Basic Trope: Video game characters tend to lose their items and abilities between games.
- Straight: At the end of the first game, Baron has a glowing fire sword and magical armor. At the beginning of game 2, he only has a rusty knife.
- Exaggerated: At the end of the first game, Baron is a Physical God who can defeat dragons with his bare hands. At the beginning of game 2, he can barely defeat sewer rats, and fights with a wooden stick or even bare hands.
- Downplayed:
- Baron has a handful of late game items and abilities as the new basics - the others were either near useless or just plain too strong.
- Baron has most of the old weapons from the first game. They do scratch damage in game 2.
- Baron still has all of his old weapon and abilities... But is so laughably out of practice with them that, barring a few Emergent Gameplay tricks, they are mostly useless until he gets a refresher course on how to use them.
- Baron still has all his old guns. He just ran out of ammo/power cell in the interim, so he can only use the Infinity +1 Sword from the first game to Pistol Whip enemies into submission.
- Baron started the first game with a rusty knife and old gambeson, and ended it with Excalibur and a position as Captain of the Royal Guard. He starts the sequel without Excalibur, but all his abilities start unlocked and his Royal Guard Cuirass and Royal Guard Halberd mean most early game weapon and armor drops are Better Off Sold.
- Justified:
- Baron's old weapons are powered by Toxic Phlebotinum that is only found on the Big Bad Snooby's planet, which is destroyed at the end of the first game.
- The ending of the first game is a Bittersweet Ending where Baron loses his memories - he simply also forgot about his weapons. The sequel is about Baron attempting to regain his memories afterwards.
- The opening cutscene shows a mysterious rival stealing Baron's fire sword and magical armor, but leaving him with his knife out of pity.
- Baron thought that he was going to no longer have to fight anymore and sold his weapons.
- Baron was out doing something mundane when Snooby attacked his house, and didn't think to bring any of his weapons with him because they weren't needed.
- Baron was captured by Snooby, so naturally he would strip off Baron's gears to disarm him.
- Baron's gear beyond his starter equipment was taken from evil minions and was empowered by trapped souls of the innocent. Not freeing them after their service because they were too useful would make him just as bad as the villain.
- The Adventures of Baron is a Genre Anthology, there's no canon beyond the names of the common cast.
- Inverted:
- Baron has a lot of new powers that he didn't have in the first game.
- Despite being a prequel Baron starts with better gear than the previous but chronologically advanced game in the series and the ending doesn't give a reason why he lost them within it.
- Despite starring a completely different character, all of Baron's gear and techniques are available - even though quite a few of them should logically be lost forever.
- Subverted:
- You don't have your weapons in the beginning of game 2, but halfway through the first level you find a chest with all your old weapons from the first game.
- You don't play as Baron at all - instead, you play as The Man Behind the Man's real archnemesis, Lucille, who was simply impersonating Baron.
- Double Subverted:
- ...but as you go to open it, toxic gas seeps from under the floor and you wake up in a prison cell with none of your weapons except a wooden spoon you found on the floor.
- Later in the game, you play as Baron, who only has a rusty knife.
- Parodied: After Snooby is defeated, Baron throws aside all of his weapons because he doesn't feel like carrying them back out of the dungeon.
- Zig Zagged: Baron has all his stuff for the first mission of the game. Then in the next, he gets captured and loses it all. But after the next, he gets it back for good. But it's all severely damaged. Then it turns out in the third game that game 2 was a Stealth Prequel. Then it turns out the third game is not actually canon. Or is it the replacement third game that isn't canon?
- Averted: Baron has all the same abilities that he had in the first game, or the second game features a completely new character.
- Enforced: The game designers wanted to design new weapons and abilities for the second game rather than recycling those from the first game.
- Lampshaded:
- After defeating the first boss in the second game, Baron points out that it would have been a lot easier if he still had his Ultima Weapon.
- "What the hell happened to you? You look just like a civilian!"
- Invoked: Baron throws away all his powerful stuff and purposefully forgets how to use his powers because he assumes he doesn't need them anymore now that the villain is dead.
- Exploited:
- Charles Beige, the villain in the second game decides to wait until after Baron got out of practice before setting his plan into motion.
- Charles Beige decides to use the stolen gear against Baron. Mirror Boss ensues.
- Defied: After Baron loses his stuff, the first thing that happens is a quest to get his stuff back.
- Discussed: "What happened to Baron's fire sword? Why is he using that wooden stick?"
- Conversed: Hey, what happened to my character's awesome stuff?!
- Deconstructed: All of the items and powers Baron collected during the game are stripped from him by the authority of the land he saved because, in the absence of a foe, he becomes the biggest potential threat to the re-established order with them in his possession.
- Reconstructed: He realizes that those particular powers were a crutch and sets off on the sequel to become powerful on his own terms, for himself.
- Played For Laughs: Baron lost his gear in a vaguely alluded to event. People mocking or nagging him over it becomes a very long Running Gag.
- Played For Drama: The bad end of the previous game was made canon. He really fell apart after he failed to save Princess Allision. He explicitly drank away his savings and pawned his gear for liquor. The new threat was the only thing that gave him a reason to come out of his downward destructive spiral.
- Plotted A Good Waste: That Baron doesn't have his gear or skills is foreshadowing of a plot twist.
- Implied: There is no previous game, but Baron grumbles about all his lost gear constantly.
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