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The main features of Christian monastic life are prayers (frequently chanted) and scholarship (reading, writing, healing etc.), sometimes corporeal penance for some Orthodox monks (e.g. flagellants, heavy fasting, etc.). The main features of Buddhist monks from Shaolin are chanting, meditation and kick-ass martial arts prowess (which they originally learned from retired soldiers who became monks). For some reason, fiction authors sometimes can't see the difference. It's not uncommon (usually in fantasy settings) to see a Christian or quasi-Christian monk (often complete with robe, hood, tonsure, Christian name, etc.) whose main defining skills are one or all of the following: Bare-hand (and bare-foot) fighting Shaolin-style fighting with staves, nunchakus etc. Any types of Ki Manipulation Having (and building, strengthening etc.) a very tough body It seems that you're supposed to be able to do Shaolin-style things just because you're... well, a "monk". Make sure not to confuse this with examples of Shaolin-based monks who know kung fu, which is perfectly justified, since these particular monks learned from former soldiers, and practiced combat in secret or disguised as religious rituals (since it was generally illegal). But, if these Shaolin-based monks are supposed to belong to a Crystal Dragon Jesus religion, then these examples may belong here. Examples where every Chinese monk knows kung fu also belong here, seeing as how most Chinese monastic orders do not engage in any martial arts training. This is the sister (brother?) trope of Nuns Are Mikos. Compare to Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting, when everybody seems to know kung fu (most Chinese didn't). See also Enlightenment Superpowers for a result of all that meditating. Also compare to Not That Kind of Doctor ("all guys called 'doctor something' know medicine"), Open Heart Dentistry ("all medical doctors know every medical discipline") and Omnidisciplinary Scientist ("all scientists know every science"). Thematically related to Church Militant, Religious Bruiser, Warrior Monk (duh) and Bare-Fisted Monk (duh). ... And sometimes the one knowing kung fu isn't just a mere monk, but our Lord and Saviour Himself... |
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Brother Cadfael, of the eponymous series by Ellis Peters, is a 12th century Benedictine herbalist. However, he used to be a sailor and soldier, having participated in the First Crusade, and can still kick ass if required. It's made clear that Brother Cadfael's fighting skills are justified as part of his backstory rather than a standard skill for all medieval monks (although several monks are quite competent in a fight thanks to manual labor like forestry or farming). | |
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Might and Magic: The seventh game starts off playing it straight with its Monk class. But then it confuses things further, as one of the promotion paths for Monk is Ninja of all things. In Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Monks from the Western European-style Castle are dressed in hooded robes and... throw fireballs. Their upgraded version, Zealots, also have no penalty in hand-to-hand combat. Somewhat complicated by the fact that the most direct influence on Heroes 3's Monks were... Heroes 2's Druids, who were pretty much the exact same unit (including clothing), only with another name and in another castle. |
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In Ancient Domains of Mystery, the Monk class is not just a class with strong unarmed combat bonuses, it is in fact completely unrelated to religion, even though religion plays a significant role in the game. The only classes with religion-related bonuses and abilities are Priests and Paladins; Monks are exactly as inherently religious as any other melee class. | |
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Fire Emblem is a notable aversion for an Eastern RPG series. The Monk class in the GBA games are indeed a combat class, but instead use Light Magic and have no physical prowess whatsoever. Fire Emblem: Awakening added War Monks but they count as a Warrior Monk with an axe. Played straight in Fire Emblem: Three Houses where War Monks returns as a DLC class and specialize in the new Brawling weapon type. | |
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Redwall might be a borderline example, as the superpowered Abbey Warrior usually starts out as a novice in the Abbey and quickly becomes awesome at swordplay, and even the ones who aren't warriors tend to be able to hold their own in a fight. The abbey is also notably lacking in any actual religion whatsoever. And most of the order don't generally know any combat skills; when Abbey natives do, it's generally because they retired there from more warlike lifestyles, like blind Cregga Rose-Eyes, who used to be a giant berserker and pulls this out to only slightly less devastating effect when her home comes under attack. Why beasts keep attacking the only thing resembling a fortress in leagues when it has no significant wealth to justify the investiture of effort... | |
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Do regular clergymen count? We hope so, because Father MacGruder from BrainDead will let you know he kicks ass for the Lord! | |
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Lunar: The Silver Star makes the party White Mage, apprentice priestess Jessica, the third strongest character in the game, and she can fight with her fists. Her strength is underutilized in the last third of the game however, in that enemies hit so hard she must be kept on constant healing duty. | |
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First Squad features a Russian Orthodox kung fu monk. | |
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Dungeon Keeper 2: The Monk there looks like a stereotypical Catholic monk: fat, round-faced, with a tonsured head and dressed in a brown robe. He is a skilled bare-hand fighter. | |
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One background event in Moonraker is Bond seeing monks practicing martial arts in a church in Brazil. Of course, since the church in question was a disguised MI6 facility, it's likely the monks in question weren't really clergy. | |
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Alive: The Final Evolution: Most of the major characters in are given superpowers and pushed to the Despair Event Horizon by being quasi-possessed by suicidal energy beings from space and not actually committing suicide; a significant subset of these are brainwashed by one of the others, and become the main antagonists of the first half. The nicest of these is a really sweet Japanese Catholic priest who for reasons that are never even slightly addressed has probably the most killer karate in the series. His power is to turn people to stone. He doesn't use it much, but he kicks a lot of ass. In the climactic battle of the first movement, Katsumata has him constantly fighting on the losing side, whichever that happens to be, because he's powerful, his doing this is both the most plausible and the easiest to arrange since he's the type to root for the underdog anyway, and the true evil goal requires as much combat and hatred and use of psychic powers as possible in the location where he's arranged for the battle to be staged so they can awaken the powerful thing in the lake. |
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True for the Blades, an order of knights sworn to protect the Emperor as spies and bodyguards, although it's less kung fu and more swordfighting. Retired or undercover Blades frequently take on the role of Monks. In Oblivion, Brother Jauffere is actually wearing a habit and working in a priory when you meet him. While carrying a sword on his back. | |
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In the Discworld all Monks do indeed know Kung Fu of one sort or another. This ranges from the various time based martial arts of the History Monks (literally becoming The Speedster by manipulating time itself) to the Battle Clowning of the Fool's Guild (who can use rubber balloons and ladders to literally deadly effect if sufficiently provoked). Possible subversion in that the only one to know the legendary art of Deja Fu isn't actually a monk at all, but rather the Almighty Janitor. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV also has a far eastern setting in Othard and Hingashi, which are styled after China and Japan, respectively. The Monk job, however, does not hail from there, but rather from the city-state of Ala Mhigo in Gyr Abania, a desertous region that has more in common with central Asia and the Middle East. | |
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In World of Warcraft there are various different types of enemies inside the Scarlet Monastery. The scarlet monks? They fight bare-fisted, wear headbands and kick spellcasters to interrupt them. The Mists of Pandaria expansion introduces shaolin-style monks as a new character class. This is justified by the simultaneous introduction of the pandaren as a new playable race, obviously based heavily on east-Asian cultures. | |
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Jackie Chan's kung-fu adventure Armor of God has a cult of evil Western monks he must fight at the end. Of course, this being Jackie, everyone knows kung-fu, but... | |
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Parodied in The Order of the Stick, specifically in the prequel On the Origin of PCs: | |
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Monk has been a standard class throughout the series (at least until Skyrim did away with classes). Hand to Hand tends to be the main combat skill of the class, though Blunt Weapon also gets a boost. Given the Everything Is Trying to Kill You Adventure World-nature of Tamriel, it is actually fairly justified for even religious orders to have some ability to defend themselves. | |
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Father Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez wrestled professionally for 23 years in Mexico as "Fray Tormenta" ("Friar Storm") to fund the orphanage he runs. As such, he was the very loose inspiration for Nacho Libre, but that's hardly his fault. Apparently, he still wears his mask for his day to day priestly work. Think we also know him as King from the Tekken series. Because when you think "priest who runs an orphanage", you think "Tombstone piledriver". | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2 There's a group of Monks who worship Tyr, basically The Father of the trinity in the trio of gods known as the Triad. Khelgar seeks to join them so he can become a martial artist monk. The first expansion (and the original game intended to include it) also introduces the Sacred Fist class, a cleric/monk combo. |
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The whole point of becoming an Immaculate Monk in Exalted is to reach enlightened understanding of Essence... So that you could learn Celestial Martial Arts and kick asses of rowdy gods. | |
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Gendo from Maryuu Senki is a Buddhist monk as well as a martial artist. | |
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Johnny Mnemonic has a Cyberpunk assassin played by Dolph Lundgren who dresses as a Franciscan monk and kills people with a dagger using his hand-to-hand fighting skills and cybernetics, all while spewing quasi-religious babble. This strange character has its origin in a line from Neuromancer, in which Molly states that the assassin who finally caught up with Johnny was "like a monk" due to his Zen-like calm. Molly is clearly thinking of Buddhist monks, but the filmmakers either misinterpreted the line or decided to put a spin on it. | |
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Dragon ran an article on "variant monks" that included Buddhist, Shinto, Knight Hospitallier and Franciscan friar, noting that they lack the martial arts skills of the "standard" monk. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) 1E included a class called the Monk, inspired by the Kung-Fu monk. Many players, and not a few adventure writers, however, made them out to be some form of Western monastic. This version was in print by 1978. Later editions featuring the Monk class make very sure that the Asian influence is clear. Dragon ran an article on "variant monks" that included Buddhist, Shinto, Knight Hospitallier and Franciscan friar, noting that they lack the martial arts skills of the "standard" monk. |
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Inverted in the English dub of Dynasty Warriors: Taoist monk Zhang Jiao is characterized as a televangelist. | |
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The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is, in part, about a D&D campaign whose players are in a somewhat antagonistic relationship with their GM. One player insists on playing a Kung-Fu Monk, which he says that he can do because it's a base D&D character class. The GM complains that it can't work because the campaign takes place in a traditional European fantasy setting, but relents, on the condition that he play the character as being a Western monk who also has the character class's Kung-Fu skills. | |
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German TV-show Lasko – Die Faust Gottes (i.e. Lasko - The Fist of God) is the embodiment of this trope. It's about a soldier who turned into a monk after some backstory in Kosovo. He now works for the secret order Pungus Dei to help people in distress. It all started as a regular movie that even got released in UK under the name Lasko Death Train and later turned into a series. | |
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Although in Final Fantasy XI, there's a "far east" which, although we never see it, is clearly implied to be a thinly-veiled Japan analogue. It's also the origin for the Monk, Samurai, and Ninja techniques (although for some reason, the medieval French nation of San d'Oria picked up the Monk training and adapted it for their own use). There's even a neat in-story justification for why, of all the beastman races, only the Yagudo have Samurais - they have good relations with the far east. | |
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Averted and lampshaded in Girl Genius with the monks of the Corbetite Railway: | |
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In Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Monks from the Western European-style Castle are dressed in hooded robes and... throw fireballs. Their upgraded version, Zealots, also have no penalty in hand-to-hand combat. Somewhat complicated by the fact that the most direct influence on Heroes 3's Monks were... Heroes 2's Druids, who were pretty much the exact same unit (including clothing), only with another name and in another castle. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Monk has been a standard class throughout the series (at least until Skyrim did away with classes). Hand to Hand tends to be the main combat skill of the class, though Blunt Weapon also gets a boost. Given the Everything Is Trying to Kill You Adventure World-nature of Tamriel, it is actually fairly justified for even religious orders to have some ability to defend themselves. True for the Blades, an order of knights sworn to protect the Emperor as spies and bodyguards, although it's less kung fu and more swordfighting. Retired or undercover Blades frequently take on the role of Monks. In Oblivion, Brother Jauffere is actually wearing a habit and working in a priory when you meet him. While carrying a sword on his back. |
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Fate/Zero: Priest Kirei Kotomine utilizes the Chinese martial art Bajiquan, enhanced by magecraft. | |
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Played with in the Futurama episode "Godfellas": Leela attempts to challenge a group of monks for their radio telescope (so that she and Fry can use it to find Bender), and the monks immediately assume fighting stances. Leela is about to back down, when they reveal that they are strictly non-violent and practice martial arts solely as a form of meditation, then immediately surrender. | |
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The Misfits (Warhammer 40,000): Patreus learned a martial art called "The Way of The Leaf" while being raised at a monastery, which he uses to great effect during and after his Space Marine training. | |
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In Touhou Project when it came time to assign fighting styles in the fighting game spin-off Touhou Shinkirou ~ Hopeless Masquerade, of course the Buddhist monks of the Myouren Temple turned out to specialize in martial arts. They even made a game mechanic out of Buddhism being associated with melee attacks. Oddly enough, Taoism is associated with lasers. | |
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The Monk class in Final Fantasy games is usually an aversion, being almost universally Asian-styled. Even when there's no obviously Asian culture from which it might hail. E.g., in Final Fantasy Tactics, which takes place in a Crystal Dragon Jesus Medieval Europe. There are Samurais and Ninjas there, too... Although in Final Fantasy XI, there's a "far east" which, although we never see it, is clearly implied to be a thinly-veiled Japan analogue. It's also the origin for the Monk, Samurai, and Ninja techniques (although for some reason, the medieval French nation of San d'Oria picked up the Monk training and adapted it for their own use). There's even a neat in-story justification for why, of all the beastman races, only the Yagudo have Samurais - they have good relations with the far east. Final Fantasy XIV also has a far eastern setting in Othard and Hingashi, which are styled after China and Japan, respectively. The Monk job, however, does not hail from there, but rather from the city-state of Ala Mhigo in Gyr Abania, a desertous region that has more in common with central Asia and the Middle East. |
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Impure Blood has Dara, although its unclear if her skills are due to her monk training or not. Her other abilities were present before her training. | |
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A Father Ted fic by A.A. Pessimal has Ted and Dougal discussing the more culturally specific aspects of the coming of Christianity to Japan. In a spoof of the works of James Clavell and others, the great missionary St Francis Xavier is depicted as a priest who seriously went native: | |
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Derry Girls: Sister Michael is a Catholic nun in Northern Ireland in the 1990s. She goes to judo on Fridays. This is not treated as part of her being a nun, but rather as a comical contradiction to it. | |
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French movie The Crimson Rivers 2 features a monk (complete with outfit) committing murders, knowing martial arts, and doing parkour. He was played by Cyril Rafaelli, one of the leading parkour experts. | |
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Doctor Who: Shows up in "Tooth and Claw". When the monks announce they're taking over a mansion, they reveal orange robes under their cloaks and do a dramatic, slow-motion leap over the heads of the astonished housekeepers. Normally orange robes are worn by Buddhists, while frocks were worn by Franciscan friars — which are quite different from monks. Neither Buddhists nor Franciscans should have had a monastery in 19th century Scotland. | |
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Battle Pope: Yes, even the Pope knows kung fu. | |
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Ragnarok Online has a Monk class which branches off from the Acolyte class (The other choice of advancement being the Priest). They're still associated with the church of Prontera, but they forgo holy powers in favor of obliterating things with punches and ki attacks, and have a typical martial artist look to them. | |
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E.g., in Final Fantasy Tactics, which takes place in a Crystal Dragon Jesus Medieval Europe. There are Samurais and Ninjas there, too... | |
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Subverted in Beneath the Clouds. Genza is an old man and gets beaten up pretty badly when bandits attack his travelling party. | |
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Diablo III monks have an eastern orthodox appearance and speak in an eastern European accent, but use a fighting style more similar to stereotypical East Asian martial arts. This is less a case of not doing the research, though, and more a case of deliberately combining things in an unusual way. Besides, have you seen the beards of an Eastern Orthodox priest or monk? Those things should require a permit, they're so badass! | |
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Discussed in Rob and Elliot, when Rob proudly admits he beat up some Buddhist Monks, who weren't as tough as he expected. Elliot informs him that Buddhist Monks are pacifists, and he was thinking of Shaolin Monks. Rob scoffs, then his face falls. | |
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In Dark Age of Camelot the friar class can best be summed up as "a brawling healer". | |
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Machelle from Gods World is an unarmed combatant and wears a robe resembling that of a western medieval monk. | |
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The 1998 incredibly low budget (verging on home made) Irish action film Fatal Deviation features a bunch of homeless monks in the real town of Trim helping the hero Jimmy Bennet (played by Jimmy Bennet) train for an ancient tournament in which he must defeat a member of the local "Drug Lords Gang" in order to break their power. Or something. The monks really have nothing to do with the plot. | |
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