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That doesn't stop some writers from [[Rule of Funny|using it as a gag.]] The character's super strength creates a problem interacting with the real world. They break coffee cups, regularly smash windows, doors and other entrances and egresses and frankly cannot be trusted with a small child's toy. In worst case scenarios, their incredible powers result in damage to important facilities or even living beings. Cue guilt trip.
 
This trope is related to [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] but is specific to strength and to powers which resemble strength (i.e. the ability to crush objects via telekinesis) and is not primarily a bad thing; the empowered individual often finds their strength to be very handy when they're not having to do delicate things like handle children's rattles.
 
If the hero's family is unaware of his powers, undoubtedly the blame for the damage will fall on 'shoddy construction' or on another house member's bad attempts at DIY.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* During her early life in a highly enhanced prosthetic body, the Major of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'' had some major (no pun intended) difficulties controlling the prosthetics' strength. She mentions (and it is shown in the opening credits) that she once smashed a doll by being unable to control her own limbs.
* Muay Thay God of Death Apachai Hopachai in ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]''. Also a [[Gentle Giant]] on his own right, he is really kind to all living things, being even able to speak with animals. Unfortunately, due to the [[Training From Hell]] he went through during his childhood (and the fact that he was thrown in life-or-death battles even as a kid) he�s uncapable of sparring with Kenichi without delivering several blows that would have killed anyone less resilient. It gets to a point when Kenichi loses the memory of being hit due to a concussion.
** He's actually killed Kenichi at least once. The other masters are able to revive the poor kid, and it's been mostly played for laughs.
** Kenichi himself gets into this early on. One of the more humorous examples has him giving a "light" slapping to [[Jerkass|Niijima]], [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c054/6.html and manages to knock him out instead]. Somewhat justified, as Kenichi had been a total weakling not too long ago, so he's not at all used to having to hold back his strength.
* Finny from ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' tends to do this, the result being lots of broken things and {{spoiler|a crowning moment of awesome when he gets to use this to his advantage.}}
* During one of the tournaments, contestants are qualified to participate in the fight by punching a machine that registers the force delivered. Goku and his friends have to concentrate really hard to hit the machine without breaking it. Vegeta doesn't hold back.
* During the filler episodes leading up to the Cell Games in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Goku and Gohan had this problem as Super Saiyans. Needless to say, Chi-Chi wasn't amused. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|The viewers were, though.]]
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* Being {{spoiler|a [[Hollywood Cyborg|combat cyborg]]}} blessed with [[Super Strength]], Subaru of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' mentions her fear of performing this trope during a flashback. Also illustrated in [[Comic Book Adaptation|the manga]] during a wall-climbing exercise, when a Teana that just met her asked her to put a little more strength in boosting her up, causing the now terrified girl to achieve her dream of taking to the skies a lot earlier than she expected.
** Since she received her powers by fusing with a [[Great Big Book of Everything]] containing the strongest spells in the multiverse, Hayate ''literally cannot'' use low-power magic. As a result, the TSAB normally treat her [[Person of Mass Destruction|similarly to a tactical nuke]], only calling her in to cast a single spell in certain situations (and after evacuation orders have been given). Which is odd, given that Rein Eins' usage of spells like [[Flechette Storm|Bloody Dagger]] show that Hayate should, at least in theory, be able to fight at the anti-personnel level.
** In a [[All There in the Manual|sound stage]] of ''A's'', after Shamal forgot to heat up the water for bathing Vita asks [[Playing Withwith Fire|Signum use her magic]]. She answers that she lacks finesse for smaller tasks.
** A physical strength example occurs in ''[[ViMagical VidGirl (Manga)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 ''[[Get BackersGetBackers]]'', 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]].
** 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.
** It's played up more in the manga version, but [[Hot Amazon|Shampoo]] often destroys things around her, [[There Was a Door|tearing through walls rather than going for the door]] or shattering doors when she does use them. It's debateable whether she counts for this, though, as it's just as likely that she just likes to show off that she's a [[Cute Bruiser]].
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'', protagonist Seina Yamada has to spend several episodes learning to control this after being given enhanced [[Super Strength|strength]] and [[Super Speed|speed]]. Of course, this turns out to be a lovely excuse to set up some [[Innocent Cohabitation]]...
* While Gaou in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' ''knows'' how strong he is, he doesn't understand the very ''idea'' of "holding back", and is thus completely unable to do so in any situation. The same can be said for [[Husky Russkie]] Rodchenko. Kurita, on the other hand, is too strong and too friendly for his own good, meaning big, painful hugs all around.
** Shin also does this from time to time, usually with electronic devices.
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* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', it's implied that [[The Hero|Kotetsu]] had this problem back when was a child ("I'm not supposed to touch anyone when I'm like this. I'll hurt people."), which was why he was ashamed of his NEXT abilities up until he encountered Mr. Legend.
** After the seventeenth episode, {{spoiler|Kaede}} develops the ability to [[Ditto Fighter|copy the powers of the last NEXT she's touched]]. The last NEXT she's touched? Kotetsu. She destroys the kitchen simply trying to drink tea.
* Sakura Haruno in ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]. While training with Tsunade during the time skip of the original series, Sakura acquires the same herculean strength that she has. But of course, whenever Naruto does anything Sakura thinks is stupid, she manages to find some petty reason to pound the tar out of him and send him flying with just one punch.
 
 
== Comics ==
* The comics version of [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] is the primary aversion of this, where his strength is almost always played as a positive and the negatives are rarely highlighted.
** One story from the '90s saw Supe's strength start increasing exponentially. This trope definitely came into play then.
** Some versions of Krypto the Super Dog apply this trope. Being just a dog, he really doesn't know his own strength.
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** 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.
** In ''Superman Annual #8'', Pounder, one of a far-future League of Supermen in who have each been genetically engineered to have ''one'' of Superman's powers, has support staff who have to do ''everything'' for him, because it's not safe for him to touch things. (The whole League is [[Blessed Withwith Suck]], in fact.)
** In Superman Secret Origins, a teenage Clark Kent, who's powers were just beginning to emerge, really had no idea how strong he was. It caused problems when he tried to play football with his friends and accidentally broke Pete Ross's arm.
* On the other hand, [[Supergirl]] does this in on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers.
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* Done [[Tear Jerker|tragically]] in [[The DCU]] [[Alternate Continuity|Elseworld]] story "Created Equal". The second issue of the two-parter starts [[In Medias Res]] just as {{spoiler|a five-year old Alex Kent has accidentally killed his mother, Lois, by hugging her}}.
* In ''[[Nextwave]]'', the narration mentions that the Captain once knocked a man's lungs out of his chest by patting him on the back... but in his defense, he was drunk.
* The titular character in ''[[Concrete]]'' is very much [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] in this regard, being a half-ton stone man who doesn't dare try to hold anything breakable.
* The titular character in ''Monica's Gang'' suffers because of this. Since she's only 6, it leads to really funny situations (although not as much funny for her parents, that have to pay for the broken stuff, or for Jimmy Five and Smudgy, that have to ''feel in their skins'' what her inhuman strength causes. Of course, all in the [[Amusing Injuries]] territory, since it's for kids.
* In a ''Wolverine'' series, there is a grown-up mutant with super strength but the intelligence of an infant. A horse tries to kick him and he punches it, then he gets upset because he can't put the horse's head back on.
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* In the last issue of the Marvel MAX ''Barracuda'' miniseries, Barracuda pats the young hemophiliac he had been charged with turning into a cold blooded killer on the back... killing him. To be fair, Barracuda is a fucking beast of a man, but that's... dag, son.
* In ''[[Fifty Two]]'', being a god-empowered superbeing stopped being fun for Osiris after he killed his sister Isis' attacker, the Persuader, by flying into him too hard.
* A lot of humour stemmed from the use of this trope in the 1970s comic strip ''Wee Ben Nevis'' which featured in ''[[The Beano]]''. This trope is also frequently used in ''[[The Dandy (Comic Bookcomics)|The Dandy]]'''s most famous strip ''Desperate Dan''.
* The titular character from "Irredeemable" also fits this trope. Basically a Superman expy, in one scene where he visits one of the many sets of foster parents he had as a child, we see him feeding their severely disabled (adult) biological son. Turns out he was there the day that Jr. came home from the hospital with Mum...he just wanted to give his new baby brother a hug...
 
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* ''[[Twisted Toyfare Theater]]'' -- The [[Hulk]] encounters [[Star Wars|Ewoks.]] "Hulk pet fuzzy too hard! Fuzzy pop!"
** And the time he petted the bunny too hard. And then did the same with Cyclops.
* Kyon from ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]''.
** Because of the nature of his training he knows martial arts but he doesn't remember any experience with them, including the specific effects of his attacks on opponents. After the fight on chapter 12, Iyouji was surprised when he had to ask how bad were the injuries he made on the Mooks.
** In a later chapter, a [[Fictional Document]] reminded that while getting new powers were good, one should also learn to be careful with them.
* Many Fanon depictions of ''[[Touhou]]'''s Flandre Scarlet make her out to be this. Those she "plays with" [[And Call Him George|do not last long]]. However, in canon, this decently true because she can't control her powers (a bad problem to have, given that her power is the ability to ''[[Person of Mass Destruction|destroy anything that exists]]''), thus it is speculated that she never learned, thus having a hard time expressing playfulness without harm.
* Paul, in spades, in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]''. Compounded by his having two levels of strength, “low” (where he can lift about 8 tons) and “high” (where he can lift at least 90 tons). After practicing day and night (literally) for several weeks he can act relatively normal at “low” strength (though he still breaks things if he doesn't take care); however, at “high” strength, which he tries not to use unless practicing, he can just barely function in the real world. He is continually conscious of his strength, so that in proximity to other people, he hardly moves, and he never makes sudden gestures.
 
 
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** Lest we forget, he also threw his ''boss'' through ''seven walls''. However, he arguably did that on purpose in a fit of rage, seeing as how he grabbed him by the neck to do it.
* 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 Fifty50 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.
 
 
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* Played with in ''Up, Up, and Away''. The protagonist is born into a family of superheroes, but was born without a power. In order to convince his family that he's not a loser, he rigs certain things to fall apart as he uses them, such as taking the screws off the door hinges to make it appear he ripped it off. Played straight with a [[Noodle Incident]] for his father, who apparently did quite some damage to his house's foundation.
* One more word: ''[[Hancock]]''. Though in his case, it's more a case of him simply not bothering to check his superstrength.
* In the ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]'' movie, The Thing is prone to doing this with drinkwear, though it could also be related to reduced sensation with his new skin making it hard to tell how much he's squeezing.
** Also, few chairs support his weight any more, but he doesn't always remember this.
* The Autobots of the ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie basically destroy Sam's backyard, though that's mostly due to scale issues.
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** Wow. You'd think she would have figured it out by the third or fourth broken object.
* The trope is present in ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' as one of many background details. Doctor Impossible breaks the handle of a toilet, the cyborg Fatale's weight makes hardwood floors creak and cracks tiles, and she can't use normal furniture.
* Perhaps the [[Trope Maker]] is the protagonist from Philip Wylie's ''[[Gladiator (Literaturenovel)|Gladiator]]'', the character credited with inspiring the Superman mythos. His superpower is basically superstrength, and it does him no good at all in this world. He accidentally kills a man playing football, gets fired from a manual labour job because he's making everyone else look bad, gets fired from a bank job because he saves someone from suffocating in the vault, and they want to know how he opened it... The entire novel is about what, realistically, it would be like to live with superstrength. A very modern look at a superhero [[Unbuilt Trope|before there were superheroes]].
* Used in [[Richard Scarry]]'s books. Hilda, an anthropomorphic hippo child, accidentally rips a door off its hinges when she is told to open the door so the students can go out to play. Later, when the door is fixed, she ''rips out the door along with part of the wall'' when she attempts the same thing.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when she states, "Oh dear, I'm as strong as ten average little girls." Which [[Fridge Logic|causes one]] to wonder, how strong are the girls in this universe?
*** Perhaps Hilda doesn't really know how strong an average little girl is?
* In ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', Edward mentions something to this effect...
{{quote| '''Edward:''' You have no idea how ''delicate'' you are. I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by mistake.}}
** Bella gets this in the fourth book because brand new vampires are so damn strong. She hugs Edward and actually hurts him, something nearly impossible to do to Twilight vampires. Emmett, widely regarded as by far the strongest Cullen, is completely overpowered in the weeks immediately after Bella's transformation.
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* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'': On numerous occasions, overly excited contestants who were Samoans would pick him up, bearhug him, and otherwise get very affectionate with him, causing him brief physical discomfort. Often, but not always, these instances occurred after the contestant won a pricing game. A running joke was that, every time a Samoan contestant appeared on the show, he would claim that a past Samoan contestant injured him (before playfully admonishing the new contestant to keep her distance).
* This trope was [[Renamed Tropes|formerly named]] "Ace Lightning Syndrome", after the titular character in the CGI-animated TV program ''[[Ace Lightning]]'', who had quite the tendency towards smashing his human sidekicks' household appliances when he arrived in the 'real world', super strength and all (not to mention his need to absorb energy in order to survive resulted in the destruction of much electrical equipment. And apparently Mark's family's electric bill was costing them a fortune).
* In [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] UPN super-spy show ''[[Jake 20 (TV)|Jake 2.0]]'', the main character mostly dodged this because his powers were mostly by activation; nevertheless, there was at least one occasion where his little brother pissed him off, resulting in him accidentally breaking off the handle to his car door.
** He also put a ton of holes in the walls of his apartment trying to gently tap in nails.
* Sometimes a problem for ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]''.
* Played with on ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' when a spell cast on their police buddy gave him Superman-like strength and invulnerability. Has him accidentally ripping the door off a police cruiser, but only mildly bruising the suspect.
* A sight gag in one episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has the title character accidentally [[Ring Ring CRUNCH|smash her alarm clock]] with her super strength, then sweep the pieces into a drawer of likewise broken alarm clocks.
** This gag was surprisingly rare throughout the Buffy series. One of the only other examples is found in the fourth-season story "The Initiative" when Buffy, in the college cafeteria, accidentally tears the handle off a yogurt machine and makes a mess... all in full view of her future boyfriend, Riley Finn.
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** In the episode when she moves into her new dorm, Buffy snaps a pencil in half by nervously fidgeting with it.
** When Buffy glomps the surgeon who tells her Joyce's operation was a success, his ribs creak ominously and he shouts in pain.
* Notably averted with Data of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', as he has super strength, but refrains from using it most of the time. The one time he uses it unchecked, his friends realize he's [[Not Himself]]. He's actually having his brain messed with by [[Evil Twin]] Lore.
** In one episode, a Klingon captain confronts Data concerning his renowned strength and wants to test his own strength against him. It was one of the few times when Data was [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|in complete control]] and you could see how much he outclassed any humanoid. It was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0otnIuQiGG0 hilarious!]
** In another episode, the holodeck malfunctioned replacing characters in a Wild West simulation with recreations of Data, with his approximate physical abilities as well. Some of the characters were weasly cowards and were otherwise unaware of their enhanced strength, but others were the [[Big Bad]] of the story and also unaware of their strength.
*** Don't forget the last Data who was {{spoiler|a female saloon owner who throws herself into Worf's arms after he defeated the evil gunmen.}} Although that was [[Crowning Moment of Funny|something else entirely]].
* Eun Bi, an ex-high school delinquent, from ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (TV)|Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'' says this after playfully hitting Ba Wool around the back of the head and he comments that it really hurts.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' Worf (yes, [[The Worf Barrage|that Worf]]) relates a story of when he was 13, playing soccer and accidentally headbutting a player on the opposing team. Since Klingons are much stronger than humans and have ''ridged foreheads'', the other kid's neck was snapped and died of his injuries shortly after.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' episode "Amok Time", we get a look at how strong Vulcans really are when Spock loses control and manages to completely destroy his computer terminal. Other times when Spock loses control he becomes ''really'' scary because of it.
* Early on, Kintaros from ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' suffered from this, or at least K-Ryotaro/K-Masaru(first possessee), breaking everything from park benches to lamp posts.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', in one episode Clark has his memories removed, resulting in him ripping the door to his home from its hinges as he literally doesn't know his own strength.
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* In ''[[Caprica]]'', this is how {{spoiler|Zoey Greystone killed her early [[Love Interest]] Philomon}}. Had some [[My God, What Have I Done?|terribly]] [[Heroic BSOD|bad]] [[Driven to Suicide|consequences.]]
* Katie from ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'' is of at least partial alien descent; as a result she possesses superhuman strength. She's also fond of [[The Glomp|hugging her teammates]].
* This happens in an episode of ''[[Stargate SG -1]]''. Jack, Sam, and Daniel are all equipped with an alien wristband that enhances the wearer's speed and strength, if only for a limited amount of time. In the episode, Jack crushes a grip-meter and accidentally takes a chunk out of General Hammond's wall just by lazily kicking it.
** The trio are also really hungry and eat a total of 10-11 steaks between them.
** They also manage to knock out about a dozen guys in a bar fight.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[The Dresden Files (Tabletop Gamegame)|The Dresden Files]]'' RPG, near the write-up for the [[Super Strength|Supernatural Strength]] power, Harry writes in the margins that it's really easy to accidentally kill someone with a simple punch at this power level.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* While just about everyone in ''[[Disgaea]]'' has ridiculous [[Dragonball Z|DBZ]]-levels of [[Super Strength]], only Flonne's shown some difficulty in controlling it: [[Disgaea Infinite|at one point]], she hastily shoves Laharl away (to prevent him from performing [[Percussive Maintenance]] on poor Mr. DVD Player) and ends up [[Blown Across the Room|rocketing him across the room]].
* A trailer for ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' has Jensen accidently cracking a glass as he tries to hold it with one of his new cybernetic arms.
* Flandre Scarlet of the "[[Touhou]]" series possesses extreme physical strength and the ability to destroy anything, except she does not know how to control it. In fact, she was locked away in a basement for 495 years as a result of her unstable and potential destructibility.
 
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* In [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980117 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip, while Aylee's getting used to being Torg's secretary, she tends to accidentally drive her fingers right through the computer keyboard.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', when Bob briefly gains [[Super Strength]], he manages to stop a bank robbery... but accidentally destroys the bank in the process.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', the Monster In The Darkness exhibits this trope, as demonstrated [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0374.html here.]
** Possibly slightly averted - The MITD DOES know it's super strong (why else think of a game "who can hit the lightest"), it just still can't control its strength...
* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', this happens as an one off joke when Quentyn reunites with his friend, Kestral at her engineering school. She gives him a big hug and inadvertently hurts him because her vigorous studies having increased her strength considerably and she is not yet fully in control of it.
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** Another good example is Diz Aster, who is a Brick along the same lines as Lancer - except that her telekinetic field can't produce anything ''less'' than 7 tons of force. This also means that she can't even ''feel'' anything, since her shields extend to a few millimetres past her skin; by the time Chaka starts helping out, it's been a year since anyone's been able to touch Diz -- or since she's been able to touch anyone else.
** An equally good example might be Tennyo -- whose powers include the ability to throw around beams of energy that flood the area around her with radiation. Since Tennyo herself is immune to the effects of her powers, she's rarely aware of what's happening until it's too late. This got Lampshaded in a chapter of ''The Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy'', where the instructors for Team Tactics pointed out that Tennyo can't just throw radiation-heavy energy around wildly without noticing if she wants the rescue mission to be a success... {{spoiler|so they gave her a belt-attachable radiation detector, so that she can keep an eye on the levels she's putting out.}}
* Alfred, the Bison construction worker from [[DarwinsDarwin's Soldiers]], possesses extreme strength. Most of the time he is in control of it but if he is angry then things tend to get destroyed. For instance, he crushed a piece of concrete that he was planning to use as an [[Improvised Weapon]]. A more extreme example was when he started pounding on Aisha's door and leaves the door looking like someone had taken a sledgehammer to it. And he accidentally knocked over a vending machine while trying to free a stuck snack.
 
== Western Animation ==
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** [[Weird Al|"He's the strongest toddler in the whole land, tear your arm off it he shakes your hand..."]]
* [[Kim Possible]] had a few of these moments when she briefly ended up with the [[Super Strength]] of Hego, a Superman [[Expy]].
* The [[Recycled: Thethe Series|animated spinoff]] of Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' focuses on Herc's teen years and has this as a running gag.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'''s [[The Chick|Starfire]] is an [[Human Aliens|alien]] from a planet where ''everybody'' has superstrength, resulting, when she comes to Earth, in a world-of-cardboard effect as Superman described it (not the trope). Particularly unfortunate as she fond of [[The Glomp|hugging her friends]].
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Derpy Hooves]]. She's also [[The Klutz]].
 
 
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