Martial Arts and Crafts: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"We would parade across the rooftops in the still of night, making naught but a whisper. By the time they realized there was a parade it was already over..."''|'''Karashi''' (on [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0393.html ninja marching bands]), ''[[Adventurers]]''}}

{{quote|''"We would parade across the rooftops in the still of night, making naught but a whisper. By the time they realized there was a parade it was already over..."''|'''Karashi''' (on [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0393.html ninja marching bands]), ''[[Adventurers!]]''}}

In shows which feature martial arts heavily, there are a lot of different styles found in [[The Verse]]. This is [[Truth in Television]] somewhat as there have been many martial arts developed throughout history often based on local needs. For example [[wikipedia:Okinawan kobudo|Okinawan weapons]] were developed from household and farm implements.

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== Comics -- Books ==

* ''[[Mad]]'' had a reportage from the noble martial art of "House-Fu", where you use household items in combat. And the combat is assumed to take place in the kitchen.

* [[TMNT|Raphael]] using Chinese Butterfly Knives to trim a Christmas tree. This scene made it into the 2000s ''TMNT'' cartoon.

* In one issue of ''[[The Muppet Show Comic Book]]'', the special guest is the master of stealth tapdancing, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Ninja Rogers]].

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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'', the protagonist become really good in the kitchen shortly after a car-crash. She thinks her memories are starting to return after six years of amnesia, and that her great skill with knives mean she used to be a chef. She's right about the first part.

* ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' is centered on this trope. Stephen Chow's character believes that martial arts can be used for every day tasks. To promote the usefulness of kung fu, his [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|ragtag group]] of former shaolin monks use their kung fu superpowers to play soccer. We also see kung fu used to trim trees, park cars, and fetch objects from high shelves. Tai Chi is also used to cook.

* Stephen Chow's earlier film ''[[God of Cookery]]'' featured Shaolin-style cooking, complete with an over-the-top martial arts contest.

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== Video Games ==

* ''[[Fruit Ninja]]'', well, the title says it all, really. The game is about using your cool katana to chop up fruit.

* The plots of [[Nasuverse|Type Moon's]] ''[[Melty Blood]]'' [[Fighting Game|Fighting Games]] are driven by the reality-warping Night of Wallachia. Among other crazy things, this phenomenon transforms Kohaku and Hisui from simple maids into [[Martial Arts and Crafts]] masters capable of fighting half-demons and ancient vampires by using dustpans and potted plants. Basically, a justification for [[Competitive Balance]].

* ''[[Disgaea]]'': Chaos Fire Style Kitchen Fist, [[Verbal Tic|Boom!]]

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** No, that honor has to go to the obsessed vampire who turns people he bites into werewolves.

** No, that honor has to go to the sociopathic teddy bear [[Played for Laughs]]. NMS, by the way, has ninja bookkeepers. Not just bookkeepers who are ninja, but people ''trained in the art of ninja bookkeeping''. Both bookkeeping with ninja skills, [[Ambiguous Syntax|and]] keeping ninja books. *stage whisper*: They really only call it that to make the extremely elderly bookkeepers feel better about not reliably being [[Badass Grandpa|Badass Great-Great-Grandparents]].*/stage whisper*

* Thief, in ''[[8-Bit Theater ~~(Webcomic)~~|Eight Bit Theater]]'', has a squad of Law Ninja. They kill anyone that violates his forged contracts. They also wear [[Highly-Visible Ninja|bright red]] and [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|are, as Thief describes them,]] [[Red Shirt|"inherently disposable"]].

* Thief, in ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', has a squad of Law Ninja. They kill anyone that violates his forged contracts. They also wear [[Highly-Visible Ninja|bright red]] and [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|are, as Thief describes them,]] [[Red Shirt|"inherently disposable"]].

* ''[[Freefall]]''

** The [[McNinja|French ninjas]] of "Le Restaurant des Ninjas" run their restaurant without being seen. Everything from directing patrons to their tables, to delivering [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01082.htm menus], [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01093.htm food] (including [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01110.htm desserts], [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01083.htm drinks] (including [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01090.htm refills]), and the [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01112.htm bill], all while being completely stealthy. Well, ''[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01081.htm almost]'' [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01113.htm completely]. They're so effective at hiding, [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01079.htm they hide their restaurant.]

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* When there wasn't anyone to spy on or assassinate, the [[Ninja]] worked as gardeners.

** After Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun (and started the centuries of seclusion) the ninjas of the time found their job opportunities, i.e. assassinations, were running out. The shogun, not wanting a bunch of well-trained killers angry at him, made a large chunk of them into his personal spy network, answering only to him and the Emperor of Japan. To hide their ''real'' job they often worked as carpenters and gardeners in the homes of their lords.

*** In the ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]]'' game ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer Red Alert 3]],'' if you click on the ninja unit enough times, he says "We work in the Emperor's Garden!"

*** In the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' game ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]],'' if you click on the ninja unit enough times, he says "We work in the Emperor's Garden!"

** They did this as a "social stealth" tactic as well... no one looks at the peasant gardener.

*** [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|NOBODY expects the]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Spinach Infiltration!]]