History Main / WorfHadTheFlu

* Robert E. Lee had heart problems, and ''some'' historians and doctors have argued that he was suffering from the effects of a heart attack at the Battle of Gettysburg during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. This could explain the less-than-stellar decisions he made during the battle, especially [[SelfDestructiveCharge Pickett's Charge]]. Though other historians dispute this, as Lee had a history of making rash decisions during battles and Gettysburg was just the first time that one hadn't paid off for him because he was fighting someone other than George [=McClellan=], who was infamous for being [[GeneralFailure possibly the worst wartime general in US history]]—and certainly the most over-cautious. (The common line about [=McClellan=] is that al his strategies were brilliant if you assumed that his opposing force was three times the size it actually was.)

* Robert E. Lee had heart problems, and ''some'' historians and doctors have argued that he was suffering from the effects of a heart attack at the Battle of Gettysburg during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. This could explain the less-than-stellar decisions he made during the battle, especially [[SelfDestructiveCharge Pickett's Charge]]. Though other historians dispute this, as Lee had a history of making rash decisions during battles and Gettysburg was just the first time that one hadn't paid off for him because he was fighting someone other than George [=McClellan=], who was infamous for being [[GeneralFailure possibly the worst wartime general in US history]].

** The Emperor himself, in the same battle, actually. It's shown that he can (and ultimately did) defeat Horus with a single strike. However, The Emperor felt like Horus could be redeemed, and held back from attacking at all until almost dying from the many mortal wounds Horus had inflicted on him.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'', while Kingsman and Statesman are the British and American counterparts to each other, Statemen agents do much better when they initially fight with Kingsmen operatives due to neither side being aware of the other at first. However, this can be justified as the only surviving Kingsmen are Eggsy, Harry Hart, and Merlin, and Harry is recovering from a year of relative inactivity after being nearly killed, Eggsy is the newest known Kingsman facing older and more experienced Statesmen, and Merln is the organisation's quartermaster and thus doesn't get out in the field much. During the final fight, as Harry and Eggsy fight [[spoiler:Stateman agent Whiskey, who wants the villains' plans to succeed and kill millions of drug users, Harry is still recovering from his past injuries and Eggsy has just endured a brutal fight with Charlie, his old rival who now had an artifical arm]].

** ''The'' VisualNovel/FateStayNight Worf character, Berserker, has this arguably crippling him in UBW and definitely doing so in HF. In UBW, he's hampered in his fight against [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]] because he's shielding Ilya as well (which is given a ShoutOut in one of his ''Fate/Unlimited Codes'' missions, where he has to fight his opponent while keeping the defenseless Ilya alive). In HF, he gets hit by a gamebreaker ability he can't actually fight against [[spoiler:and is turned into Dark Berserker]] before he can truly fight. While in [[spoiler:Dark Berserker form]], the fact that he [[spoiler:is killed nine times by the same attack]] comes from the fact that he's [[spoiler:pretty much gone blind from the corruption]]. And while the Berserker class amps his already legendary strength and speed, it leaves him unable to use any of his skills or non-auto Noble Phantasms, instead fighting almost purely on instinct, reflex and power -- formidable, but not as deadly as he would be in a standard class.

*** And the few times that she does complete her mission, she winds up "losing" in a completely unexpected way: securing both the Package and Briefcase for Project Freelancer and completely upstaging [[TheAce Agent Carolina]] in the mission both times, and earning her Carolina's animosity [[spoiler:without mentioning the fact that Carolina was actually The Directors' and Allisons' daughter; [[WellDoneSonGuy and has been desperately trying to keep the approval of her father following Allisons' death no matter what.]]]]