Just Toying with Them: Difference between revisions

** This is also a likely way of interpreting the final battle between Cloud and Sephiroth. Sephiroth, whose motivation at this point is largely payback for being defeated in [[Final Fantasy VII|the game]], drives Cloud to his highest limits without even so much as getting winded himself, and then tries to finish him off after some suitable [[Evil Gloating]].

* [[Hunter X Hunter]]: On the way to the 4th phase of the Hunter Exam, Netero challenges Gon and Killua to steal a basketball from him. It's soon apparent that he's [[Just Toying with Them]]. Gon turns this into a game of his own - he wants to see if he can force Netero to use ''his other arm'' to keep the ball away from him.

* [[Yu Yu Hakusho]]: Young Toguro, the antagonist of the second season (the Dark Tournament), feigned defeat the first time he met Yusuke in order for his employer to win a bet. However, he later went back gave Yusuke a demonstration of his real power by demolishing a building. He plays this trope by explicitly telling others what percent of his power he's using. The only exception is during his final fight with Yusuke when he revealed he'd only been using 85% of his power instead of 100%