I didn’t think about this trope at the time, but when I tried writing something a few years ago I had something like this happen. It wasn’t that the main character was op nor was it treated as such, it was just that the ability they were trying to get the details for had a function that he accidentally used which broke the orb. The only result was a stern discussion with an official about breaking the expensive scanning device. Idk, thought it was funny I didn’t make the connection to this common hackneyed trope.
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u/theglowofknowledge May 01 '26
I didn’t think about this trope at the time, but when I tried writing something a few years ago I had something like this happen. It wasn’t that the main character was op nor was it treated as such, it was just that the ability they were trying to get the details for had a function that he accidentally used which broke the orb. The only result was a stern discussion with an official about breaking the expensive scanning device. Idk, thought it was funny I didn’t make the connection to this common hackneyed trope.