Basic Trope: A character gains super strength and has trouble controlling it for a while.
- Straight: Bob goes through a Super-Empowering event and gains Super-Strength. For a while he has a tendency to break things when he tries to use them.
- Exaggerated: Bob gets angry, stomps his foot, and causes a major earthquake.
- Downplayed: Bob breaks a door handle off trying to open it, but then quickly adjusts.
- Justified: Super strength doesn't come with the skill and restraint to use it.
- Inverted: Bob gets Brought Down to Normal, and makes mistakes trying to use strength he no longer has.
- Subverted: Bob tries to turn the knob to open a door. It does become loose afterwards, but it operates just fine.
- Double Subverted: Never mind; the knob just fell off a minute later.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob adapts quickly to his new power.
- Enforced: Having Bob go through such an ordeal makes him seem more human.
- Lampshaded: "Darn it Bob, that's the third door you've broken this week!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice is Bob's archenemy and makes sure he encounters a lot of problems that brute force cannot solve elegantly.
- Defied: Bob puts effort into learning to use his strength safely.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob gains super strength, and a mention is made later of needing to pay for a new door.
- Deconstructed: Bob's enemies use the damage he causes against him and convince people that he is a threat to the public. He is forced to outwit the people he should be protecting to defeat the villains.
- Reconstructed: Bob trains hard to master his strength enough that he won't cause any more damage, and it makes him much more able to fight.
- Played For Laughs: Bob gets drunk, and causes damage to public property just by staggering around and falling onto things.
- Played For Drama: Bob accidentally kills someone due to losing control of his super strength, and has to deal with the consequences and his own guilt for the rest of his life.
Go back to Does Not Know His Own Strength, and please don't slam the door this- CRUNCH ...never mind.
