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* In ''PokemonMysteryDungeon: Explorers of Sky'', Armaldo panics and looks for water to put out a burning map before remembering that he can use Water Gun.

** Since that quest is presented as [[strike: slightly exaggerated]] [[BlatantLies a complete fabrication]] told by one of the NPCs, it's really a [[AssPull completely separate trope]] being used by the NPC.

'''NOTE''': Only include examples of a character not remembering that they have the ability and ''then remembering it''. Simply forgetting about altogether it is PlotInducedStupidity.

-->-Ron Weasley, ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

** In another strip, Durkon swings at an attacking goblin with his hammer and misses twice. However, when others remind him about the bonuses he forgot to add to his attack, he realizes that he hit after all- and sure enough, the goblin is retroactively pummeled into submission.
*** He'd be a great fighter if he had a better head for numbers.

* One LooneyTunes cartoon had a running gag with Daffy falling off a cliff. The first time, Bugs looks down and casually says, "I wonder if Daffy will remember dat he can'' fly?"'' BAM! "I guess not," and Bugs walks off. Later, the gag is repeated with Daffy falling off a cliff into the ocean. "I wonder if dat silly duck will remember dat he can ''swim?"'' SPLASH! GLUG! "I guess not."
* In an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the first few episodes of ''The {{Transformers}}'' depicted the Autobots being able to fly in robot mode, just like the Decepticons. Later episodes casually ignored this, since not being able to fly gave the 'Bots an interesting disadvantage. Amusingly, though, one of the early episodes had Optimus literally [[CliffHanger hanging by his fingers]] above a chasm, even though at this point the Autobots were all depicted as able to fly.

* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry and Ron are being strangled by the vines of the Devil's Snare while Hermione is panicking and trying to remember how to combat the plant. She then remembers that the plant shrinks from heat and light. Harry suggests she lights a fire and the brilliant and talented witch, who [[ChekhovsSkill has been noted as being particularly skilled at creating magic fire]], replies that there is no wood. Ron, as quoted above, manages to scream some sense into her. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] at that pont as Hermione, despite her skill, had spent most of her life as an ordinary human, whereas Ron had grown up surrounded by magic.

* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry and Ron are being strangled by the vines of the Devil's Snare while Hermione is panicking and trying to remember how to combat the plant. She then remembers that the plant shrinks from heat and light. Harry suggests she lights a fire and the brilliant and talented witch, who [[ChekhovsSkill has been noted as being particularly skilled at creating magic fire]], replies that there is no wood. Ron, as quoted above, manages to scream some sense into her. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] at that pont as Hermione, despite her skill, was panicking and had spent most of her life as an ordinary human, whereas Ron had grown up surrounded by magic.

* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry and Ron are being strangled by the vines of the Devil's Snare while Hermione is panicking and trying to remember how to combat the plant. She then remembers that the plant shrinks from heat and light. Harry suggests she lights a fire and the brilliant and talented witch, who [[ChekhovsSkill has been noted as being particularly skilled at creating magic fire]], replies that there is no wood. Ron, as quoted above, manages to scream some sense into her. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in this case as Hermione comes form Muggle parents, and was raised as a muggle until she was ten. In that case, isn't it logical that she would panic in a moment of fright, and think of how a ''muggle'' would do things? Especially since this is the first book, she has been a witch for less than a year, but it still is the trope.

* Lampooned in the "The Adventures of Young God" skit on ''TheState'', which portrays {{God}} as a crime-fighting, Batman-style superhero. He and his sidekick (the Boy Savior) have been captured by the bad guys and tied up in an abandoned factory next to a time bomb that's about to explode, when...

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* At one point in the Bionicle storyline, Krekka has to be reminded that he knows how to fly.

* In ''MyLittlePony: Friendship is Magic'''s ''Dragonshy'', Fluttershy is so frightened she has to be reminded that she can fly. This then gets {{Subverted}} when she becomes so terrified that her wings lock up entirely, stranding her on the ground.

* In ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Harry and Ron are being strangled by the vines of the Devil's Snare while Hermione is panicking and trying to remember how to combat the plant. She then remembers that the plant shrinks from heat and light. Harry suggests she lights a fire and the brilliant and talented witch, who [[ChekhovsSkill has been noted as being particularly skilled at creating magic fire]], replies that there is no wood. Ron, as quoted above, manages to scream some sense into her. [[hottip:* : Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in this case as Hermione comes form Muggle parents, and was raised as a muggle until she was ten. In that case, isn't it logical that she would panic in a moment of fright, and think of how a ''muggle'' would do things?]]

* One LooneyTunes cartoon had a running gag with Daffy falling off a cliff. The first time, Bugs looks down and casually says, "I wonder if Daffy will remember dat he can'' fly?"'' BAM! "I guess not," and Bugs walks off. Later, the gag is repeated with Daffy falling off a cliff into the ocean. "I wonder if dat silly duck will remember dat he can ''swim?"'' SPLASH! GLUG! "I guess not."
* In an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the first few episodes of ''The [[Transformers]]'' depicted the Autobots being able to fly in robot mode, just like the Decepticons. Later episodes casually ignored this, since not being able to fly gave the 'Bots an interesting disadvantage. Amusingly, though, one of the early episodes had Optimus literally [[CliffHanger hanging by his fingers]] above a chasm, even though at this point the Autobots were all depicted as able to fly.

* This happens with [[PsychopathicManchild Nappa]] in ''DragonBallZAbridged''. What makes this particular example so hilarious is that this realization came after he forgot about it as he ''was'' flying and after he ''had been'' flying for the greater part of that fight and ''while he was in midair''.

->''"CROOKSHANKS?! ARE YOU A WIZARD OR WHAT?"''
-->-Hermione Granger, ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''

** She also claims to speak the language of whales, which just involves effecting a deep and drawn out voice when speaking English. Marlin scoffs at this, but the whale ''does'' understand her so he starts doing it too leading to this: