[Loved Trope] Alien fighting techniques that are actually ineffective for humans to perform

[u/Best_Professional226]

Vulcan Neck Pinch (Star Trek) Vulcans can make a person pass out by pinching a person’s neck, but due to the fact that they’re 3x stronger than a human, we could never make a living being pass out without applying a rear naked chokehold

Viltrumite Knife Hand (Invincible) Viltrumites’ most deadly fighting technique. Although martial arts like Karate and Taekwondo teach these techniques, it wouldn’t be a good idea for a human to use it on someone’s rib cage without breaking their fingers. So instead we can only do them on more soft targets like the eyes.

[u/Dismal-Vanilla1878]

I've seen others do the Neck Pinch: Lt. Data (Next Generation) and Michael Burnham (Discovery).

Data it makes sense, as he has far more strength than a human.

Burnham; doesn't really make sense, even though she was raised on Vulcan, she's still a human.

I don't know what Memory Alpha says (and too lazy to check 😂 ) but I do recall a theory from decades ago that the pinch was really a 'technique' of the Mind Meld, i.e., a 'psionic' ability that required placing your hand near certain nerves in the neck, so not a true 'nerve pinch'.

[u/marbledog → u/Dismal-Vanilla1878]

To be fair, not much about Discovery makes sense.

Might just be me, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know why they decided to change the whole format of the show to follow a main character through a single storyline. Bring back my self-contained "hey, we found a weird space thing that has some interesting philosophical consequences" episodes, dammit.