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Shockwave Clap
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Clapping is pretty loud, but it pales in comparison to the Shockwave Clap. Sometimes it's just a really loud clap and sometimes it has the power to knock people over or cause physical damage. It can have more intuitive uses from time to time, such as blowing out fires. This is commonly used by characters with Super-Strength, since it lets them demonstrate their power without directly attacking someone (which could have messy results). Usually appears in the form of a powerful, high-pressure wave of air. The "realistic" varieties of Sword Beam create a similar effect, but concentrated into a sharp edge. However, these are usually associated with skill rather than strength. See also Kung-Fu Sonic Boom, Gale-Force Sound, Make Some Noise, and Shockwave Stomp. Not to be confused with Clap Your Hands If You Believe. |
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In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Superman does this to knock out his brainwashed cousin. | |
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In Megas XLR, the Humongous Mecha does this in the first episode when facing the Glorft. | |
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Behemoth of Worm can do this, among his many, many, powers. | |
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam: Black Adam greets Clark Kent and Billy Batson by landing by the window of the diner they're in and clapping his hands, demolishing the entire restaurant in the process. | |
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In the second season of Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, the Hulk knocked Johnny out of the air this way. | |
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Slammers from Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon use this as an attack to send shockwaves toward Luigi and damage him. | |
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The Sentry: The Sentry is shown using it against the minions of the Void. | |
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The Transformers Megaseries: Thunderwing's claps have enough force to stagger larger Transformers and send smaller ones flying. | |
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X-Men: Arclight, in addition to her superhuman strength, endurance, and durability, has the ability to create seismic energy with her hands that generate shockwaves and geo tremors. As noted below, her film incarnation possesses the same abilities. | |
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Justice League of America: In JLA: Incarnations #5, Vibe and his vibrational powers show you how it's done.◊ | |
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The Killers of Krypton: While fighting an army of clones, Supergirl claps her hands together. The concussive blast blows her clones away, but unfortunately, it also makes their unstable cellular structure fall apart. | |
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The Legion of Super-Heroes!: In his first appearance, Lightning Lad's electrical powers work this way (it was later changed to just using lightning without any clapping): | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): In "Darkest Plight", Shredder unleashes a shockwave by delivering a forced clap to incapacitate April. | |
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Supergirl has performed this move every so often. In Red Lanterns Atrocities she uses a super-clap to take down a mob of Red Lanterns surrounding her. | |
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The Flash: Hunter Zolomon (Zoom/Reverse-Flash II) was able to make sonic booms with just finger snaps, but he's also used this trope, which is basically a stronger version of the finger snap trick. Eobard Thawne learned the trick from Hunter. |
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Borderlands 2: Gaige's Deathtrap can do this. | |
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DC Universe Online: Might characters can clap their hands to create a very focused, damaging ranged shockwave. | |
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Assassination Classroom: Nagisa is taught this as an assassination technique; clapping his hands in front of an enemy whose senses are on high alert disorients them. In the over-the-top style of the manga this is represented as a nuclear explosion. | |
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The Mega-Strength enhancement Thunderclap allows a character to do this is Aberrant. | |
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"Superman vs. Muhammad Ali": In order to stop a humongous tidal wave from striking Bermuda, Superman smashes his fists together. The ensuing shockwave immediately shatters the gigantic tsunami. | |
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Supergirl's Greatest Challenge: When some forest rangers are about to blow up a tree stump (which is concealing Kara's secret base's tunnel entrance), Supergirl fakes the sound of thunder by powerfully clapping her hands while shooting her eye beams at the dried-up trunk. Her trick makes the rangers believe that a lightning bolt has destroyed the stump for them. | |
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Supergirl (2015): In "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1", Kara does this to stun Overgirl, before delivering a massive gutpunch that leaves her gasping on the floor, forcing Dark Arrow to grab her and order a retreat. A year later, in "Elseworlds, Hour 3", Deegan!Superman does this to stun the heroes and make off with the Book. |
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Johnny Test has this ability when he (thanks to one of his sisters' lab experiments) turns into Johnny X. He calls it his Hurricane Hands. | |
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ULTRAKILL: Hideous Masses can do this, usually after either a Shockwave Stomp to force you to jump, or after a hookshot to pin you down. The shockwaves travel very far, and can get you through walls, but you always know where they're coming from. Sisyphus Prime has an especially brutal one, with the shockwave traveling vertically throughout the entire arena and being damaging the whole way. And he'll Flash Step right in your face each time before doing it, so you better get used to dodging sideways. |
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In Superman: The Animated Series, Supes puts out a burning apartment this way. | |
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Paint the Town Red has the Shockwave move, used when you dealt enough damage. Much like Alex Mercer you do this my slamming your fists together. Unlike Mercer, you don't have massive gorilla arms when you do it! It deals some damage but it's mostly there for crowd control as the game has a lot of guys coming for your blood and breathing room is important to kill everyone. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3.5E has the Thunderclap feat from the Book of Vile Drakness that gives a powerful sonic attack in a cone that has a chance to deafen and even knock enemies down and also extinguishes unprotected fire sources, by clapping hands really hard. The more powerful the user (mesured in Hit Dice), the bigger the affected area and the harder it gets to resist. This feat requires a massive Strength score of 30 since it was designed for monsters, and a standard PC race would need a load of bonuses from various sources to reach such an amount. The thunderclap cantrip from the 5E sourcebook Xanathar's Guide to Everything, which causes every creature within 5 feet of the caster to take damage if they failed the saving throw, as well as causing a thunderous sound that can be heard up to a hundred feet away. |
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Mortal Kombat: In Deadly Alliance and Armageddon, Hsu Hao has a special named "Khan Klap/Thunder Klap" (note the intentional misspelling) which emits a visible pulse of air that damages his enemy while pushing them back. | |
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She discovers this power when training with Antiope in her eponymous film, sending Antiope flying and injuring her a bit as a result. | |
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In Hellsister Trilogy, Superman knocks a whole legion of Para-Demons out of the sky with a mere, powerful, ear-shattering clap. | |
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[PROTOTYPE]: Alex Mercer. That is, when he's not just eating people. Even better, he's not clapping hands. He's smashing his knuckles together. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie: During the last fight, Mojo in his One-Winged Angel state unleashes a shockwave with a large clap. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: One of the central game mechanics of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. It would later be brought over to Super Smash Bros. in the form of Donkey Kong's Final Smash. Slammers from Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon use this as an attack to send shockwaves toward Luigi and damage him. |
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Hulk could do this as a ranged attack in The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, but it functioned as a radius effect around him rather than a cone-shaped projection the way it typically did in the comics. While listed as being an anti-air attack, it had a limited radius unless fully charged, which took too long to be useful. | |
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Superboy-Prime does this to hit both Sun Boy and Polar Boy in Legion of 3 Worlds. | |
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In Marvel Super Heroes and subsequent Marvel vs. Capcom titles, this is Hulk's heavy air attack. | |
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Used in The Incredible Hulk movie by the title character to douse a fire. | |
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In Superman Unbound, Superman uses a powerful clap to put out a burning building. | |
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Superman: Supergirl has performed this move every so often. In Red Lanterns Atrocities she uses a super-clap to take down a mob of Red Lanterns surrounding her. The Killers of Krypton: While fighting an army of clones, Supergirl claps her hands together. The concussive blast blows her clones away, but unfortunately, it also makes their unstable cellular structure fall apart. In Adventures of Supergirl, the titular heroine's eye beams ensure that Rampage cannot get close to her, so the super-strong Rampage tries to weaken Supergirl via a deafening thunder clap. Supergirl's Greatest Challenge: When some forest rangers are about to blow up a tree stump (which is concealing Kara's secret base's tunnel entrance), Supergirl fakes the sound of thunder by powerfully clapping her hands while shooting her eye beams at the dried-up trunk. Her trick makes the rangers believe that a lightning bolt has destroyed the stump for them. Superboy-Prime does this to hit both Sun Boy and Polar Boy in Legion of 3 Worlds. Superman himself has been known to do this at times. The Legion of Super-Heroes!: In his first appearance, Lightning Lad's electrical powers work this way (it was later changed to just using lightning without any clapping): In Superboy 1949 #220, Lightning Lad calms a mob down by clapping his hands together and unleashing a booming thunderbolt. "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali": In order to stop a humongous tidal wave from striking Bermuda, Superman smashes his fists together. The ensuing shockwave immediately shatters the gigantic tsunami. |
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Stormwatch: Flint did a more narrow-focused version of this technique during her time with Stormwatch Red. | |
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In Black Adam, the eponymous antihero uses such a move with a clap of his hands, rather effortlessly. | |
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My Hero Academia: During Star and Stripe's fight against Shigaraki, she manipulates the air into a figure of herself, but a thousand times bigger, to stun him with a gigantic fist and Shockwave Clap. | |
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DC Extended Universe: Wonder Woman can blast forth shockwaves by clashing her vambraces together. That power is enough to budge Doomsday a few feet away in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. She discovers this power when training with Antiope in her eponymous film, sending Antiope flying and injuring her a bit as a result. In Justice League, Diana uses the move against a terrorist leader who tried to shoot a bunch of hostages, which obliterates his body. Diana tries using this move against a resurrected Superman who's hostile out of Resurrection Sickness... but then he stops her before she can even move by grabbing her arms. She uses this again against Steppenwolf in the climax, slamming one wristband against her shield to make a platform collapse. In Black Adam, the eponymous antihero uses such a move with a clap of his hands, rather effortlessly. |
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Fourarms does this a lot on Ben 10, and in sequel series fellow super-strength alien Humongosaur can also be seen to perform this move on occasion. | |
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One Piece: How Emporio Ivankov's "Death Wink" actually works; just replace hands with eyelashes. Whitebeard, as per his Devil Fruit powers, can do Shockwave Punches. |
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In Adventures of Supergirl, the titular heroine's eye beams ensure that Rampage cannot get close to her, so the super-strong Rampage tries to weaken Supergirl via a deafening thunder clap. | |
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Jujutsu Kaisen: The offensive application of Takako Uro's Cursed Technique, Thin-Ice Breaker, has Takako "shatter" the air like a fragile layer of glass by striking it millimeters from her opponent with a two-hand thrust, creating a Kung-Fu Sonic Boom that throws the target backwards hard enough to shatter buidings and concrete roads. | |
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In X-Men: The Last Stand, Arclight (see above) has this ability. And that's all she does, but apparently she can control it well enough to make sure the shockwave only breaks certain materials. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Also a trademark move of the Hulk, where it's named the "Gamma Clap". In a notable instance, at the end of the Fall of the Hulks storyline, the Hulk uses this to stop a building from collapsing by using the shockwave to fill the building with sand (he was fighting on the beach). | |
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One of the psychic powers (called Thunderclap) available to Space Wolf Rune Priests in Warhammer 40,000. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Bulkhead does the shockwave part unintentionally. | |
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That power is enough to budge Doomsday a few feet away in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. | |
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One of the central game mechanics of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. It would later be brought over to Super Smash Bros. in the form of Donkey Kong's Final Smash. | |
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Justice Society of America: Black Adam uses this move during his attempt at joining the JSA (the first time); it knocks a few people away. | |
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In Child of the Storm: Hercules pulls a Dynamic Entry by doing this and pulverizing hundreds of demons. Hulk uses this to disperse a tidal wave in Unfinished Business. |
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A telekinetic version occurs in the Star Wars Rebels episode "Future of the Force". It's hard to notice, but in her fight against the Seventh Sister Ahsoka Tano didn't actually use the standard Force-push, rather, clapping her hands together, which slammed the inquisitor into a stone pillar so hard it cracked from the impact. | |
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The Avengers: Luke Cage performs this maneuver in the second New Avengers #1. Victoria Hand (Token Good Teammate of the Dark Avengers) meets him at the Avengers Mansion because Cap asked her to, but shows up with a gun on the grounds that she has no powers to defend herself with and the Avengers aren't exactly fond of her. Since he has Jessica and their baby with him, Cage demonstrates that the gun isn't much help by clapping his hands together so hard Hand goes flying. | |
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The Stone Giants from Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire actually generate force fields by clapping their hands. | |
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In Invincible (2021), Omni-Man attempts to kill Cecil with one of these strong enough to split the ground, but misses due to his Teleport Spam. | |
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In From Muddy Waters, Izuku applies his strength Quirks non-lethally by doing this. He first uses this to knock away Uraraka and Todoroki during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise as well as shatter Todoroki's ice attacks. He later uses this to slow his descent after he and Todoroki launch themselves into the air over the stadium during the obstacle course portion of the Sports Festival. | |
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In Keys to the Kingdom: Sir Thursday, Dame Primus does this with the Second Key, which takes the form of a pair of gloves. | |
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has the MCU Hulk do this for the first time since The Incredible Hulk (2008) during an argument with his cousin Jennifer, the titular She-Hulk. Jen tries to copy him but her first attempt fails as She-Hulk's hands are a lot smaller than Hulk's. She quickly works out that she has to clap several times in a row to get it to work. | |
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In Justice League, Diana uses the move against a terrorist leader who tried to shoot a bunch of hostages, which obliterates his body. Diana tries using this move against a resurrected Superman who's hostile out of Resurrection Sickness... but then he stops her before she can even move by grabbing her arms. She uses this again against Steppenwolf in the climax, slamming one wristband against her shield to make a platform collapse. | |
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Terraria: The Stardust Guardian that comes as a set bonus from Stardust armor has the ability to cause explosions that cause minor damage and draw enemies towards him and away from you by clapping his hands. | |
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City of Heroes: The Hand Clap power from the Super-Strength powerset. Some of the electrical themed power sets also receive Lightning Clap, which is functionally identical. | |
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