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** Blackbeard has one of the most powerful abilities in universe. He can wipe out entire towns in seconds, shoot the debris out like cannon, and negate Devil Fruit powers. But he can't dodge ''anything.'' While most Logia-fruit users can have attacks pass right through them, Blackbeard is quite the opposite, making any physical attack super-effective.

** Speaking of Blackbeard, San Juan Wolf, a member of his crew, is one Devil Fruit user who can easily handle water; as one of the largest giants alive, he can wade through the ocean without it ever coming to neck-length.

* The specialists, the Paper Sisters in ''[[Read or Die|Read Or Dream]]'' can telekinetically manipulate paper... unless it's ''wet''. This was not a weakness for Yomiko Readman, who ''is'' shown on camera manipulating paper while underwater. This is actually [[Justified Trope|explained in-universe]]. The Paper Sisters' powers are essentially imperfect clones of Yomiko's, artificially created by Dokusensha; which is why they are weaker and more specialized/limited. Water naturally disrupts the structural integrity of paper, and their inferior powers are not sufficient to maintain it the way Yomiko can.

* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' has an alien attack force made up of gigantic [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] who are a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud warrior race]] do a mass [[Mook Face Turn]] because of... singing. And souvenirs. In fairness, it does make sense in the story (at least as much as ''[[War of the Worlds]]''{{'}} Martians being vulnerable to Earth's diseases) and is perhaps one of the best logical conclusions to a typical alien's [[Planet of Hats]] treatment. The aliens have no culture to speak of other than fighting, so when exposed to humans and their culture in the form of songs and interacting with the other gender after sending a team of spies to the SDF-1, typical Zentradi start feeling emotions, questioning their purpose, and [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|becoming similar to humans.]] Because of this, their entire fleet gets deemed "contaminated" by the unexposed Zentradi and programmed for destruction. In the face of this [[Enemy Civil War]], they wisely choose to ally with the humans. Still, it doesn't quite wash away the faint air of ridiculousness when Minmay's singing becomes an ''offensive weapon'' to unbalance the unexposed Zentradi in their attack.

* From the manga ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'', we have Akisame Koetsuji, the Jujutsu Philosopher. Master martial artist, a doctor so skilled he can raise the recently dead, and [[The Ace|master of a bazillion and six other fields]]. He's one of Kenichi's six super-powerful masters... and green peppers make him so ill that he can be held at bay simply by hanging one outside his door.

* [[Kinnikuman]] is weakened by milk. Though after he goes insane during his match against Curry Cook and ''drinks'' the stuff, it becomes apparent that he just thinks it's disgusting.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The aliens in ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' were killed by {{spoiler|a common disease. The aliens were so advanced and germophobic that they wiped out all microbial life on their native planet. Which of course meant they had nothing to develop immunities to when they invaded Earth}}.

* The Martians, in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[The Martian Chronicles]]'', are killed ''en masse'' rather early in the book by a human-induced plague of chicken pox. It's a [[Shout-Out|knowing reference]] to both American history and ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]''.

** Alternatively, the Boggart can't handle trying to frighten more than one person at once, as attempts to materialize into more than one person's fear results in things such as the "half a slug" incident. This is why Lupin advised his students not to face a Boggart alone (combined with the above reason).

** Voldemort's inability to understand Love, and [[The Power of Love]], proves to be his ultimate undoing. However, this is less of a Weaksauce Weakness than a [[Fatal Flaw]]. Harry does not beat Voldemort because of some mystical aspect of love, but because having reliable friends and allies ultimately gives him an advantage over Voldemort, who underestimates the capacity of others to behave selflessly because he would never even consider doing so himself.

* [[World of Warcraft]] is rife with such weaknesses to make otherwise impossible encounters winnable or just for amusement value. One great example is a quest where you have to get an artifact to defeat a pack of imps. The effect of this awesome weapon? It creates beautiful rainbows... cue sound of heads exploding.

* ''[[Castlevania II: Simon's Quest]]'' features the easiest fight against Dracula in the entire series. There are two weapons {{spoiler|the golden knife and the sacred flame}} which cause Dracula to completely freeze in place. All Simon has to do is repeatedly spam those weapons, and he'll win before Dracula can even move.

* In [[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2: Saisei-Hen, The [[Demonic Spiders|DAMON]] are affected by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAi36JjFiQ Basara's singing]. They even take damage, making [[Man of Kryptonite|Basara]] [[Weaponized Weakness|a viable choice for fighting against the DAMON]].

* In ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'', Luigi's gooey doppelganger Gooigi melts on contact with water (a squirt gun is enough to damage him) and instantly disintegrates on contact with fire. It's a good thing he can [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist|respawn indefinitely from Luigi's location.]]

** [[The Straight and Arrow Path|Bow]]: [[Crippling Overspecialization]]; can’t fight if his bow is damaged or lost

** [[Cat Girl|Catra]]: Her feline nature being exploited.<ref>Again, debatable. Fans of the show might argue that her [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealousy of Adora is even more of a weakness]].</ref>

 

== Real Life ==