History Main / NoGearLevel

* In a rare unscripted version, ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has nymphs, who seduce your character, steal your equipment and then teleport away. More than a few players have died because they were suddenly left weaponless after running into a nymph. (Of course, this is ''[=NetHack=]''. More than a few players have died falling down stairs. EverythingTryingToKillYou is a bit of an understatement.)

* ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'': In the levels where you start with a weapon at all, you start with the pistol (and sometimes, a hypo). Otherwise, you start each level with no weapon, ammunition, or hypos... even when the level transition is (as in one particular case) [[DirectContinuousLevels ''walking through a door, into another room'']]. Good thing the hand-to-hand combat is so reliable...

** Shows up again in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood''; first, when BJ is once again captured and has to escape from the titular castle - this time beginning only with some [[PipePain lengths of pipe]], and later in the game where a ZombieApocalype occurs, and you only have a pipe because you had to stash your weapons to sneak into a tavern filled with Nazis in the previous level. In the second example, you can get your weapons back.

* ''VieoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' frequently removes items after each level. Sometimes it is justified (e.g. bad guys in dark clothing jump Cash and take his stuff), other times discarded without discussion (e.g. when starting the journalist escort scene).

* ''The Chronicles of Riddick: VideoGame/EscapeFromButchersBay'' has more No Gear Levels than normal ones. Most guards have guns you can't use, so you go around meleeing everybody. Every now and then the game lets you grab a non-DNA-coded gun you can actually use, only to remove it from you a short while later.

* ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' has a No Gear Level Section, the very first part of "German Blitz" starts you in one of the civilian vehicles. It's slow and has no weapons, and you have to use it to maneuver through the [=NOSTRA=] warehouse and get to your Weapons Van. Thankfully, this section is short, lasting less than a minute, and you're given back a fully loaded Interceptor to continue the mission with.

->''[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Good grief he's naked!]]''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor will occasionally lose access to both their TARDIS and their Sonic Screwdriver, forcing them to cobble something with whatever technology is at hand ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]), rummage through their pockets for anything useful ([[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]), or negotiate their way out of conflicts ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]).

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': "The Cross My Heart Job" takes place in the aftermath of a particularly disastrous job that cleaned out the team's entire bag of tricks - no earbuds or lockpicks even - and sees them grift and IndyPloy their way through rescuing a kidnapped girl and a stolen donor heart all in the space of an hour.

** ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' does this to an annoying extent, as there are numerous unavoidable scripted events where you're automatically captured and have your gear taken away. While you can instantly regain all your weapons for free once you make it to a weapon shop, your ammo is permanently lost, forcing you to scrounge or buy more, which is annoying when it comes to expensive types like rockets and .50 calibur rounds.

** Shows up again in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'', when BJ is once again captured and has to escape from the titular castle - this time beginning only with some [[PipePain lengths of pipe]].

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' has Fontaine Fisheries, where Peach Wilkins won't let you advance unless you turn over all your weapons. You fight through the freezer area using only plasmids and a wrench, though you can find one or two dropped guns. Just to twist the knife, almost all of your meticulously saved ammo is "missing" when you ''do'' recover your weapons. That said, it is possible and in fact quite easy to cheat and bring a weapon in with you, as the gate which opens when you surrender your guns doesn't close again if you pick up another one and it's possible to carry items around with the telekinesis plasmid without collecting them.

** It's worth noting that in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'', where you lose almost everything, med kits included, said loss is permanent. In addition, the player decides what order to complete the middle three of the five areas in, and if you pick a certain area last... Well, sucks to be you. It doesn't help that said area is listed as the last of the three in most official material (including the level select screen).

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]":
** The Doctor doesn't have the TARDIS due to falling out of it, and doesn't have the sonic screwdriver due to losing all the contents of her pockets in said fall. She has to rely on her (regeneration-scrambled) wits and whatever she can cobble together, such as building a new sonic.
** The antagonist, Tzim-Sha, is participating in a ritual hunt where he's not supposed to have any weapons. However, he's cheating by using a data coil to gather information on his target.

* In the last act of ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'', the BigBad strips you of your possessions in a [[MatchlightDangerRevelation Flashlight Danger Revelation]] moment, forcing you to improvise an AerosolFlamethrower to take him out.

* ''VideoGame/Area51FPS'' has you lose your weapons after losing your teammates and gaining the ability to turn into a mutant. You quickly regain them after getting partially cured.