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== Board Games ==
* [[Chess]] has two examples:
** The humble pawn, which upon reaching the last rank on the chessboard gets promoted, almost always into a Queen, the most powerful piece in the game
** The Queen herself. Initially the piece was known as the vizier and moved very similarly to a pawn (i.e. it was much weaker than a king, which can at least cover all eight squares around it). Then, during the 15th or 16th century, it was given it's current movement [[Took a Level In Badass|abilities]] and, well, there's a reason the pawns tend to get promoted to queens.
*** This upgrade (orthogonal and diagonal travel without limit where unobstructed) became tellingly known as "madness chess" ("That much power wielded by ''a woman''? [[Title Drop|Madness!]]") and the Italians called the piece ''rabioso''.
*** If it comes to that, the ancient bishop was even weaker, moving diagonally two squares ''exactly'', which restricted it so that 56 of the 64 squares were permanently off-limits.
 
 
== Manwha ==
* Shi Woon, protagonist of ''[[The Breaker]]'', takes several huge levels in badass over the course of the story. He starts out as a loser who gets beaten up by bullies daily. After he eats [[A Wizard Did It|a strange pill]] and trains under one of the greatest martial artists in the world, he becomes strong enough to break a cement column with his bare hands and take on other more experienced martial artists. He also learns to stand up for himself and becomes [[The Determinator]], which impresses even the antagonists he cannot defeat.
 
== Music ==
* Elefseus in [[Sound Horizon]]'s Moira. After his sister is killed, he turns into Amethystos, prince of taking down fate.
 
== Puppet Shows ==
* Parodied in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' with the "montage" song.
 
 
== Toys ==
* As with the cartoon series, so too with the toy line it's based on. When Transformers makes a new toy of an old character, the advances in manufacturing technology usually mean the toy itself is better. It is also often larger. Recent{{when}} examples include Seaspray, once the [[Aquaman]] of the Autobots, who has a toy that is apparently both his G1 character and a character for the new line, going from an equivalent of Scout to Voyager (two size steps up). This can even happen within a single line. In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' toy line, Bludgeon was originally a repaint of Wreckage, a decent mold from the first movie's line, but got his own unique mold which was a full size class larger, more in tune with his fan-favorite G1 self, and dripping with flavor.
 
 
== Music ==
* Elefseus in [[Sound Horizon]]'s Moira. After his sister is killed, he turns into Amethystos, prince of taking down fate.
 
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