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(#1) Kenpachi Zaraki
- Bleach, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Bleach: Fade to Black, Bleach: Memories of Nobody
Few things are more important to Kenpachi Zaraki than the thrill of a challenging battle. That's why he uses multiple limiters to tamp down his strength. Some of the most notable limits include a parasitic eye-patch that chows down on his life force and bells on the ends of his hair that are audible only to those who are strong enough to defeat him. When he releases himself from these limits, he's an absolute beast.
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(#2) Rock Lee
- Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom, Naruto Shippuden the Movie, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire, Ninja World
As part of his training, Rock Lee wears weights on his legs. While most people who do this wear relatively light ones for basic conditioning, Lee's weights are so heavy that when they fall to the ground, the ground breaks. With the weights on he's already ridiculously strong and fast, but when he takes them off during his battle with Gaara he's buzzing around the stadium so fast that it's impossible to track him. This is how he manages to actually land a hit on Gaara, something no one else had been able to do, thusfar.
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(#3) Shoto Todoroki - 'My Hero Academia'
At the start of My Hero Academia, Shoto Todoroki suppresses his fire-based abilities. That's because he hates his father and doesn't want to use the powers he inherited from him. This causes some serious problems, though. Not only is he preventing his two halves from balancing out and practically freezing himself, he's holding himself back from using the full range of his abilities.
With a little help from his friends, he eventually realizes that his powers are his, not his dad's, and he should use them to their fullest.
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(#4) Kurapika
- Hunter x Hunter
Kurapika's strongest Nen attack has a glaring weakness - and he purposely designed it that way. Judgment Chain wraps a chain made of Nen around a target's heart, then pierces it with a spike if the target does not obey Kurapika's commands. Kurapika has a similar chain wrapped around his own heart. If he uses this technique on anybody who isn't a member of the Phantom Troupe, his own heart will be pierced and his life will end.
Why create such a drastic limit? Creating conditions like this is part of what allows him to create such a strong move in the first place. But Kurapika didn't have to go this far just for power. He also wants to make sure that his rage at having his family eliminated doesn't turn him into a violent monster.
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(#5) Kakashi Hatake
- Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds, Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire, Naruto Shippuden the Movie, Ninja World
Why does Kakashi keep his mangekyo sharingan under wraps? Because despite the eye's incredible potential, using it comes with serious consequences. Using his mangekyo will generally keep him bedridden for a couple of weeks - likely because he isn't an Uchiha, he can't ever deactivate it. Because using it is so exhausting, he can't easily train his mangekyo - which means that when he uses it, he risks opening up holes in parts of reality that he'd rather keep intact.
To avoid all of this, he keeps his mangekyo's powers under control by covering his eye. He only uses it when there's no other way to defeat an opponent.
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(#6) Hiei
- Yu Yu Hakusho
Hiei's Jagan Eye is the key to some of his strongest techniques, but he usually keeps it covered with a headband. Similarly, he wears bandages on his arm in order to suppress his Dragon of the Darkness Flame. He only unleashes these techniques when it's absolutely necessary. That's because without the limits, his powers are strong enough to wreck everything around him, even taking weaker beings' lives just from being in its presence. What's more, using these attacks causes him serious physical damage - his arm was not happy with him after he used Dragon of the Darkness Flame.
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(#7) Saiki Kusuo - 'The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.'
Saiki Kusuo is one of the most OP characters in world of anime, but he isn't happy about it. All he wants is to live an ordinary life, but his powers are constantly causing him problems. That's why he limits his powers as much as he can. In order to avoid turning everybody around him into stone, he wears special glasses which block this ability. In order to limit his powers enough that he doesn't accidentally destroy the world in his sleep, he wears two antennae on his head. With these on, his powers are still a lot stronger than he'd like, but at least they're manageable.
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(#8) Goku
- Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, Dragon Ball: The Path to Power, Plan to Destroy the Saiya-jin, Dragon Ball: Ssawora Son Goku, Igyeora Son Goku, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, Dragonball Evolution, Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball Z the Movie: The World's Strongest, Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, Dragon Ball
When Goku and Piccolo Jr. are first starting to develop their strength, they wear weighted clothing. Goku literally never takes his off, while Piccolo only does for dramatic effect, not because he especially needs to. They intended to hamper their own strength in order to develop it, but with all the power-ups and transformations they eventually acquire, the weights barely make a dent in limiting them.
Other characters like Yamcha also use these weights over the course of the entire series. Sometimes they're visible, and sometimes they just look like regular clothes.
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(#9) Frieza
- Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Plan to Destroy the Saiya-jin, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, Dragon Ball
In an interesting inversion of how 'final forms' usually work, Frieza's fourth and strongest form is actually the version of him without any power limiters placed on him. All of his previous forms were designed to keep his power in check. Why does he do this? Because if he taps into his massive store of power, he can't keep up with it and loses energy over the course of a long battle.
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(#10) Abel Nightroad
- Trinity Blood
Abel Nightroad has some pretty cool powers involving nanomachine enhancements. That said, he only releases his full strength in increments - 40%, 80%, and 100%.
He does this in order to maintain control. Abel is guilty of some serious atrocities using his powers - the guy ended millions of lives. Now committed to doing the right thing, he wants full control over himself to be sure that nothing like that ever happens again. If he didn't have limiters on his ability, he might end up like his violent, out-of-control brother Cain.
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(#11) Kyo Sohma
- Fruits Basket
As a cursed member of the Zodiac, Kyo Sohma transforms into a cat when embraced by a member of the opposite sex. He also transforms into a super-strong monster who smells like rotting flesh. He avoids this transformation by wearing a string of prayer beads that were carved from human bone and dyed with blood.
Kyo is a martial artist, but he doesn't live in a world where a transformation like that would be useful. Instead, it would be socially destructive and humiliating. So he keeps the bracelet on at all time...until his adoptive father takes it off and forces him to reveal himself to Tohru in order to finally confront his emotions and move past them.
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(#12) Fai D. Flowright - 'Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'
The phoenix tattoo that covers Fai D. Flowright's back was put there to suppress his magical powers - powers that are so strong that if they get out of control they could destroy an entire dimension. After trading it to Yuuko, he decides to stop using magic for a while to avoid accidentally hurting anyone.
As it turns out, he's actually better off without his limiter. That's because due to a curse, he has no choice but to eliminate anyone whose powers exceed his own. Without the limit in place, there are far fewer people who actually fit that description.
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(#13) Clare
- Everybody Loves Sunshine
Claymores carry a signature aura that can be detected by anyone with aura-sensing abilities. They also have silver eyes. In order to perform covert missions, Claymore like Clare sometimes take youma suppressant pills, which dampen her aura and make her eyes look more typical. Unfortunately, there's also a downside in terms of her power - while the suppressant is in her system, she can't easily sense the aura of youma, making it much harder for her to do her job.
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(#14) Aki Izayoi
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time
The central difficulty in Aki Izayoi's life is that she has psychic powers she finds difficult to control. These powers let her materialize duel spirits and their effects - which sometimes results in having an out of control monster rampaging around and attacking people. Because her power has hurt others, she wants to keep it under wraps as much as possible. While it's unclear whether the effect is psychological or physical, her hair pin acts to keep her powers in check.
By the end of the series, she's gained more control over her abilities and is able to use them to her advantage.
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(#15) Belldandy
- Oh My Goddess!
Like all of the goddesses in Ah! My Goddess, Belldandy uses jewelry to keep her powers in check. She's under orders to do this by Kami because if she doesn't, she could easily hurt the human beings who surround her.
Other goddesses have even more power to suppress - Belldandy's mother Hild has over 20 pieces of limiting jewelry on when she arrives on Earth - she needs them to avoid wreaking havoc just by showing up.
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