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Take an already abnormal character and teach them some sort of mundane skill to kick their badassery up another notch. Got an Imagination-Based Power? Some engineering classes might make your constructs more formidable, along with art classes to stretch the imagination. Got Super-Strength? How about some Karate to avoid being Unskilled, but Strong? Are you a shapeshifter who relies on mimicking others? A few acting workshops could really help you embody your various roles. The power and the skills involved can exist in numerous combinations, but it works to the same effect.
One place to learn this sort of thing is in a Superhero School, as that's usually the whole point. This trope may also help a character find ways to push the limits of their powers, perhaps even overcoming the limitations imposed by Required Secondary Powers as a result of having new skills and knowledge needed to work around their power's weaknesses.
Compare with Mundane Utility, which is a sister trope. It may invoke cases of Mundane Made Awesome. If the character needs trained combat skills normally rather than just for a few special circumstances, he probably Fights Like a Normal. Compare also How Do I Shot Web?, in which the character requires specialized training or knowledge just to use those powers at a basic level.
Contrast Charles Atlas Superpower which is effectively the inverse of this trope. While Boxing Lessons For Superman features an extraordinary being learning a mundane skill to augment their abilities or serve as something extra to fall back on, Charles Atlas Superpower has a supposedly ordinary being able to achieve the extraordinary through proficiency in a mundane skill. See Strong and Skilled, which is what this trope often results in, or Talented, but Trained, wherein the hero(ine) is already powerful, but focuses and refines their abilities.
For more information on this trope, please see our Analysis Page.
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The titular character of Kamen Rider Fourze takes kickboxing lessons from a female teacher he befriended during one of the Monster of the Week two-parters.
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Tower of God: By the beginning of the second season, Jue Viole Grace is a phenomenally powerful (for his level) Wave Controller who's also able to learn any new technique by getting hit by it. However, his martial arts abilities and physical strength aren't so great, so he's still a bit of a Squishy Wizard. Between the Workshop Battle and Hell Train arcs, he goes to get himself beaten up by martial artists of all schools so that he can absorb their techniques too, becoming a master of all of them.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: When she first became a Magical Girl, Homura's only power was to manipulate time. She circumvented this by learning to use various weapons in conjunction with it, starting with a simple golf club, and then learning how to construct pipe bombs, and then by stealing firearms and other weapons from military and yakuza bases.
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Quite common in Worm — this is one of the standard benefits of The Wards, the US's superhero organization for minors. Any characters who's powers don't lend themselves to up close fighting typically learns at least some basic self defense, and they often carry some sort of weapon as well. The main character carries what basically amounts to a nightstick and a combat knife whenever possible. Even characters who's powers do work in close range often get some basic training to help amplify their abilities as well.
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No Plumbers Allowed: Armsmaster, after taking some engineering courses, was able to get enough of an understanding of his power to not only not go into a Tinker fugue, but actually quietly patent several miniaturization techniques that could be replicated without powers.
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Sleepless Domain: Heartful Punch, one of the strongest and most popular Magical Girls in the city, is a firm believer in this. She runs the Magical Girl Power Training Club with several of her friends after school, where they not only train to hone their magical skills, but also to work out physically. The benefits of this are discussed when Undine joins the club — while it's unknown whether physical fitness influences magical powers, it's probably beneficial for combat either way, for obvious reasons.
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Same thing happens in the J-WITCH Series, another crossover between the same franchises.
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Every Jedi in Star Wars: Lineage undergoes some of these. In addition to learning how to wield the Force, each Jedi is expected to be at least proficient in both lightsaber combat and hand-to-hand combat. Of course, plenty of Jedi are Master Swordsmen (and women) who are far beyond being "merely proficient."
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In Tokyo Ghoul, the most dangerous Ghouls are those that have supplemented their natural powers through studying martial arts. Kaneki is shown to have religiously studied fighting manuals during the six-month Time Skip, and is extremely deadly as a direct result. His sparring partner, Tsukiyama is noted to be a martial arts enthusiast and mastered the normally slow and unwieldy Koukaku through adapting sword-fighting techniques. But perhaps the greatest example is Shachi, a Ghoul that has devoted his life to martial arts and is shown to have studied with human teachers over the years. It has made him a terrifying Lightning Bruiser with precise techniques and discipline.
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This is one of the whole points to the X-Men: teaching mutants the ideal ways to use their individual powers to best help or defend mankind.
Kitty Pryde learned martial arts (both Ninjutsu and Krav Maga) from Wolverine himself, in addition to being an Intangible Woman.
Wolverine is himself an example, having learned Japanese martial arts (including kenjutsu) well after he'd first exhibited his regeneration and superior senses. Depending on the continuity, it might even have been after he'd received the adamantium.
Elixir from New X-Men: Academy X studied biology because his powers allowed him to alter organic tissue at will. He also got all of Beast's medical knowledge telepathically implanted into his mind, Beast being the world's foremost expert in biochemistry.
Storm was taught by Wolverine, not only to fight but also how to use a gun. Good thing too.
Psylocke is a borderline example; while she has martial arts skills in addition to her Psychic Powers, and has the ability to use her powers and martial skills in unique ways, this was granted to her in an impossible "Freaky Friday" Flip fashion, and not something she learned herself. Kwannon, the woman whose body she inhabits, is this trope played straight, as a low-level empath who trained to become an expert assassin.
Nightcrawler has teleportation and super-agility that make him a dangerous enough combatant, but he has also increased his acrobatic skills by working for many years as a circus performer, and his love of Errol Flynn movies has led him to study fencing. So now he's a super agile teleporting swashbuckler who can attack with up to three swords at once (his tail is fully prehensile and can hold one).
Magneto:
After discovering his powers, but before becoming Magneto, Max Eisenhardt studied numerous scientific fields, including mechanical and genetic engineering, as well as electromagnetic radiation. Because of this, Magneto is capable of instilling the mutant gene in ordinary people, creating Designer Babies from genetic tissue, and building technological marvels (such as an orbiting base on an asteroid) that even Reed Richards admits are pretty impressive.
However, he is first and foremost a physicist, and naturally chose to specialize in electromagnetism and everything to do with it. Since his mutant power gives him control over the entire electro-magnetic spectrum, his scientific knowledge turns an already formidable mutant power into a full-fledged Swiss-Army Superpower- electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe, and knowing this and knowing just how few limits that really imposes on him makes Magneto one of the most powerful bastards on Marvel Earth and the sheer range of things he can do- up to and including opening interstellar wormholes and manipulating electrons to control even non-metals (e.g. wood)- is absolutely mind-boggling to the layman who doesn't appreciate just how great his power can be. He wouldn't be near that powerful if he didn't understand, in detail, the myriad ways his power works like that.
A good example of how important this is, comes in the form of Magneto's youngest daughter Polaris... who has identical powers but none of his scientific expertise. This results in her being far less effective at using her control over magnetism.
Domino underwent training from Shang-Chi after experiencing some Power Incontinence.
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Bleach:
The Blood Knight Kenpachi is Unskilled, but Strong, using absolute brute force to beat most opponents. But when he finally faces one whom brute force is useless against, he switches to his secret weapon: a basic kendo swing that Commander Yamamoto had forced him to learn... which is so powerful it causes his opponent to explode. In chapter 520, Kyouraku's first order as the new captain-commander of the Gotei 13 is to give Kenpachi more formal training to prepare him for Vandereich's next move. Soul Society's ruling council actually doesn't want Kenpachi to get any stronger because they are worried he'll be unstoppable if he decides to rebel against Soul Society. Kyouraku convinces them that they need Kenpachi to become stronger, because if they lose in the current war, they'll be too dead to worry about such things. Kenpachi's teacher is Retsu Unohana, the first Kenpachi.
Ichigo, like Kenpachi, was always recognized as Unskilled, but Strong, having immense spiritual power but little practice in harnessing and controlling it. During the Fullbring Arc, which occurs after the Time Skip following Ichigo's sacrifice of his Soul Reaper powers, in his training with Xcution, he's forced to actually learn how to harness his spirit energy in more creative ways, especially since he's back at square one. Kugo Ginjo, the leader of Xcution, also put Ichigo under an extensive physical regimen. As using Fullbring powers requires Ichigo to act using his regular body rather than his soul, as he did when he was a Soul Reaper, Ginjo stated that Ichigo needed to beef up his physical body. This results in a dramatic increase in Ichigo's strength when his Soul Reaper powers are actually restored, to the point where Ginjo mistakes a heavy sword swing from Ichigo as a Getsuga Tensho.
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Pewter-burners in the Mistborn books burn their metal to gain inhuman levels of strength, speed and stamina. However, this only lasts as long as the metal supply, and the power works independently of the burner's body - as in, they don't suddenly sprout muscles. Pewter-burners like Hammond instruct the main character, Vin, of the benefits of honing one's body without pewter to increase one's strength while using it, as well as developing fighting skills with and without pewter, and using it tactically for powerful strikes instead of just using it the entire time while fighting. Someone using pewter has enough of an advantage against a normal person that skill is generally unimportant, but a sufficiently outnumbered Pewter-burner or one facing someone else with Allomantic powers (pewter or otherwise) will probably be glad for the extra training.
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The Disney version of Hercules had Herc go to Phil for training. He already had Super-Strength, but Phil taught him how to use that strength in a real fight, along with other skills like archery and swordsmanship. In addition, Phil's training gave Hercules actual muscle definition, most likely multiplying his super-strength by several factors.
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A Certain Magical Index:
Defied by Touma Kamijou, a self-taught street fighter. At one point he considers learning martial arts, but decides learning a formal style would kill his ability to adapt and improvise. Othinus also discourages him from learning martial arts or even taking up a knife or gun, declaring his real weapon is his kindness and compassion.
Accelerator learns how to use guns in case he can't use his powers.
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Cameron Hicks of Alphas has Super-Reflexes and Improbable Aiming Skills. He is also a trained military sniper.
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Symphogear's Hibiki gains Magitek Mahou Shoujo powers but not the Impossibly Cool Weapons, flashy Called Attacks, and seemingly inherent fighting skills all the other girls have. Her powers just let her face the enemy with all the combat prowess of an ordinary middle-schooler until her Training Montage with the resident Badass Normal puts her unarmed combat on par with her BFG- and BFS-wielding counterparts.
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The entire point of Avengers: The Initiative and Avengers Academy is to invoke this trope.
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Pre-Crisis, a Superboy story had Pa Kent give a few boxing lessons to his super-son, after Superboy initially fails to stop a powerful new villain (and Pa realizes Clark had never really learned about such self-defense/fighting methods).
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Rosario + Vampire:
Tsukune Aono was infused with vampire blood and turned into a ghoul. This resulted in a lot of curb-stomps against monsters that were expecting a wimp... and a lot of curb-stomps from monsters who weren't, due to his status as Unskilled, but Strong. Five volumes into Season II, Inner Moka started training him in martial arts to use in tandem with his ghoulic power. This goes about how you'd expect.
Haiji Miyamoto has this in his backstory; all of his asskicking until the final chapters comes from his karate training. When he does pull out his monster form he's a tengu, his casual attacks are like frag grenades enhanced by his martial arts.
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Winx Club: Bloom, thanks to carrying the Dragon Flame, the final trace of power from a literal god, possesses incredible power and potential. In Season 2, she's trained by Griselda in Alfea to actually begin learning how to harness and focus her powers. However, it isn't until Season 3 that Bloom really undergoes this trope. In Season 3, she's trained by the elder Maia on Pyros, the island of dragons, to fully connect with the Dragon Flame. As a result, Bloom's connection with the Flame becomes so strong that she's able to will herself into an Enchantix form, despite not fulfilling the actual conditions for acquiring Enchantix.
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My Hero Playthrough: All Might uses his access to The Gamer to invest skill points in boxing and dirty boxing. This leads to Harley and All for One discussing this trope. Except in universe they call it Karate Lessons for The Tick.
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In the Old World of Darkness, in Mage: The Ascension, your amazing spheres and arts may let you perform magic, but complex actions are going to require you actually understand the world around you. Magic becomes a lot more effective if your character has the background skills and knowledges to work it in a complex and strange world. This all depends on what you believe - called your paradigm - since Mage runs on Clap Your Hands If You Believe. For example, a typical Hermetic mage with Forces can probably mess with fire fairly easily, but with a few dots in science, he might start using Forces to mess with gravity or the electroweak force.
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On Heroes, Claire demands that her dad, a Badass Normal, teach her how to fight and defend herself. So he hands her a 2x4 and teaches her a stance.
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A villainous example occurs in Justice League. Shade, who has a nightstick that creates shadows and manipulates them, is essentially rendered powerless without it. Batman beats him this way the first time. When it comes time for a rematch and Batman uses the same tactic, Shade sucker punches him, having taken lessons in preparation for this sort of thing. He still got his ass kicked, of course, but at least he learned.
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Lyrical Nanoha:
Nanoha is shown to be a girl with great, but untapped, magical potential and once she gets her Magical Girl powers, she quickly acclimates into them. She gets a reality-check when she encounters Dark Magical Girl Fate, who is an actual trained mage. In order to close the skill gap between them, Nanoha undergoes virtual simulations in her head as well as instruction on other aspects of magic from Yuuno, who before was only thought of as a ferret familiar. She becomes skilled enough to outmatch Fate in their final duel and after a few more years undergoing formal combat magical training, becomes the best aerial mage in the military.
Fate, unlike Nanoha, was trained as a mage before being sent to Earth by her mother. However, Fate's training only covered the bare minimum of combat magic, so while she was better than rookie-mage Nanoha, her skills aren't good enough to match a far more experienced mage from the TSAB. Once she becomes an ally and receives further combat magic training, she becomes one of the best TSAB enforcers after the Time Skip.
Hayate, unlike the other two above, received her powers by assimilating an ancient spellbook. However, even with formal magical training, she still has difficulty controlling her powers. Therefore, the best she could do is use nuke-tier magic with assistance from Rein or an entire crew of Bridge Bunnies for aiming guidance. Since she herself admits to lack the personal combat skills to be an asset in the battlefield despite being the highest ranked mage (SS rank), she instead relegates herself to command duties.
In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, Corona is a Golem summoner and manipulator, and the most glaring weakness of those types is the squishy summoner themselves. Corona knows this as much as anyone, so during the Tournament Arc, she starts to take her martial arts training more seriously on the side then uses her doll control abilities on her own trained body, letting her copy the base form of her teammates' techniques and continue fighting even when her body should be too broken to move. This leads to a nasty surprise for Einhart when she takes down her golem and tries to go for an easy KO, only to run straight into an uppercut.
That very method's weaknesses are also demonstrated in that same fight. Einhart knows how that skill works, and she knows that Corona's moves are copied moves. This makes her predictable, and she proceeds to easily counter Corona and defeat her after the surprise wore off. Still not bad for the girl who uses it to cover her most glaring weakness, and it will be a frightening addition to her skill set after more training in various martial arts styles.
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In Wearing the Cape, Hope Corrigan gains the Atlas-type power set, enabling her to outfly jets, bench-press buses, and take direct hits from military ordinance. So the first thing she does is go into intensive, fight-club style training so she has a chance against all the other Atlas-types out there.
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The post-prologue beginning of Golden Sun suggests briefly that Isaac, Garet, and Jenna were learning about Alchemy from Kraden to understand their powers better. Isaac's mother is baffled, since Alchemy itself is a dead power and supposed to remain that way, in theory.
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The officers of Section 2 in the Mobile Police Patlabor manga get trained in martial arts, to make them more versatile when piloting their giant humanoid mecha.
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In Mabinogi, player characters gain stat points from training skills, including noncombat skills. This leads to players training, for example, the Weaving skill to use the Dexterity it rewards to help in combat. This also works in reverse, as some noncombat skills benefit from higher stats that can be gained by training skills, including combat skills.
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In RWBY, Ozpin forces Ruby to learn hand-to-hand combat in Volume 5 as he realizes that she's pathetic without her scythe/sniper rifle combo Crescent Rose. A short focusing on Yang that same volume revealed that Ruby hated learning other skills because she felt she didn't need them with Crescent Rose around.
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The titular character of Black Lightning not only has powerful Shock and Awe abilities, but also extensive hand-to-hand combat skills, able to take out Mooks in a few moves even without using his superpowers.
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In Ratman, after the eponymous hero realizes that there are people out there that he can't defeat simply by being Unskilled, but Strong in his transformed state, he starts working out and taking boxing lessons in his civilian identity to improve his baseline strength and skill.
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With This Ring:
Deconstructed with Superboy. While it's good for him to learn hand-to-hand combat, Orange Lantern fears that he's being held back by Black Canary. Black Canary is a good fighter, but she's still a normal human going against a Kryptonian. One wrong move from Superboy and she's paste. If Superboy gets too used to holding himself back, he will not fight at full strength in combat. Furthermore, Super-Strength fights have different priorities, with grappling becoming more important than striking, and knees becoming more effective weapons than concrete. So OL asks Wonder Woman, who has over eighty years of martial experience, regularly wins against Superman, and is Nigh-Invulnerable, to train Superboy.
Played straight when OL learns how to use a gun in-case he gets separated from his ring or his ring runs out of power.
Downplayed when he reluctantly learns the basics of unarmed combat from Black Canary, although he considers those instincts counterproductive for a Lantern.
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Who Took the Super out of Superman? has Clark Kent take judo lessons.
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Dragon Ball:
It's easy to forget, but this is what Master Roshi's training was for Goku in the second arc. When he's introduced, Goku is a very strong individual who knows how to fight and take down anyone who challenges him, but his time with Roshi gives him the proper outlook, training, and discipline of a martial arts master. Come the following arc, he's running rings around entire armies and all the weapons they can bring to bear. Of course, this being Dragon Ball, this is merely the beginning of Goku's journey as a martial artist.
After several instances of having his tail weakness called out in Dragon Ball (including by Master Roshi and Grandpa Gohan), Goku trains to overcome the flaw in time for the next tournament and is just as strong with his tail as the rest of his body. Notably, Goku doesn't tell anyone about it to bait anyone who assumes it's still a weak point. In the anime, this is elaborated on with Goku training with monkeys, eventually able to hold a full troop of them.
In preparation for the Cell Games in Dragon Ball Z, rather than try and chase a form beyond Super Saiyan, Goku and Gohan focus on holding their normal Super Saiyan transformation with no effort so that they can become accustomed to it and the transformation itself isn't a drain on their energy reserves. In addition to wasting no ki during battle, it's implied this helps close the gap to Super Saiyan 2, which Gohan is eventually able to reach.
This is a rule of thumb in the series. Characters who rely purely on their brute strength or natural talent to get ahead will eventually meet their match when paired with an equally strong or even a somewhat weaker fighter who is exceptionally well-trained and adaptive. A prime example of this is Frieza. Because he was born naturally strong and easily steamrolled anyone who got in his way, he was ill-prepared to fight Super Saiyan Goku, who wasn't just stronger but had the endurance to fight for a long time, something Frieza severely lacked. Even when Frieza actually trains in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and gains a Super Mode whose power rivals a Super Saiyan God, he still subverted this trope. He stops his training right after he unlocks his Super Mode, causing him to have the same stamina problems that led to his defeat the first time.
Goku and Vegeta's training under Whis in Dragon Ball Super is based on this principle in a twofold way: firstly, they engage in grueling physical training to increase their base power levels, which are then amplified by the Super Saiyan transformations. Secondly, they train in controlling their ki, a motif going back to early Dragon Ball, which eventually allows them to unlock the more powerful Super Saiyan Blue transformation.
Goku essentially gives a bit of this trope to Caulifla, despite them being rivals in the Tournament of Power, explaining to her how, in order to master and unlock the higher stages of the Super Saiyan transformation, she has to continually fight in the lower stages to become used to them.
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Harry Potter: Harry, Ron and the Weasley twins can pick locks the Muggle way.
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In Attack on Titan, In a nutshell, this is what makes Titan Shifters so dangerous. Imagine fighting a fifteen-meter-tall Lightning Bruiser. Now imagine fighting one that's also a champion-level boxer. Demonstrated well by Eren, when fighting against the Armored Titan. Usually Eren's Super-Strength (even by Titan standards) is enough to carry him through most fights, but the Armored Titan's armor is just too tough. So Eren begins utilizing martial arts, throws, and grapples, combining skill with strength to break the Armored Titan.
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Happy Gilmore has Happy being able to smack a golf ball 400+ yards easily, but his putting game is not the best. It's in the third act that he learns how to putt from Chubs, who takes him to a minigolf course. It helps give him the advantage in the final tournament of the movie.
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This is a rule of thumb in the series. Characters who rely purely on their brute strength or natural talent to get ahead will eventually meet their match when paired with an equally strong or even a somewhat weaker fighter who is exceptionally well-trained and adaptive. A prime example of this is Frieza. Because he was born naturally strong and easily steamrolled anyone who got in his way, he was ill-prepared to fight Super Saiyan Goku, who wasn't just stronger but had the endurance to fight for a long time, something Frieza severely lacked. Even when Frieza actually trains in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and gains a Super Mode whose power rivals a Super Saiyan God, he still subverted this trope. He stops his training right after he unlocks his Super Mode, causing him to have the same stamina problems that led to his defeat the first time.
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Armed Girl's Machiavellism: Warabi Hanasaka has a pet bear named Kyo-Bo who assists her in battle. She taught Kyo-Bo boxing and wrestling, which often catches opponents who underestimate the bear, thinking it will just be a dumb animal, off guard.
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In one episode of HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Tsubomi and Erika confront a fellow classmate who knew martial arts. Turns out, the kid just copied stuff from movies and really didn't know how to do so. It's implied, though, they do start training earnestly when Itsuki joins the team.
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Medaka Box: This is what Kurokami Maguro attempted for Munakata Kei during his time as the Flask Plan's supervisor. Kei was already a savant at assassination, as an Abnormal with an absurd homicidal urge, so Maguro attempted to "complete" him by teaching him how to use weapons. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), Kei was TOO specialized in killing with his own body to really learn weapon skills at all. The most this attempt did was give him a "Hidden Weapons" Skill, the ability to hide weapons on his person in ways frankly not humanly possible despite being a total novice at using those weapons. The result was merely something that weighed Kei down... which, ironically, was exactly what he wanted, as even though his Abnormality was his urge to kill, he didn't actually want anyone to die.
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A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: Kim figures out Danny relies on his powers more than anything else. She spends most of Chapter 38 teaching him hand-to-hand combat.
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The Dresden Files:
One of Harry Dresden´s many levels in badass involves him learning basic martial arts and quarterstaff fighting from Murphy, as well as running periodically so he has options other than blasting things in the face. This pays off whenever he's fighting someone who his magic is ineffective against, or humans, who he can't use magic against without risking breaking the first law of magic. And since he carries around a heavy oak staff anyway to channel his magic...
Harry also notes that teaching his apprentice gave him a much better appreciation for the basics of magic he himself learned and took for granted, as well as gaining proficiency in areas of magic he's weak in (like illusion magic, which his apprentice excels in).
The investigative skills he acquired as apprentice to a detective frequently prove more useful than the ones he'd picked up as a student wizard.
Harry takes up lock-picking as physical therapy for his burnt hand, then uses it to conserve his magical energy and cause less property damage while breaking into places covertly.
Joseph Listens-to-Wind is the White Council's preeminent healer, supplementing his magic by going back to medical school every decade or two to keep on top of modern practice. He's been doing this for centuries.
Wardens are generally proficient with a wide variety of firearms and bladed weapons, since the Laws of Magic prohibit killing with magic.
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In the Post-Flashpoint comics, while Supergirl's training with the Amazons has been retconned away, Supergirl has been taught martial arts as part of her schooling on Krypton, although she's far from an expert, as seen in "Last Daughter of Krypton".
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The entire purpose of Whateley Academy is to churn these types of characters out. Specifically, there are seven different martial artists, all of different schools, who teach classes. All able-bodied students are required to take either beginning aikido or 'Survival'note which is focused primarily on evasion tactics, escape, and finding help from the authorities and/or other supers for a Physical Education credit. Special classes teach everything from 'team tactics' (think Spec Ops applied to superheroes) to designing a costume to understanding how not only your power works but also how your opponent's power works (though it should be added that there's also a heavy emphasis on Mundane Utility as well, for those less inclined to fight). This seems to be much more effective at creating criminals, however, in light of the success of such card-carrying villains as Lord Paramount, Gizmatic, and Mimeo. Given the significant support they get from the supervillain community, and their general neutrality policy, though, this suits the school just fine.
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Fates Collide: Taiga Fujimura and Li Shuwen's combat class teaches students to fight without their Noble Phantasms, and teaches swordsmanship and archery. Oda Nobunaga thought the idea of it was stupid, but Taiga warns her there may be a time she cannot access her Noble Phantasm, and knowing the basics may save her life one day. While the other students are able to adjust quickly, Nobunaga turns out to really need the training, since she has little experience with the bow and was too used to her magic guns.
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In Iron Man 2, Tony is shown practicing "mixed martial-arts" (actually Dirty Boxing) against Happy Hogan. Later, when he and Rhodey get into a fight, the lessons actually come in handy because Tony is more used to fighting in Powered Armor and is actually able to hold his own against the military-trained Colonel Rhodes despite being drunk.
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Followed up on in Iron Man 3, where we see Tony using a wooden rod-based practice Wing Chun (of which Robert Downey Jr. is a Real Life practitioner) "dummy" to do a quick sequence of moves on during the opening scene, showing that he's been keeping on his training - which he uses later when he is (mostly) without his suit.
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Billy ends up taking martial arts lessons from Jason once he becomes the Blue Ranger. It really doesn't start to show until the second season.
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Used in an episode of X-Men: Evolution. Most of the younger mutants who are used to training in the Danger Room with Wolverine are disappointed when Scott and Jean are the only teachers left at the institute and would rather teach them geometry and physics. Of course, they change their minds when Scott shows them he can ricochet his optic beams around a room to hit a moving target.
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Fenspace has the Panzer Kunst Gruppe, a martial arts academy created specifically for teaching android or cyborg fen (and presumably anyone with an organic biomod that comes with sufficient advanced strength) how to get the most out of their augmentations rather than relying on brute strength to carry them through. It also includes training in how to non-lethally subdue a squishier opponent without accidentally killing them.
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This trope is at play in Savage Worlds games that use the Super Powers Companion: you get all your character's powers up front, but you still start at Novice Rank; Characters at higher Ranks have higher Skills and Attributes and better Edges, which gives them an edge over less experienced characters.
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Kara in Supergirl initially rejects the training of her adoptive sister Alex. Eventually, she realizes that she can't just rely on her Flying Brick power set against the sort of people she's going to have to deal with, many of whom are Kryptonians like her, and were also career criminals dangerous enough to lock in the Phantom Zone, while Kara is a professional office assistant. She undergoes several lessons in hand-to-hand combat in a training room that emits a low-level Kryptonite field, to the point where she can take down a Brainwashed and Crazy Superman at the end of Season 2.
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In Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu spent much of his free time in high school learning how to fight without relying on his powers (which he limited to using only to help people in trouble), and managed to build a reputation as an undefeated street fighter without anyone knowing he was a NEXT. This comes in handy twenty years down the line when he starts losing his powers.
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Suzu of Ayakashi Triangle is instructed by Garaku to fold paper cranes as an exercise for controlling her haku. She directly uses her power to animate the cranes (as Garaku does with his paintings), but the folding itself helps her focus.
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Sonic Underground: Thanks to their royal medallions, Sonic, Sonia, and Manic each have unique superpowers. In "Getting To Know You" and "Harmony Or Something", they're given training by allies of the Resistance to discover their powers and learn how to wield them.
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In a cold open of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, it is revealed that Batman taught Doctor Fate how to box, in case his helmet was ever removed.
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One side-story in Atomic Robo set in the 1970s has Robo decide he needs to supplement his Buick-hefting raw physical power with actual combat training. Who does he get to teach him? Bruce Lee, a man who has to wear boxing gloves not for his own protection, but to protect the BULLETPROOF ROBOT he is fighting.
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One issue of the Green Lantern Corps had Kyle Rayner encounter a situation in which he could not challenge Sinestro without breaking a truce that kept a fragile peace. Kyle proposed that the two fight as normals—without any Green Lantern Rings. Sinestro accepts, brags that he had been trained by some of the greatest martial artists in the known universe, and asks Kyle who trained him. Kyle's reply? Batman. In a two-page splash, no less.◊
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Ainz from Overlord (2012), despite being a spellcaster, has the ability to change classes to a fighter dual-wielding BFSes, which he uses for his Momon disguise. Though he has zero experience in swordfighting (to the point that more experienced fighters note how amateurish his fighting style is) he's still able to win any fight by virtue of being grossly overleveled compared to everyone else. Despite this, there are some occasions where instead of simply crushing his opponent outright he'll drag the fight on so he can study their fighting style to take notes on how to properly counter it without having to rely entirely on his stats.
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In The Order of the Stick:
Goblin cleric Redcloak has taken basic chemistry, and makes use of this when summoning Elementals. Earth Elementals may be tough, but Titanium Elementals are 30% lighter and will go further if launched out of a catapult. And Silicon Elementals work very well in a desert, optimizing their ability to manipulate the plentiful sand around them.
The vampire cleric Malack was taught martial arts, making him a good hand-to-hand fighter without his magic, especially with his vampiric strength. He uses it mostly for the Mundane Utility of holding on to his meals while he drains them dry, but it works just as well against Durkon.
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In The Mortal Instruments the shadowhunters and the fairies fight like that. Although they are physically strong, they learn to deal with demons but deal with weapons.
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Elixir from New X-Men: Academy X studied biology because his powers allowed him to alter organic tissue at will. He also got all of Beast's medical knowledge telepathically implanted into his mind, Beast being the world's foremost expert in biochemistry.
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A Is A: After a nearly disastrous mission where Korra, Mako, and Bolin lose their bending, Gen. Hammond orders all members of the Multiversal Task Force to qualify with the weapons utilized by the European Union to still have means to defend themselves if they lose their abilities. While no one disobeys, some members can't quite feel comfortable utilizing firearms.
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Dial: Beyond his Omnitrix and being a casual weightlifter in his old world, Mahmoud isn't exactly groomed to fight, so he gets training from his superhero peers and invents Adaptive Armor to make up for it, especially when his Hour of Power times out.
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In the Exalted system, most magical Charms are directly tied to mundane abilities, and such Charms have prerequisite rankings in those abilities. For example, an Exalt must become a masterful non-magical swordsman before learning the most powerful magical sword techniques, while Larceny can be used to steal someone's surface thoughts or their love.
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Gen¹³. Caitlin Fairchild had Super-Strength and superhuman agility and speed, but in one issue Sarah Rainmaker started to teach her how to fight.
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In the New 52, the new Ray studies up on light after getting his powers in order to make himself effective with them.
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The Mon Colle Knights fic Cult is about Mondo and Rokuna being recruited into a newly finalized team of kids their age, each of whom receive a magical weapon of some sort or anothernote This was all basically an excuse for the author to create the fanfic equivalent to a (standard) RPG, with everyone fighting with their own skills (as well as summoning monsters to fight alongside), but it never went past the prologue, as he was eventually told by someone genuinely knowledgeable about the anime that the concept would not mesh with the theme of friendship between monster and summoner (that being the reason the latter was unable to come up with anything of an actual story for what was originally going to be the first of four fanfics until the remaining three were scrapped in-between)..
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In Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, this is why, in the new Merged Reality, the Chan Clan is recruited to help train the newly empowered Guardians. Uncle and Tohru are there to train them in properly using their magic, while Jackie and Jade are there to train them in how to actually fight physically.
Same thing happens in the J-WITCH Series, another crossover between the same franchises.
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In Pokémon Adventures, Yellow quickly realizes that while her powers are useful, she needs actual battling skills in order to fight the Elite Four, so she asks Green to train her.
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Tony and Steve have a disagreement over the march of technology. Steve insists that the mundane ways are useful, leading to a boxing match, with exactly the result you expect. Hulk and Hawkeye are in the audience watching Steve Rogers punch Tony Stark in the face and floor him with a single shot. Tony complains in his armor he would know every move Steve would make before he makes them. Which leads to Tony Dramatically Missing the Point, as Steve's entire intention was to show that knowing how to personally defend yourself will never, no matter how far technology advances, become obsolete. Tony doesn't see what Cap means. Apparently the lesson was not lost on him, as we see in the next season that the training is continuing:
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, Corona is a Golem summoner and manipulator, and the most glaring weakness of those types is the squishy summoner themselves. Corona knows this as much as anyone, so during the Tournament Arc, she starts to take her martial arts training more seriously on the side then uses her doll control abilities on her own trained body, letting her copy the base form of her teammates' techniques and continue fighting even when her body should be too broken to move. This leads to a nasty surprise for Einhart when she takes down her golem and tries to go for an easy KO, only to run straight into an uppercut.
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Buso Renkin: Unlike other homunculi, the hawk homunculus Washio, who was created from an ex-JGSDF yakuza enforcer and combat trainer, trained heavily to unlock abilities unique among Koushaku Chouno's homunculi, such as learning to transform only his arms and use his instincts for navigating the winds to predict his enemies' attacks.
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Philuffy in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle gained Super-Strength after having an Abyss parasite implanted in her. Even as a child, she was as strong as an adult man, and she's even stronger as a teenager. She was taught martial arts in order to control this and prevent her accidentally crushing people in her everyday life, but this training synergizes well with her strength when she does need to fight.
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Pathfinder:
This is the purpose of the Arcanist gestalt class: a blending of the sorcerer and wizard classes. Sorcerers cast spells from inherent ability ("blood magic") while Wizards read spellbooks for power ("book magic") so an Arcanist is basically a sorcerer who studies wizardry.
In the Anniversary Edition for the "Rise of the Runelords" adventure path, the Lamia Harridan went from being a super-rare, super-special kind of lamia to an upgrade for any Lamia that gains at least 10 levels in a divine spellcasting class.
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Discussed but not used in Iron Man: Armored Adventures. When Tony has trouble with an agile villain, Rhodey suggests he might need to learn kung fu. Tony complains that he already has a highly-expensive suit of Powered Armor.
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More justified than usual in one issue of She-Hulk when Shulkie is in training to box the Champion of the Universe. She weight lifts as her human alter ego because she realizes that increasing her strength as a human has a geometric effect when she Hulks Out.
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Grrl Power: Maxima was arguably the most powerful super in the world, with an incredible array of abilities including the ability to produce effects measured in kilotons and survive the same. And then when she was eighteen, she joined the United States military, and became inarguably the most powerful super in the world. She combines her jaw-dropping powers with shameless Combat Pragmatism, use of allies and teamwork, and expert martial arts. There are only two people in the world who have ever fought her to a draw, and she seemingly managed to kill one of them. The other one joined her team. She also applies this philosophy to her team, making recruits to ARCSWAT go through the same Army training and giving detailed explanations when someone with a super laser power asks why she should bother with mundane firearms training.
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Iron Man: Tony Stark, unable to access his armor for the time being, goes to Steve Rogers to learn how to fight during the Demon In A Bottle story arc, under the pretense of being more vulnerable to his enemies now that his "bodyguard" Iron Man won't be able to protect him. It comes in handy when Stark is captured by Justin Hammer and his goons.
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One-Punch Man:
Defied when "Silver Fang" Bang offers Saitama and Genos to become his disciples and learn his martial arts style. Saitama, whose super-power is "wins every battle in a single punch", says there's no point. Saitama also doesn't want to get more skilled because his goal is to find a Worthy Opponent who can survive more than one of his punches, and getting more skilled would make that harder. Genos also refuses because his fighting style involves overwhelming destructive power and martial arts don't mesh with it.
Attempted in an arc added into the version illustrated by Yusuke Murata: Genos feels Saitama could benefit from at least an appreciation of martial arts by letting him enter a martial arts tournament. Of course, Saitama's "wins every battle in a single punch" ability puts a major snag in that, though Suiryu is still at least fast and deceptive enough to avoid getting punched.
Garou is specifically noted to be more dangerous than your average monster specifically due to being a martial arts master to go along with his superhuman power. This is ultimately what gets Saitama interested in martial arts. In their last fight, Garou is so strong that he almost matches Saitama. At the end of the fight, Garou points out that Saitama is a fighting genius and proves that Saitama can master martial arts moves instantly if he bothered to try. When going back in time, Saitama rewatches his battle with Garou and states how awesome his martial arts is. Too bad the Reset Button gets smashed to pieces and Saitama doesn't remember any of it.
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In Dungeons & Dragons:
The entry requirements of some Prestige Classes sometimes demand that a character refine mundane skills. For example, an aspiring Fatespinner must become a competent professional gambler as well as a powerful spellcaster.
Intelligent monsters can supplement their own powers with class levels like a Player Character's, sometimes making them far, far more threatening. One notorious succubus went from Chaotic Evil to Lawful Good and became a Paladin, using her already superior physical abilities, natural resistances and spells, lengthy list of skills, and ungodly Charisma to become a very deadly enemy indeed. Her intrinsic fiendish nature (evil subtype) also protects her from attacks that target good-aligned characters, the bane of many paladins.
Good advice for low level spellcasters, who tend to run out of magic quickly. Rare is the wizard or sorcerer who doesn't carry at least a crossbow or dagger, and know how to use them. And unless you're Raistlin Majere, you've probably made Constitution one of your better stats to make up for a lack of hit points; you'd be amazed how many bookish scholars have the endurance of a marathon runner.
A number of Feats in 5e provide this, allowing a class to supplement their abilities or cover their weaknesses, and some are quite mundane. This can involve getting better with weapons, gaining new skills, or training with a shield to be far better with it.
It's rather common for a spell caster to take levels in Fighter or Rogue in order to gain access to their physical skills, such as Constitution saving throws or the Rogue's Cunning Action.
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In Kara of Rokyn, Supergirl learns martial arts from Lady Shiva so she can become a better fighter.
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Super Powereds:
This is the point of the Hero Certification Program. It takes a lot to become a fully-licensed Hero (vigilantism is illegal and severely punished), and most Supers need tons of training in order to become good enough to be responsible for people's lives. A four-year program, the HCP trains Supers' bodies and minds for the hardship of being a Hero. All the professors are either former Heroes themselves or have been otherwise employed in risky jobs. This is demonstrated in Year 1 when Roy, an arrogant strongman, tries to take on Chad, the top student in the class. True, Chad might not have Roy's raw strength, but he has lots of training, better speed and reaction time, and precision, and handily beats Roy. Since then, Roy trains hard and spars with Chad daily, getting slightly better each time, all in the hopes of one day besting Chad. In Year 2, Mary, a telepath and telekinetic with a high potential, ends up being shown by an old woman, a retired Hero with a similar powerset. While Mary may have the power, Professor Stone has decades of training and experience, not to mention a lot more focus, allowing her to control dozens of objects simultaneously.
While hand-to-hand combat is important, it's by far not the only training the students receive. One major many physical Supers often disregard is Weapons, opting to go into Close Combat instead. Professor Cole explains that nearly all strongmen ought to be using weapons, but they don't because of outdated traditions. Weapons are a force multiplier, something to enhance a person's physical capability. Cole tells her students to try out different weapons, and her arsenal is stocked with all manner of sharp and blunt weapons to choose from. One student goes with a rapier (better suited for someone with invisibility), while another chooses a flail (her density manipulation power allows her to increase the flail's density just before impact). The class's Gadgeteer Genius (it's considered a power in this setting, although only fairly recently) builds his own high-tech staff. Roy opts for a good old-fashioned metal bat, since he lacks precision for a bladed weapon. After a minute, Professor Cole agrees that it's basically a club, one of the first weapons humanity ever devised, and has a special one made from a superdense material for someone of Roy's strength to wield. After realizing how much more effective he is with the bat than just his fists, Roy eagerly switches majors to Weapons.
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In The Flash (2014), the title character studies physics and aerodynamics in order to hone his powers, and teaches this to his daughter Nora. Oliver Queen also teaches him to use his speed to scout out an environment before combating an enemy.
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Having lost his Spider-Sense at one point, he realized how much he depended upon it in battle, so he accepted an offer to train under Shang-Chi, one of the Marvel Universe's greatest martial artists. Shang-Chi helped Spider-Man develop a unique fighting style called "The Way of the Spider", that incorporates Spider-Man's strength and agility. And then in Spider-Island, he regains his Spider-Sense and combines it with the Way of the Spider.
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: When Hisashi was a kid, Majima helped him train his fire-breathing quirk by doing breathing exercises.
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During Planet Hulk, the the Hulk becomes a gladiator on a planet with beings who approach him in sheer physical might, so he slowly but surely becomes a craftier fighter, using his strength in more ingenious ways instead of merely relying on it exclusively. The other Marvel "heroes" were in for a rude awakening during World War Hulk.
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In The Familiar of Zero, Agnes and her troops are ordered to train the students of Tristain Academy in swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat. Montmorency said she didn't see the point... and then Agnes knocked her Magic Wand out of her hand and twisted her arm behind her back before she could react. The students then agree to the training. Saito also takes some lessons after deciding he shouldn't be reliant on the strength, speed, and sword skills his runes give him. When he loses his powers, the sword skills disappear from his mind.
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In the official Champions setting, the French supervillain Venin Vert studied chemistry so as to be able to use her powers (she can produce poisons from her hands) more efficiently.
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In Teen Titans everyone from the planet Tamaran has superhuman strength; however, Blackfire complements that by also knowing martial arts from many worlds. Also, Cyborg's mechanical body wouldn't be nearly as awesome if he weren't also a mechanical genius able to repair and upgrade it (so for him it's also Required Secondary Powers).
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In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Professor Quirrell advocates this for his students.
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Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk is using Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu lessons to help him control his rage issues, possibly even to induce and control the Hulk, as suggested by his Love Interest, Betty.
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In an episode of No Ordinary Family, Jim Powell (who has Super-Strength) confronts another guy who has also gained that superpower, and gets his ass handed to him because the other guy actually knows something about fighting. So that it doesn't happen again, sidekick George teaches Jim a few of the basics of boxing, and Jim wins the second round.
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Marionettes: Since the Marionettes are machines, they cannot get any stronger unless they get upgraded. Trixie figures the best way to increase their combat potential is to train them to increase their skill and to use their power more efficiently.
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Superman:
The Ur-Example comes from the first story in Superman (1939) #2 (which was reprinted from an arc in the character's newspaper comic strip), in which Superman meets the former World Champion heavyweight boxer, Larry Trent, who has fallen on hard times and gotten out of shape since his own manager was paid to drug him during his big match, forcing him to lose the fight. Superman agrees to temporarily disguise himself as Trent and fight in his place, while taking time to spar with him to get him back into shape, so he can fight the last match himself and regain his title. Superman learned to box as a result.
The Trope Namer is "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali", where Ali teaches Superman to box. Justified since they'll have to fight under a red sun where Supes will be Brought Down to Normal; Ali trains Superman in a special gym in the Fortress of Solitude that can similarly neutralize Superman's powers. Downplayed in that while they intended to train him for two months, circumstances result in him getting only a single day of training instead.
Also, it has been stated multiple times that Superman has taken fighting lessons from one of Earth's greatest martial artists as well as Earth's greatest warrior.
Martian Manhunter has taught him techniques to help him resist mind control as that had been a problem for him.
He has learned Kryptonian martial arts as well. No, really. The son of Mongul also taught him a few things about fighting in an Enemy Mine situation.
Pre-Crisis, a Superboy story had Pa Kent give a few boxing lessons to his super-son, after Superboy initially fails to stop a powerful new villain (and Pa realizes Clark had never really learned about such self-defense/fighting methods).
Who Took the Super out of Superman? has Clark Kent take judo lessons.
Not only does Supergirl have all the powers of her cousin, she has had training in both unarmed and armed combat. In Post-Crisis story The Supergirl from Krypton (2004), Wonder Woman takes Kara to Themyscira to give her hand-to-hand and armed combat. Unfortunately, most writers tend to forget this.
In the Post-Flashpoint comics, while Supergirl's training with the Amazons has been retconned away, Supergirl has been taught martial arts as part of her schooling on Krypton, although she's far from an expert, as seen in "Last Daughter of Krypton".
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In Mystic, flighty selfish party-girl Giselle gained her magical powers by accidentally hijacking the Seven Spirits. When the Spirits deny her help, Giselle is forced to actually learn some basic magic and philosophy from each of their schools to earn their respect.
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During Infinity Crisis, after Hela has Thanos recreate Mjolnir, she's taken by surprise when the worthiness enchantment stops her from picking the hammer up while allowing her hostage, Jane Foster, to use it instead. By the spin-off fic Sins, Sirens & Strife, Jane is receiving lessons in using Mjolnir's full potential from Thor and Sif, and the fic concludes with Sif offering to train the Shazam family in their own use of their powers.
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Arrow: Rebirth: It's revealed that Superman has been given hand to hand combat training by Oliver just in case he's ever exposed to red sun radiation and stripped of his powers.
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Asha'man in The Wheel of Time learn swordfighting alongside channeling. Rand (himself one of the most powerful channelers alive and eventually a blademaster) insists it be included in the curriculum specifically because magic isn't always an available option.
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In the spin-off The Bridge: Humanity's Stand, the genetically engineered Kaiju Tytanna was taught several forms of martial arts and swordsmanship by her human caretakers, complimenting her natural strength and allowing her to hold her own in her first real fight in spite of her lack of battlefield experience. As for how her caretakers trained her, she has the ability to take on human form.
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In The Echo Ranger, All Might begins to take martial arts lesson from Izuku, as part of his rehabilitation training after healing his injuries inflicted by All Might. This actually serves as a double purpose as Tommy feels Izuku training All Might and Melissa will help cement his own training.
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All NFU Agents in Enter the Farside do regular training as part of their standard schedule. Grandmaster explains that they're made to train regularly because it helps them become more creative with their abilities, teach them how to work better with their team, and gain new skills in the process. Even Shaun comments that he's working on his aim so he can use his impressive strength from a distance, what with not having to actually needing to get stronger or tougher.
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man (just like in the comics) spent a bit of time as a successful show-wrestler, learning how to fight using his powers and his webs before ever trying to fight crime.
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My Hero Academia;
All Might suggests to Tokoyami to improve his physical conditioning at the end of the Sports Festival. This was because Tokoyami is overly dependent on his Dark Shadow abilities which, while ordinarily quite powerful, become weaker when exposed to bright lights. This resulted in Tokoyami's defeat in the Festival when the light cast by Bakugo's Explosion powers weakened Dark Shadow enough for Bakugo to break through and grapple Tokoyami to the ground. This possibly wouldn't have happened had the latter had any sort of hand-to-hand training or physical conditioning to speak of.
This is a common theme in the series, where heroes with powerful powers tend to neglect their non-superpower fighting skills, which allows people with more technical powers to defeat more powerful heroes by getting in close and/or nullifying their powers and overpowering them with regular martial arts. Aizawa is the pro hero who shows this trait most consistently: he can negate anyone's power through eye contact, but that doesn't do much good against a large group or someone who themselves has martial arts ability. So he utilizes a variety of ninja-like combat techniques in tandem with his power to maintain the upper hand.
Midway through the story, all the major heroic characters go through some form of this, first at a training camp where they all essentially overexert their powers to make them more powerful, and later when the class is tasked with inventing "ultimate moves" that use their abilities in new and creative ways. Mundane combat training also proves useful for characters like Uraraka, who has an anti-gravity power that's often tricky to apply in battle, so she learns martial arts and often uses it to catch opponents (who are expecting a Quirk-based attack) off-guard.
A blend of this and Required Secondary Powers happens with the protagonist, who has to go through grueling strength training before receiving his Super-Strength power. All Might was concerned that if he didn't bulk up the old-fashioned way first, the overwhelming strength of "One For All" would rip his body to shreds. Even after doing that, it still has a tendency to break his bones when he overuses it, potentially causing permanent damage.
Mirio's power is intangibility, but comes with a Logical Weakness: while intangible, he cannot see, hear, or breathe. So he's had to develop Awesomeness by Analysis to anticipate where his opponent will be when he regains solidity. This was best shown when he was shot by a quirk destroying bullet but still managed to go toe to toe with Overhaul.
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In the backstory of the Italian remake of Battle Fantasia Project Sailor Venus forced her fellow Sailor Senshi to undergo these after their poor performance against Galaxia. Appropriately enough, they included actual boxing lessons, as boxing includes the most powerful punch of martial arts and dodging skills that come handy when facing multiple opponents.
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Liar (2009): Micah was born being able to run abnormally fast. Then she gets taught proper running technique and is able to run that much faster and more efficiently. She's actually almost disgusted when she sees someone like her without technique and hopes she didn't look that bad before she learned.
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Iron Man Films:
In Iron Man 2, Tony is shown practicing "mixed martial-arts" (actually Dirty Boxing) against Happy Hogan. Later, when he and Rhodey get into a fight, the lessons actually come in handy because Tony is more used to fighting in Powered Armor and is actually able to hold his own against the military-trained Colonel Rhodes despite being drunk.
Followed up on in Iron Man 3, where we see Tony using a wooden rod-based practice Wing Chun (of which Robert Downey Jr. is a Real Life practitioner) "dummy" to do a quick sequence of moves on during the opening scene, showing that he's been keeping on his training - which he uses later when he is (mostly) without his suit.
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Goku and Vegeta's training under Whis in Dragon Ball Super is based on this principle in a twofold way: firstly, they engage in grueling physical training to increase their base power levels, which are then amplified by the Super Saiyan transformations. Secondly, they train in controlling their ki, a motif going back to early Dragon Ball, which eventually allows them to unlock the more powerful Super Saiyan Blue transformation.
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People with mental powers in The Infected tend to become a lot more formidable after meditation training. And everyone learns how to fight, whether or not they're invulnerable and can bench-press a truck, which only makes sense since the protagonists are all superpowered federal agents.
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Discussed in Ultimate Spider-Man, in which Peter states that he's been getting by on pure luck and reliance on his powers. Mary Jane then suggests he learn martial arts.
His classic universe counterpart finally did get some martial arts training from Captain America and Tony Stark tried to mentor him. The Ultimate version did try to take lessons from them as well but... Between Tony being more interested in just hanging out with Spidey in his lab and Cap being an enormous asshole, it didn't go quite as well.
And he got some lessons from Iron Fist... which allowed him to do a Bullet Catch.
Having lost his Spider-Sense at one point, he realized how much he depended upon it in battle, so he accepted an offer to train under Shang-Chi, one of the Marvel Universe's greatest martial artists. Shang-Chi helped Spider-Man develop a unique fighting style called "The Way of the Spider", that incorporates Spider-Man's strength and agility. And then in Spider-Island, he regains his Spider-Sense and combines it with the Way of the Spider.
Spider-Man's vast history and being completely Taught by Experience means he did develop extensive street-fighting experience.
Similarly, Eddie Brock was a skilled reporter before he became Venom, and he used that skill to form plans. In the Fox animated series, he realized the symbiote increased his human strength in the same manner as She-Hulk above, so he hit the gym. In the Spectacular animated series, he's a scientific prodigy on a level that approaches Peter himself, and he uses that intelligence with terrifying skill, whether or not he has the symbiote.
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Yoshimori in Kekkaishi is left-handed but has been using techniques with his right-hand. Upon putting two and two together, he realized he could get a major boost in power and accuracy by horizontally mirroring the techniques he's learned so he could perform them with his left hand instead.
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Poppy O'Possum: Poppy relies on being strong enough to lift a house and her innate Anti-Magic properties in all her early fights, but when she starts dating Queen Kit her bodyguard insists she get some martial arts training from Petunia.
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Hitman: One arc has Tommy aboard the JLA's space station when they run into aliens who De-power them all. This isn't as big a problem as it seems until Batman (specifically noted as being the only guy they can rely on in these situations) gets knocked out.
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Codename: Sailor V:
Minako picks up magic combat from the videogame Artemis created as a training tool and physically reinforces herself while desperately working to lose weight in addition to the martial arts she already knew. It allows her to make short work of powerful youma, and it pays off even more in the Sailor Moon manga, where at one point Makoto gets brainwashed in attacking Usagi and Minako brutally trounces her with one kick. And Makoto is the one with Super-Strength.
Also in the manga, all the Sailor Soldiers are trained with the simulator, becoming more competent and developing Charles Atlas Superpowers too.
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The third book of the Septimus Heap series is partially about Septimus learning to become a physician while trapped in a time past. This becomes useful upon his return to his time to control an epidemic.
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In One Piece, this trope applies to most characters. Devil Fruits don't get stronger, users become more creative at using them and develop secondary skills to make using them better.
To cite one example, Crocodile of the Seven Warlords of the Sea is an Elemental Shapeshifter, having eaten a Devil Fruit that gives him the power to control, create, and turn into sand. He has mastered his Devil Fruit to the point that he can suck up the moisture from objects and people, leaving them as shriveled, withered husks.
Another good example is Trafalgar Law, who has the ability to connect pieces of different objects together or swap them with other pieces. To make the best use of this ability, he mastered the Sword Beam to slice things up so he can have the pieces needed to manipulate, and from a distance where most fighters cannot safely reach him. Even better, it was revealed that Law used to suffer from an illness considered terminal. By eating the Op-Op Fruit, he could make use of its power to the fullest, having received training as a doctor. He even cured himself of the illness using the fruit's power. One could even say that the devil fruit was practically made for him.
It's eventually revealed that not adhering to this trope is the reason that normally Nigh-Invulnerable Logia fruit users rarely survive in the New World, where so many people are able to use Haki to nullify their invulnerability. If a Logia fruit user is over-reliant on their Nigh-Invulnerability and doesn't have anything else to fall back on, they're screwed.
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In Irredeemable, not ever learning how to fight and relying only on his strength alone come back to bite Plutonian hard, when somebody equally strong, who knows some moves, showed up.
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Pokémon: Effort Values are tiny stat boosts gained by fighting other Pokémon. Simply fighting random Pokémon and gaining EXP would yield a powerful monster, but with specialized EV Training focusing on specific stats, a Pokémon can yield monstrous gains in a stat. A player can just go through the game, train their Pokémon to level 100, and crush the NPC trainers with a level advantage. However, in the Battle Facilites and commonly-used PvP rules where all participants are set to level 50, EV training and IV breeding (which the game doesn't redily disclose on its own) matter lots more in deciding battles.
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In The DCU, Wildcat is a Badass Normal former pro boxer, and considered one of the hero community's go-to guys to get lessons from. The list of people he trained is like a Who's Who of DC Universe Badass Normals: Batman, Catwoman I & II, Black Canary II, Wildcat II & III, and Starman (Jack Knight), among others.
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In Mauling Snarks, a Worm fanfic, a major way of Taylor assisting parahumans is asking their snarks what they want their users to do, helping their users come up with more varied ways of doing things, or making suggestions herself. Examples are encouraging Armsmaster to take maintenance times into account regarding overall efficiency, telling Amy to get a greenhouse to practice her bio-manipulation safely, or suggesting that Assault's snark also try absorbing molecular kinetic energy, which allows him minor thermal manipulation.
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Martian Manhunter has taught him techniques to help him resist mind control as that had been a problem for him.
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Spinnerette gets trained in kickboxing by Mecha Maid. Despite Spinnerette's Super-Strength, she got beat up by a supervillain without super powers (at the time)... and by an ordinary car burglar.
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In Game Theory, Nanoha learns staff fighting so that she can use her Device as a melee weapon in magical combat.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind:
Giorno's Stand gives him the ability to create life by turning inanimate objects into living creatures, as well as accelerating the growth of existing life. To make the most of his powers, Giorno studied zoology and botany extensively, learning about the many different kinds of creatures he could produce to aid him in battle, turning his Stand ability into a Swiss-Army Superpower.
Cioccolata, an Evil Counterpart to Giorno, before becoming a Stand user, trained as a doctor. Spending many years torturing his patients to death, he learned about all kinds of ways to disassemble a person’s body without killing them. This comes in very handy when he gains Stand abilities, as his Green Day's mold, in combination with his medical knowledge, allows Cioccolata to deconstruct his own body for stealth attacks, as well as being able to reconstruct his body afterwards.
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Ryou in The Dark Queen and I Strike Back has incredible strength and fighting skills thanks to the Holy Sword, but his enemies know how to counter the latter. After the Artralia battle, he undergoes training with Liott to improve his skills and not have to rely on the Holy Sword.
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In Preacher, not learning how to fight has major consequences for Cassidy, who - despite being a vampire, stronger and faster than a human could ever be - finds that Jesse, who suffered through a protracted bout of Training from Hell and is quite a Combat Pragmatist, can hold his own when they go toe-to-toe. Jesse himself has a lack of training in one area - he doesn't speak any language other than English, which turns out to be a bigger problem than you might imagine when your sole superpower is a Compelling Voice and you need to speak a language your target understands for it to be effective.
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Juxtapose: In chapter 2, the teachers discuss the tendency for students who rely only on their Quirks to ignore their physical conditioning. Later on, Izuku and his friends invoke this trope by training under Toshinori for physical conditioning, and later, Aizawa for weapons.
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Teen Titans Tokyo: While Ranma and Shampoo are cases of Charles Atlas Superpower (and Empowered Badass Normal for the latter), their other teammates both fall under this trope.
As in Teen Titans (2003) canon, Blackfire is an alien from a race that naturally has Super-Strength who has also studied martial arts.
As the transformation into a Were Dragon made her Unskilled, but Strong, Nabiki's teammates swiftly decide that she needs to get some proper martial arts training so that she can properly use it.
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords both Kreia and the Mandalorians note that most Jedi aren't particularly skilled at anything, and their only advantage is their connection to the Force that gives them their abilities. They train the Exile to not rely on the Force to provide her abilities, but to hone a more mundane skill and use the Force to augment it. The Handmaiden also teaches the Exile hand-to-hand combat. In return, you can train her as a Jedi.
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Wonder Woman (1975): Princess Diana and the Amazons of Paradise Island train for combat constantly and every one of them has Super-Strength. When Wonder Woman leaves the island, she retains the full benefit of her training whether she is wearing her belt of strength or not. She occasionally fights as Diana Prince, such as in "Skateboard Wiz".
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Princess: The Hopeful: The magical weaponry of a Princess's Regalia is explicitly compatible with mundane Fighting Style merits, even when this doesn't look like it should work (for example, even if a Princess is shooting rainbow lasers with a cheerleading baton, she can still benefit from normal marksman's training).
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My Ideal Academia: Momo Yaoyorozu has mastered her Quirk, the ability to conjure up any object or material, but doesn't know how to fight. After she is humiliated by Shirou Emiya, who has a similar ability but is a skilled fighter, she asks him to train her. She becomes much more effective against villains.
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In Young Justice, after being humiliated by Black Canary with a judo toss, Superboy begrudgingly takes private fighting lessons. The results start showing less than two episodes after.
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In Super Sentai, several series have an episode that focuses on the featured Ranger trying to learn the mundane skill the Monster of the Week uses a weaponized version of - more than once, it's actually boxing.
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, following his conversion into a Cyborg, Adam Jensen undergoes therapy to help him cope with his new cybernetic body. Part of the therapy includes Jensen teaching himself how to build and repair clocks, in order to relearn precision control of his new prosthetic hands, which is based on actual physical therapy techniques. He still occasionally slips up, as shown in the trailer, where he's poured himself a shot of whiskey and the glass is shown to be slowly covering in cracks from his tight grip. This is also the in-story reasoning for the game's upgrade system; all the upgrades are already installed in Jensen's body, but activating them all right off the bat would be too much for his brain to handle and would leave him with a whole lot of deadly tech he probably wouldn't know how to use, so he has to let his body get used to the augments (read: get Experience Points) before he can activate them.
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The Incredible Hercules has had both Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability since he was a newborn. During his growth into manhood, he became a hero and adventurer, learning all manners of hand-to-hand and weapons combat. Hercules (2015) also reveals that he has mastered modern forms of combat also, such as assault rifles, grenades, and tasers.
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In Legion of Super-Heroes, several Legionnaires take up training in various ways. Night Girl's super strength only works in the dark, so she learned martial arts so she could still take on bad guys in the light. Princess Projectra was taught martial arts by Karate Kid, which allowed her to kill Nemesis Kid after he negated her powers. Triplicate Girl had the ability to turn into three of herself. However, she learned to get formidable martial arts from Karate Kid, so when she uses her power, it's like fighting three Bruce Lee's.
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El Goonish Shive: Grace starts seeking martial arts lessons after a while, not as a way to get stronger, but as a way to learn how to control her strength. She recognizes the need for fighting, but doesn't want to kill anyone, so she wants to learn how to subdue an opponent without pulverizing them.
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Lelouch spend a few months training Ichigo in Soul Chess, explaining to the latter that Unskilled, but Strong only gets you so far. Ichigo himself notes afterwards that he no longer spams Getsuuga Tenshou and acquires considerably fewer injuries in most fights.
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Unsounded: The Functional Magic of Pymary consists of very precise commands to the Background Magic Field, so expert spellwrights need to have a solid grasp of physics and materials science to know what they're casting on and how it reacts to different effects.
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The central premise of Duel Nature is giving these to Twilight Sparkle and watching what happens.
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This Bites!: Under Cross's suggestion, the Straw Hats have been training to enhance their own skills.
Zoro takes the role of Drill Sergeant Nasty (particularly to Cross) to get his crewmates in better fighting shape. He and Leo also began teaching Cross swordsmanship after the latter acquired Funkfreed.
Thanks to a suggestion from Cross in Alabasta to recreate their old antics from Goa, Luffy and Ace have brought back their use of pipes in combat. Luffy in particular has found ways of combining his old weapon with his Devil Fruit, such as winding-up his body to swing his pipe at his foes ala Home-Run Hitter.
Chopper is an interesting case, as he picked up Kureha's scalpel-throwing skills... by using his higher intellect to unlock his trauma-locked memories of her throwing stuff at him.
After their defeat by Aokiji, Luffy ordered Cross to inform the crew of anything that'll make them stronger, which includes the Six Powers. By the end of Enies Lobby, Sanji had learned three of Six Powers related to kicking (including Sky Walk and his own version of Tempest Kick), Carue had pushed Shave, and Boss Dugong had pilfered Jabra's Six Power cheatsheet to not only create a replica called Full-Shell Style but also developed his own version of the seventh power Rokuogan.
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Gunslinger Girl. Triela loses her confidence after Badass Normal Pinocchio knocks her unconscious and steals her pistol. Realising she's become too used to relying on her cybernetic implants, her handler Hilshire arranges for her to do hand-to-hand combat training with the Gruppo di Intervento Speciale, the special forces unit of the Carabinieri.
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Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse
Upon realizing that new crewmember Lilith has always relied on the size, strength and intimidation boost she gets from her Cobra-Cobra Zoan, Ranma and Shampoo begin teaching her Cobra-Style Kung Fu, so she actually knows how to defend herself.
Whilst Nabiki's acquiring of the Vampire-Vampire Mythic Zoan does massively project her forward in power, her martial artist crewmates point out that she cannot rely exclusively on her newfound superhuman abilities, and she continues her martial arts training.
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The Logia Brothers: After Luffy and his brothers eat their Devil Fruits, Kuzan trains them in how to effectively use them, especially how to instantly change into their element on instinct.
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Child of the Storm:
Harry gets training that increases over time, starting with an eclectic mix of combat techniques from the Avengers, and then a rigorous education in aikido from Sean Cassidy. This is because even after he develops powers in the PMD weight-class, and some physical enhancement he's still a relatively Squishy Wizard. This and a taste for Improv Fu means that by the sequel he can box out of his weight-class so long as he keeps his head, combining his various skill sets to deadly effect. He's also later programmed to become the Red Son, the successor to the Winter Soldier, with all the associated skills... along with a truly hideous degree of PTSD, and after, he gets trained by Bucky and a number of other teachers. Even his magic gets this treatment - at one point, he jury-rigs a railgun with a penny.
Sean Cassidy, as part of justifying his presence at Hogwarts when he's really mostly a guard for the school working for MI13, teaches a class that's pretty much all about this, demonstrating in his first lesson that while wanded witches and wizards can do incredible things with their magic, if someone gets in close and breaks or otherwise deprives them of their wand, they're worse than screwed, so they need another skill-set to fall back on.
Magneto shows (and later explains) that he's expanded his powers far beyond the usual Magnetism Manipulation-because electromagnetism is one of the fivenote  Gravity, atomic strong and weak forces, and magic fundamental forces of the universe, he has a very broad range of abilities, such as controlling light and the weather to certain extents, EMP blasts, interfering with magic, allowing himself to fly, etc. Unlike in certain points of the comics, where he can do just about anything as long as the writer puts "magnetic" in front, the usage of his powers here actually makes sense.
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To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) has teenage Barry and Kara stranded on Lian Yu, and join Oliver for a decade with the League of Assassins. This makes Kara pretty much the World's Best Warrior, as she's a master hand-to-hand combatant on top of her other Combo Platter Powers.
Barry both plays this straight and inverts it by becoming an Empowered Badass Normal, as he joined the League as an ordinary Muggle and became an expert hand-to-hand combatant before the lightning struck, but afterwards continued to learn how to fight without using his powers.
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Once, Beast Boy of the Teen Titans was seen watching Animal Planet to learn more animal forms he could turn into, and also what inherent powers he could gain from them.
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In Academagia The Making Of Mages, the character is a student at a Wizarding School, but they also train in mundane skills to enhance and supplement their magic. For example, a student at Avila, the college of Astrology, is also required to study Geometry, because mundane Astronomy classes are part of the Geometry curriculum, and knowledge of mundane astronomy can assist in learning about magical astrology.
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The original Firestorm, whose powers involve molecular transformation, has studied chemistry to make them more effective. Particularly notable in that he's a jock who does not find studying an easy task.
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After several instances of having his tail weakness called out in Dragon Ball (including by Master Roshi and Grandpa Gohan), Goku trains to overcome the flaw in time for the next tournament and is just as strong with his tail as the rest of his body. Notably, Goku doesn't tell anyone about it to bait anyone who assumes it's still a weak point. In the anime, this is elaborated on with Goku training with monkeys, eventually able to hold a full troop of them.
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Gen Ootori in Ultraman Leo learns various techniques (mostly kung-fu-based) to better fight giant aliens and kaijuu.
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In Superman story Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation, Kath realizes she can't rely on her powers after getting beaten in a fight, and takes martial arts classes.
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In the Eye of the Beholder has Lydia research the different Arcana in order to understand what they mean after learning from Victor and Igor about Social Links.
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Pokémon: The Series:
In the episode "Oshawott's Lost Scalchop!", Ash helps train his Oshawott to fight without his signature weapon, the scalchop, meaning Oshawott is no longer rendered helpless when he is disarmed.
Pikachu occasionally has to fight enemies who aren't affected by his electric attacks. He had to improve his speed to beat a Raichu, and he later learned Iron Tail.
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In AR∀GO: City of London Police's Special Crimes Investigator, this happens literally to the titular protagonist. After getting his butt kicked by a rampaging werewolf, Arago goes to a local gym where he spars constantly against three of its top featherweight boxers in order to become accustomed to dealing with the werewolf's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
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XCOM: RWBY Within: Team RWBY find themselves trapped in another dimension where for some reason, their various supernatural abilities refuse to work. They still have their considerable skill-at-arms, but have to adapt to no longer being Nigh-Invulnerable as well as working with local weapons and as part of a larger unit than a typical Remnant Hunter team. Luckily, XCOM has some good instructors, and if anything the girls are more badass for learning a more structured school of small-unit tactics designed for hostiles who are much smarter than Grimm.
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Ant-Man: During Scott Lang's Training Montage, Hope van Dyne makes a point to teach him some martial arts skills. The reason is so he'll be precise enough to not accidentally kill anyone with the suit's super-strength, but fighting skills come in handy against Yellowjacket and the Falcon.
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In one episode of Lois & Clark, Superman took a crash course in kung fu to face off against a martial artist who had stolen a mystical artifact that multiplied his strength. The martial artist yielded after realizing he couldn't beat Supes (who now has strength and technique), although only after his teacher told him to do the honorable thing.
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Hello World: The Hand of God allows younger Naomi to manipulate matter, but he needs to know the properties and structure of what he wants to change something into. He ends up accumulating a pile of science books as he learns how to change things more accurately and quickly.
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In the Anita Blake series, characters with Super-Strength, Super-Speed, and Shapeshifting still utilize weight training, powerlifting, and bodybuilding—which gives them an edge against characters with similar powers.
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Kellen in The Obsidian Trilogy who is a Knight-Mage, a kind of Wildmage that has incredible innate skill in combat and war learning swordfighting from Jermayan, and later, from Master Belesharon at the House of Sword and Shield.
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Slayers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer are subject to ongoing martial arts and weapons training as a matter of course despite already possessing superhuman abilities and innate fighting prowess upon activation. This is necessary as it's pretty much a given that the Slayer will face opponents with greater strength than them.
In the Angel & Faith comics, the company Deepscan has its Slayer agents taught how to use military-grade firearms as opposed to the traditional weapons they've been accustomed to for centuries.
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In depictions where Doctor Strange didn't learn the martial arts at the same time he learned magic, he picked them up later (often with the help of Wong) so that he could defend himself even without magic.
This comes in useful on several occasions where he is either depowered or otherwise unable to use magic. And at least on one occasion, his response to being outclassed in magic by an adversary is to cast a spell that negates magic powers in the immediate area - leaving both of them without access to mystic arts, but with Strange still in possession of his martial arts expertise.
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New Avengers: One issue had Captain America acting as a Drill Sergeant Nasty and teaching several teammates – both supers and Badass Normals – how to use martial arts. He tells them they'll thank him later. Years later, Hawkeye did – posthumously. This actually had some basis in earlier Silver Age comics, as an old issue of The Avengers had Goliath hold his own in a fistfight with the Super-Adaptoid, which he chalked up to hand-to-hand combat training Cap had given him.
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The Secret Return of Alex Mack: Alex gets training in MCMAP (Marine Corps Martial Arts Program), which she doesn't use much directly, but which gives her the idea of similarly training her telekinesis. Pyre also gets self-defence training, despite being only eight, because she needs an option other than her tremendously dangerous fire powers.
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A very real possibility in GURPS. The most basic example is a superpowered character who has never been in a fight prior to the campaign's start picking up the Combat Reflexes advantage (in Layman's Terms, veterancy) at the first opportunity, as well as a few weapons/martial arts skills.
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In Star Wars Legends, Jaina Solo asked Boba Fett to train her in Jedi dispatching technique and Mandalorian attitude (including being a Combat Pragmatist) to prepare for her final duel with Darth Caedus. Many Jedi are also trained in hand-to-hand combat, both to invoke this trope and to end battles non-lethally.
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the big problem most combat mages face is the fact that they are Squishy Wizards. Evangeline gets around this both through her natural toughness as a vampire and mastery of the perfectly mundane martial art aikido (it's implied that she learned from Morihei Ueshiba himself), which she uses to great effect whether in magical or non-magical battle. Negi takes a page from her book and begins learning martial arts as well as powerful magic, which serves him very well in his battles.
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Rinka from Tokyo ESP already practiced martial arts before she got her special powers. Later, she incorporates her martial arts into her attacks with the new forces.
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The Bridge:
Aria Blaze takes martial arts classes, which later comes in handy because the various Kaiju characters turned human cannot be controlled by the Sirens' Mind-Control Music, meaning the Sirens have to take them on the old-fashioned way. She's still at a disadvantage because she has the body of a normal teenage girl and the transformed Kaiju still have Super-Strength and durability, but she eventually gains super strength and durability after absorbing Kaizer Ghidorah's energy, and Monster X agrees to give her additional training.
In the spin-off The Bridge: Humanity's Stand, the genetically engineered Kaiju Tytanna was taught several forms of martial arts and swordsmanship by her human caretakers, complimenting her natural strength and allowing her to hold her own in her first real fight in spite of her lack of battlefield experience. As for how her caretakers trained her, she has the ability to take on human form.
Godzilla Jr. is naturally stronger than his father Sr. by a big margin, but he spent a decent period of time during his childhood on Skull Island, learning from King Kong how to actually fight. This means he's not only extremely strong, but has the skill to apply it effectively. This is best shown in comparison to his Mirror Universe counterpart: Mirror Junior absorbed more radiation by raiding nuclear plants, making him stronger than Prime Jr., but he never learned how to actually fight. Whereas Prime Junior can deal with equal or stronger foes with his skill, Mirror Junior is Unskilled, but Strong and struggles when facing someone as strong or stronger where his power edge doesn't help him. Best shown when the skilled Raiga accessed her Super Mode. Mirror Junior gets dominated by her in close combat at that point now that he lacks a significant power edge and would've been killed if she'd had a longer charge.
The Equestria Girls versions of Applejack and Rainbow Dash eventually gain super strength and super speed respectively, but are inexperienced. Godzilla Jr. starts teaching them how to fight and how to control their powers.
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Code Prime: In the Time Skip between R1: Rebellion and R2: Revolution, while the Autobots and Black Knights were forced into hiding, Lelouch received this for his Geass. With the help of Ratchet and Perceptor, he was able to study and hone his Geass to the point where he can control it fully even with Geass sigils in both eyes. He’s mastered his powers to the point where they can affect Cybertronians as well as humans. Additionally, he was put through a brutal physical training and combat regimen by Sayaka and General Tohdoh. The results of this come into play in the Europia Arc, when he aids Akito in taking down a Knightmare, while the two are outside of their own Knightmares.
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The Adamantine Arrow from Mage: The Awakening has this trope as part of their formation- as far as they are concerned, you should have perfected the mastery of your body before you can start properly practicing magic. Their members usually are more than capable of defending themselves without magic.
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In preparation for the Cell Games in Dragon Ball Z, rather than try and chase a form beyond Super Saiyan, Goku and Gohan focus on holding their normal Super Saiyan transformation with no effort so that they can become accustomed to it and the transformation itself isn't a drain on their energy reserves. In addition to wasting no ki during battle, it's implied this helps close the gap to Super Saiyan 2, which Gohan is eventually able to reach.
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In several New World of Darkness game lines the dice roll for activating supernatural powers is tied to mundane skills. For example, improving the Persuasion skill makes magical Summoning more effective.
The Adamantine Arrow from Mage: The Awakening has this trope as part of their formation- as far as they are concerned, you should have perfected the mastery of your body before you can start properly practicing magic. Their members usually are more than capable of defending themselves without magic.
Princess: The Hopeful: The magical weaponry of a Princess's Regalia is explicitly compatible with mundane Fighting Style merits, even when this doesn't look like it should work (for example, even if a Princess is shooting rainbow lasers with a cheerleading baton, she can still benefit from normal marksman's training).
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The Raven Tower: Gods' Reality Warping powers work best when they have a clear understanding of the changes they want to make. The Healer God Oissen refined his Miracle Food by studying the chemical processes by which plants form nutrients, and hones his healing powers by watching thousands of slaves suffer with preventable illnesses.
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All of the Charmed Ones gain some sort of fighting skill along with their magical powers during the course of Charmed. Phoebe starts off when she learns kick-boxing early on to make up for her non-offensive power of premonition. Prue, who at the time was the only one with an offensive power, continues this trend in season 3 (though it is mentioned in the previous season that she is taking lessons). Piper learns how to sword fight in season six, despite the fact that she can already blow things up with a mere hand gesture. Paige also demonstrates some hand-to-hand fighting skills from time-to-time.
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Good advice for low level spellcasters, who tend to run out of magic quickly. Rare is the wizard or sorcerer who doesn't carry at least a crossbow or dagger, and know how to use them. And unless you're Raistlin Majere, you've probably made Constitution one of your better stats to make up for a lack of hit points; you'd be amazed how many bookish scholars have the endurance of a marathon runner.
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Kinnikuman usually got by on luck up until the American Tour Arc. In fact, his victory over Robin Mask in the Choujin Olympics (Widely considered by all to be the turning point of his career) was mostly due to Robin being too distracted going "My God, What Have I Done?" In Hawaii, he met Prince Kamehame, the former 99-time island champion. Kamehame taught Kin his moves, including the iconic Kinniku Buster.
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In the Facing the Future Series, Sam underwent concentration training in order to keep her newly developed fire powers under control. It had the bonus of making her ecto constructs more refined.
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In The Unity Saga, Luke Skywalker is able to benefit from learning Vulcan mind techniques to augment his Force powers.
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Avenger Goddess hints at Diana planning to give Tony lessons in some actual combat techniques so that he isn't purely reliant on the more obvious advantages of the armour in case he ever faces someone who can match the armor physically. By the next chapter, Tony has become skilled enough at hand-to-hand combat that he can take down Obadiah Stane without his armour despite Stane being larger and having the element of surprise.
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In Jeramey Kraatz's The Cloak Society, young supervillains and superheroes are taught useful skills, such as acrobatics and hand-to-hand fighting. Alex reminds Lux and Lone Star that they know them, since they taught the kids, and so they are not useless, even Brought Down to Normal, and they help in the final fight, even if mostly against Mooks.
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Mob Psycho 100: Even though Mob may very well be the most powerful esper in the world, he's also a socially awkward teenage boy who wants to be popular and get his childhood crush Tsubomi to notice him, and most people stopped being impressed by his powers ages ago. Thus, he winds up joining the Body Improvement club, believing chicks dig muscles and Tsubomi will be into him if he's buff. Ironically, this winds up having a bigger impact on his psychic abilities than his naturally frail body, as the strong social support network it provides helps him better manage his long-repressed emotions and neglected social skills, granting him much better control over his Psychoactive Powers and turning him from a self-fearing chronic Angst Nuke to an empathic Warrior Therapist. He Did Not Get the Girl in the end, but he gets over it.
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Boxing Lessons for Superman
 She-Hulk (2004) (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Spider-Man/Deadpool (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Supergirl (2005) (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Superman (1939) (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Superman (Phillip Kennedy Johnson) (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Who Took the Super out of Superman? (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Wildcat (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Hercules (2015) / Comicbook / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Astounding Wolf-Man (Comic Book) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Hercules / Disney / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Battle Fantasia Project / Fan Fic / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Hell Is a Martial Artist (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Infinity / Fan Fic / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Intrepid / Fan Fic / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 No Chance For Fate / Fan Fic / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 A Is A (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 A Monster and a Saint (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 A Monster's Nature (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 A Possible Encounter for a Phantom (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 A Protector's Pride (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Avenger Goddess (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Avengers: Infinite Wars (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Avenging Class (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Cheat Code: Support Strategist (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Colossus Joins Weapon X (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Compass of Thy Soul (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Compulsion (Lead Zeppelin) (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Craving the Sky (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Darcy And The Phantom (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Destiny's Divide (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Dial (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Dragonspawn (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Duel Nature (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Dueling Trigger Finger (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Fairy Without Wings (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Fate DxD AU (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Fates Collide (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Force of Souls (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Galactic Shift Extend (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Green Tea Rescue (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Haigha (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Hands Of Fate (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Hellish Bells (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ignited Spark (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Inheritance of Cards and Demons (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Inheritance (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Intergalactic No Fault Collisions (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 J-WITCH Season 1 (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 J-WITCH Series (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Justice (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Juxtapose (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Kaien's Fate, Aizen's Experiment and Ichigo's Sister (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Kara of Rokyn (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Marionettes (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Mauling Snarks (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Monsters of My Own (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 My Hero Playthrough (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 My Ideal Academia (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Nemesis (BeaconHill) (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 No Plumbers Allowed (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Oni Ga Shiku Series (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Path of the King (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Plus Five to Charisma (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Reapers Among Fairies (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ripples (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Snuggles the Symbiote (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Sucked Into the Smash Universe (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Taylor Varga (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Awakening of a Magus (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Echo Ranger (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The File (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Ghostly Leaguer (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Logia Brothers (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Secret Return of Alex Mack (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 To Aruverse Rewrite Project (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Toward A Bright Future (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ant-Man / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ant-Man / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Happy Gilmore / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Iron Man 2 / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Rocky III / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Chum / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Devils Cape / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Enter the Farside / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Isekai Cheat Magician / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Log Horizon / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Overlord (2012) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Santa Olivia / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Shadow Ops / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Solo Leveling / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Super Powereds / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Beginning After the End / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Cloak Society / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Infected / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Numair Chronicles / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Tenebrous Trilogy / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Villainess Level 99 / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Wearing the Cape / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Worm / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Wyvern Diary
seeAlso
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 X-Wing Series / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Xenos / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 BadassAbnormal
seeAlso
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 IO (Manga) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ratman (Manga) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ruin Explorers (Manga) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Dark Queen and I Strike Back (Manga) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Velvet Key (Roleplay) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Alphas / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Chōjinki Metalder / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 No Ordinary Family / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Stargirl (2020) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Supergirl (2015) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 The Flash (2014) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ultraman X / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Wonder Woman (1975) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Cerberus Engine Games (Tabletop Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Deathwatch (Tabletop Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Forza (Video Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Mabinogi (Video Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 World of Tanks (Video Game) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Scoob and Shag (Webcomic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Sleepless Domain (Webcomic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Code Lyoko / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 X-Men: Evolution / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 MuhammadAli
seeAlso
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Septimus Heap / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Ultraman Leo / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman
 Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_ca1f9429
type
Boxing Lessons for Superman