Pulls
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- In Song of the Lioness series, this happens in the last book but the Big Bad is trying to use magic to yank the sword out of the Heroine's hands and she pulls it back, lets the power build, and releases it to fly straight into his chest, killing him.
Source: Gone Horribly Right / Literature -
On being told it was paid for, Balon replies "I will not have my son bedeck himself like a whore" and pulls it off with "a yank so hard it was like to take Theon's head off, had the chain not snapped first."
Source: Dramatic Necklace Removal - Particularly Bernard, who pulls a crowbar out of his pants pocket a few times, and stores away a considerable length of hanging rope by giving it a yank and holding his pocket open while the entire thing just falls in.
Source: Hammerspace / Video Games
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