Fuck Yes

[redbrunja]

From tv.tropes:

"Tsunade in Naruto can not only deliver an armour piercing slap but an earth shattering kick. Such is her incredible strength that the beat the titular character with one finger. Her student, Sakura, is following in her footsteps and Tsunade herself has commented that she could become stronger then her.
What's scary? Is that her Armor Piercing Slap is tied to her ability to increase her NORMAL attack strength."

I have no idea where they got this fact, but I just want to say: Fuck, yes. If you watch Sakura, when she is breaking down walls and punching through mountains, her posture is fucking excellent. You get hit by someone with form like that, it's going to fucking hurt.

I have no doubt, that in a straight hand to hand fight, she could beat just about anyone sans Lee or Gai, without using a smidge of chakra.

Pay attention, fanfic writers.

(Okay, it was just that fanfic that one time, but it bugged me then, and it retroactively bugs me a hella lot having seen Sakura post-timeskip.)

Also, I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I will love tvtropes.com forever for having the header quote for both "Badass Normal" and "Action Girl" be this fabulous quote by the fabulous Karrin Murphey:

"I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass. I dropped the ghoul, and I'm the one who rammed a chainsaw through the head of that plant monster thing. Crippled the ogre too. What did you do? You threw a can of Sterno at him. That's barely an assist."

-Detective Lieutenant Karrin Murphy, The Dresden Files.

....Except some jerk totally changed the quote on badass normal to something someone I don't care about said. *annoyed face*

Comments

[studentrobin.livejournal.com]

Changed it back, because that quote fits way, way more than the Devil May Cry one does. Also, I've only read Stormfront, but I agree that Murphy is just plain awesome.

At some point you mentioned having a top five or ten Urban Fantasy series. Was that a generalization? If not, I'm always, always looking for recs..

I see you have fallen into the trap of Trope Browsing. Ah, the many disappearing hours..

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

…Uh, without super strength Sakura is pretty utterly de-fanged. Bear in mind that she’s cultivated a very particular strength and been taught to fight with it. Without it her fighting style would be mostly obsolete. It’s like if Neji or Hinata lost their Jyuuken: they’d probably just end up breaking their fingers trying to use the same moves. Sakura’s style is less specialized, but the principle is the same. This isn’t to say she would be defenseless, but I doubt she’s really that much stronger with than any of the other Konoha twelve, who all tend to specialize in a form of close combat. Actually with the exception of Shikamaru, Ino and Shino, who all are long range fighters, she’d probably get beaten (assuming of course that they couldn’t use their long range techniques. If they could probably everybody short of Ino could beat her).