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** Some versions of Krypto the Super Dog apply this trope. Being just a dog, he really doesn't know his own strength.
** Many, many times in various Superman comics would other people gain Superman's strength. This trope almost always applies.
** And the [[Larry Niven]] classic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20091225054403/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/Man_of_Steel_Woman_of_Kleenex.shtml Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex]''.
** An excellent 1960s issue of ''[[Superboy]]'' dealt with a villain tricking young Supes into thinking he had accidentally killed Lana Lang with a careless display of strength. Grief-stricken, Superboy turns himself in to the police and sits brooding in a jail cell, giving the villain and his mooks a free window of opportunity to commit crimes unopposed. Naturally, it's all a ruse, and Lana turns out to have been merely kidnapped and is totally unharmed.
** In [[Infinite Crisis]], a character named Superboy Prime (he's from the real world) attacks the DCU's Superboy, beating him badly whilst causing a huge amount of damage to the town of Smallville, until a (fairly large) group(s) of other heroes arrive as back-up. When a heroine named Pantha calls him a 'stupid kid', he retaliates by proclaiming that he isn't stupid, seemingly with the intention to merely smack her across the face...... He ends up taking her head off and killing her, visibly shocked when he notices the blood on his hand.
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