Remembered I Could Fly: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* Lampooned in the "The Adventures of Young God" skit on ''[[The State]]'', which portrays [[God]] as a crime-fighting, Batman-style superhero. He and his sidekick (the Boy Savior) have been captured by the bad guys, and are tied up in an abandoned factory next to a time bomb that's about to explode when...

* In the finale of ''[[No Ordinary Family]]'' they spend a good while panicking, surrounded by men with guns and looking for a way out, until Stephanie remembers she can immediately resolve the situation by using her superspeed to disable them. This is an improvement over a previous, similar situation, where it never occurred to her at all.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Skyward Sword]]'' has an instance towards the beginning of the game: two [[Loveable Rogue|Mogmas]], Ledd and Cobal, sit outside the Earth Temple, brainstorming ways to get inside to loot the place like they're in a cat-burglar movie. The following exchange occurs:

Ledd: [[Stealth Insult|You're not as dumb as you look.]] }}

* Amusingly enough, due to the severe case of [[Alt-Itis]] the game encourages, this can be a frequent problem in ''[[City of Heroes]]''. What with having so many alts with different power sets, it's not easy to remember that your character of the hour can induce fear over a wide area, or shoot an awesome long-range fire beam, or use arrows that encase their targets in ice, or whatever else they learned to do six weeks ago when you last played them.

* ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'': {{spoiler|Sveta promptly freaks out when the Chaos Hound appears and pays inordinate attention to her well-being, only to Slap him when Tyrell yells out whether she's an Adept or not. She then tries to [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|help him come to his senses]]... [[Kick the Dog|only for Blados and Chalis to force the team's hand in combat]].}}

* Lampshaded in a quest in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'':

''That would have been helpful to know earlier.'' }}

** Though that quest is presented as [[Blatant Lies|a complete fabrication]] told by one of the NPCs.

* In [[Dubious Company]], Walter forgets that he is a [[Winged Humanoid]] and so does everyone else. Possibly justified, as he mainly travels by airship and wouldn’t need to fly manually too often. He mainly seems to remember if [[Badass in Distress|Tiren is in danger]].

* From [[Homestuck]]:

"There is nothing to realize. Of course you can fly." }}

 

** That, and the fact that he can't bend.

* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', [[The Ditz|Dory]] does this with her ability to read human writing. (She [[Cloudcuckoolander|forgets plenty of other things]], too.)

'''Dory:''' I can read? That's right, I can read! }}

** She also claims to speak the language of whales, which just involves speaking <s>English</s> [[Translation Convention|Fish]] with a deep and drawn out voice. Marlin scoffs at this, but the whale ''does'' understand her so he starts doing it too, leading to this:

'''Dory:''' Wow. I wish I could speak Whale. }}

* Used in Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' cartoon show, pretty much down to the letter. Aladdin asks another character to take a rope to the top of a high tower for him, at which point said character launches into a diatribe about how dangerous this would be for him, and how crazy and inconsiderate a thing it is to ask of him. Aladdin's response is to wait the rant out, as there's no point in trying to reason with him until he's finished, then points out to him that he can fly. At which point, the character -- ([[Talking Animal|the parrot, Iago]]) -- says, "Oh, yeah."

** Seeing as she is the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]] in this series, that is rather notable. All Dragons have wings, but only occasionally [[Forgot About His Powers|remember that they can fly]]

* Played with in the new ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' movie. The gang (minus Piglet) is stuck in a pit, with no way out. Piglet is told to get help, but Piglet is afraid to go through the woods on his own. Owl flies out of the pit to talk to Piglet, and gives a rousing speech, convincing Piglet to go off. Owl hops back into the pit, and all his friends stare at him.

'''Rabbit''': Owl...that was a...beautiful speech! I didn't know you had it in you! }}

** Just prior to this, Piglet himself does something similar, when he offers to help get them out with a flower, then a book. After Rabbit suggests a rope, Piglet says "Like this rope?" and grabs one that had been there the whole time.