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Compare [[Remembered Too Late]].
Compare and contrast [[How Do I Shot Web?]], [[Informed Ability]] and [[New Powers
Contrast [[Forgot I Couldn't Swim]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tea Gardner, from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* Happens to Fukurou in ''[[
** Chopper did this too in his fight against Baroque Works. Miss Merry Christmas held onto his feet so he couldn't move, while Mr. 4's gun/dog Lasso fired an exploding baseball at him. He screamed as the ball flew towards his head, but then changed back into his (smaller) hybrid form, resulting in the ball flying harmlessly overhead. He even says "Whew, forgot I could do this."
* Sora in ''[[Oh! Edo Rocket]]''.
* The manga adaptation of ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'' has a dramatic [[Take My Hand]] scene where Adell refuses to let go of Rozalin even after she's spent their entire acquaintance screwing him over, after which they spend a heartwarming moment [[Laying On a Hillside]]...then [[Fridge Logic]] catches up with Adell and he realizes that Rozalin had ''[[Winged Humanoid|wings]]'' the entire time. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** In the ''[[Breath of Fire 4]]'' game this also happens, but the fallen person (Nina) isn't caught in time and falls. Ryu rushes down rumping into ledges to try and catch her, and after going ''past'' her he promptly ([[Face Fault|face]])falls down to the bottom himself.
* The Charas of ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' forget about and later remember their ability to fly in one early episode. Used to [[Rule of Scary|scare]] a character and [[Played for Laughs|amuse]] the audience.
* At one point in the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', a roof hanging over Joshua begins to collapse. Since Joshua is a human boy with demon's horns, he's [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|more than a little insane]], so his first reaction is just to stare at it blankly. But right before [[The Hero]] saves him, he mutters "Oh, that's right" and uses his powers to stop time to keep himself from getting crushed, right at the last second.
* A very simple, but amusing example in the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Fine Dining]] arc of ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'': throughout the training for the Parlay du Fois Gras, Ranma has been starving herself nearly to death. At the end of the final duel with Picolet Chardin, during which she has been using the technique to force-feed him (and the audience) to get rid of her food (the condition of winning), she has run out of options and is about to lose -- she still has food left, she's too weak from hunger to try the Fois Gras anymore, and Picolet is going for the last one -- then she says, "Oh, yeah." and just eats the last bits of food herself.
* In ''[[
* The ''writer'' of [[Yami no Matsuei]] after she inflicted this precise [[Plot Induced Stupidity]] on her hero at the end of the Queen Camelia arc. She had Muraki leaving the scene in a helicopter, which defeats her hero...who had the power to fly established very early. She clearly wishes she hadn't done that, but--here's where 'forgot I could fly' comes in--for some reason rather than pretending she hadn't, she footnoted his frustration with the reminder "why don't you just fly after him?"
** This is especially painful because it comes shortly after Tsuzuki ''cracked bulletproof glass with his punch of sheer rage'' at the same guy who's now escaping for no good reason. He seriously takes [[Idiot Hero]] to new levels.
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== Comic Books ==
* In one issue of ''[[
* Wesley tries to invoke this with a none-too-bright power stealing villain in ''[[Wanted]]''. The villain does remember he can fly but forgets that the power is seconds away from running out.
* In a ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' tie-in comic. Bennet drives someone who can turn into water into a corner by shooting at him, knowing full well that the man in question is [[Immune to Bullets]]. Justified in that he's relying on panic and the fact that the guy is new to his powers and won't use them instinctively. By the time the guy realizes this, Bennet's partner gets the drop on him.
* A ''[[Bloom County]]'' strip had Opus beach himself like a whale. Milo and Binkley stood over him, discussing the tragedy of whales beaching themselves, and then walked away, one of them lamenting, "If only they had feet." At which point Opus did a double take, stood up saying, "I ''do'' have feet, don't I?" and was next seen reclining in a chair watching TV.
* An early issue of ''X-Men'' has telekinetic superheroine Jean Grey trapped on the second floor of a building, until teammate Beast reminds her that she can fly. Yes, she forgot she had super powers. Silly females! (It would be a few years yet before feminism hit the Marvel Universe.)
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** More commonly, the series has three levels of powers: Kai, Magnakai, and Grand Master. Most of the powers of one tier have lower powered equivalents amongst the lower tier. Similarly, someone of a higher tier always has all the powers of the lower tier, but only a select few of their given tier. This results in your character often being asked if he has a certain power appropriate for his tier (and bad stuff happening if you do not), but the author forgetting that there is no reason the lower tier equivalent - which everyone should have - could not be every bit as effective.
*** Theoretically, at least, if the higher Discipline is required, it's for something that the lesser Discipline can't handle for some reason (you see this all the time in Grand Master, particularly with Kai-screen). Justified, for the most part...simple Mind over Matter should not allow you to grab a big, heavy key on the opposite side of the room while you're behind a locked door. Still, there are numerous instances where you SHOULD be able to use Pathsmanship, or Huntmastery, or (most often) Divination, or at least get some explanation as to why you can't. (You don't ''need'' Telegnosis to spirit-walk, it just makes it ''easier''.) And then there's the issue of the myraid Combat Skill and Endurance benefits you get from certain Disciplines, all of which need to be properly balanced...and some of which, unfortunately, don't make a lot of sense (in New Grand Master, you have the ''same'' Combat Skill whether or not you're armed). As you might imagine, it's not exactly easy to write these things.
* The [[
** Honestly though, do you often see flying roaches? ([[Fridge Logic|Why]] ''[[Fridge Logic|don't]]'' [[Fridge Logic|they attempt to fly away when somebody's trying to stomp them anyway? Maybe they also forgot they could fly?]])
*** If that's true, then some [[Fridge Brilliance]] comes in: the reason the Animorphs forgot they could fly is that their natural cockroach tendencies made them forget they can fly.
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** Another good example is after Marco rescues Ax from the Blade Ship they escape and plummet 2 miles up from the air, Marco freaks out until Ax reminds him that he could morph into a bird in midair.
*** Granted, he ''was'' already morphed as a gorilla, and a demorph/remorph while panicking is very difficult...
* In ''[[Discworld
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Cobal: Just sayin'.<br />
Ledd: [[Stealth Insult|You're not as dumb as you look.]] }}
* Amusingly enough, due to the severe case of [[
* It is possible to die from [[Bottomless Pits]]-equivalents in ''[[Dark Void]]'', a game whose premise is that ''its hero has a jet-pack''.
* In the second special episode of ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]: Explorers of Sky'', Armaldo panics and looks for water to put out some torches before remembering that he can use Water Gun. Also, Igglybuff could have YOOM TAH'd the door behind the torches, just like he did earlier in the special episode. {{spoiler|The torches turn out to be a trap that leads into a monster house. Oh, and Armaldo is a criminal on the run from the law.}}
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''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.
** Like the ''[[City of Heroes]]'' example, players running [[
** An inverse example, Stories of players leaping off cliffs planning to shift into flight form or use sometype of movment slowing, thinking they're on their druid, mage, etc... then realizing their not and dying.
* It's not uncommon in [[League of Legends]] to forget that your items have active effects only to kick yourself now that you're just out of range to inflict slow with your Hextech Gunblade.
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** In an episode, Mojo ties up the girls in an unbreakable filament, and they shout, "You forgot one thing!" and blast him with their heat vision, something they've actually quite often forgotten to do.
** In one episode, Buttercup is being chased away by an [[Torches and Pitchforks|angry mob]] in a parody of monster B-movies, and runs away from them... until she exclaims "Wait, what am I doing?", and remembers she can just fly away from them.
* In an episode of ''[[
** 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.)
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{{quote| '''Marlin:''' Thaaaank yooooooouuu!<br />
'''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."
* In ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', when Superman and Timberwolf had to deliver Brainiac 5's head to be exposed to a rare metal's radiation in order to prevent Brainy dying from a worsen corruption of his data, Superman had to go had a planet with a red sun (meaning he loses all his powers for the duration). When he and Timberwolf were running from mutant miners, Superman was reminded by Timberwolf that he has a flight-ring that still allows him to fly. Superman's excuse was that never really did use the ring's function seeing as he can fly on his own.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In the second episode the ponies come across a broken bridge. When Pinky Pie wonders what to do next, Rainbow Dash shrugs and flies over to fix it.
** In the ''Dragonshy'' episode, Fluttershy is so frightened she has to be reminded that she can fly. This then gets [[Subverted]] when she becomes so terrified that her wings lock up entirely, stranding her on the ground.
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