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Compare/contrast [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]], which involves a sudden power-up right before the climax, and [[A Taste of Power]], which lets you have a (nearly) full set of powers for a while before taking them away.
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== Action Adventure ==▼
== Video game examples ==
▲=== Action Adventure ===
* [[HAWX]]: Off Mode, which represents disabling failsafes in your plane to let you push its limits. It changes your view and subtly alters (increases) your abilities. Not really a direct increase in power, but qualifies as it's a game-defining ability given to you a while in, after the basic tutorials.
* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands of Time'', you shortly gain the power to control time after you retrieve the dagger.
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=== Hack and Slash ===
* In ''[[Onimusha]]'', your attacks do hurt the demons, but won't kill them. You shortly later gain the Oni Gauntlet.
* In ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dantes Inferno]]'', you kill [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] as a tutorial boss and steal his scythe.
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=== Platform ===
* In ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', you don't get the [[Transformation Trinket|V-Watch]] until shortly into the first level. Barely an example, but you do have to fight your first few enemies without it.
* ''[[Sonic Colors]] DS'' doesn't give you the well known boost (it's basically a third Sonic Rush with some alterations) until Tropical Resort Act ''2''. The first "real" wisp power after that is at the start of the second zone, where once you've got used to the boost, the wisp powers really come into play. Additionally, the Wii version doesn't give you your first "real" wisp power until Tropical Resort Act 2, but you get the boost from the start of the game.
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=== Real Time Strategy ===
* In [[Achron]], you don't get access to the time window until the second mission of the campaign.
=== RPG -- Eastern ===
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', you can't actually fight the Heartless until you gain a Keyblade.
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', Crono and the gang (besides Robo and Ayla) gain magic during their first trip to end of time, just in time to fight enemies that are nearly immune to regular attacks, but are vulnerable to magic.
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=== RPG -- Western ===
* In the first ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'', you start off as just a Republic soldier on Taris, but become a Jedi shortly after that.
** In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' II, while you start as a Jedi, you don't get your lightsaber for the first few parts of the game, so it's similar if not exactly the same.
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=== Shooter -- First-Person ===
* The HEV suit and later the Gravity Gun in ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]] 2''. Not so much with the original ''Half-Life'', though, where you get the HEV Suit around ten minutes in (after learning how to walk, push buttons, and chew gum), and it is upgraded for the third act.
* In ''[[F.E.A.R.]] 2'', after you fight through the first level as an ordinary soldier, you gain the power of Slo Mo after a surgery.
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=== Shooter -- Third-Person ===
* In ''[[Dark Sector]]'' Hayden gains the power of the Glaive shortly after he gets infected.
* In ''[[Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy|Psi Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy]]'', you start out the game with no powers, and it seems like a fairly generic shooter. By the end, you're a psychic god.
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=== Shoot 'Em Ups ===
* In ''E-Swat'', your character gets promoted after the first two level, giving you an heavily armed Power Armor.
=== Stealth-Based Game ===
* In ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', the player starts out as Bruce Wayne, and needs to obtain the Batman gear.
* ''[[Riddick|Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay]]'', Riddick's eyeshine treatment could be considered this.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', Snake starts out with more or less nothing. After several sneaking levels, Snake meets the Mk2 Metal Gear and is given a proper weapon and any [[New Game+]] weapons.
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=== Puzzle Game ===
* In the ''Portal'' games, the first few test chambers have no portal gun, and the next several use a gun that only shoots blue portals, with the orange portals being generated automatically.
== Non-video game examples ==
=== [[Literature]] ===
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] was annoyed when an ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' game did this with the whip.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'': Zachary Foxx was an ordinary human, but the injuries he sustained in the pilot required an [[Emergency Transformation]] to replace half his body with cyberware and add the Series 5 implant. Unlike the other three Rangers whose already-existing abilities are merely amplified by the implant, early episodes show Zachary as not quite at ease with his bionics.
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