History Main / KamehameHadoken

* In the game ''{{Perfect World International}}'' there is a class known as the Mystic who has access to this in the form of their "Absorb Soul" attack.

* The ''{{Castlevania}}'' series gives us the Nova Skeletons, or as they're better described, '''''skeletons with Kamehamehas'''''. In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Dawn of Sorrow]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia Order of Ecclesia]]'', you can steal their beams.

* As opposed to the honorable trope namers, ''NoMoreHeroes''' resident cheating bastard, Destroyman, uses the sphere-type [[CallingYourAttacks Destroy Cannon]]. The Destroy Buster (beam-type), [[IncrediblyLamePun on the other hand]], comes from [[FreudWasRight somewhere ''else''.]]

** The {{Pokemon}} Lucario's signature attack Aura Sphere is a blatant Hadoken look-alike of the large projectile variety, while its [[FinishingMove Final Smash]] in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'' is the continuous beam variety.

*** [[JokeCharacter Dan]] has the Gadouken, which he does one-handed and travels a pathetic distance (as part of the character's blatant mockery of ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''[[note]Ryo also fires his Koohken one-handed, and it has slim-to-none range when the ManaMeter is empty - when the Kyokugen style was ported to ''TheKingOfFighters'', the Koohken became a next-door range projectile by standard[[/note]]). However, as of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', it no longer does pathetic damage as well, instead being [[LethalJokeCharacter more powerful and more damaging than Ryu's version]]. Particularly the Ultra form, where it's several times the size of Ryu's and so powerful it [[LawOfInverseRecoil knocks Dan down.]]

* One ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' character [[spoiler:and his clone]] can use a variant, "Tamashii Gekido" ("Soul Fury") -- short-ranged wide blast of force strong enough to [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom hurl the target away]] if there's enough space for a tumbling flight. After all, they practice "''anime-style'' martial arts", it's not something unexpected.
** And then an [[SupernaturalAid Immortal]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-07 unleashes]] a great [[CareBearStare Care Bear Blast]] in this way.

The [[Franchise/DragonBall Kamehame]] [[Franchise/StreetFighter Hadoken]] is the ultimate ([[TropesAreFlexible or sometimes just the basic, sometimes both]]) [[KiAttacks Ki Attack]] of any given martial-arts-based anime or video game. It almost always takes the form of a burst of [[PureEnergy weaponised ki]], shot from the cupped hands of the main character after bringing his/her hands forward from behind their back or aside their hip, and varying greatly in size and intensity. 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 FinishingMove.

The [[DragonBall Kamehame]] [[StreetFighter Hadoken]] is the ultimate ([[TropesAreFlexible or sometimes just the basic, sometimes both]]) [[KiAttacks Ki Attack]] of any given martial-arts-based anime or video game. It almost always takes the form of a burst of [[PureEnergy weaponised ki]], shot from the cupped hands of the main character after bringing his/her hands forward from behind their back or aside their hip, and varying greatly in size and intensity. 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 FinishingMove.

In the introduction to the manga Dragonball, creator Akira Toriyama said that he named Goku's energy attack after Kamehameha I (King of Hawaii) after visiting Hawaii on vacation and seeing a statue of the king, though in-universe, Kamehameha translates in Japanese as "Turtle School Blast" or "Turtle Devastation Wave".

* The TropeCodifier, and first TropeNamer here, is the Kamehameha (literally "Turtle [School] Wave Attack", often rendered less accurately but more colorfully as "Turtle Destruction Wave") used by Goku and others from ''DragonBall''. Not that there weren't plenty of cousins around, such as the Gallick (or Garlic) Gun and Final Flash (which takes [practically] forever and a day to charge up and is [literally] about 500 miles wide) used by Vegeta, the Masenko used by Piccolo and Gohan, the Dodonpa used by Tenshinhan and all other Crane School fighters, and numerous unnamed energy blast attacks used by other characters, as well as several variations of the original - Kamehameha from the feet, Super Kamehameha, Warp Kamekameha and Big Bang Kamehameha.

* Yes, the Kamehameha shows up in ''DragonballEvolution''. Either from unmitigated gall or a need to give the studio's legal department a workout, the writers decided to call it ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender airbending]]''.

* The second part of the name comes from the Hadoken ("Surge Fist"; the "hadou" part can also be translated as "wave motion", as in WaveMotionGun) used by Ryu and Ken (and Akuma and Sakura) from the ''StreetFighter'' series, specifically the Shinkuu Hadoken (A big fireball in the canonical games and a huge beam in ''[[CapcomVsWhatever Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' and its successor ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom''; the latter fits the definition of the trope more.). It's even commonly said that the designers were inspired by the Kamehameha when they came up with the Hadoken.

** There's a lot of 'em in StreetFighter. Aside from the mentioned:

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' for the Dragonball (named after the Dragon Punch and Fireball/Hadoken from StreetFighter) weapons.

* The massive series of ''Manga/DragonBall'' games, especially the ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' games, and ''especially'' the ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi'' games.

* ''ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has the unique attack ''Magma Axis'', in which the Hito-Shura essentially lights his arms on fire, gathers explosive energy and lashes at an enemy. It's not a particularly good attack, but it's [[RuleOfCool quite cool to see]].

* In ''[[DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' (and its handheld ports), characters can level up their mastery of weapon types to gain various special attacks. For those of the martial artist career path, these attacks consist largely of simple punch and kick combos for the first few levels... until they obtain the 'Lions Roar' technique, which costs more than ''ten times'' as much mana as their previous moves, often requiring mana-boosting equipment to use even once per fight when it is first acquired. When the attack is used, the character somersaults into the sky, pushing their back up against the lens of the isometric camera, and throws an enormous Kamehame Hadoken, killing everything within a large radius of their original position before falling gently to earth. Awesome.
** The Blazing Palm special in ''{{Disgaea 3}}'' is a much more modest fiery Kamehameha, without the absurd MP cost of Lion's Roar. The Nekomata monster class gets its own version of this: Cat Blast.

*** [[JokeCharacter Dan]] has the Gadouken, which he does one-handed and travels a pathetic distance (as part of the character's blatant mockery of ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''[[hottip:*:Ryo also fires his Koohken one-handed, and it has slim-to-none range when the ManaMeter is empty - when the Kyokugen style was ported to ''TheKingOfFighters'', the Koohken became a next-door range projectile by standard]]). However, as of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', it no longer does pathetic damage as well, instead being [[LethalJokeCharacter more powerful and more damaging than Ryu's version]]. Particularly the Ultra form, where it's several times the size of Ryu's and so powerful it [[LawOfInverseRecoil knocks Dan down.]]

* In an entirely American use of this, by the 3rd season of ''DannyPhantom'', Danny, when needing a more powerful hit to stop an enemy, performs a very quick Kamehame-Hadoken-like Ectoblast. Most notably, he and Dani, his clone/cousin perform a dual-blast in this manner, one which seems only slightly less powerful than his Ghostly Wail (and a lot less draining)

* One of the attacks of Soulgain in ''SuperRobotWars'' is called [[TheFourGods Seiryuu Rin]]... which is practically this trope exemplified. While weaker than Soulgain's other attacks, it's the only attack that allows multi-enemy targeting.

* This was the designated FinishingMove of Ninjor, who appeared in the third season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.

* One of the powers of Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'s suit. She usually fires it from one hand at a time, but has done the classic double-palmed Hadoken. Since the suit's an EmpathicWeapon, it's usually really weak (in line with her self-esteem). Threaten her friends, though, and it'll [[LetsGetDangerous suddenly set itself to 'Carbonise']].

* These tend to be the {{Finishing Move}}s of just about all the [[UltraSeries Ultramen]].

* From JackieChanAdventures: When Jackie is empowered by an ancient symbol from the Lotus temple, he gains the abilitie to use various KiAttacks. Playing with this trope, he does the standard Kamehame Hadoken pose, but instead launches a ''tornado''. In a later episode, Jackie and Jade unwittingly uncover a secret order of Druid-like people called the Magisters. They are capable of firing off this kind of energy attack when they [[CallingYourAttack say "Ex Metu Vires!"]], Latin for "power from fear".

* This was the designated FinishingMove of Ninjor, who appeared in the third season of ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.
** Ditto his SuperSentai counterpart, [[NinjaSentaiKakuranger Ninjaman/Samuraiman]].

* [[MoonCrest24 Volleyball style!]]

* '''[[GetterRobo GEEETTAAAAAAAA BEEEEEAAAAAAAAM!!!!]]'''

* When FightingGame fan Sydney in ''UnintentionallyPretentious'' takes a Qigong class, she's disappointed to learn that by focusing her Qi, she can't actually [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=65 "dookin"]] anything.

* The second part of the name comes from the Hadoken ("Surge Fist"; the "hadou" part can also be translated as "wave motion", as in WaveMotionGun) used by RyuAndKen (and Akuma and Sakura) from the ''StreetFighter'' series, specifically the Shinkuu Hadoken (A big fireball in the canonical games and a huge beam in ''[[CapcomVsWhatever Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' and its successor ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom''; the latter fits the definition of the trope more.). It's even commonly said that the designers were inspired by the Kamehameha when they came up with the Hadoken.

* Magical version from {{Drowtales}}. Take an ordinary MagicMissile, add 1000 years of (mana/aura)growth and experience - [[http://www.drowtales.com/longestwait.php?order=date&id=24 destruction ensues]]. Unfortunately, her targets dodged.

* {{Naruto}} has its own variation, with the tailed beasts being able form "dense chakra" blasts from [[BreathWeapon from their mouths]], destroying a large hill and most of the ground surrounding it in a half-mile diameter.

* Magical version from {{Drowtales}}. Take an ordinary MagicMissile, add 1000 years of (mana/aura)growth and experience - [[http://www.drowtales.com/longestwaitarchive//20050719c1p023.JPG destruction ensues]]. Unfortunately, her targets dodged.

* While Mr. Freeze more traditionally uses a [[FreezeRay single-handed Freeze Gun]], in the ''BatmanBeyond'' episode Meltdown, he premieres an improved containment suit that fires freezing beams from both gauntlets.

* Raoh's ''Hokuto Goushou Ha'' and ''Tenshou Honretsu'' from ''FistOfTheNorthStar''. His youngest brother Kenshiro has a more precise version that allows the striking of individual pressure points called ''Tenha Kasatsu.''

* Though the attack wasn't done at all, the attack name was mentioned in ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}''. When Jimmy assumed the role of "Power Squid" and fought his first battle against a horde of clowns, as he/the squid on his head fought them, his fourth battle cry was "Hadoken!" before ending it with a spin kick.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra]] makes this pose while attempting to airbend a newspaper, while shouting "Airbend!"

* While Mr. Freeze more traditionally uses a [[FreezeRay single-handed Freeze Gun]], in the Batman Beyond episode Meltdown, he premieres an improved containment suit that fires freezing beams from both gauntlets.