Characters who have trouble judging and controlling their own strength in Video Games.
- Chest: As the Hero, Zong is incredibly strong, but can't control that strength easily. When taking on a lumberjack job, he accidentally felled the whole forest with one swing. He also accidentally turned Mount Aluxes into a valley while training with a sword. However, this mostly seems to be a thing of the past, since in the present, he non-lethally punches a Jerkass aristocrat.
- In Crysis 2, the first time Alcatraz comes across a door after getting the Nanosuit, he accidentally rips the pushbar off trying to open it. He's noticeably more gentle when opening doors afterward.
- In Devil May Cry 3 after Dante is defeated by Vergil and unlocks his Devil Trigger he staggers over to a pillar and smacks it in frustration, the pillar shudders and then breaks apart
. Dante looks at his hand excited, the music kicks in and he gets a Heroic Second Wind worth nothing Dante had Super-Strength before then but it seems his DT has boosted it to point he has it unconsciously. - While just about everyone in Disgaea has ridiculous DBZ-levels of Super-Strength, only Flonne's shown some difficulty in controlling it: at one point, she hastily shoves Laharl away (to prevent him from performing Percussive Maintenance on poor Mr. DVD Player) and ends up rocketing him across the room.
- A trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution has Jensen accidentally cracking a glass as he tries to hold it with one of his new cybernetic arms.
- Dynasty Warriors: Guan Yinping beats down stone walls for training, and it shows, as she has a tendency to accidentally rip bricks out of masonry and nearly dislocates people's shoulders when helping them up. Her issue isn't that she doesn't know how strong she is, but rather being raised in her Badass Family means her frame of reference is slightly off.
- Final Fantasy VII Remake has a heartbreaking example with Cloud and Tifa. Late in the game after Section 7 has been completely destroyed by Shinra, Tifa breaks down completely at losing her home for a second time and cries on her childhood friend’s chest. Cloud who up until that point had been very hesitant to open up to those close to him, finally gives into his feelings and hugs Tifa tightly in response but being a Mako-powered Super-Soldier, his strong embrace actually hurts her slightly.
- Fire Emblem:
- In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Faerghus, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, has incredible physical strength, but has trouble keeping it from interfering with more dexterous tasks. He asks his friend Mercedes to teach him needlework in their support chain, and somehow manages to accidentally bend a pair of scissors with his physical strength alone, and sits out of participating in a fishing contest for fear that he’d accidentally snap his fishing rod in half. It's been a problem for years: His Childhood Friend Felix won't let him live down the fact that he used to accidentally snap swords in half as a child.
- In Fire Emblem: Awakening, prince Chrom of the Halidom of Ylisse is remarkably strong, but clumsy enough with it that he regularly destroys training dummies during his sword training, and handles mundane objects so hard that he breaks them, much to his chagrin.
- In Hector: Badge of Carnage, Hector is shockingly strong for a fat man, but is incapable of holding back his strength. This becomes a problem where the player needs to "Fight like a cow" which Hector can't do since the softest hit he can do is still a swift jab to the face, thus requiring his partner Lambert (a scrawny weakling) to fill in.
- CPU Yellow Heart and her spoiler-to-name non-HDD self in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory, who is capable of knocking enemies over the horizon without trying. Demonstrated in one of her team-up skills where she punts an enemy at a teammate, expected them to hit it back, but puts so much force into it the enemy just cleans them up on the way through.
- The Legend of Zelda: This tends to be a problem with Gorons, being rock people that could give human bodybuilders a run for their money.
- In Ocarina of Time, After clearing the Dodongo's Cavern, Darunia the Goron decides that he and Link are now sworn brothers, and gives him a hearty pat on the shoulder. It goes about as well as you'd expect, especially when all of the Gorons decide it's time for a Group Hug, which causes Link to run away screaming at the top of his lungs.
- A similar thing happens in Breath of the Wild, when Daruk gives Link a playful pat on the back that nearly breaks the poor Hylian's spine.
- Like a Dragon has a minor example in Hiroki Awano from Yakuza 0. He was once a rising star in the Tojo Clan, strong like a bull and with the potential to make it to the top, but he let himself get swept away by the vices of the lifestyle, choosing from then on to play it safe and settle for his current position. He even mentions that his irezumi is probably faded because he kept sedentary. During his fight with Majima, he slowly gets back into the groove of the man he once was and even surprises both Majima and himself when he craters a wall with a missed punch.
- Charme of Maglam Lord constantly suffers outside of combat because of her super strength, a part of her Heroic blessing. She can't cook properly because she keeps accidentally crushing ingredients just trying to pick them up and several characters end up being strangled and unable to breath if she tries to hug them.
- Path of Exile: The assassin Vorici gives players missions that can involve killing a target but not all of his guards, all of his guards but not the target, or reducing the target to low life but leaving him alive. This can be difficult for characters who are built to obliterate half the screen with a wave of their hand, and can require some awkward workarounds like removing almost all their supports, or repeatedly using a movement skill that deals almost no damage to wear them down.
- Pokémon Sun and Moon has Bewear, the Strong Arm Pokemon, a big cuddly bear that is Beary Friendly and loves to give hugs to its Trainer to show its affection. However, its immense strength means that said Trainer is unfortunately crushed to death, unless they have taught it how to ease up.
- Soul Calibur III & IV: That'd be Sophitia's younger sister, Cassandra, who has a bad habit of breaking her sister's swords, due to how roughly she handles them.
- Her brother-in-law, Rothion, repaired them the first time, after Cassandra returned from her first journey (SC II). However, her next outting concluded with her shattering her sword again. Only this time, Sophitia put her foot down and marched her down to the smithy to fix it, herself.
- But in SC IV, she finally put that muscle to good use, by breaking Soul Calibur as payback for all the hell it had put Sophitia through.
- Her brother-in-law, Rothion, repaired them the first time, after Cassandra returned from her first journey (SC II). However, her next outting concluded with her shattering her sword again. Only this time, Sophitia put her foot down and marched her down to the smithy to fix it, herself.
- It's not raw physical strength, but Nadia Grell of Star Wars: The Old Republic is the only known Force-Sensitive of her species. Unfortunately, her powers grew with no one to train her. No worries about her getting Drunk on the Dark Side (she's entirely too sweet for that), but rocks and trees do have a tendency to explode if she gets too excited.
- Touhou Project:
- Flandre Scarlet of the possesses extreme physical strength and the ability to destroy absolutely anything at will... except she does not know how to control this power. In fact, she was locked away in a basement for 495 years as a result of her unstable and potential destructibility. According to fandom, those she "plays with" do not last long...
- Entirely averted with the oni Yuugi Hoshiguma, the physically strongest of the entire cast, whose self-control is such that just getting her to spill a drop of the sake she holds in one hand in a wide bowl while fighting is considered the only plausible way of winning against her.
- Undertale: Papyrus has a rather wild underestimation of his own strength. Undyne won't allow him to join the Royal Guard, and he believe it's because he's not strong enough; in fact, she thinks he's more than powerful enough, it's that he's too nice that she's holding him out. In the boss fight with him, he at one point uses a "absolutely normal attack" against you because his "special attack" was stolen. Said "absolutely normal attack" is one of the hardest attacks in the game to avoid. (The only point where he does know his own strength is in pulling his punches; he's the only boss in the game who won't kill you, intentionally or unintentionally, always stopping when you're at 1 HP.)
