@awnlee jawking
Is there an established sub-genre for protagonists with an extremely weak superpower, who have to be very smart how they employ it to overcome more powerful antagonists? Does it have a name?
In my "Night of Madness" series I have individuals with a wide variety of powers, both strong and trivial. And some of the discussions are about how some are able to take what seems almost insignificant powers very powerful.
One that appears at varying levels is analysis and prediction. And one was able to hone that to the point where they could almost predict what somebody would do in a fight, and be able to use that to defeat them. No other real power, but almost like Downey Jr. in the "Sherlock Holmes" movie.
And the narrator of the first story had an almost trivial one to them, impervious but nothing else. Hence, using himself for most of it as little more than a "human battering ram", until they learned about other powers that were not so obvious and more subtle.
And the movie "Mystery Men" was rather similar. The Blue Raja, who could throw any cutlery very accurately, but not knives. One that can turn invisible only when nobody is looking, and another who can make others pass out from their farts.
