Badass Finger-Snap: Difference between revisions

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[[Fridge Logic]] makes one wonder about the "orders" one. How much time is spent training the mooks whether the finger snap means "bring the suitcase of money", "kill them" or "get me something to drink?"

 

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* An episode of ''[[Bakugan]]'' had one of the baddies cause seemingly inexplicable combat events by snapping his fingers. {{spoiler|he was actually signaling his invisible ally.}}

* Cinque's introduction in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' has her [[Flechette Storm|throwing knives]] at the [[The Federation|Administration Bureau's]] shield generators and snapping her fingers to [[Made of Explodium|detonate them]].

* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', criminal NEXT Jake Martinez activates his {{spoiler|force field}} powers by snapping his fingers. The results vary but are almost always painful for whoever he targets.

* An early episode of ''[[Code Geass]]'' has Zero unveiling a massive poison gas bomb behind him with a dramatic fingersnap... and instantly taking hostage hundreds of civilians who have no idea what the contraption behind him is. {{spoiler|It's not a chemical weapon, though; just a smoke bomb.}}

 

* "Snapper" Carr, sidekick of the ''[[Justice League of America]]'', eventually developed the power to teleport, but only when he snapped his fingers. (Thus being temporarily depowered when his hands were cut off.)

* Hunter Zolomon, the second [[The Flash|Zoom]], used his "speed" powers to create deadly sonic booms, which he activated by a simple snap.

 

 

* Disney's ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. During the "Spoonful of Sugar" segment the title character starts magically cleaning up the room by snapping her fingers, and then the children start doing it. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5IW9wK_HNg#t=1m40s here].

 

 

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Series 4, in the Episode Voyage of the Damned, the Doctor snaps his fingers to have two of the angel-robot dudes lift him into the bowels of the ship amid explosions and fire.

** He later discovers he can open the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers, which he's used once as 10 and several times as 11.

* On ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Q's snapping can do all sorts of things, like fling the ''Enterprise'' all the way to the Delta Quadrant. To be fair, he's omnipotent, so can do anything he wants with any gesture he wants; he just snaps his fingers to look nonchalant while he does it.

* In one episode of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael Weston convinces a gang of hardened Latino criminals to help him. He does this by snapping his fingers, at which point his careful planning will result in the other members of his crew (Sam Axe and Fiona) causing something dramatic and incredible to happen, like a door exploding; he essentially intimidates them into helping him. At one point, he has to improvise, and he ''bluffs'' by holding up his fingers, ready to snap them. By now, the gang is so afraid of what his finger-snaps cause to happen, even if they are reasonably sure that he's an still ordinary mortal man, that they quickly acquiesce to his demand without him having anything in place. At the end of the episode, as we cut away from the gangers from the last time (Michael's plotting having resulted in them taking control of a large turf from an arguably much-worse cartel,) the gang's leader snaps his fingers as he walks away from the scene of the confrontation, full of new confidence and most likely new ideas.

 

* ''[[Hackmaster]] Basic/Advanced''. A mage can cancel any spell they've cast by snapping their fingers (Dismiss Enchantment spell, ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' #146).

 

* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', Saïx snaps his fingers to summon more Nobodies to fight Sora and Company.

** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Chain of Memories]]'' [[Playing with Fire|Axel]] burns somebody up with a snap.

* Evie characters that specialize in scythes in ''[[Vindictus]]'' can learn two major skills that can take enemies out with one snap of their fingers. The first skill, Bloody Thread, surrounds up to four mobs with thread and when Evie snaps her fingers, the thread contracts [[For Massive Damage]]. The second skill, Mark of Death, has her marking up to four mobs, getting the soul from one, and when she snaps her fingers, the souls from the mobs marked are released from the body. Scythe Evies especially love using these skills as a way to finish off bosses.

* Shiva's [[Limit Break]] from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. She encases her enemy in a solid block of ice, then shatters it by snapping her fingers.

* ''[[Touhou]] Soccer'' gives us [[Cute Ghost Girl|Mima]] and her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc Twilight Spark], which she fires with a snap of her fingers.

* [[Big Bad|Ghirahim]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' snaps his fingers whenever he uses powerful magic like creating fences around the Sealed Grounds, bringing a boss to life, or creating a sword to fight Link with.

* Manfred von Karma from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' often snaps his fingers for dramatic emphasis.

 

 

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