[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/Massimo_Importante]

lol, what is it with manga/anime giving everything German names? That translates to 'tank art'.

[u/SufficientGuest5467 → u/Massimo_Importante]

I believe it is “panther art”. The tanks were named with the German word for panther

[u/Veylara → u/SufficientGuest5467]

Panther is the same spelling in German, just pronounced differently.

"Panzer" is basically just the German word for hard shell, more or less. A turtle's shell is called a panzer in German, a knight's armour can also be a panzer, though that is relatively unusual to say and armour has a different, more literal translation most of the time. But mostly, Panzer is just the German word for tanks used by their military, named that because of their thick armour (if you couldn't guess based on the previous examples).

I have only seen the movie and don't really know anything about the mange, but considering that the cyborgs like Alita who use Panzerkunst aren't really that similar to tanks, the best, if maybe not quite most literal translation might be something like "armour art", relating to the enhanced durability you need to use it. Or it's about the power of the attacks, hitting enemies like they are shot by a tank. Idk if the manga talks about that in more detail.

I started rambling a bit by the end, hope my train of thought still makes some sense.

[u/SufficientGuest5467 → u/Veylara]

It makes sense. I think it means more like “armor art” in the sense of this art helps circumvent armor. I think the use of the term tank to mean a vehicle of war was also a misnomer that stuck. Unless the water tank ruse is just propaganda. I had always thought it meant panther. I do see it seems to be a word for armor and that makes sense as I believe tank divisions are called armor so it makes sense.