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{{quote|''"I wonder if that [[Daffy Duck|silly duck'll]] remember that he can fly."''

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When a character has the [[Idiot Ball]] slipped into their pocket while they weren't looking, causing them to forget to properly use their abilities, intelligence, or powers to stop a bad guy or get out of a situation, even though they may have used the ability in similar situations before (often many times). This happens often with [[superhero]]es and within the filler episode of [[Shōnen manga]] anime.

 

Compare [[Reed Richards Is Useless]], where a character with superhuman abilities or ridiculously advanced technology reserves it for equally advanced problems and never applies it to mundane difficulties.

 

* Usagi often used her disguise pen in the first season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' to get into areas where access was forbidden otherwise. In later seasons, it was completely forgotten... except for one odd season three episode when Minako borrowed Usagi's pen to act as an [[Identity Impersonator]] for Sailor Moon. Note that Minako actually had ''her own'' disguise compact in the ''Codename Wa Sailor V'' manga and in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga, although the fact that it was never shown in the anime may mean it simply doesn't exist in this continuity. Additionally, in the manga, both Usagi and Minako have devices (a mask and a compact respectively) that can reveal the disguised enemies' true forms; these conveniently get forgotten when it comes to fighting Witches 5 or the Dead Moon Circus, who ''do'' disguise themselves as normal people in areas that are ''known'' to have connection to the enemies...

** In the first episode we see that she has super hearing through the gems in her hair and we never get to see her use them again ... ever.