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== Anime
* Fai in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' begins the series with an elaborate phoenix tattoo which Yuuko demands as his payment for the fulfillment of his wish. Much later, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the tattoo was designed to prevent his magic from growing in power each and every time he uses it, as it would otherwise naturally do.}}
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* Rock Lee in ''[[Naruto]]'' does this several times in the Chuunin exam, with both the handicap (he wears ''ludicrously'' heavy leg weights most of the time) and the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] (of which he uses several in succession).
** Zaku pretended that he still couldn't use one of his arms when fighting with Shino. But as soon as he tries attacking with it turns out the tubes in his arms were blocked with bugs and exploded. [[Bond One-Liner|He probably wishes he was left-handed after that]].
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** Karasu pretends that his power is to make anything he touches explode. Kurama tries to counter by fighting at a distance. But Karasu reveals that his real power is to make invisible bombs that he can move with his mind. '''BOOM'''.
* In ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' Volume 2, Train Heartnet reveals that he is not '''''right''''' handed. As a matter of fact, he was originally left handed, learned to wield his pistol ambidextrously, and switches to his dominant hand to increase his fighting potential (i.e., speed and accuracy).
** A similar example is Maki in ''[[Hayate
* Similarly, in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'', Ryoma plays his first match in canon with his right hand. He manages to upstage his opponent in this state, but eventually decides to reveal that he is not '''right''' handed, and completely crushes the terrified opponent. Ryoma is fond of confusing his opponents this way throughout the series.
** This is probably the most prevalent in Ryoma's showdown against Yukimura in the finale of the OVA, where Ryoma almost gets out-dueled by the much feared Yukimura, and falls to the ground exhausted, but suddenly wakes up in a [[Deus Ex Machina]] and out-duels Yukimura in reverse.
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* In chapter six of ''[[Zombie Powder]]'', It is revealed that Gamma purposely handicaps himself when he fights against women and children. At the time, Gamma was fighting an old man with the appearance of a child, and when he realized this, he began to fight seriously. And beat the mickey out of his opponent.
* Myojin pulls this in ''[[The Law of Ueki]]''. Ueki thinks he's figured out how to beat him, then he reveals that unlike every other power user, he was given two special powers instead of just one.
* Characters on ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'', whether hero or villain tend to do this very frequently.▼
** During the second Goku/Tien Shinhan match of Dragonball, both are about evenly matched until Goku stops and asks if he can take some of his clothes off. Tien obliges (it's apparently rather hot outside), and thinks nothing of it until Goku's undershirt lands on the floor with a heavy-sounding thud. Cue the weighted-clothing revelation and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090802031548/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/dragon_ball/v15/c009/last.html Tien's subsequent humiliation].▼
** Having reluctantly [[Strange Bedfellows|teamed up]] with Goku to stop Raditz, Piccolo gets ready for the fight by taking off his cape, revealing that it's actually weighted training gear. Goku gets a kick out of this—and takes off ''his'' weighted clothing.▼
** Piccolo ditches his weighted training clothing again during his fight with 2nd-form Frieza in an attempt to try and keep up with Frieza's rising power level. It doesn't work, largely because [[Diabolus Ex Machina|Frieza reveals a second tansformation]].▼
** Freeza is the absolute worst offender: One of our heroes finally has Freeza's measure? He just transforms to a stronger form. ''Three times.'' Later on, Goku is seemingly matching Freeza's strongest form, and is confident that he can win. Freeza reveals that he's ''only using 1% of his power''. Goku's response is to assume Freeza's bluffing...he's not. Freeza goes to 50% and begins kicking Goku's ass.▼
*** Slightly less extreme in the Japanese version, where the power-level Freeza is fighting at before going up to 50% is unspecified. Given that Goku manages to equal 50% Freeza when using his 20X Kaioken [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|though he could only endure the strain for a few seconds]]), Freeza must have been higher than 1%.▼
** Played with in the fight between Gotenks and Super Buu. Piccolo assumes Gotenks really IS outmatched, panics, and traps them all in a pocket dimension. Gotenks then reveals that he was only pretending to be losing, and that he could secretly go Super Saiyan 3 all along. He was hiding it because [[Invoked Trope|he thought it would be more]] [[Badass]]. He uses his withheld Super Saiyan 3 transformation to rip the fabric of space-time, escape said pocket dimension, and kick Super Buu's ass for five minutes anyway.▼
** The tendency to fight this way gives Goku and Pan serious trouble against Haze Shenron. Pan has no problem kicking around this pathetically weak opponent but it turns out that his pollution aura has been sapping their strength, thereby giving him the upper hand. After escaping his area of influence and regaining their strength the pair are able to return and easily destroy him with an energy blast. They should have just done that in the first place.▼
* Kenshiro tends to do this quite frequently to a worthy opponent in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', Kagura pulls this on {{spoiler|Abuto}}. They seemed a pretty equal match, until he has her pinned to the floor and helpless, but it turns out she {{spoiler|wasn't fighting with her full power; she then goes full-on Yato on him and proceeds to give him a thorough thrashing}}.
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* In ''[[Angelic Layer]]'', during Hikaru's fight with Shirahime, Shirahime takes off her kimono, increasing her already-amazing speed and turning the tide of the battle.
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' football teams tend to do this by not allowing certain players to play until needed, as to make the enemy underestimate them.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' while fighting Wrath, Scar reveals that {{spoiler|during the three month break he has tattooed his right arm with his brother's reconstruction transmutation circle getting rid of his weakness that he could only deconstruct using alchemy}}.▼
** Much earlier, Edward fought Slicer/Number 48 a [[Boxed Crook]] turned [[Animated Armor]] who displays his blood seal on the back of his helmet during the fight. Ed then knocks the head off, knowing he couldn't control a body he wasn't connected to, but then it turns out "Slicer" was actually ''two'' [[Serial Killer]]s (brothers), the other of which was put in the same armor, but the seal was on the torso. This is then Lampshaded after Ed beats him as well and he pokes the armor cautiously while asking if there was a third one.▼
** When Ed fights Kimblee in the manga, he manages to screw up one of the half transmutations circles on Kimblee's hands and {{spoiler|knock the Philosopher's Stone out of his hand}} to prevent Kimblee from using any alchemy without wasting time drawing another circle, but {{spoiler|Kimblee had ''another'' stone hidden in his mouth (and had for literally years).}} [[Stuff Blowing Up|Explosions ensue]].▼
** Also in the manga (and the ''Brotherhood'' anime), when Sloth gets badly pummeled by the Armstrong siblings, he remarks it's time to "go full throttle":▼
{{quote|'''Sloth''': "{{spoiler|I am the fastest Homunculus.}}"}}▼
** In an extra chapter in the manga "The Military Festival" <s> Ed and Mustang battle it out</s> Mustang shoots flames at Ed as Ed runs around dodging. Ed suckers Mustang close enough to rip off the transmutation circle on his glove when Mustang reveals that his left hand (which was in his pocket the whole time) also has a transmuting glove on it. So it's more like I Am Not Right Handed. Later in the manga during Mustang's fight with {{spoiler|Envy}} it tuns out to not be a gag when we see Mustang consistently using his left hand for pinpoint burning and his right hand for big explosions.▼
* Parodied in ''[[Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu]]'', when Akihisa goes up against Miho Satou, an A class student, Akihisa declares himself to be left-handed, but winds up losing anyway, because it's a fight determined by ''test scores''.
* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Aion gets badly beaten by Duke Daffau when {{spoiler|Daffau attacks Aion's base, Eden}}. For a moment, it looks like Aion's beaten within an inch of his life—until he reveals that he was holding back the entire time and proceeds start a trap that weakens Daffau and his troops, while activating a secret property in his sword that allows him to [[Good Thing You Can Heal|heal incredibly quickly]].
* In one of the Early rounds of the DoD tournament of ''[[
* The Evangelions of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' have armor which doesn't protect them as much as it restrains them, even being referred to as "binders" when {{spoiler|EVA-01 awakens after eating Zeruel}}. After defeating a particularly tough Angel, Unit-01 tears off its armor and scares NERV enough to put it under quarantine.
** When the Evas go berserk, they tend to do things that didn't seem within their capabilities beforehand (regenerating arms, taking damage that would have destroyed them earlier, and in Rebuild, {{spoiler|shooting lasers!}}).
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* In ''[[Claymore]]'', Teresa of the Faint Smile easily defeats the #2, #3, #4, and #5 without releasing any of her power. When the #2, Priscilla, unleashes 80% of her power and starts giving her trouble, Teresa simply releases 10% and easily defeats her again.
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* Try to name one fight in ''[[Bleach]]'' where this ''doesn't'' happen. Pretty much any battle will have this (and/or [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]) occur at least once, if not multiple times. In fact, it's used so much that you can usually predict who will win a close fight based on who powers up first. The members of Squad 11 practically live and breathe this trope.
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▲* Characters on ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'', whether hero or villain tend to do this very frequently.
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== Comic Books ==
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== Live
* The very first episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' had Zordon tell them that they should never use their [[Humongous Mecha|Zords]], except after attempting all lesser attacks, as some kind of code of honor. This is also a [[Hand Wave]] of the [[Forgotten Superweapon]] phenomenon.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' that plays with the [[Robin Hood]] legend plays with this:
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* In ''[[Entourage]]'', Ari attempts to trick a studio executive into betting Vince into a movie during a golf game - he purposefully loses the first nine holes before making the bet, and then his game miraculously improves. The exec accuses Ari of trying to trick him - then reveals that he plays much better left-handed, and goes on to defeat Ari.
* [[Angel]] does this on a regular basis, usually revealing that he's a vampire about halfway through the fight. Vampires, for example, do not breathe, which Angel noted way back in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' when a character needed mouth-to-mouth.
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== Video Games ==
* In many shooting videogames, players are often limited to usually using a pistol or shotgun, due to lack of ammo for more powerful weapons. This often leads to them saving the [[BFG]] for [[Demonic Spiders]] or [[That One Boss]].
* Same with [[
* Played with in [[Super Robot Wars]]. Sanger Zonvolt is best known for piloting a mech whose only weapon is [[BFS|the Type-3 Zankantou]] and which uses a custom operating system that turns it into a [[Motion Capture Mecha]]. In OG Gaiden, a villain tries to take advantage of this by disabling the Zankantou, only for Sanger to switch back to the default OS and kick his ass with the onboard weapon systems. The catch is that these weapons had never made any kind of in-game appearance before and had only been referred to via concept art in the artbooks for SRW Alpha 2 (where Daizengar made its first appearance). So it's less "I Am Not Left Handed" and more "I ''AM'' Left Handed, [[Badass|But I Can Kick Your Ass With My Right Hand Too]]".
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* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'':
* Nero does a form of this in his fight with Dante in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'': he's been keeping his [[Evil Hand|Devil Bringer]] hidden under the pretense that his arm is broken and he must carry it in a sling. He fights Dante for the majority of their first contact with his right arm hidden in the sling, and just when Dante has the upper hand and is about to run Nero through, he suddenly throws the sling off and blocks Dante's sword with his cursed arm, stopping Dante in his tracks.▼
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** Vergil also does this in ''[[Devil May Cry 3]]''. In the first fight against him, he stays in human form all the while. By the second fight, he pulls out the [[Super Mode|Devil Trigger]] after you damage him enough. In the third and final fight, he gets to use an even more powerful [[Super Mode]] on top of the previous one with deadly [[Secret AI Moves]].
** The Devil Trigger itself is a case of this. In most of the games outside of the second and fourth, it's treated as a hidden [[Super Mode]], and in the third game Vergil kicking Dante's ass in a post-boss fight cutscene, it awakens Dante's own abilities - this is chronologically treated as the first time he's ever activated it in canon.
▲** Nero does a form of this in his fight with Dante in ''[[Devil May Cry
* Some time after {{spoiler|his death}} in [[Fire Emblem]] 9/10, Greil is revealed to have {{spoiler|crippled his sword arm because Lehran's medallion caused him to go [[Axe Crazy]] and kill his wife
* ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': "That was left-handed!"
** Subverted by Boris in ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' Regal Bryant fights only using kicks, keeping his hands shackled. {{spoiler|Late in the game, you find out firsthand that when he fought using his hands, he was as or more powerful then, than the team is currently, and that was without the Exspheres that allow them to be powerful.}}
* At first, Joshua of ''[[The World Ends With You]]''
* ''[[Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals]]'': After the first boss fight with Gades, if you manage to defeat him, he toasts your party anyway in a cutscene.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'': Slash, one of Magus' [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|generals]], is as famed as a legendary swordsman as his comrades are for their control over magic. When confronted, he puts up a respectable fight, but something just seems to be missing... until halfway through, when he acknowledges the team's prowess and takes his sword off the wall. Uh-oh.
{{quote|'''Slash:''' You're more powerful than I thought! I better use all of my strength as well. ''[pulls sword off of wall]'' And you, without Cyrus... ''[unsheathes sword in slashing motion]'' '''You've no hope!'''}}
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'', one of the NPC henchmen, Lukas
* ''[[Ace Combat]] X: Skies of Deception'' has the mission Time Limit, where an unstable neutralising agent forces Gryphus One to fly slowly and with reduced maneuvering. Two Leasath pilots proceed to trash talk about how he's not what [[Shrouded in Myth|the rumours make him out to be]] and stalk him in this near-defenceless state. When Gryphus One finally gets to discard the neutralising agent and dogfight properly, the two are taken aback by his real prowess and don't last long.
* ''[[Street Fighter]]'':
** In ''[[Street Fighter III]]'', [[Old Master|Oro]] keeps his arm bound in his gi sleeve [[Badass|so he doesn't accidentally kill his opponents]], and only uses them for specific Super Arts. In ''[[Street Fighter V]]'', he instead keeps a pet turtle in one hand, only using both hands proper for some V-Triggers and his Critical Art.
* Shadow's story in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' seems to be setting up a [[Bolivian Army Ending]], with Team Shadow surrounded by an evil army of magic clones. Then Shadow removes the [[Power Limiter]] rings on his gloves, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them.▼
** M. Bison does this in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha 2]]''. At first, he doesn't seem like he even has the powers he did in ''[[Street Fighter II]]'' - however, win one round, and he turns into an [[SNK Boss]]: he begins floating and levitating as he moves, and starts using the ''comically'' broken Psycho Crusher, a flying Super Combo that will deplete ''two thirds'' of your Life Bar if it hits. Oh, and while Bison ''is'' a playable character in this game, [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules|you won't be able to use this move]] if you select him.
▲* Shadow's story in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)
** Which is an idea that was first implemented in ''[[Sonic X]]'' where he removes the ring to better use the Chaos Emerald's powers, though weakening him in the process. This is noted mainly during the final battle of the ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' [[Story Arc]] of the show when he goes [[Super Mode]] with Sonic and stops the ARK from falling on Earth by removing the rings again to give him enough juice.
* Ragna the Bloodedge from ''[[BlazBlue]]'' holds great power in the Azure Grimoire {{spoiler|copy/fake}} that makes up his right arm, but refuses to use it for much of the game. When he does, stuff starts hitting the fan ''very'' quickly.
* [[Zeno Clash]]'s second [[Handicapped Badass|Hunter]] battle begins with the titular boss keeping one hand behind his back as he fights you. Whittle his health down enough and he brings both arms into play - ''[[Hopeless Boss Fight|and beats the living hell out of you.]]''
* In a cutscene in the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' prequel ''[[Crisis Core]]'', Sephiroth and his then-friends Genesis and Angeal are having a 'play fight' on the Junon Cannon. However, when Genesis gets carried away and goes overboard, Sephiroth reveals just how much he was holding back earlier. Cue [[Curb Stomp Battle]], complete with kickass version of [[Crowning Music of Awesome|One-Winged Angel
** It should also be noted that Sephiroth ''is'' indeed
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': The Lich King manages to pull this in the final fight in ''Wrath'', when he stops messing around and slays your entire party with one attack.
* [[Resident Evil 4]] often requires this to be able to survive the tougher enemies. One can buy a rocket launcher and make quick work of what was originally to be a boss that could easily kill you. The fully upgraded Broken Butterfly will also get the job done.
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** Shoot Salazar's "Right Hand" with the upgraded Broken Butterfly or a rocket launcher after freezing it the first time and it will shatter.
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' games allow you to specialise in many different weapon types. You can be really good at using [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|ordinary ballistic firearms]] but choose to use [[Ray Gun|energy weapons]] even if your skill with them is weaker but you like the pewpew effects. But when it comes down to fighting a particularly tough enemy, you can always put the laser rifle away and switch to a high-powered [[Infinity-1 Sword|Anti-Materiel rifle]] with explosive ammunition and turn a [[The Juggernaut|deathclaw]] into [[Ludicrous Gibs|bloody chunks]].
* Notorious [[SNK Boss]] Rugal Bernstein from ''[[King of Fighters]]'' gives veteran players nightmares due to his bait-and-switch strategy. The first round is deceptively easy, but after that round, he ''tells'' you he was holding back, and he's ''not'' lying. After switching [[Badass in a Nice Suit|his nice suit]] for a [[Hell-Bent for Leather]] outfit, he gains far more lethal moves like the Genocide Cutter (a very powerful uppercut, more or less) and a charging attack that will shove your fighter clear across the room and slam them into the opposing wall. Not that those are necessary - at this point, ''even his basic attacks'' will deplete close to half your life bar.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' parodies it [https://web.archive.org/web/20151016041958/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-09-28 as well].
* In ''[[Dragon Mango]]'', the elf Eclair wears a heavy iron armor breastplate. Iron usually causes them massive pain; Eclair turns out to be wearing it purely for the weight and pain handicaps.
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* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has a training example, in sparring between Parley (who is a ''good'' fencer) [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=957 and S13]. They dance a little, then Parley [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=960 tells to stop holding back]... to a robot going [[Le Parkour|extreme parkour]] merely [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=636 to move around quickly]. She also chose a much heavier blade. The next round [[Killed Mid-Sentence|ends pretty much before it starts]] and even when she's ready it doesn't take long. Of course, then Parley uses her talents fully, and [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=962 she isn't constrained] by the sword's inertia much when blinking around.
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-04.html Ricardo tells the princess it would have been over much more quickly if he had use of his right hand -- though, unusually, he doesn't show it, because his right arm's in a sling.]
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* The moment when Flash surpasses any speed ever achieved by a human being in order to whup Brainiac-Luthor's ass in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Divided We Fall". The episode practically gave the character an immediate boost from the goofy, comic relief of the League to an absolute badass in ''a few seconds''.
** At various times it is made very clear that [[The Flash]], much like Superman, can cause ''a lot'' of collateral damage if he isn't careful. As for the above example, it's implied that he was approaching the speed of light and you can see cars flipping and distant windows shattering just from how fast he is moving. He outright doesn't use his ability to phase through solid material, because it can cause explosions or instant destruction.
** Also in ''[[Justice League]]'', Superman lets himself get beaten up a lot because of this; he will never start a fight using all of his powers; indeed, he's beaten many times, but either because somebody broke out the [[Kryptonite Factor|kryptonite]] or because he's holding back early on and for some reason can't go back to being right handed. Case in point: when he unknowingly fought Wonder Woman, he had to stop fighting period once he realized it was her, and got badly beaten up because of that.
*** In the episode where Green Lantern decides the team isn't working together enough, Superman explains he takes hits on purpose because that's one less hit the others have to take.
*** All this talking about holding back comes to proof when Superman fights Darkseid in the series finale. After getting beat down, Superman turns the tables and lets loose on Darkseid, knowing that he won't be killed right off, and easily kicks Darkseid's ass, sending him flying through several buildings to the other side of the city and then bashing him back down to the ground.
**** This is because his is a [[World of Cardboard Speech|World of Cardboard]].
* General Grievous at the end of ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]''. You thought he was tough with two arms? Well, now he has four.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Marge Simpson, of all people, invokes this trope literally in the recent{{when}} Vancouver Olympics episode. Her arm is sprained in the second-last match, and is about to give up. {{spoiler|Then, Homer notices her skill with her other arm, which Marge remembers is actually her dominant one}}.
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