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Compare [[Changing of the Guard]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* One could argue this is what ultimately crippled ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z''. We go from a military commander who wants to be taller, to an evil demon king, to the proud and arrogant prince of Goku's race that can crush Goku and his friends with ease, to the ruler of the galaxies that ''commanded'' said prince, to a genetic amalgam created from various good and bad guys including said ruler, and the... what can probably be called abomination Majin Buu, who destroys planets and people for the hell of it.
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== Literature ==
* This seems to be the Modus Operandi for the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. Can't think of a plot? Introduce another seemingly forgotten Sith faction from nowhere and build them up to be the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known. Done to such an extreme that the most recent [[Fate of the Jedi|main storyline series]] had Luke facing off against an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was made out to be stronger than the Emperor. For the record, the Emperor has been used as a benchmark for enemy power levels.
* Done to extremes in the ''[[Skylark Series|Skylark]]'' series. The main hero and villain are geniuses at the start. And their brains are enhanced with each new book until they're capable of understanding five-dimensional physics and building spaceships with their brains. In case the earth getting destroyed wasn't a big enough threat, by the end of the series the whole ''universe'' is at stake. Instead of basic science-y weapons, they grab a team of psychic witches to translocate all the planets inhabited by the villainous race to a
** It is characteristic of [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]] - he does it in his other works too, including [[Lensman|the Trope Namer for]] [[Lensman Arms Race]]. If he starts a book with 1 km long spaceships fighting, by the end of the book he'll have hundreds of 10 km long spaceships fighting. Unfortunately, he kept writing sequels, so each new one starts at the level the previous book stopped at
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s "Witch" books in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series were accused of this. Granny Weatherwax always had to fight a stronger foe - in this case, stronger meaning "better at mind magic" - until, as of ''[[
* Done by [[David Weber]] in ''[[Honor Harrington]]''; Honor gets roughly one promotion per book, and [[Lensman Arms Race|there's roughly one revolutionary advance in military technology per book.]] So while the [[Standard Starship Scuffle|big space battle]] of the first book is [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet|one outgunned cruiser versus a disguised battlecruiser]] in a peacetime skirmish, the most recent books involve battles between hundreds of ships flinging [[Macross Missile Massacre|tens of thousands of nuclear missiles]] at each other in a galactic-level, multi-sided war. Honor has literally reached highest rank possible in ''both'' of the navies in which she currently serves. Weber intended to break the cycle by killing her off and letting her children [[Changing of the Guard|pick up where she left off]] about two books back, but co-author [[Eric Flint]] [[Take a Third Option|gave her a literal new lease on life]] by pushing the newest war up about 20 years and shifting the focus to [[Cast Herd|other groups of characters]] to keep from having to promote Honor so damn much.
* After starting as a low-level CIA analyst in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', [[Tom Clancy
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* ''[[Stargate]]'' falls victim to this, but usually manages to make the upgrade interesting.
** They started by defeating a single Goa'uld (Ra) who had a single ship in [[The Movie]].
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