How Do I Shot Web?: Difference between revisions

== Films ==

* Happens literally in the first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movie.

** In the second movie, he loses the power to shot web.

* In ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'', Tony goes through a few iterations of flight testing with repulsor thrusters. His first attempt was just boots (and at 10% capacity) which gave him a faceplant... on the ceiling. Second test he got smart and added flight stabilizers on his hands (and only at 1% and then 2.5%), but still had some trouble before gaining control. His full flight-ready Mark 2 suit also took some time getting used to before he had flight control.

* 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:

* The constant bane of [[MMORPG]] veterans is newbies who get levelled up too fast thanks to [[Min-Maxing]] friends, and end up being very high level with absolutely no idea how to use any of their equipment or abilities, or the basic features of the game. ''[[City of Heroes]]'' players in particular justify it to themselves with this trope.

** [[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 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:

'''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 ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' have never been revealed. The in-comic reason is speculated to be that he's too... childlike to know his full potential.

** 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.

 

 

* In the second season finale of ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', Cedric falls victim to this trope after {{spoiler|devouring the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of seasons one and two, consequently gaining their powers, as well as}} gaining the powers of all five heroines. Despite having by far the most raw power of any villain in the series, he is unable to utilize his new skills to anywhere near their full potential. This, combined with [[Deadly Upgrade|new transformations for all five heroines]], led to Cedric's defeat in a little more than five minutes.

** [[Powers in the First Episode|In the very first episode]] the new Guardians have a powers practice that is the ''definition'' of how [[How Do I Shot Web?]]. None of their [[Elemental Powers]] are under control yet, flying is... iffy, even for the naturally inclined [[Blow You Away|Hay Lin]] and when the girls try to {{spoiler|save Caleb from Cedric}} Will attempts to do an [[All Your Powers Combined]] attack and hits everything ''but'' {{spoiler|Cedric}}. They do pull it together in the second episode and are seen practicing some more in later episodes.

* A recurring problem for Ben in ''[[Ben 10]]'', especially prevalent when he gains a new alien form and has no idea what it does. The first time he turned into Cannonbolt, not only could he not figure out how rolling up into an armored ball was useful in combat, but he kept losing his balance and falling over backwards when he tried to stand. Reaches its ultimate conclusion in [[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]] with Alien X, which is seemingly [[God Mode Sue|omnipotent]], but since Ben only gets to be one of its three personalities and the other two are constantly at odds with each other (the ''only'' thing they agree on is that they want Ben to provide tiebreaking votes for all their thousands of years worth of disagreements before they get to what ''he'' wants to do), it's nearly impossible to get it to do ''anything''.

** 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 G.e.e.K.e.R.]]'', the eponymous character Geeker has almost limitless power as a [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetically engineered]] cyborg. However, Becky stole Geeker before he could receive the programming which would allow him to control those powers (and allow the antagonist to control ''him''). Thus, Geeker generally discovers his powers by accident, and has difficulty controlling them.

* 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.

** 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.