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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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* 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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