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If a character has an [[Achilles' Heel]] -- and—and especially if they have a [[Weaksauce Weakness]] -- inevitably—inevitably an opponent comes along who is basically made of or otherwise works solely in the medium of Weaksauce. Examples abound, especially in [[DC Comics]]. This trope is essentially the ultra-specific, ultra-literalist version of [[Good Hurts Evil]] or [[No Man of Woman Born]]. Less commonly, a character with no existing vulnerability ends up against a character who introduces a unique weakness of theirs.
 
For obvious reasons, this is primarily a [[Comic Book Tropes|Comic Book Trope]].
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** Needless to say, it ''[[Weaksauce Weakness|really]]'' sucks if your greatest weakness is [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|a primary color]].
* The original Venom was [[Spider-Man]]'s worst enemy because he had all his powers, wouldn't trigger his [[Spider Sense]], ''and'' knew he was Peter Parker. If the symbiote didn't have a few weaknesses of it's own it would have been unbeatable.
** The second type of this trope is the basis of original Venom [[Spider-Man|Eddie Brock's]] new identity Anti-Venom, whose primary power is to destroy the Venom symbiote. However, Brock also has more general "purification" powers that remove any foreign or artificial enhancements from others. In essence, he's a type 2 [[Man of Kryptonite]] for ''everyone''.
** The black suit that eventually became Venom had two weaknesses: fire and sonic attacks. Wouldn't you know it, the short time he had the suit was the only time [[Spider-Man]] encountered Humbug, a villain whose power was sonic attacks.
* Nemesis Kid, a ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' villain, ''consciously'' adapts whatever power he needed to defeat a single foe. If he guesses wrong, he's screwed. He ended up having his neck snapped by a vengeful Queen Projectra, having adapted immunity to her illusion powers, and she used the martial arts training her husband (the aptly named Karate Kid) had given her over the course of their marriage to kill him with her bare hands.
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