Flechette Storm: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Spell Card Thousand Knives. Also, Winged Beast-Type monsters usually are depicted as having a [[Feather Flechettes|feather-based variant]].

* Cinque of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', particularly at the end of her fight against Subaru, which has her launching all of her exploding throwing knives in a desperation attack.

** Before Cinque there was Reinforce/Book of Darkness with her Bloody Daggers.

** Then there's [[The Ace|Chrono's]] [[Laser Blade|Stinger Blade]]-[[Meaningful Name|Execution]] [[Death From Above|Shift]].

** In the manga version of the Martial Arts Takeout Race, Cologne pulls this off against Shampoo in order to show off how skilled her great-granddaughter is (Shampoo, currently serving another table with her back to the wall, deflects all of the daggers and sends them right back where they came from, without once turning away from her customers or spilling their order).

** This is fundamentally Mousse's primary tactic in fighting, though he tends to use a rather ecletic assortment of projectiles.

* Hanzo, the Koga ninja leader in the ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' movie, throws dozens of shuriken at Tessai with enough force to break off thick tree branches. Unfortunately, since Tessai knows the D&D "Stoneskin" enchantment the shuriken just bounce right off {{spoiler|and Hanzo gets his arms ripped off for his troubles}}.

* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Yue {{spoiler|and Ruby Moon}} can conjure projectiles and magically throw them at opponents.

** Most of it comes form the fact she, 1) doesn't aim (in fact she doesn't look at the target ''at all'') 2 yells out the name. She still somewhat uses it, as a last option of course.

* Byakuya's Senbonzakura from ''[[Bleach]]'' counts as this. ''Millions'' of blades in Bankai form.

* Karl's from ''[[Blood Plus]]'' has an arm allows him to rapidly fire huge spikes from his hand.

** [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''[[Foundation|The Stars Like Dust]]''.

** [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History|Dominic Flandry]] regularly packs a blaster ''and'' a needler (often firing poisoned needles).

** [[William Gibson]]'s [[Action Girl]] [[Neuromancer|Molly Millions]] favours a flechette pistol ("fletcher") firing poisoned or explosive darts.

** ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' features flechette guns as one of the more common small arms in the series. They're mostly used aboard ships and similar environments-the hailstorm of little darts that one flechette gun fires is entirely capable of chewing a whole group of humans into cat food, but aren't powerful enough to go through heavy armor, meaning that they're unlikely to rupture the hull of the ship. Pulser guns, the most basic small arm, also follow the same principle, rapid-firing a stream of hypersonic darts.

* Ibuki in ''[[Street Fighter]] III'' has a special move in which she does this by throwing a dozen of kunais at the opponent.

* One of several types of firearms [[The Hero|Alph]] in ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' can use in place of casting spells is the Flechette Gun.

** All of the three or so enemies you encounter after getting it, that is...

* ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' and the infamous Super Nailgun, a man-portable ''minigun'' that fires these.

** The also aptly named Mauler, Spiker and Spike Grenade weapons from [[Halo]] 3 fire long red-hot metal spikes in a buckshot-like spread, automatic spray or cone-shaped blast respectively.

** Actually the Mauler uses fairly standard shotgun pellet analogues, no heated spikes involved.

* True Assassin in ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. As the limits of what people can carry are actually fairly realistic, he only throws a total of around 40 dirks, a kind of special throwing dagger. However, he does unload them all in a matter of seconds when he wants to. Not that he ever manages to do any good with them but...

* The Rogue class's Fan of Knives ability in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', inherited from the [[Our Elves Are Different|Night Elf]] Warden hero unit in ''[[Warcraft III]]'''s expansion.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* One ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' episode had a [[Death Dealer]] Mook who could do this.

* Used by ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'''s resident [[Knife Nut]], Mai. This is also a waterbending move involving icicles. {{spoiler|A fully realised Avatar can do this with earthbending.}}

* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' has one episode where Jerry throws a bunch of knives at Tom by pulling the knives - at an infinite supply, supposedly - ''from a thought bubble.''