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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* ''[[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.

** Naruto eventually gets an upgraded form of his Rasengan that uses wind chakra, which ends up something of a subversion, namely in that the [[Razor Wind|hundreds of tiny blades]] it's made of are also cutting ''his own hand'' and it only become truly useful when {{spoiler|he finds a way to use it as a ranged weapon, though only in [[Super Mode|Sage Mode]]}}.

 

 

 

 

* [[Champions]] offers any sort of elemental attack as a basic power. Hand to Hand Attack for normal, Killing Attack for, well, killing damage. It being HERO, the special effects are up to the player.

* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' has multiple ways of doing this, including adding Mighty to an elemental Strike power, or creating a touch-range aura.

 

== Video Games ==

== Web Original ==

* Blitz of the [[Whateley Universe]] has touch-based electrical powers, so she has to make contact to shock you. And she's a martial artist. So this is exactly her style of fighting. ''She's learning to use a meteor hammer.''

* In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3X75iJLogI Tag Match]'', a short movie produced by Thousand Pounds Action Company, James Young's character (the second one to fight the lady) conducts electricity through his fists twice, using that ability to [[The Paralyzer|paralyze his opponent]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Justin seems to use the ki channeling variation during the fight with the fire summon.

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' {{spoiler|Zimmy}} delivers one of these from the ether to {{spoiler|Antimony's father.}}

 

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