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'''Krekka:''' ''(Stops punching handholds in cliff face)'' Oh, that's right. Forgot.

--> '''Keima''': "You should have done this earlier, you brain-dead demon."

---> "Hey! Come back here!" Sailor Moon whined, panting as she looked at the back of the fleeing monster who had remembered that she could fly after being chased for several blocks, and was now taking a shortcut over a building.

--->'''Raditz''': Damn you hindsight! *dies*

--->'''Yamcha:''' Guys, he ringed Cell out! ''(Cell stops falling)'' ...oh.\\

-->'''Flynn''': ''(Floundering)'' They sunk our battleship! What are we gonna do! We're all gonna drown!\\
'''Captain Gutt''': ''(grabs Flynn by the snout)'' You're a ''sea creature'' [[SurroundedByIdiots you idiot!]]\\
'''Flynn''':...Oh, good point sir! ''(Starts swimming)''

--> '''Owl''': What?\\
'''Rabbit''': Owl...that was a...beautiful speech! I didn't know you had it in you!

-->(''Marlin and Dory are trying to escape a frenzied shark'')\\

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--> "Dreambot!Jade: Realize you can fly."
--> "There is nothing to realize. Of course you can fly."

-->'''Tang:''' Why didn't you do that sooner!?
-->'''Mk:''' Because I forgot I could, Okay?

** In the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' game this also happens, but the fallen person (Nina) isn't caught in time and falls. Ryu rushes down rumping into ledges to try and catch her, and after going ''past'' her he promptly ([[FaceFault face]])falls down to the bottom himself.

** This is especially painful because it comes shortly after Tsuzuki ''cracked bulletproof glass with his punch of sheer rage'' at the same guy who's now escaping for no good reason. He seriously takes IdiotHero to new levels.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'': Played with. The gang (minus Piglet) is stuck in a pit, with no way out. Piglet is told to get help, but Piglet is afraid to go through the woods on his own. Owl flies out of the pit to talk to Piglet, and gives a rousing speech, convincing Piglet to go off. Owl hops back into the pit, and all his friends stare at him.

* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'''s foray into SwordAndSorcery, Tarma and Kethry have a CoolSword called Need. Usually sorceress Kethry carries Need, and for her the sword uses SymbioticPossession to make her fight with a skill and [[MusclesAreMeaningless power]] she normally lacks. When fighter Tarma carries Need, Need makes her a MageKiller [[AntiMagic completely untouchable by magic]], breaking any spells put on her and {{No Sell}}ing even a demon on the threshhold to godhood. Tarma dislikes Need, and Need protects Kethry and makes her far less of a SquishyWizard, but they never seem to remember that they can just hand Need over for a few minutes when squaring off against enemy mages - they only ever seem to do this in a moment of desperation, such as when Kethry falls in battle.

*** Actually, it's easier to list classes that ''don't'' have some way of bypassing fall damage... Death Knights. The problem is, knowing ''which'' ability it was when some classes have an applied buff like Priest, some just turn tempoarily invincible and NoSell the ground like Paladin, and others use a jumping or dashing ability to somehow bypass fall damage like Warrior. Remembering ''how'' you're supposed to do it can be quite a hassle. Especially if you weren't expecting to be plummeting.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''. Aladdin asks another character to take a rope to the top of a high tower for him, at which point said character launches into a diatribe about how dangerous this would be for him, and how crazy and inconsiderate a thing it is to ask of him. Aladdin's response is to wait the rant out, as there's no point in trying to reason with him until he's finished, then points out to him that he can fly. At which point, the character, who is [[TalkingAnimal the parrot, Iago]], says, "Oh, yeah."

* In "A Liking to Biking" on ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', Ord bicycles off the edge of a cliff and is left dangling from a tire swing, scared out of his mind that he's going to fall, until Cassie reminds him, "Ord! You're a dragon! Use your wings!"

** In another episode, the girls are trapped at the bottom of a pit by gross kid Harry Pitt, and run constantly around it to avoid getting kissed by him and getting cooties...forgetting they can simply fly out. In a case of irony, they realize Harry is fine and they kiss him back, ''then'' they fly out of the pit.

Can be more or less justified if the powers are rarely useful or [[CripplingOverspecialization too specific]], so that the character has not used them for a long time; if the power's use in this situation is an entirely new one; if the character has (or has had) a good reason to avoid the use, and so got into the habit of not thinking of it; or if the power itself was gained only recently, and the character is not used to having it as an option. Also by not having time enough to think.

Compare and contrast HowDoIShotWeb, InformedAbility, NewPowersAsThePlotDemands.

* Bunbee from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' is attacked by [[DragonInChief Kawarino]] and falls from a roof, but he can grab a window ledge. And then he remembers he can (transform into a humanoid bee and) fly. His survival allows him to appear in the sequel where he [[spoiler:undergoes a HeelFaceTurn in the end]]. He does this again in ''Anime/KibouNoChikaraOtonaPrettyCure23'' when he's surrounded by Shadows and Syrup, Kurumi and Nozomi rescue [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki and Mai]] and accidentally forget him.

* Wesley tries to invoke this with a none-too-bright power stealing villain in ''Comicbook/{{Wanted}}''. The villain does remember he can fly but forgets that the power is seconds away from running out.

* Played very seriously in ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'':

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Act I'': After being [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out a window]], Ruby is freaking out over her impending doom... but then remembers, "Oh, wait. I can fly," and promptly spreads her wings to do so.

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* {{Inverted}} in ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' (Hell Train: The Dallar Show), when the birdlike humanoid Pompidou talks about how he could fly somewhere but then remembers that he ''can't'' fly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', after [[spoiler:Mind-Raping a friend by mistake]], M'Gann suffers a horrible breakdown and this trope in the result. She can hardly communicate telepathically, her species equivalent to talking, and has to be reminded that she can walk through walls.