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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': In [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie's]] first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/Origin2001'', James permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
** In one 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.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol. 2]]: In [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie's]] first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
** In ''ComicBook/Origin2001'', James permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
** In one 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.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol. 2]]: In [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie's]] first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
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** In a ''ComicBook/{{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.
** Wolverine himself in ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'' permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
** Wolverine himself in ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'' permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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** Wolverine himself in ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'' permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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* Becomes a source of angst for The ''ComicBook/New52'' version of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} when he realizes that he can't be around ordinary people without killing them.
* A telekinesis version in the case of Hellion of the ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]'': After the battle against Nimrod when he asks Emma Frost to unlock his powers' full potential so he can get Comicbook/{{X 23}} back to Elixir to save her life, he suddenly loses all fine control of his powers. When Beast asks him to move a ''paperclip'' he instead blows out ''an entire wall''.
* A telekinesis version in the case of Hellion of the ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]'': After the battle against Nimrod when he asks Emma Frost to unlock his powers' full potential so he can get Comicbook/{{X 23}} back to Elixir to save her life, he suddenly loses all fine control of his powers. When Beast asks him to move a ''paperclip'' he instead blows out ''an entire wall''.
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** On the other hand, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' does this on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers. One of the explicit differences between Superman and Supergirl is that Superman has mental blocks he imposed on himself so there's an upper limit to how much power he'll use, while Supergirl has no such blocks, allowing her to at times be ''stronger'' than her cousin.
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** Becomes a source of angst for The ''ComicBook/New52'' version of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} when he realizes that he can't be around ordinary people without killing them.
** On the other hand, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' does this on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers. One of the explicit differences between Superman and Supergirl is that Superman has mental blocks he imposed on himself so there's an upper limit to how much power he'll use, while Supergirl has no such blocks, allowing her to at times be ''stronger'' than her cousin.
** On the other hand, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' does this on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers.
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** In ''[[Comicbook/Supergirl2011 Supergirl Volume 6]]'' #27--the beginning of the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline--Supergirl kicks ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' so hard that she--apparently--kills him. Kara is so upset that she swears she didn't want to kill him and she cries she doesn't know her own strength.
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** In ''[[Comicbook/Supergirl2011 Supergirl Volume 6]]'' ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #27--the beginning of the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline--Supergirl kicks ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' so hard that she--apparently--kills him. Kara is so upset that she swears she didn't want to kill him and she cries she doesn't know her own strength.
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* Becomes a source of angst for The ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy|New52}}'' when he realizes that he can't be around ordinary people without killing them.
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** A 1960s ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' issue dealt with a villain tricking young Supes into thinking he had accidentally killed Lana Lang with a careless display of strength. Grief-stricken, Superboy turns himself in to the police and sits brooding in a jail cell, giving the villain and his mooks a free window of opportunity to commit crimes unopposed. Naturally, it's all a ruse, and Lana turns out to have been merely kidnapped and is totally unharmed.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier'' Yara Flor is [[ObliviouslySuperpowered completely oblivious to all of her wonderful powers]] until she is sent to train under Chiron by Hera. Yara has a criminal record for her strength in particular, as she accidentally injures people and causes property damage.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': In [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': In [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s [[Characters/WonderGirlCassieSandsmark Cassie's]] first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
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* The title character from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' also fits this trope. Basically a Superman expy, in one scene where he visits one of the many sets of foster parents he had as a child, we see him feeding their severely disabled (adult) biological son. Turns out he was there the day that Jr. came home from the hospital with Mum...he just wanted to give his new baby brother a hug...
* The [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own strength -- the accident that gave him his powers also deadened his sense of touch, meaning he can't feel how much force he's exerting. He walks around in a costume he was ''cast into'' so that he can control it.
* The [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own strength -- the accident that gave him his powers also deadened his sense of touch, meaning he can't feel how much force he's exerting. He walks around in a costume he was ''cast into'' so that he can control it.
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* The title character from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' also fits this trope. Basically a Superman expy, in ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': In one scene where he the titular character visits one of the many sets of foster parents he had as a child, we see him feeding their severely disabled (adult) biological son. Turns out he was there the day that Jr. came home from the hospital with Mum...he just wanted to give his new baby brother a hug...
*The [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own strength -- the accident that gave him his powers also deadened his sense of touch, meaning he can't feel how much force he's exerting. He walks around in a costume he was ''cast into'' so that he can control it.
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** An excellent A 1960s ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' issue of ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' dealt with a villain tricking young Supes into thinking he had accidentally killed Comicbook/LanaLang Lana Lang with a careless display of strength. Grief-stricken, Superboy turns himself in to the police and sits brooding in a jail cell, giving the villain and his mooks a free window of opportunity to commit crimes unopposed. Naturally, it's all a ruse, and Lana turns out to have been merely kidnapped and is totally unharmed.
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** Some versions of ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog apply this trope. Being just a dog, he really doesn't know his own strength.
** Many, many times in various Superman comics other people would gain Superman's strength. This trope almost always applies.
** Many, many times in various Superman comics other people would gain Superman's strength. This trope almost always applies.
** "ComicBook/TheSuperDogFromKrypton": Krypto is very intelligent for a dog, but he is still a dog, so he does not understand how strong -and dangerous- he is upon arriving on Earth. Even a mere wag of his tail accidentally shatters rocks.
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** In the 1970 story "Supergirl's Lost Uniform", Supergirl while in her Linda Danvers identity lifted what she thought was a fake 500-lb weight and twirled it like a baton. The fake was the one next to it. Oops.
** During one of her first fights against Reactron in the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis title]]'', she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
** During one of her first fights against Reactron in the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis title]]'', she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
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** In the 1970 story ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #392: "Supergirl's Lost Uniform", Supergirl while in her Linda Danvers identity lifted what she thought was a fake 500-lb weight and twirled it like a baton. The fake was the one next to it. Oops.
** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'': Duringone of her first fights fight against Reactron in the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis title]]'', she Reactron, Kara pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
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** When ComicBook/{{Colossus}} is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in transformed form]] he gets angsty about people seeing him as a monster. He then proceeds to try and call his team from a phonebooth but since he is frustrated, trying to dial the number causes his fingers to punch right through the phone.
** When ComicBook/{{Colossus}} is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in transformed form]] he gets angsty about people seeing him as a monster. He then proceeds to try and call his team from a phonebooth but since he is frustrated, trying to dial the number causes his fingers to punch right through the phone.
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** When ComicBook/{{Colossus}} is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in transformed form]] he gets angsty about people seeing him as a monster. He then proceeds to try and call his team from aphonebooth phone booth but since he is frustrated, trying to dial the number causes his fingers to punch right through the phone.
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** Wolverine himself in his OriginStory permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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** Wolverine himself in his OriginStory ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'' permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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* 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... dang, son.
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* In the last issue of the Marvel MAX ''Barracuda'' miniseries, ''ComicBook/ThePunisherPresentsBarracuda'', Barracuda pats the young hemophiliac he had been charged with turning into a cold blooded cold-blooded killer on the back... killing him. To be fair, Barracuda is a fucking beast of a man, but that's... dang, son.
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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': When Tim has [[PsychoSerum Aramilla]] forced into his system and ends up fighting ComicBook/LadyShiva he accidentally kills her due to his lack of control and temporary powers. He's able to revive her, but it transfers some of the drug into Shiva's system allowing her to kill everyone else in the room in a whirlwind attack to Tim's horror.
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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim has [[PsychoSerum Aramilla]] forced into his system and ends up fighting ComicBook/LadyShiva Lady Shiva, he accidentally kills her due to his lack of control and temporary powers. He's able to revive her, but it transfers some of the drug into Shiva's system system, allowing her to kill everyone else in the room in a whirlwind attack attack, to Tim's horror.
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* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', being a god-empowered superbeing stopped being fun for Osiris after he killed his sister Isis' attacker, the Persuader, by flying into him too hard.
* Obelix from ''ComicBook/{{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 on 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... dang, son.
* A lot of humour stemmed from the use of this trope in the 1970s comic strip ''Wee Ben Nevis'' which featured in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.
** This trope is also frequently used in ''ComicBook/TheDandy'''s most famous strip ''Desperate Dan''.
* The titular character in ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'' is very much BlessedWithSuck in this regard, being a half-ton stone man who doesn't dare try to hold anything breakable.
* Done tragically in Franchise/TheDCU {{Elseworld}} story "Created Equal". The second issue of the two-parter starts InMediasRes [[spoiler:a five-year-old Alex Kent has accidentally killed his mother, Lois, by hugging her]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' upon developing his [[FlyingBrick Viltrumite powers]] Mark accidentally [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/b/b0/Invincible_Vol_1_1_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150310155932 throws a garbage bag into orbit]] while taking out the trash. He becomes a superhero soon after. Similarly at his graduation Mark accidentally [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/7Voqoy-uVFZecV2y3News8MBits-gBlITu68AgZHYw1hiYLL0YB9CA_U4lJmlhVJFV8KOMSen59t=s1600 throws his square academic cap into orbit]]. PlayedForDrama later as a horrified Mark nearly kills and permanently disfigures Angstorm Levy, since Mark assumes Levy has the SuperToughness to take a [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge rage-filled beating]] from him. He doesn't.
* The title character from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' also fits this trope. Basically a Superman expy, in one scene where he visits one of the many sets of foster parents he had as a child, we see him feeding their severely disabled (adult) biological son. Turns out he was there the day that Jr. came home from the hospital with Mum...he just wanted to give his new baby brother a hug...
* The [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own strength -- the accident that gave him his powers also deadened his sense of touch, meaning he can't feel how much force he's exerting. He walks around in a costume he was ''cast into'' so that he can control it.
* One ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' story had a pathetically wimpy guy (he has to carry lead weights so the wind doesn't blow him away) turn into a musclebound human nearly overnight with Luke's help. However, he has difficulty adapting, and crushes glasses he's trying to pick up and rips the saloon's doors off.
* The titular character in ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' suffers because of this. Since she's only 6, it leads to really funny situations (although not so funny for her parents, who have to pay for the broken stuff). Jimmy Five and Smudgy feel in their skins what her inhuman strength causes, most often in the form of physical retribution for their infallible plans to "defeat" her, though she's been known to throw around the comic's Superman {{expy}}. It's all in AmusingInjuries territory.
* Becomes a source of angst for The ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy|New52}}'' when he realizes that he can't be around ordinary people without killing them.
* A telekinesis version in the case of Hellion of the ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]'': After the battle against Nimrod when he asks Emma Frost to unlock his powers' full potential so he can get Comicbook/{{X 23}} back to Elixir to save her life, he suddenly loses all fine control of his powers. When Beast asks him to move a ''paperclip'' he instead blows out ''an entire wall''.
* Jack in the comic book ''ComicBook/NextMen'' cannot control his super-strength and has to be guided places so he does not break objects by accidentally brushing up against them.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', the narration mentions that the Captain once knocked a man's lungs out of his chest by patting him on the back... but in his defense, he was drunk.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' villain The Russian squeezed a mook to death with a one armed hug... ''accidentally''. He was genuinely trying to be friendly!
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': When Tim has [[PsychoSerum Aramilla]] forced into his system and ends up fighting ComicBook/LadyShiva he accidentally kills her due to his lack of control and temporary powers. He's able to revive her, but it transfers some of the drug into Shiva's system allowing her to kill everyone else in the room in a whirlwind attack to Tim's horror.
* Present all over in ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'': Smasher taking the head off her husband with a single punch, Dragon killing Solar Man when the latter lost his powers in midfight, both resulting in messy YourHeadAsplode moments. Those are just two of many examples.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Billy Batson as Captain Marvel does have some problems with handling his super-strength, as he lands on the roof of his Uncle Dudley's apartment building and makes a hole in the roof while doing so, or tries to open up a locked door and breaks off the handle by accident.
** In the ''ComicBook/New52'', [[https://bookhound.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/shazam-vol-1-03.jpg Billy nearly kills a mugger by smacking him into a car]] when the latter accosted a woman.
* ComicBook/SheHulk, who provides the page image, is usually not an example. However there's a storyline where she works out like crazy to beat a much stronger opponent (she intelligently uses a quirk of her physiology which increases greatly, in her Hulk form, the effects of workout in her "normal" form). This increases her strength to the point that she breaks nearly everything she touches, until she gets a PowerLimiter suit.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Peter Parker first got his powers, he [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-780e185b1c9e4d88191097336d2eb81b-c accidentally crushed a steel pipe]] "like it was paper".
** Later Spidey gets into a boxing match with JerkJock Flash Thompson, knowing he could seriously injure Flash if he didn't pull his punches, Peter puts a fraction of his strength into a love tap punch. ''Not gentle enough however'', [[https://static4.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11125/111256920/5549483-4785072468-asm8-.jpg as Flash goes flying out of the ring]] of course most of Peter's classmates think it's a fluke.
** Similar occurrence happens in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' when Peter first got his powers, he tried to avoid Flash's attacks during a school fight, and managed to [[PunchCatch stop his fist]]. But, by doing so, he broke his hand. Uncle Ben and Aunt May [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome were sued for hospital bills by Flash's parents]].
** When ComicBook/DoctorOctopus took [[GrandTheftMe over Peter's body]], he was unaccustomed to Spider-man's strength and was surprised when he punched Scorpion in the face that [[OneHitKill he tore his jaw off and nearly killed him]]. It was quite the FridgeHorror for the Octavius as he realized Spidey was [[IamNotLeftHanded holding back all the time]] and could've killed half his RoguesGallery but Peter was [[AfraidofTheirOwnStrength was always careful]] of hurting his foes as well his loved ones.
** When rebounding with the TheSymbiote Spidey to fight Red Goblin, Spidey gets enraged when Flash is mortally wounded and with a single punch sends Norman flying through two skyscrapers. Interestingly it's Flash who calms Peter down knowing Spider-Man will break his ThouShaltNotKill if he continues in that state.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Played straight when Clark is depicted as a child who realistically doesn't know his own strength as seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'' ([[http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/_num/18000/18225.jpg here]]). After the 1986 reboot, some writers declared that he only developed his powers at a late age to avoid it.
** An excellent 1960s issue of ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' dealt with a villain tricking young Supes into thinking he had accidentally killed Comicbook/LanaLang with a careless display of strength. Grief-stricken, Superboy turns himself in to the police and sits brooding in a jail cell, giving the villain and his mooks a free window of opportunity to commit crimes unopposed. Naturally, it's all a ruse, and Lana turns out to have been merely kidnapped and is totally unharmed.
** One story from the '90s saw Supes' strength start increasing exponentially. This trope definitely came into play then.
** Some versions of ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog apply this trope. Being just a dog, he really doesn't know his own strength.
** Many, many times in various Superman comics other people would gain Superman's strength. This trope almost always applies.
** In ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' Superman accidentally rips a door off its hinges right after recovering his powers.
** One Bronze Age story had Superman's strength seeming to increase beyond his ability to control, and he resorted to a super sunscreen to block his absorption of the sun's rays. It turned out to be a trick by [[PowersAsPrograms the Parasite,]] who was specifically leeching Superman's ''ability to control his strength,'' making his strength seem like it was increasing, while the sunscreen was in fact rendering him weaker and weaker. At the climax, as he's realized too late what was happening and is plummeting to his death because he can't fly any more, he removes his ''boots'' because he hadn't put any sunscreen on his feet, and absorbs just enough sunlight mojo while falling to survive the impact.
** In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' attacks Conner Kent, beating him badly whilst causing a huge amount of damage to the town of Smallville, until a (fairly large) group(s) of other heroes arrive as back-up. When a heroine named Pantha calls him a "stupid kid" and attacks him in which Superboy retaliates by smacking her across the face... He ends up taking her head off and killing her, he is completely shocked when he notices the blood on his hand and has a mini breakdown.
** In ''Superman Annual #8'', Pounder, one of a far-future League of Supermen who have each been genetically engineered to have ''one'' of Superman's powers, has support staff who have to do ''everything'' for him, because it's not safe for him to touch things. (The whole League is BlessedWithSuck, in fact.)
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'', a teenage Clark Kent, whose powers were just beginning to emerge, really had no idea how strong he was. It caused problems when he tried to play football with his friends and accidentally broke Pete Ross's arm.
** On the other hand, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' does this on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers. One of the explicit differences between Superman and Supergirl is that Superman has mental blocks he imposed on himself so there's an upper limit to how much power he'll use, while Supergirl has no such blocks, allowing her to at times be ''stronger'' than her cousin.
** In the 1970 story "Supergirl's Lost Uniform", Supergirl while in her Linda Danvers identity lifted what she thought was a fake 500-lb weight and twirled it like a baton. The fake was the one next to it. Oops.
** During one of her first fights against Reactron in the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis title]]'', she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
** In ''[[Comicbook/Supergirl2011 Supergirl Volume 6]]'' #27--the beginning of the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline--Supergirl kicks ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' so hard that she--apparently--kills him. Kara is so upset that she swears she didn't want to kill him and she cries she doesn't know her own strength.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I don't even know my own strength!
** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': As she is wandering naked around Gotham City's docks, Kara is harassed by a man. Kara grabs his hand, intending to shove it away, and she accidentally crushes his fingers.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'', as Kara is learning how to drive, she puts her foot on the brake... and through the bottom of the car. When it happens, her foster mother cries out "Again?".
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'': In the first chapter, Kara breaks her desk when she puts her hand on it. And in the second chapter she puts her hand through the wall when she is writing on a chalkboard.
** In ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'', Supergirl is not aware of her massive stregnth when her rocket crashes on Earth and she wakes up from her artificial sleep. So, she is downright shocked when she punches a robot -in reality, a soldier in PoweredArmor- beyond the horizon.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': Wanting to increase her physical strength, Shyla Kor-Onn did set up a strength-leeching machine on the top of a building. Unfortunately, she forgot about her new magnified strength when she went to turn the machine off; she pushed it off the ledge, and accidentally crushed an innocent bystander.
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl1984'', Kara emerges out of her pod after landing on Earth and starts exploring her surroundings. Feeling marveled by world's nature, she picks a rock, unaware of her newly-gained super-strength, and gets shocked when the stone unexpectedly shatters into a million bits.
--->'''Supergirl:''' ''"It's so hard...So rough to the touch! I wonder if...I--I broke it! But...I was never that strong before!"''
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': As saving the Air Force One, Kara rips one wing off because she has not yet achieved complete control of her SuperStrength.
** ComicBook/PowerGirl has a long history of breaking or outright destroying things when she loses her temper. Fortunately, this usually results in getting it back under control.
* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'':
** Road Rage attempts to tackle a terrorist but forgets that organic beings are a lot squishier than Cybertronians and accidentally crushes him into pulp rather than capturing him alive as she'd intended.
** The Constructicons are so strong that Hook inadvertently kills an unlucky worker with a TapOnTheHead.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': In [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** When ComicBook/{{Colossus}} is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in transformed form]] he gets angsty about people seeing him as a monster. He then proceeds to try and call his team from a phonebooth but since he is frustrated, trying to dial the number causes his fingers to punch right through the phone.
** ComicBook/{{Rogue}} accidentally snaps Grim Reaper's neck with a single punch after she absorbed Wonder Man's powers. [[IamNotLeftHanded She was holding back]].
** In a ''ComicBook/{{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.
** Wolverine himself in his OriginStory permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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Characters who [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength have trouble judging and controlling their own strength]] in ComicBooks.
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* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', being a god-empowered superbeing stopped being fun for Osiris after he killed his sister Isis' attacker, the Persuader, by flying into him too hard.
* Obelix from ''ComicBook/{{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 on 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... dang, son.
* A lot of humour stemmed from the use of this trope in the 1970s comic strip ''Wee Ben Nevis'' which featured in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.
** This trope is also frequently used in ''ComicBook/TheDandy'''s most famous strip ''Desperate Dan''.
* The titular character in ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'' is very much BlessedWithSuck in this regard, being a half-ton stone man who doesn't dare try to hold anything breakable.
* Done tragically in Franchise/TheDCU {{Elseworld}} story "Created Equal". The second issue of the two-parter starts InMediasRes [[spoiler:a five-year-old Alex Kent has accidentally killed his mother, Lois, by hugging her]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' upon developing his [[FlyingBrick Viltrumite powers]] Mark accidentally [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/b/b0/Invincible_Vol_1_1_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150310155932 throws a garbage bag into orbit]] while taking out the trash. He becomes a superhero soon after. Similarly at his graduation Mark accidentally [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/7Voqoy-uVFZecV2y3News8MBits-gBlITu68AgZHYw1hiYLL0YB9CA_U4lJmlhVJFV8KOMSen59t=s1600 throws his square academic cap into orbit]]. PlayedForDrama later as a horrified Mark nearly kills and permanently disfigures Angstorm Levy, since Mark assumes Levy has the SuperToughness to take a [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge rage-filled beating]] from him. He doesn't.
* The title character from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' also fits this trope. Basically a Superman expy, in one scene where he visits one of the many sets of foster parents he had as a child, we see him feeding their severely disabled (adult) biological son. Turns out he was there the day that Jr. came home from the hospital with Mum...he just wanted to give his new baby brother a hug...
* The [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] introduced Citizen Steel, who ''literally'' doesn't know his own strength -- the accident that gave him his powers also deadened his sense of touch, meaning he can't feel how much force he's exerting. He walks around in a costume he was ''cast into'' so that he can control it.
* One ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' story had a pathetically wimpy guy (he has to carry lead weights so the wind doesn't blow him away) turn into a musclebound human nearly overnight with Luke's help. However, he has difficulty adapting, and crushes glasses he's trying to pick up and rips the saloon's doors off.
* The titular character in ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' suffers because of this. Since she's only 6, it leads to really funny situations (although not so funny for her parents, who have to pay for the broken stuff). Jimmy Five and Smudgy feel in their skins what her inhuman strength causes, most often in the form of physical retribution for their infallible plans to "defeat" her, though she's been known to throw around the comic's Superman {{expy}}. It's all in AmusingInjuries territory.
* Becomes a source of angst for The ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' version of ''Comicbook/{{Superboy|New52}}'' when he realizes that he can't be around ordinary people without killing them.
* A telekinesis version in the case of Hellion of the ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]'': After the battle against Nimrod when he asks Emma Frost to unlock his powers' full potential so he can get Comicbook/{{X 23}} back to Elixir to save her life, he suddenly loses all fine control of his powers. When Beast asks him to move a ''paperclip'' he instead blows out ''an entire wall''.
* Jack in the comic book ''ComicBook/NextMen'' cannot control his super-strength and has to be guided places so he does not break objects by accidentally brushing up against them.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', the narration mentions that the Captain once knocked a man's lungs out of his chest by patting him on the back... but in his defense, he was drunk.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' villain The Russian squeezed a mook to death with a one armed hug... ''accidentally''. He was genuinely trying to be friendly!
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': When Tim has [[PsychoSerum Aramilla]] forced into his system and ends up fighting ComicBook/LadyShiva he accidentally kills her due to his lack of control and temporary powers. He's able to revive her, but it transfers some of the drug into Shiva's system allowing her to kill everyone else in the room in a whirlwind attack to Tim's horror.
* Present all over in ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'': Smasher taking the head off her husband with a single punch, Dragon killing Solar Man when the latter lost his powers in midfight, both resulting in messy YourHeadAsplode moments. Those are just two of many examples.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Billy Batson as Captain Marvel does have some problems with handling his super-strength, as he lands on the roof of his Uncle Dudley's apartment building and makes a hole in the roof while doing so, or tries to open up a locked door and breaks off the handle by accident.
** In the ''ComicBook/New52'', [[https://bookhound.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/shazam-vol-1-03.jpg Billy nearly kills a mugger by smacking him into a car]] when the latter accosted a woman.
* ComicBook/SheHulk, who provides the page image, is usually not an example. However there's a storyline where she works out like crazy to beat a much stronger opponent (she intelligently uses a quirk of her physiology which increases greatly, in her Hulk form, the effects of workout in her "normal" form). This increases her strength to the point that she breaks nearly everything she touches, until she gets a PowerLimiter suit.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** When Peter Parker first got his powers, he [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-780e185b1c9e4d88191097336d2eb81b-c accidentally crushed a steel pipe]] "like it was paper".
** Later Spidey gets into a boxing match with JerkJock Flash Thompson, knowing he could seriously injure Flash if he didn't pull his punches, Peter puts a fraction of his strength into a love tap punch. ''Not gentle enough however'', [[https://static4.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11125/111256920/5549483-4785072468-asm8-.jpg as Flash goes flying out of the ring]] of course most of Peter's classmates think it's a fluke.
** Similar occurrence happens in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' when Peter first got his powers, he tried to avoid Flash's attacks during a school fight, and managed to [[PunchCatch stop his fist]]. But, by doing so, he broke his hand. Uncle Ben and Aunt May [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome were sued for hospital bills by Flash's parents]].
** When ComicBook/DoctorOctopus took [[GrandTheftMe over Peter's body]], he was unaccustomed to Spider-man's strength and was surprised when he punched Scorpion in the face that [[OneHitKill he tore his jaw off and nearly killed him]]. It was quite the FridgeHorror for the Octavius as he realized Spidey was [[IamNotLeftHanded holding back all the time]] and could've killed half his RoguesGallery but Peter was [[AfraidofTheirOwnStrength was always careful]] of hurting his foes as well his loved ones.
** When rebounding with the TheSymbiote Spidey to fight Red Goblin, Spidey gets enraged when Flash is mortally wounded and with a single punch sends Norman flying through two skyscrapers. Interestingly it's Flash who calms Peter down knowing Spider-Man will break his ThouShaltNotKill if he continues in that state.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Played straight when Clark is depicted as a child who realistically doesn't know his own strength as seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'' ([[http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/_num/18000/18225.jpg here]]). After the 1986 reboot, some writers declared that he only developed his powers at a late age to avoid it.
** An excellent 1960s issue of ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' dealt with a villain tricking young Supes into thinking he had accidentally killed Comicbook/LanaLang with a careless display of strength. Grief-stricken, Superboy turns himself in to the police and sits brooding in a jail cell, giving the villain and his mooks a free window of opportunity to commit crimes unopposed. Naturally, it's all a ruse, and Lana turns out to have been merely kidnapped and is totally unharmed.
** One story from the '90s saw Supes' strength start increasing exponentially. This trope definitely came into play then.
** Some versions of ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog apply this trope. Being just a dog, he really doesn't know his own strength.
** Many, many times in various Superman comics other people would gain Superman's strength. This trope almost always applies.
** In ''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'' Superman accidentally rips a door off its hinges right after recovering his powers.
** One Bronze Age story had Superman's strength seeming to increase beyond his ability to control, and he resorted to a super sunscreen to block his absorption of the sun's rays. It turned out to be a trick by [[PowersAsPrograms the Parasite,]] who was specifically leeching Superman's ''ability to control his strength,'' making his strength seem like it was increasing, while the sunscreen was in fact rendering him weaker and weaker. At the climax, as he's realized too late what was happening and is plummeting to his death because he can't fly any more, he removes his ''boots'' because he hadn't put any sunscreen on his feet, and absorbs just enough sunlight mojo while falling to survive the impact.
** In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'' attacks Conner Kent, beating him badly whilst causing a huge amount of damage to the town of Smallville, until a (fairly large) group(s) of other heroes arrive as back-up. When a heroine named Pantha calls him a "stupid kid" and attacks him in which Superboy retaliates by smacking her across the face... He ends up taking her head off and killing her, he is completely shocked when he notices the blood on his hand and has a mini breakdown.
** In ''Superman Annual #8'', Pounder, one of a far-future League of Supermen who have each been genetically engineered to have ''one'' of Superman's powers, has support staff who have to do ''everything'' for him, because it's not safe for him to touch things. (The whole League is BlessedWithSuck, in fact.)
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin'', a teenage Clark Kent, whose powers were just beginning to emerge, really had no idea how strong he was. It caused problems when he tried to play football with his friends and accidentally broke Pete Ross's arm.
** On the other hand, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' does this on occasion, for example in one of Redan's ''Batman and Superman'' comic strips. Then again, she was still learning to control her powers. One of the explicit differences between Superman and Supergirl is that Superman has mental blocks he imposed on himself so there's an upper limit to how much power he'll use, while Supergirl has no such blocks, allowing her to at times be ''stronger'' than her cousin.
** In the 1970 story "Supergirl's Lost Uniform", Supergirl while in her Linda Danvers identity lifted what she thought was a fake 500-lb weight and twirled it like a baton. The fake was the one next to it. Oops.
** During one of her first fights against Reactron in the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis title]]'', she pulls a man out of a building at super-speed and accidentally breaks his arm in three different places.
** In ''[[Comicbook/Supergirl2011 Supergirl Volume 6]]'' #27--the beginning of the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline--Supergirl kicks ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'' so hard that she--apparently--kills him. Kara is so upset that she swears she didn't want to kill him and she cries she doesn't know her own strength.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I don't even know my own strength!
** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': As she is wandering naked around Gotham City's docks, Kara is harassed by a man. Kara grabs his hand, intending to shove it away, and she accidentally crushes his fingers.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'', as Kara is learning how to drive, she puts her foot on the brake... and through the bottom of the car. When it happens, her foster mother cries out "Again?".
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'': In the first chapter, Kara breaks her desk when she puts her hand on it. And in the second chapter she puts her hand through the wall when she is writing on a chalkboard.
** In ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'', Supergirl is not aware of her massive stregnth when her rocket crashes on Earth and she wakes up from her artificial sleep. So, she is downright shocked when she punches a robot -in reality, a soldier in PoweredArmor- beyond the horizon.
** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': Wanting to increase her physical strength, Shyla Kor-Onn did set up a strength-leeching machine on the top of a building. Unfortunately, she forgot about her new magnified strength when she went to turn the machine off; she pushed it off the ledge, and accidentally crushed an innocent bystander.
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl1984'', Kara emerges out of her pod after landing on Earth and starts exploring her surroundings. Feeling marveled by world's nature, she picks a rock, unaware of her newly-gained super-strength, and gets shocked when the stone unexpectedly shatters into a million bits.
--->'''Supergirl:''' ''"It's so hard...So rough to the touch! I wonder if...I--I broke it! But...I was never that strong before!"''
** ''ComicBook/GirlPower'': As saving the Air Force One, Kara rips one wing off because she has not yet achieved complete control of her SuperStrength.
** ComicBook/PowerGirl has a long history of breaking or outright destroying things when she loses her temper. Fortunately, this usually results in getting it back under control.
* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'':
** Road Rage attempts to tackle a terrorist but forgets that organic beings are a lot squishier than Cybertronians and accidentally crushes him into pulp rather than capturing him alive as she'd intended.
** The Constructicons are so strong that Hook inadvertently kills an unlucky worker with a TapOnTheHead.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': In [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s first fight after having her powers unlocked she's quite suprised at being able to toss ComicBook/{{Artemis}} down the street. Unlike most examples she's also ''delighted'', because not only can Artemis take it she also jumped into the fight--which she likely wouldn't have survived without powers--without knowing for sure what they were.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** When ComicBook/{{Colossus}} is [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in transformed form]] he gets angsty about people seeing him as a monster. He then proceeds to try and call his team from a phonebooth but since he is frustrated, trying to dial the number causes his fingers to punch right through the phone.
** ComicBook/{{Rogue}} accidentally snaps Grim Reaper's neck with a single punch after she absorbed Wonder Man's powers. [[IamNotLeftHanded She was holding back]].
** In a ''ComicBook/{{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.
** Wolverine himself in his OriginStory permanently disfigured his brother Dog when he slapped him in the face... not knowing he'd just [[WolverineClaws gained some claws]] at the time.
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