Power Flaw

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When someone or something is too powerful, too powerless, or doesn't have abilities that work anymore. This could do some serious damage to their character and could result in them being Too Broken To Fix. Power Flaw can so badly ruin somebody's balance between strong and weak that the creators have little choice outside of cutting the person out of their work altogether. However, there are ways to prevent Canon Bannin', such as by Bussing them or, much more extremely, killing them off. Any self-respecting creator knows the importance of balance and the beauty of simplicity. The Hero mainly starts their journey on Average, the third tier on the Epic Scale, or sometimes a notch below at Lame. They have little in their ownership and tend to get the best at the latter end of their adventure. The Chosen One, though, is a super-powered Hero whose Unique Ability may be a latent ticket to Epic, tier 4 the Epic Scale. All it needs is the time to be acknowledged and send the Chosen One from Amazing to Epic. This can later be scaled upward as the Chosen One adds on to their already uninteresting arsenal. Eventually, there may be little difference between them and a god. That's the point when the main protagonist becomes overpowered beyond a doubt.

The state of being overpowered is when a person or thing has too much strength or too many abilities to maintain balance. An example of being overpowered is if Guy has Invincibility that he can trigger at any moment he desires. To combat this issue, it's highly advised the creator come up with a fix like Guy loses the Power Medallion that grants the superpower. Bussing Guy until he can get his act together is an alternative valid option. This can be done as long as it doesn't look confusing, awkward, or out of nowhere. And since we aren't going to keep Guy out of the story for good, he might as well get Debussed at some point, this time balanced in power. Either robbing Guy of his Power Medallion or Bussing him can buy the writers time to fix his problems and make him ready to be returned to the canon.

On the other side of the scale is being underpowered. This is much rarer in fiction as some creators have a strong desire to make their leading protagonists unbelievably strong. The Idiot, Weakling, Wimp, and many Nerds and Geeks are excellent examples of roles that have too little power to have any relevance in the Fiction Meta. Despite their best aspects, such as the Idiot's unintentional entertainment or the Nerd's smarts, their practical usefulness is next to nonexistent. They get pushed around by others higher up on the Role Tier List more than anyone else. At least a Main who's being picked on by the Bully in school has their friends to fall back on. Nerds and Geeks are usually too alone to have anybody to rely on. Even if they have a few chums of their own, they're likely too scared like chicken fuck by the tormentor to assist their fellow uncool kid.