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* From ''[[Ranma ½]]'': 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".

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'', Alley-Kat-Abra knows Kat-Fu in addition to magic.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[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 ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' has "Déjà Fu", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travel in time as well as in space. The book give us as a ''translation'': "The feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before."

* 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 means — really! - ''Duck Fu''.

 

== New Media ==

** [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 ==

* ''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 ==

* ''[[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 ==

* 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 ==

{{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 ==

* ''[[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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