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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dermot "[[BlatantLies claims]]" the only reason Dean beat him up in a WimpFight was because he was sick at the time. Did we mention throughout that entire episode Dermot "claimed" that his hands were registered as lethal weapons?
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', Dermot "[[BlatantLies claims]]" that the only reason Dean beat him up in a WimpFight was because he was sick at the time. Did we mention throughout that entire episode Dermot "claimed" that his hands were registered as lethal weapons?
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Re-Enter the J-Team", the J-Team are participating in a martial arts tournament as part of an undercover investigation of tournament host and suspected jewel thief Bartholomew Chang. This trope causes all but Tohru to lose their initial fights: Viper isn’t used to having to wear a judo gi with wide sleeves since she normally wears tight spandex suits and the sleeves restrict her movement too much. El Toro is mainly used to fighting inside pro wrestling rings, thus when [[DamnYouMuscleMemory he tries to rebound off the ropes]], he ends up losing by RingOut. And Jackie has trouble with breaking stones with his bare hands. When they have to fight their opponents from the tournament again later on, these restrictions are not in place and they do manage to win. (Well, except for Jackie. Since his hands were still broken, El Toro and Tohru had to step in to take down his opponent.)
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Re-Enter the J-Team", the J-Team are participating in a martial arts tournament as part of an undercover investigation of tournament host and suspected jewel thief Bartholomew Chang. This trope causes all but Tohru to lose their initial fights: Viper isn’t used to having to wear a judo gi with wide sleeves since she normally wears tight spandex suits and the sleeves restrict her movement too much. El Toro is mainly used to fighting inside pro wrestling rings, thus when [[DamnYouMuscleMemory he tries to rebound off the ropes]], he ends up losing by RingOut. And Jackie has trouble with breaking stones with his bare hands, causing him to break his own hands. When they have to fight their opponents from the tournament again later on, these restrictions are not in place (Tohru and Viper held up a rope for El Toro to spring off of) and they do manage to win. (Well, except for Jackie. Since his hands were still broken, El Toro and Tohru had to step in to take down his opponent.)
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Re-Enter the J-Team", the J-Team are participating in a martial arts tournament as part of an undercover investigation of tournament host and suspected jewel thief Bartholomew Chang. This trope causes all but Tohru to lose their initial fights: Viper isn’t used to having to wear a judo gi with wide sleeves since she normally wears tight spandex suits and the sleeves restrict her movement too much. El Toro is mainly used to fighting inside pro wrestling rings, thus when [[DamnYouMuscleMemory he tries to rebound off the ropes]], he ends up losing by RingOut. And Jackie has trouble with breaking stones with his bare hands. When they have to fight their opponents from the tournament again later on, these restrictions are not in place and they do manage to win. (Well, except for Jackie. Since his hands were still broken, El Toro and Tohru had to step in to take down his opponent.)
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** The second season finale when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Chrysalis]] manages to defeat [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in a straight up fight. Chrysalis had gotten a ''major'' power up [[EmotionEater feeding off of]] [[ThePowerOfLove Shining Armor's love for Princess Cadence]]. Not only does she visibly struggle against Celestia's power at first, even Chrysalis is outright ''shocked'' she won]]. In addition, [[spoiler:it's been noted said fight took place in a room crowded with the very citizens Celestia was trying to ''protect'', meaning in all likelihood, she may have been holding back so as not to harm them and may have beaten Chrysalis otherwise]].[[note]] The "Fiendship is Magic" comics confirm that this is the case: [[spoiler:in the past, the two fought once before. Celestia defeated Chrysalis, [[OneManArmy her entire army]], [[ScarsAreForever permanently scarring their bodies]], and [[SealedEvilInACan leaving them imprisoned in a volcano for hundreds of years]]. ''With a single attack''. Comparing the army-busting WaveMotionGun spell to the small beam she used again Chrysalis in the show, it's clear Celestia was indeed holding back. The comics are only debatably canon, but ''still'']].[[/note]]
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** The second season finale when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Chrysalis]] manages to defeat [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in a straight up fight. Chrysalis had gotten a ''major'' power up [[EmotionEater feeding off of]] [[ThePowerOfLove Shining Armor's love for Princess Cadence]]. Not only does she visibly struggle against Celestia's power at first, even Chrysalis is outright ''shocked'' she won]]. In addition, [[spoiler:it's been noted said fight took place in a room crowded with the very citizens Celestia was trying to ''protect'', meaning in all likelihood, she may have been holding back so as not to harm them and may have beaten Chrysalis otherwise]].[[note]] The "Fiendship is Magic" "ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic" comics confirm that this is the case: [[spoiler:in the past, the two fought once before. Celestia defeated Chrysalis, [[OneManArmy her entire army]], [[ScarsAreForever permanently scarring their bodies]], and [[SealedEvilInACan leaving them imprisoned in a volcano for hundreds of years]]. ''With a single attack''. Comparing the army-busting WaveMotionGun spell to the small beam she used again Chrysalis in the show, it's clear Celestia was indeed holding back. The comics are only debatably canon, but ''still'']].[[/note]]
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** The second season finale when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Chrysalis]] manages to defeat [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in a straight up fight. Chrysalis had gotten a ''major'' power up [[EmotionEater feeding off of]] [[ThePowerOfLove Shining Armor's love for Princess Cadence]]. Not only does she visibly struggle against Celestia's power at first, even Chrysalis is outright ''shocked'' she won]]. In addition, [[spoiler:it's been noted said fight took place in a room crowded with the very citizens Celestia was trying to ''protect'', meaning in all likelihood, she may have been holding back so as not to harm them and may have beaten Chrysalis otherwise]].[[note]] The "Fiendship is Magic" comics confirm that this is the case: [[spoiler:in the past, the two fought once before. Celestia defeated Chrysalis, [[OneManArmy her entire army]], [[ScarsAreForever permanently scarring their bodies]], and [[SealedEvilInACan leaving them imprisoned in a volcano for hundreds of years]]. ''[[UpToEleven With ''With a single attack]]''.attack''. Comparing the army-busting WaveMotionGun spell to the small beam she used again Chrysalis in the show, it's clear Celestia was indeed holding back. The comics are only debatably canon, but ''still'']].[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' has Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula, a teenage champion athlete who has a rather nasty fall on concrete while escaping a Mosasaur which results in a TwistedAnkle. She spends the next few episodes hobbling at a snail's pace (the other Campers are amazed that she can even walk on it ''[[{{Determinator}} at all]]''), which is not great when you are stranded on a dinosaur island. By the midway point of Season 2, she is showing a semblance of healing, and by Season 3 she has recuperated enough to be back to her old tricks.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
** WordOfGod has this as something that came into play during the formation of the Book One finale: giving Zuko injuries from both his ship exploding, and hypothermia from his near drowning experience in icy water, plus powering up Katara with a full moon that increases the power of her water-bending. Consequently, Katara managed to win her fight with him despite his much greater experience, and incapacitated him. However, when the sun rose, Zuko one-hit-KO'd Katara. During the third round, it was night again, they were in a freakin' snow storm (plenty of water to bend) and Zuko was half-frozen to death. The next time Zuko and Katara had a real fight he more than held his own against her.
** Zuko is similarly handicapped by being unable to use any of his Firebending in his fight-to-a-draw against Jet in Book Two. Doing so would have exposed his identity, which, after an earlier incident in the season where he'd shown his firebending in a fight to defend a town and was then [[UngratefulTownsfolk immediately thrown out of said town]], caused him to hold back with Jet. Towards the end of the fight he gains a clear advantage once he grabs some real swords, but the guards intervene at that point.
** This applies in the GrandFinale, in the final duel between Zuko and Azula. Compared to their past battles, Zuko has gained insights into Firebending long lost to his people and was more emotionally centered than he had previously been in his life, whereas Azula is in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. Just before going into battle against her he mentions that he doesn't need [[spoiler: Katara's]] help anymore because Azula is slipping and thus he can reliably defeat her on his own. [[spoiler: He loses, but Azula is only able to win by firing a lightning bolt at Katara, causing him to take the blow for her.]]
** Team Avatar tries to use this trope to their advantage, by attacking the Fire Nation during an [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot eclipse]], (which temporarily [[BroughtDownToNormal prevents firebenders using their powers,]]) with the intention of beating [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]] while he's powerless. [[spoiler: Their plan doesn't work, because the Fire Nation had forewarning about it and prepared accordingly, and Azula manages to be a formidable opponent even without her firebending. However, it plays a big part in Zuko's CallingTheOldManOut as he wouldn't stand a chance against Ozai in a firebending battle but is more than a match for him with his swords.]]
* Ben of ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' is in possession of the Omnitrix, one of the greatest and most powerful inventions in the entire universe, and almost every important BigBad is after it in one way or another. The biggest RunningGag in the franchise is that the Omnitrix can't just transform Ben into the right alien to solve problems with ease, due to a combination of inexperience with the current model of the watch [[note]]Whenever he does gain enough experience with whatever model of Omnitrix he has, allowing him to understand or even stumble across the method with which to transform reliably, a major plot event will sooner or later bring him back to square one[[/note]] and just plain RuleOfFunny, leaving Ben to take care of things with a different alien or, in cases where the watch hasn't recharged yet, as a regular human.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Scrooge has temporarily thrown out his back on a number of occasions when he needed to be sidelined so another character can save the day. The most noteworthy being the "Rumble for Ragnarok!" episode where Scrooge is sidelined for the majority of the episode so we can see the kids scramble to fill his shoes in preventing Ragnarok.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Re-Enter the J-Team", the J-Team are participating in a martial arts tournament as part of an undercover investigation of tournament host and suspected jewel thief Bartholomew Chang. This trope causes all but Tohru to lose their initial fights: Viper isn’t used to having to wear a judo gi with wide sleeves since she normally wears tight spandex suits and the sleeves restrict her movement too much. El Toro is mainly used to fighting inside pro wrestling rings, thus when [[DamnYouMuscleMemory he tries to rebound off the ropes]], he ends up losing by RingOut. And Jackie has trouble with breaking stones with his bare hands. When they have to fight their opponents from the tournament again later on, these restrictions are not in place and they do manage to win.
* There are fan theories that state that the reason Superman was so weak in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' is because he was still recovering from [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the war with Apokolips]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' sees Temutai try to invoke this the second time he faces off with Po, claiming that the last time they fought, he had a head cold. [[YouCanAlwaysTellALiar It's very obviously an excuse he made up on the spot]].
* This applies to the main character of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
** In the first episode, she loses to the Metalbending Police (but since they were police, she held back and wasn't really trying). Later, she loses to some Equalist chi blockers. Korra had no idea they were chi blockers until after they defeated her, though, whereas they had trained to fight benders. Korra struggles inside the pro bending ring, but between being restricted to only waterbending and having limitations on how much she can bend at a time (it's complicated), that's to be expected, and she does still win quite often. [[spoiler:In her first fight with Amon, Korra was badly outnumbered, and he got the drop on her anyway. When Tarlok defeats her, he uses a StoryBreakerPower that, as far as Korra knows, is impossible for anyone to even have, and which nobody but Amon can counter at this point. When Amon takes her bending, he uses that same power. Luckily, Korra still manages to win quite a few fights when she isn't at a huge disadvantage.]]
** Shows up again in Season 3, this time dealing with [[IronLady Lin Beifong]]; after a physically and emotionally draining acupuncture session, she picks a fight with her half-sister Suyin and barely manages to hold on.
** The good guys are down three people/ two bending masters (Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin) in the climax of Season 3 as they got the crap kicked out of them and are still too hurt to fight.
** In an earlier battle with the Red Lotus, Lord Zuko is not only hampered by being in his late eighties -- he's also fighting at midnight, in the middle of an intense blizzard, making his firebending far weaker than it should be. He still manages to last the longest out of all the good guys, when the rest were master Waterbenders.
** In Season 4, Korra is once again hit with this. Turns out the reason she's weaker than before is because [[spoiler:she still has a bit of metallic poison in her body. It's been there for ''years''. After she works up the mental fortitude to bend it out herself, she is able to enter the Avatar state again, only to have that derailed by lingering mental trauma]]. By the time she's back to 100%, the villain has powered up to the tune of a taller-than-buildings HumongousMecha. That said, when the two fight man-to-man again, [[spoiler:it's clear that Korra is the more powerful of the two]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The second season finale when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Chrysalis]] manages to defeat [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in a straight up fight. Chrysalis had gotten a ''major'' power up [[EmotionEater feeding off of]] [[ThePowerOfLove Shining Armor's love for Princess Cadence]]. Not only does she visibly struggle against Celestia's power at first, even Chrysalis is outright ''shocked'' she won]]. In addition, [[spoiler:it's been noted said fight took place in a room crowded with the very citizens Celestia was trying to ''protect'', meaning in all likelihood, she may have been holding back so as not to harm them and may have beaten Chrysalis otherwise]].[[note]] The "Fiendship is Magic" comics confirm that this is the case: [[spoiler:in the past, the two fought once before. Celestia defeated Chrysalis, [[OneManArmy her entire army]], [[ScarsAreForever permanently scarring their bodies]], and [[SealedEvilInACan leaving them imprisoned in a volcano for hundreds of years]]. ''[[UpToEleven With a single attack]]''. Comparing the army-busting WaveMotionGun spell to the small beam she used again Chrysalis in the show, it's clear Celestia was indeed holding back. The comics are only debatably canon, but ''still'']].[[/note]]
** In "The Crystal Empire", Shining Armor has his horn cursed by Sombra and is unable to use magic, leaving Cadance to maintain the barrier spell on her own, which she becomes exhausted from.
** In "Equestria Games", the AntiMagic field set up to prevent cheating also prevents the unicorns from using their magic to stop the falling ice cloud.
** Then in the Season 6 finale "To Where and Back Again", [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis has managed to, in only a few hours, kidnap the entire Royal Family and Elements of Harmony and taken them to her hive to keep captive there in cocoons until her invasion of Equestria is complete. This is suspected to be thanks to the AntiMagic field generated by her [[ArtifactOfDoom throne]] as since it blocks all magic but that of the Changelings, she could kidnap them with little resistance and prevent them from escaping from their cocoons on their own, along with giving her a HomeFieldAdvantage against anyone who tried to rescue them.]]
** In Season 7 Episode 10, we learn that Celestia is apparently WillfullyWeak, with her potential [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Moon equivalent]], Daybreaker, being who she is if she stopped holding back and caring about what others thought.
** In [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the movie]] all three Princesses are petrified with the Storm King's Obsidian Orbs. Cadence blocks the first one with her shield -- only to discover that the orb's gas was able to seep through before any of them could do anything about it. Celestia realises they can't defend themselves and tries to get Luna to find help instead of fighting -- but both are hit with the orbs before they can. Twilight only escapes the last one when Rainbow Dash pulls her out of the way at the last second. It's also shown that the Storm Guards have AntiMagic armor that deflects Twilight's magic.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''; in the two parter episode "The Scotsman Saves Jack", Jack has had his mind wiped and thinks he's a laid-back SurferDude named Brent Worthington. "Brent" lacks all of Jack's fighting skill and bravery, so ends up getting smacked around or fainting at the sight of villains and monsters Jack would normally have no trouble defeating.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Brittney's Party", Marco is unable to help Star fight Ludo's minions because Brittney's holding her birthday party on a moving bus, and Marco gets carsick easily.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous "Lair of Grievous"]]: Before he duels Kit Fisto (a duel that seemed to be going Kit's way before the [=MagnaGuards=] interrupted), Grievous's medical droid warned him that he wasn't fully repaired and was "in no condition to fight".
** In [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars the previous Clone Wars cartoon]] Grievous repeatedly {{Invoked}} this: not being a Force user, he's been instructed by Dooku to always make sure he has "fear, surprise and intimidation" on his side before fighting the strongest Jedi and retreat otherwise. Thus his introduction has him face ''six'' Jedi, killing three and leaving the others wounded and traumatized, after thoroughly wiping out their army and taking multiple steps to scare them to throw them off their game, and every time he appears he takes care to be as intimidating as possible and try and get his Jedi opponents tired by his Magna Guards while also riding on the reputation he built by killing Jedi... But when he faces Mace Windu his opponent is ''not'' intimidated at all, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gnwyYRHu8 Grievous is crippled in an instant]].
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' sees the main Autobots kill Megatron… after he'd been severely damaged by a bomb planted on him by [[TheStarscream Starscream]]. When they have a rematch after he comes back to life fifty years later, he puts up a much better fight.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dermot "[[BlatantLies claims]]" the only reason Dean beat him up in a WimpFight was because he was sick at the time. Did we mention throughout that entire episode Dermot "claimed" that his hands were registered as lethal weapons?
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
** WordOfGod has this as something that came into play during the formation of the Book One finale: giving Zuko injuries from both his ship exploding, and hypothermia from his near drowning experience in icy water, plus powering up Katara with a full moon that increases the power of her water-bending. Consequently, Katara managed to win her fight with him despite his much greater experience, and incapacitated him. However, when the sun rose, Zuko one-hit-KO'd Katara. During the third round, it was night again, they were in a freakin' snow storm (plenty of water to bend) and Zuko was half-frozen to death. The next time Zuko and Katara had a real fight he more than held his own against her.
** Zuko is similarly handicapped by being unable to use any of his Firebending in his fight-to-a-draw against Jet in Book Two. Doing so would have exposed his identity, which, after an earlier incident in the season where he'd shown his firebending in a fight to defend a town and was then [[UngratefulTownsfolk immediately thrown out of said town]], caused him to hold back with Jet. Towards the end of the fight he gains a clear advantage once he grabs some real swords, but the guards intervene at that point.
** This applies in the GrandFinale, in the final duel between Zuko and Azula. Compared to their past battles, Zuko has gained insights into Firebending long lost to his people and was more emotionally centered than he had previously been in his life, whereas Azula is in the middle of a VillainousBreakdown. Just before going into battle against her he mentions that he doesn't need [[spoiler: Katara's]] help anymore because Azula is slipping and thus he can reliably defeat her on his own. [[spoiler: He loses, but Azula is only able to win by firing a lightning bolt at Katara, causing him to take the blow for her.]]
** Team Avatar tries to use this trope to their advantage, by attacking the Fire Nation during an [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot eclipse]], (which temporarily [[BroughtDownToNormal prevents firebenders using their powers,]]) with the intention of beating [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]] while he's powerless. [[spoiler: Their plan doesn't work, because the Fire Nation had forewarning about it and prepared accordingly, and Azula manages to be a formidable opponent even without her firebending. However, it plays a big part in Zuko's CallingTheOldManOut as he wouldn't stand a chance against Ozai in a firebending battle but is more than a match for him with his swords.]]
* Ben of ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' is in possession of the Omnitrix, one of the greatest and most powerful inventions in the entire universe, and almost every important BigBad is after it in one way or another. The biggest RunningGag in the franchise is that the Omnitrix can't just transform Ben into the right alien to solve problems with ease, due to a combination of inexperience with the current model of the watch [[note]]Whenever he does gain enough experience with whatever model of Omnitrix he has, allowing him to understand or even stumble across the method with which to transform reliably, a major plot event will sooner or later bring him back to square one[[/note]] and just plain RuleOfFunny, leaving Ben to take care of things with a different alien or, in cases where the watch hasn't recharged yet, as a regular human.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Scrooge has temporarily thrown out his back on a number of occasions when he needed to be sidelined so another character can save the day. The most noteworthy being the "Rumble for Ragnarok!" episode where Scrooge is sidelined for the majority of the episode so we can see the kids scramble to fill his shoes in preventing Ragnarok.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Re-Enter the J-Team", the J-Team are participating in a martial arts tournament as part of an undercover investigation of tournament host and suspected jewel thief Bartholomew Chang. This trope causes all but Tohru to lose their initial fights: Viper isn’t used to having to wear a judo gi with wide sleeves since she normally wears tight spandex suits and the sleeves restrict her movement too much. El Toro is mainly used to fighting inside pro wrestling rings, thus when [[DamnYouMuscleMemory he tries to rebound off the ropes]], he ends up losing by RingOut. And Jackie has trouble with breaking stones with his bare hands. When they have to fight their opponents from the tournament again later on, these restrictions are not in place and they do manage to win.
* There are fan theories that state that the reason Superman was so weak in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' is because he was still recovering from [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the war with Apokolips]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' sees Temutai try to invoke this the second time he faces off with Po, claiming that the last time they fought, he had a head cold. [[YouCanAlwaysTellALiar It's very obviously an excuse he made up on the spot]].
* This applies to the main character of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
** In the first episode, she loses to the Metalbending Police (but since they were police, she held back and wasn't really trying). Later, she loses to some Equalist chi blockers. Korra had no idea they were chi blockers until after they defeated her, though, whereas they had trained to fight benders. Korra struggles inside the pro bending ring, but between being restricted to only waterbending and having limitations on how much she can bend at a time (it's complicated), that's to be expected, and she does still win quite often. [[spoiler:In her first fight with Amon, Korra was badly outnumbered, and he got the drop on her anyway. When Tarlok defeats her, he uses a StoryBreakerPower that, as far as Korra knows, is impossible for anyone to even have, and which nobody but Amon can counter at this point. When Amon takes her bending, he uses that same power. Luckily, Korra still manages to win quite a few fights when she isn't at a huge disadvantage.]]
** Shows up again in Season 3, this time dealing with [[IronLady Lin Beifong]]; after a physically and emotionally draining acupuncture session, she picks a fight with her half-sister Suyin and barely manages to hold on.
** The good guys are down three people/ two bending masters (Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin) in the climax of Season 3 as they got the crap kicked out of them and are still too hurt to fight.
** In an earlier battle with the Red Lotus, Lord Zuko is not only hampered by being in his late eighties -- he's also fighting at midnight, in the middle of an intense blizzard, making his firebending far weaker than it should be. He still manages to last the longest out of all the good guys, when the rest were master Waterbenders.
** In Season 4, Korra is once again hit with this. Turns out the reason she's weaker than before is because [[spoiler:she still has a bit of metallic poison in her body. It's been there for ''years''. After she works up the mental fortitude to bend it out herself, she is able to enter the Avatar state again, only to have that derailed by lingering mental trauma]]. By the time she's back to 100%, the villain has powered up to the tune of a taller-than-buildings HumongousMecha. That said, when the two fight man-to-man again, [[spoiler:it's clear that Korra is the more powerful of the two]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The second season finale when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Chrysalis]] manages to defeat [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in a straight up fight. Chrysalis had gotten a ''major'' power up [[EmotionEater feeding off of]] [[ThePowerOfLove Shining Armor's love for Princess Cadence]]. Not only does she visibly struggle against Celestia's power at first, even Chrysalis is outright ''shocked'' she won]]. In addition, [[spoiler:it's been noted said fight took place in a room crowded with the very citizens Celestia was trying to ''protect'', meaning in all likelihood, she may have been holding back so as not to harm them and may have beaten Chrysalis otherwise]].[[note]] The "Fiendship is Magic" comics confirm that this is the case: [[spoiler:in the past, the two fought once before. Celestia defeated Chrysalis, [[OneManArmy her entire army]], [[ScarsAreForever permanently scarring their bodies]], and [[SealedEvilInACan leaving them imprisoned in a volcano for hundreds of years]]. ''[[UpToEleven With a single attack]]''. Comparing the army-busting WaveMotionGun spell to the small beam she used again Chrysalis in the show, it's clear Celestia was indeed holding back. The comics are only debatably canon, but ''still'']].[[/note]]
** In "The Crystal Empire", Shining Armor has his horn cursed by Sombra and is unable to use magic, leaving Cadance to maintain the barrier spell on her own, which she becomes exhausted from.
** In "Equestria Games", the AntiMagic field set up to prevent cheating also prevents the unicorns from using their magic to stop the falling ice cloud.
** Then in the Season 6 finale "To Where and Back Again", [[spoiler:Queen Chrysalis has managed to, in only a few hours, kidnap the entire Royal Family and Elements of Harmony and taken them to her hive to keep captive there in cocoons until her invasion of Equestria is complete. This is suspected to be thanks to the AntiMagic field generated by her [[ArtifactOfDoom throne]] as since it blocks all magic but that of the Changelings, she could kidnap them with little resistance and prevent them from escaping from their cocoons on their own, along with giving her a HomeFieldAdvantage against anyone who tried to rescue them.]]
** In Season 7 Episode 10, we learn that Celestia is apparently WillfullyWeak, with her potential [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Moon equivalent]], Daybreaker, being who she is if she stopped holding back and caring about what others thought.
** In [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the movie]] all three Princesses are petrified with the Storm King's Obsidian Orbs. Cadence blocks the first one with her shield -- only to discover that the orb's gas was able to seep through before any of them could do anything about it. Celestia realises they can't defend themselves and tries to get Luna to find help instead of fighting -- but both are hit with the orbs before they can. Twilight only escapes the last one when Rainbow Dash pulls her out of the way at the last second. It's also shown that the Storm Guards have AntiMagic armor that deflects Twilight's magic.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''; in the two parter episode "The Scotsman Saves Jack", Jack has had his mind wiped and thinks he's a laid-back SurferDude named Brent Worthington. "Brent" lacks all of Jack's fighting skill and bravery, so ends up getting smacked around or fainting at the sight of villains and monsters Jack would normally have no trouble defeating.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Brittney's Party", Marco is unable to help Star fight Ludo's minions because Brittney's holding her birthday party on a moving bus, and Marco gets carsick easily.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous "Lair of Grievous"]]: Before he duels Kit Fisto (a duel that seemed to be going Kit's way before the [=MagnaGuards=] interrupted), Grievous's medical droid warned him that he wasn't fully repaired and was "in no condition to fight".
** In [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars the previous Clone Wars cartoon]] Grievous repeatedly {{Invoked}} this: not being a Force user, he's been instructed by Dooku to always make sure he has "fear, surprise and intimidation" on his side before fighting the strongest Jedi and retreat otherwise. Thus his introduction has him face ''six'' Jedi, killing three and leaving the others wounded and traumatized, after thoroughly wiping out their army and taking multiple steps to scare them to throw them off their game, and every time he appears he takes care to be as intimidating as possible and try and get his Jedi opponents tired by his Magna Guards while also riding on the reputation he built by killing Jedi... But when he faces Mace Windu his opponent is ''not'' intimidated at all, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gnwyYRHu8 Grievous is crippled in an instant]].
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' sees the main Autobots kill Megatron… after he'd been severely damaged by a bomb planted on him by [[TheStarscream Starscream]]. When they have a rematch after he comes back to life fifty years later, he puts up a much better fight.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dermot "[[BlatantLies claims]]" the only reason Dean beat him up in a WimpFight was because he was sick at the time. Did we mention throughout that entire episode Dermot "claimed" that his hands were registered as lethal weapons?
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