Brick Break: Difference between revisions

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Contrary to popular belief, this is not a part of your typical Karate program.

The fancy version of this is to break not the first object you hit, but the one behind it, or a specific one in a sequence. Thus demonstrating you have not only brawn, but control. The usual subversion is for someone to hurt their hand after failing to break the boards/bricks. Doing this at various levels of difficulty is often one of the criteria for advancement in rank. This can be taken to [[Up to Eleven]] levels in fiction, where characters are allowed to break the bricks with [[Finger Poke of Doom|one finger]] or [[Psychic Powers|their minds]] or whatever.

The fancy version of this is to break not the first object you hit, but the one behind it, or a specific one in a sequence. Thus demonstrating you have not only brawn, but control. The usual subversion is for someone to hurt their hand after failing to break the boards/bricks. Doing this at various levels of difficulty is often one of the criteria for advancement in rank. This can be taken to [[Up to Eleven]] levels in fiction, where characters are allowed to break the bricks with [[Finger-Poke of Doom|one finger]] or [[Psychic Powers|their minds]] or whatever.

Has nothing to do with [[LEGO]] bricks or ''[[Arkanoid]]''. A [[Flying Brick]] presents somewhat more of a challenge.

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== [[Anime]] ==

* Akane in ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', usually to relieve stress.

** Ryouga learned a technique later in the series that allowed him to break boulders with a [[Finger Poke of Doom]].

** Ryouga learned a technique later in the series that allowed him to break boulders with a [[Finger-Poke of Doom]].

*** Actually, any kind of solid ''non-living'' matter he could punch his finger through (for starters, he could WRITE on stone by punching holes with his finger prior to mastering this technique), so this is useless used ''directly'' against living things (this doesn't make him shy to explode boulders and open craters ''near'' enemies, though)

* Goku of ''[[Dragonball]]'' did it [[Finger Poke of Doom|with a single finger]] when Oolong challenged him to.

* Goku of ''[[Dragonball]]'' did it [[Finger-Poke of Doom|with a single finger]] when Oolong challenged him to.

** Also, Mr. Satan breaks a stack of tiles to show how powerful he is. (Cell was not impressed.) Also a slight subversion, as he always, without fail, breaks all but ONE brick... which still settles him as a [[Badass Normal]].

* In ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', there's a scene where Suppaman tries to convince Arale that he's impressive by setting up a stack of five clay tiles and breaking three of them with a punch (And boasting about it afterward while holding is sore fist). Arale responds by [[Widget Series|casually punching the Earth and cracking it in half]].

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