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In a World where superpowers are commonplace, or at least common enough to be common knowledge, it tends to be the case that these powers come with certain drawbacks. Maybe there's a price that has to be paid, or a ritual that must be performed, or some other caveat that can make having these powers a pain, or using them annoyingly cumbersome. A Sub-Trope of Conditional Powers. Can easily lead to a Mary Sue. Examples of One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce include:

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  • In a World where superpowers are commonplace, or at least common enough to be common knowledge, it tends to be the case that these powers come with certain drawbacks. Maybe there's a price that has to be paid, or a ritual that must be performed, or some other caveat that can make having these powers a pain, or using them annoyingly cumbersome. A Sub-Trope of Conditional Powers. Can easily lead to a Mary Sue. Examples of One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce include:
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  • In a World where superpowers are commonplace, or at least common enough to be common knowledge, it tends to be the case that these powers come with certain drawbacks. Maybe there's a price that has to be paid, or a ritual that must be performed, or some other caveat that can make having these powers a pain, or using them annoyingly cumbersome. And then you have this protagonist. Born under the right stars, blessed with the protection of a supernatural entity, armed with certain unique talents or just plain lucky: he happens to be the only one in the whole world who is exempt from this ironclad rule. A wizard who can cast magic without a wand, for instance, or a superhuman immune to the local flavor of Kryptonite. A more "fair" treatment may make holding the sauce a trade-off for reduced powers such as with the Dhampyr or other Half-Human Hybrid characters. Ultimately this is not required though and all the trope concerns are heroes who are special because they can flout the rules that all other metanormals in the setting are chained by. The name is a play on a phrase commonly used for making a special order at a restaurant: "Hold the X" means "This dish normally includes X, but I would like it without X." This is a pun because "hero" is also a kind of sandwich, so it's like you're ordering a Hero sandwich, but without the Weaksauce Weakness. A Sub-Trope of Conditional Powers. Can easily lead to a Mary Sue. Examples of One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce include:
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