Rocket Punch: Difference between revisions

** As if the Big Bang Punch wasn't awesome enough, they manage to top themselves ''[[Serial Escalation|again]]'' in the final episode. "Rocket Punch 100 Rapid Shots" is all that needs to be said. We're not sure whether that falls under [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] or [[Macross Missile Massacre]].

** ''[[Mazinkaiser SKL]]'' has it, of course, but it also [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on their [[Awesome but Impractical]] nature:

* Nana from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is capable of doing this without any sort of machinery. She uses her diclonius abilities to literally launch her prosthetic arm at her opponent for a long range punch that is capable of covering about 4 meters in a fraction of a second.

* Neo ''[[Getter Robo]]'' has the "Chain Knuckle", which as the name suggests, is a [[Rocket Punch]] on a chain; inspired by [[Getter Robo]] Go, which had a normal [[Rocket Punch]].

** [[Rule of Cool|And it is awesome.]]

*** And it's only made even more awesome by the fact that Shinji is actually badass in that particular scene. Yes. ''Ikari Shinji'', the whiny kid who's got absolutely no self-esteem at all, is channeling [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Simon's spirit]] while curb-stomping Zeruel in an extremely awesome, beautiful and sad scene.

** To be fair, the rocket in this case is ''Zeruel''. Still, when you can [[Punched Across the Room|launch an enemy for what has to be a couple of miles with your badass energy arm,]] no one is really looking for clarification any longer.

** Sachiel has the piston punch variant: The elbow spikes go through the arms and can be slammed into the target through the palms of the hands.

* [[Ultraman]]-ripoff ''[[Inframan]]'' receives a new weapon called "Thunderball Fists" before the final confrontation in his self-titled film. Two guesses what they do. Strangely, the original Ultraman didn't have a rocket punch, and isn't exactly a robot either.

* In the [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] film ''Jingle All the Way'' there is a parade based on a show themed after a Sentai show, where both the protagonist and antagonist steal (for some reason fully functional) outfits of the corresponding characters. The antagonist gets a rocket punch amongst his abilities, which surprises both of them when he uses it.

* What about ''Robot Jox''? Especially the climactic fight scene after our hero is ejected from his [[Humongous Mecha]]. He proceeds on foot to hotwire the rocket fist from a fallen piece of his opponent, defeating the enemy mech with ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|its own severed arm.]]''

* And let's not forget the fist bazooka in ''[[Hot Shots]]: Part Deux''.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' of all places has a variation: members of [[Secret Police|the Dai Li]] have gloves made of rocks that can be launched as a punch or to grab someone inconspicuously.

* On episode of the ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' TV Series had J shrunk down to the size of a small alien, and forced to use a robot suit built to look just like him. The robot suit in question could actually fire off its fists as [[Rocket Punch]] attacks, which unfortunately bit J in the ass when he missed and set the arm way farther than he had the chance to get back to.

* A truly bizarre variation occurs in a rare and obscure experimental cartoon called ''The Little Island''. One of the three unnamed characters raises his fist, which suddenly enlarges and pops off his wrist, then comes crashing down on him from the heavens. [[Overly Long Gag|Several times.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRxknXa7nzc&fmt=18 It starts at the 3:46 mark of this segment.]

* Lugnut from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' possesses a rather different kind of Rocket Punch, in which jet engines attached to his forearm propel his explosive-tipped (and still attached) fist into the ground at supersonic speed. The result is an enormous explosion of kinetic force that can level a city block. Bulkhead counters this by triggering the explosive prematurely with his wrecking ball. [[Crazy Awesome|Wreck-Gar just used a high-five]].