History Main / JackOfAllTrades

** The following year, she led her company's women's track team to the AAU national title. Scratch that... she ''was'' the national championship team. By herself. She competed in eight of the 10 individual events, winning five and finishing second in another.

** As a general rule, the protagonists of most DQ games tend to be this. They can do a little of everything - healing, support, fighting - but aren't quite as good at any one thing as the more specialized characters. They get powerful equipment, though, and a couple of awesome exclusive spells (Thordain and Healusall), though the latter's usefulness tends to get offset by costing a lot of MP. Especially as the heroes tend to have mediocre MP growth.

** As a general rule, the protagonists of most DQ games tend to be this. They can do a little of everything - healing, support, fighting - but aren't quite as good at it as the more specialized characters. They get powerful equipment, though, and a couple of awesome exclusive spells (Thordain and Healusall), though the latter's usefulness tends to get offset by costing a lot of MP. Especially as the heroes tend to have mediocre MP growth.

** Her sister Antimony has all the usual cryptozoologist skills, plus [[RollerbladeGood roller blading]], [[KnifeNut knife throwing]], trapeze, and [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]]. And she's also been a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent.

** Can be Taken UpToEleven if you train everything, you end up being a LightningBruiser MagicKnight who [[GeniusBruiser knows something about everything, can fix anything and can kill anything that bleeds (and some things that don't)]].

* Usopp from ''Manga/OnePiece'' (before the time skip) seems to be this. He's not an especially good fighter, though he gets in on the action here and there and uses his cleverness when he can. He was doing his best to fix the ship, as the only one who had any skills in that area before they got a genuine shipwright. He mostly did odd jobs on the ship for the crew, not having a specialization like all the others. Whilst his pure combat skills where sub-par compared to the other (admittedly super-human) characters, his aim was always extremely good (which did in at least one occasion come to great help). Since the time-skip it simply seems he has gotten the combat power to use it effectively against more powerful enemies, along with a wide variety of bizarre plants to use as AbnormalAmmo.

* ''Series/RemingtonSteele'': He may be a fake detective, but Steele's previous life as a conman left him with a wide variety of useful skills.
* A nonfictional example: Mike Rowe from ''Series/DirtyJobs'' tries to be this, though he often ends up closer to MasterOfNone.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' has Methos, who, after 5000 years, has held just about every possible job and has picked up just about any practical skill imaginable. This makes him different from most other immortals who seem to pick a niche and stick with it.

* A negative variant of this is demonstrated in ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' with [[spoiler:Benny, a con man who tried to con the team because leader Mickey chose Ash Morgan for Mickey's team rather than Benny; Mickey later affirmed that while Benny was a better grafter who could adapt to any potential role in a team, he was not a team player who could be trusted to stick to the plan]].

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Frenchie. As Hughie mentions, he functions as a gunrunner, chemist, interrogator, engineer, and door-kicker as needed. Frenchie himself claims to know "a little about a lot."
* Blair Sandburg in ''Series/TheSentinel'' somewhat fits the trope--he's always pulling out some unexpected skill which he either learned on a summer job or acquired from some tribe he was studying on an expedition. Although not so much in canon as in fanfiction.
* Howie Munson of ''Series/TheFallGuy'' has worked as just about everything and then some before he becomes a [[StuntDouble stuntman]] and BountyHunter alongside his cousin Colt Seavers. This gives him a whole lot of job experience, none of which is ever mentioned [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands until it's needed]].
* Dr. Adams on ''Series/{{House}}'' was one of these, medically speaking. While the other doctors had specialties, usually in addition to diagnostic medicine, her background was as a prison doctor, which is essentially general medicine.
* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', [[BadassPreacher Shepherd Book]] seems to have some experience in just about every skill and profession you can care to name. He's knowledgeable enough about mechanics and electrics to be of help in the engine room. He can disarm a man of his gun and then knock him out with a right-hook. He can hit a moving target in the kneecap, from the hip. He demonstrates good knowledge of sniper tactics and vantage points. He even knows a thing or two about explosives or operating heavy machinery. All of this enhances his MysteriousPast, which is finally revealed in ''A Shepherd's Tale'': [[spoiler:he's a former Alliance spy.]]

* The aptly named Jack of ''Literature/TheEnchantedForestChronicles'', a freelance businessman who does "a little bit of everything", though he will assure you that he is ''not'' one of those giant-slaying Jacks.

** In a sense, Twilight, and by extension her foe-turned-protege Starlight, are this to magic. As pointed out in "Boast Busters", most unicorns specialize in a specific niche of magic, such as Rarity with her gem-finding spell, and all unicorns can use their magic for basic telekinesis. However, Unicorns whose talent lies in magic can duplicate the spells of other unicorns, and even, in Starlight's case, rival some Alicorns.

** Kaiba is retconned to be this in his second appearance and not being just an obsessive Magic & Wizards player as he was in his first appearance. However, Kaiba excelling in other games is merely told to us by other characters and high score screens. He is only ever shown to actively play two different games: chess and Magic & Wizards (later remamed "Duel Monsters") and creating death games.

* Tadano Hitohito from ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate''plays this trope for laughs but also uses it to its most logical conclusion. The joke surrounding Tadano is that he’s the most RidiculouslyAverageGuy among a cast of weird characters. In fact, he’s so average that his averageness is what makes him eccentric. But being average in everything logically means that if he tried something, he would be able to achieve the basics. So he ends up being unexpectedly good at activities like ice skating and obstacle courses.

* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'', the Supreme is described as this. They are gifted with the seven most common gifts of magic - [[HealingHands Resurgence]], [[MindControl Concillium]], [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]], [[PlayingWithFire Pyrokinesis]], [[{{Seer}} Divination]], [[TeleFrag Transmutation]], and [[IronicHell Descensum]], also known as the Seven Wonders. However, they are not nearly as adept at them as another witch specifically gifted with a talent in them, and often have only one or very few unique gifts of their own. For example, Zoe is able to communicate with the undead, cause DeathBySex, and has an affinity with spirits, among other things relating to them, such as their banishment or manipulation. Misty does not have many gifts, though she has been compared to Jesus, [[HealingHands for]] [[{{Immortality}} good]] [[AllLovingHero reason]], and can bring people back from the dead using [[MagicFeather mud]], and even then, it's not necessary.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': DependingOnTheWriter, Superman is sometimes portrayed as being the overall most powerful character in the world, despite the fact that his abilities are relatively lack-luster in comparison to other heroes who specialize in it. For example, he is fast but not as fast as Franchise/TheFlash, empathetic but not as much as Franchise/WonderWoman, willful but not as much as Franchise/GreenLantern, pure of heart but not as much as Franchise/{{Shazam}}, and his [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]] pale compared other energy rays from characters such as ComicBook/CaptainAtom, etc.

* Wrestling/JerryLawler: professional wrestler, promoter, illustrator, color commentator and almost politician.