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Do we have anything about the situation where a person who's very competent at X suddenly finds themself in a situation where an expert in Y is needed, and they know nothing about Y so all their competence is useless? Basically the exact opposite of Right Man in the Wrong Place.
Thinking of the scene in The Avengers (2012) where Captain America is on the Helicarrier with Iron Man. He's looking at a circuit panel that needs some repairs and clearly has no clue what he's dealing with here because he missed the decades where all the electronic technology that goes into it was invented. "Well, it... seems to run on some sort of electricity."
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