History Main / NonCombatantImmunity

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': Just after exiting the bathysphere, you have to act as bait to the splicer who just disembowelled an unfortunate victim a few moments earlier. The setup works without a hitch and she's scared off by a security turret before she can attack you. You're then instructed to "Find a crowbar or something" and grab a wrench a few moments later.

* Averted in ''Tinykeep''; you start unarmed, having just broken out of a jail cell, and run into mooks that will quite happily kill you if you hang around too long. Your only choice is to run away, (possibly leading them into traps), until you find the sword and the shield on the first level.

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* Averted in ''VideoGame/Gamer2''. Hailey doesn't get her first weapons until the end of the second level, forcing her to survive by jumping, stealthing, or dodging enemies before then.
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* In VideoGame/HalfLife1, just as everything goes to hell you find a crowbar on the floor, ready to help you fight through the beginning. Although there is an enemy before that, it's just a lone [[TheGoomba headcrab]], which is fairly easy to dodge.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' and both ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' games both feature an extended sequence in which your weapons are taken away from you, and you must flee throughout a set course from pursuing enemy troops.

* You can wander through the woods in pajamas for a while at the start of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire3''. Enemies don't start spawning till you get changed out of pajamas and into proper armor, and a sword.

* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' and both ''Metro2033'' games both feature an extended sequence in which your weapons are taken away from you, and you must flee throughout a set course from pursuing enemy troops.

[[IThoughtItMeant NPC Immunity]] is covered under InvulnerableCivilians.

** Zig-zagged again in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}''. Civil Protection starts attacking you before you've reached Kleiner and been handed your crowbar, and can kill you if you hang around, but only when they can hit you with their stun batons - by the time you're on the roof and they start actually shooting you, their shots aren't nearly as lethal, if at all.

* ''{{Singularity}}'' and both ''Metro2033'' games both feature an extended sequence in which your weapons are taken away from you, and you must flee throughout a set course from pursuing enemy troops.

* ''[[WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft]]'': During the Death Knight starting quest, the quest that provides you with your first weapon comes just before a quest in which you must duel a failed initiate. Applies to the initiate too, as they're chained right next to an equipment rack, and you can't attack them 'til they're geared up.
* You can wander through the woods in pajamas for a while at the start of ''BreathOfFire3''. Enemies don't start spawning till you get changed out of pajamas and into proper armor, and a sword.

* {{MassEffect2}} averts this in one scene where you play as Joker. No weapons, no powers, brittle bone disease, and if you're spotted then you're [[NonstandardGameOver DEAD]].

* Subverted in ''EternalDarkness''. During the hubworld sections, the mansion is free of any enemies. However, to keep the players suspicious and tense, you not only pick up a weapon, but also several upgrades that make those weapons obsolete, just so you know the game could send enemies after you, enhancing the NothingIsScarier effect.

* PVP mode in ''[[VideoGame/{{Terraria}} Terraria]]''. Both you and the other person need to be in PVP mode to kill each other.