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No sword on hand, and about to be slashed? No problem! Reach out and Clap Your Hands If You Believe... you can stop a blade barehanded, presumably by applying friction to the sides, since Blocking Stops All Damage. At the extreme end are characters capable of stopping a blade between two fingers or — if Made of Iron — simply bouncing the blade off their finger or arm, though this trope is typically based on technique rather than invulnerability (which would render any defense superfluous). A common trope in Manga and Anime, it is known in Japan as Shinken Shirahadori,note catching a moving blade which is part of Martial Arts training. The Real Life technique of this name, however, does not actually involve blocking the sword with a bare hand, but preventing the opponent from drawing his sword. Well, it seems likely that nobody in Japan was stupid enough to catch a sharp blade being swung at full speed with his bare hands. As the MythBusters demonstrate, the "clap between your hands" trick of stopping a full-speed sword cut won't work: The reflexes and speed needed to catch the flats of a blade coming at about 40 mph/65 kphnote ballpark figure for a European longsword quoted by Skallagrim between two hands without touching the edge are beyond most people.note This is more difficult than, say, catching a baseball, where you don't fail by moving "too early" because it won't maim you if you just stick your palm in its path to intercept it. This means that the blade will probably either avoid your block completely if you clap a fraction of a second too late, or else slice your palms and/or fingers off when you catch it imperfectly and probably continue cutting to your head without losing momentum. Furthermore, if the attacker twists the sword to present the edge diagonally instead of vertically, the defender will get cut through one hand or the other regardless of timing. However, a trained martial artist using hand protection like the metal grips used to help climb walls could pull off this technique while (depending on size) presenting the illusion of doing it barehanded, which is likely where the myth came from in the first place (see the entry on ninjas in the Real Life section below). In a case of Reality Is Unrealistic, if you are a skilled fencer there are actually ways to grab an opponent's blade with your bare hands, immobilizing their weapon or wrenching it out of their grasp with little or no harm to yourself if you succeed. The key is that you are not supposed to catch the strike itself, which is when the blade is moving at its highest speed. Instead—if you have nothing but bare hands—you need to either rush in and seize his arms while he's in the middle of drawing back to strike, or dodge his strike in such a way that you're in a position to grab his sword when it's come to a stop at the end of the swing. If you have an object to block with such as a lantern or a rolled-up cloak, you can stifle the movement of his sword before grabbing his arrested blade with your free hand. The appropriate grip will try to put most of the pressure on the flats of the blade instead of the edge(s), and hold it firmly enough to prevent the edge from sliding in one's grasp, which is how one tends to get cut. That's the theory, at least. Don't try this with sharp blades unless you're some kind of expert. If done almost right, and the user retains their hand, don't be surprised by a Bloody Handprint to emphasize the injury. Characters may need to enter a Meditation Powerup to be able to catch the blade. An offensive counterpart would be Razor-Sharp Hand. Bullet Catch, Arrow Catch and Punch Catch are counterparts for gun, (cross-)bow and Good Old Fisticuffs respectively, as this trope is roughly "Sword Catch". Also compare Point That Somewhere Else and Finger in a Barrel. |
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Aquaman (2018): Arthur Curry catches blades with his hands several times. His skin is impervious to ordinary steel weapons, but he also manages it a few times against Atlantean weapons, which can pierce his skin. | |
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The title character of Midori Days manages to pull this off, of all people. To be fair, it is a fake sword, but she's the size of your hand using her own tiny hands. And she's a 16-year-old girl. A bystander thought the main character had caught it with just two fingers. | |
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Coop from Megas XLR does this kinda like in Gundam SEED Destiny... only this time it is fully bare-handed. | |
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Kamen Rider Fourze: In episode 5, Fourze does this with his KNEES while fighting the Monoceros Zodiarts. He follows it up with the standard hands version in episode 6. | |
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Aggretsuko (Oni): Resasuke blocks Haida's attempt at shoving him away using a mop with his bare hands... then promptly sneezes at him. Haida was unamused. | |
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In the Buffy episode "Becoming, Part 2", Buffy stops Angelus's sword this way, although the attack that she blocks is a stab rather than a swing. Also, she has Super-Strength and enhanced Slayer reflexes. | |
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The J-WITCH Series: Will does this with Bartholomew Chang's clawed prosthesis in "J-WITCH Meets the J-Team". Uncle does this while dueling Phobos in "The Labyrinth". When Caleb tries to attack Hak Foo from behind with his katana in "Gladiatorial Clash", the fresh Dark Chi Warrior casually catches the blade with one hand. A Sumo Khan does this with its fingers when Caleb tries to slice it with his katana in "Black Magic". Hak Foo does this again in "The Battle for Meridian Plains"; when Caleb and Aldarn swing their swords at him, he catches the blades with his hands. Drago catches Raythor's sword between his hands during their duel in "The Knights of Vengeance". |
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In The Secret Keeper sequel The Wisdom Seeker, Bella Swan demonstrates a variation of this when faced with blunt instruments, when she deflects a bludger with her bare fist to win her final quidditch game; despite this breaking her hand in the process, Emmett proudly proclaims this bold new Quidditch move ‘the Hand of Swan’. | |
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Attempted twice in Empire in Black and Gold, the first book of Shadows of the Apt, in the slightly more realistic "deflect blade by hitting the flat side" version. Even so, the first guy to try it gets cut open for his trouble, whereas the second is a particularly badass member of a particularly quick and skillful Proud Warrior Race. | |
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One of the Imakandi manages to catch Jack's blade in Samurai Jack. Bookended later in the episode, when Jack (with a Meditation Powerup) catches an incoming Imakandi arrow. | |
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Happens to Nero in the 4th game when he first confronts Agnus. On the note of 4, Gloria executes a Bare THIGH Blade Catch. | |
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Done on occasion by Courier in Akudama Drive. More justified than most as he's doing it with a prosthetic hand which is one of the few things that isn't instantly cut through by the electro-jutte used by the Executioners. | |
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Part of the barehanded gameplay of the Samurai Shodown games, at least the first four. Still, few players knew of its existence, and fewer still could use it effectively. Notable example is Nicotine Caffeinne in the second game, who can do it with one hand. | |
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Mazinger Angels: Sayaka and her team pulled the movement several times, usually inside of their FemBots. | |
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In the Ranma ½ Elsewhere Fic Boy Scouts ½, one of the characters, Hughes, is shown to be able to do this when he is attacked by an Amazon warrior named Perfume. Since he had not previously been shown to have any particular skills in such areas, it is unclear if he is just darn lucky, she is just that bad, or both. | |
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X-Men: Longshot catches Spiral's sword between his hands in his introductory limited series. It helps that part of his powers is to have chance fall in his favor. | |
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Happens a lot in Bleach. During their climactic fight where Ichigo revealed his Bankai for the first time, Byakuya caught Ichigo's sword. His hand got really bloody, but he at least saved himself from getting impaled. Aizen demonstrated just how much of a badass he was when he blocked Ichigo's sword's powered-up form with a single finger, also cutting his Theme Music Power-Up off in the process. Ulquiorra has a habit of blocking blades (and energy beams, and people drawing swords) with just one hand, and looking really cool while doing so. It reaches the point that that the protagonist's Kung Fu is shown to have become stronger when Ulquiorra can't even block the attack with both hands. In the case of Ulquiorra, he and all other Arrancar are specifically stated to have "Iron Skin" as one of their abilities and Soul Reapers can achieve a similar effect with reiatsu. Consequently, they tend to do a lot of catching swords with their bare hands, since their bare hands are basically armor. A variant where Nelliel knocks Nnoitra's blade away with her bare foot. In their final battle, Ichigo shows that the tables have turned, by blocking Aizen's sword with his bare hand, shutting down his theme music as well. A less dramatic example occurs after the time skip. A thug has just pulled a knife on Ichigo, and Ichigo manages to catch the blade between his fingers. While Ichigo is depowered at the time and thus physically an ordinary human teenager, his combat experience and Training from Hell have still given him superior reflexes that make an ordinary thug like that seem as if he's moving in slow motion. |
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DEATH BATTLE!: Downplayed in "Sauron VS Lich King". When the Lich King manages to disarm him, Sauron caught his opponent's sword strike with his own (armored) hand. However, this causes his hand to bleed soon after. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo does this several times with no explanation save his being just that good. In one case a ninja does it with a single hand, but it turns out he had a spiked metal bar in his palm to climb walls. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Since Touma has Imagine Breaker, he can do this as long as he's facing a supernatural weapon. If it is a normal weapon, he has to dodge it. When Accelerator tries to strike him down with 100 razor sharp wings at once, he simply catches one and twists and pulls it, throwing Accelerator off balance and making the other wings miss. He even managed to catch Fiamma of the Right's 40km long Flaming Sword! Subverted when Saiji attempts this with Itsuwa during a sparring session. Unfortunately for him, Itsuwa retried it several times to avoid embarrassing him and when it was suggested that the bamboo blade may be throwing their timing off, switched to a metal imitation blade, then finally a real sword. Whether or not Saiji succeeded with the last one isn't yet known. |
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In Lockout, the hero stops a stabbing attack by blocking a knife with his barehand. Obviously this action has not caused any noticeable injury. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Auron is brainwashed by Hades into a one on one fight to the death with Hercules. At the climax of the fight, Auron swings his BFS and Hercules catches it. | |
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In True Magic, Bob performs a variant, catching a blade by slamming a large book on it. | |
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Averted somewhat in The King of Attolia, in which the king does this one-handed (necessary because that's all he's got) and disarms an assassin. Later, he does it again in practice with a wooden sword. His opponents protest that he's cheating because you can't do that with a real sword, so he shows them the scars on his hand from the aforementioned catch. | |
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Played straight in Thunderstruck. However, note that it is a practice sword... | |
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In the Angel episode "Shells", Illyria does this to two swords at once. Also justified because she's an Eldritch Abomination even more powerful than the earthbound Glory. | |
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This is referenced in an episode of Bones, where the killer of the week attacks Bones with a movie prop sword, and she notes that he's holding it in this manner, something only a Medieval buff would know to do, since movies almost never show this technique. | |
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Chuck does this when proving to Ellie he is the Intersect in the 4th season. Stephen Bartowski invokes it from Chuck as a reflex to prove to himself that Chuck is. |
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Another example of a robot doing this occurs in Blade Bunny. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood has a variation: Jonathan's first encounter with Speedwagon entailed the street thug attempting to mug him with a bladed bowler hat. Jonathan manages to block it with just his forearms, enduring a nasty cut in the process, though it didn't stop him from laying Speedwagon out in one kick. | |
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A fairly common tactic used by the Redwall series' Badger Lords when they're in full-on Bloodwrath. More than one villain has found their weapon grabbed (and often snapped in half) mid-fight. It always injures the catcher's paws, but the Bloodwrath makes it so they generally don't care until after the fight's over. | |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] has an original scene where Berserker catches Saber's invisible sword. | |
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In the Shake it Up episode "Oh Brother It Up", CeCe Jones performs the technique flawlessly on a quarter flying through the air tossed by Logan. He even compliments her on her cat-like ninja skills. | |
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In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Professor Elliot Randolph, formerly known as The Berserker, catches Ward's knife with his bare hand and bends it like a paperclip. He's an Asgardian and has superhuman strength and durability. | |
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Mechamato: A variant. Mr. Gobi describes Sumorai, the robot who robbed his store, by saying that "he was huge, tall, and carried a really long sword". Upon that last phrase, he swings down a broom towards Amato, who catches it between his hands, and an unsheathing sound can be heard. | |
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In Dark Souls, while it is not possible to block without a shield equipped in the left hand or a weapon held two-handed, is is possibly to parry barehanded. It's actually easier than it is using some shields! So go ahead and effortlessly swat away that invader's lightning-enchanted BFS with one hand. Or better yet, do it to the Final Boss! | |
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Whisper from Yo-kai Watch attempts this and gets split in half. He's a ghost yokai so he ends up unscathed. | |
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Sylar pulls this off in Heroes. Well, it's more like grabbing the blade and pulling it towards him, but still. The fact that he's telekinetic probably helped. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: In Kung Fu Panda, Master Shifu manages this trick by catching a thrown sword, spinning it around his body, and then burying the blade in the floor. In the opening of Kung Fu Panda 3, Kai makes his first appearance by throwing his chained-blade at Oogway, who effortlessly catches it...while his eyes were closed. |
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SD Gundam Force: Captain Gundam manages to parry Commander Sazabi's beam sabers with his (albeit powered-up) bare hands. Comander Sazabi lampshades this, and Captain apologizes as he squeezes the saber blades hard enough to explode the handles with the feedback. |
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Ryuuji pulls this off against Taiga in the first episode of Toradora!. Played realistically since it's a wooden sword, and Ryuuji is still hurt by the maneuver. | |
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Naruto: Killer Bee does this with the Decapitating Carving Knife (granted, the size might have made it easier to grasp, as it would have more room to grasp and move slower). A little earlier, Tobi pulled a somewhat different version of this by blocking it with just his forearm. It is implied he used a jutsu to make his arm hard, so justified. Naruto himself pulls this against Karui, which impresses her a little, although she had flipped the blade around anyway because she was trying to get information from him. And even earlier he breaks one of Pain's blades with his hands, though admittedly he was in his Super Mode at the time. This trope is first used in the series by Kakashi, who blocks a giant shuriken with one hand. Granted, he wears hand-guards, but still... ow. Later in the same arc he goes and does it again. This time he skewers his hand on a kunai which was aimed at his Sharingan. Naruto tries this in a fight against Kabuto, who is wielding a Kunai. His brilliant tactic is intercepting Kabuto's fist, earning the blade cutting the space between his middle and ring finger. Good thing he can heal. In the manga he doesn't have those plates on his hands and it cuts to the bone. His plan was actually to let Kabuto stab his hand in order to grab him long enough for him to use his Rasengan on him. It works, and he more or less beats Kabuto with it. In the Pain attack arc, Kakashi grabs Pain's chakra blade in mid-swing in order to protect Iruka. Jiraiya blocks Kisame's sword, Samehada, with the palm of his hand when Kisame tries to cut off Naruto's legs. Hashirama Senju's giant Wood Golem statue does this to Madara's Susano'o blade twice. |
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Wagnaria!! has a particularly egregious example - the store's general manager manages to pull this off with no wounds, despite the fact that Yachiyo had just finished sharpening her katanna (though she might not have gotten around to sharpening the part he grabbed). | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: A favored tactic of Greed (both versions), thanks to his ability to turn his skin into diamond-hard Instant Armor. In the first volume of the manga, Edward does a blade block with his "arm". Justified in that it's made of automail. After getting new automail made from carbon-fiber, Ed takes a cue from Greed and transmutes the arm to diamond in order to up its blade-blocking abilities. It even works against Pride's shadow blades (which have been shown effortlessly piercing steel). |
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Rave Master: Haru's sword is in a form that uses magic to create explosions while he's attacking Sieg. Sieg is an expert sorcerer who just happens to cast spells by making various gestures with his index and middle finger. He casts a spell to stop the sword at his fingertips. It's averted not to long after when Haru switches his sword to a form without magic and Sieg ends up getting hurt. Demon Lord Berial catches Haru's sword in his teeth in their first battle. Later in the series, Haru shows just how much stronger he has become since then when he kills Berial with one swing of his sword without missing a beat. |
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Dragaera: Vlad Taltos claimed to have lost his finger attempting this trick, though he gives a conflicting account later on. A later book reveals the real reason. | |
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MadWorld: Has the protagonist Jack Cayman stopping a boss' chainsaw with his bare hands until it stops, allowing a counterattack. | |
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This is the first thing 3D Lee does to President Baugh in Kickassia. | |
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Nijigahara Holograph has a variant which is subverted. Amahiko tries to hit Takahama with a broom in a sword-like overhead chop but Narumi gets in front of Takahama and tries to catch the broom in this way. However, she either misses or it goes through her hands and hits her hard enough to break the handle and split her forehead open. | |
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RWBY: Cinder pulls this off against Pyrrha to show off how powerful she is after gaining the full power of the Fall Maiden. Yang later pulls this off during her rematch with Adam using her mechanical arm. And since Adam is utterly dependent on his sword for both his style and Semblance, it marks the exact point where he starts to lose. |
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Done once in an episode of Highlander. Granted, there have been other methods of unarmed defense, such as grabbing the attacker's arms, kicking, punching, etc. The producers claim Adrian Paul (who plays Duncan MacLeod) could actually do this, though it should be noted it was the exact inverse of the one tested by the MythBusters: a swing from below instead of above, the blade caught more along its length instead of width. | |
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Yo-Jin-Bo has Mon-Mon do this to Harimoto. In an unusual twist, he simply throws his arm in the way, instead of actually catching it with his hands. He then tells Harumoto he must be a lousy swordsman, since he failed to cut his arm off. Of course, the pain and bloodloss of a cut down to the bone fails to do any damage...or even show up as a splash of red in the art. | |
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land: At the end of Magolor's first phase in Story Mode, Kirby must use the Ultra [[BFS Sword to deal the final blow, with Magolor trying desperately to hold it off. It doesn't work and he is slashed four more times after Kirby overpowers him. A very similar thing happens at the end of the remake's Magolor Epilogue; after managing to defeat the Master Crown, Magolor finds a sword stuck in the ground and transforms it into his Ultra Sword from Kirby Star Allies to deal the final blow to the tree crown. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Used beautifully when "Mr. Bushido", the human incarnation of Everything's Better with Samurai, shows up in season two using every samurai trope in the book. Setsuna responds by executing a perfect Barehanded Blade Block, and then casually snapping Mr. Bushido's katana in half with a flick of his wrists. | |
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With all the skilled swordplay in 7th Sea, of course this trope would pop up. Eisen swordsmen are known to grab their opponent's rapiers and snap them — while wearing an armored gauntlet. Made of dracheneisen. | |
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In Sinbad of the Seven Seas, Sinbad grabs the blade of the Ghost King's sword and destroys him by turning it back on him. | |
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Armed Girl's Machiavellism presents a more realistic example than usual: Nomura wears mail gloves to protect his hand and blocks the blade attacks with his fist, and it's noted the sword users he fights use dulled swords. He then tried it with Mary's rapier, only to be reminded the hard way that mail does little to block thrusting attacks from a thin sword. | |
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The Way of Kings: Dalinar catches the talon of a colossal Chasmfiend mid-swing, saving the king's life. He's in magical Powered Armor at the time, and the armor is pushed to it's absolute limits by the feat, but everyone else pauses in Stunned Silence (before recovering and helping him) and are collectively reminded that despite his age he's still every bit the Living Legend warrior that he was in his youth. | |
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In a Night Man episode, Raleigh is forced to fight in a prison ring. Night Man helps him for most of the fight. When the criminal throws a shiv, it is Raleigh who catches it with his palms. | |
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Engine Sentai Go-onger: One-time character Bukkorin, apparently a pampered debutante, proved herself to be worthy of her father's Yakuza status by doing this to stop him from splitting Ren's head. | |
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While depowered by red sunlight in "Breaking the Chain", Supergirl catches Cassandra Cain's katana... only for Cass to kick her down. | |
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In Escape from the Phantom Zone, Magog flings his spear at Supergirl, who ducks and grabs the bladed projectile with both hands. | |
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In a flashback cutscene in Halo Wars 2, Atriox does this to an energy sword-wielding Sangheili, of all things, that was sent to execute him. The blade ends up cutting into his hand, but this doesn't stop him from easily killing the Sangheili after. | |
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It is always possible to block melee attacks (to what extent depends on your Block skill) in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, either with a shield, a weapon... Or your bare hands if neither of the previous options are available. Since you actually use your forearms to block, it can be hand-waved if you are wearing heavy armor gauntlets. | |
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Power Rangers: Subverted in part 5 of "Green with Evil" in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Dragonzord tried to do this with the power sword while fighting the revived Megazord. Didn't work. Played straight in "Hogday Afternoon part 2". Hydro Hog blocks the Shogun Megazord's fire saber easily. He is not, however, able to block the Shogun Megafalconzord's Beam Spam. This is a plot point in Power Rangers Wild Force, where Alyssa's father figures out she's the White Ranger by seeing her use the technique he taught her, catching Samurai Org's blade, then snapping it with her elbow. Power Rangers RPM takes this Up to Eleven in episode 18, when the Gold Ranger stops a chainsaw like this. Unmorphed. |
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Novoland: Eagle Flag: An enemy brings a massive axe/sword down on Asule's shoulder. Asule grabs it and holds it away. In real life grabbing it would have been useless and the force of that blow would have cut off his arm and probably half of his ribs too. In the series Asule's shoulder is cut, but his hands aren't hurt. | |
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Inverted in Tower of God, where Endorsi stops Serena's second Bitch Slap with the broadside of the Ignition Weapon Narumada. | |
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In the Discworld novel Maskerade, Granny Weatherwax manages to do this against the main villain at the end of the book, catching his sword in the palm of her hand. While this amazes the opera audience watching the confrontation, Granny proceeds to basically call them gullible saps for believing such a ridiculous fantasy trope, stating she could have had a bit of metal hidden in her palm or something along those lines. She didn't, but she wanted to be contrary and call everyone out anyway, because she's just that type of character. It's only at the very end of the book, after she's made the journey home and set out some boiled water, bandages, and needle and thread, that Granny ends whatever magic was delaying the effects of the injury. Which puts a whole new spin on the old Predator quote "I ain't got time to bleed!" | |
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Asura from Asura's Wrath does this to a blade than can extend up to 380,000 Kilometers in Length, even when being forced back to the planet Earth from the Moon...for a while. Eventually, the force of the strike coupled with slamming his back against ground of Earth makes him him lose his grip and the sword starts punching through his torso and out the other side of the planet. | |
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Lost to Dust: During a sparring match, Bazett blocks Qrow's sword with the back of her hand. She does wear gloves, but Qrow is shocked that his attack did no damage at all. This is because Bazett uses the spell Rune of Armoring to make her gloves harder than tungsten steel. The Headless Hunter catches Blake's cleaver and then sends her flying. |
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The title character of Hayate the Combat Butler does this almost offhandedly with two fingers during his "duel" with Wataru and tosses the sword aside. He's just that good. In a manga chapter, Hayate also manages to grasp a sword wielded by Athena with one hand, although he bleeds from it. When he is fighting with Hinagiku, he does manage to catch her blade barehanded. It isn't a bladed sword, but it still cuts extremely well. |
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World of Warcraft: The monk class is more or less doing this when they tank. The monk can parry, but monks do not wield their weapons when fighting, meaning the parry is done bare-handed. Illidan does this to stop Turalyon from attacking him at the end of the "Rejection of the Gift" cinematic, although instead of clasping it with his palms he just grabs the blade with one hand. Naturally, it results in his hand oozing glowing fel blood. |
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Fates Collide: Jaune Alter catches Gawain's sword Excalibur Galatine with his hand, ignoring the pain even though it is red hot. Then Gawain powers up the sword, burning off Alter's fingers. Penthesilea catches Ruby Rose's scythe Crescent Rose, though her hand bleeds. |
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Treated with extra realism in The Duellists, as trying to grab a Rapier/Smallsword with your hand is going to result in nothing but your palms divorcing your hand. Those things are almost completely unrelated to the fencing foils that Hollywood thinks such weapons are. | |
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Subverted in part 5 of "Green with Evil" in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Dragonzord tried to do this with the power sword while fighting the revived Megazord. Didn't work. | |
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Done several times in The Emberverse, although admittedly with supernatural help. | |
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Inuyasha: In the third movie, Swords of an Honorable Ruler, the title character's Aloof Big Brother Sesshoumaru does the trope one better by punching his opponent's blade out of his way. During the series, Inuyasha's Superpowered Evil Side does the same thing to Sesshoumaru's sword. But due to the special properties of the sword, not only his fist but his entire forearm is sliced up in the process. |
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Deconstructed in God of Cookery, Turkey's left hand is lacerated severely from grabbing a machete but she's just too angry to let that stop her, leading to an Oh, Crap! moment on behalf of the wielder. | |
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Eternals: When the Eternals fight Ikaris, Thena materializes a bladed weapon and swings at him. He casually catches it bare-handed, demonstrating that he had been Willfully Weak before. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda, Master Shifu manages this trick by catching a thrown sword, spinning it around his body, and then burying the blade in the floor. | |
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In the opening of Kung Fu Panda 3, Kai makes his first appearance by throwing his chained-blade at Oogway, who effortlessly catches it...while his eyes were closed. | |
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An episode of Futari wa Pretty Cure has Cure White appear to do this to a Zakenna's titanic sword... But there was actually a tree stopping its downward descent. | |
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Finger of Doom has the hero fighting zombie swordsmen, resurrected by the main villainess who is a Necromancer. He's unaware that his enemies are undead, until one of them grabs his sword's blade by the bare hands, which starts dripping blood, while the grabber doesn't even register the slightest sign of pain on his face, leading to the hero realizing he's fighting some powerful supernatural forces. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess is fond of doing this, when she isn't pummeling people with her sword, her chakram, martial arts, or makeshift weaponry. | |
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This is the main objective of the Clap Trap Endless Game in Rhythm Heaven Fever and Megamix. In the former game, two players need to sync the crash dummy’s arms to catch falling blades before they can bonk their head. Megamix has one player control both hands at once instead. | |
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Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time: Peter saves a female goblin from being beheaded by catching the executioner's blade with his finger. | |
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Samurai Champloo manga: The Russian catches Mugen's sword. In his teeth. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Force-Wielders of Mortis casually push aside lightsabers by the blades to show how completely they outclass everyone else. | |
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Snow White with the Red Hair has a more realistic take on this when Mitsuhide, who is unarmored at the time, traps a blade between his arm and side to disarm an opponent trying to assassinate Zen. It works to disarm the would be assassin but Mitsuhide doesn't get away unscathed and ends up requiring stitches. | |
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In Exalted, by default, you can't parry a weapon barehanded. Unless you describe how you do it in a cool fashion and earn yourself a Stunt, which will both allow you to do it and give you a bonus to the attempt. As a result, everybody is doing it whenever they need to. | |
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Mega Man.EXE does this twice to ProtoMan.EXE in the fourth volume of MegaMan NT Warrior (2001). | |
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Westworld. When the Man in Black jabs his knife threateningly at Ford, a nearby android host grabs it by the blade and stabs it into the table. Only after his bodyguard subroutine terminates and the host goes back to his standard persona does he notice that his hand is bleeding. | |
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Mazinger Z: Kouji was forced to pull this maneouver sometimes. A specially awesome example happened in episode 52: he is fighting a Mechanical Beast armed with scythes can easily slice and dice his Humongous Mecha. During the fight the Beast tries to cleave Mazinger in half... and Mazinger blocks the scythe with both hands and splits it. And then he grans his enemy's broken weapon, slice its remainder scythe off, and stab the Robeast with its own weapon! Justified Trope since Kouji does this using his Humongous Mecha, so he does not need get worried about losing a chunk of his hands. | |
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Near the beginning of Kill Six Billion Demons: Breaker of Infinities, Solomon David catches Jagganoth's blade coming down from above between his palms. Of course, Solomon is a Dimension Lord who also knows the ultimate martial arts form, but it's still pretty impressive considering even the sword is much bigger than himself, and Jagganoth is as powerful as the other Dimension Lords put together. Anyway, Jagganoth continues by pushing the sword so hard Solomon is pushed through the floor. | |
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Tatsuya in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, but his hand bleeds. | |
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A slightly more mild case in Fearless (2006): Huo Yuanjia stops Qin Lei's sword by grabbing its blunt edge. | |
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Spies Like Us. When Fitz-Hume and Millbarge first arrive at Spy School they're confronted by ninjas and their reaction does not impress the school's CO, Colonel Rhumbus. The Wannabe Secret Agents protest that they're not armed, so what are they expected to do against a bunch of ninjas with swords? Handing over his clipboard to an assistant, the colonel proceeds to kick ninja butt, at one point stopping a sword in this manner. Mind you he was wearing leather gloves, for what it's worth. | |
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During the Transformers: Generation One: The Dark Age, the Fallen catches Grimlock's energo-sword in one hand. | |
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Played completely straight by Jester in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. Seems like everyone in that series either has a Healing Factor or is just plain Made of Iron anyway... | |
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Black Butler: Sebastian manages to do this against a shinigami wielding a chainsaw. The same chainsaw is then thrown incredibly hard by Sebastian at the Shinigami's boss, and is casually caught in between two fingers. Ciel does this during a sword fight with Alois. |
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Soul Eater: Professor Stein is able to do this and does so quite often. In fact, there are loads of examples throughout the series. And one of the best of these has to be Maka stopping Ragnarok's blade on her arm after using the black blood. Crona does the same thing in their first appearance, quickly letting the viewers know that they really are bad news. |
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Lucifero, the King of Devils from Black Clover displays how much of a threat he is by blocking Asta's Devil Union empowered Demon-Slayer with a single hand. And yet, he's upset to see it manages to make him lose a single drop of blood. | |
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In Strawberry Marshmallow, Miu tries to hit Nobue with a katana. Nobue catches the blade with her hands twice. Good thing the katana was plastic. | |
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Dog Soldier: Hiba does this once to stop a knife. | |
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Panzer World Galient: In episode 3, the titular mecha used both forearms to block an axe blow. Galient blocked the weapon, but the blow was powerful enough to knock it down. | |
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In Detective Comics #589, Batman does this with a battleaxe. | |
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Space Adventure Cobra: An interesting case in one episode and manga chapter. The title character and his female cyborg sidekick are fighting apparently invincible suits of armor, and Cobra does a Bare-Handed Blade Block on one sword (not that hard for him considering his superhuman reflexes). He subsequently breaks the sword and the armor crumbles, empty. He discovers later that they are fighting a race of living, telekinetic swords — or depending on the dub, (unnamed) liches using the swords as phylactery. It is shown later in a flashback that Cobra once got his left arm cut off by an axe. Right after, he blocks it with his right hand's fingers. |
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Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: At one point during the Sack of Torus Filney, Will does this while fighting a Phobos soldier. The mask-empowered Hak Foo does this with Caleb's sword during the fight in the subway tunnel. |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos blocks Doctor Strange's conjured sword strike one-handed. Thanos does the same thing in an earlier scene during the confrontation in the Collector's vault, blocking Gamora's sword single-handedly and breaking it to half, but Gamora managed to use the broken sword to stab and kill Thanos. And then a moment later, all that was revealed to be an illusion caused by Thanos and his newly-obtained Reality Stone... | |
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Shadows over Meridian: Jade uses her Super-Strength to block a rebel soldier's sword while battling at Snowpoint. | |
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300 have this occurring when the Uber Immortal (a Giant Mook version of an already formidable enemy) fights King Leonidas, the latter slashing his sword only for the Immortal to grab it by the blade. And yank it off. The Immortal's hand is clearly bleeding from the cut, but it Feels No Pain. | |
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In Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls, Grogar, as one of the Ten Espada in this continuity, demonstrates how much he outclasses the heroes by catching Sunset Shimmer's Flaming Sword in Shikai state without taking any damage. | |
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A subversion happens in Kotetsu Jeeg. The titular Humongous Mecha blocks a downward, vertical swing... by crossing its forearms above his head. Of course, given that it is a robot, hence it is not made of flesh, it is not worried about the weapon slicing it, and the blade shatters upon impact. | |
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Psycho II: Norman grabs a butcher knife that Mary Loomis is stabbing him with. She yanks it through his hands, with wince-inducing results. | |
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In Billy vs. SNAKEMAN, attacking a village whose leader has the Ascension theme playing means you're automatically defeated as they strike you down. However, if you have The Wind, The Sun and The Rain playing, you catch their blade with your hand and take them down instead. | |
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In Batman Beyond, Terry manages to do this against Talia or rather Ra's. Possibly justified by the bat-suit, but then again, the sword's strikes were tearing through it like nothing, and it was against a rather nasty leap attack. But it was awesome. For bonus points, having grabbed the blade, he then slams it into some Explosive Instrumentation. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Professor Elliot Randolph, formerly known as The Berserker, catches Ward's knife with his bare hand and bends it like a paperclip. He's an Asgardian and has superhuman strength and durability. Iron Fist (2017). Danny catches a sword between his hands in a fight against the Hand. He also uses his magic glowing fist to block (and destroy!) a hatchet and a bullet at different points in the series. |
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In No Rest for the Wicked, The Boy grabs Prince Ricardo's sword by the blade when threatened with it. | |
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One-Punch Man: Saitama once caught a kunai thrown by "Speed-O'-Sound" Sonic between his fingers. In another instance, Sonic tried a sword slash and Saitama caught (and broke) it with his teeth. The Dragon-level monster Nyaan performs an exaggerated version of this. When a hero tries to stab him in the eye with a knife, he catches and shatters the blade with his eyelids. |
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The Stormlight Archive: The Way of Kings: Dalinar catches the talon of a colossal Chasmfiend mid-swing, saving the king's life. He's in magical Powered Armor at the time, and the armor is pushed to it's absolute limits by the feat, but everyone else pauses in Stunned Silence (before recovering and helping him) and are collectively reminded that despite his age he's still every bit the Living Legend warrior that he was in his youth. Words of Radiance: Dalinar does this to stop a Shardblade, in a move sword-master Zahel later refers to as a "lastclap." Kaladin asks Zahel about it, but the latter mentions that this is a desperation move that usually doesn't work and shouldn't be relied on, particularly because it only really works if the Blade is swung overhead anyways, so attempting to dodge the blade in the first place is almost always preferable. It only sometimes works against Shardblades because they are wider than normal swords, giving more room to grab the flat of the blade and, since they're capable of cutting through nearly anything with minimal resistance people don't swing them with nearly as much force as normal blades and instead need to focus on control and precision. Kaladin succeeds in doing this when helping Adolin who is outnumber by enemy Shardbearers. It's unexpectedly effective because Shardblades are actually spren trapped in "death", and Kaladin is bonded to a living spren. When he touches the "dead" blade, both he and it's wielder hear it screaming in agony, as well as apparently blaming it's current wielder for it's suffering. The wielder promptly drops his blade and flees the scene. The Herald Ishar does this casually, combining it with Point That Somewhere Else. A Windrunner attempts to stab him from behind with a Shardblade in a five-on-one duel, but he twists around and pushes the absurdly sharp soul-cutting sword aside with a single finger on the flat of the blade. And he's describes as an only average duellist among his peers. |
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Vividred Operation: In the beginning of episode 3, Akane catches Wakaba's bokken with her hands after the latter attacks her. | |
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In Animus Rover's story "Ichigo's Rival," from Bleach: Fan Works, Culth Seborn blocks Ichigo's sword with one hand before shattering it. This, combined with Culth using an attack that kills four million hollows in one hit, causes Dark Kuroda to realize that Culth is a God-Mode Sue. | |
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Stabbing variation in Castlevania when Alucard lunges across and pins his father Dracula to wall with his Cool Sword, Dracula is shown to have caught the sword between his fingers harmlessly then still holding onto the blade he literally pushes Alucard back as he walks forward. | |
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Parasyte: The first time that Migi, the parasite that's replaced Shinichi's right hand, speaks to him, Shinichi tries to stab the thing with a kitchen knife. Migi catches the point by clapping it between two of his miniature hands, and uses a third appendage to slice the blade in half. | |
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Words of Radiance: Dalinar does this to stop a Shardblade, in a move sword-master Zahel later refers to as a "lastclap." Kaladin asks Zahel about it, but the latter mentions that this is a desperation move that usually doesn't work and shouldn't be relied on, particularly because it only really works if the Blade is swung overhead anyways, so attempting to dodge the blade in the first place is almost always preferable. It only sometimes works against Shardblades because they are wider than normal swords, giving more room to grab the flat of the blade and, since they're capable of cutting through nearly anything with minimal resistance people don't swing them with nearly as much force as normal blades and instead need to focus on control and precision. Kaladin succeeds in doing this when helping Adolin who is outnumber by enemy Shardbearers. It's unexpectedly effective because Shardblades are actually spren trapped in "death", and Kaladin is bonded to a living spren. When he touches the "dead" blade, both he and it's wielder hear it screaming in agony, as well as apparently blaming it's current wielder for it's suffering. The wielder promptly drops his blade and flees the scene. The Herald Ishar does this casually, combining it with Point That Somewhere Else. A Windrunner attempts to stab him from behind with a Shardblade in a five-on-one duel, but he twists around and pushes the absurdly sharp soul-cutting sword aside with a single finger on the flat of the blade. And he's describes as an only average duellist among his peers. |
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Just to show off how utterly badass he's become, Ian from Errant Story performs this on a gigantic axe wielded by a GOD. | |
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Digimon Data Squad: In the last arc of the series, Marcus Damon stopped Craniamon from stabbing ShineGreymon by punching Craniamon's weapon. Bear in mind that both Digimon are the size of office buildings and that Craniamon's sword is many times larger than Marcus's entire body. Marcus's fist stops the blade cold. | |
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Averted in the Smallville Season 9 finale, where Clark wraps his arm in his jacket to parry his opponent's kryptonite dagger. Played ludicrously straight everywhere else, though. Blades that make contact with Clark are not only blocked, they shatter. Justified because invulnerability is one of Clark's superpowers. Except for the "shattering" part, because the wielders would have to have superhuman strength themselves for that to make any sense at all. | |
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Scion has an epic Stamina knack called Impenetrable Thumbnail which makes a small portion of the Scion's body absolutely unbreakable. With a good stunt, the player can parry sword attacks with their pinky finger | |
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In Fate/Long Night, Shirou tries to ambush Nymeria with a knife. She catches it with her thumb and pinky, then snaps the blade. | |
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Berserk: Guts has done this more than once. One time during a sword fight with Casca he stops a thrust by grabbing the point, although he still gets wounded and his hand bleeds severely. After he loses his left hand, he frequently uses his metal prosthetic to swat away sword blows. Eventually he manages to pull this trick on Serpico using his good hand without even taking noticeable damage. Puck the elf does this is in the Count's run when he tries to prevent Theresia from committing suicide by slitting her wrist, even though the wielder is a human and the knife is as big as he is. In this case it's more of a symbolic gesture of putting his life on the line rather than stopping the knife by force, since he was counting on them to hesitate to kill him. Puck tries to catch the Apostle Rosine's Whip Sword-like proboscis between his palms when she lashes out to kill him in Volume 15, but this ineffective move proves moot because her strike misses him altogether and slices open the cocoon behind him instead. |
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Vampire: The Masquerade: A vampire who trains in the Discipline of Fortitude, which grants Super-Toughness, can try to block a blade with an unarmed combat roll. | |
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Fate/strange Fake: When the members of Clan Calatin try to attack Jesture Karture, he effortlessly blocks and destroys their weapons with his hands or just his fingers. Jesture says he can do this because he is a vampire which are superior to mere humans, and if he was facing a stronger opponent like a Servant, he wouldn't be able to do it. | |
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In Secret City at one point Santyaga casually grabs katana, apparently to not to allow "fatal" blow to damage his dandy suit. Even though katana is wielded by Anti-Magic ninja from Kitano School, who simply ignores all sorts of magic barriers and shields. After persuading ninja to let it down, Santyaga pretends to wipe blood from his palm with hankerchief, but ninja glimpses, that he's actually unhurt and it's just an act of weird "politeness" - to show, that all his effort wasn't so completely futile. | |
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Wonder Woman (2017): In spirit if not technically. Diana does manage to catch a sword this way, but her forearms and part of her palms are wrapped in leather, with her bracelets layered on top. It helps that she's an Amazon and a demigod. Ares not only stops Diana’s God Killer sword with his hand but also disintegrates it. |
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: King does this in episode 12, but he gets cut anyways. | |
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In Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki Nagato catches Asakura's combat knife with nasty spikes on the backside straight-faced in her Big Damn Heroes moment. Although, her doing this features expectable amounts of blood. Yuki, of course, ignores that. | |
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Iron Fist (2017). Danny catches a sword between his hands in a fight against the Hand. He also uses his magic glowing fist to block (and destroy!) a hatchet and a bullet at different points in the series. | |
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Done in The Gates by a vampire. While normally the whole vampire thing might justify it, she was fighting another vampire who presumably had a comparable level of enhanced speed and strength. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: Nanoha pulls this off during the White Devil training incident, stopping a powered punch with one hand and a magical blade with the other. She grips the blade, which draws blood, and uses magic to halt its wielder's momentum. Considering her talents, she had plenty of alternatives, but would they have freaked out her opponents as much? Jail Scaglietti also does this to Fate during an incredibly impressive scene-especially considering the sheer size of Bardiche's energy blade and the way Scaglietti is driven partially into the floor, which shatters from the force, whilst still standing upright. His claw-hand may have helped with this. The block didn't help in the long run though, which just goes to show ou Can't Fight Fate. |
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Steven Universe: Connie tries to attack Blue Diamond with Rose's sword, but Blue Diamond catches the blade between the fingers of one hand and snaps it to pieces. Which was easier than it sounds, considering Blue Diamond is so enormous, even a BFS for a human is proportionally smaller than a butterknife. | |
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Not only does Ryoma Nagare manage to pull this off in Getter Robo (though with some injury to his hands), he also manages to redirect the blade into another man's skull and then sever another man's arm clean off by throwing it. The fight is replicated in the ''New Getter Robo" OVA. | |
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The Devil Judge: In a flashback Soo-hyun grabs Ga-on's knife. Deconstructed since she cuts her hand. Yo-han also grabs the knife when Ga-on tries to stab him. |
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While not actually possible in-game, the AntiSword card in the Mega Man Star Force games depicts MegaMan catching a McCleaver's blade this way. | |
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The Super Robot Wars: Original Generation Adaptation Expansion The Inspector includes an iconic scene where Sanger Zonvolt acquires his Dygenguar Super Robot. Vigagi has the inactive Dygenguar on the ropes until its OS is rebooted... at which point it responds with lightning speed and massive strength, allowing Sanger to stop the Galgau's multi-ton armblade bare-handed. | |
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Samurai Deeper Kyo showcases the entire range of sword catches. But the real kicker (pun intended) is when Yuan of the Taishiro catches Hotaru's sword between his toes! | |
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In Bayonetta, a Torture Attack has Bayonetta whip out a chainsaw. The enemy she's about to use it on goes for this trope. Yes, against the fucking Chainsaw. It fails. | |
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Bleach: Byakuya catches Ichigo's sword between two fingers. | |
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Jones from Gunnerkrigg Court does a hands-free variation, which onlookers lampshade: parrying a blade with your face really isn't a viable idea unless you're a Humanoid Abomination Time Abyss with Complete Immortality. | |
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Queen for Seven Days: Lee Yung threatens Chae-gyeong with a sword. Lee Yeok grabs the sword by the blade and pushes it away from her. | |
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The "Hope" trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic features Satele Shan doing this against a lightsaber. It works. This is due to the Force Ability known as Tutaminis, which allows a user to absorb energy. Justified in that the ability is extremely rare, and Satele is a very powerful force user, being a descendant of Bastila Shan and Darth Revan. Valkorian (the Sith Emperor in another body) does this when his son, Arcann, betrays him, using the Force to stop the blade centimeter away from his hand. |
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G.I. Joe: Resolute: Snake-Eyes does a very unconventional/extremely badass variant of this when he stops Storm Shadow from scoring a killing blow by letting the blade pass through his palm, then breaking the sword with his free hand. Afterwards, he nonchalantly pulls out the section of the hilt still stuck in his hand. | |
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Frozen: Pulled off in desperation, literally in her dying moment, by Anna, as she magically freezes. Justified in that she is in the final stages of turning to ice and we can see the blade crystallize and grow brittle just before it hits. Ultimately she was merely trying to throw herself in front of it to save her sister Elsa, rather than consciously trying for this technique, but this is what eventuates. | |
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In both the Tekken series and the fairly obscure Squaresoft fighter Ehrgeiz, characters can grab an incoming blade attack and flip the opponent via his sword. Though in Tekken, at least, attacks made with bladed weapons are unblockable, and reversals are shown as grabbing the attacker's arm rather than the blade itself. | |
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In Machete Kills, Machete catches Luther Voz's katana with his left hand, which bleeds. | |
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Kanbei does this to the robotic Kikuchiyo in Samurai 7. | |
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In Passchendaele , a Canadian soldier grabs a German's bayonet with his bare hands, though more out of desperation than badassitude. It also ends realistically, with him having a deep stab wound in his palm. | |
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Goliath, in the first episode of Gargoyles, catches a sword in his open hand, upon which it starts to bleed from the sword wound. This simultaneously establishes that the gargoyles are extremely tough... but, as the villain notes, not invincible. | |
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Bushido Blade: Many of the blocks in the 2nd game in the series involved variations of this - even if your opponent is using a broadsword! | |
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Transformers: Prime: Megatron does this once; justified because he is a giant robot. Followed up by an epic Call-Back in the episode "Orion Pax Part 3" where Optimus is the one who blocks a strike from Megatron, reversing their roles from the above situation. Can also count as a Bookends since it closes a storyline that spanned seven episodes. Predaking, near the end of the series, does something similar, blocking Wheeljack's thrown swords with his forearm... and just leaving them sticking out for a bit when they pierce slightly, as they fail to hinder his fighting ability in any meaningful way. |
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In I, Robot, when a rogue robot attacks Spooner with a metal pipe, he instinctively tries to defend himself by blocking the blow with his forearm. This is where we find out Spooner's left arm is actually a superstrong metal prothesis. | |
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Girl Genius: A very disturbing variant of this is used by Von Pinn against DuPree — the voluntary Impaled Palm variant. Anevka pulls this off here. Of course, she is a clank. |
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Played straight in Yakuza Kenzan! when an Old Master does this with TWO FINGERS. | |
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Similarly, in Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel, Lancer blocks one of True Assassin's blade by catching the flat ends between his elbow and knee. | |
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Reapers Among Fairies: Kurohebi catches Ichigo's sword with his hands and gloats. Ichigo nonchalantly fires a Getsuga Tensho that knocks him out. | |
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The Testament of Sister New Devil: Chisato Hasegawa demonstrates her power by catching Basara's BFS with one hand and crushing it. | |
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Ichika pulls this off against Houki's wooden katana in Infinite Stratos. It's played more for laughs, than for awesome. | |
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In Kairos, Anaëlle does this when a dragon is about to kill Nills. | |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny had the Strike Freedom catch the Destiny Gundam's anti-ship sword in this fashion. It made a little more sense than most examples because 1) the Freedom used its beam shields to slow the impact, and 2) it caught the solid part of the sword rather than the energy blade. However, Fridge Logic kicks in when one remembers that this is an anti-ship sword, packing extra weight to help it cut through the hulls of enemy battleships. Of course, Photoshopped images exist that show a more realistic outcome, with Freedom's hands clapped around air and Destiny's sword half-buried in its head. It shouldn't have worked... had Kiranote pilot of the Strike Freedom tried it on anyone else. Also, it's very probable that he would've failed to stop the sword had Shinn decided to exert more pressure and press through, but Kira countered with a point-blank shot from the waist railguns quickly enough before Shinn could shake off his shock from the initial block and press the attack. The incident apparently made an impression on Shinn, as he would try to use the same trick in the finale against Athrun and the Infinite Justice. However, since his opponent was using Energy blades, the Destiny is cut to ribbons. Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Used beautifully when "Mr. Bushido", the human incarnation of Everything's Better with Samurai, shows up in season two using every samurai trope in the book. Setsuna responds by executing a perfect Barehanded Blade Block, and then casually snapping Mr. Bushido's katana in half with a flick of his wrists. Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Crossbone X-3 can do this to beam sabers because it has I-field generators in its hands. Though those I-fields cannot be turned on all the time due to the heavy power drain they cause. SD Gundam Force: Captain Gundam manages to parry Commander Sazabi's beam sabers with his (albeit powered-up) bare hands. Comander Sazabi lampshades this, and Captain apologizes as he squeezes the saber blades hard enough to explode the handles with the feedback. |
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: In addition to the MMPR example cited above, Zyuranger also has Goushi doing this in Episode 44 during his "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight with kendo practitioner Sayaka when she's possessed by Dora Chimera. It works, but his hands are bloodied afterwards. So, if you've been wondering why Zack's hands were bandaged and bloodied in the equivalent episode, "Lions and Blizzards", that's why. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters: La Jinn blocks Celtic Guardian's attacks this way. | |
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Ghirahim in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword does this with three fingers when facing off against Link. Justified, as he's a powerful sorcerer and he literally is a sword himself. | |
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Rome. When the assassination of Julius Caesar starts he grabs the dagger when the first wild stab is made at him, cutting his hand, but it's quickly followed up by others. | |
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In Superman comics: While depowered by red sunlight in "Breaking the Chain", Supergirl catches Cassandra Cain's katana... only for Cass to kick her down. Justified in Last Daughter of Krypton: During their first battle, Supergirl grabs Reign's massive sword with one hand when it is being swung down on her, and shatters the blade easily. Of course, a large chunk of sharpened metal did not wound her super-tough skin. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow: When Krem's goon swings his sword at Supergirl, she indifferently catches the blade. Since she was weakened but still very hard, her hand gets bloodied instead of lopped off. In Escape from the Phantom Zone, Magog flings his spear at Supergirl, who ducks and grabs the bladed projectile with both hands. |
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Jin blocks Margulis' sword when he is disarmed during a fight scene in Xenosaga Episode II, cementing his status as a Badass Normal. | |
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Referenced in Tiger Mask when Star Apollon blocks a karate chops from Tiger Mask this way and explains he got the idea from this trope. | |
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Subverted in Street Fighter V's cinematic story mode. One of Bison's Dolls attacks Zangief with a katana; at first it looks like he's going to try this, but then he makes it even more absurd by letting the blade hit his chest, No Selling it, and then shattering the blade simply by flexing. All thanks to "Muscle Power". | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: In episode 5 of the Egypt Arc, Jotaro's Stand, Star Platinum, not only catches the evil Anubis Sword with his bare hands by the blade but he snaps it in half with ease. It doesn't go nearly as well the second time however as Anubis memorizes the move and his current wielder (a brainwashed Polnareff) swings it faster than Star Platinum can react, earning Jotaro a blade in the gut...which he smashes to pieces anyway. | |
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Done by Ash in Army of Darkness, though he is using his recently-acquired medieval robot hand. | |
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Treated fairly realistically in Rob Roy. A funny invocation of the trope occurs early in the film. Rob avoids combat with a bruiser who's trying to pick a fight with him by getting the guy to agree that their duel only be to first blood, then immediately reaches out and cuts his hand on the guy's sword. Rob is even gracious enough to compliment the guy on his "victory". Used in deadly earnest during the final duel. Archibald Cunningham uses his superior fencing skill to toy with Rob, gradually weakening him with a Death of a Thousand Cuts. At one point Archie is threatening Rob with his point and Rob swats it away with his left hand, but Archie effortlessly recovers. Finally Rob collapses, and Archie has the chance to finish him right away, but instead he delays the kill by holding the point of his rapier under Rob's neck and taunting him. Before Archie can thrust into Rob's neck, Rob grabs the tip of Archie's blade with his bare hand. He bleeds a lot from grabbing the blade, but it buys him just enough time to rise to his feet and slay Archie with a mighty stroke of his highland broadsword. |
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Goodbye My Princess: Cheng Ji grabs an assassin's sword when they try to stab him. | |
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And again in Dragon Ball Super, taken Up to Eleven when Goku, in Super Saiyan 3 form (which is no longer his most powerful transformation), catches Super Saiyan 2 Future Trunks' most powerful sword attack between his fingers with zero effort. | |
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Madoka from Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne tries to block Kirius' blade twice and fails both times, and when a third attempt was made, Lan stepped in and did it successfully. | |
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In Dragon Ball GT, Goku catches both of Ledgic's swords and breaks them, only to immediately get kicked in the gut. | |
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Grougaloragran pulls this off a time or two in Wakfu, catching Nox's blade between two fingers — even when the Xelor is stopping time before attacking. Of course, Grougal is a freaking dragon in human form. | |
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In De Rode Ridder, the Ninja Kinugasa can do this, which is even lampshaded by the narrator. Johan calls him the most skilled and dangerous opponent he has ever faced. | |
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Ginji does this to Pixy Misa in Magical Project S. It's almost plausible, considering that Misa is quite physically weak. | |
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Goemon has done this against rival swordsmen at least once in the Lupin III movies. | |
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In Flipside, Bloody Mary, a Nigh-Invulnerable villain, blocks a sword strike with her teeth. | |
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Yoshio in Sukiyaki Western Django performs the standard two-hands-over-head blade block. A Genji Mook who then tries to emulate him, however, fails and ends up with a katana in his head. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Victarion Greyjoy grabs a sword in one hand during a battle on a ship. Despite his metal gauntlets his hand is badly cut and the wound becomes infected. Quorin Halfhand earned his eponymous feature when he lost all but his thumb and forefinger on his right hand blocking a wildling's axe barehanded. Catelyn Stark catches the knife of an assassin sent to kill her son, but she can't use her hand for much for long time afterwards. |
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Devil May Cry: Played completely straight by Jester in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. Seems like everyone in that series either has a Healing Factor or is just plain Made of Iron anyway... The opening cutscene of Mission 20, also in 3. Vergil attempts to deliver a vertical downward slash to Dante using Force Edge. Dante, in retaliation, pulls the same attack with Rebellion, and the twins catch each other's swords with their off hands. Granted, those hands bleed profusely, but these are the sons of Sparda... Happens to Nero in the 4th game when he first confronts Agnus. On the note of 4, Gloria executes a Bare THIGH Blade Catch. |
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Prisoner KSC2-303 does this in the final battle of Versus. | |
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One Piece: In a filler episode, Zoro tries to do this, but never actually manages it due to the interference of his perennial rival, Sanji. Hachi tried to do this in his duel with Zoro, but utterly failed despite using all six of his hands. Luffy also does something similar one-handed in his match against Arlong, but it was more with his monstrous strength than any learned skill. "Fire Fist" Ace grabs a Baroque Works member's sword during his visit to Alabasta. Shu grabs Zoro’s Yubashiri when it’s swung and using his rust powers completely wrecks it. Zoro has a Oh, Crap! moment. Kuma manages to block Zoro's slash and knock him back. It may help that he has paw pads that No-Sell everything and also the fact that he's a cyborg. Trebol tried to do this with his snot. In chapter 789: just as a string-controlled Rebecca was about to cut Viola down, Luffy stepped in and blocked the sword with his head (Though it was covered in Haki, of course), breaking it. Big Mom doesn’t even need Haki as she snaps a giant’s broadsword with her wrist... as a little girl. |
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In The Three Musketeers (2011), D'Artagnen blocks Rochefort's sword with the back of his hand and later catches it. Both feats leave his hand bloody. | |
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Lampshaded in Gaunt's Ghosts. When attacked by an assassin, Gaunt remembers the advice given to him by Colm Corbec; namely that it's better to cut the hell out of your hands and fingers than to let an opponent get an open slash at you. Luckly, Gaunt is badass enough to disarm his attacker without resorting to such a dramatic measure. | |
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Ogami Itto does this. A Ninja sent against him does a double subversion — he deliberately aims the sword into his own skull, so that his partner would have a chance to kill Ogami while the sword is stuck. The protagonist and the villain. Having killed every single ninja in Japan, hero Itto Ogami faces down his enemy Retsudo Yagyu, armed with only a broken sword against Retsudo's spear and sword. Ogami blocks the spear and breaks it in half, then blocks Retsudo's sword and disarms him, taking a mortal wound in the process. Retsudo then blocks Ogami's final strike, tells him that the heavens desire Ogami's death more than his own, and gently lets go of the blade. Ogami dies on his feet, sword in hand. Also, Itto usually doesn't just catch the blade. He also tends to flip up and yank away the blade (or just snap it) and throw it into whoever struck at him. In the last fight, this doesn't work since Yagyu is good enough to flip with him and thus not lose the blade. Which is especially impressive when you consider that Retsudo is at least thirty years older than Itto. |
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More realistically than usual, Wendy Darling in Cheshire Crossing stops a rapier thrust with her hand — and it is visibly bleeding badly afterwards. | |
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In Punch-Out!! Wii, Piston Hondo is shown doing this as training in Title Defense mode. | |
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Fate/Zero does this with Berserker catching Saber´s invisible sword barehanded. It's a hint to his identity as Lancelot, as it shows that he knows the exact shape and length of the blade despite it being invisible. The original Fate/stay night had Caster's Master Kuzuki Souchirou employ a slightly more realistic variation, again to Saber's invisible sword. He caught the blade between his elbow and knee (it was a horizontal slash). Even more impressive considering he was an ordinary human, just with insane martial arts skills. Of course, he is a master of Confusion Fu and was magically augmented by Caster for his fights. Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] has an original scene where Berserker catches Saber's invisible sword. Similarly, in Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel, Lancer blocks one of True Assassin's blade by catching the flat ends between his elbow and knee. |
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In the first gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the vampire demonstrates it being Nigh-Invulnerable (sort of, it just has high combat stats) by grabbing the player's sword when the combat begins. | |
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In The Venture Bros. Season 1, Brock Samson throws his knife at Molotov Cocktease, hitting her square in the head— she catches it in her teeth. | |
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VR Troopers. What do you do if using trial-and-error with a dimension portal device lands you in the Big Bad's lair instead of letting you follow your lost teammate, and now you're face-to-face with The Dragon? Well, if you're Kaitlin, you catch his sword between your bare hands... without bothering to morph first. | |
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Drillbit Taylor did this. Somewhat subverted because while he did technically stop the sword he lost his pinky. | |
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Wonder Man has used this fairly often, notably in World War Hulk: It's a quick way to show his experience and set him up for a defeat. | |
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Mikoto in Rune Factory Oceans mentions the fact that certain warriors can stop a blade with bare hands. Then remarks that such a technique is more suited for showmen than for swordsmen. | |
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Freddy vs. Jason: During their confrontation with Jason in the dream realm, Jason swings his machete overhead at Freddy, only for Freddy to clap his hands together and catch the balde between them. | |
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The fact that Super Sonic will eventually hold the giant blade to defeat the boss is somewhat reminiscent of a certain fangame that was popular in the 2000s. | |
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In the duel between Legolas and Bolg in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Bolg does a variant by trapping Legolas' sword under his armpit. It works because the blade is single-edged: If it was double-edged, or the other side had been up, Legolas could have sliced his arm off. | |
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In a later episode of Sola, Matsuri attempts this when fighting Takeshi. Justified in that she's immortal and has the power to instantly decay any object she touches (she's quickly rusted metal scaffolding and induced mild necrosis in Takeshi's arm earlier). It still draws blood since Takeshi's sword turns out to be immune to Yaka powers. | |
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Bastard Swordsman: In their one-on-one duel, Master Qing Song leaps at Chief Dugu with his sword, unaware that the latter's skill have improved to the point where he's effectively invulnerable. He ends up having one serious Oh, Crap! moment when Chief Dugu grabs his blade with his bare hands without flinching. | |
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Dropkick on My Devil: Parodied like many other things when Jashin-chan catches a spiked club, not realizing the spikes will mess up her hands. | |
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Treated semi-realistically in Godfathers of Hong Kong starring Andy Lau. The main villain tries stabbing Lau with a machete, and Lau blocks the machete from the blunt side... and still ends up having lacerations on his arms. | |
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Domain Tnemrot - Angel pulls this off single-handed, but she's clearly shown to be bleeding and later pages imply she was trying to lose. | |
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Mouse (2021): Bong-yi grabs the killer's knife as he's about to stab her. Deconstructed because this cuts her hands badly. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the first edition supplement Oriental Adventures, the "Locking Block" martial art move can be used to perform a Bare-Handed Blade Block (but it also covers other weapons and unarmed opponents). Success isn't guaranteed, however, and against a weapon the user can get wounded. The third edition version of Oriental Adventures has the feat "Grappling Block" to perform this bare-handed against melee weapons and disarm the opponent (though it can also be used with a sai or jitte). It happens during an attack and count as an attack of opportunity. However, it has no less than five feat prerequisites, which makes it unlikely that any character will bother with it. |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy has a knife thrown at her by Merrick. She picks it out of mid-air and looks incredulously at him, saying, "You threw a knife at my head!", to which he matter-of-factly replies, "And you caught it." | |
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The implausibility is inverted in an episode of Outlaw Star where Gene fights Suzuka. Gene isn't even using his bare hands but rather a bullet-deflecting force-field focused to a very small space while Suzuka is using a bokuto and he still can't hold her off. | |
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Subverted in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, when a Monster of the Week tries to do this against Marvelous (even Calling His Attack with the official Japanese term), but fails completely and even compliments Marvelous's attack afterwards. | |
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Game of Thrones: In the first season, Catelyn holds an assassin's knife away from her throat with her hands. Reality Ensues: she lives, but her hands are cut deeply. Jorah pulls a variation of this to win his fight against Qotho. He catches Qotho's blade with his gloved hand and cuts through his enemy's head with his free one. A White Walker not only stops Sam's sword with one hand, it shatters it. Justified since the Walkers are only vulnerable to a few Kryptonite Factors and aren't at all bothered by normal blades. Brienne of Tarth disarms Sandor Clegane and holds him at swordpoint, asking him to yield. He grabs the Valyrian Steel sword with his bare hands, and despite the blood pouring from them forces it out of her grip. Their duel renews more brutally than before. In season 5, a disarmed Jaime Lannister pulls this off against a Dornish soldier about to finish him off with a slash to the head, raising his gold-plated right hand and catching the mook's sword (Jaime looks more surprised than the mook, having done it entirely by instinct). Before the man can react, Jaime grabs his own sword and skewers the soldier like a kebab. Gregor Clegane catches Sandor's sword with his armored gauntlet, but Sandor wrenches his sword free and continues his attack. |
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In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) issue 21, Snake-Eyes does this in response to a blade thrown at Scarlett. | |
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Loopmancer have the player hero, Xiang Zixu, stopping Hiroyuki's katana in the end of the boss fight, though it's more plausible than other examples as Zixu's arm is mechanical. | |
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In Uninvited Guests, Komamura and Hitsugaya manage to pull this on Aizen. Aizen gets annoyed and complains that it's only cool when he does it. | |
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: The monks of Senpou Temple are skilled martial artists capable of blocking your sword strikes with their bare hands. However, they can only do so a few times at most before you completely break their guard. The protagonist can pull off a foot-based version of this with the Mikiri Counter. If an enemy does a thrust-based attack of any kind, Wolf can stomp their weapon into the ground, even if it's a man-sized blade. The description for the ability explictly states that a shinobi requires superhuman reflexes in order to pull this off. |
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Miyu from My-HiME blocks a Brainwashed and Crazy Mikoto's sword just as she's rising out of her coffin. In a piece of official artwork, Haruka blocks Miyu's sword arm during a trip to the beach. The My-Otome version of Haruka tries this with Shizuru's staff while they're sparring at the academy, but only ends up getting a Cranial Eruption and causing Shizuru's staff to bend on impact. | |
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In The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl, Shimotsuki does this to block Higetsu's sword and prevent him killing Kirasagi. This becomes a Chekhov's Skill later when he uses the same technique to block Kirasagi's sword during their fight in the cave. | |
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This is tried by one of the targets of Samurai Cat's vengeance. He then smiles up to Tomokato. And then dies due to the razor-sharp katana buried in his skull — he failed the manoeuvre. | |
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Princess Silver: Wu You stops an assassin stabbing Rong Le by grabbing the blade. | |
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In Love Hina, Keitar� manages to do this against Motoko, which has her worrying that her abilities are slipping. She starts to completely lose it, though, when Tama-chan (the turtle) manages the same feat. | |
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The original Fate/stay night had Caster's Master Kuzuki Souchirou employ a slightly more realistic variation, again to Saber's invisible sword. He caught the blade between his elbow and knee (it was a horizontal slash). Even more impressive considering he was an ordinary human, just with insane martial arts skills. Of course, he is a master of Confusion Fu and was magically augmented by Caster for his fights. | |
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A signature move of Jubei-chan, it's a very relevant plot point in the second to last episode of the second season. This is taken to an extreme. It's not only bare-handed, the blade is stopped with bare-fingers (thumb and index finger) with only one hand. With absolutely no effort regardless of how much force was being put into the slash. It's also relevant earlier in the second season when Jiyu performs this in her civilian form, showing that her Ninja Girl skills are not limited to when she uses the Lovely Eyepatch. She does this in the first season as well. When Shirou and Hajime are fighting she stops them by calmly stepping in between them and stopping both swords barehanded. | |
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in Kotaro Makaritoru!, Kotaro does this when stopping Tenkoji's attack regularly, as Tenkoji carries a sharp (though sheathed when he's not attacking) katana almost everywhere he goes. He doesn't necessarily use his hands, either — at least once he does it with his toes. | |
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Danny does it with the Fright Knight in Danny Phantom. Considering how much he struggled with him beforehand, the fact that Danny did it with ease (and won the battle as a result) was unexpected. | |
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Play Misty for Me has the climactic scene in which Stalker with a Crush Evelyn goes Ax-Crazy with a carving knife. She's been lunging at Dave, leaving some nasty gashes until one tussle has Dave grip the blade to prevent Evelyn from wielding it further. Dave's hand gets quite bloody from this effort. | |
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Servants of Remnant: Odysseus effortlessly catches Adam Taurus' sword Wilt with his hand and shatters the blade by squeezing. | |
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Mahou Sentai Magiranger: In the first episode, Kai performs one against Wolzard to protect his older siblings, earning him the right to become MagiRed. | |
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In one episode of Sonic X, Emerl does this this against Mr. Tanaka in a tournament. A somewhat odd example because Emerl, being a robot, has metal hands, and Mr. Tanaka is using a wooden bokken. | |
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This is a plot point in Power Rangers Wild Force, where Alyssa's father figures out she's the White Ranger by seeing her use the technique he taught her, catching Samurai Org's blade, then snapping it with her elbow. | |
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Basilisk features an unconventional example when Akeginu tries to kill Josuke at the Iga clan's compound. Akeginu uses her ability to manipulate her own blood to conceal herself in mist, getting the drop on Josuke and striking his head with her sword. Her satisfaction at apparently killing him turns to consternation when it becomes clear that Josuke—who is a combination of Acrofatic, Rubber Man, and Kevlard—has safely caught the blade between two rolls of fat on his cheek! | |
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The Samurai class in Final Fantasy V (from which Tactics had its job system modeled) has an ability called "Blade Grasp", or "Shirahadori" depending on the translation. | |
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In Black Sails in the pilot episode, the captain defends himself with his bare hands during a knife fight. Except some bleeding, this has absolutely no consequences on the health of the captain. | |
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Gunslinger Girl. In her climactic fight with Pinocchio, Triela catches the knife-wielding assassin off-guard by breaking his knife with her bare hands, then stabbing him in the arm with his own blade. | |
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As noted above, busted by the Mythbusters. Even with superhuman strength, there is no way to catch the sword without taking massive damage to the hands. On the other hand, a one-handed blade block is perfectly possible if you use a palm protector made for the exact purpose, and block the strike before it gains too much momentum. Blocking the blade with two hands on either side of the blade is still quite impossible. | |
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In the climactic fight scene of Five Fingers of Death, the hero does this to the katana of the leader of the ronins employed by the Big Bad, going on to break off the blade, leading them to fight hand-to-hand. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: This is pulled off against a double-bladed spinning lightsaber by Ahsoka. What she actually does is catch the handle and deactivate the blades, but it has a similar narrative function. | |
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The titular character from The Kid with the Golden Arm, thanks to his powerful Golden Arm kung-fu, which allows him to block all kinds of weapons including snapping a BFS and crumpling the blade like a handful of nachos. | |
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New Mazinger: In one of the first scenes, a mecha enemy attacks Mazinger with a laser blade. Mazinger easily grabs the mecha's wrist and then he slices it in two with a single stroke. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny had the Strike Freedom catch the Destiny Gundam's anti-ship sword in this fashion. It made a little more sense than most examples because 1) the Freedom used its beam shields to slow the impact, and 2) it caught the solid part of the sword rather than the energy blade. However, Fridge Logic kicks in when one remembers that this is an anti-ship sword, packing extra weight to help it cut through the hulls of enemy battleships. Of course, Photoshopped images exist that show a more realistic outcome, with Freedom's hands clapped around air and Destiny's sword half-buried in its head. It shouldn't have worked... had Kiranote pilot of the Strike Freedom tried it on anyone else. Also, it's very probable that he would've failed to stop the sword had Shinn decided to exert more pressure and press through, but Kira countered with a point-blank shot from the waist railguns quickly enough before Shinn could shake off his shock from the initial block and press the attack. The incident apparently made an impression on Shinn, as he would try to use the same trick in the finale against Athrun and the Infinite Justice. However, since his opponent was using Energy blades, the Destiny is cut to ribbons. |
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Liu Kang does this in the final battle of Mortal Kombat: The Movie. | |
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This is expected to happen in a film titled Buddha's Palm. Notably when Long Jian-fei fights Ouyang Hao, Long blocks Ouyang's sword with his palms and flings Ouyang aside while grabbing the blade! | |
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Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z: Man-Wolf pulls a knife on Jackie Chun, but Jackie easily catches it with his thumb and forefinger and then sends Man-Wolf flying. Swords tend to be a bit useless, as almost everyone is able to block them: Tien, Goku (with a finger), 18, Trunks (with his own sword wielded by King Cold), and Gohan have pulled it off on some occasion. Justified by the fact that they are all superhumanly powerful. And again in Dragon Ball Super, taken Up to Eleven when Goku, in Super Saiyan 3 form (which is no longer his most powerful transformation), catches Super Saiyan 2 Future Trunks' most powerful sword attack between his fingers with zero effort. In Dragon Ball GT, Goku catches both of Ledgic's swords and breaks them, only to immediately get kicked in the gut. |
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Shin Mazinger: In one scene Aphrodite grabs a Beast's weapon and breaks it in half. | |
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The block with a gloved hand example mentioned in the Real Life section occurs in a duel towards the end of The Olympian Affair. Unfortunately for the duelist, Captain Grimm isn't using a light dueling blade like most of the people he had killed over the years, he's using a heavy cutlass, and the strike goes through the glove, and his fingers, and into his neck. | |
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In the MMORPG Ragnarok Online Monks have a skill called Blade Stop that consists basically of this trope. The skill-user and the attacker go into a Blade Lock giving the Monk an opportunity to activate combo chain. | |
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Used once in Real Bout High School, though there it was with Ryoko's wooden sword, making it much more plausible. | |
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Kamen Rider Den-O: Ryotaro spends part of episode 41 practicing the maneuver, with varied results; Kin and Ura help out in a rather straightforward fashion, Momo pulls the old "what's that?" maneuver, and Ryuu just smacks him on the head as hard as he can without warning (and rightly paying for it moments later). The scene ends with Ryotaro successfully pulling the maneuver off. | |
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Followed up by an epic Call-Back in the episode "Orion Pax Part 3" where Optimus is the one who blocks a strike from Megatron, reversing their roles from the above situation. Can also count as a Bookends since it closes a storyline that spanned seven episodes. | |
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Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Crossbone X-3 can do this to beam sabers because it has I-field generators in its hands. Though those I-fields cannot be turned on all the time due to the heavy power drain they cause. | |
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Battle Angel Alita: Alita does this in the OVA 2 and manga while fighting with a dual-sword-wielding bounty hunter; being an advanced cyborg, she then adds some Applied Phlebotinum to her Bare-Handed Blade Block and calls down a lightning bolt to fry the baddie. A gag panel between two chapters of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order volume 11 shows Sechs attempting a Bare-Handed Blade Block — but being too slow. The sword breaks on his cyborg skull. |
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Final Fantasy Tactics: One of the "Reaction" abilities of the Samurai class, Shirahadori (original translated as "Blade Grasp"), allows you to stop any physical attack in this manner. That includes swords, axes, bashing with a blunt object, and (courtesy of a programming error) arrows and bullets. Depending on a character's Bravery stat, this could have as much as a 97% chance of success*If the character's Bravery is at 100 for the fight, this gives a 100% success rate, but also means enemies won't even bother trying; 97 is the maximum permanent Bravery stat and more than sufficient for normal use, though only for the first swing in an attack round (meaning a dual-wielding enemy can bypass it). Considering that magic is really lack-luster in this game (it's fairly easy to become completely immune to it), this ability is absurdly broken. Note that most special abilities are physical (including the magical physical abilities) and yes, Blade Grasp have a near 100% chance to block those too. Tactics Advance has Strikeback, which allows you to block a basic attack and counter attack. For some reason, Tactics A2 changes the animation to have the character do a spinning dodge rather than stopping it with their hands. The Samurai class in Final Fantasy V (from which Tactics had its job system modeled) has an ability called "Blade Grasp", or "Shirahadori" depending on the translation. |
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My Bride is a Mermaid: Lunar's Dad catches Kai's katana between his fingers and then snaps the tip of the blade. Subverted when slow motion goes into effect as Saru gives a dramatic monologue while preparing to perform a blade block... only to fail to grab the sword in time after his speech, resulting in a colorful spray of blood. |
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The Worm Ouroboros: At one point, Brandoch Daha catches a lance being thrust at him, unhorses the rider wielding it, and beheads him. Thus ends Corund's son Cargo. | |
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Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow: When Krem's goon swings his sword at Supergirl, she indifferently catches the blade. Since she was weakened but still very hard, her hand gets bloodied instead of lopped off. | |
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Power Rangers RPM takes this Up to Eleven in episode 18, when the Gold Ranger stops a chainsaw like this. Unmorphed. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Steel Wing is the mons's counterpart to this. And in one famous battle, Ash's Charizard, while he's already battered and exhausted, managed to block two Steel Wings. It helped him win. Against a LEGENDARY Pokemon. Norman's Slaking does this against Ash's Grovyle's Leaf Blade. As does Clemont's Bunnelby to Ash's Pikachu's Iron Tail, though they didn't count on Pikachu doing this so he could fire Electro Ball point-blank… |
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Karate Bears actually take the knife by the blade, spin it around and use it to attack the attacker in this one | |
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Sailor Moon: Sailor Uranus tries to attack Galaxia with her sword. Galaxia, without even getting up from her throne, catches it with one hand, effortlessly holds it in place as Uranus struggles to free it, then hurls the sword and her away. | |
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Neo stops a sword with the side of his hand in The Matrix Reloaded, his Made of Diamond Nigh-Invulnerability leaving him only with a small cut to the hand. The Merovingian is quite surprised by Neo's durability before drawing his mook's attention to the cut and how The One can still be hurt. | |
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Parodied like so many other things in Keijo!!!!!!!! When Iaijutsu Practitioner Saya attacks Kaya with her breasts, Kaya counters with a Bare Breasted Boob Block. | |
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Sword of the Stranger does this twice, by the same guy. Luo Lang, big blond Blood Knight that he is. When he does it in the final fight you're pretty much expecting it because he already did it once. Which is the REALLY unlikely one, since he performed the Blade Block IN THE RAIN and metal gets really, really slippery when wet. | |
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No Need for Bushido: Brother Wu blocks a BFS. Emphasis on the "B". Lampshaded in the strip: Averted 20 pages later, when Yori blocks Ryoku's blade by sliding his sheath over it. |
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The Conqueror in The Last Remnant blocks Emma Honeywell's sword with three fingers before casually flinging it away. Justified, since the Conqueror is a superhuman badass. | |
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Chiaki trains himself to master this move through a bit of MacGyvering, tying a wooden sword to a tree and spinning it around, then trying to catch it. | |
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A very similar thing happens at the end of the remake's Magolor Epilogue; after managing to defeat the Master Crown, Magolor finds a sword stuck in the ground and transforms it into his Ultra Sword from Kirby Star Allies to deal the final blow to the tree crown. | |
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In Once Upon a Time Rumplestiltskin does the two-fingered variant while fighting Prince Charming. Justified in that he is the Dark One, and was for all intents and purposes just doing it for fun and to prove to Charming just how far in over his head he was. | |
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Pubert Addams in Addams Family Values manages to catch a guillotine blade with his thumb and forefinger just before it decapitates him. Doubly badass because he's not even a year old yet. | |
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A variation occurs in the German movie Das Experiment based on the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. The main character stops a knife blade by... gripping it with his hand! It sounds as painful as it actually looks, and the attacker is as perplexed as the defender by the unexpected move. It's made even worse because he apparently can't just open his hand again, so he has to pull the knife out from his closed fist, effectively slicing his palm and fingers even more. | |
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The Bloodwolf of The Adventures of Puss in Boots is so powerful, sword attacks don't even seem to affect him, but he still effortlessly blocks them with his hands anyway to show he can. | |
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Michiko from Michiko & Hatchin does this in one episode. | |
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In the original novel/anime of Vampire Hunter D, Count Lee is able to block a sword strike with his two bare hands. Justified because he's a vampire with superhuman speed and strength, and that he was taught the technique by Dracula. | |
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Shana pulled this one off in the Shakugan no Shana Backstory episode when she awakens to her abilities. | |
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Toku shows like Super Sentai would always invoke this as a cultural nod of sorts. Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: In addition to the MMPR example cited above, Zyuranger also has Goushi doing this in Episode 44 during his "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight with kendo practitioner Sayaka when she's possessed by Dora Chimera. It works, but his hands are bloodied afterwards. So, if you've been wondering why Zack's hands were bandaged and bloodied in the equivalent episode, "Lions and Blizzards", that's why. Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: The Dekaranger Robo stops an incoming missile with both hands, but the Rangers refer to this move by the official Japanese terminology for Barehanded Blade Block. The same series has a Monster of the Week try to do this, miss, and get a sword slash to the face for his trouble. "Man, was my timing off!" he said. (He's also very hard to hurt, with a rubber-like body that means few attacks do real damage.) Mahou Sentai Magiranger: In the first episode, Kai performs one against Wolzard to protect his older siblings, earning him the right to become MagiRed. Engine Sentai Go-onger: One-time character Bukkorin, apparently a pampered debutante, proved herself to be worthy of her father's Yakuza status by doing this to stop him from splitting Ren's head. Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Chiaki trains himself to master this move through a bit of MacGyvering, tying a wooden sword to a tree and spinning it around, then trying to catch it. Subverted in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, when a Monster of the Week tries to do this against Marvelous (even Calling His Attack with the official Japanese term), but fails completely and even compliments Marvelous's attack afterwards. Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: King does this in episode 12, but he gets cut anyways. Kamen Rider Den-O: Ryotaro spends part of episode 41 practicing the maneuver, with varied results; Kin and Ura help out in a rather straightforward fashion, Momo pulls the old "what's that?" maneuver, and Ryuu just smacks him on the head as hard as he can without warning (and rightly paying for it moments later). The scene ends with Ryotaro successfully pulling the maneuver off. Kamen Rider Fourze: In episode 5, Fourze does this with his KNEES while fighting the Monoceros Zodiarts. He follows it up with the standard hands version in episode 6. |
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The "Hand-Clap Parry" in GURPS: Martial Arts is dangerous and leaves you at a disadvantage, if it works at all. | |
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This technique was used by the Jedi apprentice Scout against a lightsaber, but justified because the lightsabers were on training settings for a tournament. They wouldn't cut, but they would leave painful burns wherever they hit. Lampshaded by Scout's opponent, who complained that such a tactic would not work in a real fight. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Negi manages to stop a dagger stab at the very last moment using two fingers immediately after he learned Magia Erebea. Earlier, Jack Rakan does the same thing with a tendril of shadow magic. And now Negi has done a Barehanded Blade Break! In one of the OVA's, Fate Averruncus nonchalantly swats one of Setsuna's daggers with his hand, shattering it. Justified in that he's a freakishly powerful master of earth elemental magic. |
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Subverted/deconstructed during the final fight of kung fu movie Duel to the Death. Hashimoto tries to kill Ching Wan with a thrust of his katana. Ching Wan, out of desperation and due to being caught by surprise, grabs the blade with one hand. Hashimoto responds by calmly rotating the blade, severing all of Ching Wan's fingers on that hand. | |
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: The Dekaranger Robo stops an incoming missile with both hands, but the Rangers refer to this move by the official Japanese terminology for Barehanded Blade Block. | |
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Urusei Yatsura: Ataru regularly foils would-be samurai Shutaro Mend� with this maneuver (pictured above). For extra effect, he once pulls it off with his stockinged feet (which also has the expected effect on Mend�). And in another story he pulls it off against a swordfish. Then he gloats he has honed his technique thanks to his frequent quarrels with Mend�. |
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The reveal trailer for Lucina and Robin in Wii U/3DS has Captain Falcon pull off a more realistic variation by parrying Lucina's sword using the back of his hand. | |
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In The Animatrix short "Program", during a climactic sword fight, the protagonist Cis grabs the katana on its descent in Bullet Time, then snaps the blade off the sword and stabs Duo in the neck with it. Justified because it takes place in the Matrix and by the Rule of Cool. | |
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Referenced in The Baroque Cycle. It's noted that fencers typically carry daggers with sharp points and dull edges, causing a recent fashion for grabbing onto your opponent's dagger with your off hand. Johannes carries a dagger with unusually sharp edges to prevent this from happening to him. | |
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Good Luck Girl!: A variation with Ranmaru Rindou, who can catch knife attacks with her bare feet. | |
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Tate from Yami no Aegis (also in Until Death Do Us Part), whenever he fights an enemy who uses a blade. Helps that he has a metal arm also capable of deflecting bullets. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: While Kenshin performs this move against Aoshi (and does, indeed, cut his hands), the person most known for this is Yahiko who is known as the "man who has caught 1,000 blades". He uses the blade block because his sword style, the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryu is conceived for non-lethal self-defense. During Yahiko No Sakabatou Yahiko breaks a blade one handed, which is the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryu's ultimate technique taught to him by Kaoru (thus making her a practitioner of this trope as well). Unlike the traditional blade block pictured above, the technique is done by crossing your arms and catching the blade with the back of your hands while still grasping your sword so that you remain armed even after disarming the opponent. Aoshi also breaks a blade with one hand at the end of the manga's Jinchu Arc. Into multiple pieces. Make sure you never ever use your sword techniques on Shishio more than once. Once Shishio knows how an attack works it's almost always guaranteed to be blade blocked with just three fingers. With only a few exceptions, this is interestingly one of the more realistic depictions of this trope. Characters who catch incoming blades are often seen getting cut by the blades they have caught. This is evidenced by the technique Kenshin uses against Aoshi, which looks the closest to the most common form of this trope, where he reveals that the object is actually to allow oneself to be cut but to clamp down on the blade to prevent it from slicing, which is where a slashing sword like a katana does its real damage, and notes that the entire katana isn't as sharp as the cutting-point half-way up. On the other hand you do have people like Shishio and Aoshi, who are badass enough to do it in a less bloody fashion. |
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Buffyverse: In the Buffy episode "Becoming, Part 2", Buffy stops Angelus's sword this way, although the attack that she blocks is a stab rather than a swing. Also, she has Super-Strength and enhanced Slayer reflexes. Several years later, Glory pulls the same stunt; justified because she is an actual god. In Season 5's "Spiral", Spike stops a Knight of Byzantium's sword from stabbing through the roof of their Winnebago and impaling Buffy through the skull, managing to hold it in place long enough for Buffy to get out through the roof hatch and take the fight to the Knights. It's played realistically: his hands are gashed and bandaged for the remainder of the episode. In the Angel episode "Shells", Illyria does this to two swords at once. Also justified because she's an Eldritch Abomination even more powerful than the earthbound Glory. |
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: A Quick Time Event has Samuel trying to stop Raiden's sword with the player able to make Samuel fail should they pass the event. Raiden also does this twice, but while fighting against giant robots! Senator Armstrong not only catches Raiden's high-frequency blade with his bare hand, but also snaps it in two near-effortlessly. |
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WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: "Wario Kendo", one of the late-level microgames, asks you to do exactly this. On the easiest difficulty level, you have to catch a daikon radish. On its hardest difficulty level, the bokken-wielding samurai accidentally lets his blade slip, and you have to catch the falling sword before it bops Wario in the nose. | |
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Re:CREATORS takes this Up to Eleven when Altair stops the Vogelchevalier's sword by catching the blade between her left hand's index and middle fingers. The Vogelchevalier is a Humongous Mecha whose sword is equally scaled up to size. And if that wasn't enough, she then proceeds to throw the mech to the ground using those same two fingers holding the sword. | |
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In Qian Qiu by Meng Xi Shi, Zhao Chiying blocks Pu Anmi's attempt to slash Shen Qiao from behind with his saber with her hand which she protects from damage with Magical Martial Arts. Played With, as the narrator points out that using Magical Martial Arts this way is not considered in-universe to be truly bare-handed. | |
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Return to Firetop Mountain has a (perfectly avoidable) encounter against a monster called a Metallix, who doesn't look threatening but is actually immune to weapons made of metal, hence its name. If you chose to attack the Metallix with your sword, it will snatch your weapon away from you by the blade and use it against you. You can only fight it by pelting it with rocks. | |
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Way of the Tiger: The books' introduction section is that Avenger's ninja costume has thin strips of iron sewn into it to facilitate deflecting or binding blades, to make up for his lack of training with any non-projectile weapon. In the second book of the series, Avenger defeats an opposing ninja this way, catching his blade in both hands and then kicking him in the throat. |
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Queen of All Oni: El Toro does this during one fight with Right (one of Jade's Co-Dragons). | |
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Megatron does this to Vector Prime in the first episode of Transformers: Cybertron. It helps the fact that he's made of metal. | |
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Kong: Skull Island: In the opening scene, Marlow catches Gunpei's katana with his hands. His hands get bloody and he screams in pain, but he manages to pull the sword out of Gunpei's hands. However, he's unable to use his hands for the rest of the fight. | |
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Code Lyoko: In the episode "Revelation", Ulrich pulls the move against a polymorphic clone that has taken his appearance and stolen his katana, attacking him Dual Wielding. The Hero then returns the weapon against his Doppelgänger in the same movement, killing it. Ulrich gets disarmed the same way by a XANA-controlled Aelita in "Wrong Exposure". |
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In Assassin's Creed, Ezio does this all the time while waiting to disarm guards. Although he blocks them with his arms, and seeing as a certain metal plate was added to his hidden blade during the story to make it double as a vambrace, it is sort of reasonable. Other Assassins in later games can do this as well. | |
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YuYu Hakusho: Just before the Dark Tournament begins, Hiei decides to see how far Yusuke has come by attacking with his sword. Yusuke effortlessly dodges a barrage of lightning-fast slashes before catching it between his thumb and forefinger. During the Dark Tournament, the team realizes they are still really outclassed by Toguro after Toguro uses only 45% of his strength to catch a battleaxe wielded by a powerful demon — which harmlessly bounces off his skin before he grabs it one-handed. Old Master Genkai does this to the demon Shishiwakamaru and his demonic blade. In the English dub Kuwabara at least acknowledges the unlikeliness of the feat by shouting "Whoa, that's hardcore!" in response. Hiei catches a humongous axe that Bui throws at him by the blade. During the Chapter Black storyline, Yusuke blasts away a couple dozen flying knives with his Shotgun. He misses two, but manages to catch one in each hand by closing the fingers of his spread hands. |
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An entire episode of Voltes V was devoted to Kenichi learning this when the eponymous Super Robot was fighting against an enlarged swordsman. He doesn't take very well to the training for the technique, so he decides to modify the process by doing a bullet catch using a pair of rocks. Earlier in the episode, Daijirou performs this against Megumi's blade after she had disarmed him of his staff earlier in a sparring session. | |
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In Is This A Zombie?, Ayumu catches Kyoko's katana with one hand, and then breaks it. | |
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Great Mazinger: Tetsuya introduced the Heroes Prefer Swords in Super Robot anime. Sometimes he did this as dueling with War Beast, but during its duel with Ankoku Daishogun he used a very unorthodox version: he stopped a sword blow with Great Mazinger's forearm. | |
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Fighting Fantasy: In the first gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the vampire demonstrates it being Nigh-Invulnerable (sort of, it just has high combat stats) by grabbing the player's sword when the combat begins. Return to Firetop Mountain has a (perfectly avoidable) encounter against a monster called a Metallix, who doesn't look threatening but is actually immune to weapons made of metal, hence its name. If you chose to attack the Metallix with your sword, it will snatch your weapon away from you by the blade and use it against you. You can only fight it by pelting it with rocks. |
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Alan-a-Dale tries this by accident during the battle against Guy of Gisbourne in The Outlaws of Sherwood and pays the price — the tendons of his hand are so badly damaged that it may be months before he can play the lute again, if he ever does. | |
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Dwarf Fortress: Adventurers, and occasionally AI fighters, can pull this off quite well if they spot the enemy is about to attack them, and grab their weapon before it can happen, interrupting the attack. Not just bare hands either; any grab will do. It's actually recommended, as you can quickly steal their weapon this way and incapacitate a potentially lethal blow. Even easier to do than a Punch Catch, too, as unarmed opponents are much more unpredictable, while an armed foe will just use the weapon. | |
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Taken to the extreme in Secret Service of the Imperial Court, with the villain, Eunuch Wang, grabbing the hero's BFS with his bare hands... and snapping it in one move! | |
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In Saint Seiya, Shiryu manages to do that to Shura's attack, which was done with the arm but it was treated as a Sword attack by them. He then proceeds to explain the technique. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: Zelda/Sheik's congratulatory image for clearing Adventure mode has Sheik stopping Link's sword with her bare hands. The reveal trailer for Lucina and Robin in Wii U/3DS has Captain Falcon pull off a more realistic variation by parrying Lucina's sword using the back of his hand. |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Lord Yupa does this to prevent a slaughter aboard a ship, taking a sword point in the forearm, through his armor. Despite Yupa's calm, unflinching demeanor, Nausicaä is the only one who notices the blood dripping from the hilt, and the shudder of pain in Yupa's body, showing the extent Yupa will go to to keep the peace. In the film, he does this to block Nausicaä's sword thrust when she's going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Torumekian soldiers who invaded her home and murdered her father. The visual imagery and basic Establishing Character Moment are still the same, just in a different context, since it's this action and the sight of the blood that calms Nausicaä down. | |
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Justified in Last Daughter of Krypton: During their first battle, Supergirl grabs Reign's massive sword with one hand when it is being swung down on her, and shatters the blade easily. Of course, a large chunk of sharpened metal did not wound her super-tough skin. | |
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A flashback in an episode of Cold Case shows the Victim of the Week stopping an attack like this. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs—her hand gets cut badly. | |
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