Times where characters are given minimal supplies to accomplish their goals with in Webcomics.
- 8-Bit Theater:
- Being based on the first Final Fantasy game, the webcomic justifies and parodies this by the king simply being a total jerkass and maniac who gives the party nothing to save his daughter and the only thing they get for saving her is a bridge built... that he was making anyway and named after himself. Also, directly referenced in this comic
, where it's apparently irrelevant as the weapons in the town all suck for some reason. - Speaking of, after Sarda depowered them and later imploded from Phlebotinum Overload, the gang has to face up to taking Chaos out. They have to do this in twenty-four hours to avert Chaos' plot to destroy the world (which likely involves a Time Crash); needless to say, they're having a bit of trouble getting their act together after faffing about and ruining civilization up to this point.
- Being based on the first Final Fantasy game, the webcomic justifies and parodies this by the king simply being a total jerkass and maniac who gives the party nothing to save his daughter and the only thing they get for saving her is a bridge built... that he was making anyway and named after himself. Also, directly referenced in this comic
- Defied by Digger. Murai plans to travel with only a begging bowl, trusting her god to provide for her...Digger: Yeah. Okay. See, what I think you're failing to grasp is that your god did provide, and what he did provide was me. So you're going to corner whatever passes for a quartermaster in this joint, and you're going to get a blanket, a first aid kit, and a couple of pounds of trail mix, got it? And a knife. And tinder and flint. And I suppose it's too much to ask that anybody's heard of crampons around here...
- Goblin Hollow averts it for an in-comic RPG session, because the GM thinks it makes more sense that way."The Darned Good Reason rule. As in 'nobody becomes an adventurer without a darned good reason to think they'll survive it'."
That and I got tired of Fred needing to write up a new character twice a session. - Justified in Homestuck with John. He wasn't expecting to go on an adventure, so all he has is a mundane claw hammer, of the kind for typical projects such as fence repair.
- In Sluggy Freelance, the Years of Yarncraft MMORPG uses this trope full-stop: Torg's warrior character starts out with just a stick for a weapon, and no armor except for some ratty clothing (he doesn't even get underwear); Gennaro's wizard character starts out with just a small piece of string.
- In the prologue of Stand Still, Stay Silent, the Nordic Council of History and Rediscovery only gave their expedition team enough of a budget to pay three people's salaries (out of a requested eight), believing their journey into the "silent world" (where The Plague runs rampant) is a Suicide Mission and hence are only willing to dedicate a limited quantity of ressources to it.
- Averted in Tales of the Questor. Although the organization forcing Quentyn, the titular Questor, to go on his virtually impossible mission give him literally nothing at all, his fellow villagers (who he is going on his mission FOR) equip him to their level best ability — food, clothing, equipment, weapons, even an airship. Furthermore, a team of engineering students, sent by a school intrigued by Quentyn's expedition, come to make improvements to the airship and his other equipment.
- In Toonami: Endgame, TOM kills the pirate that destroyed the Absolution and kidnapped SARA with a fork.
- Tower of God: Bam takes the test given by Headon with just a cleaver. Thankfully, Yuri enters onto his face and she and Evan give him an A-grade pocket and the Black March, so this trope gets subverted. It's better that way since the cleaver broke very quickly.
