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A scene in which a martial artist warns an antagonist that he knows martial arts before kicking the guy's ass. Bonus points for the martial artist assuming an outlandish Ass Kicking Pose beforehand. The antagonist will always laugh off the warnings and be defeated in a humiliating fashion. If the martial artist's skills turn out not to be effective, it's probably an example of I Know Kung-Faux. These scenes were popular when martial arts films started getting attention in the west. The martial artist will almost always study an Asian style, but the trope can still hold true with any named system of self-defence. This trope is the inversion of Good Old Fisticuffs, in which an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy gets defeated by plain, no-nonsense asskicking (for bonus points, this happens before he's finished boasting). It's pretty much a Dead Horse Trope now that Asian martial arts films and choreography have reached a saturation point in western culture. Ironically, the trope might have come full circle due to the rising popularity of Mixed Martial Arts over most classic Asian martial arts styles. You might be looking for Suddenly Always Knew That, which used to be called "I Know Kung Fu", or the Useful Notes article about Karate. There's also I Know Mortal Kombat, where a person learns Martial Arts (or some other skill) by watching movies or playing video games. |
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Super Mario Adventures: The Minister of Massage learned his art at "the ancient Mount Fuji karate school." During her jailbreak, the Princess belts out a "HIEEE-YAH!", performing a surprise spin kick (in heels!) on the awestruck Koopa Kids. |
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Part of Panama's Kato Kung Lee gimmick. An even more obvious case was a CMLL luchador who went by the name "Kung Fu". Naturally the two formed a Tag Team. They became El Triangulo Oriental with Satoru Sayama, a kick boxer. | |
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Several times in Kyō Kara Ore Wa!!, delinquents would tell Mitsuhashi and/or Itou that they know karate, boxing, kendo, etc. They go down before they can show off their skills. | |
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The Eiger Sanction. Pope brags that he has a black-belt in karate. Hemlock fakes a What the Fu Are You Doing? reaction, then punches him in the face. | |
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In Mars vs. Jupiter as Told by Mina, while Lita represents pure power and strength, Raye, on the other hand, has martial arts that she learned from her grandfather. | |
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In the original version of Game of Death, the Hapkido master (Ji Han Jae) is the only one of the fighters to warn the heroes that fighting with him will result in death. This is very bizarre, as he should know already that they're accomplished martial artists and he's alone and they are a crowd of three. | |
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Subverted in Gate Keepers anime: Kageyama Reiji did this complete with throwing his jacket to the air for a good montage, even without the lines. When the jacket drops back on his hand, the thugs seemed to be hurt, until he himself collapsed. Though, he's actually the Big Bad, but a very cunning one trying to achieve a Villain with Good Publicity status. | |
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This memorable exchange in Foxy Brown: | |
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Subverted in an episode of Alias in which Quentin Tarantino starred. When Sydney attempts to beat him down with her martial arts skills, Tarantino susses out her style and responds with, "That's the problem with you kickboxers — none of you can take a punch." And proceeds to knock her silly with her own skillset. She later acknowledges she does need to learn to take a punch ... and kicks him in the head when he's down. (Also an aversion of Wouldn't Hit a Girl.) | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: Said verbatim by Kikuchi to Murai, when Kikuchi wants to give up on making their Onizuka's life hell. | |
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Mentioned in The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip. Turns out, Phoebe has karate after school. | |
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In The Matrix, just after he's had the relevant knowledge uploaded into his brain, Neo informs Morpheus: | |
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Supergirl knows Klurkor in every main continuity. She has also been trained by Wonder Woman, Batman and Batgirl. In Who is Superwoman? she warns Reactron she is a Klurkor first level before proceeding to kick his butt. | |
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Empty Nest. Carol is ready to beat up her boyfriend's ex-wife when she catches her trying to seduce him, but the guy warns her, "She's a black belt" (though the martial art is never specified). | |
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An early Garfield strip showed a mailman assuming a karate pose and warning Garfield not to attack him because he knows karate. But Garfield, being a cat, is much too small and moves much too fast for the mailman to land any blows, and bites and claws him repeatedly in a Big Ball of Violence, leaving the postman with Amusing Injuries. The last line of the strip: "And I know fast and furious." | |
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In the first episode of season 2 of Lincoln Heights, Cassie Sutton completely demolishes a would-be racist attacker, much to the surprise of her boyfriend Charles. Her father taught the whole family defensive tactics after the hellish season 1 the family went through. Oddly enough this is the only time any of the Sutton kids displayed any martial arts abilities despite there being numerous occasions where they are needed. | |
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In Gundam Build Fighters Try, it's revealed that Sekai's sister, Mirai, learned the Jigen Haou martial arts skills Sekai uses when she was younger. She doesn't use this as much as she's a model who uses her earnings to help care for herself and Sekai, so it comes as a surprise when Mirai pulls out the kung-fu schtick to deliver a painful Shoryuken Groin Attack. | |
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The Muppet Show: In one of the two pilots produced early in developmentnote The Muppets Valentine Show, Kermit gets into a brawl with an eight-foot-tall mouse. In an aside to the audience, Kermit says he likes his chances because he has never missed an episode of Kung Fu. | |
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Paul Wilsen (black belt in kung fu) and Ed Summers (teaches karate) in The Unexpected Witness, though Paul doesn't explicitly say he knows kung fu until after the beatdown and Ed Summers is established about halfway through the book as being a karate instructor. | |
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In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Victory Fire, Jen, an Audino, kicks a Gengar in the stomach. When Kecleon asks what she was doing, her meek reply is tae kwon do. | |
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Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse: Mushmouse once practiced Judo with a dummy and then tried to fight Punkin Puss and warned him about knowing judo. However, as Punkin Puss explained after defeating Mushmouse, he wasn't a dummy. | |
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Hurricane Polymar: In some adaptations, Polymar himself without his suit (despite the lampshading in Ippatsuman's ending) is already a worthy karate master. His suit's powers tend to be a bonus on top of that. | |
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In Gen¹³, it was pulled by Grunge on a rather physically unimpressive scientist who had developed a power-nullifying device. After the team spends almost all issue helpless, he hands the scientist his ass in about three panels. | |
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José Carioca from the Disney Ducks Comic Universe once tried to scare a bunch of criminals by claiming to be a good Capoeira fighter, only to learn one of the criminals was a master of that art. He then claimed to know Karate and was told another criminal of the bunch was a black belt. | |
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Subverted at one point with Spenser. He is questioning a female gay rights activist, and the activist bristles when Spenser inevitably goes into Sarcasm Mode. Her (also female) bodyguard decides the interrogation has gone on long enough and tells Spenser to back off or she'll use her karate to "kick his nuts into his ass". He tells her to come on, then she kicks him in the balls. She is about to attempt using martial arts on him, but Spenser is able to fight through the pain and proceeds to drop her with one punch. After she regains consciousness he instructs her on how a kick to the balls are all well and good, but if the big guy you're fighting has enough of a weight-and-strength advantage over you (and Spenser towered over her), and knows how to fight himself (Spenser really, really does), all the kicks and martial arts in the world will not help you. There's another moment in Stardust when a guy he's interviewing gets pissed, and has his bodyguard put on a wondrous display of karate skill by beating the hell out of a heavy bag, in order to intimidate Spenser into backing down. Spenser pulls out a revolver and shoots the bag. |
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Kung Fu (1972) did this, of course. | |
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Jade in Jackie Chan Adventures threatened a bully with the "ancient art of butt whoop." Considering she's the niece of Jackie Chan, you can guess how this ends up. She gets into trouble for thoroughly beating up the bully, who later comes back asking her to teach him. Instead, she teaches him self-control (something she herself lacks), and he is later shown breaking up a fight. |
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. After Doc Savage wrestles his gun off him, Captain Seas wordlessly challenges our hero to hand-to-hand combat using various fighting styles, each introduced with In-Scene Title Text. Doc proves his mastery in Sumo wrestling, Gung Fu, Tai Chichuan, Karate, Bo jijsu, and finally Good Old Fisticuffs. | |
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In the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor, Reggie Warrington, the Insult Comic, attempts this on Buddy Love who heckled him one too many times, but Buddy anticipates his pathetic attempts to whip out his "streets skills" and Curb Stomps him. | |
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In Kara of Rokyn, the titular character is extensively trained by martial arts master Lady Shiva. | |
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Batman: The villain Scarecrow in Knightfall. No, really. It is, of course, crane style. Crane's combat style, at least per other comics from the 90's, was actually a self-taught and designed style, 'violent dancing', based around weaponizing his Crane's namesake crazy dancing from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part of a popular trend of retconning a lot of Batman villains during those years to have studied hand to hand combat at some point, to explain how they could actually fistfight Batman and last longer than three seconds. Detective Comics (Rebirth): Clayface says this almost verbatim in #952 while fighting League of Shadows goons. |
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In an episode of The Flintstones, Fred tries this line, only for his opponent to go, "Who is that?" before beating him up. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In one episode, Garfield unwittingly angered a bunch of dogs and tried to discourage them from harming him by telling several lies. One of them was that cats knew karate. It didn't work. Garfield's Feline Fantasies featured Garfield fantasizing he was in an adventure movie, including a scene where he and the villain threaten each other: |
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Subverted in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka when the group's martial arts expert is surrounded by cops he says something along the lines of "You dare to challenge me? A master of karate, kung fu, jujitsu and all this other shit you've never heard of? Ha ha ha!" The cops respond by opening fire on him. And again later, when one of the heroes and bad guys square off against one another minus their guns, one of them hesitates and says, "I don't know any kung fu!" "Neither do I," says the other. "Want to fake it?" They then do just that. | |
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In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, what allows Marco Diaz to keep up with Star Butterfly in her adventures is this trope. | |
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In the Donkey Kong Jr. segments of Saturday Supercade, when Junior's human partner Bones is cornered by the bad guys he will often claim to know karate in order to try and fight them off; the villains never fall for it and Junior usually saves him before he can do anything. | |
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Superman: In pre-Crisis comics, it was established that Krypton had martial arts. Villain Faora Hu-Ul knows Horu-Kanu. In The Great Phantom Peril she warns Superman about it before proceeding to knock him around pretty effectively. Lois Lane studied the art of Klurkor in the bottle city of Kandor, and got to use it from time to time. Supergirl knows Klurkor in every main continuity. She has also been trained by Wonder Woman, Batman and Batgirl. In Who is Superwoman? she warns Reactron she is a Klurkor first level before proceeding to kick his butt. Karate Kid from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics is the galaxy's master of all known forms of physical combat. |
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Knight Rider did it at least once. Given how tall David Hasselhoff is, you can imagine just how big the local color had to be to carry this off. | |
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Kim Possible is shown to be an martial arts expert—in fact, in one episode, Kim's revealed to know sixteen different styles of kung-fu. And in a later episode, one of the styles of kung-fu that Kim knows is Mantis-style. | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Cindy Vortex is said (and shown) to know a few different types of martial arts (mostly karate)—in one of the later episodes, Cindy was absent for most of it because, according to Libby, she was out of town at a martial arts competition. Judging from the scale of her flips and kicks, Cindy's probably a black belt. | |
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In Glorious Shotgun Princess: It's exclaimed by Shepard in surprise. The geth have successfully emulated Shepard's martial arts using a combination of Essence and mass effect fields, creating Synthetic Hero Style. |
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Inverted in the Tintin album "The Black Island". Tintin is thrown to the floor by one of the bad guys, who tells him "That was jiu-jitsu!". Tintin KO's him with a kick in the chin from the floor, responding "And that's savate!" note Savate is both a French style of kickboxing and a word for shoe. You may now start groaning. | |
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BECK: It's mentioned that Chiba is a martial artist, though for most of the series it's an Informed Attribute we only see when he harasses his friends with kicks and pro wrestling moves. His skills are finally put on display when he uses Karate to rescue Koyuki from a recurring villain and periodically trounces schoolyard bullies. It's even more impressive in the live action movie, when he knocks around a large gang at the skatepark. Most of the fight happens off-screen, but the bullies limp away frantically as Chiba triumphantly cheers, so it can be inferred he's just as tough as he claims to be. | |
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Villain Faora Hu-Ul knows Horu-Kanu. In The Great Phantom Peril she warns Superman about it before proceeding to knock him around pretty effectively. | |
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Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation has Katherine de Ka'an go to a martial arts instructor in order to shape up and become a better hero. | |
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That guy with the glasses in The Devil's Brigade, which he apparently wears only so he can have The Glasses Come Off. | |
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Parodied in Space Quest V: The Next Mutation when Roger Wilco warns the Big Bad "I know Kung Fu, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, and several other Chinese words!" | |
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The villain Scarecrow in Knightfall. No, really. It is, of course, crane style. Crane's combat style, at least per other comics from the 90's, was actually a self-taught and designed style, 'violent dancing', based around weaponizing his Crane's namesake crazy dancing from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part of a popular trend of retconning a lot of Batman villains during those years to have studied hand to hand combat at some point, to explain how they could actually fistfight Batman and last longer than three seconds. | |
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During Saikawa's first apperance in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, she challenges Kanna while boasting that she won a karate tournament in the past, but Kanna's Crocodile Tears defuse the situation before she has the chance to show off. Kanna's spin-off also reveals that her claim was slightly less impressive than it sounds. She did get first place in a tournament, but it was for proper form rather than actual combat. | |
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In Season 4 of Stranger Things, as Joyce and Murray are being flown to Russia by Lovable Traitor Yuri, Murray (a goofy Conspiracy Theorist and apparent Non-Action Guy who serves primarily as comic relief) assures a doubtful Joyce that he has a black belt and can overpower Yuri. It's very clearly a setup for him to get his ass kicked... and then the fight starts, and he really is a competent fighter, winning the fight fair and square and knocking Yuri out. Unfortunately, they're still in the air at the time, and neither Joyce nor Murray can fly a plane... | |
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Parodied and subverted in Romeo Must Die when big black gangster Maurice corners small Chinese man Han. Maurice does the crane stance because "Now, you know you ain't the only one that knows some shit," and Han (or as we call him, Jet Li, the last person in the world who'd be impressed by the crane stance) immediately kicks out Maurice's supporting knee. | |
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In Dutch, an adolescent warns Dutch that he's a "high brown belt," then proceeds to kick his ass. Later, Dutch tries to pit his self-described "all-American streetfighting" against the kid's martial arts and loses again. He does, however, teach the kid how to throw a wicked haymaker. | |
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Taken: | |
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While You Were Sleeping. Lucy's Abhorrent Admirer claims this when he thinks that another guy is bothering her. | |
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Karate Kid from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics is the galaxy's master of all known forms of physical combat. | |
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Parodied in One Crazy Summer. | |
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In Living Color! had Damon Wayans' character Anton the bum use this to try to get into the army (for the free food, of course) | |
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Sir Rodney from The Wizard of Id once tried to use this trope by telling a larger attacker that he had a black belt. Turned out the guy had the black suspenders. | |
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Subverted in The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Holmes warns the bruiser, "I know judo." The bruiser knows karate — and knows it better than Holmes does judo. | |
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Subverted in Gunslinger Girl: Subverted. The girls have their fearsome combat abilities programmed into them as a part of their reconstruction package, but at the increasing cost of their remaining humanity. After her defeat to Pinocchio, Triela gets supplementary training from Italian special forces, as she's become too used to relying on her cybernetic abilities. | |
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In Doctor Who, the Third Doctor was a skilled practitioner of Venusian Aikido and, despite being grey headed and somewhat frail looking, had little difficulty in physical altercations, even when facing off against several opponents. And while we hadn't really seen Doctor keep up their skills in the intervening period, the Eight, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Doctors were also known to use Venusian Aikido. Twelve gets asked about the extra number of arms required to properly practice it. |
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In one episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny goes out with the President's daughter, who later grows tired of Johnny's ignorance of American heritage and calls for two bodyguards to get rid of him. Johnny reacts by stating he's a black belt, but the two guys know at least a dozen forms of martial arts, beat him up, and stuff him in a box under the Pentagon. | |
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They Call Me Bruce. A Running Gag with the title character, who actually doesn't know martial arts but likes to pretend otherwise to impress women or fend off muggers. | |
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Noah in Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum is a downplayed example. He's taken a variety of martial arts classes and even won a few minor tournaments, but in the World of Badass he finds himself transported to, that's decidedly underwhelming. It does help him in the fights he gets into, but mostly to the extent that it lets him survive long enough for his Battle Harem to rescue him. | |
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Parodied in Get Smart. While arguing with Agent 99 about his readiness for the mission, Maxwell Smart remarks that "I am an expert in the art of Hwa Rang Do." He takes a fighting stance... and 99 punches him in the face. | |
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An episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! has Shaggy and Scooby trying to bluff a Chinese ghost with the line "I know judo, chop suey, and Chinese checkers!" This being Shaggy and Scooby we're talking about, they later escape from the ghost's henchmen by serving them chocolate chop suey (with liver a la mode). | |
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In the Cabin Pressure episode "Helsinki", Carolyn's annoying grandnephew Kieran mentions that one of his hobbies is karate as he starts to make fun of Martin's pathetic life. Once Martin is irritated enough by Kieran's mockery to smack him, Kieran demonstrates that he actually does know karate. | |
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Detective Comics (Rebirth): Clayface says this almost verbatim in #952 while fighting League of Shadows goons. | |
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Midsomer Murders: A particularly silly example occurs in "Death in a Chocolate Box". Barnaby and Jones enter a room to find the elderly Lord Holm assaulting a woman. Lord Holm drops in a boxing stance: | |
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Total Drama Legacy: In "A Dark and Storm-y Night", when the Modern Mandrills get to a hall with two doors guarded by Crimson and Ennui, Skave and Keith say this: | |
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A variant in The Riddle of Master Lu, and what would be a subversion if the audience didn't already know, where Robert Ripley basically says "My girlfriend knows karate." | |
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Parodied in Ella Enchanted. Ella tries to intimidate a band of ruffians by warning them that she knows origami. | |
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In pre-Crisis comics, it was established that Krypton had martial arts. | |
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Parodied and subverted in Friends, where Ross is learning (comically overpronounced) karate. He claims to have supernatural awareness called "unagi" (actually a Japanese freshwater eel) but gets ambushed at the end of the episode. | |
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Transformers: In every continuity of the comic books that he appears in, every time he gets into a fight Bludgeon will always brag about how he knows the forbidden art of Metallikato. | |
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There Goes The Neighborhood: When Willis approaches him with the pick ax, Albert lampshades this, but not before pulling out a move in very hilarious fashion. | |
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