Forgot About His Powers: Difference between revisions

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Getting Back on Your Hooves]]'' Trixie is feeding animals as part of a job working for Fluttershy, ending up falling down a steep bank and getting the list of animals she needed to feed muddy, resulting in a run in [[Smelly Skunk|with a skunk]]. As she's getting cleaned up, this trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]];

'''Trixie''': ''([[Head Desk|slams her head into the side of the tub]])'' }}

** This is also subverted in other places. Trixie's special talent is stage magic, so she's frequently frustrated when Spike asks her why she didn't do something ''Twilight'' (whose talent is magic itself) is capable of, but she's not.

== Literature ==

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'': A lampshaded example occurs in "The Philosopher's Stone". When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are trapped in the Devil's Snare (a constricting plant which can only be defeated via light) a panicking Hermione comments that it would be difficult to light a fire in their current position.

* This happens quite a bit in the Ancient Indian epic poem the "Ramayana". As an avatar of Vishnu, Rama should be completely over-powered in the human realm. Instead, Rama seems to forget that he is a god until the other gods remind him. In the original version of the poem, Valmiki's version, this happens more than once.

* Flinx of [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series gets hit with this a lot in the novels after ''Flinx in Flux''. Having been established as: (a) streetwise, (b) adept at survival, (c) having [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a ton of money]], (d) being able to defeat just about any enemy with a combination of his [[Emotion Bomb]] and [[Superpower Meltdown]] powers; at least half of the scrapes he gets himself into are caused by a combination of him deliberately walking unprepared into lethal environments or conveniently forgetting about one or more of his [[Psychic Powers]] in order to allow a different character to get a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. There's also at least one scene in ''Trouble Magnet'' where he ''does'' rely on his [[Emotion Bomb]] power to get himself out of a scrape, only to have it not work on him thanks to [[Power Incontinence]]... a fact he really ought to have taken into account considering how frequently it happens to him.

* When's the last time [[Daffy Duck]] flew under his own power?

** This was lampshaded in the short ''The Million Hare'', as [[Bugs Bunny]] witnesses Daffy plunging off a cliff, which was recycled so John Madden could make the same observation in ''Big Game XXIX''.

'''Madden:''' That's a good observation by Bugs. Why isn't Daffy using his God-given abilities? }}

** Similarly, in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', Daffy feels he's helpless and wishes that Duck Dodgers was there to save the day. Then he remembers that ''he'''s Duck Dodgers.