Extremity Extremist: Difference between revisions

'''Balrog:''' I punch ''really'' hard.

'''Dhalsim:''' Do you ''kick''?

 

Some people have a weapon of choice. Some people's weapon of choice is no weapon at all. And again others like to specialize even further.

 

Not to be confused with [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]].

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* Tomoyo Sakagami from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' mostly uses her legs when she fights.

* As does Sanji from ''[[One Piece]]''. As he needs his hands to cook, damaging them would deprive him of his art, so he doesn't take any chances.

* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', Shu, the successor of the Nanto Hakuroken fighting style, which focuses entirely on using kicks; kicks which slice people apart from sheer air pressure.

* Maki the ''[[Airmaster]]'' is perhaps only borderline... she's not afraid of using her fists, or - more frequently - her elbows. But her strongest, and most frequently-used weapon is indubitably her [[She's Got Legs|unbelievably-long legs]]. As a trained gymnast, she understandably uses her arms mostly for balance.

* Both Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Wild Tiger and Barnaby Brooks Jr. in ''[[Tiger and Bunny]].'' Barnaby focuses heavily on kicks, while Kotetsu almost exclusively uses his fists.

* ''[[Medaka Box]]'': Once it is revealed that Zenkichi's fighting style is savate, he pretty much exclusively relies on kicking to handle foes.

 

== Comic Books ==

* A Marvel [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] villain called the [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/armlesstig.htm Armless Tiger Man].

* DC has the [[wikipedia:Armless Master|Armless Master]].

 

== Film ==

* Honorary mention: In one of the most famous scenes from the film ''[[My Left Foot]]'', the protagonist, an almost-total paraplegic who is carried around in a wheelbarrow, uses his only working appendage - guess which one - to do some damage in a [[Bar Brawl]].

** [[My Left Foot]]... ''Of Fury!!!''

* Invoked in ''[[Ip Man]] 2'': The British, trying to stack the deck further in favour of the Twister after he takes a few good hits, tell Ip that kicking is now against the rules. Shortly after, when Ip reflexively leashes out with a kick, the ref is quick to remind him that another one will disqualify him.

 

* The [[Kamen Rider]] franchise often depicts Ichigo as relying mainly on kicks and Nigo favouring punches. This is, however, some kind of forced [[Fanon]]. In the series, they both are well balanced fighters who use all kinds of different moves.

** Played straight by the [[Meaningful Name|aptly-named]] KickHopper and PunchHopper in [[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]. The former even focused on kicks while using the Bee Zecter, even though its finishing move is a punch.

 

== Video Games ==

** Hitmonchan only punches, too.

*** Through move inheritance, it can learn Hi Jump Kick. However, he gains no benefit from it other than the same type attack bonus (the 20% increase for punching attacks from Iron Fist does not extend to kicks). Thus it is much better to equip him with less effective punching attacks since he gets more mileage out of them and don't have the return damage to worry about.

* Almost all of Zan's attacks rely on kicks in ''[[Undercover Cops]]''

 

* ''[[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]]'' features a character named Max Facepuncher. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Guess what he does.]]

* ''[[Buttersafe]]'' gives us [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Punch Monster.]]

 

== Web Original ==

* Bobby Jacks of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' almost invariably resorts to his fists in combat. He is, however, a boxer, so that isn't a huge surprise. He doesn't seem to have many compunctions about using his head either. It's mostly a case of sticking to what he's good at. (In fact, the one time he tried to kick somebody he immediately got his ass kicked).

* An online comic/story series called ''Setsudankanja'' tells the tale of a martial artist who learned his art after having his ''arms'' and ''feet'' (But not legs) cut off. He trains two girls in his fighting style, and ends their training by giving them special irremovable outfits that forever bind their arms together. It's [[Author Appeal]] [[Fetish Fuel]], to be sure.

* [[Darwin's Soldiers|Dr. Kerzach]] prefers to use a weapon in combat but when he fights unarmed, he will almost always use his feet. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because as a [[Funny Animal|Cassowary]], he has sharp talons and ''very'' powerful leg muscles that can easily cause serious injuries.

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[The Oblongs|Bob Oblong]], in spite of being born with no arm or legs, is still able to fight, by flinging himself head-first at his opponent's stomach. In the first episode, he uses this to knock out a redneck who's bothering his wife.

 

== Real Life ==

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