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A [[Slap
Partner in crime to the [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]], and with the help of cousins [[Made of Iron]] and [[Friendly Fireproof]], this trope broke into [[Awesome but Impractical]]'s house and stole the Awesome, but left the Impractical. You see, a [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]] is still a solid attack you'd gladly use on an enemy... it's just much, much less powerful than it ought to be, considering what it actually entails. When [[You Nuke'Em]], you may find this diminishing your triumph, if only a little.
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== [[RPG|RPGs]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' became rife with these as soon as the graphics got far enough along to show it:
** Sephiroth's Supernova in ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' is by far the best-known offender, not the least because [[Overly
** Given how deep underground the final dungeon is, summoning Bahamut ZERO while inside it (which results in a giant dragon appearing in space and doing an orbital bombardment of the enemy) should logically cause much more damage to the planet than Sephiroth's plot-based Meteor spell.
** Another one would be Bahamut Fury's Exa Flare from ''[[Crisis Core]]''. You'd think ''melting the moon'' and causing a dust cloud covering half the planet would do some terrain or ally damage... though to be fair it does regularly do 9,999 to all enemies.
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*** The latter could be considered [[Cool but Inefficient]] since it's technically a [[Beam Spam]] in which only one of the beams actually hits you.
** Also in ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'': The most powerful summon in the game, Iris, attacks by '''throwing the enemies into the sun'''. Bosses still survive, while most standard enemies probably won't.
*** The same summon also had the ability to fully restore your HP AND revive fallen members, even though there was nothing showing it. How a [[Slap
** In addition, the unleash of the game's most powerful weapon, the Sol Blade, drops a miniaturized sun on the enemy. This doesn't even do triple the damage of a normal attack with the weapon, which is just a sword swing...
*** And for extra fun, it's ''another'' reference to Armageddon.
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== Other ==
* An odd example: the video game of ''Spider-Man 2'' had a spinning pile driver attack that Spidey could pull on thugs. He could do this from any height, including from the top of the ''Empire State Building'' (provided he swung up this high, first). It would seldom kill any thug one shot, no matter how high you were.
* ''[[Touhou]] Soccer''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBWNGq72DY Earth-splitting] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc attack animations] [[What Do You Mean
* In the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'', one character possesses a sword said to be bound with the creation of the world. Its main attack is described as 'anti-world' in strength and thus presumably capable of destroying the world -- except that whenever it is used, it never seems to do worse than knock the main characters around a bit and put a few dents in the local concrete. In fact, the only way it will ever kill you is you choose ''not to'' use [[Heroic Resolve]] to shrug it off.
** Ea seems to have an adjustable destructive output depending on how much prana is put into the attack, {{spoiler|and almost all of the times Gilgamesh uses it are in the Fate route, when he's trying to ''subdue'' -- not ''atomize'' -- Saber. When Gil uses it to more lethal effect in ''Hollow Ataraxia'' and ''[[Fate Zero]]'', Ea's usage rips holes in space-time, blows apart a pocket dimension, and massacres Alexander's army of heroic spirits with one shot.}}
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* In ''[[Advance Wars]]'', [[Big Bad|Sturm's]] CO Power drops a meteor onto the field. This power can only drop a unit 5 HP, whether it's an infantry or a battleship, and it cannot kill a unit, only making it drop to 1.
** Same in ''Advance Wars 2'', and in ''Advance Wars 2'' and ''Dual Strike'' there's the addition of giant cannons, lasers, and missiles that all have the same effect.
*** Also, in the final mission of ''2'', you can fail and let a doomsday missile be launched, but due to the game's [[Non
* ''[[Pokémon]] Battle Revolution'' turns Seismic Toss into this. While the other games had a more modest animation for this, Seismic Toss shows the opponent's Pokemon ''being thrown into space'' and colliding back into the ground. Despite such an animation, it's not very strong (it's level-based, meaning the best you can do with it is 100 damage). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6SxbINhhh4 Here's an example of it.]
** In the handheld games, the move is described as throwing the Earth at the enemy.
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