Line #20 Main/CrissCrossAttack


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3	This is a flashy move that involves slashing a helpless enemy from different angles at a rapid pace. It usually involves [[FlashStep reappearing in another position]] immediately after performing a strike to follow up with another attack (usually making the enemy go upwards while the performer strikes in a rising diagonal slash that zigzags upwards), or [[DopplegangerSpin have dopplegangers]] [[DopplegangerAttack attack]] with you. Sometimes both are used. If two or more fighters are in sync, it can even be a CombinationAttack. The main idea is that it's a very fast attack that involves multiple strikes coming from multiple sides. At the peak of the attack, a downward blow is used like a vertical cut, or sometimes a throw, often found along with a SpinningPileDriver movement.
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5	A move that could be mistaken for be a {{Ninja}} move only, it's in general used by a FragileSpeedster that mastered a sword [[DualWielding or maybe two]]. In {{fighting game}}s, it's usually used as a SpecialAttack or MeteorMove to quickly end an opponent.
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7	Compare DeathOfAThousandCuts, SpamAttack and BouncingBattler. Contrast SingleStrokeBattle. See also BladeSpam, FlashStep and SpeedBlitz. Related to ReverseShrapnel, i.e "projectiles coming from all around you".
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9	!!Armed Examples:
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14	* In ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'', Kenshin and his mentor have the Kuzu Ryu Sen (nine-headed dragon flash) that involves the user striking the opponent with nine slashes that are so fast it looks like nine simultaneous strikes.
15	* In the ''Anime/Persona5TheAnimation'' OVA ''Dark Sun'', Joker summons Yoshitsune during the fight against [[spoiler:Shadow Shido]]. Yoshitsune's signature attack, Hassou Tobi, is portrayed as a series of rapid slashes from multiple directions.
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19	* In ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'', Cloud's Omnislash gets upgraded to version 5: his Fusion Sword breaks apart, surrounding Sephiroth with floating blades, followed by Cloud flying from one blade to another, slashing him every time he passes by, striking from all directions.
20	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon\|2010}}'', Hiccup and Toothless use this tactic against the gargantuan Green Death. The Green Death is twenty times bigger than Toothless, but [[MightyGlacier is also much slower]], so Toothless is able to literally fly rings around it, attacking from different directions and then vanishing into the clouds before the enemy can counterattack.
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24	* One illustrated ScienceFiction story in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'' has Earth astronauts venture from their space station into an alien environment seeking vital resources. Always they come away empty-handed, many times with colleagues having limbs sheared off by nearly-invisible, lightning fast creatures. The last two intact astronauts make a foray, only to end up cut into sections like beef cattle after this kind of attack.
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28	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 3.5'': Tornado Throw, the capstone maneuver of the Setting Sun discipline from ''Tome of Battle'', can be used in this way with or without a weapon. You move twice, and after every 10 feet of movement may grab an opponent and throw them in any direction (which in practice is most useful for [[MeteorMove throwing the same opponent]] short distances back and forth). Not only do characters with higher movement speeds get to attack more often, but each subsequent throw is more powerful than the last. The "Chuck E. Cheese" build is built around [[SprintShoes boosting the user's speed as much as possible]] in order to [[GameBreaker make Tornado Throw deal ludicrous amounts of damage]] (most infamously through the ''footsteps of the divine'' spell, which [[ObviousRulePatch prior to errata]] could be [[ChargedAttack "overcharged"]] to let a character [[NitroBoost move at supersonic speed for 1 turn]]).
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32	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': In the first battle against [[BloodKnight Absalom]], just as [[ActionGirl Ann]] managed to land a few strikes, he unleashes a CounterAttack with his blade that sends her upward while simultaneously attacking from several angles.
33	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue''
34	** Bang Shishigami's [[PurposefullyOverpowered Unlimited Form]] has [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Chipp's Zansei Rouga]] as one of his [[LimitBreak Distortion Drives]], one of many [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] from ''[=BlazBlue=]'' to ''Guilty Gear'' due to both series being created by Creator/ArcSystemWorks.
35	** Valkenhayn's [[FinishingMove Astral Heat]], Blut Vollmond, acts this way: after he somersault kicks his foe to the air, he morphs into a werewolf and starts slashing his enemies from multiple sides, ending with a heavy downward clawing attack.
36	** Taokaka gets this move in [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma the third game]], called Aerial Dancing Edge, where she uppercuts the enemy to the air, then she flies through them multiple times, slicing them with her claws. She ends it with a DivingKick, [[CombinationAttack aided by]] her fellow Kaka clansmen and [[CoolBigSis sister figure]] Torakaka.
37	** Hibiki's "Shadow Dance: Hidden Phoenix" and his [[FinishingMove Astral Heat]] "Divine Nightfall: Raven" make use of his Drive "[[DoppelgangerAttack Double]] [[CastingAShadow Chase]]" and insane speed to strike his opponents from various angles.
38	** Celica's [[PurposefullyOverpowered Unlimited Form]] gains a Distortion Drive where her RobotBuddy Minerva transforms into a plane and knocks the enemy to the air, then flies up and rams them from all sides.
39	* Vergil's infamous Judgement Cut End from the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series functions like this, with Vergil {{Flash Step}}ping and performing numerous ultra-fast slashes with the Yamato in less than a second.
40	* ''VideoGame/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2021'': Gamora's final ability, Executioner, sees her zig and zag through an enemy while cutting through it with her blade. It does more damage than any of her other abilities and those of just about any Guardian.
41	* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': Chipp Zanuff's Overdrive Zansei Rouga functions like this. He teleports and slashes the enemy as they both rise up, with Chipp using a downward slice to end his attack.
42	* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''
43	** ''KOF XI'': [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Eiji Kisaragi's]] [[LimitBreak LDM]] Yami Kari has him grab his foe and then suspends them in the air, then does multiple slashes through his foe alongside his shadow clone, ending with a powerful downward stab.
44	** ''KOF XIV'': Choi's [[LimitBreak Climax]] is him launching the foe up with a FoeTossingCharge, then performing multiple flying claw attacks through the opponent before falling down.
45	* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', Yosuke Hanamura's [[FinishingMove Instant Kill]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MsPtBQWH8 Brave Blade,]] has him use his [[FightingSpirit Persona]] to send the opponent airborne with a [[BlowYouAway tornado]], before slashing them from all directions with his kunai, and finishing by throwing two shuriken at them.
46	* ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown''
47	** IaijutsuPractitioner Ukyo Tachibana has a hyper move since ''IV'' in which he moves at lightning speed to the enemy between him and passing front and behind him as a shadow to get after the opponent and then he sheathes his sword. Next to that, the character get sliced by various slashes and goes to the ground.
48	** Being the [[AmbiguousGender child]] of Ukyo's mentor and having the same school that him (as well being a semi-HeadSwap in-game), ''V'''s SubBoss Yumeji Kurokouchi can also performs this lethal MeteorMove as Ukyo.
49	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'':
50	** Vega ([[DubNameChange Balrog in Japan]]) has an Ultra Combo called Bloody High Claw which is pretty much the zig-zag slice attack with his claw.
51	** Decapre in ''Ultra SFIV'' has "DCM" (an acronym for "Defensive Counter-Maneuver") in which she cuts the enemy with her claws attached to her arms.
52	* Though it never is seen in [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} his home series]], Strider Hiryu has a hyper combo called Ragnarok which appears in various installments of the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series as well as ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone 2: Brave New World''. He brings the enemy upwards which he then delivers various slashing moves from all sides with his duplicates.
53	* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''
54	** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', two swordfighters using Sonic Thrust in a Unison Attack will follow it up with the Compound Special Attack, Cross Thrust, consisting of the two of them using Sonic Thrust again simultaneously.
55	** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', while using his Savage Wolf Fury Mystic Arte, Yuri will strike his opponents from multiple angles before finishing them off with a powerful slash.
56	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria''
57	*** Rangetsu's second Mystic Arte, the Rangetsu Heron, has him strike his opponent from various angles before finishing with a cross slash.
58	*** Artoruis' Mystic Arte is also called the Savage Wolf Fury, which has him slice through his opponent before finishing them off with a SwordPlant-induced explosion.
59	*** Velvet and Laphicet's combo Mystic Arte also features this. Laphicet uses his paper to boost Velvet as she zig-zags through their opponent before slamming them into the Laphicet's pillar of light.
60	* ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'': Ken the Eagle from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' has a Hyper Combo called Science Ninja Attack: Inazuma Giri. He performs a somersault which lets him strike the enemy from all sides, ending with Ken and a clone of him performing a diagonal Bird Shoot on both sides.
61	* In ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}} - Fatal Shadows'', Ayame has the Wrath attack that lets her criss-cross through her enemies each time you correctly perform it.
62	* ''VideoGame/TouhouShinkirouHopelessMasquerade'': [[KungFuWizard Byakuren Hijiri]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36LriyVz0M&t=3m28s Heaven Sign Master of the Great Trichiliocosm]] has her throw a vajra-blade at an opponent to immobilize them, then unleash a blindingly-fast series of attacks before finishing them off with a DivingKick.
63	* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'': The einherjar Jun's PWS attack, Senko-Jin.
64	* Hanzou from the ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' series has a move like this in ''Perfect'' called Slice The Shimmering Ligh in which he dives at his opponent from the wall, then teleports around while slicing repeatedly. This move also returns in his appearance in ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''.
65	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The Demon Hunter's Blade Dance, in which the Demon Hunter dashes in multiple directions in short succession, striking everything within reach and increasing their dodge chance at the same time.
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69	* Juuso Andelin's sanguine ''WebAnimation/BunnyKill One'' has the FinalBoss batter TheHero with this technique, stopping only to deliver a ''coup de grace'' on his downed opponent.
70	* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy 2'': At the end of the battle inside the tornado, a winged Rinoa performs multiple attacks with her Gunblade from all directions against the members of the opposing team.
71	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
72	** Strider Hiryu uses his Ragnarok attack during the battle [[spoiler:to finish off Ryu Hayabusa]].
73	** Zero briefly pulls one of these on Metal Sonic at the start of their fight. [[spoiler:The hosts note that his reflexes and speed are able to keep up with, if not surpass that of Metal Sonic]].
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77	* The eponymous WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack sometimes suffers this from particularly adept opponents, such as the Minions of Seth.
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83	* In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} uses his super-speed to viciously beat up ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} by punching him from several angles, but Apocalypse is able to use his powers to speed up his own senses and trap Quicksilver in mud while he's running, and then breaks his leg.
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87	* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5'': Hayate's Power Blow sees him strikes his opponent a couple times before [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom finishing them off]] with [[KiManipulation a final ninpo blast]].
88	* ''VideoGame/Diablo3'' has the monk's Seven-sided Strike which at its most basic, allows a monk to attack an opponent(s) in a teleporting criss-cross up to seven times.
89	* Guy and Maki, the "street ninjas" from the ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' series, occasionally employ moves of this sort in some of their fighting game appearances (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' and ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium''[=/=]''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'' respectively). While these are {{Meteor Move}}s in which they attack (or merely pass by) their opponent in the air to set up an IzunaDrop for the finisher, neither of them use swords or any other cutting weapons in their attacks (or in general as characters).
90	* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIV''
91	** [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui's]] [[LimitBreak Climax]] is similar than Choi's (described in Armed Examples) but unarmed, with her finishing by grabbing the foe between her legs and slamming them down to the ground alongside her.
92	** Leona's Slash Saber involves her slashing through her opponent multiple times with her [[RazorSharpHand hand]] before blowing them up with and explosion.
93	* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': ComicBook/SpiderMan's Maximum Spider gets reworked to work like this in this game. He first does a diving kick that launches the foe up, then does multiple flying kicks through the midair foe that slowly covers them in webs, and then does a final kick down the foe that sends them to the ground.
94	** Albert Wesker’s Phantom Dance hyper combo is another example, similar enough that fans sometimes refer to it as “Maximum Wesker”.
95	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter''
96	** Cammy's [[VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter Killer]] [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Bee]] [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Assault]] and [[VideoGame/StreetFighterV Cross Stinger Assault]] have her pulling the MeteorMove variant, launching her opponent into the air and proceeding to kick them in multiple angles before finishing them with a Cross Scissors Pressure/Spiral Arrow respectively.
97	** Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu when shown in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV''. He repeatedly strikes his opponents from multiple angle until the combo ends.
98	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
99	** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Greninja]]'s Final Smash, Secret Ninja Attack, starts with him flipping a mat (a nod to his {{signature move}}, Mat Block). Enemies struck by that will be stunned and sent to the sky as Greninja appears from the shadows, striking the enemies from all directions before ending with a downward blow. Poké balls have a chance to summon Zoroark, which dashes around until it hits an opponent, at which point it slashes them and launches them to a point high above the center of the stage, then does the same as Greninja.
100	** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. In addition to Greninja and Zoroark from the previous iteration, various other characters are given the same Final Smash.
101	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Aya Shameimaru's signature move Illusionary Dominance (and its [[HarderThanHard Lunatic]] version Peerless Wind God) takes this appearance in both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URobRcKms_M shooting games]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvcqjKm42oA fighters.]] It's noted as something of an IAmNotLeftHanded technique for Aya, who [[AWolfInSheepsClothing usually prefers to project a friendly journalist image]] rather than throwing around her full power as a millennia-old {{Tengu}}. An unusual example in that it does not trap the opponent -- Aya keeps zooming around the screen for quite some time, during which she can be dodged.
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105	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': [[Recap/DeathBattleS01E17StarscreamVsRainbowDash Rainbow Dash opens the fight against Starscream]] with such a move, leaving rainbow trails behind her that are soon criss-crossing. It's of little affect against the giant robot, but it's just a warm-up.
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109	* Done piecemeal in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E12DividedWeFall Divided We Fall]]", wherein ComicBook/LexLuthor, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} and the [[GreyGoo Dark Heart]] all [[FusionDance fuse together into a nigh-omnipotent cyborg]] that promptly [[CurbStompBattle hands the Justice League their asses]]. ComicBook/TheFlash, however, begins running at Luthor from different directions at increasing speed, until he's circling the Earth between blows. In less than a minute, Luthor is reduced to a normal human, gasping and naked in a blast crater.
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