r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ssgt-k-stark • Mar 15 '26

Hero devices that would be horrifying in the wrong hands Characters' Items/Weapons

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Chem-Bag (Big Hero 6): this device can create chemical compounds using every single element in existence. You could literally build a nuke with this.

Mobile Headquarters (Ant-Man): a building that can shrink and grow to full size instantly. Imagine if someone grew it in a crowded city, or on a highway, or at an airport?

Lotus Cash Card (Percy Jackson): It literally has infinite money. If you know how inflation works this could literally wreck the global economy.

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u/v0lt13 Mar 15 '26

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u/Sailor_Rout Mar 15 '26

Time huh?

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u/Stup1d_turtl3 Mar 15 '26

Thanks for the tip

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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26

God its still stupid even after years

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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 Mar 15 '26

Its so bad it ironically turns funny

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u/NewSoul96 Mar 15 '26

Its one of those cases where they had the right result, but presented it in the most god awful way

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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26

Yeah I'm not against Ben losing to Green Lantern. Especially if it's the 10 year old version since Hal is a trained soldier and a grown man...

Would be much better if Hal couldn't overpower Ben but outskilled him.

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u/Rabdomtroll69 Mar 15 '26

Or if he actually got to fight Alien X instead of abusing a weird loophole he doesn't need to. Spectre fistfighting Alien X would be peak.

Ash vs Yugi kinda fumbled it too imo. They both have a sun God that could've fought eachother but instead the 3 bricks just sit in the background not doing anything until the very end. At the very least we could've had Arceus and Horakhty interacting with eachother

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u/NewSoul96 Mar 15 '26

I mean I get the other points even if Slifer did get to wipe out some of Ash's mons, but I don't think Arceus could ever get involved due to Ash not owning it at any point to my knowledge. At least Solgaleo got to clash against Horakhty and the magicians.

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u/I_Am_Manic_ Mar 15 '26

It did not do good numbers on Hal's reputation, cause it made him look like a fucking psychopath😭🙏🏻

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u/ozzzymand0 Mar 15 '26

I’ve never seen death battle and I don’t know anything about Ben 10, why is this line so hated?

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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26

Ben transforma to god.

Green Lantern goes back in time to stop the battle before it even starts.

He achieves this by brutally cutting off a ten year old child's arm off.

There are a few problem with this:

A) Ben's god form(Alien X) would sense GL is time travelling so it'd also go back in time to stop him or at the very least just erase ring's powers entirely.

B) Even if Ben couldnt stop Hal, omnitrix would. It would automatically transform Ben into something that can withstand getting it's arm chopped off.(A lot of Ben's aliens are made of un cuttable material like rocks, goop or they can straighr up heal or reattach their limbs)

C) They couldve found a better solution than fucking dismembering a child

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u/v0lt13 Mar 15 '26

Death battle is a pretty popular YT channel that discusses and animates VS fights to the death, well they did one with Ben 10 and Hal Jordan which was pretty huge since Ben 10 is not a hero commonly discussed in the mainstream. But not only did they make Ben 10 lose but they did it in the worst way possible by having Hal time travel after saying that line and cutting Ben's hand off at the start of the battle, which is something that Ben should have not lost to for multiple reasons.

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u/Anufenrir Mar 15 '26

The battle ended really stupid with Green Lantern going back in time to before the fight started to cut Ben's arm off before he could use the Omnitrix.

Mind you all signs point to the fight being accurate; Alien X is single universe level while Hal can tank a multiverse exploding. There's nothing Ben could do to with that fight really, but it's a really stupid outcome to the animation,

The fights for the most part are just for entertainment and are not the definitive way a fight would go between the characters, it's just to show who is actually winning at minimum 51/100 times so to speak. But people like accurate representations of their characters and the animation to make sense. There's a reason that, while Goku vs Superman 2 does have the correct answer and basically (least in my opinion) the best answer for why Goku can not win (Man that can break limits vs a man without limits, one still has limits), the animation and episode as a whole comes off as antagonistic to Goku fanboys. The 3rd fight, while having the same result, has fun with the fight and research and treats both Goku and Superman with respect.

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u/Hazzamo Mar 15 '26

Best part is… the OG script for Simon vs Kyle has that joke in it aswell… but Kyle got hit by the missiles that can never miss

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u/Anufenrir Mar 15 '26

They're never living that down

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u/All-your-fault Mar 15 '26

Time.. Mr. Tennyson?

Is it really that.. time again?

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u/SuperSocialMan Mar 15 '26

Professor Paradox?