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Almost exclusively limited to the comedy-action genre, though it occasionally appears as part of a [[Professional Wrestling]] [[Squash Match]], as a particularly cruel form of what wrestling fans call "[[No Sell|no-selling]]." [[Hulk Hogan]], of course, made himself rich off a variation of the routine.
Other wrestlers who employ this tactic include [[Wrestler/Kane|Kane]] and [[The Undertaker]] (who would typically literally catch their opponents' third or fourth punch in their own hand before striking back), [[Wrestler/Sting|Sting]], Eugene and Santino Marella. May be employed by a [[Giant Mook]] or [[Kung Fu
See also [[No Sell]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** Is there even a single time where Alucard fights without pulling this of?
** Alucard himself gets one of these, during his fight with Anderson {{spoiler|with the nail}}. He unloads [[More Dakka]] onto Anderson, only for the latter to regenerate his arms, stop the final bullet {{spoiler|with a vine}}, and grin. Right before he leaps above Alucard, stabs him in the head, then starts to {{spoiler|burn him away with holy fire}}, one of times during the series when Alucard has been closest to death.
* Done in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' (Kai!) when Okonagi punches Akasaka in the chest; he's feeling smug until Akasaka mutters, [[Pre
* ''[[Bleach]]''
** Zaraki bares his chest, and gives Ichigo one free swing at him, anywhere he liked. Ichigo puts everything into his attack, and as a result, Zaraki is unfazed, and Ichigo's hands are bleeding, because Zaraki's natural reiatsu levels are crazy high.
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** In general, when Ranma is fighting a new enemy (particularly in movies) he begins with his Chestnut Fist attack, which usually accomplishes nothing.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]''
** One episode has [[Girl With Psycho Weapon|Maka]] get into an argument with [[Highly
** {{spoiler|Becomes even funnier if you consider that in the last episode of the Anime she [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|literally just punches out the series's Cthulhu]].}}
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rj7_FzzTxo Asuka vs. Zeruel. She empties three pallet rifles and two rocket launchers at the Angel, who doesn't even balks... then Zeruel counterattacks and cuts off her arms in a single attack]
** Also, the beginning of said fight in ''Rebuild 2.0''. When Zeruel shrugs off multiple N2 mines and perforates the Geofront's armor with a single shot, Hyuga's [[Oh Crap]] expression is simply priceless.
** Later, Rei, with some help from Mari, manages to shove an N2 bomb through Zeruel's AT Field and right up against its core... which does ''absolutely nothing'' to the Angel. Keep in mind that N2 bombs have roughly the same explosive yield as a nuke, and previous Angels were shown to at least be stunned by such a blast.
* ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' has multiple layers of this in chapter 6 of the second serialization; Tsukune's friends take on the doppelganger but are themselves defeated in the process... and then Tsukune removes Moka's rosario and plants it on the doppelganger to temporarily weaken him before attacking him as much as possible until the rosario comes off. Then Inner Moka shows up and delivers a [[Pre
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Natsu, Erza, Gray, Wendy, and Lucy give it everything they've got when they attack {{spoiler|Master Hades}}. Their foe is surprised by their ability and synchronization, but even their best attacks fail to scratch him. The heroes have barely enough time to realize that they are in serious trouble {{spoiler|before Hades apparently vaporizes Wendy.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Angel Densetsu (Manga)|Angel Densetsu]]''. To the outside observer, most fights against [[Face of a Thug|Kitano]] play out as follows: assailant wails on Kitano as hard as they can, assailant [[Oh Crap|expresses shock]] at the fact that [[Why Won't You Die?|Kitano refuses to fall]], Kitano lays out assailant in a single hit. In reality, while Kitano ''is'' pretty tough, he's also highly skilled at dodging ''just enough'' to nullify a blow while appearing to take its full impact. He's also an [[Actual Pacifist]] who hates fighting, and enough of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that half the time he won't even realize he's in a fight to begin with. And that single, knock-out blow at the end? It's even odds that either the assailant panicked and knocked himself out somehow, or Kitano accidentally blundered into him and the impact knocked him cold. Of course, if you've frightened Kitano enough that he decides he has to ''actually'' hit you, then [[Beware the Nice Ones|may God have mercy on you]].
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* In ''[[Necessary Roughness]]'', when the football team is confronted in a bar by their undefeated rival-college team, Paul Blake (a middle-aged quarterback) delivers a one-two punch to the jaw of the rival team's star linebacker. Said punches have no effect, and we hear someone off-camera (probably one of Paul's teammates) say "Oh, Lord!" just before a massive bar-fight breaks out.
* In ''[[Master of the Flying Guillotine]]'', one of the martial artists uses a special technique that renders him invulnerable. His smaller and quicker opponent lands blow after blow to no effect before finding his weak spot.
* In ''[[Friday the
* Done in the first ''[[Three Ninjas]]'' film, with a particularly large mook, before the heroes remember about vulnerable spots and beat the crap out of him.
* This happens to [[John Wayne]]'s character while fighting a massive oilfield roughneck in the movie ''[[Big Jake]]''.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': Hobbits attacking a cave troll should have this effect, but the scene is hardly played for laughs. Most of Gimli's fights would look like this, except that he has an axe.
* In ''[[Yellowbeard]]'', the title pirate is in a British prison and one of the guards attempts to discipline him by beating him with a stout wooden rod. Yellowbeard doesn't notice.
* The movie version of ''[[Wild Wild West (Film)|Wild Wild West]]'' has Jim West trying to fight the last of Loveless's modified henchmen, only to end up invoking this trope. He gets the crap kicked out of him, nearly gets thrown out of the [[Spider Tank]], and is only saved by a quick application of [[I Surrender, Suckers]].
* In the movie version of ''[[Popeye]]'' starring Robin Williams, Olive Oyl's luckless younger brother attempts to get money for his family by challenging a pro wrestler to a fight. He pounds on the guy for several minutes to no avail; before the wrestler smiles and pounds the crap out of him, {{spoiler|necessitating Popeye to come in and finish the fight.}}
* When Ivan Ooze breaks into the Command Center in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie]]'', Alpha the robot tries to karate chop him -- cue belch noise, Ivan electrocuting Alpha, and Zordon giving him a [[Pick On Someone Your Own Size]].
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* Athletes in combat sports such as boxing and [[Useful Notes/Mixed Martial Arts|Mixed Martial Arts]] sometimes offer free shots to their opponents to intimidate them. This is generally considered to be poor strategy, since even if the resulting blow doesn't do much damage, your opponent still gets points for free shots.
** Unless your name is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BFScdlnvQ Ricardo Mayorga]. (And as long as you're not fighting Tito Trinidad). He took those kinds of shots all time time over his career. Then Edison Miranda hilariously showed why you shouldn't do it (Mayorga notwithstanding). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3zdQrzaFIk In his fight with Lucian Bute], he took a shot and put his hands on his hips, mugging for the crowd. Bute was not amused. Next punch he threw was a titanic right uppercut that knocked Miranda out. Hilarious.
** Nate Campbell tried to pull this one too, and it turned into one of the ''ultimate'' [[What an Idiot!]] moments in boxing history. Campbel badly hurt his opponent Robbie Peden with a nasty body shot, and Peden spent the next 30 seconds or so frantically dodging Campbell while he tried to recover. Peden finally answered back with a punch and Campbell stood straight up, arms down at his sides, to give Peden another free shot. Peden missed a pair of jabs, and Campbell continued to stand there, wide open. Peden gave him a look as if to say "Ok, you asked for it", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nPIeDqelI and knocked Campbell out with a single shot].
** During K1 2001 World Grand Prix [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTrbfnkDS8w Mark Hunt and Ray Sefo showed what it looks like when both fighters use this strategy at the same time]. [[Wild Samoan|Guess what country do they come from.]] Of course [[Foe Yay]] goes of the charts.
* Muhammad Ali saying "That all you got, George?" in the eighth round of the Rumble in the Jungle, then proceeding to knock George Foreman out. In a later interview, Foreman said "When he said that, I was like 'yup, that's all I got.' I knew I was in trouble." This was where Ali famously used the Rope-a-dope strategy, a kind of one-man [[Defensive Feint Trap]] that suckered Foreman into using up all his energy, while Ali stayed relatively undamaged by using the slack of the ropes to dissipate the punches' power.
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** Terry gets this treatment from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKnb0LVJWO4&feature=related his generation's equivalent of Bane.]
** Later, in "Out of the Past", he gets it once again from one of {{spoiler|Ra's Al Ghul's}} henchmen while he isn't wearing the Batsuit. Then {{spoiler|Bruce, younger thanks to a Lazarus Pit}} punches the guy with more success.
* ''[[Batman:
* ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'''s Killface actually exclaims, "Punch, punch, punch!" when attacking Antagone, and when he sees she isn't fazed at all he says, "Nothing?"
* Donkey Kong suffered this in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon after having a curse placed on him that removed his strength. He went up against Krusha and rained a volley of punches onto the burly Kremling's stomach. Krusha's response was a sarcastic "Oooo, you're tickling me".
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