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{{quote|'''Mihawk:''' You may have a reputation, but you're still just a bunny. [...] You're a little frog, croaking in your puddle. Time you learned how big the world is.}}
** This was called back to after Zoro trained under Mihawk during the timeskip. His first "serious opponent", an octopus drunken swordsman, bragged about being the strongest swordsman in Fishman Island. Zoro kept calling him a frog, until the swordsman was sufficiently incensed, at which point Zoro stated he was bragging like a frog in a well, unaware of the world.
* ''[[Holyland]]'': The unnamed [[Yakuza]] regular at the bar Masaki works at is never stated to be a high-ranking officer of a powerful family or otherwise anyone who matters at the level he usually operates at. To the mostly teen and young adult cast, the mere threat of the full-grown criminals, even if it's just some nobodies, getting involved in their squabbles is a massive problem.
* ''[[Zipang]]'': The ''Mirai'' is just a single ship in the 21st century, ultimately replaceable and nothing special. When brought back to World War II, the question isn't whether it by itself can upend the conflict, but whether it is moral to do so and in which side's favour.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Essentially the premise of ''[[Idiocracy]]'': The soldier who was frozen was chosen specifically for being perfectly average in every way, but humanity evolved to be stupider, so when he [[Human Popsicle|wakes up]], he's the smartest man alive, and the person who was frozen with him is the smartest woman alive.
* In the ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' reboot, Nero's ship Narada goes back in time and defeats a fleet of Klingon Warbirds, yet it's only a simple mining vessel in his day. A comic book prequel series averts the trope by stating that Nero added Borg technology to the Narada before going back in time.
* ''[[The Final Countdown]]'' predates ''[[Zipang]]'' in having a similar premise. The ''Nimitz'' might not be a redshirt ''per se'', but it's hardly an irreplaceable unique superweapon. Brought back to World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor, though, and the question isn't whether it can by itself thwart the Japanese airstrikes despite six-on-one odds, but whether it should.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Alan Dean Foster from the ...Who Needs Enemies anthology
* Maxim Kammerer in "Inhabited Island" (Aka "Prisoners of Power") by [[Strugatsky Brothers]]. For Earth, he is ordinary, but on Saraksh, his [[Bullet Time]] capabilities and ability to survive heavy wounds make him very powerful. Even more important however, is that being a non-native, he {{spoiler|is immune to the mind-control beams...}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Loki (TV series)|Loki]]''. One scene shows that the Infinity Stones, which so many people fought and died over in pursuit of godhood in the preceding works of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], have no power in the premises of the Time Variance Authority, such that they're treated as harmless paperweights.
== [[Radio]] ==
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* When you start the first night time levels in Plants Vs Zombies, the amount of Sun available to you is greatly lessened. As a result, you will tend to rely more on the cheap (and weaker) mushroom defences. This trope comes into effect because defences like the Pea Shooter, the first and most basic unit of daytime levels, suddenly becomes an expensive and powerful unit.
* In regular ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', the Battlestars and Basestars are par for the course. In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Online]]'', though, where even the strongest starships a player has regular access to are much weaker, they can bitchslap whole fleets.
* ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'': In the Previous Era, there were 1,000 Keys of Domination, so numerous and individually insignificant that they could be handed to expendables for experiments. In the less advanced Current Era, just one alone is so much better than whatever else is available that it's treated as a legendary weapon.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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