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* In ''[[Raideen]]'', the titular mecha has the powerful "God Voice" attack, which ends up ruining his vocal cords every time he does it. In the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' games, Akira will actually end up being unable to speak if you use this too many times before a certain point.
* The kemonozume technique in ''[[Kemonozume]]'' involves ''cutting off your own arms''. Ther is also a large risk of going berserk if the user's willpower isn't strong enough.
* The GUND format of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'' allows pilots who have been injected with "[[Green Rocks|permet]]", a rare substance found on Mercury and (later) Earth's moon, to have a [[Brain-Computer Interface]]. Originally designed for controllable [[Artificial Limbs]], it was eventually adapted to giving pilots superior control over [[Humungous Mecha|mobile suits]]. While lower levels of "Permet score" like two are relatively safe (though still feel like "a hand reaching so roughly into [the user's] brain"), the score can be increased higher and higher for more effectiveness at the risk of causing permanent physical damage to the user. This is the (at least official) reason the ruling [[Mega Corp]]s agree to violently ban the technology during the episode ''Prologue'', branding its users as [[Black Magic|witches]] and slaughtering ([[Genocide Backfire|almost]]) the entire development team responsible for weaponizing it.
== Comic Books ==
* In the Marvel universe, there exists a weapon called the Ultimate Nullifier which can [[Ret-Gone]] anyone or anything the user chooses.
* The "Demon Ball" technique in ''[[Bowling King]]''; Its creator injured himself badly attempting to perfect it and was forced to retire from professional bowling.
* in the [[DC]] universe, the Anti-Life Equation is a Technique like this long associated with [[Darkseid]] and [[The New Gods]]:
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** While the Anti Life Equation is often viewed as an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Life Equation, a similar formula that implants the belief that life does have meaning and that concepts like hope and love are potent forces, it should be noted that the Life Equation [[Light Is Not Good| can be just as dangerous]] in the wrong hands. Consider the leader of a [[Church of Happyology]] using something like this to “share” his vision with entire planets, turning his cult into a galactic empire. Highfather once tried to use the Life Equation against Darkseid, but started to realize it was making him [[Not So Different| just as much a tyrant]] as his foe. He eventually relinquished it after concluding that, good or evil, [[No Man Should Have This Power]].
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* The entire point of [[The Dark Side]] of [[The Force]] in ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** Per [[All There in the Manual|The Expanded Universe]], the [[Implausible Fencing Powers|lightsaber]] form [[Ax Crazy|Juyo/Vaapad]], which is the most powerful of them all but [[Power At a Price|relies on the heavy use of aggression]]. For that reason, it's forbidden to most Jedi except those who demonstrate they're capable of handling it safely (eg. [[Badass|Mace Windu]]).
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* In Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' series (''Sabriel'', ''Lirael'' and ''Abhorsen''), the last of the bells of the necromancer throws everyone that hears it deep into Death. What's it called? [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Astarael]].
== Live
* ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'' features the Ju-Ju-Zenshin-Hen, which allows the user to take on a super-powerful beast-like form. The bad news: transformation is permanent. The worse news: if your technique isn't perfect, your life's gonna ''suuuuuuck.'' A Wolf Fist user winds up transforming into an out-of-control werewolf periodically, but at least he gets restored into his human form. The Fly Fist user (no, really) isn't so lucky, winding up an anthropomorphic fly who is about the size of a mouse. He ends up getting swallowed by an evil Chameleon Fist user and is resurrected along with her after she dies...
* ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' also has one. Anyone who uses Chronogel's forbidden time spell will die via getting sucked into a wormhole that appears on their chest while it sucks other things like matter and time into it. This curse was deliberately placed on it - apparently, the use of time magic is so dangerous that ''making sure the universe is screwed if you use it'' is the best way to protect it. Yeeeah.
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* [[Kamen Rider Double]]'s Twin Maximum, in which he activates two [[Finishing Move|Maximum Drives]] at the same time, temporarily taking his power up to 200%. However, this puts an incredible strain on his body, {{spoiler|as demonstrated when Shotaro impulsively uses it in one battle, which lights him on fire and severely injures him. In the final battle of the series, Double's [[Super Mode]] is powerful enough that he can combine the Xtreme and Prism Memories' Maximum Drives without ill effect.}}
* The bonehead maneuver in [[Babylon 5]].
* Subverted in the [[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Enterprise Incident", where Spock appears to kill Kirk using a powerful Vulcan technique called the "Vulcan Death Grip". In reality, this was part of a plan devised by Kirk, Spock, and Bones to infiltrate the Romulan ship, which involved Spock becoming a [[Fake Defector]]; Spock actually only used a more intense version of the more familiar Vulcan Nerve Pinch to render Kirk unconscious and make his vital signs undetectable, claiming he had killed him to win the Commander's respect. There is actually no such thing as a "Vulcan Death Grip". They were counting on the Commander to not know that, as Kirk later told Nurse Chapel.
== Professional Wrestling ==
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* Technical wrestlers generally avoid this as most submissions don't actually put that much pressure on the body.
== Tabletop
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'',
** Among the most potent of magic items are two magic staffs, the ''staff of power'' and the artifact ''staff of the magi'' which, while very powerful items in themselves, can be broken for a "retributive strike" which releases every spell inside the staff at once, centred on the caster. Given that the [[Squishy Wizard]] is the norm in D, anyone attempting this strategy had better hope that the 50% chance of getting sent to another dimension comes up.
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** In ''[[Transformers Cybertron]],'' Vector Prime would {{spoiler|greatly tax himself reversing time by a few minutes, and eventually die by using his time/space powers to get the team through the rift separating Gigantion from the normal universe.}}
* In ''[[Justice League]]'' {{spoiler|the League had pretty much lost against the Brainiac/Luthor hybrid,}} until [[The Flash]] saves the day by running at extreme speeds (to the point where he was circling the world in mere seconds) {{spoiler|and smacking Brainithor around by repeatedly running into him. Soon enough, he destroys all traces of Brainiac, leaving only a naked Luthor lying on the ground.}} However, in the process he was almost swallowed by the Speed Force from moving so fast, and he says he probably won't be coming back if he ever goes that fast again.
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the Kur-Li Maneuver is the most Foot clan's most powerful and secret technique, only known by the proper grandmaster of the clan, which would be Splinter. When Shredder awakens the spirit of the clan's founder, claiming to be the grandmaster, Splinter is able to expose him as an usurper by using the technique on him - doing so hypnotizes and paralyzes the villain, at which point Splinter starts [[Crowning Moment of Funny|slapping him around]] in an impression of [[The Three Stooges|Curly Howard.]]
== [[Urban Legend]] ==
* In the [[The Cavalier Years|swashbuckling days]] of fencing schools (perhaps more cynically to be known as "street gangs") there were all kinds of rumors floating about of "irresistible thrusts" and "impenetrable parries" which masters would only teach to favorites. It does not seem to have been asked much what happened when someone [[Fridge Logic|tried to get through an impenetrable parry with an irresistible thrust.]] In any case a lot of them were probably just mundane dirty tricks no one ever thought of before. Modern treatise research by Historical European Martial Arts practitioners finds there ''are'' "secret" techniques listed, but they're either mundane higher risk techniques, or just part of intermediate instruction that separates an expert spear user from a drilled levy and are only "secret" in the sense the master couldn't make a living teaching them if they became widely spread.
* Fans of martial-arts legend [[Bruce Lee]] found it hard to accept that someone as tough as he was had died due to an allergic reaction to Equagesic (a brand of painkillers he took) and many claimed that foul play had been involved, some believing that members of Chinese organized crime groups had put a curse on his family. One version suggested that he had been inflicted with a deadly martial arts technique called "the Quivering Palm" which allows the practitioner to will the victim to die days after actually striking him, like a time-release death-blow. Of course, there is no proof that this technique is anything but a legend.<ref>Fun fact: the Quivering Palm was much later adapted into [[Dungeons and Dragons]] where it is a high-level ability gained by members of the Monk class.</ref>
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