What makes him special
Stimulus sentence
Stimulus sentence
But WAIT! You're probably thinking: "What makes him so special?"
Observations
Observations
In the third line of the screen shot, there is one hit of the exact sentence.
What makes X so special or so damn special looks to be a perfectly acceptable semi-fixed chunk. Other elements are also frequent:
so special occurs 106 times
what makes occurs 1,391 times