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Gun Kata
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Gun Kata is a firearm-based martial art invented by Kurt Wimmer and Jim Vickers in their 2002 film Equilibrium. The extremely stylized, Rule of Cool depiction of gun-to-gun combat resulted in many other works copying the fighting style. Due to Equilibrium becoming a Cult Classic in Japan, gun kata is especially common in anime and other Japanese media. In Equilibrium, gun kata (or what is assumed to be gun kata) appeared under two distinctive combat styles; both were reproduced by later media works. Long Range: The proper form of Gun Kata involves a combatant firing guns at extreme close range, outside of cover, while executing intentionally choreographed poses (typically highly dynamic and exaggerated ones) during combat, much like how a real world martial artist executes their practised kata techniques. These gun kata patterns usually involve dual pistols being fired at enemies without aiming or even looking at them, often alongside copious amounts of Gangsta Style and gratuitous whole-body spins, with the shots always hitting regardless. Properly executed, the choreographed motions of gun kata give the combat style a dance-like quality. Short Range: The second form of (possibly) Gun Kata depicted in Equilibrium involves two armed combatants fighting each other at a very close range, with both constantly trying to aim and fire their guns at their foe, while also trying to knock off the foe's aim. It is essentially the Wing Chun "Sticky Hands" technique, but with guns. This combat style technically doesn't involve kata-styled trained choreographynote This "non-kata gun kata" was not named inside the movie; in Wimmer's DVD commentary, it is claimed that this fighting style was developed because they ran out of time and money during production, and functions more similarily to fencing with guns. Both of these combat styles run on extreme amounts of Rule of Cool. Equilibrium claims that Gun Kata (the first, proper, long range form of it) allows combatants to shoot where the foe ought to be when they're aiming at you, and to not be where the foe ought to shoot; this completely ignores the possibility of a target firing from cover, which is the fact of most gunfights in real life. The second form of "gun kata", while logically more plausible, disobeys several gun safety rules, and a much safer approach for both parties at that range would be to physically attack the opponent's person, instead of trying to knock away their gun. It needs to be emphasized that the practical definition of Gun Kata is the act of striking dynamic motions when firing guns, not the in-universe bullet dodging justifications of Gun Kata from Equilibrium. A gun-based CQC scene consisting of literal bullet dodging, like the one seen in Resident Evil: Vendetta, would better be described as some sort of "bullet-dodge-fu". Compare and contrast to Gun Fu. Not related at all to the series Uta∽Kata. May serve as a pseudo-scientific justification for the existence of graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. |
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While Chris Yukine mostly specializes in dakka and missiles, we get to see her doing some guns akimbo Gun Kata action in the second season, G. | |
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Harima (Guns Akimbo, no less) and Hanai engage in a Gun Kata battle in the second season of School Rumble (2006), with each of their pistols firing on full automatic. This is probably due to special effects added in later by Akira, since they were supposed to be armed only with BB guns. | |
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The Gunslinger class in Ragnarok Online has a rendition of Equilibrium's dark room scene as one of the skills for handguns. Among lots of other stuff with other kinds of weapons. | |
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Hilariously lampshaded in the OVA omake that takes place between S1 and G, where Genjuro lends her a DVD of Equilibrium, and she immediately gets hyped to learn how use guns in CQC like in the movie. | |
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... has a style of Supernatural Martial Arts called the "Righteous Devil Style" which has been described as applying Gun Kata to hand-held flamethrowers. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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... mostly relies on short-range flamethrower-type firearms and long-range energy weapons for personal ranged weapons; but for those that believe Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better, there's also an item called a "Prayer Piece," which is a lot closer to a Real Life revolver. | |
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The Spin Attack Tequila Bomb from Stranglehold fits the definition to a T: it makes Tequila absolutely invulnerable for a short period of time, while he guns down every mook currently in the room with fluid, ballet-like movements. Bonus points for the game playing beautiful music when he does it. Double bonus points if you activate it with dual submachineguns. | |
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Lady and Dante in the cutscenes for Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. Also, Dante's fighting style "Gunslinger" has several moves resembling Gun Kata. An early cutscene in Devil May Cry 4 also involves Dante and Nero putting Gun Kata maneuvers through their paces against each other. | |
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