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[[caption-width:300:[[IncrediblyLamePun Let's have a big hand]] for the [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]]!]]

->''"One fist may not be able to destroy the world... but it can certainly destroy you!"''
-->'''Kai Kitamura''', ''SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2''

->''God Power keeps my pimp-hand strong!''
-->'''GodHand'''


There's just something primal and gratifying about the image of [[BarehandedBladeBlock bare hands]] [[NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight beating swords]]. However, it gets really, really ridiculous when the main character has to try and do that every episode.

Solution? Weaponise the fist.

Brass knuckles, possibly spiked. Armored gauntlets, with or without taloned fingertips. A set of blades strapped to the back of the fist and used like claws, [[{{Wolverine}} Wolverine-style]]. Some hardcore mix of the above.

Or perhaps a deeper affectation? Perhaps a giant bear paw, with claws like knives. Perhaps a [[TakenForGranite petrified fist of granite]]. Maybe someone even grafted the devil's own unholy mitt onto your forearm to replace a lost hand - a literal RedRightHand, maybe. A lot harder to hide without shapeshifting, and perhaps [[GlamourFailure even despite shapeshifting]], but hey, it probably [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic represents the character's inner rage or something]].

May enable such various powers and LimitBreak super-attacks as: MegatonPunch, RocketPunch, or KamehameHadoken.
Occasionally, someone will use special combat ''footwear'', either as a complement or alternative to this.

Subtrope of WeaponOfChoice.
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'''Examples:'''

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[[folder: Anime/Manga ]]

* ''{{Scryed}}'s'' lead, Kazuma.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Liza]] [[WolfMan Wildman]] of ''MonsterPrincess''/''PrincessResurrection''/''KaibutsuOjou''/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS whatever we're calling that show today]].
* The PowerTrio of ''ProjectArms'' has these.
* [[GentleGiant Chad]] from ''{{Bleach}}'', and his Right Arm of the Giant. [[spoiler: Later he adds the Left Arm of the Devil which takes on the offensive role. The right arm acts now acts as a shield.]]
* [[CuteBruiser Subaru]] and [[CoolBigSis Ginga]] from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'' have one gauntlet each from the pair of [[MagicWand Devices]] [[AncestralWeapon that was once owned]] by their [[ActionMom mother]]. They each get their own set of [[RollerBladeGood armored roller-blades]] as well. Much cooler than it may sound. Also, Fate's armored left gauntlet (with the "Thunder Arm" ability) is a defensive variant.
* Allen Walker from ''[[DGrayMan D.Gray-Man]]'', and his left arm. Normally, it's an unsightly RedRightHand, though he's one of the nicest guys, ever. When activated, it becomes a monstrously huge metallic paw with large, wicked claws. There is actually a scene where he points out that his claws are too big for him to make a fist. From the same series, there's also Lenalee Lee, whose special weapons are the Black Boots, which allow her such awesome speed and mobility she might as well be flying, and deliver brutally hard kicking attacks.
* Kinjo, one of the humanoid homunculi mid-way through ''BusouRenkin'' had an Alchemical Weapon Gauntlet, the Peaky Gulliver, and was capable of making that fist freakishly large and crushing anything under its weight.
* ''HellTeacherNube'''s hand, in which a supreme Oni is sealed, is overwhelmingly powerful on its own for ordinary (or [[TheLegionsOfHell not so ordinary]]) fisticuffs... but later on, Nube learns to release ''just enough'' of the Oni's power to [[VoluntaryShapeShifting turn it into]] [[ShapeshifterWeapon bladed weapons]], shields, gigantic "nets" made of blades and spikes and bone, or even let it take over the rest of his body to overcome particularly nasty foes.
* Chao Lingshen of {{Negima}} had one of these to suit her PoweredArmor so she could stand against the more [[HermeticMagic magical]] or [[KiAttacks ki-empowered characters]]. It was later parodied in the AlternateContinuity {{Omake}}s
* As mentioned above, the Daedalus Attack used in ''[[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross]]'' is basically the HumongousMecha version of a power fist, surrounding an aircraft carrier-sized arm with energy shields to pierce enemy armor, and then [[MacrossMissileMassacre firing countless missile batteries]] while the arm is still inside the target.
* Tanarot from ''MacademiWasshoi'' has a pair of oversized boxing gloves that serve as her primary weapon. This is a perfect match for her personality, which is a ball of energy bound to blow up things. She's very good with them.
* A variant is found in ''BubblegumCrisis'': Knuckle Bombers, which are shaped charges attached to a guard over the fist of the heroines' PoweredArmor. Understandably, getting punched by this ''hurts''.
* [[GGundam This hand of mine glows with an awesome POWER!!! IT'S BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU!!!]]
* Solty from ''SoltyRei'' can punch a [[HumongousMecha walking tank ten times her size]] [[MegatonPunch into the stratosphere]].
* The X-Gloves worn by Sawada Tsunayoshi in Katekyo Hitman Reborn(and their predecessor, the I-Gloves worn by Vongola I.) Not only do they light on fire, but they allow flight, absorption of other flames, and the ability to FREEZE.
* In BlasterKnuckle, main character Victor Freeman's weapon of choice are his titular knuckles. It's a gauntlet with four bullet chambers over each knuckle that shoot silver bullets when he punches monsters. The result is a wonderfully gory explosion.
* [[OnePiece GEAR... THIRD!]]
** Also, Franky.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* The FantasticFour enemy the Super-Skrull likes to turn his hands into copies of [[FantasticFour The Thing]]'s (no, not [[TheThing that one]]) and combine rocky-skinned superstrong punches with the long reach of Mister Fantastic and sometimes adds a flame and forcefield combo to add to his punches', er, punch. In fact he once used this destructive combo-punch and his VoluntaryShapeshifting powers to impersonate Powe...I mean, Iron Fist.
* So you ''can't'' forget {{Hellboy}}'s RedRightHand [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]!
* The Jager Maxim of ''GirlGenius'' wears one of these into combat. Similar devices have also been seen being worn (in flashback) by Dr. Mongfish and The Other.
* Chase of ''{{Runaways}}'' wore the Fistigons, "the most powerful gauntlets ever invented" for a while. And he has recently retrieved them thanks to the wonders of TimeTravel.
* Both versions of Goldengloves from AstroCity use super-powered alien boxing gloves as their main gimmick.
* The Satan Claw worn by Baron von Strucker, the original Supreme Hydra in the MarvelUniverse.
* Southpaw (from ''SheHulk''), Gauntlet and Armory (from ''TheInitiative''), all created by Dan Slott, and all posessing alien gloves that project energy fists, but can't be removed. All three weapons are related (Southpaw and Gauntlet's were worn by the same alien; Armory's belonged to the one he was fighting.)

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[[folder: Film ]]

* {{Gamera}} in the film ''Gamera: Revenge Of Irys'' gains the ability to form a fist out of plasma after his real hand is amputated. He uses said plasma-fist to [[spoiler:Punch a hole into Irys and kill him.]]
* Prior to the final battle, the protagonist of ''TurkishStarWars'' melts down his golden {{BFS}} and turns it into a pair of magic golden gloves.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* In ''[[{{Discworld}} Night Watch]]'', both [[AntiHero Vimes]] and [[PsychoForHire Carcer]] make frequent use of brass knuckles (amongst other inventions of Sir William Blunt-Instrument).
* Nails of [[http://thelonelywinds.com/library.php The Lonely Winds]] wears fingerless gloves with big silver spikes mounted on them, allowing him to leave some nasty wounds on the monsters the eponymous heroes fight.
* One [[http://community-2.webtv.net/OurManHermes/degrandin/page3.html ''Jules de Grandin'' story]] has ordinary humans rendered able to punch supernatural creatures by using [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome brass knuckles soaked in lime juice]]. OrSoIHeard.
* In {{Eragon}}, the title character magically alters his hands so that they have lumps of bone on top, because otherwise his hands would fracture every time he hit something.

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[[folder: Professional Wrestling ]]

* {{WWE}} [[ProfessionalWrestling Professional Wrestler]] William Regal, for a while, had a gimmick where he would win his matches thanks to "The Power of the Punch". Unbeknownst to the EasilyDistractedReferee, said punch was powered by a set of brass knuckles secreted in his trunks.
* {{CHIKARA}} took this to a comically ridiculous level. In order to counteract Mike Quackenbush's powerful palm strike attacks, Mecha Mummy unleashed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLZL32f2Cs palm strikes with a giant, metal hand of his own.]]

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* The TropeNamer is ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', where our friend in the picture above comes from (he's also a SpaceMarine wearing PoweredArmor with ShouldersOfDoom and carrying a ReallyBigGun (which is actually a Space Marine's standard issue pistol)) which features among its close combat weapons massive mechanical fists a good three to five times regular size that are loaded with servo-motors that radically increase the user's strength and wreathed in an energy field that tears apart anything it touches on the atomic level. The game also features:
** power claws, which are the same thing but with giant crushing blades instead of fingers;
** lightning claws, which are four or five giant blades in the place of the fingers (or on some other units, mounted wolverine-style on the back of the hand) wreathed in an armour-ignoring energy field in the same way as power fists;
** the Scorpion's Claw, a powered scorpion claw with a built in gun that fires thousands of molecule-thick ninja stars;
** and the chainfist, a power fist with a [[ChainsawGood giant chainsaw]] also wreathed in the aforementioned destructive energies bolted to the knuckles, which is canonically capable of tearing through ''metres'' of nigh-indestructible [[{{Unobtainium}} adamantium]] with no problems. It is, however, so heavy it can only be used by suits of power armour so tough they can survive being trampled by hundred-metre-tall HumongousMecha.
** [[HumongousMecha Titan]] close combat weapons are often enormous PowerFists. One type is the Corvus Assault Pod, which is a combination of a powerfist and [[ThisIsADrill huge drill]], with room to house a boarding party inside. It's used to punch a hole into the enemy titan or building, and then the boarding party comes out and kills anybody who survived being punched by a HumongousMecha.
** Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, has ''two'' Power Fists.
***With storm bolters strapped to the underside of each, just to be sure.
* Among the "components" used by Warforged in the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' setting {{Eberron}} is the Battlefist, a +1 weapon which looks like a massively oversized spiked gauntlet and increases the damage of the Warforged's natural slam attacks.
** A prestige class introduced in ''Magic of {{Eberron}}'' is basically a magitek cyborg, allows other races to replace one hand with a metal one for a slam attack of their own.
*** And it's survived into the 4th edition; now an Artificer Paragon Path called the "Self-Forged", it begins with replacing one hand/forearm with a "Battlefist", a magitek prosthetic that counts as a Mace-class weapon in combat and which is used for the Path's attack powers... the second of which is effectively a {{Rocket Punch}}!
* Rifts has its own claw-based variation, usually of Wolverine-esque vibroblade claws mounted on the vambrace of a suit of armor or PoweredArmor, and normally three in number.
* The RPG [[SlaIndustries SLA Industries]] has several examples of this trope. The three main ones are the GASH Fist (a powered fist with a large blade attached, much like a katar), the ITB Mutilator (a powered fist that, for unspecified reasons, causes more damage due to vibrational actions) and the JOLT fist, which deals no damage but acts like a finger tip-mounted tazer instead.
* ''{{Exalted}}'' has smashfists, an artifact weapon that is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. In addition, Lunars can incorporate special tattoo artifacts into the full-body moonsilver tattoos that every Lunar in the Silver Pact possesses; at the expense of having to permanently attune to the artifacts in question, they can't be stolen and are always available to the Lunar, even when shapeshifted. Smashfists are among the artifacts compatible with this method, making it possible to have a ''literal'' PowerFist.
** It also has the aptly-named ''God-Kicking Boots'', for when your martial artist wants to [[IncrediblyLamePun kick things up a notch]].
* MagicTheGathering has more than one red enchantment that follows this trope, among them [[http://magiccards.info/7e/en/195.html Granite Grip]], [[http://magiccards.info/ia/en/219.html Stonehands]], and [[http://magiccards.info/shm/en/187.html Fists of the Demigod]].
* ''{{GURPS}}'' has brass knuckles, which only slightly increase damage but also allow you to attack targets that would otherwise damage your hands. ''GURPS: Martial Arts'' has the Bagh-Nakh, bladed hand, cestus, myrmex and sap glove. ''Ultra-Tech'' has and advanced version of brass knuckles and [[ElectricTorture zap glove]], along with a system that makes your punches stick grenades to the enemy.
** ''High-Tech'' has the Pistol Glove, which shoots a bullet when you land a punch.
* SeventhSea : there are two pro-eminent fighting styles in [[strike: Germany]]Eisenor. One involves [[{{BFS}} Zweihänders]] and your face. The other involves a regular sword, a [[PowerFist Panzerfaust]] (lit. Armored Fist, a heavy plate glove made of the local Adamantium), and your face. It may not be as graceful as Montaigne fencing or as subtle as Vodacci dagger-fu, but by God it's efficient.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''{{Xenosaga}}'' featured [[DeathSeeker Ziggaurat 8]] ("Ziggy"), a cyborg whose left arm and both legs are visibly robotic and used to devastating effect. [[HotScientist Shion]] used an odd sort of power-knuckle device equipped with various gadgets and weapons.
* ''FinalFantasy'' games often have weapons like this for the Monk or Monk-analogue. Mash/Sabin of ''FinalFantasyVI'', Tifa of ''FinalFantasyVII'', Zell of ''FinalFantasyVIII''. Though sometimes they just wear really durable, cool-looking gloves. Monks in ''FinalFantasyXI'' also have the above-mentioned footwear, that boosts the power of their kick attacks ([[GuideDangIt although you wouldn't know unless someone told you]]).
** [[FinalFantasyIV Yang Fang Leiden]] only uses claws to add elemental properties or debuffs to his attacks. Then again, this is a man who used his body to make the Tower of Babil's cannon misfire, so what's a weapon gonna do for him?
** Haven't mentioned Rikku's weapons in FFX yet? All of her weapons are fists, including her best, the God Hand. And many, like any other weapon in the game, had extra properties, ranging from status effects, to element affiliations, to the vaunted No MP ability.
* Nero's Devil Hand from ''DevilMayCry 4''. Dante has the Ifrit in the first game and Beowulf in the third - and of course, the Gilgamesh in the fourth. The later two are gauntlet-and-shoes comboes, while the first are just gauntlets.
* {{Fallout}} had the Power Fist. {{Fallout}} 2 had the Mega Power Fist which was the same except, you know, fistier. {{Fallout}} 3 returns to the original Power Fist, but also includes the Deathclaw Gauntlet, which consists of strapping the hand of the titular wasteland beastie to the end of one's arm.
** Also, in Fallout 3, one can't forget the unique weapons ''The Shocker'' (an electrical power fist) and ''Fisto!'' (exclamation mark included).
** ''Fallout Tactics'' included the punch gun, a leather and metal gauntlet that would fire a shotgun shell point blank on impact.
* [[RobotBuddy Robo]] of ''ChronoTrigger'' fights with his fists, which he can replace with better fists through the game, so he mostly counts. He's also got a kind of rocket punch. Cavewoman Ayla fights completely barehanded, and so falls under a [[GoodOldFisticuffs different trope]].
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Fist weapons, often of the claw variety, but they are generally overlooked and not too common to begin with.
** At least that was the case in early WoW. Since Patch 2.4, if there's a fist weapon in end game content, it is often made of awesome and a great choice for any Combat/HaT(since patch 3.1) Rogue and Enhancement Shaman.
* Several of MegaMan's weapons are Power Fists, such as the Hard Knuckle in Mega Man 3, the Mega Arm in the Gameboy game Mega Man V, and the Super Adapter in Mega Man 7.
** [[MegaManZero Zero's]] "Z-knuckle" (a chip embedded in both hands) expands his MegaManning ability; it allows him to steal weapons from normal {{Mooks}} so he can use them for himself. And, according to official art, [[spoiler:his EvilTwin Omega Zero]] also has one, and is supposedly the basis for the [[LimitBreak Giga Attacks]] in the ''[[MegaManX X series]]'' (appropriate, since [[spoiler:Zero in his original body AKA Omega]] always performs his Giga Attacks by punching the ground).
* And don't forget the ''GodHand''!
** Its God Power keeps my Pimp Hand strong!
* Regal from ''TalesOfSymphonia'' fights with various greaves around his shins for kicking, leaving his hands purely for balance as he's sworn never to use them for killing. Not that his hands could be used since they are shackled, which he prefers. (He gets rid of them in the sequel, apparently.)
* Akihiko Sanada from ''{{Persona 3}}'' fights with an assortment of fist weapons.
* Drachma from ''SkiesOfArcadia'' fights with various attachments to his mechanical arm. As appropriate for the SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness, you find various outlandish attachments of all kinds (such as a hook, an ancient {{magitek}} grappling claw and a drill), all of which are perfectly compatible with his arm, all over the place. Apparently there are a lot of other people running around with robot arms; you just never meet 'em.
* Fist weapons are a main class of weaponry in the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series. While they all look alike, their description varies between realistic knuckle-type weapons, monstrous appendages, martial-arts techniques, and comic relief (including the MegatonPunch, "Guaranteed to turn your enemies into ATwinkleInTheSky!")
** Known wielders of Power Fists in the Disgaea universe include [[BloodKnight Adell]], [[CoolBigSis Jennifer]], and [[RealMenWearPink Mr. Champloo]]. Thanks to Magichange, Jennifer [[ actually BECOMES one]]!
* Potemkin of ''GuiltyGear'' actually both uses and somewhat subverts this. Mounted on his fists are extremely heavy gauntlets with built-in shotguns - but his instant kill attack actually involves him ''stripping off'' all the heavy metal gear he's wearing, which are actually inhibitors to prevent him from misusing his physical strength. He then ''punches'' his opponent. ''Once.''
* In Phantasy Star Online, there's a sub-group of Hunter weapons called fists that are just gloves with photons in them.
* Several chips in the ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' games are built around giving MegaMan a huge fist, often with special abilities. The Guts Punch and Bronze/Silver/Gold Fist series chips all have arrow commands you can do to make their attack or range expand, and the Cold Punch chip... well, just freezes things. In the anime, Heat Guts style also gives MegaMan a huge fist and a rock-hard punch. Later in both game and anime, Rock can take on the attributes of the series' native punching expert Gutsman, and his default weapon becomes the Guts Punch.
* The player may choose to do this in ''{{Crysis}}'' with their [[PoweredArmor 'Nano Suit']] in [[SuperStrength Strength Mode]], and with a little file tweaking, you can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom send enemies ''flying'' with a single blow]] from your fists.
* Savyna's weapons in ''BatenKaitos'' are all some variation of brass knuckles or fist blades. Ayme also uses certain tonfa-like weapons in this manner.
* Gracia from ''Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends'' fights with her bare hands while wearing special bracelets. Unusually for this trope, her attacks are ''incredibly weak'', much moreso than the other characters who use some sort of weapon. She compensates by having one of the best [[LimitBreak musou attacks]] in the game, and exceptionally powerful and useful musou-meter-powered special moves.
* In ''TeamFortress2'', the Heavy recently received a pair of unlockable boxing gloves: the [[FunWithAcronyms Killing Gloves of Boxing]]. They're actually a bit of a variation, in that the gloves don't directly increase his melee attack power; rather, after killing someone with the KGB, the Heavy gets 5 seconds of 100% critical hit chance, which apply to any of his weapons... But if he just keeps using the gloves, the timer resets with each kill, allowing him to rack up a chain of [[ThatCameOutWrong deadly fistings]].
* Stone Melee Heroes and Villains in ''CityOfHeroes'' and ''CityOfVillains'' can make their own granite fists for some of the earlier attacks. There's also the Energy Melee set, which focuses on this.
* The Counter Sword in ''{{S4 League}}'' keeps a small [[NotCompensatingForAnything sword]] in the right hand, but it's only used for the weapon's weaker attacks. Counterattacks and the weapon's uberpowerful Jump Attacks and Strong Attacks instead use a massive armored gauntlet, nearly as large as the player character.
* The Nintendo Power Glove. It's [[SoBadItsHorrible so bad]].
* In the older BionicCommando games, the bionic arm acted as a sort of secondary weapon, allowing you to block shots and push enemies around. The recent remake allows you to use it to more directly kill stuff.
* Neinhalt Sieger from the [[SamuraiShodown Samurai Spirits/Shodown series]] has a large, {{Steampunk}} power fist as his melee weapon. It's also an {{Arm Cannon}}.
* Kratos gets such a weapon in ''GodOfWar: Chains of Olympus''.
** The upcoming third installment will contain what are referred to as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestus cestuses]], but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm88Blmlwjk better resemble weaponized statuary]].
* ''PlanescapeTorment'' seems to be unique among [[DungeonsAndDragons DnD]]-based video games in devoting an entire non-[[BareFistedMonk monk]] discipline to fist weapons. Many of these were BladeBelowTheShoulder type weapons like katars and [[XMen Wolverine-style]] claws, along with enchanted brass knuckles and one set of man-eating gauntlets.
* As noted in the page quote, there are machines in ''SuperRobotWars'' with power fists. Or rather, the Jet Magnum, a normal, giant robot fist, with plasma charged pistons that explode upon contact with the enemy, who usually then explode.
** There are plenty of other fist-based attacks too, like the R-1's TK-Knuckle and such.
* Master Monks in ShiningForceII equips fist weapons to counter thier abysmal base Attack power, due to being [[StaffChick healers]] previously before promoting. They still manage to turn the class into a walking [[Gamebreaker death machine]] though, due to the fists having the highest attack ratings of all the game's weapons.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* This was Fisto's power on ''[[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]''. In one episode of the remake, he successfully uses it to distract an enemy so that he can punch him with his other hand. I'm still not sure how that works.
-->'''Fisto''': See this hand?
-->(Mook glares at giant hand, Fisto punches him with his normal hand)
-->'''Fisto''': Should've paid attention to the other hand.
* Lugnut of ''TransformersAnimated'' can perform what fans have referred to as "[[FanNickname the Punch of Kill Everything]]." His fist produces a bomb, and when he punches the ground with it (which he sometimes does with ''a jet engine''), it sends a devastating shockwave (no, not [[TheMole that Shockwave]]) in all directions (somehow not damaging him). Of course, it can also be an AchillesHeel: hit his fist before it hits the ground, it goes off early and he takes the brunt.
* [[BattleButler Owen Burnett]] of {{Gargoyles}} has a [[TakenForGranite solid stone fist]] which he clubs people with when defending his boss, [[XanatosPlannedThisIndex David Xanatos]].
* Huey Freeman of TheBoondocks uses the "Black Power Fist" (basically a taser glove) in the episode "Let's Nab Oprah."
* [[{{Futurama}} The (Robot) Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings]], but they're pretty handy for playing golden fiddles.
*In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Batman has Nth Metal Knuckledusters that allow him to ''punch ghosts''.

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* Sol's WeaponOfChoice in ''[[http://www.revenant-braves.schala.net Circumstances of the Revenant Braves]]''.
* The webcomic [[DrMcNinja Dr. Mcninja]] featured a person who invented rocket boots. He used them to kick people, a rare example of a kicker for this trope AND a practical use for otherwise silly technology. [[spoiler: He was killed one night by assassins because he didn't wear his rocket boots to bed]]

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* At [[WhateleyUniverse Whateley Academy]] Chaka gets a set of power gauntlets as a christmas present. They only work twice a day and require her to [[CallingYourAttacks call her attack]] but they will go through the local [[PoweredArmor power armour]] with little difficulty.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* The stun glove, a glove that shocks anything it touches when turned on.
* The other obvious real life example would be brass knuckles/knuckle dusters/etc., which are illegal in much of the United States.
** Slightly more legal are SAP gloves, which are partially filled with lead shot or powdered metals to add more "oomph" to a punch while reducing the chances of injuring one's hand when hitting someone. They see some use among law enforcement officials.
* Ironically the ''panzerfaust'' (armor fist) is not an example of this.

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