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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Str8GOl-iYA&ab_channel=VintageTVCommercials This old commercial] for Dominos Pizza. The Noid is "a wicked wizard", who of course, ends up zapping himself with his magic.
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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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* Questor Thews, from the ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover]]'' novels.
* Neville Longbottom from the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' novels. Until [[Took a Level in Badass|the fifth book]]. It doesn't help that he's been using {{spoiler|his father's wand}} for most of the series instead of a wand better suited to him.
** Ronald Weasley is rendered fairly inept for much of ''[[Harry Potter and
** A similar thing happens to Harry in ''The Deathly Hallows''.
** Gilderoy Lockhart may count: [[Crippling Overspecialization|The only thing he seems to be good at]] is memory charms, though it's never revealed whether he's naturally inept at everything else or if he just decided at some point that he could get by on that and his natural charisma alone. (And he very nearly did, [[Scooby Doo|if it hadn't been for]] [[You Meddling Kids|those meddling kids]].)
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