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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
** When Kirk confronts Khan in the ''Enterprise'' engine room in "Space Seed," Khan grabs Kirk's phaser away from him and bends/crushes it in his bare hands. During the ensuing fight he boasts that he has five times Kirk's strength.
* In the short-lived 70s' superhero teamup show ''[[Franchise/TheDCU Legends of the Superheroes]]'', [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Giganta]] makes an appearance. Since the show had an extremely limited budget, special effects to display her [[SizeShifter growth power]] were out of the question, so her super-strength is demonstrated by her [[CoconutSuperpowers bending a prop metal bar]] instead.

* Sadie Mae from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetstheBooBrothers'' takes her brother's rifle, bends it into a circle and uses it to bind him.

* In ''Series/WonderWoman'' our heroine is occasionally shown taking the guns out of her enemies' hands and bending them or snapping them in half. One instance involved a poker.

* In {{Series/WonderWoman}} our heroine is occasionally shown taking the guns out of her enemies' hands and bending them or snapping them in half. One instance involved a poker.

Not to be confused with ExtraOreDinary.

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' did it often.

* Bending metal bars around her forearms was a favorite of Ada Ash, showing off not just strength but also her pain tolerance. Joan Rhodes also bent metal, though not around herself.[[/folder]]

''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' can do this, often to tie up the villains. In one episode, she does it to a steel I-beam [[SeriousBusiness as a warning to any villains who were thinking of interrupting her favorite TV show.]]

* Exploited in an ''Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}'' comic. One day Archie and Jughead went to the landfill and picked up a bent iron pipe. The two of them took it to a road construction site where similar pipes were waiting to be installed. Then, when arch-rival Reggie walked by, Archie grabbed the bent pipe while Jughead yelled that the construction crew would "...be ''mad'' if you keep messing up their pipe like that." This freaked Reggie out big time.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': When a LoonyFan pulls a shotgun on Diana in "Bullets and Bracelets" she grabs the gun and folds the barrels in half.

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* In one ''Literature/ManKzinWars'' anthology, a human telepath sneaks aboard a kzinti ship [[MasterOfIllusion disguised as a kzin]]. He ends up in a duel with a kzin, preceded by a BarehandedBarBending contest to determine the handicap. He ends up selecting a bar one grade thicker than his opponent's, and projecting an illusion bending the bar and then straightening it again, relying on the kzinti lack of curiosity to keep his deception undiscovered.

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* In one ''Literature/ManKzinWar'' anthology, a human telepath sneaks aboard a kzinti ship [[MasterOfIllusion disguised as a kzin]]. He ends up in a duel with a kzin, preceded by a BarehandedBarBending contest to determine the handicap. He ends up selecting a bar one grade thicker than his opponent's, and projecting an illusion bending the bar and then straightening it again, relying on the kzinti lack of curiosity to keep his deception undiscovered.

* In one ''[[Literature/KnownSpace Man-Kzin War]]'' anthology, a human telepath sneaks aboard a kzinti ship [[MasterOfIllusion disguised as a kzin]]. He ends up in a duel with a kzin, preceded by a BarehandedBarBending contest to determine the handicap. He ends up selecting a bar one grade thicker than his opponent's, and projecting an illusion bending the bar and then straightening it again, relying on the kzinti lack of curiosity to keep his deception undiscovered.
** [[FridgeLogic Although, since one end of the bar is sunk into the wall, it should have evidence of being straightened after past contests.]]

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Batman bends the barrel of one of the Bat-Vigilanties' guns with one hand (the whirring sound that accompanies it indicates [[PoweredArmor he had some mechanical assistance]].

* King Augustus of Saxony and Poland liked to show off his strength by ripping a horse iron apart, which is mentioned in the novel ''Literature/{{Krabat}}''.

* Exploited in an ''ComicBook/{{Archie}}'' comic. One day Archie and Jughead went to the landfill and picked up a bent iron pipe. The two of them took it to a road construction site where similar pipes were waiting to be installed. Then, when arch-rival Reggie walked by, Archie grabbed the bent pipe while Jughead yelled that the construction crew would "...be ''mad'' if you keep messing up their pipe like that." This freaked Reggie out big time.

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