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*** Franklin Payne ([[Gentleman Adventurer]]!) is hyped continent-wide for his famous and daring expeditions. By the time you qualify to invite him, any gunslingers currently in the party could have been better developed and better equipped, and all other character types are more effective in their specialty and still broadly useful. Franklin is a nice chap for such a [[Glory Hound]], and entertaining to listen to, but he's a little late for the [[True Companions]].
* Garland in [[Breath of Fire III]]. The story presents him as a extremely powerful warrior with skills way above the strongest warriors in the world. He always joins the annual Warior Tournament as a solo entry, while the standard is to register a team of three. Balio and Sunder, the duo of the previous two [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] you have, tremble by just being stared hy him. Turns out he eventually joins your party in the third battle against the duo, and after killing them, casually remarks that he was eventually planning of disposing them. Turns out that, in-game wise, he's just the standard [[Mighty Glacier]] character who is easily outranked by Ryu. He has a plethora of Fire spells but his magic is so low that even his strongest spells can't match the power of his standard attack.
* Surprisingly, Char Aznable....sorry, Quattro Bajina, in [[Super Robot Wars Z]] is a variation on this, he's one of the best pilots in the game(He usually is. In fact, here he's probably second in Z only to [[Super Dimension Century Orguss|Kei]] ) but rather than getting his own top of the line mobile suit, he's got the OK Hyaku Shiki, which is not very good compared to the units you get late game. [[Game Breaker|UNLESS you do what many do and put him in the]] ''[[Turn A Gundam
** Quattro in general really, most prominent in [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] Gaiden, his stats is some of the worst in comparison Gundam main characters including normal pilots like Kou Uraki and even Loran Cehack. And like in Z, he only get the Hyaku Shiki, and Sazabi is Easy Mode only unit that is decent at best.
* Rather disappointingly enforced by paladin Artix of ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' In his own movie (Artix VS The Undead), Artix was shown to slay hundreds of Undead with a swipe of his sword. In game however {{spoiler|he is a level 3 Paladin who seems weaker than your main character, bar his four-hit Light combo}}.
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*** Still, the fact that they have to gain experience and "learn" their special abilities/get better equipment fits this trope.
* In ''[[Izuna]] 2'', ''all'' characters who join your party begin at level 1, even when your mains could be at level 45 or higher. This includes {{spoiler|the first six bosses of the previous game, including the [[Big Bad]].}}
* Kanon of ''[[Wild
* The playable characters in ''[[League of Legends]]'' have four usable abilities, but when you start a game with them, they can only use ''one'', and are actually rather weak with less than a thousand health. Especially when you look at some of their backstory. However; this is presumably ''invoked'' by having spells around the fields of justice so that the champions powers are kept equal or in check. Even though [[Schmuck Bait|players will forever argue about champions being overpowered and underpowered]].
** Explained away in-game as having to summon the champions every time a new battle starts, creating a fusion of the summoner and champion who has to learn how to use their powers and abilities again. Killing minions and champions presumably assists this process.
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