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Also known as being "[[Metroid|Metroided]]."

 

 

This can also be used to explain why your character goes [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] in a month or so, but if you have any allies that increase in level, this is often broken, as they level up just as fast.

Often the way [[A Taste of Power]] is ended if you are the same character. Common justification for [[Bag of Spilling]]. Compare [[Redemption Demotion]], where [[Heel Face Turn|switching to the good side]] knocks you down to level 1 as well.

 

 

== [[Action Adventure]] ==

* In ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]]'''s [[Justified Tutorial]], you start with a fully-armored Conan who makes short work of the nasty spirits in a tomb, but then he frees the wrong [[Eldritch Abomination]], washes up half-dead on an island without any armor or memory of what happened, and then spends the rest of the game recovering his armor and skills (the same spirits are much harder to beat when you get back to the tomb from the start of the game). To be fair, though, even starting-level Conan is pretty [[Badass]].

 

* Prior to ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Knight II]]'', Kyle Katarn invoked this trope and sealed himself off from [[The Force]] for fear of falling to [[The Dark Side]] again.

* ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' has a variation of this trope. After being dropped off to find some fuel for the boat in "Hard Rain", one of the survivors asks if someone brought the weapons with them. They quickly realize they forgot and left the weapons on the boat.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'' slaps Sora, Donald and Goofy with a brand new mechanic, plus [[Easy Amnesia]] as they progress through castle that they spend the whole game in. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' being asleep for a year explains the similar depowering. It [[Hand Wave|Hand Waves]] the power loss as you being the in the villains' house and having to play by their rules. Notably, Sora ''does'' seem to keep all his HP from the first game, since his starting HP is the same as the first game's max HP.

* ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' has Ashley Riot, a famous Riskbreaker... who, after a deeply traumatizing event, locked away all of his memories of combat. Sidney forces him to remember it, freeing the first few abilities, and after that he regains them "from repressed memory" with each experience milestone.

* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' has Yuri depowered by the Mistletoe Curse, forcing him to relearn and reclaim all of his Harmonixer forms one by one.

** Arguably, he is much older by the game's events, and additionally didn't learn classes, having not had the crystal shards that allow it. Furthermore, the amnesia thing

*** According to NPC chatter in one of the towns in the second world, Galuf ''did'' actually think to bring high-powered equipment with him, but somehow lost it all when his meteor crashed.

** Well, Barret is the current leader of AVALANCHE. There used to be another but retired for certain reasons in yet another Compilation Game. And being Level 1 in the Nibelheim Flashback is actually a tip to what actually happened in there...

** It's a bit of twice-over [[Fridge Brilliance]], anyway. On a first playthrough, it can easily be seen as a way to highlight just how ''powerful'' Sephiroth is compared to you. On a second, it becomes clear that {{spoiler|Cloud's level 1 because he was just a mook.}}

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Alien Dice]]'', a brutal deconstruction of the [[Mons]] genre, both the dice and Lexx himself are reset at the beginning of each round. The dice starting out on whatever level their die initially landed and Lexx getting knocked back ten levels.

 

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