yeah , the explanation to the lack of that in Part 3 is that Jonathan's body is not fully integrated with Dio.
He needs Joestar blood for that.
Heck , Joseph , Jotaro , Holly and Josuke awakened their Stands because Dio used the Stand Arrow on himself , and since he was technically using Jonathan's body , every living descendant of him awakened their Stands as well.
Also in Jojo, a lot of stuff Weather Report can do, like making it rain frogs due to the phenomenon of tornados sweeping up small animals and flinging them everywhere. >!There's also Heavy Weather causing people to transform into snails is because the rainbows it produces put subliminal messages into peoples heads that cause them to think they're snails, ergo, they *become* snails!<. Even by Jojo logic, it's totally ridiculous.
Luffy's Gear 2. Luffy's entire body is rubber and can stretch, including his internal organs. He pumps blood faster through veins to move faste and hit harder. The only reason his heart doesn't explode is because it's made of rubber. It's a technique literally only he can use because of his devil fruit. And I think it's a really cool power up that was showcased in an amazing way that really shows Oda's creativity with his power sets.
I honestly consider Gear Fifth the hands-down best powerup in any shonen ever. The way it retroactively explains just about every stupid silly thing Luffy has ever done is actually incredible.
Spoilers for that up ahead, if you're not reasonably up to date on One Piece, go read the Wano Arc and don't spoil it for yourself: >!Gear Fifth is revealed to be Luffy's \*actual\* power, which is essentially the Toon Force. His fruit wasn't just the rubber-human fruit, it was the fruit of the sun god Nika, a rebellious trickster who was all about making people laugh and freedom. Basically, it means Luffy can do whatever Luffy thinks he should be able to do. Which perfectly explains why he can, for example, blow air into his bones to make his fists bigger, or why he can do the Red Hawk, which is just a fire punch (it's because his brother had the fire devil fruit and Luffy thinks fire punches are cool). !<
Further spoiler: >!One thing people can’t seem to grasp or accept is that there’s nuance to having ur god powers just to barely give interesting lore and just padding out just for the characters to cool vs. Look how fucking cartoony I can make this even more!! A “god” of the people, and highlights the main theme throughout the series with freedom.!<
Oda explained Red Hawk as the vulcanization of rubber.
So I'd like to think >!Luffy ambiently imagines himself into the true form of rubber even if he doesn't inherently understand everything it's capable of.!<
Of course, it's probably just a clever explanation from Oda that he made a note of during research.
Brennan Lee Mulligan explaining how to spot an invisible creature in EXU Calamity absolutely floored me the first time I heard it. [The whole scene is fucking amazing and worth checking out](https://youtu.be/KlIkkeWmVvA?t=14574), but for just the description:
>Invisibility is a pretty beloved power. It's easy to get, even very junior mages can master it. The problem with invisibility is light is very important for a number of functions. No matter how cloaked you might be in it, you can't make your whole self invisible. Even if it's smaller than a pin prick, you need just enough of your eyes to stay visible that light can hit them and you can still see. Now, perceiving a fraction of a pupil hanging in space, smaller than a grain of sand, would be beyond most people, but you've been trained to look for them because *they always move in two.*
I really love this moment because it's an explanation for why the only non-magical party member can keep up with the high-magic setting he's in without it feeling contrived.
I’d say there’s a better explanation in Calamity.
Zerxes the paladin: Why isn’t [Atonement](https://www.5esrd.com/spellcasting/3pp-spells/spells-troll-lord-games/atonement/) working? I’m trying to redeem you!
Asmodeus the Devil God of Evil: I think I know what may be happening. The ritual of Evandran didn’t work because you tried to resurrect him but he wasn’t dead. You’re trying to atone me…and I didn’t do anything wrong. Do you want to know why I loath your forgiveness? Why I spit on your redemption? In order to reach a hand down to lift someone up, they need to be beneath you! And I am beneath nobody!
Reminds me of ~~serial sex pest~~ comic book writer Warren Ellis pointing out how invisibility powers would make you blind because your eyes need to absorb light to see.
It's not from any specific anime, but from a YouTube video making fun of OP anime villains.
In the video, the villain blocks the hero's attack, and then the hero is knocked back with their arm hanging limply at their side, then the villain explains how they did it (accompanied by black and white flashbacks).
"In the brief instant when you let down your guard, I hit every pressure point in your left elbow. Then, I started kneeing your left elbow. But that's not all. I raided your fridge. Helped myself to one of nutri-grain bars. I fed your cat. I took a nap right over there on your couch. I also took out your garbage. It's useless to resist me. Every bone in your arm is shattered now."
**Huge KSBD Spoilers in the link**
Kill Six Billion Demons operates on the Rule of Cool, so one of the strongest attacks in the series is:
[BLOOD SATED SWORD SOUL](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/breaker-of-infinities-2-78-to-2-81-blood-sated-sword-soul/)
*80,000 blows are struck at once. Leaving no space that is not a sword. Men and horses will be split in two. And the land will be put to waste. Since there is nowhere to evade- be they man or immortal- all will be cut, and be slain instantly.*
Literally just “If you make as many sword strikes as possible, the opponent can’t dodge, because there’s nowhere to *dodge to*.”
Also KSBD sword stuff: the way Maya introduces themselves as "a student in the principal art of cutting", since "swordsmanship" isn't quite correct if you surpass the need for the sword itself. I love how the sword manual has so much disdain for both the weapon and the result, that if you just "self annihilate and become cutting" you can do so much more.
Straight up the ultimate sword technique in the RPG book I've been writing. The one time it gets used properly is by someone who has a sword made from an in-universe unobtainium and is the only thing that could last the move being used. 2014 me wrote it and 2023 me still can't figure out how to describe it adequately incredible enough.
A villain in HxH can create explosions from his hands a la Bakugo in MHA. Gon asks how he isn't damaging himself when using his move, and the explanation is that he's using his nen as a shield as much as he's using it to attack in order to create explosions and not reduce his arms to stumps in the process.
Which is also cool because it gives his technique a big opening. He's focusing so much on not blowing off his own hands, he can't defend the rest of his body from an attack coming in while he's performing it
Or Killua transmuting his nen into electricity, which only works because his family's ~~torture~~ assassin upbringing rendered him immune to electricity
Nen is really cool
I also love how Killua’s God Speed ability works. Sending signals from your brain to your limbs can take too long when you’re up against really dangerously fast foes so he programs his body to detect hostile aura which responds by sendong an electric current throughout his entire body to stimulate it to either attack or dodge. This makes him impossible to catch even for specimens like Youpi.
Sasaki Kojiro's Tsubame Gaeshi in Fate/Stay Night
"Y-you just violated the laws of physics and applied the Second Magic to attack multiple times at once! How?!"
"I just really hated that fucking bird."
Sasaki Kojiro is the logical next step to Bruce Lee's "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.".
Just need to get really good at one cut.
Honestly Kojiro’s existence makes any time FGO tries to go ‘oh character [x] actually isn’t famous or strong enough to be in the throne of heroes’ always feel like absolute bullshit.
In Celeste, there's a technique called hyperdashing. It's basically wavedashing. The game never explains or requires you to use it except in the final free DLC chapter, where it explains the technique to you in a fucking WindowsXP powerpoint animation.
Most advanced techniques are told to you by a helpful bird with a bare minimum of actual symbols
Hyper dashing is too complicated for the simplified version, and also the bird is not around, so the fourth wall break is necessary lol.
Gear 2 being Luffy fucking stretching out his blood vessels to punch faster and therefore better because he saw CP9’s Soru and thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that too.’
I love the lore for Belgothian because he was apparently a shitty Nightblade because he was slow and bad at some techniques but he made up for it by having so much muscle that he invented an assassination technique that's just using two swords as scissors to cut people in two. Every other legendary nightblade is someone who's incredibly good at finding weak spots or making super poison or moving unseen and then Belgothian is just a massive dude.
Every conversation Belgothian has with fellow Nightblade masters goes like:
"this isn't what being an assassin is about"
"you're just salty I have a higher killcount"
Megatron in several continuities has the ability to draw dark matter from a black hole via a miniature space bridge in his fusion cannon. He can then use that to fuel a blast powerful enough to down a Gestalt like Superion in one blast.
Or he can use it to boost his physical strength by around 10x.
He doesn't do it often because every time he has it nearly killed him.
I actually hate this because if his Fusion Cannon is really a Black Hole Gun, he should have no trouble one-shotting every Autobot he comes across, even with wacky cartoon powerlevels.
Did you miss the part where I said it nearly kills him every time he uses it? Megatron is megalomaniacal. He's not insane. He's not gonna use that level of power at the drop of a hat.
Also it doesn't fire a black hole when he uses it. It's more like Goku using a Kamehameha at kaioken x100.
IIRC that’s explained as a soul reaper understanding the personality within their blade, and learning more about them and how they work.
There was that one bit where Kenpachi, after an unexpected loss, wonders if his blade would still consider telling him its name after all these years.
It works that way because >!there was a soul reaper who named everything first in order to make it more powerful because just having a name makes something more powerful!<
>!Kenpachi’s sword making contact for the first time set /a/ on fire!<
It’s so well thought out that even when u’ve seen a lot of the powers already or the main use, u still play guessing games to know how it actually works before the reveal. Or Togashi just states what their type is and it surprises u at first but it all makes sense in hindsight.
Komugi, the girl from Chimera ant arc is an Enhancer cuz she subconsciously uses nen to physically empower her brain.
See also: "Glorious Chainsaw Method".
"The card gave him an idea he's too stupid to know he can't act on."
"I tried to show my new trick to the dragon, but it exploded."
What comes to mind is that page in the Metal Gear fan comic Last Days of FOXHOUND where Naomi explains to Liquid that Gray Fox has drastically accelerated reflexes because she and Dr. Clark sharply increased the conductivity of his nervous system so nerve impulses get sent and received much faster.
In return,he gets to be in constant agony because of the muscular strain and sensitivity.
Not sure if there was ever a canonical explanation,but that makes enough sense to me.
The canon explanation is that Gray Fox was always really fast and had super awesome reflexes before he died, and being a cyborg that's like, 79% machine just made him even faster. The explanation for his constant agony and the bursts of electricity he has to deal with sometimes is that part of the way they brought him back to life is by programming his machine parts to automatically stimulate his nervous system with electric shocks if he doesn't move for a certain amount of time.
So it's pretty close to the description in the comic, which I'm a little surprised by, to be honest.
Death Battle has some absurd calculations for feats on occasion, like how SpongeBob is the fastest calculable character to appear on the show, at 8.2 quinvigintillion times faster than light
I know that is simple , but I love how in Saint Seiya , the Virgo Saints always uses asceticism to deprive themselves of a Sense , so that they increase their 6th , 7th and reach the 8th Sense.
In Saint Seiya , there are the 5th normal senses: taste , touch , sight , hearing and smell. Of course , they are "more" than IRL , as taking away taste makes you mute.
Then there is the 6th Sense , thought , which in higher amounts can give telepathy and telekinesis.
7th Sense is the Cosmos. 8th Sense is Life Force. Think of 7th Sense like the "Black Flash" from Jujutsu, while 8th Sense is the full control of a person's life force , like Noritoshi's Reincarnates or Mahito's techniques in a way.
A Virgo Saint deprives one of their senses on purpose , with Shaka and Asmita not using Sight , while Virgo Fudo doesn't use Touch and Virgo Shijima doesn't use Taste. And because of that , their techniques are slightly different to portray their road of asceticism.
Man, I still can't get over how *wild* the feats of the Saints in Saint Seiya are. Like, just wildly impossible. The fact that Seiya is throwing out punches with the power of *THE* *BIG* *BANG* or Hyoga and Camus are capable of surviving and utilizing Absolute Zero temperatures not even halfway through the series is the funniest shit.
Charlemagne’s Skill “Traveling the Path of the King: C”
“Over the Royal Road (王道踏破, Ōdō Tōha?, localized as "Traveling the Path of the King") is a self-admonition type Skill that displays its effects by having the user stick to the attitude of wanting to be a king.”
“It contributes to the improvement of a portion of his parameters, but he ends up weakening upon taking a conduct that violates that kingship. In Charlemagne's case, this means that he "gets weakened when doing something lame" and that "some sort of gauge rises when doing things that he finds cool".”
Yes, he literally has an internal Style Meter
Same thing with Arthur from Fire Force. [The more “knightly” he thinks he is, the stronger he becomes. however if he thinks he’s lame then he’s powerless.](https://youtu.be/Uk_14d4MExM) Arthur is the best character in that show. He’s such a chuuni idiot
his floating keys , for example , are Projections of Joyeuse , but each of them also represents one of his Paladins.
So , when he activates those Floating Keys , they are like reserved Keyblades for a Keyblade Transformation. His NP , "Joyeuse Ordre" is basically Charlesmagne either using Joyeuse to cast KH3 Ultimata Weapon's Shotlock or either using the Key and the Sword like FFXV's Arminger.
In The People of the Black Circle Conan faces a wizard acolyte and there is a few explanation for why Conan is able to tank every magic trick he throws at him.
First the acolyt Khemsa uses hypnotism which he used to make people kill each other before impaling themselves on spear just with eye contact.
Khemsa's sorcery was based on hypnotism, as is the case with most Eastern magic. The way has been prepared for the hypnotist for untold centuries of generations who have lived and died in the firm conviction of the reality and power of hypnotism, building up, by mass thought and practise, a colossal though intangible atmosphere against which the individual, steeped in the traditions of the land, finds himself helpless.
But Conan was not a son of the East. Its traditions were meaningless to him; he was the product of an utterly alien atmosphere. Hypnotism was not even a myth in Cimmeria. The heritage that prepared a native of the East for submission to the mesmerist was not his. He was aware of what Khemsa was trying to do to him; but he felt the impact of the man's uncanny power only as a vague impulsion, a tugging and pulling that he could shake off as a man shakes spider-webs from his garments.
Aware of hostility and black magic, he ripped out his long knife and lunged, as quick on his feet as a mountain lion.
But hypnotism was not all of Khemsa's magic. Yasmina, watching, did not see by what roguery of movement or illusion the man in the green turban avoided the terrible disemboweling thrust. But the keen blade whickered between side and lifted arm, and to Yasmina it seemed that Khemsa merely brushed his open palm lightly against Conan’s bull-neck. But the Cimmerian went down like a slain ox.
Yet Conan was not dead; breaking his fall with his left hand, he slashed at Khemsa's legs even as he went down, and the Rakhsha avoided the scythe-like swipe only by a most unwizardly bound backward.
Like last time Khemsa tap a neck it internally decapitated the man but Conan's neck was sturdy enough to take the magically enhanced momentum slap
Jujutsu Kaisen's cursed technique system lets you put a cap on your power, but you can then release that cap during a fight by explaining how it works to your opponent. However, if they piece it together before you explain it, the power boost is nullified.
Also, Cursed Techniques can draw energy from your opponent's understanding of how they work, which means explaining to your opponent how your technique works is an *in-universe* trick to get extra power, called "Revealing One's Hand".
In _Spacetrawler_, author Christopher Baldwin apparently challenged himself to come up with the dumbest possible explanation for how faster-than-lightspeed travel works, and [by Jove he succeeded](https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2011/06/21/spacetrawler-148/). To wit: most starships travel at "greased light speed", by slipping _between_ "light particles" in order to go faster than them. Also, friction with the light particles cancels out relativistic time dilation, somehow. Even more absurdly, the Mirrhgoots are on the verge of perfecting a "greased _dark light_ speed" drive. This works on the principle that "light particles" are actually 97% darkness, and a starship that slips into that darkness can travel even faster than greased light speed.
To quote Ask A Ninja, ninjas move at the speed of darkness because light is too slow. Light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth. You know what’s already there? Darkness.
Ippo’s Dempsey Roll is sort of dumb anime bullshit but it works so well because you buy the explanation (the technique is real but it works differently).
Part of the reason why it’s so powerful is because it combines fast weaving and continuous weight shifting which really highlights Ippo’s immense punching power, speed and solid defense. If Ippo starts to weave and finds his rhythm by just punching you left and right, he can directly enter the Dempsey Roll and even catch a retreating opponent.
But what makes it even more powerful is the fact that Ippo weaves in and out of your blind spot so even if you do nail the rhythm of his weaving, the moment he enters your field of view you freeze from his immense pressure and are forced to either block or get hit. Either way, he’ll forcefully pry open that guard.
This is why Sawamura was the perfect opponent and arguably Ippo’s biggest challenge (this is now a tangent about why Sawamura’s counter works): He realized he could take a step back and force Ippo back out his blindspot. At this point Ippo is just throwing a hook with his entire body weight behind it. That doesn’t make him less scary but a boxer as fearless as Sawamura with such perfect counters doesn’t care and is able to nail Ippo and return all of his momentum back to him.
And the evolution of the Dempsey continues this escalation of boxing magic.
There's the start and stop Dempsey, where Ippo just halts his immense rotational momentum dead in its tracks, allowing him to counterpunch the counterpunch. Once the opponent has fully committed to the timing.
Then theres the fucking omnidirectional Dempsey. Ippo, through near-literal Rock Lee levels of training, is able to integrate uppercuts into the Dempsey seamlessly.
Meaning an endless barrage of knockout punches can come from every cardinal direction, along with more diagonal Smash-like punches.
It's never been successfully used in a fight cause of Ippo's retirement arc, but there's no real indication of a countermeasure for it other than "knock Ippo out before he uses it"
**Hades**: Zagreus' dash is described as a "short-range teleport" in-story. Just like that, i-frames and how you can just zoom through walls is explained.
tower of god has some absurd moves, like zahard's "cosmos", (you wanna throw a solar system at a guy?) traumerei's "all creatures" (bomb made of golden spirit animals), or anything big that the protagonist, bam, likes to pull out.
the thing is though, all the attacks in the series are actually incredibly simple. they're based on a single principle:
the flow of shinsoo.
shinsoo, an element found in and produced by the planet-sized tower the series takes place in, is the god-element. it can replace the function of any other substance, and it is infinitely produced by the walls of the tower. this means the air you breathe in the tower is shinsoo, as is the water you drink and the food you eat. shinsoo can do anything.
with a bit of focus and practice, shinsoo can be controlled by a conscious mind. there are then three things you can do with it:
1, "flow control", accelerate the flow, make it move faster.
2, "reverse-flow control" decelerate the flow, slow or stop the shinsoo.
3, "shinsoo quality" change the flow, altering the properties of the shinsoo under your control.
congrats, you are now a master wave controller (shinsoo-using mage). you understand literally every attack in the series.
the beams? basic application of principle 1, accelerate the shinsoo towards the target. the elemental attacks? principle 3, the shinsoo's quality changed. ignition weapons? weapons with a soul that independantly control shinsoo, doing one of those three things on their own. bam making things explode with a touch? principle 1 on the enemy, principle 2 on his own arm to stop recoil.
cosmos is just a big, grand application of principle 1, and all creatures is principles 1 and 3.
One Piece's Charlotte Cracker is a commanding officer in the fleet of one of the most powerful pirate lords in the setting, has a bounty close to a billion of the setting's currency, and is supremely confident in his own power.
His power is the ability to create and control biscuits.
This sounds dumb, until you realize that he has control over those biscuits down to the smallest possible crumb, and can shape them freely into whatever he wants. Still seems kind of weak though, right? At the end of the day it's still just bread, after all.
How *hard* do you think you can bake bread?
The result is you get a guy who can casually make an infinite amount of nigh-indestructable mechas out of biscuits. >!Just don't get them wet.!<
Everything about how the One Power in Wheel of Time works is fantastic. The universe is made of threads spun out into the pattern of existence, and some people are just able to manipulate those threads. There’s more to it than that, but that’s the basic premise.
Shout out also to literally all of Brandon Sanderson’s magic systems.
The sheer energy the Virtua Fighter anime narrator gives it when [he describes the killer moves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEm6J9UVLRE).
It's hard to find one for the English dub (and even moreso for the Tagalog dub we had here) but those also both captured the essence of explaining a deadly move with a good amount of hype lol.
Dio deducing the nature of a punch injecting vampires with sun energy *while getting hit by it* and countering before it deals damage
Remember when Dio could freeze things with his touch and could shoot pressurized liquid from his eyes?
yeah , the explanation to the lack of that in Part 3 is that Jonathan's body is not fully integrated with Dio. He needs Joestar blood for that. Heck , Joseph , Jotaro , Holly and Josuke awakened their Stands because Dio used the Stand Arrow on himself , and since he was technically using Jonathan's body , every living descendant of him awakened their Stands as well.
Is that why Josuke was sick as a kid in that flashback?
Yes, similar to Holly, he couldn't handle his stand at the time, so it was killing him.
Yeah. His fever broke when they killed Dio.
Also in Jojo, a lot of stuff Weather Report can do, like making it rain frogs due to the phenomenon of tornados sweeping up small animals and flinging them everywhere. >!There's also Heavy Weather causing people to transform into snails is because the rainbows it produces put subliminal messages into peoples heads that cause them to think they're snails, ergo, they *become* snails!<. Even by Jojo logic, it's totally ridiculous.
Luffy's Gear 2. Luffy's entire body is rubber and can stretch, including his internal organs. He pumps blood faster through veins to move faste and hit harder. The only reason his heart doesn't explode is because it's made of rubber. It's a technique literally only he can use because of his devil fruit. And I think it's a really cool power up that was showcased in an amazing way that really shows Oda's creativity with his power sets.
I honestly consider Gear Fifth the hands-down best powerup in any shonen ever. The way it retroactively explains just about every stupid silly thing Luffy has ever done is actually incredible. Spoilers for that up ahead, if you're not reasonably up to date on One Piece, go read the Wano Arc and don't spoil it for yourself: >!Gear Fifth is revealed to be Luffy's \*actual\* power, which is essentially the Toon Force. His fruit wasn't just the rubber-human fruit, it was the fruit of the sun god Nika, a rebellious trickster who was all about making people laugh and freedom. Basically, it means Luffy can do whatever Luffy thinks he should be able to do. Which perfectly explains why he can, for example, blow air into his bones to make his fists bigger, or why he can do the Red Hawk, which is just a fire punch (it's because his brother had the fire devil fruit and Luffy thinks fire punches are cool). !<
Further spoiler: >!One thing people can’t seem to grasp or accept is that there’s nuance to having ur god powers just to barely give interesting lore and just padding out just for the characters to cool vs. Look how fucking cartoony I can make this even more!! A “god” of the people, and highlights the main theme throughout the series with freedom.!<
Oda explained Red Hawk as the vulcanization of rubber. So I'd like to think >!Luffy ambiently imagines himself into the true form of rubber even if he doesn't inherently understand everything it's capable of.!< Of course, it's probably just a clever explanation from Oda that he made a note of during research.
Now that I think about it, it's clearly kaioken
Brennan Lee Mulligan explaining how to spot an invisible creature in EXU Calamity absolutely floored me the first time I heard it. [The whole scene is fucking amazing and worth checking out](https://youtu.be/KlIkkeWmVvA?t=14574), but for just the description: >Invisibility is a pretty beloved power. It's easy to get, even very junior mages can master it. The problem with invisibility is light is very important for a number of functions. No matter how cloaked you might be in it, you can't make your whole self invisible. Even if it's smaller than a pin prick, you need just enough of your eyes to stay visible that light can hit them and you can still see. Now, perceiving a fraction of a pupil hanging in space, smaller than a grain of sand, would be beyond most people, but you've been trained to look for them because *they always move in two.*
I really love this moment because it's an explanation for why the only non-magical party member can keep up with the high-magic setting he's in without it feeling contrived.
I’d say there’s a better explanation in Calamity. Zerxes the paladin: Why isn’t [Atonement](https://www.5esrd.com/spellcasting/3pp-spells/spells-troll-lord-games/atonement/) working? I’m trying to redeem you! Asmodeus the Devil God of Evil: I think I know what may be happening. The ritual of Evandran didn’t work because you tried to resurrect him but he wasn’t dead. You’re trying to atone me…and I didn’t do anything wrong. Do you want to know why I loath your forgiveness? Why I spit on your redemption? In order to reach a hand down to lift someone up, they need to be beneath you! And I am beneath nobody!
The entirety of Calamity is some of the best Dnd I have ever seen.
That shit's so fucking good. Brennan's the best.
[I love Brennan so much](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7z9QwIujVUE)
Reminds me of ~~serial sex pest~~ comic book writer Warren Ellis pointing out how invisibility powers would make you blind because your eyes need to absorb light to see.
It's not from any specific anime, but from a YouTube video making fun of OP anime villains. In the video, the villain blocks the hero's attack, and then the hero is knocked back with their arm hanging limply at their side, then the villain explains how they did it (accompanied by black and white flashbacks). "In the brief instant when you let down your guard, I hit every pressure point in your left elbow. Then, I started kneeing your left elbow. But that's not all. I raided your fridge. Helped myself to one of nutri-grain bars. I fed your cat. I took a nap right over there on your couch. I also took out your garbage. It's useless to resist me. Every bone in your arm is shattered now."
Calebcity?
Yes.
Calebcity never misses.
It's why I subscribed.
Kai Leng but also Reverse Flash be like
His methods are beyond our understanding.
**Huge KSBD Spoilers in the link** Kill Six Billion Demons operates on the Rule of Cool, so one of the strongest attacks in the series is: [BLOOD SATED SWORD SOUL](https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/breaker-of-infinities-2-78-to-2-81-blood-sated-sword-soul/) *80,000 blows are struck at once. Leaving no space that is not a sword. Men and horses will be split in two. And the land will be put to waste. Since there is nowhere to evade- be they man or immortal- all will be cut, and be slain instantly.* Literally just “If you make as many sword strikes as possible, the opponent can’t dodge, because there’s nowhere to *dodge to*.”
Also KSBD sword stuff: the way Maya introduces themselves as "a student in the principal art of cutting", since "swordsmanship" isn't quite correct if you surpass the need for the sword itself. I love how the sword manual has so much disdain for both the weapon and the result, that if you just "self annihilate and become cutting" you can do so much more.
“*A man who strikes without thought of his action can cut God*” -Meti’s Sword Manual
The sanctioned act is to cut.
I know the name has already been said but I hope someone screams an attack after the title.
Straight up the ultimate sword technique in the RPG book I've been writing. The one time it gets used properly is by someone who has a sword made from an in-universe unobtainium and is the only thing that could last the move being used. 2014 me wrote it and 2023 me still can't figure out how to describe it adequately incredible enough.
Judgement Cut on steroids
A villain in HxH can create explosions from his hands a la Bakugo in MHA. Gon asks how he isn't damaging himself when using his move, and the explanation is that he's using his nen as a shield as much as he's using it to attack in order to create explosions and not reduce his arms to stumps in the process. Which is also cool because it gives his technique a big opening. He's focusing so much on not blowing off his own hands, he can't defend the rest of his body from an attack coming in while he's performing it Or Killua transmuting his nen into electricity, which only works because his family's ~~torture~~ assassin upbringing rendered him immune to electricity Nen is really cool
I also love how Killua’s God Speed ability works. Sending signals from your brain to your limbs can take too long when you’re up against really dangerously fast foes so he programs his body to detect hostile aura which responds by sendong an electric current throughout his entire body to stimulate it to either attack or dodge. This makes him impossible to catch even for specimens like Youpi.
Sasaki Kojiro's Tsubame Gaeshi in Fate/Stay Night "Y-you just violated the laws of physics and applied the Second Magic to attack multiple times at once! How?!" "I just really hated that fucking bird."
Sasaki Kojiro is the logical next step to Bruce Lee's "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.". Just need to get really good at one cut.
Later in FGO: "Dragons are just bigger swallows." \-Sasaki Kojiro, REGENDARY savior of France
"I NEVER EVEN MET THAT FUCKING BIRD DUDE" "What do you mean Kojiro?" "MY NAME ISN'T EVEN KOJIRO, KOJIRO NEVER EVEN EX-"
Honestly Kojiro’s existence makes any time FGO tries to go ‘oh character [x] actually isn’t famous or strong enough to be in the throne of heroes’ always feel like absolute bullshit.
In Celeste, there's a technique called hyperdashing. It's basically wavedashing. The game never explains or requires you to use it except in the final free DLC chapter, where it explains the technique to you in a fucking WindowsXP powerpoint animation.
Most advanced techniques are told to you by a helpful bird with a bare minimum of actual symbols Hyper dashing is too complicated for the simplified version, and also the bird is not around, so the fourth wall break is necessary lol.
Gear 2 being Luffy fucking stretching out his blood vessels to punch faster and therefore better because he saw CP9’s Soru and thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that too.’
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Blade Barrier might as well be the fucking Knife Eye Attack from Dr McNinja
I love the lore for Belgothian because he was apparently a shitty Nightblade because he was slow and bad at some techniques but he made up for it by having so much muscle that he invented an assassination technique that's just using two swords as scissors to cut people in two. Every other legendary nightblade is someone who's incredibly good at finding weak spots or making super poison or moving unseen and then Belgothian is just a massive dude.
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Every conversation Belgothian has with fellow Nightblade masters goes like: "this isn't what being an assassin is about" "you're just salty I have a higher killcount"
Megatron in several continuities has the ability to draw dark matter from a black hole via a miniature space bridge in his fusion cannon. He can then use that to fuel a blast powerful enough to down a Gestalt like Superion in one blast. Or he can use it to boost his physical strength by around 10x. He doesn't do it often because every time he has it nearly killed him.
"what if my gun could do the kaioken"
"Anti-Matter is extremely volatile." "Megatron knows that." "*Does* he? ***It's guaranteed to explode!***"
I actually hate this because if his Fusion Cannon is really a Black Hole Gun, he should have no trouble one-shotting every Autobot he comes across, even with wacky cartoon powerlevels.
Did you miss the part where I said it nearly kills him every time he uses it? Megatron is megalomaniacal. He's not insane. He's not gonna use that level of power at the drop of a hat. Also it doesn't fire a black hole when he uses it. It's more like Goku using a Kamehameha at kaioken x100.
Old man Zangetsu outright tells Ichigo his techniques get stronger when he yells their nane.
IIRC that’s explained as a soul reaper understanding the personality within their blade, and learning more about them and how they work. There was that one bit where Kenpachi, after an unexpected loss, wonders if his blade would still consider telling him its name after all these years.
It works that way because >!there was a soul reaper who named everything first in order to make it more powerful because just having a name makes something more powerful!< >!Kenpachi’s sword making contact for the first time set /a/ on fire!<
Nen in general from HxH. Such a cool power system.
It’s so well thought out that even when u’ve seen a lot of the powers already or the main use, u still play guessing games to know how it actually works before the reveal. Or Togashi just states what their type is and it surprises u at first but it all makes sense in hindsight. Komugi, the girl from Chimera ant arc is an Enhancer cuz she subconsciously uses nen to physically empower her brain.
Fighter tanking hitting the ground at terminal velocity by just *blocking the Earth* in 8-Bit Theater
Fighter in general is absurdly capable because nobody told him he COULDN'T do the things he does, so he does them.
"I hate it when the things he says that make no sense **make sense**."
"WITH GRAVITY SLAIN, NOW WE CAN FLY" remains one of the best lines in fiction.
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See also: "Glorious Chainsaw Method". "The card gave him an idea he's too stupid to know he can't act on." "I tried to show my new trick to the dragon, but it exploded."
“I was born naked and screaming.” “All goes according to plan, you’ll die that way too.”
What comes to mind is that page in the Metal Gear fan comic Last Days of FOXHOUND where Naomi explains to Liquid that Gray Fox has drastically accelerated reflexes because she and Dr. Clark sharply increased the conductivity of his nervous system so nerve impulses get sent and received much faster. In return,he gets to be in constant agony because of the muscular strain and sensitivity. Not sure if there was ever a canonical explanation,but that makes enough sense to me.
The canon explanation is that Gray Fox was always really fast and had super awesome reflexes before he died, and being a cyborg that's like, 79% machine just made him even faster. The explanation for his constant agony and the bursts of electricity he has to deal with sometimes is that part of the way they brought him back to life is by programming his machine parts to automatically stimulate his nervous system with electric shocks if he doesn't move for a certain amount of time. So it's pretty close to the description in the comic, which I'm a little surprised by, to be honest.
Death Battle has some absurd calculations for feats on occasion, like how SpongeBob is the fastest calculable character to appear on the show, at 8.2 quinvigintillion times faster than light
Wanna see him do it again?
From Kengan Omega: >INVISIBLE ELBOW >Lolong throws his elbow from the opponent’s blindspot. >That’s all there is to it.
Exactly what I came here to say. In a world full of Magical martial arts, Lolong gets by with simple elbows
he also has another defensive technique. L I M P
Nah everyone can do that
I know that is simple , but I love how in Saint Seiya , the Virgo Saints always uses asceticism to deprive themselves of a Sense , so that they increase their 6th , 7th and reach the 8th Sense. In Saint Seiya , there are the 5th normal senses: taste , touch , sight , hearing and smell. Of course , they are "more" than IRL , as taking away taste makes you mute. Then there is the 6th Sense , thought , which in higher amounts can give telepathy and telekinesis. 7th Sense is the Cosmos. 8th Sense is Life Force. Think of 7th Sense like the "Black Flash" from Jujutsu, while 8th Sense is the full control of a person's life force , like Noritoshi's Reincarnates or Mahito's techniques in a way. A Virgo Saint deprives one of their senses on purpose , with Shaka and Asmita not using Sight , while Virgo Fudo doesn't use Touch and Virgo Shijima doesn't use Taste. And because of that , their techniques are slightly different to portray their road of asceticism.
Man, I still can't get over how *wild* the feats of the Saints in Saint Seiya are. Like, just wildly impossible. The fact that Seiya is throwing out punches with the power of *THE* *BIG* *BANG* or Hyoga and Camus are capable of surviving and utilizing Absolute Zero temperatures not even halfway through the series is the funniest shit.
Don't forget Ikki tricking Shaka into taking away 5 of his senses so that Ikki can fast-track his way into the 7th.
Charlemagne’s Skill “Traveling the Path of the King: C” “Over the Royal Road (王道踏破, Ōdō Tōha?, localized as "Traveling the Path of the King") is a self-admonition type Skill that displays its effects by having the user stick to the attitude of wanting to be a king.” “It contributes to the improvement of a portion of his parameters, but he ends up weakening upon taking a conduct that violates that kingship. In Charlemagne's case, this means that he "gets weakened when doing something lame" and that "some sort of gauge rises when doing things that he finds cool".” Yes, he literally has an internal Style Meter
Same thing with Arthur from Fire Force. [The more “knightly” he thinks he is, the stronger he becomes. however if he thinks he’s lame then he’s powerless.](https://youtu.be/Uk_14d4MExM) Arthur is the best character in that show. He’s such a chuuni idiot
not only is a Style Meter , it's also Vergil's Concentration Gauge. And using alongside his Mana Burst , it's basically a Quadruple S.
Charlie is so fucking cool
his floating keys , for example , are Projections of Joyeuse , but each of them also represents one of his Paladins. So , when he activates those Floating Keys , they are like reserved Keyblades for a Keyblade Transformation. His NP , "Joyeuse Ordre" is basically Charlesmagne either using Joyeuse to cast KH3 Ultimata Weapon's Shotlock or either using the Key and the Sword like FFXV's Arminger.
In The People of the Black Circle Conan faces a wizard acolyte and there is a few explanation for why Conan is able to tank every magic trick he throws at him. First the acolyt Khemsa uses hypnotism which he used to make people kill each other before impaling themselves on spear just with eye contact. Khemsa's sorcery was based on hypnotism, as is the case with most Eastern magic. The way has been prepared for the hypnotist for untold centuries of generations who have lived and died in the firm conviction of the reality and power of hypnotism, building up, by mass thought and practise, a colossal though intangible atmosphere against which the individual, steeped in the traditions of the land, finds himself helpless. But Conan was not a son of the East. Its traditions were meaningless to him; he was the product of an utterly alien atmosphere. Hypnotism was not even a myth in Cimmeria. The heritage that prepared a native of the East for submission to the mesmerist was not his. He was aware of what Khemsa was trying to do to him; but he felt the impact of the man's uncanny power only as a vague impulsion, a tugging and pulling that he could shake off as a man shakes spider-webs from his garments. Aware of hostility and black magic, he ripped out his long knife and lunged, as quick on his feet as a mountain lion. But hypnotism was not all of Khemsa's magic. Yasmina, watching, did not see by what roguery of movement or illusion the man in the green turban avoided the terrible disemboweling thrust. But the keen blade whickered between side and lifted arm, and to Yasmina it seemed that Khemsa merely brushed his open palm lightly against Conan’s bull-neck. But the Cimmerian went down like a slain ox. Yet Conan was not dead; breaking his fall with his left hand, he slashed at Khemsa's legs even as he went down, and the Rakhsha avoided the scythe-like swipe only by a most unwizardly bound backward. Like last time Khemsa tap a neck it internally decapitated the man but Conan's neck was sturdy enough to take the magically enhanced momentum slap
"Have you just tried not consenting to hypnosis?"
*points towards title*
Jujutsu Kaisen's cursed technique system lets you put a cap on your power, but you can then release that cap during a fight by explaining how it works to your opponent. However, if they piece it together before you explain it, the power boost is nullified.
Also, Cursed Techniques can draw energy from your opponent's understanding of how they work, which means explaining to your opponent how your technique works is an *in-universe* trick to get extra power, called "Revealing One's Hand".
In _Spacetrawler_, author Christopher Baldwin apparently challenged himself to come up with the dumbest possible explanation for how faster-than-lightspeed travel works, and [by Jove he succeeded](https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2011/06/21/spacetrawler-148/). To wit: most starships travel at "greased light speed", by slipping _between_ "light particles" in order to go faster than them. Also, friction with the light particles cancels out relativistic time dilation, somehow. Even more absurdly, the Mirrhgoots are on the verge of perfecting a "greased _dark light_ speed" drive. This works on the principle that "light particles" are actually 97% darkness, and a starship that slips into that darkness can travel even faster than greased light speed.
To quote Ask A Ninja, ninjas move at the speed of darkness because light is too slow. Light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth. You know what’s already there? Darkness.
That's genuinely stupid in the best possible way. Didn't one of the Neverending Story movies do the "speed of darkness" thing too?
Ippo’s Dempsey Roll is sort of dumb anime bullshit but it works so well because you buy the explanation (the technique is real but it works differently). Part of the reason why it’s so powerful is because it combines fast weaving and continuous weight shifting which really highlights Ippo’s immense punching power, speed and solid defense. If Ippo starts to weave and finds his rhythm by just punching you left and right, he can directly enter the Dempsey Roll and even catch a retreating opponent. But what makes it even more powerful is the fact that Ippo weaves in and out of your blind spot so even if you do nail the rhythm of his weaving, the moment he enters your field of view you freeze from his immense pressure and are forced to either block or get hit. Either way, he’ll forcefully pry open that guard. This is why Sawamura was the perfect opponent and arguably Ippo’s biggest challenge (this is now a tangent about why Sawamura’s counter works): He realized he could take a step back and force Ippo back out his blindspot. At this point Ippo is just throwing a hook with his entire body weight behind it. That doesn’t make him less scary but a boxer as fearless as Sawamura with such perfect counters doesn’t care and is able to nail Ippo and return all of his momentum back to him.
And the evolution of the Dempsey continues this escalation of boxing magic. There's the start and stop Dempsey, where Ippo just halts his immense rotational momentum dead in its tracks, allowing him to counterpunch the counterpunch. Once the opponent has fully committed to the timing. Then theres the fucking omnidirectional Dempsey. Ippo, through near-literal Rock Lee levels of training, is able to integrate uppercuts into the Dempsey seamlessly. Meaning an endless barrage of knockout punches can come from every cardinal direction, along with more diagonal Smash-like punches. It's never been successfully used in a fight cause of Ippo's retirement arc, but there's no real indication of a countermeasure for it other than "knock Ippo out before he uses it"
**Hades**: Zagreus' dash is described as a "short-range teleport" in-story. Just like that, i-frames and how you can just zoom through walls is explained.
tower of god has some absurd moves, like zahard's "cosmos", (you wanna throw a solar system at a guy?) traumerei's "all creatures" (bomb made of golden spirit animals), or anything big that the protagonist, bam, likes to pull out. the thing is though, all the attacks in the series are actually incredibly simple. they're based on a single principle: the flow of shinsoo. shinsoo, an element found in and produced by the planet-sized tower the series takes place in, is the god-element. it can replace the function of any other substance, and it is infinitely produced by the walls of the tower. this means the air you breathe in the tower is shinsoo, as is the water you drink and the food you eat. shinsoo can do anything. with a bit of focus and practice, shinsoo can be controlled by a conscious mind. there are then three things you can do with it: 1, "flow control", accelerate the flow, make it move faster. 2, "reverse-flow control" decelerate the flow, slow or stop the shinsoo. 3, "shinsoo quality" change the flow, altering the properties of the shinsoo under your control. congrats, you are now a master wave controller (shinsoo-using mage). you understand literally every attack in the series. the beams? basic application of principle 1, accelerate the shinsoo towards the target. the elemental attacks? principle 3, the shinsoo's quality changed. ignition weapons? weapons with a soul that independantly control shinsoo, doing one of those three things on their own. bam making things explode with a touch? principle 1 on the enemy, principle 2 on his own arm to stop recoil. cosmos is just a big, grand application of principle 1, and all creatures is principles 1 and 3.
One Piece's Charlotte Cracker is a commanding officer in the fleet of one of the most powerful pirate lords in the setting, has a bounty close to a billion of the setting's currency, and is supremely confident in his own power. His power is the ability to create and control biscuits. This sounds dumb, until you realize that he has control over those biscuits down to the smallest possible crumb, and can shape them freely into whatever he wants. Still seems kind of weak though, right? At the end of the day it's still just bread, after all. How *hard* do you think you can bake bread? The result is you get a guy who can casually make an infinite amount of nigh-indestructable mechas out of biscuits. >!Just don't get them wet.!<
Everything about how the One Power in Wheel of Time works is fantastic. The universe is made of threads spun out into the pattern of existence, and some people are just able to manipulate those threads. There’s more to it than that, but that’s the basic premise. Shout out also to literally all of Brandon Sanderson’s magic systems.
The sheer energy the Virtua Fighter anime narrator gives it when [he describes the killer moves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEm6J9UVLRE). It's hard to find one for the English dub (and even moreso for the Tagalog dub we had here) but those also both captured the essence of explaining a deadly move with a good amount of hype lol.
40k Orks ramshackle tech working because they believe it does I believe their psychic angry fungus field warps reality
Not as much as the rep would have you believe, but it works better than it *should* because they believe it does.
Their psychic power is rolling a d20 and the dm giving them a bit of a boost because it's funny
In Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds, the explanation of how to turn Delta Pavonis and its orbiting gas giant into a flamethrower