The Art of Jujitsu Nerve Pinches and Fatal Blows

Mook: What the hell are you doing?
Lone Starr: The... Vulcan neck compression?
Mook: No, no, no, stupid, you've got it much too high. It's downwardly hither, where the shoulder meets the neck. [points]
Lone Starr: Like this?
Mook: Yeah! [passes out]

The practice of pressing a certain point on a person'due south body to achieve a sure consequence (can too be multiple points in quick succession, or multiple points simultaneously). The most common outcome is to paralyze the target or knock them unconscious. For knocking someone unconscious by the less subtle method of a potent blow to the head see Tap on the Head. For the more lethal version see Impact of Death.

In martial arts, tin can overlap with Ki Manipulation, as ki/chi flows in the body are supposedly the underlying machinery of both pressure level points and acupuncture co-ordinate to certain Eastern practices.

Pressure points are too handy if you are trying to avoid someone's death. When trying to stop severe haemorrhage from one of the extremities, applying pressure to the right expanse (typically farther upwardly the limb near a joint) tin significantly slow the flow of claret to an extremity, allowing fourth dimension to dress the wound and seek medical care.

Although rarely portrayed in a realistic manner, the being of pressure points is decidedly Truth in Television. In that location are many points on the body that are especially vulnerable such as nervus clusters, joints, claret vessels, the windpipe, the eyes and the groin. Hit with plenty force or applying sufficient pressure to these areas tin can cause anything from pain and discomfort to astringent structural damage and death, though said pressure typically excedes greatly the archetype finger-pinching shown in media and is much less reliable that information technology might sound.

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Examples

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    Anime & Manga

• The core of Kenshiro's Hokuto Shinken manner in Fist of the North Star is the Keiraku Hikou (Meridian Channel Hidden Points), used for a large variety of effects up to and very often including making Your Head A-Splode. If you happened to contact a hit from Kenshiro, there is (almost always) only one outcome: You Are Already Dead. Occasionally, he's been tripped up by his enemies being also fat to effectively reach the pressure level points (luckily, Hokuto Shinken comes with a technique explicitly for this scenario) or by them having their force per unit area points completely flipped around, in the case of Souther.
  • Also in that location are plain 708 of them, with effects ranging from sudden paralysis to curing muteness to suddenly allowing i to read other languages (possibly justified, as that message had been written past early Hokuto Shinken practitioners and could have only been a code that could be read but that manner). Granted, on occasion, Kenshiro does use them to cure a inability, namely with Lin and Airi.
  • Episode 25 of Excel Saga parodied this into the basis, where hitting the pressure level points turned one into a chibi.
  • Parodied as well in a minisode arc in the anime adaptation of Yo-Kai Watch with Komasan equally Kenshiro. His pressure signal strikes changed age, switched genders, altered behaviors (like turning i into a woman obsessed with eating long curved objects) and conjured entire sets for victims to act out melodramatic storylines. It climaxes in the final confrontation with the villain, played by Jibanyan, where their strikes slowly catechumen them into each other before they fuse into Jibakoma.

    "You are already squished, zura."

• Naruto:
  • The Hyuga Association utilizes a variation of this by striking certain points in their opponent's bodies through the use of their clan martial art, the Gentle Fist. Information technology works through precise calculated blows and channeling their chakra. By doing and so, they can weaken or completely neutralize their opponent. Since these chakra points accept to be hit with extreme precision to work and the natural variations in human being biology mean they won't be in the verbal same spot on each person, the Hyuga clan's 10-Ray Vision is required for this particular fighting style to work.
    • Neji Hyuga is a prodigy of this to where he self-taught himself the 2 strongest techniques of the Gentle Fist, with 1 of them, the Eight Trigrams Sixty-4 Palms, allowing him to make a series of quick strikes to completely disable an enemy past locking down their chakra. Unfortunately for him, he was fighting Naruto, who proceeded to use the Kyuubi'southward chakra instead to force them open up for a Heroic Second Wind. His cousin, Hinata, besides utilizes this, though she is more defensive in her usage than him.
  • Earlier in the series, Haku used senbon to strike pressure level points. His aim and cognition were such that he could put a person in a near-death land while in the middle of combat.
• Used in Ranma ½ by Cologne, Happosai, Ranma, Shampoo, and Doctor Tofu, sometimes for the standard unconsciousness result, but usually for actually weird effects:
  • Happosai uses ane to make Ranma cry buckets of tears when he needs them for a potion ingredient.
  • Cologne uses another to make Ranma'south peel super-sensitive to heat and then that he can't utilise hot water to reverse his transformation curse.
  • Combined with a special formula of shampoo (no, really) can exist used to induce Laser-Guided Amnesia with the added benefit of preventing the victim from ever relearning whichever facts were suppressed from memory.
  • Also combined with moxibustion to sap Ranma'due south force and brand him weaker than a toddler.
  • Happosai as well used it as a full-on therapy to turn a sickly, crippled child into a Life Energy-draining cohort, who was stuck equally a child considering of it, but regains her true adult body upon arresting Battle Auras or Ki Manipulations. A like therapy tin can seal away this power, merely the location of the pressure points make it a dicey proposition.
  • Tofu has i which can be disguised every bit patting someone on the back, which 30 seconds subsequently causes the victim's legs to stop working.
  • Ranma occasionally uses them, or tries to utilize them, for example on Miss Hinako mentioned higher up, on Ryoga while in the girls locker room, on Kuno to knock him out, and on the dojo destroyer.
• Bongchim Na in The God of High School practices traditional Asian medicine and teaches Mori to apply the body'south pressure level points to eternalize his physical abilities, cease haemorrhage, and reduce hurting & fatigue. All the same, the beginning time Mori attempts it he ends up temporarily paralyzing himself.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi: In the qualifying round of the Festival Tournament arc, we see Evangeline keeping a combatant incapacitated with 1 finger in the back. Apparently simply to show that, yep, she doesn't only know a hundred lethal spells and how to magically enhance her concrete power to rip-people-in-one-half levels... she's a principal of esoteric martial arts too, which makes sense, as she's Actually 700 Years Sometime and needed something to fill the time, plus martial arts allowed her to exist lethal even if her powers were sealed.
• In Saint Seiya, Gold Saint Milo of Scorpio bases his entire Red Needle fighting manner on pressure points, which strike the opponent in the same configuration equally the Scorpio constellation. In addition to irreparable impairment to the nerves and the senses, the victim gushes claret from the strikes, and the final blow, Antares, is fatal. Impossibly enough, though, it's possible for Milo to salvage fifty-fifty an Antares-ed foe by pressing yet another pressure signal, stopping the blood catamenia and letting them regain strength.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vivian uses this on Grandad Moto, crippling him. She threatens to go out him like that unless Yugi duels her. After she is defeated, she reverses the impairment.
• Dufaux from Zatch Bell! uses the Reply-Talker to place pressure points that will help unlock the heroes' true potential. Information technology works well enough to invoke Heart Is an Awesome Ability and a dose of With Groovy Ability Comes Great Insanity in the Plucky Comic Relief.
• In Pani Poni Dash!, Suzune attempts to keep Otome small by striking her pressure level point for stunting growth, simply always hits the pressure point for diarrhea instead. (It remains uncertain whether either ane works, though.)
• Ethan Stanley in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, practices Kalarippayattu, an Indian martial fine art, through which he has learned out incapacitate or even outright kill his opponents by hit specific points chosen Marmam, which he states served as the origin for pressure points used in other martial arts (since Kalarippayattu served as an originator for most other Eastern martial arts styles). Besides of note is Chikage Kushinada, who shows that she can use pressure points to command Ukita (one of the weaker members of the Shinpaku brotherhood) similar a boob without him even noticing.
• Ultimate Instructor: Ganpachi incapacitates a whole classroom of people by using his speed to press two points in their leg that causes a painful balk.
• The Rock Masks in JoJo's Bizarre Risk can turn humans into vampires by puncturing an exact combination of points in the encephalon.
• Toriko: "Knocking" is the fine art of hit specific nerve points in a target's torso to paralyze them. It'southward normally done with special "Knocking" guns that inject needles into the targets. "Knocking Master" Jirou and his grandson Teppei are skilled enough to perform Knocking with their blank hands.
• Yau-si in Banana Fish is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter, but prefers to incapacitate his opponents without a fuss by delicately poking them with acupuncture needles, paralyzing them or depriving them of their senses.
• Kiyomori Yamanoue from Gamaran, also known equally the Lord of the Doom Fist use a similar technique, involving hitting the enemies nerves with his extremely strong fingers, causing paralysis. He ordinarily does information technology on the enemies' limbs to prevent them from moving earlier he tin unleash his cloak-and-dagger technique. It'due south shown that said paralysis lasts for at least i day.
• Dragon Brawl Super introduces Hit, the greatest Professional Killer in Universe 6. By combining pressure indicate strikes with the ability to freeze time for 0.one seconds, he's able to defeat Vegeta without breaking a sweat (though he remarks that Vegeta is the first person to alive through his attacks). Of course, he is forced to use more than effort and forcefulness confronting Goku, as well equally up his fourth dimension trickery capabilities.

    Comic Books

• Well-nigh whatever comicbook martial artist. Here's a few who've done so in the by:
  • Batman
  • Captain America
  • Daredevil
  • Fe Fist
  • Kitty Pryde
  • Shang-Chi
  • Lady Shiva
  • Batgirl— specifically, Cassandra Cain. After a mook she was fighting shot and killed one of his own men by accident, she temporarily stopped his eye to requite him an idea of what he'd washed.
  • Deathstroke the Terminator.
  • Gamora is capable of this. Co-ordinate to Thanos, he's the just 1 who could survive such a movement.
  • Black Cat displays the ability to apply pressure points in her 90s miniseries.
• The comic version of Kevin from Sin Metropolis has the ability to brand people go numb with pressure signal attacks. It's also unsaid that this was his method of killing.
• In Superman comics:
  • The villainess Faora Hu-Ul likes to apply these techniques. Since she has Super Force, they tin can fifty-fifty work on Superman, to the point that in The Great Phantom Peril, Faora's techniques force Superman to run away.

    Lois Lane: "Notices the two extended fingers! I think this Faora overcame Superman with a clandestine fighting technique... I of the Kryptonian equivalents of Karate or Aikido! Not Klurkor— I know that art myself— only some other kind!"
    Jimmy Olsen: Of course! She knew the pressure points where she could inflict the most harm!"
    Steve Lombard: "Come off information technology, guys— If you expect me to believe one beggarly little pressure indicate could— Hey! Owwwwww!"
    Lois Lane: "I picked up this measly little trick from a policewoman pal of mine! If I used Klurkor or Karate— It would hurt even more!"
    Steve Lombard: "Okay, okay, I give! Just allow go!"

  • Superman himself uses these from time to fourth dimension. When Batman got possessed by a sentient cloud of kryptonite once, Superman pokes him in the side and Batman's torso collapses, with the deject wondering why it can't motion anymore. When Superman tried this on Maxima, she was tough enough to shrug information technology off.
  • Parodied in Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade. Belinda cuts Lena'due south "Aliens are Evil" spoken language by poking in her head. Seeing her friend knocked out, Linda demands to know what Belinda did. Belinda claims information technology was an "ancient Kryptonian memory erasure pressure point" to wipe Lena's listen out. Linda scoffs at the notion, and Belinda admits she made information technology up on the spot.

    Linda: Why did you do that!?
    Belinda: It's an ancient Kryptonian memory erasure pressure point. By borer her skull in that precise spot at that exact pressure, I've erased every memory that she had of the concluding hr.
    Linda: (annoyed) There's no such thing equally an ancient Kryptonian memory erasure pressure level point.
    Belinda: (shrugging) True enough.

• Sillage: In ane volume, Nävis encounters a grouping of seven hostile aliens. After quickly remembering what species and gender they are, she defeats them using pressure level points and groin kicks.

    Fan Works

• In the Parody Fic Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, TuMok of Mars uses the Martian Nervus Pinch, which turns out to be a unproblematic Groin Assail.

  Reaching out with both hands, the Martian grabbed Proton and Buster'due south testicles and pinched equally difficult every bit possible.
  "YEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWCH!" screamed Buster. "WHY DO THEY Phone call Information technology THE MARTIAN Nervus PINCH?"
  "Because only a Martian would have the nerve to use information technology," gasped Proton, wincing in pain.

• One Piece: Parallel Works: Yuki-Rin uses one to defeat Kuro in the "Appenzell Isle" Arc.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, Dev-Em strikes a point in Satan Girl's neck in order to paralyze her. Unfortunately, she shakes the effect off in a matter of seconds.

  Satan Daughter cried out in hurting. <Y'all unmothered piddling BITCH of a matrix-beingness!> she yelled. Before she could go out as well many more curses, five hard fingers went to a pressure indicate on her neck.
  They were on the end of Dev'south hand.
  <Grab concur,> he snapped to Kara. Satan Girl's body was going limp, only Kara could tell she'd shake it off within seconds.

• In Facing the Hereafter Series, Maddie's sleeper agree technique is shown further, to the point where Sam wants to know how to do it.
• J-WITCH Season 1: Uncle uses this to knock a Lurden unconscious in "The Cardinal". Yan Lin does the aforementioned to Hak Foo in "Divide and Conquer - Anarchy and Hilarity"; she says that she learned information technology from Star Trek.
• Here There Be Monsters: During one battle, Mary Marvel pokes two force per unit area points on Georgia Sivana'south body to knock her into unconsciousness.

  Mary looked at her opponent, saw her hobbling face, saw her burnished eyes, and held back her upraised fist in consideration.
  She, too, had the wisdom of Solomon. Part of that wisdom included the workings of the human torso, and what pressure level points could be relied upon to do when touched in a certain way.
  With a movement, she placed herself backside Georgia Sivana, and pressed downwardly hard on ii of those points, wrapping her legs virtually Georgia'south midsection to keep her in identify. The bad daughter struggled for a few moments, but for no more that. Mary kept the concur on long plenty to ensure that Georgia couldn't exist bluffing. The girl hung limp in her grasp.

    Films — Blithe

• Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda uses pressure points to paralyze his victims. (The same technique was also used on him by Chief Oogway in the Flashback.) Used in a more than comical mode when a misplaced acupuncture needle causes Po to make a funny face... and maybe finish his eye, because Mantis can't become to the correct pressure points due to Po's fat. This ends upwardly every bit a Chekhov'southward Skill since all the fatty insulating him renders him immune to Tai Lung's assault.
• In How to Train Your Dragon, our Badass Bookworm hero Hiccup accidentally discovers through playing with his Dragon friend Toothless that you tin render any dragon unconscious with a single finger by pressing an acupuncture point on their necks betwixt the aorta and the larynx.

    Films — Live-Action

• In Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, the hero is infiltrating the Large Bads' flagship. He tries the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on the guard, who asks our hero what he's doing. The hero tells him straight up, at which point the guard corrects him. "Similar this?" "Yeah...."
• The Operative in Tranquility does this to paralyze people preparatory to executing them with his sword. Information technology doesn't work on Mal considering that nerve cluster had to exist moved by the surgeons considering of a war injury. Mal realizes what the Operative was trying to do though and plays along until he can catch the Operative by surprise and deliver a paralyzing blow of his own.
• The Princess Bride. In The Motion-picture show of the Book, Fezzik uses a Vulcan neck pinch to render Buttercup unconscious.
• In Kill Bill, there's the "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique", which is used past Pai Mei in the backstory to slaughter an entire temple because ane of its members accidentally insulted him. Specifically, when Pai Mei nodded at him, he didn't run into it and respond. It was later taught to the Bride, who used it to... well, impale Pecker.
• Mr Miyagi in The Karate Child knows a couple. Plenty to help Daniel go from almost bedridden to existence able to compete in the final showdown.
• This becomes a major plot bespeak and Chekhov's Skill in 3 Ninjas.
  • And, oddly plenty for that movie, realistically in that kids really had to forcibly strike the points in question.
• Sean Connery'southward thumb-fighting technique in The Presidio.
• The eponymous Kiss of the Dragon was an acupuncture version performed by Jet Li right at the terminate of the picture.
• The American International Pictures Embankment Political party movies had a running scrap that started with Bob Cummings' anthropologist character using a mystical finger bear upon to the temple to incapacitate doofus-bad guy Eric Von Zipper, making him freeze like a statue. This happened to him through almost of the movies, often self-inflicted.
• Our Man Flintstone. Flint does a Vulcan neck pinch on the Galaxy agent supervising Gila'southward hypnotic indoctrination and several others also.
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Both Jade Fox and Li Mu Bai employ pressure points in their first skirmish—Jade Play a trick on to completely paralyze the Butt-Monkey guard in identify, and Li Mu Bai to reverse the effect. Li Mu Bai's skill at this is evidently and so well known that he can hold people at bay with a finger, and they treat it as if he were property a weapon on them.
• In Star Trek V: The Final Borderland, Spock nervus pinches a horse on Nimbus III.
• Star Trek Into Darkness: Subverted; Spock uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on Harrison, but all information technology does is cause him considerable pain.
• The comedy La Grande Vadrouille has an interesting approach to a cervix chop. When characters of Louis de Funès and Bourvil are locked in a prison cell, they call a prison baby-sit and shout "Heil Hitler!" raising arms in a Nazi salute. Turns out, the salute is a perfect position for cervix chops from both sides, and a soldier answering "Sieg Heil!" isn't expecting it. Of grade, they didn't care virtually the guard's survival.
• In The Raid Redemption, Dagu uses a folded thumb jam to the side of a mook'southward neck to incapacitate him.
• Used by Vincent Price to incapacitate a chauffeur in The Beastly Dr. Phibes.
• Professor Sutwell from Beach Political party can hold his own in a fight with bikers because he knows the Himalayan Time-Suspension Technique, which involves pressing the victim's temple a sure mode with his finger, causing them to be frozen in place for hours.
• In the campy Doc Savage: The Homo of Bronze, a fellow member of the Fabulous Five grabs a mook's wrist in a painful restraint agree, advisedly removes his own glasses, so grabs the mook behind the ear and squeezes to knock him unconscious.

    Literature

• Discussed in Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper trilogy, being virtually a medieval police. Information technology's a variant of Tap on the Head called the "nap tap"; a precision blow to the chin delivered with a baton. Goodwin'due south is legendary.
• There was a Nancy Drew Files mystery in the belatedly 80s that used this every bit a plot point. The culprit turned out to be a masseuse who could pinch people unconscious.
• The Action Service men from The Day of the Jackal know a pressure point backside the ear that causes unconsciousness, probably the same ane from the Star Trek instance below.
• Most Chinese Wuxia stories and anything adapted from them will accept characters who are masters of this. Furnishings range from numbness to muteness to instant death to being put in suspended animation.
• Scout, the Weak, simply Skilled Padawan in Yoda: Nighttime Rendezvous, is a master at these, hitting artillery to make them become numb and tingly. She likewise has a perfectly centered grab on the carotid triangle that makes targets blackness out within 10 seconds, though that's less of a "pressure point" and more of a Choke Hold.
• Appears in Encyclopedia Brown in a story where Bugs Meany demonstrates his "judo" skills, including a pressure indicate knockout. Encyclopedia Brown points out that it'southward faked because the targets went stiff and fell astern, merely human physiology causes someone rendered unconscious while standing on flat ground to naturally go limp and fall forwards.
• Artemis Fowl: Butler occasionally uses these to dandy event.
• In the Remo Williams "Destroyer" novels, Remo and Primary Chiun are absurdly expert at this, as they are at all martial art tropes. Ane extreme case has Remo grabbing a criminal pilot by the neck and manipulating nerves with such dexterity that he's able to "puppet" the human being'southward hands and feet to state the plane against his will.
• Various badly-written action-adventure novels from the 1970's and 80's would take an sick-defined "nervus ganglion" in the neck that the hero would strike to immobilize someone.
• In A Ticket to the Boneyard, i of Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels, the villain, James Leo Motley, knows diverse places on the body to apply pressure to cause intense pain.
• In the Warrior Cats book Path of Stars, Slash'south rogues apply a technique that involves them hitting exactly the right spot on a cat'due south limb to temporarily numb it and gain the reward.

    Live-Action Television receiver

• Star Trek: The Original Series:
  • The Vulcan nerve pinch, which is evidently effective confronting the vast bulk of humanoids and some non-humanoid aliens. Equally an interesting chip of history, the origin of the compression came from Leonard Nimoy's insistence that Spock would not perform an aggressive karate chop to subdue an opponent from behind. Demonstrating on William Shatner, he showed the director that this new technique would exist convincing plenty on screen. Although it was never explicitly explained onscreen, the ability was, according to Leonard Nimoy in his autobiography, supposed to combine a precise attack on the target'south anatomy with a telepathic jolt to explain why the technique was so fast and reliable. Which doesn't explain why non-Vulcans such as Information are occasionally shown to use information technology. Presumably, the writers of that episode were under the impression that it simply required more precision than a man could match, which would, of course, be no problem for the android Data whose physical abilities are superhuman in every mode.
    • In the episode "Journeying to Babel", information technology'southward revealed that in aboriginal times Vulcans used a different (though possibly related) neck grip as their standard method of execution. While modern Vulcans are opposed to violence and no longer execute anyone under whatever circumstance, the old martial arts have not been forgotten and can kill with a single bear upon.
  • The Vulcan Mind Meld uses this trope as well (at least in the Original Serial), manipulating nerves and blood vessels in the face until the subject field is in a relaxed state and therefore open to the Mental Fusion.
  • Besides, in "The Way to Eden", Tongo Rad used his noesis of human anatomy to knock out an Enterprise sailor by squeezing the nerve pressure level signal at the back of the jaw, just under the earlobe (Truth In Television, though it causes great pain and delayed unconsciousness rather than instant).
  • Star Expedition: Enterprise reveals that Vulcans also utilise pressure points for neuropressure.
• In an episode of The Wild Wild West, Jim W renders a female person villain unconscious past pressing a pressure level betoken in her back.
• This was ane of Xena's big talents. Her favorite was a neck poke that cut off oxygen to the brain equally an interrogation method.
  • Parodied in ane episode when Gabrielle tries information technology, only it has no consequence fifty-fifty though she poked the guy in the same spot that Xena usually goes for.
  • The assassin Sinteres specializes in these techniques, to the point that he makes a guy'south brain explode.
• In the Md Who episode "Survival", the Seventh Md paralyzes a bullying concrete teaching instructor past pressing a finger on his forehead. Also a standard "Venusian karate" tactic of the Tertiary (and occasionally later) Doctors, with several variants: jabbing ii fingers into the chest, 2 fingers on the back of the neck, little finger in the throat and so on.
• Natsumi of Kamen Passenger Decade has the Hikari Family Secret Technique: Laughing Pressure Point, which makes the victim express joy and is used every bit an alternative to the anime-style Megaton Punch (since Natsumi is our requisite Tsundere female lead. Originally she used information technology when protagonist Tsukasa was likewise much of a Jerkass. And sometimes when he's completely blameless. And sometimes on innocent Yuusuke. And sometimes on Kaito. And sometimes on her ain grandfather.
  • Information technology fifty-fifty turns out to be a Chekhov's Skill, since in the Den-O story arc it helps get the Imagin out of Tsukasa and in the Kabuto arc it reveals the Worm that's impersonating him. In the Grand Finale movie, when she becomes a Kamen Rider herself, it'due south fifty-fifty turned into a total-on special attack!
• In an episode of NCIS , Ziva uses her Mossad interrogation techniques to obtain information almost a kidnap victim. Although what really happens is mostly left to the viewers' imaginations, the woman being interrogated is at 1 point convinced to answer a question because the threat of expiry later on is not as scary every bit Ziva tweaking her shoulder now.
• Spoofed in an episode of The Goodies entitled "Kung Fu Capers": Reading from a book of martial arts instructions, Graham delivers a big number of low-cal taps and pokes to various spots on Tim's torso. Later several seconds of goose egg happening, Tim suddenly spasms and jerks back and forth before collapsing unconscious.
• The Avengers (1960s) episode "The Living Dead". Emma Peel applies pressure to two points on the neck of a female baby-sit's neck to render her unconscious.
• Used in Diagnosis: Murder. Jesse's father needed him to calm down, then he put a comforting hand on his shoulder. When that didn't work, he increased the pressure. Jesse protested and folded upward. The unconsciousness lasted long enough for them to drive out of LA and for his male parent to have a long give-and-take, and there are no obvious side furnishings.
  • Of course, Jesse should probably consider himself lucky his father didn't just choke him into unconsciousness similar he did to Steve...
• Subverted on the Cherry Dwarf episode "Legion". When Kryten needs to return the other Dwarfers unconscious as part of a plan, he suggests using an "Ionian nerve grip" on Rimmer, assures him he won't experience a affair - and so hits him with a vase. Since Rimmer is now a nigh-indestructible Difficult Light hologram, he proves impossible to knock out anyhow.

  Rimmer: That's not an Ionian nerve grip, that'southward groovy me over the caput with a vase!
  Kryten: There's no such thing as an Ionian nerve grip! Now stand however while I hit you.

• In Sherlock, Charles Augustus Magnusson of "His Final Vow" doesn't use physical pressure points, but knows the personal pressure point (as in, dirty bribery undercover he tin printing on to get results) of every major person of importance in the western globe.
  • He also knew John was very important to Sherlock and Mary, and that Mary was important to John. Luckily, he didn't know Sherlock was one for John, but he knew Mycroft's force per unit area signal was Sherlock.
  • Moriarty too knew that Sherlock had iii force per unit area points: John, Mrs. Hudson and Lestrade, since he threatened to impale them, but since John also offered his own life in the episode "The Great Game" he somehow figured that Sherlock was 1 for John.
• Night Court. When two squabbling groups of Trekkies are hauled into court, i Original Serial Trekkie threatens a Next Gen Trekkie with a Vulcan Death Grip until Balderdash grabs their shoulders and makes them wince in pain. "How about the Bailiff Bull Grip?"

    Manhwa

• Some martial arts in The Breaker make extensive use of these.

    Professional person Wrestling

• Dr. Sam Sheppard, the human whose life inspired The Avoiding, went into wrestling in his subsequently years. As he was a trained surgeon, he had in-depth cognition of the human body, including where all the pressure points are, knowledge he used to his advantage in the ring. His Finishing Motility, the Mandible Claw (afterwards used by Mankind), was said to activate a pressure indicate under the tongue that paralyzes the opponent and induces intense pain.
• There are pressure point-based wrestling moves, like the Tonga Expiry Grip (where the wrestler pinches a point in the opponent'south pharynx and somehow chokes him) and the Asian Chokehold (where he thrusts a pollex on his opponent's neck to cut his claret supply). Those exotic finishers were popularised past Killer Khan, Mr. Fuji and Meng, whose Asian gimmicks made them supposed to know about information technology. And of course, in that location's the infamous Finger Poke of Doom.
• Fred Yehi uses these to a degree, although his target areas tend to exist rather odd, like the knees, or a specific function of the lower back.

    Tabletop Games

• Force per unit area Points and Pressure Secrets in GURPS work past "tearing or crushing organs and nerve clusters with lethal precision." Both are considered cinematic skills, although an early on edition of Martial Arts stated that GMs could keep an open listen nigh the former in a "realistic" entrada. On the other hand, the 2d i is and so powerful that the game gives a give-and-take of caution about its potential Game-Billow status.
• Several Fu powers from Feng Shui are meant to simulate pressure point attacks as shown in kung fu movies. Dim Mak and Lightning Fist from the Path of the Hands of Light ignore armor and Toughness respectively, and the healing path of the Path of the Healthy Tiger, which includes Healing Chi, which uses pressure points to heal, Flow Restoration, which negates the furnishings of harmful chi powers on you, Point Blockage, which is the classic force per unit area indicate paralysis move, Shadowfist, a truly nasty move that trades a permanent reduction in Chi and Fu for a permanent reduction of an opponent'due south Martial Arts skill and the loss of one Fu power of the attacker'south choice, and Storm of the Tiger (which requires mastery of both the healing and counterattack paths of the Tiger style), which uses twice the Chi you spend to deal out serious damage and quite admirably replicates the killer force per unit area indicate moves y'all see in a lot of kung fu movies.
• Many other games will accept some sort of pressure point-related abilities if Eastern martial arts are featured. Mod game like Spycraft? Spirit and Vital Points Nuts, Moves, and Mastery—even lets you lot heal a comrade. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game RPG? Of course; it fifty-fifty mentions the 'Dim mak' below. Escape into Dungeons & Dragons? Enter the monk, who tin kill you (or at least make yous relieve versus dying of getting smacked with a special ability) with a touch since 1st Edition.
• "Nervus Strike" is a fairly stock martial arts maneuver in the Hero System. Information technology inflicts only a relatively small-scale amount of impairment (equal to a manifestly onetime dial by an average STR 10 adult, in fact) not boosted by strength, and that damage is stun-only; however, unless the target wears rigid armor or has some other suitable grade of pocketknife- or bullet-resistant protection, their regular concrete defence force that they would otherwise get to apply confronting stock punches and kicks won't protect them at all. (Characters in a more cinematic game may of course take actual attack powers that are then justified equally some sort of pressure level point attack, Nerve Strike is simply what even "realistic" martial artists who know a relevant style tin hands take every bit part of their repertoire.)

    Video Games

• How Thane Krios kills krogan in Mass Consequence 2.
• This is basically what's keeping the Nighttime Dragon asleep in Mother 3; when all seven needles are pulled, the dragon awakens, and, depending on the heart(s) of the one(s) who pull(s) them, either destroys the earth, or recreates it into a paradise.
• The Elder Scrolls serial has the recurring in-game book, Night Falls on Sentinel, in which an assassinator named Jomic describes various pressure points to a potential customer, and boasts nearly how he can exploit them to impale someone with a low-cal tap on the head, or knock someone out without leaving and then much as a bruise. The 'client' in question turns out to be a knight with a warrant for Jomic's arrest, who speedily subdues him and decides to employ Jomic'south own pressure points to torture him.
• The Monk class in Globe of Warcraft learns a technique chosen "Touch of Expiry", which the flavor text describes as using anatomical knowledge to inflict mortal damage.

    Webcomics

• Fist of the North Star is parodied in this Manly Guys Doing Manly Things strip, where Kenshiro has taken a job as a McDonald's cashier. When a customer orders a number 4 combo, rather than process her lodge he instead uses his Hokuto Shinken to sate her hunger saying "You lot're already fed." The guy performing employee evaluations has no thought how to score that.

    Western Animation

• In the American Dad! episode "The Dull Identity", Stan kills a guy by pressing several pressure points to rupture his center.
• A Ki Manipulation example: Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender hits on pressure points to block the chi of her opponents and paralyze them in combat. She can also utilize this to disable the Elemental Powers of benders for short periods.
  • The Sequel Series, The Legend of Korra, has these techniques become the weapon of the enemy "Equalist" faction. Their leader, Amon, even learns how to permanently strip bending powers using information technology. Or then he claims. He actually does this with very advanced Bloodbending.
  • Also in Legend of Korra Lin once goes to an acupuncturist who uses metalbending to insert a dozen or and so needles at in one case, somehow the chi unblocking process causes her to relive memories of her split with her sister.
• The Batman: The Animated Serial episode "Twenty-four hours of the Samurai" revolves around a martial art called Kiba no Hoko (The Way of the Fang), which uses precise strikes against pressure level points. Batman's foe Kyodai Ken managed to larn its nearly fatal technique, the Oonemuri Touch. Batman defeats this technique by finding Kyodai's preparation dummy and noticing a specific point that was struck ofttimes and protecting that bespeak on his ain trunk by means of a metal plate under the Batsuit.
• In Ben ten: Omniverse, Khyber uses a "Haphestan nural grip" to bring downward his prey.
• In the Carmen Sandiego episode "The French Connection Caper", merely when Coach Burden was most to crush Carmen to decease by bear hugging her, Shadow-san suddenly stuns Brunt unconscious with the Vulcan nerve compression, saving Carmen's life.
• Parodied in an episode of Codename: Kids Adjacent Door: Numbuh 3 tries to take out henchmen this way, but just succeeds in relieving some neck strain, with Numbuh 5 having to practice the job and telling Numbuh 3 to knock it off after the third attempt.
• One episode of Danny Phantom shows that Maddie knows how to do this.
• Duckman knows a variation of it but information technology only works on the prostate.
• The Vulcan nervus pinch is parodied in a Futurama episode where the Planet Express crew stop up in a death-match with the bandage of the original Star Trek. Leonard Nimoy tries to see if the "Vulcan nerve compression" actually works only tries it on Bender, a robot and thus lacking nerves, who doesn't even flinch. In another episode, the robot cop URL does this to a criminal and says "Spock you out".
• Dark-green Lantern: The Animated Series: Saint Walker goes toe-to-toe with Razer and Razer can't country a hit. Then he hits a single pressure point on Razer's neck and instantly paralyzes him.
• Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures did this to many a Mook in the commencement season. He even did this to Captain Black when he wouldn't heed his warnings near attacking a magical demon Big Bad.

  "Who else wants a slice of Uncle?!"

  • Tohru does this once at least, as does Jade (when possessed by Shendu).
• In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, several characters, nearly prominently Po and Mantis, tin hit pressure level points to inflict paralysis and other effects. In one episode, Taotie invents a vehicle that can apply incredibly accurate acupressure to make victims do virtually annihilation and uses information technology to dispense Po, Shifu, Monkey, Crane, Mantis, and Viper until Tigress destroys it. Also, samurai clam Kira is shown to use pressure betoken techniques.
• At the end of the Phineas and Ferb episode "Raging Groovy", Ferb uses the Vulcan nervus pinch on Buford.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Big Macintosh knows just the right one to treat Granny Smith's muscle spasm.
• Played for laughs in The Simpsons episode "Mayored to the Mob", where Homer acquires the skill off disabling people for one-half an hour using the Spock touch. Promptly he applies this technique on his family members just for fun and even on himself in order to skip the 30 minutes waiting fourth dimension until supper. Though in Homer's case, he whacks his head on the kitchen table as he falls down.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012):
  • Master Splinter uses this to calm down and discipline an overreacting Raphael. Subsequently in the episode, Raph himself uses the technique to paralyze a powerful, rampaging mutant.
  • Splinter later combines with some qi manipulation to purge Karai from the brainwashing slugs Shredder created.
• Total Drama:
  • At the starting time of the race to the cast trailers in "Monster Greenbacks", Harold chops Trent between the shoulder and the cervix to incapacitate him so Harold can become ahead.
  • Both newcomers, Sierra and Alejandro, show that they know how to make a body plummet in "Anything Yukon Do, I Tin can Do Ameliorate". In get-go class, Sierra gives Cody a not-consensual foot massage while he's asleep and when he wakes upwardly he tells her to end. Hearing this, Sierra ominously asks if Cody knows that there'south a spot between the tarsal basic through which a person can be temporarily paralyzed. She presses her thumb into information technology earlier Cody can go his foot back. In economy form, Owen freaks out when the Total Drama Jumbo Jet seems to be crashing. Non willing to put upward with it, Alejandro grabs his shoulder near his neck and squeezes. Owen goes out as a light.

    Real Life

• Pressure level points are omnipresent in martial arts and cocky-defence force classes, often in the form of articulation locks, precision strikes, and the skilful onetime Groin Attack. Some schools of Japanese jujutsu make use of a broad range of points chosen kyusho, used to induce a person to exist more compliant or cause enough hurting when struck to induce an individual to discontinue hostilities, and police forces are besides taught to utilise them in control methods. However, pressure points are decidedly not an verbal science: there's a considerable amount of variation in location and effectiveness between individuals, and they are frequently ineffective on someone who is in an altered state of consciousness, boozer or on drugs, has a big corporeality of body fat or muscle mass, has trained to be resistant to them, or is but that tough. All of this means that the nigh effective application of these techniques is ironically afterwards the user has the opponent already controlled in more practical holds and positions, where he tin can still exert authorization if force per unit area points fail; a fighting system or gameplan solely based on trying to hit the points with no control or setup is fundamentally condemned to exist less effective than brute force, every bit in striking or grappling, or even not effective at all.
• The liver is a popular target in boxing, kickboxing and Muay Thai, as enough strikes to it tin can leave an opponent believing he is going to die for some minutes earlier he recovers normally. Mixed Martial Arts champion Bas Rutten was especially skilled with those, to the point he used to incapacitate opponents with just a well-placed knee or punch to the liver.
• Your funny bone. Actually, it'due south the ulnar nerve that'southward located near the elbow, but if you happen to striking it... OWWW! It is definitely non funny.
• The celiac plexus, or solar plexus. A sharp blow here usually doesn't affect the plexus itself (although information technology certainly can), but rather information technology causes a diaphragm spasm and abrupt exhalation i.due east. "getting the wind knocked out of y'all".
• Certain weapons like the Kubotan are specifically geared to hit pressure level points in a fight. Derivatives include the "tactical pen", a regular pen with a torso of hard metal and a wearisome spike at the tail end, and some kinds of flashlights with a very pronounced set of crenellations on the business finish ◊.
• Acupuncture is therapy through pressure points, and acupressure really uses force per unit area on those pressure points, therefore affecting the aforementioned nerve clusters, joints, and claret vessels. There is, yet, serious doubtfulness over whether "traditional" acupuncture actually exists, with the aforementioned effects manifesting whether or not the "meridians" are the areas touched or poked.
• Technically speaking, you can knock someone out by pinching them. If you're able to obstruct their carotid arteries, they can become out within seconds.

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