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== Webcomics ==
== Webcomics ==
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon ''[http://www.homestarrunner.com/underconstruction.html Under Construction]'' parodies this trope, with the anime-inspired Stinkoman battling "Stickly Man," a shovel-wielding animated GIF, in a Single Stroke Battle that's clearly an [[Homage]] to ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]''.
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131106051951/http://www.homestarrunner.com/underconstruction.html Under Construction]'' parodies this trope, with the anime-inspired Stinkoman battling "Stickly Man," a shovel-wielding animated GIF, in a Single Stroke Battle that's clearly an [[Homage]] to ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]''.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' plays with this one. It's a single-stroke battle, all right... but only because the battle takes place on a small platform. The assailant falls over the edge into a deep crevasse below.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' plays with this one. It's a single-stroke battle, all right... but only because the battle takes place on a small platform. The assailant falls over the edge into a deep crevasse below.
** In another instance, he slices past an enemy, and ''expects'' him to fall apart; but, [[Subverted Trope|instead]], the enemy disappears while his back's turned. So, naturally, he decides he must have sliced the poor guy's atoms to bits, making him disintegrate. [[Mind Screw|He also realizes that he must have missed.]]
** In another instance, he slices past an enemy, and ''expects'' him to fall apart; but, [[Subverted Trope|instead]], the enemy disappears while his back's turned. So, naturally, he decides he must have sliced the poor guy's atoms to bits, making him disintegrate. [[Mind Screw|He also realizes that he must have missed.]]