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If they've been avoiding using the powers, it's probably Willfully Weak or I Am Not Left-Handed.
Perhaps I'd also like a "discovering hidden power" trope that would also cover someone already super-powerful finding more of it.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
There's also Fights Like a Normal
Maybe they mean even the character themselves doesn't know that they have power.
Edited by Andermann I'm afraid to write, but I like to imagine.
That's what I meant
Japanese Spirit has some of that, but I can't think of anything more specific off the top of my head.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Is there a trope for when a Badass Normal later discovers they were badass because they had superpowers all along?
Edited by Galaxithea