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Or perhaps a deeper affectation? Perhaps [[EverythingsEverything's Worse Withwith Bears|a giant bear paw]], with claws like knives. Perhaps a [[Taken for Granite|petrified fist of granite]]. Maybe someone even grafted the devil's own unholy mitt onto your forearm to replace a lost hand - a literal [[Red Right Hand]], maybe. A lot harder to hide without shapeshifting, and perhaps [[Glamour Failure|even despite shapeshifting]], but hey, it probably [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Didactic?|represents the character's inner rage or something]]. The advent of high technology gives even more options. Going back to the gauntlet, you can add powerful servos to give you a crushing grip, [[Hand Blast|field emitters or energy projectors]] for added offensive or defensive power. Or maybe you can just [[Rocket Punch|launch the whole thing at 'em]]. If you have a [[Artificial Limbs|mechanical arm]], these features may be built into it.

Subtrope of [[Weapon of Choice]]. See also [[Tricked -Out Gloves]] for a non-offensive version, and [[Power Palms]] for a more open source.

** ''[[MazinkaiserKotetsu (Anime)|MazinkaiserJeeg]]'': It also has aTWO different versions of [[Rocket Punch]]. with cuttersAlso, windingtheir aroundfists theare forearmsreinforced.

** In the ''[[Nanoha Force|FORCE]]'' manga. Veyron's "Claw Grab" seems to fit this trope as it's a claw-shaped gauntlet that allows him to fire non-magical explosive attacks with internal fluids and also seems to enhace his already impressive strenght as one of it's first demonstrations was {{spoiler|blocking and damaging Subaru's own powered gauntlet mentioned above}}. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|As it's name implies]], it's really good for grabbing things and make them explode ...like [[An Arm and Aa Leg|limbs]] ...or [[Your Head Asplode|heads]].

* Allen Walker from ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]'', and his left arm. Normally, it's an unsightly [[Red Right Hand]], though he's one of the nicest guys, ever. When activated, it becomes a monstrously huge metallic paw with large, wicked claws. There is actually a scene where he points out that his claws are too big for him to make a fist. From the same series, there's also Lenalee Lee, whose special weapons are the Dark Boots, which allow her such awesome speed and mobility she might as well be flying, and deliver brutally hard kicking attacks.

* Chao Lingshen of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' had one of these to suit her [[Powered Armor]] so she could stand against the more [[Hermetic Magic|magical]] or [[Ki Attacks|ki-empowered characters]]. It was later parodied in the [[Alternate Continuity]] [[Omake|Omakes]]s. Later, {{spoiler|Chapter 278 has Jack Rakan summoning a huge one, which he uses to smash Fate Averruncus into the ground with a [[The Big O (Anime)|piston-powered]] punch.}}

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' : The Guren's Radiant Wave Surger is basically a [[Power Fist]] with wicked-looking talons and a [[Wave Motion Gun]] built into the palm.

* One of the weapons used by the operatives of Section Nine in the ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'' anime can essentially be summed up as tazer knuckles. They're primarily for use against combat-rated cyborgs.

* ''[[BlackBlack★Rock RockShooter (band)|Black★Rock Shooter]]'': Strength uses [[Dual -Wielding|two of these]]. Either one is bigger than her entire body.

* Near the end of "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]", Optimus Prime deploys a claw attachment to his punching hand, allowing him to basically tear an enemy in half. Of course, since Optimus is 40 feet tall and made entirely of metal, his hands fit this trope all the time.

* A deservedly-obscure John Saxon movie, ''The Glove'', prominently features a so-called "riot glove", armored with metal plates and allegedly used by police to beat up hippie demonstrators.

* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', Marco uses his gorilla morph's fist. "Gorilla. The outward expression of my inward rage". There are also many remarks in other books about his 'canned ham' sized fists.

== Live -Action TV ==

* This is one of ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|Kamen Rider Fourze]]'s'' signature attacks, which is a jet-powered fist in the shape of a ''rocket''.

** [[Humongous Mecha|Titan]] close combat weapons are often enormous [[Power Fist|Power Fists]]. One type is the Corvus Assault Pod, which is a combination of a powerfist and [[This Is a Drill|huge drill]], with room to house a boarding party inside. It's used to punch a hole into the enemy titan or building, and then the boarding party comes out and kills anybody who survived being punched by a [[Humongous Mecha]].

** And then there's the recently-released Forge World miniature [https://web.archive.org/web/20140604170918/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/tyberosp1.jpg Tyberos, The Red Wake], who combines [[Power Fist]], [[Chainsaw Good|Chainfist]] AND Lightning Claw into two giant shredding devices. Run away.

** ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has the ogre ironfist (a sort of hybrid shield and punch dagger) and Dwarf engineer Burlok Damminson's [[Steampunk]] claw.

* A classic ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' item -- "Gauntlets of Ogre Power", though the manual strength enhancement isn't limited to bare hands.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has smashfists, an artifact weapon that is pretty much [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. In addition, Lunars can incorporate special tattoo artifacts into the full-body moonsilver tattoos that every Lunar in the Silver Pact possesses; at the expense of having to permanently attune to the artifacts in question, they can't be stolen and are always available to the Lunar, even when shapeshifted. Smashfists are among the artifacts compatible with this method, making it possible to have a ''literal'' [[Power Fist]].

* [[Magic: theThe Gathering]] has more than one red enchantment that follows this trope, among them [http://magiccards.info/7e/en/195.html Granite Grip], [http://magiccards.info/ia/en/219.html Stonehands], and [http://magiccards.info/shm/en/187.html Fists of the Demigod].

* [[Seventh7th Sea]]: there are two preeminent fighting styles in Eisen. One involves a [[BFS|Zweihander]] and your face. The other involves a regular broadsword, a [[Power Fist|Panzerhand]] (lit. Armored Fist, a heavy plate glove, possibly made of the local Adamantium), and your face. It may not be as graceful as Montaigne fencing or as subtle as Vodacci dagger-fu, but by God it's efficient. There's also a lesser known fighting style where a panzerhand is worn on both hands at once. Its primary move is just yanking the weapon out of a person's hands and then beating them silly.

** And ''[[Fallout: New Vegas|New Vegas]]'' surpasses everything that came before with the Ballistic Fist: a glove with a SHOTGUN attached to it which triggers on contact. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Uppercut a Deathclaw with it, go ahead.]] There's also the (slightly less destructive, as well as much rarer) Displacer Glove, which [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|displaces]] things you punch [[Punched Across the Room|with predictable results]].

** ''Old World Blues'' adds the steriliser glove and corrosive glove: rubber safety gloves covered in chemicals that [[Kill It Withwith Fire|set enemies on fire]] and [[Poison Is Corrosive|drain health over time]], respectively. There's also the Saturnium Power Fist, which is a slightly more powerful version of the normal Power Fist, but taking it to your world-destroying toaster (yes) will give you the option to superheat it, which makes it stronger ''and'' lights targets on fire.

* [[Robot Buddy|Robo]] of ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' fights with his fists, which he can replace with better fists through the game, so he mostly counts. He's also got a kind of rocket punch. Cavewoman Ayla fights completely barehanded, and so falls under a [[Good Old Fisticuffs|different trope]].

* ''[[Darksiders]]'' features the Tremor Gauntlet, a huge lighting-wreathed glove granting [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|War]] a powerful area-effect attack. It bears a striking resemblance to the Power Fists of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has Fist weapons, often of the claw variety, but they are generally overlooked and not too common to begin with. At least that was the case in early [[Wo WWoW]]. Since Patch 2.4, if there's a fist weapon in end game content, it is often made of awesome and a great choice for any [[Combat/Ha T|Ha T]] (since patch 3.1) Rogue and Enhancement Shaman.

* Several of Mega Man's weapons are Power Fists, such as the Hard Knuckle in ''[[Mega Man 3 (Video Game)|Mega Man 3]]'', the Mega Arm in the Gameboy ''V'', and the Super Adapter in ''[[Mega Man 7 (Video Game)|Mega Man 7]]''.

** [[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Zero's]] "Z-knuckle" (a chip embedded in both hands) expands his [[Mega Manning]] ability; it allows him to steal weapons from normal [[Mooks]] so he can use them for himself. And, according to official art, {{spoiler|his [[Evil Twin]] Omega Zero}} also has one, and is supposedly the basis for the [[Limit Break|Giga Attacks]] in the ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|X series]]'' (appropriate, since {{spoiler|Zero in his original body AKA Omega}} always performs his Giga Attacks by punching the ground).

** [[EverythingsEverything's Worse Withwith Bears|Grizzly Slash]], from ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] 5'', has a Power Fist [[Swiss Army Weapon|that can change into a]] [[This Is a Drill|Power DRILL]]! [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Grizzly_Slash Just take a look]!

*** Spark Mandrill gains this ability in the remake of the original [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]].

* Regal from ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' fights with various greaves around his shins for kicking, leaving his hands purely for balance as he's sworn never to use them for killing. Not that his hands could be used since they are shackled, which he prefers. (He gets rid of them in the sequel, apparently.)

** A better example would be Yuri Lowell from ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'', as he can use an assortment of power gloves and spiked knuckles as a secondary weapon.

** [[Tales of Legendia (Video Game)|Senel]] and [[Tales of Xillia (Video Game)|Jude]] fight primarily with fist weapons, averting [[Heroes Prefer Swords]].

* Drachma from ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' fights with various attachments to his mechanical arm. As appropriate for the [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]], you find various outlandish attachments of all kinds (such as a hook, an ancient [[Magitek]] grappling claw and a drill), all of which are perfectly compatible with his arm, all over the place. Apparently there are a lot of other people running around with robot arms; you just never meet 'em.

* Fist weapons are a main class of weaponry in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series. While they all look alike, their description varies between realistic knuckle-type weapons, monstrous appendages, martial-arts techniques, and comic relief (including the [[Megaton Punch]], "Guaranteed to turn your enemies into [[A Twinkle in Thethe Sky]]!"). The magichange weapons are more distinctive, being visible during attacks, and generally looking like the hand or head of the monster that created it.

** Taken to extremes in ''[[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]]'', where magichanging a giant monster gives you a power fist that's almost as big as the wielder.

* Several chips in the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]]'' games are built around giving Mega Man a huge fist, often with special abilities. The Guts Punch and Bronze/Silver/Gold Fist series chips all have arrow commands you can do to make their attack or range expand, and the Cold Punch chip...well, just freezes things. In the anime, Heat Guts style also gives Mega Man a huge fist and a rock-hard punch. Later in both game and anime, Rock can take on the attributes of the series' native punching expert Gutsman, and his default weapon becomes the Guts Punch.

* The player may choose to do this in ''[[Crysis (Video Gameseries)|Crysis]]'' with their [[Powered Armor|'Nano Suit']] in [[Super Strength|Strength Mode]], and with a little file tweaking, you can [[Punched Across the Room|send enemies ''flying'' with a single blow]] from your fists.

* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', the Heavy recently received a pair of unlockable boxing gloves: the '''K'''illing '''G'''loves of '''B'''oxing. They're actually a bit of a variation, in that the gloves don't directly increase his melee attack power; rather, after killing someone with the [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|KGB]], the Heavy gets 5 seconds of 100% critical hit chance, which apply to any of his weapons... But if he just keeps using the gloves, the timer resets with each kill, allowing him to rack up a chain of [[That Came Out Wrong|deadly fistings]]. He's since gained access to the '''G'''loves of '''R'''unning '''U'''rgently (which make him much faster but drain his health) and the Fists of Steel, an actual pair of metal gauntlets.

* The Counter Sword in ''[[S 4S4 League]]'' keeps a small sword in the right hand, but it's only used for the weapon's weaker attacks. Counterattacks and the weapon's uberpowerful Jump Attacks and Strong Attacks instead use a massive armored gauntlet, nearly as large as the player character.

* In the older ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]'' games, the bionic arm acted as a sort of secondary weapon, allowing you to block shots and push enemies around. The recent remake allows you to use it to more directly kill stuff.

* ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'':

* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' seems to be unique among [[Dungeons and& Dragons|DnD]]-based video games in devoting an entire non-[[Bare -Fisted Monk|monk]] discipline to fist weapons. Many of these were [[Blade Below the Shoulder]] type weapons like katars and [[X -Men|Wolverine-style]] claws, along with enchanted brass knuckles and one set of man-eating gauntlets.

*** And the [[Battle Moon Wars]] [[Shout -Out]] at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fRPMBatSSc 1:00].

** Also notable is [[Super Robot Wars Compact 3|Folka Albark]] in his [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|Ialdabaoth]] who [[Kamehame Hadoken|LAUNCHES DRAGONS FROM HIS FISTS]]. Also, as if his normal punches weren't enough, he can send [[Humongous Mecha]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEywsFnFBs flying miles away into a mountain], breaking it into pieces and then [[Delayed Explosion|watch them explode fabulously]].

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDiCDI Games]]'': Link and Zelda use them. Link also tends to use magic gauntlets in regular games, when they're not bracelets instead.

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'' featured Steel Fists, where the Hulk could rip a car in half and wear it as gloves.

* ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'': One of the powers of Alex Mercer is turning his fists into huge bashing clubs.

* Area from ''[[Street Fighter EX (Video Game)|Street Fighter EX]] 2'' and ''EX 3'' fights with a miniature rocket launcher attached to her right arm.

* Stinkoman actually gained one from defeating an earlier boss called [[Giant Hands of Doom|Stlunko]] for most of Level Four of the game ''[[Stinkoman 20 X 6 (Video Game)|Stinkoman 20 X 6]]''. Unfortunately, he loses it while fighting [[Segmented Serpent|Saargtson]], the level's boss.

* ''[[Bragging Theme Tune|My arm, My arm, My arm, My arm, MY ARM, MY ARM, WILL SUMMON UP THE POWER OF THE]] [[God Hand|GOD]] [[Title Drop|HAND]]!''

* [httphttps://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-06 Lord Tedd] in ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' wears one. We don't see the real thing active, but in Tedd's [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|dream]] [httphttps://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-26 it fires] in a spectacular fashion. In fact, it impressed Tedd so much that he wants one too... and as a [[Mad Scientist]] he's [httphttps://egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-07 not going to] wait until [[I Want My Jetpack|it appears in shops]].

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Equius's fists ''are'' power fists; fistkind is even listed as one of his Strife specibi (method(s) of fighting).

* ''[[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe]]'': This is Fisto's power. Makes sense. In one episode of the remake, he successfully uses it to distract an enemy so that he can punch him with his other hand. It's not quite clear how that works.

{{quote| '''Fisto''': See this hand?<br />

(Mook glares at giant hand, Fisto punches him with his normal hand)<br />

* Lugnut of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' can perform what fans have referred to as "[[Fan Nickname|the Punch of Kill Everything]]." His fist produces a bomb, and when he punches the ground with it (which he sometimes does with ''a jet engine''), it sends a devastating shockwave (no, not [[The Mole|that Shockwave]]) in all directions (somehow not damaging him). Of course, it can also be an [[Achilles' Heel]]: hit his fist before it hits the ground, it goes off early and he takes the brunt.

* In ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', Batman has Nth Metal Knuckledusters that allow him to ''punch ghosts''.

* Used a few times in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', mostly by [[Dishing Out Dirt|earthbenders]] to surround their hands with stone (or in Toph's case, {{spoiler|metal via metalbending}}). The Dai Li agents late in the second season use special stone gloves that they can detach and launch at opponents.

* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'':The fist of Tebigong grants the user this ability.

* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090326073834/http://www.littlegun.be/curios<!-- 20et20antiquites%20et%20antiquites/a%20gant%20cal%2045%20gb.htm The Pistol Glove]] which fires a bullet when it lands a punch. Ow. -->

* The tarch, a combination of a metal glove, a sword, and a shield, all rolled into one. Used by 16th-century Russian soldiers when defending against a siege. Not very useful in open combat. See [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/3/38/Tarth.jpg here]{{Dead link}} for an image.

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