Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 159 - A Taste of Power

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
One Scene Wonder
Stupid Statement Dance Mix
Magikarp Power
Joke Character
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Me's a Crowd, were Naruto and Multiple Man / Jamie Madrox (X-Men), who got 5 votes each.

Previous winners: Day 126 onwards
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)

Samus

Game doesn't matter
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Today's trope is A Taste of Power. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ATasteOfPower

When starting a video game, a player sometimes starts out with an extremely powerful party, character, weapon or ability, which can easily slaughter anything it comes across. The player is in no real danger of losing and often can't lose even if they tried. But, this incredible power never lasts long. Once the introductory segment is complete, the player switches to the real party, usually at level 1 with basic starter gear and/or stripped of all those cool powers.

The primary purpose of this trope is to get a player into a game and teach them the rules without overwhelming them with dangerous enemies early on. This can also give them a preview of the powers and skills they'll be acquiring later in the game. Common marketing wisdom is that you have to sell your game on the players in the first ten minutes, or you risk them not sticking around to get to the really good parts - hence A Taste Of Power to draw a player in.

TL,DR: You start a game with very powerful abilities, equipment and/or characters, which you don't get to keep past the opening.

Nominations:
Magitek Armour (Final Fantasy VI)
Arsene (Persona 5)
Darth Vader (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed)

Advanced gadgets to prison break-out (Splinter Cell: Double Agent)
Starting off with SMG in the Nightmare (Silent Hill 3)
Sephiroth in your party (Final Fantasy VII)*

*Not sure if this one counts since it's not the beginning of the game
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Darth Vader
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Nanis23 posted...

Samus

Game doesn't matter

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Samus
Magitek Armor (FF6)
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Samus
Vader (The Force Unleashed)
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Trails of Cold Steel
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Samus
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Samus
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Every God of War
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Rankings so far:
Samus (Metroid Series) - 6 votes
Darth Vader (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) - 3 votes
Magitek Armour (Final Fantasy VI) - 2 votes
Arsene (Persona 5)
Advanced gadgets to prison break-out (Splinter Cell: Double Agent)
Starting off with SMG in the Nightmare (Silent Hill 3)
Sephiroth in your party (Final Fantasy VII)
Trails of Cold Steel
Every God of War