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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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