I Am Not Left-Handed: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|Of course it's also revealed later that due to a curse, Fai is supposed to kill anyone that becomes more powerful than him, so removing the tattoo was a good idea anyways.}}

* Characters on ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'', whether hero or villain tend to do this very frequently.

** During the second Goku/Tien Shinhan match of Dragonball, both are about evenly matched until Goku stops and asks if he can take some of his clothes off. Tien obliges (it's apparently rather hot outside), and thinks nothing of it until Goku's undershirt lands on the floor with a heavy-sounding thud. Cue the weighted-clothing revelation and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090802031548/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/dragon_ball/v15/c009/last.html Tien's subsequent humiliation].

** Having reluctantly [[Strange Bedfellows|teamed up]] with Goku to stop Raditz, Piccolo gets ready for the fight by taking off his cape, revealing that it's actually weighted training gear. Goku gets a kick out of this—and takes off ''his'' weighted clothing.

** Piccolo ditches his weighted training clothing again during his fight with 2nd-form Frieza in an attempt to try and keep up with Frieza's rising power level. It doesn't work, largely because [[Diabolus Ex Machina|Frieza reveals a second tansformation]].

** Freeza is the absolute worst offender: One of our heroes finally has Freeza's measure? He just transforms to a stronger form. ''Three times.'' Later on, Goku is seemingly matching Freeza's strongest form, and is confident that he can win. Freeza reveals that he's ''only using 1% of his power''. Goku's response is to assume Freeza's bluffing...he's not. Freeza goes to 50% and begins kicking Goku's ass.

*** Slightly less extreme in the Japanese version, where the power-level Freeza is fighting at before going up to 50% is unspecified. Given that Goku manages to equal 50% Freeza when using his 20X Kaioken [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|though he could only endure the strain for a few seconds]]), Freeza must have been higher than 1%.

** Played with in the fight between Gotenks and Super Buu. Piccolo assumes Gotenks really IS outmatched, panics, and traps them all in a pocket dimension. Gotenks then reveals that he was only pretending to be losing, and that he could secretly go Super Saiyan 3 all along. He was hiding it because [[Invoked Trope|he thought it would be more]] [[Badass]]. He uses his withheld Super Saiyan 3 transformation to rip the fabric of space-time, escape said pocket dimension, and kick Super Buu's ass for five minutes anyway.

** The tendency to fight this way gives Goku and Pan serious trouble against Haze Shenron. Pan has no problem kicking around this pathetically weak opponent but it turns out that his pollution aura has been sapping their strength, thereby giving him the upper hand. After escaping his area of influence and regaining their strength the pair are able to return and easily destroy him with an energy blast. They should have just done that in the first place.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' while fighting Wrath, Scar reveals that {{spoiler|during the three month break he has tattooed his right arm with his brother's reconstruction transmutation circle getting rid of his weakness that he could only deconstruct using alchemy}}.

** Much earlier, Edward fought Slicer/Number 48 a [[Boxed Crook]] turned [[Animated Armor]] who displays his blood seal on the back of his helmet during the fight. Ed then knocks the head off, knowing he couldn't control a body he wasn't connected to, but then it turns out "Slicer" was actually ''two'' [[Serial Killer]]s (brothers), the other of which was put in the same armor, but the seal was on the torso. This is then Lampshaded after Ed beats him as well and he pokes the armor cautiously while asking if there was a third one.

** When Ed fights Kimblee in the manga, he manages to screw up one of the half transmutations circles on Kimblee's hands and {{spoiler|knock the Philosopher's Stone out of his hand}} to prevent Kimblee from using any alchemy without wasting time drawing another circle, but {{spoiler|Kimblee had ''another'' stone hidden in his mouth (and had for literally years).}} [[Stuff Blowing Up|Explosions ensue]].

** Also in the manga (and the ''Brotherhood'' anime), when Sloth gets badly pummeled by the Armstrong siblings, he remarks it's time to "go full throttle":

{{quote|'''Sloth''': "{{spoiler|I am the fastest Homunculus.}}"}}

** In an extra chapter in the manga "The Military Festival" <s> Ed and Mustang battle it out</s> Mustang shoots flames at Ed as Ed runs around dodging. Ed suckers Mustang close enough to rip off the transmutation circle on his glove when Mustang reveals that his left hand (which was in his pocket the whole time) also has a transmuting glove on it. So it's more like I Am Not Right Handed. Later in the manga during Mustang's fight with {{spoiler|Envy}} it tuns out to not be a gag when we see Mustang consistently using his left hand for pinpoint burning and his right hand for big explosions.

** 11th squad [[The Captain|Captain]] [[Blood Knight|Kenpachi]] used to braid bells into his hair so his opponents could hear him coming. By wearing an [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatch]] over a fully functional eye not only impedes his vision but is composed of power-sucking creatures that keeps his [[Power Limiter|power level down]]. He also insists on using his sword one-handed to weaken the force of his blows. When he does finally use his sword two-handed (and with his eyepatch removed), the power that explodes from his cut is enormous.

** Kenpachi's third seat, [[Bald of Awesome|Ikkaku]] [[Blood Knight|Madarame]] likes to be straight-forward in battle. His skills, however, are anything but.

*** He employs a predictable routine of attacking with his sword in his right hand and parrying with his scabbard in his left. Then, just as his opponent has become comfortable with this style, he'll switch his sword and scabbard ''in mid-strike'', reversing his attacks and parries and thus revealing he's ambidextrous.

*** His shikai manifests as a spear. Except it's not. It's really a three-section staff and it can slip between spear and staff at any stage, completely catching his opponents off guard and making his attacks unpredictable.

*** He greatest secret is that he also possesses bankai. He keeps this secret out of fear that he'd be forced to leave the 11th division and become a captain of another squad. He'll even throw a fight if he can't get away with using it in secret. Iba has revealed it's actually [[The Not-Secret]] and even hinted that perhaps it's an [[Open Secret]].

** Yumichika's zanpakutou initially transforms into something that looks like a khopesh. Then he reveals it can actually transform into a four-bladed sickle-sword, although it doesn't do anything more than give his opponents very nasty wounds. Finally, Yumichika reveals this is actually a fake shikai and his real shikai is arguably one of the most powerful zanpakutou in the entire manga, being able to [[Energy Absorption|absorb the life energy]] from anything it captures and then use that absorbed energy to [[Vampiric Draining|heal Yumichika's wounds]]. The only two times he's used it, he's [[Curb Stomp Battle|one-shotted]] both opponents. The only reason he doesn't thrash people right and left with it is because it's a [[Magic Knight|kidou-type]] zanpakutou which is taboo in the [[Blood Knight|11th squad]]. He'd therefore [[Honour Before Reason|rather die]] than have his squad learn the truth.

** Aizen, believing he's [[Genre Savvy]], deprives [[Badass Grandpa|Yamamoto]] of his zanpakutou because of its reputation for being the most powerful offensive zanpakutou ''ever''. Yamamoto promptly reveals Aizen was [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] by unleashing hell with his ''bare fists'' and some of the most powerful kidou attacks that have ever been seen ''in the entire manga''.

** Nnoitra's released form reveals four arms which even Kenpachi struggles to fight against. And then Nnoitra reveals he doesn't have four arms, after all. ''He has six.''

** Kyouraku subverts this. His shikai is a tricky set of weaponised children's games that trap both him and his opponent in the rules of the game until one or the other is dead. The three games his reveals become something of a pattern for him, one that Starrk gets used to. Then he reveals he had a fourth game all along, one that allows him to ''ambush strike through shadows''. Subverted because Kyouraku actually doesn't choose to hide this power. His zanpakutou sets the rules and only lets him reveal his weaponised games when she's ready for them to be used.

** When Uryuu and Mayuri fight, Mayuri believes he's resolved the fight quite quickly by paralysing Uryuu's body with poison. That's when Uryuu reveals he possesses a quincy technique that allows him to fight normally ''even when his limbs are otherwise completely paralysed''.

** When fighting against Gatanbainne, Sado reveals the enormously powerful right arm he's been fighting with throughout the manga is actually a defensive, shielding power. His ''real'' attack force is located in his ''left'' arm and is much more powerful than his right arm's power.

** When Soifon and Yoruichi fight, Soifon thinks she has the upper hand and proudly displays her ultimate technique which she's only just invented and mastered and hasn't even had time to name yet... and then Yoruichi reveals the technique does have a name, Soifon didn't invent it first, hasn't in fact mastered it yet, and that Yoruichi can do it far better than Soifon even realised was possible.

** Gin Ichimaru's bankai extends his sword to 13 kilometers length, and he demonstrates its power by slicing buildings in half with one long circular swing. But he then reveals that the true strength of the weapon is not its length, but how ''fast'' it can extend and retract (roughly 500 times the speed of sound), essentially acting as a sword-shaped railgun/machine gun. {{spoiler|And then, at a critical moment, he reveals that both of those are a lie. It's not quite that long and not quite that fast. The true danger in the blade is that when it extends and retracts, it dissolves into a metallic powder. A powder that when lodged in his enemies, can act as an exceedingly deadly, fast-acting, ''cell-destroying'' toxin}}.