Megaton Punch / Anime & Manga

• Black Clover: All of Mereoleona's punches are Megaton Punches. Her brother Fuegoleon is no slouch, either.
• Bleach: Kukaku Shiba, when Ichigo and Ganju broke her pipe while fighting. With a bit of Playing with Fire and Ground Pound in it to boot.
• Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!:
  • Main character Haebaru Misora's fists are as hard as rocks and she can drop men twice her size with a straight jab, as she demonstrates abundantly in a hundred-man kumite in the first arc.
  • Veronica Lin's punches can blow people across the room with ease. Getting into a slugging match with her is likened to trying to fistfight a tractor trailer, as Elena Silva learns the hard way.
  • Nosaka Nagisa exchanges punches for slaps, since striking with a closed fist isn't allowed in her primary art of Sumo Wrestling. A slap to the face from her can knock a person unconscious on the spot, by which means she became the only person in the entire series so far to actually defeat Misora in a fair fight in chapter 52.
• Played for Laughs in Dragon Ball Super when Krillin asks Goku to punch him so he can get a sense of how strong he had gotten. After confirming multiple times that he REALLY wants this, Goku obliges with a light punch that sends Krillin flying through a forest, knocking down multiple trees, through multiple houses, and into a mountain a long ways away.
• In Codename: Sailor V, the series from which Sailor Moon was spun off from, this is apparently Sailor V's strongest physical attack: while she usually kick with deadly efficiency, the rare times she instead punched the youma she sent them flying, leaving them helpless against the follow-up Crescent Beam.
• Digimon Adventure: Togemon, Boxing Battler that it is, has one of these in the form of its Coconut Punch. She also has a shoryuken variant called Coconut Upper. She hardly ever calls either attack in the original anime, but calls them plenty in the reboot.
• Duel Masters:
  • Rekuta. In the American dub, at least, he would be sent flying into the sky when he was so much as clipped by someone's bike.
  • Though it would normally follow a cry of "TODOMEDA!" from Shobu.
• F-Zero: GP Legend provides an interesting subversion of this trope: in a Taking You with Me Heroic Sacrifice, Captain Falcon performs his signature attack, the Falcon Punch, on Black Shadow, moments before the latter's Dark Reactor overloads, causing an explosion comparable in size to one-eighth of the galaxy. Due to the way the entire scene is framed, however, Memetic Mutation often portrays the explosion as being caused by the Falcon Punch by removing all traces of context. Even the spoiler tags for this example do this.
• Subverted in Full Metal Panic!. Chidori hits Sagara, then the camera suddenly changes to the sky with a big contrail. This gives the impression that Sagara himself just left the contrail while crossing the atmosphere.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Any time Ed or Al says something stupid to Izumi they will be sent flying.
• In Fushigi Yuugi, the Nyan Nyan girls (Taiitsukun's assistants) often ended up in the receiving end of these when they seriously screwed up.
• Ran from Gals! does this a number of times to multiple characters when the fights are comical.
• Hajime no Ippo: Boy, are there lots.
  • For starters, Ippo's dempsey roll manages to combine this trope with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, throwing powerful hooks at an incredibly fast rate.
  • Ippo's Gazelle Punch, and to a lesser extent, Aoki's Frog Punch. Both of these moves use kicking off the canvas to generate power into the punch, which can easily knock someone down, if not out.
  • Ippo also once slapped Taihei so hard he goes flying 15 feet away, also slapping away all memory of getting hit in the first place.
  • Takamura, being absurdly huge for a Japanese man, can seriously mess someone up with a right straight.
  • Miyata's jolt counter uses both his own weight and his opponent's for maximum damage; First time he used it against Jimmy Sisphar, Jimmy was laid out cold in a puddle of his own blood.
  • But by far, the most devastating punch out of all of the rest is Genji Kamogawa's Tekken punches. They're so powerful that they could lift Sergeant Ralph Anderson, a much taller and heavier opponent, midair and horizontally (to put that into perspective, Anderson is 30 pounds heavier than Kamogawa). And Kamogawa lets off two of them, shattering both his fists in the process, though that's nothing in comparison to Anderson's completely shattered ribs.
• HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: Cure Blossom's Blossom Screw Punch, where she gathers up flower energy and shoots it out along with the punch.
• Higurashi Rei: Happens in the 5th episode where Keiichi gets punched into intergalactic space by Rena. The following punches to the rest of the cast, while not as extreme, also fit this trope.
• In Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island, Bisquit punches Killua this way whenever he makes a reference to her actual age.
• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, the Big Bad Diavolo's stand King Crimson allows him to finish fights with one well-aimed punch, which is usually fatal, unlike most heroes and villains using Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs. Just ask Bruno, Abbacchio and Spice Girl.
• Love Hina often used surprisingly-involved animation for these. Its frequent use by Naru Narusegawa means this trope is also sometimes known as the "Naru Punch". Again, didn't happen as often or as dramatically in the manga, but much more frequently than in Ranma ½.
  • In the first episode, Naru somehow manages to deliver the Megaton Punch... from the ground-level hot spring, up to the balcony where Keitaro was standing, two floors up, without her feet leaving the ground. As he flies off, Keitaro begs to know how she reached that far.
  • In the manga Motoko does a literal Home-Run Hitter, so mangaverse Naru's Megaton Punches might be literal as well.
  • Then there's the scene where a nerd-disguised Naru punches Keitaro through a corridor with him bouncing off the walls and one doorframe (while every bystander just watches and stares without getting bowled over by him) before coming to a smashing halt at a closed door, one of many scenes that earned Keitaro his reputation of being immortal.
• In Magical Project S, Ramia frequently does this to her little brother Rumiya to send him to Earth.
• My Bride is a Mermaid has San's "Mermaid Voice", which isn't a literal punch but functions the same way.
• Justified in My Hero Academia. After Izuku Midoriya uses One For All for the first time, his legs and his right arm are both severely broken, and he begins falling to earth from jumping so high. Just before he hits the ground, Uraraka slaps Midoriya in the face, causing him to fly sideways. This was due to Uraraka's gravity control Quirk, which she needs touch to activate. Since Midoriya was falling so fast and there was no time to do anything else, this hard smack in the face was the only way to save him, as getting Midoriya in her Quirk's power allows Uraraka to float Midoriya gently back down for the remaining few feet.
• Naruto:
  • In the anime version, Sakura does this to Naruto in Shippuden when he's being particularly perverted. In one omake, she punches him so hard that Kakashi states that she got a new distance record, which is 387 meters (nearly 1300 feet). Justified in that she has chakra-augmented punches.
  • Tsunade can do this with a flick from her finger.
• The "Naru Punch" makes a cameo in Ken Akamatsu's other work Negima! Magister Negi Magi, following a Thanks for the Mammary moment during Asuna's practice date with aged-up Negi.
  • Asuna also delivers a Megaton Punch to Jack Rakan, knocking him off of a Floating Continent. He reappears right behind her, completely unharmed. Somehow.
  • It turns out that Negi's mother Princess Arika did this a lot to Nagi.
  • Anya also did these several times to Negi... until he decided not to let her and reality ensued, showing him to be far too strong for her to be able to hit him otherwise.
• One Piece:
  • Luffy often receives these sorts of blows from his crew in reaction to his stupidity. A reader pointed out that Luffy's rubber body should make such a thing impossible, and Word of God claimed the damage was more emotional than physical. Then later on Garp appeared and struck Luffy, claiming a Fist of Love can't be blocked though it ultimately was implied later on that he used Busoshoku/Armament Haki to do it.
  • On Luffy's side, during the Enies Lobby arc, he revealed his ability Gear Third which focuses on enlarging the bones in his limbs to increase the mass and power of his attacks, but sacrifices speed. Though it was used successfully in tandem with Gear Second to defeat Rob Lucci, afterwards Luffy reserved the usage of it for enemies that couldn't move fast enough to avoid his attacks. Post-timeskip, with two years of training, Luffy becomes able to use Gear Third without giving up speed thus negating its weaknesses. The culmination of Gear Third, combined with advanced forms of Armament Haki, allowed Luffy to knock down and injure the Yonko Kaido who until then was able to No-Sell everything Luffy threw at him, including Gear Fourth. The Gear Fifth version dwarfs Kaido's dragon form in size!
  • Hajrudin manages to defeat Machvise in Dressrosa by uppercutting him with every ounce of strength he had left, sending him flying into Doflamingo's Birdcage. For added bonus points, Machvise was attempting to crush Hajrudin while weighing 10,000 tons at the time; Hajrudin's bones were shattered.
• One-Punch Man: Saitama often pulls these off when he's holding back more than ever to avoid killing a person. It's either smacking them to the ground so hard they leave their grin imprinted in the concrete, sending them flying into the sky, two with one punch, or simply sending them halfway through town. Again, this is when he holds back a lot: Any less, and Surprisingly Realistic Outcome in a rain of Ludicrous Gibs.
• This also happens in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, in the episode, Catfight Club, when he tells the Anarchy sisters to get along, they reply by just punching him in the face, giving him a nosebleed and resulting in him falling to the ground.
• Pokémon: The Series: Even though it is not necessarily a punch (at least most of the time), Team Rocket always ends up flying into orbit by Pikachu's Thunderbolt (Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaaaaaain! *ting!* in English; Yanakanjiiiiiiiii! *ting!* in Japanese), even if the attacks that sent them weren't necessarily that powerful.
• Ranma ½:
  • Akane Tendo (and most of the other female martial artists) in the anime adaptation. Not so much in the manga, but then the anime tended to exaggerate everything.
  • Also, Megaton Kicks are just as common as Megaton Punches. Sometimes the target even has time to muse on the current state of affairs and smooth out their clothing while sailing peacefully through the air.
• In Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, the main character not only invokes this trope, but weaponizes it. Unable to communicate with his friends that it would be dangerous to fight the giant skeleton they trapped in a hole, not because of the monster itself but because of the carbon dioxide the hole is filled with, a desperate and quick thinking Boxxo transforms into a vending machine that dispenses sexy magazines and quickly draws attention to himself. When Lammis sees this, she slaps him, her Super-Strength sending him flying into the air, where Boxxo transforms again into the heaviest, sturdiest vending machine he can, crushing the giant skeleton with ease.
• Saber Marionette J: Lime and the other marionettes frequently belt their annoying neighbor so hard he vanishes into the distance.
• St. ♡ Dragon Girl: At the end of chapter 1, Momoka punches Ryuga into the sky after he teases her about not admitting her feelings to him.
• In Sengoku Basara, especially in the Heroes expansion, Takeda Shingen pulls this off and sent Sanada Yukimura flying. "OYAKATA-SAMAAAAA!!!!!"
  • In the anime adaptation, he did it again to Fuuma Kotarou, but since the way to the sky was obstructed by a castle, he crashed there, leaving quite a hole. Also later, his Megaton Punch catches on fire and turns Hojo Ujimasa into a twinkle in the ash.
• Soul Eater:
  • Maka receives one from Black*Star of all people. It was her suggestion, in order to make up after arguing with him, thus making it an inverted example.
  • Though it's technically a chop, not a punch, Shinigami-sama's SHINIGAMI CHOP always leaves a huge bump on someone's head... and a crater in the ground when he's serious
  • Maka herself often dishes these out as well, albeit using a book. "MAKA CHOP!"
• Tenchi Muyo!: One episode of Tenchi in Tokyo featured Amagasaki continually trying to talk to Tenchi and Sakuya, only to be attacked by the spirit of a female wrestler. While the wrestler used a different move every time, the result was always the same shot of Amagasaki flying off into the distant city, even when he was inside.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The Arc-Gurren Lagann's Burst Spinning Punch punches the target so hard they hit nothing, and shatter it, before being sent to the other end of space-time.
• In Tona-Gura!, both Kazuki Arisaka and Marie Kagura, albeit through use of her paint-ball gun, can knock Yuuji Kagura clean across a room. Very very rarely, he can even become A Twinkle in the Sky. Subverted at least once, when Marie was about to punish Genki Girl Nina Isokawa. Yuuji effortlessly disarms her, and only gives her weaponry back when he shames his younger sister into attacking only him. Fridge Logic or Rule of Funny? You decide.

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