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* ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks''. Shirou's attempts to use Strengthening magic on materials consistently fail in his nightly practice until after [[spoiler:Archer fixes his Magic Circuits]], but he gets it right in do-or-die combat situations right from the start. Notably, though, this is justified, though in spoileriffic manner: [[spoiler:Shirou's magic is limited to 'stuff to do with swords'. When he's just trying to strengthen a random object, it's not going to work because the object is insufficiently sword-like. Only when he's making objects more weapon-like does his power work.]]
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* ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks''. Shirou's attempts to use Strengthening magic on materials consistently fail in his nightly practice until after [[spoiler:Archer fixes his Magic Circuits]], but he gets it right in do-or-die combat situations right from the start. Notably, though, this is justified, though in spoileriffic manner: [[spoiler: Shirou's magic is limited to 'stuff to do with swords'. When he's just trying to strengthen a random object, it's not going to work because the object is insufficiently sword-like. Only when he's making objects more weapon-like does his power work.]]
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* In ''Film/EnolaHolmes,'' the titular character fails for most of the movie to pull off a certain jiu-jitsu move. In the climax, with her life at stake, she somehow manages to do it.
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* In ''Film/EnolaHolmes,'' ''Film/EnolaHolmes'', the titular character fails for most of the movie to pull off a certain jiu-jitsu move. In the climax, with her life at stake, she somehow manages to do it.
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* In the 1997 movie ''[[Film/RocketMan1997 Rocket Man]]'', [[GeniusDitz Randall]] has proven that he's an absolute genius, having designed several of the pieces of equipment in the Mars lander, but he can't rewire them when spinning around. Sure enough, the craft gets sent into a flat spin when they're trying to leave and he has to rewire the entire electrical system in less than two minutes. With some encouragement from the mission director after a brief moment of panic, [[LetsGetDangerous he pulls it off flawlessly.]]
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* In the 1997 movie ''[[Film/RocketMan1997 Rocket Man]]'', ''Film/{{Rocket Man|1997}}'', [[GeniusDitz Randall]] has proven that he's an absolute genius, having designed several of the pieces of equipment in the Mars lander, but he can't rewire them when spinning around. Sure enough, the craft gets sent into a flat spin when they're trying to leave and he has to rewire the entire electrical system in less than two minutes. With some encouragement from the mission director after a brief moment of panic, [[LetsGetDangerous he pulls it off flawlessly.]]flawlessly]].
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* Played with in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', where Harry has been attempting to cast Patronus spells all book so that he can defend himself from Dementors, but can't seem to get it fully right. He does get it to succeed once, but he (and the audience) doesn't see it happen because he's in the middle of a Quidditch match and looking for the Snitch. (Plus, he didn't have real Dementors to deal with that time.) Later, he has to save himself and two others from an entire ''swarm'' of Dementors, and [[spoiler:fails the first time, but eventually he [[StableTimeLoop travels back in time]] and is able to save his earlier self with a Patronus he'd (at the time) thought his dead father had somehow cast. By that point he'd realized he ''would'' succeed because he already had]].
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry has trouble with the summoning spell, Accio, until he finds out that he needs it to beat a dragon.
* Played with in Creator/UrsulaVernon's ''Dragonbreath'' series. Danny Dragonbreath is a young dragon who is sensitive about his inability to breathe fire. When facing a giant octopus in the climax of the first book, he does finally manage to breathe fire-- but because he's underwater at the time, it has no effect.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry has trouble with the summoning spell, Accio, until he finds out that he needs it to beat a dragon.
* Played with in Creator/UrsulaVernon's ''Dragonbreath'' series. Danny Dragonbreath is a young dragon who is sensitive about his inability to breathe fire. When facing a giant octopus in the climax of the first book, he does finally manage to breathe fire-- but because he's underwater at the time, it has no effect.
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* Played with ''Franchise/HarryPotter'':
** PlayedWith in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', where Harry has been attempting to cast Patronus spells all book so that he can defend himself from Dementors, but can't seem to get it fully right. He does get it to succeed once, but he (and the audience) doesn't see it happen because he's in the middle of a Quidditch match and looking for the Snitch. (Plus, he didn't have real Dementors to deal with that time.) Later, he has to save himself and two others from an entire ''swarm'' of Dementors, and [[spoiler:fails the first time, but eventually he [[StableTimeLoop travels back in time]] and is able to save his earlier self with a Patronus he'd (at the time) thought his dead father had somehow cast. By that point he'd realized he ''would'' succeed because he already had]].
* ** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry has trouble with the summoning spell, Accio, until he finds out that he needs it to beat a dragon.
*Played with PlayedWith in Creator/UrsulaVernon's ''Dragonbreath'' series. Danny Dragonbreath is a young dragon who is sensitive about his inability to breathe fire. When facing a giant octopus in the climax of the first book, he does finally manage to breathe fire-- but because he's underwater at the time, it has no effect.
** PlayedWith in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', where Harry has been attempting to cast Patronus spells all book so that he can defend himself from Dementors, but can't seem to get it fully right. He does get it to succeed once, but he (and the audience) doesn't see it happen because he's in the middle of a Quidditch match and looking for the Snitch. (Plus, he didn't have real Dementors to deal with that time.) Later, he has to save himself and two others from an entire ''swarm'' of Dementors, and [[spoiler:fails the first time, but eventually he [[StableTimeLoop travels back in time]] and is able to save his earlier self with a Patronus he'd (at the time) thought his dead father had somehow cast. By that point he'd realized he ''would'' succeed because he already had]].
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* In ''{{Series/Chuck}}'' season 3 when he was training to be a "real" spy, Chuck had to do an ImprovisedZipline using a power line and his belt as the pulley, but failed. Then at the end of the ep in a real situation he was forced to use a power line as a zip line with his belt as the pulley. This time he succeeded.
* In ''[[Series/FamilyTies Family Ties]]'', in the Season 3 episode "Auntie Up," with Elyse out of town and Mallory grieving the death of her beloved great-aunt - his own Aunt Trudy - Steven says "funerals, first dates and plumbing" have always been Elyse's job, while he handles "colds and flus, open school nights and office supplies." He also says, "I don't deal that well with death myself." Season 3 would end with the two-parter "Remembrances of Things Past," in which Steven travels to his own father's funeral, which he had known was imminent since the Season 1 episode "I Never Killed for My Father," and he must comfort his mother.
* In ''{{Series/Fringe}}'', a villain threatens a biological attack unless Olivia can make a box of lights switch off with her mind. Fringe Division assumes he's mad, and prepares a rigged box to fake the effect - but the episode ends with Olivia having to [[spoiler:use her latent mental powers]] to switch off another box, wired directly to the bomb that will release the contaminant. She succeeds.
* In ''[[Series/FamilyTies Family Ties]]'', in the Season 3 episode "Auntie Up," with Elyse out of town and Mallory grieving the death of her beloved great-aunt - his own Aunt Trudy - Steven says "funerals, first dates and plumbing" have always been Elyse's job, while he handles "colds and flus, open school nights and office supplies." He also says, "I don't deal that well with death myself." Season 3 would end with the two-parter "Remembrances of Things Past," in which Steven travels to his own father's funeral, which he had known was imminent since the Season 1 episode "I Never Killed for My Father," and he must comfort his mother.
* In ''{{Series/Fringe}}'', a villain threatens a biological attack unless Olivia can make a box of lights switch off with her mind. Fringe Division assumes he's mad, and prepares a rigged box to fake the effect - but the episode ends with Olivia having to [[spoiler:use her latent mental powers]] to switch off another box, wired directly to the bomb that will release the contaminant. She succeeds.
* In ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' season 3 when he was training to be a "real" spy, Chuck had to do an ImprovisedZipline using a power line and his belt as the pulley, but failed. Then at the end of the ep in a real situation he was forced to use a power line as a zip line with his belt as the pulley. This time he succeeded.
* ''Series/FamilyTies'': In the Season 3 episode "Auntie Up", with Elyse out of town and Mallory grieving the death of her beloved great-aunt - his own Aunt Trudy - Steven says "funerals, first dates and plumbing" have always been Elyse's job, while he handles "colds and flus, open school nights and office supplies." He also says, "I don't deal that well with death myself." Season 3 would end with the two-parter "Remembrances of Things Past," in which Steven travels to his own father's funeral, which he had known was imminent since the Season 1 episode "I Never Killed for My Father," and he must comfort his mother.
* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', a villain threatens a biological attack unless Olivia can make a box of lights switch off with her mind. Fringe Division assumes he's mad, and prepares a rigged box to fake the effect - but the episode ends with Olivia having to [[spoiler:use her latent mental powers]] to switch off another box, wired directly to the bomb that will release the contaminant. She succeeds.
* ''Series/FamilyTies'': In the Season 3 episode "Auntie Up", with Elyse out of town and Mallory grieving the death of her beloved great-aunt - his own Aunt Trudy - Steven says "funerals, first dates and plumbing" have always been Elyse's job, while he handles "colds and flus, open school nights and office supplies." He also says, "I don't deal that well with death myself." Season 3 would end with the two-parter "Remembrances of Things Past," in which Steven travels to his own father's funeral, which he had known was imminent since the Season 1 episode "I Never Killed for My Father," and he must comfort his mother.
* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', a villain threatens a biological attack unless Olivia can make a box of lights switch off with her mind. Fringe Division assumes he's mad, and prepares a rigged box to fake the effect - but the episode ends with Olivia having to [[spoiler:use her latent mental powers]] to switch off another box, wired directly to the bomb that will release the contaminant. She succeeds.
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* ''Webcomic/VillainToKill'': As far as Cassian is concerned, [[InvokedTrope the best way to learn how to use his new powers is trial by fire.]] He purposefully picks a fight with Screwdriver, a Villain with three times his raw power at the time, to get a better handle on using his abilities against a superior opponent.
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* ''Webcomic/VillainToKill'': As far as Cassian is concerned, [[InvokedTrope the best way to learn how to use his new powers is trial by fire.]] fire]]. He purposefully picks a fight with Screwdriver, a Villain with three times his raw power at the time, to get a better handle on using his abilities against a superior opponent.
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** Bolin [[spoiler: lava-bending in the season 3 finale]] is a subversion, as [[spoiler: the skill he had been trying to master all season was ''metal''bending, which he still hadn't gotten by the end of the series.]]
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** Bolin [[spoiler: lava-bending [[spoiler:lava-bending in the season 3 finale]] is a subversion, as [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the skill he had been trying to master all season was ''metal''bending, which he still hadn't gotten by the end of the series.]]series]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', season 5 "Dodge This", when the park workers form a dodge ball team, Rigby practices his dodge ball throw, the "Rignado", but he can't aim it properly. When his team is against "The Magical Elements" and Rigby and Reginald, one of the giant flying babies, are the only ones remaining, Rigby does the "Rignado" again but this time it hits his opponent and his team moves on to the finals.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' season 5 "Dodge This", when the park workers form a dodge ball team, Rigby practices his dodge ball throw, the "Rignado", but he can't aim it properly. When his team is against "The Magical Elements" and Rigby and Reginald, one of the giant flying babies, are the only ones remaining, Rigby does the "Rignado" again but this time it hits his opponent and his team moves on to the finals.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'': Otis' friend Peck has a RunningGag of being a scrawny rooster unable to crow. He's finally able to let out a crow at the very end to get Otis' attention when Dag is about to pounce on him from behind.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'': Otis' friend Peck has a RunningGag of being a scrawny rooster unable to crow. He's finally able to let out a crow at the very end to get Otis' attention when Dag is about to pounce on him from behind.
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* PlayedForLaughs in the [[RealTrailerFakeMovie real trailer for the fake reboot]] of ''Series/RaumschiffGamestar'': the AU Captain Langer tries to reproduce the original Captain's CatchPhrase ("Oh God, we are all going to die!") but repeatedly mispronounces it. Then, in the end of the trailer, he finally gets it right--just as his entire ship blows up to smithereens.
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* PlayedForLaughs in the [[RealTrailerFakeMovie real trailer for the fake reboot]] of ''Series/RaumschiffGamestar'': the AU Captain Langer tries to reproduce the original Captain's CatchPhrase catchphrase ("Oh God, we are all going to die!") but repeatedly mispronounces it. Then, in the end of the trailer, he finally gets it right--just as his entire ship blows up to smithereens.
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* ''Film/TheBlob1988'': At the beginning of the film, Brian is trying to jump a broken bridge at the edge of town on his motorcycle, but he chickens out at the last second and ends up crashing. Later in the film, he's being pursued by government agents because HeKnowsTooMuch, and is chased towards the same bridge by armed soldiers on trucks, [=ATVs=], and helicopter (under the impression he's a possible infectee to a non-existent disease). This time, he makes the jump and escapes, but his pursuers are not so lucky.
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* ''Film/TheBlob1988'': At the beginning of the film, Brian is trying to jump a broken bridge at the edge of town on his motorcycle, but he chickens out at the last second and ends up crashing. Later in the film, he's being pursued by government agents because HeKnowsTooMuch, and is chased towards the same bridge by armed soldiers on trucks, [=ATVs=], and helicopter (under the impression he's a possible infectee to a non-existent disease). This time, he makes the jump, but his pursuers are not so lucky.
