History Main / HandBlast

* ''Anime/{{Photon}}'': Photon's flighty sister Aun can launch a stasis field from her fingers (or her mouth if she's panicking). She fires one off to freeze Photon's sand cart, causing him to topple off into a canyon. Keyne Aqua can shoot zap balls from her palm, but only if she's wearing an aho bracelet on that wrist. She fires off five of these at Photon, whom she'd found in her bed when she awoke.

* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:
** In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', ''ComicBook/TheAtom has forearm-mounted energy blasts, whose power can be adjusted as needed, from stun to a huge explosion.
** One episode of ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' has Cisco add a bunch of tech to the new Flash suit, one of which is this trope. However, the one time the beams get used is when [[{{Technopath}} Kilg%re]] takes control of the suit and uses the beam to blast Wally. Barry forces Cisco to remove the beams afterwards, despite their incredible usefulness against anyone without Kilg%re's abilities.

Differs from KiManipulation and KamehameHadoken in that the Hand Blasts are not tied in to the subject's LifeEnergy or {{Mana}}; the PowerSource is usually external or some other form of AppliedPhlebotinum. Many instances of this trope imply that anyone can fire the blasts if they simply had the right equipment or circumstance.

*** ComicBook/NormanOsborn[=/=]Green Goblin, has seldom-used, but surprisingly powerful finger lasers. The Hobgoblin stole them along with the rest of the Goblin's tricks, and upgraded them to include a BeamSpam mode.

*** [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]] can fire bolts of bio-electricity, nicknamed "Venom Blasts" from her hands. ComicBook/MilesMorales and Asp of the [[Characters/CaptainAmericaSnakeThemedEnemies Serpent Society/SerpentSquad]] also have this ability.

** As Harpy, Betty Ross could fire powerful concussion blasts from her hands; which were so powerful that she hurt and knocked-out [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] when they fought.
** ComicBook/IronMan's signature attack are his palm-based repulsor beams.
*** Comicbook/WarMachine not only has his palm-based repulsor beams, but also guns on the wrists of his armor. Of course Iron Man created the armor for him.
** On the evil side in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, ComicBook/DoctorDoom.
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}}' brother Havok fires concussive beams from his hands.
** The Sentinels, ComicBook/XMen enemies, are HumongousMecha that typically fire Hand Blasts in their mutant-hunting endeavors.
** ComicBook/SpiderMan B-villain The Shocker fires vibrating waves out of his gauntlets.
** Jessica Drew, the first ComicBook/SpiderWoman, can fire bolts of bio-electricity, nicknamed "Venom Blasts" from her hands. ComicBook/MilesMorales and Asp of the [[Characters/CaptainAmericaSnakeThemedEnemies Serpent Society/SerpentSquad]] also have this ability.
** Shriek can fire sonic blasts from her hands.
** A-list villain, ComicBook/NormanOsborn[=/=]Green Goblin, has seldom-used, but surprisingly powerful finger lasers. The Hobgoblin stole them along with the rest of the Goblin's tricks, and upgraded them to include a BeamSpam mode.
** ''Comicbook/BlackWidow'' has her Widow's Bite, aka small but deadly wrist guns. Those bracelets aren't just decoration.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] can fire powerful energy blasts from his fists. This is revealed to be a potential ability for all of Earth's [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] (Thanos's parents were exiled Eternals) but most haven't got the same aptitude for it. It's left unclear whether or not it's also been enhanced by his various modifications and resurrections.
*** His nemesis [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Drax]] had the same ability for years, but lost it when he was resurrected.
** ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} can focus her light emissions into a laser beam.
** ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} can shoot pyrotechnic energy plasmoids, or "fireworks" as she calls them, from her hands.
** Another X-Men example is Rolling Thunder, a mutant villain who appeared in ''ComicBook/XTremeXmen2001''. She can fire concussive blasts from her fingertips like a gun. The blasts are strong enough to rend fortified stone.

** ComicBook/{{Starfire}} of the Franchise/TeenTitans, as well as her evil sister Blackfire, has this as her main superpower. Her body constantly absorbs ultraviolet radiation and converts it to energy.
** When she first took the codename "Troia", [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]] could fire light energy blasts from her hands. She eventually lost this ability.
** One way or another, this is probably the most common ability in the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', Comicbook/LexLuthor wears armored gloves that are equipped with laser beams. They give off light from the same spectrum as a red sun to weaken Franchise/{{Superman}}.
** Sunspot, a villain whom Franchise/GreenLantern Guy Gardner deals with in ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DCComics}}'', fires energy blasts from his right hand.
** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} had a weapon known as the "Killing Glove" made for him by Desaad. It was capable of firing an energy blast out of each of its fingers.
** Cir-El, a time travelling human-Kryptonian hybrid who was thought to be the daughter of Superman and Lois (she wasn't) could fire "red sunbursts" from her hands.
** The Eradicator, a Franchise/{{Superman}} foe turned ally can project energy blasts from his hands.
** Delilah Tyler, the second ComicBook/PhantomLady, had a wrist-mounted laser.
* ''Comicbook/AstroCity'':
** The villain [=HandGun=] had an arsenal of specialized gauntlets which fire different types of energy beams. When he's [[HeKnowsTooMuch mysteriously murdered]], his widow is stuck wondering what she's going to do with a basement cybernetics lab and about twenty different Hand Blast-producing gauntlets.
** Glowworm fires blasts of radioactive green energy from his hands.
** Nick Furst uses his hands to manipulate and control the energies inside his body.
* Rusty from ''Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''.
* Comicbook/{{Empowered}} can do this, when her suit works -- which is never guaranteed. Also deconstructed, she notes that even when at full power, using this sort of ability to aim and hit your target isn't as easy as you'd think, as her hand "doesn't have a scope on it".
* ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody each have a metal wristband that allows them to shoot energy blasts based on the quantum energy that they've been transformed into. Quantum fires a heat beam while Woody fires beams of force.
* In ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri,'' Radian could beam energy from the entire electro-magnetic spectrum, and wore focusing sleeves on his forearms to direct them. Similarly, Snapdragon used wrist-mounted projectors to focus her plasma blasts.
* ''Comicbook/StardustTheSuperwizard'': Stardust can shoot various "rays" and "beams" from his hands, which can do things such as disintegrate people, crush people to death, shrink and grow things, and turn people into rats.

** On the evil side in the MarvelUniverse, ComicBook/DoctorDoom.

** Subverted with [[InvisibleMan Absalom]]. [[spoiler:They're really just {{BFG}}s strapped to his arms and made invisible using his powers to invoke the image of this trope.]]

** Jessica Drew, the first ComicBook/SpiderWoman, can fire bolts of bio-electricity, nicknamed "Venom Blasts" from her hands. [[ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan Miles Morales]] and Asp of the [[Characters/CaptainAmericaSnakeThemedEnemies Serpent Society/SerpentSquad]] also have this ability.

* The ''Comicbook/AstroCity'' villain [=HandGun=] had an arsenal of specialized gauntlets which fire different types of energy beams. When he's [[HeKnowsTooMuch mysteriously murdered]], his widow is stuck wondering what she's going to do with a basement cybernetics lab and about twenty different Hand Blast-producing gauntlets.

** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}' brother Havok fires concussive beams from his hands.

*** His nemesis Drax had the same ability for years, but lost it when he was resurrected.
** Characters/{{Dazzler}} can focus her light emissions into a laser beam.

* In the 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film, Ironhide whips out two huge cannons from his forearms. In fact, almost every projectile weapon used by the robots are like this, produced from their own arms and directly connected to their body.

Differs from KiManipulation and KamehameHadoken in that the Hand Blasts are not tied in to the subject's LifeEnergy or {{Mana}}; the energy source is often an external power source or some other form of AppliedPhlebotinum. Many instances of this trope imply that anyone can fire the blasts if they simply had the right equipment or circumstance.

Hand Blasts are a stock superpower where the character shoots blasts of energy as a projectile out of their hands, [[PowerPalms palms]], wrists, fingertips or fists. "Energy" "Projectile" in this case is a broad term, and can encompass nearly anything: a heat ray, laser bolts, concussive force, whatever. The subject simply points his hand (or finger) at a target, and a Bright Ray O' Doom shines forth. Sometimes it requires activating with the other hand.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': To an attentive mage, fourth-year Vera Miligan's PeekABangs hairstyle is an obvious clue that there's something off about her left eye: [[spoiler:it's the eye of a basilisk, with a [[DeadlyGaze paralyzing gaze]]]]. It's also misdirection to conceal the fact that [[spoiler:she has a second basilisk eye embedded in the palm of her left hand]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarComTheUSSpaceForce'', the robot Torvek can fire laser beams from the palm of his hand. Other Shadow Force robots can do this as well.

** Thanos can fire powerful energy blasts from his fists. It's not clear if this is one of his cybernetic enhancements, or something he picked up from Mistress Death in one of his resurrections.

** Dazzler can focus her light emissions into a laser beam.
** ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics can shoot pyrotechnic energy plasmoids, or "fireworks" as she calls them, from her hands.

** Another X-Men example is Rolling Thunder, a mutant villain who appeared in ''ComicBook/XTremeXMen''. She can fire concussive blasts from her fingertips like a gun. The blasts are strong enough to rend fortified stone.

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* The Pistol Shrimp uses this attack as a hunting weapon: it can snap its claw shut so fast that the cavitation bubble generated can incapacitate or kill a small fish up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) away.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry Dresden pulls this when deprived of his staff and blasting rod. And it is awesome.