchemy for everyday purposes. Such as fixing a radio they broke.

4). Dragon Ball:
Here, Gohan is using a concentrated blast of his own lifeforce to flash-cook a chunk of meat.

5). X-Men:
In the second movie, Wolverine has Bobby (Iceman) cool down a lukewarm soda.

6). Superman:
Clark shaves using his heat vision and a very durable mirror.

7). One Punch Man:
Genos knows that Saitama is kind of a disaster to live with. So, he brings rent money and does chores. Here, Genos is using his hyper-advanced (skyscraper destroying) heat cannons to dry the dishes.

8). My Hero Academia:
Kaminari has electricity powers. His classmates use him to charge their phones. This is apparently the "normal" way most electricity powers are used.

9). The Fantastic Four:
The Human Torch doesn't need to bathe anymore. He can just burn away any oils, bacteria, and plaque.

10). Doctor Strange:
In his first movie, we see Strange using astral projection to study while asleep. I wonder if this harms his brain?

11). Paranatural:
Ed uses a special paintbrush possessed by a spirit. Normal people can't see the ink created with it. In Ed's bedroom, they uses it to write out cheat codes to videogames.

12). Jojo's Bizarre Adventure:
Jotaro manifests a "stand," a special psychic extension of his soul. He initially assumes he is being haunted by a dangerous spirit. After ending up in a local jail, his stand starts bringing him things to do.

In Jujutsu Kaisen, Reverse Cursed Technique is regular Cursed Energy times against itself, creating Positive Energy (think - x - = +) in which it can heal the Sorceror, but it burns the reserve quickly. While good for Humans, it is fatal against Curse Spirits and the most notable time it has been used was when Yuta Okkotsu kissed Kurourushi as RCT is stored in the head rather than the stomach like regular Curse Energy.

Less known example was in The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic was when Ken Usato fought a demon that had the ability of reflecting damage back onto the users. His friends fought her, but lost due to not having a counter against that. His solution? Beat the dog shit out of her with Healing Magic, recovering every strike so he doesn't get hurt in the process and cause trauma in the body of the demon and making her as exhausted as possible.

Steven Universe - In the Season 1 episode, “Giant Woman”, Pearl demonstrates to Steven how fusion works by manipulating grains of sand to form tiny versions of her, Amethyst, and Opal.

Pearl never does this again for the rest of the entire series.

Sonic the Hedgehog - In Sonic Adventure 2 in particular, Knuckles’ special move in that game is shooting lightning strikes down onto his opponent.

Yeah. Knuckles has lightning powers. Bet you forgot about that, huh? Sega and Sonic Team sure as hell did.

Ajin: Demi-Human: Every single Ajin is immortal and repeatedly kill themselves throughout the series to heal nonlethal injuries by coming back alive, but they only find out they have the ability once they have died once

Chainsawman: Every devil, fiend and hybrid can drink blood to heal themselves

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Yujiro vs Baki (Baki)

Miyata vs Arnie Gregory (Hajime no Ippo)

Mejiro Mcqueen and Gold Ship (Uma Musume Pretty Derby)

1) Staring at the Mountain [Game of Thrones]

Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane is one of the most terrifying men in Game of Thrones, being a behemoth of a man who is one of the most brutal fighters in Westeros. The Mountain is also a walking war crime, and is sent by Tywin Lannister (his liege lord) to "harass" the Riverlands countryside during the War of the Five Kings. He takes this opportunity to rape, torture, and butcher civilians and soldiers alike to his liking.

In the middle of the second season, Arya Stark (disguised as a peasant) and her friends are caught by the Mountain's men, who pen her and other refugees up in Harrenhal. Every day, the Mountain selects one random prisoner to be "questioned". No matter how much or how little they know, the victim always gets tortured to death.

At one point, Arya's friend, Hot Pie, learns from a fellow inmate a way to avoid getting tortured: Don't look away from the Mountain when he selects his victim. The inmate apparently did this for weeks, and hasn't been chosen. Hot Pie and this inmate both stare the Mountain down when he appears next... only for the inmate to be chosen. The inmate can only panic as he realizes he never was right. Hot Pie promptly pisses himself when he realizes there's truly no way to avoid being tortured to death.

2) Gaming the Visitor's Curse [Look Outside]

Look Outside is a game where you play as a 30-something shut-in in the middle of a disaster. You learn from your neighbor that something has happened outside the apartment across the world. Nobody knows what it is, but some entity called "The Visitor" has appeared in the sky. Anyone who attempts to look at or even think about the Visitor too hard becomes "Cursed", causing them to mutate into some strange form.

The Curses range from "Eldritch" to "surprisingly mundane". You can meet people who have kept their sanity even as massive tentacle monsters, or you can meet people whose sanity has completely shattered as their bodies changed. Some of the Curses are ironic in nature, while others serve as an extension of your psyche (such as an anxiety-ridden character becoming a manifestation of drowning, showing how they feel with their disorder).

Some characters try to put this theory to the test and become their "true forms". It seldom works like that. One notable character, Louis, is a furry who thought that his fursuit would protect him from the effects of the Visitor. He tells the main character that even if he got Cursed, he wouldn't mind, because he thought that it would transform him into his Fursona.

It backfired immensely: he instead became a human fused to the lining of his suit, and his suit is rotting his body inside. (You can see his former body trying to claw its way out of the jaw). Despite his denial, this is clearly incredibly painful for him, and the exact opposite of what he wants Louis gradually loses his sanity as you talk to him throughout the game, and his suit instead becomes multiple living chunks of the costume after you fight him.

This is merely one of the examples that reminds the player that being Cursed is an absolute crapshoot. It's not a shortcut to superpowers, nor is it a guaranteed "real version" of yourself. You just as likely have a chance of becoming a barely-sentient worm or a pile of faces, your mind completely gone.

3) Using Salt [Crossed]

TW: Rape/Extreme Violence (I'm not kidding here)

Probably the most iconic moment from Crossed (and let's be so for real, a lot of people put the comic down after this scene).

Crossed features the survivors of a horrific apocalypse: a massive disease has overtaken the planet, causing the afflicted to develop a cross-shaped rash on their face. These victims become a slave to their immediate impulses, which all tend to be "find the survivors and rape them to death in increasingly-horrific ways". In the first issue, a survivor, Joel, discusses an incident where he saw a Crossed react badly to table salt falling on his face. He thinks the Crossed have a weakness to salt, and that this might be a solution to the end of the world, a "magic bullet". Everybody tells him this is a dumb move, and he'd likely risk his wife and daughter's wife if he tried to implement it.

When the crew get ambushed by the Crossed, Joel's wife twists her leg. She begs him to take his daughter and shoot her, lest she die horribly. He refuses to leave her, and pours a salt circle instead as the Crossed approach. They stand outside the circle.

Smash cut to a full splash panel of Joel and his family getting raped, hacked to pieces, and slowly killed by the Crossed. In her last moments, his wife bitterly curses him out for being an idiot. There's a reason I'm not putting a picture up.

The entire scene only exists to remind the reader not to expect anything good from here on out, and this isn't the sort of story about restoring humanity. It's about surviving, and how even that's probably not going to work.

Bakugo's explosions (My Hero Academia) Bakugo can emit powerful explosions from his hands and he uses the shockwave from the explosions to dart around like a human missile.

Guns (RWBY) some characters use the strong recoil from their guns to help them jump around, to land safely from dangerous heights and to boost their speed when running.

Gojo's infinity (Jujutsu Kaisen) Gojo manipulates space at an atomic level, creating an infinite amount of space between himself and anyone trying to touch him. His "Blue" technique pulls space to teleport or move at abnormal speeds.

Ingrid’s continue scene (Street Fighter 6)

Deadpool’s Ultimate Move (Marvel Vs Capcom 3)

Asgore destroying the Mercy button (Undertale)

Unus Annus : Mark and Ethan get into a (choreographed) fight, Ethan pulling out a knife and telling Mark he has the power of God and anime on his side...Mark responds.

Fantasy High: In the SECOND EPISODE, mind you, two party members die in the first fight. The principal, Arthur Aguefort (a powerful magic user), shows up and goes on a long monologue about death and magic...before proceeding to take out a gun and shooting himself and the guidance counselor, sacrificing their own souls to revive the players.

Bailey Hoskins (Marvel) - A mutant from a different earth, his power is to detonate himself and explode. Unfortunately he doesn't have the power to survive or heal from his own attack so he'll die the moment he uses it.

Cyclops (Marvel) - Due to mental trauma and physical trauma to the head, Scott Summers lost his ability to shut off his force beams, forcing him to wear specially made shades/visors to that his beams don't just blast out without his control.

Dabi (My Hero Academia) - He controls genuinely powerful flames but he doesn't have the immunity to fire that usual fire wielding characters have. By the end of the series, he's genuinely a charred, living corpse whose survival is considered a miracle.

These are scenes that exist to implicitly establish a few basic rules of how the story world works. They tell us what characters can and cannot do, what stuff "works" and usually foreshadow things that become more significant later in the story. Crucially, when it's done well we barely notice that this is what the scene is doing; we register all of the stuff it's telling us but it's wrapped up in an enjoyable package.

Godzilla Minus One (Boat Escape Scene)

This scene happens within the first half of the film as the crew of a minesweeping vessel encounter Godzilla, who gives chase. It's an amazing action scene, but it also secretly teaches us a few "rules" about what this version of Godzilla can do. We learn roughly how fast Godzilla can swim (just a little faster than a small boat), that his hide is impervious to explosions and gun fire, but his insides are not (including the inside of his mouth, and we also learn how quickly he regenerates (pretty fast, but it does slow him down). We also see the atomic breath for the first time, establishing the extent of his destructive power. This is all relevant to the final plan to defeat Godzilla, which has to use quite an unconventional method to harm him in any way.

Avengers (Forest Fight)

This scene is also relatively early in the film, as Thor attempts to kidnap Loki from Iron Man and Captain America, leading to a fight between the three heroes. What follows is basically "rock paper scissors" as the scene lays some basic groundwork for what each hero can and cannot do. Thor is strong enough to dent Iron Man's armour with his hands, but his lightning accidently powers up Iron Man's suit. Iron Man is able to go toe-to-toe with Thor and his blasts will hurt but not kill him. Thor is a bigger physical threat, but Iron Man seems to think on his feet quicker. Captain America's shield is impervious to Thor's hammer.

AKA, easily parrying projectiles that are either physical, magical, etc.

1. Deltarune: Gerson Boom easily parrying a Rude Buster from Susie and vice versa.

2. Mob Psycho 100: after being powered up temporarily, Reigen casually swiped away the Psychic Gravity Wells that were coming at him.

1. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - Stab yourself in the heart to transform

2. Attack on Titan - Wound yourself in anyway and you Transform into a Titan

3. Persona 3 - Shoot yourself in the head to simulate the feeling of death to summon your Persona

4. Persona 5 - Rip your mask off your face to be your true self and summon your Persona

Fairyly OddParents - In an early season 1 episode, Timmy wishes for heat vision but is never shown to have wished it away. A few years later while preparing to save his friends from Unwish Island, Wanda casually reminds him that he still has it.

Dragon Ball - Probably one of the most ridiculous examples of this, in the final battle of OG Dragon Ball, Piccolo grows into a giant while fighting Goku. After that he never did it again and the ability was only seen in a movie and video games (and not even used by Piccolo). Until 34 years later in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero when the group is fighting a giant and Krillin has to remind Piccolo that he can grow into a giant. Piccolo literally says "Oh yeah, I forgot I did that."

1 - Resident Evil series: a bunch of enemies do this in most games

2 - Bloodborne / Souls: you can get insta-wrecked by getting eaten

3 - Ski Free: my first trauma

1. Thragg (Right, The Strongest Viltrumite) and Conquest (Left, The Second-Strongest Viltrumite) both being punched by Mark… to vastly different results (Invincible)
2. All-Might (Right) is so much stronger then Endeavor (Left), the latter pretty much dedicated his entire life and family to trying to create a eugenics-baby to surpass the former (My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia)
3. Suguru Geto is strong, perhaps the strongest Jujutsu Sourcerer alive…with the exception of Satoru Gojo, of course, to the point that, when Geto turned evil, pretty much his entire plan revolved around trying to find a way to neutralize Gojo due to the sheer gap between the two. (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Edit: Yes I know Yuki would likely be stronger then Geto, I just used him due to him being more notable as Gojo’s rival, and even so, Yuki still plays this role in relation to the Honored One.

[My Hero Academia] In the world of MHA, quirks are supposed to be genetic mutations, and meta-human anomalies. Think the X-Men. And for the most part, that's true. You have a kid who sweats nitroglycerin, a kid who can talk to animals, and a guy who is part lizard. And then, there's Stars & Stripes, who can straight up alter reality, however she wants, simply by touching something, and calling out it's name.

[Record of Ragnarok] Tesla points out that Beelzebub's attacks are science based, not magic. And yeah, most of his attacks are just him vibrating stuff quickly. But then there's Chaos, where he squeezes his staff, and summons a giant black dome, that destroys everything inside of it.

[Demon Slayer] I do not care if the author said that the effects from the Breathing Styles were just visual, and don't actually happen. Some of the things they do, would be physically impossible, if it was all just VFX. Like Rengoku hovering with fire, Muichiro disappearing into mist, and Mitsuri cutting the base of a giant wooden dragon, with her max 10 foot whip-sword, while at least 50 meters in the air.

The Rolling Giant from The Oldest View first pretends to be unable to move while being watched and then pretends to be unable to traverse escalators in order to make the protagonist corner himself, before revealing that it can easily do both.

Eldritch J / Absolute Solver from Murder Drones can project incredibly realistic holograms, but acts like it can only manage stuttery, translucent images while secretly imitating the protagonist's friend to manipulate her into giving away her gun.

Itachi from Naruto gets Mindf*cked by Solid JJ can instill completely lifelike visions that last perceived decades, but deliberately uses obviously fake tricks early on to make the protagonist let his guard down. I dunno if that happens in the real show, I never saw it.

1. Midnight Spider-Man (Marvel) - In the upcoming horror-themed Midnight comics this October of 2026, the Peter Parker of the story becomes Spider-Man by having a big mutant spider forcibly fused into his chest by Oscorp.

2. The Berserker Armor (Berserk) - A magical armor with the ability to suppresses its wearer's pain and fear, allowing them to bypass the limitations of their body, and even forcibly reinforces broken bones and other severe injuries. But it is hard to control as it absorbs the user's lifespan and cause a lot of stress, and it can make the user go into a rage if they can't check their negative emotions and doesn't stop fighting until they die of their injuries or blood loss.

1. Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent (SCP Wiki)

In the lore, the Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent is used as a final failsafe to prevent unauthorized access to the SCP-001 document. Anyone who sees it and isn't protected against it dies instantly.

1. Medusa's head (Greek Mythology)

In Greek Mythology, Medusa was a Gorgon, a monster born to the primordial sea gods Ceto and Phorcys. She was so hideous, that anyone who looked at her would turn into stone (ouch). She was eventually defeated by Perseus, who used a bronze mirror to view her without being afflicted by the curse. In some continuations of Greek Mythology, she would respawn in Tartarus, making her way back to the mortal world until she was eventually defeated in the same fashion by Percy Jackson.

1. SCP-096 (SCP Wiki)

Similar to Medusa, viewing the face of SCP-096 will cause it to become enraged and kill you. This effect applies to photographs of SCP-096, no matter how small the image of it is (See: Four Fucking Pixels). Furthermore, SCP-096's does not have to be consciously perceived for it to become enraged. In one tale, several members of a recontainment squad were killed after their goggles failed to filter out 096's face for a split second, leading to the mission nearly failing.

1. Red Screen of Death (Skibidi Toilet)

In Skibidi Toilet, one of the main weapons used to fight off the Skibidis is Titan TV Man, a giant humanoid mech with a TV for a head. One of the abilities he has is use its TV screen to display the Red Screen of Death, which as the name suggests, causes whoever views it to die.

Interestingly enough, instead of killing you outright, the RSOD instead causes intense psychological and physical pain, to the point where most victims outright kill themselves to avoid having to deal with more pain. Even so, strong willed individuals are able to resist its influence, though not without becoming incapacitated in the process.

1. Credits:

The Berryman Langford image was orignally uploaded to the internet by Kevin Dooley in 2017.

Medusa is a Greek Mythology Classic, but the earliest instance was mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony. The continuation I reference where she is killed again by Percy Jackson is by Rick Riordan

As far as I can tell, the SCP-096 photo was created by Teethsony3000.

Skibidi Toilet was originally and solely created by DaFuq!Boom on Youtube. 

Legend A Dragon Ball Tale: This version of Super Saiyan spits out flames and lights his head on fire to get the iconic golden hair (which is also fire in this version).

Lego Marvel Superheroes: There's a smaller Venom and bulkier Venom. To go from small to big, the big guy literally tears open the smaller one's body and jumps out of it.

Jujutsu Kaisen: The Instant Body of Distorted Killing. Mahito literally goes full Akira for a few seconds before suddenly popping up in his new form.

Sawatari ordering the snake demon to come out (Chainsaw Man)

Dio stopping time (Jojo Bizarre Adventure OVA)

Actually, in that scene, Oguri Cap is in the background; then it shows Special Week talking, and after that, it shows Oguri Cap's dish (Uma Musume Pretty Derby)