Most broken character/powers?

[Thunderous Cacophony]

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.

They don't have an internal digestive system, true, but I think they still have the base instincts to devour (if nothing else, the Ripper Swarms do). And I don't think that the reincarnation ability would get absorbed (as that's a demonic gift) but consuming a Space Marine, with all their neat mutations and biological systems, should be pretty good for any Hive Fleet that isn't scarfing down Ultramarines like popcorn. Let alone if the reincarnation transforms him entirely, making him a 10,000 year old experiment in genetic engineering, full of perfect gene seed that hasn't been widely seen in millennia. You can't say that the Tyranids wouldn't get something good out of that, or that Hive Mind wouldn't recognize the value of the inclusion of such DNA.

 

[Twintix]

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.

Mmmm, true, but she's got a limit on that power, doesn't she? She can't do it indefinitely, if I remember it correctly. Yukari doesn't have any restraints like that, I believe.

Or maybe Reimu's just playing fair? Danmaku is just a game, after all.

 

[Eddie the head]

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You could have cheeked and seen if someone had made that exact same remark. I have no problem with that explanation, like I said it's kind of silly, but that comes with the territory.

The dead body would become a living Lucius.

That's just kind of stupid. What if you where incinerated would your ashes turn into him? Ehh whatever it's 40K.

 

[CommanderL]

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!

to be honest I always so yakones blood bending family to be a sort of like combustion man combustion man did things no other fire bender could do

 

[Avalanche91]

Team Rocket: practical immortality

Metaknight in SSBB

Bec Noire and Lord English from Homestuck I guess. The former killed an entire universe in moments (after he was done stabbing people to death) and the latter is a threat to reality itself and can even kill ghosts because of reasons.

And usually the avatar in any of the avatar shows. I know its kind of the point, but the Avatar state is basically the win button.

 

[Megalodon]

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.

That's specifically rippers and other late invasion consumption organisms. The regular combat beasties remain active for long periods during an invasion (assuming resistance of course), and therefore do consume their prey for sustenance. This goers double for scout organisms like Genestealers and Lictors.

I'm somewhat surprised 40k got this much of a mention without bringing up Kaldor Draigo, The most stupid, overpowered Mary Sue excuse for a character Mat Ward has ever inflicted on us.

 

[Asclepion]

I'm somewhat surprised 40k got this much of a mention without bringing up Kaldor Draigo, The most stupid, overpowered Mary Sue excuse for a character Mat Ward has ever inflicted on us.

OP wanted overpowered abilities.

We could also mention CREEEEEEEEEED!

 

[Megalodon]

I'm somewhat surprised 40k got this much of a mention without bringing up Kaldor Draigo, The most stupid, overpowered Mary Sue excuse for a character Mat Ward has ever inflicted on us.

OP wanted overpowered abilities.

We could also mention CREEEEEEEEEED!

To be fair, OP wanted " characters or powers that just seem well.... broken", and I'd say Draigo's fluff counts.

Does fanon really count though? CREEEEEEED! was the fans taking a pretty good tabletop ability, and running with it to hilariously ridiculous extremes.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Yeah Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 had a few headscratcher stand powers, I had no fucking idea how King Crimson or Gold Experience requiem worked the first time I read it, GER is still a headscratcher for me to be entirely honest.
Hmm and most OP? Well Im going to say Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen, that guy can literally do anything, we're just lucky that he doesnt

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.

Dont forget Bite the Dust, his easily most broken power which also leads to some of my favourite ever Jojo chapters

 

[Mangod]

I'm somewhat surprised 40k got this much of a mention without bringing up Kaldor Draigo, The most stupid, overpowered Mary Sue excuse for a character Mat Ward has ever inflicted on us.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS KALDOR DRAIGO! HE DOESN'T EXIST! STOP BRINGING UP THINGS THAT DON'T EXIST!

... yeah, we don't like to bring up Kaldor Draigo.

Edit: Any Dragon from Warmachine/Hordes. Unless they're fighting another Dragon, they are literally unkillable.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I'm not even sure how much of this is actually comic book canon, but Professor X in the X-Men movies.

In addition to the fact that he can mind-control just about anyone, he can seemingly freeze time (as he did in X-Men 2) and with Cerebro he can quite literally kill every living thing on the planet with a thought.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Yeah Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 had a few headscratcher stand powers, I had no fucking idea how King Crimson or Gold Experience requiem worked the first time I read it, GER is still a headscratcher for me to be entirely honest.
Hmm and most OP? Well Im going to say Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen, that guy can literally do anything, we're just lucky that he doesnt

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.

Dont forget Bite the Dust, his easily most broken power which also leads to some of my favourite ever Jojo chapters

Kira was easily the best JoJo villain. The final battle was great and that 'thing' that happened to Okuyasu is easily my higlight of the entire series.

 

[Storm Dragon]

Doctor Manhattan, no contest. He has perfect control over energy and matter, allowing him to literally do anything that doesn't violate the laws of physics.

 

[Auberon]

Going with DC universe, Yahweh or his granddaughter who took over the job. Of course mainstream treats Vertigo as non-canon. If someone closer to Doctor Manhattan, Samael has only one weakness of existing matter - which is Michael's shtick.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

So nobody's mentioned Pun-Pun the Destroyer; D&D 3.5's uber munchkin. A Kobold character made to bitchslap everything in D&D 3.5. I'm surprised.

 

[Sheen Lantern]

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

Err...That's really more a case of Batman being underpowered, this is what happens when you match up a planetary level hero with a street-leveler.

 

[Liffguard]

Contessa from the web-serial "Worm." Her superpower is that she sees the path to victory. For any goal or end-state she wants to realise, her power provides her with an infallible step-by-step plan that updates in real-time and that she understands intuitively.

 

[ExtraDebit]

One Punch Man, He can beat anything, anyone with just one punch, gg.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Elder Scrolls games. The way the character can just freeze time and equip items/drink potions et cetera. It's not just a shitty ill-thought out game mechanic either, it's apparently part of the lore that allows the protagonists to do it. I mostly like Elder Scrolls lore, but that part is just so silly. And that argument doesn't work for Fallout 3 either.

To my knowledge there isn't much lore to support the mechanic beyond the basic metaphysics of the universe. In times of great change when the Elder Scrolls are at their most chaotic (The scrolls tell all that can or will ever have happend) a dragon break tends to occur and linear time is itself sundered. The first known example was when Alduin (The evil dragon in Skyrim) was sent through time by an Elder Scroll. During these events, there are many different entirely accurate stories about how a particular thing happened (or failed to happen). Functionally, this means that all possible scenarios of the monumental crisis actually played out simultaneously until, at some point, the crisis is resolved. Thus you get a point where the dragon break occurred and everything made sense, the point at which it ended and everything also makes sense (even if it doesn't) and a whole bit in between where everything that could have happened, well, happened.

One could thus interpret the Dragon Break as basically the actions of the player but this better relates to their ability to save and reload than stop time to eat a snack of quaff a potion.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Or maybe Reimu's just playing fair? Danmaku is just a game, after all.

Got it in one. The only reason Fantasy Heaven has a time limit is because, like I said, otherwise it's not even close to fair.