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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4227748" data-attributes="member: 158">Two I can think of: The Myth adventures series by Robert Aspirin; Skeeve himself is a magician's apprentice who at first only could levitate a freaking feather; throughout the series, no matter how his powers grew, he was always outmatched by his adversaries (I purposefully avoid the word "enemies") but winds up outsmarting them more often than he overpowers them.Second, the wizard apprentice from Lawrence Watt-Evans' story "With a Single Spell" starts with the equivalent of a Fire cantrip, and destroys a dragon with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Both of these guys were zeros who went on to be heroes.Others include:Jack the Giant-KillerArthur the boy-king-to-be (Sword in the Stone)Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China. He was the classic everyman hero way in over his head, but goes in an pulls off things with blind luck anyway.A more modern example: Zachary Levi's "Chuck Bartowski", whose only superpower is knowing things he shouldn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>