Does Not Know His Own Strength: Difference between revisions

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** A physical strength example occurs in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'', when Miura Rinaldi, one of Zafira's students in martial arts, accidentally breaks the wookden pole she uses for training soon after it was fixed.

* In the Anime/Manga series ''[[GetBackers]]'', one of the repeating causes of the main characters' crushing debt is the fact that Ban can't seem to control his strength when he is in a bad mood. As a result, he and Ginji frequently find themselves having to pay for damages to the Honky Tonk as a result of Ban breaking everything from coffee-cups to plates, tables, bars, doors, windows, and even walls.

* Ryoga from ''[[Ranma ~~One Half~~]]''. Whenever his emotions get too much, or his mind wanders, everything he touches tends to crumble around him. Combine this with the fact he gained the ability to shatter inanimate matter with a finger jab early in the series, and you've got a man who has as much trouble ''not'' destroying Tokyo as he does [[No Sense of Direction|navigating it]].

* Ryoga from ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Whenever his emotions get too much, or his mind wanders, everything he touches tends to crumble around him. Combine this with the fact he gained the ability to shatter inanimate matter with a finger jab early in the series, and you've got a man who has as much trouble ''not'' destroying Tokyo as he does [[No Sense of Direction|navigating it]].

** There is also a storyline in which Akane gains [[Super Strength]] due to accidentally eating food called Super Soba, and briefly falls into this trope. She first discovers her newfound strength when she casually sets her bowl down, and promptly smashes the table and the floor '''below the table'''. She would also regularly pat other characters (usually Ranma) with what was supposed to be a light touch on the head or shoulder, and instead sent them flying.

** During a mid-manga story, Ranma is weakened by a vengeful Happousai. The cure involves a painful-looking [[Pressure Point|moxibustion technique]] applied on his back -- out of reflex, he tries to swat Cologne off his back, only to find himself smashing a ''solid concrete roller'' (the kind used to flatten sports fields) purely by accident.

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* The young Tigress was shown to be like this in ''[[Kung Fu Panda|Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five]]'', till she learned self-control.

* Used in Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''. In that version, Hercules is unaware of his heritage as a demi-god with [[Super Strength]] until he's a teenager; his lack of knowledge ''and'' control of his strength made him a male [[Dojikko]] and [[All of the Other Reindeer|shunned by the local villagers]]. Until he learns the truth, goes off to search for Philoctetes and starts [[Took a Level In Badass|taking levels in badass]] through his [[Training From Hell]]...

* In ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', Ginormica initially has this problem after discovering she has super strength (more than her [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|massive form]] should have, at any rate). She ends up nearly crushing Derek in her excitement to see him again. Other than that, though, she manages to keep a handle on it.

* In ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', Ginormica initially has this problem after discovering she has super strength (more than her [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|massive form]] should have, at any rate). She ends up nearly crushing Derek in her excitement to see him again. Other than that, though, she manages to keep a handle on it.