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{{trope}}
So a character once had some kind of amazing powers, but they had to give them up for some (doubtless suitably noble) reason. Or maybe the villain took their powers away, or they lost them in some other way. Point is, their powers are gone. Bummer, isn't it? But don't worry, they won't stay [[De
Compare [[Re-Power]], which also involves a character getting a new powerset, but as part of a re-imagining or [[Alternate Universe]]. A subset of [[Powers
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Toward the end of the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga (and second anime), {{spoiler|Roy Mustang loses his eyesight but gains more powerful and diverse alchemy as a result of being forced through the gate. At the end, he even gets his eyesight back courtesy of a Philosopher's Stone}}
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Ishida explicitly states he would lose all his power and could never be a Quincy again if he [[One-Winged Angel|takes off his gauntlet]]. He takes it off. After the filler arcs, he has a new and better power. To be fair, however, the reason he wasn't told there was a way to regain them was probably because {{spoiler|it's potentially ''fatal''.}}
** The exact same thing happens to Ichigo earlier. After rather stupidly attacking Captain Kuchiki when he showed up to grab Rukia to be a [[Damsel in Distress]] for the Soul Society arc, Byakuya attacks him in such a way as to remove his shinigami powers. Urahara immediately puts him through some [[Training
** And, he's at it again. {{spoiler|After losing all of his powers again in a major battle and post-timeskip, Ichigo is once again gaining powers, now using fullbring as a source.}}
*** Third time's the charm. {{spoiler|After [[Big Bad|Kugo Ginjo]] steals said Fullbring, he gets his an upgraded version of his Soul Reaper powers back with help from Rukia, Uruhara, his father, and pretty much everyone else he knows. Ginjo was [[Oh Crap|NOT]] happy.}}
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* Lina Inverse from ''[[The Slayers]]'' was once cursed by a demoness, and lost all her magic powers. She started to wear talismans that gave her enough boost up to do at least some small spells. When the demoness was killed, the curse ended, and Lina not only got her powers back but also added one of the setting's most powerful spells to her repertoire. She still wears the talismans, which now make her destructive spells even more destructive! {{spoiler|Or rather, wore them - she had to sacrifice the talismans to cast one of her spells later.}}
* This happens with a ''lot'' of Gundam shows to facilitate a [[Mid-Season Upgrade]].
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
** Likewise, in both series Kira upgraded to a stronger model shortly after his original machine was destroyed.
** In ''[[After War Gundam X
** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
*** Then in [[The Movie]], he briefly pilots the partially rebuilt 00 operating on a particle condenser {{spoiler|as when the 0 Gundam and Exia fragged each other with a [[Cross Counter]], both's GN Drives were destroyed}}; he ultimately switches to the 00 Quan[T] that's designed specifically to take advantage of {{spoiler|his Innovator nature}}.
** Occurs repeatedly throughout ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
*** It should also be noted that pretty much all the pilots had their own Gundams blown up, and sometime after piloting Wing Zero, got a new/repaired and upgraded version.
** [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]:, After Kou and Gato both destroy each other's Gundams, they each get a gigantic mobile armor shortly afterwards. Kou's even has a new Gundam attached.
*** Of course, things aren't guaranteed to go well even if one has a shiny new toy as Kou still failed to stop the colony and was later court-marshalled for stealing the GP-03, only let go when Captain Synapse committed suicide to take responsible for it.
* In ''[[
* In [[Mai
* In ''[[
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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* In the [[DC Universe]], we have Guy Gardner. Once he lost his [[Green Lantern]] ring, he stole a yellow ring from his old bosses, the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Oans]]. The new ring got destroyed (while he was fighting to save the GL Corps, by the way). After spending time as a [[Badass Normal]], he trekked into the jungle to find some alien [[Super Serum]] which gave him new powers involving living armor and pulling swords out of his own body. Eventually, he got a new GL ring and rejoined the Corps, but first he spent time in "The Corpse," a black-ops section of the GLC with stealthier powers.
** And in a late '90s storyline, the real Superman became an energy being. And then was split into ''two'' energy beings, each of whom believed themselves to be the original. And then the two energy beings merged back together, and became Superman Classic.
** Resurrection Man also has this in addition to well, [[Exactly What It Says
*** But doesn't that come with a [[Most Common Superpower|power]] of its own?
*** In fact, the rationale for coming back female was that women are better able to withstand pain than men.
** Donna Troy is virtually the DCU poster-child for this trope, having gone from being Wonder Girl to Troia to non-powered, then recruited as a Darkstar, then serving briefly as (respectively) non-powered, dead, cosmic something-or-other, and now (I think) Wonder Girl again.
** Similar but simpler arc for John Stewart, who stopped being a Green Lantern for a while, but then also became a Darkstar, lost that, was an awesome architect for a bit, and is now a Green Lantern again. But at least he stopped killing planets.
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*** And now Jubilee is a vampire. Go figure.
* Christian Walker lost his superpowers before the beginning of ''[[Powers]]'', but later he {{spoiler|is chosen to become a Green Lantern-esque defender of Earth by an advanced alien race.}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* At the climax of the ''[[Black Jewels]] Trilogy'', {{spoiler|Jaenelle}} must drain all the power from her jewels, which shatter, but she then gets a new jewel, which encompasses most of her previous power range. She's {{spoiler|still not as powerful, but she was the one that made sure she dropped a power level afterwards.}}
* In the ''[[Chanters of Tremaris]]'' trilogy, the protagonist loses her powers after they are drained by a massive-scale working, but in a later book gains new
* At the end of ''[[The Dresden Files
** Although {{spoiler|Soulfire}} is not without its' own issues. Where {{spoiler|Hellfire}} had the downside of {{spoiler|being the result of a demonic infestation, and represented using said demon's powers}} the replacement {{spoiler|is powered by, you guessed it, the user's soul.}} Which while it is replenished by living, and he's only using very small bits of it at a time, it's still possible to run out of it {{spoiler|which would have the bad side effect of killing him [[Deader Than Dead]].}}
* Croyd "The Sleeper" Crenson from [[Wild Cards|the Wild Cards series]] is practically this trope personified. Whenever he goes to sleep, he undergoes a weeks-long metamorphosis into a new form and gains new powers. He can become an ace or a joker, and lives in constant fear of drawing the black queen, so he tends to use amphetemines whenever he senses sleep sneaking up on to extend his awake periods. (There's a reason his line in the Aces Jingle is "Sleeper waking, meals taking. Sleeper speeding, people bleeding.")
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Piper in ''[[
** She never actually lost her freezing power, she just accidentally used her explosion power whenever she tried to freeze something, because the activation gesture was the same.
*** [[You Fail Physics Forever|Because the explosion power was the exact inverse of the freezing power. (Kinetic energy?!)]]
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** Of course, the very first instances of this happened to Tommy in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''. He lost his powers as the Green Ranger, then got them back again to a somewhat limited extent, then lost them again, before finally being given the powers of the White Ranger.
* The [[Beetleborgs|Beetleborg]] series did this when moving from ''Big Bad Beetleborgs'' to ''Beetleborgs Metallix''.
* Happens a ''lot'' on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', probably because it'd be impossible to write anything challenging for Hiro, Peter or Sylar if their powers didn't get nerfed at least once a season.
** In fact, this trope pretty much sums up Peter's power in the last two seasons. To clarify to those who don't know: Peter's power was originally [[Mega Manning]], but he was nerfed so that he can only have one power at a time, 'discarding' his card and 'drawing' from whoever he is copying.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'' had Kamen Rider G3, a manmade Rider system built to fight [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|the Grongi]]. Unfortunately, the more powerful Lords as well as the mystical based Agito and Gills, outmatch it. So they eventually decomission it and replace it with the G3-X armor, which comes with more power, thicker armor, and increased combat ability.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Very literal in the ''[[Magic:
** There are also [
** Did we mention
*** Red has discard and draw, cards that often have you draw and then discard at random, or discard everything you've got to redraw. Blue has straight up draw. There are also cantrips, cards that allow you to draw as part of the spell being cast, in every colour.
* Not nearly as noticeable in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game, as the player isn't represented by any single title in the metanarrative, but there are shades of this; several hand-destroying cards have [[Mind Rape]]-specific names like Mind Haxxorz (no, really) and Penalty Game! that invoke a sense that the player's being subjected to an actual Penalty Game from the Shadow Realm.
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** Plus the relatively straight playing of this trope when Yugi loses Exodia in Episode 3, thus preventing him from using it to win later on, making him, y'know, actually have to ''play'' the game. Fear not though, as he then trades up in Season 2 for an improved deck that progressively adds the three Egyptian God Cards. Additionally, he plays around with the god-ish Timaeus in the Doma arc, but doesn't (and can't) keep it.
** Is becoming more and more common; Destiny Draw, Allure of Darkness, Rare Value, Common Charity, and more are all variations of "get rid of one card and draw two". As a general rule, nearly every new archetype gets a variation of this mechanic.
* The ''[[
* [[Munchkin (
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* Played straight in ''[[Lost Kingdoms]]'', since you have to use cards to attack and are limited to four for a hand. The second game at least didn't remove cards from the deck when you manually discarded them.
* Near the end of ''[[Half Life]] 2'', Gordon Freeman loses all of his equipment with the exception of the gravity gun and his HEV suit, both of which become supercharged by dark energy. The gravity gun can interact with energy spheres and all organic matter, killing the latter instantly when held or hit by a projected object; meanwhile, Gordon's suit gains increased reactive armour energy reserves and can recharge both armour and health reserves from Combine power stations with greater efficiency.
* For the last segment of ''[[Zork: Grand Inquisitor]]'', the player must use a spell which reverses the effect of every spell he knows. As a result, he loses the ability to unlock any door, travel via time portal, separate magical energies, and turn purple things invisible, but gains the ability to seal any door (keeping guards safely locked up), willfully avoid traveling in time, turn invisible things purple (which lets the player find an invisible fence), and combine magical energies ( {{spoiler|which solves the game's final puzzle}})
* [[Mega Man (
* In the beginning of ''[[
* In ''[[
* This happens to Kratos in ''[[God of War (
* Many of the Death Knights in [[World of Warcraft]] were once paladins, who lose their Light-based powers from the evil acts they commit in the Lich King's service, but in the process, they are able to use new dark powers, which the freed Knights of the Ebon Blade use against the Lich King. A similar process happens to Sylvanas and her Dark Rangers.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'': In death, the original Sub-Zero (Bi-Han) seemingly lost his ice-based powers, but as [[Came Back Wrong|Noob Saibot]] he has entirely new, [[Casting a Shadow|shadow-based]] ones.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** [[Aborted Arc|No, it doesn't]], though it does some minor trading in for some of the classics from [[Ben 10
** Seems to have happened to Kevin also, albeit off-camera between shows. Certainly, his power on ''Ben 10: Alien Force'' is a lot less versatile than what he was capable of on the previous show.
*** [[Word of God|Which would be because he's now afraid of absorbing energy again lest he turn back into a mutant monster.]]
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