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The Kung Fu Sonic Boom is a visual effect that serves to further emphasize just how strong a character is, accompanying especially powerful kinetic impacts like punches and kicks. Unlike [[HitSpark its colorful, brighter, flashier cousin]] you'd see in more cartoonish works, it also serves to portray super-powered fights such as the above example more realistically, sometimes being potentially capable of inflicting collateral damage to surroundings. Anime in particular has its own distinct brand of Kung-Fu Sonic Booms; instead of the usual radial variant, it can also appear as a shockwave shooting out from ''behind'' a character like a shotgun blast, usually when said character happens to be the recipient of a super-powered punch, as if 70% percent of the punch's raw kinetic force just travelled through them and turned their bones and insides into smooth puree.

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The Kung Fu Sonic Boom is a visual effect that serves to further emphasize just how strong a character is, accompanying especially powerful kinetic impacts like punches and kicks. Unlike [[HitSpark its colorful, brighter, flashier cousin]] you'd see in more cartoonish works, it also serves to portray super-powered fights such as the above example more realistically, sometimes being potentially capable of inflicting collateral damage to surroundings. Anime in particular has its own distinct brand of Kung-Fu Sonic Booms; instead of the usual radial variant, it can also appear as a shockwave shooting out from ''behind'' a character like a shotgun blast, usually when said character happens to be the recipient of a super-powered punch, MegatonPunch, as if 70% percent of the punch's raw kinetic force just travelled through them and turned their bones and insides into smooth puree.






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* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' used this effect in the battle between Neo and Smith, with raindrops revealing the wave.

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* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' used uses this effect in the battle between Neo and Smith, with raindrops revealing the wave.
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** Exaggerated in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in the fight between Beerus and Goku, where their clashes produce shockwaves extending across ''interstellar'' distances.
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%%* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' tends to do this a lot now.
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Let's say we have two opponents facing off. Not just ordinary humans, but DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals with freakish strength capable of cracking open ''the freaking Moon'' like an egg. They take off to the air and engage in a deadly demonstration of AirJousting, bouncing off each other and ocassionally engaging in RapidFireFisticuffs, and every impact seems to shatter the very air around them. Suddenly, one fighter manages to catch the other off guard and land one good punch on the other, causing a shockwave that shatters all the surrounding glass and blows away everything and everyone unfortunate enough to be within its radius, even parting the clouds above them.

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Let's say we have two opponents facing off. Not just ordinary humans, but DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals with freakish strength capable of cracking open ''the freaking Moon'' like an egg. They take off to the air and engage in a deadly demonstration of AirJousting, bouncing off each other and ocassionally occasionally engaging in RapidFireFisticuffs, and every impact seems to shatter the very air around them. Suddenly, one fighter manages to catch the other off guard and land one good punch on the other, causing a shockwave that shatters all the surrounding glass and blows away everything and everyone unfortunate enough to be within its radius, even parting the clouds above them.

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