History TheWorfEffect / VideoGames

*** Speaking of Nu-13, Ragna also ends of inflicting this trope on her again at the end of ''Chronophantasma'' without once activating the Azure Grimoire. To add insult to injury, she was actively going all out and trying to kill Ragna, while he was holding back and trying to save her.

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as a {{deconstruction}} of what happens when you call the RetiredBadass out of retirement; it is clearly stated that not only was N very powerful, but Alder and his team were also badly out of practice, which also contributed to his loss. [[spoiler: In the post-game, Alder shapes up and becomes a {{Superboss}}.]]

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as a {{deconstruction}} of what happens when you call the RetiredBadass out of retirement; it is clearly stated that not only was N very powerful, but Alder and his team were also badly out of practice, which also contributed to his loss. [[spoiler: In the post-game, Alder shapes up and becomes a BonusBoss.]]

** ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'': Possible inversion/subversion during the fight with Duo halfway into the game--Duo being a space robot that managed to hit an enemy hard enough to disrupt the atmosphere AND RING SYSTEM of what is clearly a gas giant planet (Actually, Duo was responsible for 50% of that force, as the enemy robot hit Duo with the same amount of strength, which managed to take them both out)--Mega Man himself noting that Duo was basically pulling his punches. More or less played straight during the final battle with Wily Machine No. VIII as Duo stunned/injured himself taking out the Machine's giant Evil Energy laser cannon. Remember, this is the same Duo that, even with Dr. Light's repairs (possibly with inferior but passable components due to his status as an alien made robot), managed to utterly own a giant Evil Energy-powered Wily-bot that was literally crushing (and shocking) Mega Man to death.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'': As the only competent human still alive besides the player character, Sergeant Johnson falling victim to this trope was inevitable. A Pelican gets shot down? Johnson was on it. Enemies storm the base? Johnson gets pushed back and you have to finish the job for him. Need a third team leader for a crucial operation? The normal human takes the riskiest spot, while the SuperSoldier and the ProudWarriorRaceGuy get targets that are not directly connected to the nearby enemy stronghold. It gets to the point where our BadassNormal becomes a DamselInDistress of sorts -- and a rescue attempt is mounted by the person whom you'd expect to fill the role.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'': As the only competent human still alive besides the player character, Sergeant Johnson falling victim to this trope was inevitable. A Pelican gets shot down? Johnson was on it. Enemies storm the base? Johnson gets pushed back and you have to finish the job for him. Need a third team leader for a crucial operation? The normal human takes the riskiest spot, while the SuperSoldier and the ProudWarriorRaceGuy get targets that are not directly connected to the nearby enemy stronghold. It gets to the point where our BadassNormal becomes a DistressedDamsel of sorts -- and a rescue attempt is mounted by the person whom you'd expect to fill the role.

** Sephiroth has a real knack for this. In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', he engages in a two on one fight against established powerful 1st Class SOLDIERS Angeal and Genesis and overwhelms both of them. Then, while traveling to Niblehiem in the original game, he kills a dragon (which can oneshot the player) in two strokes. After going mad, he worfs both Tifa and Zack, the latter of whom in ''Crisis Core'' could beat the planet-busting Bahamut Fury, though Zack at least puts up a decent fight (in the ''Crisis Core'' and ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII'' versions). In ''Advent Children'', Sephiroth easily dominates a newly-improved Cloud after he's taken on all his Remnants and held up, only "losing" when Cloud suprises him with the [[BifurcatedWeapon Fusion Swords]]. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', despite the party becoming {{Adaptational Badass}}es [[spoiler:and managing to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu defeat the Embodiment of Fate]] which keeps {{Railroading}} the story]], Sephiroth successfully fights the heroes to a stalemate and easily disarms Cloud, telling his archenemy that he still has a long way to go before he can be a WorthyOpponent to him.
** On the flipside, in the Nibelhiem incident, despite all his established feats from prequel ''Crisis Core'', Sephiroth still gets worfed by rookie Cloud, who surprises attacks Sephiroth while he was distracted by his “mother” JENOVA, running him through with the [[{{BFS}} Buster Sword]]. Even after recovering and impaling Cloud right back, Cloud just lifts Sephiroth up by his own blade ([[PullYourselfDownTheSpear which is still in his own torso]]) and tosses Sephiroth into the Mako reactor, essentially killing him. What’s more this was ''before'' Cloud even got the BioAugmentation from Hojo which made him a SuperSoldier.

** Sephiroth has a real knack for this. In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', he engages in a two on one fight against established powerful 1st Class SOLDIERS Angeal and Genesis and overwhelms both of them. Then, while traveling to Niblehiem in the original game, he kills a dragon (which can oneshot the player) in two strokes. After going mad, he worfs both Tifa and Zack, the latter of whom in ''Crisis Core'' could beat the planet-busting Bahamut Fury, though Zack at least puts up a decent fight (in the ''Crisis Core'' and ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII'' versions). In ''Advent Children'', Sephiroth easily dominates a newly-improved Cloud after he's taken on all his Remnants and held up, only "losing" when Cloud suprises him with the [[BifurcatedWeapon Fuison Swords]]. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', despite the party becoming {{Adaptational Badass}}es [[spoiler:and managing to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu defeat the Embodiment of Fate]] which keeps {{Railroading}} the story]], Sephiroth successfully fights the heroes to a stalemate and easily disarms Cloud, telling his archenemy that he still has a long way to go before he can be a WorthyOpponent to him.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': [[PlayerCharacter The Vault Hunters]] of the first game get a massive Worfing in the sequel. Most notable among them is [[spoiler:Mordecai losing Bloodwing, Roland ''being killed'' and Lilith is kidnapped with insulting ease]].

** On the flipside, in the Nibelhiem incident, despite all his established feats from prequel ''Crisis Core'', Sephiroth still gets worfed by rookie Cloud, who surprises attacks Sephiroth while he was distracted by his “mother” JENOVA, running him through with the [[{{BFS}} Buster Sword]]. Even after recovering and impaling Cloud right back, Cloud just lifts Sephiroth up by his own blade ([[PullYourselfDownTheSpear which is still in his own torso]]) and tosses Sephiroth into the Mako reactor, essentially killing him. What’s more this was ''before'' Cloud even got the BioAugmentation from Hojo which made a SuperSoldier.

** In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', SOLDIER is heralded in the backstory as a group of unrelenting hardcases who can mow down countless enemies with ease. In-game, however, the lower class members of this group are less than impressive, just another batch of Mooks for the protagonists to stomp.
*** Not just the lower class. While at the beginning you fight the 3rd Class (recruits) in the mid-game you're against 2nd Class and by the end you're easily dispatching SOLDIER 1st Class, the elite of the elite of which Cloud, Zack and Sephiroth are supposed to be from. By the time you fight the 2nd class, the fate of the world is in your hands and personally gunning for the Strongest Soldier that ever lived.

* In the original ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', the barons of hell served as the DualBoss of the first episode, scores tougher than any other enemy faced so far -- they could take ''five'' rockets, when everything else was gibbed by a single one -- and even when demoted to a more common enemy in the rest of the game and the sequel, with more monsters introduced, were among the most powerful foes and easily took the most hits to down. Yet the final level of the second episode started inside a room with four barons of hell gutted and hanged from a wall. The implications were made quite clear.

** ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'': Possible inversion/subversion during the fight with Duo halfway into the game--Duo being a space robot that managed to hit an enemy hard enough to disrupt the atmosphere AND RING SYSTEM of what is clearly a gas giant planet (Actually, Duo was responsible for 50% of that force, as the enemy robot hit Duo with the same amount of strength, which managed to take them both out)--Mega Man himself noting that Duo was basically pulling his punches. More or less played straight during the final battle with Wily Machine No. VIII as Duo stunned/injured himself taking out the Machine's giant Evil Energy laser cannon. Remember, this is the same Duo that, even with Dr. Light's repairs (possibly with inferior but passable components due to his status as an alien made robot), managed to utterly own a giant Wily-bot that was literally crushing (and shocking) Mega Man to death.

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': [[AGodAmI Lucien]] spends most of his questline building up to be an InvincibleVillain on the cusp of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin attaining godhood]]. He overuses the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone of Jas]], however, which attracts the unwanted attention of the Dragonkin. They only need a minute to kill Lucien, after which the rest of the Mahjarrat, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes happy as they are to see Lucien dead]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quickly leave the scene before things can escalate further]].

** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' has Samus, fresh off ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' (where she’s a been beefed up with Metroid DNA), rock up on planet ZDR and gets worfed hard by Raven Beak, the new BigBad who [[NoSell No Sells]] her ArmCannon and effortlessly overpowers her with a NeckLift. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Raven Beak is a Chozo, the alien warrior race responsible for turning Samus into the badass she is in the first place.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', ever since returning BackFromTheDead, Kazuya Mishima has been suffering this a lot. He's beaten down by Heihachi, and then Jin consecutively. And if the newer bio of ''Tekken 6'' is to be trusted again, someone beats him in the middle of the tournament (presumably Jin... ''again''), opting him to leave the tournament to deal with the G Corporation. Then one of the leaked screenshots for ''Tekken 6'''s new Scenario Campaign had him being kicked in the ass by Heihachi. Was coming BackFromTheDead really worth it? Subverted in ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', where Kazuya not only manages to match [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Akuma]] twice, but in the climax [[spoiler:finally kills his father Heihatchi in a DuelToTheDeath, although granted, the old man put up one helluva fight.]]

** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' has Samus, fresh off ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' (where she’s a been beefed up with Metroid DNA), rock up on planet ZDR and gets worfed hard by Raven Beak, the new BigBad who [[NoSell No Sells]] her ArmCannon and effortlessly overpowers her with a NeckLift. {{Justified}} since Raven Beak is a Chozo, the alien warrior race responsible for turning Samus into the badass she is in the first place.

** The promo for ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' shows the UNSC ''Infinity'', the largest and most powerful UNSC warship ever built, going down from a single blast of the new enemy. According to the fluff, the ship incorporates not only the latest in human tech, but also tech acquired from the Covenant and the Shield World Trevelyan (i.e. Forerunner tech). It's also one of the main training sites for the SPARTAN-IV program (experienced soldiers enhanced Master Chief-style and given PoweredArmor).
** The ''Infinity'' itself gets to do this in the beginning of ''Spartan Ops'', when it jumps out of slipspace and rams into a Covenant cruiser, not even slowing down. Before, a Covenant cruiser by itself was more than a match for even several UNSC warships, and the ''Infinity'' literally cut through them like paper.

** In the lore, the Covenant [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]] by worfing ''[[DoomedHometown the planet Reach]].''

** The Antivan Crows are ([[InformedAbility allegedly]]) the greatest assassins in Thedas. Yet, every time they go up against the Warden/[[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Hawke]] they get soundly defeated, just to prove how tough s/he is. This is somewhat justified in the Warden's case, as even the Crows are somewhat unwilling to go up against the people responsible for stopping Blights, so any assassins that any that take those assignments are either stupid or suicidal.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'': The player characters seem to fit that role in the later games.

** Basilio gets hit with this ''twice'' in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. Despite being [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking one of Ferox's two khans]] and having a huge army, the Valmese army nearly decimates his midway through the game, and the other characters even directly comment that Valm's army must be pretty strong if ''Basilio'' can't beat them.

* The Antivan Crows in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' are ([[InformedAbility allegedly]]) the greatest assassins in Thedas. Yet, every time they go up against the Warden/[[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Hawke]] they get soundly defeated, just to prove how tough s/he is. This is somewhat justified in the Warden's case, as even the Crows are somewhat unwilling to go up against the people responsible for stopping Blights, so any assassins that any that take those assignments are either stupid or suicidal.

''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'':