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* While ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' usually never justifies the spilling that occurs at the beginning of a new expansion, it's justified at the end of the seventh expansion ''Legion'' when [[BigBad Saergeas]] stabs his planet-sized BFS into Azeroth in a TakingYouWithMe moment while being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] by [[SealedEvilInADuel Illidan and the Titans]]. In order to stop the sword from poisoning the world soul of the planet, the [[PlayerCharacter heroes]] absorb the power of the sword into their Artifact weapons, super charging them until they became inert when the pre-expansion patch for the next expansion, ''Battle For Azeroth'', hit.

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* While ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' usually never justifies the spilling that occurs at the beginning of a new expansion, it's justified at the end of the seventh expansion ''Legion'' when [[BigBad Saergeas]] Sargeras]] stabs his planet-sized BFS into Azeroth in a TakingYouWithMe moment while being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] by [[SealedEvilInADuel Illidan and the Titans]]. In order to stop the sword from poisoning the world soul of the planet, the [[PlayerCharacter heroes]] absorb the power of the sword into their Artifact weapons, super charging them until they became inert when the pre-expansion patch for the next expansion, ''Battle For Azeroth'', hit.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'':
** Yes, you do start the game with the minimally trained Prince Ceodore, but his parents and everyone else that saved the world seemed to have lost all the gear and levels/spells they had. While you ''could'' say they've basically retired from monster-slaying, we've got Kain, who supposedly spent all his years [[spoiler:holed up in a mountain filled with undead]]. He ''really'' has no excuse. No, not even when [[spoiler:his really angry side kicks his ass and goes amok]]. At least Rydia's explanation is there: [[spoiler:some chick froze/stole away the Eidolons, so Rydia can't summon any of them]]. Averted with [[spoiler:Golbez]], who has all the spells he had in ''Final Fantasy IV'' from the get-go (Osmose, Drain, Firaga, etc), despite the fact he [[spoiler:spent the seventeen years between games ''sleeping''!]]
** The Interlude special chapter on the PSP version, taking place about a year after the first game is a little better, starting your party off with a more respectable level 30ish and midgame tier equipment. However not only do you still not have your endgame weapons and equipment, but thanks the chapters brief nature and lineraity, being unable to freely explore the world, you can't get them back at all (the best weapon for Cecil you can get for example is the randomly dropped Stoneblade. And if you don't feel like grinding for it you'll have to use the store bought Flame Saber). Averted with [[spoiler:the real Rydia]] who shows up with all spells kept and using a Stardust Rod, an endgame weapon from the previous game. But she doesn't appear until the final battle of Interlude.
* This is mostly played straight going from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth''. Most of the party's abilities and items don't carry over, but players who have played ''Remake'' get an OldSaveBonus in the form of extra items to start with. However, it's averted in a couple of small ways; everyone has two abilities to start out with instead of just one, they all retain their Level 2 Limit Breaks but must now unlock them mid-battle using certain synergy moves, they have a few more Materia to start with than in ''Remake'' (including the Assess Materia), and they retain all Summon Materia (even Ramuh, if you also played ''Intermission'' and completed Yuffie's story). Some of the characters also have aspects of their gameplay from ''Remake'' integrated into their base moveset in ''Rebirth''; Cloud can fire {{Sword Beam}}s as a normal attack (which he could do in the motorcycle minigames in ''Remake'' but not in battle) and his old Parry dodge is now his regular dodge, Tifa has the now-absent Parry and Deadly Dodge Materia's effects as a natural part of her Dodge, and Aerith's Tempest and Fleeting Familiar are part of her attack strings. And as an additional OldSaveBonus, upon completing the sidequest to help Johnny fix up his inn, any weapons the player mastered in ''Remake'' are put on display around the place.



* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'':
** Yes, you do start the game with the minimally trained Prince Ceodore, but his parents and everyone else that saved the world seemed to have lost all the gear and levels/spells they had. While you ''could'' say they've basically retired from monster-slaying, we've got Kain, who supposedly spent all his years [[spoiler:holed up in a mountain filled with undead]]. He ''really'' has no excuse. No, not even when [[spoiler:his really angry side kicks his ass and goes amok]]. At least Rydia's explanation is there: [[spoiler:some chick froze/stole away the Eidolons, so Rydia can't summon any of them]]. Averted with [[spoiler:Golbez]], who has all the spells he had in ''Final Fantasy IV'' from the get-go (Osmose, Drain, Firaga, etc), despite the fact he [[spoiler:spent the seventeen years between games ''sleeping''!]]
** The Interlude special chapter on the PSP version, taking place about a year after the first game is a little better, starting your party off with a more respectable level 30ish and midgame tier equipment. However not only do you still not have your endgame weapons and equipment, but thanks the chapters brief nature and lineraity, being unable to freely explore the world, you can't get them back at all (the best weapon for Cecil you can get for example is the randomly dropped Stoneblade. And if you don't feel like grinding for it you'll have to use the store bought Flame Saber). Averted with [[spoiler:the real Rydia]] who shows up with all spells kept and using a Stardust Rod, an endgame weapon from the previous game. But she doesn't appear until the final battle of Interlude.
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*** {{Justified}} in ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX'' [[spoiler:as it's set 100 years after the Bad Ending of the first ''[=ASG=]'']] with plenty of time for Copen to make changes to his arsenal. ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX2'' goes the extra mile in why he doesn't use most of the ''[=iX=]'' arsenal and even his major gameplay changes by the fact that he gave Lola a software upgrade that rendered most of the EX Weapons incompatible (save Anchor Nexus and Darkness Trigger, which acts solely as Lola's SuperMode for their CombinationAttack) and he had uninstalled some of his armor upgrades during peacetime which he can't replicate [[TrappedInAnotherWorld under his present circumstances]], forcing him to make do with what upgrades he ''could'' make switching up his usual play style.

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*** {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX'' [[spoiler:as it's set 100 years after the Bad Ending of the first ''[=ASG=]'']] with plenty of time for Copen to make changes to his arsenal. ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX2'' goes the extra mile in why he doesn't use most of the ''[=iX=]'' arsenal and even his major gameplay changes by the fact that he gave Lola a software upgrade that rendered most of the EX Weapons incompatible (save Anchor Nexus and Darkness Trigger, which acts solely as Lola's SuperMode for their CombinationAttack) and he had uninstalled some of his armor upgrades during peacetime which he can't replicate [[TrappedInAnotherWorld under his present circumstances]], forcing him to make do with what upgrades he ''could'' make switching up his usual play style.

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