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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Why is there a headache where my expanded consciousness should be? And what happened to my other eight senses?"''|'''Black Mage''', ''[[
{{quote|''"Later on there's gonna be a part of the game where you lose all your extreme power and you have to do all these [[Escort Mission|escort missions]]. But don't play that part of the game, though, cause it sucks."''|'''Johnny Xtreme''', ''[[X Play]]''}}
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[[Bag of Spilling]] can be considered this trope when it applies to [[Video Game Characters]] between one game and its sequel.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Towards the end of the first arc in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'', Youko fights her [[The Rival|rival]] without the Hinman that gives her her martial art skills in order to prove her who was the real Chosen One.
* In ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' this is essentially what kills {{spoiler|Kira after his healing abilities run completely dry}}. Not that [[Taking the Bullet]] didn't contribute to his demise.
* After the first episode of ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'', Sara has lost her family prestige and her ability to control her Strain, [[Kill
* In ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'', Belldandy has her "goddess license" (essentially, permission to use her magic abilities) suspended. This turns out to be more difficult than she expects because despite her immense ''magical'' power, her ''physical'' strength is on par with the normal human she appears to be (ie, not very much).
* Happens to [[Magical Girl|Himeno Awayuki]] in the anime version of ''[[Prétear]]'', when her mixed feelings after learning the [[Backstory]] cause her to temporarily lose her ability to [[Fusion Dance|merge]] with the Leafe Knights -- at the worst possible moment. With bad consequences. She is [[Heroic BSOD|anything but happy]] about this, especially since, unlike many other [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]], Himeno doesn't really [[I Just Want to Be Normal|want to be normal]].
* Rukia Kuchiki from ''[[Bleach]]'' has a large portion of her power absorbed by Ichigo. {{spoiler|The real incident that makes her an example, however, is that she is then given a gigai by Urahara that is designed to decrease her spiritual energy even more.}}
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*** {{spoiler|It's also heavily implied Aizen lost all his powers when Ichigo defeated him, except for the regeneration that renders him unkillable, but at this point Aizen's too insane to notice, thinking his weapon disintegrating just meant he was about to achieve a state where he no longer needed one.}}
* Happens to Francoise Arnoul aka 003 once in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. During an episode of the 2001 series she and the group are stuck in a high place with frequent sandstorms; this greatly decreases her enhanced senses, [[Heroic BSOD|much to her despair]].
* Blackbeard of ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' has [[Anti
** He also uses this ability on {{spoiler|Whitebeard,}} resulting in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. {{spoiler|Delivered by Whitebeard.}}
* In ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|Mai-HiME]]'', {{spoiler|Natsuki}} temporarily loses her powers {{spoiler|when she finds out that her mom attempted to sell her to the Searrs Foundation, rather than attempting to protect her.}} She gets better later, though.
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* In ''[[Kanokon (Light Novel)|Kanokon]]'', Chizuru temporarily loses her powers (and her breasts) and has to cope without them. She never cares about her power being sealed, though. She just wants her breasts back.
* Evangeline of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' due to her [[Power Limiter]].
** Also {{spoiler|Asuna}} due to her self-induced [[Laser
** In a flashback, it is shown that Nagi had to enter a valley in which he couldn't use magic in order to {{spoiler|save Arika}}. It [[Badass Normal|didn't faze him]] [[Brought Down to Badass|in the slightest]].
** Happens more traditionally near the beginning of the manga, Negi places a [[Power Limiter]] on himself to avoid temptation of cheating on the exams. Of course he gets dragged along on an adventure anyway.
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* The title character of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has her [[Transformation Trinket]] stolen in one episode to prevent her interference. Even as a powerless 15 year old girl, she still shows up to the battle and manages to reclaim her pendant.
** Before that, she had the [[Transformation Trinket]] ''broken'' by a [[Monster of the Week]]. She sorta got it "repaired" out of willpower and with the help of [[The Power of Love]].
** Minako also got [[Brought Down to Normal]] in the Super S manga, unable to transform into Sailor Venus. {{spoiler|When Artemis temporarily reverted to his [[White
*** This happened to ''all'' the Senshi in Super S, and the same happened to the Guardian Senshi after the battle with Metalia, they got better though, obviously.
* Lina Inverse of ''[[Slayers]]'' ends up with her ridiculously powerful magic sealed for a good chunk of one of the NEXT story arcs.
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* Subverted to a degree in Fullmetal Alchemist. {{spoiler|Ed sacrifices his power to perform alchemy in order to return Alphonse to his body. When Truth inquires how he will cope as a 'normal person', Ed confidently asserts that he has ALWAYS been a normal person, one who couldn't even save one little girl from being turned into a chimera.}}
** {{spoiler|It happens to Ling too, when Greed is removed from his body.}}
* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]: [[Oddly Named Sequel|Best Wishes]]'' does this to Pikachu, after being attacked by a [[Olympus Mons|Zekrom]] (possibly to justify his routine depowering at the beginning of every new quest). Ash doesn't find out that Pikachu cannot use his signature Electric attacks until the poor thing gets [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomped]] by a [[
** It happens to Pikachu in the beginning of the Advance Generation and DP arcs, as well. In Hoenn, Pikachu got strapped to a giant magnet which made its powers go out of control, and after it all he was reset. Sinnoh, however, didn't really have an explanation beyond him being exhausted.
* In one chapter of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', [[Ninja|Koyuki]] is distraught because of her struggle to balance her ninja training with living like a normal junior-high girl, and uses an identity-sealing ninja art to forget her life as a ninja. It ultimately fails because [[The Power of Friendship|her friend Natsumi]] [[Be Yourself|misses the old Koyuki too much]]... good thing, too, as Natsumi was in the middle of being attacked by [[Villain Protagonist|Keroro]] when the spell wears off.
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* In the second cours of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' {{spoiler|Kotetsu}} starts to show signs of a rare condition that causes gradual power loss in a NEXT. An especially painful example, since it's drawn out in a way that makes it seem eerily similar to certain [[Real Life]] progressive diseases...
* ''[[Inukami (Anime)|Inukami]]'': {{spoiler|Sekidousai and Dai Youko, because Jesei used up their power.}} Its unknown if this is premanent or if they're just exhausted.
* ''[[Tantei Opera Milky Holmes]]'' [[Zig Zagged Trope|zigzags]] this to a ridiculous degree. The series starts with the [[Four Girl Ensemble]] losing their powers, but they recover them for the first season's finale as an [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]] of sorts, [[Shaggy Dog Story|only to lose them again in that same episode]]. Come the second season, they seem to be recovering them again by the second episode, [[Yank the
* In ''[[Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo (Anime)|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' Cruje deliberately casts a spell on herself to lock away her magical powers. Naturally, she ends up in situations where those powers would be very useful.
* Both ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' and ''[[Yes Precure 5]]'' had the main heroines lose their powers at the end of their respective series. Come their sequels (''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'' and ''[[Yes Pretty Cure 5 Go Go]]'', respectively), we come to find out that they miss the action and adventure and things are set to give them back their powers.
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* Gregory Deegan suffers a pretty brutal version of this in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' in the "Built to Resist" arc. TIM, having recently escaped from a [[Cosmic Horror]] dimension and packing [[Lovecraftian Superpower|Lovecraftian Superpowers]], ''rips out'' Gregory's white magic. And this is just one part of the [[Break the Cutie]] treatment Greg gets in this arc.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has an interesting subversion: Agatha starts out [[Brought Down to Normal]], but when someone steals her [[Power Limiter]] (which she didn't know about), she starts coming into her own.
* ''[[Inverloch (Webcomic)|Inverloch]]'' has the Severed elves, distinguishable by [[Eyes of Gold|golden eyes]] and [[White
* [[Genki Girl|Jade Harley]] of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' started off with her Dream Self already awake, which gave her a ''huge'' advantage over the other three kid protagonists. She was ''so'' far ahead that quite a few people in the fandom considered her a [[Mary Sue]] character. That quickly changed however, when her Dream Self got killed and she lost the ability to see future events, along with all her cool stuff in her house. To make matters worse, since Jade was asleep for so much of the storyline, she was actually ''behind'' now when compared to the other protagonists' progress in Sburb. She was brought down to sub-normal.
** Of course, she caught up to everyone else fairly quickly, then went God-Tier in [S] Cascade, putting her on even ground with the other kids.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Superman:
* ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]'' has the Man of Steel take a stint on a future earth with a red sun. He shows that he's apparently a [[Badass|very tough individual with a variety of skills]] even without his powers.
** In another episode, Supergirl is trapped in Skartaris, which likewise has a red sun, depowering her considerably. However, instead of moping around, she quickly confirms that her powers indeed don't work and adopts new ways of being awesome, namely, by being a [[Badass Normal]] [[Little Miss Badass]] [[Determinator]].
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* Makes up the plot for an episode of ''[[Ace Lightning]]''.
* Disney comic artists lamented they couldn't overuse the [[Born Lucky|Gladstone Gander]]-loses-his-luck plot because it would lose its value. It was finally used in the [[Animated Adaptation]] ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]''' episode "Dime Enough For Luck."
{{quote| '''Gladstone:''' [[This Cannot Be!|I don't believe it!]] I've lost my luck! No food... no money... ''gasp'' I'll have to get a ''job'' like normal people!!}}
* Raiden of ''[[Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm (Animation)|Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm]]'' loses his godly powers during an episode involving a magical orb. He's still [[Badass Normal]] thanks to the fact that he has been fighting for thousands of years.
** During the episode, Raiden does show distress and unease at losing his powers, explaining that for him, being a [[Physical God]] ''is'' normal.
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* In ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Sonic's shoes are stolen, forcing the speedy hedgehog to ''[[Fate Worse Than Death|walk]]''. It also happens in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' due to a laser that tracks whenever Sonic runs.
** It should be noted that both times Sonic doesn't actually lose his speed. He's just put into a position where he can't use it. His sneakers are designed to protect his feet from the intense friction running at the speed of sound would create.
* Crops up occasionally in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
** {{spoiler|Discord can take away a pegasus' wings and unicorn horns at a whim, which he demonstrates on the mane cast in the season 2 opener.}}
* In ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Powerless", [[Captain Atom]] is a [[Smug Super]] who gets [[Brought Down to Normal]]. And, now that he truly understands how puny and helpless ordinary people are, [[Spoof Aesop|becomes an Even Smugger Super]].
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