Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Difference between revisions

** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', there's also something called the "Cyber Legacy", which Kaiser Ryō is the inheritor to. Normally, he and the other duelists in the Cyber-Style dojo (yes, the Legacy is apparently so powerful, you need to train in a dojo to properly duel with it) practice the normal Cyber-Style (Cyber Dragon and other Cyber-type monsters), but there's another set of cards known as the Cyberdark-Style that's sealed away from even the Legacy's heir due to its immense and dangerous power. {{spoiler|Ryo learns just why it's so dangerous and forbidden [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|the hard way]].}}

** In the real game cards deemed too powerful are forbidden from official tournaments. If only they could be consistent on what overpowered means.

** Surprisingly, Genma himself developed his own [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: the Yamasenken and Umisenken, seriously and unusually (for this series) lethal techniques which equate the structure of a body with that of a house. Though initially developed {{spoiler|as tools for burglary and thievery}}, the techniques comprised by these two schools are designed for fun things such as ripping out an opponent's heart, tearing an opponent's throat, strangulation, and cutting up enemies into itty bitty pieces using nothing but air pressure. Genma was loath to teach Ranma anything about them, on the grounds that they were far too dangerous, and only acquiesced when he learned Ryu Kumon was using the Yamasenken. Even then, when Ranma and Ryu dueled using these two opposite schools, Ranma did so with the stipulation that, if he won, Ryu would seal the techniques forever.

** The Shishi Hōkōdan is actually an interesting example on two accounts. First, Ranma tries and fails to beat Ryoga at his own game, and realizes the flaw in the principle-namely, as the tide of battle turns, the loser will gain great power for the technique by his depression at losing the fight while the winner's lightened spirits will depower the technique. So he creates his own, Not-So-Dangerous, Not-Actually-Forbidden Technique in the form of a [[Ki Attack]] fueled by boundless confidence. Second, Ryoga is baffled when the scroll he learns the technique from indicates a general sense of downwardness; it turns out that in it's purest form Shishi Hōkōdan isn't a directed beam, it's more like a weight dropping on the user from the heavens; the user is protected from his own attack because he's emotionally empty when he uses it. Ranma uses this against Ryoga by jolting him out of his reverie mid-attack with [[Panty Shot|something he knows Ryoga wants from Akane]]; the surging hope and anticipation leave Ryoga open to being clobbered by his own technique.