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* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' is no stranger to this. Due to the unforgiving steep difficulty curve, a common piece of advice to players starting the game for the first time is to disregard the main story and go for the game's PP (the equivalent of EXP, it stands for Prestige Points) bonuses. For example, the player can instead go for the zombie genocide achievement, killing 53594 zombies (every 50 zombies killed gives the player 500 PP, every 1000 killed gives 10000). Not only will this give the player a pretty handy amount of experience (around the 20s) to start the game with, the player also is rewarded with the [[GameBreaker Real Mega Buster]]. There are other things the player can do as well, like destroying plates in the Food Court on the wall and get around 30000 PP for their trouble. This can be repeated indefinitely with the game's [[NewGamePlus]], allowing players to reach the max of 50 before even getting to the second case in the main story. Frank can also take pictures, and if a perfect photo-op is taken, he can be rewarded with even more PP.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' also does this. Not often talked about is the ability to give Katey (Chuck's daughter) presents from the mall. Doing so will net the player some very useful PP early on. There are also survivors available that reward the player with PP very early on that can also be repeated until the player feels comfortable with their level.
** ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' also does this. Not often talked about is the ability to give Katey (Chuck's daughter) presents from the mall. Doing so will net the player some very useful PP early on. There are also survivors available that reward the player with PP very early on that can also be repeated until the player feels comfortable with their level.
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* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has an RPGMechanicsVerse with a ClassAndLevel system, allowing this:
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* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has an RPGMechanicsVerse with a ClassAndLevel system, ClassAndLevelSystem, allowing this:
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* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': The Creator/BlumhouseProductions trilogy takes a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane approach to Michael Myers, but in ''Film/HalloweenKills'', Laurie Strode speculates that he becomes stronger with each victim he kills. This is seemingly proven in ''Film/HalloweenEnds'' where Michael starts out crippled from old age, malnutrition, and all the injuries he took in ''Kills''. When he kills Doug, he immediately stands up straight and stops limping. After killing two more people, he becomes tough enough to tank an ungodly amount of damage before finally going down. Michael's successor Corey Cunningham apparently inherited this ability. He starts out getting beaten up by bullies and knocked out cold after falling off a bridge. When he kills two people, his hand injury heals up and he is able to immediately get up after falling off a building. During his killing spree, he becomes strong enough to crush a skull with a single stomp and survive getting shot twice and stabbed in the throat.
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* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'': Common; many passages amount to a quick "we ground against mobs for the day." Both Carl and Mordecai would prefer they do nothing ''but'' this, but they keep getting caught up in schemes and quests. Special mention goes to the time Katia formed into a cowcatcher on the front of a train, killing hundreds of mobs in minutes as they sped through the floor. By the end of it, she's gone from middle-of-the-pack to the highest level crawler in the dungeon.
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* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': This is effectively what Saitama did during his 3-year training prior to the beginning of the series. It was explained that the reason why it was so spectacularly effective for him was because, over the course of his training, he had somehow managed to 'remove his limiter'. In other words, anyone else would eventually hit their [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cap level cap]] doing such training, reaching a point where they couldn't get any stronger, but Saitama could just keep gaining "levels" indefinitely, to the point where he became absurdly overpowered compared to the rest of his setting.
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* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'': Jordie is a ShelteredAristocrat Cleric who got almost halfway up the RPGMechanicsVerse's CharacterLevel system solely through administrative duties and non-combat work at his Temple. [[spoiler:Being TheChosenOne might have helped him with this.]]
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* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'': ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has an RPGMechanicsVerse with a ClassAndLevel system, allowing this:
** Jordie is a ShelteredAristocrat Cleric whogot almost halfway up the RPGMechanicsVerse's CharacterLevel system reached mid-level solely through administrative duties and non-combat work at his Temple. [[spoiler:Being Being TheChosenOne might have helped him along.
** The SorcerousOverlord villains maintain a [[NoobCave starter dungeon]] to train up their rookie {{Mooks}}, complete withthis.]]guides, chances to try out their new class features, survivable traps and obstacles, and kidnapped enemy civilians to slaughter for [[ExperiencePoints XP]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the boys get sick of being killed over and over by a griefer on ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.'' So they kill boars for a few weeks straight to level up enough to at least be a match for him. It's worth noting that this strategy is impossible in the actual game, as monsters stop giving experience points entirely once the gap between the player's and monster's levels reach a certain point.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the boys get sick of being killed over and over by a griefer on ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.'' So they kill boars for a few weeks straight to level up enough to at least be a match for him. It's worth noting that this strategy is impossible in the actual game, as monsters stop giving experience points entirely once the gap between the player's and monster's levels reach a certain point.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the boys get sick of being killed over and over by a griefer on ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.'' So they kill boars for a few weeks straight to level up enough to at least be a match for him. It's worth noting that this strategy is impossible in the actual game, as monsters stop giving experience points entirely once the gap between the player's and monster's levels reach a certain point.
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* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99IMayBeTheHiddenBossButImNotTheDemonLord'' is about a GamerChick who [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter reincarnates]] into Yumiella, the {{Superboss}} of a combo otome game/RPG. She applies her gaming attitude to her new life, fighting monsters every day for years, to the point where she starts the game story proper at level 99. She tries to get the army and her fellow classmates to adopt these strategies, but they're terrified at the idea of deliberately risking their lives.
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* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99IMayBeTheHiddenBossButImNotTheDemonLord'' ''Literature/VillainessLevel99'' is about a GamerChick who [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter reincarnates]] into Yumiella, the {{Superboss}} of a combo otome game/RPG. She applies her gaming attitude to her new life, fighting monsters every day for years, to the point where she starts the game story proper at level 99. She tries to get the army and her fellow classmates to adopt these strategies, but they're terrified at the idea of deliberately risking their lives.
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* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Literature/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife''. Anyone who enters the clockwork domain of the [[WasOnceAMan Human Error]] Mechanical Society gets registered as a character and gains the ability to gain experience and level up by killing things. Many people so registered become serial killers as a quick way to grind levels.
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** This is basically what Accelerator was trying to do with the [[CloningBlues Sisters]]: Killing 20 thousand level 2 espers to advance to level 6. Sure is a loooong grind. Though the thing that actually got him within a hair's breadth of the Level 6 Shift was [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero getting punched in the face by Touma a few times]]]].
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** This is basically what Accelerator was trying to do with the [[CloningBlues Sisters]]: Sisters: Killing 20 thousand level 2 espers to advance to level 6. Sure is a loooong grind. Though the thing that actually got him within a hair's breadth of the Level 6 Shift was [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero getting punched in the face by Touma a few times]]]].
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** Later novels imply that [[spoiler:the experiment was a cover-up the whole time. The real purpose was to give Aleister an excuse to spread the [[HiveMind Misaka Network]] over the entire world. While Accelerator ''does'' have the potential to reach Level 6, it's unclear if this particular method ever had any chance of working. There are a number of inconsistencies with what Accelerator, the Sisters, and the scientists were told that leaves it an open question]].
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** Part of the reason that the Level 6 Shift was expected to work was because he was killing a HiveMind, meaning that ''they'' got experience from the grind too. They started at level 2, but by the time of 10032 they were at level 3. While against Accelerator the difference was minuscule, against anyone else they're basically {{Super Soldier}}s.
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* The necessity of this trope is somewhat addressed in ''Manga/HoshinEngi'' -- the BrilliantButLazy protagonist Taikobo, when tasked to seal ''365'' souls (a good number of whom belong to the local EvilEmpire), tries to [[SequenceBreak short-cut]] the process by taking on the [[spoiler:apparent]] BigBad first. He gets his ass handed to him, and he spends the rest of the plot working his way up the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil and taking levels in badass.
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* The necessity of this trope is somewhat addressed in ''Manga/SoulHunter'' -- the BrilliantButLazy protagonist Taikoubou, when tasked to seal ''365'' souls (a good number of whom belong to the local EvilEmpire), tries to [[SequenceBreak short-cut]] the process by taking on the [[spoiler:apparent]] BigBad first. He gets his ass handed to him, and he spends the rest of the plot working his way up the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil and taking levels in badass.
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* When A-Rank adventurer [[CatGirl Belina]] teams up with D-Rank adventurer [[TheBeastmaster Lint]] in ''Manga/RiseOfTheOutlawTamer'', she immediately drags him out to do this so he can catch up to her.
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* ''Literature/SaintessSummonsSkeletons'': The rule of thumb is that you only gain experience from killing enemies at higher levels than yourself, but technically you can still gain a miniscule amount from weaker enemies. [[spoiler:Sofia slaughters her way through over ''440000'' Ebb-infested monsters in one night, and manages to gain 113 levels (or rather, pay off that much of her level debt). When the System displays the summary of her rampage, including her average of over 11 kills per second, it gently reminds her to take breaks for her mental health.]]
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* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': As the title implies, level grinding is the source of protagonist Azusa Aizawa's absurdly high power, which is such that despite supposedly being a SquishyWizard she can defeat dragons bare-handed with ease. However, Azusa did this entirely by accident, as she only killed [[CuteSlimeMook slimes]] every day for exercise and because the magic stones they drop were a source of income. It's just that doing it for 300 years plus possessing a passive ability that increases her experience gains totaled out to over 10 million experience points, enough to reach max level.
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* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': As someone who was fodder for such a grind, Misaka-11111 and her Sisters basically assume that any esper might try to murder them at any moment to increase their level. Note that there is no indication this is actually how it works; the point of the experiment was to force Accelerator into different combat situations and use his powers in unique ways, ''not'' to just murder enough people until he leveled up. The Sisters are either ignorant of the details or, more likely, too traumatized to think clearly on the matter (even if their dry dialogue makes it hard to tell).
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* ''Literature/AkuyakuReijouLevel99WatashiWaUraBossDesuGaMaouDeWaArimasen'' is about a GamerChick who [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter reincarnates]] into Yumiela, the {{Superboss}} of a combo otome game/RPG. She applies her gaming attitude to her new life, fighting monsters every day for years, to the point where she starts the game story proper at level 99. She tries to get the army and her fellow classmates to adopt these strategies, but they're terrified at the idea of deliberately risking their lives.
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* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': As the title implies, level grinding is the source of protagonist Azusa Aizawa's absurdly high power, which is such that despite supposedly being a SquishyWizard she can defeat dragons bare-handed with ease. However, Azusa did this entirely by accident, as she only killed [[CuteSlimeMook slimes]] every day for exercise and because the magic stones they drop were a source of income. It's just that doing it for 300 years plus possessing a passive ability that increases her experience gains totaled out to over 10 million experience points, enough to reach max level.
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* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99IMayBeTheHiddenBossButImNotTheDemonLord'' is about a GamerChick who [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter reincarnates]] into Yumiella, the {{Superboss}} of a combo otome game/RPG. She applies her gaming attitude to her new life, fighting monsters every day for years, to the point where she starts the game story proper at level 99. She tries to get the army and her fellow classmates to adopt these strategies, but they're terrified at the idea of deliberately risking their lives.
