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Skills that were previously thought to be mundane were revealed to be [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|awesome beyond imagination]], with those graceful enough in their application often finding [[Adrenaline Time|time speeding up and slowing down]] in the appropriate dramatic fashion as they [[Some Dexterity Required|snip a particularly difficult bonsai tree]], perform ''[[That One Rule|en passant]]'' or [[Needle in a Stack of Needles|locate the source of the $0.03 imbalance]].
The term ''"Foo Fu"'' for this general phenomenon was coined [[Just for Pun]], and basically means the same as "X Fu" or "Whatever Fu". It comes from ''"Foo"'', a placeholder often used by programmers as a stand-in for whatever should be there instead (the technical term for this kind of placeholder is "[[
''Trope Fu'' was originally considered as a name for this trope, but it was ultimately decided that ''Trope Fu'' is the sublime art of [[Wiki Curator|tending to examples and descriptions]] which we all practice in [[This Very Wiki]].
=== Behold! A Flawless Demonstration of ''Index Fu'' ===▼
Not to be confused with [[Frou Frou]]. Or [[wikipedia:Little Bunny Foo Foo|Little Bunny Foo Foo]].
* [[Cane Fu]]
* [[Car Fu]]
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* [[Wok Fu]]
=== This is no mere section. This is ''Example Fu'' of the highest calibre ===▼
== Anime & Manga ==▼
* From ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]'': although the correct translation for the "Neko-ken" [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] is "Cat Fist", it is also often called "Cat Fu", especially in [[fanfic]]tions. The prevalence of refering to it as "Cat Fu" in fanfiction might be because Genma refers to the technique as "Cat Fu" when he first mentions it in the English dubbed anime, going on to explain that "Cat Fu" is actually the shorthand reference for "Freestyle Cat Fist Fighting".▼
▲* From ''[[Ranma ½
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'', Alley-Kat-Abra knows Kat-Fu in addition to magic.
== Film ==
== Card Games ==▼
* The ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' card game has a set named "Munchkin Fu" (including a style card literally called "[[Wire Fu]]").▼
** The various style cards also all end in "fu". Banana Fu, Clown Fu, Gun Fu, etc.▼
* ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'': "No-one laughs at a master of ''Quack Fu!''"
* Joe Bob Briggs' "Drive In Reviews" would often use the "fu" suffix when listing the various weapons used in the target movie, which would lead to line items like "hubcap-fu", "tree branch-fu" and "brick-fu".
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* In her book about her life with Jim Morrison, the writer Patricia Kennealy refers a lot to "evil fu"...
== Live-Action TV ==
* Willow's Witch Fu is admired in an episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
== Music ==
* The Brazilian band [[Pato Fu]], whose name
== New Media ==
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** [http://community.livejournal.com/little_details/781434.html Improve your Google-fu!]
* The GNU Image Manipulation Program has a Script-Fu console for making your own custom effects.
== Tabletop Games ==
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* The ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' card game has a set named "Munchkin Fu" (including a style card literally called "[[Wire Fu]]").
▲** The various style cards also all end in "fu". Banana Fu, Clown Fu, Gun Fu, etc.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''Cyberpunk'' has "Gun-Fu", the fine art of running up to people and shooting them.
* The ''[[Exalted]]'' fandom coined the term "Social-Fu" to describe the [[Mind Control]] and [[More Than Mind Control]] effects Exalted can have on mortals, and possibly other incautious Exalted.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Dealt in Lead]]'': The title earned by maxing your level in the hand-to-hand skill? Pencil-Fu. Yes, pencils can be used as weapons. Yes, it's awesome.
* I-Mockery's ''[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa Fu]''.
== Web Comics ==
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** A variation when Schlock refers to the company lawyer as having "owned you with his legal-jitsu." Jitsu means art, so it actually is kind of appropriate.
** Played straight with the same character here: "Shodan told me you passed [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060621.html his unarmed combat course]".
* Inverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620153858/http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=50 one chapter] of ''[[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]]'': the [[Combat Stilettos]] style is called... Kung-Shoe.
* The webcomic ''[[What the Fu (webcomic)|What the Fu]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120621080606/http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=297 Strip #297] of ''[[Apple Geeks]]'' is titled "[[Show Some Leg|FlashFu]]". With good reason—it must be on the level of a martial art if you have it working on a woman.
== Web Original ==
* The Cheerleaders, a trio of supervillains from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', regularly use their "Jiggle Fu" distraction powers against male opponents.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]], about the
{{quote|"[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck Well, the superior joke here would be Tai Quack Do...]"}}
* [http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cat+Fu%22 Images-Googling for "Cat Fu"] can get you some hilarious results.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'' has the art of Woo Foo.
* A martial arts themed segment of the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' has a scene in which Mario and Luigi try to learn karate and fail miserably... so the martial arts master trying to train them makes up a plumbing-themed martial art called "Plumb Fu", which they master immediately.
== Real Life ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Metasyntactic Variable]]
[[Category:Naming Conventions]]
▲[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:This Trope Name References Itself]]
▲[[Category:Foo Fu]]
[[Category:Index]]
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