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Boxing Lesson

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Boxing Lesson	comment	A victim of bullying is cajoled into taking boxing lessons, usually from a cartoonishly macho alpha-male character. The victim may end up gaining confidence and the ability to fight back, but often ends up finding an alternate, non-violent but always interesting means of dealing with the bully. Eastern martial arts (karate or kung fu) are generally considered to be an acceptable way of dealing with bullying. School shootings, not so much. Related to Teach Me How To Fight. Examples
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Boxing Lesson / int_19328272	comment	A flashback in a first season episode of Scorpion had Cabe giving a young Walter some fighting tips to help him deal with a bully at school. A later episode had Cabe offering to do the same for Ralph after the team learned a bully was forcing him to do his homework for him, but Ralph found a different way to deal with the bully.
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Boxing Lesson / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Third, Richie and a friend had their playground taken over by an adult gang. Steve tried to intervene, but with all the physical prowess of Professor Xavier on Valium, he was pretty much powerless — until he used his Transformation Ray to infuse him, Richie, and Richie's friend with the DNA of Bruce Lee, upon which they went, well, Bruce Lee on the gang's asses...complete with offensive Engrish accents.
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Boxing Lesson / int_247422c7	comment	In David Weber's novel Honor Among Enemies, a major subplot revolves around newly enlisted naval rating Aubrey Wanderman being targeted for violent harassment by Steilman, a petty criminal lowlife stuck in the same crew. He refuses to testify that he's being threatened, so a few of the ship's noncoms start giving him martial arts lessons. If anything, this succeeds too well; in their next confrontation, Wanderman injures the bully so badly that he would be crippled for life if not for the setting's advanced medical technology, and he actually gets brought up on charges for the way he deliberately provoked the fight. However, because Captain Honor Harrington and everybody else recognize that Steilman deserved the beating, they keep the punishment purely symbolic. They just want him to realize that, next time, he should not try to take it into his own hands.
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Boxing Lesson / int_455e3038	comment	The episode of King of the Hill titled "Bobby Goes Nuts" puts an interesting twist on the Boxing Lesson, by having Bobby take a women's self defense course and then dealing a savage groin kick to his tormentors. The trope is subverted nicely when Hank attempts to teach his son how to box, and receives a nasty kick to the testicles when Bobby gets frustrated with the lesson. Then double-subverted when he learns groin kicks do nothing to keep his mother from punishing him note a break from reality.
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Boxing Lesson / int_5400d19	comment	Subverted in The Raccoons episode "Black Belt Bentley!", where Bentley is eager to learn martial arts from Schaeffer when he is bullied so he can smash their heads in. However, when Schaeffer learns of the young raccoon's intentions, he promptly kicks him out of the class. However, Bentley does not get the message until he gets so psyched up improvising learning from a martial arts film that he inadvertently attacks Bert and breaks his arm. While Bentley is kicking himself for being so stupid, he meets the bullies again. However, chastened by his experience, Bentley uses his martial arts training with appropriate restraint to defend himself while reasoning with the bullies about the original misunderstanding that caused the conflict. The combination of Bentley's explanation and his fighting moves are enough to make peace with the impressed bullies. As a result, Schaeffer not only lets Bentley back into the class, but promotes him to the yellow belt training rank in appreciation of his solid learning and good attitude.
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Boxing Lesson / int_5af707ee	comment	In Home Movies, Brendon's decrepit grandpa gives him an impromptu boxing lesson to help him deal with an angrily super-competitive goalie. The lesson quickly Crosses the Line Twice as grandpa's boxing gloves are filled with ball bearings for "oomph". When Brendon later encounters the goalie, he tries an alternative means of discussing the goalie's relationship with his overachiever father, and quickly ends up on the ground in an armlock, Eventually, he gets through to the bully, who rejects his father's competitive teachings and becomes a hippie pacifist; leading Melissa to beat up Brendon for "ruining" the bad-boy she had a crush on.
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Boxing Lesson / int_5c79a874	comment	In Richard Llewellyn's "How Green Was My Valley", Huw Morgan gets boxing lessons to defend himself from school bullies. His first lesson comes from his father (along with a payment plan for every bruise, bloody nose or split lip Huw comes home sporting). This is not enough, so his older brother gets the valley's professional boxers to train him specially. He gets VERY good at it.
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Boxing Lesson / int_5f7cdde7	comment	In The Bells of St. Mary's, Sister Benedict trains Eddie how to box in order to fight his bully. She goes so far as to get a how-to-box manual from a sporting goods store, before teaching Eddie how to move his feet and dodge punches and throw a right cross, etc.
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Boxing Lesson / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Inverted in Jackie Chan Adventures where it the bully who seeks help in the martial arts from Jade (who is the would-be victim that happened to kick his ass). After being trained in the "Ancient Art of Butt-Whoop" he becomes the one who stops bullying.
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Boxing Lesson / int_6f734712	comment	In season two of Smallville, tired of relying on Clark to save her, Lana Lang gets a crash-course in self-defense and self-esteem in the form of boxing lessons from Lex Luthor after being harassed by a bunch of thugs.
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Boxing Lesson / int_6f73a6e9	comment	Season 3 of Weak Hero starts with Alex taking boxing lessons to toughen him up so he'll no longer be a hindrance to his best friend. He offers the same lessons to his nerdy friend Eugene, but Eugene is content with being the Non-Action Guy.
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Boxing Lesson / int_7c038c18	comment	In Phineas and Ferb, Phineas is forced into a fight with Buford the school bully...and he's trained by Evander Holyfield. Yes, it's that kind of show.
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Boxing Lesson / int_7ff3216c	comment	An episode of Garfield and Friends has Jon being thrashed by a mugger while out on a date with Liz. Jon goes for karate lessons to learn how to protect himself. On his next date with Liz, he says that he'd beat up that same mugger if they met again - guess who he runs into? In the end, it's not Jon's karate skills, but Garfield who saves the day.
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Boxing Lesson / int_8df7a981	comment	In the film Billy Elliot, the young Billy is sent off to the boys' club to learn boxing, and instead he takes up ballet dancing.
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Boxing Lesson / int_97a4211c	comment	In Rocky V, Rocky's son learns how to box in order to deal with the school bully (though, ironically, not from Rocky himself).
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Boxing Lesson / int_99055407	comment	Happened in Family Matters no less than three times. First, an early episode had Stereotypical Nerd Steve Urkel dealing with a bully. He actually ends up challenging the bully to a boxing match, but having no experience and muscles like wet string, he knows he's in trouble. He convinces Carl to teach him to box. It's pretty much for nothing, though, and he's beaten down. Before the bully can finish him off, though, a spectator protests — and then the whole crowd. The bully backs down in the face of pretty much the entire student body apparently being willing to fight on Steve's behalf. Second, Richie, a cousin of the Winslows who calls Urkel "Uncle Steve" (though they're unrelated), has trouble with a bully at school. Steve, apparently not remembering his own experience with the same tactic or maybe understanding Richie had more muscle than a quadriplegic orange (unlike him), advised Richie to stand up to him—physically if necessary. Richie got in trouble at school for fighting, and his mother was angry at Steve—until Richie explained that he was defending himself from a bully, at which point it became somewhat accepted. Third, Richie and a friend had their playground taken over by an adult gang. Steve tried to intervene, but with all the physical prowess of Professor Xavier on Valium, he was pretty much powerless — until he used his Transformation Ray to infuse him, Richie, and Richie's friend with the DNA of Bruce Lee, upon which they went, well, Bruce Lee on the gang's asses...complete with offensive Engrish accents.
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Boxing Lesson / int_99d0c794	comment	In The Jungle Book (1967), when Baloo first meets Mowgli, the man cub tries to fight him off, but of course his blows are too puny. Taking pity on him, Baloo decides to teach him how to fight like a bear.
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Boxing Lesson / int_9a152d5d	comment	When Chicken in Cow and Chicken is bullied at school, Father tells Chicken to take Karate lessons from — who else? — the Red Guy. You can guess the rest.
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Boxing Lesson / int_9e202b7b	comment	Played straight and deconstructed in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Kenichi starts learning martial arts at the Ryozanpaku dojo to protect himself from Daimonji, an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy. However, beating Daimonji with his newly acquired skills doesn't end Kenichi's problems; he instantly becomes a Fight Magnet for many trained fighters who take notice of his win.
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Boxing Lesson / int_9f1766e4	comment	Subverted in The Brady Bunch: Peter learns to fight after he has run out of ways to stop a bully from tormenting Cindy. At the end, the bully eventually respects Peter, who has a good left hook punch in his opinion.
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Boxing Lesson / int_a2a4ee1a	comment	Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra: As he was defeated and humilliated by her, Trey attacked Elektra's friend, Melissa. Melissa took classes from Elektra's sensei. Trey tried to attack her again, but with her new movements, she managed to keep him at bay and then run away.
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Boxing Lesson / int_b0fba5f1	comment	In Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Gordon Ramsay gives one to a restaurant manager with serious self-esteem issues. It works to say the least.
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Boxing Lesson / int_bc758ea9	comment	The Tiny Toon Adventures episode, 'Hero Hamton' is based on this trope.
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Boxing Lesson / int_d0940549	comment	In St. Vincent (2014), a not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
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Boxing Lesson / int_d2e2ca76	comment	On The George Lopez Show, Max gets boxing lessons from none other than the professional boxer Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali.
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Boxing Lesson / int_d890ce02	comment	Ryo Narushima from Shamo learns karate to keep himself alive in correctional facility. It goes downhill from there, to put it mildly.
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Boxing Lesson / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park A variant occurs where both Tweek and Craig are taught different fighting styles for their upcoming fight. Jimbo intentionally teaches Tweek dirty boxing techniques (like nut shots) and Craig is taught sumo wrestling. Also parodied in the episode "You Got F'd in the A" (also serving as a send-up of "You Got Served). The gang is unexpected "served" by a group of out-of-town dancers, leading Stan's dad to give Stan a self-defense lesson — in dancing.
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Boxing Lesson / int_dbb6bdf2	comment	Mork in Mork & Mindy unsuccessfully tries to learn how to box from Mindy's father when faced with a bully. (His alternative solution is to use his hitherto unmentioned power of Time Warps which enables him to essentially make everyone move in slow motion while he moves at normal speed which enables him to humiliate the bully.)
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Boxing Lesson / int_e05a2543	comment	Hajime no Ippo has this as the entire basis of the early story. The solution here is at first that he is fitter than them and runs away too fast, then later they look up to him, becoming his devoted fans.
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Boxing Lesson / int_e372c716	comment	Dre in the reboot of The Karate Kid learns Kung Fu in order to stop Cheng from bullying him.
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Boxing Lesson / int_e3d91060	comment	Punky Brewster tried, unsuccessfully, to learn to box when a bully was picking on her. Her friends told the bully that even if she beat up Punky, she'd still have to fight all of them, one by one.
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Boxing Lesson / int_eb7431cd	comment	Subverted in The Kid. The main character, who is in his forties, meets up with himself as an eight year old, somehow. In an effort to toughen himself against bullies, he gets his boxer friend to teach him. After the boxer learns it's for bullies he says "He doesn't need boxing, he needs to learn street fighting."
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Boxing Lesson / int_f4e799ee	comment	The pilot of Burn Notice has the Michael teaching a kid how to defend himself from bullies, using guerrilla tactics. The implicit acknowledgment is that he suffered from bullying as a kid (either from his peers or from his father), and wished he had received boxing lessons as a child.
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Boxing Lesson / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Subverted in the manga version; Yusuke, as a ghost, sees a kid he knew in grade school getting bullied. To help him out, Yusuke tries to communicate with him in dreams to get him to stand up for his dream of being a professional boxer and challenge the bully. On the day of the arranged match, however, Yusuke simply possesses the boy's body and beats the crap out of his tormentor.
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One Punch (Fanfic) / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Billy Elliot / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Bottle Shock / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Real Steel / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Rocky V / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
St. Vincent	seeAlso	Boxing Lesson
St. Vincent (2014) / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
The Bells of St. Mary's / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
The Kid (2000) / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Eccentric Neighborhoods / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
How Green Was My Valley / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Of Cinder and Bone / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
RealSlimShadowen	seeAlso	Boxing Lesson
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Punky Brewster / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Sliders / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Weak Hero (Webcomic) / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson
The Raccoons / int_ba4d38b4	type	Boxing Lesson

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