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** In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]'', if Jin was the last member alive on a team, and has 1/3 health or less left, he activates a [[Golden Super Mode]] upon standing on the ground. His attack are strengthened, his specials are augmented, and it takes two hits to stun him. However, if an opponent can keep him off the ground, he can't activate it.
* [[Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2]]: All characters have "Awakening Mode", whereupon they transform into their respective Kickass modes. To wit: Naruto-->[[Super-Powered Evil Side|4 Tails form]], [[Lethal Joke Character|Tobi]]-->{{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Mad]][[The Chessmaster|ara]]}}
* ''[[TatsunokovsTatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'' has Baroque mode. It's a Desperation Attack because you must be willing to give up red health (meaning health that can be healed on the sidelines) to execute it. However, the more punishment you take means the more health you can exchange to power up, and that means the stronger you'll be under its influence.
 
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== [[Racing Game|Racing Games]] ==
* The ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games give the more powerful items to players lagging behind, like [[Classic Video Game "Screw YousYou"s|spiny shells]], [[Invincibility Power-Up|starmen]] and [[Rocket Ride|bullet bills]], while those in the lead get weaker items like [[Nitro Boost|mushrooms]], green shells and [[Banana Peel|banana peels]].
 
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** Struggle is an [[Emergency Weapon]], as it only executes when the Pokemon has run out of normal combat moves. It also comes into play if the opponent's Pokemon has used Encore, thus blocking the player's Pokemon from using any moves other than the one it last used, and that move is out of PP. It is completely exempt from the usual [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]].
* One of these shows up in many of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games.
** ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', has a [[Power Copying|Blue Magic]] spell called [[My Name Is Question Marks???|???]] (which actually has ''no'' [[Calling Your Attacks|call box]]). It does damage equal to the difference between the user's max HP and current HP. Therefore, using it when you're at critical HP will do damage almost equal to your max HP. It shows up in many other Final Fantasy games after V, as a Blue Magic spell, either named "???" or "Revenge/Revenger/Revenge Blast". However, it's a bit of a [[Useless Useful Spell]], as enemies who have the move tend to have [[Health Damage Asymmetry|max HP many times higher than what you ever get]], making it a potential [[One-Hit Kill]] in their hands.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' introduced actual Desperation Attacks to the series, incredibly powerful attacks that can randomly occur when a character with critically low HP is given the "Fight" command. However, they occur ''so'' rarely that most people have never actually seen one. Plus the Valiant Knife which does more damage the lower Locke's HP gets.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has the ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Final Attack]]'' materia, with which almost every spell materia can be paired. Equipping it on someone lets that character [[Taking You with Me|cast one last spell upon their demise]], but the right combination can bestow functional immortality. {{spoiler|Phoenix}} is recommended; Scan is not. (Unless you want to have your possessions identified, in which case, you've been playing too much [[Nethack]].)
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