with intense training, there's people who can actually walk on a Lotus's leaves, those big ones. and Izuna drop as much as i know originally is from an assassinate move where one hug the target and do a double suicide from a building. flying swallow is a cooler and more game ish version of a quick draw, in samurai's art. everything is originate somewhere else. and have bases.
breathing fire and such was actually some chemical spit, along with some source of igniting object like a spark from a sword for example.

@lunar, since when EP can stay ontopic in these kind of threads again? xD