Cutscene Incompetence/Playing With

Basic Trope: Characters make mistakes in Cutscenes that they don't make during gameplay.

Straight: Pike is a great fighter, but during cutscenes he keeps making mistakes the player wouldn't make, like surrendering to the Mook ambush squad rather than chopping his way through.
Exaggerated: Pike is a Physical God with absolute control over the universe who routinely turns all enemies into a fine mist. Except during cutscenes, where he is incapable of harming an ant and can be killed by poking him.
Downplayed: Pike is a competent fighter, and the cutscenes generally reflect that, but during one cutscene reacts just a little too slowly to a Goddamned Bat that sneaks up on him, and gets pwned by it.
Justified: Pike is an Idiot Hero.
Inverted: Cutscene Power to the Max
Subverted: A cutscene appears. In that cutscene Pike appears to surrender to the Mook army, who are usually weaker than him, but gameplay begins when Pike is being taken by the Mooks.
Double Subverted: Pike is only allowed to destroy a fraction of the Mooks before another cutscene in which he actually surrenders.
Parodied: Pike slaughters his way across an entire battlefield with nary a scratch, but upon exiting the area via cutscene, he trips on a small rock, which sends him bungling off a nearby crevasse, comically hitting both sides repeatedly before hitting the bottom. And for good measure, he dropped his weapon AND his armor along the way.
Deconstructed: Pike's periodic laspes of judgement haunt him; he may be a great fighter, but what good is that when he keeps choking at the exact worst moments possible? The stress causes him to crack, making worse mistakes and getting caught in a vicious cycle of self-deprecation and regret.
Reconstructed: Pike is inspired by his failures to buckle down, work harder and eventually overcome his issues, becoming a truly great hero in the process.
Zig Zagged: Pike erratically alternates between Cutscene Incompetence and Cutscene Power to the Max.
Averted: Pike's behavior in cutscenes is on par with his capabilities during normal gameplay.
Enforced: The game would be over too quickly if it let Pike brute-force his way through everything.
Lampshaded: "You'd think this guy would be more powerful than us Mooks." "Maybe he is."
Invoked: Pike lets himself be captured during a cutscene as part of his greater plan.
Exploited: The Mooks wait for a cutscene to happen to attack Pike.
Defied: Pike forces the player to skip the cutscene so he won't get captured.
Discussed: "Pike, you KNOW you could have easily fought those guys, right? I mean, you get stabbed by their swords all day anyway, why take exception now?"
Conversed: "I wish I could actually play these cutscenes because this guy surrenders way too often in them"
Played For Laughs: ???
Played For Drama: ???

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