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Dance Battler
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So, you've found yourself in an altercation. You're facing down your opponent, ready to kick some ass, when you notice something weird: they're moving about in subtle dancing motions as they wait for you to attack. You assume them to be styling on you and you start swinging at them with your most precise hits, but none of them connect while your opponent continues to sway gracefully. You step back for a moment to predict where they're going to go next and what they're going to do. You aim straight for them as they start spinning and then BAM! Your opponent takes a bow before departing, but you don't get to see it because you're face down on the floor. You been hit by... you been struck by, a dance battler! While this might seem strange, it's hardly all that far-fetched. Being a good dancer requires flexibility, coordination, balance, reflexes, and sometimes strength and speed, all things that go a long way in a fight as well. Plus, it just looks cool. Expect more dramatic characters to hang a lampshade on the relationship between dance and combat. There are several ways to go about this: The character is a practitioner of the martial art known as Capoeira or something related/similar, which combines elaborate defensive movements with well-timed attacks. This is the route usually gone down by a Fighting Game character, e.g. Elena, Bob Wilson, Eddie and Christie, etc. The character is a superbly-skilled dancer and just happens to know how to fight as well, fusing the two, e.g. Duck King, Dee Jay, etc. This is arguably the most common example of this trope. The character either practices Drunken Boxing or is just really drunk. The character is just plain nuts. Dance Battlers are often unarmed. Adding a weapon will make them even more deadly because these kinds of fighters tend to favor knives or small arms that can be twirled with gymnastic flair. If they can Spin to Deflect Stuff, all the better. Either way, a Dance Battler is an annoying opponent, since it's hard to tell what's an attack and what's just a fancy step. A telltale sign you're fighting someone like this in a Fighting Game is that they're always sweeping one foot and then the other behind themselves. A reasonable skill to teach someone in the Wax On, Wax Off method. Gives a whole new meaning to "Dance Sensation". If the dancer is popular and/or given special treatment for their talents, they're Dancing Royalty. If female, the Dance Battler is likely to be a Lady of War because of their graceful movements in battle. If the Dance Battler can Summon Backup Dancers, be very worried. This trope often goes hand-in-hand with Confusion Fu. Sub-Trope of Art Attacker and Dainty Combat. Compare She-Fu, which can be combined with the Dance Battler style. Compare & contrast Musical Assassin, Magic Dance, and Graceful in Their Element. See also Let's Dance, which is usually not meant literally, but can be. Not to be confused with Dance-Off, when people duel just by dancing without any combat, or Fight Dancing where somebody uses martial skills to stand in for dance moves dance for purely non-combat purposes. |
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In the downloadable Joker missions of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Joker seems to use mostly a combination of Capoeira, Drunken Boxing, and lethal novelty toys. | |
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Skipper became this temporarily in The Penguins of Madagascar when the magic-practicing chimps stole King Julian's "groove" and transferred it to Skipper. | |
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Genshin Impact: Eula's fighting style is based on the "Dance of Sacrifice" that was used by aristocrats to demonstrate their nobility, and thus utilizes a lot of fancy footwork and stylish movements. In the present it's no longer required for Lawrence family members to learn it and is practiced by Mondstadters of all social backgrounds. The dance was Eula's favorite pastime when she was younger, so she incorporated it into her footwork. Eula's so good at the dance that it leaves Amber mesmerized when she sees it. There's also Nilou, who, as a dancer for the Zubayr Theater, combines her dancing skills with fancy swordplay. And Gaming, who incorporates his Wushou dance talents into his fighting style, complete with his giant lion mask. |
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The Untold Tales Of The Vocaloids: This game's incarnation of Hatsune Miku seems to lean more on being a dancer rather than a singer. Her status screen describes her as such, she has the second highest dexterity stat, and her weapons are various types of Combat Hand Fan. | |
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Kamen Rider Fourze's JK is shown to be a good breakdancer in the opening, and finally busts out his moves when attempting to dodge an attack from Pegasus Zodiarts and defeating three Zodiarts when he's forced to use the Power Dizer. | |
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Mami from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, when she fights Charlotte, she shoots, swirls and bashes with her rifles. And her strings swirl about prettily too. It doesn't end well for her. | |
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Cowboy Bebop (2021): In "Darkside Tango", Faye Valentine demonstrates (holding Welsh corgi Ein) how she surreptitiously disarmed and knocked out a notorious bounty while dancing the tango with him. Even Spike Spiegel is moved to applaud. | |
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In Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, the heroine transforms into a ballerina-nurse who wields a baton. Fight scenes are non-stop spinning. | |
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Some powerups include dance battling in Kirby Super Star, Yo-Yo's dash attack being a good example. | |
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Juliet Starling from Lollipop Chainsaw is a cheerleader who dances while swinging her chainsaw around. | |
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In Samurai Jack, the leader of the big party Jack stumbles into in "Jack and the Rave" fights Jack and is easily the samurai's equal in hand-to-hand combat, though unlike other rap-themed fighters, he fights exclusively with his arms and hands, using hip-hop gestures to punch, chop, and defend. (This doesn't seem to be based on any martial arts in particular—his fighting just looks like rapping on fast forward.) The DJ, however, is no match when Jack gets his sword back. | |
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Tap-dancing Killer #2 pulls this off nicely in Bunraku, at one point fighting with his back towards the enemy. His movements were based on Fred Astaire. | |
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Sonic the Werehog uses breakdancing extensively in his fighting style as well. Thanks to his unique body shape compared to his regular form, breakdancing ends up being one of the easiest ways for him to throw his weight around when it comes to stringing together punches, kicks and slashes. | |
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The Question: Marco from The Question Quarterly. | |
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Batman (1966): Batgirl was played by Yvonne Craig, a trained ballerina. In contrast to Batman and Robin's usual rough-and-tumble fighting, Batgirl's fighting style was elegant, full of high kicks and spins, and even ballet-style lifts by Robin or Batman to set up attacks. Played with in "Pharaoh's in a Rut" when King Tut makes Batman (whom he thinks has been driven insane) dance for his amusement. Batman starts dancing the Batusi to the show's theme music until he's standing before a couple of minions whom he then punches in the face. |
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Suzuka in Endless Frontier is a bit of a variation. While she occasionally can hit enemies with her fan dancing, it's real purpose is to control her Puppet Robot... one with a lot of machine guns. | |
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K: Yukari Mishakuji does quite a bit of this, with a lot of twirling and posing. Misaki Yata also uses quite a bit of breakdance-like moves. In the movie, for instance, when he does a shoulder spin to get back up on his skateboard, for no reason other than that it looks cool. |
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Freaks' Squeele: Xiong Mao from the French comic uses a martial arts style called Flamendo. It is described as "a martial arts style with all the trappings of dance". | |
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Total War: Warhammer II: The Pirate Legendary Lord Aranessa Saltspite uses her spear to do what can basically be described as pole-dancing kicks, enabling her to attack several opponents at once. | |
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Felicia from Darkstalkers is known as an exotic battle dancer according to the manual and is also an accomplished dancer as it is her dream. She incorporates this and her feline grace in her fighting style, and one of her super moves is called Dancing Flash. | |
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Maria Kumokawa from A Certain Magical Index tends to fight using Capoeira, breakdancing, and pole dancing moves. | |
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In Multiverse of Madness: Clea Cut, during the final clash with Clea's Mindless Ones (now under Mordo's control), the powerless sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, along with the equally-powerless Peter Parker and America Chavez, basically resort to this, dancing along to “Defying Gravity� (Wicked) to distract their enemies until they can get Wanda Maximoff outside the current hex, restoring her magic so that she can deal with their enemies. | |
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The manga Double Arts features the main leads Kiri and Elraine developing a dance-based fighting style, from which the name of the series is taken. | |
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Many Fire Emblem games also have a Dancer class, although only the Archanea games (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light and Mystery of the Emblem) and the Jugdral games (Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776) allow them to fight properly without glitches. Even then, Dancers have far inferior stats compared to other classes, as their real purpose is to grant allies another turn. Fire Emblem: Awakening brings back the Dancer's ability with Olivia, and thanks to unlimited reclassing, she can actually fight on par with other units, even when reclassed back to a Dancer. Fire Emblem Fates has Azura whose class is Songstress. Although she's primarily a singer, she can also dance quite well and uses flashy spins and twirls while wielding a lance in battle. Unlike the rest of the series the Dancer class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is not locked to one specific unit. With every student having the possibility of gaining acces to the class, though you still only get one per playthrough unless you utilize New Game+. The class itself also gained some massive upgrades towards it's combat capabilities. With it gaining access to magic, a skill that boosts the Dancers evasion when wielding a sword and a dancer exclusive combat art that deals extra damage based on the unit's charm stat. Fire Emblem Engage has Seadall, whose version of the Dancer class allows him to use martial arts. Unlike more pragmatic strikes of other brawlers, Seadall attacks with graceful, acrobatic motions, and uses a Diving Kick for his Critical Hit. |
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In-universe, Avengers: Age of Ultron shows part of Natasha Romanoff's time growing up in the Red Room involved ballet training. | |
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Nadia Hasan from Assassin School specializes in dance fighting. | |
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Angel: In "Five by Five", Faith beats up a whole discotheque while dancing. In "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco", it is said that Los Hermanos Números, a once famous Sibling Team of luchadores, used synchronized wrestling to defeat demons. |
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Arrow: Roy Harper is a practitioner of this. When he becomes his alter ego Arsenal, however, he fights like a dancing monkey. Sara Lance as the Canary. Fitting, as her actress practices Tricking, a training discipline that combines martial arts kicks with flips and twists from gymnastics as well as many dance moves and styles from breakdancing, and it shows in some of her fight scenes. |
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Chuck: Played for Laughs in "Chuck vs. the Leftovers". Morgan signs him and Chuck up for a hand-to-hand combat class which teaches "strip kick", a fighting style combining Krav Maga with pole dancing. However, this comes in handy when they are attacked by assassins, with Chuck using an available street lamp as a pole. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Gerudo Champion Urbosa's fighting style is said to resemble that of a dance, according to the description of her scimitar. The Champions' Ballad DLC certainly demonstrates this in a flashback, and the prequel Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity shows it off to the fullest. In battle, she is seen performing graceful and intricate twirls, and even dodges attacks with a subtle turn. | |
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Runaways: When the Runaways have an adventure in 1910s New York, one of the heroes they meet is Lillie "The Spieler" McGurty, who can fly to the rhythm of music. One of her first scenes has her fighting a gang of strikebreakers and she dances on their heads. | |
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Justice League of America: Vibe, a member of the Justice League during its Detroit phase, used breakdancing moves as part of his fighting style. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in "Secrets Of A Successful Marriage". Moe is teaching a "Dance Fighting" class at the Learning Annex and demonstrates a move that starts out like he's gonna dance, then he pulls out a double-barrelled shotgun and fires off three shots. | |
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Like a Dragon: Thanks to being Promoted to Playable in Yakuza 0, one of Goro Majima's new fighting styles is "Breaker," which he creates after seeing a bunch of breakdancers have a dance battle on a bridge. It allows him to clear up crowds with wide breakdancing-style attacks, and he hones it further by meeting up with one of the breakdancers (and his siblings). The style also allows him to build up his HEAT meter by performing show poses in the middle of combos, which also allow him to counter enemies if they hit him during said poses. Due to using the same engine and thanks to the Majima Everywhere system in Yakuza Kiwami, Kiryu can sometimes fight Majima using his "Breaker" style, and one encounter has him wear his flashy disco outfit (from the Imagine Spot of "24 Hour Cinderella") to complement it. The style makes a return Yakuza: Like a Dragon as a Job class that most of the male party members can take. It has a few returning moves and then some new ones, although now being used for a turn-based RPG instead of the beat em' up gameplay of 0. In Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, since the game takes place partially in Hawaii two of the new classes are Geodancer (based on hula dancing) and Pyrodancer (based on firetwirlers). Chitose also has various moves based on ballet and ballroom dancing. |
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Vamp of Metal Gear Solid 2 does what is best described as a knife-throwing Flamenco. He's modeled after Joaquin Cortez, so it's not all surprising. | |
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In the film Designing Woman, Randy Owens (played by legendary Jazz choreographer Jack Cole), beats the hell out of some Mooks, by gracefully dance-battling. | |
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BloodRayne mostly just cuts stuff with big blades, but some of her moves could best be described as "Lapdance Battling". | |
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Octopath Traveler II has Agnea, a girl who goes on an adventure to follow her mother's example to become a superstar. In overworld, she keeps the "Allure" Path Action at daytime, which now also causes the allured NPC to give her various buffs when she uses a dance-related skill, while she can also use "Entreat" at night to get items from NPCs for free once her level is high enough. In battle. her offensive abilities are more physic-oriented, and she has wind-type magic instead of dark-type magic. Her Latent Power, All Together Now, causes most skills that work on a single target to work on all targets. | |
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In The Battle Cats, Kung Fu Cat's true form, Dancer Cat, is constantly dancing while fighting, and attacks with a twirl and point. A few other units, like Hip Hop Cat and Cossack Cat, also dance while attacking. | |
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A variation occurs in The Mighty Ducks. Tammy Duncan (and, to a lesser extent, her brother Tommy) trained in figure skating before being tapped to join the hockey team, and she routinely incorporates figure skating choreography into her hockey play, even using it to score a big goal in a crucial game. They are both replaced by Olympic level skater Ken Wu in the sequels. | |
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Fred Ascare and Paula Abghoul from Super Castlevania IV. Also, the Ghost Dancers from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. | |
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JT utilizes his active dance skill to very good effect while fighting Mooney in episode 2 of the Cool Kids Table game Bloody Mooney. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Michelangelo sometimes uses dance moves in fights, often when dodging or recovering from moves. Splinter tries to instruct Donatello not to overthink strategy during a fight, and instead live between thoughts. To demonstrate, he launches a training exercise against Michaelangelo, who has just entered the room listening to his music. Mikey nimbly dodges the attacks in time to the music, until Splinter decides the lesson is over and trips him with his tail. Xever, Shredder's left-hand man, fights with a combination of graceful and powerful Capoeira and dual-wielded butterfly knives, making all four of his extremities deadly weapons. After he mutates into Fishface he loses his combat abilities for a little bit, until Baxter Stockman whips up a pair of robot legs for him, making his Capoeira even more dangerous. Bebop uses Michael-Jackson-esque dancing in combination with a high-tech suit to keep up with ninjas. Shinigami uses dancing as well, though not quite as often as others. |
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Star Trek: Picard: If Narek's action sequence from "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" hadn't been left on the cutting room floor, then he would be a practitioner of a dance-like and acrobatic Romulan martial arts that is reminiscent of capoeira, with more flashy kicks than Narissa's or Elnor's Fantastic Fighting Style. | |
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The Combo Niños are capoeiristas in training. | |
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In the Shin Megami Tensei games, there are elemental dances - they hit anywhere from 2 to 5 times, but they hit random enemies... very annoying if a foe can nullify, drain or reflect the damage. | |
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Makie from Blade of the Immortal is the deadliest and most graceful fighter, fast enough to end each slaughter without a single drop of blood on her clothes. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall features the Ninja Style Dancer, who will beatdown his opponent while dancing to music. | |
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Naruto: The anime and games portray Killer Bee's fighting style laced to the core with hip-hop arm gestures that causes it to resemble capoiera crossed with muay Thai, while armed with 8 swords and Tailed Beast power. This goes hand-in-hand with him being in a perpetual "rap" state of mind. The fact that he raps while fighting causes his opponents to think he's completely bonkers. They may be right. Madara Uchiha is an infamous Blood Knight who refers to ninja fights as "dance". This page might be the perfect example of it. |
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In Duck Dodgers, while trying to distract the "Mother Fudd", The Cadet asks "What would Gene Kelly do at a time like this?" So he starts dancing on his giant head. | |
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Bob Makihara in Tenjho Tenge both practices Capoeira and is able to use the mystical power of rhythm to predict attacks. The series quasi-Big Bad tries to justify the trope, pointing out that much of modern military terminology grew out of dancing, that almost every culture with martial arts had them grow out of an earlier dancing tradition, and that dancers typically make excellent martial artists. | |
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Anji Mito from Guilty Gear uses a sort of 'fan-dance' style using the magical Zessen (Stopping) Fans. Bridget also dances to fight, in tandem with yo-yo tricks, even dancing in place during idle animations. Hence, the two referring to each other as 'performers' when meeting. | |
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The "Hollywood Swinging" two-parter of Martin had Martin end up in a couple of street fights with Michael Jackson, who used his dance moves in effectively curb-stomping the former. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "Smarter than a Speeding Bullet", Darkwing meets a superhero with the bizarre weakness of uncontrollably dancing when he hears a bell. Towards the end, he starts to dance-fight Steelbeak, and Darkwing and Launchpad decide do the same. | |
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Community: Jeff locks horns with an overbearing tough guy and they schedule a fight; Britta sees it all as classic repressed-gay behavior. When the tough guy's gang breaks into music-video style fighting choreography, she's even more convinced. | |
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RWBY: A few characters use recognisable dance choreography in their fighting styles which makes it seem like they're combining dance and combat. It's discussed in-universe when Ozpin spots the fight-loving Ruby is not enjoying the school ball; he tries to encourage her by pointing out that the skills required for dancing and combat are very similar. In the same school ball, Jaune, who has no combat training or confidence, is revealed to be a very accomplished dancer, implying he has a better combat foundation than he thinks. It's later confirmed by Pyrrha that Jaune's combat skills are developing faster than normal. Weiss is able to use her glyphs in combination with Ice Dust to move around the battlefield like an ice skater. She is a fencer and her fencing techniques are combined with figure-skating movements such as pirouettes, leaps, and one-footed glides on her ice sheets. Mercury exclusively uses his Armed Legs to fight in a style that is a mix between Tae Kwon Do and Capoeria which maximizes the strength of his legs. It makes him look like he's break-dancing. Neopolitan uses flips and kicks mixed with her Parasol of Pain to dodge and deflect any strikes thrown at her until her opponent gets mad enough for her to beat them. Tyrian speaks in long, flowery phrases and gesticulates grandly as he talks. He enters battle the way a poet or actor would enter a stage for their scene, and his fighting techniques are similarly grandiose. His style is acrobatic, full of spins, backflips, and somersaults. He often goes down to the ground to use his legs in combat, which makes him appear to be break-dancing. He is a scorpion Faunus and his scorpion tail contributes to his dance style, especially when he looks like he's break-dancing, as he uses both his legs and his tail to strike and defend. During the Vytal Tournament, Penny Polendina’s fighting style looks quite a bit like she’s dancing. She uses eight floating swords in tandem and controls them via grand arm gestures, flips, and twists, so the dance movements are a necessity. |
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Ricky Ruffin of the NWA's Western States division will step and stride his way into forearms, as in he will throw them without missing a step and even keep his dodges in rhythm if he can. | |
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Thumb Wrestling Federation has the sinistra, N Fuego. His dancing is so good that he can set the place on fire while doing it. He doesn't even need a flame source, he just sets fires by dancing. | |
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Blades in Baldur's Gate II, and by extension Haer'Dalis, are supposed to fight using theatrical/dance-like fight moves. Not that you can tell with the graphics. | |
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In Everqueen, that's shown to be Isha's style as she and the Emperor take on the Chaos Androids. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Priscilla Rich, the first Cheetah, was a skilled dancer, and this translated into remarkable agility in combat. | |
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True Villains: Cecile is a dancer by trade and therefore used to swinging a partner around. When she fights, it's in a highly mobile, balletic style that makes full use of an incredibly heavy broadsword as a counterweight. She calls it "swing dancing". | |
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The Defenders: Ren Kimura from the Fearless Defenders uses her dance skills in conjunction with her ability to create razor-sharp ribbons from her hands. | |
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In the Girls x Heroine! series of Toku shows, which have a music motif, the characters incorporate elaborate dance routines into their finishing moves. | |
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BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: In Chapter 32, Rachel easily dances around Ragna's every attack, treating the whole thing like a performance instead of a serious fight. Ragna even notes that she moves around his attacks "like a dancer on a stage". | |
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The fighting style of Trident in Eternal Champions is Capoeira. | |
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O'saa in Fear & Hunger: Termina is a yellow mage, a practitioner of magic from the Eastern Sanctuaries who performs magic through dance-like movements. One of his skills is "La Danse Macabre", which he'll do whenever engaged in battle or casting spells. | |
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The Dervish Dancer Prestige Class has a vaguely Arabian Nights-flavor to it, including dual-wielding scimitars (and much more easily than a non-Dervish Dancer would, too). | |
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Fakir, Kraehe and Mytho in Princess Tutu, all ballet dancers, fight much in the same manner as they dance. | |
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Booker T uses breakdance moves as part of his arsenal, including his infamous spinaroonie (which started out as a variation on a kip-up). | |
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The Dresden Files: Thomas Raith pulls this off in Changes in the final battle, breakdancing to Molly's One Woman Rave spell with a khukri in one hand and a Desert Eagle in the other, taking out Red Court vampires by the dozen. It is exactly as awesome as it sounds. It's implied that he does a more subtle version during earlier battles against tough foes. At least twice, Dresden has heard him humming "Froggy Goes A-Courtin'" under his breath right before a big battle, implying that he's using it to time his movements. |
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Spike in Cowboy Bebop is sometimes seen doing this. Jeet Kune Do was developed by Bruce Lee (also an accomplished dancer) as a deliberately showy style, so it fits the trope. Impressive on film, at least as difficult to achieve in animation. | |
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Power Rangers: Zack Taylor, the first Black Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, catered to this with an original martial art called Hip Hop Kido. When Catherine Sutherland ("Kat") started doing more of her own stunt work, she started incorporating some of her ballet training into it. Power Rangers Jungle Fury had an episode revolving around the Rangers learning to Dance Battle to counter the Monster of the Week. From Power Rangers RPM: Eka Darville, who plays Scott Truman (Ranger Operator Series Red), is a pretty good break dancer and incorporated a lot of Capoeira-like moves in his fights. It's averted in the case of Olivia Tennet, also an accomplished jazz, tap, and hip hop dancer, as her character (Dr. K) does not perform many physical stunts (except in "Doctor K" and "If Venjix Won"). |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji and Asuka develop a perfectly sychronised dance/fight number in order to defeat twin Angels, which they perform in their Humongous Mechas. | |
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In Stripped to Kill, Eric/Roxanne uses pole dancing moves to devastating effect against Cody during the fight in the strip club. | |
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The Ballerina Models from Atomic Heart, including the Twins Dual Boss, seem to be very graceful when fighting or killing their foes in that it looks like a form of dance. | |
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Discworld: The 'Stick and Bucket' dance, as performed by the Lancre morris men — we never get to see what it does, but it has a step called 'KILL!' and is particularly effective against The Fair Folk, who are too entranced by the performance to fight back. It was mentioned in passing Moist von Lipwig's main squeeze, Adora Belle Dearheart, was trained as a ballerina when she was younger and can therefore kick like a mule, presumably quite high. Combined with stiletto heels pointy enough to pierce skin without much effort... |
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In Regina Doman's novel Alex O'Donnell and the Forty Cyberthieves, the heroine performs a traditional Vietnamese fan dance, using fans with hidden blades. | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core has the second encounter with Genesis. | |
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Penelo in general. | |
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The Vanu Vanu in Final Fantasy XIV are a little unique in that their warriors dance to prevent fighting. Part of Vanu culture is the Sundrop Dance, a dance performed by warriors before a battle. The dance fully displays a warrior's strength and can cow weaker opponents with the demonstration alone. | |
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A curious example from The Mandalorian with Boba Fett. While his fighting style doesn't clearly show dancing, in reality it is based off the Haka, the cultural form of dance for the M�ori people, reflected in Fett's deliberate and strong movements. | |
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Seventh Endmost Vision has an unusual example of this in Sephiroth. Rather than a more known or common style of this, he uses his Sinister Scythe along with some fancy footwork to do a traditional agrarian harvest dance in battle, which involves a lot of spinning and leaping. Sephiroth uses it to dodge and weave around his opponents, with skill enough that Tifa thinks he'd have made a good candidate for SOLDIER. Notable because Sephiroth is entirely self-taught. | |
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Zack Taylor, the first Black Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, catered to this with an original martial art called Hip Hop Kido. | |
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In Spider-Man (PS4), Spidey's fighting style takes major cues from capoeira and lucha libre wrestling with how acrobatic and fast-moving he is. He uses numerous spinning kicks, stays low to the ground when he isn't throwing punches, and often shimmies around his foes' bodies to dodge attacks and put them in holds for throws. | |
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Kung Fu Panda 3: Po trains ribbon dancer Mei Mei to incorporate nunchakus in her dancing, turning her into this trope. An idea he probably got from Viper. Secrets of the Furious Five shows that before Viper became a kung fu warrior she was the best ribbon dancer in the village, because she was born without fangs and no-one thought she could fight. She proves otherwise when she uses her ribbon dancing skills to take down a gorilla bandit that had defeated her father by wearing poison-proof armor that broke his fangs. |
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Sonic has some breakdancing-inspired fight moves in Sonic Battle. As a possible Continuity Nod, one of his taunts in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a breakdance move, Sonic Generations reveals that Classic Sonic used to spin on his hand, with Modern Sonic being able to do this. | |
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Mugen from Samurai Champloo is untrained in any sort of fighting style, but possess enough raw power and ax-craziness to do whatever feels right to him and still come out on top. His geta sandals have metal plates on the soles◊, so he can block swords with them. The producers call it the "champuru kendo" fighting style. Frequently assumed to have been influenced by break-dancing or capoeira or both. | |
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Rufus from Insaniquarium is this, according to his backstory. | |
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Super Gem Fighter makes That Russian Squat Dance one of Zangief's combos. | |
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In the Knights of the Old Republic games, Echani martial arts, especially the ritual forms, are allegedly very close to a dance style. The Mandalorians mock this, calling them "fey dancers with weapons not fit for Mandalorian children." Still, Echani blades are some of the best ones in-game, and the Handmaiden in the second game isn't to be taken lightly. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Eddie Valiant uses his old vaudeville background, subduing the Weasel gang with a vigorous song-and-dance number. Though he's not physically fighting them, the technique is extremely effective; he's hilarious, and excessive laughter is literally lethal to the Weasels. | |
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Averted in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid in the case of Hiro Kagami / Kamen Rider Brave. His "Level 3" form incorporates a dancing video game, but he doesn't dance. Rather, he maintains rhythm to maximize his fighting capabilities due to his proficiency in performing CPR, which can result in broken ribs in the real world. | |
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Transformers: Shattered Glass: Abominus is a Cultured Badass whose fighting style is based on interpretive dance. | |
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In the Liaden Universe, the menfri'at, taught in some places as strictly dance, is both a dance and a self-defense discipline for pilots. | |
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Ryouna from Senran Kagura normally uses Gun Fu in battle. After her Shinobi Transformation, not only she gets a ballerina-style dress, her movements turn from fast-paced to slow and ballet-like, and her style starts resembling a cross between Gun Fu and ice skating. | |
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A particularly cheesy example is the battles in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, especially the "karaoke battle" to "C'est la Vie". | |
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Metal Gear: Vamp of Metal Gear Solid 2 does what is best described as a knife-throwing Flamenco. He's modeled after Joaquin Cortez, so it's not all surprising. After being turned into a cyborg, Raiden makes use of some very flashy moves while fighting. Mostly with breakdancing moves that he shows off a lot in the cutscenes of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. You finally get to experience those moves yourself as it's a part of his moveset in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, as expected the move is great at dealing damage in a wide area to take care of several opponents. |
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Persona 4: Yukiko Amagi's fighting style takes cues from Japanese fan dances. Her movements in the original game are stilted and amateurish, but by the time of Persona 4: Arena, she wields her Combat Hand Fans with graceful precision. | |
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Persona 5 Royal: Kasumi Yoshizawa's fighting style is based on her rhythmic gymnastics, wielding a rapier with fluid, flexible movements and occasionally throwing in a ribbon dance. | |
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Batman: Arkham Series: In the downloadable Joker missions of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Joker seems to use mostly a combination of Capoeira, Drunken Boxing, and lethal novelty toys. In Batman: Arkham City, Catwoman can be this, since her move set is a lot more fluid and ballet-like than Batman's, who uses more brute strength than acrobatics or gymnastics. And Nightwing is another example, having once been an acrobat himself. And in Batman: Arkham Origins, the Flashback!Joker you play as can be this, since his fighting moves are the same as in Asylum, while his moves are somersaulting and leap frogs. And all this takes place in the Comedy Club, set to the tune of "The Thieving Magpie Overture" by Gioachino Rossini, doubling as a Shout-Out to the hallucinatory fight scene in A Clockwork Orange. |
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Home Movies - in one of their movies, Brendon and Jason fight with JAZZ! | |
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Undertale has many monsters that will perform funky dances while fighting you, but Mettaton EX is the most notable. His dancing speeds up as the fight progresses, to the point where he's striking a new pose every half-second. | |
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In Warframe, with either the Kogake or the Obex fists and the Brutal Tide stance, you can breakdance your enemies to death. | |
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Exalted: A Supernatural Martial Arts in this fashion, Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style, animates props like wide sleeves, fans, sashes, ribbons, etc and uses them to grapple or attack several times in a round. At the top of it, you can turn into a dream-like floating golden serpent... somehow. Malfeas the Demon City teach his exalts how to be awesome in both dancing and fighting. Crafty players will quickly put two-and-two together and create Combos that combine the benefits of his charms. Incredibly destructive Bollywood dance scene ensues. A fan supplement introduced the Swaying Grass Dance Style, a supernatural version of capoeira. Notable in being the only martial art that explicitly caters to the iron boot, a kick enhancer that's Exactly What It Says on the Tin, though most players assume that other martial arts that use the cestus and fighting gauntlet also iron boots. |
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Black Clover: Using her Valkyrie Armor gives Noelle perfect grasp of the mana surrounding her armor, letting her move through mana currents like a graceful dance to dodge enemy attacks. Butoh of the undersea temple uses dance magic, turning his graceful movements into deadly spells. Asta also has a hard time keeping up with his movement because they are so unusual. |
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Capoeira is also one of the martial arts used by the titular Black Panther. Due to the fact that Capoeira is of an African origin. | |
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In GUN×SWORD, Fasalina pilots her Dahlia of Wednesday by... erm... pole dancing | |
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This is parodied and subverted in American Dad!. When Those Two Guys Terry and Greg are angry at Stan and intend to beat him up, they begin doing flowing, streaming and ineffectual moves which Stan mocks, when one of them promptly sucker punches Stan to the ground with a Groin Attack. | |
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In Seanan McGuire's Discount Armageddon, main character Verity Price is a ballroom dancer/martial artist, and she lets the dancing bleed into the martial arts because of how much the two have in common. | |
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One Smosh Shut Up! Cartoons series, Oichi High School Battle, has an episode where Oishi rejects Reif's offer for a date, and because of this, Reif tries to get Oishi to see Puss In Boots Part 2, but Oishi says that Reif is going to have to battle her boyfriend, Mucusance, in "combat." A dance battle ensures between Reif and Mucusance. Mucusance wins due to him being good at dancing and eats Reif. | |
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In Metro City Chronicles, Hybrid eventually ends up converting her dance skills as a ballerina into a fighting technique. | |
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After being turned into a cyborg, Raiden makes use of some very flashy moves while fighting. Mostly with breakdancing moves that he shows off a lot in the cutscenes of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. | |
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A class in .hack//G.U. that uses fans and status ailment magic is called the Macabre Dancer class. | |
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Ghost in the Shell (2017): Major is zapped with a Static Stun Gun, then handcuffed to a stripper pole by yakuza thugs and told to dance for them. Being a battle cyborg Major replies, "I wasn't built to dance" and proceeds to kick their asses. As she's still handcuffed to the pole, it looks a lot like a pole-dancing routine. | |
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In an episode of The Owl House called "Enchanting Grom Fright", Luz and Amity defeat a Supernatural Fear Inducer through a series of spells in a dance routine. | |
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Fire Emblem Fates has Azura whose class is Songstress. Although she's primarily a singer, she can also dance quite well and uses flashy spins and twirls while wielding a lance in battle. | |
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Super Robot Wars: The Fairlions from Original Generation 2 used combat moves based on idol dancing. It is, in fact, one incredibly cute beatdown. Suzuka in Endless Frontier is a bit of a variation. While she occasionally can hit enemies with her fan dancing, it's real purpose is to control her Puppet Robot... one with a lot of machine guns. |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Chris Evans as Captain America; his mother is a theater director and taught him dance early on. The fight choreographers used this to help him with his moves. It's also why he does most of his own stunts — his dance training makes him move differently than others, so it's difficult to replicate how he does it. In combat, Loki's movements are always fluid and dance-like, and they're deliberately filmed to appear beautiful. In Thor, he uses Gungnir as a pole to propel his body around in order to increase his momentum for a kick in the face. In Thor: Ragnarok's Final Battle, Loki employs acrobatics to avoid being struck by a sword. Tom Hiddleston elaborates on his character's supple physicality in this interview: Cate Blanchett trained in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira for Hela's fight scenes in Thor: Ragnarok. Capoeira is also one of the martial arts used by the titular Black Panther. Due to the fact that Capoeira is of an African origin. In-universe, Avengers: Age of Ultron shows part of Natasha Romanoff's time growing up in the Red Room involved ballet training. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Dervish Dancer Prestige Class has a vaguely Arabian Nights-flavor to it, including dual-wielding scimitars (and much more easily than a non-Dervish Dancer would, too). The Battledancer Base Class from Dragon Compendium is, judging from the fluff, directly based off Capoeira. Gameplay-wise it handles like a Monk with some of the special abilities replaced by Bardic Music. This is an update from the equally obscure class from AD&D (notable for the eventual progression to nine attacks out of every two rounds, or double that if hasted, in an age where most others topped out at two attacks per round). The less adventurer-friendly abilities, mostly the ones that required a group of other dancers to perform, were justifiably removed in the transition. The second edition Sourcebook The Complete Book of Elves introduced Bladesingers, elvish sword dancers who do quite well in combat. This was actually a wizard specialization rather than a pure fighter kit. The classes from the Tome of Battle can learn from a school allowing them to use a number of special abilities based on their concentration checks. How does this relate to Battledancing? Well, there's a 1st-level Bard spell called undersong that changes concentration checks into perform checks. Used together, they allow characters to perform saves or deal damage based on your perform check. In short, you can be dodging attacks with dance and singing people to death. The feat Snowflake Wardance from Frostburn and the item Slippers of Battle Dancing from Magic Item Compendium can both make Bards more effective if they dance in combat. Eilistraee is the Drow goddess of swordplay and dance (among other things). Some rituals of worship and divine magic of her priesthood call to both of these aspects. (Some of her other rituals also involve Nude Nature Dance.) Dwarven goddess of battle luck and joy of the fray Haela Brightaxe appears constantly dancing and juggling a two-handed sword. Frequently clad only in her long silver hair and beard, at that. In 5th Edition, the Drunken Master archetype for Monks is written up as someone who uses dancing-like movements that mimic the stumbles and lurches of a drunkard to make it hard for their opponents to predict their actions rather than actually requiring the character to be drunk. |
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Mortal Kombat: Mortal Kombat 4: Kai's fighting style is so fast and nimble that it has often been confused with capoiera. One of his moves has him going into a hand stand to kick his opponent. Mortal Kombat 9: Mileena is a more literal example. She dances onto the arena as she makes her entrance, and says "Let us dance!" as her Battle Cry. (She is insane...) |
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Played with in Overwatch. Lúcio doesn't directly use dance moves in his abilities, but he's generally at his most effective when dancing around on objectives, using the inherent speed boost of his wallride ability. He also literally has an emote called "Capoiera." | |
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Due to using the same engine and thanks to the Majima Everywhere system in Yakuza Kiwami, Kiryu can sometimes fight Majima using his "Breaker" style, and one encounter has him wear his flashy disco outfit (from the Imagine Spot of "24 Hour Cinderella") to complement it. | |
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Fabiola from Black Lagoon does Capoeira moves to dodge bullets while dual wielding shotguns. | |
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Mortal Kombat 4: Kai's fighting style is so fast and nimble that it has often been confused with capoiera. One of his moves has him going into a hand stand to kick his opponent. | |
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Mortal Kombat 9: Mileena is a more literal example. She dances onto the arena as she makes her entrance, and says "Let us dance!" as her Battle Cry. (She is insane...) | |
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Altered Carbon: A married couple of zero-G gladiators fight to the death (they are then re-sleeved in replacement bodies) for the entertainment of their mega-rich audience. The fight starts off this way and even has accompanying music, but quickly devolves into a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. | |
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Steelrising: The protagonist Aegis was a Clockwork Creature created for dancing to entertain the Royal Court, only to be repurposed for battle, which is reflected in her animations. | |
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Babydoll in Sucker Punch incorporates her dance moves in her various fantasies' battles, doing spins and flips while cutting up monsters with a sword. | |
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Stargate SG-1 has the Jaffa martial art Mastaba (seen most prominently in "The Warrior"), which is actually capoeira with the serial numbers filed off. The producers actually hired some professional capoeira instructors for the episode. | |
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The third movie of Descendants shows Audrey bring suits of knight armor to life to attack the VK's. How do they win? By Mal compelling them to dance until they fall. | |
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The Thai film Raging Phoenix features several scenes with both b-boy and traditional Thai dance-based fighting styles. | |
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In Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, Fault Zone moves with graceful ballet movements as she attacks an enemy. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Early in the series, Zuko uses Dance Battling quite often. This had the downside of wearing him out within moments, as seen in his fight with Zhao, and he eventually shifted to using more basic forms. The Crossroads of Destiny: Lampshaded when Sokka and Toph expose Azula and her posse, who had been masquerading as Kyoshi Warriors. Ty Lee attempts to chi block Sokka, which results in very elaborate dodging movements that she compares to dancing. The Headband: Inverted when Aang and Katara incorporate fighting moves into a dance that ends with them both panting and sweating heavily. The Firebender Masters: Played straight when Aang and Zuko learn a firebending form that doubles as (and is called) a dance, which the latter is less than enthusiastic about (we later see him using a kick a lot like the one Mugen is doing in the above pic. Except with a lot of fire). Korra is extremely graceful and uses lots of leaps and spins, in addition to great sweeping gestures with her arms. This, and all of the Dance Battling from the previous show, is Justified by the nature of bending - the movement of the elements flows with the movement of the bender's body, which naturally sometimes calls for something more complicated and expansive than plain old kicks and punches. Desna and Eska, Korra's cousins, also use a lot of acrobatics in their waterbending. Suyin Beifong is a dance battler with earthbending and metalbending, in contrast to her sister Lin's more blunt and in-your-face aggressive style. You can also see her style in her former protege Kuvira’s bending. |
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Fandango is a ballroom dancer who is also a professional wrestler. The fact that he can't seem to dance that well is irrelevant. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City, Catwoman can be this, since her move set is a lot more fluid and ballet-like than Batman's, who uses more brute strength than acrobatics or gymnastics. And Nightwing is another example, having once been an acrobat himself. | |
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger has shades of this, but it's nowhere near Battle Fever J's usage. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Flare Dancers, who "dance as they attack". The Gerudo elite guards from Thieves' Hideout fight choreographically as well, and have a flashy attack that performs a Non-Lethal K.O. to Link if it lands. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Odolwa, the Masked Jungle Warrior, is the boss of Woodfall Temple. Due to his erratic movements, which sometimes stem to leaping to a random point in the room and simply dancing without making any strike, (and the fact he summons dungeon-unique beetle-creatures, which Link has to kill, and swarms of flesh-eating locusts, which he can't do anything about), he's often That One Boss for beginners. Majora itself, specifically Majora's Incarnation. It dances erratically, including moonwalking. Its sole attack is a large sequence of energy spheres. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Gerudo Champion Urbosa's fighting style is said to resemble that of a dance, according to the description of her scimitar. The Champions' Ballad DLC certainly demonstrates this in a flashback, and the prequel Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity shows it off to the fullest. In battle, she is seen performing graceful and intricate twirls, and even dodges attacks with a subtle turn. |
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Shirakawa in Odd Taxi uses capoeira (the dance/martial art mentioned in the main text) to good effect. | |
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The official profile of Yurika Kirishima of Project Justice lists one of her hobbies as ballet, and it shows in her fighting style. A number of her moves show influence from the dance style, most notably her dashing hard kick in which she performs a grand jeté. | |
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Steven Universe: Pearl incorporates ballet moves into most of her fighting. When she's not relying on "Punch things really hard", Garnet tends to incorperate her Vouge/Wakking dancing techniques into her fighting style, giving her much more elaborate and fast handwork. During the Stronger Than You musical number in the episode Jailbreak she takes this even farther to the point that she's almost using her opponent Jasper as a dancing partner as she lays the smackdown. Gem fusions involving Pearl tend to carry over her ballet tendancies with Opal (Pearl + Amethyst) standing permanently on point and using elegant flips to evade her opponents, Sardonyx (Pearl + Garnet) utilizing a very flashy and elaborate style when using her warhammer and Alexandrite (Garnet + Amethyst + Pearl) adopting more graceful and dance-like movements and poses when utilizing techniques and weapons related to Pearl and her related fusions. |
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Wood Elf teams from Blood Bowl include Wardancers on their rosters. These players are highly popular with fans as they dance their way through the opposition and use their excellent hand-to-hand skills to bring down even the strongest of foes. | |
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Batman Capoeira is among the many fighting styles Batman has mastered. Orpheus's fighting style is a combination of his background in dance with his martial arts training. Nightwing mixes dancing into his fights on occasions, like when he was fighting a group of musicians and incorporated break-dancing into their take-down. |
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Bayonetta is fond of this, though mostly in cutscenes. Most of her fights with Jeanne are dance battles with guns, on exploding rocks while time is stopped, and has a literal dance battle (a stripper pose off at that!) with one of the Joy enemies that has taken her form in the middle of a level. Three battle techniques, purchasable at Rodin's shop, are dance moves and Climax attacks, which summon large demons, seem to require both an incantation and a short dance. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In “Out of Toon�, Perry the Platypus, under the effects of Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s Dance-inator (which forces anyone under its influence to dance uncontrollably), uses dance moves to subdue him, thus becoming the first agent ever to defeat evil while dancing. | |
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In Carmen, Antonio is the leader of a dance troupe who gets into a fight with his girlfriend's husband. He starts the fight by dancing flamenco. The opponent dances too. The film blurs fighting and dancing so that the viewer can't tell which is which, until Antonio knocks the other man down to the floor and wins the fight. | |
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SHIMMER academy graduate Rayna Von Tosh has the gimmick of a burlesque dancer and so frequently dances before doing moves such as shoulder tackles and elbow drops. | |
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In Mr. & Mrs. Smith, John and Jane engage in a gunfight, battling their enemies together to the tune of the Assassin's Tango. | |
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In the ThunderCats episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" Rascally Rabbit The Drifter pulls this off by combining Nonchalant Dodge and Not Quite Flight skills, at one point cheerily pirouetting in midair in front of a frustrated opponent. | |
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Kamen Rider: Ryutaros (Gun Form) in Kamen Rider Den-O combines this with A-Team Firing and Gangsta Style, which together are less than the sum of their parts. His aim is, to put it lightly, horrible. Kamen Rider Fourze's JK is shown to be a good breakdancer in the opening, and finally busts out his moves when attempting to dodge an attack from Pegasus Zodiarts and defeating three Zodiarts when he's forced to use the Power Dizer. Averted in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid in the case of Hiro Kagami / Kamen Rider Brave. His "Level 3" form incorporates a dancing video game, but he doesn't dance. Rather, he maintains rhythm to maximize his fighting capabilities due to his proficiency in performing CPR, which can result in broken ribs in the real world. |
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In Pokémon Colosseum Miror B. and his team of Ludicolo dance to a salsa beat while they wait for you to select your next move. Additionaly, his music in XD is disco. | |
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Magical Circle Guru-Guru's Old Man North-North could be this... well... he at least dances when battles take place, anyway. Though he later learns all that dancing has made him strong enough to fight monsters. | |
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Space Channel 5: "Time for a dance battle! Let's Dance!" | |
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Underground: Robyn's form of fighting in the ring is noted to be very graceful and dancelike. When she can, Robyn secretly practices ballet and the practice has influenced her fighting style. | |
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Never Back Down is a fight movie. In one scene, we have a dreadlocked Dance Battle guy and his uninteresting looking opponent. After half a minute of showboating, however, he manages to frontflip himself right into a thunderous single punch, which lays him right out. | |
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The Calca and Brina dolls in Final Fantasy IV (and its sequel, where they are playable characters). | |
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Rikku's Berserker Dress Sphere in Final Fantasy X-2 does Capoeira movements in her idle animation. There's also the Songstress Dress Sphere which has several dances as offensive attacks though they usually just cause status changes. | |
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In Sonic Adventure, Tails could obtain the Rhythm Badge as a power-up while in the Ancient Echidna City that allows him to do an infinite, continuous Tail Swipe. The animation of such involves Tails transitioning between different breakdancing positions in order to keep momentum. | |
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Robin from Teen Titans (2003) is this, to varying degrees of realism. The blatantness of it varies, but it's extremely apparent when he's fighting against someone else who excels at martial arts (most notably Red X, who is also a Dance Battler, as he shares Robin's style of fighting) or someone whose fighting style involves being huge and throwing a lot of heavy things at him. | |
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Bugs Bunny was fond of this trope - he gets rid of a malicious hobo on a train car using some balletic moves, and ticks off a bull in the ring with a Mexican dance with face-slap percussion. | |
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Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) is a dance battler, incorporating capoeira-like moves and lots of leaps into his fighting style. This is in comparison to his manga incarnation, who is more of The Brute. | |
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The King of Fighters: Both versions of the Orochi teamnote formerly known as the New Face Team. have this premise. Some of Yashiro's basic moves (namely his kicks, such as his sweeping kick) are similar to Capoeira. In her normal version, Shermie's battle stance shows she's actually dancing. In the Orochi version, Shermie still uses some moves that simulate dance passes. Chris is not an isolated case, starting with him walking backwards as he does the classic Moonwalk. In his normal The King of Fighters '97 version, he has a taunt that he gives three clicks like he's pacing a song. Momoko in XI uses Capoeira... or so she says, but it's hard to tell given that she's so tiny. Robert Garcia is also constantly dancing in his regular stance, although he doesn't use capoeira like the others. He just really likes dancing in place like that. Zarina from XIV also uses Capoeira as her fighting style. Chizuru Kagura's fighting style seems to resembles the traditional Shinto dances performed during festivals. Makes sense since Chizuru herself is the Ojou and a Shinto priestess. Soiree Meira in The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact. |
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MERPS (Middle-Earth Role Playing System) also had Dancer and Dervish classes. | |
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John Wick during the Red Circle shootout, thanks to a combination of Gun Fu and the Wrestler in All of Us set to a nightclub beat. | |
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L of Death Note, inspired by the more talented Naomi Misora. Both are Capoeira practitioners. | |
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Elena in Street Fighter III uses Capoeira. | |
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Takuto from Star Driver incorporates pirouettes and corkscrew flips in his fighting style. You know, the one he uses while piloting a giant robot. | |
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Popeye - "The Dance Contest" and "On Our Way to Rio" are just two cartoons where Popeye uses dance to beat up Bluto. | |
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Superman: Intrepid Reporter Lois Lane once used dance battling while impersonating a ballet dancer. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: comes up once early on as a mutual Establishing Character Moment. When fighting Noah, Mio initially dominates the fight. Noah figures out she's an Off-Sender from her clothes, and realizes she's attacking in the same rhythm as the Agnian sending song, seizing back the momentum by attacking in counter-time and knowing she's committed to her next movement. | |
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Persona: Persona 4: Yukiko Amagi's fighting style takes cues from Japanese fan dances. Her movements in the original game are stilted and amateurish, but by the time of Persona 4: Arena, she wields her Combat Hand Fans with graceful precision. Persona 5 Royal: Kasumi Yoshizawa's fighting style is based on her rhythmic gymnastics, wielding a rapier with fluid, flexible movements and occasionally throwing in a ribbon dance. |
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One of the minor Smedries in Alcatraz Series has the Talent of being a really bad dancer, which causes him to turn into this whenever he hears music. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The game has an old card called Performance of Sword, a Warrior who apparently does this. Unfortunately, she's a Ritual Monster with less attack power than most basic monsters and no special effect. The "Cyber Girl" archetype is mainly composed of monsters that look like women from different forms of gymnastics, including figure skating (Blade Skater) and ballet (Cyber Tutu and Cyber Tutubon). |
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In Red vs. Blue, some female Freelancers such as Carolina and Connecticut rock this trope, whereas Tex has too aggressive a style and South relies much more on guns. The Fem!Surrectionist, as the female ODST is known, also has some aspects of this. | |
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The Wheel of Time: Whenever someone witnesses a Blademaster in action his or her movements will be described as dance-like; if the opponent is also a Blademaster, the battle will be described as looking more like a dance than a fight. | |
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Fire Emblem Engage has Seadall, whose version of the Dancer class allows him to use martial arts. Unlike more pragmatic strikes of other brawlers, Seadall attacks with graceful, acrobatic motions, and uses a Diving Kick for his Critical Hit. | |
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This is a perfectly viable option in Toribash, due to its infinitely... flexible nature. | |
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During the climax of Robots, Fender loses his shield and weapon while being surrounded by Madame Gasket's minions, prompting him to start dancing (to "...Baby, One More Time" by Britney Spears of all things), which somehow prompts the minions to dance as well, allowing him to easily knock all of them out. Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds. | |
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Maractus from Pokémon Black and White is apparently this, judging by its name and Pokédex entry. Lilligant also has shades of this, only learning moves with the word "Dance" in them aside from the moves it starts with. The legendary Pokémon Meloetta is normally a Musical Assassin, but its alternate Pirouette Form resembles a ballerina and changes its secondary type from Psychic to Fighting, making it a clear-cut example of this trope. Lilligant, in Hisui's time period, was also a ballet-themed Pokémon and also carried the Fighting-type. The leaf-like dress that modern Lilligant have is replaced by a leotard, allowing her legs free movement. Due to her attacking primarily with her legs and being an all-female species, this would make Hisuian Lilligant a Kick Chick as well. |
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In Rumble, Winnie discovers that Steve loves dancing and is actually quite good at it, so she decides they can try using this to their advantage when it comes to wrestling matches, especially since (as she notes) "Wrestling is 80% footwork". He finally comes into the 'battler' part in the third round with Tentacular. | |
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Tony Jaa fights a JKD stylist at one point in Ong-Bak. And he fights a capoeirista (minus the afro) played by Lateef Crowder from his other film Tom-Yum-Goong. | |
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In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, Sheik's down smash attack is a breakdance move. In Brawl, Wario as well does a breakdance as a down smash. As for general fighting styles, Peach, who appears beginning in Melee, and Daisy, who appears in Ultimate, both fight like classically trained ballerinas. | |
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Manon in Street Fighter 6 fights using a combination of ballet and judo. Jamie from the same game is a Drunken Boxer who also incorporates breakdancing into his fighting style. | |
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Whenever famous contender Wesley "Two Scoops" Berry won an event on the original American Gladiators, he would frequently start breakdancing (as a sort of victory dance). The man had moves. He even did it during the first International Gladiators event. | |
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Treadstone: In "The McKenna Erasure", Soyun battles her way past Colonel Shin's bodyguards in a South Korean nightclub, leading to a John Wick-style fight scene. | |
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While not evident in her game of origin, Maya from Dragon Quest IV uses her fans to dance and glide across the battlefield in the spinoff Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and The Blight Below. | |
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Nightwing mixes dancing into his fights on occasions, like when he was fighting a group of musicians and incorporated break-dancing into their take-down. | |
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The heroes of Punk Rock Saves the World are a band called the Punks. Their singer, Kitty Karr, exemplifies this trope: "In fights, she will use her various 'dance' moves—moshing, slam-dancing, etc." | |
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The King's Man: In the prequel, Rasputin the Mad Monk combines martial arts and a knife with ballet and Russian folk dancing. It seems to be in-universe as well, as Orlando mocks him by asking if he's a monk or a ballet dancer and he does some leaps and squats in the fight just because he can. | |
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Used in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius when Sheen the Cloudcuckoolander is forced to use dance moves instead of kung-fu. | |
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Fabula Ultima has the Dancer class, whose central mechanic lets them perform Magic Dances that buff themselves or debuff their enemies in various ways. They can also take a skill which improves the damage inflicted by their weapons and offensive spells if they attack immediately after performing a dance. | |
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An episode of Dan Vs. has Dan trapped in a ghost town where is only way out is learning how to fight-dance. | |
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The Para Para Brothers from Dragon Ball GT combine this with Magic Music. Their dancing and music can hypnotize their opponents into dancing as well, leaving them unable to defend themselves from attack. | |
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When it's Anko's turn to fight in the Bokurano manga, she uses her dancing experience to make Zearth move gracefully and swiftly so she can catch up with the enemy. | |
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In Dennis the Menace (US) Dennis went to ballet school and learned a lot of keen new fightin' tricks he never knew before. | |
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Wood elf Blade Dancers/War Dancers in Heroes of Might and Magic V. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Sexy Dance Fighting" Bob's daughter Tina takes up Capoeira because she has a crush on the teacher, Jairo. | |
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Archie Comics: An Archie comic had him and Reggie driven to laughing fits over Veronica's "sissy" male ballet dancer friend - until he single-handedly subdues a gang of tough guys with his moves. | |
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Asuka of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX uses a deck whose cards follow a clear Dance Battler theme. | |
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In Macross Delta, Hayate Immelman is recruited into the Delta Squadron specifically because he can invoke this trope while piloting a Humongous Mecha. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Arya Stark is trained by Syrio Forel to be a "water dancer", a Fragile Speedster kind of warrior. Syrio himself demonstrates the fact that he's a Master Swordsman in the first book by fighting off half a dozen armed and armored guards...with a wooden practice sword. An enemy fully encased in plate seems to be an effective counter though, at least without a metal sword. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Seigfried essentially uses a more defensively orientated version of this. He encourages his opponents to get in close and attack him, then secretly uses dancing-like skills to dodge their blow and fling himself around to fake being hit. This lets him wear down and psyche out his opponents, who come to believe he's incapable of feeling pain. Miu has a bit of this in her personal fighting style, with it focusing more on grace, acrobatic movements, and gymnastics. |
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A couple characters in One Piece fight this way, a prominent example being Sanji, who fights entirely with his legs and whose style is based partly on Savate (martial arts developed by French sailors). And then there's Mr. 2 Bon Kurei, who practices Okama Kenpo (weaponized ballet), and Boa Hancock, the Empress of the Amazon Lily island who fights with spinning kicks. | |
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Pokémon: In Pokémon Colosseum Miror B. and his team of Ludicolo dance to a salsa beat while they wait for you to select your next move. Additionaly, his music in XD is disco. Hitmontop's attacks are all based on Capoiera and breakdancing, as well as its Japanese name, Kapoerer. Medicham is based on Arabian belly dancers with its fighting style described by the Pokédex as elegant and dance-like. Maractus from Pokémon Black and White is apparently this, judging by its name and Pokédex entry. Lilligant also has shades of this, only learning moves with the word "Dance" in them aside from the moves it starts with. The legendary Pokémon Meloetta is normally a Musical Assassin, but its alternate Pirouette Form resembles a ballerina and changes its secondary type from Psychic to Fighting, making it a clear-cut example of this trope. Lilligant, in Hisui's time period, was also a ballet-themed Pokémon and also carried the Fighting-type. The leaf-like dress that modern Lilligant have is replaced by a leotard, allowing her legs free movement. Due to her attacking primarily with her legs and being an all-female species, this would make Hisuian Lilligant a Kick Chick as well. There are a few dance-themed moves than can make many Pokemon into this by default, such as Petal Dance, Teeter Dance, and Quiver Dance. There's also Fiery Dance (which only Volcarona can learn) and Lunar Dance (only learnable by Cresselia, and its Signature Move). Oricorio from Pokémon Sun and Moon is a Flying-type Pokemon with moves based on one of four different dance styles, each with a different primary type: Baile Style (Fire/Flying), Pom-Pom Style (Electric/Flying), Pa'u Style (Psychic/Flying), and Sensu Style (Ghost/Flying). Its ability, Dancer, even lets it automatically copy dance-based moves used by other Pokemon. The Quaxly line of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are birds that fight via dancing moves, giving them a Water/Fighting Typing. Quaxwell's stance is that of a ballet dancer while Quaquaval is a Samba dancer. |
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In The Three Caballeros, at the climax of Donald Duck and Joe's visit to Bahia, two men get into what is probably supposed to be a Capoeira fight (which would make sense since the martial art has origins in Brazil). Their shadows even temporarily take the form of two roosters fighting, which is said to be what Capoeira takes its name from. However, they seem to be doing more dancing than they are fighting. | |
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Disco Kid of Punch-Out!! Wii, as his name suggests, disco dances in the ring about as much as he boxes, and dances even more outside of it. He even has his own disco ball above the ring. His Contender-version boxing style incorporates some rhythm, but it's even more noticeable in Title Defense, where he also incorporates aerobics, and starts doing jumping jack hooks and the "Disco Flurry" move. | |
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Power Rangers Jungle Fury had an episode revolving around the Rangers learning to Dance Battle to counter the Monster of the Week. | |
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Tekken: Eddy Gordo and his student Christie both use Capoeira. Christie's grandfather uses the same technique, having taught them both, but is not playable in any of the games. Tiger from Tekken Tag Tournament also uses Capoeira. And as if Eddy wasn't Capoerista enough, Real-life capoerista Lateef Crowder plays him in the live-action adaptation. She doesn't know Capoeira, but Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort uses ballet style fighting moves which she calls "street fighting". Lucky Chloe plays this more straight, practicing no formal martial art but using her dance prowess to go toe-to-toe with other fighters. |
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June in Princess Chroma has to dance into order to trigger one her spells. She opts for disco and cheesy dance moves from the '80s. | |
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The style makes a return Yakuza: Like a Dragon as a Job class that most of the male party members can take. It has a few returning moves and then some new ones, although now being used for a turn-based RPG instead of the beat em' up gameplay of 0. | |
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Hata no Kokoro from Touhou Project uses a fighting style that incorporates props and moves from Noh theatrical dances. This is unsurprising since she is a tsukumogami borne from the legendary 66 Kagura/Noh masks used by Hata no Kawakatsu, the founder of Kagura (which is the predecessor of Noh). | |
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Final Fantasy: The Dancer job in Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, and Final Fantasy Tactics. Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core has the second encounter with Genesis. Rikku's Berserker Dress Sphere in Final Fantasy X-2 does Capoeira movements in her idle animation. There's also the Songstress Dress Sphere which has several dances as offensive attacks though they usually just cause status changes. Penelo in general. The Calca and Brina dolls in Final Fantasy IV (and its sequel, where they are playable characters). If Kefka's line of "Dance, Dance!" and his actions when casting "Zap-Trap Thundaga" in the Dissidia subseries of Final Fantasy is anything to go by, apparently he utilizes this trope, presumably under Type D (i.e., because he's completely insane). In Final Fantasy XIII and its sequel, the Demon enemy subtype fights by dancing around the battlefield. It's even stated in some of the game's lore that dancers mimic the demon's movements. The Vanu Vanu in Final Fantasy XIV are a little unique in that their warriors dance to prevent fighting. Part of Vanu culture is the Sundrop Dance, a dance performed by warriors before a battle. The dance fully displays a warrior's strength and can cow weaker opponents with the demonstration alone. |
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Most of the viewpoint characters in Steve Perry's Matador science fiction series practice a dance/martial art known as sumito. | |
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Trigun Stampede gives both superhuman twins Vash and Knives dance-like fighting moves, but in different ways. Vash engages in goofy dodges, jumps, twists and spins (even performing a pirouette at one point) to frustrate his opponent into giving up because he makes battle look silly. Knives performs precise kicks, punches and spins that look balletic and graceful, and inevitably lead to somebody losing a limb or being stabbed to death with the blades on his hands and feet. | |
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In Psychonauts, Razputin repurposes his acrobatics training as a Circus Brat for fighting, meaning he's not just more physical than most psychic combatants, but a lot dancier as well. | |
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Neopolitan uses flips and kicks mixed with her Parasol of Pain to dodge and deflect any strikes thrown at her until her opponent gets mad enough for her to beat them. | |
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Duck King from Fatal Fury is an example of the "really good dancer" type, while Richard Meyer and Bob Wilson from the same game use Capoeira. In fact, Richard Meyer is the first Fighting Game character to use Capoeira. | |
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Scarlet of The Ultra Violets, with thanks to her dancing superpowers. She gets marginally more dangerous once her super-strength kicks in. | |
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In Dead or Alive 5, while Akira doesn't really look the part, he actually has one of the most rhythmic fighting styles in the game. There's even a video showcasing some of his most devastating combos (performed in real time) in sync with his theme music. | |
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Apsalar discovers that she is able to employ the Shadow Dance as well in The Bonehunters, where she plows through hundreds of Claw assassins in one go. In her case, the ability comes from having been possessed by the Patron God of Assassins, who is the right-hand man of the King of the Shadow Realm. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: There exists a cult that worships the Gods of Shadow. As part of their worship, the adherents learn something known as "The Shadow Dance". Lostara Yil, a former member of the Cult of Shadow, thinks that the Shadow Dance is merely just some ritual until she discovers that it's very effective at killing dozens of people without much problem. Apsalar discovers that she is able to employ the Shadow Dance as well in The Bonehunters, where she plows through hundreds of Claw assassins in one go. In her case, the ability comes from having been possessed by the Patron God of Assassins, who is the right-hand man of the King of the Shadow Realm. |
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In Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2, Idun is a dancing girl who uses her dance moves in combat | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Flare Dancers, who "dance as they attack". The Gerudo elite guards from Thieves' Hideout fight choreographically as well, and have a flashy attack that performs a Non-Lethal K.O. to Link if it lands. | |
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Like Serenity above, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles makes great use of Summer Glau's ballet background. While Cameron, being a Terminator, does rely on strength, she's much smaller than most of the Terminators she fights and therefore needs to be agile as well. A good example is her fight with another female Terminator in an elevator. | |
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Jean from Lunar: Eternal Blue is a literal example. She is a dancing gipsy who has a bloody past as an assassin. | |
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Blaze The Cat is also a very dance heavy fighter, though inspired by ballet instead of breakdancing. Her fighting style tends to involve a lot of graceful leaps, spins and flips that make her look as if she's in the middle of an ice skating routine when paired with her long, striding gait when at full speed. | |
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In Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, since the game takes place partially in Hawaii two of the new classes are Geodancer (based on hula dancing) and Pyrodancer (based on firetwirlers). Chitose also has various moves based on ballet and ballroom dancing. | |
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Game of Thrones: The show gives us Oberyn Martell, who's going into some impressive acrobatics during his fight against the Mountain. He learnt his skills in Gladiator Games where putting on a show is as important as killing. Doesn't help him much in the fight though. As in the book, Aria learns the "water dancing" fencing style. It's been frequently shown to be superior to standard Westerosi fighting styles (with young Arya easily defeating grown men who are professional soldiers)... unless your opponent has heavy armor, in which case it's all but useless. As a eunuch, Grey Worm is athletic but not particularly large, so he fights in a very light and graceful way...at least when he's not using Shield Bash. |
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Los Salseros Japoneses from Toryumon and Michinoku Pro Wrestling with the gimmick of an evil trio of salsa dancers, and their leader Takeshi Minamino even used to do reversals while dancing. | |
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In combat, Loki's movements are always fluid and dance-like, and they're deliberately filmed to appear beautiful. In Thor, he uses Gungnir as a pole to propel his body around in order to increase his momentum for a kick in the face. In Thor: Ragnarok's Final Battle, Loki employs acrobatics to avoid being struck by a sword. Tom Hiddleston elaborates on his character's supple physicality in this interview: | |
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In Sequel-Prequel to Shrek, Puss in Boots, Puss has a literal Dance Battle with the masked Kitty Softpaws, dancing vertically up the walls, against each other's boots, and incorporating some fencing. It's awesome and hilarious, and worth watching the entire movie just for that scene. (They perform a similar dance (without the battle) at the end of the movie, which is equally awesome.) | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic has some breakdancing-inspired fight moves in Sonic Battle. As a possible Continuity Nod, one of his taunts in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a breakdance move, Sonic Generations reveals that Classic Sonic used to spin on his hand, with Modern Sonic being able to do this. Sonic the Werehog uses breakdancing extensively in his fighting style as well. Thanks to his unique body shape compared to his regular form, breakdancing ends up being one of the easiest ways for him to throw his weight around when it comes to stringing together punches, kicks and slashes. Blaze The Cat is also a very dance heavy fighter, though inspired by ballet instead of breakdancing. Her fighting style tends to involve a lot of graceful leaps, spins and flips that make her look as if she's in the middle of an ice skating routine when paired with her long, striding gait when at full speed. In Sonic Adventure, Tails could obtain the Rhythm Badge as a power-up while in the Ancient Echidna City that allows him to do an infinite, continuous Tail Swipe. The animation of such involves Tails transitioning between different breakdancing positions in order to keep momentum. |
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Raindancer: Both Izuku and Mina take up Capoeira while training for the U.A. Entrance Exam due to their mutual interest in dance. Izuku uses it to devastating effect while battling Villains on a school field trip to a museum, easily phasing through attacks with his Elemental Shapeshifter Quirk before sweeping out his enemies' legs from beneath them and delivering crushing kicks in a whir of motion. | |
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Madlax: The titular heroine is a Gun Fu Dance Battler who frequently battles with her eyes shut. | |
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Chneero from Zeno Clash is a completely unintentional example. He's simply such an atrocious dancer and so oblivious to his surroundings that he'll accidentally hit you for incredibly high damage if you get too close to him. | |
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Super Sentai: In Battle Fever J it's taken to the extreme; all the members use different dance styles in their attacks - Battle France uses tapdancing, Battle Cossack does Cossack jig dancing, Battle Kenya does a strange breakdancing-tribal dance fusion, Battle Japan uses Chinese kung fu katas, and Miss America uses disco moves to fight. However, this is partially justified in that the agent who employed them regularly trains them in Martial Arts. Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger has shades of this, but it's nowhere near Battle Fever J's usage. |
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Fairy Tail: Vijeeter Ecor's magic is applied through dancing and empowers allies and hinders enemies in a surrounding 10 m radius. Invoked in the fight between Gray and Cancer's Eclipse form, though the latter did need to provide Gray with enchanted shoes and to forcibly remove his sense of shame in order to get him to dance at all. The first part of the fight was a regular dance-off and was followed up with greater emphasis on the 'battle' side. Gray freezes the floor at one point to make it an ice-dancing bout. |
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Talise Lightwind Murphy of The Children of Man uses a unique combat style based on the use of offensive yellow magic (yellow is the magic of art and performance, and normally focuses on illusions). | |
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M3GAN: A scene that quickly went memetic from the moment it appeared in the trailer has the titular Robot Girl villain dancing as she attacks a security guard. From what is seen earlier in the trailer, she apparently learned how to dance from Cady, the human girl who she was built as a robotic companion for. Amie Donald, the actress who does her physical movements,note Her voice acting is done separately by Jenna Davis. is a professional dancer. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Harlequins' style of combat describes how they move about the battlefield with dancing gestures, tearing opponents to shreds in the process. The first Path that Yvraine, the Emissary of Ynnead, trod was the Path of the Dancer and she still fights with the fluid grace that she learned during this time. During her battle with the daemons of Slaanesh on the Crone World of Belial IV, this training allowed her to reproduce the battle dance of the Harlequins to combat the hordes of Daemonettes that she faced. |
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Hazbin Hotel has Carmilla Carmine, an Arms Dealer Overlord of Hell who fights using intricate ballet moves. Her shoes are outfitted with blades made of angelic steel, one of the few things that can permanently kill sinner demons and, as it turns out, angels. | |
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The Wicked + The Divine: Dionysus (the dancefloor that walks like a man) weaponizes his Hive Mind ravers to storm Valhalla, all of them lit with an inner glow from his magic and unable to be hurt as long as he protected them. He also had glowstick nunchaku. | |
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Cloak and Dagger: Dagger has a fighting style that heavily incorporates her ballerina training. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Odolwa, the Masked Jungle Warrior, is the boss of Woodfall Temple. Due to his erratic movements, which sometimes stem to leaping to a random point in the room and simply dancing without making any strike, (and the fact he summons dungeon-unique beetle-creatures, which Link has to kill, and swarms of flesh-eating locusts, which he can't do anything about), he's often That One Boss for beginners. Majora itself, specifically Majora's Incarnation. It dances erratically, including moonwalking. Its sole attack is a large sequence of energy spheres. |
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Wood Elf Wardancers from Warhammer have a variety of different dances that give them a variety of combat bonuses, eschew armour in favour of magic protective tattoos, and at one point had a special ability that let them move over hostile units dancing on the points of the enemies' weapons. | |
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Fleurina, a recurring Mini-Boss, is an evil swan who uses her elaborate ballet dance techniques to stir up tornadoes. Later in the game, Kirby fights Sillydillo, a crazed armadillo who can create handmade dance partners and perform a very dangerous Spin Attack all around the battlefield by dancing alongside them. | |
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The Dancer job in Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, and Final Fantasy Tactics. | |
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At the climax of the movie Zoolander, Hansel (He's so hot right now!) and an enemy goon partake in "Breakdance Fighting", which for the most part just involved doing little dance moves while punching or kicking people in between. | |
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The 1993 movie Only the Strong was perhaps the introduction of many action fans to the art of Capoeira and starred Marc Dacascos as a Green Beret who has to clean up his hometown using the aforementioned art, eventually fighting a Big Bad who uses the same style. | |
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A Song of Silk and Saplings: Rosha adapted the waggling dance used by bees to communicate into a martial art, which she uses to her movements fluid, precise and unpredictable. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Spyfall", the Doctor's companions have been issued various gadgets by MI6, including a pair of Tricked-Out Shoes that shoot lasers. Graham, who is wearing the shoes, activates them by stomping up and down, so when an army of aliens are surrounding them, the other companions just tell him to start dancing which he does, shooting beams in all directions. | |
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Child of the Storm: In the first book, Betsy and Fandral, having had a one-night stand previously, share a telepathically coordinated English folk-dance through a battlefield, to lethal effect. In the sequel, Harry, already noted for his grace and reflexes, becomes an accomplished classical and Latin dancer (as he smugly explains, Asgardian muscle memory is good for more than just fighting). He incorporates this into his fighting style, with the narration frequently describing him as "dancing" in a fight, whether it's between chaos blasts or lightning bolts. And, appropriately, his sword is modelled on a shashka, the Russian Cossack sabre, famous for its use in sword-dancing. |
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Power Rangers: Oceania: In contrast to Zack from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Alex only combines a dance into a fight when she needs a power boost. It doesn't happen too often because she's a hula instructor. | |
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story had a dodgeball team called "Skillz That Killz" who would dodge the balls with their breakdancing. They lost because as the announcer pointed out, they concentrated too much on dancing and not on actually playing. | |
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A by-the-book Hero's epic that combines a Musical World Hypothesis with Interpretive Dance as combat. As odd as the premise sounds, it comes together surprisingly well. It helps that the dancing is amazing. | |
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Rin Ogata from the RideBack series, who uses her ballet training to make the Fuego mech dodge and evade swarms of combat automatons. | |
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Dead Fantasy: Rikku's fighting style closely resembles Capoeira, involving frequent acrobatics and breakdance-like movement; particularly in the first two episodes. At one point, she performs an attack similar to Chun Li's "Spinning Bird Kick", where her blades were balanced on both her feet. | |
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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron has Armaros, whose first boss fight only features him dancing in the foreground, while Enoch fights his... backup dancers. When you take control of him, his actual fighting style is pretty dance like as well, and you can actually make him dance outside of combat if you feel like it. One of Enoch's weapons, Gale, is commanded through dance-like movements while on the ground as well. It is possible to wield the Gale in the aforementioned boss fight. | |
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Ryutaros (Gun Form) in Kamen Rider Den-O combines this with A-Team Firing and Gangsta Style, which together are less than the sum of their parts. His aim is, to put it lightly, horrible. | |
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Soul Series: Talim's discipline is categorized as "Wind Dance" in-game. She is a priestess of a village that controlled wind through ritual dance that involved the use of tonfa-like elbow blades. Xianghua's fighting style combines fencing and feints with ballerina style movement, used for evasion and to position her to attack. Which gives her one of the most fluid styles in any fighting game and makes her difficult to read when mastered. The Dancer class in Soul Calibur III, whose Tambourine discipline blends elements of Capoeira with moves borrowed from Voldo and Xianghua's skill set. Voldo frequently fights like this. Only it's not so much awe-inspiring as it is utterly creepy-looking. |
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Shimako Toudou (Rosa Gigantea en bouton from Maria Watches Over Us) appears in the doujin Fighting Game Maribato! as a playable character. Shimako fights with a pair of folded paper fans and incorporates some sort of traditional Japanese dancing in her moves, mostly as references to Anji Mito's fan dance style. | |
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Oricorio from Pokémon Sun and Moon is a Flying-type Pokemon with moves based on one of four different dance styles, each with a different primary type: Baile Style (Fire/Flying), Pom-Pom Style (Electric/Flying), Pa'u Style (Psychic/Flying), and Sensu Style (Ghost/Flying). Its ability, Dancer, even lets it automatically copy dance-based moves used by other Pokemon. | |
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From Power Rangers RPM: Eka Darville, who plays Scott Truman (Ranger Operator Series Red), is a pretty good break dancer and incorporated a lot of Capoeira-like moves in his fights. It's averted in the case of Olivia Tennet, also an accomplished jazz, tap, and hip hop dancer, as her character (Dr. K) does not perform many physical stunts (except in "Doctor K" and "If Venjix Won"). | |
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Touka in Utawarerumono. However, it's noted that her swordsmanship is actually needlessly inefficient, though still excellent, and not as good as it really could be if she stopped trying to make it beautiful. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Ash develops the "Counter Shield" technique, which amounts to any Pokemon called to do it breakdancing while using a special attack, which creates a spinning vortex of the said attack, which keeps an opponent's attack from making contact. Rudy, from the Orange Islands, makes his Pokémon dance as an exercise. He even has a Starmie who is "proficient in modern dancing" to help it dodge attacks and has enough spinning power to generate an Electric attack despite being a Water type. An episode is about a girl whose Bellossom fought and dodged this way. In XY, Serena's Pancham includes his performance skills when he is battling. This is Tierno's main battle strategy in the XY and XYZ anime. Tierno's a dancer, who taught his pokemon dance moves in order to easily evade attacks from other pokemon, while striking back with (often accurate) moves of his own. His team also consist of pokemon known for their dance moves, such as Hitmontop and Ludicolo, as well as his (break)dancing Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise and Raichu. Subverted in one episode when Ash's Bulbasaur whoops a girl's Hitmontop because she concentrated too much on dancing and not on actually fighting. |
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Nathan Copeland, one of the bosses in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, although his main weapon is a rocket launching boombox that turns into robotic arms, he is perpetually dancing around the battlefield. | |
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Kingsman: The Secret Service: Gazelle's fighting style is extremely graceful and lethal, focusing on her bladed leg prosthetics. She even uses classic breakdancing techniques in the climax. Appropriately, she is played by Sofia Boutella, a professional dancer. The King's Man: In the prequel, Rasputin the Mad Monk combines martial arts and a knife with ballet and Russian folk dancing. It seems to be in-universe as well, as Orlando mocks him by asking if he's a monk or a ballet dancer and he does some leaps and squats in the fight just because he can. |
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The Outsiders: Bolshoi of The People's Heroes used ballet as the basis for his martial art. He later adds to this with actual prowess in the martial arts. He still gets bits chopped off him. Thank goodness for modern reattachment surgery. | |
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In Erfworld, there's dance-fighting, an In-Universe game mechanic certain commanders can use to empower units under their command via dance, music, and rhythm. Erfworld being the World of Symbolism that it is, many styles of dance-fighting are references to real-world music (Transylvito units evoke West Side Story, Wanda and her Uncroaked dance to the tune of "Thriller", etc.). Rocking out, a stronger version of dance-fighting granted by the Arkenhammer, is also occasionally used by its wielder, Stanley. |
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Korra is extremely graceful and uses lots of leaps and spins, in addition to great sweeping gestures with her arms. This, and all of the Dance Battling from the previous show, is Justified by the nature of bending - the movement of the elements flows with the movement of the bender's body, which naturally sometimes calls for something more complicated and expansive than plain old kicks and punches. | |
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In Two Percent Power, Beat Boxer can, when listening to music, use it to move flawlessly through combat. As a consequence of the source of her fighting power, she looks like she's dancing through the combat. | |
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Variable Geo: Ayako Yuuki works the dance floor at the SoTO Techno Rave Club, so she incorporates elements of her dance routine into her fighting style; making her a literal example of the trope. She even wears her showgirl uniform (which includes a feather-lined fan) during her matches. | |
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The "Ninjitsu" practiced by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the films borrows from several martial arts (including Capoeira), but also heavily from modern breakdancing (which allows them to make full use of their heavy shells). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze even has a scene of the turtles using dance skills to fight off the Foot while Vanilla Ice does his "Ninja Rap". | |
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Lucia from Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a Fortune Teller who dances while slashing enemies with a fan. She also dances when she casts magic spells. | |
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Unlike the rest of the series the Dancer class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is not locked to one specific unit. With every student having the possibility of gaining acces to the class, though you still only get one per playthrough unless you utilize New Game+. The class itself also gained some massive upgrades towards it's combat capabilities. With it gaining access to magic, a skill that boosts the Dancers evasion when wielding a sword and a dancer exclusive combat art that deals extra damage based on the unit's charm stat. | |
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Queens of Mewni: Solena the Smitten would be the foremother of this trope in the Butterfly Kingdom, thanks to her interest in and being part of a ballet troupe. Her descendant, Skywynne, Queen of Hours, would expand on this and become quite adept of marrying her time spells onto this trope, thanks to just being more talented in dancing than in singing. |
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Body Blows: Maria is a gymnast from Spain who incorporates gymnastic and, to a lesser extent, acrobatic moves in her fighting style. | |
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Catwoman briefly demonstrates this in the strip club in DC Showcase: Catwoman. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy in the Musical Episode "Once More, with Feeling". Also worth noting is Dawn's attempt to escape from the Puppet Minions, which is presented in the form of a ballet dance. | |
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One of the "late-game" characters in RPG World basically has character class "breakdancer". And it's pretty lethal too. | |
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Pretty Cure: A few Cures incorporate ballet elements into their fighting style, including Cure White, Cure Mermaid, and Cure Étoile. | |
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Michael Jackson's Moonwalker has Michael Jackson going around various stages... rescuing little kids from suit-clad gangsters. His moves? High dance-kick, spin-and-throw-hat, and the special "make everyone imitate your dance and then fall over and die when they can't keep up with your straight, 45-degree angle pose". | |
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The Quaxly line of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are birds that fight via dancing moves, giving them a Water/Fighting Typing. Quaxwell's stance is that of a ballet dancer while Quaquaval is a Samba dancer. | |
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GURPS has an optional perk in Power Ups 2 that allows you to incorporate uses of dancing skills in melee combat to feint against adversaries. | |
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Possibly the only shooter example, and a gratuitous one at that: Vanessa Schneider from P.N.03. | |
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In Battle Fever J it's taken to the extreme; all the members use different dance styles in their attacks - Battle France uses tapdancing, Battle Cossack does Cossack jig dancing, Battle Kenya does a strange breakdancing-tribal dance fusion, Battle Japan uses Chinese kung fu katas, and Miss America uses disco moves to fight. However, this is partially justified in that the agent who employed them regularly trains them in Martial Arts. | |
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And in Batman: Arkham Origins, the Flashback!Joker you play as can be this, since his fighting moves are the same as in Asylum, while his moves are somersaulting and leap frogs. And all this takes place in the Comedy Club, set to the tune of "The Thieving Magpie Overture" by Gioachino Rossini, doubling as a Shout-Out to the hallucinatory fight scene in A Clockwork Orange. | |
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T.K. from Angel Beats! performs this break-dance style... while sliding down the ledges of stairs! | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening brings back the Dancer's ability with Olivia, and thanks to unlimited reclassing, she can actually fight on par with other units, even when reclassed back to a Dancer. | |
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Family Guy: A cutaway gag ha Stewie fighting a group of ninjas to rescue a Mongolian heiress using a fighting style called "Gymkata". He uses it again in the episode's climax to save Brian from being made into a protein shake. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII and its sequel, the Demon enemy subtype fights by dancing around the battlefield. It's even stated in some of the game's lore that dancers mimic the demon's movements. | |
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Pullum Purna in the Street Fighter EX series has a fighting style based on Arabian dance. | |
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Dee Jay from later versions of Street Fighter II likes to dance, and incorporates rhythm into his kickboxing fighting style. Blanka is noted in the manual as utilizing Capoeira, but this is only evident in his flips and not his general Wild Man fighting style. | |
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Jon Sable, Freelance: Subverted in one issue. John and a male ballet dancer friend are confronted by a gang, and Jon is bracing himself for a fight when his friend spots the boombox one of them is carrying and puts on a show combining ballet and breakdancing moves. The gang is so impressed they let them pass. | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Aoshi's fighting style involves an elaborate form of kenbu, which is at its core essentially sword dancing. It doesn't look at all like dancing, though. | |
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Ed the Ted and his gang in Absolute Beginners. Arguably justified in that it's a musical. | |
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Shaft (2019). JJ, while drunk in a nightclub, ends up subduing a man with Capoeira. Shaft II says he was this far from a So Proud of You moment before being told his son was using something called "dance battling". | |
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Street Fighter: Dee Jay from later versions of Street Fighter II likes to dance, and incorporates rhythm into his kickboxing fighting style. Blanka is noted in the manual as utilizing Capoeira, but this is only evident in his flips and not his general Wild Man fighting style. Super Gem Fighter makes That Russian Squat Dance one of Zangief's combos. Elena in Street Fighter III uses Capoeira. Pullum Purna in the Street Fighter EX series has a fighting style based on Arabian dance. Manon in Street Fighter 6 fights using a combination of ballet and judo. Jamie from the same game is a Drunken Boxer who also incorporates breakdancing into his fighting style. |
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Legends of Tomorrow: In "Speakeasy Does It", Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe are working as dancers in a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and take down and tie up a goon during their performance while making it look like All Part of the Show. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing has the Disco Bandit class, where you use disco moves to injure and debilitate your enemies. The class-specific Disco Bandit Nemesis quest lets you learn Rave Combos, which chain together other non-Disco dance moves like a breakdancing spin, the Robot, and the Running Man to cause combat effects. | |
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Metamor Keep has versions #1 and #2: Rickkter and Ryuo both trained in martial arts and incorporate them into their fighting style. Charles and Misha, though not martial artists, often end up "dancing" when they're fighting a swarm of enemies. Malger Sutt (aka Dream Serpent) is, among other things, a professional dance instructor, who also happens to be a very good fighter. His two short swords have tassels, solely for Confusion Fu. |
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P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath books feature a matched set of dance and combat moves that are very closely related, to the point that one training game is to switch back and forth between dancing and sparring. | |
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You finally get to experience those moves yourself as it's a part of his moveset in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, as expected the move is great at dealing damage in a wide area to take care of several opponents. | |
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BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has a weird little miniboss called the Funky Infoshade hidden in a back corner of The Spire. It starts the fight by Summoning Backup Dancers, mainly uses attacks that involve dancing, and heals to full every three turns thanks to the “funky battle music,� making the fight a bit of a pain if you don’t plan carefully. A harder “Echo� version shows up later in the Sky Abyss, and this time you have to beat it within only two turns. | |
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Magane Chikuj�in from Re:CREATORS moves like this in battle. She's only actually just been dodging, but (with her power, which is potent but hard to use in the middle of a fight) manages to outmaneuver and defeat Yuuya Mirokuji without taking or throwing a single hit. | |
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BlazBlue: Hazama Honoka has a fighting style that resembles the dance moves of Michael Jackson. This, combined with his outfit and villainous role, has lead to fans nicknaming him "The Smooth Criminal." His inhabitor, Yuuki Terumi, has some of his dance-like animations as well as a few of his own, but for the most part, his fighting style is brutish and savage. Amane Nishiki uses ribbon dancing to create drills as well as grab his enemies and toss them about. He even refers to combat as another form of dancing. In the fourth game, Hades Izanami, the goddess of death, also reveals herself as a dance battler. Her dance is specifically based upon the Tandaava, the dance with which Shiva unmakes the universe. |
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Kingdom Hearts: While Demyx doesn't dance so much as play his sitar when you fight him, his servant Nobodies, the Dancers, will force Sora into dancing with them to drain his HP. In line with her agility, Aqua has a fighting style peppered with graceful cartwheels, spins, and twirls, making it a sight to behold as an ally, and a symphony of pain to avoid if you're an enemy. |
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Octopath Traveler has Primrose, a girl who becomes a dancer in order to track down and get revenge on the man who murdered her father. In overworld, her Rogue Path Action is "Allure", which allows her to take an NPC with her and summon them in battle, but this can fail depending on her level. In battle, her weapon is a dagger, and she has access to various buffs and dark-typed magic attacks via dancing. | |
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: Ruby Roundhouse has this as her specialty, and uses it to great effect twice in the movie. | |
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It takes a little practice but in City of Heroes attacking repeatedly and quickly means a prolonged battle can often look more like a dance than a fight. | |
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Deadpool: Deadpool has managed to beat the Taskmaster by virtue of being type four -just plain nuts. Since his brain is constantly shifting due to cancer and superhealing, he never does any form of combat the same way twice, and will often use whatever form randomly pops in his head, including dance battling. | |
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Whilst not as elaborate as some examples listed here, the combat system used by Witchers is often described as using pirouettes, spins, and flowing movements. The highly agile style is used because when you're dealing with a 50-ton monster from the darkest depths, conventional blocking just doesn't work. | |
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In the first book, Betsy and Fandral, having had a one-night stand previously, share a telepathically coordinated English folk-dance through a battlefield, to lethal effect. | |
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Mei from House of Flying Daggers. Her actress Zhang Ziyi is not trained in martial arts but is a trained dancer so the filmmakers incorporated dance into all of Mei's action scenes. | |
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Inverted in Nahast: Lands of Strife, where a couple of dances evolved from fighting styles. | |
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Purdey, heroine of the short-lived The New Avengers series in the seventies and played by Joanna Lumley, was a former ballerina who practiced a very balletic fighting form, complete with pirouettes and high kicks. | |
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Starting with Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi Goku's older brother Raditz is portrayed as using a much flashier fighting style than the norm for Saiyans, employing lots of spinning kicks and chopping strikes that wouldn't look out of place in a breakdancing/vouge routine. Zangya's grab attack incorporates ballet finesse and her Sky Zapper consists of meticulous and graceful spinning kicks. Supreme Kai's Crazy Rush is very similar to Zangya's Sky Zapper, but he keeps his hands behind his back the whole time. |
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Parodied in Gravity Falls — Sev'ral Timez "dancing aggressively" is treated as if it were actually dangerous or a viable method of combat, despite not actually including the "battling" portion of this trope. | |
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The Wheel of Time (2021): Aiel warrior woman Tigraine has a fighting style some have described as ballet-like, using two spears as she swirls and flows around her opponents, with her being only slightly impeded by the fact that she's nine months pregnant plus in labor at the time (making it all the more impressive to watch).note This showcases the reason why Aiel call fighting "the dance" in the books very well visually. Aviendha, another Aiel warrior woman, is shown nimbly taking down multiple armed Whitecloaks bare-handed with Perrin in Season 2 as she acrobatically dances around and onto them while she's evading their swords. |
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Xander Stone of Topanga Karate shows this style at the All-Valley Tournament on Cobra Kai, using a lot of fancy flips in his fights. When Piper Elswith joins Cobra Kai in Season 4, she also proves to be a Dance Battler, incorporating her gymnastics training into her fighting style. | |
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