Gamma Ray

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Gamma Ray is one of Justice's, and later Dizzy's, Overdrive Attacks introduced in the original Guilty Gear.

It has a variant: Emotional Gamma Ray (感情的なガンマレイ, Kanjōtekina Ganma Rei?), and it is Dizzy's second Instant Kill, replacing I can't... contain my strength in Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-.

Story

Gamma Ray is Justice's signature method of attack. It is among the most singularly destructive attacks in the series, being used to utterly annihilate Japan instantly.^[1] Its power comes from the Scales of Juno that That Man planted in Aria.^{[source needed]} In her sealed form (that is, the Justice that was revived at the end of the Second Holy Order Selection Tournament),^[2] however, it is notably less powerful; it takes the form of a beam of energy fired from Justice's shoulder cannons.^[3] Justice is not directly seen using it in her true form, although it is said to create a bright light.^[1]

Overview

Gamma Ray

Justice opens her shoulder cannons, hunches over and briefly charges, and then rears back and roars, blasting almost the entire screen with a massive blue laser.

It does tremendous damage due to its very high number of hits and high base damage, and is capable of annihilating some characters in a single activation if their Guard Balance is flashing. However, in XX, it has a very long startup, as even though the screen flashes and has the super background, the opponent can move and attack to interrupt Justice freely. The attack can easily be avoided if the opponent jumps over and behind her, leaving Justice stuck for so long as she fires the laser that the opponent can taunt several times and still punish her. It should be used with caution with the opponent locked down with nukes on the other side of the screen, as it does a massive amount of chip damage.

Emotional Gamma Ray

Necro is about to finish Dizzy's opponent off with a Gamma Ray, but Dizzy tackles him to prevent Necro from killing her foe. The Gamma Ray barely misses its target and her opponent watches as it detonates in a massive nuclear explosion in the mountain range behind them. They turn their head back with a fearful expression on their face (with the exception of Slayer, Ky, Bedman, Raven and Zato, who are bored, starry-eyed, non-reactant, a state of surprise/joy and neutral respectively). Unlike other Instant Kills, it does not "destroy" the opponent, but the opponent will instead give up, as seen by the end screen reading "Surrendered" instead of "Destroyed".

Trivia

A gamma ray is the term for an energy ray of small wavelength within an electromagnetic spectrum.
It is one of two Instant Kills in Xrd that changes the standard "Destroyed" that follows, the other being And Then She Said... Farewell.
Despite Bedman not showing a reaction his bedframe's head turns instead, however it is not visible due to the camera.
Axl, Chipp, Slayer, Ramlethal and Dizzy are the only characters to move their hands in response, with Axl and Ramlethal raising their hands in surrender, Chipp pointing at the explosion, Slayer shrugging and Dizzy covering her mouth.
This Overdrive is named after the German power metal band Gamma Ray.^[4]