Paper Cutting: Difference between revisions

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The act of making a very fine incision upon someone with an attack that cannot even remotely believably do such a thing, usually incorporating elements of [[Implausible Fencing Powers]] or [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]. Though '''Paper Cutting''' is usually just the leading cause for the third item of [[Standard Bleeding Spots]], used to maintain tension in a long battle or uphold realism when [[Hit Points]] are in play, it can also effectively drive home a point about the character on either end of the attack:

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The act of making a very fine incision upon someone with an attack that cannot even remotely believably do such a thing, usually incorporating elements of [[Implausible Fencing Powers]] or [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]. Though ~~paper~~ ~~cutting~~ is usually just the leading cause for the third item of [[Standard Bleeding Spots]], used to maintain tension in a long battle or uphold realism when [[Hit Points]] are in play, it can also effectively drive home a point about the character on either end of the attack:

* If the character who receives a papercut does not flinch or generally carries on with his business, it is a very good indication of his or her badassery.

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== Anime and Manga ==

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

* Though ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' has paper cutting occur on innumerable occasions, it is mostly of the cookie-cutter [[Standard Bleeding Spots]] variety. One memorable subversion: When Super Saiyan 3 Goku tosses a provocative little Ki ball past Super Buu, the audience expects a paper cut - but instead the tiny ball rips a horrible gash on Super Buu's face, revealing all manner of alien anatomy. Gross.

** This may have something to do with the Buus being almost literally [[Made of Plasticine]].

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* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' Scarlet and Knightwalker does this to themselves and it becomes a plot point later.

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== [[Video Games]] ==

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== Video Games ==

* The intro to the boss Vamp in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''.

* Kato does this to Yuri as a warning halfway through ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''. Yuri ignores it, but the rest of the party talks him down.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2|Meet the Spy]]'' has the eponymous class pull one of these on the Sniper with his butterfly knife. [[Subverted Trope|Then he just stabs him in the back]].

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== [[Web Original]] ==

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== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version three, Maxie Dasai gets hit in the face [[Annoying Arrows|by an arrow]] and comes away with a minor wound across her cheek, somehow managing to avoid any serious harm. (By luck, rather than skill, the archer, Renee Valenti, had been ''trying'' to kill Maxie).