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The practice of pressing a certain point on a person's body to achieve a certain effect (can also be multiple points in quick succession, or multiple points simultaneously). The most common effect is to paralyze the target or knock them unconscious. For knocking someone unconscious by the less subtle method of a strong blow to the head see Tap on the Head. For the more lethal version see Touch of Death. In martial arts, can overlap with Ki Manipulation, as ki/chi flows in the body are supposedly the underlying mechanism of both pressure points and acupuncture according to certain Eastern practices. Pressure points are also handy if you are trying to avoid someone's death. When trying to stop severe bleeding from one of the extremities, applying pressure to the right area (typically farther up the limb near a joint) can significantly slow the flow of blood to an extremity, allowing time to dress the wound and seek medical care. Although rarely portrayed in a realistic fashion, the existence of pressure points is decidedly Truth in Television. There are many points on the body that are particularly vulnerable such as nerve clusters, joints, blood vessels, the windpipe, the eyes and the groin. Striking with enough force or applying sufficient pressure to these areas can cause anything from pain and discomfort to severe structural damage and death, though said pressure typically exceeds greatly the classic finger-pinching shown in media and is much less reliable that it might sound. Compare Attack Its Weak Point, with which it can overlap. If the concept of pressure points pop up in video games, you can expect damage done to them to be a Critical Hit. Examples |
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In Sherlock, Charles Augustus Magnusson of "His Last Vow" doesn't use physical pressure points, but knows the personal pressure point (as in, dirty blackmail secret he can press on to get results) of every major person of importance in the western world. He also knew John was very important to Sherlock and Mary, and that Mary was important to John. Luckily, he didn't know Sherlock was one for John, but he knew Mycroft's pressure point was Sherlock. Moriarty also knew that Sherlock had three pressure points: John, Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade, since he threatened to kill them, but since John also offered his own life in the episode "The Great Game" he somehow figured that Sherlock was one for John. |
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Yau-si in Banana Fish is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter, but prefers to incapacitate his opponents without a fuss by delicately poking them with acupuncture needles, paralyzing them or depriving them of their senses. | |
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The comedy La Grande Vadrouille has an interesting approach to a neck chop. When characters of Louis de Funès and Bourvil are locked in a cell, they call a prison guard and shout "Heil Hitler!" raising arms in a Nazi salute. Turns out, the salute is a perfect position for neck chops from both sides, and a soldier answering "Sieg Heil!" isn't expecting it. Of course, they didn't care about the guard's survival. | |
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J-WITCH Series: Uncle uses this to knock a Lurden unconscious in "The Key". Yan Lin does the same to Hak Foo in "Divide and Conquer - Chaos and Hilarity"; she says that she learned it from Star Trek. | |
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Used in Ranma ½ by Cologne, Happosai, Ranma, Shampoo, and Doctor Tofu, sometimes for the standard unconsciousness result, but usually for really weird effects: Happosai uses one to make Ranma cry buckets of tears when he needs them for a potion ingredient. Cologne uses another to make Ranma's skin super-sensitive to heat so that he can't use hot water to reverse his transformation curse. Combined with a special formula of shampoo (no, really) can be used to induce Laser-Guided Amnesia with the added benefit of preventing the victim from ever relearning whichever facts were suppressed from memory. Also combined with moxibustion to sap Ranma's strength and make him weaker than a toddler. Happosai also used it as a full-on therapy to turn a sickly, bedridden child into a Life Energy-draining accomplice, who was stuck as a child because of it, but regains her true adult body upon absorbing Battle Auras or Ki Manipulations. A similar therapy can seal away this power, but the location of the pressure points make it a dicey proposition. Tofu has one which can be disguised as patting someone on the back, which 30 seconds later causes the victim's legs to stop working. Ranma occasionally uses them, or tries to use them, for example on Miss Hinako mentioned above, on Ryoga while in the girls locker room, on Kuno to knock him out, and on the dojo destroyer. |
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"Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining": Shrinking Violet uses a "Durlan nerve-cruncher" to knock Emerald Empress out. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise reveals that Vulcans also use pressure points for neuropressure. | |
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Parodied in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade. Belinda cuts Lena's "Aliens are Evil" speech by poking in her head. Seeing her friend knocked out, Linda demands to know what Belinda did. Belinda claims it was an "ancient Kryptonian memory erasure pressure point" to wipe Lena's mind out. Linda scoffs at the notion, and Belinda admits she made it up on the spot. | |
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Played for laughs in The Simpsons episode "Mayored to the Mob", where Homer acquires the skill of disabling people for half an hour using the Spock touch. Promptly he applies this technique on his family members just for fun and even on himself in order to skip the 30 minutes waiting time until supper. Though in Homer's case, he whacks his head on the kitchen table as he falls down. | |
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Parodied as well in a minisode arc in the anime adaptation of Yo-kai Watch with Komasan as Kenshiro. His pressure point strikes changed age, switched genders, altered behaviors (like turning one into a woman obsessed with eating long curved objects) and conjured entire sets for victims to act out melodramatic storylines. It climaxes in the final confrontation with the villain, played by Jibanyan, where their strikes slowly convert them into each other before they fuse into Jibakoma. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Master Splinter uses this to calm down and discipline an overreacting Raphael. Later in the episode, Raph himself uses the technique to paralyze a powerful, rampaging mutant. Splinter later combines with some qi manipulation to purge Karai from the brainwashing slugs Shredder created. |
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Naruto: The Hyuga Clan utilizes a variation of this by striking certain points in their opponent's bodies through the use of their clan martial art, the Gentle Fist. It works through precise calculated blows and channeling their chakra. By doing so, they can weaken or completely neutralize their opponent. Since these chakra points have to be hit with extreme precision to work and the natural variations in human biology mean they won't be in the exact same spot on each person, the Hyuga clan's X-Ray Vision is required for this particular fighting style to work. Neji Hyuga is a prodigy of this to where he self-taught himself the two strongest techniques of the Gentle Fist, with one of them, the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, allowing him to make a series of quick strikes to completely disable an enemy by locking down their chakra. Unfortunately for him, he was fighting Naruto, who proceeded to use the Kyuubi's chakra instead to force them open for a Heroic Second Wind. His cousin, Hinata, also utilizes this, though she is more defensive in her usage than him. Earlier in the series, Haku used senbon to strike pressure points. His aim and knowledge were such that he could put a person in a near-death state while in the middle of combat. |
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Here Comes The New Boss: Elpis temporarily incapacitates Uber with a strike to the liver (guided by Needler's weakness-seeking power), dropping him immediately.note This is Truth in Television, since the liver is a focal point of blood circulation; hitting it solidly can cause a sudden drop in heart rate and dilation of blood vessels throughout the body, resulting in immediate fatigue and loss of breath, as well as being very painful. | |
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Fist of the North Star is parodied in this Manly Guys Doing Manly Things strip, where Kenshiro has taken a job as a McDonald's cashier. When a customer orders a number 4 combo, rather than process her order he instead uses his Hokuto Shinken to sate her hunger saying "You're already fed." The guy performing employee evaluations has no idea how to score that. | |
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Deathstroke the Terminator. | |
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In Kill Bill, there's the "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique", which is used by Pai Mei in the backstory to slaughter an entire temple because one of its members accidentally insulted him. Specifically, when Pai Mei nodded at him, he didn't see it and respond. It was later taught to the Bride, who used it to... well, kill Bill. | |
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Toriko: "Knocking" is the art of striking specific nerve points in a target's body to paralyze them. It's normally done with special "Knocking" guns that inject needles into the targets. "Knocking Master" Jirou and his grandson Teppei are skilled enough to perform Knocking with their bare hands. | |
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The Action Service men from The Day of the Jackal know a pressure point behind the ear that causes unconsciousness, probably the same one from the Star Trek example below. | |
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Episode 25 of Excel♡Saga parodied this into the ground, where hitting the pressure points turned one into a chibi. | |
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Total Drama: At the start of the race to the cast trailers in "Monster Cash", Harold chops Trent between the shoulder and the neck to incapacitate him so Harold can get ahead. Both newcomers, Sierra and Alejandro, show that they know how to make a body collapse in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better". In first class, Sierra gives Cody a non-consensual foot massage while he's asleep and when he wakes up he tells her to stop. Hearing this, Sierra ominously asks if Cody knows that there's a spot between the tarsal bones through which a person can be temporarily paralyzed. She presses her thumb into it before Cody can get his foot back. In economy class, Owen freaks out when the Total Drama Jumbo Jet seems to be crashing. Not willing to put up with it, Alejandro grabs his shoulder near his neck and squeezes. Owen goes out as a light. |
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Ultimate Teacher: Ganpachi incapacitates a whole classroom of people by using his speed to press two points in their leg that causes a painful cramp. | |
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In an episode of The Wild Wild West, Jim West renders a female villain unconscious by pressing a pressure point in her back. | |
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Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda uses pressure points to paralyze his victims. (The same technique was also used on him by Master Oogway in the Flashback.) Used in a more comical fashion when a misplaced acupuncture needle causes Po to make a funny face... and maybe stop his heart, because Mantis can't get to the correct pressure points due to Po's fat. This ends up as a Chekhov's Skill since all the fat insulating him renders him immune to Tai Lung's attack. | |
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This was one of Xena's big talents. Her favorite was a neck poke that cut off oxygen to the brain as an interrogation method. Parodied in one episode when Gabrielle tries it, but it has no effect even though she poked the guy in the same spot that Xena usually goes for. In the final episodes, Xena teaches Gabrielle how to do it for real. The assassin Sinteres specializes in these techniques, to the point that he makes a guy's brain explode. |
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Professor Sutwell from Beach Party can hold his own in a fight with bikers because he knows the Himalayan Time-Suspension Technique, which involves pressing the victim's temple a certain way with his finger, causing them to be frozen in place for hours. | |
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Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy is capable of this. According to Thanos, he's the only one who could survive such a move. | |
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In the Carmen Sandiego episode "The French Connection Caper", just when Coach Brunt was about to crush Carmen to death by bear hugging her, Shadow-san suddenly stuns Brunt unconscious with the Vulcan nerve pinch, saving Carmen's life. | |
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Subverted on the Red Dwarf episode "Legion". When Kryten needs to render the other Dwarfers unconscious as part of a plan, he suggests using an "Ionian nerve grip" on Rimmer, assures him he won't feel a thing - and then hits him with a vase. Since Rimmer is now a nigh-indestructible Hard Light hologram, he proves impossible to knock out anyway. | |
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The eponymous Kiss of the Dragon was an acupuncture version performed by Jet Li right at the end of the film. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "The Boring Identity", Stan kills a guy by pressing several pressure points to rupture his heart. | |
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Jungle 2 Jungle: Mimi-Siku takes out a mook with a poke to the neck. Michael tries to imitate him, but it has no effect on his opponent, so Mimi-Siku has to take him down with a Groin Attack. | |
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1Q84: Aomame can detect a specific nerve at the bottom of the neck. When this spot is stabbed with a thin needle, the victim immediately dies. This method of murder leaves only the tiniest pinprick and the affect looks much like a heart attack, which is how Aomame has been able to murder two men without alerting the authorities. | |
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SPY×FAMILY: In Chapter/Episode 4, Yor Forger uses pressure points to stop a rampaging cow. She claims that she learned about them in yoga class. | |
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Sillage: In one book, Nävis encounters a group of seven hostile aliens. After quickly remembering what species and gender they are, she defeats them using pressure points and groin kicks. | |
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The comic version of Kevin from Sin City has the ability to make people go numb with pressure point attacks. It's also implied that this was his method of killing. | |
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Naturally, this comes into play in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. Kenshiro starts with the ability to use powerful Secret Techniques by stunning a foe, then hitting a pressure point. Partway through the game, he learns Perfect Channeling, which lets him dispatch mooks in a single hit by properly timing the Action Command while stunning them. Throughout the game, Kenshiro also uses his knowledge of the Hidden Meridians to accomplish various feats in sidequests and story events. | |
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Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures did this to many a Mook in the first season. He even did this to Captain Black when he wouldn't heed his warnings about attacking a magical demon Big Bad. Tohru does this once at least, as does Jade (when possessed by Shendu). |
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In the campy Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, a member of the Fabulous Five grabs a mook's wrist in a painful restraint hold, carefully removes his own glasses, then grabs the mook behind the ear and squeezes to knock him unconscious. | |
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Kiyomori Yamanoue from Gamaran, also known as the Lord of the Doom Fist use a similar technique, involving hitting the enemies nerves with his extremely strong fingers, causing paralysis. He usually does it on the enemies' limbs to prevent them from moving before he can unleash his secret technique. It's shown that said paralysis lasts for at least one day. | |
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In Hellsister Trilogy, Dev-Em strikes a point in Satan Girl's neck in order to paralyze her. Unfortunately, she shakes the effect off in a matter of seconds. | |
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In A Ticket to the Boneyard, one of Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels, the villain, James Leo Motley, knows various places on the body to apply pressure to cause intense pain. | |
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Dufaux from Zatch Bell! uses the Answer-Talker to identify pressure points that will help unlock the heroes' true potential. It works well enough to invoke Heart Is an Awesome Power and a dose of With Great Power Comes Great Insanity in the Plucky Comic Relief. | |
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Lady Shiva from Batman | |
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At the end of the Phineas and Ferb episode "Raging Bully", Ferb uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on Buford. | |
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Spoofed in an episode of The Goodies entitled "Kung Fu Capers": Reading from a book of martial arts instructions, Graham delivers a large number of light taps and pokes to various spots on Tim's body. After several seconds of nothing happening, Tim suddenly spasms and jerks back and forth before collapsing unconscious. | |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Saint Walker goes toe-to-toe with Razer and Razer can't land a hit. Then he hits a single pressure point on Razer's neck and instantly paralyzes him. | |
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In an episode of NCIS , Ziva uses her Mossad interrogation techniques to obtain information about a kidnap victim. Although what actually happens is mostly left to the viewers' imaginations, the woman being interrogated is at one point convinced to answer a question because the threat of death later is not as scary as Ziva tweaking her shoulder now. | |
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In Superman comics: The villainess Faora Hu-Ul likes to use these techniques. Since she has Super-Strength, they can even work on Superman, to the point that in "The Great Phantom Peril", Faora's techniques force Superman to run away. Superman himself uses these from time to time. When Batman got possessed by a sentient cloud of kryptonite once, Superman pokes him in the side and Batman's body collapses, with the cloud wondering why it can't move anymore. When Superman tried this on Maxima, she was tough enough to shrug it off. Parodied in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade. Belinda cuts Lena's "Aliens are Evil" speech by poking in her head. Seeing her friend knocked out, Linda demands to know what Belinda did. Belinda claims it was an "ancient Kryptonian memory erasure pressure point" to wipe Lena's mind out. Linda scoffs at the notion, and Belinda admits she made it up on the spot. "Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining": Shrinking Violet uses a "Durlan nerve-cruncher" to knock Emerald Empress out. |
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In Pani Poni Dash!, Suzune attempts to keep Otome small by hitting her pressure point for stunting growth, but always hits the pressure point for diarrhea instead. (It remains uncertain whether either one works, though.) | |
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The Batman: The Animated Series episode "Day of the Samurai" revolves around a martial art called Kiba no Hoko (The Way of the Fang), which uses precise strikes against pressure points. Batman's foe Kyodai Ken managed to learn its most fatal technique, the Oonemuri Touch. Batman defeats this technique by finding Kyodai's training dummy and noticing a specific point that was struck often and protecting that point on his own body by means of a metal plate under the Batsuit. | |
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Dragon Ball Super introduces Hit, the greatest Professional Killer in Universe 6. By combining pressure point strikes with the ability to freeze time for 0.1 seconds, he's able to defeat Vegeta without breaking a sweat (though he remarks that Vegeta is the first person to live through his attacks). Of course, he is forced to apply more effort and force against Goku, as well as up his time trickery capabilities. | |
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Some martial arts in The Breaker make extensive use of these. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: The Vulcan nerve pinch, which is apparently effective against the vast majority of humanoids and some non-humanoid aliens. As an interesting bit of history, the origin of the pinch came from Leonard Nimoy's insistence that Spock would not perform an aggressive karate chop to subdue an opponent from behind. Demonstrating on William Shatner, he showed the director that this new technique would be convincing enough on screen. Although it was never explicitly explained onscreen, the ability was, according to Leonard Nimoy in his autobiography, supposed to combine a precise attack on the target's anatomy with a telepathic jolt to explain why the technique was so fast and reliable. Which doesn't explain why non-Vulcans such as Data are occasionally shown to use it. Presumably, the writers of that episode were under the impression that it simply required more precision than a human could match, which would, of course, be no problem for the android Data whose physical abilities are superhuman in every way. In the episode "Journey to Babel", it's revealed that in ancient times Vulcans used a different (though possibly related) neck grip as their standard method of execution. While modern Vulcans are opposed to violence and no longer execute anyone under any circumstance, the old martial arts have not been forgotten and Vulcans are still trained in the old martial arts. Vulcans trained in such martial arts like Sarek can kill with a single touch. The Vulcan Mind Meld uses this trope as well (at least in the Original Series), manipulating nerves and blood vessels in the face until the subject is in a relaxed state and therefore open to the Mental Fusion. Also, in "The Way to Eden", Tongo Rad used his knowledge of human anatomy to knock out an Enterprise crewman by squeezing the nerve pressure point at the back of the jaw, just under the earlobe (Truth In Television, though it causes great pain and delayed unconsciousness rather than instant). Star Trek: Enterprise reveals that Vulcans also use pressure points for neuropressure. |
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The Elder Scrolls series has the recurring in-game book, Night Falls on Sentinel, in which an assassin named Jomic describes various pressure points to a potential client, and boasts about how he can exploit them to kill someone with a light tap on the head, or knock someone out without leaving so much as a bruise. The 'client' in question turns out to be a knight with a warrant for Jomic's arrest, who quickly subdues him and decides to use Jomic's own pressure points to torture him. | |
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Ethan Stanley in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, practices Kalarippayattu, an Indian martial art, through which he has learned out incapacitate or even outright kill his opponents by striking specific points called Marmam, which he states served as the origin for pressure points used in other martial arts (since Kalarippayattu served as an originator for most other Eastern martial arts styles). Also of note is Chikage Kushinada, who shows that she can use pressure points to control Ukita (one of the weaker members of the Shinpaku alliance) like a puppet without him even noticing. | |
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This is basically what's keeping the Dark Dragon asleep in Mother 3; when all seven needles are pulled, the dragon awakens, and, depending on the heart(s) of the one(s) who pull(s) them, either destroys the world, or recreates it into a paradise. | |
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The Vulcan nerve pinch is parodied in a Futurama episode where the Planet Express crew end up in a death-match with the cast of the original Star Trek. Leonard Nimoy tries to see if the "Vulcan nerve pinch" actually works but tries it on Bender, a robot and thus lacking nerves, who doesn't even flinch. In another episode, the robot cop URL does this to a criminal and says "Spock you out". | |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Both Jade Fox and Li Mu Bai use pressure points in their first skirmish—Jade Fox to completely paralyze the Butt-Monkey guard in place, and Li Mu Bai to reverse the effect. Li Mu Bai's skill at this is apparently so well known that he can hold people at bay with a finger, and they treat it as if he were holding a weapon on them. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, several characters, most prominently Po and Mantis, can hit pressure points to inflict paralysis and other effects. In one episode, Taotie invents a vehicle that can use incredibly accurate acupressure to make victims do virtually anything and uses it to manipulate Po, Shifu, Monkey, Crane, Mantis, and Viper until Tigress destroys it. Also, samurai clam Kira is shown to use pressure point techniques. | |
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Pokémon: Acupressure is a move that raises a random stat of the user or ally. Though Lost in Translation, Critical Hits in the original Japanese language are refered to as having hit a target's pressure point. |
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In How to Train Your Dragon, our Badass Bookworm hero Hiccup accidentally discovers through playing with his Dragon friend Toothless that you can render any dragon unconscious with a single finger by pressing an acupuncture point on their necks between the aorta and the larynx. | |
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Appears in Encyclopedia Brown in a story where Bugs Meany demonstrates his "judo" skills, including a pressure point knockout. Encyclopedia Brown points out that it's faked because the targets went stiff and fell backward, but human physiology causes someone rendered unconscious while standing on flat ground to naturally go limp and fall forwards. | |
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Iron Fist | |
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The Stone Masks in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure can turn humans into vampires by puncturing an exact combination of points in the brain. | |
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The Princess Bride. In The Film of the Book, Fezzik uses a Vulcan neck pinch to render Buttercup unconscious. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Subverted; Spock uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on Harrison, but all it does is cause him considerable pain. | |
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One episode of Danny Phantom shows that Maddie knows how to do this. | |
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Duckman knows a variation of it but it only works on the prostate. | |
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One Piece: Parallel Works: Yuki-Rin uses one to defeat Kuro in the "Appenzell Island" Arc. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Big Macintosh knows just the right one to treat Granny Smith's muscle spasm. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Survival", the Seventh Doctor paralyzes a bullying physical education instructor by pressing a finger on his forehead. Also a standard "Venusian karate" tactic of the Third (and occasionally later) Doctors, with several variants: jabbing two fingers into the chest, two fingers on the back of the neck, little finger in the throat and so on. | |
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Our Man Flint. Flint does a Vulcan neck pinch on the Galaxy agent supervising Gila's hypnotic indoctrination and several others as well. | |
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Shang-Chi | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vivian uses this on Grandpa Moto, crippling him. She threatens to leave him like that unless Yugi duels her. After she is defeated, she reverses the damage. | |
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Daredevil | |
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In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Spock nerve pinches a horse on Nimbus III. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbuh 3 tries to take out henchmen this way, but only succeeds in relieving some neck strain, with Numbuh 5 having to do the job and telling Numbuh 3 to knock it off after the third attempt. | |
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In Ben 10: Omniverse, Khyber uses a "Haphestan nural grip" to bring down his prey. | |
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Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid knows a couple. Enough to help Daniel go from near crippled to being able to compete in the final showdown. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Path of Stars, Slash's rogues use a technique that involves them hitting exactly the right spot on a cat's limb to temporarily numb it and gain the advantage. | |
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Batgirl — specifically, Cassandra Cain. After a mook she was fighting shot and killed one of his own men by accident, she temporarily stopped his heart to give him an idea of what he'd done. | |
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The Avengers (1960s) episode "The Living Dead". Emma Peel applies pressure to two points on the neck of a female guard's neck to render her unconscious. | |
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Pressure Points and Pressure Secrets in GURPS work by "tearing or crushing organs and nerve clusters with lethal precision." Both are considered cinematic skills, although an early edition of Martial Arts stated that GMs could keep an open mind about the former in a "realistic" campaign. On the other hand, the second one is so powerful that the game gives a word of caution about its potential Game-Breaker status. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: In the qualifying round of the Festival Tournament arc, we see Evangeline keeping a combatant incapacitated with one finger in the back. Apparently just to show that, yeah, she doesn't just know a hundred lethal spells and how to magically enhance her physical power to rip-people-in-half levels... she's a master of esoteric martial arts too, which makes sense, as she's Really 700 Years Old and needed something to fill the time, plus martial arts allowed her to be lethal even if her powers were sealed. | |
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Here There Be Monsters: During one battle, Mary Marvel pokes two pressure points on Georgia Sivana's body to knock her into unconsciousness. | |
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Black Cat displays the ability to use pressure points in her 1990s miniseries. | |
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Artemis Fowl: Butler occasionally uses these to great effect. | |
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Used in Diagnosis: Murder. Jesse's father needed him to calm down, so he put a comforting hand on his shoulder. When that didn't work, he increased the pressure. Jesse protested and folded up. The unconsciousness lasted long enough for them to drive out of LA and for his father to have a long discussion, and there are no obvious side effects. Of course, Jesse should probably consider himself lucky his father didn't just choke him into unconsciousness like he did to Steve... |
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Several Fu powers from Feng Shui are meant to simulate pressure point attacks as shown in kung fu movies. Dim Mak and Lightning Fist from the Path of the Hands of Light ignore armor and Toughness respectively, and the healing path of the Path of the Healthy Tiger, which includes Healing Chi, which uses pressure points to heal, Flow Restoration, which negates the effects of harmful chi powers on you, Point Blockage, which is the classic pressure point paralysis move, Shadowfist, a truly nasty move that trades a permanent reduction in Chi and Fu for a permanent reduction of an opponent's Martial Arts skill and the loss of one Fu power of the attacker's choice, and Storm of the Tiger (which requires mastery of both the healing and counterattack paths of the Tiger style), which uses twice the Chi you spend to deal out serious damage and quite admirably replicates the killer pressure point moves you see in a lot of kung fu movies. | |
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In Facing the Future Series, Maddie's sleeper hold technique is shown further, to the point where Sam wants to know how to do it. | |
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Dr. Sam Sheppard, the man whose life inspired The Fugitive, went into wrestling in his later years. As he was a trained surgeon, he had in-depth knowledge of the human body, including where all the pressure points are, knowledge he used to his advantage in the ring. His Finishing Move, the Mandible Claw (later used by Mankind), was said to activate a pressure point under the tongue that paralyzes the opponent and induces intense pain. | |
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Natsumi of Kamen Rider Decade has the Hikari Family Secret Technique: Laughing Pressure Point, which makes the victim laugh and is used as an alternative to the anime-style Megaton Punch (since Natsumi is our requisite Tsundere female lead. Originally she used it when protagonist Tsukasa was too much of a Jerkass. And sometimes when he's completely blameless. And sometimes on innocent Yuusuke. And sometimes on Kaito. And sometimes on her own grandfather. It even turns out to be a Chekhov's Skill, since in the Den-O story arc it helps get the Imagin out of Tsukasa and in the Kabuto arc it reveals the Worm that's impersonating him. In the Grand Finale movie, when she becomes a Kamen Rider herself, it's even turned into a full-on special attack! |
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In Saint Seiya, Gold Saint Milo of Scorpio bases his entire Scarlet Needle fighting style on pressure points, which strike the opponent in the same configuration as the Scorpio constellation. In addition to irreparable damage to the nerves and the senses, the victim gushes blood from the strikes, and the final blow, Antares, is fatal. Impossibly enough, though, it's possible for Milo to save even an Antares-ed foe by pressing yet another pressure point, stopping the blood flow and letting them regain strength. | |
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Captain America | |
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Night Court. When two squabbling groups of Trekkies are hauled into court, one Original Series Trekkie threatens a Next Gen Trekkie with a Vulcan Death Grip until Bull grabs their shoulders and makes them wince in pain. "How about the Bailiff Bull Grip?" | |
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