Common Occurrence in JRPG's:
Having the all powerful, world saving/destroing thingamajigg, snatched away before your eyes by the bad guy, after you spent hundreds of hours getting to it, beating millions of enemies and hundreds of bosses in the process 
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







