Smashing limits

What would happen if people had limit breaks?

By limit breaks I mean the ability to suddenly be extremely powerful, far beyond their normal abilities, but to be seriously restricted in terms of how often this could occur.  I have been considering what it would do to society, and how it would directly impact warfare and crime in particular.

The exact rules are critical of course, so here is the structure I have been considering:  Each person can limit break once and only once in their life.  When they do this they become incredibly strong, fast, and tough.  Not strictly invulnerable, certainly, but powerful enough to laugh off bullets, car crashes, and other minor irritations.  Obviously while doing this they can easily kill anyone else who isn't also limit breaking.  The transformation would last for 1 minute and would make them look really cool - wreathed in flames, surrounded by shining armour, or giant claws - something impressive.

I think you would have to prevent children from limit breaking because otherwise everyone's limit breaks would end up being used at age 2 because they *really* wanted a cookie.  I don't know what age would make sense to allow them to be used though.  I assume that you can't actually test someone to see if their limit break is still available - only they can tell for sure, unless you see them using it.

Clearly this makes a lot of warfare really weird.  You couldn't, for example, attack a village of 300 people with 100 soldiers.  The villagers just limit break and wreck the soldiers, especially since the soldiers have likely used their limit breaks before!  In fact it might become standard to rotate civilians into combat roles temporarily just to use their limit breaks, presuming they are willing to be used in such a fashion.

This would upend a lot of situations where violent crime is involved.  You can rob a convenience store with a gun, sure, but maybe the clerk draws a sword made of rainbows and chops you in half... that is not how you want that robbery to go.  Policing would also be a lot scarier, since the police can't count on having overwhelming force at their disposal.  A couple of really angry people can stomp a SWAT team if that team doesn't have limit breaks available.

It would also lead to some bizarre situations where people might try to get others to use their limit breaks foolishly, bluffing dangerous situations or trying to trick people.  Once you get them to burn their one chance at nigh invulnerability, they know you can beat them at any time.

I wonder if this would actually end up in some kind of Orwellian dystopia.  The government recording every use of limit breaks and keeping track of which citizens have it available and which do not, monitoring every person so their level of power can be used, if necessary.

Maybe I am just overthinking this though.  Having a limit break available, for most situations, is no different than having a gun.  I can kill whoever I want if they aren't prepared, and they can't do much to stop me.

My limit break, in case you are curious, is a general glow combined with a gigantic 2 handed translucent orange battle axe.  Because I have some people I want to axe a question or two.