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* The heroes of the film ''[[Spaced Invaders]]'' are the most incompetent members of their race.

* In the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' film, {{spoiler|Obadiah Stane}} pilots powered armor (that wasn't even made by him) for the first time and is immediately able to go toe to toe with Iron Man, who spent several ([[Amusing Injuries|hilarious]]) weeks practicing with his suit. Justified as {{spoiler|[[Foil|Stane]]}} planed to sell his [[Mini-Mecha]] [[Evil Knockoff]] on the black market, so he just crammed it with computer assistance -- and after Stark yanks out a few wires, he not only [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|can't hit a human-sized target at six meters]] with [[More Dakka|automatic weapons]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|missiles]], but has to ''open the cockpit to see.''

* In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', the hero grew up with a Viking sword, but his only practice with it appears to be occasionally swinging it around, alone, in forest clearings. When the Vikings show up again, he proves to be a skilled swordfighter.

** It's actually a partial aversion. When he's swinging his sword in the forest, it's a [[Training Montage]]. It's vaguely implied that he practices for a long time. At the beginning of the scene he holds the sword wrong and swings it awkwardly. By the end of the scene he's holding it correctly and swinging it much more skillfully.

* [[Dilbert|Scott Adams]] discusses this in relation to [[UFOs]] in his book, ''The Dilbert Future''. He points out that "just because you see a person driving a car, that doesn't mean that they invented the automobile," so we can't assume that an alien piloting an advanced spaceship is a genius. He goes on to speculate that the aliens that [[Alien Abduction|abduct people]] are actually [[The Greys]]' equivalent of rednecks, and that [[Anal Probing]] is their equivalent of cow tipping.

* Amusingly averted with Bertie in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'':