| rdfs:comment | - A Combat Trope in which one of the combatants reveals that (s)he's been holding back, but now decides it's time to take it up a notch. The situation varies from example to example. A common example is for a character to fight with his non-dominant hand, as in the trope-naming example, only to switch back to his dominant hand to gain an edge. Similar to this is pretending that he has a serious handicap, then deciding to stop the charade -- in other words, a seeming in-universe equivalent of an Unexplained Recovery. It can also go so far as a character revealing that he has always had a superpower which they now decide to exploit, or a Dangerous Forbidden Technique which they now have no option but to utilize.
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| abstract | - A Combat Trope in which one of the combatants reveals that (s)he's been holding back, but now decides it's time to take it up a notch. The situation varies from example to example. A common example is for a character to fight with his non-dominant hand, as in the trope-naming example, only to switch back to his dominant hand to gain an edge. Similar to this is pretending that he has a serious handicap, then deciding to stop the charade -- in other words, a seeming in-universe equivalent of an Unexplained Recovery. It can also go so far as a character revealing that he has always had a superpower which they now decide to exploit, or a Dangerous Forbidden Technique which they now have no option but to utilize. Of course, Villains can invoke this trope, as well. Has a couple of sub-tropes: Heroic Examples:
* Deadly Upgrade
* Eleventh-Hour Superpower
* Eyepatch of Power
* My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours Villainous Examples:
* One-Winged Angel
* Turns Red See also: Training From Hell, Restraining Bolt, Power Limiter, Willfully Weak, Just Toying with Them and Fake Weakness. Examples of I Am Not Left-Handed include:
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