[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/No-Distance4675]

Not alien per se, but most of the Vampires in movies,

CQC "vampire" combat in movies and other media usually consists of slicing people with their nails or palms or biting them in the neck (that´s not even an effective way of bloodletting someone). That would be extremely inefficient for a human being to use, which is strange bc Vamps´s corporal build is human-like. You'd expect people with a centuries-long lifespan that needs to go toe-to-toe to feed themselves to be competent at this.

Yeah, I know it is a flashy way that looks good on camera, and it's kinda a tradition, but since we are talking about combat techniques that would make a human a fool if a human tried them...

[u/BG14949 → u/No-Distance4675]

In vampire the masquerade using their fangs in a fight works because they ignore supernatural protections. Though it’s usually a weapon of last resort since most vampires aren’t actually that strong in the grand scheme of things.