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Black Mage: You better lock me up before I do something horrible. Like cast Feather Fall. Guard: What's so horrible about that? Black Mage: And then say "Hadoken". -- 8-Bit Theater''
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. 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.
Examples:
- The first Trope Namer here is the Kamehameha ("Turtle Destruction Wave") used by Goku and others from Dragon Ball. Not that there weren't plenty of cousins around, such as the Galic Gun and Final Flash used by Vegeta, as well as several variations of the original - From-the-Feet-Kamehameha, Super-Kamehameha, Genki-Dama-Kamehameha, Warp-Kamekameha, and Father-and-Son-Kamehameha.
- The second part of the name comes from the Hadoken ("Wave Motion Fist") used by Ryu And Ken (And Akuma and Sakura) from the Street Fighter series, specifically the Shinkuu Hadoken as it appeared in the Marvel Vs. Capcom Massive Multiplayer Crossover series.
- Chun Li's "Kikosho" attack is a stationary version of this. Rather than a beam of death, it's a Sphere Of Destruction.
- Said Shinkuu Hadouken and Kikou Shou will be returning for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
- Ryoga of Ranma One Half has the depression-powered Shishi Houkodan.
- 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 Pokemon 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.
- In Yu Yu Hakusho, Yusuke Urameshi's attack, the Reigun, is a variation, wherein he usually fires a large blast from only one finger at a time, though he has at times full-palmed the blast, resulting in the partial destruction of no less than two stadiums and a fair portion of the surrounding landscape.
- Naruto has used a variation of the attack, though only when in nine-tailed fox form, wherein he launched a "dense chakra" blast from from his mouth, destroying a large hill and most of the ground surrounding it in a half-mile diameter.
- In 8-Bit Theater, the Hadoken, and custom variants thereof, have been used several times by Black Mage (Hadoken, many times, Boatdoken, and Fighterdoken), Fighter (Medoken), and Redmage (Hadoyastopthis!?)
- In a strange combination with the Wave Motion Gun, both Domon Kashuu and his gundam, God Gundam, of Mobile Fighter G Gundam, are capable of performing the Exploding God Finger, a one-handed variation of the Kamehame Hadoken, usually performed after Domon states, "This hand of mine burns with an awesome power. Its burning grip tells me to defeat you!"
- Sailor Moon, as Princess Serenity, evokes this whenever she uses the Mystical Silver Crystal. That is, when it doesn't decide to bail on her.
- Her live-action counterpart in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon has an even more powerful attack -- which is responsible for the complete death of the Moon Kingdom.
- Sailor Saturn from the later seasons of the anime has an explicit planet-killer attack, which also automatically kills her. Needless to say, this is an Informed Ability.
- 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 subverted in that it 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.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh GX has several monsters that pull this off. They include Exodia, Obelisk the Tormentor, etc.
- 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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- Slayers: Lina Inverse's Dragon Slave spell starts as a Kamehame Hadoken, and ends in a Sphere Of Destruction.
- 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.
- Nina does this to Arika during their first duel in Mai-Otome.
- 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.
- This was the designated Finishing Move of Ninjor, who appeared in the third season of Power Rangers
- Pretty Cure:
- STONEEEEERRRR!!! SUUUUNNNSHIIIIIIINNNEEEE!!!!
- Vivio's Sankt Kaiser form in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha used this against the titular character during the final battle of the third season. The Beam O War against Nanoha's Wave Motion Gun was inevitable.
- Lampshaded in the Webcomic, 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.
- Ninja-clad Bandits in Yoshi's Island use this as their primary attack.
- G-Gundam has Domon and Master Asia's Sekiha Tenkyoken, which, like everything else in that series, is surrounded by Hot Blooded CMoA screaming.
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