Characters who have trouble judging and controlling their own strength in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Amazing Fantasy (My Hero Academia & Spider-Man): Izuku first discovers his Super-Strength when he destroys his desk by gripping it too hard while trying to dodge one of Bakugou's explosions. When Kamui Woods comes to retrieve Izuku, who has since crawled up the side of a building, he puts the Hero's hand in a death grip until he's asked to ease up. The day after that, Izuku accidentally shoves Bakugou all the way down the hallway and struggles to avoid snapping his pencils in half.
- The Bridge (MLP):
- Godzilla is turned into a Unicorn, but retains a great deal of his power. When he tries to punch a punching bag, it bursts. In this case it's less he's unused to his power and more he's unused to everything around him that's of a similar size being that fragile.
- While visiting an injured Xenilla in the hospital, Destroyah tries to give him a friendly nudge, but presses too hard on his ribs. He barely stops himself from screaming.
- Equestria: Across the Multiverse: At the end of the My Little Pony Tales Story Arc, the Mane Six accidentally discover they grant others in different worlds Rainbow Powers so long as that world didn't already have a set of Elements (and only to a max of seven ponies are once) when they do so to the Tales Seven. In addition to the new Super Mode, all seven get awakened Earth Pony Magic and the Super-Strength that comes with it. Naturally, they have no idea how to control it and end up accidentally breaking things around them. Applejack teaches them how to control it afterwards.
- Fate: Kill (Akame ga Kill! & Fate/stay night): It is mentioned that the Heiwa tribe doesn't normally use weapons because they are so strong that any weapon they try to use breaks. Shirou provides them with many of his traced weapons, which are more durable than the regular kind and can survive being used by them, making them very grateful.
- Fates Collide (Fate Series & RWBY):
- Chloe von Einzbern pulls a rope that rings the von Einzbern mansion's doorbell too hard and it breaks. Archer fixes it.
- Iskandar tends to squeeze too hard when he hugs people.
- Carly and Sam from iFight Crime With Victorious
, particularly Sam. When Sam first receives her power, unknowingly, she tosses a soda can at Freddie that knocks him off his feet. Carly, more level-minded, runs into this problem less often, but using it is still a very volatile process. - In Imaginary Seas, Percy knows that he has new powers as a Servant that he never had when he was alive, but he doesn't know just how exceptional he is until Chiron shows shock at just how many Noble Phantasms he has, using five without thinking about it even while holding back. It's also played more conventionally when Percy suffers the effects of forcibly taking on Zeus' Klironomia. His body starts spasming so badly that when he tries to grip a tree for support, he ends up ripping it out of the ground and pulls it apart while trying to let go of it.
- In Justice League of Equestria, Rainbow Dash first learns of her newly acquired super strength when she kicks a tree and makes it explode into splinters.
- Kallen Kozuki in Justice Society of Japan, to the point that even reaching for a glass of milk without breaking it becomes difficult. On the plus side, she did enjoy her newfound ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Haruhi Suzumiya & TV Tropes; author Died During Production): Kyon.
- Because of the nature of his training he knows martial arts but he doesn't remember any experience with them, including the specific effects of his attacks on opponents. After the fight on chapter 12, Iyouji was surprised when he had to ask how bad were the injuries he made on the Mooks.
- In a later chapter, a Fictional Document reminded that while getting new powers were good, one should also learn to be careful with them.
- MagicTale (The Familiar of Zero & Undertale): Played with given that Undyne knows how strong she is, but is used to everything being made out of stone or metal, resulting in her frequently breaking wooden objects. Though in the case of one door, she simply wasn't aware which way it opened, causing her to knock it off its hinges. Likewise, she's not quite aware of how fragile humans are. A friendly pat on a cook's back dislocated his shoulders.
- My Ideal Academia: Shirou defeats Sasori with an elbow strike that he assumes just knocked him out, but is later informed the strike broke his skull and hospitalized him. Shirou realizes he got too used to fighting Servants who are many times stronger and tougher than humans.
- Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (The DCU & My Hero Academia): Izuku had no idea just how strong he was after his Kryptonian Super-Strength manifested at the age of four, tearing a door right off his hinges by accident after being diagnosed as Quirkless and literally bouncing off the walls in his excitement. He became keenly aware of how dangerous it makes him when he accidentally threw Katsuki Bakugou across a park, past a road, and straight through a stone wall while imitating All Might, horrifying him into the opposite of this trope.
- After being magically transformed into Superman in New Guard, Xander has a lot of trouble with his new strength. When encouraged to break out of handcuffs, he's shocked that he actually can and later when he goes to the bathroom, he breaks the urinal.
- In Rick and The Loud House, Ronnie Anne is the unwitting host of Anatomy Park, and Rick injected her with nanoprobes to act as security for it. One of the probes' functions is to strengthen her to protect the park, giving her Super-Strength and Super-Toughness. Thanks to Rick, however, she is completely oblivious to all of this, and while she is weirded out by being able to send a male Gazorpazorpian running with one gut-punch and shrugging off what should be a painful fall from a tree, she doesn't really question it.
- In Thousand Shinji, when Asuka started to mutate, her strength increased exponentially... but gradually, so she spent several days breaking things accidentally until she figured out that her physical strength was growing.
- Mostly played for laughs when Lucy becomes Kryptonian in Future Shock. First she dopeslaps Kara who can now definitely feel it, and a few chapters later she almost goes nuclear trying to show off for a girl.
- In the beginning of Survivors, Kara isn't conscious of her tremendous strength. Then she crushes a supposedly unbreakable baby's bottle... and later she accidentally bruises her cousin's arm when she holds him... so she compels herself to be careful.She had figured out as the day wore on that she had to hold Kal very lightly. She had squeezed a bit too hard and he cried earlier. She didn't think she had squeezed hard at all but there was a small bruise on his arm. Kara was becoming stronger and everything seemed to become softer, more brittle. It was like living in a world of delicate glass.
- Comes up frequently in Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfics, particularly those depicting newly-activated Slayers. This is usually how they prove to others that something weird has happened to them.
- In Xendra, Buffy has a rough time at a contracting job due to her tendency to destroy things she's working on, and sometimes the tools. Her boss (who knows she's the Slayer) is dumbfounded that she destroyed a wrench that you could run a truck over without bending it.
- Superman and Man: A third party magically makes Christopher Reeve exchange bodies unwillingly with Superman. Reeve realizes what has happened when he accidentally crushes a nightstand clock.
- A Flower's Touch: Aerith is wholly unprepared for the strength that comes with Mako enhancements. She's tasked with picking up drinking glasses until she can do so without shattering them just from holding them.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Dr. Vivienne Graham has an eviscerating variation of this when she first awakens reborn as a Kaiju: when she grabs a man while trying to ask him for help, she accidentally cuts him in half due to her new strength and claws.
- In The Awakening of a Magus, Harry, thanks to his transformation, becomes much stronger than a regular human, but doesn't even realize it at first. People taking Polyjuice for the sake of Identity Impersonator take on some of that strength, and need to be careful not to break anything.
- In chapter 19 of Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo, Jonathan accidentally snaps a chopstick in two while trying to hold it properly.
- The More Things Change Series: Following the events of the Grand Finale, with his Mystical Monkey Power now fully accessible, Ron has had moments of this, such as throwing Kim too hard, breaking a force gauge machine, and smashing a hole in a wall.
- In Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents, Steve Rogers has had some issues on and off with forgetting just how strong he is post-Super Serum. These days, it seems to happen only when he's either not paying attention or deeply emotionally compromised. Not long after the procedure, he tried drawing again and accidentally snapped his art pencil in two, causing him to swear up a storm, and Clint Barton's seen him leave fingerprints in a lead pipe while on an op. Clint also mentions that he would totally have a one-night stand with Steve just on account of how attractive he is, if he were sure Steve wouldn't get too far into the moment and accidentally break Clint's pelvis.
- The Captain America fanfic Grateful has post-Super Serum Steve snap his pencil in half after attempting to draw.
- A Green Dragon's Hoard: Izuku is ridiculously strong, using weights of up to ten metric tons with ease. Besides referenced instances like accidentally uprooting a tree, the wind generated from Izuku casually waving his hand almost knocks Manami over.
- Bakugo in The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse doesn't realize how powerful his explosions were because his mind is wired to see them as minor things* . His mind automatically filters out the noise so they only sound like small pops and what he thought was only enough heat to cause a first degree burn at worst was actually enough to sear and blister flesh even through clothing.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Harmony Theory, Rainbow Dash's power level didn't change, but she's in the distant future where the ponies have become a lot weaker and more fragile than the ponies of her time. She sometimes forgets to check her strength and speed.
- In It Takes a Village, after his growth spurt, Spike finds himself much stronger than he is used to, as well as being physically larger. This results in him breaking things by applying to much force, and banging into stuff when he moves like he did when he was smaller.
- The Stars Ascendant: Twilight is unaware of the fact that her fight with Tirek has revealed that she is as powerful as every non-alicorn in Equestria combined. Celestia feels guilty, both for underestimating Twilight Sparkle and for putting all of Equestria in danger unnecessarily by not trusting Twilight to be strong enough to win.
- Kitsune's Power: Naruto ends up becoming inhumanly strong, except Naruto's only five at the time. As he grows older, he spars with Rock Lee under Maito Gai's direction, resulting in Lee becoming even faster and stronger than in canon. Butterflies ensue and Naruto becomes Anko's apprentice.
- The premise of Oops! is Naruto accidentally distracting the Kyuubi when the latter was enhancing Naruto's body. Naruto ends up 113 times stronger than naturally possible, which results in things like leaving fingerprints in brass doorknobs and being unable to feed himself. When Naruto tries to eat some ramen, he shatters the bowl by picking it up. When Shizune feeds him, Naruto bites off the ends of chopsticks without noticing. In the end, Gai has to train Naruto to manage his Super-Strength.
- In Black Flames Dance in the Wind Rise of NarutoSakura almosts does serious injury to Ino in a sparring match because of this trope.
- Last Child of Krypton:
- During a conversation with Kaji in the chapter 3 of the original version, Shinji admits he does not know what the limits of his super-strength and his other powers are and he is still trying figuring it out. The older man reminds him that he has to be careful to not hurt other people.
- In chapter 2 Shinji tried to straighten a falling plane by taking hold of the tail and pulling, but he miscalculated his strength and torn the tail off the plane.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Naturally, Asuka has no clue how strong she is once she starts developing her powers. Her first attempt to find out ends in fire and destruction. And that's before she gets heat vision.
- In Anything for Family, Momoka Haruno impresses herself with her own strength by shattering an entire window by simply throwing a rock at it. She intended to only break a hole in it for Chiho to escape, not shatter the entire thing.
- Paul, in spades, in With Strings Attached. Compounded by his having two levels of strength, "low" (where he can lift about 8 tons) and "high" (where he can lift at least 90 tons). After practicing day and night (literally) for several weeks he can act relatively normal at "low" strength (though he still breaks things if he doesn't take care); however, at "high" strength, which he tries not to use unless practicing, he can just barely function in the real world. He is continually conscious of his strength, so that in proximity to other people, he hardly moves, and he never makes sudden gestures.
- In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World we learn that after Paul returned to Earth, though he was back to normal, he had a tough time readjusting and couldn't easily relate to his family. In particular, fears of what he might do to Linda during sex made him avoid relations with her, which hurt her deeply. He was rather ambivalent about being brought back to C'hou just after he had started to return to normal, though (as was his general wont) he hid this feeling from the others under a mask of brisk competence and cheer. But nearly all the ground he gained with practice in With Strings Attached disappeared.
- I am Bitch, the Shield Hero's Slut!: Malty knew she was just over level 40 but it didn't occur to her exactly what that meant until fighting in her first Wave. Monsters in their 30s are cut down with absurd ease and when the captain of a company of knights angers her, she attacks him in a rage only to cut him in thirds, not realizing how much weaker he was than her.
- Emergence: Yang Xiao Long wakes up in the real world in Syria and is attacked by ISIS terrorists. Her super strong punches end up tearing through them and making them explode. After getting over the initial shock, she finds it difficult to not do this, frustrating her as she wants to take one alive for questioning. Later, when her half-sister Ruby Rose passes a basketball at a boy, it knocks the wind out of him and almost floors him.
- In Co-op Mode, James almost ends up outing himself as a parahuman when he starts lifting weights several times heavier than what he used to lift inside the school gym. Luckily, the gym coach just mistakes him for having taken Tinkertech drugs.
- With This Ring: Kryptonian Super-Strength is actually quite user-friendly, with fine control being very achievable, but Kara Zor-El still has an adjustment period when she arrives on Earth. Paul helps her practice by creating a construct punching bag and vase of flowers; she has to punch the bag as hard as possible, then take a flower without breaking it. It's hard to get right.
