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Nothing spells more than literally everybody else being Badasses who know Martial Arts in one or another form. Because it isn't just.
It's literally everyone!Some like to portray a world where violence solves everything. Everyone can and will be a martial arts master. Or a beast at Or a black belt in.It doesn't matter whether or not it was hinted that they know how to fight nor does it matter whether or not they even look like they can. They can, do, and will.In comedy shows, this can be played for laughs, when characters spontaneously break out into epic fights over trivial things like who lost the remote, who should pay for dinner, or who threw a chair.
It is not uncommon for the song to begin playing. Highly common in and genres, where it's harder to name a character who doesn't know some martial art.See also, and to set the mood. Seems to be this trope limited to all kinds of monks. Can be a form of, where 'Super' is defined as 'Martial Artist'. Occurs when an absurdly chaotic gun fight breaks out.Contrast, when it's painfully obvious that the people don't know how to fight, and, which is when the Actors are the ones that don't know how to fight.Trope title is from classic song by Carl Douglas (First four lines shown above) that describes the style of this trope perfectly.
Everyone knows some martial art variation, from Anything Goes Tea Ceremony to Martial Arts Figure Skating. You name it, it's a martial art. Even. The genre in general. Every opponent the main character meet will inevitably have a theme to their item or pet, which they will invariably ALSO be a martial arts master in this style as well.
As they, they will also (pointlessly) perform shadow fighting techniques to point out how kick ass they are. Perhaps to convince us (and themselves) that they're not just, you know, fighting with cards and plastic toys. Although in the case of, many characters actually are good fighters, which was particularly relevant in the first few volumes of and the. It's never really explained why there just happens to be a Kung Fu school in the middle of a 6th century English town, in but it is very convenient when Arthur is being chased by the Evil King's men, is on the verge of being overrun and needs refuge and back up in order to escape. Played to hilarious, awesome excess in. The local mobsters make the mistake of trying to extort money from an apartment building where no less than six people are kung fu masters.
features kung fu fighting hip hop dancers. One of the staples of 's films is him playing a kung fu fighting cop. Jackie Chan's opponents tend come from all walks of life, including accountants. A plot point in the movie: the hero wants to spread Shaolin Kung Fu and points out to a soccer coach how it could be used to improve peoples' lives (like avoiding and ). After they win a soccer tournament with an entire team of Shaolin monks, the hero gets his wish, and we get a of people using kung fu.
In the English dub, the song that plays in the background is a cover of 'Kung Fu Fighting' by Carl Douglas. The film also features a woman who uses tai chi to cook and play goalie. Played with in the 2008 film, as everyone in the Racer family is able to prodigiously defend themselves against enemy racers, ninjas, etc. Most of them somehow know Kung Fu, although Pops uses his wrestling pedigree to kick ass with.
The exception is the Racers' mechanic Sparky, who and repeatedly has to be bailed out by his infinitely more skilled companions. has Blade repeatedly fighting scores of with martial arts.
Vampires don't seem to hand out many guns to their minions. ends with a massive kung fu battle. On one side you have Han's army of martial arts students, trained to kill mercilessly with their bare hands. On the other side you have. A bunch of vagrants and runaways, kidnapped from the streets of Hong Kong and freshly released from Han's dungeons. The two sides appear to be about evenly matched., another Thai martial-arts film from the director of.
Everyone on the streets of, from warehouse labourers to butchers to gangsters, is a martial artist of some kind (except for the transvestite gangbangers, who use guns). Almost all of them have their ass handed to them by an. 3: Carter clearly knows how to fight by now against other fighting experts. plays this to the bone.
Random women in red dresses that resemble the antagonist's wife strike stances and try to fight, among other characters that have no business knowing martial arts. To be fair, all but the four main characters are terrible at it.
In, every anchorman apparently keeps weapons on their person, at all times. in due to the training programs, where people can simply the necessary skills. The climax of. After the 'fake Rock Ridge' is blown up by the Waco Kid, Sheriff Bart leads every single one of the townspeople in a wild and confused attack on Hedley Lamarr's gang. Even the women throw punches, the preacher (immediately asking God to forgive him for that), and the town drunk knocks a thug. The free-for-all eventually literally -onto the Warner Brothers studio lot where Blazing Saddles is being filmed, with other productions being swept up in the turmoil and everyone eventually fighting their way into the studio cafeteria, where one of the cooks just happens to have a huge tray of custard pies handy so the entire cast can. Happens quite frequently in the / films.
While roughly half the arch-villains (, Penguin and Riddler especially) are and/or, their are often improbably masters of kung fu, karate and various other styles, some of them even wielding. For, Burton even had to hire ten (mostly) nameless guys from a Hollywood dojo specifically for a fight scene. Gets really ridiculous in, where an entire street gang who spend most of their time threatening and mugging teenage girls are all skilled at kendo and various forms of hand-to-hand combat. A more realistic approach was taken in films, where the for the most part don't know how to fight and just rely on guns.
Happens a little more than two-thirds of the way through Disney's when some gangsters try to shake down a diner. A fistfight breaks out, and everyone in the diner joins the action, including the kitchen staff who come out. is the simple timeless story of a taekwondo rock band having to fight against street thugs and drug-dealing biker ninjas. Nearly everyone in it knows martial arts, even a nightclub owner and assorted extras. You can easily tell that most of the characters are played by martial artists,. As happily puts it, everybody in Uganda knows kung fu in, from the terrorists to the military soldiers. Interestingly enough, all the actors in the movie, and there is a Shaolin Kung Fu school in Uganda.: Since, everyone is apparently learning karate as well.
The Japanophile Connor is an expert, and the ordinary cop Web is also inexplicably an expert. The pair bypass a bouncer who brags about his black belt via some. The film also adds a gratuitous scene where Connor and Web fistfight some mooks sent by the Japanese. Lampshaded at the end of Film/Bowfinger. They're making a film in Taiwan, where all the locals know kung-fu. The Westerners are shown as painfully bad at it, but still mowing through mobs of extras.
Dawn: But he's new!. In the roleplaying game, one of the cardinal rules of combat is that everyone — EVERYONE — knows at least some kung fu.
They might not have enough skill for it to register in their stats, but if a character is capable of more motion than your average baby, then they know kung fu. Except for those who have just the Guns skill combat-wise, like the Killer or the Techie. Those guys just dive around, take cover, and use the to full effect (and they probably know ). Or the Sorcerer, who uses the Sorcery skill to rain all over his enemies' parade. Sometimes literally. may be a better example of this trope in tabletop games than. In this game, every character, whether they specialize in melee, gunplay, sorcery, or just kicking ass style, knows Kung Fu.
You even get to select your character's specific style of Kung Fu upon creation!. The same applies for any based on, such as the RPG, Thrash, and Final Stand.
The RPG, and (one assumes). As well as its successor,. One officially listed campaign suggestion for is to have everyone be a gestalt monk (basically, add in the abilities of the monk class on top of whatever actual class any character has), specifically to evoke this kind of feeling in a campaign. It's even easier in with the tracks. Everyone just takes one of the Monk class' 'Discipline of the Serpent/Dragon/Crane' tracks, and you can have a barbarian that knows kung-fu, a jedi that knows kung-fu, a thief who knows kung-fu and a that knows kung-fu.
loves its Supernatural Martial Arts and as such:. The companion book 'Scroll of the Monk' suggests using this trope liberally and with gusto should one of the PCs be looking for a hidden martial arts master. Burn Legend, in. The character sheet doesn't even have social or mental stats, and the general assumption is that any NPC of significance is going to be a black belt.
Sidereals (also known as fate ninjas) are all over them. They all, mandatorily start with at least two points in martial arts (Endings Caste start with three and specialises in them).
They also have their own whole tier of martial arts, which generally involves beating up concepts of reality and stands above everything else. They also have a unique Background related to having a martial arts teacher. is all about tracking down terrorists around the globe, taking them on in fistfights, and capturing them. Terrorists who, inexplicably, have the same martial arts skills as you do? Including.
In, almost every character or enemy seems to have some sort of training in a martial art. Even the lingering spirits of random dead people seem to be capable of martial arts skills as advanced as yours. Makes the sole case of a (Fuyao, the girl who you rescue from slavers in Gao the Greater's pirate base) stand out. Everybody seems to have a hardon for Big Boss's CQC system. The two-person non-lethal takedowns in often begin with the targets attempting to expertly melee Jensen followed by an equally expert counter and finishing move. The takedowns can be done not just on enemies but also regular NPCs.
Which means that you can witness elaborate martial battles not just between Jensen and soldiers, but between Jensen and ordinary civilians or even between Jensen and street prostitutes. From onwards, if you pickpocket anyone and they catch sight of Ezio, the victim will attempt to punch him out.
Key word being attempt: It doesn't take many punches from Ezio to put them in their place.: Most people, including all mooks and many male civlians, know kung fu in. If you hijack a car or start punching people in the street, you may be surprised by the number of people who will at least try to hit back.: Everyone you fight is a strangely adept combatant; this is particularly strange, as you are the only one who seems to have gotten any training at all.: Unlike the first game, a is offered as to why everyone is so great at fighting. The world of Zenozoik is a primitive place, and the people there have neither a concept of law nor justice. The standard dispute resolution method is —much to Golem's exasperation. Turns out to be true for 1, and to some extent 2. As the secret 'outtakes' level proved, the same swordfighting system which allowed guards, humanoid monsters and undead alike to go weapon-to-sword with Garret also works with all those harmless human servants, ballerinas and passersby - if they weren't flagged to act as scared noncombatants they could kick your ass unarmed with the same moves, probably while. The developer notes lampshade it kind of looks like kung fu.
Pretty much the case in. Justified in the stories; in this world, just having powers of some sort marks one as a target of both and, so the school administration is determined to give every one of their students at least some sort of fighting chance. Students have to take either introductory martial arts ('introductory' in the ) or Survival (which is more about than wilderness survival), and those who don't take it in their first semester usually regret it when they discover the Combat Finals at the end of term. As a result, huge numbers of mutants at the school can pull off some aikido or Shaolin kung fu or whatnot, and fair number are quite proficient; there are even, the, within the school walls.
There are over half a dozen teachers whose job is teaching martial arts, in a school of under 600 mutants. At least three students (Fey, Bladedancer and Pejuta) have personal martial arts trainers, though these specialists also help with some other students sometimes. There was an unusual prevalence of combat skilled characters in V3 and its Pregame, especially since the characters are all, at best, highschoolers.
Averted in V2 and V1, mostly, since few characters got opportunities to engage in hand to hand fighting. The, where every single one of the site's contributors proved to be semi-competent, marginally deadly martial artists. Except for Ma-Ti, who has as his power. It seems that almost character in is fairly skilled with firearms. In that firearms training and basic marksmanship are mentioned as being mandatory or that the employee in question enjoy recreational shooting. In, even Ronnie's next door neighbor is one of the mook squad that attacks him.
Many, many animated Disney films (both classic ones and ones from more modern eras) often have a climax that's all about this, with taking on the villains in a zany brawl with plenty of opportunities for outrageous slapstick and similar comical moments in what may well be an otherwise serious scene. Examples include:. Scuttle leading various other marine creatures in of Prince Eric and Vanessa in. The servants-turned-household objects defending their master's castle from a mob in. Everyone joining the fight atop Pride Rock to overthrow King Scar in. The climactic plaza battle in.
One of the initial criticisms of was that seemingly every villain was an expert hand-to-hand combatant, including traditionally poor fighters like Joker and Penguin. This was toned down as the show went on (for better or for worse), although it always existed to some extent. specifically states that anytime someone throws a chair, everyone will engage in a mass fight. Huey and Uncle Ruckus are apparently gifted martial artists that are great with melee weaponry; in Ruckus' case, this is extremely bizarre (given his terrible health and physical ability, blatantly referred to in previous episodes). Colonel Stinkmeaner started out as a subversion (Huey assumed his blindness made him, but it turns out he's just a blind elderly man who got a lucky shot in), but (unusually) returned from Hell a martial arts master, the event implying that he was trained by himself. This was before his Hateocracy showed up, where they went up against hired bodyguard Bushido Brown. Not to mention that Granddad is a master of.
In the second season episode 'Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch', Granddad's internet blind date, Luna, is revealed to know 'White Lotus Kung-Fu' and to have won the (every time the tournament's name is mentioned, there's a little 'hi-yah' noise). Needless to say, eventually Huey tests her skills and is beaten to the floor for his troubles. For half the fights that break out in Boondocks, participants are shown with inexplicable physical prowess and at least.
On this happens a lot. Four of the five members of the Simpson family can handle themselves pretty well in a fight (Maggie the baby at least knows how to fire a gun), and countless other Springfieldians are more than likely to start an over just about anything, including someone saying something mildly disagreeable. Mayor Quimby:. One episode of had the entire family break out into an epic brawl after criticizing each other's faults. Ironically (or maybe not), this brought the family closer together. Not to mention the multiple chicken fights.
In the penguins use violence to solve everything from runaways to making popcorn pop. Skipper, the leader, even says in one episode, 'I find reason tedious and boring.
We use force.' . is the living embodiment of this trope, and it is awesome. In a set during the character Jackie's childhood during, a fight breaks out between present-Jackie, past-Uncle, present-Jade, and the Dark Hand, prompting one of the kids watching to say '.; almost every main-character, both good and evil, knows a version of kung-fu. Most of them know. Exceptions are Sokka, who functions as the team's (eventually), and a few minor characters, like Yue, Yugoda and the Cabbage Merchant., since in the world. does it with Mexican.
The main setting is a school for luchadores, and true to form, pretty much 90% of the entire cast (and that's counting one-shot characters) dabbles in wrestling. The entirety of the series, of course. Heck, it even has a cover of the song quoted at the top of this very page (with slightly more lyrics, natch). This is part of the training for citizens of both Koreas, with Tae Kwon Do instead of Kung Fu as the martial art. In fact, in the case of South Korea, it is more or less an unwritten rule that all children should learn Tae Kwon Do (and only during before middle school, apparently), although it's changing now. Most Israeli citizens serve in the military and are consequently trained in Krav Maga.
Due to the state of constant hostility with its neighbors, Israelis are more likely to need to fight than most other nations with a compulsory draft. In pre- Japan, karate and kendo were compulsory school subjects for boys, and. Outdoor aerobics-style tai chi classes are extremely common in China, predominately for health benefits. Since tai chi is a martial art, in theory, the people in these classes can defend themselves if they just perform the movements faster.
Thus,. The Irish are responsible for giving us the concept of the donnybrook: a large group of friendly people brawling with each other. was a place where everyone knew how to fight. It usually was wrestling or Pankration, but there were also pugilists and the like. All those myths in which random people killed each other for little reason?, for them.