...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Damn You, Muscle Memory!
- 739 statements
- 137 feature instances
- 834 referencing feature instances
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | type |
FeatureClass | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | label |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | page |
DamnYouMuscleMemory | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | comment |
There are many, many Video Games out there. With so many video games, it stands to reason that most will be somewhat similar, and have similar control schemes. But there's no guarantee that a developer will use what's usual, and might do something very different instead. And maybe this difference is what completely throws you off your game. This can lead to problems when playing one game for a while, then switching to another—especially if they are in the same or a similar genre. Any game where you can change the control scheme will obviously avoid this by default, though the effectiveness depends on how far the game will let you remap its controls. PC games generally let the user reassign the controls, so this is very much a console problem. Emulators, special controllers, and 3rd-party utilities can function as a workaround of sorts as well. Of course, allowing you to change the control scheme in a game with different characters who need different schemes can lead to this within a single game. Psychologists call this negative transfer. And, on a neurological note, it's technically not your muscles at fault: Dumb Muscle is just that, an unthinking hunk of contractile, fibrous flesh attached to some bones. The thing that's really to blame is the cerebellum, a knot of tightly-folded tissue at the base of the brain responsible for conditioning of physical responses,note it's the reason you don't have to think, "lift right foot, adjust shoulders to maintain balance, extend right leg, swing left arm to balance pace, shift weight to right foot using hips, lift left leg..." every time you want to walk but "cerebellar memory" doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely. For when this is done intentionally as a game effect, see Interface Screw. This can go beyond gaming, as examples below show. Any control system for a device that can be easily confused for another falls into it. This is why we have Stock Control Settings. Compare Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock, Centipede's Dilemma, and Stumbling in the New Form, contrast Noob Bridge (which occurs when a game's control scheme has an extra aspect that's non-standard) and see also Reflexive Response and Wikipedia Behavior. May result in complaints of They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. May also come into play in a Wax On, Wax Off situation. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | fetched |
2024-05-08T19:31:03Z | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | parsed |
2024-05-08T19:31:03Z | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Angrish: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to AwesomenessByAnalysis: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to BarehandedBladeBlock: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to CentipedesDilemma: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to CoolOldGuy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to CringeComedy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to DishingOutDirt: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to DragonInChief: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to DrivingStick: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to FifthQuarter: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to FinishingMove: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to ForcedTransformation: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Foreshadowing: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to HotBlooded: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to ImageBooru: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to LaserBlade: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to LoopholeAbuse: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Manhwa: Not an Item - CAT | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to MindScrew: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Mook: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to NameOrderConfusion: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to OhCrap: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to OmniscientDatabase: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Pinball: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to PublicServiceAnnouncement: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to RingoStarr: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to SarcasmMode: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to SeadogPegLeg: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to StockScream: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to SuddenlyShouting: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheAllegedCar: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to ThisVeryWiki: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to ThrowItIn: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to Vocaloid: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to WallOfText: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to WesternAnimation: Not an Item - CAT | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to WholeEpisodeFlashback: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to WiperStart: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to invokedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingComment |
Dropped link to pun: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingUnknown |
FifthQuarter | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingUnknown |
Mook | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | processingUnknown |
ThisVeryWiki | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_13349140 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_13349140 | comment |
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Bad Guys: While sneaking around one of Eggman's bases, Starline is discovered by some Motobugs. He tries to escape by using the Warp Topaz on his glove, only to remember he doesn't have it anymore and has to fight off his assailants. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_13349140 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_13349140 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_13349140 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_135f4195 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_135f4195 | comment |
In Dune, Paul has been trained to knife fight against opponents using shields. On Arrakis, however, Fremen do not use shields. In a Duel to the Death with Jamis, Paul finds himself instinctively slowling down his attacks at the last moment to circumvent shields that Jamis isn't using. As a result, Jamis is able to evade Paul's attacks even though Paul is a demonstrably better fighter than him. To the Fremen watching the duel, it looks like Paul is Just Toying with Them, and his mother has to explain that Paul isn't deliberately prolonging the fight. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_135f4195 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_135f4195 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dune | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_135f4195 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_14494034 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_14494034 | comment |
Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The two-headed Kaiju formed of San (Ghidorah's left head) and Vivienne Graham merging together has a spar with Godzilla, during which Godzilla at one point propels them into the sky. The San half of them takes control of their arms and spreads them out wide on instinct, on account of him being formerly part of a flying dragon that had wings in place of arms (and likely also on account of the fact that the feelings of power and freedom that came with being able to fly are one of the only things about being part of Ghidorah that San misses). | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_14494034 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_14494034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Abraxas (Hrodvitnon) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_14494034 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_1463a028 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_1463a028 | comment |
In one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, to illustrate the effects of sleep deprivation, Olivia mentions a particularly nasty case of this where a sleep-deprived cop accidentally Ate His Gun; he woke up having an asthma attack, but in his sleep-deprived state, mixed up the actions for the inhaler with the reflex to grab his gun, and ended up sticking the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_1463a028 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_1463a028 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_1463a028 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_193f1efe | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_193f1efe | comment |
Google has a... *ahem*... feature in which the order of the different search options (Web, Image, Video, News, etc.) would depend on what you searched for (presumably based on how many results each option would yield). Searching for a product will order it as All, Shopping, Images, etc, while searching for a political leader will order them as All, News, Videos, Images, etc. This didn't go over well with users, primarily because it was Damn You Muscle Memory embodied in a form where small changes to the control layout are made constantly, rendering it impossible to adjust to. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_193f1efe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_193f1efe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Google (Website) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_193f1efe | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22211d68 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22211d68 | comment |
At the end of the Broadsky arc in Bones, Broadsky lures Booth into a Container Maze and prepares for a Sniper Duel. However, Broadsky has failed to take one important factor into account - his right hand is broken, meaning he can only use it as a rest for his gun; since he can't grab the barrel, he can't point his gun down. Booth manages to shake off his sniper's instincts and stays on the ground until he manages to get into position to attack; Broadsky, having taken the high ground without thinking, can't do anything, and by the time he realizes what's happened Booth catches him before he can change cover. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22211d68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22211d68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bones | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22211d68 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_223c2a48 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_223c2a48 | comment |
A somewhat amusing one can happen to a particular skeletal enemy in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. All of the most common enemy monsters, the Bokoblin, Moblin, and Lizalfos, have a skeletal version that pops up from the ground at night to attack Link, either with whatever weapons they might have or with their bare hands, as their living counterparts normally would if they were unarmed or had been disarmed and unable to retrieve their weapon or acquire a new one. For the ampibian/lizard-like Lizalfos, this includes a number of Natural Weapons that they would normally use against Link, such as swiping at him with their tail, a spear-like tongue or spitting a high speed water bullet at Link. The skeletal versions of the Lizalfos will sometimes attempt to do the tongue or spit attacks... but they no longer have the organs needed for it, so nothing will happen. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_223c2a48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_223c2a48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_223c2a48 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2269f5c6 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2269f5c6 | comment |
Rules of Engagement: Jeff and Audrey try switching sides of the bed, when the alarm clock goes off Jeff, by force of habit, slams his hand down on Audrey's eye because it is now where the snooze button usually is. This causes the staff at the emergency room to suspect Jeff of abuse. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2269f5c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2269f5c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rules of Engagement | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2269f5c6 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22916101 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22916101 | comment |
In The Monuments Men, Nazi official Stahl finds out it wasn't a good idea to indoctrinate his children to respond to "Heil Hitler" when hiding from the Allies and one of them casually says the salute. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22916101 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22916101 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Monuments Men | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22916101 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22e860f4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22e860f4 | comment |
Psych: In "Daredevils!", Shawn was hired by the son of a daredevil to keep his dad safe after a stunt went wrong due to sabotage However, it turns out the daredevil, Dutch the Clutch, himself did it. Being terminally ill, he took out a unique life insurance policy that would grant his family over a million dollars if he died during a stunt, and with six months left, he began attempting to sabotage his stunts. However, the joke of him being "unkillable" comes into play in that his daredevil instincts kick in to minimize the damage to himself, allowing him to survive. The climax has Shawn confront him before Dutch would do his final stunt, one that almost certainly would've killed him. He undoes the sabotage to his motorcycle when Shawn points out that his family would rather have six more months with him than the million dollars. Dutch proceeds to do the stunt as normal. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22e860f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22e860f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Psych | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22e860f4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22f844e4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22f844e4 | comment |
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]: Saber really sucks at baseball because she keeps holding and swinging the bat like a sword instead of a bat, causing it to miss the ball every time. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22f844e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22f844e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_22f844e4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_261c8d3f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_261c8d3f | comment |
In The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian", Lisa hijacks the pig Homer's cooking and the grill he's using and shoves it out into the street. Marge's first instinct is to shout "Bart, nooooo!", prompting Bart, who is standing right beside her, to ask "What?". Marge apologizes, stating "Force of habit". | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_261c8d3f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2a8943c0 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2a8943c0 | comment |
Similar to the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic examples above, there's a fancomic in which Marinette and Adrien work on a school project together and, after dividing up their tasks, give each other a fist-bump and a "Bien Joué!". Cue an Oh, Crap! from both of them as he notices her earrings and she notices his ring. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2a8943c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2a8943c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Miraculous Ladybug | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2a8943c0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b3ba9e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b3ba9e | comment |
In Asteroid in Love, the plot in the seventh episode about Mai's problem in taking pictures boils down to this. She is familiar with taking pictures with a smartphone. When she needs to use a camera to take pictures for the club, though, she holds it in such a way it always shakes when she presses the shutter, causing a persistent shaky cam problem. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b3ba9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b3ba9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Asteroid in Love (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b3ba9e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b727723 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b727723 | comment |
Switching between wiki-style markup and Markdown-style markup used on sites such as Reddit and Stack Exchange. This also has the problem of potholes being in the opposite order (in Markdown it's [text](page to send to)), as well as different italic/bold markup and having to put lists in new paragraphs (something which isn't necessary in MediaWiki or PMWiki markup). | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b727723 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b727723 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Reddit (Website) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2b727723 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2ba48a26 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2ba48a26 | comment |
In the fourth-season blooper reel of Castle, Stana Katic was supposed to write "Stan Lee" on a whiteboard, but then she realized that after writing S-T-A-N, she was automatically finishing it to write her own name. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2ba48a26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2ba48a26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Castle (2009) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2ba48a26 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
A body part version occurs in the Looney Tunes cartoon Robin Hood Daffy. Twice in a row, Daffy manages to hurt himself with his buck-and-a-quarter staff by bouncing it off the ground and up into his face, which bends his beak up. When he subsequently does a verbal run-through without the staff in an attempt to figure out what went wrong, his beak bends up again on its own at that point. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2bbcacd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2bbcacd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2bbcacd9 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2eab162f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2eab162f | comment |
Ross discusses this in Steam Train. He's an immigrant from Australia and is used to calling flashlights "torches", which is the custom in his country. So when in America, he had to learn to start calling torches "flashlights". The problem arises because he's so used to the mental substitution that when he tries to refer to actual wooden torches, he accidentally calls them flashlights. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2eab162f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2eab162f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Steam Train (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_2eab162f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_30a5ebfd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_30a5ebfd | comment |
In another Naruto story, Neji is defeated in his match during the Chunin Exams because of muscle memory. When he jumps to avoid an attack, Naruto throws several shuriken at him, one of which Neji blocks with his sandal. Later in the match, Neji prepares to defend against another attack and unthinkingly plants his feet, driving the aforementioned shuriken through his sandal and deep into his foot. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_30a5ebfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_30a5ebfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Naruto (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_30a5ebfd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_322f8fb1 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_322f8fb1 | comment |
The City and the Dungeon: Alex nearly kills his sister when she slaps him; after a year of fighting in the Dungeon, his reflexes are uncompromising. Thankfully, he stops himself just in time. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_322f8fb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_322f8fb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The City And The Dungeon | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_322f8fb1 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_32c541e6 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_32c541e6 | comment |
Fullmetal Alchemist: Near the end of the series, Mustang is physically forced to perform a human transmutation and is struck blind in exchange for being able to do the same clapping transmutation as Ed. Afterwards, he complains about how awkward and unnatural it feels to transmute that way; leaving aside his new blindness, he’s spent his entire life practicing standard alchemy and now has to get used to things like no longer needing a transmutation circle. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_32c541e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_32c541e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_32c541e6 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_35e05f2a | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: Penny activates her weapons, Floating Array, by moving her arm in a circular gesture, which arranges eight of her ten blades in a floating circle behind her. She tends to do this when using different weapons. In the middle of battle, she instinctively performs the circular gesture; nothing happens, allowing her opponent to send her flying. She quickly creates a new gesture, flinging her arms out to each side; this time, her blades activate. In the Volume 8 finale, "The Final Word", her android body has just been transformed into a living one, which means she no longer has physical swords; she has to create replacements with magic. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_35e05f2a | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_38af9a6e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_38af9a6e | comment |
Party Crashers: In "Mario Party 1 is more TOXIC than I remember..." and "Mario Party 2 is more TOXIC than I remember...", Nick accidently gets himself eliminated on Mushroom Mix-Up and Hexagon Heat respectively because he forgot that characters in the N64 titles automatically get launched to the side whenever they jump on each other's heads, whereas that isn't the case in Superstars. In "Mario Party but we can only STEAL Stars" and "Mario Party but we need to TIE", Vernias and Sophist respectively accidentally purchase a Star when they didn't mean to because they forgot that in Superstars Toadette asks you three times about purchasing the Star if you decline. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_38af9a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_38af9a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Party Crashers (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_38af9a6e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_3e8c09b9 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_3e8c09b9 | comment |
Attack on Titan: The Cart Titan is unusual among Titan Shifters for 2 reasons: the first is that it is quadrupedal, and the second is that it has very high endurance, being able to stay transformed for months at a time. This has the side effect of making it difficult for the user to readjust walking on 2 legs when they return to human form. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_3e8c09b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_3e8c09b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Attack on Titan (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_3e8c09b9 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41c06944 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41c06944 | comment |
Andy Richter Controls the Universe: Andy and Byron had to share a hotel room on an out-of-town trip. When Andy had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, he instinctively took the same path back to bed as he did from his bathroom at home. Unfortunately, in the hotel room, that path led him into Byron's bed, which led to a very awkward morning. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41c06944 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41c06944 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Andy Richter Controls the Universe | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41c06944 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41d79599 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41d79599 | comment |
In the novelizations of the Dark Forces Saga, Kyle's father is killed in an attack carried out by ships bearing Rebel insignias. When Kyle has the chance to see footage of the attack, however, he realizes the attackers were actually Imperials thanks to their tactics, which he recognized due to having recently graduated from the Imperial Academy. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41d79599 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41d79599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dark Forces Saga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_41d79599 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4277c036 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4277c036 | comment |
Platinum Pirate: Given his profession as a Pokémon Trainer, Lucas instinctively starts drawing up a training plan for Tashigi after watching her spar with Lucario. He only realizes what he's doing when Lucario puts a paw on his shoulder, leaving Lucas embarrassed by how he was treating her like another Pokémon. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4277c036 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4277c036 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Platinum Pirate (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4277c036 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_45a5656f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_45a5656f | comment |
In the BattleTech Expanded Universe, the basic controls for movement and weaponry for BattleMechs are the nigh-universal twin joysticks, twin pedals, and a Brain/Computer Interface helmet for gyroscope balance. However, secondary systems like fire suppression, actuator calibration, and communications will vary heavily between manufacturers and even different variants of the same mech model. When Grayson Carlyle steals an enemy mech in Mercenary's Star, he can't find the loudspeaker button as a friendly mercenary is turning to fire a lethal Fire-Breathing Weapon at the "enemy" contact approaching him. Grayson elects to yank on the Ejection Seat lever to jettison the canopy and start screaming and waving his hands at the friendly. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_45a5656f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_45a5656f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
BattleTech Expanded Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_45a5656f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_480593fb | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_480593fb | comment |
The Fifth Act, Genesis reflexively casts status spells on Cloud, even though he does know it doesn't affect Cloud. Inverted when they have to fight a Jenova-possessed Cloud, Genesis casts a Sleep spell on Cloud and non-lethally takes him down because Cloud lost his immunity. A tragic example, when Cloud and Sephiroth's rematch goes horribly wrong Sephiroth defends himself by attacking. While Cloud manages to hold back in time, Angeal who was intervening ends up taking the blow and gets horribly wounded. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_480593fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_480593fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Fifth Act / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_480593fb | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_482ff7b0 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_482ff7b0 | comment |
In 36 Hours (1965), during World War II the Germans drug and capture an American intelligence officer and then subject him to an elaborate deception that he is recovering from amnesia in an American army hospital - all in order to trick him into supplying crucial military information. Upon beginning to suspect the ruse, the American barks an order at a supposed hospital staff member, who promptly clicks his heels in classic German fashion. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_482ff7b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_482ff7b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
36 Hours (1965) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_482ff7b0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4962e658 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4962e658 | comment |
In Mean Girls, Gretchen is forced to change her usual place in "Jingle Bell Rock". As a result, she stumbles into Regina, then into the stereo that starts skipping, and kicks the thing into her unfaithful boyfriend’s face. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4962e658 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4962e658 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mean Girls | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4962e658 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4b790c79 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4b790c79 | comment |
In Iron Man, after Tony thinks he's defeated Stane he quickly starts stripping himself of his armor to try and preserve power in what is basically his pacemaker only for Stane to get back up. Tony tries to blast him his his repulsor but only ends out holding out his empty palm. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4b790c79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4b790c79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Iron Man | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4b790c79 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d264eae | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d264eae | comment |
In Justice, during his fight with Luffy, Parasite learns the hard way how his stolen combat knowledge has worked against him. At the time, Parasite had the stolen energy of five amazons, giving him thousands of years of their combat training on top of the other powers. Amazons are trained to always block attacks with their magic, indestructible armbands wherever possible. The problem is that Parasite doesn't have those armbands. He had been blocking Luffy's attacks with his bare wrists, which is not a smart thing to do, Super-Toughness or no. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d264eae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d264eae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Justice (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d264eae | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d2a48c1 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d2a48c1 | comment |
Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: Mermaids swim horizontally, which is why those learning how to walk on land have a habit of leaning too far forward while taking their first step and fall flat on their face. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d2a48c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d2a48c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4d2a48c1 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4dd54482 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4dd54482 | comment |
Ben 10: Alien Force: In the first episode, Ben runs into a hostile alien for the first time in years, and automatically slaps his wrist. Then he remembers that he hasn't worn the Omnitrix since then, and is forced to fight the alien as a human. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4dd54482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4dd54482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ben 10: Alien Force | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_4dd54482 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_530ed9a4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_530ed9a4 | comment |
Chat functions in video games. Enter-message-enter is a common one, but other variants include space-message-enter, y-message-enter, and t-message-enter. This is before getting into games with multiple "channels", for example [1] has y for all-chat and u for team chat. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_530ed9a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_530ed9a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_530ed9a4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_541213cd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_541213cd | comment |
Writing a paragraph, drawing a sketch, etc., and making a mistake, immediately thinking "Control Z"/"Command Z", then realising you're not using a computer. Sequential Art shows one example. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_541213cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_541213cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sequential Art (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_541213cd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59151283 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59151283 | comment |
Metal Gear: In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, this is used to explain why Snake suddenly knows how to use CQC, which was introduced in a prequel but never present in the four other games released before but set after it. He apparently knew how to do it all along, but never felt comfortable using it due to Big Boss' betrayal of FOXHOUND. However, Big Boss' files were recently declassified by the Pentagon, and his CQC techniques became widespread enough that practically every soldier in battle now at least knows about it. Snake finds himself using it again because his first response to someone using their "cookie-cutter imitation" of it on him is to respond in kind. Otacon is hit with this, too, though more subtly and partly by accident. For Act 3 and most of Act 4, he's switched to contact lenses over his original glasses because Naomi thought he looked more handsome without them. However, in periods where he's feeling nervous or stressed, or during radio conversations where he's using the same animations as always, he still finds himself reaching up to push the glasses he's not wearing back into place. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the game that introduced the aforementioned CQC, also has Ocelot get hit with this. In his first encounter, he demonstrates incredible skill with a Makarov pistol, though uses it in a way that Naked Snake suggests that he's more suited to revolvers, as he famously uses across the rest of the series. In their next encounter a week later, Ocelot has grabbed a Single Action Army revolver as Snake suggested, and takes Snake's contact EVA hostage with it. However, having heard six gunshots before they actually meet face-to-face again, Snake lowers his gun and calmly tells Ocelot that "you don't have what it takes to kill me" - which Ocelot learns too late to mean that his new revolver runs out after only six bullets compared to the eight he's used to from the Makarov. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59151283 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59151283 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metal Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59151283 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59e9298 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59e9298 | comment |
Apparently, Chuggaaconroy was so used to his laptop that, when it was in for repairs and he was using a desktop computer, he slammed the monitor down onto his keyboard. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59e9298 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59e9298 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Chuggaaconroy (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_59e9298 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5b31bf | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5b31bf | comment |
Star Wars: Allegiance has a stormtrooper's drilled-in self-defense techniques—such as disarming someone who's at close range and pointing a blaster at him, and then shooting when said someone draws another blaster on him—result in him killing a superior officer, forcing him to desert. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5b31bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5b31bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Wars: Allegiance | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5b31bf | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5c897f4a | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5c897f4a | comment |
Schlock Mercenary: The Reverend is a Master Swordsman in a 'verse where swords are pretty much completely useless. When he tries to use a gun, he tends to drop it for his sword at the first opportunity. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5c897f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5c897f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5c897f4a | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d21fab8 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d21fab8 | comment |
Early in Wolf Hall, there's an awkward incident where Wolsey jestingly raises his hand towards Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell, who had a brutal father and then served as a mercenary in Europe for years, immediately backs into the wall and is relieved he didn't have a knife on him as he pulls himself back to the present. Wolsey's sincere apology, however, establishes him as a Benevolent Boss. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d21fab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d21fab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wolf Hall | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d21fab8 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d63cc8 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d63cc8 | comment |
In Inglourious Basterds, Lt. Hicox gets caught by the Germans in the bar because he orders three Scotches using his index, middle, and ring fingers — like a Brit — instead of his thumb, index, and middle fingers — like a German. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d63cc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d63cc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Inglourious Basterds | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_5d63cc8 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6007bcf4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6007bcf4 | comment |
Some PC games tend to read USB controllers in a very different way than they are supposed to work. This is because the mapping is typically made with a certain brand of USB controllers and, even if other controllers have the same layout, the buttons will be different. A good example is the PC version of Sleeping Dogs (2012): the controller pattern, by default, is the Xbox One, but if you use a generic Dual Shock-style controller with it, despite having pretty much the same layoutnote The only difference being that the placement of the left analog stick and digital directional are swapped, the only inputs that will work properly are the left analog and Circle (B) button, which leads to awkward things like pressing what should be Y to confirm your choices, or even, pressing RT (which is the throw command) to pause the game! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6007bcf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6007bcf4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sleeping Dogs (2012) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6007bcf4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b | comment |
In xkcd, a few measures of theme music are enough to get a guy into the rhythm of Katamari Damacy, a game that involves colliding with small objects. Unfortunately, this happens while he's driving a car. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
xkcd (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61354a39 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61354a39 | comment |
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: The party relaxes at Costa del Sol, leaving their weapons at the hotel and changing into swimsuits. When Professor Hojo attacks with a mechanical monster called the Grasptropod, Cloud Strife reaches for his nonexistent sword before improvising with a beach umbrella. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61354a39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61354a39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61354a39 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61aff91b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61aff91b | comment |
RWBY: Ice Queendom: Ruby, Blake, and Yang are forced to enter Weiss' dream-world after she's infected by a Nightmare Grimm. They're each changed by the memories, desires, and attitudes Weiss holds towards them, including their weapons. When Ruby tries to use her weapon in battle, she instinctively uses it as she would in reality only to discover that Weiss has designed the gun function backwards. Instead of firing in the direction she's facing, it now fires behind her. Ruby groans that she's going to have to put Weiss through a crash course in how her weapon works. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61aff91b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61aff91b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
RWBY: Ice Queendom | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_61aff91b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_631805af | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_631805af | comment |
In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, this is used to explain why Snake suddenly knows how to use CQC, which was introduced in a prequel but never present in the four other games released before but set after it. He apparently knew how to do it all along, but never felt comfortable using it due to Big Boss' betrayal of FOXHOUND. However, Big Boss' files were recently declassified by the Pentagon, and his CQC techniques became widespread enough that practically every soldier in battle now at least knows about it. Snake finds himself using it again because his first response to someone using their "cookie-cutter imitation" of it on him is to respond in kind. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_631805af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_631805af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_631805af | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_64e03e4b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_64e03e4b | comment |
As of March 2011, when responding to posts on Facebook, hitting the Enter key will complete your post, rather than line break (in which case you have to hit Shift+Enter). | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_64e03e4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_64e03e4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_64e03e4b | ||
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6505f7f3 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6505f7f3 | comment |
In the Molly of Denali episode "Lynx to the Past," when Trini practiced the Lynx Dance at home, she added her own moves. Even after she's told that she can't add her own moves, and she tries to do it properly, she still subconsciously does the extra moves. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6505f7f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6505f7f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Molly of Denali | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6505f7f3 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_660a8ba0 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_660a8ba0 | comment |
In Unseen Academicals This is Trev's problem. He promised his mum he'd never play football, so the only thing he's good at kicking is a tin can. He's no good with the new football. That is, the ball itself; he considers the new rules and style of play an improvement, but can't get the hang of kicking the ball. Fortunately, thanks to an old rule and Glenda standing by to replace the ball, he finishes the game and gets a win for his side by using a tin can. It's also said to be a problem for many of the players of the old game. They're used to struggling to get a lump of wood wrapped in leather to move at all, not a ball that can cross the entire length of the pitch in one kick. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_660a8ba0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_660a8ba0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Unseen Academicals | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_660a8ba0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_68d7b51d | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_68d7b51d | comment |
4chan's thread catalog page offers the option to pin a thread to the top of the catalog. The "Pin/Unpin" command shows up at the first position in the right-click menu... exactly where the "Open In New Tab" option is in most browsers. You'll often find yourself accidentally "pinning" several threads when you're trying to open them in new tabs instead. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_68d7b51d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_68d7b51d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
4chan (Website) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_68d7b51d | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_694ab80 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_694ab80 | comment |
Batman Beyond: The incident that turns Derek Powers into Blight is caused by Powers' own reflexes. A canister of experimental nerve agent is thrown at him and he instinctively shoots at it before realizing what it is, causing the tank to rupture and him to be exposed to the toxic, mutagenic chemical gas inside it. He then has to receive an equally experimental radiation treatment to save his life, and the combined effects activate his latent metagene, turning him into what's functionally a living nuclear reactor. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_694ab80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_694ab80 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_69d15cc0 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_69d15cc0 | comment |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man, after Tony thinks he's defeated Stane he quickly starts stripping himself of his armor to try and preserve power in what is basically his pacemaker only for Stane to get back up. Tony tries to blast him his his repulsor but only ends out holding out his empty palm. In The Avengers, right after Nick Fury uses an RPG to take out the Quinjet carrying the nuke that the WSC ordered against New York, a second jet takes off from a different catapult. Without thinking about it, he whips out his sidearm before realizing the bullets would do as much damage as a spitball from the distance. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier the Winter Soldier is able to effortlessly catch and later briefly fight with Captain America's shield. The way the Winter Soldier handles the shield is 100% muscle memory, whether he realizes it or not. The Winter Soldier is probably accustomed to encountering weapons that he can use, with no memory of learning how to use them because his memory is repeatedly wiped, so he does not appear to question his ability to use it. However, the shield isn't the sort of weapon the Winter Soldier would have been trained to use, and it isn't the sort of weapon anyone, even a well-trained fighter, would be able to just pick up and use naturally. There was no moment where he went, "What the hell is this thing and how do I use it?" He picks it up and uses it as naturally as any other weapon in his arsenal. That level of familiarity takes practice, practice he got as Bucky Barnes, training with Steve Rogers and the other Commandos. In Thor: Ragnarok, when Thor is attacked by the scavengers of Sakaar, he instinctively tries to call Mjölnir to his hand, forgetting that Hela had already destroyed the hammer. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_69d15cc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_69d15cc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_69d15cc0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6a7e6314 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6a7e6314 | comment |
In Thor: Ragnarok, when Thor is attacked by the scavengers of Sakaar, he instinctively tries to call Mjölnir to his hand, forgetting that Hela had already destroyed the hammer. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6a7e6314 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6a7e6314 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Thor: Ragnarok | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6a7e6314 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6ad790d3 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6ad790d3 | comment |
In an episode of the UK version of Top Gear the group was tasked with finding sedans that would handle racing as well as work as a normal car. James May chose one that had a dog leg gear shift. This meant that that instead of away and up for the first gear, it is away and down. Every time he would try to go into first gear, he'd throw it into reverse and run into whoever was behind him. This also happens anytime an American (even if they know how to Drive Stick) or a German comes on the show; based on the above example, in left-hand drive, a (non-dogleg) first gear is toward you and up. During the "Race to the North" Richard Hammond got to ride the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle and spent the early part of the race constantly mixing up the brake and the gear lever which were reversed compared to the more modern bikes he was used to. So every time he wanted to change gear he ended up stopping. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6ad790d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6ad790d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Top Gear (UK) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6ad790d3 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6c2d5381 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6c2d5381 | comment |
An inversion occurs in the manga Bokura no Kiseki when the heroine Takao first regains her memories of her previous life, a female knight. Her mind remembers the correct ways to move in a fight, but her average high school girl body can't keep up, so she just ends up off balance and in pain. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6c2d5381 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6c2d5381 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bokura no Kiseki (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6c2d5381 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e17a0d1 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e17a0d1 | comment |
Supposedly this is how McClane makes Gruber as not actually an escaped hostage in Die Hard... he lights his cigarette in a distinctly European way. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e17a0d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e17a0d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Die Hard | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e17a0d1 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e1a0fd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e1a0fd | comment |
Winter Moon: When Magnolia Online comes back online in Season 2, it has a new interface and controls. Florence spends several episodes having trouble with basic functions. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e1a0fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e1a0fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Winter Moon (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6e1a0fd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6eb4ca5c | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6eb4ca5c | comment |
Jackie Chan Adventures: In "Re-Enter the J-Team", El Toro Fuerte, a Masked Luchador, enters a martial arts tournament. In his first match, he does pretty well at first, but then he instinctively goes to bounce off the non-existent ropes, causing him to fall out of the ring and lose by Ring Out. He apologizes and says he is more used to pro wrestling rings. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6eb4ca5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6eb4ca5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jackie Chan Adventures | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6eb4ca5c | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_72262aee | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The four bending arts, Air, Water, Earth and Fire, have significantly different styles, strategies and philosophies, but also some similarities. As the Avatar has to master them all (and is, in fact, the only one capable of bending more than one), one element in particular gives them some difficulty, depending on which element they mastered first. Air and Earth are opposites, same with Water and Fire. There are complimentary elements too, Air and Water carry similar principles (be flexible and adaptive), same with Earth and Fire (stand your ground). In the episode "Bitter Work," Iroh outlines all the bending philosophies and how they relate to the society they originate from. As part of being a Cool Old Guy and an Old Master, he tries teaching Zuko a Firebending technique he developed himself that actually utilizes Waterbending principles, which in theory should be impossible. Zuko struggled to learn how to do the technique, only to figure it out later in the series. In the same episode Aang, being an Airbender, started his training in Earthbending and found it far more difficult than his training in Waterbending. Being he was used to a fighting style that relied on agility and misdirection, Earthbending requires blunt, direct force. This was even foreshadowed very early on when King Bumi (a very powerful Earthbender) forced Aang to think outside the box more, clearly in an attempt to start preparing him for the change in mindset he would have to make to learn Earthbending. A later Whole Episode Flashback details the backstory of Avatar Roku and Firelord Sozin, it was mentioned that Roku had difficulty learning Waterbending, indicating that it and Firebending are opposites as Airbending and Earthbending are. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_72262aee | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7257afca | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7257afca | comment |
In Sword Art Online Abridged, Suguha/Leafa suffers from this. When she logs into Alfheim Online, she tries to roleplay as a Damsel in Distress, but in real life she's a skilled kendo veteran, and so in-game she has a habit of brandishing her sword in a fighting stance even while pleading for her life. This annoys her "attackers", who break character to offer some roleplaying advice. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7257afca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7257afca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7257afca | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_73d7930f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_73d7930f | comment |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a few: Odo had a moment of this during his brief run as a "solid" (non-changeling). Trying to pursue a fleeing suspect from the second level of the Promenade, he reflexively jumped off the stairs, intending to change form in mid-air. He remembered a moment too late that he was no longer able to do that, and ended up with a trip to the infirmary for his trouble. Played for Laughs in "Trials and Tribble-ations". The Crew is sent back in time to the period of the original series, and are forced to pretend to be officers of that era. At one point, Sisko tries to contact the Defiant by tapping his Starfleet badge, before remembering that in this era they were just a cloth patch, and he has to use a handheld communicator. Given Dax's smirk behind him, she did remember. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_73d7930f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_73d7930f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_73d7930f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_75149ccd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_75149ccd | comment |
A comedic example from the X-Wing Series: Wedge is going out on a date but getting pestered by two of his friends. They follow him into an elevator, he sets the destination for the roof instead of the hangar, and bellows in his best drill sergeant's voice, "ABOUT FACE! FORWARD MARCH!" Purely on instinct his fellow pilots whirl around and slam into the back of the elevator, and Wedge steps out before they're carried out of his hair. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_75149ccd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_75149ccd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
X-Wing Series | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_75149ccd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7668653b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7668653b | comment |
The Citadel DLC in Mass Effect 3 gives you the M-7 Lancer, effectively a Call-Back to the guns in ME1, such that it doesn't run out of ammo, and it overheats instead. When Shepard uses the gun and overheats it, they try to eject the thermal clip, only to realise there isn't one and nearly burn their hand. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7668653b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7668653b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mass Effect 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7668653b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_774de4ea | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_774de4ea | comment |
Blood Moon: A Tear Jerker example. Even after spending four years locked up in a cage, wearing only prison rags, Katara still hasn't gotten used to having her hair hang loose and unkempt, occasionally forgetting the fact that she no longer has ties and clips to keep her hair in place. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_774de4ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_774de4ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Blood Moon / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_774de4ea | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_77582c7b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_77582c7b | comment |
In X-Men: Days of Future Past Future!Wolverine keeps forgetting that he doesn't have metal claws when his mind is sent back to his 1970s body and is always falling behind in fights because it takes him a few seconds to remember and adjust. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_77582c7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_77582c7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
X-Men: Days of Future Past | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_77582c7b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_79a57c7e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_79a57c7e | comment |
Black & White features gesture recognition, including the ever-useful ability to shake your mouse left and right to get rid of whatever special mode or spell you have attached to the cursor/hand of god. A decent number of people have tried to do the same thing to get out of zoom mode while using Microsoft Word. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_79a57c7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_79a57c7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Black & White (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_79a57c7e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7baf6139 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7baf6139 | comment |
In the UK wrestlers post note Posting is supporting your weight on the other persons body to make it easier for them to lift you. on the thigh, close to the knee, US wrestlers post on the hip. Also, English speaking wrestlers always work the left arm, and on the left side, but Mexican wrestlers work the right arm, which just feels...wrongnote MÃstico's constant botching when doing the Sin Cara gimmick in WWE is mostly attributed to his refusal to go to developmental and learn how to work from the left. And his refusal to learn English. Also, in Japan lots of moves have different names - an arm drag is completely different over there. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7baf6139 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7baf6139 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Místico (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_7baf6139 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8203cde7 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8203cde7 | comment |
EDENS ZERO: Miyako is an intellectual with a habit of adjusting her glasses. She and several other girls are kidnapped and subjected to The Nudifier, which also destroys her glasses. She keeps trying to adjust her glasses afterwards, which just leads to her awkwardly groping air. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8203cde7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8203cde7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
EDENS ZERO (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8203cde7 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_865b5c19 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_865b5c19 | comment |
Switching between Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Runescape's clan chat gets frustrating: To chat in IRC, it's just typing in letters and pressing enter. In Runescape, you have to type a forward slash and then what you want to say. What does a forward slash do in IRC? Commands. This situation gets you having to trip over sentences because the client mistakes them for unknown commands, or accidentally typing what you wanted to say in clan chat out loud. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_865b5c19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_865b5c19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
RuneScape (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_865b5c19 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8697fbeb | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8697fbeb | comment |
The Sisters Brothers: Shortly after Charlie loses his right hand to chemical burns, the protagonists are attacked by a group of henchmen. Charlie instinctively goes for his gun, only to remember his shooting hand is gone and promptly duck for cover. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8697fbeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8697fbeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Sisters Brothers | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8697fbeb | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_86c3beca | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_86c3beca | comment |
During the England Arc of Girl Genius, Lucrezia-in-Agatha loses a fight to Zeetha despite having trained in Skifandrian swordfighting because, while Lucrezia had had the training, Agatha's body hasn't - so she simply has no muscle memory. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_86c3beca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_86c3beca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_86c3beca | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_884c73d9 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_884c73d9 | comment |
In Ip Man 2, there's a fight between the titular protagonist and Twister. That is, a Chinese martial artist vs. a British boxer. In the middle of the match, the crooked officials suddenly declare that from now on, the fight will be under pure boxing rules. Ip Man forgets this and kicks Twister in the face, which causes him to be penalised. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_884c73d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_884c73d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ip Man 2 | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_884c73d9 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8ba4613a | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8ba4613a | comment |
A variant where a character's muscle memory affects not himself but the audience: during the Yotsuba arc of Death Note, Higuchi habitually opens and closes Rem's Note like a Japanese book, even though the Note is Western-styled and this leaves the front cover face down. This helps in concealing the cover, which would let the audience identify the Note as originally Ryuk's, until the reveal. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8ba4613a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8ba4613a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Death Note (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8ba4613a | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8d4801bd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8d4801bd | comment |
History's Strongest Shinobi: While trying to escape a villain's lair Naruto ends up using a bow and arrow to incapacitate any lackeys who try to stop him, Miu, and Kenichi. Except Miu and Kenichi call him out on being VERY trigger-happy. Naruto explains that Shigure would end every training session by making Naruto shoot target practice with a crappy bow. Now, however, he has a high-quality bow and is in a target-rich environment so he can't help himself. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8d4801bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8d4801bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
History's Strongest Shinobi / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_8d4801bd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9045b1b7 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9045b1b7 | comment |
In World War Z, soldiers fighting Zack find it difficult to stop aiming for center of mass even after they learn that only headshots work. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9045b1b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9045b1b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
World War Z | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9045b1b7 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_928cd5fa | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_928cd5fa | comment |
The Echo Ranger: In Chapter 13, Izuku and Melissa are having a sparring match, while practicing different martial styles. At one point Izuku uses an illegal block and berates himself for it. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_928cd5fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_928cd5fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Echo Ranger (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_928cd5fa | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_93c8f8ff | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_93c8f8ff | comment |
Tiger Mask got in trouble three times for this trope: The first was during the underground fight with Mr. Kamikaze, which happened right after he had completed the training for his second Finishing Move, the Fujiyama Tiger Breaker. When he was about to win without the move a Tiger's Cave bouncer threatened to kill Kamikaze's son for trying to call the police on them if Kamikaze lost, causing Kamikaze to fight like a possessed and getting Tiger Mask to throw the fight in spite of knowing he'd get unmasked and killed if he lost... And as his coup-de-grace Kamikaze used a Flying Body Press, unknowingly putting himself in a perfect position for the Fujiyama Tiger Breaker, resulting in Tiger Mask executing the move by reflex and cursing when he realized he had just won. He then proceeded to save Kamikaze's son anyway. During his match against Freddie Blessie, Tiger Mask, acting on instinct, attempted to put Blessie down with the Super Tiger Drop. Unfortunately, this was after Mr. Question had publicly demonstrated exactly how to counter it, and Tiger Mask hadn't yet trained himself not to rely on it. Blessie promptly carried out the counter and pinned Tiger Mask for the three-count. When forced to fight Tiger's Cave trainees, at one point Tiger Mask used his third finisher, the Tiger V... That requires him to hand his feet to the ring ropes, and they were fighting in the open on the edge of a cliff (with a short fall, thankfully). Mr. X called him stupid for this, and Tiger Mask had to agree after waking up. Great Zebra nearly outed himself as a disguised Giant Baba when he reflexively prepared to kick Egyptian Mummy but caught himself before he could use what was effectively his trademark move and get attention on his enormous feet. Tiger Mask still saw through it, but he's rather good at noticing these things and the first time he met Baba had taken notice of those giant feet. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_93c8f8ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_93c8f8ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tiger Mask (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_93c8f8ff | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_959dd815 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_959dd815 | comment |
Professional wrestlers have said going from trying not to hurt each other while performing to getting into an actual fight can be damn awkward. In the UK wrestlers post note Posting is supporting your weight on the other persons body to make it easier for them to lift you. on the thigh, close to the knee, US wrestlers post on the hip. Also, English speaking wrestlers always work the left arm, and on the left side, but Mexican wrestlers work the right arm, which just feels...wrongnote MÃstico's constant botching when doing the Sin Cara gimmick in WWE is mostly attributed to his refusal to go to developmental and learn how to work from the left. And his refusal to learn English. Also, in Japan lots of moves have different names - an arm drag is completely different over there. Most professional wrestling companies use 18 foot rings (in other words 18 feet across from rope to rope) and have ropes comprised of rubber coated steel cables. The one exception (besides the lucha libre companies that have a 6 sided ring, also seen at various points in Impact Wrestling) is WWE, which uses a 20 foot ring and ropes made of, well, rope. As you'd expect this takes some getting used to, especially for high-flyers since actual rope has a lot more give and a lot less spring to it than steel cables. AEW also uses a 20 foot ring, but with cables instead of rope. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_959dd815 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_959dd815 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Professional Wrestling | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_959dd815 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_960062b7 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_960062b7 | comment |
Todoroki from My Hero Academia. Because he spent so much time relying on just his ice powers, his default action when in battle is to use it primarily. It tends to work for him most of the time, but when he encounters opponents who can counter his ice, he tends to struggle since he isn't as used to relying on his fire side until recently. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_960062b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_960062b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Hero Academia (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_960062b7 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_96ebc1ef | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_96ebc1ef | comment |
This is true of many regulated martial arts competitors. Fight in a setting with rules too long and fighting without time limits, barred hold and what not can get weird. Even just a new set of regulations can ruin a fighter, as Dan Severn recalls losing a fight to Royce Gracie specifically because, as a wrestler, it took him too long to realize that in Mixed Martial Arts punching your opponent in the face is a valid tactic when you can't counter a hold. Even a slight transition from one visibly similar competition to another, such as singlet grappling to gi grappling, or MMA gloves to boxing gloves, can prove disastrous. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_96ebc1ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_96ebc1ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dan Severn (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_96ebc1ef | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9787cced | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9787cced | comment |
In Powers of Invisibility, when Adrien and Marinette work together to pick out Juleka's date outfit and see the results, Marinette declares that they did a "good job" (the usual translation of their post-victory catchphrase in the French version, "Bien Joué!"). Adrien agrees and holds out a fist for her to bump, which she does after hesitating for a moment. In this case, though, the two don't make the connection, leaving Juleka to silently marvel at their obliviousness. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9787cced | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9787cced | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Powers of Invisibility (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9787cced | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
In A Song of Ice and Fire, Jaime Lannister's dominant hand is amputated, and he has to learn to fight with a sword in his left hand instead. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Daenerys Targaryen finds out that riding a horse is very different from riding a dragon. For example, she mentions that whipping her horse on its right flank makes the horse go left because a horse's first instinct is to flee from danger, but whipping a dragon on its right side makes it veer right because a dragon's first instinct is always to attack. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9d47a2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9d47a2a2 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9e202b7b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9e202b7b | comment |
Miu Furinji of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is introduced when she flips the titular protagonist as he (unknowingly) approaches her from behind. It's later revealed that her martial arts training has conditioned her to do this on instinct whenever anybody touches her from behind, accidentally or not, and she's not very proud of it. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9e202b7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9e202b7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_9e202b7b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a0ae46e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a0ae46e | comment |
Toy Story: When a truck pulls into the gas station, Buzz dives out of the way and Woody reflexively goes back to being an inanimate object, leading to the truck's tire stopping just before he's run over. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a0ae46e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a0ae46e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Toy Story | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a0ae46e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a22918b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a22918b | comment |
Shougo from Holyland: Despite his time on the street, he was trained in karate first rather than street brawling. When he gets into trouble in a certain fight, he instinctively falls back on his karate base, which only makes things worse. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a22918b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a22918b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Holyland (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a22918b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a2777e66 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a2777e66 | comment |
Elseworlds (2018): A change in reality leads to Oliver Queen and Barry Allen switching lives, so Oliver has the Flash's powers and costume. When fighting some thugs, Oliver instinctively reaches for his nonexistent bow and arrows. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a2777e66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a2777e66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Elseworlds (2018) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a2777e66 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a346e791 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a346e791 | comment |
NUMB3RS: In "Primacy", the FBI is trying to nab a player who's after an in-game MacGuffin with an accompanying million-dollar prize, by creating a fake game server and letting him win the fake MacGuffin. The plan goes awry when Amita, who's played the game since university, accidentally kills the target's avatar and apparently wins the MacGuffin herself, making her a target. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a346e791 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a346e791 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
NUMB3RS | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a346e791 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a5ac0ca0 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a5ac0ca0 | comment |
The Holts: in Pacific Destiny, Henry is posing as a Spaniard in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. Being amazed at a sight he inadvertently says his surprise in English, making a local policeman take notice and demand his papers...a Chase Scene begins. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a5ac0ca0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a5ac0ca0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Holts | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a5ac0ca0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a62ee4d2 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a62ee4d2 | comment |
In Haikyuu!!, this is a Discussed Trope when it comes to receiving left-handed spikes. Their rotation is opposite that of a right-handed spike, which throws people off because right-handed spikes are infinitely more common, especially at the high-school level. Even Nishinoya, arguably the best receiver among all the high-school players in the series, has to take time to adjust to it. Granted, the difficulty in that case is compounded by the fact that the spiker in question is Ushijima, but it's still notable given that Nishinoya is arguably on the same level (if at a completely different and incomparable position). | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a62ee4d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a62ee4d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Haikyuu!! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a62ee4d2 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a64f5d10 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a64f5d10 | comment |
In Men in Black: International, the American Agent M calls dibs on her and the British Agent H's new car to chase after The Mole and gets in the car first via the left-hand side door. However, she's in the UK, where the steering wheel is on the right side of the car. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a64f5d10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a64f5d10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Men in Black: International | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a64f5d10 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a825da3e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a825da3e | comment |
In the Magic: The Gathering novel Future Sight spectral murderer Dinne-il-Vec is beaten by Radha due to this. His strategy of blinking in and out of existence and heckling her with shallow cuts, rather than simply offing her with a decisive blow when given the opportunity ends up being his undoing. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a825da3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a825da3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a825da3e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a8729c90 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a8729c90 | comment |
The Fairly OddParents! has an example in the episode "Father Time" where Timmy melts his dad's trophy with heat vision. When his dad wishes for heat vision in response, Wanda has to stop Cosmo from reflexively granting the wish. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a8729c90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a8729c90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_a8729c90 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ad4d7d6a | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ad4d7d6a | comment |
The Your Name side novel Another Side: Earthbound mentions that one of the difficulties Taki had in getting used to Mitsuha's body was that her smaller stature kept throwing him off. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ad4d7d6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ad4d7d6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Your Name | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ad4d7d6a | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ae3a1ca1 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ae3a1ca1 | comment |
In Dance Class, the three leads sometimes suffer this when not practing in dance class by sometimes they do their ballet moves without realizing it since as during working on a writing on a whiteboard or just milling around with nothing to do. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ae3a1ca1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ae3a1ca1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dance Class (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ae3a1ca1 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b166795b | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b166795b | comment |
In Dog City, just as Meat the Butcher is about to run Ace Hart over with a truck, Eliot quickly draws a traffic light turning red to stop him. After Ace walks off none the wiser, Meat is furiously bashing the traffic signal while complaining that the lessons he learned in traffic school "never leave you" which compelled him to stop. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b166795b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b166795b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dog City | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b166795b | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b29d88cf | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b29d88cf | comment |
DVD cases with brackets. Have you ever tried to open one of these DVD cases like you would any other case only for it to not open or worse, break the case itself? There's a reason most DVD-case-making companies don't make them as much as they used to. The Bullshit Man was right on that too: just rip the bracket off the case, it will still snap shut just fine. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b29d88cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b29d88cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
You Know What's Bullshit? (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b29d88cf | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b30ae4db | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Game of Thrones: In one episode, Jorah Mormont gets into a fight with a dothraki named Qothor. Qothor uses an arakh, which are incredibly good at slicing flesh but are worthless against armour. At first, he puts Jorah on the defensive by swinging at his unprotected head but then goes for a body shot that would have sliced an unarmoured foe in half. Since Jorah is wearing full plate he is completely unharmed, traps the blade against his side, and stabs Qothor dead. After having his right hand cut off, Jaime confesses to Tyrion that he struggles to remember to use his left hand, resulting in spilled wine and poor swordsmanship, and that his instincts with his left hand are nowhere near the skills of his perfectly trained right hand. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b30ae4db | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b5346b9f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b5346b9f | comment |
White Sheep (RWBY): Part of the reason Jaune is so hopeless fighting as a human is that he is used to fighting as a Grimm, with Combat Tentacles and truly monstrous Super-Strength. He keeps instinctively trying to use his tentacles or summon Grimm, only to pull back at the last second. That being said, he really is terrible with a sword. It's just that in Grimm form he's more than strong enough with his bare hands. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b5346b9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b5346b9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
White Sheep (RWBY) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b5346b9f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b76512a4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b76512a4 | comment |
The Audience: Happens in chapter 29 to a hapless pony orderly who's used to pushing around quadruped patients in pony wheelchairs, which you tip forward to help the patient step off. Unfortunately, this time the orderly is wheeling around a human in a typical human wheelchair, and ends up reflexively tipping it forward and accidentally dumping his patient onto the ground. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b76512a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b76512a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Audience (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_b76512a4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba666650 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba666650 | comment |
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the game that introduced the aforementioned CQC, also has Ocelot get hit with this. In his first encounter, he demonstrates incredible skill with a Makarov pistol, though uses it in a way that Naked Snake suggests that he's more suited to revolvers, as he famously uses across the rest of the series. In their next encounter a week later, Ocelot has grabbed a Single Action Army revolver as Snake suggested, and takes Snake's contact EVA hostage with it. However, having heard six gunshots before they actually meet face-to-face again, Snake lowers his gun and calmly tells Ocelot that "you don't have what it takes to kill me" - which Ocelot learns too late to mean that his new revolver runs out after only six bullets compared to the eight he's used to from the Makarov. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba666650 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba666650 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba666650 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba9c9029 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba9c9029 | comment |
Shane: The titular character accidentally reveals he's a gunslinger to the town when the local kid cocks a rifle and Shane instinctively goes into a crouch and places his hand on his revolver, having long-trained his reflexes to go into combat mode at the sound of a gun being prepared to fire. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba9c9029 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba9c9029 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shane | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ba9c9029 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_bb5be2d4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_bb5be2d4 | comment |
MVP had been doing better in New Japan than anyone expected, but come the 2011 G1, favorite to win Shinsuke Nakamura had found an effective counter to MVP's explosive offense by wearing down his ribs. The problem was Nakamura didn't see the strategy through, going for the cross arm breaker out of habit, which while usually a reliable finisher for him was not the best move to use on MVP and even less effective because Nakamura hadn't done any arm work in the match prior, allowing MVP breather from the rib work and ultimately take the match. Suddenly people were questioning if Nakamura would even make it out of block B. Fortunately for him, Minoru Suzuki played spoiler, though he almost lost to MVP too, due to a similar mistake. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_bb5be2d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_bb5be2d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Montel Vontavious Porter (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_bb5be2d4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
Some laptops also invert the Fn toggle. So for instance, to refresh a web page on a browser, instead of F5, you'd press Fn+F5.note This is particularly annoying when playing Team Fortress 2 MvM, since the "get ready" command defaults to F4. Fortunately for the blind community, the Mac's screen reader Voice Over averts this; Command+F5 is Command+F5 whether the function keys are configured for hardware or software functions. For Windows, some makes allow toggling this from the BIOS setup. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c0d295c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c0d295c4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c21cdcdd | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c21cdcdd | comment |
Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.: Kaede ends up suffering a bit of this. Due to New World Online being an immersive VR game whose time frame dilates hours into days, when she returns from a School Break after playing the game for a week, she ends up doing things she would do in game in real life like try to pull up her shield instead of dodging a ball during gym. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c21cdcdd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c21cdcdd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c21cdcdd | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c4282b71 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle spent years doing everything they could think of in order to earn their cutie marks. The episode after they finally do, they decide to go off an adventure, and Apple Bloom yells out "maybe this will be what finally earns us our cutie marks!" Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle point out that they've already got them. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c4282b71 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c6b738c4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c6b738c4 | comment |
Cedric Alexander usually follows Caprice Coleman's no hands huricanrana with a frog splash but on the June 2nd 2012 edition of ROH TV, Rhett Titus kept rolling passed the landing spot Alexander was so used to that he had jumped before waiting to see where Titus would stop. This allowed Titus's All Night Express tag team partner Kenny King to turn the match around. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c6b738c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c6b738c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ring of Honor (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c6b738c4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c72c2d06 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c72c2d06 | comment |
In Star Wars Rebels Ezra has his lightsaber taken away by Kanan to teach him not to rely on it. Sure enough, when he gets into some trouble Ezra instinctively reaches for the weapon. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c72c2d06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c72c2d06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Wars Rebels | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c72c2d06 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c8415529 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c8415529 | comment |
In Mad Max (2015), Chumbucket will call you out if you repeatedly enter the car on the left side instead of the right side. This was clearly put in to tease American players for forgetting that the steering wheel is on the right side in Australian cars. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c8415529 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c8415529 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mad Max (2015) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_c8415529 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cb6abef3 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cb6abef3 | comment |
In The Avengers, right after Nick Fury uses an RPG to take out the Quinjet carrying the nuke that the WSC ordered against New York, a second jet takes off from a different catapult. Without thinking about it, he whips out his sidearm before realizing the bullets would do as much damage as a spitball from the distance. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cb6abef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cb6abef3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Avengers (2012) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cb6abef3 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cbae024e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cbae024e | comment |
On nearly every PC web browser, F5 refreshes the current page. On Twitter's website, however, that is overridden; F5 retweets a tweet instead! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cbae024e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cbae024e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cbae024e | ||
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ce67d43a | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ce67d43a | comment |
Milla from Tales of Xillia inverts this. She spends the first hour of the game hideously overpowered thanks to the enhancement of the Four Great Spirits. When she loses this, it quickly becomes apparent she was relying on them so much that she has no muscle memory for anything; barely able to swim and suddenly becoming hopelessly uncoordinated with her sword. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ce67d43a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ce67d43a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tales of Xillia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ce67d43a | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cf2d20a8 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cf2d20a8 | comment |
Johnny Bravo: In "Karma Krisis", when Dionne Warwick shows up in person, Johnny makes a motion like he is changing the channel on a remote control, then goes, "Sorry, reflex." | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cf2d20a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cf2d20a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Johnny Bravo | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_cf2d20a8 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d07446b9 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d07446b9 | comment |
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: Ledo is more used to piloting his incredibly high-tech mecha, Chamber. At one point, he pilots one of the Earthling's more primitive mecha and trips up by attempting voice commands and pushing buttons as if he were still piloting Chamber. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d07446b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d07446b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d07446b9 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d154285c | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d154285c | comment |
Most professional wrestling companies use 18 foot rings (in other words 18 feet across from rope to rope) and have ropes comprised of rubber coated steel cables. The one exception (besides the lucha libre companies that have a 6 sided ring, also seen at various points in Impact Wrestling) is WWE, which uses a 20 foot ring and ropes made of, well, rope. As you'd expect this takes some getting used to, especially for high-flyers since actual rope has a lot more give and a lot less spring to it than steel cables. AEW also uses a 20 foot ring, but with cables instead of rope. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d154285c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d154285c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Impact Wrestling (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d154285c | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d2bae484 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d2bae484 | comment |
In Season 25 of The Amazing Race Nici struggled with the marching task at Buckingham Palace because she was doing it the way she was taught in the Air Force. The task judge even told her he could tell she had military training because she was doing everything but the turn right. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d2bae484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d2bae484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Amazing Race | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d2bae484 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d3381e70 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d3381e70 | comment |
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier the Winter Soldier is able to effortlessly catch and later briefly fight with Captain America's shield. The way the Winter Soldier handles the shield is 100% muscle memory, whether he realizes it or not. The Winter Soldier is probably accustomed to encountering weapons that he can use, with no memory of learning how to use them because his memory is repeatedly wiped, so he does not appear to question his ability to use it. However, the shield isn't the sort of weapon the Winter Soldier would have been trained to use, and it isn't the sort of weapon anyone, even a well-trained fighter, would be able to just pick up and use naturally. There was no moment where he went, "What the hell is this thing and how do I use it?" He picks it up and uses it as naturally as any other weapon in his arsenal. That level of familiarity takes practice, practice he got as Bucky Barnes, training with Steve Rogers and the other Commandos. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d3381e70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d3381e70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Captain America: The Winter Soldier | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d3381e70 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d6942bf2 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d6942bf2 | comment |
In Marvel Zombies Return, zombie Spider-Man tries to shoot webbing, forgetting that it dried up when he died. The result? His body getting tricked by muscle memory to painfully shoot out his veins instead. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d6942bf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d6942bf2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Marvel Zombies (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d6942bf2 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c4a85e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c4a85e | comment |
In Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #34, Peter Parker is accidentally recruited as a shortstop for his high school baseball team after he's seen using his super-powers to deftly catch and return a wayward ball. Team pitcher Flash Thomson is enraged because he suspects Parker's skills are due to illegal drugs, while the Green Goblin wants to eliminate Parker so his son's rival team can win instead. But, Peter's skills are so accidental he can't mess up his game even when tries to. Peter deduces that his battles with supervillains have honed his reflexes so much that he can't help but react to the ball. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c4a85e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c4a85e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Marvel Adventures (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c4a85e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c602eb | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c602eb | comment |
South Park's "Cartman's Silly Hate-Crime 2000" has Cartman smuggle cigarettes into Juvie in the usual way, only to flush after pooping them out. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c602eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
South Park | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_d9c602eb | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_db96ded4 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_db96ded4 | comment |
The Legend of Korra: While the focus of the first season is the difficulty she has learning Airbending, it seems to be an issue of personality (Korra is a Hot-Blooded fighter, which tends to clash with the philosophies of Airbending, the least offense-oriented style of the four) rather than this trope. Korra outs herself as the Avatar while playing on the Fire Ferrets team when she accidentally earthbends in the middle of a pro bending match, despite being the team waterbender. Since she was also trained to fight rather than compete in a sport with rules, some of the tactics she initially uses (like knocking an opponent off the side of the ring instead of the back, and hitting an opponent with a very long stream of water) turn out to be illegal moves. This is also shown to go both ways with Mako and Bolin sometimes struggling to keep up when put in a proper battle with bender who were trained to fight as their Pro Bending training means they often use more evasive and defensive techniques while using their bending in comparatively smaller bursts rather than attacking with full force and manipulating their elements as fully and creatively as their opponents. Korra also has been trained in traditional technique. This meant she was essentially doing twice the work for similar results. In the finale, Korra and Mako throw Amon into the water, knocking his mask and fake scars off. As Amon is naturally a waterbender, his first instinct is to launch himself out of the water. So all the Equalists gathered outside the stadium see that their leader, the charismatic anti-bending revolutionary who claimed to have been horribly burned, was in truth a bender faking his burns with makeup. Amon swims away. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_db96ded4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_db96ded4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_db96ded4 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dc758f58 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dc758f58 | comment |
Ace Attorney (2016): In the anime version of "Turnabout Samurai", the Steel Samurai on the day of the murder poses for a young fan who snuck into the studio. However, the Steel Samurai uses the pose of the villainous Evil Magistrate instead of his pose. Phoenix realizes then that the man wearing the costume at the time was Jack Hammer, the actor for the Evil Magistrate, and not the defendant Will Powers. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dc758f58 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dc758f58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ace Attorney (2016) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dc758f58 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dd3c6311 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dd3c6311 | comment |
In Solitary Pinion, the main character turns into a pony without the knowledge to even form words with her new mouth. Oh, and she now has wings, too. A lot of "Ponification" fanfics portray formerly human characters as often struggling with their new physical forms. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dd3c6311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dd3c6311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Solitary Pinion (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dd3c6311 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dddb5ff9 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dddb5ff9 | comment |
In Burn After Reading a US Marshall talks about how muscle memory is pounded into people who went through the same training as him so they just react without even thinking. This turns out to be a massive Chekhov's Gun when he later shoots and kills another major character who he thinks is a burglar. He doesn't even realize what he's done at first, because he frantically flees downstairs and only goes up to investigate long after the "intruder" should have been coming after him. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dddb5ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dddb5ff9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Burn After Reading | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_dddb5ff9 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_df07d96e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_df07d96e | comment |
In an episode of Lois & Clark, Lois and Clark are sent back in time to the day Clark's ship crashed. They end up meeting Jonathan and Martha Kent, and when they leave, Clark automatically kisses his mom goodbye, which causes a very awkward moment. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_df07d96e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_df07d96e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
LoisAndClark | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_df07d96e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e25322af | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e25322af | comment |
Homestar Runner once had a link to the Store to the front page of its website. The "Watch Intro" button was where "Come On In" was for over 5 years. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e25322af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e25322af | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e5feb1e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e5feb1e | comment |
Many characters, especially the lawyers, in Ace Attorney will find themselves shouting "OBJECTION!" when someone is telling a blatant lie, they sniff out a contradiction or paradox, or because they don't like what's going on, even if they're nowhere near a courtroom. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e5feb1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e5feb1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ace Attorney (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e5feb1e | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e6267766 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e6267766 | comment |
Star Wars Legends: Star Wars: Allegiance has a stormtrooper's drilled-in self-defense techniques—such as disarming someone who's at close range and pointing a blaster at him, and then shooting when said someone draws another blaster on him—result in him killing a superior officer, forcing him to desert. A comedic example from the X-Wing Series: Wedge is going out on a date but getting pestered by two of his friends. They follow him into an elevator, he sets the destination for the roof instead of the hangar, and bellows in his best drill sergeant's voice, "ABOUT FACE! FORWARD MARCH!" Purely on instinct his fellow pilots whirl around and slam into the back of the elevator, and Wedge steps out before they're carried out of his hair. In the novelizations of the Dark Forces Saga, Kyle's father is killed in an attack carried out by ships bearing Rebel insignias. When Kyle has the chance to see footage of the attack, however, he realizes the attackers were actually Imperials thanks to their tactics, which he recognized due to having recently graduated from the Imperial Academy. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e6267766 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e6267766 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Wars Legends (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_e6267766 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed2a7866 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed2a7866 | comment |
In Sword Art Online, Kirito's experience trapped in the video game world of Sword Art Online gave him incredible swordsmanship skills. However, it does result in some difficulties in other situations... Early in the Fairy Dance arc, while having a kendo match with his sister in the real world, he's able to keep up with Suguha (who is a national-level competitor)... until he tries to perform a Sword Skill, which requires holding a pose and waiting for the system to trigger the activation. After said match, Kirito attempts the sheathe the wooden sword like he would a real one, forgetting that he is not wearing a scabbard and a wooden practice sword wouldn't go in it anyway. The same thing happens twice in the Phantom Bullet arc, where he purchases a Laser Blade and several times tries to sheathe it instead of just turning off the blade. |
|
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed2a7866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed2a7866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sword Art Online | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed2a7866 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed475d56 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed475d56 | comment |
In Deserted Distractions, Ryou finds himself able to pick locks and untie knots without even thinking about it thanks to Yami Bakura's muscle memory. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed475d56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed475d56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Deserted Distractions / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ed475d56 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ef076a36 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ef076a36 | comment |
In one episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvok sustains a brain injury that causes him severe memory loss. When Neelix takes him on a tour of the bridge, Tuvok looks at the tactical console for a moment and then presses the panel combination to activate the photon torpedo banks. It's unlikely he happened on the right combination at random, suggesting he had some kind of reflex leading him to do it, but he clearly didn't remember what that sequence did or under what context he should use it. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ef076a36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ef076a36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Trek: Voyager | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ef076a36 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_f7c1b2d3 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_f7c1b2d3 | comment |
An extreme example at the end of the Only Fools and Horses, episode "Little Problems", in which Rodney and Cassandra get married. Therefore, Del is surprised when Rodney comes into the flat after his first day at his new job, collapses into a chair, and asks what's for tea. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_f7c1b2d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_f7c1b2d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Only Fools and Horses | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_f7c1b2d3 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fbc2eab8 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fbc2eab8 | comment |
Fox from Curtailed blames Nintendo for his reflexes in being able to catch anything he drops. Then, he drops a steak knife, and winds up in the hospital. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fbc2eab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fbc2eab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Curtailed (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fbc2eab8 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fd8221d2 | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fd8221d2 | comment |
The MediaWiki software used on Wikipedia and Wikia inherited much of its markup from the markup used on the UseMod wiki software, which is used on MeatballWiki and was used in the early years of Wikipedia. MediaWiki eventually became so all-pervasive that many editors automatically start using its formatting tags on Wikis using non-standard software... like this very wiki. And we have a page for that. It only gets worse the more types of wiki-like software you use. TiddlyWiki, for instance, formats its pot holes as [[text|page to send to]], which is the exact opposite of most other Wikis. Even Everything2, which has been around for ages, put the target first. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fd8221d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fd8221d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wikipedia (Website) | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_fd8221d2 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ff9ab17f | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ff9ab17f | comment |
The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Parallels" has Worf jumping from one quantum reality to the next. In one, he has trouble finding the button to fire weapons, because the console has a completely different configuration than the one in his own reality. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ff9ab17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ff9ab17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ff9ab17f | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ffbcb90e | type |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ffbcb90e | comment |
Confronted by two sword-wielding fighters in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy reflexively reaches for his gun just like he did in a memorable scene in the first film. Only this time it isn't there ... he'd lost it a few scenes before. | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ffbcb90e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ffbcb90e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | hasFeature |
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_ffbcb90e |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.