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If a Bond movie shows Q controlling a set of vast subterranean screens tracking villains around London, most of the viewing public who do not work in intelligence would be tempted to conclude that glitzy, high-definition capabilities are readily available. Such is the importance attached to Bond that the government provides a level of support to the franchise that if it were a bank it might have to be nationalised.
Some of this dates back to the Casino Royale debacle — where much of the film the best, surely, of the Daniel Craig era was shot in the Czech Republic. Avatar: Legend of the Guardian : Min poses as a non-bender and fights using swords. In reality, she's a firebender and initially only uses it when nobody's looking until her cover as Xia is blown. In The Awakening of a Magus , there is an attempt to hide the fact that Harry is the Magus note basically, a near-immortal wizard of nuclear power level or near so.
With Harry's powers including an aura that stabilizes and awakens other people's gifts, this trope is even more likely than usual and happens on an individual basis nearly every other chapter. However, the most public case happens during a Dementor attack on Hogsmeade, where Harry unleashes a swarm of Patroni of a type only a Magus can create and not any Magus at that. While they do manage to give an official cover of "The Magus was disguised as Harry", it is enough to make Voldemort suspect the truth Through Her Eyes : Ruby's Semblance, in this story, is the ability to open portals from which she can summon the Creatures of Grimm; it goes without saying that the majority of people on Remnant would react poorly to knowing someone like that exists, much less that she's attending a Hunstman Academy, so she only uses her powers in very dire circumstances, and then only when no one else is around to see her do so.
In The Commission , Ruby's rifle marksmanship combined with the particular caliber of Crescent Rose clues Glynda in to her return to Vale when the former covers Roman's escape from the first episode dust store robbery. In The End of Ends , Terra still has her powers, but is unable to use them during the minions' attack, lest she reveal her identity.
In Fate Denied , Senator Palpatine is forced to use his lightsaber to defend himself from a hacked droid right before Yoda enters his chamber in the Senate building. He has used some of his other Quirks more discreetly when necessary, tapping into a cooling Quirk and a inertia manipulation Quirk while tackling Bakugou out of the way of an explosion. Alex works to avert this in The Secret Return of Alex Mack , using a fake taser to cover up her use of electrokinesis out of costume. It helps that her dad is a known genius, making her claim of such a device more plausible.
Luke made the computer crash by hitting the right buttons after the trigger stimuli algorithm had been run, but before the actual images appeared onscreen and the computer had not been able to handle near-simultaneous input and output. Luke apparently crashed it three times, then decided to slow down.
In The Stalking Zuko Series , the Gaang is forced to leave the house they were staying at the end of "The Southern Raiders" after Aang exposes his identity as the Avatar by using airbending and waterbending to save some people.
The Rigel Black Chronicles : Harry, as "Rigel", has the foresight to ask her family not to watch her in the Triwizard tasks. She claims it's because she feels more pressure with them there, but the reality is that she knows her skills could give away the fact that it's Harry competing, not Archie. Happens to Wally in the Young Justice fanfiction Unmasked. His school field trip is crashed by armed men who threaten to kill his teacher.
Nearly happens in Make a Wish : when Dementors arrive to Diagon Alley while Harry is there, he almost tries to use the Expecto Patronum charm, but he realizes that this would out him since his Patronus form is pretty much public at a point he wants to be under cover.
So he pulls out something else and covers the Dementors in hot chocolate, trapping them when it solidifies. My Ideal Academia : To pass his abilities off as a Quirk , Shirou only makes simple weapons with no special abilities. Since most Quirks are only one ability, he realizes if he makes complex Noble Phantasms or uses Reinforcement too much, that will raise a lot of questions.
A few people still get suspicious because in the MHA world, nobody really practices or teaches swordsmanship or archery anymore, so they wonder how this kid is so skilled. Taylor Varga : Thanks to the Varga's nature as an Outside-Context Problem to the world of Earth Bet, most Thinker powers "error out" when they try to directly detect, analyze, or predict Taylor or any of her various alternate identities.
This allows Dinah to accidentally unmask Taylor by noting that she shares the same immunity Dinah already knows the rest of the Family to possess. Demonstrated by Superman on several occasions in All-Star Superman the comic on which the film was based showed most of the same incidents , most notably in the prison scene where he saves the guards from the rioting prisoners, Lex Luthor , and ultimately stops Parasite, all without breaking cover.
The Incredibles : Early drafts opened with Bob and Helen Parr, having put their superhero-ing days behind them, attending a neighborhood barbecue. Bob is cutting the steaks and he accidentally makes finger-sized dents in the knife due to his super strength and durability. When several others notice, he pretends to be injured and Helen pretends to rush him off to the hospital.
This particular scene didn't make it into the final film, but was included as a deleted scene on the DVD. This is the main reason why Helen didn't want Dash to join the track team, as she felt his competitive nature would inevitably drive him to use his powers to win. At the end of the movie, he joins the track team with his family yelling at him to slow down and make it a close second, to the confusion of the people next to them.
When Bob snaps and throws his Jerkass boss through several walls, all the witnesses need to have their memories wiped. Although not technically a superpower, when Robin Hood disguises himself as a stork in order to enter an archery tournament, he fails to realize that while he needs to be good enough to win, he shouldn't be that good.
Prince John figures out it's him due to his Improbable Aiming Skills , and unmasks him during the victory ceremony. It isn't until a newly-bitten Miles gets his hand stuck to her hair that she figures out exactly why. Another revealing-breakable-object drop is in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , with Jen catching a teacup that another character deliberately dropped to make her reveal her skills.
DC Extended Universe : In Man of Steel , a young Pete Ross and probably an entire schoolbus, really finds out about young Clark Kent's Super Strength when he saves them all from drowning by pushing the bus out of the water. Not revealing Clark's powers to the world until he's "ready" is also a major concern for his adoptive father Jonathan. When Barry tries to deny who he really is, but then Bruce throws a batarang straight at Barry's head, forcing Barry to step aside and catch it at Super Speed the audience sees it all in Bullet Time.
The interesting thing about this scene is that in order to make Barry reveal who he really is, Bruce has to do the same. Of course, had Bruce been wrong about Barry, Barry wouldn't have been around to tell the tale and probably found later with a strange hole in his forehead.
In The Man from U. When he finally snaps and does lash out at the mooks, he rationalizes it afterwards by saying that any Russian would have fought back and he still maintained his cover because a Russian soldier would have killed them. It's not until Tony threatens to tell Aunt May that Peter webs his hand to the door, blowing his cover once and for all.
Later, in Spider-Man: Homecoming , Peter climbs into his bedroom after a long day of being the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, drops from the ceiling, and takes off the mask Peter still tries to deny being Spider-Man, and takes off the suit in a hurry, revealing him to be way more muscular than a year-old should be. In Mr. Smith , Jane Smith reveals herself to be an assassin when she reflexively catches a bottle of wine her husband drops.
She gets the most priceless " Oh, Crap! He specifically dropped the bottle to test her reflexes. While it didn't happen in the film, the now-defunct official website of The One reveals that Yulaw was finally exposed when another agent, who's been suspecting him for months, asks Yulaw to help him carry a closed box up some stairs.
Yulaw carries the box without a problem only to find out after the fact that the box was full of heavy weights that couldn't have been lifted by a normal person. The agent confronts Yulaw, but ends up getting thrown down several flights of stairs and becoming paralyzed. Having several black belts doesn't really match up against someone who has that as well as superstrength and superspeed. Star Wars : In Revenge of the Sith , anyone in the film and any complete newcomers might believe Chancellor Palpatine is just a normal guy who knows old legends.
That is, until we actually see him using Force powers. Clark quietly uses his laser eyes to get a branch to Lois so she can get out. Later, Clark accidentally trips and falls into a fireplace in front of Lois and the lack of injury proves her original suspicions, but what really clenches it in a way that Clark can't explain his way out of is when she shoots him and he doesn't fall over dead He calls her out on this.
X-Men Film Series : X-Men : By taking a beating in the cage match without a single bruise, Wolverine gives his opponent fair reason to suspect his mutant status. Then the guy goes at him with a broken bottle and Logan busts out the claws, removing any doubt. X-Men: Apocalypse : Magneto is a fugitive, so he pretends to be a regular human while living in Poland. When Erik Lehnsherr uses his superpower to save a coworker's life, everyone who had witnessed it immediately learns that he's a mutant, and his metallokinesis is a dead giveaway to the steel mill employees that the man they knew as "Henryk Gurzsky" is actually the world's most wanted criminal.
Ascendance of a Bookworm : During his King Incognito , Sylvester casually uses the schtappe that is rare among blue priests, but never the magical highbeast that all other schtappe owners introduced before him were shown to have.
The extent to which Sylvester avoids using his highbeast is such that he's always borrowing those of others when he needs one. It later turns out that Sylvester's real identity comes with the obligation to use a highbeast form that nobody else in the entire duchy uses, so using it while undercover would have been a very bad idea.
Somewhat like the Star Trek example below, Corwin in book 2 of The Chronicles of Amber is lugging huge stones around rather easily, despite not being at full strength — until somebody spots him, at which point he has to pretend the task is difficult. The City of Brass : Nahri's Healing Factor , unknown even to her , exposes her as one of the Blue Blood Nahid tribe of daeva to the first daeva who sees it activate in a fight.
She later has an accident that would have killed a non-Nahid, which King Ghassan is strongly implied to have arranged to verify her ancestry. After losing the Power Nullifier that hid their Nahid heritage, Jamshid reflexively speaks to a Living Relic in the man's long-lost native language, demonstrating the Nahid's unique Omniglot abilities.
He is one of the last of the "Sartan", a race with godlike magical power, and is always nervous about doing magic in public for fear of being taken advantage of. The fact that he has a spine like a wet noodle doesn't help. In the same book, we have Haplo, a scout sent out by the Patryn a race that shares the Sartan's power.
He explicitly notes that if he used his Patryn powers he could solve all the book's problems in two minutes flat. Unfortunately, then the Sartan would find out that the Patryn had begun to escape the Death World the Sartan had trapped them in, and probably would blow up the world Vladimir Vasilyev 's Death or Glory : An aversion in The Legacy of Giants , the alien safari tour guide notices one of the tourists who appears to be just a little too average , as if he's doing his best to not appear too good.
Eventually, it's revealed that the guy is a special agent, but he's not on safari as a spy. Discworld : An unsuccessful example in The Fifth Elephant. Inigo Skimmer, an assassin, pretends to be a normal clerk.
Vimes throws a piece of fruit at him, and he lets it hit him and bounce off. Instead of making him seem harmless, this actually shows Vimes that Skimmer is more than he pretend to be — a normal person would flinch, duck or try to catch it.
Skimmer knew there was no threat and so did nothing. In Reaper Man , when Death is living as an ordinary man named Bill Door, he realises his Improbable Aiming Skills at billiards and darts have attracted attention, so he switches to being hilariously bad.
He's amazed it doesn't occur to anyone that getting a dart to bounce off three surfaces and land in someone's beer is harder than hitting the bullseye. The Elenium : Sparhawk realizes that his daughter Danae is actually the Physical Goddess Aphrael when she sticks her hand in a fire to retrieve a toy without being harmed.
In The Fallen , Aaron must constantly avoid using his Nephilim or Redeemer abilities, as this allows the Powers to track him. Unfortunately, he can't seem to keep himself from doing it.
One thing he keeps doing constantly is talking to his dog, since Nephilim are able to speak any language, which also includes animal "languages". While we hear him talking normally, it's not clear if he's speaking English or actually barking at Gabriel. The first episode implies the former, as Gabriel says that Aaron always talks to him. A recurring theme in the ur-superhero novel Gladiator , where Hugo Danner tries to keep his powers secret.
When a man is trapped in an unopenable time-release bank vault, he tries to open it while not revealing his strength. He succeeds in both saving the man and preserving his secret, but the president of the bank decides he doesn't want a man with a secret way of opening bank vaults walking around.
Doing this sort of thing is illegal for wizards in Harry Potter , as they're supposed to keep the Muggles ignorant of their existence. The exception is in cases of life-threatening danger—although, as Harry himself learned, even that isn't always enough when the Ministry is hell-bent on bringing someone down. A mild-mannered reporter knows a secret phrase which turns him into a blue whale, "the indomitable sultan of the seas!
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