History Main / EnhancedPunch

** [[GirlyBruiser Lily]]'s Heartbeat Hero lets her [[TemporaryBulkChange buff up any part of her body that she wants]]. She tends to use this for [[TheRightHandOfDoom bulking up an arm]] to deliver heavy haymakers, [[SwissArmySuperpower among other things]].

Sometimes a plain old garden-variety punch just won't cut it, and just punching [[SuperStrength harder]] or [[RapidFireFisticuffs faster]] isn't doing the job either. It needs a little something ''extra''. It needs to be ''enhanced.'' That's what this is: a powered up punch. Popular punch-enhancers include [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]], [[KungFuWizard magic]], {{ki|Manipulation}}, [[ElementalPunch elemental damage]], [[ChargedAttack charging the punch]] and all manner of AppliedPhlebotinum.

** [[GirlyBruiser Lily]]'s Heartbeat Hero lets her [[TemporaryBulkChange buff up any part of her body that she wants]]. She tends to use this for bulking up her arms to deliver heavy haymakers, [[SwissArmySuperpower among other things]].

** A few of the main cast with their [[FightingSpirit Stand]] harbor unique abilities that are channeled through enhanced strikes, usually in the form of RapidFireFisticuffs. Crazy Diamond's punches are able [[HealingShiv to fix things]], which he actually uses against enemies on a few occasions [[LethalHarmlessPowers by merging them into their surroundings]]. Gold Experience's punches, while relatively weak, imbue life into whatever it touches. This gives already-living beings SuperSenses, which just leaves them more susceptible to pain.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Each of the main cast with their [[FightingSpirit Stand]] harbor unique abilities that are supplemented with enhanced strikes in the form of RapidFireFisticuffs.

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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Dragon Fist, one of Goku's moves from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' that doesn't see much use in the main series but shows up in the [[NonSerialMovie Non-Serial Movies]] from time to time, as well as in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', is a full-out lethal punch that, at Super Saiyan 3 or higher, creates a mini golden Shenron (presumably out of {{ki|Manipulation}}) ''which explodes''. The Dragon Fist is also based on the technique that Goku uses to kill King Piccolo in the original ''Manga/DragonBall''. The punch has no official name, but it has been called the Monkey Fist and the manga chapter it is used in is titled "The Fist of Son Goku." This particular punch takes the shape of a Great Ape and is embedded with all of Goku's remaining energy since it's his last gambit to beat King Piccolo.
* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' one of Gon's special nen techniques turns his already powerful punch into an Enhanced Punch by gathering all of his nen in his fist.

* ''The ComicBook/IronFist''': Iron Fist's sole superpower (at first) is to charge his fist [[KiManipulation with chi]] to make it "like unto a thing of iron." While he eventually gets more powers to go along with his CharlesAtlasSuperpower, he's [[FightsLikeANormal generally just a skilled martial artist with an occasional superpowered punch]].
* In ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'', Franchise/TheFlash fights a speedster called Zoom. Once Flash starts thinking of it as a fight rather than a race, he uses his speed to accelerate his body until his uppercut has sufficient force to propel Zoom upwards at 25,000 mph. The Flash has [[RequiredSecondaryPowers the Speed Force]] to render himself immune to relativistic effects of approaching lightspeed as he runs. Zoom lacks that same protection, and thus from his perspective Wally was punching him with infinite mass.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} possesses the ability to vibrate any combination of the molecules in his body. One of his favorite techniques he got from the Flash, which is to [[{{Vibroweapon}} vibrate his fist as he punches someone]]. He chooses to vibrate his fist just under the speed of light, thus increasing the mass of his fist to a near-infinite level, creating the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Infinite Mass Punch]]. [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle He even hit]] [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle with it, once]].

* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} has the Twister Punch, which requires twisting his arm so that it unwinds upon contact.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', Franchise/TheFlash once literally ran around the world to build up enough momentum to punch the Braniac out of Brainthor.

** A few other Devil Fruit eaters have similar moves using their own powers. Bellamy's Spring Death-Knock (coiling his spring arm then releasing it) and Bartolomeo's Bari-Bari Pistol (encasing his fist in a hard, protective forcefield), which is an intentional homage to Luffy's Gum-Gum Pistol, are some examples.

** Luffy has many of this kind of move, but the most notable would be his Gum Gum Pistol, Bazooka and many variations of it, which are given additional range and force by his RubberMan powers. Later, he learns to blow his limbs up to gigantic size for even more force. Once he learns how to use Haki, he can turn his fists black and bypass the natural defenses of a Devil Fruit user, including a Logia.