History OutsideContextProblem / AnimeAndManga

** [[spoiler:Madoka]] turning herself into one of these is what drives the plot of Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMoviRebellion. That being [[spoiler:Kyubey]] wants to know what Witches and the Law of Cycles is, and sets up a gambit so he can flat out avert this trope. Then at the end, [[spoiler:Homura]] ends up becoming one of these by absorbing the power of god and corrupting her soul gem by something other than despair. Love.

* ''Literature/Overlord2012'' actually has ''the protagonist'' Momonga as the Outside Context Problem. A level 100 player character lich from a VR MMORPG who gets transported to a foreign land along with his base of operations, similarly overpowered NPC servants and his hoard of [[InfinityPlusOneSword god-tier artifacts]], and then proceeds to steamroll over everyone in his way in his quest to TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Light is the definition of a VillainProtagonist and can easily be seen as an Outside Context Problem. In either case, Light has a huge advantage over his enemies since he can kill them using a [[ArtifactOfDoom magic notebook]] if he has both their real names and seen their faces, and the world at large is ignorant or didn't believe in the supernatural. Light can control the circumstances of a person's death as well, but mostly just makes people drop dead of heart attacks, so the deaths can't easily be traced back to him, or even be recognized as murder until he's killed hundreds of people and a pattern emerges. The early part of the series is L just trying to figure out how Kira is killing people, and having to slowly realize that Kira is not killing by mundane means.

** [[spoiler: Aizen, the [[{{Chessmaster}} true antagonist]] of the Soul Society arc]]. The Soul Society was built on the idea that the established system is absolutely flawless. They go along with Rukia's execution no matter how shady it looks because it's an order given by Central 46, the highest governing body of the Soul Society; by the perspective of all watching, there has to be a good reason. It is only when [[spoiler: Aizen is found murdered]] that they start to suspect something is amiss, but they truly never expect [[spoiler: to not even be able to trust their own eyes, ears and minds. Aizen is not murdered, it's an illusion created by his Zanpakuto. He had already murdered all of Central 46 and has been the one giving the orders and no one notices, because ''[[ParanoiaFuel he didn't want them to notice]]''.]]

** The homunculi themselves are initially this to the heroes, at least in part. When [[BandOfBrothers Team Mustang]] encounters one for the first time, they fare pretty poorly because they didn't expect HealingFactor and ImmuneToBullets, and don't fully understand the mechanics of what they're dealing with -- [[spoiler: Mustang rips out Lust's Philosopher's Stone and believes he's killed her, only to have her start regenerating around the Stone ''[[NightmareFuel in his hand]]''.]] Once they get a grip on how the homunculi work, however, tactics change accordingly and [[spoiler:Lust dies. [[KillItWithFire Fast]].]]

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Dabi, aka [[spoiler: Toya Todoroki]] is this to the entire Hero Society, if not Japan itself. [[spoiler: No one expected the son of the No 1 Hero to be a dangerous villain, not even the family of the hero itself. Dabi revealing his identity and Endeavor's abuse to the entire nation put a ''huge'' dent to the Hero Society, the likes of which Shigaraki can only dream of.]]

** The infamous ''Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'' film has an OutsideGenreFoe in the form of the true villain. The Straw Hats in films and the manga and anime have battled pirates, marines, dragons, assassins, sky people, and fish people, but [[spoiler: Lily Carnation, a BotanicalAbomination]] is something so nightmarish and ghoulish that it helps make the film so infamously offbeat.

** [[HeroKiller Garou]] turns into this in the same arc, except on the opposite side. The heroes know he is present, but write him off as a decently skilled human who most of them could beat easily. He then evolves rapidly, becoming [[spoiler: a combatant capable of destroying the entire S-Class and Monsters ''by himself''. The aforementioned bald guy shows up again, and now ''Garou'' is the one caught by surprise.]]

** [[spoiler: Madoka]] turning herself into one of these is what drives the plot of Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMoviRebellion. That being [[spoiler: Kyubey]] wants to know what Witches and the Law of Cycles is, and sets up a gambit so he can flat out avert this trope. Then at the end, [[spoiler: Homura]] ends up becoming one of these by absorbing the power of god and corrupting her soul gem by something other than despair. Love.

** Amou Kirukiru, [[ArcVillain the main antagonist]] of the first arc, [[MadeOfIron is tough enough to even shrug off strikes from blunted blades]] and [[RazorSharpHand has hands that can cut or pierce flesh and even wood]] and strike automatically every time she's hit, leaving everyone utterly unable to figure out how to damage her. It's only when she faces Inaba that she's revealed as a [[TrainingFromHell traditionally trained Uechi-ryu karateka]] with a rare skillset, giving Nomura a chance to actually beat her.

*** Seira is a Zweihander user and practices wrestling, so most fighters from Aiichi wouldn't know how to deal with her... But she ends up facing Mary ''and'' mistaking her for a simple fencer, and is caught by surprise when Mary starts using her scabbard as a second sword to counter her weapon. [[spoiler:Seira has more luck during the Hokkai invasion, as by the time she starts rampaging Mary and Kobakura, who know how to deal with her, have tired each other out and there's nobody else who knows how to deal with a skilled Zweihander user]].
*** Kobakura is another HEMA user, specialized in the use of sword and buckler, and he too ends up fighting Mary, who knows how to counter him... Because he's also one of two fighters from Hokkai who knows how to counter ''her''.

* In "Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd", Frieren constantly suppresses her mana in order to [[WoundedGazelleGambit seem weaker than she actually is]]. This trick is useful when fighting demons, who will only suppress their mana when stealth demands it. In demon culture, your mana levels determine your rank in the hierarchy, so even the idea of suppressing one's mana all the time is unthinkable to demons.

* In "Manga/Frieren:BeyondJourney'sEnd", Frieren constantly suppresses her mana in order to [[WoundedGazelleGambit seem weaker than she actually is]]. This trick is useful when fighting demons, who will only suppress their mana when stealth demands it. In demon culture, your mana levels determine your rank in the hierarchy, so even the idea of suppressing one's mana all the time is unthinkable to demons.

** The true nature of Luffy's Devil Fruit is that it is '''''not''''' the Gum-Gum Fruit, [[spoiler:but rather the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika, which at its full power gives Luffy the abilities of a Fleisher Cartoon limited only by his imagination. Some of the actions Luffy can do are so out there even the normally dour members of the Beast Pirates can only make the iconic ''One Piece'' {{Jaw Drop}}s.]]

** Ichigo is easily defeated by Byakuya when he and Renji arrest Rukia for going AWOL and giving him her Shinigami powers, and Byakuya presumably reports later that he personally destroyed the source of his spiritual power. Then, within a month, Ichigo and his friends effectively [[RoaringRampageOfRescue launch an invasion of Soul Society]], whereupon Ichigo starts defeating anyone who gets in his way, up to and including two of the strongest [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Captains]] in the history of the Gotei 13 (to say nothing of the fact that he attains Bankai, something that usually takes even the strongest Shinigami the better part of a century to accomplish). It quickly becomes clear that the Gotei 13 has ''severely'' underestimated the threat that Ichigo poses, due to the unprecedented manner in which he intruded and the sheer {{determinat|or}}ion that he shows in rescuing Rukia. That he's being assisted from the sidelines by Urahara and Yoruichi is even ''more'' unexpected, given that [[spoiler:[[SelfImposedExile they went into exile]] 100 years ago]].

** The Colossal and Armoured Titans, [[spoiler:being humans with the power to transform into Titans.]]