Fnu
Since: Dec, 1969
#2: May 2nd 2012 at 7:55:19 AM
If it's not exactly being misused then what's the problem?
I see the Awesomeness.
#3: May 2nd 2012 at 7:24:09 PM
Squandered Potential would make a good supertrope. Talented But Untrained would probably work with it as well.
Fight smart, not fair.
MarkThis
Since: Jan, 2012
#4: May 2nd 2012 at 7:58:09 PM
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The name is not excatly indicative of the content. It needs to be more precise.
Talented but Untrained as a sister trope?
#5: May 3rd 2012 at 3:02:26 AM
The OP does not contain any evidence that this name is somehow huring the trope. Without any numbers, the claim is invalid. Locking up.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
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Well, not exactly "misused" so much as "misunderstood". As the Troper Tales debacle has proven, people tend to mistake this with some sort of lofty, Orcus on His Throne-ish flippancy, kind of like being Fashionably Late. As in "I could use my brains to cure cancer, but I prefer playing videogames and denying the world the gift that I am". When it's much more about akrasia (not being able to keep one's commitments, acting against one's better judgment), procrastination, and squandered potential that atrophies and rots.
So I suggest the description is reworked to reflect that, and the trope is renamed Squandered Potential.