Elemental Punch: Difference between revisions

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Some people are satisfied with [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]; to them, there's nothing more gratifying than pummeling [[mook]]s left and right with your fists. Other people would prefer [[Kill It with Fire|killing them with fire]]; perhaps they just [[Apocalypse Now|just love that smell of napalm in the morning]].

And then, there's the people who [[Take a Third Option]]: After all, a punch hurts. Fire hurts. A punch of fire is bound to hurt twice as much as either of the two individually. And thus, the art of combining [[Elemental Powers]] with close-quarter combat was born.

 

* Fire is a very common attribute to add to a physical attack. Perhaps this is because of fire's sheer destructive power, or maybe just because an aura of flame enveloping a character's fist is [[Incendiary Exponent|just plain cool]].

* Ice-based attacks are also fairly common, due to their tendency to freeze their targets on contact. Attacks of this type are generally encased in some sort of [[Freeze Ray|coldness energy]] rather than actual ice. Although boxing gloves made of ice are rather common.

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Naruto]]'' has several examples of this. Naruto's Rasengan is a palm-thrust amplified by spinning chakra; Sasuke's Chidori is a palm thrust that can slice through its targets due to a blade of electricity; the Hyuuga clan's Gentle Fist fighting style relies on releasing chakra channeled through physical attacks; Sakura and Tsunade's superstrength may also be considered something like this because it involves focusing chakra to release a lot at once with one punch/kick/lift.

 

== Fan Fic ==