Basic Trope: A character has great innate talent in something, but trains anyway in order to achieve their true potential.
- Straight: World Octuple Division (now Heavyweight) Boxing Champion Flash Young is always undergoing personal Training from Hell despite being a prodigy at the sport, having a ridiculous size advantage over his opponents (even when he was at lower weights, he was still around 6'4" to 6'8", and now he's 7'0"), a Southpaw Advantage, and other gifts that make him incredible at boxing.
- Exaggerated: Flash pretty much doesn't even have to train at all, yet he still does, and with insane methods of Training from Hell and even Imposed Handicap Training. As a result, he's become so powerful that Victory Is Boring to him now.
- Downplayed:
- While Flash isn't that ridiculously good at boxing, he still trains a lot, which owes to his success.
- While Flash doesn't train that much at boxing, he's still a natural prodigy, which owes to his success.
- Justified: Flash 100% believes in the concept of "Can't Catch Up", and if he ever becomes complacent, he'll be a sitting duck. This motivates him never to slack off.
- Inverted: Flash is simultaneously the laziest boxer in existence and the least talented.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Then Flash is suddenly forced to do intense Training from Hell after a particularly bad fight that almost had him knocked down.
- Flash realizes that he actually is pretty damn talented at boxing; He just thought that being The Big Guy was just the only good thing about him.
- Parodied: Flash somehow manages to train, spar, fight and win in his sleep.
- Zig-Zagged: Flash's talent is very niche, and he tends to fluctuate in his training sessions.
- Averted: Flash has average talent and partakes in average training.
- Enforced: It's An Aesop for how even if you're talented, you still have to work hard to fulfill your potential.
- Lampshaded: "Look, I train for hours upon hours without stoppin', even if I'm a natch at this."
- Invoked: Coach Billy instructs Flash to work hard and never, ever to get complacent, no matter how talented he is.
- Exploited: Flash uses his reputation of being a natural prodigy of the sport and a pretty avid trainer to catch the eyes of money makers.
- Defied:
- Flash partakes in Laborious Laziness just to avoid training.
- God himself actively removes any sort of talent within Flash to make him claw for victory more.
- Discussed: Flash's teammates, Alicia, Ulysses, and Clay, wonder why Flash needs to train so badly despite his prodigious nature.
- Conversed: "I kinda think that it's redundant that he's even training; He could pretty much solo the whole roster without breaking a sweat, so why does he force himself to train anyway?"
- Deconstructed:
- Flash's less talented teammates feel worthless in his presence. He's talented, and yet he trains at least as hard as they do. Why bother at this point?
- Flash falls for one of the classic deconstructions of being the World's Best Warrior or World's Strongest Man in general; Victory Is Boring to him now. It's just another day at the office.
- Reconstructed:
- Flash urges the others to train anyways; He cites Hajime no Ippo, specifically using the quote from Genji Kamogawa: "Not everyone who works hard is rewarded. But! All those who succeed have worked hard!"
- For this reason, Flash often holds back. He never views anyone as too much of a threat to him, so he will always use exactly what's needed for them. He actively defies the trope There Is No Kill Like Overkill.
- Implied:
- While Flash's talent is never stated, other characters wonder why he needs to train so much despite being already physically fit and able to come up with plans on the fly.
- Flash is stated to be extremely talented, but despite this, it appears he's outright overzealous of constantly keeping in shape all the time instead of taking a break, even though someone as talented as him would normally find his version of training overkill.
- Played for Drama: Flash, an already gifted boxer, chooses to train in order to not come off as a lazy dumbass who coasts on talent, but when he's told to take a break every once in a while and go to parties, he refuses, because he's always so scared of becoming complacent. As a result, he starts to gain a negative image of a "Stop Having Fun" Guy who only fights for keeps and nothing else, even though he's genuinely passionate about his boxing career (it doesn't help that he currently has an insanely high and unbroken record of 175 wins, all by knockout, no losses, no draws throughout his career), and as a result, he promptly calls out the public who had viewed him in a negative light as a pack of sore, ungrateful bastards who never really had any gratitude or support for him, which in turn solidifies his status as a heel who deserves nothing but to be jeered and boo'd at for being an overall jerkass.
You're Talented, but Trained, so why don't you just... Slow the hell down!? We Can't Catch Up over here, you know!
