Shield Penetration

Shield Penetration
Inuyasha's (InuYasha) Red Tessaiga can destroy strong demonic barriers, although there are some beyond it's cutting power.
Power/Ability to:	Penetrate or destroy powerful defenses.

The ability to penetrate shield based abilities. Sub-power of Defense Break and Defense Manipulation.

Also Called

• Armor Break/Breaking/Destroying/Penetration
• Barrier Break/Breaking/Destroying/Penetration
• Shield Break/Breaking/Destroying

Capabilities

User possesses the perfect counter ability for any shield based powers and are able to distort, penetrate, or completely destroy the target's shields/defenses whether they are elemental shields/exoskeletons, energy shields, force-fields, one's armor, aura, or even skin and leave them open for attack.

This can be done with immense power, special ability, form of magic or super science, a powerful item, advanced technology, supernatural weapons, transformation, etc.

Associations

• Absolute Attack
• Defense Break
• Defense Manipulation
• Mental Shield Penetration
• Shield Removal

Limitations

• May require certain methods or objects to break the shield.
• May be limited to breaking only certain types of shields.
• Weak against Defense Recovery.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Narukami Sakaki (Absolute Duo)
• Rentaro Satomi (Black Bullet)
• Guts (Berserk); via Berserker Armor
• Yui Toyokawa and Shōta Toyokawa (Bleach)
• Lot (Denma); via Dimensional Manipulation Quanx ability
• Piccolo (Dragon Ball series)
• Jiren (Dragon Ball series)
• Inuyasha (InuYasha); via Red Tessaiga or Adamant Barrage
• Naraku (InuYasha)
• Youmeijou (InuYasha)
• Alph (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha); via Barrier Break
• Diane (Nanatsu no Taizai/The Seven Deadly Sins); via Supernatural Strength
• Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
• Magaki Group (Naruto)
• Mitsuki (Naruto)
• Chinjoa (One Piece); via Eight Impact Fist techniques
• Sai (One Piece); via Eight Impact Fist techniques
• The Black Maw (The Unexplored Summon://Blood Sign)
• Ryoko (Tenchi in Tokyo); after absorbing the Jurai Lightstone
• Legendary Knights (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho); via the Sword of the Darkness Flame
• Kuwabara Kazuma ( Yu Yu Hakusho) via the Dimension Sword
• Zatch Bell and Kiyo Takamine (Zatch Bell!); via Zakeruga
• Zoids that posses the Strike Laser Claw or Laser Blade (Zoids)

Video Games

• Kei and Yumi (Ape Escape 3); via their Fantasy Knight and Cyber Ace Morphs
• Batman (Batman: Arkham Origins); via Shock Gloves
• Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow); via Chaos Claws
• Strago Magus (Final Fantasy VI); via Quasar
• Marth (Fire Emblem/Super Smash Bros.); via Shield Breaker
• Lucina (Fire Emblem/Super Smash Bros.); via Shield Breaker
• Kratos (God of War series); via Thera's Bane
• Jak (Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy); via Red or Yellow eco
• Zeekeeper (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
• Pokémon that can learn the move Brick Break (Pokémon)
• Players with the ShieldBuster skill equipped (Punch Quest)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog); via super form
• Link (The Legend of Zelda series); via a full-powered Master Sword
• Galeem (Smash Bros Ultimate)
• Randgrith (Valkyrie Crusade)

Literature

• Voldemort (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
• Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern (The Mortal Instruments)
• Wesson (King's Dark Tidings)

Live Television

• The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Gideon (Charmed); with a blessed blade
• Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
• Renesmee Cullen (Twilight Saga)

Cartoons

• Queen Chrysalis (My Little Pony Series)

Known Objects

• Gugnir (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
• The Sword Card (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Blessed Athame (Exile/Avernum series)
• Elder Wand (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
• The Tessaiga (InuYasha); via its Red and Diamond forms
• Lightning Chariot (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
• The Master Sword (The Legend of Zelda series)
• Fused Shadow (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
• Rain Flush (Mega Man IV)
• Shield Killer (Mother 3)
• Gae Dearg (TYPE-MOON)
• Axe of Annihilation (Valkyrie Crusade)

Known Powers

• Rain Flush (Mega Man IV)

Gallery

Anime/Manga

With the aid of his Berserker Armor, Guts (Berserk) gains a massive increase in his already immeasruable strength...

...granting him the power to crack the stronger than steel corundum skin of Grunbeld's apostle form.

With his Rokuro Kabuto technique, Rentaro Satomi (Black Bullet) can unleash a vigorous punch capable of breaking the Repulsion Shield, a shield that earned the title of the strongest defense.

Ichigo Kurosaki's (Bleach) Bankai is so powerful, that simply releasing it caused Yukio's Chatroom dimensional barrier to split and shatter, which shouldn't be possible by normal means.

Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z) piercing through Babidi's Wizard Barrier.

Jiren (Dragon Ball Super) using his immense ki to smash through Android 17's energy barriers.

Inuyasha (InuYasha) can use the Diamond Tessaiga's Adamant Barrage technique to penetrate barriers that the Red Tessaiga cannot.

Naraku (InuYasha) using the Yōmeiju's branches to dissolve the Infant's barrier.

Sasuke Uchiha's Chidori (Naruto series) is a powerful jutsu with penetrative capabilities. It is strong enough to pierce through Gaara's otherwise impenetrable sand-based defense.

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto) firing her "All-Killing Ash Bones" with such force that it pierced through Kakashi's "Susanoo".

The Gáe Dearg (TYPE-MOON) is a spear that renders magical enhancements and projections useless by severing all ties with magical energy, such as Saber's armor.

The Three Legendary Knights (Yu-Gi-Oh!) destroy the Orichalcos Barrier, which is otherwise indestructible.

Although it is a Rank C technique, Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) was able to use the Sword of the Darkness Flame to slash and burn through Kuro Momotaro's Armor of the Wolf.

With his Dimension Sword, Kuwabara Kazuma (Yu Yu Hakusho) can cleave through virtually anything including space, dimensions, and even the Kekai that separates the Human World and Demon World.

Zatch Bell and Kiyo (Zatch Bell!) can use Zakeruga to fire a concentrated beam of lightning with the force to pierce armor.

The Blade Liger (Zoids) possesses the Laser Blades, powerful, razor sharp blades that can be further charged with laser technology in order to cut clean through the armor of enemy Zoids.

The Liger Zero (Zoids) has the Strike Laser Claw, a chargeable energy weapon that is powerful enough to tear through enemy armor to deal damage.

Video Games

Kei and Yumi (Ape Escape 3), when morphed as the Fantasy Knight, posses immense strength with their weapons that allows them to break the armor of monkeys.

Whenever Kei and Yumi morph into the Cyber Ace, they are able to project powerful laser that is able to blasts of the armor of the stronger monkeys.

Using the Shock Gloves, Batman (Batman: Arkham Origins) can effortlessly pierce through riot shields and body armor.

Gabriel Belmont/Dracula (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) can use his Chaos Claws to penetrate enemy shields and armor through brute force and heat.

Lucina's (Fire Emblem/Super Smash Bros.) Shield Breaker attack can easily pierce through enemy shields when fully charged.

When his Blades of Athena are infused with Thera's Bane, Kratos (God of War series) is able to destroy the shields and armors of various creatures, and even burn the armored skin of Thantos' beast form.

Whenever Jak (Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy) is empowered with either Red or Yellow eco, he is able to easily dispatch of bone armor Lurkers and the shields of Lurker glacier troops in one hit.

Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) using the Lightning Chariot to penetrate the barrier around Palutena's Temple.

The Zeekeeper (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team) fires his Wakebeam to penetrate the barrier around Neo Bowser Castle.

Whenever he becomes Super Sonic, Sonic (Sonic The Hedgehog series) is powerful enough to break through powerful barriers.

After restoring the Power to Repel Evil to the Master Sword, Link (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) was able to destroy the magic barrier Ganondorf created around Hyrule Castle.

Using the Fused Shadow, Midna (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) was able to destroy the magic barrier Ganondorf placed around Hyrule Castle.

After acquiring the Master Sword Link (The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds) was able to destroy the barreir of dark magic that Yuga created around Hyrule Castle.

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Randgrith (Valkyrie Crusade) the Shield-Destroyer.

Gáe Dearg (TYPE-MOON)

Live Television/Movies

Empowered by Buffy's blood, the Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) pierces through the force field imprisoning him.

Voldemort (Harry Potter) uses the Elder Wand to penetrate the shield around Hogwarts.

Others

Loki (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes) penetrates Captain America's Vibranium-steel alloy shield with Gugnir.

Renesmee Cullen (Twilight) can penetrate both mental and physical shields via touch.