Kill One, and the Others Get Stronger: Difference between revisions

 

== Film ==

 

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]''. The Huntsmen of Annuvin have this quality. Prince Gwydion describes them in ''The Black Cauldron'':

{{quote| They rove in small bands, and within those companies the death of one man only adds to the strength of all the rest...the more you strike down, the more the others gain in strength. Even as their number dwindles, their power grows.}}

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Space Invaders]]'', the more enemies you shoot, the faster the survivors become.

** By extension, this applies to any game where the sheer number of enemies lags the system enough to slow all the enemies down. As you kill them, the game stops lagging, making the remaining enemies faster (up to a point).

* In ''[[Dungeon Crawl]]'', you might run into elven twins, Dowan the mage and Duvessa the fighter. While killing Dowan first merely results in Duvessa's [[Unstoppable Rage|berserking]] (a non-permanent bonus to speed and strength), killing Duvessa first makes Dowan's spellpool instantly expand to include devastating new spells for no apparent reason.

* In ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' and ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', whenever an enemy unit is tossed out of bounds, any surviving enemies get an increase in level.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' features a raid boss battle against a group of three enemy generals known as the Assembly of Iron; as each one falls, they unleash a unique power called Supercharge which increases the damage that the survivors do by 25%. When only one remains, they receive a nasty new ability. Raids must choose the order careful, lest they find themselves swiftly overwhelmed by the power the last one standing possesses.