The CGI of Stretchy Powers



With One Piece becoming a worldwide phenomenon, I thought we’d look back at all the characters with stretch and elastic powers over the years. Hope you enjoy.

00:00 Intro
00:35 Stretch Armstrong
01:34 Plastic Man
02:16 Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2
02:45 Stretch from Casper
04:13 Michael Jordan in Space Jam
04:56 Johnny Knoxville in MiB 2
05:48 Will Smith in MiB 3
06:04 Elastigirl from The Incredibles
08:04 Lash from Sky High
08:58 Mr. Fantastic (Fantastic Four movies)
10:31 Mr. Fantastic (Fan4stic)
11:22 Mr. Fantastic (Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness)
11:51 Kamala Khan from Ms. Marvel
13:14 Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy
14:51 Elongated Man from The Flash
16:24 Ezekiel from The Boys
17:12 Noodles from We Can Be Heroes
18:28 Luffy from One Piece
21:10 Outro

Did I miss any? Let me know in the comments.

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31 thoughts on “The CGI of Stretchy Powers”

  1. Who could have guessed that sticking to the source material, would turn out to be the secret to making a live action adaptation of an anime be a world wide hit.
    On a non-sarcastic note, it's the windup and momentum that really make stretchy powers work in animation and cgi IMO. Noodles was actually some of my favorite visuals, though not when he supersized his hand. It's the implication that it's gaining mass, yet he moves it with the same dexterity as if it had very little mass. I'm surprised Tom Hardy's Venom didn't make the list.

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  2. One Piece didn't get the inspiration from all the other media, all the other media got inspiration from One Piece. They are all One Piece References. Live action just adapted all the same stuff that happened in anime and manga which came way before flash and other live action tv series/ movies

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  3. nah i want to dispute opla taking ideas from other shows, as for the most part these scenes where made over 20 years ago, eg. the bullet sinking into character stuff is in the very very beginning of one peice the manga

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  4. What I love about one piece’s live action is how they didn’t hold back with the bizarre parts of the one piece world at all. You’d imagine of all shows, the one that focuses around a goofy rubber man would be the hardest to adapt to live action, and that they’d try to make it too serious, but mans just ballooned up and it worked
    Same kind of thing for the den den mushi. They’re just straight up fugly snails and it’s charming

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  5. Incredibles 2 blew me away with Elastigirl. They opened my eyes to the power/versatility of stretch powers just like one piece anime did.
    Pixar/disneys very high quality has been standard for so long that it goes over ppls heads how incredible these scenes are.

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