Basic Trope: A surge-of-energy Ki Attack fired from the character's cupped, outstretched hands.
- Straight: Bob cups his hands, pulls them back and then thrust them forward, releasing a beam or bolt of ki that hits his foe, while screaming “TROPEDUKEN!”
- Exaggerated: The Tropeduken’s blast can be seen from space, and is a One-Hit Kill on anything.
- Downplayed: The Tropeduken is a rather minor energy ball that deals chip damage.
- Justified: Ki attacks are already a staple of Bob, and he just decide to use a more familiar motion today.
- Inverted:
- The tropeduken absorbs energy instead or releasing it.
- The hand motions for the Tropeduken blast is indeed holding your arms out, thenn pulling them back and cupping then. The blast bursts out of the enemy and into the practioner’s hands instead.
- Subverted:
- Bob cups his hands, pulls them back and then thrust them forward… into his opponents chest, blasting them back without any energy blast.
- The energy blast is actually from Bob’s gauntlets, and he can use it one-handed.
- Double Subverted:
- A similar, yet different version of the bobduken does release an energy blast, with similar motions.
- The gauntlets are a Magic Feather; he doesn’t actually need them for the attack
- Parodied:
- Bob cups his hands, pulls them back and then thrust them forward, releasing a beam or bolt of ki while screaming “Bob’s-Fan-Based-Parody-Protected-Name-Changed-To-Protect-Innocent-HamehameKadoken!”
- The attack looks massively impressive but hits the foe with all the force of a garden hose, and is only useful for damaging their dignity.
- Bob doesn't have the anchoring needed to use the Tropeduken properly, and Bob is sent hurtling into space from the recoil.
- Zig Zagged:
- The tropeduken isn’t one beam of energy, but rather is a stream of ki blasts released so quickly they look like a beam. As a result, to use the attack properly Bob has to do the hand motions VERY quickly.
- Bob’s tropeduoken is cursed and so it can’t actually do damage. Bob still finds ways around this, using it as a signal or to launch himself around. Then Alice shows up with the actual tropedouken, in all it’s destructive glory.
- Averted: No ki-attacks shown have the distinctive gesture, and they are universally launched one-handed.
- Enforced: Bob is a recolor of a sprite of Ryu, and the author of the webcomic isn’t talented enough to make a more unique attack.
- Lampshaded:
- “Does this attack seem familiar, or it it just me?”
- Bob uses the Tropeduken, and the background shows a billboard with a Goku-Expy dpoing the exact same thing.
- Invoked: Bob practiced his Supernatural Martial Arts endlessly until he can finally relapse a similar attack.
- Exploited:
- Instead of just using it to attack, Bob uses the Tropeduken as a Recoil Boost
- Bob mines using this attack in order to fake out his opponent, then punched them when they flinch.
- Defied: “That’s a terrible way to release a Ki Attack! Its way too telegraphed, and you have to stand stock-still to use it! Here, let me show you how it’s done!
- Discussed: “Is their any reason he has to cup his hands like that before releasing the blast? Couldn't you, like, shoot it out your eyes instead?”
- Conversed:
- "Aaaaah... smells like copyright infringement."
- "I know right? Someone should really sue Akira Toriyama!"
- Deconstructed: The Tropeduken is highly telegraphed, very slow, require the user to anchor themselves into the ground, burns the hands of the user and is very draining. It’s only real advantage is range, and even then you’re better served with a handgun.
- Reconstructed:
- Like many of the fancier maneuvers in real life, the tropeduken is less a viable technique and more a symbol of status, as anyone who can actually perform it is guaranteed to be a One-Man Army.
- The technique is useless without the required secondary powers provided by practicing Tropejitsu. For a properly prepared practitioner their “slow” is too fast to see, they can anchor a ship with their toes alone, are immune to small arms fire and they can fight for days without rest.
- It may be a very niche use, but there isn’t much armour out there that can protect you against a beam of plasma.
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