Most broken character/powers?

[SajuukKhar]

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.

Dragonbreaks are actually an entirely different event to what BathorysGraveland2 was talking about, and having nothing to do with brining yourself back to life via CHIM.

Also, sending Alduin forward in time wasn't a dragonbreak, as time was not made unliner because of it.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Another good one just occurred to me:

Spoiler: The Primagen from Turok

Doesn't look like much, does he? In that pic I'd say he even looks kind of sad, with his huge brain exposed... However, in the books he eventually gained the ability to roll back time whenever he felt like it. Even before that, his skewed sense of time allowed him to experience years of past and future in the same instant, so he could predict events years ahead of schedule (though acting on them would change the outcome in a way he couldn't see a la Dr. Manhattan). Even when slain, he can undo it with his last breath and retreat from whatever killed him before the fight even starts.

The only way to beat him, at least for a mortal Dinosaur Hunter equipped with nuclear warheads and a fusion cannon, was to offer him what he wanted... which was to go home, albeit in a way that didn't involve destroying every other dimension. Yes, the only way to win this time was to give the bad guy what he wanted, and in a way that he couldn't predict you doing.

In the game, he's nerfed big time and his power merely manifests as a healing factor capable of restoring his health to full if he's allowed to. This combined with the energy beams, size and stamina you'd expect from a final boss made him the hardest opponent in any Turok game.

 

[sXeth]

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'.

Any telekinetic super-being generally would be overpowered. On a theoretical level they could use almost any power (except some amount of telepathy) barring arbitrary restrictions. You could telekinetically stimulate someones hearing to completely incapacitate them fairly readily with an grade 10 understanding of how people hear, for instance. Or tie their eyelashes shut to blind them. Creating a static discharge (shooting lightning) is another things that pretty simple if you can magically control everything nearby.

 

[sanquin]

Any telekinetic super-being generally would be overpowered. On a theoretical level they could use almost any power (except some amount of telepathy) barring arbitrary restrictions. You could telekinetically stimulate someones hearing to completely incapacitate them fairly readily with an grade 10 understanding of how people hear, for instance. Or tie their eyelashes shut to blind them. Creating a static discharge (shooting lightning) is another things that pretty simple if you can magically control everything nearby.

Telekinesis usually doesn't allow for very precise movement (like trying eyelashes), or movement on microscopic levels. A general rule seems to be that you need to be able to see the object. Though then again, I've never been that knowledgeable about all the comic universe lore. Usually, the ability is portrayed as "I see that object, then use my mind to crudely make it move." Jean Grey's ability wasn't just being able to move things in the movies. It was superficially said that she had the power over molecules. Which suggests not just moving them, but also changing their structure. Which means she could technically literally create anything from thin air, even something like Galactus if she knew what molecules he was made of. Heck, she's basically also be invulnerable and immortal. As she can just dissipate or send back whatever molecules any attack might throw at her. And she could keep altering her body to stay the same age, become younger or become older as much as she wanted. Heck even turn herself into another person or even an alien race. Instead, all they showed was her levitating some stuff and breaking molecular bonds making things 'dissolve' into the air. Not counting how much of a wuss she was compared to the phoenix from the comics, she's supposed to be this super powerful mutant. Godlike even. Yet all we get is some lame levitation and some pretty CGI shots for the camera.

Anyway, my point was, I consider Jean's supposed powers from the movies pretty overpowered.

 

[RavingSturm]

Whis from DBZ:Battle of the Gods. After Bills kicks Goku's butt its revealed that Whis is Bill's MA instructor. Also Whis just needs to tap Bills to put him to sleep.

 

[Mikeyfell]

How about the Rainbow Power from My Little Pony?
Do people on the Escapist still hate My Little Pony? I don't even care.

The Rainbow Power managed to put down Terric with out even exerting the slightest amount of effort

And let's examine how much power Terric had.
he absorbed the combine magic of every pony, unicorn and Pegasus
Celestia and Luna who are strong enough to move the sun and moon
Discord who is strong enough to beat Celestia and Luna
All 6 of the Elements of Harmony which are strong enough to kick Discord's ass
and Cadence who is strong enough to beat the entire changeling army, and Chrysalis, who is stronger than Celestia

I mean that redefines OP


Also Rita from Tales of Vesperia.

TIDAL WAVE!

 

[Tono Makt]

One of the big problems with a topic like this is that it tends to devolve into a discussion about characters who have been written by a large number of writers, sometimes over 3 mediums (Written (comics, books), TV (Live action and Animated), and Movies in particular, with many including Video Games as well) which have different requirements of the audience and of the medium.

Comic audiences are quite used to characters being "Repowered" when a new writer takes over. "Phoenix is too powerful, and Jean Grey is dead! So... resurrect her without any memory of her time as Phoenix. BRILLIANT!" and we comic fans go with it because it's becoming an industry standard. Or when a new wrinkle is introduced into a character out of the blue. "Wolverine's claws... are ALL NATURAL! And the adamantium has been retarding his healing factor - now that he's lost his skeleton he can regenerate FASTER than ever!" Then things get retconned, ignored, poorly explained or otherwise changed when something else comes up. Not to mention simply ignored for dramatic effect; in Comic 103, Black Wolf can smell a child in terror three kilometers down river while Black Wolf is literally being soaked in whiskey. But in Comic 137, Dirtypool sneaks up on a fully sober, fully clean Black Wolf and Black Wolf can't smell Dirtypool because DRAMATIC LICENSE! BW should be able to smell DP sneaking up on him without much effort given what we know of his Powers, yet the new writer wants to make a dramatic fight scene between the two so he ignores the powers of BW for that scene. (or part of it) We still ***** about them and roll our eyes, but we're willing to suspend our disbelief much more often than other audiences.

TV audiences don't accept this nearly as much as comic audiences. You also have the problem of having to actually show the audience what's happening - when you have a live-action version of X-Men (Generation X) you can't have a character doing the same things as they do in the comics - there's limits to our technology that stops us from showing the showier powers, and even those limits that can be gotten around can be more expensive than a TV show can afford. So you have to find a way to de-power the character for TV (and to a lesser extent, movies - bigger budget but still limited) so you have the comic character being more powerful than the Live-Action character.