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** The [[OVA]]s make it clear that Claire is much stronger than Graham though. He's also probably stronger than Chane by transitivity. In fact, he's probably the strongest character in the whole series.
** The [[OVA]]s make it clear that Claire is much stronger than Graham though. He's also probably stronger than Chane by transitivity. In fact, he's probably the strongest character in the whole series.
*** Actually, the author has said that the reason Claire doesn't get his own plotline is because he IS the strongest character in the series, and a story that consisted solely of Claire beating the heck out of everyone else wouldn't be a very interesting read.
*** Actually, the author has said that the reason Claire doesn't get his own plotline is because he IS the strongest character in the series, and a story that consisted solely of Claire beating the heck out of everyone else wouldn't be a very interesting read.
* Serving as the current page image, ''[[G Gundam]]'' gives us the infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLaydxMhlw0 skyscraper-launching episode].
* One former page image from ''[[G Gundam]]'' gives us the infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLaydxMhlw0 skyscraper-launching episode].
** [[The Hero|Domon]] and [[Badass Grandpa|Master Asia]] get all the attention, but almost every Gundam Fighter is an example by necessity. Throughout the series we get several demonstrations that the top-class fighters (including the [[Five-Man Band]] and the Devil Gundam's Four Kings) are all perfectly capable of performing their [[Finishing Move]]s ''without'' their Gundams.
**[[The Hero|Domon]] and [[Badass Grandpa|Master Asia]] get all the attention, but almost every Gundam Fighter is an example by necessity. Throughout the series we get several demonstrations that the top-class fighters (including the [[Five-Man Band]] and the Devil Gundam's Four Kings) are all perfectly capable of performing their [[Finishing Move]]s ''without'' their Gundams.
* Ryoma Nagare in ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Some examples of his martial arts prowess include: throwing a sword (by the blade) with enough force to sever a man's arm; jumping hundreds of feet from a helicopter onto a car and suffering only minor discomfort; climbing up the face of a rampaging Getter-2 to punch the pilot in the face; resisting an animal tranquilizer strong enough to kill most men even after nearly bleeding to death immediately beforehand; breaking a katana by flexing his chest muscles; and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827045559/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/getter_robo_go/v06/c002/last.html punching dinosaurs to death].
* Ryoma Nagare in ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Some examples of his martial arts prowess include: throwing a sword (by the blade) with enough force to sever a man's arm; jumping hundreds of feet from a helicopter onto a car and suffering only minor discomfort; climbing up the face of a rampaging Getter-2 to punch the pilot in the face; resisting an animal tranquilizer strong enough to kill most men even after nearly bleeding to death immediately beforehand; breaking a katana by flexing his chest muscles; and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827045559/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/getter_robo_go/v06/c002/last.html punching dinosaurs to death].
* [[Gentle Giant|Chad]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' gains actual powers early in the first arc, but before he does he's shown to be inhumanly strong. A steel beam falls on him from several stories up, and he takes it like it was a weak punch. Also, his first encounter with a hollow was before he was able to see them, so Rukia told him where to swing his bat. Or at least the telephone pole he uprooted and was using as a bat.
* [[Gentle Giant|Chad]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' gains actual powers early in the first arc, but before he does he's shown to be inhumanly strong. A steel beam falls on him from several stories up, and he takes it like it was a weak punch. Also, his first encounter with a hollow was before he was able to see them, so Rukia told him where to swing his bat. Or at least the telephone pole he uprooted and was using as a bat.
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** 4E averts this trope in regards to hit points, which no longer represent pure vitality and are more like "plot points" instead - minion monsters only have 1 hp regardless of level, a character isn't really considered "hurt" until they've lost half their hp, and large quantities can be easily regained by inspiration as easily as by magic. This is actually returning to a concept originally invoked in the first edition's Dungeon Master's Guide, which justifies hit points by saying that they do not represent mere physical toughness, but all the things that can make a character hard to kill (toughness, divine favor, sheer dumb luck, etc). Conversely, this trope is alive and well in regards to character abilities, and is the official explanation for the martial power source. How can a rogue turn himself invisible, or a warlord rally an unconscious ally back to fighting form? Training and practice.
** 4E averts this trope in regards to hit points, which no longer represent pure vitality and are more like "plot points" instead - minion monsters only have 1 hp regardless of level, a character isn't really considered "hurt" until they've lost half their hp, and large quantities can be easily regained by inspiration as easily as by magic. This is actually returning to a concept originally invoked in the first edition's Dungeon Master's Guide, which justifies hit points by saying that they do not represent mere physical toughness, but all the things that can make a character hard to kill (toughness, divine favor, sheer dumb luck, etc). Conversely, this trope is alive and well in regards to character abilities, and is the official explanation for the martial power source. How can a rogue turn himself invisible, or a warlord rally an unconscious ally back to fighting form? Training and practice.
* This is explicitly the case in [http://aarnblog.blogspot.com The World Of Aarn]. In the setting, magic is a simple fact of life, often taking the role that electricity does in our world, and it's also present in every living thing. As a result, Mundanes, those who don't use straight out magic, end up having their intrinsic magic express itself physically, so they can hit much harder, take harder blows, jump 12 feet in the air, and resist magical attacks to a greater degree than mages can.
* This is explicitly the case in [http://aarnblog.blogspot.com The World Of Aarn]. In the setting, magic is a simple fact of life, often taking the role that electricity does in our world, and it's also present in every living thing. As a result, Mundanes, those who don't use straight out magic, end up having their intrinsic magic express itself physically, so they can hit much harder, take harder blows, jump 12 feet in the air, and resist magical attacks to a greater degree than mages can.
*''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'',
* Subverted in ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', where the monks of the Akashic Brotherhood gain tremendous powers through intense training, meditation and the practice of martial arts, but even the Brothers admit that they are breaking the laws of physics as the [[Muggles|sleepers]] know them.
** Subverted with the monks of the Akashic Brotherhood, who gain tremendous powers through intense training, meditation and the practice of martial arts, but even the Brothers admit that they are breaking the laws of physics as the [[Muggles|sleepers]] know them.
** Played straight with the Technocratic Union. Humanly-learnable skill is one of the ways they wield magic, not that they'll ever call it that. NWO Operatives and Syndicate Enforcers may not have the augmentations and exotic equipment of their peers in Iteration X, the Progenitors or Void Engineers, but they can be trained to the point of analysing and reconstructing crime scenes like Sherlock, sweet-talking sympathisers into spilling secrets in a way that totally isn't mind control, and cutting down lesser Reality Deviants like redshirts in an action movie.


== Video Games ==
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