Worf Had the Flu: Difference between revisions

** The Sound Four were all capable of holding off multiple ANBU agents in their first appearance, but all lost to genin later on. However, this (and the fact that the genin caught up to them in the first place) was at least partially because they had exhausted themselves when they ran into two Konoha jonin and had to activate their cursed seals just to get away.

** Sasuke outright admitted he was only capable of beating {{spoiler|Orochimaru}} because of the very sickly state he was in when he attacked him.

*** To be fair, Sasuke did far better than Itachi even suspected he would. Breaking Tsukuyomi, equalling him in Taijutsu, faking out Amaterasu... only [[Power Armor|Susanoo]] Sasuke didn't have a contingency against since he had never seen, or even ''heard'' of it before. And that was the only part of the fight that Itachi let Sasuke win in.

** Pain versus Naruto could have been much more one sided with the odds heavily against Naruto had it not been for the fact that Pain was trying to capture Naruto, not kill him. It also didn't help that he'd just finished fighting and leveling a village, and his most powerful body had its powers disabled at the start of the fight.

** In one [[Bronze Age]] story, Superman starts having [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]] moments, and fears his powers are growing beyond his ability to control. In fact, the reverse is true: the [[Powers as Programs|Parasite]] is slowly ''draining'' his powers, but he made a point of first draining Supey's sense of self-control that normally keeps them in check. Since he was no longer pulling his punches, they seemed ''more'' powerful even though his baseline strength was actually ''dropping.'' By the time he figured it out, the Parasite had already drained a good chunk of his energy.

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''; the flashback history of the hero's dad. All sorts of horrific things end up happening to Daddy simply because his army buddy was too damned stupid to go get the flu treated.

* An issue of [[New Avengers]] had Wrecker narrating a fight between the titular team and [[The Hood]]'s crime syndicate, explaining that he wouldn't have lost to [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire]], who is significantly weaker, if [[Doctor Strange]] hadn't confused him with his magic.

* Hulk was on the receiving end of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] at the hands of Zeus. That wasn't because of this; rather, that battle was the flu to set up for the next story arch, which required the Hulk to be significantly weaker than his powerlevel at the time normally allowed.

* In ''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]'' the effect that causes the two universes to merge also evens out the power levels of the characters. Or else Liu Kang fighting Superman hand-to-hand would just be silly.

* Archer is possibly the most powerful character in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', but he is handicapped somehow in almost every fight he takes part in.

** '''''Unlimited Blade Works'' route:''' Archer spends most of his time trying to [[The Chessmaster|manipulate events]] rather than fighting (on the two occasions he ''does'' fight, his enemy runs away after one attack). After this, he is cut off from his source of mana and his power fades until he's only keeping his body together through sheer willpower.

** '''''Heaven's Feel'' route:''' Archer is wounded by Saber as in the Fate route, then is forced to fight in poor conditions and exposed to attacks which ignore his usual defences.

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