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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 [[Heir to
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 [[Heir to
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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* Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' is probably one of the oldest examples. He is the legitimate heir of Hokuto Shinken, the most powerful martial art seen in the series, and regularly challenges the successors of others martial arts styles (mainly heirs to the different branches of Nanto Seiken, the 'rival' school of Hokuto Shinken).
* ''Ranma ½'' provides several examples. Not only are Ranma and Akane the heirs to their families' particular branches of ''Musabetsu kakuto'' (Anything-Goes Martial Arts), they frequently encounter the heirs of other, often bizarre or outrageous, styles. It's only natural, however, that practitioners and aficionados of bizarre martial arts would seek each other out.
* Both Nagisa and Nosaka from ''[[Chou Kuse
* ''[[Jubei-chan]]''
* Kobayashi from ''[[Tenshi
* Kamiya Kaoru in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''
* Koushi and Momoko are both heirs to their respective dojos in ''[[
* ''[[Initial D]]'', but instead of martial arts, racing street-legal cars on mountain roads is the art involved.
* ''[[Yawara]]'' might provide the world's best example of this trope.
* In addition to being a [[Magical Girl]], Nanoha of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' also comes from a family with its own martial arts style and dojo; her two elder siblings are quite proficient at the style.
** And Kyouya's (and Miyuki's) mastery of the Mikami-Fuwa-ryuu style figures prominently into ''[[Triangle Heart 3
* Aoyama Motoko in ''[[Love Hina]]'', after {{spoiler|her sister Tsuruko decides to get married instead of inheriting the family dojo}}.
* Saeko Busujima in ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]''.
* [[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'' [[Heir to
** 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.
* Subverted in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'': Rikkai sub-captain and star tennis player [[The Stoic|Sanada Genichirou]] is actually heir of a famous kendo dojo, but tennis is his main activity. Same goes to martial artist Wakashi Hiyoshi from the Hyoutei team.
* Subverted in ''[[
* [[Tenchi Muyo!|Masaki Tenchi]] seems to have this as a reason for his skills with a sword, although his teacher hangs out at a shrine instead of a dojo. This doesn't explain other issues, just the thing with the sword.
** Makes more or less sense, since his teacher and grandfather used to be a mighty swordsman before he came to Earth and became the owner and priest of the shrine.
* While Azumi Kiribayashi from ''[[Real Bout High School]]'' is the heir to her family's dojo, it's pretty far from her motivation as a fighter, in a bit of a subversion.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' has an interesting take on this; Ryo Marufuji, outside of being the best duelist out of Duel Academy, is also the heir to the "Cyber Legacy", essentially the [[Tyke Bomb]] of the "Cyber-Style" of dueling that incorporates his legendary Cyber Dragon cards (and even has its own dojo in the mountains for teaching duelists how to use the style). This becomes a plot point in two ways: first, when he went back to the dojo and faced off with his former teacher (Duel Academy's ''principal'') for the dark half of the Legacy (the Cyberdark monsters he uses as Hell Kaiser), and in Season 4, when the heir to a rival "Psycho-Style" dueling school challenges him to determine which dueling style will remain in practice.
* Tyson/Takao of ''[[Beyblade]]''
* Tamaki Kawazoe of ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' is the heir to her father's kendo dojo.
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** A large portion of the student body is this, being the children of dojos that follow the rule of "only one successor" and all that.
* When Fumio's grandfather in ''[[Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo]]'' handed down his [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaw Martial Art]] to his granddaughter, it was presumably to make things easier when she took over the family lumber business rather than for ''slicing up her classmates''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Kenichi:
** [[Simple Staff|Freya]] is the inheritor of a particularly [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c207/12.html obscure school] of staff-fighting.
* [[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|Myoudouin Itsuki]] was made into this since her [[Ill Boy|sick older brother]] isn't expected to make it. She certainly has the skills, but in order to become as respected as he was, she must hide her femininity and love of cute things beneath a [[Bifauxnen|masculine exterior]]...and it's clearly wearing on her.
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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 [[Heir to
== Comic Books ==
* In the "Marvel Mangaverse" [[Alternate Universe]] - a series of comics with Marvel characters re-imagined manga-style - [[Spider
* Ichikun Ichinohei (a.k.a Itchy Koo) from ''[[Ninja High School]]''
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== Video Games ==
* ''Sort'' of occurs in ''[[
** While this example carries over to the rest of the franchise even less - both May (from the anime) and Ruby (from the mangas) become coordinators - two filler episodes of the anime featured dojos based this trope.
** More traditionally, Janine is heir to the gym in Fuchsia City, and takes over when her father Koga becomes a member of the Kanto/Johto Elite Four. The anime version of Flannery also recently inherited the Lavaridge Gym from her grandfather (in the game and manga, her grandfather was a member of Hoenn Elite Four, but may or may not have been the Lavaridge Gym Leader).
** ANOTHER Pokemon example. The Opelucid gym in ''[[
* Ryo Hazuki from ''Shenmue''.
* ''[[
* While it ''looks'' like your character (and Dawn Star) in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' are this, the truth is much, much worse...
* Ryo Sakazaki of ''[[Art of Fighting]]'' fame seeks to inherit the title of "Master of Kyokugen" from his father, Takuma. In some continuities, he succeeds (such as when he is portrayed as a much older "Mr. Karate" in ''Buriki One'') and in others he prepares other disciples to do this (such as Marco in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''.)
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