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* Pretty much every Scenario in ''[[Treasure of the Rudra]]''.
* Pretty much every Scenario in ''[[Treasure of the Rudra]]''.
* 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.
* 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.
** Even more [[Egregious]] is the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', where (according to the [[All There in the Manual|manual's backstory]]) Link is sent on his quest to reassemble the Triforce of Wisdom and rescue the princess after having saved her lady-in-waiting from monsters. Yet when he first enters the game, he's carrying nothing but a shield. [[It May Help You on Your Quest|He can acquire]] a [http://images.cafepress.com/product/98717187v6_240x240_F.jpg free wooden sword] immediately, but given that the implication is that he's already been in at least one battle, what the heck was he using?
** Even more [[Egregious]] is the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', where (according to the [[All There in the Manual|manual's backstory]]) Link is sent on his quest to reassemble the Triforce of Wisdom and rescue the princess after having saved her lady-in-waiting from monsters. Yet when he first enters the game, he's carrying nothing but a shield. [[It May Help You on Your Quest|He can acquire]] a [https://web.archive.org/web/20111109014129/http://images.cafepress.com/product/98717187v6_240x240_F.jpg free wooden sword] immediately, but given that the implication is that he's already been in at least one battle, what the heck was he using?
*** Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OydCKdKlbM this] Dorkly video. Perhaps Link beat them to death with his "smashing board."
*** Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OydCKdKlbM this] Dorkly video. Perhaps Link beat them to death with his "smashing board."
** Justified in the ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|Oracle]]'' games, though; Link's just been teleported to a new country by the Triforce, and left his equipment in Hyrule.
** Justified in the ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|Oracle]]'' games, though; Link's just been teleported to a new country by the Triforce, and left his equipment in Hyrule.
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** Speaking of, after Sarda depowered them and later imploded from [[Phlebotinum Overload]], the gang has to face up to taking Chaos out. They have to do this in twenty-four hours to avert Chaos' plot to destroy the world (which likely involves a [[Time Crash]]); needless to say, they're having a bit of trouble getting their act together after faffing about and ruining civilization up to this point.
** Speaking of, after Sarda depowered them and later imploded from [[Phlebotinum Overload]], the gang has to face up to taking Chaos out. They have to do this in twenty-four hours to avert Chaos' plot to destroy the world (which likely involves a [[Time Crash]]); needless to say, they're having a bit of trouble getting their act together after faffing about and ruining civilization up to this point.
* Averted in ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''. Although the organization forcing Quentyn, the titular Questor, to go on his virtually impossible mission give him literally nothing at all, his fellow villagers (who he is going on his mission FOR) equip him to their level best ability—food, clothing, equipment, weapons, even an airship. Furthermore, a team of engineering students, sent by a school intrigued by Quentyn's expedition, come to make improvements to the airship and his other equipment.
* Averted in ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''. Although the organization forcing Quentyn, the titular Questor, to go on his virtually impossible mission give him literally nothing at all, his fellow villagers (who he is going on his mission FOR) equip him to their level best ability—food, clothing, equipment, weapons, even an airship. Furthermore, a team of engineering students, sent by a school intrigued by Quentyn's expedition, come to make improvements to the airship and his other equipment.
* ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'' averts it for an in-comic RPG session, because [http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00067.html the GM thinks it makes more sense that way].
* ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'' averts it for an in-comic RPG session, because [https://web.archive.org/web/20101208072905/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00067.html the GM thinks it makes more sense that way].
{{quote|"The ''Darned Good Reason'' rule. As in 'nobody becomes an adventurer without a darned good reason to think they'll survive it'."}}
{{quote|"The ''Darned Good Reason'' rule. As in 'nobody becomes an adventurer without a darned good reason to think they'll survive it'."}}
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the ''Years of Yarncraft'' [[MMORPG]] uses this trope full-stop: Torg's warrior character starts out with [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080731 just a stick for a weapon], and no armor except for some ratty clothing ([http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080801 he doesn't even get underwear]); Gennaro's wizard character starts out with [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080917 just a small piece of string].
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the ''Years of Yarncraft'' [[MMORPG]] uses this trope full-stop: Torg's warrior character starts out with [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080731 just a stick for a weapon], and no armor except for some ratty clothing ([http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080801 he doesn't even get underwear]); Gennaro's wizard character starts out with [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080917 just a small piece of string].
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