- "I used to make fun of Green Lantern for being vulnerable to the colour yellow! Then I choked on my orange juice one morning and nearly suffocated."
- ― T-Rex, Dinosaur Comics
The circumstance in which the user has a supernatural weakness when in contact with a certain object, occurring event, or emotion. Opposite to Affinity.
Also Called
- Specific Weakening
- Specific Vulnerability
- Weakness
Capabilities
Users become weaker when they come in contact with a certain object, event, or emotion. It is also possible to weaken or nullify existing powers as well. Long-term exposure to the aversion may result in fatal bodily conditions (e.g: Cancer), or even death.
Major Aversions
- Elemental Aversion - become weaker when in contact with a certain elemental force.
- Environmental Aversion: become weaker when in certain landscapes.
- Empathic Aversion - become weaker when feeling (or in contact with someone's feeling) a certain emotion.
- Life Aversion: become weaker with more living things near.
- Life Aversion Inducement - make others become weak when near or in close contact with life's powers.
- Dead Aversion: gain weakness from the dead.
- Dead Aversion Inducement - make others become weak when near or in close contact with dead's/death's powers.
- Karma Aversion - become weaker depending on a person's morale.
- Randomized Weakness - gains a random weakness when in contact with a certain object.
- Sonokinetic Aversion - become weaker when a certain sound or song is heard.
- Object Aversion - become weaker when in contact with a certain object.
Applications
- Power Absorption
- Power Deactivation
- Power Destruction
- Power Dilution
- Power Erasure
- Power Fluctuation
- Power Negation
- Power Opposition
- Power Overload
- Power Reduction
Associations
- May accompany some form of detection in order to know when their aversion is close by.
- Omni-Aversion
- Anti-Power Weaponry
Limitations
- Target has no control over this condition.
- Target must be in range in order for this power to work.
- Users of Limitation Transcendence transcend their limits.
- Weakness Removal
Known Users
See Also: Weaksauce Weakness and Kryptonite Factor.
Cartoons/Comics
- Roger’s species (American Dad); become sick and weak if they don’t unleash their inner bitch
- Firebenders (Avatar the Last Airbender); abilities are nullified when a solar eclipse occurs
- Waterbenders (Avatar the Last Airbender); abilities are nullified when a lunar eclipse occurs
- Ultimos (Ben 10); becomes weak and sick when exposed to Sucrotaxonite, a chemical found in chocolate
- Zs'Skayr (Ben 10); can be destroyed by ultra-violet rays, such as sunlight
- Captain Planet (Captain Planet and the Planeteers); loses his powers when near pollution and radiation
- Jackie Estacado (The Darkness); becomes weaker in light or the sun
- Alan Scott/Green Lantern (DC Comics); in the Golden Age his ring was weak against wood
- Bizarro (DC Comics); becomes weaker with Blue Kryptonite
- Daxamites (DC Comics); lead robs them of their powers and causes them to suffer fatal lead poisoning
- Green Lanterns (DC Comics); in the Silver Age they became weak against the color yellow
- Kryptonians (DC Comics); become weaker with Green/Gold Kryptonite and are rendered powerless by red solar radiation & magic
- Martians (DC Comics); become weaker when near flames
- Martian Manhunter
- Miss Martian
- Raven (DC Comics); loses control over her powers when under extreme anger or loses control of any of her emotions
- Ultraman (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths); becomes weaker with Blue Kryptonite
- Daredevil (Marvel Comics); he is weak against loud noises and strong smells because of his enhanced senses
- Symbiotes (Marvel Comics); become weaker when exposed to sonic waves or fire
- Carnage
- Toxin
- Venom
- James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics); can be killed by the Muramasa Blade and his healing factor can be nullified when struck by Carbinomatium bullets/blades
- Aku (Samurai Jack); can only be hurt by either Jack’s sword or divine artifacts
- Scamlar (Totally Spies); vaporized by anything salty
Folklore
- Vampires (Folklore); become weakened when near sunlight, crosses, running water, and/or garlic
- Fairies (Folklore); become weakened when near iron
- Trolls (Scandinavian Folklore); turn to stone when exposed to sunlight
Anime/Manga
- Gastrea (Black Bullet); can be killed by Varanium
- Saiyans (Dragon Ball series); become paralyzed and weak if their tails are being squeezed
- Echo (Dragonar Academy); become weak when she got bitten on her horn buds
- Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist); becomes useless when wet
- Homunculi (Fullmetal Alchemist 2003); become weak when they come in contact with a place or object from their former lives
- Utsuro (Gintama)
- Kouka (Gintama)
- Kuon Ohara (Island); dies/becomes mortally weak when in contact with sunlight
- Vampires (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure); disintegrate when they come in contact with sunlight
- Dio Brando
- Cool/Vanilla Ice
- Pillar Men (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency); inter a petrified state when they come in contact with sunlight
- Esidisi
- Kars
- Santana
- Wamuu
- Devil Fruit Eaters (One Piece); the sea rejects/hates them and they become helpless while submerged in water
- Moka Akashiya (Rosario + Vampire); weakened whenever in water
- Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire); weakened by extreme heat
- Crocell Family (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun); weakened by excess emotion
Live Television/Movies
- The Gentlemen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); human screams cause their heads to explode
- John Hancock (Hancock); becomes weaker when near others of his race
- Evos (Heroes); lose their powers during a solar eclipse
- Sportacus (LazyTown); becomes weak when he eats junk food
- Mermaids (Mako: Island of Secrets); the Trident drains their life-force
- Fairies (Maleficent); iron burns them
- Zelena (Once Upon a Time); light magic
- Kryptonians (Smallville); become weaker with Green/Gold/Blue Kryptonite
- Demons (Supernatural); weak against holy water, iron, salt, exorcisms and lesser demons can’t step foot on consecrated ground
- Eve, the Mother of All Monsters (Supernatural); can be killed by Phoenix ash
- Fairies (Supernatural); cream intoxicates them and they can’t resist counting every grain of salt when it’s thrown on the ground
- Ghosts (Supernatural); weak against salt/iron and can be "killed" by salting and burning their mortal remains
- Hellhounds (Supernatural); weak against iron, salt, graveyard dirt, holy water, pepper, and devil's shoelaces
- Leviathans (Supernatural); Borax burns their flesh like acid
- The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz); water causes her to melt
Video Games
- Everlasting Dragons (Dark Souls); lightning peels off their scales, allowing them to be killed
- Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS); becomes weaker when he enters water
- Gooigi (Luigi's Mansion 3); destroyed by water & fire
- Metroid (Metroid); weakened by extreme cold
- Apparitions (Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice); weak against Divine Confetti
- Toothpick (Sly Cooper); sensitive to loud noises
Literature
- Sandworms (Dune); can be killed by water in large quantities, it hurts them on contact
- Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter); feels pain whenever he was in contact with Harry’s love for his family and friends or his Horcruxes have been destroyed
- Frank Zhang (Heroes of Olympus); connected to a burned stick, causing him to feel pain whenever it is on fire and automatically die if it is completely incinerated
Known Natural Occurrences
- Blue Moon (Charmed); turns the Charmed Ones into beasts
- Prophecy of the Twice-Blessed Child (Charmed); cancels out all magic on the day until said child is born
- Moonlight (Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld); cancels out demonic magic
- Lunar eclipse (H2O: Just Add Water); causes mermaids in the Moon Pool to lose their powers for 12 hours
- Moon of Fifty Years (H2O: Just Add Water); causes mermaids in the Moon Pool to lose their powers forever
- Solar eclipse (Heroes); cancels out all Evolved Humans' powers
- New Moon (InuYasha); Inuyasha temporarily becomes human until dawn
- Land Without Magic (Once Upon a Time/Once Upon a Time in Wonderland); no magic whilst outside the town border limit of Storybrooke
- Post-Full Moon (Shadow Falls); werewolves are weakest after the full moon
- Edom (Shadowhunter Chronicles); Magnus Bane is powerless there and angelic runes lose their power
- Lunar eclipse (Teen Wolf); cancels out werewolves' powers
- Achilles Comet (The Thundermans); renders superhuman powers uncontrollable while passing the Earth
- Mystic Falls (The Vampire Diaries); via Aversion Field and Humanization
- Sunlight (Various Franchises); destructive to vampires, and, in Asian folklore, spirits
- Bermuda Triangle (Wizards of Waverly Place); disables magic
Known Objects
Comics/Cartoons
- Sucrotaxonite (Ben 10); poisonous to Ultimos' species
- Various Kryptonites (DC Comics); different types cause various effects on Kryptonians
Anime/Manga
- Sea-Prism Stone (One Piece); weakens Devil Fruit eaters and paralyzes them
- Galactica Bracelets (Sailor Moon); can steal any living being's Star Seed, killing them instantly
- Talisman (Sonic X); imprisoning Boom ghosts in their own dimension.
Video/Games
- Thinner (Epic Mickey); causes Blotlings and Wasteland Toons to melt
- Keyblades (Kingdom Hearts); deadly to Heartless and Nobodies
- The Nobitsura Kage (Shadow Warrior); kills the otherwise-immortal Ancients
Live Television/Movies
- Daystar virus (Blade III: Trinity); can kill Dracula/Drake and vampires
- Darklighter Poison (Charmed); deadly to whitelighters and half-whitelighters
- Paranoia Crystals (Charmed); causes paranoia in witches
- Light (Darkness Falls); effective against Matilda Dixon's ghost
- Will's Aftershave (H2O: Just Add Water); makes mermaids sneeze
- Iron (Maleficent); burns fairies
- The Trident (Mako: Island of Secrets); weakens mermaids
- Vorpal blade (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland); effective against the Jabberwocky
- Borax (Supernatural); capable of harming Leviathans
- Phoenix ash (Supernatural); capable of killing Eve, the Mother of All Monsters
- Traveller Dagger (The Vampire Diaries); expels a Traveller's spirit
- Tuning Fork (The Vampire Diaries); its sound waves hurt witches and sirens
- Vervain (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); effective against vampires
- White Oak Stakes (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); deadly to Original vampires and their entire species
- Dip (Who Framed Roger Rabbit); dissolves any Toon that touches it.
Literature
- Basilisk Venom (Harry Potter); destructive to Horcruxes
- Fiendfyre Spell (Harry Potter); destructive to Horcruxes
- The Killing Curse (Harry Potter); destructive to Horcruxes
- Sword of Gryffindor (Harry Potter); destructive to Horcruxes
- Bone Steel (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard); harmful to beings related to Norse Mythology
- Celestial Bronze (Percy Jackson and the Olympians); harmful to beings related to Greco-Roman mythology
- Imperial Gold (Percy Jackson and the Olympians); harmful to beings related to Greco-Roman mythology
- Skeptron and seraph blades (The Shadowhunter Chronicles); deadly to demons
- Fire (The Shadowhunter Chronicles); much more flammable to vampires than humans
- Salt, steel, gravesoil, rowan wood, and iron (The Shadowhunter Chronicles); effective against fairies
- Angelic runes (The Shadowhunter Chronicles); deadly to humans
General
- Light and dark (Various Franchises); effective against each other
- Electricity and water (Various Franchises); effective against each other
- Fire and ice/water (Various Franchises); effective against each other
- Wolfsbane (Various Franchises); effective against werewolves and Lycanthropic Infection
- Holy Water (Various Franchises); effective against vampires and other undead
- Garlic (Various Franchises); repels vampires
- Wooden Stakes (Various Franchises); deadly to vampires by driving it through the heart
- Silver (Various Franchises); effective against werewolves, and in some cases vampires
- Iron (Various Franchises); deadly to several mythical beings, such as fairies and sprites
Others
- Offbrand Soda (Uncle Samsonite)