 In the "" episode "Day of the Samurai", Kyodai Ken, Bruce Wayne's rival from his days training in Japan, forces Master Yoru to reveal his secret death touch.Wayne survives the technique by wearing a protective pad to absorb the force of the blow.In the Robert Rankin stories Hugo Rune, and others, are credited as practitioners of "Dimac", described as the deadliest martial art known to man, capable of disfiguring and dismembering the opponent with the slightest touch, or condemning the victim "to forever walk sideways in the manner of a crab".