Good Old Fisticuffs: Difference between revisions

* This trope shows up in, of all places, ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. In an anime all about glorifying ages-old (fictional) martial arts schools with legendary histories, Juza uses a completely made-up-himself style that allows him to fight [[Big Bad|Raoh]] on a nearly equal basis. Sure, he also has [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]s, but almost everyone and their dog has that in the ''Fist of the North Star''-verse.

 

* ''[[Gotham Central]]'' features this as a frequent necessity since, though a comic book set in the world of [[Batman]], none of the characters are superheroes in any way, shape or form. As such, they are often forced to face off against "freaks" (supervillains) with only regular guns or, sometimes, just their bare hands. When Dr. Alchemy, a [[Flash]] villain, is brought to Gotham City and tries to escape, Renee Montoya is forced to beat him down with her bare hands after he turns all guns and metals in the room into poisonous and noxious elements (His name is Dr. ''Alchemy'', he can do stuff like that). Once she manages to drop him to the floor she ''keeps going'' (Some say [[Police Brutality]], others say...well, others also say [[Police Brutality]], but he ''[[Asshole Victim|really]]'' [[Asshole Victim|deserved it]]), and did it all despite the fact that he was armed with some bizarre alchemical superweapon.

* A storyline in the ''Robin'' comic book had him fighting Cassandra Cain, formerly the second Batgirl, who had just revealed that she'd made a [[Face Heel Turn]]. Robin manages to defeat Cassandra, who had received [[Training From Hell]] to learn how to predict opponents' moves by looking at them, by deliberately attacking her wildly with no style or forethought. Since Cassandra's "powers" should have been able to handle something like that easily, this is one of the many reasons this storyline became [[Canon Discontinuity]] almost immediately.