He literally pulled off the crazied “clutch” of all time and is finally gonna win, bro wants to flaunt for the first time in his life, unfortunately that was what killed him 😂
I love yoshikage kira and out of the 3 of these I agree, BUT, there are so many powerful stands that in the world of jojo's killer queen is not as big in its own series compared to the other 2
@@Rakso-F-2the earlier stands are 100% overshadowed by whatever the stands are on by universe 2 but as a main villain stand killer queen does well with a simple, to the point powerful ability
Mahito is definitely the worst, at least the others will just kill you in like a few seconds. Meanwhile Mahito will probably turn you into a sentient fleshlight or smth
The crazies thing is that the inverse is also true. Dude can regrow lost limbs, cure incurable diseases and illness or gives people free sex transition and he uses it in the worst way possible
Idle Transfiguration is definitely one of my favorite one shot abilities because of how much Mahito can and does do with it. It feels like he's pulling out a new trick every few seconds. I love Overhaul too but it definitely felt like the quirk had wayy more potential than what Chisaki actually used it like.
It's not just Overhaul lol, 95% of characters in MHA are written in a way that makes them too stupid to use their powers in more nuanced applications, even the guy with a thousand quirks can only ever do "Big Melee attack" or "Big Range attack".
Overhaul works almost the exact same way as idle transfiguration. Give it to mahito and we'd see him do pretty much the same things. He's just that creative with it.
I imagine Overhaul's quirk is one of those where he could have made it so much more powerful after more time with it, think everything over. Mahito on the other hand is a curse where transformation came naturally to him so it was very simple for him to do crazy shit.
Overhaul definitely couldve done more but he can't create "new" things just reshape them or merge things. So he can't like hypothetically give himself wings on a whim due to how matter works but he could probably merge himself with a bird tho hed probably need more than one
I think Killer Queen’s bomb transfiguration is easily the best designed. He can only turn what he touches into a bomb and he can only have one bomb at a time, not to mention he can detonate it no matter where he is. Properly balancing a strong ability while also adding lots of great potential for strategy
what part of it is not balanced? He has limited range and he has limited ability for how much he can blow up. All of his other abilities are not as balanced and kinda broken tho
Balance can only be talked about in context. Yes, killer queen is pretty strong but keep in mind some of the Jojo crew include: star platinum with the ability to stop time and the hand with the ability to literally erase anything in his range. There's also Kira's stand that lets you open up anyone like a book and just add/erase anything you could possibly want. So no, I wouldn't say killer queen is overpowered, I'd say he was just right
JoJo's is so polarizing. Some stands just punch hard, and others have some bullshit ability like "If its raining at exactly 2:01pm on a Thursday, I am able to give you gallbladder cancer with my stand, Poker Face!"
The number of stands that kind of just punch steadily decrease with every part. Part 4 still has a lot of them, but even by part 5, the stands that do punch utilize their actual abilities far more often and far more effectively. The trend continues for pretty much every part to where from what little I’ve seen of part 9, the mc’s stand isn’t even capable of punching.
Thats the kind of stand a minor antagonist would get 😢 " I can destroy anything i touch as long as it's 3 minutes from midnight on a friday" and then they get they ass beat because their watch was broken and it was actually 4 minutes from midnight
To add to the killer queen part, part 8’s Yoshikage Kira isn’t a murderer but a marine surgeon with no want for murder and that shows through his ability. Instead of silent bombs that “erase” people, it’s a literal explosion that can be seen by anyone as he doesn’t have a need to hide.
@@laravioliiii2832 I have not been rude once, you are quite frankly lacking intelligence if you think that is the case, and besides, you’ve already admitted it by deleting your comments, I am done humouring you
The problem that arises from a touch of death villain is that it's inherently a all or nothing thing. Either the villain touches the protagonist and wins or they don't and can't really fight back.
I feel like Mahito is a pretty good use of this trope. If I remember right, he has to use his normal human hands if he wants to use Idle Transfiguration on someone, so if he hits them with a sword-hand or hammer-hand it's just a regular blunt or sharp weapon. But he can't really reach or easily grab someone with normal hands so he has to pin them down or weaken them first.
This can result in fights with some very interesting choreography, where a person's reach or range is emphasized over anything else. Or it can be a boring game of tag. Greatly depends on the execution.
@@TheRedMan77 he has to consciously activate it, unless he is in his domain where the special ability always hits, which is why the fights are so interesting, he can still trade punches, or like you mentioned transform his body to fight, only the guaranteed kill part of his ability is limited. Also he needs to touch the target for the duration of the first transformation. As shown in one of the later fights where only a part of a characters hand gets transformed and they don't die due to the physical contact not being long enough. (I hope that was vague enough to avoid any spoilers)
@@WelcometoTheEthernetwctually he can just touch the ground and it spreads like a disease, anything that touches what he touched will be destroyed, and the size of it is like a city.
Jojo has technically two one shot abilities in it. Kira’s killer Queen bombs, and Funny Valentines’ victim cloning. He has increased range because of D4C’s clause of needing them to be between two objects. But works fundamentally different due to timeline clashing. Diego died because despite the death of Valentine, his universe counterpart’s head (I believe?) was in the possession of someone, leading to Diego being destroyed.
It's curious to see how many of "touch of death" users are villains, huh. I understand that it's your personal list, but weird to see no passing mention of the Fist of the North star, one of the more iconic examples of "Touch of death" technique in anime.
It gets so little respect which makes me sad. Alongside yu yu hakusho they are famous anime that effect so many other series but they don't get much attention these days.
Had that in mind, but I've never watched Fist of the North Star so I knew I couldn't do it justice. I do feel like it's one of the first instances of this trope in anime, though!
@@pintschannel you should read the manga instead of watching the anime. the anime's really good, but it's got filler out the ass and is heavily censored
The simple reason on why most one-shot characters are villains is because it's significantly easier to write. Plus, on top of that, it is easier to convince someone that the ability can only be used for evil. Take hand guns from real life for example. It's very easy to see a gun and assume the person holding it is going to kill me, because that's the easiest thing to do with a gun. Being a mindless, evil, murderer is easy when you can just blindly shoot people. But it takes more control, thought processing, and reason to use a gun for good. It is inherently more difficult to find positive and useful ways to utilize a gun than just 'kill human'. Same goes for characters in fiction with one-shot abilities. A character who destroys everything they touch is going to be shunned by society and will probably be pushed into becoming a villain. A strange example is Lavagirl from "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl". She's supposed to be a hero and she struggles with the fact that everything she touches turns to ash. In her mind she is evil and destructive because that is what the world tells her. She needs external help from others telling her and ensuring her that she is not evil. The ability itself contradicts what it means to be a hero, which in most cases makes for an extremely interesting character if they choose to still be good. This video above of course is about the villains of anime in particular though, so covering all characters from all fiction with this ability would be much more complicated video lol
You know, something odd about Shigaraki’s quirk is that it was revealed his version of it is only HALF of the quirk, since the other half was able to revert the effects
Fun fact: in ch. 419 of my hero, it was revealed (I think indirectly???) that decay is a modified version of overhaul where Dr. Garaki (all for one's doctor) removed overhaul's ability to reverse it's effects.
My favourite representation of this is Julius Novachrono from Black Clover. He just drastically increases the age of anyones body to instantly kill them, ageing them to the point of decomposing.
Another example I love is Zora Salazar from Epithet Erased. Her ability, Sundial, lets her dial things forwards or backwards in any process. From falling off a building, to getting from point A to point B, even to someone's lifespan. Either by touch or by imbuing her ability into an object, like a bullet, then hitting a target with said object.
I think AFO should be mentioned too. I know it's not exactly a "touch of death" but if he touches you then it essentially means you're dead because you are suddenly rendered so powerless and defenseless that you're useless from that point onward. It's an interesting twist on the concept of "touch of death". I also really like MHA and how it handles touch of death due to Aizawa. Most of the time it just feels like it's just a contest to see how long the MC can dodge before finding an opening. Due to Aizawa, the touch of death is inactive unless he goes for Aizawa or Shigeraki has to be creative on the spot to actually defeat his opponents. Very interesting imo.
There's a lot of abilities that're functionally a touch of death, a win condition, that can really go into the same pigeonhole, honestly. Naruto's genjutsu got powercrept super hard, to the point where they're all win conditions, either you're immune because sage mode or whatever, or you're not and you lose. Good way to think of it is all-or-nothing abilities, Worm has it right. Either they work and you win, or they don't. Instant death is one such thing. Losing your powers. Getting sealed. Mind control. Path To Victory, or any other sufficiently powerful future-sight ability.
@@manoflead643 I agree but the only reason I bring up AFO is because it is a physical touch and cuz it works off Shigerakis decay well (plus Shigeraki has the same transfer move too)
The Tsukhime visual novel (same verse as the Fate Series) has a protagonist with this kind of ability: Shiki Tohno with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can see lines on any object or person, and tracing those lines even with a finger will force the immediate death of that object or person: basically he can cut through anything. To be more specific, anything with the Concept of Death (basically anything that can die in the Nasuverse) has these lines, so Shiki could theoretically kill any character in his verse (yes that includes Gilgamesh, tho good luck with that Shiki) besides the Ultimate Ones and a few others, all of which don't have the Concept of Death, and even then Shiki is one of the only people that can damage them. He does have to concentrate to clearly see the lines of more complex things, for example he has a easier time killing other living beings than inanimate objects. He could even kill concepts, but if he tried to even visualize the lines of death of a concept, his brain would probably explode or something. The protagonist of Kara no Kyoukai, Shiki Ryougi (no correlation with that name) has the same ability, tho she's different since she can turn them off, they consume WAY less stamina and cause WAY less mental stress, and she has actually killed concepts before, like Fujino's Psychic attacks and the future predicted by Mitsuru's Precognition
The transfiguration curse technique are op. If you can help your depressed friend by going to the street and find some girl that willing to do the deed on your friend for some cash, then turn her into catgirl. Ur Homie will be thankful for life im sure of that.
what about sugar from one piece, who can basically turn anyone into a slave just one touch. No limits have been displayed from the fruit. With her looking like a seemingly innocent child she can fool anyone at first and get close to them, which is all she needs to do in order to win the fight. If she plays her cards right even the strongest oppenent can be turned into a teddy bear in one instant.
@@ChickenNugget7 yeah its almost definitely more she cant be knocked out than just sleep. also she has to MAKE a contract with you, if she touches you and you can get away- you have no contract. i think it happened to one of the toys, but im not sure which one.
@@ChickenNugget7 getting knocked out is very different than sleeping, she can sleep normally but if she gets knocked out her ability stops and thats the only way other than killing her i assume
the problem with kira (not including btd) is that killer queen is abhorrently slow, josuke proved that its not that hard to just be faster than killer queen in their barrage exchange when he just hit killer queens elbows, also kira himself is just a human so if you break his hand before he can make the motion he wont kill you, dont get me wrong killer queen is one of the strongest stands in terms of destructive capability it just lacks in other departments
Ye that scene where mahito gets hard countered by gojo is kinda hilarious. He just runs in. Realizes he can’t do anything and is like Uhh Awkward! And then goes and hides somwhere in the background.
Mahito is probably the most potential villain in the anime (not saying that he shouldnt have died he shouldve because if he lived past shibuya remenber that he learned domain expansion in less than 6 months of existence, he was literally learning more about his abilitys in 6 months he already knew how to do alot of things. Mahito if he had more years of existence wouldve been worse than sukuna if you think about it, no infinity can stop your domain expansion,you dont care how resistent your opponent is just one touch and hes gone.
Actually, Idle Transfiguration can be resisted, as seen by whenever Mahito tries attacking Sukuna. If you asked my opinion on max potential Mahito vs. full power Sukuna (1 vs 1), Then I would say that Sukuna would most definitely win, one way or another. Yes, I think Mahito is very impressive but not on the level of the goat.🗣
I think it would be fun to have an anime protag who's only ability is a oneshot. It'd be something that takes time to do & each battle would be them finding ways to set it up. Have it require something of the opponent as well, so each battle is different.
I always felt as though Bites the Dust’s time reversal was actually a major flaw. It would kill a person, but then rewind time so they weren’t dead anymore. It practically creates a time loop until someone eventually finds out how to stop the ability and save those who would be blown up. Without the time reversal, the person who just learned Kira’s identity would die and stay dead. Though many Jojo villains have time-based abilities, it seems as though Kira’s time ability actually works against him.
Ngl my personal favorite 1 shot move comes from my favorite character who’s also from JJBA funny Valentine i just imagine so funny you see someone who looks JUST like you and you go to say hi then you just get evaporated
I love how Kira's Stand isn't just perfectly suited for his walk of life, it's a metaphor for him as a person. Much like Killer Queen can turn anything into a bomb without any sign to an outside viewer that the object is dangerous, Kira appears as an ordinary office worker on the outside, completely harmless and ordinary, leaving most people unaware of his deadly nature. He's a bomb ready to detonate, hidden in plain sight.
akame's murasame felt underused, anytime she was in a position to poison someone with it a normal katana would've worked just fine, the only exception was her final fight with esdeath
Hokuto no Ken definitively has a good staple "one shot touch of death" power system with the martial arts power system, especially on the protagonists side.
I don't think people realize just how terrifying Shigaraki's ability is because of the raw scale of it. A city is a much larger area than most people realize, and Shigaraki turned one of those into dust within seconds.
I love idle transfiguration cause of how wicked it is, if the bastard turns you into barney, your soul turns into barney, like damn, you're meeting the gates looking like that? Might as well erase my existence like damn
I don't know if we could count that, but I think Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken would fit. He acually can't touch his opponent and kill him, but as a Master of Hokuto Shinken, the strongest martial art, he have multiple abilities that make his opponent explode, instantly disabled or injured in very various ways. Its also interesting, because he's on the good side.
The hobi hobi fruit from one piece is also pretty scary. One touch and you turn into a toy, everyone forgets you and you become a slave for the rest of your life, plus the user can't age so they won't die for a long time
It becomes even more fascinating when you realize that had Yuji not clipped Mahito's wings when he did, he likely would've continued to grow in power until he rivaled Gojo and Sukuna. He was a real problem.
my favorite ability of this type is one that most people probably dont even think of as a one shot ability. im talking about illumis ability, needle man from hunter x hunter. by sticking a needle anywhere inside the victims body, illumi will immediately gain control over them and the victim will follow illumis command no matter how durable both physically or mentally they are. it is an immediate win if he hits you with his needle even once
kiras 1 shot is probably the most op if he was actually smart and thought outside the box to make his ability stronger like using a pistol with exploding bullets and not just coins you can easily react to (albeit idle transfiguration could also do that as weve seen mahito use humans as bullets which he can transform into anything he wants once it hits someone)
I think AFO should be mentioned too. I know it's not exactly a "touch of death" but if he touches you then it essentially means you're dead because you are suddenly rendered so powerless and defenseless that you're useless from that point onward. It's an interesting twist on the concept of "touch of death". I also really like how MHA handles touch of death due to Aizawa. Most of the time it just feels like it's just a contest to see how long the MC can dodge before finding an opening. Due to Aizawa, the touch of death is inactive unless Shigeraki goes for Aizawa or he has to be creative on the spot to actually defeat his opponents. Very interesting imo.
This reminds me of the time my friends and I were making up jojo stands for fun and I came up with “crimson macaroni” pretty much his ability is that if he touches you you turn into a macaroni noodle. Only later did we realize it would take golden experience requiem or possibly dio over heaven to beat him
Lavagirl from "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" is an interesting addition to the list lol. Similarly to Rouge from X-Men, she is a hero even though her power better suits a villain. The heros with one-shot abilities tend to be more interesting given the natural dilemma of their power. One-shot powers contradict what it means to be a hero, which is why it's seen mostly in villains.
ill be real bro its amazing that it took 1/5th of your video to actually start talking about your point, im here for this kind of video and i wanna hear your opinion, i dont wanna sit thru 3 minutes of pre-explaining
@@WoozyBL11yes and same with jogo I mean you don’t see most characters withstanding lava and that makes you wonder I mean you would assume it scales off of durability but not really I mean even gojo or Sukuna can’t as we can assume I would say most characters can’t survive lava like even jojos characters they don’t have insane durability feats so can they survive lava most likely not but hey
I think the main thing that makes a ToD ability good is when they don't necessarily rely on it. Obviously an antagonist can't just instakill the MC, it wouldn't be great, so they have to use other attacks while the MC watches for the instant death. Overhaul and Mahito are very good at this, keeping up the attack even when outranged or otherwise incapable of using their ToD. This is why i also think Decay is a bad ToD, its too all or nothing and had to be buffed to absolute balls just to compete, but at that point it had to be sealed so it couldn't just one shot everyone instantly.
There are also other "death touch" such as in jojo like "the hand" , "cream", the pillar men or even heavens door (if well used), tusk act 4 with his golden ratio and some "non canon" characters like OH DIO which can rewrite reality with his punch I also found some one piece characters like that, like crocodile, which can dehydrate to death any persons, like he did to luffy, or the guy from fishman island, which can target people with his left hand touch, or even the rust fruit user at enies, which could completely rust anyone and anything at touch.
Cream and The Hand can be one shot abilities, but they can also miss and just take an arm or something. A gun can do that, too. But if “using a gun” was a one shot ability there would be no end to the list of one shot characters.
there is also flandre from touhou that can just see the "eyes" of things and by crushing that eye she can destroy anything and everything. the only thing that balances that power is the fact that the world of touhou is not really that serious, so no one really kils each other
The worst part about mahito technique is that while being transform You can feel the pain while being transform and despite already dead due to not able to withstand the sudden transform, you still concious that whole time Not to say sometimes people still alive and can witness themselve become a bomb or smth(they cant stop themselve cause they are in mahito control)
Out of all the non-villain one shot characters, soi fon is probably my favorite. Her ability is like an assassin’s hidden dagger, where if she strikes a person, a butterfly appears, and striking again in a “cone-shaped” radius, the target will instantly die, no matter their strength. It’s perfect for the 2nd division captain, who is effectively a seasoned assassin. The thing that balances it is that it is almost completely ineffective against faster, typically stronger opponents, but if she somehow managed to strike say aizen twice in the same spot, even in his full evolution form, it would kill him. It’s a nice little balance, a guaranteed-kill move requires more speed than the opponent, and to strike them in the same general area twice. Then her bankai is an actually ballistic missile lol.
are we forgetting kira has killed the entire main cast and would have won if he just kept his mouth shut for literally 10 seconds
I didn't forget
hayato. :)
Its what makes him a good villain, he cant bare not getting recognition
Tho he wants his identity to be a secret @@The_all_mighty_power
He literally pulled off the crazied “clutch” of all time and is finally gonna win, bro wants to flaunt for the first time in his life, unfortunately that was what killed him 😂
Killer Queen is honestly the most OP due to how lowkey it is. Bites the dust is just the cherry on top. Kira is a top 10 anime villain for sure.
I love yoshikage kira and out of the 3 of these I agree, BUT, there are so many powerful stands that in the world of jojo's killer queen is not as big in its own series compared to the other 2
@@Rakso-F-2the earlier stands are 100% overshadowed by whatever the stands are on by universe 2 but as a main villain stand killer queen does well with a simple, to the point powerful ability
@@EriTheFish Yeah he is (imo) the best jojo villain!
I mean it ain’t the most op cause of absolutely broken abilities like d4c ger and wou
No
Mahito is definitely the worst, at least the others will just kill you in like a few seconds. Meanwhile Mahito will probably turn you into a sentient fleshlight or smth
Freaky ahh curse
He 100% did that at one point
Or turn into a platypus
@@XeanrikA platypus?
PERRY the platypus?
The crazies thing is that the inverse is also true. Dude can regrow lost limbs, cure incurable diseases and illness or gives people free sex transition and he uses it in the worst way possible
"I'm going to touch you" Ahh abilities
Bro if that was the last thing I would hear before dying I would laugh
Idle Transfiguration is definitely one of my favorite one shot abilities because of how much Mahito can and does do with it. It feels like he's pulling out a new trick every few seconds. I love Overhaul too but it definitely felt like the quirk had wayy more potential than what Chisaki actually used it like.
It's not just Overhaul lol, 95% of characters in MHA are written in a way that makes them too stupid to use their powers in more nuanced applications, even the guy with a thousand quirks can only ever do "Big Melee attack" or "Big Range attack".
Overhaul works almost the exact same way as idle transfiguration. Give it to mahito and we'd see him do pretty much the same things. He's just that creative with it.
I imagine Overhaul's quirk is one of those where he could have made it so much more powerful after more time with it, think everything over. Mahito on the other hand is a curse where transformation came naturally to him so it was very simple for him to do crazy shit.
Overhaul definitely couldve done more but he can't create "new" things just reshape them or merge things. So he can't like hypothetically give himself wings on a whim due to how matter works but he could probably merge himself with a bird tho hed probably need more than one
@@ShurikanBlade He can simply shape himself wings from the environment if he wanted.
I think Killer Queen’s bomb transfiguration is easily the best designed. He can only turn what he touches into a bomb and he can only have one bomb at a time, not to mention he can detonate it no matter where he is. Properly balancing a strong ability while also adding lots of great potential for strategy
"properly balancing" AHAHAHA
What’s your argument?
@@riverbandit2138 what argument is there to have, that's not balanced lmao
what part of it is not balanced? He has limited range and he has limited ability for how much he can blow up. All of his other abilities are not as balanced and kinda broken tho
Balance can only be talked about in context. Yes, killer queen is pretty strong but keep in mind some of the Jojo crew include: star platinum with the ability to stop time and the hand with the ability to literally erase anything in his range. There's also Kira's stand that lets you open up anyone like a book and just add/erase anything you could possibly want.
So no, I wouldn't say killer queen is overpowered, I'd say he was just right
JoJo's is so polarizing. Some stands just punch hard, and others have some bullshit ability like "If its raining at exactly 2:01pm on a Thursday, I am able to give you gallbladder cancer with my stand, Poker Face!"
The number of stands that kind of just punch steadily decrease with every part. Part 4 still has a lot of them, but even by part 5, the stands that do punch utilize their actual abilities far more often and far more effectively. The trend continues for pretty much every part to where from what little I’ve seen of part 9, the mc’s stand isn’t even capable of punching.
Jojo stands can get extremely niche
Thats the kind of stand a minor antagonist would get 😢
" I can destroy anything i touch as long as it's 3 minutes from midnight on a friday" and then they get they ass beat because their watch was broken and it was actually 4 minutes from midnight
@ there was something similar to this in part 3
To add to the killer queen part, part 8’s Yoshikage Kira isn’t a murderer but a marine surgeon with no want for murder and that shows through his ability. Instead of silent bombs that “erase” people, it’s a literal explosion that can be seen by anyone as he doesn’t have a need to hide.
@@laravioliiii2832the hell are you talking about, your reply has nothing to do with the original comment
@@laravioliiii2832 you were talking about part 4. Don’t you dare edit your comment in an attempt to make yourself look like you were coherent
@@laravioliiii2832 exactly, you are wrong and you know it.
@@laravioliiii2832 I have not been rude once, you are quite frankly lacking intelligence if you think that is the case, and besides, you’ve already admitted it by deleting your comments, I am done humouring you
@@laravioliiii2832 I was never once rude, you are not very smart, you prove you know your wrong simply by deleting your replies.
The problem that arises from a touch of death villain is that it's inherently a all or nothing thing. Either the villain touches the protagonist and wins or they don't and can't really fight back.
I feel like Mahito is a pretty good use of this trope. If I remember right, he has to use his normal human hands if he wants to use Idle Transfiguration on someone, so if he hits them with a sword-hand or hammer-hand it's just a regular blunt or sharp weapon. But he can't really reach or easily grab someone with normal hands so he has to pin them down or weaken them first.
This can result in fights with some very interesting choreography, where a person's reach or range is emphasized over anything else. Or it can be a boring game of tag. Greatly depends on the execution.
Then there's Shigaraki who's just like "Oh I can't decay, well, I am still as strong as all might so good luck"
@@TheRedMan77 he has to consciously activate it, unless he is in his domain where the special ability always hits, which is why the fights are so interesting, he can still trade punches, or like you mentioned transform his body to fight, only the guaranteed kill part of his ability is limited.
Also he needs to touch the target for the duration of the first transformation. As shown in one of the later fights where only a part of a characters hand gets transformed and they don't die due to the physical contact not being long enough.
(I hope that was vague enough to avoid any spoilers)
@@WelcometoTheEthernetwctually he can just touch the ground and it spreads like a disease, anything that touches what he touched will be destroyed, and the size of it is like a city.
Scar from full metal alchemist: brotherhood also fits this archetype
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Jojo has technically two one shot abilities in it. Kira’s killer Queen bombs, and Funny Valentines’ victim cloning. He has increased range because of D4C’s clause of needing them to be between two objects. But works fundamentally different due to timeline clashing. Diego died because despite the death of Valentine, his universe counterpart’s head (I believe?) was in the possession of someone, leading to Diego being destroyed.
Yep Lucy cut off og Diego's head and brought it near AU Diego and then he collided to death with the head
Also c-moon has a one shot
Cream
ZA HANDO!
Heavens Door! Remove his ability to cu-
nah but imagine rohan writing, “i fucking die”
The Hand is another oneshot, as is Vanilla Ice
It's curious to see how many of "touch of death" users are villains, huh.
I understand that it's your personal list, but weird to see no passing mention of the Fist of the North star, one of the more iconic examples of "Touch of death" technique in anime.
It gets so little respect which makes me sad. Alongside yu yu hakusho they are famous anime that effect so many other series but they don't get much attention these days.
Had that in mind, but I've never watched Fist of the North Star so I knew I couldn't do it justice. I do feel like it's one of the first instances of this trope in anime, though!
There's Rogue. I'm not familiar with comics, but in movies she has these abilities and is one of the good guys.
@@pintschannel you should read the manga instead of watching the anime. the anime's really good, but it's got filler out the ass and is heavily censored
The simple reason on why most one-shot characters are villains is because it's significantly easier to write. Plus, on top of that, it is easier to convince someone that the ability can only be used for evil.
Take hand guns from real life for example. It's very easy to see a gun and assume the person holding it is going to kill me, because that's the easiest thing to do with a gun. Being a mindless, evil, murderer is easy when you can just blindly shoot people. But it takes more control, thought processing, and reason to use a gun for good. It is inherently more difficult to find positive and useful ways to utilize a gun than just 'kill human'.
Same goes for characters in fiction with one-shot abilities. A character who destroys everything they touch is going to be shunned by society and will probably be pushed into becoming a villain. A strange example is Lavagirl from "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl". She's supposed to be a hero and she struggles with the fact that everything she touches turns to ash. In her mind she is evil and destructive because that is what the world tells her. She needs external help from others telling her and ensuring her that she is not evil. The ability itself contradicts what it means to be a hero, which in most cases makes for an extremely interesting character if they choose to still be good.
This video above of course is about the villains of anime in particular though, so covering all characters from all fiction with this ability would be much more complicated video lol
You know, something odd about Shigaraki’s quirk is that it was revealed his version of it is only HALF of the quirk, since the other half was able to revert the effects
Literally Killer Queen is the best and most well rounded one shot ability in this list. Also the most potent and way faster acting
Araki was cooking crazy peaks
Fun fact: in ch. 419 of my hero, it was revealed (I think indirectly???) that decay is a modified version of overhaul where Dr. Garaki (all for one's doctor) removed overhaul's ability to reverse it's effects.
Not overhauls ability directly but one similar
@@Jay10420 so a modified version, as op stated.
@@DiosluxBro doesn't understand the meaning of similar
@@halften5818 bro doesn't understand the meaning of redundancy
@@Jay10420 no it was specifically overhauls abbility.
My favourite representation of this is Julius Novachrono from Black Clover. He just drastically increases the age of anyones body to instantly kill them, ageing them to the point of decomposing.
That’s kind of like grateful dead from p5 jjba
like Barragan's ability from Bleach
ZA GUREITFURU DETTO
Another example I love is Zora Salazar from Epithet Erased. Her ability, Sundial, lets her dial things forwards or backwards in any process. From falling off a building, to getting from point A to point B, even to someone's lifespan. Either by touch or by imbuing her ability into an object, like a bullet, then hitting a target with said object.
Was not expecting an epithet erased mention! Nice!
I think AFO should be mentioned too. I know it's not exactly a "touch of death" but if he touches you then it essentially means you're dead because you are suddenly rendered so powerless and defenseless that you're useless from that point onward. It's an interesting twist on the concept of "touch of death".
I also really like MHA and how it handles touch of death due to Aizawa. Most of the time it just feels like it's just a contest to see how long the MC can dodge before finding an opening. Due to Aizawa, the touch of death is inactive unless he goes for Aizawa or Shigeraki has to be creative on the spot to actually defeat his opponents. Very interesting imo.
There's a lot of abilities that're functionally a touch of death, a win condition, that can really go into the same pigeonhole, honestly. Naruto's genjutsu got powercrept super hard, to the point where they're all win conditions, either you're immune because sage mode or whatever, or you're not and you lose.
Good way to think of it is all-or-nothing abilities, Worm has it right. Either they work and you win, or they don't. Instant death is one such thing. Losing your powers. Getting sealed. Mind control. Path To Victory, or any other sufficiently powerful future-sight ability.
@@manoflead643 I agree but the only reason I bring up AFO is because it is a physical touch and cuz it works off Shigerakis decay well (plus Shigeraki has the same transfer move too)
The Tsukhime visual novel (same verse as the Fate Series) has a protagonist with this kind of ability: Shiki Tohno with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can see lines on any object or person, and tracing those lines even with a finger will force the immediate death of that object or person: basically he can cut through anything. To be more specific, anything with the Concept of Death (basically anything that can die in the Nasuverse) has these lines, so Shiki could theoretically kill any character in his verse (yes that includes Gilgamesh, tho good luck with that Shiki) besides the Ultimate Ones and a few others, all of which don't have the Concept of Death, and even then Shiki is one of the only people that can damage them. He does have to concentrate to clearly see the lines of more complex things, for example he has a easier time killing other living beings than inanimate objects. He could even kill concepts, but if he tried to even visualize the lines of death of a concept, his brain would probably explode or something. The protagonist of Kara no Kyoukai, Shiki Ryougi (no correlation with that name) has the same ability, tho she's different since she can turn them off, they consume WAY less stamina and cause WAY less mental stress, and she has actually killed concepts before, like Fujino's Psychic attacks and the future predicted by Mitsuru's Precognition
same with Shiki Ryougi from Garden of Sinners/Kara no Kyoukai
0:58 You say that, but thats probably the only way to raise the tension from one touch one kill
I think Scar from FMA is a really solid example of this trope too🙏
The transfiguration curse technique are op. If you can help your depressed friend by going to the street and find some girl that willing to do the deed on your friend for some cash, then turn her into catgirl. Ur Homie will be thankful for life im sure of that.
or turn ur homie into a catgirl
0:13 the middle finger one 💀
Nah💀
Nah💀
Actual cornball
what about sugar from one piece, who can basically turn anyone into a slave just one touch. No limits have been displayed from the fruit. With her looking like a seemingly innocent child she can fool anyone at first and get close to them, which is all she needs to do in order to win the fight. If she plays her cards right even the strongest oppenent can be turned into a teddy bear in one instant.
Sugar limit is that she needs to be constantly to be conscious for the ability to work
@@Y.T.STachiis it true that she never slept? I thought it was more if she was knocked out or unintentionally fell unconscious somehow
@@ChickenNugget7 yeah its almost definitely more she cant be knocked out than just sleep. also she has to MAKE a contract with you, if she touches you and you can get away- you have no contract. i think it happened to one of the toys, but im not sure which one.
@@atramentouseyes4962 yeah Kyros didn’t have a contract
@@ChickenNugget7 getting knocked out is very different than sleeping, she can sleep normally but if she gets knocked out her ability stops and thats the only way other than killing her i assume
the problem with kira (not including btd) is that killer queen is abhorrently slow, josuke proved that its not that hard to just be faster than killer queen in their barrage exchange when he just hit killer queens elbows, also kira himself is just a human so if you break his hand before he can make the motion he wont kill you, dont get me wrong killer queen is one of the strongest stands in terms of destructive capability it just lacks in other departments
One touch powers are cool and all except for when they can’t touch the target 😳
Ye that scene where mahito gets hard countered by gojo is kinda hilarious. He just runs in. Realizes he can’t do anything and is like Uhh Awkward! And then goes and hides somwhere in the background.
@@lordofthehawkswell.. at least he can transfigurante his own body so his fights with yuji are still cool compared to if he had straight hands
@@jfkmax yeah.
In MHA shigaraki doesn't need to touch anyone anymore.😅
Just like the movie hot rod, but instead of killing you, it makes you crap yourself on the spot.
If you really think about it every stand is op. Cream is a literal black hole, Wonder of U controls calamity, tusk is tusk, and the list goes on
villains with one shots are what makes a scene scary ngl
There are 3 types of most OP abilities in anime
1. 1-touch=death
2. Copy any shit
3. Nah, you can't hit me
all 3 in jjk
1. Mahito's Idle Transfiguration
2. Yuta Okkotsu's Copy
3. Satoru Gojo's Infinity
jjk has everything
All three are in JJBA too
1. Cream and The Hand’s space erasion
2. White Snake’s Stand stealing disks
3. Funny Valentine with D4C: Love Train
@@Minelove423 Uses tusk act 4 to 'gently' wiggle your balls
Mahito is probably the most potential villain in the anime (not saying that he shouldnt have died he shouldve because if he lived past shibuya remenber that he learned domain expansion in less than 6 months of existence, he was literally learning more about his abilitys in 6 months he already knew how to do alot of things. Mahito if he had more years of existence wouldve been worse than sukuna if you think about it, no infinity can stop your domain expansion,you dont care how resistent your opponent is just one touch and hes gone.
Actually, Idle Transfiguration can be resisted, as seen by whenever Mahito tries attacking Sukuna. If you asked my opinion on max potential Mahito vs. full power Sukuna (1 vs 1), Then I would say that Sukuna would most definitely win, one way or another. Yes, I think Mahito is very impressive but not on the level of the goat.🗣
@@Solikapnanami also resisted it by protecting his soul
Yoshikage Kira is literally the Embodiment Of "One Shotting Your Ass".
I think it would be fun to have an anime protag who's only ability is a oneshot. It'd be something that takes time to do & each battle would be them finding ways to set it up. Have it require something of the opponent as well, so each battle is different.
I always felt as though Bites the Dust’s time reversal was actually a major flaw. It would kill a person, but then rewind time so they weren’t dead anymore. It practically creates a time loop until someone eventually finds out how to stop the ability and save those who would be blown up. Without the time reversal, the person who just learned Kira’s identity would die and stay dead. Though many Jojo villains have time-based abilities, it seems as though Kira’s time ability actually works against him.
He's not a villain but Shiki Tohno definitely does this best
Tsukihime mentioned
The chair throw of death
Ngl my personal favorite 1 shot move comes from my favorite character who’s also from JJBA funny Valentine i just imagine so funny you see someone who looks JUST like you and you go to say hi then you just get evaporated
Bungo stray dogs, Fyodor… honestly probably the best person to have an ability that’s sorta instant death.
I love how Kira's Stand isn't just perfectly suited for his walk of life, it's a metaphor for him as a person.
Much like Killer Queen can turn anything into a bomb without any sign to an outside viewer that the object is dangerous, Kira appears as an ordinary office worker on the outside, completely harmless and ordinary, leaving most people unaware of his deadly nature.
He's a bomb ready to detonate, hidden in plain sight.
If Decay = Homelander, then that makes Overhaul = Soldier Boy, if you get the point.
The Hand could also be a one shot ability, given the fact the it deletes matter
akame's murasame felt underused, anytime she was in a position to poison someone with it a normal katana would've worked just fine, the only exception was her final fight with esdeath
Hokuto no Ken definitively has a good staple "one shot touch of death" power system with the martial arts power system, especially on the protagonists side.
Awesome! Thanks for the video!
I don't think people realize just how terrifying Shigaraki's ability is because of the raw scale of it. A city is a much larger area than most people realize, and Shigaraki turned one of those into dust within seconds.
Watched this, thought it was really high quality and I just feel like this video will blow up
Your such an underrated creator
I love idle transfiguration cause of how wicked it is, if the bastard turns you into barney, your soul turns into barney, like damn, you're meeting the gates looking like that? Might as well erase my existence like damn
I don't know if we could count that, but I think Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken would fit. He acually can't touch his opponent and kill him, but as a Master of Hokuto Shinken, the strongest martial art, he have multiple abilities that make his opponent explode, instantly disabled or injured in very various ways. Its also interesting, because he's on the good side.
The hobi hobi fruit from one piece is also pretty scary. One touch and you turn into a toy, everyone forgets you and you become a slave for the rest of your life, plus the user can't age so they won't die for a long time
It becomes even more fascinating when you realize that had Yuji not clipped Mahito's wings when he did, he likely would've continued to grow in power until he rivaled Gojo and Sukuna. He was a real problem.
Love Idle transfiguration because mahito the Goat
U finished jjk season 2?
@@lordofthehawks yeah and tears fell down my face when i saw bro cry
@@ZuluCantona bro would literally turn you into a sentient table for his own fun😭🙏
@@ZuluCantona U. CRIED FOR MAHITO?
@@jfkmax what he gon do about my domain though
I like th idea behind mahitos ability.
Transforming people using an image created by observation of their not flaws but pure hater characteristics
My favorite ability, even in games, is regeneration. Can be attacking recklessly and back off when low on hp
my favorite ability of this type is one that most people probably dont even think of as a one shot ability. im talking about illumis ability, needle man from hunter x hunter. by sticking a needle anywhere inside the victims body, illumi will immediately gain control over them and the victim will follow illumis command no matter how durable both physically or mentally they are. it is an immediate win if he hits you with his needle even once
being jumpscared by fucking last horizon is insane
slayer's last horizon will forever haunt me
kiras 1 shot is probably the most op if he was actually smart and thought outside the box to make his ability stronger like using a pistol with exploding bullets and not just coins you can easily react to (albeit idle transfiguration could also do that as weve seen mahito use humans as bullets which he can transform into anything he wants once it hits someone)
The Decay quirk was derived from the overhaul quirk
I think AFO should be mentioned too. I know it's not exactly a "touch of death" but if he touches you then it essentially means you're dead because you are suddenly rendered so powerless and defenseless that you're useless from that point onward. It's an interesting twist on the concept of "touch of death".
I also really like how MHA handles touch of death due to Aizawa. Most of the time it just feels like it's just a contest to see how long the MC can dodge before finding an opening. Due to Aizawa, the touch of death is inactive unless Shigeraki goes for Aizawa or he has to be creative on the spot to actually defeat his opponents. Very interesting imo.
Yogiri definitely the most op one shoot ability
your forgetting that one guys ability from my overpowered one shot ability or smth like that where he can just think he wants you dead and your dead
This reminds me of the time my friends and I were making up jojo stands for fun and I came up with “crimson macaroni” pretty much his ability is that if he touches you you turn into a macaroni noodle. Only later did we realize it would take golden experience requiem or possibly dio over heaven to beat him
3:29 any thing WHAT ABOUT THE CAPE
He can chose what and what not to decay
Writing a manga and I’m making a one shot character, I love them so much so much fear they can strike
The Hand technically got a 1 Shot ability, if it don’t miss
I think Santa Claus’s ability from the CSM manga is a better representation of the Cheese Touch, since it spreads lmao
Lavagirl from "Sharkboy and Lavagirl" is an interesting addition to the list lol. Similarly to Rouge from X-Men, she is a hero even though her power better suits a villain. The heros with one-shot abilities tend to be more interesting given the natural dilemma of their power. One-shot powers contradict what it means to be a hero, which is why it's seen mostly in villains.
I can't wait to see Parnkgjas fight animated in the TYBW
long range one shots include tusk act 4, Gold Experience Requiem, and hollow purple
A lot of people hate these villians, but I like them a lot.
ill be real bro its amazing that it took 1/5th of your video to actually start talking about your point, im here for this kind of video and i wanna hear your opinion, i dont wanna sit thru 3 minutes of pre-explaining
U don’t have to watch the video then? It’s a presentation and I think it was entertaining atleast?
One problem: 90% of Jojo abilities are one shot abilities.
Panchi wa kanarazu ippatsu dakeda.
I mean not really
@xzkilerymax8395 I was slightly exaggerating but you get the idea.
@@xzkilerymax8395 a lot of the memorable stands are one shot in one way or another
@@WoozyBL11yes and same with jogo I mean you don’t see most characters withstanding lava and that makes you wonder I mean you would assume it scales off of durability but not really I mean even gojo or Sukuna can’t as we can assume I would say most characters can’t survive lava like even jojos characters they don’t have insane durability feats so can they survive lava most likely not but hey
“Lemme touch you” ahh trio😭
These are all my favorite
The fact both for MHA are actually just overhauls quirk but overhaul got the creation and transformation meanwhile shiggy got the pure decay
Bro like mahito has one of the only powers in fiction that have me chills bro like that movie theater shit was horrible
Wait till he watches my instant death ability is overpowered
I think the main thing that makes a ToD ability good is when they don't necessarily rely on it. Obviously an antagonist can't just instakill the MC, it wouldn't be great, so they have to use other attacks while the MC watches for the instant death. Overhaul and Mahito are very good at this, keeping up the attack even when outranged or otherwise incapable of using their ToD. This is why i also think Decay is a bad ToD, its too all or nothing and had to be buffed to absolute balls just to compete, but at that point it had to be sealed so it couldn't just one shot everyone instantly.
I love kira so mutch even after he died he had aura just get killed by plot
These three on a team and the world is most likely doomed seeing as how just Shigiraki alone is an international threat.
Hakai is literally existence erasure. It’s pretty OP.
My favorite one shot ability comes from jjk as well cleave is so fire but yet so underutilized
There are also other "death touch" such as in jojo like "the hand" , "cream", the pillar men or even heavens door (if well used), tusk act 4 with his golden ratio and some "non canon" characters like OH DIO which can rewrite reality with his punch
I also found some one piece characters like that, like crocodile, which can dehydrate to death any persons, like he did to luffy, or the guy from fishman island, which can target people with his left hand touch, or even the rust fruit user at enies, which could completely rust anyone and anything at touch.
Cream and The Hand can be one shot abilities, but they can also miss and just take an arm or something. A gun can do that, too. But if “using a gun” was a one shot ability there would be no end to the list of one shot characters.
KQ: a silent explosion that can be applied to anything that hasnt attained heaven
this was lowk a mad good video
i feel like we are forgetting someone.
there is also flandre from touhou that can just see the "eyes" of things and by crushing that eye she can destroy anything and everything. the only thing that balances that power is the fact that the world of touhou is not really that serious, so no one really kils each other
Killer queen is currently and always be my favorite stand (d4c is close second) best ability ever!
Kumagawa for medaka box is technically also a one shot cause he can erase concepts of I’m not mistaken
Shiki ryougi and her mystic eyes of death perception from kara no kyoukai
"Killer queen has already touched the subcribe button"
If Diddy had one of these powers he would be unstoppable
That one mf in my hero (overdrive?) was scary asf for a minute lmao
overhaul lmfao
The worst part about mahito technique is that while being transform
You can feel the pain while being transform and despite already dead due to not able to withstand the sudden transform, you still concious that whole time
Not to say sometimes people still alive and can witness themselve become a bomb or smth(they cant stop themselve cause they are in mahito control)
mahito failing to kill nobara when he has a oneshot technique is just a skill issue at this point
Idk if you've talked about this before but id like you to talk about damage transfer even tho there aren't that much i know other than hidan
The Death Dealing, another really broken oneshot ability.
i cant believe he forgot overhaul
Out of all the non-villain one shot characters, soi fon is probably my favorite. Her ability is like an assassin’s hidden dagger, where if she strikes a person, a butterfly appears, and striking again in a “cone-shaped” radius, the target will instantly die, no matter their strength. It’s perfect for the 2nd division captain, who is effectively a seasoned assassin. The thing that balances it is that it is almost completely ineffective against faster, typically stronger opponents, but if she somehow managed to strike say aizen twice in the same spot, even in his full evolution form, it would kill him. It’s a nice little balance, a guaranteed-kill move requires more speed than the opponent, and to strike them in the same general area twice.
Then her bankai is an actually ballistic missile lol.
have u even watched bleach lmao, soi fon literally uses it on aizen and it doesnt work. it doesnt work on people stronger than she is.
kumagawa : you're balls no longer exists
I rather just die 💀
Yogiri takatou: ok, die
@@akiox_0 kumagawa : languages no longer exists
@@codyzzyt-c8t yogiri : - u are already dead it doesn't matter langauge exists or not I am the one who decides it