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== Advertising ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjlBUwORobE This Miller Lite commercial], where two pro wrestlers learn they should [[Never Mess With Granny]].
== Anime and Manga ==
* When the crew of the ''[[Cowboy Bebop|Bebop]]'' [[Perpetual Poverty|have food to cook,]] [[Badass]] ex-cop bounty hunter Jet can be counted on to whip something up, even if he only has one or two ingredients to work with.
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* [[Battle Butler|Sebastian]] of ''[[Black Butler]]'' can go kick some ass and be home in time to prepare a five-star meal.
* Bianchi from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]].'' Attacks enemies with her Poison Cooking.
* Shell and Leon from ''[[Chuuka Ichiban]]'' (mistranslated as ''Cooking Master Boy''). The former has a steel staff and the latter has seven knives including [[
* Chao Lingshen of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Chef and owner of the Chao Bao Zi restaurant and [[Magitek]]-using [[Time Master]] [[Big Bad]] of the Mahora Festival [[Story Arc]].
** Also Eishun Konoe, who's both the greatest swordman in both mundane and magical world and [[Team Chef]] for his band of invincible idiots. [[Berserk Button|And Heaven help them if they don't eat it all.]]
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* Makoto/Sailor Jupiter of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Being a soldier of justice, she's also a very good cook and respectable domestic figure (she has to be, given she lives alone and was [[Parental Abandonment|orphaned]]) which balances out her tough bruiser personality.
* Tenii in ''Shin [[Koihime Musou]]''. She impresses the main cast with her cooking at a local tavern, and is called on to prove her skill by Sousou. Then she grabs a raging bull by the horns and throws it into the air.
* [[Toriko]] {{who}}
* Simon Brezhnev from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is a Russian sushi chef and former member of the special forces. He demonstrates veritable [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]s, jumping down several stories and stopping an equally strong guy throwing a vending machine mid-throw! And still he's a pacifist and only fights to stop fights with minimal violence. It's implied that the boss of the Russian Sushi is just as badass, though he's more subdued about it.
* After more than a decade (viewer time) of being little more than the munchkin in the kitchen, ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''’s Sasami Masaki Jurai showed in the third OVA series that as well as cooking up a storm on a regular basis, she could not only out-think a highly-trained and heavily-armed Galaxy Police officer, but also hand her ass to her with little effort. Sasami would have been about nine years old at the time, and did not appear to use her divine connections or avatar powers at the time--just a quarterstaff that she kept tucked away in her hair. Seriously.
* Masaru Aoki from ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'', a ramen restaurant cook who also is training to become a professional boxer.
* Shiro Takamachi of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Baker and owner of the popular Midoriya Cafe who also happens to be a [[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～|former ninja-assassin bodyguard]].
** We also have Hayate Yagami, the [[Team Chef]] of the Wolkenritter who also happens to be a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] capable of nuking cities with her magic.
* Sai Saici of ''[[G Gundam]]'' is a Type-1 with shades of Type-2. Not only is his food delicious, his cooking is quite showy, and quite a crowd-pleaser. His combat-skills, however, are unrelated to cooking - he uses basic Shaolin Kung-Fu, and quite well at that.
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* [[Deadpool]]: A girl from Deadpool's past calls this trope by name: "In the Heya kitchen, they call me... the Iron Chef!"
== Fan Works ==
* As part of her equipment as Maul in the ''[[Worm]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[Mauling Snarks]]'', Taylor Hebert includes a wok, because it can be used to create a wider effect with her primary offensive power and because it can be used as a shield -- but also, as she notes when she first adds it to her loadout, because if she needs to she can cook with it, too.
== Film ==
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** In the sequel, there is a scene where Seagal's character sends a message to his co-worker, another chef. And everyone expected serious kickassery... But it turned out he wanted the other chef just to call the [[Mission Control]].
* [[Ninja|Four guys in a Chinese kitchen]] in ''Dragon: The [[Bruce Lee]] Story'' rather suddenly become examples of this trope.
* Sammo Hung, another martial arts film star, has a movie called ''[[Kung Fu
** [[Comically Missing the Point|It's about 92 minutes.]]
* The chef in ''[[Dragon Inn]]'' (another Martial Arts movie) is equally deadly with his meat cleaver in the kitchen and on the battlefield.
* The 1996 film ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'' has Geena Davis as an assassin who's lost her memory, living now as a suburban housewife. Her memories start to reemerge when she's in the kitchen. "Chefs do that," she says when she does a little flourish with her knife after chopping vegetables. A little later, when she kills some intruders with the same knife, she repeats the line. "Chefs do that."
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* The Champion of Justice in ''[[Fish Story]]'' is an excellent example. He leaves the scene to get an apple pie out of the oven, and returns to find a hijacking in progress. They shoot him, but [[Only a Flesh Wound|it doesn't stop him]] {{spoiler|at first<ref>and not later, either.</ref>}}
* Beck (played by [[Dwayne Johnson]]) in ''[[The Rundown]]''.
== Literature ==
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** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! RUSH]]'' has [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dian_Keto_the_Kitchen_Master Dian Keto the Kitchen Master]. She's got a ''freakin' rocket launcher!''
*** Like the other high-level Bubble Era cards, she has some assistants who also qualify - [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Coconut_Changel_of_Heart Coconut Change of Heart], [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Frenzied_Panna_Cotta Frenzied Panna Cotta], and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Tiramisu_Dark_Witch Tiramisu Dark Witch].
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Poissoniere_de_Nouvelles Poissoniere de Nouvelles] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Patissciel_Couverture Patissciel Couverture], chefs who turn gourmet food into [[Ritual Magic|Ritual monsters]] of the [[Anthropomorphic Food| Nouvelles archetype]].
== Theatre ==
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*** as well as everybody else in a 1 yard area of me.
* Your player character in the ''[[Rune Factory]]'' games can become this, optionally. Put enough effort in, and you can create dishes that will wow even the local gourmand or [[Supreme Chef]]. ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'' even allows you to craft utensils for use in battle.
* It's easy to forget that, while [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Milfeulle Sakuraba]] is a very cheerful [[Supreme Chef]], her day job is piloting a manned weapon of mass-destruction that sports a [[
* Overlapping with [[Evil Chef]], many mooks in the Luncheon Kingdom from ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', including Goombahs wearing chef's hats, and the bird-like boss, Cookatiel.
** Mario himself, if the player buys the Chef outfit.
* The first Gym Leader (well, the one you ''should'' challenge first) in ''[[Pokémon Scarlet and Violet]]'' is [[Cool Old Lady|Katy]] (or [[Affectionate Nickname|"Sugarbug"]], as she is called) in Cortondo Town, who works as a pastry chef as her "day job". Defeat her and there's a selfie where she shares her cupcakes with the player!
* ''[[Pizza Tower]]'' is an indy game where the protagonist is [[Awesome McCoolname|Peppino Spaghetti]], an unsuccessful chef with a rotten temper who must traverse the eponymous tower, collecting ingredients and fighting bad guys in order to save his restaurant from a giant evil talking pizza. He's a little nutty, sure, but he's an [[Acrofatic]] fighter who hits like a bulldozer.
* Princess Peach; while it has long been hinted that she is something of a [[Supreme Chef]] (making a cake for Mario after the events of ''[[Super Mario 64]]'') she gets to be this sort of chef (called "Pâtissière Peach") in one level of ''[[Princess Peach: Showtime!]]''
== Web Comics ==
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* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' got Countess <ref>a "third cousin...many times removed, of course" of Her Undying Majesty</ref> Marie - minor [[Mad Scientist]] (Chemist) who ran off to join the circus and is always ready to disprove the notion of her being a fragile sheltered noblewoman... using a [[Frying Pan of Doom]].
** "[[Badass Grandpa|Ol' Man]] [[Badass Nickname|Death]]". [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100524 Can make you any type of sandwich you can name] (but no soup). And [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100526 kick] a [[Super Soldier|Jägermonster's]] ass [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 without being too distracted from sandwiches].
** Corbettite monks of the Depot Fortress St. Szpac got [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141121 Brother Vadaxxus]. While we didn't see him personally fighting yet...{{verify}}
* Belkar from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' is a minor example of Type 1. As well as being a skilled [[Knife Nut|knife fighter]], he also has 4 ranks in Profession (gourmet chef). He makes a vulture stew for the MitD, and when a bounty hunter threatens to feed Roy's heart to one of his associates, he suggests cooking it with garlic to bring out the flavor.
** "Hey, I'm trying here! I have exactly two skill sets, and you get mad when I use the other one!"
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{{quote|Fumiko: I thought you said she remade the chocolate?
[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Sal]]: She must have. {{spoiler|It's more [[Divide by Zero|hideous]] than before.}} }}
== Web Original ==
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* Granny Stuffem from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' uses her creations as a monster army, with varying abilities, all of which are capable of incapacitating you by making you eat them. [[Crazy Awesome|While singing pastiches of]] [[GWAR]] songs.
* The Lunch Lady Ghost, [[Danny Phantom]]'s enemy.
* Roadblock of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'': A gourmet chef who also happens to be a [[
* The Breadmaster on [[The Tick (animation)]] ([[Evil Chef]] type). Do not mess with his dangerous and yet delicious army of gingerbread cookies.
** "Not baked goods, Professor; baked bads!"
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== Real Life ==
* Chef Harold Hillard was awarded three bronze stars, a silver star, and earned himself three purple hearts during his service as a US Marine (in both the Korean and Vietnam wars). After he retired from active duty, he became a chef. He now trains chefs at Kaiser University's Tallahassee, Florida campus. Specifically, he teaches meat cutting and knife skills (one of his students in the fine art of rendering meat from whole pieces to small bleeding chunks was, in fact, the same Robert Irvine who will be appearing in the next example). The man's almost 80 years old,{{when}} and can debone an entire pig in less than 20 minutes. Don't mess with him.
* Robert Irvine, MCFA (C.G.) of the [[Food Network]]'s ''Dinner: Impossible''. He's a Royal Navy veteran. On top of it all, he's buffed and cut enough to look like he could kick your ass with ease.
** Cue the [[Fan Girl|Fangirls]]. And [[Even the Guys Want Him|Fanboys]].
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