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* In ''Anime/QueenEmeraldas'', the title ship unleashes the mother of all spam attacks annihilating about 70% of a fleet numbering in the thousands ''with one salvo'' of an impossibly high number of energy cannon and missile launchers. Bonus point for having just [[NoSell survived unscratched]] two minutes of ''all'' those ships unleashing a SpamAttack on their own concluded by a WaveMotionGun.

*** Yuma's SignatureMove is his "Hope + Double Up Chance!" combo, where he interrupts Hope's first attack with Hope's effect, then use "Double Up Chance!" to double Hope's ATK and attack again.

*** Playmaker's "Shootingcode Talker" gains more number of attacks for every monster is pointing to at the beginning of the Battle Phase, meaning it can attack up to three times with how its Link Arrows are positioned. And for each monster it destroys in battle, Playmaker can draw one card each.

*** Playmaker's "Accesscode Talker" can use its effect multiple times per turn, each time to destroy an opponent's card. All Playmaker has to do is banish Link Monsters from his GY, but he cannot banish Link Monsters with the same attributes, meaning he can destroy up to six cards, which he does.

*** Rin uses the effect of her "Wind Witch -- Ice Bell" ''five times'' during her duel with Yugo, inflicting 500 damage each time. The first two times, it's with two copies of "Ice Bell", and the next three times, it's with the ''copied effect'' of "Snow Bell".

*** Yuri defeats four {{Red Shirt}}s with a combo that allows his Starve Venom Fusion Dragon to attack all their monsters after it attacked the defenseless one of them directly.

** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterFreedom'': Gypceros usually tends to have this bum rush style attack where he tends to slam you against a wall and keep doing it. Inevitably, if he decides not to use another attack, you'll end up dying.
** The Dual Blades can be this for the player. Enter Demon Mode, fill up the gauge, exit Demon Mode, and use the Archdemon Mode's ability to grant the Demon Mode's bonuses without using up your stamina to tear apart your prey. The fact that you can chain combos together seamlessly emphasizes the 'spam' part. Sadly, Dual Blades can-and will- eat through Sharpness like nobody's business.

*** Playmaker's "Accesscode Talker" can use its effect multiple times per turn, each time to destroy an opponent's card. All Playmaker has to do is banish Link Monster from his GY, but he cannot banish Link Monsters with the same attributes, meaning he can destroy up to six cards.

** '''Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime'': Judai's "Elemental HERO Neos Knight" can attack twice per turn, destroying both Sin versions of Cyber End Dragon and Rainbow Dragon.

*** Yuri defeats four {{Red}} shirts with a combo that allows his Starve Venom Fusion Dragon to attack all their monsters after it attacked the defenseless one of them directly.

** ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'''s Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia: Ryo and Robert have two attacks called "Zanretsuken/Thresher Punch" and "Genei Kyaku/Great Spirit Kick" respectively. In Ryo's case, he flails his fist continuously. Should you get hit, he combos you for at least 13 hits usually, allowing for dangerous comboability. Robert's is the same, except with his leg. They've always had the same direction input (Forward Backward Forward), except in KOF 94 and 95, wherein it was a HCB input.
* In the original NES version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', the final boss has an extremely simple pattern - it will simply use Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave. Hey, why bother with something else if it works? Flare Wave gets replaced with [[WaveMotionGun Particle Beam]] spam in the ''Pixel Remaster'' version of this game. Same strategy, just with lasers.
** The Gigantaur BonusBoss from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' gladly takes a leaf (needle?) from the Cloud's book: All he knows is 10000 Needles. [[TotalPartyKill And it's all he needs]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' the Offering allows four hits per attack command. Adding the Genji Glove lets a character hold two weapons, and together they let a character hit eight times for every attack command.
* Cloud's Omnislash in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is a flurry of quick slashes followed by a spectacular finishing move. ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' gives us Chain Slash, which is five slashes, as well as the eight slashes from [[MeaningfulName Octaslash]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Squall's LimitBreak is Renzokuken, which means "Continuous Sword." When combined with his ultimate finishing move "Lion Heart," he can hit up to fifteen times in quick succession. ''{{VideoGame/Dissidia|FinalFantasy}}'' takes it even further: Squall's entire combat style, aptly called Relentless Revolver, is designed around {{Spam Attack}}s.
** ''FFVIII'' has a somewhat lesser example in Kiros, whose "Blood Pain" LimitBreak involves repeatedly slicing at the enemy with dual [[BladeBelowTheShoulder katar]].
* Tidus in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' gets in on this action too, with Overdrives like "Slice and Dice" and "Blitz Ace".
** Lulu's Fury Overdrive allows her to spam a low-level version of any Black Magic spell she's learnt from the Sphere Grid.
** The International Version changes Anima's Oblivion Overdrive into this; in the original and NA versions, it only hits once. In the PAL and International versions, it becomes this.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' requires this for DPS and tank AOE damage, as well as for healer AOE damage. While all tanks and almost all DPS (except for dancers, whose kit is specifically proc-based and therefore have to change based on what they have open) have set rotations, those set rotations are usually ''single-target only.'' If you're pulling as a tank, or attacking a large pull from said tank as a DPS, you ''must'' usually spam two AOE attacks in their proc order to maintain enmity (tank) or knock down everything's HP to the extent that it all dies at once (tanks, ranged DPS), or can be one-shot with a switch to more standard rotation on stronger mobs after the weaklings are eliminated (melee DPS).

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* In ''The Perfect Weapon'', martial artist Jeff Speakman strikes his opponents with escrima sticks that move so quickly that even in single-frame captures, the sticks are blurred.

* In ''Film/WhoAmI1998'', during the second part of the climactic fight scene, Jackie Chan and an [[EliteMooks elite mook]] perform the same kick at the same time against each other (colliding shins whilst doing so) 30 times in a row. After they break apart, both rub their shins in rather severe pain.

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* ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]'' adds the Kaiser Knuckles, which let you hit five times with a single button press.

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* Whenua from one of the ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' comics has a HeroicBSOD moment when a bunch of [[GiantSpider Visorak]] try to invade the room he and his friends have taken refuge in. His mental state deteriorating due to TheCorruption, he starts blasting Rhotuka energy spinners in every direction (so fast that the art makes it look like legit BeamSpam), which only results in the ensuing rubble burying everything and everyone in the room.
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** [[OlderThanTheyThink Which he actually had in the first two]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' games, and it could even be done in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' with a turbo controller.
* The Bandit class in ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' gets an attack called "Savage Blow", which is a series of rapid slashes with a dagger.
** Don't forget the Pirate class: the brawler-type's first attack skill always attacks at the highest normal weapon speed. Counts because it's spammable since its execution is fast and the animation is short.

* In the original ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Freedom'', Gypceros usually tended to have this bum rush style attack where he would tend to slam you against a wall and keep doing it. Inevitably, if he decided not to use another attack, you'd end up dying. This is true for some monsters, but at the moment not many names come to mind.

* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fighting games has resident NinjaMaid Sakuya and her Cutting Sign: "Inscribe Red Soul" spell card, where she dual-wields a pair of knives to slice up an opponent lots and lots of times. There are also her Cutting Soul: "Soul Sculpture" spell card, which is the same attack taken up to eleven and any other knife-throwing-spellcard she use, actually.

* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fighting games has resident NinjaMaid KnifeNut Sakuya and her Cutting Sign: "Inscribe Red Soul" spell card, where she dual-wields a pair of knives to slice up an opponent lots and lots of times. There are also her Cutting Soul: "Soul Sculpture" spell card, which is the same attack taken up to eleven and any other knife-throwing-spellcard she use, actually.

* Various builds in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'' can make use of spam attacks:
** Templars have their starting Aedric Spear ability, Puncturing Strikes, which consists of spammed jabs with a divine lance. There's even a passive perk that gives bonuses if the attack is spammed at least 4 times in quick succession.

* In the original NES version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', the final boss has an extremely simple pattern - it will simply use Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave after Flare Wave. Hey, why bother with something else if it works?

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' has this in some of the Crazy Combos, although a few normal attacks worked this way too.

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* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', from "The Endless Gravestones IV", when [[AxCrazy Ophelia]] finishes off the [[OneWingedAngel Awakened Being]]. Her predecessor, Illena of the Quicksword, is more proficient by an order of magnitude.
* Manga/{{Naruto}}'s Ten-Ten will summon hundreds of weapons and let them fly in rapid fire. The weapons seem to be more or less random, so the battlefield quickly becomes carpeted with knives, scythes, spiky balls with chains, and really whatever the animator feels like drawing.

** Kuno performs this with his wooden sword, thrusting forward so rapidly it's impossible to follow, and causing such a potent air pressure it demolished a water fountain (built out of concrete!) behind Ranma.
** Ranma himself countered this (long before his hand speed had been enhanced by the Chestnut Fist) by [[RapidFireFisticuffs kicking Kuno across the torso and face so unbelievably ''quickly'']] that, to an untrained observer, it looked like he had simply swept his foot up Kuno's body.

* RapidFireFisticuffs is the basic attack of many Stand users in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', at least the ones who have humanoid Stands. Accompanied by a battlecry like "ORAORAORAORA" or "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!"
** Polnareff made this into an art form with Silver Chariot; when Silver Chariot [[ShedArmorGainSpeed sheds their armor to make them faster]] it allows the knightly stand to move so fast that it looks like there's more than one and can slash apart an oppenent faster than they could ever react. Too bad he never uses this later when it could have really helped.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Ichigo Kurosaki's bankai (final release sword ability) takes the power other [[{{BFS}} zanpaku-to]] put into force and instead turns it into speed instead. Not only does it let him parry literally ''millions'' of razor-sharp sword-petals in seconds, it lets him launch multiple [[SwordBeam Getsuga Tensho]] from opposite sides of an opponent almost simultaneously.
** Technically, He fires one from a distance, [[FlashStep Flash steps]] to almost in the opponents face behind them, and shoots the second point blank at the moment the first one hits.
** Byakuya's bankai (the aforementioned millions of sword-petals) is a more straightforward application of this family of tropes. Ichigo never uses the slashing speed he demonstrates when parrying Senbonzakura to launch a true Spam Attack so much as a Spam Defense.
** [[spoiler:Gin]]'s bankai works by [[spoiler:extending his sword]] to attack so fast that Ichigo is incapable of noticing the regular attacks are even happening, and then he starts using it repeatedly and so rapidly that the damn thing is drawn as a way of stabbing thing.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!!! [[CallingYourAttacks Hokuto]]! [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hyakuretsu Ken]]!
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is basically Luffy's fighting style, finding new ways to hit his opponent as much as he can in a few seconds. Ivankov's Galaxy Wink also counts.
** "Gomu-gomu-no...Jet...GATLING!!!"
** Let's not forget Usopp vs Choo.
-->USOPP HAMMER!! USOPP HAMMER!! USOPP HAMMER!!
** Admiral Kizaru's "Sacred String of Jewels" attack is essentially BeamSpam. As the user of the Glint-Glint Fruit, a Devil Fruit that grants the user control over the element of light, Kizaru is able to fire explosive light beams with piercing properties. For this particular attack, Kizaru levitates into the air and fires a barrage of light particles from his hands, which can pierce objects as well as detonate on impact.
** Admiral Akainu's Ryusei Kazan basically boils down to him spamming fist-shaped magma projectiles at people, whether they're launched directly at enemies, or sent upwards in order to have them rain down on a wide area like a meteor shower.

* Fate of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' would sometimes do this, though since she uses a LaserBlade, she only uses this sort of attack on MechaMooks or her [[WreckedWeapon opponent's weapon]] in [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang Sette's case]]. Since she uses SuperSpeed while doing this, viewers would only see her passing her target and catch a glimpse of it suddenly sporting several slash marks before it explodes or falls apart.
* Noda from ''Anime/AngelBeats'' performs a spam attack on Otonashi in the very first episode, resulting in a 100-hit combo meter and a very dead Otonashi. But just for a few minutes until he revives again.
* In ''Anime/QueenEmeraldas'', the title ship unleashes the mother of all spam attacks annihilating about 70% of a fleet numbering in the thousands ''with one salvo'' of an impossibly high number of energy cannon and missile launchers. Bonus point for having just [[NoSell survived unscratched]] two minutes of ''all'' those ships unleashing a SpamAttack on their own concluded by a WaveMotionGun.
* This is how Roy Mustang [[KillItWithFire kills]] [[spoiler: Lust]] in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist.'' He makes a repeat performance [[spoiler: battling Envy]] in the finale.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': The offensive ability of Ouka Hayasaka's Angel Gozen buso renkin is to use its floating automaton to quickly generate and fire a massive amount of energy arrows at the target in an attempt to overwhelm their defences with sheer volume of fire.

** Rogue "stunlock" may also be viewed as this - when the rogue chains their attacks which stun or incapacitate a foe one after another, preventing them from retaliating for a rather lengthy period of time while dealing damage. This specific technique is utterly reviled by every other class because it completely prevents a target from moving and attacking. However, it's by no means unbalanced: the rogue, being a FragileSpeedster, is reliant on it to survive, his offensive potential is significantly reduced while he spends energy on stuns, the actual execution of a stun combo isn't actually spam but [[DifficultButAwesome rather reliant on precision timing and luck]], and the stun effects themselves are prone to DiminishingReturnsForBalance, shortly rendering them ineffective against the target. Furthermore, the stunlock can be broken with a common equipment piece which may periodically remove StandardStatusEffects and is considered a must have in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]].