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]] ==