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** In ''Dragonball'', Goku's fighting in a tournament and reveals suddenly that he's wearing extremely heavy clothes, as part of his training. And is suddenly a ''lot'' faster once he gets rid of the extra weight. The same thing happens again several times, all the way up to Goku's fight with Frieza, at which point everybody is so strong that weighted clothes are no longer enough of a [[Power Limiter]] to bother mentioning.

*** Lampshaded in [[Dragon Ball Abridged|The Abridged Series]], during the battle between Piccolo and Freeza:

'''Piccolo''': [[Power Creep, Power Seep|That concept just sort of lost meaning after a while, didn't it?]] }}

* The title character of ''[[Naruto]]'' could kill himself if he ever uses his full power.

** Actually, he can't use his true Chiropteran form {{spoiler|because he isn't drinking enough blood. Just like Saya, he is afraid that drinking too much blood will cause addiction and result in his rampaging for it. This is also demonstrated with Solomon, Diva's chevalier, as he later couldn't transform due to losing too much blood at Diva's hands.}}

* The lethal fighting styles of the Saotome school in ''[[Ranma ½]]'', ''Yamasenken'' and ''Umisenken'', were sealed on their practitioners' honor at the end of their story arc. They could let Ranma become completely undetectable (by sight, sound, heat, or even [[Battle Aura]]), toss [[Razor Wind]] to demolish enormous bronze statues, rip out opponents' hearts, strangle them, or pierce their backs—but he won't use even the basic "invisibility" skill, not even against powerful foes when ''nobody'' would have blamed him.

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'''s [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|Gold]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|Saint]] [[Western Zodiac|Virgo]] [[God in Human Form|Shaka]] deliberately keeps his eyes closed when he battles his foes -- his constant meditation means that he devotes only a fraction of his attention to the outside world. People who know him, even fellow Gold Saints, are ''very'' afraid of him opening his eyes, because that means [[Let's Get Dangerous|he has stopped meditating]] and is now ''[[Oh Crap|fully focused]]'' on the enemy.

** To be accurate, the main reason Shaka suppresses his eyesight on his own is to further his seventh sense and cosmic perceptions, which means a tremendous power increase compared to his other fellow Gold Saints. The result of him opening his eyes is the brutal release of all of the accumulated energy in a blow that literally beats his opponents senseless.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Slayer]] from ''[[Guilty Gear]] XX'' is an ancient, possibly thousands of years old vampire and the former head of a major guild of assassins. His Instant Kill move involves him landing a [[Megaton Punch|single punch]] at his full strength, which has sufficient force to knock his opponent into a neighboring ''galaxy.'' Despite this, he has no particular desire to kill anyone, and intentionally avoids using his full power because doing so would take all the fun out of fighting. If beaten, he simply lies on the ground, smoking his pipe and looking vaguely amused.

** Potemkin is considered a [[One-Man Army]] by many, but in-game he wears a [[Power Limiter]] around his neck to prevent casualties ([[Genius Bruiser|he's investigating, you see.]]) His Instant Kill involves him removing the restraint and landing a single punch.

** As {{spoiler|Unlimited Rachel}}, [[SNK Boss|the gloves come off]], although even then she does nothing that would risk making her sweat.

** Ragna does this as well, and it is only once he uses the Azure Grimoire that the time loop is broken.