History Main / HandWrapsOfAwesome

* Harada Sanosuke from ''{{Hakuouki}}'' has red handwraps in both of his outfits.

* Rottweiler, a street-level martial arts hero from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' (think {{Wolverine}} without the claws but with a much sunnier disposition), wears handwraps as a matter of course. Cestus, a member of the supervillain team Hard Corps, does the same.

* In ''CityOfHeroes'' fist wraps are one of the costume options for gloves.

* Kellie Skater tapers her wrists to tell you "DIE WANKER!"

* Kelly Skater tapers her wrists to tell you "DIE WANKER!"

* Marcus Wright from ''[[{{Terminator}} Terminator Salvation]]''.
* In ''[[HotShots Hot Shots: Part Deux]]'', Topper Harley wears these in his Dim Sum match early in the movie.

* Back in the Wrestling/{{WCW}} days Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan used to win matches by pulling out a roll of boxing tape, hastily wrapping it around his fist and cold cocking his opponent. Somehow this was far more effective than just punching them without the tape.

* Back in the Wrestling/{{WCW}} days "Hacksaw" Wrestling/JimDuggan used to win matches by pulling out a roll of boxing tape, hastily wrapping it around his fist and cold cocking his opponent. Somehow this was far more effective than just punching them without the tape.

* CMPunk's handwraps, in particular, are a very visible part of his usual attire. He always marks the wraps with an X on the back of his hands, a symbol of his commitment to the StraightEdge lifestyle.
** While Punk marks the "X" for straight edge, it's also worth noting that a boxing referee (or a referee in any type of legitimate martial competition for that matter) will mark an "X" (or some other emblem, an X is the most popular) on the wrappings around a boxer's hands after he has inspected said wrappings to make sure they are technically legal and not hiding anything that would aid him in the fight (thin sheet of aluminum, razor blade, what have you). In effect, this serves as a ShoutOut to both elements of his character.
* Back in the WCW days "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan used to win matches by pulling out a roll of boxing tape, hastily wrapping it around his fist and cold cocking his opponent. Somehow this was far more effective than just punching them without the tape.

* Back in the WCW days "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan used to win matches by pulling out a roll of boxing tape, hastily wrapping it around it fist and cold cocking his opponent. Somehow this was far more effective than just punching them without the tape.

** Tails has his legs and shoes taped as well. [[ShownTheirWork This is known as spatting, which helps]] [[FridgeBrilliance mitigate the risk of injury]].
** Sonic has elements from both Knuckles and Tails' design, for the same reasons listed.

* ''VideoGame/SonicBoom'''s interpretation of the cast sees all of them wrapping some part of themselves with tape, with Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy all wearing wrist tape of some kind.

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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' features boxing tape, the most durable and most powerful of the fatigue-inflicting melee weapons. An unreleased unique version called the Starlet's Hand Wraps has shown up in the ''Dead Money'' ExpansionPack game files. These are notable for being fifteen times more powerful than regular boxing gloves (and doing thirty times the CriticalHit damage of the same), ten times as durable as boxing tape, and have a feature where punching enemies usually ends up knocking them down with stunning electrical blasts to boot.

** Cody of ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' also tapes his hands, although this is partially to hide the scars on his fists from continually ''punching through walls'' (usually [[CardboardPrison to escape from prison]] in more recent appearances).

Awesome gloves that are made entirely out of wrapping bandages or cloth around the hands and knuckles. Often seen during poses flying free or being wrapped using [[OralFixationFixation the character's mouth]]. Boxers tend to wear these since [[RuleOfCool normal boxing gloves aren't cool enough for fiction]]. Application usually takes place in the montage before a fight.

* Daniel Rand, The ImmortalIronFist, has wrist/forearm wraps in his white costume, with taped fingers as needed.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin Tefillin]], a part of Jewish ritual prayer garb. Part of Tefillin is a piece of black leather that ends being wrapped around certain fingers.

* In ''manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', occasionally wears these when she's training outside of her Barrier Jacket.

* Adon, Akuma and Sagat from ''StreetFighter'', Sagat being a special case as he wraps his hands and feet to go with his fighting style Muay Thai.
* In the recent ''{{Tekken}}'' games, there's Steve Fox, a British boxer. His 'main' costume has classic boxing gloves (along with very loud shorts), while his second costume is 'civilian' clothes, with fistwraps. IIRC, Heihachi Mishima also often uses fistwraps, while his descendants seem to prefer half-gloves. Guess he's just 'old school'.
* Kano from ''MortalKombat'' wears these.

* Harada Sanosuke from ''{{Hakuouki}}'' has red handwraps in both of his outfits.