![]() As a result, the OP characters ended up being sidelined by weaker characters in order to make the story more interesting. For the viewers, these types of characters are often much more interesting to see, and also easier to root for. Underdogs who do whatever they can in order to come on top. People who always have a hard time in their fights. fighting and winning against increasingly stronger opponents.Ĭompared to those powerful people, it’s way easier to focus on the struggle of common characters who try their best to get stronger. Since an overpowered character has limited room for development, it’s hard to put them into the center of the stories without repeating the same thing over and over again, i.e. For example, Ainz and Rimuru are still the same “Kind to their family, ruthless to their enemy” characters, but Mob and Saitama stay the same clueless and carefree characters throughout their story. There’s only so much development that can be done to this type of character because they can easily overcome the obstacles that are thrown in their path. But what can you do if the characters are already overpowered from the beginning? The answer is not much. After all, the usual course of action is to develop a weak character into a strong one, by throwing all kinds of obstacles in their way. While we can see the growth of these OP characters, we rarely get to see their developments. That is where these Overpowered Characters (OP) tropes fell short. We need to be able to see the growth and the changes in the main characters as the story progresses. But it is still an essential element nonetheless. How much emphasis is put into this particular story element may vary depending on the genre, theme, and also the author’s storytelling style, among other different factors. There are a couple of story elements that need to exist in a work of fiction, one of them being character development. Different series might give different kinds of quirkiness to their characters, but at their core, they are just a carbon copy of each other. But almost all of them received some sort of unique powers or abilities that makes it easier for them to claim the title of the strongest.Īs a result, we now have a strange situation where the main character from a series has a strong resemblance to the characters from several other series. Sure, you can argue that some of those characters are not originally the strongest being in their series. That is the case with Rimuru from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Ainz from Overlord, Tanya from Youjo Senki, Satou from Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, and many others. After all, the overwhelming majority of characters who are transported into another world ended up becoming the strongest person in that world. One of the main proponents of the overpowered characters, and also the one that arguably popularized these tropes, is none other than the Isekai genre.
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