The character that no one takes seriously is either very competent at what he does or secretly the most powerful member...

>The character that no one takes seriously is either very competent at what he does or secretly the most powerful member of the squad.

Name 3 shows or comics that do this

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Avatar the Last Airbender with Iroh and Bumi.
Darkwing Duck, who the audience knows is competent but everyone else treats him as a joke.
Ron Stoppable probably isn't as competent as Kim Possible but is much, much more capable than anyone else in the series when the chips are down.
That's 3, happy?

>joke character is strong
Trashed

>Meaningless do nothing background character is godlike

Fuck you, it's awesome.

Justice League show(Flash)
Tmnt2002(Michelangelo)
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!(Otto)

>Plastic Man in JLA
>Sokka in Avatar: TLA
>Hawkeye in Avengers: EMH

>Joke character being pointless
>team keep him for no reason at all besides plot
No

what's that pic from?

>Sokka
Hes good at what?He's not even a good warrior and even if he was he would still be a weak link.

It makes more sense that the character is just a goofy idiot who happens to be extremely competent than that the group just keeps him around for no reason at all.

Seriously? He single-handedly saves the day with his ideas on a regular basis.

It's a pretty common trope

Ed, Johnny Cage, Deadpool, Michelangelo, Wheelie, Pinkie Pie

I know there are tons of better examples than these but I'm too lazy and drunk to think of more, in any case it's a very common trope that the character seen as silly, aloof, stupid, lazy, carefree, naive, blah blah blah is actually either very good at what they do but it goes unnoticed by those around them, or they are somehow extremely strong or powerful or rise to the occasion or spot of hero or leader when not expected of them

JL8 webcomic.

His ideas backfire half the time. Remember the eclipse?

Yale's Copyright Adventures.

And what else? Like, no seriously, I only a few of his ideas, and it's been a while since I've seen Avatar. The only other idea I can really remember failing was trying to map the tunnel of love.

This waste of page time. As if we don't know what's going to happen with her ending up being all powerful. It's getting old and always has been boring.

Fuck off.
Why the fuck would someone make JL8 porn?

I love you

>"why not?" -Konrad_Curze :Warhammer40k

>on the internet: day 1
Why the fuck did you even come here, you newfaggy moralfag? No matter how much the mods are trying to make a normie haven out of this website in recent years, there are still better places to go if you faint at the sight of 34 and loli.

>When the comic relief is actually a fucking genius but acts like an idiot to avoid crippling responsibility and the expectations of his peers.

American dragon was something, sometimes.

Umm... sauce?

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the only trope I hate are trope threads

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>Character silently gets something done in the background while the other characters are arguing over how to do it

You literally just described him.

Sup, bitches.

He deserved better

Grim from Billy and Mandy.

>the consequences of said something being done happen right as the other characters ultimately decide that doing that something is a very bad idea and that it shouldn't be done