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{{quote|''"I'll show you 'mere cook' after I fillet each and every last one of you bastards!"''|'''Sanji''', ''[[
A [[Lethal Chef]] is someone whose cooking is so terrible that it could fall under the Geneva Convention as an inhumane weapon. A [[Supreme Chef]] is a superb cook, particularly the kind that participate in televised [[Cooking Duel
▲{{quote|''"I'll show you 'mere cook' after I fillet each and every last one of you bastards!"''|'''Sanji''', ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''}}
Combine the lethal potential with sublime cooking skills and you get the
▲A [[Lethal Chef]] is someone whose cooking is so terrible that it could fall under the Geneva Convention as an inhumane weapon. A [[Supreme Chef]] is a superb cook, particularly the kind that participate in televised [[Cooking Duel|Cooking Duels]] where [[Iron Chef|"every battle, reputations are put on the line." ]]
▲Combine the lethal potential with sublime cooking skills and you get the [[Chef of Iron]]: a fighting cook, someone who can kick your ass ''and'' prepare a gourmet meal with equal ease. He/she is a bad person to have as an enemy but a good person to have invite you over to dinner.
▲Chefs of Iron fall into different, frequently overlapping types, not limited to:
* "Ordinary" (or more ordinary than the following examples at least) people who are skilled in normal combat and mundane, if excellent cookery; one or the other tends to be his day job. If the day job is fighting (i.e. military, police work) being a cook may show the character has a sensitive side (sometimes a case of [[Real Men Wear Pink]]); if cooking is the day job, they may be leading a double life of hidden [[Badass]]. Or, they might be a chef for an army or suchlike, where they do both at the same time. In this form, may overlap with the [[Almighty Janitor]].
* A cook whose special skills include using cooking implements in combat. They may be an [[Improbable Weapon User]]; there are many ways you can hurt people with boiling liquids, big chef's knives, [[Fork Fencing|eating utensils and cutlery]], [[Frying Pan of Doom|heavy skillets]], etc.. An angry [[Apron Matron]] brandishing a skillet or rolling pin at you may cross over into this trope slightly, especially if it's their primary means of defending themselves. Compare [[I Know Madden Kombat]].
* A chef for whom cooking ''is'' their means of fighting, and we're not talking about [[Cooking Duel
May overlap with [[Evil Chef]] as a villainous version. Compare [[Battle Butler]].
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Not to be confused with a [[Iron Chef|certain culinary contest]], in case you didn't bother checking out that pothole above.
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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.
* Kouji Kabuto from ''[[
* Ukyo from ''[[Ranma ½
** Cologne, when she moves to Japan, opens a noodle shop and picks up some martial arts moves of the entangling noodles variety. She also has her granddaughter Shampoo learn Martial-Arts Takeout Delivery.
* Sanji from ''[[
** Oda has claimed that if Sanji were indeed willing to use his hands, he could potentially be an even greater swordsman than his crewmate Zorro. This was illustrated in his battle with Wanz, described below.
** Baratie, Zeff's restaurant at sea, is actually filled completely with Type 2 Fighting Chefs, who are so fearsome that customers visit the restaurant just as much to watch them fight as eat their cooking.
** Wanz from the Water 7 Arc is a villainous example. His ''Ramen Kenpo'' fighting style involves the combatant swallowing noodles and blowing them out his nose, using them as weapons and armor. Unfortunately for Wanz, while this makes him a decent fighter, it [[Lethal Chef| makes his cooking ''very'' unhygienic]]. Most everyone who sees this finds it disgusting and refuse to eat his cooking. He's also no match for Sanji, who finds himself able to use such a foe as a loophole in his "never use your hands" style by fighting him the same way he'd prepare pasta.
* The anime ''Bistro Recipe/[[Fighting Foodons]]'' essentially turned Type 3 into Mons style food themed monsters.
* Akito Tenkawa from ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''... [[Ace Pilot]] and restaurant-level chef.
* [[Battle Butler|Sebastian]] of ''[[
* Bianchi from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]].'' Attacks enemies with her Poison Cooking.
* Shell and Leon from ''[[
* 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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** In the 2001 series, he manages to re-open his restaurant and proves that his cooking skills haven't gone down at all.
* The second season of ''[[Slayers]]'' has in one episode a chef who knows how to prepare Dragon Cuisine. Of course, the first step in cooking a dragon is collecting fresh ingredients.
* In ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', two of the test-givers in the Hunter Exam were "Gourmet Hunters", who specialized in tracking down rare foods and ingredients and were expert cooks, but were just as capable of kicking ass as any other Hunter; in particular, the [[Action Girl]] of the duo, the [[Tsundere]] Menchi, ''almost killed a guy with her bare hands'' when he pressed her [[Berserk Button]] by openly doubting her
* 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
* 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
** 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.
** Whenever [[G Gundam]] and [[Martian Successor Nadesico]] appear in the same ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' game, Sai Saici and Akito Tenkawa can usually be found bonding in the Nadesico's kitchen over their mutual interest in giant robots and cooking.
* China from ''[[
* In ''[[Mahoromatic]]'' Mahoro is this. One of the side characters, Chizuko, seems to be there mainly to identify the exact dish from the precise 5* restaurant, which Mahoro has just replicated to perfection.
== Comic Books ==
* [[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 ==
* Steven Seagal in his classic ''[[Under Siege]]''... when terrorists hijack a navy battleship, they secure the entire, battle-hardened crew... but they forget the ship cook. Who is a former Navy SEAL. Played by ''[[Steven Seagal]]'', of all people. Yeah, they're pretty much fucked.
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'''Casey Ryback:''' Yeah, well... I also cook. }}
** 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."
* The 1997 [[Jackie Chan]] movie ''Mr Nice Guy'' stars Jackie as a TV chef. (In fact, in Spain the movie was titled ''Super Chef''.) Since it's [[Jackie Chan]], he obviously also kicks a lot of ass.
* If Colette is to be believed, ''most'' of the chefs in Gusteau's kitchen in [[Ratatouille]] are some form of this. The most amusing one is the sous chef who was in prison and tells a different story of his crime every time someone asks, including "I killed a man. With ''this thumb''."
* In the [[Stephen Chow]] film ''[[
** A better example of a
* Let's not forget Hanzo Hattori from [[Kill Bill]], people! After [[Retired Badass|retiring]] from [[The Blacksmith|his blacksmith duties]], he became a sushi chef in Okinawa. And then he came out of retirement to forge The Bride's iconic katana.
* Po from ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' was raised by a noodle chef, prior to being chosen to be trained as a kick ass warrior. As a result, he knows a little something about cooking, and while it's not played up, he's definitely good at it. Once he receives his kick ass martial training, he's a classic type 1.
* The Champion of Justice in ''[[
* Beck (played by [[Dwayne Johnson]]) in ''[[The Rundown]]''.
== Literature ==
* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Sunshine'', Sunshine, a baker, falls into the first category of
* Tamora Pierce's Trickster series has Chenaol, who is a superb cook (at least once the protagonist (who grew up in the western-Europe-fantasy-counterpart-culture) gets used to the southern-Asia-fantasy-counterpart-culture's cuisine) is also {{spoiler|one of the four leaders and the armorer of the rebel group and apparently is very effective with a meat cleaver in hand-to-hand combat}}.
** [[Circle of Magic|Winding Circle's]] [[Supreme Chef|Dedicate Gorse]] is implied to be this as well, if he ever left his kitchen for anything.
* For [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', Vorhopolous and his 1000 chefs spring to mind. He hired mercenaries as "cooks" and equipped them with butcher knives instead of swords, and the like, to follow the ''word'' of a law limiting the size of his army.
** Naturally, his penalty for breaking the law was to be placed in stocks and die of starvation. Let it never be said that the emperor at the time didn't have a sense of humour.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''Between Planets''. Charlie is a Chinese immigrant to the planet Venus. Not only is he an excellent cook, he knows how to handle a butcher knife and dies fighting against an invasion of the planet.
* Fritz from ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'' is a very early example of this trope.
* Farqual from ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' by ''[[Jonathan Stroud]]''.
* Vlad Taltos in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' series is a professional assassin and amateur cook (and gourmand). His father owned a restaurant, which he inherited and ran briefly before joining the equivalent of the Mafia.
* Polgara the Sorceress from [[David Eddings]]' ''[[Belgariad]]''. She can turn you into a turnip and then fix you the best dinner ever (but not necessarily in that order).
* In ''The Hero from Otherwhere'' by Jay Williams, a legendary swordsman is beaten by a cook wielding a ladle and a cauldron lid. {{spoiler|The cook is the ''real'' legendary swordsman and the other an impostor.}}
* Harry Kressing's novel ''The Cook'' features the mysterious Conrad, who is able to manipulate and control people through his cooking, while using his superlative knife skills in combat with rivals.
* Escrima in the [[
* Rae from ''[[Sunshine (
== Live Action TV ==
* Eliot from ''[[Leverage]]''. In "The Wedding Job", he demonstrates that he's eerily schooled in the differences in proper knife-holding techniques for different tasks, causing Nathan to become visibly disturbed.
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** That same episode has Eliot dispatching <s> a thug</s> [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Butcher of]] [[Wretched Hive|Kiev]] by shoving a pair of ''hors d'oeuvres'' in his eyes that he squirted lemon juice on.
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'''Eliot''': "I dunno...maybe..." }}
** This is set up as early as episode 2 ("The Homecoming Job"), in which he assembles a pile of phonemes into a convincingly French name for the hors d'oeuvre he's holding.
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* The Chairman of ''[[Iron Chef|Iron Chef America]]'', played by Mark Dacascos, is a black belt (both in character and in Real Life), and isn't shy about showing moves off in Kitchen Stadium. While it's not explicitly said that he cooks himself, he's a gourmand, and given the trope's namesake, [[Rule of Cool|he ought to count]].
** The original ''[[Iron Chef]]'' has at least two of these as challengers. One a former Sumo turned chef after a knee injury forced him to quit and another who was a professional chef who also competed at the national level in some form of martial arts.
* Tenkasei Ryou from [[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]] is a gyoza cook and the most powerful warrior in the team. When he returned in ''[[
* Speaking of ''[[
* ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' has [[Sixth Ranger|Shinken Gold]], a ''sushi chef'' and fighter. The sushi chef theme extends to his [[Transformation Trinket]], weapon, fighting style and robots. All this, and he makes a mean curry rice.
** This extends to his American counterpart, Antonio of ''Power Rangers Samurai.'' Pink ranger Mia aspires to be this, but her cooking leaves something to be desired.
* Shouichi Tsugami of ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]''.
* Souji Tendou of ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]''.
* Michael Garibaldi, the ''[[
** Note that it's Garibaldi who complains the most about the rations on B5, leading to a [[Babylon
* [[Charmed
** In the end, after she retires from being a witch, Piper buys a restaurant.
* Captain Benjamin Sisko of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', exquisite chef who grew up working in his dad's restaurant. And one of the most [[Badass]] beings in the alpha quadrant.
* The [[The Muppet Show|Swedish Chef]] isn't so much a chef who can fight so much as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qj8PhxSnhg&feature=relmfu a chef who cooks with weapons]. Unfortunately for him, the food he prepares tends to fight back.
* [[Reaper]] contains a demon couple who, among other things, is shown to be excellent cooks. They're not big on the fighting side; but, being demons, they can seriously kick ass when they need to.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Ogre Butchers from ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', who use a specialized Lore known as "Gut Magic".
** Halflings also qualify. As well as being excellent cooks they are known to be talented thieves and capable archers. In addition to serving as skirmishers on the battlefield they also employ the Halfling Hot Pot, an artillery piece consisting of a giant slingshot used to hurl pots of scalding hot soup at the enemy.
** More specifically, there's the Fighting Cooks, a mercenary squadron of <s>Hobbits</s>Halflings who are highly-skilled as trackers, hunters, and ambushers - and quite capable of going head-to-head too. More importantly, they improve the morale of the entire army with their delicious cooking!
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'':
** Many settings hold a notion that to buy or found a tavern or inn is one of best investment available for retired adventurers who didn't make it to the high rung or don't like politics.
** There was a 1st
* The Knights of the Knowledge of the Tongue from ''[[Changeling: The
* Pete, The Chef
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'']]:
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Kitchen_Dragonmaid Kitchen Dragonmaid], a [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dragonmaid_Tinkhec dragon] in human form who is also a maid, although in the original version she's a stillroom maid, which would make her more of a "Brewer of Iron".
** [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Number_59:_Crooked_Cook Number 59: Crooked Cook] fits the bill quite nicely.
** ''[[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 ==
* Mason from ''[[
* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: Baker Ragueneau is a realistic example of this trope at Act IV: He is a supreme chef who is capable of cooking enough food for a regiment and then he cleverly disguises in a carriage (and to occult the smell!) to smuggle it through enemy lines for the French troops (he is the coachman and goes through various Spanish checkpoints). He is risking his life for his friends, the cadets.
== Video Games ==
* In the first ''[[Hitman]]'' game, you get attacked by one of the chefs wielding a meat cleaver.
* ''[[
* The ''[[
* Regal from ''[[
* Jam Kuradoberi from ''[[
* ''[[
* Marshall Law from ''[[
* Elzam von Branstein of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. Gourmet chef with a [[Badass]] [[Super Robot]] and unstoppable theme song. Real Men Ride Each Other.
* From ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', we have Quina, who is also an [[Extreme Omnivore]], wielding an oversized set of cutlery in combat, along with [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her]] chef-hat. It's never clarified if Quina's cooking is [[Alien Lunch|edible by humans]].
** It is - see the scene with Quina and Eiko in Madain Sari, wherein Quina demonstrates expertise on human food preparation techniques.
*** Heck, he/she was a ''chef'' in Castle Alexandria, if you visited the kitchen.
* Henpecked Hou from ''[[Jade Empire]]''. Although he's sworn off fighting due to his wife, he was once a master of the Drunken Master kung-fu style, and can teach it to the player.
* ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]: Absence of Justice'' has Mr. Champloo. He's a Demonic Cooking Teacher Martial Artist! Boom!
** Keep in mind, this isn't new for ''[[Nippon Ichi]]''; the class of Makai Chef already existed in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', which is one of the few classes that can master the frying pan and pie weapon types.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', Saucerors and Pastamancers fit the Type 3 description to a T; Saucerors conjure various hot/cold/spicy sauce spells to hurt the monsters and can craft potions by cooking them; Pastamancers have spells such as "Entangling Noodles" and can summon pasta golems. Both classes also acquire skills that let them cook high-quality food items.
** There are also enemies that fit the bill - Degrassi Knoll and the Gnollish War Chef, the Assistant Chefs in Cobb's Knob each have chefs, the Spookyraven Manor has zombie chefs and at the higher levels during the war between the hippies and the frat boys each side has the Baker Company (think herbal brownies) and the Grill Seargents respectively. (The later two, you might expect, kick considerably more ass, especially the [[Elite Mook]] versions.)
* ''[[Clay Fighter]] 63 1/3'' has Kung Pow, a Chinese chef who attacks with woks, chopsticks, knives, and other cooking utensils. All his moves are named after Chinese dishes.
* One level in ''[[Medal of Honor|Medal of Honor: Frontline]]'' takes place on a U-Boat, with the player fighting his way past the entire crew. The level route goes through the galley, where the U-Boat's cook will attack by throwing knives. He goes down easy, though. These chefs also appear in later levels and games, I think.
* [[Fat Bastard|Gordo]] from ''[[
* [[Kirby]] can eat a fighting cook enemy to gain the ability to cook his foes. Kirby can also use this ability in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Brawl]]'' as his Final Smash.
* One of [[Game and Watch|Mr. Game & Watch's]] attacks in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' has him pull out a frying pan and fling out food that harms opponents.
* The main character of a Playstation 1 (originally 3DO) shooter called ''PO'ed'' is a chef [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!!]] whose ship crash lands on an alien planet; he has to fight his way out with whatever he's got, including kitchen implements.
* ''[[Power Stone]]'' has ''two'' battling chefs, Wangtang and Gourmand.
* ''[[Eat Lead:
* From [[Super Cosplay War Ultra|Team FK Digital]]'s ''Chaos Code'', there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmMkavy2Zg Bravo Pepperonicine].
* Iksel from ''[[Atelier Rorona]]'' is pretty laid-back when working at the Sunrise Cafe, but wields a mean frying pan in battle.
* Emiya Shirou from ''[[Fate/stay
** Tohsaka Rin qualifies, being a proficient magus/hand-to-hand combatant and cook of roughly equivalent skill.
* One of the Psychopaths in [[Dead Rising 2]] is Antoine, an [[Evil Chef]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|who decides to serve Chuck as his next masterpiece of cuisine.]]
* Indie game [[The Dishwasher]] has [[Exactly What It Says
* "Captain" Cookie, in [[World of Warcraft]]'s revamped Deadmines dungeon.
** ''Every'' character with the Cooking skill, seeing as gaining ingredients for recipes means hunting Beasts and Critters for the [[Organ Drops]].
* In "Fallout: New Vegas", in one of the casinos there is a chef who you can openly provoke into attacking you.
** The sad part is, I personally wouldn't know how well he fights because I had recently gotten a [[Game Breaker|unique pistol]] that allowed me to finish him before he had finished pulling out his pistol.
*** 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 (
* 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 ==
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' did the parody story of "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Muffin the Vampire Baker]]", complete with armaments such as a portable oven. Of course, Sam has some things to show them about more effective (and traditional) ways to deal with said vampires...
* ''[[
* Type 3 is very important in ''[[Triangle and Robert]],'' where several of the characters are "Cuisine Mages" who can cast awesomely powerful spells derived from cooking.
* ''[[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]].
**
* Belkar from ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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.▼
** 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
** "Hey, I'm trying here! I have exactly two skill sets, and you get mad when I use the other one!"
* Played with in [[Dubious Company]], when [[The Big Girl|Tiren]] decides to bake chocolate:
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[[Muggle Best Friend|Fumiko]]: Duh! }}
** Later:
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[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Sal]]: She must have. {{spoiler|It's more [[Divide
== Web Original ==
* Most of the cooks in ''[[Banana
** Also, the Sumo Baker from Banana Shop of Horrors is a Type 3 who fires magic muffins.
* In ''[[
* Heinrich, the [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic]] [[Everything's Worse
== Western Animation ==
* Granny Stuffem from ''[[Codename
* 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!"
* ''[[
* In [[Futurama]], Bender proves a literal example by being a chef of 30% iron.
** And various other metals like titanium, zinc, dolomite, etc. It varies by episode and the [[Rule of Funny|requirements of the gag being made.]]
== 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]].
* Doris Miller was in Pearl Harbor assigned as a Cook Third Class on the USS ''West Virginia'' on Dec. 7, 1941. When the Japanese attack started, his battle station at an antiaircraft battery had already been destroyed, so he went on deck and manned a 50 caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun (which he hadn't been trained to use) for 15 minutes until he ran out of ammunition. He was awarded a Navy Cross from Admiral Nimitz. He was also the ship's heavyweight boxing champion.
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