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** 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, and not even the best kind thereof, 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.
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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]]'':
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** {{spoiler|Fu Hua}} was the youngest and least experienced of the Previous Era's MANTIS [[Super Soldier]]s. That still leaves her strong enough that in the Current Era, even after multiple incidents that deducted from her maximum power, she remains well above average.
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* In frontier country a person who would be merely a successful businessman elsewhere could often end up as what amounted to a king because they had organization and capital with them including the ability to get hired guns.
** The more-or-less fondly-remembered Mclaughlin was the chief factor (manager) at Fort Vancouver which was the Oregon station of the Hudson's Bay fur cartel. He had as much power as any Indian chief or pioneer settlement and, though he was economic about the use of [[Gunboat Diplomacy]], could quite easily use it.
* In the colonial era, many European expeditions that would have been inconsequential in battle against the full-sized militaries of their contemporaries nevertheless triumphed over numerically superior natives that only had medieval or Renaissance-era technology.
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