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This is mainly a [[Manga]] trope, though it's also used in anime. Someone says something, and the object of the statement is stabbed by an arrow emerging from the speech bubble or legend, because it's almost always an uncomfortable truth or [[Brutal Honesty]]. Quite often the person is knocked off their feet. Usage:
<small>'''Aerith:''' (to Bob) "You're clumsy ("Clumsy"
They don't have to be arrows. Sometimes heavy rocks, bricks, washbasins, even energy beams with the meaningful words on them are substituted for speech
Usually delivered by a [[Metafictional Device]]. If the speaker is ''actually'' hitting the victim in sync with each word, that's [[Punctuated Pounding]], not this trope. Compare [[Words Can Break My Bones]], where the words have some literal magic power behind them.
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* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' features this with a sidearc-relevant character admits his mistakes and asks to redeem himself by taking care of the boy he wronged. Cue a collective “No Way!" from the rest of the present cast and some multi-piercing.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' uses this when Chisame, pleading for the existence of at least a couple of [[Ordinary High School Student
** In ''[[Negima Second Season]]'', Makie gets hit in the head by huge characters for 'Crushed' every time Ayaka yells at her (which is a lot).
* Keitaro of ''[[Love Hina]]'', when Su asks if it's true he can't get a girlfriend, gets stabbed by Su's speech balloon.
** Strangely, in the French translation, the sound effect makes it sound like he's ''slapped'' by the balloon. Though to be fair, we don't have a sound/unsound effect for stabbing.
* As seen above when [[Bamboo Blade|Miya-Miya]] makes a convincing argument for Satori joining the kendo
* Happens a lot in ''[[Perfect Girl Evolution]]''. Sunako, in particular, has a tendency to reel back whenever the word 'ugly' gets bandied about. In one particular episode, when this is combined with guilt, she ends up walking around with a lot of 'arrows' stuck in her... until Takenaga delivers a particularly pointed barb that demonstrates that her thoughtlessness was very similar to the same comment that, years back, crushed her self-confidence and turned her into a withdrawn, horror-obsessed loner... at which point a giant arrow descends from space, obliterating the entire mansion. REALLY painful realization, apparently.
* In ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', Skuld is able to do this ''literally'' once her magic develops.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Slappy Squirrel gets hammered by some critics ([[Captain Ersatz
* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'': the word "Love" affects the Blue
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