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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]], for homing weapons, i.e, missiles.
* [[Storm of Blades]], for blades raining from the sky.
* [[Rapid
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]], for when each attack does little damage, but you stack it up by hitting them as often as possible.
If done with a [[BFS]], the user possesses [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]. Necessary ingredient ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|ha ha]]) of a [[No
One common method of bringing one of these about in a game is [[Button Mashing]], especially if it's one button in particular. Hammer on a punch button enough with ''[[Street Fighter (Franchise)|Street Fighter]]'''s E Honda, and you get one of these.
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** Except it's [[Loophole Abuse|not actually cheating at all]], no matter how much Akane may protest; the only rules in [[Martial Arts and Crafts|martial arts rhythmic gymnastics]] is that bare-handed blows aren't allowed and competitors must stay within the ring at all times.
** Kuno performs this with his wooden sword, thrusting forward so rapidly it's impossible to follow, and causing such a potent air pressure it demolished a water fountain (built out of concrete!) behind Ranma.
** Ranma himself countered this (long before his hand speed had been enhanced by the Chestnut Fist) by [[Rapid
** In the first [[The Movie|movie]], Prince Kirin's special technique involves him shooting off thousands of bolts of [[Battle Aura|ki]] from his chopsticks by stabbing back-and-forth rapidly with his hand.
** To a lesser extent, this is one of Mousse's default attack styles when he just unloads what's up his sleeves on someone.
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** Byakuya's bankai (the aforementioned millions of sword-petals) is a more straightforward application of this family of tropes. Ichigo never uses the slashing speed he demonstrates when parrying Senbonzakura to launch a true Spam Attack so much as a Spam Defense.
** {{spoiler|Gin}}'s bankai works by {{spoiler|extending his sword}} to attack so fast that Ichigo is incapable of noticing the regular attacks are even happening, and then he starts using it repeatedly and so rapidly that the damn thing is drawn as a way of stabbing thing.
* [[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA]]!!! [[Calling Your Attacks|Hokuto]]! [[Rapid
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', this is basically Luffy's fighting style, finding new ways to hit his opponent as much as he can in a few seconds. Ivankov's Galaxy Wink also counts.
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Gomu-gomu-no...Jet...GATLING!!!"]]
* Hiei of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' enjoys doing this when he does a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. He once combined this with a [[Single
* Fate of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' would sometimes do this, though since she uses a [[Laser Blade]], she only uses this sort of attack on [[Mecha Mooks]] or her [[Wrecked Weapon|opponent's weapon]] in [[Precision
* Noda from ''[[Angel Beats (Anime)|Angel Beats]]'' performs a spam attack on Otonashi in the very first episode, resulting in a 100-hit combo meter and a very dead Otonashi. But just for a few minutes until he revives again.
* In ''Queen Emeraldas'', the titular ship unleashes the mother of all spam attacks annihilating about 70% of a fleet numbering in the thousands ''with one salvo'' of an impossibly high number of energy cannon and missile launchers. Bonus point for having just [[No Sell|survived unscratched]] two minutes of ''all'' those ships unleashing a [[Spam Attack]] on their own concluded by a [[Wave Motion Gun]].
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* Find a ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' player who doesn't spam a Shockwave psych. Sure, it's possible to just do one slash, but it's also ''possible'' to just eat one Lays chip: it doesn't happen.
** And let's not even get into Lightning Arrester. You are ''not allowed'' to fire fewer than four lightning bolts while using Lightning Rook even if you want to. (Also more [[Beam Spam]], though)
** Really, the pins that give high combo counts before you have to let the thing recharge seem to make it really easy to continue comboing with other pins, you're probably going to be combining this with [[Beam Spam]] then [[Rapid
* ''[[Castlevania Chronicles of Sorrow (Video Game)|Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]'' adds the Kaiser Knuckles, which let you hit five times with a single button press.
** In ''[[Castlevania Order of Ecclesia (Video Game)|Order of Ecclesia]]'', {{spoiler|[[Treacherous Advisor]] Barlowe}} will do a charging punch then teleport to the opposite side to charge again in rapid succession. All while cursing you out, [[Punctuated for Emphasis]] style.
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* ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'''s druids who specialize in the Balance tree of skills (magical attacks, basically) have the Moonfire skill, which both deals direct damage and puts a damage over time effect on the target. As such, using it repeatedly in quick succession before the damage over time effect wears off is a waste of much of its damage potential. However, because it's instant cast with no cooldown, caster druids are prone to spam it when burst damage rather than mana efficiency is desired. Players dispute whether "Moonspamming" is a good way to win or just underhanded. However, one thing that people are often in agreement over is that sometimes you ''have'' to. For example, someone's trying to get away faster than you can root them, and/or they have low health... Finish 'em off with moonfire spam.
** The mage's Ice Lance is a similar instant cast, no cooldown attack. It deals little damage unless the target is frozen by a different effect, and mages are occasionally seen spamming it anyway to avoid stopping to cast a proper damage spell which requires them to be stationary.
** Rogue "stunlock" may also be viewed as this - when the rogue chains their attacks which stun or incapacitate a foe one after another, preventing them from retaliating for a rather lengthy period of time while dealing damage. This specific technique is utterly reviled by every other class because it completely prevents a target from moving and attacking. However, it's by no means unbalanced: the rogue, being a [[Fragile Speedster]], is reliant on it to survive, his offensive potential is significantly reduced while he spends energy on stuns, the actual execution of a stun combo isn't actually spam but [[Difficult but Awesome|rather reliant on precision timing and luck]], and the stun effects themselves are prone to [[Diminishing Returns for Balance]], shortly rendering them ineffective against the target. Furthermore, the stunlock can be broken with a common equipment piece which may periodically remove [[Standard Status Effects]] and is considered a must have in [[
*** Thus, it is generally still a [[Punch
** Speaking of Rogues, they also have the [[Finishing Move]] [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Slice and Dice]], which makes their regular attacks into this for a short-to-moderate period of time.
* Ditto the earlier ''[[Diablo (Video Game)|Diablo]]'' series, with skills like Strafe, Jab, Fend, Frenzy, and most especially Zeal.
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