Basic Trope: An abnormally powerful special move available after a condition has been fulfilled, typically on dealing or taking a threshold of damage.
- Straight: Bob can use Mighty Cleave after taking half of his health as damage, which deals triple standard attack damage to each enemy.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob can use Doomsday-mageddon when he has exactly 1 health left, which instantly kills each enemy and deals ten times standard attack damage to all affected enemies that are immune to instant death.
- Every playable character has a conditional special move with a unique trigger. Even the mooks!
- Downplayed: Bob can use Sword Beam after taking a tenth of his health as damage, which has increased combat initiative and deals double standard damage to a single target.
- Justified: Bob gets stronger under intense pressure.
- Bob stores kinetic energy from each attack which is released as his limit break.
- Inverted: Emperor Evulz can use Meteor Volley at any point except after he takes half of his health as damage.
- Subverted: Bob uses Mighty Cleave... but it only does as much damage as a regular attack.
- Double Subverted: ...but it does triple normal damage 1 turn later.
- Parodied: Unable to break a wall, Bob rams his face into it until he takes enough damage to trigger Mighty Cleave, which he uses to demolish it.
- Zig Zagged: Bob uses Mighty Cleave... but it only does as much damage as a regular attack... until it does triple damage a turn later... but that was another one of his skills... which activated when he used his Limit Break.
- Averted: Nobody has a Limit Break.
- Enforced: "We need to showcase that the Underdogs Never Lose, and Rule of Cool is great, so let's give Bob a desperation Attack!"
- Lampshaded: "Breaking my limits!"
- Invoked: A loading scrren/Tutorial has the text "When Bob's HP drops to under 50%, something will happen!"
- Exploited: Bob hits himself to trigger his Limit Break. He also never drinks Health Potions, unless it's really necessary.
- Defied: Bob constantly keeps his health above 50% so as to avoid triggering his Limit Break.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob suffers a concussion from all the damage he takes to use his Limit Break.
- Limit isn't kept between battles. As a result, against weak enemies it's useless or redundant, and against stronger enemies he'd be killed before the bar fills, making the whole affair Awesomebut Impractical.
- Reconstructed: Bob's limit break has a healing component in addition to the damage, allowing him to immediately start building limit again.
- The limit break is useful as an ace in the hole against an opponent who is his near-equal...such as his rival Dave.
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