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Spoon Bending
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Spoon Bending is arguably the most common way of demonstrating Mind over Matter next to making Your Head A-Splode. And much less messy. The art of spoon bending is the deformation of objects, especially metal cutlery, either without the use of physical force, or with less force than would normally seem necessary. It is a common form of stage magic, and a variety of methods are used to produce the illusion. Spoon bending attracted considerable media attention in The '70s when some people claimed to have the ability to cause such events by paranormal psychic means. The most notable was Uri Geller, who performed by bending metal spoons as well as metal keys and several other objects and materials. Geller's performances were attributed to stage magic by critics such as James Randi and Martin Gardner. While spoon bending in real life is an art based around misdirection, simply convincing the observer that the spoon is moving, pop culture has come to associate bending spoons as a technique among those with Psychic Powers. Spoons are small enough to grasp, common enough to find and are easy enough to bend with physical force, so it stands to reason that utensils like the common spoon would make a harmless psychokinetic demonstration. Has nothing to do with Ate the Spoon, Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon, Funny Spoon, Greasy Spoon and Spoonerism. This also has nothing to do with another secret bending art. Examples |
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Subverted for laughs in one episode of Win Ben Stein's Money, when Jimmy introduced Ben as "a man whose mind is so powerful, he can bend a spoon with his bare hands." | |
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When the protagonist family from Poltergeist discover that all of their cutlery has been distorted at the beginning of the movie, that is their (and the viewer's) first clue that the house is being haunted. Of course, everything gets downhill from there. | |
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The Battle Cats: Psychocat bends metal when excited, and tosses a bent spoon with psychic power to attack. The unit’s description mentions that he loves cereal, but always ends up with a useless spoon before he can eat. | |
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Anna's Quest: Anna’s Psychic Powers are used first time on spoon to bend it. | |
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In an iconic scene in The Matrix, the unreality of the matrix is properly demonstrated to Neo when a boy mentally bends a spoon. Neo's successful attempt at doing so is the first time Neo learns to manipulate the world around him. | |
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In Generation IV onward, the item Twisted Spoon can be used to increase the power of Psychic-type attacks when held by a Pokémon. | |
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Several Chuck Norris Facts go like this: "[Insert a famous psychic's name here] can bend spoons with his mind. Chuck Norris can bend [psychic's name] with his." | |
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Fast Forward. A skit parodying Uri Geller had him eventually resorting to an oxy-acytelene torch to get the spoon to bend. | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life, Heffer is tempting Spunky with a Fatheads-brand chewable vitamin by asking him to perform common dog tricks, the last of which is bending a spoon with his thoughts. | |
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SCP-463 "A Spoon That Bends People" from SCP Foundation is a spoon that bends people's spines backwards by 90 degrees when it's picked up, acting as a playful inversion of the trope. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "The Mentalists", Sam and Dean investigate the death of two alleged psychics in Lily Dale, New York, the "most psychic town in America." While prop spoons are commonly seen in the episode - used as souvenirs and props for fake psychics - utensils bending on their own occurs whenever the Monster of the Week the ghost of an actual psychic looms nearby. | |
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In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the logo for Psychic type on the futbol-like Pokemon League uniforms has two spoons twisted around each other. | |
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Fumiaki Uchida from Occult Academy developed psychokinetic abilities at a young age, it first manifesting when he was mentally able to bend spoons, only to lose such an ability when his mother denied him a normal life because of it. | |
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Mewtwo, an incredibly powerful psychic Pokémon from Pokémon Adventures, is shown to wield a massive spoon. It's made of Mewtwo's own psychic energy. | |
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The titular character of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. is able to do this, but he'd rather not. This is both because he doesn't like standing out, and because it makes the spoons harder to eat with. | |
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El Cucharon (Spanish for "The Big Spoon") from El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera was a villain with the power to manipulate spoons. Mocked for his supposedly useless power, he became a super villain. However, with counseling from Manny's mother Maria, El Cucharon becomes reformed and uses his spoon-based powers to save the day. | |
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One King of Fighters manga has Athena Asamiya do this to a spoon while the USA Sports team struggle to bend theirs to no avail. The image in reference is shown here.◊ | |
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Kadabra and Alakazam from Generation I — two particularly iconic Psychic-type Pokemon — each wield spoons. Their Signature Move is Kinesis, which reduces the target's accuracy by bending spoons to confound them. Kadabra's Japanese name Yungeller is a corruption of the aforementioned Uri Geller, which got it into legal trouble. | |
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Mystery Hunters: Discussed and potentially subverted in one episode. Araya investigates whether it is possible to bend spoons using the mind and attends a workshop dedicated to learning on how to bend forks, spoons and knives. While Araya is able to bend a fork and his classmates get very noticeable bends with their objects after getting instructions from the teacher (such as telling them to think of a frivolous animal while trying to bend), it is noted that they were bending the objects with their hands and that suggestions from other, as well as what the individual wants, can influence the mind to move the muscles. Thus, psychic powers might not have had any role in it. | |
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Pokémon Mewtwo, an incredibly powerful psychic Pokémon from Pokémon Adventures, is shown to wield a massive spoon. It's made of Mewtwo's own psychic energy. ''Pokémon: The Original Series: In the episode "Abra and the Psychic Showdown", many of the psychics in Sabrina's gym are shown to be practicing their psychic abilities by trying (to limited effect) to bend spoons. One such psychic tries demonstrating this to Ash, Brock and Misty with great difficulty. For some reason, Ash was unimpressed, then bent a spoon with his hands and boasted his method was better. A flashback to Sabrina's childhood has her bending all the cutlery on the rack before shattering the rack itself with her immense power. |
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Pokémon: Kadabra and Alakazam from Generation I — two particularly iconic Psychic-type Pokemon — each wield spoons. Their Signature Move is Kinesis, which reduces the target's accuracy by bending spoons to confound them. Kadabra's Japanese name Yungeller is a corruption of the aforementioned Uri Geller, which got it into legal trouble. In Generation IV onward, the item Twisted Spoon can be used to increase the power of Psychic-type attacks when held by a Pokémon. This is taken up to eleven with Alakazam's Mega Evolution in Pokémon X and Y. Mega Alakazam has a whole swarm of spoons it manipulates in battle. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the logo for Psychic type on the futbol-like Pokemon League uniforms has two spoons twisted around each other. |
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Ford Cruller from Psychonauts occasionally refers to the Psychic Children that attends the camp as "spoonbenders." Played literally in Loboto's backstory, revealed in Rhombus of Ruin. As a child, Loboto's mother found all of her spoons bent and twisted, and angrily reveals the source to her husband. |
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In Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Torhu and Kanna try to pull this off after seeing a man do it on television, but ultimately fail. They become convinced there's something deeper to it and engage in Training from Hell to try and discover the secret, before Kobayashi finally steps in and tells them how it's done. | |
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Doctor Who: Referenced in "The Pirate Planet" (written during Uri Geller's heyday), when the Doctor needs to maintain a distinctive mental image so that a psychic ally can keep track of his location, and chooses the image of a bent fork. | |
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An episode of ''That's So Raven" has Raven and her friends meet a group of psychics—one of them is a classic spoonbender. | |
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Spoofed in Spliced: Entree attempts to twist a utensil, but ends up twisting everything around but it. Peri counts the test as a fail. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978). In "War of the Gods", Commander Adama attributes many of Count Iblis "miracles" to Psychic Powers, saying that even he can bend a spoon or two and move small items across a table if he concentrates hard enough. | |
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In the Zero Punctuation review of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, the animated mook used to represent Natalia Korda is shown wielding two glowing bent spoons as Yahtzee describes her as a "spooky psychic girl." | |
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In EarthBound Beginnings, one NPC in Magicant has a spoon he wants someone to bend back into shape. Ninten does it with his PSI powers. | |
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''Pokémon: The Original Series: In the episode "Abra and the Psychic Showdown", many of the psychics in Sabrina's gym are shown to be practicing their psychic abilities by trying (to limited effect) to bend spoons. One such psychic tries demonstrating this to Ash, Brock and Misty with great difficulty. For some reason, Ash was unimpressed, then bent a spoon with his hands and boasted his method was better. | |
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Mob Psycho 100: A Running Gag is that Mob has trouble eating soup, since he always subconciously bends his spoons with his mind. When he gets upset while talking about things over dinner, his power makes them fall over limp. His brother Ritsu usually fixes or replaces them. Ritsu discovers his powers at the Awakening Lab, where he thought he was the only member with no powers at all until a burst of anger caused three spoons to twist together into a gnarled mess. He then became the single strongest esper in the group, and his help led the rest to improve their less-than-impressive abilities. |
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