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** ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising'': The heroes realize that they can cause the villain 9 to have one if they fight him long enough and force him to use enough of his powers in a short period of time.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': The primary villains, the Moebius, are able to [[spoiler:combine their monstrous OneWingedAngel forms into an even more powerful form... but if they stay in this form too long or use too much power, they start glowing red hot from the internal heat produced. If they don't disengage at this point, they trigger an Annihilation Event, in which a SphereOfDestruction forms around them and completely erases everything within it, including themselves]].

-->-- '''Bipper''', about to lose control of Dipper Pines' body, ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "Sock Opera"

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', villain [[FantasticRacism Hody Jones]] use steroids to increase his power, but these were made from a substance designed to age whoever takes it, and he overdosed to the point that when the effect passed he ended as a frail old man.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendII'': Apollo battles your party with the assembled [=MAGI=], which gives him incredible power and defense. However, he didn't know there were 78 [=MAGI=] pieces instead of 77. Because his set of [=MAGI=] is incomplete, his power is unstable, and he ends up melting and exploding after some rounds of combat.

-->-- '''Bill Cipher''', about to lose control of Dipper Pines' body, ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "Sock Opera"

* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Both Kimimaro and Itachi pushed themselves beyond belief by fighting for extended periods of time and on several occasions while terminally ill. As a result, they both abruptly died in the middle of a fight. Kimimaro's case is egregious since his death is very anticlimatic -- the stakes were high as his opponents were in a tough spot (Gaara exhausted his ample supply of chakra and Rock Lee was recovering from a crippling injury). Itachi's death, on the other hand, is much more emotional and the suddenness is {{exploited}} to mirror Sasuke's [[spoiler: confusion and lack of sense of achievement after completing his long-awaited revenge]]:

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', this is what does in Younger Toguro, the BigBad of the TournamentArc. Toguro [[BloodKnight had always been desperate to face an opponent that made him use his full power]], so when Yusuke fires off a massive KamehameHadoken, Toguro decides to take it head on as a challenge to himself instead of dodging. At first he says he's finally using everything, then declares he needs even more power to deal with the blast. When it's over at first Toguro seems fine, but then his body starts rapidly deteriorating on him and he collapses. [[VillainsDyingGrace He thanks Yusuke for giving him the match he wanted before he dies]].

* [[Characters/DragonBallFrieza Fri]][[SelfDemonstrating/{{Freeza}} eza]] of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has a real problem with this. He's a prodigy from a species that is naturally very strong, to the point where he declared himself "Emperor of the Universe" because nothing could stand against him. This means that he has never fought a prolonged battle since he could effortlessly overpower his opponents, and his stamina ''sucks'' as a result. So in his first prolonged battle against Super Saiyan Goku, after Frieza pulls out all the stops and powers up to his maximum, it quickly proves unsustainable and starts weakening him in turn. After he is killed and [[DeathIsCheap resurrected]], Frieza starts training for the first time in his life to get his revenge and learns to control and maximize his natural power to avert this. However, the moment he unlocks a new SuperMode, he goes straight after Goku, once again intending to flat-out overpower his opponent with his new trump card. It ends exactly the same way; Frieza's stamina peters out, and Frieza dies once more.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''
** During the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, Shigaraki's body suddenly tears open along his chest because his body augmentation process wasn't completed before his capsule was forcibly destroyed and all the damage he's taken fighting the pro heroes along with the strain of using All For One catches up to him in spite of his HealingFactor.
** ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising'': The heroes realize that they can cause the villain 9 to have one, if they fight him long enough and force him to use enough of his powers in a short period of time.

Causes vary. It could simply be the villain wearing him/herself out after a good case of Villainous Resolve. It could be the consequence of using the DangerousForbiddenTechnique, {{Deadly Upgrade}}, or removing their {{Power Limiter}}. Or caused by PhlebotinumOverload. Some works directly support this via CastFromHitPoints. It might be represented with burning TronLines, TaintedVeins, VolcanicVeins or [[CriticalStatusBuff turning red]].

* ''VideoGame/{{SaGa 2}}'': Apollo battles your party with the assembled [=MAGI=], which gives him incredible power and defense. However, he didn't know there were 78 [=MAGI=] pieces instead of 77. Because his set of [=MAGI=] is incomplete, his power is unstable, and he ends up melting and exploding after some rounds of combat.

** During the Paranormal Liberation War Arc, [[spoiler:Shigaraki's body suddenly tears open along his chest because his body augmentation process wasn't completed before his capsule was forcibly destroyed and all the damage he's taken fighting the pro heroes along with the strain of using All For One catches up to him in spite of his HealingFactor.]]

* [[Characters/DragonBallFrieza Fri]][[SelfDemonstrating/{{Freeza}} eza]] of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has a real problem with this. He's a prodigy from a species that is naturally very strong, to the point where he declared himself "Emperor of the Universe" because nothing could stand against him. This means that he has never fought a prolonged battle since he could effortlessly overpower his opponents, and his stamina ''sucks'' as a result. So in his first prolonged battle against Super Saiyan Goku, after Frieza pulls out all the stops and powers up to his maximum, it quickly proves unsustainable and starts weakening him in turn. After he is killed and [[DeathIsCheap resurrected]], Frieza starts training for the first time in his life to get his revenge. The moment he unlocks a new SuperMode, he goes straight after Goku without learning anything from the last encounter, once again intending to flat-out overpower his opponent. It ends exactly the same way; Frieza's stamina peters out, and Frieza dies once more.
* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaHeroesRising'': The heroes realize that they can cause the villain 9 to have one, if they fight him long enough and force him to use enough of his powers in a short period of time.

Compare PowerDegeneration, PostVictoryCollapse, ExplosiveOverclocking (the {{Phlebotinum}} version), PowerupFullColorChange (often used as visual and literal indicator).

* In the second season of ''Series/LukeCage'', Bushmaster has been warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade as part of the HollywoodVoodoo that grants him [[HourOfPower temporary superpowers]] will [[PowerAtAPrice inevitably cause him serious health problems]] and the effects will be less potent the more he takes it. Despite this, when he runs out of other ways to get to [[ArchEnemy Mariah]], he takes a super concentrated dose that briefly makes him practically unstoppable... and after the effects wear off he's a complete wreck physically and health wise. His last scene in the season is him needing help to simply walk a few feet from one car to another, possibly unable to even speak as he's assisted into the vehicle.

* Frieza of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has a real problem with this. He's a prodigy from a species that is naturally very strong, to the point where he declared himself "Emperor of the Universe" because nothing could stand against him. This means that he has never fought a prolonged battle since he could effortlessly overpower his opponents, and his stamina ''sucks'' as a result. So in his first prolonged battle against Super Saiyan Goku, after Frieza pulls out all the stops and powers up to his maximum, it quickly proves unsustainable and starts weakening him in turn. After he is killed and [[DeathIsCheap resurrected]], Frieza starts training for the first time in his life to get his revenge. The moment he unlocks a new SuperMode, he goes straight after Goku without learning anything from the last encounter, once again intending to flat-out overpower his opponent. It ends exactly the same way; Frieza's stamina peters out, and Frieza dies once more.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': When Spider-Man first encounters Venom, he realizes that Venom is producing his webbing organically, and since Venom used a large amount of webbing to capture him earlier, the way to defeat him is to get him to use up even more webbing to deplete himself. In the end, Venom expends enough of himself that he is unable to maintain his form and is defeated.

* Frieza of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has a real problem with this: He's a prodigy from a species that is naturally very strong, to the point where he is the de-facto "Emperor of the Universe" amongst mortals because nothing could stand against him. This means that he has never fought a prolonged battle since he could effortlessly overpower his opponents, and his stamina ''sucks'' as a result. So in his first prolonged battle, after he pulls out all the stops and powers up to his maximum, it quickly proves unsustainable and starts weakening him in turn. After he is killed and [[DeathIsCheap resurrected]], he starts training for the first time in his life to get his revenge, but the moment he unlocks a new SuperMode, he goes straight after his killer without learning anything from the last encounter, once again intending to flat-out overpower his opponent. It ends exactly the same way; stamina peters out, and Frieza dies once more.

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* Frieza of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has a real problem with this: He's a prodigy from a species that is naturally very strong, to the point where he is the de-facto 'Emperor of the Universe' amongst mortals because nothing could stand against him. This means that he has never fought a prolonged battle since he could effortlessly overpower his opponents, and his stamina ''sucks'' as a result. So in his first prolonged battle, after he pulls out all the stops and powers up to his maximum, it quickly proves unsustainable and starts weakening him in turn. After he is killed and [[DeathIsCheap ressurrected]], he starts training for the first time in his life to get his revenge, but the moment he unlocks a new SuperMode, he goes straight after his killer without learning anything from the last encounter, once again intending to flat out overpower his opponent. It ends exactly the same way; stamina peters out, and Frieza dies once more.

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* When ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' first encountered Venom, he realized that Venom was producing his webbing organically, and since Venom used a large amount of webbing to capture him earlier, the way to defeat him was to get him to use up even more webbing to deplete himself. In the end, Venom expended enough of himself that he was unable to maintain his form and was defeated.

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* In the second season of ''Series/LukeCage'', Bushmaster has been warned all throughout the season that his use of nightshade as part of the HollywoodVoodoo that grants him [[HourOfPower temporary superpowers]] will [[PowerAtAPrice inevitably cause him serious health problems]] and the effects will be less potent the more he takes it. Despite this when he runs out of other ways to get to [[ArchEnemy Mariah]], he takes a super concentrated dose that briefly makes him practically unstoppable... and after the effects wear off he's a complete wreck physically and health wise. His last scene in the season is him needing help to simply walk a few feet from one car to another, possibly unable to even speak as he's assisted into the vehicle.

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* The episode "Sock Opera" in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has Dipper's body getting possessed by Bill Cipher. However, Dipper hasn't slept all night and just got beat up by Mabel, so Bill collapses shortly after fight with Mabel and abandons Dipper's body.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', villain [[FantasticRacism Hody Jones]] use steroids to increase his power, but these were made from a substance designed to age whoever takes it, and he overdosed to the point that when the effect passed he ended as a old frail man.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', this is what does in Younger Toguro, the BigBad of the TournamentArc. Toguro [[BloodKnight had always been desperate to face an opponent that made him use his full power]], so when Yusuke fires off a massive KamehameHadoken, Toguro decides to take it head on as a challenge to himself instead of dodging. At first he says he's finally using everything, then declares he needs even more power to deal with the blast. When it's over at first Toguro seems fine, but then his body starts rapidly deteriorating on him and he collapses. [[VillainsDyingGrace He thanks Yusuke for giving him the match he wanted before he dies]].

* The MadScientist has captured ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'' in the 1968 {{Zeerust}} film, and attempts to destroy her with his Excessive Machine. The device is meant to cause an overload of orgasms on its victim, but Barbarella is TooKinkyToTorture, so the villain exhausts himself working the controls until his machine is kaput.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', an early scene takes place in the local Coliseum. A weedy unarmed and nearly naked runt of a man is matched against a heavily armoured villanous giant of a gladiator. The runt decides his best hope of survival is to run away. The giant runs after him and chases him round laps of the stadium. This continues for some time - until the giant, by now sweating and staggering with the exertion, pulls up short, grunts, claps a hand to his chest and dies of a cardiac arrest. The weed duly performs a victory dance and takes the cheers of the crowd.

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