Basic Trope: This hand is actually sharp and can slice targets.
- Straight: Alice chops a wall in half with her bare hand.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's bare hand sliced an entire planet on an atomic level.
- Alice can do all this with one pinky.
- Downplayed: Alice can make deep wounds barehanded on flesh.
- Justified:
- Alice herself has a superhumanly strong body with sharp finger nails that allow her to efficiently cleave through things than even normal non-human animals cannot do.
- Alice has a prosthetic hand that is sharpened along one edge.
- Inverted: Alice can easily puncture or push large targets with her bare hands.
- Subverted: It turns out Alice was using a hand blade.
- Double Subverted: Alice can still chop through absurdly hard things even without the blade.
- Parodied:
- Alice touches a wall. It falls into halves.
- Alice can't turn this power off, and destroys everything she touches in complete ignorance.
- Zig Zagged: Alice can turn the ability to chop through thing with her bare hand on and off.
- Averted: Alice's hand cannot cut through objects.
- Enforced: "We need to show that Alice is strong! Let's have her bare hands cut through a wall!"
- Lampshaded: "Alice, I didn't know you could chop through a wall!"
- Invoked: Alice gets her hands on something that makes her hand cut through targets.
- Exploited: Alice uses this ability in fighting.
- Alice becomes a professional deli chef.
- Defied: Alice chooses to never slice open targets with her bare hands.
- Discussed: "Hmm.. A wall in halves? Alice must have been here.."
- Conversed: "I bet Alice's hands are gonna cut through that!"
- Implied: When Bob sees a wall being sliced precisely, Alice is seen the wall hiding one of her hands.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice has Power Incontinence and can't control her sharp hands. She is afraid of harming anyone she comes into contact with, so she grows to Hates Being Touched.
- It's pointed out this technique is not humanly possible. We eventually see Alice's hands from another angle, revealing they've become impossibly warped into the shape of a wedge.
- Reconstructed: Alice practices how to utilise her sharp hands and learns to control her ability better.
- Played For Laughs: Alice is constantly annoyed about how things are suddenly sliced apart whenever she attempts to touch them.
- Played For Drama: Alice has accidentally killed people by touching them, and she can't even hug anyone without slicing them in half. She goes insane from all the guilt and considers stabbing herself with her own hands.
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