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The "en garde" combat stance which is adopted by hand-to-hand fighters in combat, just before opening cans of whoop-ass upon their oh-so-very-dead opponent. Ideally, the stance used should not merely be functional; it must visually convey the message "Your butt, kicked by me."
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A common variant is, rather than a combat stance, to [[Slasher Smile|smile threateningly]] as if to say "I'm about to kill you. Very much." A second variant is, faced with a display of force, to simply play [[The Stoic]] and exude an aura of "You guys are ''so'' toast." Can include [[Kinetic Clicking|cracking knuckles, or cracking the cartilage in one's neck]]. When kicking someone's ass, it's important to be limber!
See also [[Bring It]]
Contrast [[Victory Pose]]. Usually in animation, the pose is rendered in [[Animation Bump|more detailed artwork]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Masane Amaha from ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'', after transforming for the first time, does the "come hither for your ass kicking" version, namely the defiant stance coupled with index finger motioning for the asshole to step forward for their aforementioned asskicking.
* It is pretty common among [[Super Robot Genre|Super Robots]]:
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** ''[[GoLion]]'' adopts such poses during [[Stock Footage]] transformation sequences, particularly when creating weapons.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. About every character, but special mention go to the [[Super Sentai Stance|Ginyu Force]] and "The Great Saiyaman!"
* ''[[Transformers]]''. Pretty much every version of ''[[Transformers]]'' ever, in fact.
* Most of the HiME from ''[[
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has Rock Lee, whose combat stance involves a mid-to-low center of gravity, left hand held behind the back (potentially to grab kunai and such), and right hand ''held forward in the classic "[[Bring It|come and get me" gesture.'']] Definitely a sign of rampant [[
* In just about every episode of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', before kicking some ass Ken's shirt would explode off and he would crack his knuckles.
* Parodied in the ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' Supplementary Materials. Tomo asks Chiyo what a cool pose would be. She responds with an exaggerated
* Parodied in the [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Played completely straight in Episode 25 of ''StrikerS''. Nanoha stomps the ground "to brace herself." In the DVD adaptation, the stomp cracks the ground underneath her feet. Immediately thereafter, the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the entire series happened.
* Ku Fei of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' assumes what looks like some kind of [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v19/c177/12.html Crane stance] ''after'' she deals with crowds of common challengers. Which, in addition to the incident during the Summer Festival, [
** [[Boisterous Bruiser|Jack Rakan]], one of the strongest people introduced in the manga, in his tournament final fight against Negi, struck a totally serious combat pose. This man blew up a mountain on accident and one of his first attacks in the series was mistaken for a terrorist bombing. and he even held back on that one to keep from turning the opponents to dust. When the smile gets wiped off his face and he gets serious...It's scary.
* [[Inuyasha]] often cracked his knuckles before a fight. One handed. Open in a claw hand, not clinched into a fist.
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* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' has a couple. Kensin's Battousai glare is one, notable for scaring the bejeezus out of Kurogasa and several small-time villains. There's also his battou-jutsu stance, which looks so ridiculously cool that it has reached the level of being [[Rule of Cool|powered by its awesomeness.]]
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a lot of these:
** The Straw Hats use them a lot obviously. Luffy typically cracks his knuckles or stretches before a fight. Zoro usually puts his sword in his mouth before fighting, but the real
** Franky and his "SUPER!" pose.
** Sanji lights a cigarette before his ass kicking.
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** For full effect: One Pointer Finger + [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] + [[Slasher Smile]] + [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] = You going insane.
* The eponymous [[Gunbuster]] has an iconic stance of standing with its armed folded. It's [[Badass]].
* ''[[
* Parodied by ''[[Angel Blade]]'', whose heroines do this [[Full-Frontal Assault|in the buff]].
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' had quite a few for a lot of different people. The one that strikes this troper the most is the pose that the new Guren SEITEN Eight Elements is in during the Second Battle of Tokyo. After fighting its way to Lelouch's position (and slicing through dozens of other Britannian Knightmares) Kallen floats her way down in front of Lelouch. After she stops, her energy wings swing out and a pink circle starts pulsing out from the Guren for [[Rule of Cool|no reason other than to look awesome]]. During her "fight" with Suzaku's for-once inferior Lancelot, she almost never leaves this position. Said pose can be seen [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091105015636/codegeass/images/5/52/Guren-shouten-hakkyokushiki.jpg here.]
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* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': If you see [[Butt Monkey|Sawada]] [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Tsunayoshi]] raise both his hands up, one in front pointing at you, the other [[Playing with Fire|creating a massive fireball behind him]], get down on your knees and pray for a swift death.
** If he crosses his hands and flames start pouring from the vents on the backs of the gauntlets, there's no need to pray; your swift death is coming. And it's coming ''very fast''.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'':
** There's Ed's clap pose and Roy's finger-snap-ready stance.
** Also when Ed takes his [[Badass Longcoat|red cloak]] [[The Coats Are Off|off]], and/or his [[Shirtless Scene|shirt]].
** [[Large Ham|Alex]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|Louis]] [[Bishie Sparkle|Armstrong]]; nearly everything he does when sparkling, during a fight or not, is his Asskicking Pose.
* The Shinobi Five, a freelance ninja squad from ''[[Gintama]]''.
* Subverted/parodied in ''[[Bleach]]'' with a lesser shinigami flailing his sword impressively only to get knocked out with a single punch from Chad.
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Death the Kid has his "Sin" and "Punishment" stances. Cue beat down.
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==
* While [[Batman]]'s combat stances tend to be more practical than showy, he does like to use his
* [[Superman]] has his Ass-Kicking Pose, which is unique, as it is largely him floating silently with his hands [[Badass Arm-Fold|across his chest]]. This being Superman, ''this works''. When he ''really'' wants to scare someone, or if he's really pissed off, expect the [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]. If the [[Mook]] in front of him is holding a gun and tries [[Shooting Superman]], Supes likes to melt it down with his heat vision as a warning shot.
* [[Spider-Man]] has his characteristic contortionist/three-point-crouch thing going on.
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{{quote|'''Brave mook:''' ''Come on... we've got guns and we've got him outnumbered four to one. We can take him.''
'''Other mooks:''' *stare in disbelief*
'''[[Daredevil|DD]]:''' *smiles*
'''All mooks:''' *run down the street* }}
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** Though, in real life, the Crane Stance would tell you exactly what move Daniel-san is about to use, and should tell you how to beat him. Fortunately for Daniel, [[Rule of Cool]] doesn't care about real life.
** Just watch the extras instead of the leads. At least in the first one, the no-names tend to actually have some idea what they're doing...
* Bruce Lee was the master of the
** Oh, and he LOVED the Crane Stance. Specifically, when his opponent used it. One push, falling crane.
* In ''[[Romeo Must Die]]'', one of the black guys uses the Crane Stance to mock Jet Li, complete with screeching "waaaa" sound. Cue immediate [[Groin Attack|kick in the fork.]]
* The last shot in the first ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' movie.
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* The [[Gun Kata]] style of ''Equilibrium'' relies extensively on these to position the body ''just so'' while gunning down enemies.
* ''[[Serenity]]''. After River {{spoiler|slaughters the entire Reaver horde}} the doors open to show her in a very simple stance, legs spread apart and and axe and a sword in her hands that pretty perfectly conveys the fact that many, ''many'' people just got ''pasted'' by a [[Waif Fu|ninety pound girl]]. When the Alliance troops bust in moments later, she doesn't even shift her stance, instead just very slowly turning her head to face them - the implication being that, even with their heavy body armor and a dozen guns pointed at her, she is going to massacre ''them'' too, just as easily.
* ''[[Fight Club]]''. Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden does several of these during {{spoiler|his final fight with the narrator}} and another one when the narrator is on the phone with Marla for absolutely no reason except Brad Pitt being bored and wanting to try it out.
* ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' has this as a recurrent joke: in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', a swordman offers a good pose and demonstration of skills, and Indy answers by shooting him dead; the pose was useless. In the following movie, several thugs do the Ass-Kicking Pose, Indy reaches for his gun again and... he had lost the gun somewhere. Oops.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies have a fair share of these as well; a notable example would be Gandalf's "[[Punctuated!
* A subversion in the 1989 ''Batman'' film, when one of the mooks threatens Our Hero with a series of flailing martial arts poses. The technique is about as useless as it appears, since Batman manages to flatten the guy with one punch. On ''two'' separate occasions.
* Again subverted in ''The Cannonball Run''. During the Big Brawl scene, Roger Moore (essentially playing himself) squares off against one thug, adopts an Ass-Kicking Pose... and promptly gets his lights punched out.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'', both humans and mecha. The concentrated awesomeness of these poses will often cause explosions and bursts of colored smoke.
** There's a lot of ceremony behind it: each Ranger has his or her own personal pose, with a little routine of a few moves before snapping into the final pose (with optional smoke clouds.) Some teams have an entire routine where each gives his or her Ranger designation while posing, and then all pose together after the team's [[In the Name of the Moon]]
* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] this and then [[Lampshade Hanging|hung a lampshade]] on their playing with it, when Ned and Cookie fought. {{spoiler|They imitated every cliche
* Parodied in the TV show ''Vanishing Son'': the hero (seeking the Villain of the Week) kicks down his office door, to reveal a gigantic man behind a desk. Said man jumps up, puts his hands in front of him, shouts "I'm a ''temp''!" and runs past the hero.
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', one word: "Henshin!" Parodied in ''Kamen Rider G''. After the title Rider finishes his pose, the building behind him has half of its windows blown out to form his logo. Hope he has [[Hero Insurance]].
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler Rob Van Dam has a tendency to get knocked down, then pop right back up into an Ass Kicking Pose.
** Pretty common in [[Professional Wrestling]] anyway - usually after a series of very quick reversals and chain wrestling, with both guys doing a "kip up", as it's termed, into the pose before relaxing so the crowd can show their appreciation.
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* Almost every robot master/Maverick from ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' and ''[[Mega Man X]]'' does one of these, right after making their grand entrance.
** Starting with X4, X and Zero do this as they enter a stage. Also, X's armor warps into place.
* Many ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' taunts are of the
** The Subspace Emissary adventure mode's cutscenes are positively ''saturated'' with them. One of the more spectacular examples involves [[Donkey Kong|DK and Diddy]] posing while a ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVQJk55ET7o&feature=related Bullet Bill explodes behind them.]''
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_3EX9haTFU&feature=related The Five Warriors.] Pose as a team [[Super Mario
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' has poses that are so awesome it destroys enemies!
** The recent [[Power Rangers]] game ''Super Legends'' does this as well, giving the rampant posing in the TV show a significantly better use.
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*** Combine this with the Mortal Draw for some nice showy iaijitsu.
*** Technically, Link [[Older Than They Think|originally did the sword twirl]] in the [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|Zelda cartoon]]. However, it was no where near as impressive as in Twilight Princess or any other example here, possibly due to the size of the blade and where the holster was.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], whether after clearing a mission, beating the big bad, or just to piss off [[Big Bad|Dr. Robotnik/Eggman]], will likely do a bunch of fancy stuff, but will always end his pose with a thumbs up.
** In ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', this is proven, as his entrance is to roll/bounce onscreen and flash a smile and thumbs up.
* The ''[[Fallout]] 3'' DLC ''Operation Anchorage'' has a trio of soldiers [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929205346/http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/File:AnchorageStatue.jpg posing] for a Washington Post journalist. After snapping a photo, the journalist remarks that "maybe someone will make this into a statue someday". He had no idea how right he was: the [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/File:Anchorage_War_Memorial_Tribute.jpg statue] of the Anchorage War Memorial has the exact same soldiers with different weapons. What's more, the statue was in the base game as well.
* ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''
** The members of Team Big Body have victory poses with the rest of the team.
** In his 08/18/2017 update, Kinnikuman Soldier poses with the rest of the Chojin Blood Brigade if he gets a victory with high enough health.
== Webcomics ==
* In one fight scene from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Elliot berates Nanase for striking what he calls a "Look at me, I just kicked Elliot" pose.
* Parodied in ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Bun-Bun from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gets these a ''lot''. "Ka-click!"
* [[Problem Sleuth]] from ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' has a panel entitled "Pose as a team CAUSE SHIT JUST GOT REAL!". And then later, "POSE AS A TEAM AGAIN CAUSE SHIT JUST GOT '''MORE''' REAL!" In all, there's about four panels, where shit continues to get increasingly real.
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* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Cyborg prepares for a fight by cracking the cartilage in his neck. Additionally, Robin often struck these in preparation for a fight.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' makes frequent use of this, and it can be argued that for most of the characters, Ass-Kicking Poses are essentially their fighting style, since most of the actual combat is done with whatever element they happen to be bending at the time instead of actual hand-to-hand. Toph also has a pretty awesome Ass-Kicking Smile in a few episodes.
* Done quite a bit with the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', especially Triplicate Girl in her three
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* These oftentimes backfire if the one doing the pose doesn't know what he's doing. Trying out a pose that only works in the movies is typically bad for your mobility, balance, ability to defend and counterattack, and in a real fight, your health as well.
* And others would recommend that you have no 'combat pose'. To paraphrase [[Miyamoto Musashi]], your fighting stance should be your everyday stance; your walk should be your everyday walk. If proper fighting form (or terrain, such as marshland) requires you adopt a difference in walk or stance, then that should also be incorporated into your usual stance and pace.
* In HEMA expert, John Clement's book on Renaissance Swordsmanship, he recommends that a rapier open stretching the arm straight and a cut-and-thrust sword open crooked(like a boxer's on guard position basically). The reason is that rapiers are dependent on thrusting and involve little lateral movement but much opening and closing of distance and so starting with a straight arm firms up your defence long enough to plan your move. While a cut-and-thrust blade will make you want to keep your opponent guessing about whether you intend to use the point or the edge and will also make you want to move laterally to get openings for a strike with the edge.
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