History PlayingWith / YouHaveResearchedBreathing

* '''Enforced''': The skill is BoringButPractical and would be a GameBreaker if anyone could use it as soon as they start the game.

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* '''Parodied''': The last skill on the skill tree is blacked out and selecting it says that it's a secret skill unlocked after getting every other skill. When you meet the conditions you obtain the ultimate special move... a normal punch. That does about as much damage as any other low level attakc.

* '''Parodied''': The last skill on the skill tree is blacked out and selecting it says that it's a secret skill unlocked after getting every other skill. When you meet the conditions you obtain the ultimate special move... a normal punch.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...but you already had the power of fire, so you normally could've been able to do a regular uppercut while activating fire, so there's really no reason to have needed to spend skill points for it.

** A normal guy might be able to fistfight fine, but not everyone can be a champion boxer. If you don't know how to punch right, you could break your arm, no Cthulhu nescessary. Half of training is un-learning the wrong ways people picked up in schoolyard fistfights or [[IKnowMortalKombat TV.]]

** Hiro can technically do any task without any skillpoints but is especially incompetent. Using a gun without a single skill point [[RecklessGunUsage results in visibly bad]] [[GangstaStyle handling]] and carries a small risk of [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace friendly fire with every animation]]. The only confirmation that a safety exists on the gun is when he [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont fails to fire at an actual target because he left it on]], and [[ATeamFiring may miss even at point blank range]]. Even unloading while not in combat there is no guarantee that it will actually be properly unloaded.

** The skill name is more involved than typical. For instance any bird can fly. The training is to be able to carry a human sized passenger. The sheer CharlesAtlasSuperPower involved certainly would justify research!

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** Hiro is so very damaged that being able to open a jar is a massive accomplishment.

** Hiro is so very damaged that being able to open a jar is a massive accomplishment.

** A normal guy might be able to fistfight fine, but not everyone can be a champion boxer. If you don't know how to punch right, you could break your arm, no Cthulhu nescessary. Half of training is un-learning the wrong ways people picked up in schoolyard fistfights or [[IKnowMortalKombat picked up from TV.]]

** [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment You have total amnesia, and are re-learning your basic combat skills]].

* '''Inverted''': You start off with a skill that should require extensive training to use despite lacking a plausible reason for it. (for example: A civilian starting out with the ability to fire complex guns and fly military helicopters)

* '''Subverted''': You spend skill points to learn an uppercut, but it turns out the uppercut is actually [[KillItWithFire covered in fire]] and you needed to spend the skill points to learn the fire uppercut.

** The skill name is more involved than typical. For instance any bird can fly. The training is to be able to carry a human sized passenger. The sheer CharlesAtlasSuperPower involved certainly would justify research! Hiro is so very damaged that being able to open a jar is a massive accomplishment.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** It is possible to gain bonus points by starting out unable to do something taken for granted such as ability to read, or to be able to operate a space suit in a setting where interplanetary setting.

** The skill name is more involved than typical. For instance any bird can fly. The training is to be able to carry a human sized passenger. The sheer CharlesAtlasSuperPower involved certainly would justify research!Hiro is so very damaged that being able to open a jar is a massive accomplishment.

* '''Zig Zagged''': You learn how to uppercut, but you should've already known how...except it turns out the uppercut is actually a series of lightning-fast uppercuts that you couldn't do before. Only it turns out they're not fast, the scenHiro is so very damaged that being able to open a jar is a massive accomplishment. e is speeding up for the few seconds you use the move...because you learned how to manipulate time with your uppercuts! Even though you ''already knew how''.

* '''Zig Zagged''': You learn how to uppercut, but you should've already known how...except it turns out the uppercut is actually a series of lightning-fast uppercuts that you couldn't do before. Only it turns out they're not fast, the scene is speeding up for the few seconds you use the move...because you learned how to manipulate time with your uppercuts! Even though you ''already knew how''.

* '''Played For Laughs''': [[IdiotHero Hiro]] is regularly taught basic skills by increasingly exasperated NPCs. The first one has to teach him how to wear pants.

* '''Inverted''': You start off with a skill that should require extensive training to use. (for example: A civilian starting out with the ability to fire complex guns and fly military helicopters)

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': You need to spend skill points to be able to read and write, but the setting is TheDungAges.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Justified''': The character is a robot that can only use skills that it was programmed to use.
** [[PlanescapeTorment You have total amnesia, and are re-learning your basic combat skills]].

* '''Exaggerated''': You need to spend skill points to learn how to walk.
* '''UpToEleven''': You need to spend skill points to have your heart start beating.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': You learn how to uppercut, but you should've already known how...except it turns out the uppercut is actually a series of lightning-fast uppercuts that you couldn't do before. Only it turns out they're not fast, the scene is speeding up for the few seconds you use the move...because you learned how to manipulate time with your uppercuts! Even though you ''[[BeyondTheImpossible already knew how]]''.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Enforced''': "This skill may seem basic, but it's also very effective. We should make the player work for it to keep it balanced."