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* The new [[Hourman]] had exactly one hour of total time he could use to visit his father in an otherworldly realm.
* Miroku from ''[[Inuyasha]]''. The "wind tunnel" in his hand is almost story-breakingly powerful (it's basically a ''personal black hole'') but it will eventually consume him regardless ([[No Ontological Inertia|unless the demon who put it there is killed]]), but using it to inhale monsters accelerates the process, and injuries to that hand shave off even more time.
* ''[[Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter (Video Game)|Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter]]'' has exactly this; the main character's draconic powers are limited by how long he can remain in his [[Super Mode]] state. When the meter is full, he dies. Game Over. No way to lower it, whatsoever. The game is designed with the expectation that you'll eventually overtax it and die -- then you can start over from the beginning, keeping much of your character advancement and items and unlocking new cutscenes that reveal more of the story. Repeat until you can clear the game without going over.
* Nico Minoru's Staff of One in the Marvel series ''[[Runaways]]''. The staff can cast any spell imaginable, but can't cast the same spell more than once.
* The Lightning in ''[[MedievilMediEvil (Video1998 Gamevideo game)|Medievil]]'' can't be recharged in either game and is the only weapon with no way to restock.
** This was rectified in the PSP [[Updated Rerelease]] the first game- now the Lightning is just ''prohibitively expensive'' to recharge.
* In [[Maburaho]], all magic users can only use their powers a limited number of times. If they use up all their spells, they die and their bodies crumble to ash.
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** The Sentai that ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin]]'' is based on ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'' had the same thing with their green ranger, which was actually what [[Real Life Writes the Plot|forced it to be used]] in [[Power Rangers]] due to stock footage constraints. Also notable Zyuranger's green ranger {{spoiler|is [[Killed Off for Real]].}}
* ''[[.hack]]'''s data drain powers increase your viral corruption, although it is possible to lower it, overuse results in random chance of various effects (both positive and negative), eventually resulting in game over from viral takeover.
* In the ''[[Ghost Rider (Filmfilm)|Ghost Rider]]'' film, the previous Rider fades away after one last change.
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|in the new universe created by Madoka in the final episode, magical girl power generally works like this. Instead of becoming a witch due to having your gem corrupted, when you run out of magical power, you simply fade away}}.
* One of the ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' books features as a key character a little girl who appears to have the talent to have [[God Mode Sue|all the talents, ever]]. Eventually the heroes notice a pattern, or specifically, a lack thereof; it turns out that the limitation (which every talent has) is that she can only use each talent once. After this, she gets much more conservative with it; before, she was kind of a [[Bratty Half-Pint|spoiled brat]] because if things didn't go the way she wanted, she'd just magic them into something more to her liking, and not even her parents could do anything about it.
** To clarify, she has every magic talent possible; but she can use similar talents for the same effect. For example, she could make clean drinking water by cleansing it, distilling it, reversing time to when it was clean, transmuting it, etc. In another book, ''The Dastard'', she finds out that the limitation is actually that each spell is on a years-long cooldown. Unfortunately, his talent allows him the ability of reversing a short period of time; and he caused her not to come to the realization. So far, she still doesn't know.
* Emiya Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'' last scenario. He can use his projection magic only 3 times after defeating Dark Berserker with [[Future Badass|Archer]] arm.
* Steven Spielberg's ''[[Taken]]'' did this with a young alien boy who eventually burned himself out using his powers.
 
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