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Characters who have trouble judging and controlling their own strength in Webcomics.


  • Champions of Far'aus: Leilusa and Hyperion sometimes forget that they are Physical Gods from another realm of existence who are much stronger than the mortals who work for them. Thankfully it just leads to occasional Slapstick humor.
  • Summer Mighty of Everyday Heroes has trouble controlling her new-found strength, resulting in a kitchen remodel.
  • Grrl Power: Colonel Maxima sometimes forgets things have weight. The Flavor Text at the bottom of the comic also mentions that she "forgets things can be hot, sharp or fast" as well.
  • Equius of Homestuck would like to use bows and arrows as his weapons, but can't actually wield them without the bow snapping like a twig when he draws it. The only safe outlet for him to let off his frustration is through beating the shit out of robots in cage matches. He also loves drinking milk. It's too bad he can't pick up a glass of it without shattering it in his hand.
  • In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, when Bob briefly gains Super-Strength, he manages to stop a bank robbery... but accidentally destroys the bank in the process.
  • The first time Walky and Joyce have sex in It's Walky!, they wreck most of the furniture in their hotel room. As one of the hotel employees says, "Man of steel, woman of steel, bed of Kleenex."
  • Karin-dou 4koma: Tamaryu, a Super-Strong Child thanks to being a dragon:
    • Her attempt at bowling sends her ball into orbit.
    • Her attempt at smashing a watermelon rends it into a fine pink spray.
    • Her attempt at filling up an inflatable pool causes a blast that knocks Kinka out. Seren makes a note to not teach her CPR until she's learned to take it easy.
    • After Kinka explains her token attempts at Percussive Maintenance on a fan that just stopped working, Tamaryu decides to help out with a "light chop" that splits the fan in half.
  • Level 1 Housewife: Angrboda is a hulking amazon swordswoman who has married a fruit merchant half her size, and is trying to settle into domestic life. It's problematic, because she is super strong and has a lot of trouble handling things delicately. (Including her husband, but the local priest resurrects him for a nominal fee.)
  • Lola and Mr. Wrinkles: Hugo, a St. Bernard, leaves Mr. Wrinkles feeling bulldozed after a hug.
  • A common flaw in Magellan Academy, since most of the students are superpowered and in training. A particularly noteworthy case would be the superstrong but not invulnerable Justine Kef, strong enough to lift massive weights but with normal human bone structure. She can break herself if she uses too much strength outside of her super suit.
  • Once Stung: In short order after getting her super powers, Cynthia breaks Jessica's finger, winds a football player by throwing the ball back to him and busting hole in her bedroom wall.
  • In The Order of the Stick, the Monster In The Darkness DOES know it's super strong, it just still can't control its strength as demonstrated here.
  • Zig-Zagging Trope with the title character from Poppy O'Possum; she's very much aware of her own strength, and treats it like no big deal (to the incredulity of those around her). However, she occasionally misjudges how much strength is needed for a given situation, such as when she opens the iron gates to Eggton when the guards refuse to let her in - resulting in one of the doors becoming unhinged and being sent flying off into the nearby countryside.
  • Princess Princess (2012): The Ogre was just trying to express himself through dance, but his size and clumsiness unwittingly caused a lot of destruction to a village in the process.
  • PS238 shows the result of Julie "84" hugging Moon Shadow in his Revenant-provided jet: He's uninjured, but she wrapped the pilot seat around him.
  • In this Sluggy Freelance strip, while Aylee's getting used to being Torg's secretary, she tends to accidentally drive her fingers right through the computer keyboard.
  • Spinnerette: Not as bad as most, but Heather's still getting used to her new strength, as well as having six arms, as seen when she bear hugs Sahira.
  • In Superline, after Logan develops super strength, he has difficulty handling things gently and breaks just about everything he touches, even after barely picking it up.
  • In Tales of the Questor, this happens as an one off joke when Quentyn reunites with his friend, Kestral at her engineering school. She gives him a big hug and inadvertently hurts him because her vigorous studies having increased her strength considerably and she is not yet fully in control of it.


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