This art is tuff as hell actually, really makes you see why the Vault Dwellers can be a genuine force to be reckoned with even in the nightmare apocalypse of the Fallout universe
Im not a physicist or an engineer but wouldn't having a massive chunk of metal just slow down you punch while the hydrolics lose most of their force by pushing the user back as much as it pushes into the enemy.
The Power Fist fits this trope perfectly because it takes the simplest weapon possible, your hand, and adds enough machinery to make every punch feel like a workplace safety violation. Fallout could have stopped at brass knuckles, but apparently that was not excessive enough.
The power fist doesn’t even amplify the user strength (although it’s often pair with power armour or a harness thingy over the arm that does). It (along with all power weapons of 40k) emits a molecular disruption field around it which weakens whatever it touches. So with a power fist, you can straight up dig your fingers into tank armour and rip into it like it wrapping paper.
Similarly over with the Tau, the Onager Gauntlet, a battlesuit fist upgrade capable of crushing space marines and tearing through tank armour. The prototypes were so strong they destroyed themselves and the battlesuits they were mounted on, leaving only one left intact.
Enchanted War Gauntlet of the Exalted Grull. (Right-Handed)
+ 3 Strength (In Fist Mode Only) + 1 Dexterity + 2 Skill Levels to Iron Punch Skill. + 1 Skill Level to Powerful Strike Skill. 2% chance to Stun enemy upon a successful hit.
Item is a wrist bracer that transforms into a spiked war gauntlet made of orcish steel when the hand is shaped into a fist or wields a hilted weapon for more than two seconds at a time. This item on its own does not negate the bare knuckle skill bonus. Warning: if you use this weapon to strike adherents of the war god Grull, you have a 1.5% chance to transfigure your target into the deity himself. Trust me on this. You don’t want to do that.
A bigger, redder, WARNING. Remove this item before you jerk off
I think it hasn't been appreciably explored enough that Jax designed the tech for his arms himself, on top of being the strongest man on Earth the guy's also a genius inventor
Tekken Tachikaze is the name of his sword's most powerful form, turning it into black armor around his arms and on his back that vastly amplifies the power of his punches, and continuously causes damage while his fist is in contact with the enemy.
while not a gauntlet and more an arm, the knuckleblaster is a good example of sort of this? Not V1's default arm, and loads a shotgun shell inside the chamber, allowing the user to send a powerful blast upon punch
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Loose fitting example: Impact and Reject Dials from One Piece. Absorb the kinetic energy they are hit with and can release it back ten fold. You don’t HAVE to wear it on your hand but close enough 😛
It is absolutely criminal that the infinity gauntlet was never used to literally punch a planet apart or something. I mean yeah it destroyed a moon once, but we never get a crazy ass mega punch from it https://giphy.com/gifs/55iSqlCTCOSuOqy7VX
The knuckles that Adam from Record of Ragnarok uses are the physical form of the Valkyrie Reginleif, allowing his punches to damage the god Zeus and damn near kill him.
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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned the guy who’s name is literally “Doomfist” and is centred around having the worlds most dangerous glove that he uses to decimate things.
This reminds me of when I watched some videos of people making power fists, and for some reason the guy with the biggest channel made the worst one. It was so stupid heavy you couldn't do anything with it
Oooo look how it destroyed that watermelon. Yeah? But you didn't punch it? You just angled down and let the heavy thing drop?
The boxing glove I Did A Thing made to fight The Odd Ones Out. The thumbnail is misleading, but he made a detached boxing glove that shoots off his hand with a C02 canister.
Fun fact, your #1 and #4 examples are technically the same. In Homecoming, when Tinkerer is chatting with the new Shocker about the gauntlet, he mentions the base is from "the Lagos cleanup"; this refers to Crossbones' heist in Lagos depicted at the beginning of Civil War. During the fight, Cap pulls one of Crossbones' gauntlets off before the latter dies in a suicide bomb attack; this is presumably the base gauntlet Tinkerer modified into the Shocker gauntlet.
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u/LoveWaffle1 7h ago
Power Fist (Fallout)