I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Haley''': Celia... Humans can't shoot energy out of our fingers.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Haley''': Celia... Humans can't shoot energy out of our fingers.

'''Celia''': What, not even lightning?|''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''}}

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* At the beginning of ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', Gon doesn't seem to know that most people can't follow a person in the middle of a forest by the scent of their ''aftershave''.

* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'''s Keith Goodman sometimes forgets that other people can't fly

{{quote| '''Keith:''' Why are you hesitating? Get up here!~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Keith:''' Why are you hesitating? Get up here!

'''Ivan:''' I can't!~~ ~~

'''Ivan:''' I can't!

'''Keith:''' Why not! Remember, you said you'd do your best!~~ ~~

'''Keith:''' Why not! Remember, you said you'd do your best!

'''Ivan:''' I don't ''have'' flight.~~ ~~

'''Ivan:''' I don't ''have'' flight.

'''Keith:''' ... Ah, that explains it. }}

* A variant appears in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', during the first fight with Father. He turns off the alchemy, but Scar and May can still transmute.

{{quote| '''Envy:''' How can you use alchemy here?!~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Envy:''' How can you use alchemy here?!

''(Scar and May glance at each other)''~~ ~~

''(Scar and May glance at each other)''

'''Scar:''' ...what do you mean? }}

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* Fitz's daughter Nettle in the ''Tawny Man'' trilogy is a DreamWeaver, but doesn't realize that this is anything special. She doesn't understand why other people have nightmares, because why would anyone want to stay in a dream they didn't like?

* Happens all the time in the setting of [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Alvin Maker]]'' [[Alternate History]]. The narrator rambles in the fourth book:

{{quote| Like a lot of folks, he has a knack and doesn't even know it because that's the way knacks work: it just feels as natural as can be to the person who's got it, as easy as breathing, so you don't think ''that'' could possibly be your unusual power because heck, that's ''easy''. You don't know it's a knack till other people around you get all astonished about it or upset or excited or whatever feelings your knacks seems to provoke in folks. Then you go, "Boy howdy, other's folks can't ''do'' this! I got me a knack!" and from then on there's no putting up with you till you finally settle down and get back to normal life and stop bragging about how you can do this fool thing that you used to never be excited about back when you still had sense.}}

{{quote|Like a lot of folks, he has a knack and doesn't even know it because that's the way knacks work: it just feels as natural as can be to the person who's got it, as easy as breathing, so you don't think ''that'' could possibly be your unusual power because heck, that's ''easy''. You don't know it's a knack till other people around you get all astonished about it or upset or excited or whatever feelings your knacks seems to provoke in folks. Then you go, "Boy howdy, other's folks can't ''do'' this! I got me a knack!" and from then on there's no putting up with you till you finally settle down and get back to normal life and stop bragging about how you can do this fool thing that you used to never be excited about back when you still had sense.}}

* Two-for-one example in [[The Riftwar Cycle]]: William and Gamina both know that William can communicate telepathically with animals. But he doesn't realize that this is unusual, and she doesn't realize that [[Adults Are Useless|none of the adults know about it]].

* [[Warrior Cats]]: Dovewing says this word for word when she finds out her super hearing is a special power.

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== Live Action TV ==

* Parker of ''[[Leverage]]'' makes a quick and accurate sketch of a hit man who's been following their mark around.

{{quote| '''Hardison:''' Wow, I didn't know you could do that.~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Hardison:''' Wow, I didn't know you could do that.

'''Parker:''' I thought everybody could do that. }}

* In one episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Jack and Elliot discover that the small, overly delicate Dennis Finch (David Spade) has a [[Gag Penis|penis whose size is such that it causes immediate crushing despair in other males at the sight of it]], and apparently has no clue that it's anything special.

{{quote| '''Jack:''' Dennis, how did you not KNOW? I mean, hadn't you ever seen other guys in the shower?~~ ~~

{{quote|'''Jack:''' Dennis, how did you not KNOW? I mean, hadn't you ever seen other guys in the shower?

'''Dennis:''' No, I sat gym out because of my allergies. The only time I saw other guys naked was in porn. I just thought I was a little above average. }}

:: Humorously, this is actually a rather wide-reaching (if funny) [[Retcon]]; previous episodes had definitively established that Finch was on the extreme ''other'' end of the size scale, and was once confused for a woman when he was seen in a skin-tight bathing suit. For most of his life (until this episode) he really ''wasn't'' extra-big.

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* Fonzie of ''[[Happy Days]]'' is convinced that he's been given a class of subnormal students because they can't change a carburetor perfectly after being shown how once, as he was able to as a boy.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Hyde]] in ''[[Jekyll]]''. He knows that ordinary people aren't as strong or fast as him, but is still surprised when he learns that Jackman can't do things like detect drugs in his bloodstream or pull up photo-quality images from his memory.

{{quote| "There's something new in our bloodstream, keeping me awake. Tickles."~~ ~~

{{quote|"There's something new in our bloodstream, keeping me awake. Tickles."

"You can feel your blood?"~~ ~~

"You can feel your blood?"

"You can't do that?" }}

* ''[[Alphas]]'': Marcus Ayers' ability gives him enough [[Awesomeness By Analysis]] to create [[Disaster Dominoes]] on purpose and he's convinced that everyone else can do the same thing, thus believing that [[There Are No Coincidences]], which drives his paranoia.