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== Anime and Manga ==
* Lampshaded in the second episode (the RPG parody) of ''[[
* Lampshaded even more brutally in full-on RPG parody series ''[[Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' when the king loudly disavows himself of all responsibility for the child heroes after giving them a small amount of gold.
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* Also Justified in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords''. The Exile begins the game waking up inside the medical bay of a now-derelict mining facility, thus explaining the lack of equipment. The Exile then goes on to wage a shadow war against the Sith, making it plausible that nobody would have heard of her mission (hence the lack of store discounts). And while the premise of the game explains your lack of starting force powers, it's still a little non-specific about why all the other abilities (combat skills, tactics, diplomacy etc). of a legendary hero of the Mandalorian Wars would have evaporated so absolutely. [[Hand Wave|Hand waved]] a couple of times by Kreia.
** The Exile was a legendary ''leader'', due to the weird Force bond thing that makes people want to follow her. She was actually a rather mediocre Jedi, as noted several times during the game.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'':
** In ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'', Leon Kennedy is sent to rescue the president's daughter with little more than a knife and a simple 9mm handgun. Needless to say, Uncle Sam probably should have sprung for an assault rifle for Leon. Even if they didn't know the town had been infected by a [[The Virus|mind-controlling parasite]], this ''is'' [[The President's Daughter]] we're talking about. (Admittedly, he may have had the heavier hardware back in the car and not wanted to spook people by having an American walk into town brandishing an assault rifle. Or he expected to be able to call in backup in case anything came up.)
** In ''[[Resident Evil]] 5'', however, this is actually justified. {{spoiler|1=One of the CEOs of the companies you work for is setting you up.}}
** In the original ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', you can find a picture of the team in which one unidentified member is packing a '''mortar''', suggesting that S.T.A.R.S. was ''over''-supplied, if anything. But tragically, neither he nor the mortar appears in the game, and he is deleted from the photo in remakes.
** The original ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' starts with Jill dramatically somersaulting out of her apartment, making a perfect landing on the street below and ready to kick zombie ass. The remake, however, decided to make it harder for her. The game starts with Nemesis making his first assault on poor Jill, breaking into her apartment (an in the tradition of hulking monstrous abominations, [[There Was a Door| not using the door]]) leading to a ''[[Early Game Hell| five minute sequence]]'' requiring the player to guide the terrified heroine in fleeing the building, using [[Press X to Not Die|quick-time events]] to survive, until finally ending up on street level, unarmed, half her life bar depleted, and surrounded by hungry zombies, plus a new control scheme the player has to learn to use ''quickly'' due to the sudden change to 3rd-person gameplay. The only edge she has is that Brad shows up to help but, well... [[The Load| you know]].
* Lampshaded at the start of ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Two Thrones/Rival Swords'', where the Prince laments early in the first level "why is it whenever disaster strikes, I find myself without a worthy blade?"
* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''. In most ports, it would seem that you are sent by no less than President Roosevelt himself into the bowels of Castle Germansomething to defeat [[No Swastikas|Master D and his Badds]]. For this special mission, Franky equips you with... a knife. To be fair, the earliest versions say you're a POW breaking ''out'' of Castle Germansomething, and taking on Hitler of, apparently, your own damned volition. But you find out about 3 times that "Your Fuhrer is in another castle."
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** Played painfully, unjustifiably straight ''Doom 3'''s [[Expansion Pack]], ''Resurrection of Evil''. Aside from the unmitigated, [[Genre Blind]] stupidity required to head back to Mars after the events of ''Doom 3'', the company still doesn't equip the marines tasked with exploring ancient ruins with anything deadlier than a pistol. At least they've taped a flashlight to the gun.
** Played straight in ''Doom'' clone ''Fortress of Dr. Radiaki'', in which you start as a top-notch agent sent to investigate mysterious island... with a pistol and a ''goddamn baseball bat'' (no, not [[Goddamn Bats|that]] kind). Underfinancing, indeed.
** of ''[[Doom (2016)|The 2016 relaunch]]'' starts with the unnamed hero naked and [[Strapped to An Operating Table]] (well, sacrificial altar, but same idea); not that this is much of a problem for [[Badass| a guy like him]], as he breaks free, grabs a laser pistol, [[Full-Frontal Assault| and kills a few demons and cultists]] before finding the [[Powered Armor]] he uses for the rest of the game.
* In dozens of games spanning two decades, ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' blows up robots from here to eternity, absorbing their weaponry, gaining new armor, and yet at the start of each new game, [[Bag of Spilling|you start out with the Mega Buster and your basic blue armor]]. However, this is explained at least in ''[[Mega Man Legends]] 2'' when Roll tells you in the very beginning of the game, "I'm sorry Mega Man--I had to sell all your old equipment to pay for the new engine!!" including the Shining <s>Finger!!!</s> Laser, the weapon so powerful it scared the extremely short pants off of her.
** In ''[[Bob and George]]'' it's said that he drops them all off a cliff.
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** At least your starting weapons are pretty good by human standards... in ''Terror From The Deep'' though, they're quite pathetic. [[Justified Trope]] in that current underwater firearms are few in between, relatively weak and little-used.
** Then, naturally, a modder decided to make the next step down this road: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151230001556/http://www.openxcom.com/mod/privateer-saving-the-world-at-a-profit "Privateer - Saving The World At A Profit" OpenXCom Mod]. Start in debt and funding $0 from everywhere, become [[NGO Superpower]]. You still get a pass into airspaces, a huge base with lots of personnel (3 labs full of scientists) and for some reason lots of radars, however.
{{quote|[[Skewed Priorities|Too busy]] fighting [[
Thanks to a successful [[Kickstarter|kick starter campaign]], you were able to scrape together enough funds to pay for your first base -- barely. }}
** ''X-COM: Apocalypse'' at least has an excuse of being limited to one city, and even then you can hire athletes (recruitments of normal soldiers is tied to relations with Grav Ball League) and capable specialists (androids and hybrids).
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* Neither of the two ''[[Captain Comic]]'' games give you a weapon at the start. In the first game, there's one right in front of you at the beginning, but you have to search for it in the sequel.
* Pretty much every Scenario in ''[[Treasure of the Rudra]]''.
* Tends to occur often in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'':
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Link is summoned by the Deku Tree, but to even see him the kid needs to have a sword and shield. You have to buy the shield at full price, even though you're about to attempt to save the Deku Tree and your only source of income is from [[Twenty Bear Asses|cutting grass and smashing rocks]]. Partly justified in that Mido is just a douche who doesn't think you're good enough to even meet the Deku Tree and thus sends you out to blow your entire savings on a shield (which isn't justified) and find a well hidden sword guarded by a perpetually rolling boulder. What the Deku Tree expected you to do about the giant spider-thing living in his bowels when you didn't have a sword is the real use of this trope.▼
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** Justified in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|Link's Awakening]]'' as well; his belongings were lost in the shipwreck.
** Also justified in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|Phantom Hourglass]]'': Link was just dozing off on the deck when Tetra suddenly decided to enter the
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|The Faces of Evil]]'' tries to justify it, and the sentence suffers a [[Memetic Mutation]] like everything else in these games: "-Great! I'll grab my stuff! -There is no time, your sword is enough!"
** Thankfully averted in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'', where Link has both a sword and shield at the beginning. Unfortunately, he ends up getting turned into a Deku, so he can't use them for a short
* This ''can'' easily happen in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', if you fail to properly prepare your seven-dwarf expedition with the needed skills and material before setting out for the selected fortress site. Some people [[Self-Imposed Challenge|deliberately take it on as a challenge]], trying to build a fortress with a bunch of soapmakers and animal dissectors (you normally don't get those until later) instead of miners and woodcutters. In Adventure Mode, having the highest skill in swords, maces, hammers, axes, spears, or whips gives you a shield and a bunch of leather armor, having the highest in pikes, crossbows, or bows gives you leather armor, and wrestlers are lucky to get much more than some sandals and a loincloth. Good luck killing dozens of bandits and night creatures!
* A commercial for the video game version of ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this trope. A guide tells the viewer (or an unseen listener) about the dangers of the jungle and then says, "But you ain't getting nothing; you're just getting bananas and underwear. Ever get to level 10 in your underwear, boy?!"
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