Random Anime Characters Won Fights In Clever Ways (15 items)

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  (#5) Uvogin Uses Screams To Fight In 'Hunter x Hunter'

  Hunter x Hunter is a show that's filled with clever battle tactics, so for now we're going to focus on a slightly underrated moment from Uvogin of the Phantom Troupe. While being restrained by the Shadow Beast Porcupine, he realizes that any kind of projectile weapon will be useless since Porcupine's quill-like body hairs will just repel it. He isn't going to let that stop him.

  Instead of attempting to hit Porcupine, he uses his voice as a weapon, screaming so loudly that the sonic vibrations knock his opponent out cold. 
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  (#14) Hanabi Kawai Aims For The Jaw In 'Keijo!!!!!!!!'

  Just because an anime is totally ridiculous doesn't mean that it doesn't have some clever moments. When Setouchi Keijo Training School Hanabi Kawai is up against a group of other Keijo players, she uses an unexpected strategy to disable her opponents. By hitting them in the jaw - with her butt, because it's this show - she shakes their brains enough to knock them out before they know what happened. 

  Because Nozomi figures out what she's doing, she can't get away with this technique indefinitely, but she tosses quite a few opponents into the water before that happens.
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  (#9) Cell

  • Dragon Ball Z

  Cell's primary goal is to achieve his 'perfect' form, something that's not easy to do with people like Vegeta interfering all the time. He decides to stop trying to force the issue and get Vegeta on his side through deception. He appeals to Vegeta's pride, claiming that if he achieves his Perfect Form, it'll be a real challenge for Vegeta. Driven solely by his fighting spirit, Vegeta fights with Trunks to allow Cell to absorb Android 18 and transform. 

  Thanks to his transformation and the havoc he's able to wreak as a result, Cell wins this particular fight - by the end of it, Trunks has given up and is offering up his neck to Cell. 
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  (#8) Kyoka Jirou & Koji Koda Use Present Mic's Phobia Against Him In 'My Hero Academia'

  In order to pass their final exam, the kids from Class 1-A are supposed to team up to defeat one of their teachers. Since their teachers are pros, it's difficult if not impossible for them to do this using raw strength alone, so most of these duos have to rely on some sort of clever plan. 

  One of those plans is enacted by Kyoka Jirou and Koji Koda. Through her exceptional hearing abilities, Kyoka Jirou is able to find a nest of insects. Koji uses his Anivoice quirk to send said bugs after their teacher, Present Mic. Mic is terrified of bugs, so as soon as they start crawling up his legs, he passes out.
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  (#1) Shikamaru Nara

  • Naruto, Naruto Shippuden the Movie, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds, Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire, Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel, Ninja World

  Shikamaru Nara's showdown with Hidan was impressive not because of Shikamaru's strength, but because of his smarts. 

  Using Shadow Jutsu, he led Hidan away from Kakuzu to an area in the Nara forest covered in traps and explosive tags. He tricks Hidan into consuming Kakuzu's blood, inadvertently destroying one of Kakuzu's hearts in an attempt to destroy Shikamaru's. Shikamaru then covers him in explosive tags, then activates a prepared trap that causes the ground beneath him to crumble. He throws Asuma's lighter at him, blowing up the tags and severely damaging Hidan's body. Because he's immortal, he'll be trapped, in pieces, underground for eternity. 

  The amount of planning that went into executing that strategy is wild. Naruto could never.
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  (#12) Saki Watanabe

  • From the New World

  The biggest threat that the people of Kamisu 66 face at the end of the series is Akki, a human child who is exempt from the rest of humanity's biological restriction on taking lives. The reason she's exempt is that despite her biology, she doesn't see herself as human: she sees herself as a monster rat. But because she is human, anyone who tried to fight back would perish soon afterwards. 

  That, plus her psychic abilities, makes her the most powerful ally the monster rats have against humanity. 

  In order to defeat Akki, Saki Watanabe and her allies come up with a clever but horrifying plan - have her destroy a monster rat, triggering her own biological restrictions and ending her life. Kidomaru, a monster rat on humanity's side, acts as a sacrifice to pull off this plan. It works, but it's hard for Saki to feel good about their victory.

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