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* ''[[Creator/RalphHayesJr Witch Hunter]]'': The titular protagonist can invest silver with "essence of guilty conscience", causing it to burn people in proportion to their sinfulness. For normal people like the protagonist or the police officer he's talking to the invested silver just itches a bit, but those who have truly given themselves over to their vices will be burned as if the metal were white-hot.
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** The Spirit of Vengeance is given a counterpart in Belasco's Limbo, the Spirit of Corruption. They wield a giant claymore that causes whoever it hits to hemorrhage a physical manifestation of their every misdeed from every pore and orifice until they're smothered to death by them.

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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. ** Also, the Spirit Bomb [[SubvertedTrope was thought to be this]] due to it not exploding on contact with someone pure of heart, as demonstrated when Gohan is able to bounce it back against Vegeta, and obliterate evil people. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite Goku when he attempts to use it against Kid Buu, because [[PureIsNotGood Buu is acting on animal-like instinct rather than malicious intent]].]]

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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. heart]].
** Also, the Spirit Bomb [[SubvertedTrope was thought to be this]] due to it not exploding on contact with someone pure of heart, as demonstrated when Gohan is able to bounce it back against Vegeta, and obliterate evil people. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite Goku when he attempts to use it against Kid Buu, because [[PureIsNotGood Buu is acting on animal-like instinct rather than malicious intent]].]]

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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. In ''Budokai Tenchi 3'', where Spike is playable, the attack changes effect depending on who he hits; Goku just takes ScratchDamage, while villains like Frieza get their health bars completely annihilated if it connects, with characters who're literally MadeOfEvil taking the maximum possible damage, any Super Saiyan characters taking more damage than their base versions and most villains who physically transform into other forms taking slightly less.
** Also, the Spirit Bomb [[SubvertedTrope was thought to be this]] due to it not exploding on contact with someone pure of heart, as demonstrated when Gohan is able to bounce it back against Vegeta, and obliterate evil people. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite Goku when he attempts to use it against Kid Buu, because [[PureIsNotGood Buu is acting on animal-like instinct rather than malicious intent]].]]

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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. In ''Budokai Tenchi 3'', where Spike is playable, the attack changes effect depending on who he hits; Goku just takes ScratchDamage, while villains like Frieza get their health bars completely annihilated if it connects, with characters who're literally MadeOfEvil taking the maximum possible damage, any Super Saiyan characters taking more damage than their base versions and most villains who physically transform into other forms taking slightly less.
** Also, the Spirit Bomb [[SubvertedTrope was thought to be this]] due to it not exploding on contact with someone pure of heart, as demonstrated when Gohan is able to bounce it back against Vegeta, and obliterate evil people. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite Goku when he attempts to use it against Kid Buu, because [[PureIsNotGood Buu is acting on animal-like instinct rather than malicious intent]].]]



* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3]]'', Devilman still has his Devilmite Beam signature attack. Every character even has a morality stat specifically to calculate the attack's damage--Kid Goku takes [[NoSell no damage]] [[MythologyGag just like in the original series]], Omega Shenron takes [[CurbStompBattle tens of thousands]], and the other characters vary in-between--even separate transformations that affect one's state of mind are differently susceptible to the attack, such as Goku's [[BloodKnight bloodlust]]-increasing Super Saiyan forms actually taking a somewhat sizable amount of damage. The [[DevelopersForesight developers did a very thorough job]]. A WhatIf story has him confront Frieza and King Cold. While physically he's no match for them, because of how morally bankrupt the two are, he's still quite capable of killing them with the attack.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3]]'', Devilman still has his Devilmite Beam signature attack. Every character even has a morality stat specifically to calculate the attack's damage--Kid takes highly varying amounts of damage depending on their morality--Kid Goku takes [[NoSell no damage]] [[MythologyGag just like in the original series]], Omega Shenron takes [[CurbStompBattle tens of thousands]], and the other characters vary in-between--even separate transformations that affect one's state of mind are differently susceptible to the attack, such as Goku's the [[BloodKnight bloodlust]]-increasing Super Saiyan forms actually taking a somewhat sizable amount of damage.damage over the base versions of the same characters, literally MadeOfEvil characters taking the maximum possible damage from it and most villains who transform physically into a different form taking slightly less damage than in their base form. The [[DevelopersForesight developers did a very thorough job]]. A WhatIf story has him confront Frieza and King Cold. While physically he's no match for them, because of how morally bankrupt the two are, he's still quite capable of killing them with the attack.
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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. In ''Budokai Tenchi 3'', where Spike is playable, the attack changes effect depending on who he hits; Goku just takes ScratchDamage, while villains like Frieza get their health bars completely annihilated if it connects.

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** Spike the Devilman's signature attack, the Devilmite Beam, carries out the effect by amplifying the darkness in the enemy's heart and making it explode. Because it does this effectively to ''any'' lingering sins, Fortuneteller Baba warns him not to use it, saying he is "going too far". Goku manages to survive, though, due to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness his completely good heart]]. In ''Budokai Tenchi 3'', where Spike is playable, the attack changes effect depending on who he hits; Goku just takes ScratchDamage, while villains like Frieza get their health bars completely annihilated if it connects.connects, with characters who're literally MadeOfEvil taking the maximum possible damage, any Super Saiyan characters taking more damage than their base versions and most villains who physically transform into other forms taking slightly less.

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