10 WORST Ways Video Games Took Away Your Favourite Powers

1. X Gives Up His Weapons & Armour To Avoid Abusing His Powers - Mega Man X Series

Similarly to the Metroid games, the Mega Man franchise has largely forced its titular protagonist to start each game from scratch arsenal-wise, re-acquiring weapons over the course of the game leading up to an epic final confrontation.

This is also true in the various Mega Man spin-off franchises, though in the case of Mega Man X, there have been occasional attempts to hand-wave protagonist X starting anew in each subsequent game.

It's implied that X discards each new set of weapons and armour at the end of a given adventure to avoid becoming corrupted by its massive power.

As far as excuses go, it's pretty damn soft, but equipment re-acquisition is also enough of an accepted trope at this point that fans are largely happy to go along with it, logic be-damned.