Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 4 - Calling Your Attacks

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Yesterday's trope, Opposing Sports Team, was a three-way tie between the Monstars (Space Jam), Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and the Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X), which scored 2 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)

Today's trope is Calling Your Attacks. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallingYourAttacks

If you can do something more impressive than just throw a punch, your attack(s) must have an equally impressive name. More than that, you have to call it out as you launch the attack. It doesn't matter if it's a martial arts move, a magical spell or your secret superweapon, if you can't say its name, it just isn't nearly as cool or effective. Also, expect plenty of echoing to come with it, and (if a fighter is feeling particularly bombastic) dramatic... *pauses* ...WITHAYELLATTHEEND! A standard feature of practically every Magical Girl, high fantasy, or martial arts anime.

A variant has a Combat Commentator recognizing the attacks being used (usually with a line like "That's the legendary such-and-such-and-something-or-other technique!") and explaining them to any other characters watching (and the audience, of course). When the person launching the attack spends time doing the commentary, however, they may be guilty of Talking Is a Free Action. And, are hopefully in a comic, manga, melodramatic or animated show rather than doing this in Real Life.

TL, DR: A character yells the name of their move before using it. This can be for signature moves only, or for every move they use.

Nominations:
Wyzen (Kurikara Fundo Uchi!) (Asura's Wrath)
Kochamara (All of his attacks parody this trope. Hard-to-avoid Area Attack!) (Psychonauts)
Captain Falcon (Falcon Punch!) (Super Smash Bros)

Slooow Moootiooon Diving at Yoooou.... (Family Guy)
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Domon kasshu - shining finger/erupting burning finger
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Kamehameha
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"Oh-I'm-gonna-throw-you-over-there!" (Mortal Kombat 4)
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kamehameha
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Captain Falcon
Palutena
HADOUKEN!!
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Kamehameha
Falcon Punch
All Star Ocean characters
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Falcon Punch
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Kamehameha
Hadouken
Judo chop (Austin Powers)

HM: Avada Kedavra

Shoryuken
Fire in the Hole (Boyd Crowder - Justified)
Bob, do something! (Ashe - Overwatch)
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Oh swee this is back

-Kamehameha
-Falcon Punch
-Giga Drill Breaker
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Rankings so far:
Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros) - 5 votes
Kamehameha (Dragonball) 5 votes
Hadouken (Street Fighter) - 2 votes
Kurikara Fundo Uchi (Asura's Wrath)
Hard-to-avoid Area Attack! (Psychonauts)
Slooow Moootiooon Diving at Yoooou.... (Family Guy)
Domon kasshu - shining finger/erupting burning finger
"Oh-I'm-gonna-throw-you-over-there!" (Mortal Kombat 4)
Palutena (Super Smash Bros)
Everyone (Star Ocean)
Judo Chop (Austin Powers)
Shoryuken (Street Fighter)
Fire in the Hole (Boyd Crowder - Justified)
Bob, do something! (Ashe - Overwatch)
Giga Drill Breaker

Falcon Punch
Fist of the Nose Hair (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
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Man 3 days in I already miss a day

Monstars and Purple Cobras were both great winners though

Bob, do something! (Overwatch)
Hammer Down! (Overwatch)
Consecutive Normal Punches (One-Punch Man)

HM:
like every other Ultimate from Overwatch
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