![]() ![]() Many magical girls tend to have their Transformation Trinket be their Achilles' Heel due to the fact that they need it to transform and, thus, be useful. He became a successful warrior, until one battle when he got a heel wound that killed him.Įven though the original mythological reference was to a physical vulnerability, the expression can also refer to moral or psychological elements that can lead to a character's downfall. He was now magically shielded over his entire body.except for that one part of the heel his mom was holding. ![]() To keep her son safe, Thetis took Achilles to the magical River Styx and dipped him in the water, holding onto his heel. ![]() When Achilles was a baby, his mom, Thetis, heard a soothsayer say the boy would die young. The expression refers to the Greek mythological figure Achilles. Killer robots may have a single unarmored part. Monsters, witches or supervillains may be vulnerable to a certain element. This is especially likely if the main character is a Super Hero otherwise they could walk over powerful criminals and supervillains, which removes any challenges, as they would never be in peril.Īliens, killer robots and monsters that are Immune to Bullets will usually have a fairly mundane Achilles' Heel that only surfaces/is discovered when things look the bleakest. Any seemingly Nigh Invulnerable character (or Kung Fu-Proof Mook) will inevitably have some key weakness that can and will be exploited.
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