History Main / FingerPokeOfDoom

* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' loves this: he occasionally knocks people out with only a flick of his finger. In JusticeLeague he did it to Grodd at the end of Secret Society. He did the same thing to Ten in ''Wild Cards''.

* In the animated adaption of ''Dilbert'', Dilbert attended a security guard training class, and was about to learn how to harm someone with only a thumb. He find this hard to believe, but then his teacher convinces that it is possible, when he accidently hurt himself with his thumb.
* ''[=~Batman: The Brave and the Bold~=]'' has the transformed totem characters flinging each other across the horizon with casual pokes. Hell, Batman (Man-Bat?) disintegrates a huge mystic boat with a lazy tap.

** Don't forget Kakashi, who has a ''literal'' Finger Poke Of Doom.

* How about Mewtwo? At the beginning of the first ''[[{{Anime/Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'' movie, he opens his eyes, shattering the containment unit he was in, after listening to the scientists. He becomes enraged as he is [[CloningBlues just an experiment]], so he clenches his fists and thus destroys the entire laboratory he and the scientists are in. He then finishes the job by turning his head three times. Other examples: Nonchalantly waving his hand to create a deadly storm, blasting a Gyarados and its trainer to the opposite wall by raising his arm, and releasing Nurse Joy by snapping his fingers.
** There's also the anime episode "A Marathon Rivalry", where Team Rocket is able to take down Ash's Staraptor by using mechanical hands hidden in the balloon's basket to poke it repeatedly and forcefully until Staraptor fainted.
* ''{{Digimon}}'': Myotismon doesn't even need to poke. He can, among other things, block a head-on charge from a Digimon the same level as him and about five times his size by ''pointing at him''.

* Also from ''YuYuHakusho'': When Sensui's "true" personality, Shinobu, arrives, the first thing he does is shake Yusuke's hand... which '''snaps''' his arm in two.

* How about Mewtwo? At the beginning of the first ''[[{{Anime/Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]'' movie, he opens his eyes, shattering the containment unit he was in, after listening to the scientists. He becomes enraged as he is [[CloningBlues just an experiment]], so he clenches his fists and thus destroys half of the laboratory he and the scientists are in. He then finishes the job by turning his head three times. Other examples: Nonchalantly waving his hand to create a deadly storm, blasting a Gyarados and its trainer to the opposite wall by raising his arm, and releasing Nurse Joy by snapping his fingers.
** There's also the anime episode "A Marathon Rivalry", where Team Rocket is able to take down Ash's Staraptor by using mechanical hands hidden in the baloon's basket to poke it repeatedly and forcefully until Staraptor fainted.

* The TropeNamer comes from ProfessionalWrestling -- more specifically, from {{WCW}}. During one of the last ''Nitro'' episodes of 1998, Kevin Nash -- former Hulk Hogan lackey, leader of the [=nWo=] Wolfpac, and current WCW Champion -- calls out the ([[TenMinuteRetirement allegedly]]) retired Hogan after Goldberg (Nash's scheduled challenger for the WCW Championship) is arrested earlier in the evening, and offers to put his belt on the line. Hogan (still ostensibly the leader of the [=nWo=] "Black and White" group) answers the challenge and comes down to the ring, the two have a tense staredown... and Hogan pokes Nash in the chest with his finger. Nash goes down like he'd been hit by a shotgun blast, and Hogan covers him for three. Hogan's the WCW Champion again, the [=nWo=] is whole once more, and the last six months of storylines are completely [[ResetButton thrown out the window]] -- which [[WallBanger drove the fans nuts]], since the Wolfpac angle/stable was the second most interesting thing to happen to WCW since the [=nWo=] formed. Consider this the Fingerpoke of Doom done ''wrong'', for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpoke_of_Doom various reasons]] (not the least of which was being on the same show as the ultimate [[InsultBackfire failed Take That]]).

* Once he gets a bit of a reign on his anger, {{Durarara}}'s Shizuo Heiwajima starts responding to mildly annoying people by merely flicking them in the forehead (as opposed to his previous method of sending them flying over a city block). Of course, with Shizuo being [[WorldsStrongestMan Shizuo]], this still feels to the victims like someone smacked them in the face with a baseball bat.

*** No, NO, [b]NO[/b]. If you actually LOOK at the image in the anime/manga, Aizen uses his sword to do that, the finger is just to hold him in place.

** There's also the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XQqtP0qHo Punching Machine]] in the [[KillEmAll Majin Buu Saga]], where the heroes show world-record-breaking strength, by ''casually jabbing'' the punch machine. Vegeta, who does not bother with this the first time around, shows ''why'' they had to do that. (Hint: You're trying ''not'' to break the machine.)

** To a lesser extent, Ulqiuorra seems bored in almost all of his fights and even puts less effort in all his fights then the stronger Espada. [[spoiler: It's explained later, as he's meant to be a kind of avatar of nihilism.]]

* ''{{Kaichou wa Maid-sama}}'': Subaru flicks Kurotatsu in the forehead as punishment for giving up in a cake eating contest held in the Maid Latte.

* ''{{Kaichou wa Maid-sama}}'': Subaru flicks Kurotatsu in the forehead as punishment for giving up in a cake eating contest held in the Maid Latte..