Okay, riddle me this: Everytime, excluding dreamers such as those marked, cast a spell without looking it up in their spell books, it was at a dramatic point.

How often does tat kind of drama happen at that level to the average awakened?

Mopperville is an area of extremely powerful ambient magic, so weird stuff happens there all the time, and Elliot is one of the main cahracters, and he awakened improperly.

He's nowhere near a typical example of a mage, so his spontaneously casting his Super Hero form spell can not be said for sure to be something that typically happens.