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▲[[caption-width-right:300:[http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/2010/03/31/03312010/ Learning process]: 1 <br />[http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/2010/04/02/04022010/ Dignity]: 0 <ref> The web comes from a gland at the base of her spine, but it's a lot funnier to imagine [[Toilet Humor|otherwise.]]</ref>
You got a [[New Super Power]] or two? Great! [[Final Fantasy IV|Can you use them?]] While the standard hero seems to [[Possession Implies Mastery|instinctively know]] his or her way around every possible ability he or she can obtain throughout the story, some people have to flail and struggle, with everybody laughing at them. Hey, there's all those [[Required Secondary Powers]] that you have to master that nobody tells you about!
Also applies when a character attempts to [[Powers
Nonetheless some are too stubborn to give them up, and may become a kind of [[Evil Counterpart]].
One would expect this to be a natural co-trope for a [[Puberty Superpower]], which makes it strange that until recently this was rarely the
The name comes from [[Something Awful|Something Awful's]] randomly renamed and [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
Often follows up [[Powers in
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* One opponent in ''[[Flame of Recca]]'''s [[Tournament Arc]] managed to temporarily steal Recca's ability to summon his flame dragons. Setsuna, already a saucy and rather disobedient dragon, promptly asks why the hell he should listen to some new guy and fried him in annoyance.
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] leader Captain Ginyu trades bodies with Goku. This is fairly ingenious, because he waited until he was weakened and nearly defeated by Goku before trading. And to make it even better, he inflicted a severe wound to his own body (punching himself through the chest) immediately before making the switch. However, he couldn't get full power out of Goku's body, because he doesn't know his powerup technique, the Kaio-ken. Unfortunately for him, Vegeta then shows up and beats the snot out of him before he gets it to work.
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* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the rambunctious Kamina steals the Gurren and, confident that he has access to new powers, attempts to combine with the Lagann as the head. It fails pathetically and hilariously. They eventually get it to work, though, through determination.
** Similarly, Simon has a few issues with Lagann's systems at first, especially the jet thruster. Quoth Yoko: "Ah, hello? We're sorta falling..."
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'' Lelouch instinctively knows the basic principle behind the Geass but not all of the specific rules. For example, when he first gains the Geass power, he knows it can be used to force a group of people to obey any command he gives, even taking their own lives, but when Viletta confronted him in her [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare]], he found out the hard way that he needed direct eye contact for his power to work. Similarly, he does not realize that he cannot use the Geass more than once on the same person until he makes the mistake of trying to use it on Kallen twice. After this second mishap nearly gets him in a lot of trouble, rather than waiting to stumble upon every limitation, he uses logical, scientific methods to deduce all of the possible applications and restrictions of his new
** The fifth episode shows just how [[Crazy Prepared]] he is by having him rattle off all the things he's learned via experimentation, such as its maximum effective range of 270 meters. The audio commentary lampshades this when the voice actors (including [[Jun Fukuyama|Lelouch's]]) muse on exactly ''how'' he discovered these things, suggesting (for the range example) that he used cell phones in walkie-talkie fashion.
*** "Can I Geass you now? ... Good."
* Similarly, ''[[
** The Yotsuba executives (or rather, just {{spoiler|Higuchi}}) also learn some of its rules this way, for instance, giving someone a death condition that is physically impossible will result in that person simply dying of a heart attack.
* In ''[[Gate Keepers]]'', Ukiya Shun is blessed by the Gate of Wind. It took him several episodes just to even know how to properly summon the power again (which he did in the first episode by accident), and an episode testing a new technique (which he later perfects).
* The ''[[Rosario
** Tsukune himself had a bit of trouble until he got some well-earned [[Training
* Sort of happens to the protagonist of ''[[Prétear]]'', [[Magical Girl|Himeno Awayuki]]
* Skuld gets this in ''[[Ah
* At one point, Padudu of ''[[Magical Play]]'' (aka ''[[Magical Witchland]]'') saves two other characters from death via [[New Powers
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Ed learns of his ability to transmute without a circle by clasping his hands in frustration then grabbing a basin of water, heating it through alchemy to boiling temperature. Afterward, he has no clue how he managed to do it, and his attempts to reproduce the effect are unsuccessful until he finds himself in another emergency situation.
** That, however, only happens in the first anime. In the manga and the remake, he just [[Possession Implies Mastery|instinctively knows]] that he can do it, what with having seen the Truth and all. This fits in better with how he was able to bond Al's soul to a suit of armor immediately after losing his leg, when alchemists who had devoted years of research to it had far less luck with human transmutation.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo Kurosaki accidentally sets off his [[Took a Level
** Heck, much plot with Ichigo concerns the fact he has great power, but no real clue how to control it. His sword is mocked explicitly for being a "Big ball of fluff".
*** It got even worse when Ichigo unlocked {{spoiler|his Fullbring}}. At least with a sword you know that the basic goal is to [[Buffy
** Chad and Orihime aren't exceptions, either. They have to learn how to summon their powers at will (with fairly amusing results at first, especially when Chad tries to remember what Ichigo's younger sister Karin looks like), although Orihime manages to improve to the point where she can use her Shun Shun Rikka without calling their names. In the Bount Arc, Uryu has these issues with the artifact that he uses to fight without his powers.
** Part of the reason for Renji's loss against Byakuya is that he didn't know how to control his Bankai, enabling Byakuya to disrupt its rhythm and leave him vulnerable. Byakuya claims that mastering bankai takes at least a century of training. Something that he has, and Renji (who had just achieved bankai ''that day'') lacks.
* In ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', whenever they figured out a new thing the ship could do, trying it always lead to embarrassing mistakes. The first time they tried to take off, the anti-grav units broke free of the ship. Using the fold system left them millions of miles off-course, surrounded by ''inhabited bits of the island'' they folded near, and the fold engine ''disappeared''. The first time they transformed the ''Macross'', they destroyed the entire city inside the ship. The shield generator overloaded and destroyed Toronto. They just don't have good luck with the thing....
** They were able to use that last one to {{spoiler|take down Dolza's flagship by using the Daedalus Maneuver to break through the hull and then activate the shield while inside}}. It nearly destroyed the ship, but it's still the ship's and crew's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** [[Macross Frontier]] has an excellent deconstruction of this trope, Sheryl Nome received some base training on how to operate a VF-25; when the time came to put it to the test, her eyes narrow and she even gets a [[Theme Music Power Up]], which lasts long into her glorious failure at even flying in a straight line.▼
** On a much smaller scale, Hikaru in the second episode is a very competent pilot... of airplanes. When his Valkyrie unexpectedly turns into a giant robot, he promptly tries to make it walk. He topples forward and wrecks Minmay's room in doing so, and needs a conveniently-passing-by seafood truck to right him again.
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* In ''[[Zatch Bell]]'', almost every time Zatch and Kiyomaro learn a new spell, Kiyomaro still struggles to understand that the spells are powered by emotion and will. However when they learn their third spell, which magnetizes their opponent, Kiyomaro tries several unsuccessful attempts to test this spell (which he didn't know the effects of at the time), and eventually tried singing the incantation, very badly.
** Eventually Averted when Kiyomaro {{spoiler|dies and obtains Answer Talker,}} allowing him to know literally everything. And then used again when it turns out {{spoiler|he doesn't even know how to control it yet, needing help from Dufaux just to get it to work.}}
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', as Kuwabara is trapped inside Mitarai's water monster, he is determined to break free, and suddenly summons a special sword from his spiritual energy that can slice through dimensions, freeing himself and his friends and defeating Mitarai. The next morning, he tries to summon the same sword while fighting Sensui, but ends up getting his normal spirit sword instead.
* Nami with the Clima-Tact in her fight with Miss Doublefinger in ''[[One Piece]]''. Unfortunately for her, half of the functions on the device are party tricks (and they're listed first in the instruction manual), and the other half are abilities that are useful, but only if used correctly, and Usopp may not have known how good they can be (he suggests playing boomerang catch with the Cyclone Tempo). Despite this, once she manages to find the right functions to use, she manages to win once she identifies the good moves and learns how to use them. Nami's experience with the Perfect Clima-Tact is also like this to some extent.
** This applies even more to the [[Green Rocks|Devil Fruits]]. The average person who has absolutely no idea what their fruit even ''does'' unless they've either read a restricted access catalogue or been outright told. Even then, you'd have no idea how to activate it until you experiment. Brook's power only activated ''after he died'', meaning he could've started off simply knowing he couldn't swim. {{spoiler|Whitebeard's recently revealed}} power to {{spoiler|make earthquakes}} involves punching the air as if it were a glass window. [[Guide Dang It|Can you honestly say you'd figure that one out without being told?]]
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** A flashback to [[Rubber Man|Luffy's]] youth showed that it was years before he could even use Gum-Gum Pistol (basically just a stretching-arm punch, which is Luffy's most basic attack in the main storyline) without hitting the ground or it rebound into his own face.
** After Kaku ate a Devil's Fruit, he had trouble changing into the specific form he wanted and, since he hadn't been able to explore his new capabilities, just made new attacks up as he went along. Even so, he was a formidable opponent and adapted to his new powers much faster than the average DF user.
*** Still, having a full-grown giraffe fall through the ceiling [[One Piece
* Even though he had it first, Yuuno of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' never was able to properly use [[Empathic Weapon|Raising Heart]], only being able to fight with its crystal-like Standby Mode and [[By the Power of Grayskull|needing to say a really long activation phrase to do even that]]. One must wonder how he felt when the then beginner mage Nanoha was able to easily unlock a full Barrier Jacket, activate [[Swiss Army Weapon|RH's alternate Modes]], and do all of that without the need of the long incantation.
** According to the [[All There in the Manual|novel version and the official page]], [[Empathic Weapon|Raising Heart fine-tuned herself]] for Nanoha. Guess given the choice of being a tool for a Bombardment Mage or a Force Field Mage, AIs go for the path that lets it [[Stuff Blowing Up|blow stuff up]].
** In Sound Stage 3 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In an episode of ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam
** It isn't "proper operation" so much as "any sort of physical training"
* Likewise for ''[[Gundam]]'', [[Mobile Suit Gundam
* Judau Ashta of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
* Tobia Arronax of [[Crossbone Gundam]] specifically has a Worker MS license, but this isn't much help in a Combat MS. In his first sorty, he expects to only be an extra turret, and his Batara flounders around a little before righting (it ends with [[
* The first time [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]] tried to pilot an Eva with no training or preparation, he fell on his face. Fortunately, {{spoiler|putting him in danger this way activated the Crazy Protective Alter Ego of his Eva suit, who handily defeated the Angel for him.}}
* Season Three ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' spoiler'd example: {{spoiler|[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|In the Future]], when Tsuna first uses his [[Kill It
* Karin from ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' wore the Goddess Ring for YEARS without having a clue that it could allow her to transform into a [[Physical God]]. And even when she finds out, she struggles long and hard before even being able to transform without help, much less be any kind of useful. It probably doesn't help that she's [[This Loser Is You|really, really stupid]].
* In ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* [[Naruto]] faced this difficulty with controlling the Kyuubi's chakra throughout the series. After the time skip it's largely a matter of not going berserk while using it, but pre-time skip his major problem is accessing the power to begin with. This led to a month of humiliating "training" in summoning tadpoles, culminating with being thrown into a ravine.
** And just to make it worse, when summoning really counts, he's only able to get a toad the size of his hand. Twice!
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* In the original ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' manga, Kouji can't control Mazinger-Z when he first gets it and is forced to have Sayaka run out in the Aphrodite A to stop him and get him under control. The ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' OVA takes it one step further: Kouji thinks he can control it, but it takes control of him then goes into a berserker rage.
* Unlike virtually every other Precure before her, Tsubomi Hanasaki, alias Cure Blossom, of ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' has to be practically hand-held through most of her powers and abilities early on. Compare this to her teammate Erika Kurumi, alias Cure Marine, who was able to figure out everything on the word "go".
** A similar situation happens in ''[[
* ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' has this: Endou's Seigi no Tekken and God Catch, Tachimukai's Majin the Hand and Mugen the Hand, and Kidou/Fudou's attempt to create Emperor Penguin No.3.
* ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* The main-line [[Spider
== Comics ==▼
▲* The main-line [[Spider Man]] actually subverts the trope. Many of his powers are hardwired into his reflexes and instincts. As such, acrobatics, fighting, dodging bullets, and balancing are all things he can do automatically. In his introduction, he backfliped twenty feet and stuck to the side of a building mere minutes after being bitten by the radioactive spider, purely because his [[Spider Sense]] sensed a car about to run him over. Even web-slinging needed little practice purely because his reflexes prevented him from screwing up. Spidey's biggest problem tends to be the fact that his opponents are stronger and faster than him and/or have an [[Instant Death Radius]] that requires him to be smart about using his powers.
* The Super-Skrull is a recurring ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' villain who can use all the super-powers of that team, plus has a native alien ability to shapeshift. Nevertheless, he is always defeated, usually by the Four's ability to [[The Power of Friendship|work as a team]].
** It's been explain in canon that one of the reasons he loses to the FF is that some of them have gotten upgraded (either explicitly or via Power Drift) since he was created. For example Sue Storm wasn't the most powerful member of the team when they copied her, so her powers are stronger than the Super Skrull's. The Thing and Johnny Storm also had power ups. Reed has stayed the same, but his real power is his brain and he is indeed smarter than Super Skrull.
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** Xavin, another Skrull with similar abilities, can barely use more than one power at a time.
*** In the ''Secret Invasion'' tie-in, it was shown that while Xavin can only use one power at a time, he became better at using them individually than his teacher could.
** In "[[Secret Invasion]]", it is revealed that the Skrulls now have the idea to copy ''any'' superhuman's powers, appearance, and memory perfectly. As revealed in the sub-series 'New Avengers'. (written by the same dude), they really, really worked very, very hard at it.
* In ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]]: Year One'', everyone's powers (And their related ''[[Nightmare Fuel|body parts]]'') are stolen by a villain. He seems to instantly know how to work each individual power, but the villain primarily relies on Green Lantern's ring, the flashiest and most "powerful" of the abilities. By overlooking the benefits of each different power [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|Aquaman is able to overpower and kick his ass.]]
* Subverted in the current origin story of the Hal Jordan [[Green Lantern]], ''[[Emerald Dawn]]''. In this story, Jordan stumbles about with his newly bestowed power ring, barely defeats a powerful villain and realizes that he is out of his depth with the weapon. To solve that problem, Jordan asks the ring if there is another member of the Green Lantern Corps he can talk to for help. The ring whisks him away to meet Tomar-Re, who recommends that Jordan come to GLC headquarters on the planet Oa for the optional training program. Jordan, naturally, takes that advice.
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*** It could easily be argued that this trope is the basis for the X-Men as a whole, as the series has ''always'' revolved around a group of mutants who are ''being trained in the use of their own powers'' at what is quite literally a school that exists for precisely that purpose.
** Inverted with Rogue, who can use her powers quite well, but doesn't know how to turn them off (It's been pretty much spelled out that she ''could'' control them, except that [[The Woobie|some serious psychological trauma]] concerning both her power's first use and the effects of continued use were serving as a block.)
* The trope is very logically subverted in ''[[X-Factor (
** By the time Alchemy reappeared in the pages of ''Excalibur'', he had gotten enough education and control over his power that he was able to restore the humans he had inadvertently transformed after the trolls had kidnapped him again to try and force him to change their leaders back to normal.
** Never explained was why Alchemy thought he could learn more about biochemistry in a university than with X-Factor, given that one of their members is the Marvel Universe's most brilliant biochemist.
** Being smart doesn't necessarily make you any good at teaching. Also, super-teams are notoriously busy. You know. With fighting.
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** Spidey however, had no trouble figuring out how to shoot webs because it isn't actually one of his powers! That's right, Peter Parker actually designed some web fluid and shooters using his awesome powers of nerdiness. At least, not until later in the comics when he (temporarily) ''does'' get natural webbing (an idea taken from [[The Movie]]).
** The new Spiderman Miles Morales currently does not shoot web, but would really like too. He's asked Spiderwoman but she didn't answer him.
* In the 1990s [[Marvel Comics]] ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' comic series, Rick and Sleepwalker [[Freaky Friday|end up accidentally switching bodies after an encounter with one of Sleepwalker's enemies]], and Rick has to try and figure out how to use Sleepwalker's abilities, in between being attacked by supervillains and demons from the Mindscape.
* Parodied in a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip where Calvin is standing around trying to get his butt to light up like a firefly, and attributes his lack of success to "not even knowing what muscle to flex".▼
* [[
▲* In the 1990s [[Marvel Comics]] ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' comic series, Rick and Sleepwalker [[Freaky Friday|end up accidentally switching bodies after an encounter with one of Sleepwalker's enemies]], and Rick has to try and figure out how to use Sleepwalker's abilities, in between being attacked by supervillains and demons from the Mindscape.
** Similarly, Phil Urich himself had a number of problems figuring out how to use the Green Goblin's equipment when he moonlighted as a superhero in the short-lived ''[[Green Goblin]]'' series Marvel published in the 1990s.
▲* [[Spider-Girl (Comic Book)|Spider-Girl]] didn't exactly have problems learning to use her powers, but she needed training from her [[Spider Man|father]] and his friend Phil to really be able to master them and become a more experienced fighter.
▲** Similarly, Phil Urich himself had a number of problems figuring out how to use the Green Goblin's equipment when he moonlighted as a superhero in the short-lived ''[[Green Goblin]]'' series Marvel published in the 1990s.
** Later, in ''[[Runaways]]'', he knew how to fly the ship the mysterious benefactor gave Phil's group because it was based on the Goblin equipment.
* [[Darkhawk]] received a cool amulet that turned him into an armored android with super-powers, but unfortunately it didn't come with an instruction manual. As a result, teenage Chris Powell ends up discovering many of his abilities by trial and error, and otherwise practicing to determine the limits of his abilities.
* In an issue of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', the villain Absorbing Man absorbs the android Vision's ability to become intangible. He promptly falls through the pier he's standing on and into the water, due to a lack of control.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s ally and generally lovable loser the Fabulous Frog-Man. Stealing the fully automated frog-suit of his father, the villainous Leapfrog, Eugene Patilio wholeheartedly attempts to make a difference while being utterly clueless about how the suit works. This proves to be his greatest strength, however, as [[The Fool|his frequent misfired jumps tend to knock out waves of bad guys]] and make him look like a real hero who knows what he's doing. Pretty much the only person who knows that Eugene is a bumbler in person is Spidey himself.
* Liz Sherman from ''[[Hellboy (
* Poor [[
** In fairness, it's kind of hard to know instinctively that the super-suit ''enhances libido''. Yeah, exactly.
*** It's [[Fanon]] (and suggested by [[Mind Screw]] in-universe) that the costume gives fantastic cosmic powers limited only by the user's self
* Speedball from the Marvel universe spent issue after issue trying to figure out how to get his bouncing powers under control; not just turning them off when they were inconvenient, but just bouncing in the right direction. He learned how just in time.
* The [[Justice League of America]] suffered a multiple bodyswap in the TPB ''Foreign Bodies''; a female villain called Psykosis was incited to do it by Cobra. It ended up with Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern) operating the body of J'onn J'onzz, J'onn taking over Aquaman's body, Aquaman in temporary possession of Wonder Woman's body, Wonder Woman in Psykosis' body, Psykosis' psyche in Flash's body, Flash in Steel's body, and Steel in Green Lantern's body. Separate to this, Superman and Batman had simply swapped bodies {{spoiler|or so it seemed; in actuality, Batman was indeed in Superman's body, but Cobra had taken command of Batman's body, leaving Superman resident in Cobra's body}}. And boy howdy, Hilarity did indeed Ensue at nearly everyone's expense before it was over.
** Worth noting that [[Batman]] gets an ''immediate'' grasp on [[Superman]]'s powers, and starts saving the day worldwide. Only, he laments that so much power is ''distracting''.
* Way back in ''Tales of Suspense'' #39, when Tony Stark first put on his [[Iron Man]] armor to escape from a Vietnamese prison camp, he takes one step in his armor and falls flat on his face.
* In ''Iron Man'' #200, Obadiah Stane puts on his brand-new baby, the Iron Monger suit, to fight Tony (wearing his brand-new Silver Centurion armor), because he ''knows'' [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|it's Tony coming after him]]. However, Stane has no experience, so he has to rely on a remote computer to assist him in the fight. When Stark realizes this (as he's been detecting strange transmissions throughout their fight), he destroys the building that's been transmitting to Stane's suit, leaving Stane outmatched.
** Averted with Iron Man's first match with Firepower in #230, as Jack Taggert's been training extensively on a simulator, and the real suit's capabilities [[Curb Stomp Battle|totally overwhelm Iron Man]].
* Eric O'Grady, the Irredeemable Ant-Man, was pretty much completely winging it throughout the entire twelve issue run of his series; he was constantly learning how to access his various abilities (like communing with and controlling insects or flying with his suit's extra jet legs). In fact, he scarred his immediate superior's face while trying to escape after stealing the suit to begin with. Later, after he became a cadet at Camp Hammond in ''Avengers: The Initiative'', he discovers he can ''grow'' in size, too (with the possible limitation of this only happening in response to a threat posed by someone else turning giant with Pym Particles).
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* In Marvel's [[Young Avengers]], teenage spellcaster Asgardian (later Wiccan) is shown to have difficulty using his powers. His boyfriend, Hulkling, helps him learn to control them with ordinary self-help books.
* Way back in the origins of the [[New Mutants]], Cannonball was only able to shoot himself straight ahead, and stopped mainly by running into things. It took a while for him to control his flight, much less realize he could steer himself and get any good at it. Luckily for him, he's physically invulnerable while "blasting" (and {{spoiler|possibly immortal, depending on which retcon they're on at the moment}}), so he could always walk away from a crash.
** This was also the case with ''[[
* Parodied in the [[Great Lakes Avengers]], with the Grasshopper. After spending a couple of pages setting him up as an important character, revealing his identity, origin, and mandatory superhero romantic troubles, he decides to exit the scene by engaging the "Maximum Jump" capability of his super-suit. It launches him into space and he dies.
* The second [[Blue Beetle]], Ted Kord, inherited the magical {{spoiler|(or, as it much later transpires, alien tech)}} scarab that powered his predecessor's superhuman abilities - but couldn't figure out how to make it work for him. He never did - which didn't stop him from having a long heroic career as the Beetle under his own steam.
** The *third* Beetle (Jaime Reyes), incidentally, gets along with the scarab like a house on fire. It just didn't take to Ted.
*** It's implied by the scarab that the reason it didn't work for him is because he hung around [[Foe Yay|Booster]] [[Booster Gold|Gold]] too much, supposedly because of being exposed to too much of his 'mulitverse energy'
* One of the deaths investigated in ''[[Powers]]'' turns out to be an accident caused by someone losing control of his newly-acquired flight power. Walker finds him [[Driven to Suicide|too late]].
* In the [[Silver Age]], Superboy stories, Ma and Pa Kent were shown helping Superboy hone his powers. Particularly true with flight. Unlike in Smallville, he figured out the thrust mechanism early on but had trouble with steering. In the [[Modern Age]] New Krypton storyline, Superman was shown to be an elite soldier because of his extensive experience using his powers, leading to him training fellow soldiers in the New Krypton military. Supergirl, by contrast, was able to activate all her powers but struggled with holding back.
* [[Captain Atom]] is an interesting example. He didn't realize he had any powers at all at first; as far as he knew he just had a [[Chrome Champion|peculiar deformity]]. He realized he could fly only when he had to jump out of a rocket he had been stashed on, and then only discovered his [[Flying Brick|nigh-invulnerability]] when Dr. Megala had Babylon shoot him. He discovered some of his other powers while experimenting and training with Megala, and discovered others as time went on. What's particularly interesting about this case is that there may be [[Physical God|no actual limit to his powers]], but he only gradually discovers this. Of course, many writers [[Power Creep, Power Seep|remember or forget the extent of Cap's powers]] as is [[New Powers
* In ''[[
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* Michikyuu Kanae in ''[[Kyon
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* When, in ''[[Shinji and
* In ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk II]]'', when multipowered main character Doug Sangnoir temporarily gives [[Bubblegum Crisis|Lisa Vanette]] telekinesis -- when she wants to try something novel with it, the ''power itself'' tells her how to do it.
* Similarly subverted in ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8215565/1/Knowledge-is-Useful-But-Power-is-Power Knowledge Is Useful, But Power Is Power]'', a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic by "DisobedienceWriter". Harry discovers that after stretching and developing his magical abilities to a certain point, ''Magic itself'' seems to be reaching out to him and telling him how to do more and more advanced magic.
== Films ==
* Happens literally in the first ''[[Spider-Man (
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** In the second movie, he loses the power to shot web.
* In ''[[Iron Man (
** He doesn't even intentionally create his iconic hand beams; he just accidentally finds out that having his hand stabilizers go off at full power while not in flight fires a blast of energy.
** Ironically subverted by <s>[[The Big Lebowski|His Dudeness]]</s> {{spoiler|Obadiah Stane,}} the film's villain, who is able to match Iron Man blow for blow when he gets his own suit of armor, despite having never been shown to have any training of his own. However, {{spoiler|he relies heavily on a targeting computer; when Iron Man disables that, he quickly proves unable to hit him with missiles from about ten feet away. Nor does Stane know about the dangers of his armor freezing up if he flies too high, a problem Iron Man had already dealt with earlier in the film and that he now exploits when Stane makes the same mistake he did.}}
** Stark didn't have much trouble operating his original "escape" suit either, despite not having
* Even [[Wolverine]] isn't immune, spending the first few hours after he got his adamantium claws in ''[[X-Men (
* Basically the main plot of ''[[The Meteor Man]]'', where much of the movie is spent on Jefferson Reed learning to use his new powers, including flight (despite being afraid of heights).
* A similar thing happens to the title character in ''[[Sgt. Kabukiman
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'' shows Bruce Wayne experimenting with the technology that would eventually become part of his iconic identity, learning from his mistakes (bouncing off that fire escape ''had'' to hurt!) and upgrading accordingly.
* [[The Messiah|Luke]] [[Luke Nounverber|Skywalker]] spends much of the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy learning how to use his [[The Force|Jedi powers]], especially during his [[Training
* [[X
* During his first flight as [[The Rocketeer (
== Literature ==
* Covenant in the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' spends a remarkable number of pages not having a real hang of his own [[Wild Magic]]. Most of it is pure instinct, even without his knowledge early on. It's not until the second trilogy that we see him directing it toward definite purposes, complete with a training regimen... he uses his wild magic to shave, precisely to teach himself control over it.
* Say what you will about the [[
** Learning to use ''saidin'' without a teacher is so difficult that Rand finally has to [[Batman Gambit|trap a Forsaken]] to keep from getting himself killed. Later, Nynaeve and Elayne hold another one hostage in order to learn lost techniques that have stayed lost for a good three millennia.
* [[Dragaera|Vladimir Taltos]] has no freaking clue what he's doing with {{spoiler|his new [[Empathic Weapon]], Godslayer}} and has gotten himself in a lot of trouble with such screw-ups as accidentally destroying a sorceress's soul in the process of blocking something nasty she threw at him.
* [[Mary Sue|Richard]] from ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' never learns how to use the vast majority of his abilities... except, of course, the ones that are absolutely necessary to allow him to [[Deus Ex Machina|save the day]].
** Richard's magic appears to be keyed to strong emotion; a big deal was made of whether or not he could actually ''use'' his anger in the first book, as opposed to simply keeping it locked inside himself.
** Subverted in the case of
** There is a villainous case in book 4, where [[Big Bad|Jagang]] takes over the mind of a wizard. He ''can'' use simple telekinesis and throw fireballs, but never uses more advanced powers like [[Deflector Shields]] or tranfiguration.
* ''[[Matilda (
* The better part of a chapter of ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Life The Universe and Everything]]'' is devoted to Arthur Dent learning to fly. ''By accident.'' To put it simply, he was falling, and got so distracted that he ''missed the ground.''
* In each of the ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' books, the protagonists have to get the hang of being the Incarnations of Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night, respectively.
* In ''[[Mistborn]]'', it turns out that phenomenal cosmic power does not include the ability to think its effects through. An [[Evil Counterpart]] is also present and capable of countering it with opposite-but-equal force, so ''all'' attempts at figuring out the power either fizz out or 'splode. {{spoiler|Rub out the perpetual clouds of smoke, see the sun for the first time -- no block. The sun looks a lot bigger than it is supposed to. The day face of the planet catches fire. Spin the planet to save that face -- no block. Try to stop the tsunamis that result -- block. Also, gloating.}}
* Not knowing how to properly control magic in the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' will likely kill you from either a rebound of magical energy or, more likely, draining your life force away before you can cancel the spell.
** It's also been said repeatedly in-universe that truly mastering the art of magic takes decades of practice and diligence. For the first book and a half, Eragon's progress follows this trend, as he slowly progresses from struggling to lift a rock with his mind to effortlessly casting fire based spells. Of course, then he undergoes a crash course in magic with the elves and then becomes half elf during the Blood-Oath Ceremony, completely eliminating the need for a slow progression.
* Most of the mutants in ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' suffer from this, particularly Sam. Strangely, Caine and Diana have already figured out how to use their powers because [[Evil Is Cool]] and [[Good Is Dumb]].
** Diana and Caine spent a while practicing their powers before coming down to Perdido Beach. It was said in the first book they'd had their powers for a couple months.
* ''Shonsu'' in ''The Seventh Sword'' trilogy, by Dave Duncan, spends all three books learning to use the abilities given to him by a goddess. When he is first granted the abilities and knowledge to be the world's greatest swordsman, he has no idea. As the story progresses, he learns more and more about his capabilities, usually as the situations arise. This even applies to textbook-type knowledge, which actually works really well in the story.
** Early on in the story, he gets sentenced to death, but survives his own execution after being thrown off a cliff. Witnesses are surprised that he didn't drown, but also {{spoiler|that he wasn't eaten by the deadly fish in the river at the base of the waterfall}}.
** Next, he's on trial for his life again for attacking and killing a group of people who were trying to kill him. He had no idea there were rules of chivalry that prevented him from fighting two opponents at once. {{spoiler|he was found to be innocent because he had waded into the river to sneak up on his opponents, which meant that his actions were ordained by the goddess. Otherwise, he would have been eaten by the same killer fish.}}
* In ''[[Nightside|Just Another Judgement Day]]'', there's a humorous scene at the Adventurer's Club when a wannabe supervillain with no clue how his (stolen) magic rings work accidentally teleports himself into the midst of a huge crowd of Nightside heroes, rather than into the neighboring club he'd intended to rob.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Peter Petrelli in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', both in season one (where he learned how to control his empathic powers from Claude) and in season two (where he got amnesia and forgot both which powers he had ''and'' how to use them). This seems to be one of the recurring problems which always almost brings about an apocalypse of some sort. There is also serial killer Sylar, who can use powers ''better'' than the person he stole from due to his [[Awesomeness By Analysis|supernatural ability to analyse how things work]], including brains.
** Hell, in the beginning of Season One Peter ''didn't even know what his power was'', having spent his life around <s> exactly one person</s> {{spoiler|<s>precisely two people</s> <s>three people</s> five people}} with a power he could copy.
** {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli}} doesn't seem to have this problem. {{spoiler|He has a pretty good handle on how to use the powers he stole from Peter despite not having seen him use them.}}
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* This is the entire premise of the show ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]''.
** It's worth noting that Ralph ''finally'' got a replacement super-suit instruction manual in one episode. {{spoiler|He loses it when, experimenting with shrinking powers, he gets startled by an ant and returns to normal size... leaving the manual microscopic.}}
* Happens frequently to the witches in ''[[
* Used in ''[[Smallville]]'' a number of times as Clark's [[Puberty Superpower|emerging powers]] make themselves known, most notably with his heat vision and x-ray vision. Clark spends all the way up to ''Season 10'' unable to figure out how to fly, while Kara and other Kryptonians can do it in a few minutes.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'', Kit's first attempt to transform into Dragon Knight includes multiple inflections of his [[By the Power of Greyskull|transformation phrase]] ("'Kamen Rider!' 'Kamen... RIDER'? 'Kamenrider'?"), similar to the ''Spider-Man'' film.
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** [[Kamen Rider Kuuga]] has to learn how to use the abilities of each form, usually with help from his friends.
** [[Kamen Rider Faiz]] was not meant to have the armor but is one of few who can use it. There are a lot of features Takumi doesn't know about until he stumbles onto them. In one episode, Delta summons a rocket bike. Takumi summons the one he never knew he had by entering the same code. {{spoiler|It gets destroyed in the same episode as he's not as good with it as his opponent is with his own. Of course, he still has a [[Cool Bike]].}}
** ''[[
* There was a scene in the first episode of ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' where the Rangers try to figure out how to activate their morphers. And then when they actually go out to face the bad guys, they struggle for a minute to remember the [[By the Power of Greyskull]] phrase.
* In a relatively unremarkable [[Freaky Friday Flip|body switch]] episode of ''[[
** Let's not forget that John was in Aeryn's body while giving the instructions, for added hilarity.
* British superhero drama ''[[Misfits]]'' really goes to town with this trope. Of the five protagonists, only Simon (whose power is [[Invisibility]]) can exert any kind of deliberate control over his power, while the others remain baffled and exasperated by their ungovernable abilities. Both Kelly, who hates being [[Telepathy|telepathic]] and wishes she could just turn it off, and Alisha, whose [[Blessed
* The Objects from ''[[The Lost Room]]'' have shades of this, when someone even knows what they do or how to activate them. This is doubly true for the abilities of Object combinations, which don't always have anything to do with combining the abilities of the individual Objects.
* The pilot of ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'' involved Darian being implanted with a gland that can turn him invisible, after which he has to be taught how to activate it, and then he experiments with it and learns to do things the scientists who developed the gland didn't even think were possible.
* The members of ''[[No Ordinary Family]]'' have to spend quite some time learning the strengths and limitations of their new abilities. It occasionally goes poorly.
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Parodied in a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip where Calvin is standing around trying to get his butt to light up like a firefly, and attributes his lack of success to "not even knowing what muscle to flex".
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Roleplaying game ''[[Scion]]'' has the character channeling their divine power through
* It takes [[La Résistance]] around a year to figure out how to pilot an ANIMa without killing themselves in ''[[Bliss Stage]]''. It's still very unintuitive [[The Power of Love|even with proper Anchoring.]]
== Video Games ==
* The [[Pokémon]] Ditto has only one
* Rumia of ''[[
** Keine can hide and "eat" history, as well as create entirely new history in her hakutaku form, which would make her one of the most powerful characters in a setting already overflowing with [[Story
* The backstory to the NESTS saga character Nameless in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' reveals that he had a number of problems controlling his pyrokinetic abilities. Most of his time after testing was spent in the infirmary recovering from severe burns, and on his first real assignment he killed somebody just by tapping them on the shoulder.
* Shirou of ''[[Fate/stay
** This also happens with {{spoiler|Sakura}}, who never received proper training as a magus and because of this has trouble controlling her magic. She ''does'' wind up being able to use it by instinct... {{spoiler|when she goes crazy and gets access to Angra Mainyu's gamebreaking powers}}. [[Oh Crap]], indeed.
* Much of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' focuses on Terra's inability to control her powers as a {{spoiler|half-Esper}}.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. After his defeat at Nibelheim, Sephiroth is inactive for 7 years, trapped in Mako until he returns with Jenova's powers. There's some debate on whether that comes down to Sephorith learning how to control Jenova or ''the other way around'', but [[Word of God]] has said that Jenova was not in control. Although that Word of God was released 10 years after the original game.
* In ''[[.hack]]'' games, both Kite and Haseo needs to learn how to use their powers. Kite got off lightly, since his Twilight Bracelet can be used easily (with the catch that if he has too much viral infection, he'd, quite simply, die). No mishaps there (except player-induced). Haseo however, basically had to undergo a lot of training to obtain his Epitaph Power as Skeith. The first time he got it out, he nearly comatosed a group of people. Afterwards, he's inclined to pull this off to anyone that threatens him, comatose or no. Inevitably, he loses control of Skeith since he used it with such a reckless abandon. Were it not for {{spoiler|Kuhn}}'s special power, he would've permanently comatosed someone.
* In ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', although he's a crack shot with his bow, Wander doesn't know much about how to use his sword except that it shines when he is getting near a colossus and "point stabby end at colossus; stab."
* In ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', {{spoiler|Grissom}} takes a few moments to notice he [[Came Back Wrong]] and now has cool undead powers:
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* The constant bane of [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] veterans is newbies who get levelled up too fast thanks to [[Min
** [[World of Warcraft]] also has this apply to the ability to pay to change your talents, or buy an alternate set of talents. As such, players may be quite good at using their current talent tree, but may neeed some adjustment while switching to others, as a Warrior might be quite good at the DPS Arms tree, but not as good with Fury (which is also DPS), let alone tanking with Protection without quite a bit of practice.
* In ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'', Ryu is born as a baby dragon, and his first few shapeshifts between human and dragon forms (which occur outside of actual combat) are [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|completely uncontrolled]]. Although the player gains the ability to transform at will during battle, it is not until [[Time Skip|later]], when he reaches adulthood, that he has full control over his transformations.
* Played with in [[Metroid|Super Metroid]] and Metroid Fusion. Samus always had the ability to walljump and shinespark, but learns to use it from the Zebes animals. When the SA-X appears, it is completely unable to do such techniques, and neither uses the rest of its abilities at their fullest potential.
* Bang Shishigami from [[
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* After the titular character of ''[[
** She should have asked the [[The Venture Brothers|Brown Widow]] for some tips.
** In real life, a spider's webbing comes out of the rear of the abdomen, so this is also [[Truth in Television]].
*** Sahira, a biology major, almost dies laughing at this:
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'''Heather/Spinnerette:''' It does not come out of my ''ass''! [[Insistent Terminology|It comes out of a gland at the base of my spine!]] }}
* The full capabilities of the Monster in the Darkness from ''[[
** Xykon implies once or twice that he actually knows the exact limitations and capabilities of the Monster in the Darkness, even if the Monster doesn't; he's repeatedly stated that the Monster is his trump card, and he has no intentions of bringing it out until its planned debut, or until things go completely out the window, whichever comes first.
* Even though she gained her alternate form some time ago, Mye from [https://web.archive.org/web/20130729040412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/ Charby the Vampirate] doesn't know most of the forms abilities. While she did suddenly learn she could teleport during a fight, and apparently has much greater strength, she still hasn't gotten around to learning to fly and mentions the fact to herself every time she gets stuck in a situation where flight would get her to safety.
* In ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'', the main character Yuuki is selected to be the next Valkyrie, and is flung into several fights with no idea how to use her new powers. She's forced to more or less play it by ear early on. That's not the least of her problems, though...
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Gwynn has never really mastered using her magical ability, partly because, more often than not, she bungles the spells badly and [[Hilarity Ensues]] (or, after the strip's 20th anniversary, Drama Ensues), partly because the source of her powers is the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Book of]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|E-Ville]]. She's never mastered ''not'' using her magical ability, either. This has left her, as of mid-2019, {{spoiler|exiled to an otherwise no-longer-used HeretiCorp space station where there is no magic for her to draw upon}}.
* Agatha goes through a period of this early in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', but for "sparks," this is normal. In fact, she would have finished going through the Shot Web phase years ago if she hadn't been {{spoiler|handicapped by her uncle's locket for her own protection}}.
** Following {{spoiler|the locket's removal}}, Gil remarks that she didn't break through so much as ''ease'' through.
* The first several chapters of ''[
* Happens frequently in ''[[Homestuck]]'', as the kids try to figure out what powers they have and how to use them. John takes an especially long time to figure out his [[Blow You Away|Heir of Breath]] powers but is ridiculously good at them once he learns the tricks; he also takes a while to master his [[Inventory Management Puzzle|Sylladex]]. Dave, figures out his [[Time Travel|Knight of Time]] powers relatively quickly, though he still [[Can't Catch Up]] with John in terms of raw power; his abilities are apparently more complicated, however, as he has to figure out how to navigate the game's [[Timey
** This trope is mostly averted when each of the kids reach God Tier. John, {{spoiler|Rose, and Aradia}} all display instant mastery. On the other hand, Jade, who inherited both God Tier and {{spoiler|First Guardian}} powers is still working her way through the latter abilities.
* Happens frequently in ''[[Kagerou]]'', one of the more notable examples being Kano learning how to use the magic sword he's given. He still hasn't quite gotten then hang of it despite ongoing training and having had to use it a few times to avoid being killed.
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* ''[[Sequential Art]]'', [https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1131 strip 1131], during an arc in which Kat has been transformed into a dragon in order to fight another dragon:
{{quote|"I hate it when there's no tutorial."}}
== Web Original ==
* A common problem in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. Fey couldn't do magic at first, and kept accidentally firing off
* Several campaigns in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' were built around the premise that the characters had ''literally'' just got their powers, and had no idea at all how to use them. For the most part, these campaigns resembled the first season of ''[[Greatest American Hero]]''.
** Occasionally, this was used to justify an experienced hero learning to use a new power as well.
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== Western Animation ==
* Princess from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' acquires powers like the heroines' several times over the course of the series, by various means. She fails to beat them every time, but never learns a lesson about it.
* The ''[[X
** That's because they were being trained specifically to control their powers, and other characters (Cyclops, Jean, Nightcrawler) had been using their power for years but still had trouble getting it right from time to time.
* In the second season finale of ''[[WITCH (
** [[Powers in
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* A recurring problem for Ben in ''[[
** Same applies to Ben's [[Evil Counterpart]] Kevin 11, who instead of utilizing the full array of his Omnitrix powers (i.e. phasing, super-intelligence, super-speed, machine control) pretty much prefers to just either smash stuff or blast stuff. In ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' Ben has to point out to him that he can phase through objects. He does get more creative in his power usage after realizing he's got so many different abilities, though.
* In ''[[Project
* Danny in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' constantly gets new ghost powers with some conjunctions to [[Puberty Superpower]] every so often and as per usual, half of them are often hard to control. Duplication is a frequent issue for him and his Ghostly Wail started off as a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]], among others. He eventually got most of it mastered by the end.
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** Valerie played it straight and averted it. With her first suit, it took her a while to get the hang of it and it was pretty clear in her first few hunting ventures that she was new at the whole ghost-hunting thing. But, when she got the upgraded suit from Technus, she knew how to use all the equipment and what/where all her weapons were, despite most of it being drastically different.
* In the ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' prequel "XANA Awakens", on his first materialization on Lyoko Odd discovers his power to fire Lazer Arrows quite by accident, almost hitting Ulrich with one.
** There is a repeat incident in episode "A Fine Mess", where [[Freaky Friday Flip|Odd and Yumi exchange bodies]] and Odd-in-Yumi has to explain to Yumi-in-Odd how to fire the
*** Amusingly, Yumi-in-Odd can't quite get the hang of the Overboard either, and ends up sitting on it like a go-kart. Of course, [[Fridge Logic|we're not supposed to ask why they didn't just switch vehicles.]]
*** [[Fridge Logic|Then again, they vehicles may be "bound" to their avatars, like in an MMORPG.]]
* One episode of ''[[
** Which he did almost immediately, just the ring started running out of power shorty after he got it. There's a
* In "The N Men", an episode of ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', this kids almost destroy the entire town before they learn to control their newly acquired superpowers.
* In ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', [[Evil Twin|Negaduck]] manages to gain the powers of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Fearsome Four]] and basically goes [[One
** Come to think of it, Darkwing ('Arachnoduck', [[Spider
** Also multiple instances of people randomly getting suited in the Gizmoduck outfit by accidentally saying the command code "Blathering Blatherskates."
* One episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
** Starfire and Raven's learning experiences, interestingly, are about attitude rather than the powers themselves. They both have powers tied to their emotions, but while Starfire's only work when her emotions are allowed to flow free, Raven has to keep her emotions under strict control lest her powers go off unexpectedly and wreak havoc.
** Terra had trouble controlling her powers, as well. It became a serious issue...
* The pilot of ''[[Batman:
* Behind-the-scenes info for [[Made of Explodium|Combustion Man]] from ''[[
** The entire storyline of the series is fundamentally about [[The Hero|Aang]] mastering [[Making a Splash|Water]], [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth]], and [[Playing
* In the animated series of ''[[Legion of Super
* ''[[Young Justice (
** In season 2, [[Blue Beetle]] Jaime Reyes has powerful suit of [[Adaptive Armor]] capable of creating just about anything he can imagine and even has [[Universal Translator]] capabilities. Too bad he has no idea how to use any of the Scarab's powers at first, and the Scarab's [[Artificial Intelligence]] hurts more than it helps since it always suggests the most violent and destructive approach to solving any problem. In "Salvage" the Scarab doesn't inform Jaime that it can communicate with the monster that's kicking his and Superboy's behinds until Jaime rhetorically asks if it can do so because the Scarab sees peaceful communication as a sign of weakness.
* In [[Iron Man: Armored Adventures
* Averted in an episode of ''[[Justice League]] Unlimited'', "The Great Brain Robbery." After inadvertently swapping minds with the Flash, [[Lex Luthor]] seems to fare pretty well in his new body, and the other League members have a hell of a time trying to stop him.
* When Scott Lang from ''[[
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* Learning to use a gun is often very much like this. Sure, there's the obvious parts such as pointing the barrel at what you want to kill and pulling the trigger. However, mastering a gun, especially a complex modern assault rifle, is difficult. You have to learn about sighting, trigger pull technique, the fire control group, loading, dropping magazines, changing magazines, aiming, disassembly, reassembly, and cleaning.
** Likewise for most things - firing a bow, drawing a picture, etc.
* Many martial arts are good examples. Throwing a punch? Simple, right? Wrong. Each martial art has a technique, and it takes time to learn how to punch properly. Same applies to strikes, kicks, throws, stances, et cetera.
* Inverted with building a PC, the standards of interconnects (everything is designed to fit one way) and mounting (everything is designed to mount one way) make building a PC no harder than assembling that Lego castle. The hard part though, is troubleshooting when something goes wrong.
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