Kryptonite Is Everywhere/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Every opponent a hero faces has an immunity to their power.

  • Straight: Amazing Girl can breathe fire. However, every enemy she faces either wears fireproof armor or finds another way around it.
  • Exaggerated: Amazing Girl is a Reality Warper who can stop time. You'd think this would make her invincible, but all of her enemies have some countermeasure.
  • Justified: Amazing Girl's powers are well-known enough to where her enemies are able to prepare in advance.
  • Inverted: Amazing Girl's powers are pretty useless, but coincidences come up to where she wins the day anyway.
    • Alternatively, Amazing Girl's powers are fueled by Tropanium... which all of her enemies have for some reason or another.
  • Subverted: Emperor Evulz boasts that he has a fireproof cloak and that Amazing Girl is useless before him. She merely busts out a different power and kicks his ass.
  • Double Subverted: ...Those two powers are literally all she had.
  • Parodied: Amazing Girl only uses the fire powers because she's contractually obligated to - she uses them once, sees they don't work, then goes straight to fisticuffs.
  • Deconstructed: The forces of evil are Genre Savvy enough to prepare countermeasures against her powers - and with those in place, Amazing Girl is injured - or worse, killed.
  • Reconstructed: After being injured, Amazing Girl finds different ways to utilize her powers, or starts training to use other powers entirely.
  • Zig Zagged: Amazing Girl's powers aren't always useful; partially due to bad luck, and partly because the most dangerous enemies are the ones who can find a way around her powers, so she has to often mix her powerful abilities with a bit of wit and brains.
  • Averted: Some opponents employ countermeasures; others don't.
  • Enforced: "Crap, I just realized that the power I gave Amazing Girl is a total Story-Breaker Power! What do I do?" "...Well, you can write it to where all her enemies have a way around it." "...Genius!"
  • Lampshaded: "FIRE BREATH! ...No effect? This one, too?"
  • Invoked: Emperor Evulz, seeing that Amazing Girl is kicking his mooks' asses with her Fire Breath, starts assigning them fireproof armor.
  • Defied: "The fireproof armor trick was nice, but I came prepared too."
  • Discussed: "Why are my fire powers so useless all the time? Furthermore, why do I keep using them?"
  • Conversed: "I'd say take a shot every time Amazing Girl's powers run into a roadblock, but then we'd all go to the hospital."

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