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alt title(s): Kamehame Hadouken; Fireball Attack 
Goku and Ryu, delivering a world of hurt.
The (Kamehame)Ha(doken) is the ultimate Ki Attack of any given martial-arts-based anime or video game, and almost always takes the form of a huge and/or continuous solid beam of weaponised ki, shot from the cupped hands of the main character after bringing his/her hands forward from behind their back. The attack is always derived from the latent power of the user, and the blast is incredibly destructive, ranging from causing large personal property damage, to the destruction of large satellites, to possibly destroying the planet on which the character stands. It is frequently, though not always, a Finishing Move.
A form of Limit Break. A staple for Shotoclones, along with the Shoryuken and Hurricane Kick. Compare with BFG, which is often the technological version, and Wave Motion Gun, for the Humongous Mecha or spaceship-scale version of that. Contrast Beam Spam.
Usually the end result of a My Name Is Inigo Montoya.
Not to be confused with the legendary Hawaiian king Kamehameha I (or any of the subsequent, less legendary Kamehamehas).
Examples:
Anime
Film
- Yes, the Kamehameha shows up in Dragonball Evolution. Either from unmitigated gall or a need to give the studio's legal department a workout, the writers decided to call it airbending.
Live Action TV
Professional Wrestling
- Both Kenny Omega and Player Uno have been known to use the Hadoken - Omega's requires a few moments of concentration but is most always successful, and Uno's is rather instant but is regularly blocked by his opponent raising their forearms. Used once against his own partner Player Dos (then known as Stupified) to which Stup. complained against his use of superpowers.
Tabletop Games
- The recent supplement to Mutants & Masterminds, Mecha & Manga, has the power, Devastating Blast. The power fits this trope entirely (as was intended in this anime-based supplement) and you may spend combat turns to charge the power, increasing the power's damage.
Video Games
- The second part of the name comes from the Hadoken ("Surge Fist") used by Ryu And Ken (and Akuma and Sakura) from the Street Fighter series, specifically the Shinkuu Hadoken (A big fireball in the canonical games and a huge beam in Marvel vs. Capcom and its successor Tatsunoko vs. Capcom; the latter fits the definition of the trope more.).
- Chun Li's "Kikosho" attack is a stationary version of this. Rather than a beam of death, it's a Sphere Of Destruction.
- Some Final Smashes in Super Smash Bros Brawl, like the Mario Finale or Samus Zero Beam, although the latter (being technologically driven) is more properly a BFG.
- The Pokémon Lucario's signature attack Aura Sphere is a blatant Hadoken look-alike of the large projectile variety, while its Final Smash in Super Smash Bros Brawl is the continuous beam variety.
- A number of Touhou characters have this technique at their disposal, but the most common variation is undoubtedly Marisa Kirisame's Master Spark (never mind that she has to cup a magical artifact in her hands to launch the beam; the pose is the same).
- Barret's final limit, Catastrophe, from Final Fantasy VII is a similar attack but is actually superheated plasma being shot from his Arm Cannon. It is, however, implied to be fueled by the very life essence of The Planet.
- Regal, of Tales Of Symphonia, has one of these. It is only ever seen once. Well, maybe twice.
- DHAOS LASER! So friggin' powerful, it may as well qualify as a Wave Motion Gun.
- The Pyro of Team Fortress 2 has a taunt that mimicked this. In the update on 19 June, this attack instantly kills anyone standing next to it. Can be viewed here
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- Not to mention, you HAVE to do it to get an achievement.
- In Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter, the protagonist can perform this in the form of the 'Dragon Breath' attack, when using his Deadly Upgrade form. At the end of the game, he even manages to get in a Beam O War with an actual dragon.
- In ''Disgaea: Hour of Darkness'' (and its PSP port), characters can level up their mastery of weapon types to gain various special attacks. For those of the martial artist career path, these attacks consist largely of simple punch and kick combos for the first few levels... until they obtain the 'Lions Roar' technique, which costs more than ten times as much mana as their previous moves, often requiring mana-boosting equipment to use even once per fight when it is first acquired. When the attack is used, the character somersaults into the sky, pushing their back up against the lens of the isometric camera, and throws an enormous Kamehamehadoken, killing everything within a large radius of their original position before falling gently to earth. Awesome.
- The Blazing Palm special in Disgaea 3 is a much more modest fiery Kamehameha, without the absurd MP cost of Lion's Roar. The Nekomata monster class gets its own version of this: Cat Blast.
- One of the attacks of Soulgain in Super Robot Wars is called Seiryuu Rin... which is practically this trope exemplified. While weaker than Soulgain's other attacks, it's the only attack that allows multi-enemy targetting.
- Ninja-clad Bandits in Yoshi's Island use this as their primary attack.
- Firzen in Little Fighter 2 has the Firzen Cannon technique; while not his ultimate attack, its appearance and effect are clearly based on Hadoken and/or the Kamehameha.
- Dark Demon in Dynamite Headdy has a beam attack that takes up nearly the entire screen.
- Fei in Xenogears has an attack resembling this as one of his final Deathblows.
- His "chi blast" spell when used in his gear is straight up Kamehame Hadoken or Wave Motion Fist except it looks be somewhat fire elemental, even though its not. His special option ability "Thor Wave" is an even better example.
- Basch in Final Fantasy XII has a quickening called "Fulminating Darkness" (How's that for an attack name?), which superficially resembles Vegeta's Final Flash, except it's a beam of swirling greenish-black energy. It's actually the weakest of Basch's quickenings, though.
- This is a common style of attack for the Monk classes in some of the games, notably Sabin.
- In Kirby Super Star, Kirby's fully-charged "Plasma" attack looks like this. It doesn't hurt that his hair in this form looks like a green version of Goku's, either.
- The same in Kirby Air Ride.
- His fighter mode does this by charging and shooting it. Unlike his plasma mode, where he becomes the projectile, the fighter shoots it in a fully Wave Motion Fist fashion.
- Chaos Spear in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The other chaos powers are a bit different.
- Linn Kurosawa gets one of these in the Aliens Versus Predator arcade game.
- Invoked in Worms for the Fire Punch and Dragonball weapons.
- Dizzy and Justice in Guilty Gear get "Gamma Ray", a massively powerful laser beam.
- One of the Special Weapons in Mega Man X 5 has a Charged Attack that allows X to do exactly this. It later became a X-Buster upgrade in X8, and also seen in a Combination Attack in the same game.
- And then there's the actual Hadoken (regular version, thus a normal fireball), included as a Shout Out Easter Egg in the first game.
- In The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, the EX version of Takuma's MAX2/HSDM is this. It has a nice lion motif to it.
- Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III has its signature Particle Beam attack. In the DS version, it builds it by charging the energy between its hands; which are cupped, facing each other, and stacked vertically, and then fires it as a beam of energy by separating its hands.
- Alex Mercer from Prototype can do this. Only the stream of destruction emerging from his hands isn't ki, it is concentrated biomass from the people he has eaten.
- Super Mario RPG has the Geno Beam.
- As opposed to the honorable trope namers, No More Heroes' resident cheating bastard, Destroyman, uses the sphere-type. Destroy Cannon. The Destroy Buster (beam-type), on the other hand, comes from somewhere ''else''.
- Despite being a clone of the Street Fighter games, the SNES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters is pretty light on this. Only Raphael and Wingnut come close.
Web Comics
- In 8-Bit Theater, the Hadoken is the signature attack of Black Mage. A variant, Boatdoken, is used by Black Mage to power a rocket boat. The Red Mage used a similar attack once ("Hadoyastopthis!?"). Fighterdoken and Medoken are not actually Kamehame Hadoken attacks but Fastball Specials. Black Mage's Hadoken is powered by The Power Of Love - literally. It consumes love from the universe to power itself. The divorce rate rises every time he fires it off.
- The Captain SNES parody actually uses the name "Kamehamehadoken."
- Lampshaded in Looking For Group: After Richard gets trapped in a bleach-white purgatory, he is seen attempting to use the Hadoken; the only effect seems to be that he forms a blue glowing ball in his hands, to which he says "that didn't work as well as I'd liked." He does, however, follow-up with a successful Shoryuken to Hctib.
- In Erfworld, Maggie casts
Hadoken Hoboken to kill an enemy mount.
- One El Goonish Shive character and his clone can use a variant, "Tamashii Gekido" ("Soul Fury") — short-ranged wide blast of force strong enough to hurl the target away if there's enough space for a tumbling flight. After all, they practice "anime-style martial arts", it's not something unexpected.
Web Original
- The DBZ-inspired Super Mario Bros Z has characters busting out the Kamehame Hadoken on several occasions. It's rather a specialty of Fire Mario and Bowser, for example, and Mecha Sonic uses one in episode 6 to finish off Axem Red.
- In the Whateley Universe, Chaka has learned a secret Ki attack like this from a superpowered ninja opponent. She fires it from a finger and calls it her 'Chaka Chaka Bang Bang'.
Western Animation
- In an entirely-American use of this, by the 3rd season of Danny Phantom, Danny, when needing a more powerful hit to stop an enemy, performs a very quick Kamehame-Hadoken-like Ectoblast. Most notably, he and Dani, his clone/cousin perform a dual-blast in this manner, one which seems only slightly less-powerful than his Ghostly-Wail (and a lot less draining)
- There are a couple of examples in Green Lantern: First Flight in the finale. After Hal Jordan reactivates the Green Element and becomes rather Ion-like, he one-hand blasted Sinestro through several buildings. Then during their last DBZ-style ring-powered fist fight, Hal uses the last power in his ring for a nice, big blast.
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