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* Koyomi of ''[[Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou]]'' knows ''one'' spell. She can turn a spell into a falling washpan. ''Any'' spell, belonging to anybody. A cantrip, a fireball, a nuke, a [[MacGuffin]].... Yeah, once the implications are realized, the other mages see her usefulness, although she doesn't quite realize what a [[Game Breaker]] she has.
* In ''[[The Slayers]]'', the abundantly competent white-magic user Shilfiel tries her hand at black magic to balance out her repetoire and be more useful in combat. She's so woefully incompetent at this (her spell creates a {{spoiler|magic carrot}}) that Zelgadis later asks her to cast the spell for him, relying on her inability to make it harmful, since he wants to use it to snap a teammate out of their trance.
** Subverted in the second season, when {{spoiler|she uses the Dragon Slave against Phibrizzo, and later says she learned it to be more like Lina so she could travel with Gourry}} proving that she has no inherent weakness in offensive magic, is just
* Urd from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' is explicitly stated as being more powerful than Belldandy, yet ranked lower because she has little control over it.
** And Lind is a very powerful, very skilled goddess ... except in one area. Don't ask her to use her magic to '''repair''' anything: the results struck [[Even Evil Has Standards|even Hell's CEO Hild with horror]].
* England from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
* In the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Mana, a young sorceress whose ''ka'' eventually became Dark Magician Girl. She even admits to Yugi that "she's only half a magician, because only half my spells actually work!" Granted, she is at the time only an apprentice, her mentor Mahad being far more powerful.
* Shera and Rem from ''[[How
* Megumin of ''[[Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!]]'' can cast one spell, a powerful explosion, and can only do that '''once''' per day (early on even that [[Cast From Hit Points|knocks her out]]).
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