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There is a character who is good at something. Maybe it's skill, maybe it's talent. Maybe it's ''both''. They aren't just above average at it, they're ''good'' at it, possibly even exceptional.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Miho Nishizumi in ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'' changes schools in order to get away from an school club activity that she's good at but no longer likes. However, in what looks like bad luck, her new school's [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] forces her to not only join the same club at the new school but also become the club's captain.

* The first few episodes of ''[[Trigun]]'' show that Vash the Stampede is good at defeating armies and handling villains. He also hates being a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] owing to the harm it causes, which is why he keeps traveling a lot.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Valkyria Chronicles III]]'' several potentials are setup this way to reinforce what a dysfunctional bunch the [[Army of Thieves and Whores|penal brigade]] it stars is. It seems it's also targeted to nerf Scouts since they were overpowered in the first game.

** Riela Marcellis, who has [[Survivor Guilt]] from repeatedly being the [[Sole Survivor]] due to her initially unexplained [[Healing Factor]]. This manifests as "Angel of Death" (the title she has been given for her supposedly cursed nature) which lowers her stats when taking inception fire. Her default and favored class is Scout, which naturally takes inception fire, and said healing factor gives her a chance to heal the wounds taken from it at the end of a turn. {{spoiler|Midgame, it gets even worse and is replaced with Uncertain Future, which gives a random chance to lose all remaining action points after using half. This is really bad in general but especially so for a Scout since Scout's main ability is using their higher than average action points to go long distance, and you can't even plan for it. Only during the final four chapters is this replaced with an ability that ''boosts'' her stats when taking inception fire.}}

=== [[Visual Novel]]s ===

* The ''[[Danganronpa]]'' series is no stranger to students who ultimately dislike their Ultimate talents.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Aang has this attitude about being the Avatar and having the Avatar State in the first episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. When he goes into the Avatar State he can kick ass, but season two reveals that he has nightmares about the chaos he causes while out of control. He also tells Katara that he didn't reveal to her or Sokka at first that he was the Avatar who went missing a hundred years ago because he never wanted this role. (It's justified when his friends stopped playing with him when he was revealed to be the reincarnation of Roku, and the monks planned to separate him from his mentor and father figure Gyatso, believing that Gyatso would not be able to train Aang sufficiently.) Part of Aang's [[Character Development]] is balancing his will to become the savior the world needs with his desire to stay a kid.

* In ''[[Inside Job]]'', the episode where Rand makes Brett run for senator against his brother shows that Brett is a great politician. The only problem? Brett's parents ordered him to drop out of the race or they'd disown him. So Brett tries to sabotage himself with the classic political scandals, only for dumb luck and his naturally nice personality to elevate his accomplishments. {{spoiler|He talks with a hooker about how dangerous sex work is when planning to get caught in bed with her, and accidentally legalizes unionization efforts for sex work. An attempt to get photographed snorting cocaine with a Canadian drug lord causes him to kill the drug lord with a [[Sneeze of Doom]], leading to Mounties congratulating him for a sting operation and he negotiates a water deal while high off his ass.}} Reagan herself is astonished that Brett can't be damage his public image if he tried, until he reveals {{spoiler|a lifelong dream to become a puppeteer}}.

* Gus from ''[[Recess]]'' is a master at dodgeball, a skill that earned him the nickname "El Diablo". From when he transfers to 3rd Street School he keeps this a secret from everyone, even his friends, as he fears the harm his talent can cause. When Spinelli holds his guitar hostage to make him spill why he no longer plays dodgeball, Gus explains that during a ferocious game, he accidentally hit a kid who wasn't playing; the kid ran off crying before Gus could apologize and spent every subsequent recess inside.