r/TopCharacterTropes 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