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Worst Users Of Every Power

I nominate Nanno from Girl from Nowhere for being the worst user of blood manipulation.

Nanno is a demon / demi-goddess in the form of a human, whose aim is to be the bringer of karma, punishing humans using very particular methods in accordance with karmic retribution and poetic justice. This is easy for her because she is super clever, has immortality and has many other supernatural abilities. In season 2, she saw potential in another clever girl named Yuri, who kind of outsmarted her for a moment. Yearning a challenge, Nanno decided to grant Yuri the same immortality and paranormal effects she has, letting Nanno have a worthy rival on her missions. This was done by Nanno non-physically moving blood in water, into Yuri's mouth after she had drowned, to make her immortal and bestow her power.

There's no evidence Nanno can use blood manipulation in any way other than moving it in water and being a means of power bestowal. As strongly implied during the Wonderwall story from season 1, Nanno can bestow her powers into something just by thinking it, so blood manipulation is basically just an extra unnecessary step.

Nanno actively jeopardized her role as the bringer of karma and had put humanity in danger by giving Yuri her powers. Both characters can be cruel, but Nanno prioritizes slow and meticulous methods of punishment that suit people's misdeeds and situations, whereas Yuri's sense of justice is selfish and she doesn't care about who dies if it means victims quickly get the pleasure to triumph over those who wrong them. Nanno is more responsible with the power to avoid consequences and I bet most people would rather Nanno be the judge, but she had put herself in a situation where she had to win a sort of battle of wits in order to maintain being the bringer of karma, risking Yuri revolutionizing the world by spreading Nanno's powers to more bullied psychopaths.

I know it's technically useful to be able to use blood manipulation for power bestowal that grants a long list of abilities, but until someone finds a worse blood manipulation user, I think Nanno is a good choice to list as the worst one. In summary, the only advantage she can get from her blood manipulation is power bestowal that she doesn't need blood manipulation to perform anyway, and the canonical way she utilized blood manipulation was to her disadvantage.
TBH, a part that you didn't mention is how Nanno gets bodied hard by vampire like characters because of her blood manip.
 
TBH, a part that you didn't mention is how Nanno gets bodied hard by vampire like characters because of her blood manip.
It's funny to think of it that way, but it's not as though Nanno's blood passively carries her magic, and it's not as though her blood is like a potion that can always grant abilities upon drinking it. Nanno's supernatural effects are non-physical most of the time, and she's abandoned physical forms multiple times before upon resurrecting in new physical forms. Nanno's blood having supernatural traits is based on her will, not as a result of her blood carrying her power source or something like that. Of course, the idea of Nanno becoming impressed by a vampire and letting them gain her powers by drinking her blood could realistically happen and is all the more reason for her being the worst blood manipulation user.
 
I'd like to nominate the Suez Canal Crab for the worst user of Large Size. It has no way to visibly defend itself beyond its large size. Along with that however, the crab can barley support its own weight, causing itself to fall over and and tear the Evergiven ship from its back.
 
I'd like to nominate the Suez Canal Crab for the worst user of Large Size. It has no way to visibly defend itself beyond its large size.
Does it not have the anatomy of a regular crab?
Along with that however, the crab can barley support its own weight, causing itself to fall over and and tear the Evergiven ship from its back.
What's the source on this claim?
The idea that it can't support its own weight seems contradicted by this line from the summary:
"After days of marching, where it passed through two barricades, the Crab reached the Capital of Egypt, Cairo.".

A giant crab that can march through Egypt for days, presumably with little to no access water, seems able to sustain its own weight to me.

It also seems unspecified -At least on the profile- what caused it to trip in the city, but it was an overcrowded-due-to-evacuation city wit a giant crab. A pothole? A car? A lamp-post?

I will say though that it's Durability justification makes a good candidacy for its unformidability:

Durability: At most Multi-City Block level, likely lower (When the Crab got close to the tower itself, it tripped and it slammed into the side of it, which killed it[1])
 
Does it not have the anatomy of a regular crab?

What's the source on this claim?
The idea that it can't support its own weight seems contradicted by this line from the summary:
"After days of marching, where it passed through two barricades, the Crab reached the Capital of Egypt, Cairo.".

A giant crab that can march through Egypt for days, presumably with little to no access water, seems able to sustain its own weight to me.

It also seems unspecified -At least on the profile- what caused it to trip in the city, but it was an overcrowded-due-to-evacuation city wit a giant crab. A pothole? A car? A lamp-post?

I will say though that it's Durability justification makes a good candidacy for its unformidability:

Durability: At most Multi-City Block level, likely lower (When the Crab got close to the tower itself, it tripped and it slammed into the side of it, which killed it[1])
It walked for days sure, but the second it hit any level of disturbance it couldn’t readjust itself and died by falling. That sounds pretty weak and useless to me. I will say as well that the Suez Canal crab is really only a crab in name and appearance. All it does is stand up, walk, and then die soon after by falling. It seems pretty useless as a large creature.
 
It walked for days sure, but the second it hit any level of disturbance it couldn’t readjust itself and died by falling. That sounds pretty weak and useless to me. I will say as well that the Suez Canal crab is really only a crab in name and appearance. All it does is stand up, walk, and then die soon after by falling. It seems pretty useless as a large creature.
Fair, I guess.

Checking the video:


At about 6 minutes in, we see a visual where the "crab" apparently tripped over a building, stumbling. Its crash with a tower was... apparently part of an attempt to regain its balance??
It apparently remained that way for several minutes before the tower collapsed, dragging the crab into the ground.

Also, despite its strange shape -Rectangle with nine legs??- its described in the video as though it had bodily fluids & wounds.

"Upon impacting the ground, the Suez Canal Crab and the Ever Given separated The large wounds caused by the separation discharged thousands of gallons of seawater and bodily fluids."
Other statements from earlier on:
"low-flying aircraft cause the organism to ambulate unsteadily."..."efforts are underway to carefully manipulate the Crab's route through Egypt."

So yeah, it does seem strangely incompetent. I'm also unsure how it got wounded.
 
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