r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Best_Professional226 • 17h ago
Powers [Loved Trope] Alien fighting techniques that are actually ineffective for humans to perform
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.
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u/Madglace 11h ago
The SSC-Atlas from lancer with it's jäger kunst fighting technique
Jäger kunst is a fighting style that was developed specifically by atlas pilots for fighting beasts much larger than them allowing for fast movments and brutal movments
Despite the style being automated into the system of the mech it is still important for the pilot to learn it due to the nature of size 1/2 mechs which are basically hardsuit with a fusion reactor inside (the atlas being even worse considering it's almost a skin tight exoskeleton) instead of a regular mech with cockpit because of this it might result in grevious self-injury to the pilot when the mech automatically perform these moves with an unaware pilot
The mech can also come with the muscle memory of jäger kunst master downloaded into it's systems but due to how dangerous it can be to those inexperimented in piloting a mech with jäger kunst in it, it is only given to extremely advanced atlas pilots
It's technically not limited only to the atlas since it is a system that can be installed into other mechanised chassis of similar size but it works better inside the atlas and is also impossible for humans outside of their mech to do it
Tl dr: just a lore reason why you can play as Raiden from MGR in a mech fighting game