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I Thought Everyone Could Do That

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I Thought Everyone Could Do That	comment	Someone has an unusual talent. The twist is, they don't know it's a talent; it comes so naturally to them that they just assume that everyone else can do it too. Generally, characters like this are either a Cloudcuckoolander, Captain Oblivious, a Fish out of Water, or very young and inexperienced. Depending on the feat, this can also be an Achievement in Ignorance. Truth in Television — you can only experience your own mind, so it makes sense to assume that others' minds work the same way unless proven otherwise. For the opposite trope, see Giftedly Bad, which is for a character who thinks they have great talent in something they are actually awful at. Also contrast Baffled by Own Biology.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_10550610	comment	Fonzie of Happy Days is convinced that he's been given a class of subnormal students because they can't change a carburetor perfectly after being shown how once, as he was able to as a boy.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_108f6aee	comment	Family of the Shield: After speaking with the other three Heroes about how to further empower their Legendary Weapons using their individual methods, Naofumi Iwatani casually mentions that he has four Random Drop Booster Shields; which he had unlocked after feeding an Usapil, Gold, Silver, and Copper Coins to his shield. Cue the surprise from Naofumi that had unlocked these Item Drop Bonuses on Day One of being in Melromarc, while the other three only knew about the Usapil method but didn't think to feed any of their own money to their Legendary Weapons in the Two Months they've all been in Melromarc to unlock those same Drop Bonuses.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_109f7814	comment	One conversation in Sherlock reveals that the Holmes brothers used to think that their massive intellect was the norm.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_12434875	comment	In Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, it's implied that it took Thrawn some time to figure out that not everyone could Sherlock Scan like he can and infer tactics from artwork. Few people even believe that Thrawn can do it, although his superiors like Admiral Ar'alani and Supreme General Ba'kif are fully aware of his capabilities. In the book, he faces off against someone who can come close to his level of insight and planning, except that person doesn't understand art, preferring architecture. His opponent also has something Thrawn severely lacks — political awareness.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_17e1ac0c	comment	God of Hate: Chapter 13 ends with the shocking revelation that Krista can understand Eren in his Ghidorah form. She's as shocked as everyone else, having assumed that everyone else could hear his growls as speech.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_18c0192b	comment	Realm of the Elderlings: Fitz's daughter Nettle is a DreamWeaver, but doesn't realize that this is anything special. She doesn't understand why other people have nightmares, because why would anyone want to stay in a dream they didn't like?
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_1beda93b	comment	For a while in Sluggy Freelance, Aylee keeps forgetting that earth creatures need things like sleep and oxygen to survive, and don't have quite her ability to heal.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_202462bc	comment	Alphas: Marcus Ayers' Awesomeness by Analysis ability allows him to create Disaster Dominoes on purpose, and he's convinced that everyone else can do the same thing, thus believing that every bad thing that happens to him was intentionally planned by somebody, which drives his paranoia.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, Klara originally believed that everyone was capable of communicating with plants. Her horrified, god-fearing parents responded by sending her off to live with an abusive older man who beat her until she learned to suppress her abilities.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The main character isn't modest enough not to realize she's an outstanding military commander, but has difficulty believing that when she pulls off some kind of awe-inspiring feat (such as the mass prison escape from Cerberus) that people don't accept it was merely her duty to do so and thus she deserves no special accolades for it. She also has no idea how inspiring she is: she's astonished to learn that people who have served under her end up, on average, being better officers than their peers afterwards.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_249daa32	comment	Hina from BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! is The Ace who is amazing at almost everything she tries, first time. However, this sometimes leads to her being Innocently Insensitive because she genuinely doesn't really understand how people can try things and not be immediately good at them.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_2a1c9076	comment	Percy in Son of the Western Sea assumes that his ship control powers are just part of the parcel of being a child of Poseidon. Both Poseidon and Athena refer to it as an unexpected power, as while sailors prayed to Poseidon it was usually in his role as a god of storms and he admits not being much of a sailor. Both put it down to just being an unusual quirk as a side effect of being the single most powerful demigod child Poseidon has ever fathered and his resulting Combo Platter Powers. After all, it isn't like the time a child of Zeus developed power over fruit...
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_2a66cb8d	comment	The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries: Several books after finding she can see through fairies' glamours and assuming it's just because she's part fairy herself, Sookie learns that no, most other fairies see what humans see, and her ability is considered a powerful gift.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Donna Dunlap from the Heroes comics thought everyone had telescopic and Innate Night Vision when she was a child.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_2cad7105	comment	Nanami Jinnai in El-Hazard: The Magnificent World is immune to illusions, but doesn't detect them, so when she happens to warn her friends about one, it's through blind luck. ("I thought everyone saw what I did.")
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_300272c4	comment	In The Student Prince, Merlin doesn't realize that his magical ability is extraordinary even among sorcerers. He can stop time, expand his mind to cover thousands of miles and talk to Kilgharrah, and it's only when Gaius and Morgana tells him that he learns how unusual such talents are.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_32c541e6	comment	A variant appears in Fullmetal Alchemist, during the first fight with Father. He turns off the alchemy, but Scar and May can still transmute; unbeknownst to Father, their techniques aren't actually alchemy. Another variant happens earlier when Ed transmutes without a circle for the first time. Al is impressed and points out only he and Izumi can do that, revealing that he can't, despite participating in the resurrection attempt that gave Ed the ability. He later remembers how.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_381bb5a8	comment	The Alvin Show: In one episode, we meet Dave's country cousin Chuck Wagon, who claims he can't do anything. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore decide to help him find some sort of talent, all of which fail miserably. They and Dave are later astonished to find him playing Theodore's guitar and singing about how he has no talent. As it turned out, where he came from, everyone could play the guitar and sing so it never occurred to him that it was anything special.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman herself is usually quite grounded and well aware of the limitations of regular humans compared to herself and other Amazons. However, when fellow Amazon Mala ended up in New York after getting kicked out of her airplane back during the Golden Age, she had a very difficult time adjusting to the difference in power levels and didn't quite understand that regular people can't just pick up a truck or punch through a stone wall.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Goku thought that every boy has a tail. Amusingly, when he tells Bulma in the manga, she gets upset that she still doesn't know about the male anatomy at her age. When the group needs to get across a deadly booby-trapped hallway, Goku and Krillin easily jump across. Goku says to Bulma it's her turn, and Bulma angrily yells that there's no way she can jump that far. Goku is surprised. In the sequel series, Dragon Ball Z, the first time Gohan goes to school, he ends up playing baseball. He grew up among superhuman fighters and didn't realize that the average person can't jump 30 feet into the air. When he does realise it, he covers it up as a "fluke" and tries to hide his superhuman strength, and does so by not hitting a pitch while batting. What he didn't realise is that while doing so, he took the full impact of a fastball directly to his head without flinching — which was done by a Jerk Jock with the intention of making him flinch and recoil in shock and/or fear to embarrass him — which is something that the average person cannot do, and so, while Gohan thought that he lucked out, everyone around him stood stunned. By a similar margin, he's caught off-guard at the idea of having to teach Videl about ki and manipulating it in order to fly; while he realizes that flight is a rare skill, he never considered that the concept of ki would be such an unknown to people.note Though, given that Gohan was on world-wide news fighting Vegeta and Nappa (at least until Nappa got rid of the nearby journalists) at the age of five, his own father had won the World Martial Arts tournament in a ki-filled fight with Piccolo Jr. years beforehand, and was at the Cell Games, which globally broadcast Goku and Cell flying and ki-attacking each other, it's less that Gohan was surprised that ordinary people didn't know about ki and flight, and more that he was dumbfounded to learn that the entire planet had forgotten all about it within a decade. Watching Goku's fight with Cell, Gohan doesn't realize that the other Z Fighters can't track Goku's movements the entire time, thinking that Goku is holding back. On Earth, sensing ki is a basic ability that even the absolute weakest Z Fighter is capable of by the time the Saiyans arrived. Despite this, off-world, this is apparently an extremely rare ability, and no one in Frieza's entire army is capable of it and they have to rely on the use of Scouters. The heroes take this so much for granted that it's halfway through his fight with Final Form Frieza before Goku realizes that Frieza can't do it, much to his surprise. Likewise, suppressing one's power level is a common, basic ability on Earth and Namek that, again, even the weakest members of the cast are capable of. However, off-world this ability is completely unheard of outside transformations like Zarbon and Frieza's, which allows the heroes to hide from them on Namek or ambush an enemy by powering up. Vegeta manages to ambush and kill off Cui and Dodoria using this, as they don't realize he's now strong enough to curbstomp them until it's too late. Only Captain Ginyu seems to have heard of the ability before in some mutants (such as himself), and therefore he isn't caught off-guard by the fact that Goku is hiding his power... though heâ€™s caught off-guard by just how much power Goku is hiding. Goten stumbles into this trope by naÃ¯vetÃ©. He accidentally goes Super Saiyan when sparring with his mother, Chi-Chi, and is surprised at how shocked Gohan is at his ability to do it (his best friend Trunks has the same with his father Vegeta). Goten is also surprised that Videl doesn't know anything about ki or utilizing it.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Until the middle of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (when he does it in front of an audience for the first time), Harry assumes that all or most wizards can talk to snakes — in fact, he doesn't even realize he's speaking a different language when he does. (To be fair to Harry, he first experiences it before he knows he's a wizard, when his magical powers first manifest, causing uncontrollable magic surges. In the same time period, he teleported a short distance, made a pane of glass disappear, and caused a suit of clothes to shrink. Having not grown up in a wizarding household, he mentally classes talking to a snake as just one more magical thing he did, and no more worthy of comment than the other feats, which any wizard or witch would regard as trivial.) In the sixth book, it takes him some time (and prompting by Dumbledore) to understand that Morfin Gaunt is speaking Parseltongue in the Pensieve Flashback, as he only hears it as perfect English. Not an innate ability, but when Harry is told the legend of the Deathly Hallows, one of them is a mythical cloak which granted the wearer true invisibility and never lost its power... which Harry soon realizes is the cloak he'd had since his first year at Hogwarts, and had always assumed was an ordinary (if rare) magic cloak. Part of why Hagrid's lessons in Care of Magical Creatures are so widely dreaded is that he simply doesn't get that his ability to deal with horrible dangerous monsters like dragons and giant spiders and Blast-Ended Skrewts (ten-foot-long armored bloodsucking manticore and fire crab hybrid with stingers) comes partly from his half-giant resilience and strength. Similarly, he's certain his half-brother (and full-blooded, if stunted, giant) Grawp can be taught to handle himself in regular society and asks Harry and Hermione to help, convinced they'll say yes.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_3d90ba40	comment	In The Awakening of a Magus, Draco's Scanner talent manifested when he was eight or so, but his family never noticed because he never considered it something worth talking about.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: It's mentioned that Susan thought nothing of her ability to make herself unnoticeable, and assumed for the longest time that everyone could do that. Even in her second appearance (by which time she knows her origin), she finds stopping time to be so easy that she wonders why ordinary people can't do it. This is partially justified, in that many of Susan's (and Death's) "supernatural" abilities really are much more straightforward than the way regular humans approach reality. For instance, it's not that she can see things that aren't real, it's that everyone else can not see things that are. Tiffany Aching knows that being able to step out of your body and look at it from the outside isn't an ordinary thing for a human to do, but she's not sure if it's an ordinary thing for a witch to do. (It isn't.) Jingo: Vetinari does a bit of impromptu juggling, and the following impressive display of street theatre tricks leads Colon to say to him, "I didn't know you could juggle, my lord" and Vetinari to ask "Can't everyone?" Implied to reference how good Vetinari is at keeping everything going where/how he wants... Small Gods: Brutha never forgets anything, never has dreams, and always knows his exact location on land, down to being able to retrace his steps up to several years into the past. He eventually does realize that the first isn't true of everybody, yet the concept of "forgetting" remains extremely perplexing to him. Thief of Time: Jeremy Clockson not only doesn't realize that not everyone can intuitively tell what time it is, but he doesn't even seem to grasp that that's what the clocks he devotes himself to crafting are used for.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_489c93de	comment	Aisia from Da Capo Second Season starts off believing that the ability to use magic is so common that the school Asakura attends must be an academy for teaching magic. Obviously she is wrong.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_48f0518	comment	My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer's Time to Shine: Sunset Shimmer, former star-student to Princess Celestia, exiled to the human world lacking magic posing as an ordinary high-school student, is being applauded for her amazing skills in mathematics and chemistry. She simply states that she didn't understand how anyone could have any problems with it since "you just memorize the formulas and where to use them" (not unlike learning spells). Cue shocked looks from her friends and her back-pedaling.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_4b38bdfb	comment	Beast Tamer: Rein is oblivious to just how talented as a Beast Tamer he is, as he can contract with both the Strongest Species and multiple normal animals when normally a Beast Tamer is limited to only a single normal animal. This is due to having spent his childhood in a village full of Beast Tamers like himself before it was destroyed, and not really coming into contact with "normal" Beast Tamers since. It's not until Kanade points out just how impressive he is that Rein starts to realize it himself and begins to experiment with things he would not have tried before, such as trying to "overwrite" another Beast Tamer's contract to take control of a Behemoth. This goes to his previous team as well. After they kicked him out, thinking of him as dead weight, they were surprised to find out how weak Beast Tamers were compared to him. When they tried to get the other Beast Tamers to do even a fraction of what Rein used to do, the Beast Tamers think they are nuts for expecting that much.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Some people with strong innate Supernatural Sensitivity grow up not realizing that it's unusual to see people with coloured auras or other Aethyric phenomena. If they're lucky, they get found by the Colleges of Magic before they end up in an asylum or on a pyre.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: In one episode, Leonard, Sheldon, Amy, and Penny play a game of Pictionary. Penny and Amy end up dominating the game because the clues they give each other would allow anyone of average intelligence to guess the right answer after a few tries. The clues and answers Sheldon gave to Leonard only made perfect sense inside Sheldon's mind. Throughout the series, Sheldon's genius I.Q. allows him to grasp abstract concepts like subatomic physics, quantum mechanics, and other such advanced scientific fields, and his eidetic memory allows him to recall minor details and become a world-renowned scientist. Unfortunately, this also gives him a feeling of superiority, and he quickly gets annoyed whenever he feels he has to "dumb down" to the level of everyone else, who should be able to grasp the same information he can. One episode offhandedly revealed that Sheldon has synesthesia, which allows him to easily recognize prime numbers. He's confused by the others' confusion when they don't spot a glowing number in a sequence.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_4f067404	comment	In one episode of Just Shoot Me!, Jack and Elliot discover that the small, overly delicate Dennis Finch (David Spade) has a penis whose size is such that it causes immediate crushing despair in other males at the sight of it, and apparently has no clue that it's anything special.note Humorously, this is actually a rather wide-reaching (if funny) retcon; previous episodes had definitively established that Finch was on the extreme other end of the size scale, and was once confused for a woman when he was seen in a skin-tight bathing suit. For most of his life (until this episode, he really wasn't extra-big.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_4f091b42	comment	Tiger & Bunny's Keith Goodman sometimes forgets that other people can't fly.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_51e504f7	comment	In build your wings on the way down, Edward has an unfortunate habit of assuming that every alchemist knows the details of more advanced alchemy such as talking chimeras being made out of humans and chimeras being products of soul alchemy. This results him in thinking that Roy Mustang is a monster since he approved of Shou Tucker, not knowing that Roy doesn't know what Tucker did.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Prime Mover", Jimbo Cobb, a man with telekinetic powers who explains that when he was young, he believed everyone had them. He only stopped using his when he found out that wasn't so, since he'd done a few things that had gotten him in trouble.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Celia, an elemental Sylph from the Plane of Air, designs her summoning talisman to break from energy blasts, completely unaware that this was not something normal humans could do at will, which leads to some unfortunate consequences when her boyfriend fails to use it. She can also detect abjurations like the Cloister spell through the way her teeth tingle. Because she thinks everybody can do the same, she only mentions it in passing, assuming Haley already knows about it; when she finds out Haley doesn't, she actually gets angry about how worthless human(oid) senses seem to be compared to her own. Celia defends her ignorance of human abilities by pointing out that humans are the only race that doesn't get an entry in the Monster Manual, so it's not like she could look these things up. Inverted by Eugene Greenhilt, an insufferably Smug Super wizard who acts as though he expects magical expertise to be commonplace even though he knows full well that it isn't. It's just his way of dismissing anybody who's not a spellcaster as being an idiot for not choosing a spellcasting class. Dwarves have Innate Night Vision, so Minrah, a member of an isolated underground dwarf community, needs to be told why a visitor is casting a Light spell before going off down a dark tunnel.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_58d80a4a	comment	Jingo: Vetinari does a bit of impromptu juggling, and the following impressive display of street theatre tricks leads Colon to say to him, "I didn't know you could juggle, my lord" and Vetinari to ask "Can't everyone?" Implied to reference how good Vetinari is at keeping everything going where/how he wants...
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_5908ee91	comment	This is a dialog option in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when the Greybeards praise you for learning Words of Power so quickly. If you choose it, they will inform you that it takes many years of training for a non-dragonborn to learn a single Word of Power.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode "D.N.A.", Kryten is turned human and has trouble adjusting. He's surprised to learn that human nipples can't pick up radio signals and that the only way for a human to zoom in on an object is to move their head closer to it.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: Beret Guy is surprised to learn that other people can't tell what atoms are in things just by looking at them. He wonders "How do you tell what things are?" Another strip discusses the tendency of experts in any given field to overestimate how much the layman knows about it, even when they actively try not to.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: The Impossible Man from Fantastic Four once watched a human fall from a building until she was rescued. When asked why he did nothing to attempt to save her, he said that he was wondering what she was going to shapeshift into to save herself, as that's what he would have done if he was in her situation. In Runaways, Klara originally believed that everyone was capable of communicating with plants. Her horrified, god-fearing parents responded by sending her off to live with an abusive older man who beat her until she learned to suppress her abilities. When Squirrel Girl makes an appearance in All-New Wolverine, we learn that she has been operating under the assumption that all Animal-Themed Superbeings can communicate with the animal they're named after. In The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, this belief results in a montage of her going to a whole bunch of feline-themed people to find one who can talk to cats. None could, but she ends up finding a talking cat who refuses to help. In his honeymoon edition, Spider-Man mocks the idea that his web fluid was notable in any way and thought any idiot could do the same, but Fireheart's scientists made one that breaks easily, unlike his which is much more durable.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_6af83614	comment	A Thing of Vikings: During his Greek lessons Sigurd accidentally outs himself as literate in front of his tutor and promptly gets confused by the man's shocked reaction. Coming from a place with universal literacy, he has a hard time wrapping his head around the fact that being able to read and write is somehow unusual.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: Myne, who lives in a Medieval European Fantasy while having Past-Life Memories from living to early adulthood in modern-day Japan, frequently forgets that skills that were basic in her previous life are both relatively rare and specialized in her new world; the setting averts Medieval Universal Literacy, for instance. While some characters will show to be some mix of surprised and impressed in her presence, other cases are only revealed when the reader gets to see the point of view of characters who are native to the setting. When she uses magic, she is prone to Achievements in Ignorance from a mix of drawing wrong conclusions from observing others do magic and assumptions based on how she came to imagine magic working from her previous life. Lutz needs to be told he actually acquired a very valuable skill simply by being Myne's Cloudcuckoolander's Minder and doesn't notice how fast he's picking up the skills involved in the merchant trade for someone who didn't grow up in its midst.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: In Sikozu's first appearance, she's rather surprised to discover that Crichton can't shift his center of gravity, having presumed that all the species she had associated with so far (Scarran, Grudek, Sebacean, Human) were able to do so. Unfortunately, she only finds this out while bandaging Crichton's mauled legs — courtesy of the Monster of the Week Sikozu had easily escaped from. In another example, this time more of "I Thought Everyone Couldn't Do That'', Crichton discovers that every member of Moya's crew has better eyesight than he does when he claims there's nothing written on a basin, and the others take turns reading the small warning text aloud. Pilot didn't know that everyone can't see the bubble of an emerging wormhole until Crichton mentioned it was invisible. Crichton can "kind of smell it", but this is known to be a unique ability.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_700279ec	comment	In Drive (Dave Kellett), the small alien named Skitter can sense gravity waves through the Mohawk-like comb on his skull. Being an amnesiac, he doesn't realize at first that other species don't have the same ability. This would make his people extremely precious as navigators and pilots for everybody using FTL travel... if only they could find others of his kind.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_70adea71	comment	In DÃ¦morphing, the Hork-Bajir take for granted that they're the only species who can see the Dust and are confused when others say they can't.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_75149ccd	comment	Invoked in the X-Wing Series. When reforming Rogue Squadron, Wedge chooses another pilot over Aril Nunb to join the squad as his executive officer, even though Nunb is renowned and the pilot he wants is a suspected traitor who will have severe restrictions placed on his behavior. Later, attrition catches up to Rogue Squadron, and he brings Nunb in, though not as his XO, and explains to her that he's seen her fly before and was impressed. However, her skill as a pilot, he believes, can't be taught, and what he needs from his XO is, among other things, a trainer. Picking her would result in her being frustrated and his pilots bewildered (and possibly dead). But now there's room on the squadron, she's definitely earned a spot with her skill.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_760bceb6	comment	As in Eureka Seven AO has the ability to see trapar particles, which are invisible to the naked eye. He always assumed they were part of the wind and that everyone could see them.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, Wrex doesn't realize that humans don't have a redundant nervous system like krogans and thinks that it's the explanation for how Shepard was able to survive being spaced when the Normandy was destroyed until being informed otherwise.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_77be988d	comment	Thief of Time: Jeremy Clockson not only doesn't realize that not everyone can intuitively tell what time it is, but he doesn't even seem to grasp that that's what the clocks he devotes himself to crafting are used for.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: In "Log Date 7 15 2", Peridot pushes Greg off a roof to see if all lifeforms can fly, and has to be told that humans are "fragile and soft".
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_7988cb68	comment	Occasionally comes up in Mass Effect when people from different species make assumptions about each other. In Mass Effect 2, Wrex doesn't realize that humans don't have a redundant nervous system like krogans and thinks that it's the explanation for how Shepard was able to survive being spaced when the Normandy was destroyed until being informed otherwise. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, this is implied to be the reason why angara tend to be so shocked by the small families seen in most Milky Way species, and why the idea of someone being an only child is upsetting to them. Angara are litter birthers, and since the arrival of the Milky Way races was the first time they encountered another species on relatively peaceful terms, it simply never occurred to them that some species normally give birth one at a time. Their family structure also involves several mothers raising children collectively with every child counting each other as siblings (and all of the women as their mother), making the culture shock even worse.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_8265bd76	comment	Hopscotch: Darragon doesn't realize during the early part of his life that most people can't see auras. The subject comes up when he notices a Body Swap, so he does explain it as soon as it becomes relevant.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_8aaa3994	comment	The Tales of Alvin Maker: One of the, you might call it a problem, with "knacks", little skills that people are innately born with and can train to be even better, is that the person with the knack tends to not realize other people don't possess the same sort of skill. The narrator rambles in the fourth book:
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_8e68cca9	comment	In Digger, Shadowchild is surprised to learn that not everyone can transform into large, demonic-looking monsters at will.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Much Ado About Boimler" features a variation when Ensign D'Vana Tendi creates a dog that can (among other things) fly, shapeshift, and speak English. She somehow assumed that all Earth dogs could do such things and didn't realize that she'd created a new species.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: Ax, token non-earthling in the group, is rather surprised when he learns that humans cannot tell time accurately or judge direction (North-East-South-West) innately.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_91209b29	comment	In the Xenosaga series, Albedo is shocked to learn that other people can't regenerate, including his brothers. This occurs after a very disturbing scene in which a child Albedo blows his own head off in front of his brothers with an energy blast, or a gun in the Japanese version. For great Mood Whiplash, he was only trying to be funny.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_91cf7917	comment	Foundation Series: At the climax of "The Mule", the Mule mentions that it took him awhile to figure out that other people couldn't manipulate emotions, perhaps because, according to Foundation's Edge, he was from a planet where everyone really could do that, though he was unique in his willingness to do so without considering the well-being of the people being manipulated.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_93bde2ef	comment	While very separate fanfics, both Avenger of Steel and Infinity Crisis make references to how Thor (and other Asgardians) fail to mention various cosmic or fantastic items (from the Tesseract in the former to the existence of Atlantis in the latter) as they just naturally assume Earth is as knowledgeable about such things as the rest of the universe and thus see no need to bring up what they accept is "common knowledge". For example, both MCU Thor and EMH Thor never brought up the Savage Land because they thought it was already known, even believing that Jurassic Park (1993) was filmed there.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_9908ca47	comment	Until the middle of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (when he does it in front of an audience for the first time), Harry assumes that all or most wizards can talk to snakes — in fact, he doesn't even realize he's speaking a different language when he does. (To be fair to Harry, he first experiences it before he knows he's a wizard, when his magical powers first manifest, causing uncontrollable magic surges. In the same time period, he teleported a short distance, made a pane of glass disappear, and caused a suit of clothes to shrink. Having not grown up in a wizarding household, he mentally classes talking to a snake as just one more magical thing he did, and no more worthy of comment than the other feats, which any wizard or witch would regard as trivial.) In the sixth book, it takes him some time (and prompting by Dumbledore) to understand that Morfin Gaunt is speaking Parseltongue in the Pensieve Flashback, as he only hears it as perfect English.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_9d788ab1	comment	The Legend of Sun Knight: Downplayed. While Sun is aware that his social circle consists of some of the strongest fighters on the continent, he doesn't realize how much stronger they are than the average adventurer. Best shown when he and his teacher go dungeon diving; along the way, they rescue a party of stranded adventurers. Sun wants to hide their real strength, so when asked how long it took to reach them, he refrains from the real answer (three minutes) and starts with what he thinks is a plausible lie (three hours). But the adventurers only hear the 'three', and are shocked that they were so fast that they reached them in three days. Played straight in the arc where Sun loses his memory. Sun is a genius mage who can cast a spell after seeing it performed only once, and doesn't understand that other people can't. When he casts a speed buff he's used hundreds of times before on his Holy Knight allies, he winds up making his adventurer ally crash into the wall with the exact same buff, because his real comrades could handle the sudden acceleration. Moreover, Sun had gone blind before losing his memory, and uses his Elemental Sense to 'see'. Elemental Sense can't see color, so he doesn't know what 'white' is, and he assumes that people can't see his face if he piles on a lot of the same element because that blinds him.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Cleverly played with in One Piece. When Luffy becomes friends with the female-only inhabitants of Amazon Lily, all of them assume that Luffy is a typical representation of male biology. Since he's a Rubber Man who can stretch his body, they imagine that other men must be able to stretch as well.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Aquaman expresses this in the JLA: Year One series. He doesn't think of his abilities as powers because everyone can do it where he comes from. Likewise, Martian Manhunter thinks of his abilities more as "skills" or "gifts of will" rather than powers. Wonder Woman herself is usually quite grounded and well aware of the limitations of regular humans compared to herself and other Amazons. However, when fellow Amazon Mala ended up in New York after getting kicked out of her airplane back during the Golden Age, she had a very difficult time adjusting to the difference in power levels and didn't quite understand that regular people can't just pick up a truck or punch through a stone wall.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "Fear of a Bot Planet", on Chapek 9, a planet that kills humans on site because it is inhabited entirely by robots who hate humans, Fry threatens the Robot Elders (SILENCE!) that he will breathe fire on them. Of course, the Robot Elders have been around so long they can't remember if humans actually did that or if they made that up as propaganda.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_a6543322	comment	In Touhou Project, Fairies are resurrected when killed so long as the element of nature they represent continues to exist. They don't seem to understand death as it applies to humans and thus don't see why it's a problem to set humans on fire or lead them off cliffs as a prank.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_aa57824b	comment	How Not to Summon a Demon Lord: Shera L. Greenwood has had the ability to see magical power flowing through the air since she was a child. It took her a while to find out that it takes a lot of training for other people to learn how to do that.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_b25cecc	comment	In The Great Alicorn Hunt, Pinkie's pinkie powers are explained to be the result of a rare form of earth magic that lets her perceive and operate in many more dimensions than the norm.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_b3aba9af	comment	Used to dramatic effect in Six Feet Under. Brenda explains that when she was little, she read a report about the possibilities of a nuclear war breaking out. She explains that from that point on, every morning she woke up, she would feel thankful for being alive, yet also feel closer to nuclear apocalypse. When Nate asks how she could live like that, she says she thought that's how everybody else lived. Of course, she's not entirely wrong; there was in fact a lengthy period in recent human history where anyone who paid more than superficial attention to international relations really did live like that, and with good reason.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_b4996199	comment	In his honeymoon edition, Spider-Man mocks the idea that his web fluid was notable in any way and thought any idiot could do the same, but Fireheart's scientists made one that breaks easily, unlike his which is much more durable.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_b712435c	comment	Parker of Leverage makes a quick and accurate sketch of a hit man who's been following their mark around. Word of God is that Parker has Asperger's, and some people in Real Life with Asperger's or Autism can make extremely detailed drawings of things they only glimpse once due to their brains focusing on these details at the expense of other things.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_b7c37594	comment	Tohru and Kanna from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid initially believe that Earth is a World of Badass like the one they come from after having watched The Matrix. It comes as a genuine shock to them when Kobayashi reveals that Earth humans can't fire energy beams or perform feats of superhuman strength.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ba44f5d5	comment	Earth's Children: Ayla has an exceptionally well-trained memory for a Cro-Magnon. Of course, she was still considered to be "slow of memory" amongst her adoptive Neanderthal tribe. But once she is among her own people, they are constantly baffled by her surprising memory. Oh, and her ability to detect lies from body language, since the Clans of the Cave Bear can't speak complex language and use sign language almost exclusively.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_badf21b0	comment	In The Son of the Emperor, Twilight is surprised by the fact that something as mundane as lifting books or opening a door with magic is unheard of outside of Equestria. This is because unicorns are not allowed to practice magic beyond certain strict limits, and most of them can't perform even the most basic tasks.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Tedd thought being able to "see" magic itself was something everyone could do if they focused their eyes just right. The funny thing is he had explicitly told people more than once that he had learned how to identify different spell effects by sight — they just thought he had invented a function for his glasses and was overstating himself a bit. In one of the earlier arcs, Grace expected the rest of the group to have known that her fur is fireproof because she's a squirrel. They have to explain to her that squirrels don't ordinarily have fireproof fur.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c1b44782	comment	Aquaman expresses this in the JLA: Year One series. He doesn't think of his abilities as powers because everyone can do it where he comes from. Likewise, Martian Manhunter thinks of his abilities more as "skills" or "gifts of will" rather than powers.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: When Vivi asks Cross about powers that let one overpower everyone with their will, he explains it as Conqueror's Haki a power from the New World that's extremely rare, right before Vivi revealed she used it in a fight against two Marine captains. And not long after, it turns out Vivi's ability to make anyone obey her command by speaking is a rarer variant compared to the knock-people-out ability Cross read Luffy and other Conquerors use in the manga.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Great and Deathless Trixie, Trixie thinks nothing of dying and coming back to life a day later. She's died a few dozen times in her career from stage accidents, but since she's a traveling showpony, she never stuck around long enough to notice that no one else did the same.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor occasionally expresses surprise and/or condescension when it turns out that not everyone has Super-Intelligence like them. At one point, the Tenth Doctor rattles off a sequence of three-digit happy prime numbers offhand, and seems genuinely annoyed that the humans didn't learn this in elementary school.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: Marsh dedicated his adult life to learning as much as he could about the Steel Ministry, but since he's a commoner and the Ministry is only open to nobles, he can only learn through underground channels. When called to infiltrate the Ministry, since Marsh didn't attend the training camps, he thinks that his ignorance will stand out, but he doesn't realize until it's too late that he stands out because he's more knowledgeable than the average recruit.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_c4a22754	comment	Tristan of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series thinks that if you get angry, you turn into The Incredible Hulk. When told the truth, he says he thought everyone could do it.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_cae652c	comment	At the beginning of Hunter Ã— Hunter, Gon doesn't seem to know that most people can't follow a person in the middle of a forest by the scent of their aftershave.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ce50887e	comment	Goku thought that every boy has a tail. Amusingly, when he tells Bulma in the manga, she gets upset that she still doesn't know about the male anatomy at her age.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Light Hope, an AI, is surprised when Adora, a human, tells her that humans can't remember what happened to them when they're infants.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d456b5a9	comment	Eleutherophobia: At the end of The Thing from Another World, everyone is surprised when Tom partially morphs his face into a snake's just to freak Marco out. Tom thinks it's just basic morphing, but is dumbfounded when the others explain that only rare estreens can morph one body part at a time.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d45ec0ea	comment	In Temple Grandin, Temple's mentor is stunned when she describes the way she thinks and processes information. This, in turn, shocks Temple, because she always assumed that was how everyone's mind worked. (This is Truth in Television for many people on the autism spectrum; see Real Life entries.)
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d4642985	comment	Revelation Space Series: Rashmika from Absolution Gap is a Living Lie Detector. Until her late teens, she never lies, and becomes known for it in her village. It's not for any moral reason, though; she just assumes everyone would be able to tell if she did.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d6778009	comment	In the Cabin Pressure episode "Yverdon-Les-Bains", Martin memorises the entire six hundred page Swiss Air manual, because if you don't do that, how do you know what you're doing? He therefore becomes the first person to score 100% on the famously difficult Swiss Air exam, prompting them to assume he cheated, much to his confusion. Some of the questions involve obscure facts about other airlines entirely; Martin thought those ones were "general knowledge" that any twelve-year-old would know.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_d736423c	comment	The Rigel Black Chronicles: When Harry asks her mentor for references on imbuing shaped magic into potions, perhaps under another name, she has a hard time getting through to him at first, because no-one has ever heard of such a thing before, and he believes it doesn't even make sense as a concept. To her, it seemed quite natural after learning to consciously imbue unshaped magic into a potion, and learning to control magic without a wand. Once she demonstrates it, he immediately recognises that it has the potential to revolutionize the whole field of potion brewing, but still, hardly anyone can replicate her feat.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_daff6a21	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Transplanted Character Fic The Blood of Kings, privately trained apprentice mage Aki has people brought in on occasion by her master so that she can practice healing magic on them. It's noted that she managed to completely heal someone from the brink of death in under fifteen minutes, but when asked about this, she brushes this off and says she's still in training and her master handles the really difficult cases. Unbeknownst to her, that level of healing is so impressive within the setting (even a master mage would take hours to heal a broken arm) that her master is able to pass her off as some kind of goddess.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: Dovewing says this word for word when she finds out her super hearing is a special power.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ddfad40f	comment	The Vasto of White: Lilynette has only known of Hollows her whole life, so she does not know that humans and Shinigami do not normally have a Healing Factor.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_df7e11cd	comment	Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: The Commander asks why Ganondorf doesn't stop Link by stealing all the keys Link uses to get through the dungeons. Ganondorf says that wouldn't work, since everyone knows how to pick locks. The Commander points out that while everyone from a village of thieves knows how to pick locks, the kid who is risking his life to find keys probably doesn't. Kratos' son doesn't know that his father is a god, so he doesn't realize that feats of Super-Strength like lifting houses are unusual.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e05a2543	comment	Hajime no Ippo: Woli is a 17-year-old boxer from an isolated island in Indonesia, whose physical abilities are nothing less than genius. In his match with Ippo, Woli performs a bunch of techniques that other high-level boxers are famous for but which none of them ever possessed all at the same time, and in fact comes up with these techniques by pure intuition without having ever seen them performed by anyone else. On top of this, Woli's unique movement patterns and the angles at which he is able to dodge or throw a punch are completely outside the box. While observing the fight, Ippo's senpai Takamura remarks that, "For someone like Woli, I don't think he gets surprised by the stuff that other people can do, but by the stuff that other people can't do."
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e2b86487	comment	The Riftwar Cycle: William and Gamina both know that William can communicate telepathically with animals. But he doesn't realize that this is unusual, and she doesn't realize that none of the adults know about it.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e5065bd6	comment	When Squirrel Girl makes an appearance in All-New Wolverine, we learn that she has been operating under the assumption that all Animal-Themed Superbeings can communicate with the animal they're named after. In The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, this belief results in a montage of her going to a whole bunch of feline-themed people to find one who can talk to cats. None could, but she ends up finding a talking cat who refuses to help.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e694aadb	comment	Early in the Ciaphas Cain books, Cain neglects to mention what his tunnel instincts are telling him because it doesn't occur to him that his companion can't tell. He's aware that it's a talent not everyone possesses, it just seems to slip his mind for a moment. Further complicated by the fact that during his childhood on a Hive World, everyone did actually have that same tunnel sense due to most of the population living underground.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_eb3f3551	comment	In Mass Effect: Andromeda, this is implied to be the reason why angara tend to be so shocked by the small families seen in most Milky Way species, and why the idea of someone being an only child is upsetting to them. Angara are litter birthers, and since the arrival of the Milky Way races was the first time they encountered another species on relatively peaceful terms, it simply never occurred to them that some species normally give birth one at a time. Their family structure also involves several mothers raising children collectively with every child counting each other as siblings (and all of the women as their mother), making the culture shock even worse.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ec28245c	comment	In the sequel series, Dragon Ball Z, the first time Gohan goes to school, he ends up playing baseball. He grew up among superhuman fighters and didn't realize that the average person can't jump 30 feet into the air. When he does realise it, he covers it up as a "fluke" and tries to hide his superhuman strength, and does so by not hitting a pitch while batting. What he didn't realise is that while doing so, he took the full impact of a fastball directly to his head without flinching — which was done by a Jerk Jock with the intention of making him flinch and recoil in shock and/or fear to embarrass him — which is something that the average person cannot do, and so, while Gohan thought that he lucked out, everyone around him stood stunned. By a similar margin, he's caught off-guard at the idea of having to teach Videl about ki and manipulating it in order to fly; while he realizes that flight is a rare skill, he never considered that the concept of ki would be such an unknown to people.note Though, given that Gohan was on world-wide news fighting Vegeta and Nappa (at least until Nappa got rid of the nearby journalists) at the age of five, his own father had won the World Martial Arts tournament in a ki-filled fight with Piccolo Jr. years beforehand, and was at the Cell Games, which globally broadcast Goku and Cell flying and ki-attacking each other, it's less that Gohan was surprised that ordinary people didn't know about ki and flight, and more that he was dumbfounded to learn that the entire planet had forgotten all about it within a decade.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ec9155b1	comment	Small Gods: Brutha never forgets anything, never has dreams, and always knows his exact location on land, down to being able to retrace his steps up to several years into the past. He eventually does realize that the first isn't true of everybody, yet the concept of "forgetting" remains extremely perplexing to him.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_f8ecd04a	comment	In Other Lands: Serene and Luke think it is perfectly normal to jump from several stories and be no worse for wear, much to the bafflement of Elliot and a few background characters.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_f9742e61	comment	In the Dragonriders of Pern series, F'lar chastises Lessa for not telling him that she can hear the telepathic speech of other people's dragons. Her response boils down to "How was I supposed to know you couldn't?" She simply assumed that it was her dragonrider ancestry that accounted for it, and that all dragonriders would have that ability. Even after she'd been living in the Weyr for some time and had met other dragonriders, the subject just never came up.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_fe81f69	comment	Legend Quest: In Episode 11, "The Chilan", when Alebrije sniffs out a portal of Yggdrasil, he's honestly surprised that humans can't identify magical places by smell.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Heart of Glory", the bridge crew are given an opportunity to see through Geordi La Forge's VISOR, and notice that Data (when viewed through the VISOR) is emitting an aura of light. When questioned about this, Geordi is surprised to learn that this aura is not visible to the other officers, as he was born blind and can only see through his VISOR.
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