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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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