Combat Pragmatist/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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** He once used a copy of Cat Fancy magazine to beat up some loan shark thugs. In another episode, he teaches self-protection techniques to a kid with a bully problem, including feigning submission and headbutting

** The other two members of Michael's [[Power Trio]], Sam and Fiona, fit this as well. One episode has Fiona showing that she had no qualms about subduing a thug she was trying to capture with a well-placed beanbag shotgun round to the thug's groin.

* Sam from ''[[~~I Carly~~ (TV)|I Carly]]'' will cheat as much as possible in any combat related event. She ran around with an extra half-dozen blowtubes for her game of paintball assassin with Spencer.

* Sam from ''[[ICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'' will cheat as much as possible in any combat related event. She ran around with an extra half-dozen blowtubes for her game of paintball assassin with Spencer.

** Apparently she's also knocked out a trucker with a jug of milk, according to Carly.

* Captain Malcolm Reynolds from ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' goes here too. Man cheats in a fight every real chance he gets.

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* Or from [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy]]:

{{quote| '''Buffy:''' "Don't make me do the chick fight thing."<br />

'''Kendra:''' "[[What the Hell Is That Accent|Cheek faaaiitt?]]" ''(Buffy digs her nails into Kendra's skin.)'' }}

'''Kendra:''' "[[What the Hell Is That Accent?|Cheek faaaiitt?]]" ''(Buffy digs her nails into Kendra's skin.)'' }}

** The best examples from this series comes from the defeat of the Judge and the final battle with Glory. The Judge was an immortal demon (meaning that you could cut him to pieces and he'd return alive as soon as the pieces are reassembled) and invulnerable to forged weapon: Buffy followed Xander's advice and shot him with a ''rocket launcher''. Glory was a goddess too powerful for Buffy to match in normal combat: Buffy and the gang slugged her with the hammer of a troll god and a wrecking ball, and when Glory retreated and left control of the body to Ben Giles calmly walked up and strangled him, killing a goddess in the process.

* While in [[Professional Wrestling]] cheating to win a match usually makes you a [[Heel|bad guy]], several noted wrestlers have gotten famous as nontraditional [[Face|babyfaces]] who beat the heels through all manner of dirty tricks. The two most famous examples would probably be [[Eddie Guerrero]], who would win matches by (among other things) throwing a chair to an opponent and flopping to the mat as though he had been hit and was one of the most beloved men in the industry despite having "I lie, I cheat, I steal" as his personal slogan, and the legendary [[Ric Flair]], world renowned as "The Dirtiest Player in the Game" who would beat the opposition with eye gouges and the dreaded "[[Groin Attack|testicular claw]]".

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** Colonel Tigh took this trope to a much wider field during the occupation of New Caprica. Suicide bombers, random violence -- "I'm on the side of the demons."

* ''[[Twenty Four (TV)|24]]'' Jack Bauer especially but also many of his opponents. He'll use sneak attacks and break bones, kick in kneecaps, and shoot to incapacitate or coerce. His fighting style is brutal with little or no flourish.

** This gets taken to utterly pants-shitting levels at times. Early in Day 6 whilst tied to a chair and being tortured, he waits until the mook has his back turned, and removes the cuff on his EKG from his arm, causing it to flatline. He plays dead while the mook comes over to check on him and then [[I'm a Humanitarian|TAKES A CHOMP]] [[Crazy Awesome|OUT OF]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|THE DUDE'S]] [[Precision F Strike|FUCKING]] [[Refuge in Audacity|NECK.]]

** This gets taken to utterly pants-shitting levels at times. Early in Day 6 whilst tied to a chair and being tortured, he waits until the mook has his back turned, and removes the cuff on his EKG from his arm, causing it to flatline. He plays dead while the mook comes over to check on him and then [[I'm a Humanitarian|TAKES A CHOMP]] [[Crazy Awesome|OUT OF]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|THE DUDE'S]] [[Precision F-Strike|FUCKING]] [[Refuge in Audacity|NECK.]]

* A producer's write-up on ''[[The Avengers (TV)|The Avengers]]''' John Steed, to guide writers of episodes, specifically stated that "he fights like a cad and uses every dirty trick in the book..."

* If you take out the wacky sound effect frames and just look at how [[Batman (TV)|Batman]] fights in the 60s TV show, you'll see that he gets fairly brutal. At one point, he rips a lead pipe off a wall and beats a [[Mook]] with it.