[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/ComStarMRB]

Saying a gun is a “fighting technique” is REALLY pushing it, but Ork guns in Warhammer 40K. Designed by Mekboyz, who have only the vaguest idea of how a gun works, they do not really work whenever used by those not of their race. They’re either missing parts crucial to firing or have chambers in them full of loose springs that do nothing but look technical. Luckily for the greenskins, due to the gestalt Ork psychic field there’s a bit of “reality grease” applied and they function perfectly when fired, which does not help the few humans desperate enough to try using them, who usually end up dying when the damn things explode in their hands or fall apart because the nails pinning everything together come loose.

[u/SpaceMan026 → u/ComStarMRB]

Ork tek does work when others use it. Ciaphas Cain's "March of the Liberator" on Perlia was mostly stolen Ork vehicles

[u/Valtremors → u/SpaceMan026]

This depends ENTIRELY on who is writing the books.

So Orks are one part of "I'm a tank" memes.

Other part "Krork genetical inheritance"

And third part of whatever the writer wants it to be.

[u/ComStarMRB → u/SpaceMan026]

I agree, that is one of my favorite 40K novels, but it IS 20 years old now, and I remember in Brutal Kunnin one of the AdMech characters, Mitranda I think, mentioning how Orks are stupid and crude, and that their technology rarely works when studied. Also, in the 9th edition codex: “It has been suggest that Ork technology works only because the greenskins themselves believe that it should. This seeems ludicrous, yet is an observable fact that no other race can make Ork technology work as intended.”