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* The Hunters in ''[[Halo]]'' look like they're all that, but can thanks to a mistake in the first game, they go down in one hit to any orange area with a [[Boom! Headshot!|headshot weapon]], which they are oh so eager to expose. This was only the first game though, in the second two (plus ODST) they are considerably harder to kill.

** This mistake was removed in every game after the first (though it was incorporated into the novel based on the first game), and now those enemies are as [[Lightning Bruiser|difficult to face]] as they should be.

 

== [[Role-Playing Game]] ==

* A recurring theme in ''[[Discworld]]'' and ''The Carpet People'', another work by [[Terry Pratchett]], is "Always choose a bigger enemy - it makes him easier to hit". Usually this means in terms of numbers, but occasionally it's this trope.

 

* A rather bizarre, non-videogame example is arguably ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Volume 3 involved the company building having a breakout from Level 5 and were said to be all big and strong and "worse than Sylar." None of them survived the volume. Heck, in the last episode, Mr. Bennet releases all the surviving Level 5 Supervillains so they can help distract Sylar. They all last less than two minutes, tops.

* ''[[The Prisoner]]'': Number 2 in "Hammer Into Anvil". At the start of the episode, he seems to be the most dangerous, sadistic, tenacious, calm, hands-on Number 2 in the series so far. Number 6 easily and ''utterly'' destroys him.

* As the page picture shows, [[VG Cats|Super Effective]] plays the trope straight in [http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=34 this strip], complete with Gym Leader Brock who's completely shocked to see his "ULTIMATE rock type, Onix!" get completely [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rock Blocked]].

* [[Dueling Analogs]] has [http://www.duelinganalogs.com/comic/2010/03/04/suck-my-brock/ this strip] showing the truth behind Brock's weak Onix.

 

=== Sports ===

* The MiG-25 Foxbat and its relationship with NATO mirrors this. Here was a high-speed interceptor which kept the West up at night until a [[Defector From Commie Land|Russian fighter pilot brought one to NATO by way of Japan]], revealing the Foxbat to be a [[Fragile Speedster]] with the turning circle of an ocean liner that [[Heroic RROD|needed its engines rebuilt after it reached its Mach 2.8 top speed]]. Anything with air-air missiles that could get behind it first could kill it. [[Gulf War|Just ask the Iraqis.]]

** Said defector also informed the West that a superior aircraft was being developed based on the MiG-25. The resulting MiG-31 Foxhound sacrificed some of the MiG-25's speed in favor of better (but still unspectacular) agility, and more importantly the ability to carry more and better long-range missiles, vastly better radar, and the ability to throttle up to full speed without being physically damaged.

 

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