History Main / WorfHadTheFlu

* Several defeats and cases of BadassDecay, of villains who were revealed to be members of The Inteligencia in FallOfHulks were explained to be staged for heroes as [[XanatosGambit distractions from their true schemes]].

** In college football, a famous recent example would Colt McCoy at his last Rose Bowl Game. The tides were in their favor with risky, but successful, onside-kicks, but the game left physics majors baffled as the motion of the entire game reversed suddenly - all because McCoy got sacked by a nearly 400-pound man, and injured his arm, taking him out of the game
** In game four of the 2011 NBA Finals, power forward Dirk Nowitzki literally HAD the flu (more accurately a fever); and yet they still won...

* After coming to WWE, The Big Show was rather horribly misused, ending up as a lower midcarder holding the Hardcore Title. About this time, Brock Lesnar had pretty much obliterated his way to the World Title. Deciding to make Show the next challenger for the belt, WWE bookers just cooked something or other up about "don't wake the sleeping giant", basically saying that the reason Show had been so low on the cards was that he hadn't been trying very hard to do otherwise.

* Some of the people who watched ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' pointed out that even modern-day helicopters would be able to withstand the concussive force of a giant arrow, even point-blank as depicted. Some fans (and [[{{hatedom}} anti-fans]]) have embraced the idea the the smaller craft were ''not'' actually military-grade vehicles, but bargain-basement civilian vehicles with cheap weapon retrofits, as befitting of a corporation looking to maximize profits.
** They were built on Pandora, so they probably weren't the best of the best. And there are so many reasons against taking modern copters with you as well - completely different environment and the HUGE cost per kg transported. It is stated that almost everything the humans have on Pandora was also built there (everything with a bad mass/production difficulty ratio).
*** Plus, considering the durability of the biological life on Pandora, with Na'vi skeletons made of ''carbon nanotubes'' for one thing, the arrows are likely made of some insanely strong material as well.
*** Also, the vehicles in question would either be compromises of Earth vehicles, or untested clean-slate designs to operate in a comparatively [[http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Pandora#Atmosphere hostile atmosphere]].

* In the second-to-last episode of ''RedVsBlue'': ''Revelation'', it's revealed that Tex is destined to always fail at the last moment, because she's based on the memory of the Director's lost love who died in combat, and the trauma of her death is an integral part of how the Director remembers her. This explains how, throughout the series, Tex always managed to get captured, killed, or knocked-out at a critical moment despite being the series biggest badass.

-> "It was an opponent Nanoha-chan wouldn't have had any problem protecting her allies from or defeating if she had been her usual self. But the strain of overexerting herself made Nanoha-chan less capable, and her body slowed down at a crucial moment. The result... was [[GameBreakingInjury this]]."
-->-- Shamal, MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS

** "''Charizard Chills''" has the title Pokémon critically frozen after a battle with a Poliwrath. His respect for his trainer returned after Ash spent all night trying to thaw him out.

** "''Charizard Chills''" has the title Pokémon critically frozen after a battle with Poliwrath. His respect for his trainer returned after Ash spent all night trying to thaw him out.

** Ash's Charizard suffers a wing injury during the battle against the Johto gym leader Faulkner, giving him a little bit of trouble against the leader's Pidgeot.

** In college football, a famous recent example would Colt McCoy at his last Rose Bowl Game. The tides were in their favor with risky, but successful, onside-kicks, but the game left physics majors baffled as the motion of the entire game reversed suddenly - all because McCoy got sacked by a nearly 400-pound man, and injured his arm, taking him out of the game.

** The entire Bount Arc is this trope. Every Soul Reaper who comes to Earth can only use a fraction of their power, and Ichigo has to relearn Bankai for some silly reason. Even the Bount enemies don't reach full power until they travel to the Soul Society. By the way, this was without a doubt the least popular arc of the anime.

* Similar to the ''SuperRobotWars'' example further down the page, ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' gives this treatment to [[spoiler:Signum]] by way of depriving her of the equipment needed to fight against the Huckebein. [[spoiler: Signum]] goes into her battle with Cypha lacking the countermeasures necessary to neutralize her opponent's MageKiller abilities, and as a result only manages to hold her own until Cypha [[IAmNotLeftHanded gets serious]].

** Hamilton stomping over Illyria happened only after she had been massively depowered. It's probably telling that Hamilton didn't go anywhere near here until this had happened, and in fact when Wesley was studying her gave him a hint that led him to discover how to drain her powers. He even goes into an exaggerated SmugSnake routine to Illyria's face as he ponders why she can't beat him to a pulp.

* When Erik Larsen has subjected TheIncredibleHulk to TheWorfEffect at the hands of [[TookALevelInBadass new, improved]] Doctor Octopus, PeterDavid, who has been writing Hulk comics at that point, wrote him beating Octopus with two fingers, saying that last time he simply "had a bad day".

* Spike's attempted rape of [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] in ''Seeing Red'' only got as far as it did because a run-of-the-mill vampire had got a lucky shot in earlier (as she was staking him, no less). This then carries over into Buffy's fight with a superpowered Warren - even with super-strength and near-invulnerability, he can tell she's off her game.

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* The new ''Film/{{Predators}}'' film does this when [[spoiler:a predator from the old films faces a predator from this movie. The classic Predator has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintenanced equipment allowing for leeway when the new predator wins the fight.]]

* The new ''Film/{{Predator}}s'' film does this when [[spoiler:a predator from the old films faces a predator from this movie. The classic Predator has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintenanced equipment allowing for leeway when the new predator wins the fight.]]

** Hamilton stomping over Illyria happened only after she had been massively depowered. It's probably telling that Hamilton didn't set foot in the building until after she had lost most of her powers. He even goes into an exaggerated SmugSnake routine to Illyria's face as he ponders why she can't beat him to a pulp.

-->-- Shamal, MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha StrikerS

* In an issue of New Avengers had Wrecker narrating fight between titular theam and TheHood crime sindicate and explains that he would had never lost to Luke Cage, who is singifincally weaker, if DoctorStrange hand't confused him with his magic.