History Main / RazorWind

* There is a spell in the game ''NinjaGaiden 2'' called Art of the Wind Blades. The in-game description refers to razor-sharp areas of vacuum created by incredibly fast movements of the caster's hands. Usually ends up taking off enemy arms and creating a huge mess.

* The minotaurs in [[Creator/Capcom Capcom]]'s arcade ''[[TheKingofDragons The King of Dragons]]'', using their axes.

* Slash from ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' has the power to turn air into invisble blades.

* Jubei exhibited this in the ''NinjaScroll'' movie. In the TV series, it was flanderized into being his main form of attack (mainly so he wouldn't be bloodily cutting people with his sword every episode).

* ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' as the Gekigan Cutter.

* Motoko from ''LoveHina'' specializes in this. In the second OVA she masters the Exorcising Blade technique, which allows her RazorWind to leave flesh unharmed but ''cut spirits''.

* Toji from ''[[{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita: Last Order]]'' has a punch-variant of this. His "Slaughter Master Reverse Punch" creates a massive shockwave that is enough to kill one hundred people in a single blow. Even those who survive suffer severe vertigo for a time afterwards due to the shock to their ear canals.

* "The Harpists", the two blind musician assassins from ''KungFuHustle'', could play notes on their Chinese harps that would result in injury to anyone hit by them. The attacks were shown on-screen as ghostly swords and knives flying out of the harp. At its most powerful, the attack is visualized as ''flying skeleton warriors''.

* ''{{Grenadier}}''. The Jester and one of his agents use incredibly powerful Razor Wind weapons, killing people with them effortlessly (and often). Rushuna is the first to realize the weapon is air-based; the gouges it leaves behind look more like they were made by a massive drill.

* The Razor Wind spell in {{TabletopGame/Iron Kingdoms}} is exactly this.

* In a scene of the Chinese movie ''Film/{{Hero}}'', an assassin who just killed her lover is pursued by a vengeful disciple of his. She doesn't want to fight, but the DualWielding disciple really wants... the assassin only reacts [[MinorInjuryOverreaction after having a little hair cut]], by using her sword to create Razor Winds that lift all leafs in the ground. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8tMp1qUszE Hard to describe]], I know.

* Misaki Kawana of ''EternalFighterZero'' has the wind-based powers variant for her "Half Gush" special.

** And from the same game, Zed's Garyu Ichimongiri/whatever it might be called in Alter Code: F.
* In ''RocketKnightAdventures'', and in its AlternateContinuity SNES counterpart, ''{{Sparkster}}'', RazorWind is Sparkster's basic attack. However, in ''Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2'', this attack was removed and ordinary swordplay is the primary attack.

* The Mystic Art Wind Shear in ''TheLastRemnant''.

* In ''TheKingOfFighters'' Krizalid can do a kick that creates a circular razor wind attack that almost fills the whole screen.

* Zanetsu Swords from ''MetalSlug'' six and seven.

* [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Several series of sword skills]] in ''MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' can do this. Special mention goes to the [[InfinityPlusOneSword final sword's]] secret art, Disturbance, which uses a DoppelgangerAttack that would make Manga/{{Naruto}} proud in order to shoot razorwind and other sword beams practically everywhere, ending with a massive yellow wave.

** [[AllThereInTheManual According to Daizenshuu 7]], Cell cut a mountain into tiles to make his arena using shock waves by swiping his fingers.

** [[AllThereInTheManual According to Daizenshuu 7]], Cell used these to cut the mountain into tiles to make his arena.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', after Vegeta and Goku fuse to fight Super Buu, Vegito spends a few seconds punching and kicking until Buu lets his guard down, then he lets off one of these and slashes his cheek open. There's also Freeza's Death Wave technique (although that's actually a KiAttack).

* The Razor Wing spell in {{TabletopGame/Iron Kingdoms}} is exactly this.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', after Vegeta and Goku fuse to fight Super Buu, Vegito spends a few seconds punching and kicking until Buu lets his guard down, then he lets off one of these and slashes his cheek open. There's also Freeza's Death Wave technique.

* This is precisely what "Fuuhazan"/"Wind Slash" attack does in ''HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe'' (also counts as a SwordBeam). In the TV anime, [[{{Samurai}} Yorihisa]] performs the move the very moment he receives the [[PowerCrystal Dragon Gem]] (albeit without the associated [[CallingYourAttacks incantation]] the first time around).

* In ''TheZombieKnight'' Parson Miles can use Pan-Rozum to amplify his [[BlowYouAway oxygen transfiguration]] by accessing the materialization power.

* While neither precisely fit the traditional anime version, two ''DarkerThanBlack'' Contractors have similar powers. Luc had the ability to form wind into weapons like throwing knives and whips, all of which had an amazing cutting ability. Amigiri also had a wind-like ability, that of firing concussive bursts of air, which works sort of like a cattle gun.

* ''DarkSouls'': The Iron Golem boss does this when it can't find a target in range of its melee attacks. The player can also perform one by using the two handed strong attack of the Drake Sword, Dragon Greatsword, or the one handed strong attack of the Golem Axe.
* The Storm Ruler sword in ''DemonsSouls'' has this power as long as it's wielded in the area it's found. This gives melee-oriented characters a fighting chance against the boss and his flunkies who spend all their time in the air out of melee range.

* Simon Blackquill from ''[[{{VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies}} Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies]]'' is able to cast this with his ''fingers''.

** This is one of Roronoa Zoro's most powerful attacks. Which he developed explicitly to have a ranged attack after being constantly put at a disadvantage by guns, thus consciously fulfilling the main use of this trope.
** FillerArc villain Erik The Whirlwind has this as his Devil Fruit power.
** Every member of [[SecretPolice CP9]] can also do this, with kicks and FingerPokeOfDoom.

* Serpico from ''{{Berserk}}'' receives an enchanted feather that creates gusts of wind that allow him to cut up foes from a distance.

* Fu-gi of ''{{MAR}}'' uses wind as an attack, usually forming it into blades.

* In ''HellTeacherNube'', one of the {{youkai}} [[MonsterOfTheWeek Of The Week]] is a family of ''kamaitachi'', three lightning-fast weasels that cause a minor commotion in Doumori. The largest one knocks people down with his iron cudgel; the middle one cuts them up with her scythe-shaped arms; the child mends the wounds instantly with a magical balm. When [[CheerfulChild Makoto]] takes the latter as a pet and hides it, the two others make a mess out of everything and everyone (especially since the cuts can be lethal, and the cutting one [[spoiler:sliced Nube himself ''in half'']]) until he lets it go back to its family.
* ''{{Toriko}}'' starts using a "Flying" variant of his Fork and Knife attacks after eating some Blue Blood Corn. Zebra can do something similar with his [[MakeMeWannaShout voice]]. As can Komatsu with his [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Derous knife]].

* Shin of ''SaintBeast'' uses wind attacks that can cut.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons 3''/3.5ed features the Blood Wind spell, which invokes this trope to allow melee attacks to function as ranged.

* OlderThanSteam: In Shakespeare's ''{{Hamlet}}'', the Player King has a line to this effect in his fall of Ilium speech: "Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; / But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword / The unnerved father falls... (Act 2, Scene 2, lines 481 - 483)

** ''FinalFantasy'' games also have the aero spell.

** The Hidden Leaf also has a few wind users; Asuma can channel his wind element into the two knives he uses, giving them an extended reach and making them much sharper. Naruto had a once-used variation of the Rasengan that worked like a [[ThisIsADrill Drill]] Wind, and his Rasenshuriken creates so many tiny wind blades that anyone hit by it is destroyed on a cellular level (it used to damage his own arm too, but nowadays he has several ways around that drawback). Danzo also has several Razor Wind-type techniques, including one similar to the one in the above pic that is capable of mortally injuring multiple people at once.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Captain Kenpachi Zaraki can incidentally shear buildings in half by drawing his blade [[spoiler: after removing his energy-devouring eyepatch]].
** Kensei Muguruma's shikai can produce both RazorWind and energy blast attacks.
** Jin Kariya from the Bount arc used razor wind in several fights.

* Raijuta from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' uses wind as both a close-range and long-range attack. In a subversion, it's not a particularly effective technique, since the destructive power behind it doesn't mean anything if you're as fast as Kenshin. Also, Hiko Seijuro, Kenshin's teacher, while he never uses it as an attack, uses this with a casual wave of his sword after [[IAmNotLeftHanded taking off his weighted cloak]], and it manages to tear a massive rift in the ground.