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A convenient excuse for the [[Ordinary High School Student]] to have high-powered [[Martial Arts Movie|martial arts]] skills is for the student to have been training since a very young age, and to be the heir to some obscure martial arts school. The current master may be a parent, or just a close friend who has taken the student in as a disciple. Unlike school clubs, martial arts training takes place outside of school, so the
The ''dojo'' itself is generally part of a [[Big Fancy House]] compound that features [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]. Challengers frequently arrive to test the skills of the ''dojo'''s style... and the
A weaker form occasionally crops up in more Western works: an unlikely character ends up wiping out someone or two, and explains that their *insert relative here* is a sensei/boxing trainer/wrestling coach/gunslinger, and he/she's always grown up learning karate/boxing/wrestling/marksmanship.
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* [[Ninja]]-girl Kaede Nagase in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. According to her character design notes, it was originally suggested that the rest of her family gave up on the art long ago, but in the manga, she refers to herself as having the rank of ''Chunin''.
* Honey from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' is heir to a large martial arts family in whose specialty he is extremely proficient.
* Subverted in ''[[Naruto]]'' in that a large part of Neji Hyuga's [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] persona stems from the fact that he is ''not''
** Played straight with Sasuke early on; half the crowd at the Chuunin Exam seemed to be there to see "the Uchiha" show his moves. Then again, pretty much his whole clan was wiped away. {{spoiler|Except for Itachi, but ''that'' was another huge bag of cats...}}
* Chiko of ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'' is heir to a "dojo" of sorts, if you can call an international thieving ring a dojo.
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* Subveted in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', where there is the [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Higly Visible Ninja]] Black Star, last heir of the Boshi Clan, which was destroyed when he was a newborn, so he didn't learn anything from it, but is anyway very powerful
** And played straight by Black Star's weapon, Tsubaki, who is direct descendant of the first Demon Weapon.
* Makoto from [[W Juliet]] has a problem that's similar to the one faced by the aforementiioned Ken Wakashimazu: he does not want to be this despite his great skills, and his father is putting pressure on him. Makoto also gets a chance to get out of the tradition, but in his case, his dad tells him that since [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|looks very girlish]] and he wants to be an actor, he shall prove himself as skilled enough to spend his highschool years dressed as a girl without having his identity revealed to the public. If his true gender is leaked out, he'll come back home and retake his
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