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Diagonal Cut

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Diagonal Cut	comment	A swordsman strikes an opponent or other object with a mighty blow. At first, the strike appears to have done nothing and the person or thing looks perfectly intact. A few seconds later, though, the top half of the object begins to slide off the bottom half: through great strength, great skill, an Absurdly Sharp Blade, or the involvement of some kind of magic or Applied Phlebotinum, the sword has made a cut so clean that the object stays together until acted upon by an outside force, such as gravity, a gust of wind, or the victim trying to use their body normally. The initial seam created by the cut might not even be visible to the the naked eye: if it's a person their clothes may look intact, and the wound will not start to open up or bleed until it's revealed to the audience. A person thus unwittingly cut in half may feel fine at first and laugh at their attacker for missing, until the moment of shocked realization when the two halves of their body slide apart and possibly spout High-Pressure Blood. Although not mandatory, the person who delivered the fatal blow might say "You Are Already Dead" and/or finish sheathing their sword with an audible "click" as the cue for their foe to suddenly fall to pieces. This trope name comes from the fact that in Japanese media, which furnishes numerous examples, the go-to method of inflicting it on a person is a diagonal downwards strike from shoulder to opposite hip. Setting aside the fact that diagonal sword strikes are Truth in Television for certain practical reasons, a diagonal seam is what allows the target to separate in the most aesthetic way in the context of this trope. For the sake of argument, assume that the sword merely severs the physical connections in its path without disturbing the position or inertia of the two halves it creates. A perfectly horizontal cut would turn the bottom half of the target into a sort of table top which the upper half would stay balanced on instead of falling off, whereas a diagonal cut makes the lower half act as a ramp for the upper half to slide down under gravity. At the same time, a diagonal cut still gives you a clearly distinguishable upper and lower half so that friction on the ramp makes the slide slow enough for dramatic effect, in contrast to a perfectly vertical split where the left and right halves would have no force to slow their separation and would tend to fall apart in a less elegant way. Please don't take the name too literally, though: a cut that's vertical, horizontal, or indeed any angle qualifies here as long as the effect of the cut is delayed. Conversely, a cut that literally follows a diagonal path but causes immediately visible damage or disassembly is not an example. Something might count as a downplayed case if the severing is immediately obvious, but still causes less of a structural collapse than expected: for example, if a person is instantly killed by beheading, but the head is moved so little by the blow that it remains balanced on top of the neck. This trope has a lot of Artistic License â€“ Physics and sometimes Artistic License â€“ Biology associated with it. For example, as long as the edge is sharp enough the actual thickness of the blade is totally ignored. A BFS several centimeters thick can leave a cut as invisibly thin as monomolecular Razor Floss, even though logically it would have to displace a lot of material in order to pass through it. Likewise, the actual depth of the object that's being sliced never affects the outcome of this move. It's possible to cut all the way through items whose thickness greatly exceeds the length of the swordsman's blade, such as cars, giant sequoias, or in extreme cases entire buildings. See the Analysis section for a discussion of the mechanics. The Diagonal Cut frequently happens in a Single-Stroke Battle with blades, although it also happens to inanimate scenery, especially if a warrior receives an Absurdly Sharp Blade and decides to test it on whatever target comes to hand. A regular Clean Cut is when you have an object neatly sliced apart without the delayed reaction. Razor Floss and other Sharpened to a Single Atom weapons tend to deliver a Diagonal Cut once per show for extra shock value and/or bonus awesomeness, with Clean Cuts used the rest of the time. For a plentiful source of video examples, check out this "Cut/Slide" reel compiling many clips of the diagonal cut being inflicted on people in action and horror films. Be warned, however: four minutes of people getting sliced up and then slowly falling apart while still conscious can be pretty stomach-turning. However, it may also be a hilarious demonstration of how this trope is harder to show convincingly in live action than in animation. Further, it shows that something used too often can lose its effect very quickly.
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Diagonal Cut / int_10303525	comment	In an episode of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, Dr. Frankestein slashes at his childhood self with a meat cleaver. A few seconds later, his head falls off.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1409f1e9	comment	Real Life Comics' Black Pants Samurai does it to a titanium door with concrete frame.
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Diagonal Cut / int_14f4af76	comment	In Piranha 3D, the piranha cause a wire to get loose from the stage and it slices through two girls, one of them dies instantly while the other appears to be unscathed with the only damage being her bikini top being cut off. After feeling herself to make sure she's all right, her upper half from her shoulder down to her torso slides off her body.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1622155	comment	Kirby Super Star has Dyna Blade do this to the background in the intro sequence. And in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby himself can do this to several things with the Ultra Sword, most notably a volcano.
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Diagonal Cut / int_18ce5aab	comment	Both Samurai Shodown and The Last Blade play this trope if the last blow is a strong slash with both characters standing.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1bb6d4b5	comment	Get Backers: Kuroudo Akabane frequently slices victims — sometimes like this, sometimes far more elaborately, sometimes several at once — and they don't realize it until long after he's finished, come to a stop, and said something to another character. Then Ludicrous Gibs occur almost explosively. If you see Akabane, and then suddenly are not sure where he went, chances are that you've been dead for several seconds and haven't fallen apart yet because Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Tite Kubo is very fond of this trope. Almost all the characters that fight will, at some stage, perform a diagonal cut, be it on their opponent or some scenery around them. Most of the characters will go on to perform diagonal cuts in later fights, too. In fact, it's practically a default cut in this manga. Yoruichi and Byakuya have each seemed to be the victim of this trope...except that Yoruichi's advanced form of Flash Step (which she taught to Byakuya) allows them to somehow leave afterimages that bleed as if they were cut. Kenpachi has one of the more notable examples, where his slash after releasing his Power Limiter cuts down a skyscraper.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1cf9029e	comment	DEATH BATTLE!: The climax of the fight between Tigerzord and Gundam Epyon features one. After the Epyon uses a full-powered beam sabre on the Mega Tigerzord, the latter mecha falls down in one piece, only for its upper torso to slide off and explode a few moments later. A combination of this, Ludicrous Gibs, Wrecked Weapon and Delayed Causality happens at the end of Sasuke VS Hiei where Sasuke and Hiei perform a Single-Stroke Battle with Onyx Chidori/Chidori Blade and Susano'o for Sasuke and the Sword of Darkness Flame for Hiei where while both suffered significant injuries from it Hiei survives with Sasuke's Kusanagi falling to pieces followed by Sasuke himself.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1d290a5c	comment	Happens all the time in Murder Princess.
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Diagonal Cut / int_1ff419c5	comment	In the final stage of Kingdom Hearts II, a series of skyscrapers springs out of the ground to block Sora's path, who, using a reaction command, charges through every one of them and emerges at the exit, despite the fact they only slide apart several seconds later. Also, Sora's keyblade is round. It still cuts absolutely smoothly through objects several times its own length.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2221ecbd	comment	An even more unlikely Western example is in CSI: NY. The villain of the episode manages this on a man's neck. Downplayed in that the head fails to fall off (until Detective Taylor lifts it up), greatly confusing the investigators until they determine the weapon is a katana.
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Diagonal Cut / int_227742e2	comment	Done to high-rise apartment building in Kaze no Stigma. Everything else starts out with such a cut but quickly gets diced in the follow up.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2755a17	comment	Mechamato: Ninjamera uses a sword to slash at Mechamato, who ducks. The fountain behind Mechamato gets cut through, and after a few seconds its top half falls off.
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Diagonal Cut / int_28486597	comment	There's a scene in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar where Aladdin has been framed for murder and is going to be executed. An assistant grinds the execution sword and hands it to the executioner for inspection. The executioner is pleased with it, and promptly slashes the sword through a rather large piece of wood. The wood is at first unaffected, but a second later splits neatly in two. All in front of the intended victim, who is next in line. And this is in a show for kids!
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Diagonal Cut / int_289f3039	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, one of the reveal trailers shows Galeem on the receiving end of the trope, courtesy of Sephiroth and his Masamune. Now keep in mind that Galeem is powerful enough to wipe out the whole universe and rebuild it In Their Own Image, so for him to get sliced in half so easily clearly establishes Sephiroth as the bigger threat between the two.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: In episode "The Mime", the eponymous villain inflicts a diagonal cut all the way through the Eiffel Tower with his power. Complete with the few seconds of delay before the top starts to slide down along the cut.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2b0f79b4	comment	In Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, this happens when fighting the lesser enemies with a sword. This also happens with some of the finishing moves, especially Kung Lao's.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2e6be66a	comment	Likewise, almost all Otome in My-Otome who use swords as weapons.
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Diagonal Cut / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: In "Absolute Candor", Tenqem's head stays on his shoulders for a second or two before falling off as a testament to just how sharp Elnor's blade is.
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Diagonal Cut / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Subverted in Naruto: when Sasuke is fighting Deidara, he cuts clean through Tobi, who falls over a second later, but to Sasuke's confusion Tobi gets back up, seemingly unharmed, shortly thereafter. "Tobi" actually phased through the attack entirely, then pretended to be injured before Deidara would notice to keep his cover.
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Diagonal Cut / int_33860f9f	comment	Scott Pilgrim: Happens in the fourth book, in which the victim is actually able to get a few words in before sliding apart.
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Diagonal Cut / int_33888a01	comment	In a rare book example, in the novel The Lone Drow by R.A. Salvatore. King Obould kills an elven warrior with precisely this trope, right down to the delay between the cut and the torso sliding away. He does it again in The Pirate King, this time with an erinyes.
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Diagonal Cut / int_33acebd8	comment	Johnny in Guilty Gear specializes in these. Most of his special attacks come in the form of diagonal cuts, and his Instant Kill turns the opponent into a playing card, which he cuts diagonally, whereupon it slides apart.
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Diagonal Cut / int_34525365	comment	In Trevor (2020), Trevor cuts through Dr. Sternâ€™s head with a bone-bladed appendage, giving the doctor only a moment to look on in horror before he falls apart.
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Diagonal Cut / int_35f1d3fb	comment	G.I. Joe: In one issue, Snake-Eyes demonstrates his "subtle cut" against a practice dummy. When the dummy doesn't fall apart, the following comments pop up in the background:
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Diagonal Cut / int_3662453e	comment	Used to the nth degree (though not with swords) in the first Resident Evil (2002) movie. A small group of characters are trapped in a short hallway with deadly lasers that cut them apart, while characters outside try desperately to deactivate them. On the last pass, the only surviving character is facing down what turns, to his horror, into a GRID of lasers. The outside characters manage to deactivate the lasers apparently in time, until the trapped character starts oozing from a grid of a thousand cuts — and then falls apart in a fine dice.
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Diagonal Cut / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star: The Nanto Seiken martial art is based almost entirely around cutting things using one's fingers and bursts of air. Rei and Huey are best known for creating multiple diagonal cuts on foes before they finally break into pieces.
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Diagonal Cut / int_398cc823	comment	In the pilot episode of Under the Dome, an unfortunate cow happens to be standing directly under the Dome as it slams into place. The cow is split in half lengthwise, with its two halves sliding down the transparent Dome at slightly different speeds so the bloody edge of the far piece can be gorily seen.
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Diagonal Cut / int_3a35fcc8	comment	And in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby himself can do this to several things with the Ultra Sword, most notably a volcano.
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Diagonal Cut / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Yajirobe's fight against Cymbal in the original manga. Yajirobe quickly draws his sword, slashes, and resheathes it. Cymbal starts laughing when suddenly his upper half slides off his body. (Future) Trunks does this to Frieza in Dragon Ball Z, although it is a vertical slice instead of diagonal, and after Frieza slides apart, Trunks then slices those two halves into about a dozen smaller ones before blowing them away. Amusingly, the camera briefly shifts to Frieza's point of view just after he's cut in half, with the screen splitting in half as he is (thus making it look like it was Trunks who was sliced). In the seventh movie, Future Trunks battles Android 14, their fight comes to an end when their blows collide with Trunks using his sword, Android 14 comes out seemingly unscathed he runs out at Trunks and his body splits in half just before he reaches him.
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Diagonal Cut / int_3be307d1	comment	This is how Kagato is defeated in the Tenchi Muyo! OVAs. Tenchi himself suffers a similar cut in the exchange with Kagato, but is so charged with power that it heals instantly. Kagato's own previously-established Healing Factor, on the other hand, was negated by the sheer power of Tenchi's literal Infinity +1 Sword. Also, rather than the halves of his body sliding apart, Kagato disintegrates after a few seconds, giving him enough time to congratulate Tenchi on his victory. Of course, it's only after the girls show up that they realize he also Diagonally Cut the whole space fortress. Which was in some unexplained way linked to Kagato's body.
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Diagonal Cut / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	Ninja Charlie does this to Demon Rupert in the KateModern episode "The Wedding Video".
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Diagonal Cut / int_410978c2	comment	In the first episode of Interspecies Reviewers, this is how Stunk kills the monster that was attacking Crim. After a jump and two sword slashes, he lands and sheathes his sword behind the immobile monster, which then loses an arm and ends up bisected at the torso.
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Diagonal Cut / int_4222ddd5	comment	The Devil's Dictionary has several examples Played for Laughs: Under "A" we have: "SCIMITAR, n." has the story of a Japanese executioner who accidentally decapitates himself and doesn't realize it until forty minutes later:
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Diagonal Cut / int_426a7572	comment	In the Animaniacs episode "Rest in Pieces", Walter Wolf and Sid Squid had set up a trap for Slappy so that if she were to step on a platform she would get cut in half by an angel statue holding a sword. When it doesn't work, Sid steps on it and the angel's sword slices through him and the floor he's standing on. He checks himself over and seems fine, only for him to split in half.
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Diagonal Cut / int_432dcf2f	comment	Inverted in Super Mario Bros. Z, when Axem Yellow attempts a Diagonal Cut against Mecha Sonic... only for his weapon to fall apart three seconds later, with Mecha Sonic totally unharmed.
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Diagonal Cut / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Carpe Jugulum, this is done, not diagonally, but straight across the neck, using a double-headed axe. Considering the victim is a vampire, he actually doesn't die, but has to walk very, very carefully after that... A humorous example in the novel The Truth. The vampire Otto Chriek receives a killing slash from the villain and the two halves of his undead body thrash around trying to find each other so as to re-unite.
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Diagonal Cut / int_4745a292	comment	In an episode of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, Nova does this to a tree. Which is odd considering her usual choice weapon is her own fists.
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Diagonal Cut / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, Treants will randomly die as if from a Diagonal Cut, no matter what they were killed with. Yes, even with sticks.
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Diagonal Cut / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: Inu-Yasha kills Hiten like this. Cutting through the haft of Hiten's halberd and Hiten's head and shoulder. When demonstrating to Jaken what Tenseiga's power is, Sesshoumaru performs a diagonal cut on him. Subverted because Tenseiga is incapable of cutting living or physical objects, so Jaken wasn't really injured. However, when Sesshoumaru later kills spirits with it, he'll often kill them via a diagonal cut. In particular, when he slashes Magatsuhi's true body, he does this to Magatsuhi's face. Kaijinbou, when possessed by Toukijin, does this to Jaken. Parodied in a filler episode where Shippo and Soten both score one... using kendamas!
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Diagonal Cut / int_4be3aedd	comment	The climax of the fight between Tigerzord and Gundam Epyon features one. After the Epyon uses a full-powered beam sabre on the Mega Tigerzord, the latter mecha falls down in one piece, only for its upper torso to slide off and explode a few moments later.
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Diagonal Cut / int_4d1ba412	comment	In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, the title character fails at this trope, rife with Lampshade Hanging.
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Diagonal Cut / int_4f7b790	comment	Thena performs several at once on the sentient Deviant Kro during the climax of Eternals.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: In chapter 34, Nightfall challenges Yor to a tennis match. Yor attempts to serve the ball, only for it to just fall to the ground. Nightfall initially assumes that Yor simply missed... and then the tennis ball falls to pieces, having been sliced apart by the racket's wires because Yor hit the ball too hard.
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Diagonal Cut / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Lair of Grievous": A droid bisected by Jedi Knight Nahdar Vebb manages to get off two more shots before it falls in two. "Mystery of a Thousand Moons": Anakin fails a spot check and destroys multiple approaching battle droids without realizing they've been reprogrammed and are actually a welcoming party. The eighteenth droid takes a little longer to succumb.
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Diagonal Cut / int_545c3f9f	comment	The vigilante does this twice in Dance of the Butterfly. The first time is to a large, demon-possessed man. It nearly decapitates him. The second time is to a monstrous demon.
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Diagonal Cut / int_55edacf5	comment	Done once in Ninja Assassin in the first scene, which contains most of its gorn. The guy getting sliced was holding a shotgun in that moment, which was sliced through, too, making this also a perfect example of absurdly sharp blade.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Roy Greenhilt cuts down an evil warrior attacking his family in the afterlife — with "QUARTER" as an Unsound Effect. Back in the realm of the livings, he later tears through five mummies in one fell swoop of his enchanted sword.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5, Yusuke's Follow-up attack involves him doing this, with the enemy Shadow exploding into mist the moment he finishes sheathing his sword (provided it isn't a boss).
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Diagonal Cut / int_5afbc0cb	comment	If you're following the Genocide Route in Undertale, after Undyne defends Monster Kid from you and receives a mortal strike (prior to turning into Undyne the Undying), her upper chest, neck, arms and head begin to slide off the rest of her body. That's right, you hit them so hard you managed to inflict a diagonal cut.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5c600b17	comment	Digimon Adventure has WarGreymon taking on the giant mecha dragon Machinedramon. WarGreymon rushes forward with his Dramon Destroyer claws swinging wildly, Flash Steps to behind Machinedramon, and de-digivolves to Koromon with a cut on his own forehead. Machinedramon appears untouched and turns to boast about the heroes' apparent loss, only for Koromon to reveal that during the charge Machinedramon had been sliced "like an onion." Machinedramon's body then collapses into three clean-cut pieces — a fitting end to a huge Jerkass.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5ca15071	comment	In The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, a legendary sword is so sharp that a light slash with it cuts a thick tree trunk so clean in two that it remains standing.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5ed228d8	comment	Panzer World Galient: The titular mecha does this all the time to finish an enemy.
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Diagonal Cut / int_5ff059fa	comment	Yukio's introduction of the centuries-old katana Danzan in The Wolverine qualifies, as she draws, fluidly cuts, and resheathes the blade before either the bar stool or the beer bottle being held by a bar patron comes apart.
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Diagonal Cut / int_60804f39	comment	In GUNÃ—SWORD, Vaan dispatches the Claw in this manner.
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Diagonal Cut / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: Roger has stolen Steve's roosters he had saved from being slaughtered as chicks to be used for cock fighting. At one of the matches, when Steve arrives, one of his roosters recognizes him and runs towards him, only for its opponent to slash its throat; a few seconds later the rooster's head falls off. In the Halloween episode Toshi fights and kills the serial killers, the second one he slices down the middle a couple seconds later he splits in half from the head down.
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Diagonal Cut / int_61028f2	comment	Done in Johnny Mnemonic with a monofilament whip.
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Diagonal Cut / int_610a694a	comment	PokÃ©mon Adventures has Mewtwo using his psychic powers to do this on a building. This is visualised by Mewtwo transforming his "psychic weapon", aka, a spoon, into the biggest katana you will ever see.
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Diagonal Cut / int_65608478	comment	Choujin Sensen: Sasamura attempted to kill Kaminashi this way, only to fail due to the sword being phased through.
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Diagonal Cut / int_67893ca5	comment	Teri Ã— Gumball: In Between Worlds Teri and Gumball's first fight with one of The Nephilims ends this way.
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Diagonal Cut / int_6bdef6a6	comment	Early in Zorro (1975) the antagonist demonstrates the sharpness of his blade this way. He swipes his sword, then drops it on the table, and the candles fall down cut across. Near the end Zorro outdoes him: he waves his sword and taps on the floor â€” all candles, but one, fall cut. He taps again, and that candle falls, cut lengthwise.
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Diagonal Cut / int_6c60475	comment	In one of the first scenes of the live-action version of Blood: The Last Vampire.
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Diagonal Cut / int_6d832403	comment	Parasyte: A parasite's organic Absurdly Sharp Blade can cut through a human so cleanly and fast that they'll have time to get scared before they realize they are already dead. In Chapter 3, a parasite performs a Clean Cut all around him which causes the humans in front of him to fall to pieces right away, but the woman behind him is seemingly left standing. She raises her hands to her head and screams, only for her head and hands to belatedly separate from the rest of her. In Chapter 6, Tamaya kills The Chikan who came back to get revenge on her with a single cut. At first his hand comes off and the sight of it makes him freak out, then he turns his head to see the wound opening in his neck, and as his head falls off his eyes are transfixed on the bleeding stump of his neck as if he can't believe what hit him.
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Diagonal Cut / int_747d9a6f	comment	Whenever you use the blade or claw powers in [PROTOTYPE], enemies have a tendency to get grievously bisected like this.
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Diagonal Cut / int_76b91d49	comment	In the PS2 remake of Shinobi, enemies don't suffer Critical Existence Failure even when their health runs out — they simply stop moving until you run out of enemies to kill or take too long to get to the next one, then they all fall apart messily, accompanied by a cutscene if you've chained four or more kills together. Let's not even go into the fact that Hotsuma's demonic sword can slice a Type 90 main battle tank in half like this.
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Diagonal Cut / int_76bb4695	comment	A partial parody of the samurai genre, in Shadow Warrior (1997) the sword often kills using the trope in textbook form. Typically followed by an appropriate Bond One-Liner.
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Diagonal Cut / int_777db7ac	comment	A vertical cut in the Russian film Guardians (2017). Several vehicles full of heavily-armed men are converging on Khan in the desert. Khan accelerates and uses his curved Absurdly Sharp Blades to slice through an SUV right in the middle. The car and the guy sitting in the back seat stay together for a moment longer before falling apart. He then proceeds to slaughter everyone else in a matter of seconds.
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Diagonal Cut / int_77d76e46	comment	Done vertically front to back in Thir13en Ghosts, when a razor-edged glass barrier slices completely through a man standing in a doorway. For an instant, it's not clear what's happened because his eyes keep roaming side to side; then gravity takes over and his front half slides downward, exposing a grisly interior view of the back half of his body, still adhering to the glass.
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Diagonal Cut / int_78640f76	comment	At the end of Highlander: The Search for Vengeance we have a decidedly one-sided battle, after a beat-down Colin gets one final boost of energy to jump up and slice Marcus right across the face. Cue smug looks from Marcus until his head falls off. Funny enough he's still talking after his head is separated from the body, though he's not the first person in the series to do this.
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Diagonal Cut / int_7ae8ef1a	comment	Equilibrium does a perfect diagonal cut/slide apart in live action as part of its climactic fight sequence, and the victim is even courteous enough to turn his head to the side so the audience can see his face sliding off. It looks exactly as awesome/stupid as it sounds.
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Diagonal Cut / int_7afc24b0	comment	In the manga and anime Samurai Deeper Kyo, when Kyo is just about to end the battle and waste the other guy, all he does is one slash. Then he sheathes his sword, tells everyone to haul ass because they need to get to wherever they're going, and starts walking away. Then the enemy tries to move and slides in two. (It's more vertical usually but it's still along the lines of a Single-Stroke Battle.) At one point you don't even see him move. Not even any movement lines. Just his sword clicking as he puts it away.
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Diagonal Cut / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider Kamen Rider 555: Takumi's BFS Faiz Blaster Blade Mode finalizes a Monster of the Week during Faiz Blaster's debut with such a cut...and a second later, a nearby train car said monster was nearby slides apart, too. And explodes into a grand fireball. In Kamen Rider OOO, the OOO Bash is one of these. Not only does it slice the Yummy in half with a short delay, it cuts ALL OF REALITY as well. Thankfully, the Yummy is the only thing that doesn't return to normal afterwards.
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Diagonal Cut / int_84733dc5	comment	Book of the Dead (2021): Using a combination of a magical blade and high Skills, Magnin cuts Rufus in two so cleanly that Tyron doesn't know what's happened at first, until he sees a drop of blood start to run down Rufus' forehead. The two halves fall apart a short time later.
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Diagonal Cut / int_8501afb1	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Done to many, many skyscrapers in the climactic duel of and to a lot of other objects (guns, a motorbike in mid-flip) earlier in the film. It helps that Cloud's weapon is basically a sharpened industrial girder. At one point during the climax, Sephiroth cuts a piece of a falling building along two axes simultaneously. The implication is that he used magic, since the cut edges were also on fire.
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Diagonal Cut / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In the second episode of Transformers: Prime, Megatron fights the recently resurrected Cliffjumper who is now a mindless zombie, he charges at him while Megatron slashes him with his arm sword seconds later the zombie Cliffjumper splits in half.
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Diagonal Cut / int_87b652bb	comment	Starcraft II: In Wings of Liberty, when Zeratul and Kerrigan fight, he breaks free of her telekinesis to cut her with his psi blade, and then leaps away. The cut is invisible at first, and her left wing stays attached for several seconds, until the part above the cut starts to slowly slide off the bottom and it falls to the ground. Then it turns out that she somehow wounded him in the arm as well. She quickly regenerates her lost wing, while Zeratul cannot do the same. In the early Legacy of The Void mission, "The Growing Shadow", Amon takes control of the Khala on Aiur and uses it to dominate the mind of Artanis, causing him to attack Zeratul. Their fight ends with both of them charging at each other with psi blades, and passing each other as they cut. After a dramatic pause, the invisible cut that Zeratul made through Artanis's nerve cords opens up and the braids fall to the ground, causing excruciating pain but freeing him from Amon's corruption. Meanwhile, Zeratul belatedly collapses from a mortal wound, using his last words to tell the heartbroken Artanis to get the keystone before Amon destroys everything.
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Diagonal Cut / int_8ac4e993	comment	In Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: In Episode 12, Shinn does this to the bridge of a battleship. It helps that he's in a Humongous Mecha Dual Wielding BFSs at the time. Later, after Shinn receives the Destiny, he uses his new Gundam's BFS (a standard weapon on this one) to do this to a giant enemy mobile suit. The Destiny drops down through frame incredibly fast, and doesn't seem to have done anything at first, until the enemy machine's two halves slide apart, a fraction of a second before it explodes. Admittedly, this is a vertical cut rather than a diagonal one, but otherwise a classic example. During the same battle, Shinn orders that the twin BFSs from his old mecha be launched for his two companions to use, so that they can also slice up the other, identical giant enemy Gundams. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray: Lowe also pulls this off, once he gets the Gerbera Straight. At one point, an enemy Mobile Suit comes after him with his friend Kisato strapped to its head. Lowe's attack not only does this to the mecha, but catches part of Kisato's sleeve too (despite being about as thick as she is wide). As a Technical Pacifist, Lowe is quite adept at doing this so that the targeted mecha will fall apart without harming the pilot. He does the same thing in a Gundam SEED Astray mini-OVA, but that time does a double diagonal cut, forming an X-shaped pattern that causes the enemy mobile suit to fall apart in four pieces (and the pilot to fall out of the cockpit unharmed). He did this using the severed head of a dog-like BuCUE mobile suit that he'd rigged to fit over Red Frame's right hand like a gauntlet holding a double-bladed beam saber. Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Schwartz Bruder does this to a large tree...with a dulled and rusty sword. This is to demonstrate that once Domon completes his training, the quality of the blade will be irrelevant; it's just a focal point for the swordsman's spirit. Domon's Bakunetsu God Slash has this effect as well, but since it's used on the Mandala Gundam, it has the effect of making all the balls that make up its arms and waist pop off like a broken pearl necklace.
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Diagonal Cut / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, this is done, not diagonally, but straight across the neck, using a double-headed axe. Considering the victim is a vampire, he actually doesn't die, but has to walk very, very carefully after that...
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Diagonal Cut / int_8bc62500	comment	The blind swordsman Zatoichi is the undisputed champion of this. The Takeshi Kitano version cuts a stone garden statue this way.
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Diagonal Cut / int_8d001a97	comment	Happens with a redneck in Slither, after the Big Bad's tentacle whips at him. The cut is not diagonal but perfectly vertical. And yes, it takes a few seconds for him to realize that he's already dead.
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Diagonal Cut / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: Auntie Maya "Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones" parries a bullet, which after impact falls in half.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9321b7f4	comment	Kamen Rider 555: Takumi's BFS Faiz Blaster Blade Mode finalizes a Monster of the Week during Faiz Blaster's debut with such a cut...and a second later, a nearby train car said monster was nearby slides apart, too. And explodes into a grand fireball.
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Diagonal Cut / int_93221cce	comment	In Kamen Rider OOO, the OOO Bash is one of these. Not only does it slice the Yummy in half with a short delay, it cuts ALL OF REALITY as well. Thankfully, the Yummy is the only thing that doesn't return to normal afterwards.
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Diagonal Cut / int_98d627b4	comment	In Wii Sports Resort, one of the minigames consists entirely of doing this as fast as you can, using the direction indicated onscreen (left to right, diagonal cut, vertical cut etc). This includes cutting hilarious items such as giant sushi, giant hard boiled eggs, a giant LED timer that stops and shows the timing when cut, and giant human-sized diamonds. You can even work in a few extra iai slashes before the next item loads, if that's what you're into.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9ba9abc6	comment	In Rockman 4 Minus âˆž, this is how Shadow Man kills the third Chimerabot in Wily 4 in if you achieve the secret condition.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9db1766a	comment	In Devil May Cry, Vergil and his Dark Slayer style of swordsmanship is a god of this trope. His sword Yamato seems specially able to grant smooth and stylish cuts to whoever wields it, as shown by Dante who also knows Dark Slayer, and Nero who doesn't. What's more, enemies die only the moment Vergil clicks his blade back into place.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Any and all fights in which Zoro takes part will feature this trope to excess. Most notably when he sliced through the Sea Train wagon during the Enies Lobby arc. In the battle against Don Krieg, Mihawk slices Krieg's entire ship in half like this. While Mihawk's sword is big, but not that big; he has some as yet unexplained (and given the nature of the series, it probably never will be) ability to slice through things without his blade actually have to touch them. During the timeskip, Zoro learned this trick from him. During the Marineford battle, he actually slices through◊ a frozen tsunami. Why? He tried to slash Luffy and missed. Brook manages this a few times during the Thriller Bark arc.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: This style has been known to be used in PokÃ©mon: The Series, and in the handheld battle scenes the animations for attacks such as Slash and False Swipe end up looking a lot like it. Farfetch'd was able to do this with a green onion. PokÃ©mon Adventures has Mewtwo using his psychic powers to do this on a building. This is visualised by Mewtwo transforming his "psychic weapon", aka, a spoon, into the biggest katana you will ever see.
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Diagonal Cut / int_9fbcbdb	comment	In Four Deadly Secrets, Ruby performs several on Grimm and the White Fang assassins.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a45c5246	comment	While not a full diagonal cut, The Ice Pirates does have the momentary delay. A brief sword fight in a Bad Guy Bar has a man beheaded, but he doesn't realize it until he tilts his head back to laugh at this weak attack, whereupon his whole head falls off.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a599305d	comment	Every game in the Mega Man Zero and ZX series has this happening to mooks (and most bosses) if a saber or similar bladed weapon deals the finishing blow. Then again, said mooks and bosses are all mechanical, so no censorship is required. Some large bosses several times the size of the blade used still get sliced in half. Earlier in the series, in Mega Man X2, the Maverick boss Wire Sponge will be cut in half and explode if X deals the final blow with the Sonic Slicer. In Rockman 4 Minus âˆž, this is how Shadow Man kills the third Chimerabot in Wily 4 in if you achieve the secret condition.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a5a63da7	comment	And in Queen of the Damned, during the fight at the concert, Lestat slices through another vampire's neck with a long curved knife before kicking the body, causing the head to fall off.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a5f98cbf	comment	A rare Western example of the aftermath of this is seen in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, where a British soldier falls apart like a chopped cucumber.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a606596a	comment	In Chrono Cross, this is Fargo's Level 7 Tech, "Invincible". Used merely as a visual effect, though, since it just deals physical damage instead of instant-kills.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a7bb29af	comment	Earlier in the series, in Mega Man X2, the Maverick boss Wire Sponge will be cut in half and explode if X deals the final blow with the Sonic Slicer.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Squall's first limit break in Final Fantasy VIII, "Rough Divide", does this. His last one, "Lion Heart", also ends this way. Likewise, the special attack "Zantetsuken", used by the Summoned Beasts Odin and Yojimbo in the many games they appear in. Cyan from Final Fantasy VI can learn a similar move as his final bushido, and its hit rate is even higher than Raiden's. At one point in Final Fantasy VIII, Seifer does this to Odin. And if Odin's successor Gilgamesh misses on a Zantetsuken blow, he does this to everything except the enemy combatants.
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Diagonal Cut / int_a873240c	comment	Shagga son of Dolf brags to Tyrion that he has performed such a feat with his axes in A Clash of Kings.
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Diagonal Cut / int_af3937c2	comment	Killer Killer: When Hijirihara confronts the killer behind the "Monk Idol" case, and the killer lunges at him with a deadly weapon, Hijirihara draws his knife and Flash Steps behind the killer, having carved a tight grid pattern of cuts into the killer's face on the pass. The trope is surreally inverted because right away the killer has visibly been cut into little cubes that are somehow still holding together, but then the pieces reunite into a seamless whole as if someone was playing a film of a Diagonal Cut in reverse. The confused killer says "what... I'm fine...?" And then suddenly explodes into little pieces. Hijirihara calls this attack "Super Dismemberment". This trope ends up being used defensively in the final chapter. Hijirihara decapitates Asano to remove her bomb collar, with her head landing perfectly on her shoulders as if nothing happened. Thankfully, she gets better.
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Diagonal Cut / int_af583f46	comment	The moon at the start of the fourth case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All. It was cut by the Nickel Samurai.
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Diagonal Cut / int_af816544	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray: Lowe also pulls this off, once he gets the Gerbera Straight. At one point, an enemy Mobile Suit comes after him with his friend Kisato strapped to its head. Lowe's attack not only does this to the mecha, but catches part of Kisato's sleeve too (despite being about as thick as she is wide). As a Technical Pacifist, Lowe is quite adept at doing this so that the targeted mecha will fall apart without harming the pilot. He does the same thing in a Gundam SEED Astray mini-OVA, but that time does a double diagonal cut, forming an X-shaped pattern that causes the enemy mobile suit to fall apart in four pieces (and the pilot to fall out of the cockpit unharmed). He did this using the severed head of a dog-like BuCUE mobile suit that he'd rigged to fit over Red Frame's right hand like a gauntlet holding a double-bladed beam saber.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: This is how Jotaro Kujo meets his end. In Stardust Crusaders, Boingo's Thoth Stand predicts that Jotaro will die from having his face split open, which ends up happening to his older brother, Oingo, from stepping on a tangerine laced with a bomb. Cut 23 years later to Stone Ocean, however, and Enrico Pucci unleashes a Flechette Storm of knives in Jolyne Cujoh's direction, so Jotaro, determined to save his daughter, pushes her out of the way, causing the knives to diagonally swipe at his face, slicing it open and killing him on the spot.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b0544c4d	comment	In Super Robot Wars Z, one of Asakim's attacks is this: he cuts straight through, nothing appears to have happened until he casually taps his victim, who promptly falls in two.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b0ec0986	type	Diagonal Cut
Diagonal Cut / int_b0ec0986	comment	In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Terra has the unique attack "Zantetsuken", which takes a moment to wind up, but has a chance of instantly killing enemies.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b1f436be	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: A possible way to simulate this effect in-game is with the "Mosquito's Bite" skill trick, which can make a flat-footed opponent not realize he's been wounded until the next turn. Especially when combined with a Iaijustu Focus move and/or sneak attack.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b30ae4db	type	Diagonal Cut
Diagonal Cut / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The Hound cuts two people in half during the battle of Blackwater, one like this, one clean across the belly. House of the Dragon: The Crabfeeder gets Killed Offscreen by Daemon Targaryen, but from the look of the half of his body that Daemon drags outside his cave it's pretty clear he was bisected diagonally.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b36952af	comment	The first trap seen in the movie Cube seems to do nothing except go "schinggg" — until the hapless victim collapses into a pile of meat dice.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b55b8015	comment	In Ninja Gaiden (the modern reboot), Doku inflicts one of these on Ryu at the end of Chapter 2, but the falcon spirit revives him.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b7296d31	comment	Mikoto's sword Miroku in My-HiME.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b9a762be	comment	In the final showdown of Azumi, the Big Bad takes a swing at Azumi with his sword only to have his body spin a good 360 degrees — twice — while his head remains stationary.
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Diagonal Cut / int_b9b796cf	comment	During their final battle in Fate/stay night's Fate route Saber deals the final blow to Gilgamesh this way. And, earlier, Gilgamesh does this to Shirou, successfully enough that narration lampshades that he ought to be dead. It's almost enough to stop him.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: The Crabfeeder gets Killed Offscreen by Daemon Targaryen, but from the look of the half of his body that Daemon drags outside his cave it's pretty clear he was bisected diagonally.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c09dccc5	comment	In Dan Simmons's Illium, the older Odysseus has a vibrating sword with so much cutting power that it does this, once to a tree and once to a quasi-mechanical creature.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c1c642f7	comment	In Hellboy (2004), Kroenen cuts a stone statue imprisoning Sammael this way.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c4b82575	comment	In the first Underworld (2003) this happens during the final duel between Selene and Viktor. With his head no less. And it takes forever to fall off. Also note that it's done with a big, thick claymore, which should have made this much messier than it was.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c63088d7	comment	The Gundam Vs Series, starting with the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED-themed games, has enemy machines split in half at the waist as part of their death animation if you finish them off with a melee attack. This vanishes in Gundam Extreme Vs, where defeated machines breaking apart pretty much randomly and regardless of what finished them.
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Diagonal Cut / int_c832776	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: In Episode 12, Shinn does this to the bridge of a battleship. It helps that he's in a Humongous Mecha Dual Wielding BFSs at the time. Later, after Shinn receives the Destiny, he uses his new Gundam's BFS (a standard weapon on this one) to do this to a giant enemy mobile suit. The Destiny drops down through frame incredibly fast, and doesn't seem to have done anything at first, until the enemy machine's two halves slide apart, a fraction of a second before it explodes. Admittedly, this is a vertical cut rather than a diagonal one, but otherwise a classic example. During the same battle, Shinn orders that the twin BFSs from his old mecha be launched for his two companions to use, so that they can also slice up the other, identical giant enemy Gundams.
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Diagonal Cut / int_ce50887e	comment	Yajirobe's fight against Cymbal in the original manga. Yajirobe quickly draws his sword, slashes, and resheathes it. Cymbal starts laughing when suddenly his upper half slides off his body.
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Diagonal Cut / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill: The Scissor Blade can do this to pretty much anything, at almost any distance, up to and including skyscrapers.
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Diagonal Cut / int_d57d722e	comment	In Ōkami, just about every time the Power Slash technique is used, a diagonal or horizontal slice appears, then the sliced object splits apart slowly (Sliding down for diagonal, tipping over for horizontal).
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Diagonal Cut / int_d5dbb3d8	comment	In Valis II, Magus does this to the defeated Shadow Panther Gillan.
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Diagonal Cut / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	This style has been known to be used in PokÃ©mon: The Series, and in the handheld battle scenes the animations for attacks such as Slash and False Swipe end up looking a lot like it. Farfetch'd was able to do this with a green onion.
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Diagonal Cut / int_d78af2ac	comment	In Kingsman: The Secret Service there is a rare example of a vertical cut having the same effect. Gazelle slashes the unfortunate Kingsman, waits for him to fall apart — then walks through the space where his body used to be.
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Diagonal Cut / int_df2ccd68	comment	Iron Fist: In Immortal Iron Fist, one of Iron Fistâ€™s counterparts from other mystic cities, Dog Brother #1, uses a variant of this in a solo story. The cutâ€™s almost perfectly horizontal, and the victim gets a chance to speak afterwards. Itâ€™s only when Dog Brother #1 finishes him off with a normal punch to the face that he falls apart into slices.
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Diagonal Cut / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Setsuna of Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this occasionally. She has a technique explicitly made for cleaving solid rocks in two and having them fall seconds later, though less dramatically. Because of the nature of the series (at least before volume 20), she doesn't do this much (unless a paper bird falling apart in mid-flight counts).
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Diagonal Cut / int_e7d67cd3	comment	Code Geass: Suzaku in his upgraded Lancelot Albion does this to Bismark (a.k.a. the Knight of One). He bifurcates Bismark's BFS in the process, which is remodeled into a pair of (barely) smaller swords afterward. Way before that, Mao does it. With a chainsaw.
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Diagonal Cut / int_eae8ef96	comment	In Shining Force II, if Slade is equipped with a Gisarme, occassionally he will perform a diagonal cut and insta-kill the enemy. When this happens, the message "<enemy> is cut off!" appears.
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Diagonal Cut / int_ec28245c	comment	(Future) Trunks does this to Frieza in Dragon Ball Z, although it is a vertical slice instead of diagonal, and after Frieza slides apart, Trunks then slices those two halves into about a dozen smaller ones before blowing them away. Amusingly, the camera briefly shifts to Frieza's point of view just after he's cut in half, with the screen splitting in half as he is (thus making it look like it was Trunks who was sliced).
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Diagonal Cut / int_ee819261	comment	In John Carpenter's Vampires, when the head vampire Jan Valek is introduced he takes a swipe at Caitlan one of the vampire hunters with his claws and after a pause he splits in half from the head down.
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Diagonal Cut / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: Even though the protagonist is a Technical Pacifist during the series, he vanquishes several inanimate objects this way. At one point, he uses his Diagonal Cut to slice a vegetable... which he then is able to stick back together because the cut was just that clean, as a proof of the blade's sharpness. His style, Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, even has a name for this technique. He actually did this using a KITCHEN KNIFE, rather than his own sword, although it was to test the quality of a prospective sword supplier's work. Used in the movie version, in which a character is shown partially unsheathing his sword, there is a flash, and then a confused-looking sailor takes a drink from the bottle of wine he is holding, which falls in half minutes later. Yes, minutes.
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Diagonal Cut / int_ef2e1620	comment	In the MegaMan NT Warrior manga, Mega Man Protosoul debuts by combining this with both Implausible Fencing Powers and an energy attack-based Out of the Inferno, slicing through not only Bass GS' newest and most powerful attack yet, but through the dark-energy dragon he summoned to use the attack as well.
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Diagonal Cut / int_ef4cccbd	comment	The climactic swordfight in The Court Jester has Ravenhurst take a swipe at a row of candles, which all fall apart, severed. Giacomo then does the same thing, but the candles don't move ... until he nonchalantly turns his head and blows a puff of air at them, whereupon their upper halves all clatter to the floor.If one looks closely, one can see that each of the candles has a diagonal cut (and they don't line up), implying that Giacomo's slash was not a simple horizontal sweep, but a separate cut for each individual candle, performed too quickly to be seen.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f1360d68	comment	Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Schwartz Bruder does this to a large tree...with a dulled and rusty sword. This is to demonstrate that once Domon completes his training, the quality of the blade will be irrelevant; it's just a focal point for the swordsman's spirit. Domon's Bakunetsu God Slash has this effect as well, but since it's used on the Mandala Gundam, it has the effect of making all the balls that make up its arms and waist pop off like a broken pearl necklace.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f3ae2950	comment	This is pretty much what Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is about. The cover to the standard release shows Raiden bisecting a mech with a diagonal Clean Cut, but in the game proper they often have time to wobble around before realizing they're scrap metal.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f4a728d6	comment	Afro Samurai: Done often. It's probably best demonstrated in the movie in which Afro faces off against a band of mooks, he slashes at them with his sword rapidly then puts it back in its sheath. Moments later, blood starts spraying from the mooks' wounds before they fall into pieces. Justice sets himself up as a major badass by pulling one of these off with a revolver, holstering it after doing some Gun Twirling for extra Cool. Subverted, in that he actually used a sword, held with his hidden third arm. Still badass, though.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: In the final stage of Kingdom Hearts II, a series of skyscrapers springs out of the ground to block Sora's path, who, using a reaction command, charges through every one of them and emerges at the exit, despite the fact they only slide apart several seconds later. Also, Sora's keyblade is round. It still cuts absolutely smoothly through objects several times its own length. Sephiroth opens the fight this way. If you don't press triangle you basically just die. Luxord dies this way, though the cut is directed onto a barrier of cards he put up at the last moment rather than onto himself, even though he still takes mortal damage. In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Terra has the unique attack "Zantetsuken", which takes a moment to wind up, but has a chance of instantly killing enemies.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog: Dororo seems to be a master of this.
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Diagonal Cut / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III, Goemon does this frequently. Things rarely fall apart until he has resheathed his sword, and at some point he will say, "Once again I have cut a worthless object."
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Diagonal Cut / int_fb092f55	comment	Tales of the Undiscovered Swords features its characters performing tameshigiri (see Real Life folder below), so naturally the kesa cut will make an appearance.
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Diagonal Cut / int_fcf34eec	comment	In Full Metal Panic!, during their final battle, SÃ´suke did this do the head of Gauron's AS. With a machete the size of a car. Too bad Gauron had auxiliary sensors so he didn't have to fight blind.
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Wings of Vendemiaire (Manga) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Yaiba (Manga) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Pretend Friends (Podcast) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Deadliest Warrior / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Drake & Josh / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Kamen Rider Amazons / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Kamen Rider OOO / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Lab Rats / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Samurai Sentai Shinkenger / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
The Defenders (2017) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
The Wheel of Time (2021) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition (Tabletop Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Afterimage (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Brain Dead 13 (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Devil May Cry (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Książę i TchÃ³rz (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Lab of the Dead (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Mega Man ZX (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Mike Shadow I Paid For It (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Rocket Knight Adventures (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Rockman 4 Minus âˆž (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Shadow Warrior (1997) (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Shinobi (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
The Last Blade (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Wii Sports Resort (Video Game) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Holo-Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Natraps X (Web Animation) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Critical Role: Campaign Three (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Fist of the b0rf Star (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Guerras De Rap (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Skallagrim (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Unskippable (Web Video) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Elf (Webcomic) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Powerup Comics (Webcomic) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
TREVOR (Webcomic) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Trevor (2020) (Webcomic) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Danger Mouse / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Dragon Hunters / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Fanboy and Chum Chum / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Heart String Marionette / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Rango / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Ronal the Barbarian / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Panzer World Galient / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Lupin III (Franchise) / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
The Adventures of Samurai Cat / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut

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