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* Ryoga from ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Whenever his emotions get too much, or his mind wanders, everything he touches tends to crumble around him. Combine this with the fact he gained the ability to shatter inanimate matter with a finger jab early in the series, and you've got a man who has as much trouble ''not'' destroying Tokyo as he does [[No Sense of Direction|navigating it]].
** There is also a storyline in which Akane gains [[Super Strength]] due to accidentally eating food called Super Soba, and briefly falls into this trope. She first discovers her newfound strength when she casually sets her bowl down, and promptly smashes the table and the floor '''below the table'''. She would also regularly pat other characters (usually Ranma) with what was supposed to be a light touch on the head or shoulder, and instead sent them flying.
** During a mid-manga story, Ranma is weakened by a vengeful Happousai. The cure involves a painful-looking [[Pressure Point|moxibustion technique]] applied on his
** It's played up more in the manga version, but [[Hot Amazon|Shampoo]] often destroys things around her, [[There Was a Door|tearing through walls rather than going for the door]] or shattering doors when she does use them. It's debateable whether she counts for this, though, as it's just as likely that she just likes to show off that she's a [[Cute Bruiser]].
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'', protagonist Seina Yamada has to spend several episodes learning to control this after being given enhanced [[Super Strength|strength]] and [[Super Speed|speed]]. Of course, this turns out to be a lovely excuse to set up some [[Innocent Cohabitation]]...
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* The titular character in ''Monica's Gang'' suffers because of this. Since she's only 6, it leads to really funny situations (although not as much funny for her parents, that have to pay for the broken stuff, or for Jimmy Five and Smudgy, that have to ''feel in their skins'' what her inhuman strength causes. Of course, all in the [[Amusing Injuries]] territory, since it's for kids.
* In a ''Wolverine'' series, there is a grown-up mutant with super strength but the intelligence of an infant. A horse tries to kick him and he punches it, then he gets upset because he can't put the horse's head back on.
* The [[Justice Society of America|JSA]] recently introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own
* Obelix from ''[[Asterix]]'' does seem to know his strength... he is just apparently unaware that not everyone possesses that strength, hence his failure to understand the difference between "knock the door" and "smash the door" and why no one around him is able to carry tiny menhirs.
* In the last issue of the Marvel MAX ''Barracuda'' miniseries, Barracuda pats the young hemophiliac he had been charged with turning into a cold blooded killer on the back... killing him. To be fair, Barracuda is a fucking beast of a man, but that's... dag, son.
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** Bella gets this in the fourth book because brand new vampires are so damn strong. She hugs Edward and actually hurts him, something nearly impossible to do to Twilight vampires. Emmett, widely regarded as by far the strongest Cullen, is completely overpowered in the weeks immediately after Bella's transformation.
* In ''What Fire Cannot Burn'' by [[John Ridley]], [[Mutants]] with [[Super Strength]] do their best to avert this, but they must concentrate to avoid applying a little too much force. "Your sweaty nightmare -- 'Hey, do you want to hold the baby?'"
* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'': Steve Austin accidentally broke a man's wrist in the original book. Ironically, it was right after that man figured out that Austin's bionic hand had developed a feedback that ''would'' allow him to judge how much pressure he was
* Lennie from ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' by John Steinbeck is another example of this trope, breaking the neck of a doggy by [[And Call Him George|petting it too hard]].
** That's hardly the worst thing he (unintentionally) does. He also {{spoiler|breaks Curly's wife's neck}}, leading to his {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill]] at the hands of George}} and one ''hell'' of a [[Downer Ending]].
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* Common problem in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'': Phase can change her density from intangible to super-dense. When she first manifested, she smashed her bathroom, bent her tub, and then went light and couldn't stop sinking through the floor. One of the things [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] teaches is control of powers. The [[Flying Brick|bricks]] routinely have assignments like carrying a raw egg around to learn control.
** Probably a better example than Phase (who for all her worrying has remarkable fine control over her powers already) would be Compiler, a girl who used her mutant gift for nanotechnology to give herself the superhuman strength and speed her mutation itself failed to provide and that she hasn't quite learned to keep from activating purely by accident yet.
** Another good example is Diz Aster, who is a Brick along the same lines as Lancer - except that her telekinetic field can't produce anything ''less'' than 7 tons of force. This also means that she can't even ''feel'' anything, since her shields extend to a few millimetres past her skin; by the time Chaka starts helping out, it's been a year since anyone's been able to touch
** An equally good example might be
* Alfred, the Bison construction worker from [[Darwin's Soldiers]], possesses extreme strength. Most of the time he is in control of it but if he is angry then things tend to get destroyed. For instance, he crushed a piece of concrete that he was planning to use as an [[Improvised Weapon]]. A more extreme example was when he started pounding on Aisha's door and leaves the door looking like someone had taken a sledgehammer to it. And he accidentally knocked over a vending machine while trying to free a stuck snack.
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== Real Life ==
* There's a nervous system disorder that prevents people from telling quite how much pressure they're applying to
** Or unless they're handling something light and delicate, like paper or a neurosurgical operation.
* Though nowhere near as extreme in fiction, can happen with some people devoid of any nervous disorders. Common with young men who are just realizing that they've suddenly gained a bunch of muscle mass.
* And athletes. It's not uncommon for water polo players to under-estimate their strength and over-estimate the other player's strength, and dunk someone/give them a nosebleed/really hurt someone without realizing it.
* Basketball player Charles Barkley once hugged a teammate into the emergency room. WHOOPS!
* Humans don't actually have perfect control over their
** Not to mention that the perceived weight of an object can be very different from the actual weight in terms of expectations. For example, picking up a gallon of milk expecting it to be full only to find out that it is nearly empty. It can make almost anyone feel like [[Superman]].
** The inverse is also true; if you see something presumably made of plastic or another light material and don't know that it's actually solid wood or metal, you'll either drop it or (depending on the object's size) be unable to pick it up.
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