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** He also doesn't benefit from the expected results of [[David Versus Goliath]], especially since he is not established at any point to have fighting skills. Unlike other cases, where the David might be able to use agility and quick thinking to defeat physically superior opponents, Hodaka is quickly subdued once bigger adult men get ahold of him, and he needs an ally's intervention or some other way of evening the odds.

** Hina gets caught by a news crew clearing the sky for a major festival from the rooftop of a famous landmark, and orders rise sharply as a result of the newfound fame. In a normal story, this would be the time the scrappy crew gets down to brass tacks, goes through a [[Hard Work Montage]], and comes out more successful than before. In reality, though, a sudden surge in demand is something that can be hard to handle, especially for small operations, and that is exactly what happens; they get overwhelmed and need to call for a timeout.

** Teenager: Hardly a model of rationality and long-term utilitarian thinking. Teenager who's just suffered a big loss and now sees a way to undo it: Even less so. It should have been obvious ~~in hindsight~~ that Hodaka was going to choose to get Hina back and to Hell with [[The Needs of the Many]], but that's not what heroes in stories are supposed to do, right? Right?

** Teenager: Hardly a model of rationality and long-term utilitarian thinking. Teenager who's just suffered a big loss and now sees a way to undo it: Even less so. In hindsight, it should have been obvious that Hodaka was going to choose to get Hina back and to Hell with [[The Needs of the Many]], but that's not what heroes in stories are supposed to do, right? Right?

** At the end, Hodaka hurries back to Tokyo after graduating from high school. Even if those who mistreated you [[Took a Level In Kindness]] after your return, as the novel suggests, that doesn't undo the damage done from the preceding years or the very understandable desire to get away from them again as soon as possible.

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* You ''can'' ignore the loyalty sidequests in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', but what do you think will happen when you take a team of people who aren't properly motivated to fight servants of millenia-old [[Eldritch Abomination]]s? Or if you ignore the upgrades, what do you think a mere frigate with little in the way of weapons and armor is going to do against a race of aliens that cleaved your not-much-worse original ship in half at the beginning of the game? Or, if you're feeling extra stupid, make dumb choices about the roles each of your teammates have during the final mission?

* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'':

** Fail to gun down Eva Core before she gets in range and Shepard~~...~~ catches a [[Hot Blade]] in the face and dies. No [[Heroic Second Wind]] or other trope will conveniently kick in to bail the player out.

** Fail to gun down Eva Core before she gets in range and Shepard catches a [[Hot Blade]] in the face... and dies. No [[Heroic Second Wind]] or other trope will conveniently kick in to bail the player out.

** The Extended Cut DLC adds one. The whole game has been drilling into your head the fact that while small victories are possible, the Reaper war machine as a whole cannot be beaten conventionally, which is why the galaxy has to resort to building the Crucible. When you finally get to it at the end, you are presented with three choices, all of which have some downside. The Extended Cut adds a fourth: Refuse to use the Crucible after all. If you take it, though, the galaxy loses, and all it can do is [[Fling a Light Into the Future]] in the form of a message to the next cycle. Did you really think that you would be rewarded for not picking any of the poisoned chalices with some kind of [[Deus Ex Machina]]?

** The Extended Cut DLC adds one. The whole game has been drilling into your head the fact that while small victories are possible, the Reaper war machine as a whole cannot be beaten conventionally, which is why the galaxy has to resort to building the Crucible. When you finally get to it at the end, you are presented with three choices from a suspect source, all of which will reshape the galaxy but have some downside. The Extended Cut adds a fourth: Refuse to use the Crucible after all. If you take it, though, the galaxy loses, and all it can do is [[Fling a Light Into the Future]] in the form of a message to the next cycle. Did you really think that you would be rewarded for defiantly sticking to your principles and not picking any of the poisoned chalices with some kind of [[Deus Ex Machina]]?

* In ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'', Angela's prologue has her trekking through the aptly named Sub Zero Snowfield...in a highly [[Stripperiffic]] leotard. She doesn't get ten minutes in before she starts coming down with hypothermia.

* Used wonderfully in ''[[Rudra no Hihou]]''. A few days after the other protagonists have already received their magical [[Power Crystal]], Surlent is still lacking his. Being a scholar, he finds it inside an ancient artifact he's set out to research. It promptly flies towards him to merge with his body... and the impact kills him. Instantly.