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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"All you guys can do this awesome bending stuff, like putting out forest fires, and flying around, and... making other stuff fly around. I can't fly around, ok? ... I'm just the guy in the group who's regular."''|'''Sokka''', ''[[
In a nutshell, any team of superpowered people will often have members without powers.
So when the majority of the members are a [[Flying Brick]], have mystical skills, wear [[Powered Armor]], wear a [[Ring of Power]], or just have a [[Charles Atlas Superpower]],
These [[Sister Trope
* The [[Badass Normal]]: This character doesn't have to be part of a team, but when he/she is, being [[Badass]] is often the best way to keep up.
** Often a normal will [[Take a Level In Badass]] to become this.
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** [[The Face]]: If the team lives in [[Dysfunction Junction]] than exceptional social skills ''are'' a superpower.
* An [[Unfazed Everyman]]: If the character joins a superpowered team instead of just hanging out with people in a wacky world.
* [[Muggle Born of Mages]]:
Again, in order to count for this trope, a character has to be part of a team, and the majority of the team has to have some kind of powers.
Compare [[Team Pet]], [[Team Mom]], [[Team Dad]], [[Muggle]], [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]] (when the character has powers on the team, just the weakest). Often subject to afterthought status.
Contrast [[Story-Breaker Team-Up]], when a pair of heroes has one who can't really contribute.
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* Gourry in ''[[Slayers]]'', save for his magic light sword, but it seems to be rarely useful enough to count as a superpower.
** He borders on [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] given the damage he can do with normal weapons.
* Togusa in the ''[[Ghost in
** He is also [[Badass Normal]] (getting shot multiple times an still carrys on) and [[Crazy Prepared]] (his secret arsenals in "Drive Space Part 1").
* Kyon from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. That is unless some hints and [[Wild Mass Guessing]] is correct.
* Boss and his gang -Nuke and Mucha- were [[Comic Relief]] characters and [[Team Normal]] from ''[[
* Huang in ''[[Darker
* Rua in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
** This is averted in Rua's case since recently {{spoiler|he's received the mark of the Dragon's heart.}}
* Futaba in ''[[There Beyond the Beyond]]'' possesses neither the grandiose magic powers or the homicidal insanity that make his groupmates special; he's just a kid [[Trapped in Another World]].
* "I'm the only normal person in this freakshow!" -Maes Hughes, ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''
* [[Badass Normal|Sango]] from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is the only one in the team that doesn't have either demonic or spiritual powers.
* Zenkichi Hitoyoshi was
* Usopp and Nami are this in [[One Piece]], being the only characters in the crew without Devil Fruit powers or [[Charles Atlas Superpower|impossible physical abilities]]. It actually causes some self-worth issues for Usopp at one point, though he eventually gets over it.
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* [[Batman]] is not the only normal in the ''[[Justice League]]''. He's just the most prominent.
** [[Green Arrow]] is the second most prominent.
* In ''[[X
* Several in ''[[BPRD]]'' and ''[[Hellboy]]'' comics, most notably Kate Corrigan.
* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has quite a few, but Kahvi is the trope's poster girl. When she joins the main tribe she seemingly isn't even capable of telepathy. She kicks ass regardless. Later on, during the Shards war, the two troll characters very much fit this trope.
* Alex and Chase from ''[[Runaways]]'' - the latter had weapons stolen from his parents, but he lost those near the end of the first run, around the time {{spoiler|Alex was revealed to be [[The Mole]] and [[Killed Off for Real]]}}. Gert technically doesn't have any powers, but a telephathic link with a genetically-engineered dinosaur mitigates this somewhat. {{spoiler|She passes this link to Chase when ''she'' dies.}}
* The ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' core line-up, in most of their (squillions of) rosters, is built around Robin, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl, plus a variety of other characters who almost all have some flavour of superpower. Robin is
** Dick Grayson was the Robin for the original Teen Titans and all 20th century, as well as the 80s New Teen Titans. (He does shift identity to Nightwing somewhere in there.) Roy Harper was Speedy on and off, depending on how addicted to heroin he was at the time.
** Tim Drake was the Robin for the 2003 Teen Titans revival, and was joined briefly by Mia Dearden as Speedy. (He was also
** After Tim quits, {{spoiler|the team is without a [[Badass Normal]] for awhile until Damian, the latest Robin, joins the Teen Titans - on the advice of his mentor and founding TT member, Dick Grayson. Awww.}}
== Film ==
* Myers, in the ''[[Hellboy (
* [[The Avengers (
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* ''[[Eureka]]'' has Sheriff Jack Carter, the only person of average intelligence in a small town full of supergeniuses.
* Xander in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. This was so obvious that even [[Alpha Bitch|Cordelia]] pointed it out by comparing him with [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]].
* Noah Bennet from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
** This is actually a rule at his company, Primatech, one normal partner and one metahuman partner per team. Naturally, this pretty much requires them to be [[Badass Normal]].
* In the second season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]],'' each of the Thunderzords has a special ability. The Dragon could transform and fight alone, the Unicorn could throw boulders, the Griffin could throw thunderbolts, and the Firebird could create whirlwinds. The Lion couldn't do a damn thing. In ''Dairanger,'' the Lion could create illusions, but since they didn't use the mythology aspect of the series, it was left as nothing but moving armor.
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== Video Games ==
* Shingo Yabuki from ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' is the only fighter on Team Kusanagi without any sort of special powers.
* [[
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' games usually have [[Cool Old Guy]] [[The Mentor|Kraden]] following the superpowered teen heroes around through dungeons and disasters, providing [[Exposition Fairy|exposition]]. By ''Dark Dawn'', he's also something of a celebrity who can get the kids [[What's Up, King Dude?|meetings with local leaders]] just by being Kraden.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog in the 1973/74 season. In the first episode "The Power Pirate" Marvin was able to levitate, which indicated he had burgeoning metahuman powers. This was never followed up in subsequent episodes, and at the end of the season they were all [[Put
** Batman and Robin.
* Sokka in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Later, {{spoiler|Suki joins the team as another [[Badass Normal]].}}
** [[Spoiled Sweet|Asami Sato]] seems to be shaping up into this in ''[[
* Robin from ''[[Teen Titans (
** Though it's worth mentioning that the show itself never actually mentions his lack of powers, and [[Word of God]] says they didn't want to focus on that aspect of the character. Considering he's able to beat up 5 meter tall stone giants with just his fists, there's probably some [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] stuff going on, too.
*** At least a small/subtle example can be seen in the episode "Nevermore", wherein Robin is using all his strength to keep Starfire from ''knocking on Raven's door'' and thus disturbing her. He is shown groaning and even perspiring from the effort, while she doesn't seem to notice at all.
*** [[Rule of Funny]] doesn't count.
** It's been pretty explicitly shown in the Red X episodes that Robin is perfectly capable of taking all of his teammates
* Noah from ''[[Generator Rex]]'' is the only character of the five man band who doesn't have superpowers, [[The Smart Guy|a P.H.D]], or [[Charles Atlas Superpower|skill and training]]. Fortunately, this character avoids being [[The Load]] (except for that one time) by [[Non-Action Guy|steering clear of the action.]]
* [[Meaningful Name|Eric]] [[Stephen Ulysses Perhero|Normal]] from ''[[Super Normal]]''.
* In ''[[Young Justice (
** This concept was heavily deconstructed in "Homefront" through Artemis, whose insecurities are hindering her ability to fight the villains, who took out her super powered team mates.
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