#MATI CAPTAIN PLANET WIKI PLUS#

Plus it's hard ( but not impossible) to have dramatic tension when the hero can just command the bad guys to shoot themselves in the head. Ironically, since his power involved a form of limited mind-control, he probably could have been the most devastatingly powerful of all the Planeteers if he weren't a pacifist. Then there was the fact that their current Big Bad was invulnerable to its powers because 'You have no heart!', and he never bothered to use it on the other villains. No doubt it was useful - his telepathy bailed them out a lot, as did the ability to get nearby animals to help, and it seemed to ward off the Idiot Ball - but it lacked the total elemental 'badass' quality of the others.

While the other team members could control the raw elements with visually impressive feats, he could just talk to animals with a Spider Sense. Named for an Internet meme, itself referring to Ma-Ti's ring power in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In fact, characters who do nothing but gripe about their uselessness in battle might be a sign of bad writing. The easiest device is to just crank out a good old Plot Tailored to the Party, so that the character can make his seemingly useless superpower seem useful. Maybe there's a trade off for instance, powerful beings tend to look freaky, while those with more subtle powers look normal and are better able to deal with mundane society. Sometimes the character will uncover a devastating new use and become the dreaded Lethal Joke Character. Maybe there ARE more potential uses for this power, it's just that the writers have somehow ignored them this far. Weak but Skilled characters might take advantage of the Required Secondary Powers. A common method is to have the the character suddenly 'evolve' to a higher power level.

If the character still seems ridiculously underpowered, they can still be Rescued from the Scrappy Heap by giving them additional powers or responsibilities. Soon they will be ignored in favor of other, more interesting characters and eventually people will even question why they are still on the team at all. It is a fact of life that leadership tends to favor the Badass, even if their level difference has been no fault of the weaker character himself. The Captain tends to be specifically written to have no superpowers, in fact. Often said character is The Captain-superpowers would be just a tiny bonus to his real ability: leadership. Some characters end up being The Heart (the social and moral compass), The Face (diplomat and spokesperson), The Smart Guy or the Badass Normal. They may have a power (such as it is), but it's not the real reason they're in the group. Good writers can make this work for a character. This refers to a special ability of someone on a team such as a Five-Man Band who is so specialized as to seem useless in most situations. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.

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