Optgun Weapon

You can't spell Optgun without...

The weapon that can too easily win a battle for the Good Guys. It bypasses rules for weapons of its kind, such as an infinitely-loaded gun or an unbending sword. Optgun Weapons in fiction are moderately rare as they break the balance in power for the protagonists, the characters who should be lent the most appropriate amount of power possible. However, this doesn't stop them from appearing or else they wouldn't have a whole UnTrash Wiki article dedicated to them. There are Optgun Weapons who aren't completely overpowered but still wield too much strength or too many abilities for balance to be a reality. An Optgun crossbow might run out of bolt at some point, but it might be able to fully restore its load within a minute, therefore negating any actual limitation.

The Good Guys aligning themselves with an Optgun Weapon can throw the story out of wack. Firstly, the main protagonists now have Power Beyond Belief at their free disposal. They have no need for other weapons or magical powers if the one thing they own is more than enough. Because this power level is so unbelievable, the Optgun Weapon can hastily One-Shot the audience's Suspension Of Disbelief. Aside from nuclear weapons, no real-life combat-made object can so swiftly annihilate its foes. A weapon in the realm of fiction can be as powerful as it wants, and when one realizes this truth, it ruins the fabric of the franchise's realism. Another downside to an Optgun Weapon ties back to eliminating the need for any self-improvement, that being the Good Guys are now open to settling for stagnation in development. If the Hero is given a hammer that can repair itself, fire energy arches from its head, quake the ground with tremendous force, and deflect incoming enemy projectiles, they won't have any necessity for expanding their combat abilities as their hammer does it all. The hammer steals the attention from rest of the Good Guys own, like the Magician's magic spells or the Archer's bow. The audience has less interest in these now flimsy fighting methods standing in the shadow of the Hero's almighty hammer. A side effect to this thievery is how the remaining team members are effectively irrelevant, only traveling alongside the Hero because they've been there since the start. The story doesn't need to delve into their personalities and grow them because the audience doesn't care about them anymore. The Optgun Weapon does more than ignore the secondary protagonists — it tramples over any obstacles or opportunities for Character Building the Main Team encounters. Tension is outright thrown out the window once the viewers know the Optgun Weapon is all the Good Guys need to successfully wrestle their enemies. As such, the viewers Can't Be Surprised to see the already win-prone Good Guys claim yet another victory over the Bad Guys with the Optgun Weapon.