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*** Part 2's example is a bit less blatant than others, as (at least in the anime) Joseph can be seen grabbing the Red Stone right as he starts fleeing from Kars, which, combined with an earlier scene where Lisa Lisa demonstrates the stone's ability to amplify solar energy, implying that the same can be done to Hamon with it, provides some foreshadowing to how Kars is eventually taken down (or rather up).

** ** Ulquiorra reveals that he has a second, more powerful transformation and deals Ichigo a fatal wound. Suddenly, Ichigo's hollow takes over, and turns into a super form that tears Ulquiorra apart. While the hollow had been shown to transform as Ichigo gained power, nothing suggested that it could bring him back from the brink of death.

** Yhwach is [[SuperpowerLottery so strong]] that only the most powerful Shinigami, [[StoryBreakerPower Yamamoto]], can match him in battle. Yhwach can place shards of his soul into people, helping them become more powerful. When he reclaims his shard, he absorbs the energy of the person in the process, killing them to empower himself by leaving behind a blood clot made of Stil Silver that makes its way to their hearts. He can draw energy from his minions whenever he wants and he can predict all of his opponents moves before they even know what they're going to do. He can also overcome any other ability if he studies it long enough, negating even successful attacks against him by changing the future. It's made clear by even Mayuri, Yamamoto and the Quincies that Yhwach is basically unkillable. Only when the final battle begins is a way to kill him revealed: [[spoiler:Ryuuken forged a secret arrow nine years ago from the Stil Silver that killed his wife; Uryuu learns his power can negate Yhwach's ability to see his future, allowing him to fire Ryuuken's arrow without Yhwach detecting it. The arrow nullifies Yhwach's power for a second, allowing Ichigo to kill Yhwach, whose dying thought is the realisation that Haschwalth disloyally disguised a future vision of his death as a dream so that he would ignore it. Simultaneous to Ichigo's killing blow, he begins reforming ten years in the future, only for Ichigo's young son to touch Yhwach's reiatsu, instantly negating the reformation and ensuring Ichigo's killing blow really does kill him.]]

** Yhwach is [[SuperpowerLottery so strong]] that only the most powerful Shinigami, [[StoryBreakerPower Yamamoto]], can match him in battle. Yhwach can place shards of his soul into people, helping them become more powerful. When he reclaims his shard, he absorbs the energy of the person in the process, killing them to empower himself by leaving behind a blood clot made of Stil Silver that makes its way to their hearts. He can draw energy from his minions whenever he wants and he can predict all of his opponents moves before they even know what they're going to do. He can also overcome any other ability if he studies it long enough, negating even successful attacks against him by changing the future. It's made clear by even Mayuri, Yamamoto and the Quincies that Yhwach is basically unkillable. Only when the final battle begins is a way to kill him revealed. [[spoiler:During the final battle, the following things are revealed: Ryuuken forged a secret arrow nine years ago from the Stil Silver that killed his wife; Uryuu learns his power can negate Yhwach's ability to see his future, allowing him to fire Ryuuken's arrow without Yhwach detecting it. The arrow nullifies Yhwach's power for a second, allowing Ichigo to kill Yhwach, whose dying thought is the realisation that Haschwalth disloyally disguised a future vision of his death as a dream so that he would ignore it. Simultaneous to Ichigo's killing blow, he begins reforming ten years in the future, only for Ichigo's young son to touch Yhwach's reiatsu, instantly negating the reformation and ensuring Ichigo's killing blow really does kill him.]]

** Yhwach is [[SuperPoweredLottery so strong]] that only the most powerful Shinigami, [[StoryBreakerPower Yamamoto]], can match him in battle. Yhwach can place shards of his soul into people, helping them become more powerful. When he reclaims his shard, he absorbs the energy of the person in the process, killing them to empower himself by leaving behind a blood clot made of Stil Silver that makes its way to their hearts. He can draw energy from his minions whenever he wants and he can predict all of his opponents moves before they even know what they're going to do. He can also overcome any other ability if he studies it long enough, negating even successful attacks against him by changing the future. It's made clear by even Mayuri, Yamamoto and the Quincies that Yhwach is basically unkillable. Only when the final battle begins is a way to kill him revealed. [[spoiler:During the final battle, the following things are revealed: Ryuuken forged a secret arrow nine years ago from the Stil Silver that killed his wife; Uryuu learns his power can negate Yhwach's ability to see his future, allowing him to fire Ryuuken's arrow without Yhwach detecting it. The arrow nullifies Yhwach's power for a second, allowing Ichigo to kill Yhwach, whose dying thought is the realisation that Haschwalth disloyally disguised a future vision of his death as a dream so that he would ignore it. Simultaneous to Ichigo's killing blow, he begins reforming ten years in the future, only for Ichigo's young son to touch Yhwach's reiatsu, instantly negating the reformation and ensuring Ichigo's killing blow really does kill him.]]

** By the end of the Deicide arc, Aizen had become so powerful that it took several consecutive [[DeusExMachina Deus Ex Machinas]] to take him down. After Aizen curb-stomped everyone in his way and developed the ability to heal from any wound, Isshin takes Ichigo to teach him a never-before foreshadowed technique that channels all his spiritual into his physical strength, leaving Aizen completely helpless against him. When that's not enough, the Hogyoku spontaneously rejects Aizen, and then it's revealed that Kisuke implanted a special kido into Aizen that would seal him if that exact scenario happened.
** Yhwach showed himself to be the ultimate SuperPowerLottery winner in the series. He was so strong that only the most powerful Shinigami could match him in a fight, he could become more powerful by absorbing the energy of people he killed, he could draw energy from his minions for various purposes, he could seemingly predict all of his opponents moves, he had the ability to overcome any other ability if he could study it long enough and he had the power to negate any successful attack against him by changing the future. Although the moment of his death is shown earlier in the manga, he's defeated by Uryuu suddenly shooting him with a special Quincy arrow that negates his powers long enough for Ichigo to easily cut him down. The reason why it happens is because he cannot see Uryuu's future and his apparently loyal second-in-command faked his vision of Ichigo killing him, to make him believe it was a dream rather than a future vision.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Fights in later arcs (particularly the Thousand Year Blood War arc) of involve copious amounts of this. Many fights have the villains showing unusually powerful abilities, only for the Shinigami fighting them to reveal a power that just so happens to be a perfect counter to that villain's ability. Specific examples:

** Ulquiorra reveals that he has a second, more powerful transformation and deals Ichigo a fatal wound. Suddenly, Ichigo's hollow takes over, and turns into a super form that tears Ulquiorra apart. While the hollow had been shown to transform as Ichigo gained power, nothing suggested that it could bring him back from the brink of death.

** Ulquiorra reveals that he has a second, more powerful transformation and deals Ichigo a fatal wound. Suddenly, Ichigo's hollow takes over, and turns into a super form that tears Ulquiorra apart. While the hollow had been shown to transform as Ichigo gained power, nothing suggested that it could bring him back from the brink of death.examples:

*** A rejuvenated Dimaria Yesta, with no-one left on Fairy Tail's side to oppose her [[TimeMaster time stopping magic]] (due to Chelia losing the ability to use magic), is off-screened by the awakening of [[spoiler:an E.N.D.-possessed]] Natsu [[spoiler:after she attacks Lucy, and who is apparently so strong that he's immune to power, something that Dimaria herself can only mutter in shock at]].

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the guild is completely worn out after having fought all of Phantom Lord's best members and mooks, but their almighty leader is still in top shape. It's a good thing Makarov came back and destroyed them all with a single spell.
** The X-Balls, which provided a way for the Fairy Tail gang to regain their magic in Edolas. There's no hint for how or why Mystogan (who gave them the X-Balls) would have them.

*** [[spoiler: In the same arc, when all the 3,000 Faces were about to activate and destroy all magic of the continent, the dragons, the same that raised Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Sting and Rogue, and disappeared several years ago, appeared out of nowhere and destroyed all the Faces.]]

*** Gajeel survives being dragged to his certain death thanks to the timely activation of Irene's Universe One.
*** A rejuvenated Dimaria Yesta, with no-one left on Fairy Tail's side to oppose her [[TimeMaster time stopping magic]] (due to Chelia losing the ability to use magic), is off-screened by the awakening of [[spoiler:an E.N.D.-possessed]] Natsu who just so happened to be unconscious moments before.
*** Both Irene and August having extremely convenient last minute [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]] and committing suicide to nullify almost 100% guaranteed victories.

** During his assault on the Kage Summit, Sasuke nearly died from chakra exhaustion, having been spamming the crap out of high level techs with his new Mangekyo Sharingan. And then, out of nowhere, Zetsu, who had previously shown up to alert the Kages to Sasuke's presence and gotten killed for his efforts, reveals that he managed to use a time release jutsu in the split second before the Raikage snapped his neck that sucks all the chakra out of everyone in the room and gives to Sasuke.

*** [[spoiler: In the same arc, when all the 3,000 Faces were about to activate and destroy all magic of the continent, the dragons, the same that raised some of the protagonists and dissapeared several years ago, appeared out of nowhere and destroyed all the Faces.]]

** Also [[spoiler: Wendy being able to revive Jellal from a coma to speed up the search for Nirvana.]]

** [[spoiler: In the Tartarus Arc Mard Geer uses the curse Alegria that froze everybody inside the Tartarus' base. Everybody except Lucy. Mard Geer even said that the chances to not get caught were one in 1.000.000.000. And Lucy conveniently was the only Fairy Tail wizard that could summon the Celestial Spirit King that knew exactly how to dispel Alegria which released all of Fairy Tail and allowed them to defeat Tartarus and stop Face.]]

** A major sticking point with fans at the end of Part 3 is Jotaro's [[spoiler: spontaneous development of Time Stop]] in his fight with DIO, which enables Jotaro to fight DIO on more or less equal terms. The only possible foreshadowing of this is DIO's comment that he and Jotaro share a similar type of Stand, but DIO is just as shocked as the reader when Jotaro is able to [[spoiler:move during DIO's Time Stop]].

* Fights in later arcs (particularly the Thousand Year Blood War arc) of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' involve copious amounts of this. Many fights have the villains showing unusually powerful abilities, only for the Shinigami fighting them to reveal a power that just so happens to be a perfect counter to that villain's ability. Specific examples:
** Ulquiorra reveals that he has a second, more powerful transformation and deals Ichigo a fatal wound. Suddenly, Ichigo's hollow takes over, and turns into a super form that tears Ulquiorra apart. While the hollow had been shown to transform as Ichigo gained power, nothing suggested that it could bring him back from the brink of death.

** Yhwach showed himself to be the ultimate SuperPowerLottery winner in the series. He was so strong that only the most powerful Shinigami could match him in a fight, he could become more powerful by absorbing the energy of people he killed, he could draw energy from his minions for various purposes, he could seemingly predict all of his opponents moves, he had the ability to overcome any other ability if he could study it long enough and he had the power to negate any successful attack against him by changing the future. He's defeated by Uryuu suddenly shooting him with a special Quincy arrow that turns his powers against him, allowing Ichigo to easily cut him down.

* In Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space Battle, the characters have been shrunk and the gadget they used to do so had been stolen, so they must take it back as it is the only way to reverse the shrinking effect - or wait for half a week, because apparently the effects of the shrink ray isn't permanent. Plenty of other times though it's been implied that it ''is'' everlasting. In fact, this is the only time that the effects of the shrink ray wear off in the show.

%% * Fights in later arcs (particularly the Thousand Year Blood War arc) of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' involve copious amounts of this. Many fights have the villains showing unusually powerful abilities, only for the Shinigami fighting them to reveal a power that just so happens to be a perfect counter to that villain's ability. The fight between Shunsui Kyoraku and Lille Barro is not so much a fight as it is two people trying to repeatedly outdo one another on a basis. How exactly the Shinigami managed to beat the Schutzstaffel is ridiculous.

** Anime/Pokemon4Ever has a pretty bad one. After a [[TearJerker long, heartwreching]] sequence of everyone sobbing over [[spoiler:Celebi's]] death, several other Celebis come right the hell out of nowhere to bring the dead Celebi back to life, then they fly off never to be seen again. They were never mentioned before or even after this scene.
** The ninth movie has a similar occurrence where Ash suddenly gains what seem to be Manga/DragonBall powers to stop what would have otherwise been a villain victory. The original version had an unclear explanation and the dub added a ''slightly'' deeper level of justification.
** In ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', Ruby can't penetrate through the lightning that a machine made to be able to defeat the {{Big Bad}}s. What does he do? The only logical thing, of course, call out [[spoiler:Celebi]], which doesn't make sense because [[spoiler:Celebi]] isn't more resistant to electricity than Swampert, but that's not all. Then [[spoiler:Celebi]] proceeds to use its [[spoiler:time powers to revive Norman, Steven, and Courtney. And Celebi's not even caught in a GS Ball, which the Mask of Ice needed a full blown out plan to get!]]

** Another example was Ash's battle against Tate and Liza, where Ash's Pikachu and Swellow, the last of which was at a disadvantage against their Lunatone and Solrock, inexplicably pulled out the infamous golden "lightning armor" gambit and knocked their opponents out.

** During his assault on the Kage Summit, [[spoiler: Sasuke]] nearly died from chakra exhaustion, having been spamming the crap out of high level techs with his new [[spoiler: Mangekyo Sharingan]]. And then, out of nowhere, [[spoiler: Zetsu, who had previously shown up to alert the Kages to Sasuke's presence and gotten killed for his efforts, reveals that he managed to use a time release jutsu in the split second before the Raikage snapped his neck that sucks all the chakra out of everyone in the room and gives to Sasuke.]]
** At the climax of the 4th World War, Madara successfully captures all of the Tailed Beasts. This includes Naruto's Tailed Beast, and as a result, Naruto is left on the verge of death. A few minutes later, Sasuke attacks Madara, who proceeds to fatally stab Sasuke with nonchalance. With the two main characters on the verge of death, and Madara becoming a Jinchurikii, he is very close to achieving his goal with nothing in his way, and all seems lost. Enter one Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of the Six Paths, a character who has only been spoken of in legend as well as from narrative from millenia-old beings, before popping up out of space-time to meet with Naruto & Sasuke. He proceeds to grant massive power-ups to Naruto (Juubi Jinchuurikii level abilities & a powerful seal) and Sasuke (Rinnegan & a powerful seal). Whilst the two are revived by other parties, Hagoromo appeared out of nowhere and gave them the means to defeat Madara & [[spoiler: Kaguya Ōtsutsuki]]. A Hagoromo ex Machina.
** Sasuke pulls off a NoOneCouldSurviveThat by [[spoiler:summoning, mind-controlling, ''and'' teleporting a massive snake]] when he's completely out of chakra. Said technique is difficult because of the huge amount of chakra required. He pulled this all off in the time it took for an explosion that would completely level a city to reach him. After the explosion had already started. When it started just a few feet from him. Great Snake Escape, indeed.
** [[spoiler: [[BigBad Obito]] and Kabuto]] both become examples, as each pulls a HeelFaceTurn, helping to revive Naruto and Sasuke respectively.

** Chapter 449: After spending the last thirty chapters wreaking havoc [[spoiler:Pain/Nagato pulls a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath and a device that was only shown to be able to repair corpses to bring back [[DeathIsCheap everyone]] that he had killed since entering the village]].

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' Yuya being able to Pendulum Summon right out of the blue, Yuya is the first and only person to be able to Pendulum Summon and the only one with Pendulum monsters. People accuse Yuya of cheating being the only duelist who can do so. Leo Corporation remedies this by developing their own Pendulum Summoning.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':

*** Part 2's example is a bit less blatant than others, as (at least in the anime) Joseph can be seen grabbing the Red Stone right as he starts fleeing from Kars, providing some foreshadowing to how Kars is eventually taken down (or rather up).

** A major sticking point with fans at the end of Part 3 is Jotaro's [[spoiler: spontaneous development of Time Stop]] in his fight with Dio, which enables Jotaro to fight Dio on more or less equal terms. The only possible foreshadowing of this is Dio's comment that he and Jotaro share a similar type of Stand, but Dio is just as shocked as the reader when Jotaro is able to [[spoiler:move during Dio's Time Stop]].

** Part 2 eventually has the BigBad Kars becomes ''immortal'', being able to survive being roasted alive in a volcano and being able to curb stomp the good guys. Joseph admits his defeat as the battle is truly hopeless and he's run out of plans... then Kars's finishing move gets bounced and amplified by the [[McGuffin Red Stone of Adja]], creating a giant volcanic eruption and along with other things being tossed that launch him into the outer space, where he is ultimately frozen alive and floating around the universe for eternity.