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== Anime & Manga ==

* The advanced techniques of Ranma, Ryoga and Herb in ''[[Ranma ½]]''.

* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' introduces 'nen' after a while, which is an energy that comes from within each individual, and is basiclly chi. It is used to perform devastating attacks but also has many other, less combative, functions.

* Interestingly, this is one of [[Badass Grandpa|Hayato Furinji's]] ultimate techniques in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]],'' a work that otherwise does its best to lie in the realms of non-supernatural fighting ([[Charles Atlas Superpower]] notwithstanding). A variation, however, in that it's not so much an energy blast as it is a whole lot of wind. Not to mention it's ineffective against anyone with a decent understanding of ki, and thus mostly useless except against [[Muggles|ordinary people.]]

 

== Comics ==

* Recent [[Wolverine]] villain Soulstriker had the ability to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|phisically hit his opponent's life force]], thus weakening and torturing them. {{spoiler|Until Wolverine cut his hands off.}}

* ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has chi as a variant of magic used by some war mages and martial artists, especially ninja. The most major chi user in the series is Ryan Tabbot, who likes to throw in pop-culture references to other chi-users with his attacks (Hadoken!).

 

 

** In a way, ''all'' attacks are Ki Attacks in the [[Power Rangers]] version, with the various weapons actually channeling one's animal spirit. The shiny suits themselves come from another source, but the morphers can only be activated by animal spirit power. Which means if yours is out of balanced due to angst, or stolen by an enemy, you're screwed. It may be true to an extent in Gekiranger (Red's [[How Do I Shot Web?]] moment was the same, and White's finger missiles are actually ''his ki blade channeled differently and fired off by his gauntlet thing,'' something not made explicit in PRJF though the visuals remained.) but in Jungle Fury, animal spirit being the power behind everything and the different ways it can be used is a ''much'' bigger plot point.

* Ki powers were one of the main shticks of ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]''. Each Ranger had a different specialty. For instance, [[The Hero|Ryou]] was skilled at [[Playing with Fire]], and [[Kid Appeal Character|Shouji]] was a [[Gravity Master]].

 

 

** Played around with later, in that there is an entity that is the personification of Mantra known as {{spoiler|Chakravartin, who embued Mantra upon Asura and the other deities that appear throughout the game's ancestors.}}

* A lot of the artes in the ''[[Tales (series)]]'' are of this nature, either as [[Pure Energy]] or [[Elemental Powers]] that are used to form projectiles and/or to augment direct strikes.

 

 

* Uncle from ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' is a big fan of chi. His battles against Dalong Wong (anti-Uncle) probably constitutes as a battle between good and bad chi, as these two were chi wizards.

** Then in one episode they found a Chinese Vampire, which drains victims of chi. Once a person is sucked of chi they need a chi transplant to survive. The person takes on the personality of the chi donor. For example, when Jade got drained, Uncle donated some chi, and she began sprouting Uncle's [[Catch Phrase|catch phrases]] and had a hankering for mung beans. She did not, however, gain any of Uncle's knowledge of chi but still volunteered researching ways to kill the vampire. [[Reset Button|Everything went back the way it was]] [[No Ontological Inertia|when the vampire was killed]].

 

 

** See also Derren Brown.

* [[wikipedia:Kizeme|Wikipedia]] on Kizeme goes on about Ki projection and such. While video shows a fairly primitive, yet well-executed feint, which requires no supernatural abilities to preform and is known, in one form or another, in most martial arts, with weapons or without them.

 

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