One-Hit Kill: Difference between revisions

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== Anime & Manga ==

** The Administration Bureau's ultimate weapon, the Arc-en-Ciel, is also a One-Hit Kill by its very nature. Though it looks like a [[Wave Motion Gun]], what it actually does is twist space-time around its target, seal everything within a hundred-kilometer radius into a pocket universe, then allow said pocket universe to Big Crunch itself. The weapon is far more deadly used on planets than in space, due to the vacuum effect that so much suddenly vanished air/land would leave behind.

* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'''s eponymous school of martial arts. You don't get much more of an instant kill than "[[Your Head Asplode|make the other guy's head explode]]"—and that's just one of the simplest techniques...

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Kuwabara does this to Risho in the Dark Tournament arc, due to a huge powerup when [[The Power of Love|Yukina arrived]]. Granted, it was actually two attacks (the first to destroy Risho's Armor of Clay, and the second to launch him across the stadium), but he did them in such quick succession it technically counts as one.

** The manga played it straight: Kuwabara simply [[Megaton Punch]]ed Risho, sending him flying and destroying the Armor of Clay at the same time.

* In ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'', [[The Dragon|Akuha Shuzen]] of Fairy Tale has this ability. Using a magical technique which 'delays her existence by a second' every one of her attacks can just cut through people like paper, taking them apart by basically ''cutting the reality they're standing in''. Three people so far have shown resistance to this attack method, and two of those do it by blocking it with the same technique.

* Ichika's [[Infinite Stratos]] is capable of only this, its ability basically amounting to "rush in to disable the opponent."

 

 

 

 

* Naruto gets to deal one of these out to {{spoiler|Sasuke}} in the [[Alternate History]] fic ''[[Team 8]]'' during the Chuunin Exam preliminary battles (it's a knockout instead of a kill). It's [[All There in the Manual|fully explained in author's notes later on]], given the context of the fight--{{spoiler|Sasuke was still recovering from Orochimaru's seal being applied (and then removed), Naruto just watched Neji beat Hinata half to death in their preliminary battle and was [[True Companions|understandably pissed off]], and Sasuke crossed a line ''he should not have crossed''}}:

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Sasuke}}''': ''(as Naruto stumbles after vaulting off the balcony to the battlefield)'' Can't you do anything right, Dead-last?

*** There's also "Eat", which has much the same result, but is slightly less disturbing.

** Warhammer also has the Killing Blow rule, which allows a weapon to instakill the target if you roll a 6 to wound. Some weapons can also Slay Outright, which means a single wound inflicted by such weapon causes the target to lose all their wounds.

** Additionally, a famous early combo based around the card Channel (which allows you to exchange life for mana on a 1-1 basis) and a direct damage spell such as Fireball (which allows you to convert mana to damage on a 1-1 basis) allowed you to fry an enemy on full life in 1 shot. With a number of ultra-rare cards and a bit of luck, you could do this ''on the first turn.'' Unsurprisingly, Channel was eventually banned from all competition.

*** It's actually even worse. The "number of ultra-rare cards" you needed for this first turn kill was ONE: Black Lotus (or a Mox Ruby/Jet in a slightly different variant). The rest of the cards involved were dirt-cheap commons and uncommons.

*** ''Continuum Shift'' seems to have un-nerfed them. You can now use them in round 2 of 3 if it would win the match for you, and your opponent can be at or below 35% health.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', any hit that results in a bisection is always lethal, as well as immersing a creature in liquid and then freezing the liquid (magma into obsidian or water into ice), or [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|caving walls or floors in on an enemy]]. Other favourite, but less reliable kinds of istant death are magma (although some creatures are immune to it), [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|dropping bridges on the enemy]] (except for the biggest creatures), and decapitation or piercing the brain with a weapon or shattered piece of skull (as long as the target isn't undead and has only one functioning head left).

* One of the starting weapons in [http://colourfire.nfshost.com ColourFire]'s arcade mode is a virus that infects enemies and kills them in one hit, blowing up into even more viruses. The only trouble is its short range, and that it has to wear down their health from the inside before they die.

* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'': Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, the two magic users, Xhela and Mizuti, both had One Hit KO special moves. Xhela's was her level XIII special "Seal of Water" and Mizuti's was her level IX special "Planet Soul". There are also a few magnus that have death chance, and a few with 100% chance ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|such as the "Death" tarot card]]).

** In addition, a few select enemies and bosses have this. For example, during the boss fight against {{spoiler|Geldoblame after he touched the End Magnus}}, he has the ability [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Forfiet Your Life]], which causes 100% chance of death unless you have some kind of resistance, which is hard to get by that point in the game.

** If Kinnikuman or Puripuriman does the fart attack in Black Hole's portable dimension, they break out and fall on top of Black Hole, KOing him instantly.

** If Kinnikuman Super Phoenix performs the Muscle Revenger on Kinnikuman Big Body, Kinnikuman Big Body is instantly killed because the Kinnikuman Big Body was the first victim of the Muscle Revenger.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

== Web Original ==

* One of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_586_31-life-lessons-you-can-only-learn-from-video-games/ 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games] is that "no matter how strong and powerful you are, some scrub will take you out with a death spell."

 

== Real Life ==

* [[Truth in Television]]. Human is not a strong being and most weapons don't need many strikes to kill people.

** It is not a ''per se'' kill, but the pain from a good hit can be enough to leave an un(der)conditioned novice brawler hurting too bad to continue fighting even if he is not outright knocked out.

** There is ''possibly'' a phenomenon where the right type of blow can produce [[wikipedia:Hydrostatic shock|hydrostatic shock,]] however the jury's still out on whether or not its real.