Cartoon Where a Character Punches Another Person Hurts Their Hand Then Punched Them Again

While some might use dodges or blocks to avoid the fist flying toward them, others prefer to simply reach out and grab it like a softball. Since this is almost always a demonstration of strength and superiority, the person catching the punch is rarely hurt past being punched directly in the palm. Instead, it oft becomes an opportunity for the catcher to shut his fingers around the offending fist and squeeze.

Note that this trope isn't just blocking or deflecting a punch. This trope is when the dial just STOPS, firmly placed in the palm of someone'southward hand. If they really desire to demonstrate superior strength, they will proceed to either beat out the manus or twist the arm painfully. If they want to showcase how much weaker the puncher is, they may fifty-fifty punch the original puncher in the face with their ain fist or throw their arm backwards to knock the attacker off balance, both to add insult to injury.

Compare Blank-Handed Blade Block for when communicable a sword instead of a fist and Punch Parry for when the fist is blocked with another fist. Unrelated to the expression "catch these hands," which is a euphemism meaning the person addressed is well-nigh to get punched, though the person delivering the line may fall victim to this trope anyway.

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    Advertising

• The trope is used in an Australian Government-sponsored commercial. A human being in a bar tries to punch some other man in the back of the caput when a 3rd homo catches his fist. The scene freezes around this man and he warns confronting "one-dial attacks" — attacks in which a single dial causes serious injury or death.

    Anime & Manga

• Seen in the starting time chapter of buss×sis, when Keita catches his instructor'southward punch. It's also a fleck of a deconstruction, as the graphic symbol got hurt badly plenty every bit to spend several chapters with his right hand in a bandage.
• Oga from Beelzebub does this confronting Graphiel. Justified because he'due south Fabricated of Atomic number 26.
• Bleach:
  • Anime, episode 166. Ichigo has been beaten up pretty badly during his fight with Grimmjow. Orihime calls out to him, and he's inspired by her words. When Grimmjow strikes at him Ichigo casually catches Grimmjow's fist with his manus. Seen here

    Orihime: Please don't dice. Don't dice, Ichigo! You don't have to win, and you don't take to fight for me. Just don't get hurt. I couldn't conduct it.

  • Ikkaku later tries this against Shishigawara, only the bear on is then great that it breaks two of Ikkaku'south fingers.
• In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Negi may often be a target of Anya's Megaton Punches, but the i time he gets serious, he easily blocks her Flame Knuckle and gain to explain why she was incorrect.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS shows just how physically strong Nanoha is when she does this to Subaru'due south Power Fist, and later, to the Sankt Kaiser-form of Vivio immediately before she ends those fights. Impressive, since the punches of those 2 are capable of shattering Deflector Shields.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • In Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Turles catches Gohan'southward fist and painfully squeezes his paw.
  • In Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, (and consequently, in the parody past Team Four Star) when Piccolo fights with The Brute, he catches a punch, then brutally crushes the fist and break the brute's arm to boot. Additionally, when Lord Slug beats the crap out of Goku during the kickoff of the climax, Slug once tries to throw a punch, only Goku catches information technology and transforms into his "False" Super Saiyan course and immediately breaks Slug'due south arm. Slug gets better though.
  • In Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, Futurity Gohan catches Android eighteen's punch, but then a second afterwards, Android 17 hits him in the back and then xviii sends him flying with her other mitt. Later, 18 catches Futurity Trunks' punch and then punches him back with her complimentary manus.
  • Goten catches Ikose's punch with one finger. Ikose and then tries Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, simply Goten blocks them all with his easily before knocking him out.
• In Ghost in the Beat: Stand Solitary Circuitous, Batou intentionally lets his idol, a former silver-medalist boxer to knock him out during an investigation. When he later finds out that his idol had betrayed him by spying on the country, he confronts him and challenges him to some other boxing lucifer to settle things. He tries to knock Batou out using the same move as before, confident that information technology worked, but Batou defenseless the dial with his hand and countered with a right hook, knocking him out.
• Dragon Bulldoze: Manga-merely in chapter 22, Reiji did this to Himuro Hikaru.
• Ghost in the Vanquish: Arise. Motoko does this to another cyborg with an Arm Cannon. Both harm their hands, but the damage to the Arm Cannon prevents him firing on Motoko over again.
• Naruto:
  • Kakuzu caught Choji's punch in an episode. It should be noted that Choji's fist was currently nearly half the size of Kakuzu himself.
  • Sasuke did this to some gangsters and and then proceeded to beat them upwards.
• Saint Seiya:
  • Particularly excessive when Seiya's Establishing Character Moment is catching Cassius' fist in his palm. "Excessive" because Cassius' fist is virtually as wide as Seiya himself is tall.
  • A variant of this is used by Argent Saint Lacerta Misty and the Marine Shogun Sea Horse Baigan. Both warriors's "bulletproof forcefield" is created past them defending their bodies with their open up palms, moving them fast enough their opponent tin can't fifty-fifty see their hands.
  • Played by Cancer Deathmask, who is fond of this move. He then retaliates by diggings the enemy with the energy of their own attack and then some of his own.
• In Ranma ½: The Movie, Large Trouble in Nekonron China, the Lucky God Kirin never touches anything himself, he uses his foot-long steel chopsticks to grasp and manipulate objects. Therefore, his defense consists of him catching punches with said chopsticks at absurd speeds, seemingly creating an impregnable wall in forepart of him until Ranma notices the marks the chopsticks leave on his hand. When he tried information technology on Akane, though, she just let her first fist stay defenseless and punched him across the room with her gratis 1.
• In SD Gundam Force, Helm tries to dial Professor Gerbera, merely for Gerbera to catch the blow hands.
• YuYu Hakusho: Toguro does this to Yusuke during their confrontation before the terminal round of the Nighttime Tournament. Also a CMOA for Yusuke, as afterward it's revealed that Toguro'southward hand is mangled (though it heals quickly).
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Reiji did this to Yuya, then scolded him for not trying to settle things with a duel.
• In Puella Magi Suzune Magica, one of the first things Arisa did with her new Super Strength was to catch a bully's fist and slowly crush her hand.
• In One-Punch Man, Saitama does this to Tanktop Black Hole after the latter tried to discredit Saitama's destruction of the meteor, challenge that Saitama was taking a threatening stance, so lunging down at him. This is later Saitama had swatted away the equally argumentative Tanktop Tiger, which might've been a good indicator that Saitama is more than he appears—not that it stops Tanktop Black Hole. Saitama simply casually catches Tanktop Black Pigsty's fist (and inadvertently starts crushing information technology), reducing him to a simpering wuss who confesses he was lying to try and make Saitama wait bad.
• Natsu has been on the giving and receiving ends of this trope numerous times in Fairy Tail. During the Grand Magic Games, he does this to his opponent Sting later the later on punches him with an attack that releases an explosion of energy that engulfs the loonshit, completely unharmed and causing Sting to realize maybe he underestimated him a picayune too much. During the Nirvana arc, he finds 1 of his flaming punches caught barehanded by Cobra, who not only doesn't react, but makes Natsu recoil in pain when he activates his own Dragon Slayer Magic and chips his hand with a burst of toxicant.
• In Pokémon Adventures, Blueish does to Scarlet twice in the exact same fashion. The first was provoked when he takes downward his Poliwhirl, and the second was when he criticizes him for sending Eevee to Professor Oak's lab, leaving both it and Oak to be captured by Team Rocket.
• Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie:
  • During the climax, Ryu battles M. Bison in order to free Ken of the latter'southward Psycho-Powered heed control. The duel ends as Bison catches Ryu'south fist in his palm, raises it higher up his caput, and starts crushing it while Ryu screams. Cue Ken'south heroic improvement that frees his friend earlier the villain grinds his fist to powder.
  • Before in the same moving picture Ryu does a variation in his fight with Fei Long, catching ane of Fei Long'due south kicks, not with his hand simply between his elbow and knee, stopping it dead, leaving Fei Long in a very awkward position and hampering his mobility for the rest of the fight since Ryu performed the motility with enough force to hurt.
• Fighter from the kickoff episode of Goblin Slayer is making a pretty good showing against the goblins in the wake of Warrior's death. But then her kick gets defenseless in the grip of a Hobgoblin, the very kickoff big goblin nosotros see in-series, and from at that place, things go badly for Fighter. Very, very badly.
• MegaMan NT Warrior: In the very first episode, when Lan decides to have his starting time Cyberspace Battle with Mega Homo against Dex and Guts Human, the latter's opening move is a to punch Mega Homo with a giant fist. Mega Human being simply stands where he is and stops the punch with an open up palm.

    Comic Books

• Batman:
  • I of Caped Crusader's favorite techniques, since information technology emphasizes just how immovable and unstoppable he is to the superstitious and cowardly criminals.
  • Tim Drake will grab an opponent's punch on occasion but as he doesn't have his mentor'southward bulk or raw strength he generally moves with the dial and uses it as the first step in grabbing them in a hold or temporarily keeping control of their arm during a fight.
• Identity Crisis:
  • During the large fight between Deathstroke and the Justice League of America, Deathstroke catches Greenish Lantern's punch and then tries to override GL's willpower, hoping to utilize the ring himself without fifty-fifty wearing information technology. Green Arrow doesn't let him become very far.
  • Deathstroke as well used this on Batman in a memorable scene from an issue of Detective Comics:

    Deathstroke: That was it, Batman. Your last gratuitous shot.

• In Frank Miller'southward Daredevil run, The Kingpin of Crime sometimes used this to demonstrate his immense forcefulness and skill.
• In Terminal Crunch, Alpha Lantern Kraken does this while fighting Green Lantern John Stewart. The marking of his band left on her palm clues Batman in that she attacked John, and that she'south possessed by Darkseid's ally Granny Goodness.
• Spider-Homo:
  • Spider-Man once caught the punch of an unruly biker who was trying to bully his way around pedestrians.
  • Too, Venom caught Spider-Man's dial in the first result of his initial miniseries.
  • Spider-Man actually loves this trope, though he does information technology more casually and accompanies it with a wisecrack. It makes the Mook await weak as opposed to him looking Badass, though nobody denies he is.
• Ultimate Spider-Man: While Peter was start learning his powers, Flash Thompson tried to fight him and Peter did this instinctively. Wink's paw was broken and his parents sued Ben and May for the hospital bills.
• In The Incredible Hulk #300 Hulk catches Iron Fist'due south punch in his hand and redirects the power of the dial back into Fist.
• In Preacher, Jesse Custer does but this to a punch thrown past Cassidy, the Irish vampire. Stops it dead. Of grade, because Cassidy has Super Strength as a result of beingness a vampire, Jesse thinks he's broken every bone in his mitt doing it, but Cassidy doesn't know that, and because Jesse doesn't flinch or emote in any way, Cassidy is intimidated into meekly leaving. As shortly as Cassidy is gone, Jesse has Tulip and Amy immediately drive him to the hospital. Information technology turns out his hand is just desperately sprained, not broken.
• In an X-Men / Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover, Data does this when Colossus takes a swing at him, though he even so is shoved dorsum a few anxiety.
• Superman:
  • In War World, Superman catches Martian Manhunter's fist when they fight.
  • The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), Superman catches Darkseid'due south fist during their concluding battle.
  • In The Corking Phantom Peril, Jax-Ur tries to punch Superman, simply the Human being of Steel hands catches his fist.
  • Bizarrogirl: As dreaming she'southward fighting Superwoman, Supergirl sees Lucy to catch her arms right when she is hammering her downwards.
  • In 2022 storyline The Girl of No Tomorrow, the Girl of Steel catches Solomon Grundy's giant punch, so oversized that she needs both hands.
  • Superman: Brainiac: The titular villain catches Superman'due south dial during their terminal boxing.
  • Last Daughter of Krypton: Kara tries to punch Reign when they first meet, but Reign catches her clenched fist with no trouble, noting that the Kryptonian daughter seems weakened.
  • Strangers at the Heart's Core: Thanks to her magnified force, Shyla Kor-Onn easily catches Supergirl'due south fist when Kara strikes her.
  • In Space Crunch, Superboy-Prime does this to Conner in their second fight. This neatly demonstrates that the deviation between their levels of power is as vast as always (Superboy-Prime has Silver Historic period Superman levels of power making him practically a Physical God while Conner is a One-half-Human Hybrid who only recently manifested actual Krptonian powers having previously faked them with telekinesis).
• Spider-Girl: May Parker is threatened by a schoolmate's calumniating boyfriend who intends to intimidate her into keeping her olfactory organ out of his business. His dial never connects, though: May catches his fist and squeezes.
• Estimate Dredd does this to Bachmann at the cease of Trifecta, after she has taken downwards Jack Indicate and Dirty Frank (from the spin-offs The Simping Detective and Low-Life, respectively) with ease. It's more of a distraction, as Judge Smiley comes upward from backside and takes her down.
• In Diminutive Robo, one of Vanadis's Brutes does this to Robo'south improvised battering ram.
• Wonder Woman (1987): During Wonder Woman's fight with a brainwashed Superman in "The Witch and the Warrior" she catches a punch he throws her mode in Times Square, which causes her some immediate haemorrhage and which she notes nearly snapped her arm.
• Wonder Girl: Herc catches Cassie's first punch when he had the gal to show upwards at the cemetery pretending to be Conner (who had died stopping Superboy-Prime), merely she quickly jabs Herc'southward throat with her other arm.
• Archie vs. Predator: Afterward being given enhanced strength, Archie catches the Predator's fist when he tries to stab Archie in the head with his wrist blades. Unfortunately, the Predator then gets his mitt free and stabs him in the head anyhow.

    Fan Works

• In Harmony and Valor: It Sounds Better Than "Pity Appointment", Flash Sentry does this to one of the two thugs that were harassing Sci-Twi. He then proceeds to knock them around with niggling to no endeavor.
• In Fates Collide, Bazett effortlessly catches Yang's flaming punch, then punches her with her complimentary hand and knocks Yang out.
• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, while lost in Celadon City, Ash runs into a smuggler who sics his Kangaskhan on him. Ash decides to fight it personally, and not only stops its punch with his bare hands, merely also pushes it so hard that he nearly knocks information technology over.
• In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it'due south Deku!, The Ultra-Humanite manages to take hold of a punch from All Might and tosses him into the ceiling. This is all thanks to the Villain's Quirk, Over Human being, which takes away upward to 75% of the concrete prowess of all humans nearby.
• In Displaced, Spider-Man effortlessly catches the fist of a banking concern robber who tries to hit him. Wisely, the cheat surrenders.

  Walking over, he grabbed the nearest banking company robber that he hit with the door and lifted him so they were eye to eye. The human seemed terrified but he quickly schooled his emotions before taking a swing at Spider-Homo. He didn't fifty-fifty look abroad every bit he defenseless the man's fist with a grip of steel.
  Just like that, the fight left the man's optics.

• In Shazam! fanfiction Here At that place Be Monsters, Ibac shows off his greatly-enhanced forcefulness by grabbing and property Captain Marvel's fist during their first brawl.

  He rocketed his mighty fist forward and slammed it into Ibac'southward oral cavity.
  The villain'southward mohawked caput ratcheted back. For a moment, Cap was sure he had done some damage, and sent his other fist forward to follow up on it. But Ibac's larger hand caught Marvel's fist, and held information technology firmly. Cap was astonished.

• Happens 3 times in Chapter 29 of Remnant Inferis: DOOM. First is when the Marauder catches Yang's fist and then knees her in the groin. The second is when the Marauder catches the Slayer'southward fist and then knocks him down with a headbutt. The third is when a pissed off Taiyang tries to slug the Slayer in the face up, but for the Slayer to catch it and retaliate with his own.
• Boldores and Boomsticks: Even after Yang uses her Semblance to massively boost her strength, Tapu Koko is able to stop her punch dead without budging.

    Films — Blitheness

• In Justice League: Doom, Superman catches Ace's dial with the most peaceful expression. Ace continues to pound Superman'southward face, and the latter barely flinches.
• Justice League: Crisis on 2 Earths. Superwoman catches Batman's punch, then deliberately breaks a rib in retaliation with a Finger Poke of Doom. Owlman being Batman's Evil Analogue also catches a dial thrown by Batman (information technology helps that he's wearing Powered Armor).
• At the climax of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Milo tries to punch Rourke, only for Rourke to catch it and slam Milo's own manus back into his face up. This is one instance that is done quite believably, equally Rourke is a very powerfully built trained soldier fighting a scrawny and untrained scholar.
• One of Ada'south punches are blocked this way in Resident Evil: Damnation. Played with in that the punch was caught at full extension.
• Kung Fu Panda:
  • Po does this in the first movie, communicable Tai Lung's dial between his thumb and forefinger (though Tai Lung is at the finish of his strength by that point).
  • In Kung Fu Panda 2, Tigress catches Po headbutting the boat's mast in frustration, then she challenges him to throw a punch that she catches in her paw.

    Po: YEE-HAHAHA-YEOOOOOOOOW! I think I prefer the mast!
    Tigress: Apologies. I used to punch the ironwood copse by the palace to train. At present I experience nothing.
    Po: That'south severely cool.

• Done past Brainiac to ane of Superman'due south punches in Superman Unbound. Later on in the picture, Superman returns the favor.
• In My Picayune Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, Rainbow Dash gets a little carried away while showing off her karate moves. Applejack catches a wild punch from her. Go along in mind this is about two movies before Applejack gains Super Strength as her unique magic ability.
• Strange Magic: Afterward getting sucker-punched past Marianne despite her being held back past three of his goblin minions, the Bog King expects and catches her second endeavor.
• Superman: Red Son. Wonder Woman effortlessly catches Superman'south punch, to his shock every bit in this alternate reality no-1 has truly matched his strength before.
• In the first Vampire Hunter D movie, when Count Lee's monsters came for Doris. Rei-Ginsei begins the fight by throwing a punch at D, causing D to casually pull this trope. Thoroughly shocking him and the Count'due south daughter Larmica since Rei-Ginsei possesses super strength and speed.

    Films — Live-Activity

• In Back to the Future Part Two, Biff'due south grandson Griff catches Marty's hand when he tries to practise the trick that worked in the first movie — maxim "Hey, what'southward that?" and so punching Biff when he turns to look. Marty settles for kicking Griff in the basics instead.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Played with in the Captain America: The First Avenger. After Cap knocks down the Cerise Skull with a punch, he gets up and throws a punch that puts a massive dent in Cap'south shield when he blocks it. Cue another Oh, Crap! when Cap realizes the Red Skull is a Super Soldier like himself.
  • The Avengers:
    • Loki catches Captain America's fist during their fight.
    • Subsequently, his brother Thor catches the fist of the Hulk but is apace slugged past his free hand.
    • During their initial fight, Thor catches Iron Man's fist, but then promptly gets repulsor blasted in the face.
  • In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fe Man subverts the trope yet again: The Hulkbuster armor's fist is capable of transforming into a band clamp if a Punch Take hold of occurs.
  • Captain America: Civil War:
  • Avengers: Infinity State of war: During the last battle, Captain America has to employ both hands to grab a punch from Thanos'due south Infinity Gauntlet paw. It takes everything Steve has to put them into a stalemate before Thanos punches him with his other hand... taking Cap out instantly.
• Bane does this both fights with The Dark Knight himself in The Dark Knight Rises. A notable contrast is done with both fights. The first fight, he is stopped so expressionless, Blight forces Batman to dial himself in the face. The 2d fight, Batman gets his hand complimentary and lands his first blow on Bane's mask, irresolute the tide of the fight.
• The Matrix:
  • In the subway fight, Agent Smith stops Neo's punch by grabbing his wrist, but Neo immediately extends his fingers to jab him in the throat.
  • At the end, Neo performs an arm catch when Agent Smith is trying to vanquish him downwards, then twists his arm and kicks him away. Originally this was planned as a recurring motif in the moving-picture show - Morpheus would do it to Neo, Amanuensis Smith would practice information technology to Morpheus, and so on. This was replaced with the Bring It hand gesture.
• The Matrix Reloaded: Agent Johnson catches Neo's punch, causing him to realize the Agents have been upgraded.
• The Matrix Resurrections: Neo catches Morpheus' punch twice during a spar.
• Undercover Brother. When Conspiracy Brother tries to punch Lance in the face, Sistah Daughter effortlessly catches and holds his fist.
• Batman & Robin. While Robin is fighting Blight he throws a punch at Bane's head. Bane catches his hand and throws him down a flight of stairs.
• Initiated by the Green Goblin in Spider-Man confronting the title character, with a badass one-liner to boot.

  Green Goblin: Impressive! [kicks Spidey through two display tables and into a lamp-mail]

• In Hot Fuzz, Simon Skinner catches Nicholas Angel'southward fist and crushes information technology. A few seconds later, Angel returns the favor.
• In Kung Fu Hustle, The Fauna combines this with the No-Sell to demonstrate just how powerful and skilled he is compared to the Landlord & Landlady, first by performing a foot catch on Landlady'south table-shattering kicking, and then by communicable and twisting Landlord's arm with enough strength to rip his shirt sleeve to shreds, and then doing the same to a length of wood Landlady tried to jab into his face up, twisting it to splinters.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • Man of Steel: General Zod catches Superman'due south punch and immediately retaliates with an uppercut of his own.
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superman catches Doomsday'southward punch and twists his arm. Since Doomsday is and so huge, he has to utilise both hands to do it.
  • SHAZAM! (2019): After acquiring super powers of his own, Dr. Sivana catches Shazam'south punch. About the cease, Shazam does this to Sivana.
• Pacific Rim: Uprising: Obsidian Fury catches Gipsy Avenger's punch before retaliating with a stronger 1 of its own.
• 10-Men: Apocalypse: En Sabah Nur does this to both Quicksilver and Professor X in the physical earth and on the astral plane, respectively. Apocalypse then twists Peter's arm, and he crushes Xavier'due south fist.
• Fright Night (1985). Charlie, Amy and the vampire Jerry Dandrige are at a nightclub, with Jerry trying to seduce Amy. Charlie tries to punch Jerry but Jerry catches Charlie's manus.
• In Deadpool, Angel Grit does 1 to Colossus and crushes his paw likewise, while earlier no-selling a few punches from him. This shows just how powerful Angel Dust really is.
• The manager'due south cut of Watchmen shows the death of Hollis Bricklayer from a gang of street thugs who bust into his business firm. Hollis does this trope to the beginning man who throws a punch at him, making information technology look every bit it he'll fight them off. But there are as well many thugs and Hollis is no longer in his prime, and so somewhen they get the better of him.
• James Bond:
  • GoldenEye. After Boris got into a fight with Natalya at the Janus Base of operations in Republic of cuba, he walks towards her after the guards restrain her and says "Don't always, do that again!" which Natalya replies with "This is not one of your games Boris, real people will die! Y'all pathetic little worm!". Boris tries to dial her out of acrimony, only Alec Trevelyan catches his arm merely in time and orders him to check the figurer to see if she did anything that would stop their plan.
  • Never Say Never Again. During the fight between Bond and the SPECTRE assassin at Shrublands, Bond throws a punch at the assassin and the assassin calmly grabs Bail's fist, demonstrating his tremendous force.
• John Wick: Chapter 2: Doing this to a push dagger just gets you an Impaled Palm. John Wick simply keeps on pushing and pushes information technology into their heart.
• Alien: Resurrection. Hybrid-Ripley does a full-arm extension take hold of of a basketball game thrown hard at her caput, though the subsequent chip where she shrugs off being smacked in the face up with a dumbbell is far more impressive.
• Enter the Fat Dragon: Sammo Hung's character Ah Lung is cast as a mook for a film starring a Bruce Lee Clone, but the clone is an arrogant corking and starts striking Lung for real. Somewhen, Lung has enough and stops the clone'south punch past catching his wrist and squeezing before boot his ass.
• Speed Racer: A ninja attacks the Racer family unit at night, and makes the fault of taking a swing at Pops Racer. Pops catches the ninja'due south dial without a blink and effortlessly puts him into a belly-to-back cantankerous-chest hold. How the large and admittedly ponderous-looking Pops Racer is capable of such a feat is revealed when the photographic camera zooms in on the class ring Pops is wearing: Greco-Roman Wrestling Country Champion.
• Downplayed Predestination. A temporal agent catches a punch thrown by the Fizzle Bomber, only to go knocked out by a punch from the Bomber'due south other hand.

    Literature

• Gruesome Krav from Skulduggery Pleasant, himself extremely stiff, once fabricated the mistake of punching Mr. Elation. Bliss caught his fist and so crushed information technology.
• In Of Mice & Men, Curley is beating up Lennie. As Curley swings at him, Lennie grabs his fist and holds onto it, and then crushes it with his great strength, without fifty-fifty meaning to.
• In Citadel, when Duncan challenged Omnibus Achala, Achala caught ane of his punches and Duncan'southward whole arm broke.

    Live-Action Goggle box

• Smallville:
  • Clark does information technology many times, even against Kara and Zod.
  • Also against Oliver / Darkseid in the Grand Finale.
  • Aldar and Doomsday both pull information technology on Clark.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • "Seeing Red", Warren does it while under the influence of orbs that requite him super forcefulness, and breaks the guy's hand.
  • In "Two to Become", Spike does this during the Demon Trials, and discovers information technology's not a good idea when your opponent has flaming fists.
• Angel and his son Connor do this a few times. So does Vampire Hunter Holtz when he starting time meets Justine in "Dad" — she's not impressed and follows information technology up by headbutting him.
• Juken Sentai Gekiranger - Retsu / Geki Blue's brother Gou reappears after several years equally a rabid Wolf Human being. While Gou's the same age every bit before the transformation, he's non happy to learn the child brother he remembers as a crybaby is at present both a young man martial creative person and a superhero. After an argument virtually whether Retsu tin handle information technology, he tries to prove his point past throwing a dial — and is very surprised when Retsu catches his fist and pushes him dorsum.
• Supernatural. In "Hammer of the Gods" a bunch of pagan gods get together to finish the Apocalypse, only for Lucifer to turn upward and Curb-Stomp Boxing them all. At 1 point, he does a dial catch to Baron Samedi. We don't see what happens after Lucifer catches his fist, only it involves a lot of blood splattering against the wall.
• The Wink: In the episode "Grodd Lives", the Flash tries to sucker-dial Grodd with a super-sonic dial starting 5 miles away. Unfortunately Grodd senses the Flash's intentions and charges in to grab the punch and bung Flash away.
• Star Trek: Voyager. Tuvok does this in "Rise" when one of the other illogical humanoids questions his right to give orders. As he'due south stronger than he looks, Tuvok then squeezes the fist but enough to cause pain, though not to cripple (which would be illogical). He does it again during his Battle in the Center of the Mind in "Random Thoughts". As Your Mind Makes It Real, his opponent feels the sensation physically; as he's an Asshole Victim, Tuvok doesn't cease until he collapses.
• Friction match. Friction match catches Amenadiel'due south fist at the kickoff of their fight in "#TeamLucifer". When he does and then, the room shakes.
• Teal'c did this in an early episode of Stargate SG-1.
• In Preacher, The Saint of Killers easily does this to Jesse.
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019): Lex Luthor has been going through the multiverse killing various Supermen. He confronts the Clark Kent from Smallville, only to find his kryptonite has no outcome because Clark gave up his powers to start a family. Lex angrily tries to dial him, merely Clark, who despite not having powers is twice his size and heavily muscled, catches his punch and knocks him down with a punch from his other manus.
• A variation in Atomic number 26 Fist (2017). Trying this trope straight with the Iron Fist would suspension your hand, so when Davos gains the power of the Fist, Danny Rand grabs his arm instead, stopping the blow from landing.
• Titans (2018). Kory does a nastier version by picking up a fork during a Bar Brawl and 'communicable' the dial on the sharp end.

    Pro Wrestling

• This once was Kane and The Undertaker's typical way to end an ineffective flurry of punches from an opponent. They would grab in their paw their opponent's third or fourth punch, then strike dorsum.
• Mark Henry also pulled this off once in a WWE Raw match with Carlito. Then, he proceded to squeeze Carlito'southward fist in his hand for extra humiliation.

    Tabletop Games

• The Magic: The Gathering menu Deflecting Palm depicts this.

    Video Games

• KOS-MOS blocks ane of T-elos' punches this mode in the third Xenosaga game. She's alot stronger than her so she breaks her arm doing it. T-elos does this to Ziggy just before the 2d fight.
• Wesker does this to Chris in Resident Evil five proving just how much stronger he'south get afterwards being reborn.
• DOOM Eternal:
  • A subverted example appears equally part of a Glory Kill. The Marauder (an Evil Counterpart to the Doom Slayer) easily catches the Slayer'south fist and looks at him smugly. Since the fist he caught happened to be the same one the Slayer'due south arm-mounted blade is attached to, the Slayer promptly responds by extending the blade deep into his skull.
  • In a flashback to when the Doom Slayer was Doomguy, he was arrested past the Night Sentinels and sentenced to Gladiator Games. Doomguy catches an opponent's punch and knocks him out with his other hand.
• Asura from Asura's Wrath does this to a Taison in episode 8. Chakravartin does this to Asura twice, one time in his creator form. Both times are done with just i finger.
• In Ratchet & Clank Future: A Cleft In Time Sigmund the robot ends upwards fighting Alister at the game'southward climax. He tries punching him with one fist and he catches it. He tries punching him with his other arm and the aforementioned thing happens. Then a cucukoo bird pops out of a chest compartment and whacks him in the face up a few times before he knocks Sigmund away.
• In Injustice: Gods Amongst Us Insurgency Deathstroke catches 2 of Regime Wonder Woman's punches, showing how practiced he is fighting against the amazon'south old and predictable moves.
• Kyuu does this in Affiliate seven of Rakenzarn Tales when the weaker Samuel tries a sneak attack. It besides serves to show how Kyuu has gotten more than skilled over the game in comparing to how he was winded from the tutorial at the beginning.
• Dwarf Fortress: Adventurers can practise this, and non but with their hands, if they spot the enemy is virtually to throw a dial and grab the attacker'due south hand, interrupting the attack. It works with other attacks and their corresponding body parts as well, leading to pes, horn and neb catches among others. Remarkably, this is a very necessary part to one of the most lethal techniques in the fandom'due south Fantastic Fighting Style, as having their fist in your paw makes it a cinch to put it in a lock and snap their wrist in two, or do something brutal.
• In Vindictus, this is Karok'due south signature anti-boss motility Clash. He catches the dominate's incoming blow, forces it back, then throws them off-balance and hits them back. It doesn't matter what they wield, as long as it's a melee attack, just the downside is that he can simply do it when the dominate tries a boom move on him.
• In Devil May Cry 4, Dante catches Nero's punch by grabbing his wrist. Nero tries to pull himself free but can't, then Dante playfully lets become, causing Nero's own strength to launch himself into a wall.
• In the Concluding Fantasy Fourteen trailer for Stormblood, the Warrior of Low-cal, as the Monk job, catches Lyse's punch in his manus. When he returns the punch, Lyse stops information technology open-palmed.
• Some Giant Mooks can do this to yous in Indiana Jones and the Emperor'south Tomb. If it happens, Indy will stare at his defenseless fist in disbelief before getting punched back. However, if you hit the secondary attack button earlier the counter, Indy will kick his opponent between the legs, knocking them downwards for some free hits.
• In Batman: Arkham Series, the punch grab is a possible counter to various mooks. In Batman: Arkham Knight the counter push button is also the same button as 'interrogate', so if you lot press information technology as a Riddler informant swings at you, Batman might catch his fist, squeeze information technology until the guy falls to his knees in pain, and then interrogate him.

    Web Animation

• Expiry Boxing!:
  • In the first "Goku vs. Superman" fight, Goku does this on Supes when revealing his Super Manner. Superman returned the favor by catching Goku's power pole.
  • Quicksilver catches Wink'due south punch then swings him around by his arm.
  • Hulk and Doomsday do this to each other.
• Red vs. Blue Flavour X has Maine do this. He was potent before, only this was to demonstrate his new enhancements subsequently his injuries from Season nine.
• Also from Rooster Teeth, in RWBY, the squad is upwards against a Mini-Mecha, and after taking a few blows it tries to punch the Large Guy of the squad, Yang. This doesn't piece of work out very well at all, as she catches the fist and then explodes the mech's arm with her rebuttal. During the Season 5 "Yang Trailer", an Ursa attempts to do this against Yang, just she is so strong that its arm explodes.

    Spider web Comics

• Aurora: Kendal's talk with the possibly-villainous Falst goes incorrect when his friends show upward and attack Falst. In the violence that ensues, Kendal ends upwardly communicable Falst'due south punch and using his superhuman strength to snap Falst'south wrist.
• A variation in Break, where the catcher also uses his other arm to secure the attacker. Used confronting a Ki punch as well simply to show off a little more.
• In UC, one of the grey possessed high schoolhouse students hands catches Kelsi's fist, at the beginning of their fight. Kelsi is understandably shocked, as a few comics earlier, she knocked downwardly the same high schoolhouse educatee, sans possession, with a single angry punch.
• In League of Super Redundant Heroes, Mary-Sue the Flying Brick can catch Apocalizard'southward fist casually and without looking, despite the supervillain being two or iii times her size.
• In Zebra Girl, a vampire combines this with Badass Dorsum for extra superiority, communicable Sam'south dial without fifty-fifty looking. Subverted immediately afterwards - Sam's gloves are a religious symbol .

    Western Animation

• Teen Titans
  • In "Apprentice", Robin tries to punch Slade who just catches it with his hand.
  • In "The Creature Inside", as Cyborg wails on Adonis with multiple punches, he finally recovers plenty between hits to catch Cyborg'due south fist and squeeze hard enough to crusade sparks to class from Cyborg's fist.
• Batman: The Animated Series:
  • In "The Demon's Quest", Ra's al Ghul's henchman Abu keeps shoving Batman, who says, "I'll call that...strike i." and so "Okay, that's two." Somewhen, Abu throws a dial at him. Batman catches it and says, "And that'south three!" He crushes Abu's fist and throws him over his shoulder.
  • In "Robin's Reckoning", Robin does this to Zucco, and so proceeds to give the mobster the beating of his life. Batman barely shows upwards in time to prevent his sidekick from killing the man.
• King of the Loma:
  • When Hank finally tells off the idiotic Bostonian he'southward been stuck with, he throws a punch at him. Hank catches it without missing a beat.
  • During a flashback in "Exist True To Your Fool", when a drunken Hank pokes a beefy guy in a punk stone bar, the then-in-shape and badass Beak intercepts the fist.
• Superman: The Animated Serial:
  • When Superman's drained powers start to return in "Solar Ability", Luminus makes a final-ditch attack on him. He gets a few punches in, and so Superman recovers enough to catch his fist and painfully squeeze it moments before decking him.
  • In "Father's Day", Kalibak catches Superman'due south punch and and then punches him with his other hand. At the cease of the fight, Superman catches Kalibak'southward punch and then twists his wrist, sending Kalibak to his knees in hurting.
  • During the last fight in "Legacy", Darkseid catches one of Superman's punches after Superman hits him a few times. He crushes Superman'south fist until Superman punches him abroad with his other hand.
• Young Justice:
  • In the first season episode "Agendas", when Match punches Superboy after Superboy uses a Shield patch, Superboy catches it before sending him flying.
  • Blackness Beetle loves this trope, to show off just how much stronger he is than anybody else. In "Earlier Dawn", he does it to Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Superboy, and Blue Beetle in the same fight!
• When Ross becomes the Ruby-red Hulk, his strength immune him to pull this on the Blob in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!.
• In ReBoot, Megabyte does this to Matrix.
• Non-superpowered example in Gravity Falls in the season one finale. Subsequently Dipper breaks his way within Gideon'south giant robot and the two ball Dipper is able to catch Gideon's fist then whack him with it, making the Motion Capture Mecha do the aforementioned.
• Justice League:
  • In "Injustice For All", Batman catches Joker's fist and then punches Joker with his other mitt.
  • In "Tabula Rasa", Amazo catches Superman's fist, but so Superman immediately headbutts him.
  • In "Kid's Stuff", Superman catches Blockbuster'southward fist and makes him dial himself in the confront.
  • In "Wake the Dead", Solomon Grundy catches Superman's fist and crushes his hand.
  • In "Destroyer", Darkseid catches Superman's fist and then headbutts him.
• In Family Guy, Peter tries to punch Liam Neeson, who catches and crushes Peter's fist. Peter so follows upwards with his other fist and Neeson does it again.
• Samurai Jack:
  • In "Jack vs Mad Jack", a monkey-like compensation hunter catches Jack's punch and gloats, only Jack only kicks him.
  • In "The Adept, The Bad, And The Cute", Zeke catches Jack's dial and painfully squeezes his mitt, then punches him several times with his other hand.
• Batman Beyond:
  • In "The Winning Edge", after Mason Forrest gives himself super strength with the Slappers, he catches Batman's punch past the wrist and painfully squeezes it before lifting and slamming him.
  • In "Bloodsport", Stalker catches Batman'southward fist and painfully squeezes his manus. Batman tries to dial him with his other hand, only Stalker catches and squeezes it too. Batman escapes past kicking him.

    Real Life

• In bodily combat, catching an opponent'southward punch would exist Awesome, but Impractical. Not merely would it injure and perhaps pause your mitt, only you would need a huge force difference to be able to pull information technology off. If you've got the reflexes to take hold of a punch, it's far easier and safer to simply contrivance or deflect the punch. Of grade, the whole point of this trope is to demonstrate immense physical superiority, and look totally badass in the process.
• A somewhat more than applied method in real life that is less common in fiction is to instead catch the wrist of the punching paw and pull it out to the side.
• One way boxers block a jab is to "catch" it with their aforementioned-side manus, basically giving the jab a high-five (illustration ◊). The difference is that there's no endeavor to catch and go along concur of the punching mitt; the hand doing the "catch" is open and relaxed, which dissipates the force of the punch. Rather, the defending fighter will counter with a punch while the opponent retracts the blocked jab.
• Done in boxing training past the coach, through gloves with large pads on the end, meant to absorb the hit. While information technology doesn't catch the fist per se, it sure does look a lot like this.
• A simpler way to do so, as taught in some Martial Arts schools, is to block the punch first, and then take hold of it after the block. Non quite the same, just much more than practical than just communicable it in midair.

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