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Black Belt in Origami
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A character is being threatened with violence, and tries to tough-talk their way out. Only, they can't legitimately claim to know karate or anything remotely scary, so they threaten the opponent with some random foreign-sounding words as a bluff, hoping the enemy will be too dumb to understand. The most common variant involves origami, the Japanese term for paper folding art, but just about any foreign word will do. In fiction, this actually tends to work at least half the time, with the opponent backing away nervously, or at least hesitating long enough for the Big Damn Heroes to arrive. This can easily be subverted, however, if the opponent actually turns out to know what origami/Hitachi/Pachirisu actually is. Compare/Contrast My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels, As Long as It Sounds Foreign, I Know Kung-Faux. Not to be confused with Origami Gag. If the character actually does have a black belt in origami, it's Martial Arts and Crafts and/or Paper Master. Pity the opponent who mistakes either one for this trope. |
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In Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's character tries to impress some inmates in jail by claiming he is a "chain belt in Kung Fu". He then goes on to perform his Quart of Blood technique. | |
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In an issue of Spider-Man 2099, Spidey (Miguel O'Hara) warns an attacking cyborg samurai assassin: "I know karate, kung fu... and several other dangerous words." | |
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The Simpsons: Homer tried to bluff his way into getting a veteran's discount by pretending to have served in Vietnam. He shouted several Asian words (up to and including Margaret Cho) as reference to specific battles he was supposedly involved with. | |
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Patsy from Camp Lazlo claims to have a black belt in bok choy (Chinese cabbage). | |
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In an episode of Passions Luis and Sheridan walk in on Julian and Rebecca in a compromising position. Julian claims to be showing Rebecca an origami move. Luis snarkily responds, "Yeah, I heard you had a black belt in origami." | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table: During a Hacknoia campaign, Bob maxes out his character's skill in Tai Chi — thinking that it is a kickass martial art — because it is cheap. It is only after he gets into a fight that Sara explains that it is a form of moving meditation. note Sara is, in fact, incorrect. Tai Chi is a legitimate martial art. Unlike other martial arts, however, practicing kata for Tai Chi is done slowly. In a fight, Tai Chi would be executed quickly. Think Waterbending without the water. It's also the case that many Tai Chi classes do teach it purely as a meditation/exercise routine, and that even as a martial art, it's a largely defensive one. | |
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In Soap, Billy threatens his girlfriend's ex with Tai Chi. | |
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Played with in the Recess episode "Beyond a Reasonable Scout". When threatened with violence, the scout Phil retorts that he is highly trained in the art of first aid. Instead of this being a counter martial art, he explains that he'll be able to heal whatever injury he might incur. | |
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In Recess: School's Out is the Trope Namer where TJ yells about his knowledge of origami at the Mooks dragging him off from his escaping friends. | |
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The Captain's Daughter, a Star Trek Expanded Universe novel by Peter David, has the same line as Spidey 2099 almost word-for-word. (Not a big surprise, as David was the co-creator and writer of Spiderman 2099.) It also gets lampshaded as an old joke, much to the disappointment of Demora Sulu, who thought her father made it up. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III when the Turtles get sent back to feudal Japan, Donatello greets someone by saying 'Konichi wa Wasabi' which Raph immediately lampshades by confusedly asking 'Hello Mustard?' | |
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A Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode has Shaggy trying to bluff a Chinese ghost by saying "I know Judo, Chop Suey and Chinese checkers!" | |
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Variant: in Mafalda, Manolito describes how samurai stab themselves with their own swords "and make the Ikebana". Once Mafalda disses him off saying that is a flower arrangement, he tries to save himself with "It's the funeral, stupid!". | |
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In book two of The Trials of Apollo, Calypso attempts to scare away Commodus' Mooks by pretending to curse them. Apollo notes that her chant is really a recipe for pancakes in ancient Phoenician. | |
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In Transformers (2007), when being taken in for questioning, one of the characters claims that he has a black belt in karaoke. | |
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Inverted in a How I Met Your Mother episode. Ted knows that his girlfriend practices "krav maga" but assumes that it's something like yoga. He finds out that it's a fighting style the hard way. | |
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On one episode of The Slammer the Governor employs a robot warder called Wardrobe 2000 who is expert in "karate, jujitsu and the macarena". | |
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In Ella Enchanted, Ella encounters Mooks bullying the elf Slannen. After he (semi-unintentionally) orders her to help him, she threatens the Mooks with origami. Unfortunately, one of them actually knows what that is. | |
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At one point in Friends, Ross insists that he knows a martial arts technique called "Unagi." Rachel and Phoebe, however, know what the word actually means and spend much of the episode after making jokes about it. | |
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The Only Fools and Horses episode "Cash and Curry" might feature the oldest-recorded use of this exact phrase, used by Del in an attempt to bluff an ability in martial arts. Oddly, he manages to beat his foe just by uttering the word "police", which causes everyone present (including the camera operator) to turn to look in the other direction, giving Del just enough time to knee his opponent in the groin and then resume standing casually, as if nothing out-of-the-ordinary had occurred. | |
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Subverted by Dexter's Laboratory in the "omelette du fromage" episode. Dexter could only utter this phrase, which served him not only scare away bullies, but also ace tests, seduce women, win gameshows, create world peace, and release a solo album, among other things... except for entering his lab. | |
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In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Transit, the Doctor gets past some Japanese Mooks by using the court dialect of the Japanese royal family. They recognised it, but didn't understand it, which was just as well, since he said "Make way, for I am the official keeper of the Emperor's penguins and his majesty's laundry basket is on fire." | |
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