Most broken character/powers?

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Most people don't know about Lucius reincarnating like this. It's like... you meet a warband led by a guy named Lucius the Eternal. Naturally, you assume that it's just a sobriquet, like the Butcher or the Conqueror. So, you kill him in a duel, his followers retreat, and that's that; another foul servant of Chaos slain for the glory of the God-Emperor!

Couple of days later, your men start to comment that you don't look too good. You're face is showing lines all over, your hair's started to come out, and you seem increasingly short with your subordinates.

Couple of days after that, everyone in your platoon is dead, Lucius is back amongst the living, and your face is he latest to get added to the many people who have slain Lucius in the past, and whos faces now adorn his armor, forever twisted in a look of torment and horror. Lucius' ability is pretty broken, because almost no-one, certainly none of his enemies, know about his ability to reincarnate through his enemies.

Just wondering...do 'nids feel pride? Omnomnomnomnom

 

[Tony2077]

Anime in general has some real doozies who would be unstoppable until they stop to boast.

To wit, one ex-Captain Sosuke Aizen of Bleach fame, or more accurately his sword's special power (though he is also probably the most skilled swordsman and spellcaster in that universe too). It is 'perfect hypnosis', the ability to generate flawless illusions of sight, sound, touch or even smell and taste. He can place this on you if you so much as look at his sword while he is activating it. One small weakness is that it can't be used on the blind, but how many blind people could match his other skills?

He is generally subtle in using it, knowing that suddenly changing someone's surroundings could make them aware that they've been hypnotized, but in battles where all combatants can zip around at supersonic speeds, it's simple enough to swap someone's perception of the location of a friend and foe, or worse. Once you're caught, you can never be completely sure what is real ever again. Combined with everything else he could do, the only way possible way for him to lose was for him to trade in his sword's power for a power he considered to be something better at the time. It wasn't.

There was another villain in the same series' next arc who had similarly formidable brainwashing abilities, but at least he had to actually hit you with his sword once for it to work.

Still, not sure if either of those would be any match for the power to reverse anything to zero, particularly since it sounds like Giorno doesn't even have to be aware that something's wrong with his perception for his power to undo the hypnosis or heal sword wounds.

You think Aizen is bad, you should see what Accelerator does in the Index anime


Actually Accelerator is a mini god, capable of using vector manipulation to control the world around him. As the man himself said "the atmosphere itself is my weapon

Spoiler: Plasma storm generated, spoiler for space

Yes, that's the entire city below it

Other feats include altering and interacting with magic, something other espers in that verse can't do without killing themselves, and can do so to combat Archangel Gabriel (yes, the same one that destroyed Sadom and Gammorah), defeating an esper whose power, "Dark Matter" [http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kakine_Teitoku#Dark_Matter], allows him to create a substance whose physical properties and laws are entirely at his beck and call to the point that it violates our present laws, and, in the light novels, punching a building so hard that the earth slowed by 5 minutes.

Yeah, the Index verse is full of OP characters, I can't imagine the reaction to Fiamma of the Right and his ability, the Holy Right.

well its lucky that some of those are in the middle or good side. i'm not sure what kind of power touma has hidden away

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Most people don't know about Lucius reincarnating like this. It's like... you meet a warband led by a guy named Lucius the Eternal. Naturally, you assume that it's just a sobriquet, like the Butcher or the Conqueror. So, you kill him in a duel, his followers retreat, and that's that; another foul servant of Chaos slain for the glory of the God-Emperor!

Couple of days later, your men start to comment that you don't look too good. You're face is showing lines all over, your hair's started to come out, and you seem increasingly short with your subordinates.

Couple of days after that, everyone in your platoon is dead, Lucius is back amongst the living, and your face is he latest to get added to the many people who have slain Lucius in the past, and whos faces now adorn his armor, forever twisted in a look of torment and horror. Lucius' ability is pretty broken, because almost no-one, certainly none of his enemies, know about his ability to reincarnate through his enemies.

Just wondering...do 'nids feel pride? Omnomnomnomnom

I'm not sure about pride per se- the individual gaunt or whatever might feel satisfaction for the meal, and the hive mind might feel a more complex emotion like pride about absorbing such an individual's talents into the Tyranid horde.

Oh, Emperor protect us from Lucius coming back in the form of a splinter fleet.

OT: I've only seen a couple episodes of it, but the alchemists of Full Metal Alchemy appear to be horribly broken. They talk a lot about equivalent exchange, but literally every alchemist they have met (at this point, the brothers, the priest, and the old man with the rose girl) seems to be able to whip out magic in any way they want at any time. They don't seem to need to draw pentagrams or otherwise prepare- they just slap their hands on the wall and turn stone into metal doors, or conjure fireballs, or otherwise generate large amounts of energy and matter with almost no effort.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Gold Experience Reqiuem: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

The only thing as broken as GER is CHIM from The Elder Scrolls.

CHIM is the realization that all the universe is a dream of the Godhead, and that because of that there is no such thing as individuality, since its all just the dream, however, even after accepting that, one says I AM, thus retaining individuality even after denying it.

This allows the person who achieved CHIM to enter a state of lucid dreaming so to speak, one literally exists alongside GOD.

Power include
-Being able to stop time
-Being able to come back to life , even before you died.
-Access to the ability to literally reshape the universe and anything you want at a whim

Nothing can touch a CHIMed person, the Daedric princes, and the Aedra gods, are powerless before them.

In a fight with GER it would depend if the CHIM master can delete GER faster then GER can negate it.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

I would have to give that award to Yukari Yakumo from Touhou.

I think you're forgetting someone.

Reimu Hakurei's stated power is 'flight', which doesn't seem that ridiculous or even that outstanding in a world where everyone can fly already. However, she has the ability to fly away from reality, leaving her completely immune to any outside influence. Even if Yukari changes where the border of reality is, Reimu will continue to float outside it.

And this is how she is normally. She has to constantly hold herself down in reality in order to make her fights even close to fair.

 

[syaoran728]

Anime in general has some real doozies who would be unstoppable until they stop to boast.

To wit, one ex-Captain Sosuke Aizen of Bleach fame, or more accurately his sword's special power (though he is also probably the most skilled swordsman and spellcaster in that universe too). It is 'perfect hypnosis', the ability to generate flawless illusions of sight, sound, touch or even smell and taste. He can place this on you if you so much as look at his sword while he is activating it. One small weakness is that it can't be used on the blind, but how many blind people could match his other skills?

He is generally subtle in using it, knowing that suddenly changing someone's surroundings could make them aware that they've been hypnotized, but in battles where all combatants can zip around at supersonic speeds, it's simple enough to swap someone's perception of the location of a friend and foe, or worse. Once you're caught, you can never be completely sure what is real ever again. Combined with everything else he could do, the only way possible way for him to lose was for him to trade in his sword's power for a power he considered to be something better at the time. It wasn't.

There was another villain in the same series' next arc who had similarly formidable brainwashing abilities, but at least he had to actually hit you with his sword once for it to work.

Still, not sure if either of those would be any match for the power to reverse anything to zero, particularly since it sounds like Giorno doesn't even have to be aware that something's wrong with his perception for his power to undo the hypnosis or heal sword wounds.

You think Aizen is bad, you should see what Accelerator does in the Index anime


Actually Accelerator is a mini god, capable of using vector manipulation to control the world around him. As the man himself said "the atmosphere itself is my weapon

Spoiler: Plasma storm generated, spoiler for space

Yes, that's the entire city below it

Other feats include altering and interacting with magic, something other espers in that verse can't do without killing themselves, and can do so to combat Archangel Gabriel (yes, the same one that destroyed Sadom and Gammorah), defeating an esper whose power, "Dark Matter" [http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kakine_Teitoku#Dark_Matter], allows him to create a substance whose physical properties and laws are entirely at his beck and call to the point that it violates our present laws, and, in the light novels, punching a building so hard that the earth slowed by 5 minutes.

Yeah, the Index verse is full of OP characters, I can't imagine the reaction to Fiamma of the Right and his ability, the Holy Right.

Accelerator and Fiamma aren't as bad once Orthinus starts hanging around, since she's more or a literal god. Hell each and every participant in Vol. 10 of New Testament is absurdly over powered.

 

[Lilani]

Superman is the most classic example of this. The new batman superman movie will consist of

Batman: do you want me to throw a baterang at some dudes supes?
Superman: nah its good ill just use my super strength

Batman: do you want a lift in my new batplane
Superman: nah its good ill just fly alongside

Batman: do you want me to use me x-ray goggles
Superman: nah its good ill use my x-ray vison

Batman: do you want me to do anything
Superman: ok you can throw a baterang now

Spoiler: parody of an overpowered character with an underpowered sidekick

To be fair, the Avengers managed to well balance gods and indestructible monsters with normal human beings on the same team, and gave them a challenge that they only could have taken down together. The problem is, given how Man of Steel went, I'm not sure if they have the kind of writing and planning skills to set something like that up. They didn't know how to use Superman properly, and I don't feel like throwing Batman into the fray is the solution to that problem.

 

[Mr Companion]

To me that would be Madara and the whole Shirigam from Naruto. He is so OP that I am baffle at how he was defeated in the first place and don't get me started on the current manga situation.

Spoiler

Ok so Naruto and Sasuke were bestored with god like powers from the sage himself who is like an god and that wasn't enough to beat Madara. It turn out the only way to beat Madara is the sage mother!

Yeah this whole "infinite chakra" bulls**t is really starting to get on my nerves. Why would being reanimated provide infinite chakra? Where IS it all coming from? Surely if that were true they wouldn't have been able to win the war in the first place because all the old warriors would just be able to spam their most powerful moves over and over?

It's even more baffling now Kabuto isn't doing it. So wait Madara knew the handsigns to undo the reanimation but we already established that undoing it kills everybody who is reanimated. How does undoing it half way through somebody else undoing it make you invincible and omnipotent? How the smeg did 1st Hokage beat him with that sh**ty wood style nonsense that never does anything? The problem isn't even that Madara is OP it's the reanimation. Madara would meerly be really really powerful were it not for being invincible and being able to spam the most powerful s**t over and over. It makes the combat dull to watch because you know he doesn't have to hold back or use tactics he can just shoot magic out until everything in a fifty mile radius is obliterated.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

Anime in general has some real doozies who would be unstoppable until they stop to boast.

To wit, one ex-Captain Sosuke Aizen of Bleach fame, or more accurately his sword's special power (though he is also probably the most skilled swordsman and spellcaster in that universe too). It is 'perfect hypnosis', the ability to generate flawless illusions of sight, sound, touch or even smell and taste. He can place this on you if you so much as look at his sword while he is activating it. One small weakness is that it can't be used on the blind, but how many blind people could match his other skills?

He is generally subtle in using it, knowing that suddenly changing someone's surroundings could make them aware that they've been hypnotized, but in battles where all combatants can zip around at supersonic speeds, it's simple enough to swap someone's perception of the location of a friend and foe, or worse. Once you're caught, you can never be completely sure what is real ever again. Combined with everything else he could do, the only way possible way for him to lose was for him to trade in his sword's power for a power he considered to be something better at the time. It wasn't.

There was another villain in the same series' next arc who had similarly formidable brainwashing abilities, but at least he had to actually hit you with his sword once for it to work.

Still, not sure if either of those would be any match for the power to reverse anything to zero, particularly since it sounds like Giorno doesn't even have to be aware that something's wrong with his perception for his power to undo the hypnosis or heal sword wounds.

You think Aizen is bad, you should see what Accelerator does in the Index anime


Actually Accelerator is a mini god, capable of using vector manipulation to control the world around him. As the man himself said "the atmosphere itself is my weapon

Spoiler: Plasma storm generated, spoiler for space

Yes, that's the entire city below it

Other feats include altering and interacting with magic, something other espers in that verse can't do without killing themselves, and can do so to combat Archangel Gabriel (yes, the same one that destroyed Sadom and Gammorah), defeating an esper whose power, "Dark Matter" [http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kakine_Teitoku#Dark_Matter], allows him to create a substance whose physical properties and laws are entirely at his beck and call to the point that it violates our present laws, and, in the light novels, punching a building so hard that the earth slowed by 5 minutes.

Yeah, the Index verse is full of OP characters, I can't imagine the reaction to Fiamma of the Right and his ability, the Holy Right.

Accelerator and Fiamma aren't as bad once Orthinus starts hanging around, since she's more or a literal god. Hell each and every participant in Vol. 10 of New Testament is absurdly over powered.

True but still, Before the introduction of Orthinus, Acceelrator and Fiamma are among the strongest of their factions.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Samuel Haight:

A little History. Through the 1990s White Wolf Puplishing released a bunch of tabletop RPGs collectively called the World of Darkness. It was a modern urban Gothic horror game focused mainly on the conflicts between the various supernatural factions that exist along side humanity. Imagine the Underwold movies, but significantly less shit.

The WoD was made of a bunch of games that had a unified metaplot, but the most important here are primary games:


Vampire: The Masquerade
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Mage: The Ascension
and
Wraith: The Oblivion,

One of the big name villains that cropped up in all the games was this chucklehead named Samuel Haight.
Through a series of events too complicated and stupid to expand upon he was essentially the A werewolf, turned Vampire, who learned magic and then got himself killed and came back as a vengeful ghost.

He's the World of Darkness' official MinMaxer and he's stupid.

Quite frankly I'm amazed they managed to show restraint and avoided making him a Demon, Mummy Faerie to as well.

 

[chaser5000]

To be fair, the Avengers managed to well balance gods and indestructible monsters with normal human beings on the same team, and gave them a challenge that they only could have taken down together. The problem is, given how Man of Steel went, I'm not sure if they have the kind of writing and planning skills to set something like that up. They didn't know how to use Superman properly, and I don't feel like throwing Batman into the fray is the solution to that problem.

Honestly I don't even think it's a matter of writing, it's all about the planning and I don't think WB has really done any.

OT: Wolverine(since sharinggan has already been called out), the ability to heal any wound and indestructible bones.

 

[Remus]

Jean Grey from the first 3 x-men movies. Particularly the last film. She basically had the power over the entire friggin' universe. As in, the power over molecules. That means you can alter reality itself. You're basically a god if you can develop that ability enough. Which pissed me off in the movie, as the only thing she ever did there was disassemble molecular structures, making things/people 'dissolve'.

And yet this is still a pale shadow in comparison to the power she had in the comics. In her current iteration, as a young, time-trapped teenager transposed into the modern times, she has gone head-on against Gladiator - one of Marvel's Superman knockoffs - and won. As the Phoenix, her power is second only to the Living Tribunal- basically the living embodiment of all things in the universe and source of the infinity gems, and possibly one schizophrenic reality warper (Wanda Maximoff). Her power is pulled from the lifeforce of beings yet to exist so by using that power she may in fact be causing genocide as a side effect. With this power she can wipe out star systems by devouring the stars, travel through time, alter events in the future by planting psychic suggestions in the past, power or depower mutants and other supers, raise the dead, basically do anything she can think of. When this power was split among the x-men they effectively forced world peace upon the planet, which it promptly rejected of course. Phoenix stories are relatively few and far between because writers don't know what to do with a being that powerful if the story is not purely about her.

 

[Ieyke]

Lucius the Eternal from Warhammer 40k.

Lucius the Eternal is the Champion of the Chaos God Slaanesh and a Lord Commander of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion. Lucius has been blessed by Slaanesh so that when he is slain, no easy task in itself, his killer will eventually transform into Lucius if he takes any pleasure or satisfaction from the killing.

From the 40k wiki:

Lucius is able to constantly reincarnate within the body of any being that manages to kill him, effectively making him immortal. So long as the killer takes some measure of satisfaction from the victory over Lucius, this will result in the victor's body transforming and their soul becoming trapped in Lucius' suit of Power Armour, a daemonic artefact known as the Armour of Shrieking Souls. This armour draws its hellish strength from the thousands of souls trapped within it, providing Lucius with enhanced protection from any onslaught he encounters. Lucius is also able to focus the residual energies of the imprisoned souls' torment into a lethal sonic crescendo on an opponent's mind at will, causing the foe immense pain. Lucius' ancient Mk 4 Power Armour is all but hidden under a writhing skin of tortured flesh.

What if the person where to kill themselves like 2 sec after killing him? Even if they feel some satisfaction form killing him, I don't think you would feel well anything after killing yourself. And even if you did so? Your dead body will transform into him. So he would become a dead body. Killed by himself so nowhere to go form there. How it's described it doesn't appear to be that broken. Unless there is some BS reason that wouldn't work.

The dead body would become a living Lucius.

Lucius isn't actually that broken. Any Tyranid and many Necrons can kill him and it wouldn't matter. They don't feel pride or satisfaction. Tyranids fell only an insatiable hunger and most Necrons feel only hate for the living.
Unknowingly kill him with artillery fire and he wouldn't matter.
Bomb the area and he happens to be in it and he wouldn't matter.
etc.

 

[Samael Barghest]

I'm going with my favorite power in the world. Gambit's bio-kinetic energy manipulation. Face it. When you power is the ability to turn every thing that's not living into a bomb, you're unstoppable. Not to mention when his powers mutated, he could turn himself into pure energy and traverse time.

 

[Ieyke]

Jean Grey from the first 3 x-men movies. Particularly the last film. She basically had the power over the entire friggin' universe. As in, the power over molecules. That means you can alter reality itself. You're basically a god if you can develop that ability enough. Which pissed me off in the movie, as the only thing she ever did there was disassemble molecular structures, making things/people 'dissolve'.

And yet this is still a pale shadow in comparison to the power she had in the comics. In her current iteration, as a young, time-trapped teenager transposed into the modern times, she has gone head-on against Gladiator - one of Marvel's Superman knockoffs - and won. As the Phoenix, her power is second only to the Living Tribunal- basically the living embodiment of all things in the universe and source of the infinity gems, and possibly one schizophrenic reality warper (Wanda Maximoff). Her power is pulled from the lifeforce of beings yet to exist so by using that power she may in fact be causing genocide as a side effect. With this power she can wipe out star systems by devouring the stars, travel through time, alter events in the future by planting psychic suggestions in the past, power or depower mutants and other supers, raise the dead, basically do anything she can think of. When this power was split among the x-men they effectively forced world peace upon the planet, which it promptly rejected of course. Phoenix stories are relatively few and far between because writers don't know what to do with a being that powerful if the story is not purely about her.

There are a whole mess of beings more powerful than Phoenix.
The One-Above-All, The Living Tribunal, Eternity, Infinity, Galactus, Death, Abraxus, Mistress Love, Lord Chaos, Master Order, Odin, Zeus, the other Skyfathers, all the Celestials, anyone with the Infinity Gauntlet, The Stranger, The Beyonder, Stephen Strange(the most powerful [non-god] humanoid in the cosmos), and probably Doctor Doom (Strange's near-equal).

She's actually just a notch above Silver Surfer.

The Phoenix Force itself is potentially a lot more powerful than Phoenix, but nothing ever seems to be capable of doing much with it.

 

[Mangod]

Most people don't know about Lucius reincarnating like this. It's like... you meet a warband led by a guy named Lucius the Eternal. Naturally, you assume that it's just a sobriquet, like the Butcher or the Conqueror. So, you kill him in a duel, his followers retreat, and that's that; another foul servant of Chaos slain for the glory of the God-Emperor!

Couple of days later, your men start to comment that you don't look too good. You're face is showing lines all over, your hair's started to come out, and you seem increasingly short with your subordinates.

Couple of days after that, everyone in your platoon is dead, Lucius is back amongst the living, and your face is he latest to get added to the many people who have slain Lucius in the past, and whos faces now adorn his armor, forever twisted in a look of torment and horror. Lucius' ability is pretty broken, because almost no-one, certainly none of his enemies, know about his ability to reincarnate through his enemies.

Just wondering...do 'nids feel pride? Omnomnomnomnom

I'm not sure about pride per se- the individual gaunt or whatever might feel satisfaction for the meal, and the hive mind might feel a more complex emotion like pride about absorbing such an individual's talents into the Tyranid horde.

Oh, Emperor protect us from Lucius coming back in the form of a splinter fleet.

Tyranids don't have a digestive system. No, really, most tyranids are just spawned for a single battle, and after they've won, they throw themselves into acid pools and get reabsorbed by the Hive Fleet that spawned them.

As for Lucius' reincarnation ability getting absorbed... I highly doubt that it's genetic, and the Tyranids need DNA in order to tamper with their own genetic structure. Not that they need reincarnation from him, since they already more-or-less possess that ability.

 

[Ieyke]

The most broken character is Superman Prime.
/story

Gods are meant to be gods, so Living Tribunal and friends, whatever.

But Superman Prime? He's a SUPERHERO. WHO HAPPENS TO BE AS POWERFUL AS A GOD.
Literally Omnipotent and Omniscient. And fast enough to be all but Omnipresent.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Blood benders in first season of Korra. Now, I think that Amon is one of the greatest villains ever, but the blood bending power he and his family posses is just freaking insane. In Legend of Aang it was established that blood bending is an incredibly powerful variant of water bending that is possible to do only during the full moon, when a water bender is at his peak. Cue Legend of Korra and Yakone manages to blood bend an entire court room with hundreds of people including the AVATAR without even looking at them!

 

[Gatx]

Anime in general has some real doozies who would be unstoppable until they stop to boast.

To wit, one ex-Captain Sosuke Aizen of Bleach fame, or more accurately his sword's special power (though he is also probably the most skilled swordsman and spellcaster in that universe too). It is 'perfect hypnosis', the ability to generate flawless illusions of sight, sound, touch or even smell and taste. He can place this on you if you so much as look at his sword while he is activating it. One small weakness is that it can't be used on the blind, but how many blind people could match his other skills?

Theoretically the Quincy Gremmy Thoumeaux from Bleach is ridiculously overpowered, his ability being to materialize whatever he imagines into existence, and not just physical things but abstract concepts like winning or losing a fight. Unfortunately he mainly uses this God-like power (he can even create life) to throw/shoot things at people. What that power has to do with using bows to eradicate Hollows from all existence rather than purifying them is beyond me but whatever.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I'm going with my favorite power in the world. Gambit's bio-kinetic energy manipulation. Face it. When you power is the ability to turn every thing that's not living into a bomb, you're unstoppable. Not to mention when his powers mutated, he could turn himself into pure energy and traverse time.

Killer Queen's power is pretty similar to Gambit, hell it even works with people.

Killer Queen's abilities mostly involve explosions. Its primary bombs are actually booby traps; that is, anything touched by Killer Queen, no matter whether it's a doorknob, a coin, or even a human body, will be charged with explosive energy. When someone touches it, the energy will be conducted into them, creating an internal explosion that completely wipes out the target. On occasion, it will charge an object not to conduct explosive energy, but simply to explode when Kira finds the time to be right.