![]() ![]() There's Tao Pai Pai killing the one-time Dragon of the Red Ribbon Army with only his tongue (don't ask).It's worth noting that Raoh is just as powerful with Hokuto Shinken as Kenshiro himself. Namely, he dooms Rei by striking a point on his chest with a single finger, causing the character in question to die a slow, agonizing death over the course of three long days. Raoh's version is the probably the most brutal - which is saying something, considering how violent the series is. ![]() Yuda, whose Nanto style is related Rei's and Shin's, actually topped them: he usually does the slashing people in half with his fingertips thing, but he once slashed in perfectly symmetrical halves a henchman who had completed his job by poking the air in front of said henchman.His style happens to be related to Shin's, which is why they both have bare hands able to cut stuff they normally wouldn't. He is (somehow) able to create a cutting force at his finger's edges. Rei doesn't poke people to death, but he can do nearly the same thing by slashing men in half with his fingertips.Needless to say, this is a very, very painful experience to suffer through. This is how Kenshiro got his scars, as Shin used his index finger to produce the first three points on Kenshiro's Hokuto pattern, then drove four of his fingers into Kenshiro's chest to add the rest. Shin's favorite execution method is effortlessly driving his fingers directly through a man's chest.In this case, it's all a matter of where you poke them. He often heightens the effect by ceremonially cracking his knuckles first. Kenshiro, the big-eyebrowed hero, is in the habit of making bad guys' heads explode, either by Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs or other means, including forcible pokes with his fingers to activate the opponent's pressure points.The next step up is Thought-Controlled Power where you don't even need to move at all to smack somebody around. Not to be confused with Giving Someone the Pointer Finger. Nash did his damnedest to play up how destructive Hulk's poke was and how he was lucky to have survived ( no one was convinced).įor the inversion of this, see Fake Special Attack. The trope is named by Professional Wrestling fans after the so-called "main event" between "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Nash on the Januepisode of WCW Monday Nitro. See also Pressure Point, Touch of Death and Finger Gun. For a move that is genuinely weak but is still effective, see Cherry Tapping. The first or second cousin of The Worf Effect. This tends to accompany the practical demonstration of The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort. Give them the power to move mountains, even planets, and thus have them show this power by doing what the heroes (and the audience) would find amazing without even lifting a finger. The best way to show the amazing power of a character? Simple, have them do something incredible without any effort at all. ![]()
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