Fight Off the Kryptonite: Difference between revisions

The character, usually surrounded by Kryptonite and severely weakened, in a lot of pain, and sometimes already badly injured, uses [[Heroic Willpower]] to work through the pain and proceed to save his own or his friends' lives, and kick the ass of the [[Smug Snake]] who thought they could just wave a rock in his face and win. This is a tough trope to use correctly: if overdone or used too often then the dramatic purpose of a [[Kryptonite Factor]] is lost. Hence, in extreme cases, this precipitates a case of [[Heroic RROD]] and ultimately a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] as the punishment his body has endured kills him. Or not.

 

 

To avoid excessive overlap with [[Heroic Willpower]], all examples must be of characters with a potentially deadly or disabling [[Kryptonite Factor]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': after his [[We Can Rebuild Him|conversion into a cyborg]], {{spoiler|Jeremiah Gottwald}} is caught in a "gefjon disturber", knocking out his electronic components. He still slowly struggles towards his target, even when he starts bleeding and his voice takes on an electronic edge. {{spoiler|How? Sheer badass ''[[Memetic Mutation|loyalty]]''.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Two good examples from ''[[Astro City]]'':

** {{spoiler|The Confessor's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice]] involves taking on men armed with {{spoiler|hologram cross-generators, guns that shoot giant wooden stakes, holy water, etc.}} and succeeding in revealing the [[Alien Invasion]] despite all this.

*** He wears a shirt {{spoiler|with a big, shiny cross on it}} because the constant pain this causes {{spoiler|helps him overcome the vampiric bloodlust.}}

** In the "Tarnished Angel" arc, once the conflicted [[Chrome Champion]] [[Reformed but Rejected|Steeljack]] finally realizes what he's fighting for and that he's the only one who can save everyone, he's able to overcome the special "vibro-magnetic" weapons that were used to take him down before.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** Justified in that most of the splinter had already been removed. Superman went above the clouds for a quick charge of sunlight, then went very deep beneath the Kryptonite and had a large layer of solid rock protecting him until the crystals started to poke through.

* Dracula in [[Van Helsing]] (and probably a few other incarnations, being the [[Badass]] vampire he is) does get burned by Van Helsing's silver crucifix, but just grabs it and melts it anyway.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** One episode in the first season, probably the first time this happened, is when a man dying of very violent super epileptic seizures due to having Kryptonite imbedded into his skin all over his body holds Luthor Corp, and a school trip class, hostage inside the building. In the end, Clark, who's been unable to get near him, manages to pull both him AND Lex Luthor to safety while in terrible pain from being so close. He saved the day.

* Jaffa from [[Stargate SG-1]] occasionally had to deal with the deadly 'kryptonite' factor of being without a symbiote (which acts as their immune system and accounts for their superhuman healing ability) for an extended period. This weakness eventually leads to widespread use of [[Tretonin]] to replace the dependance, including necessarily by Teal'C and Bra'tac {{spoiler|after Teal'C has to keep himself and Bra'tac, both injured and in bad mental shape after the Jaffa army they were leading has been decimated, alive with just one symbiote between them, which eventually gives out due to fatigue after they're both rescued.}}

 

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