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Ever noticed that professional wrestling moves pop-up in the strangest places?
Usually prevalent in videogames, especially beat-em-ups. In your average beat-em-up, throws are compulsory, yet most real martial arts have throws that are quite... well, boring. And some martial arts don't have throws at all. So where can the designers find throws that are more interesting? [[Professional Wrestling|Good ole wrasslin']]. A nice solid suplex or perfectly executed arm bar can help convey untold amounts of [[Badass|badassness]] to a character as the viewer watches them delivering maximum ouch factor. Also might be explained by the Japanese love of pro-wrestling.
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* One argument between ''[[Trigun]]'''s Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood was brought to an end by the judicious application of a Boston Crab.
* Nagasumi of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' suplex'd a shark.
* [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] is a gifted athlete and can apparently perform a perfect missile dropkick. Just ask the Computer Club President.
* Lena from ''[[Mai-Otome 0[[S.ifr]]]]'' pulls of a suplex against M-9 in the last episode, and like the [[Superman]] example below, she does it '''from orbit'''.
* [[Ken Akamatsu]] began the shinmeiryuu style in his [[The Verse|Verse]] with ''[[Love Hina]]'' as a [[Supernatural Martial Arts|super-powered]] [[Implausible Fencing Powers|swordsmanship]] school. With ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', he decided to introduce the Nagewaza branch, a short series in shinmeiryuu grappling techniques. Suddenly a sword style that mostly relies on [[Twinkle Toes Samurai|graceful dashes]] and acrobatics has Setsuna do a frankensteiner for [[Murderous Thighs|kicks]] and [[Rule of Cool|coolness]].
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* Minami Shimada in the anime of ''[[Baka Test]]'' uses several painful-looking wrestling moves on [[Chew Toy|Akihisa]] whenever he pisses her off (intentionally or not), which happens at least once per episode.
** Sometime her [[Stalker with a Crush]] joins her
* ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'': Shunsuke relies on his amateur wrestling skills to protect himself from Yuria's constant [[Black Comedy Rape|attempts to have sex with him]].
* Many ''[[School Rumble]]'' characters.
** Tenma is a fan.
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* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'' Black Star does a few random submission holds to [[The Chew Toy|He]][[Extreme Doormat|ro]].
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', instead of martial arts, Broly uses moves like lariats and slams.
* ''[[Angel Beats]]'' has part of an episode dedicated to helping [[Genki Girl|Yui]] learn how to do a German Suplex. Being about 90lbs soaking wet, she has some trouble lifting Otonashi and smashes him into the ground (in the wrong way) a number of times.
* The ''[[Gundam AGE]]''-1 Titus literally is a [[Humongous Mecha]] Wrestler with beam spikes from its shoulder and knee to ram or kick with it as well as a beam lariat.
* Kureha from ''[[Mayo Chiki]]'' does this often to her brother Jiro.
* Lucy from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' does this from time to time. Her [[Alternate Universe|Edolas]] counterpart takes it [[Up to Eleven]].
* Given girls in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' are mostly [[Jerkass|jerkasses]], examples of this trope are hardly surprising.
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** In ''[[The Marine]],'' [[John Cena]] chokeslams one of the villains to his death. Unlike with [[Dwayne Johnson]] and the Rock Bottom, there's less [[Narm]] here because Cena doesn't actually use this move in wrestling, and the camera angle conceals the fact that he's much shorter than wrestlers, like [[The Undertaker]], who ''do.''
*** ''[[John Cena]]'' busting out a chokeslam is less [[Narm]]-y than The Rock hitting a lifting side powerslam?
** [[Roddy Piper]] used many wrestling moves in his films, the most iconic being the famous fight in ''[[They Live!]]''.
** In actual films about wrestling, this might count as a subversion, lampshade, or [[Shout-Out]] to the fans.
** [[Steve Austin]] pulled off the Mother of All Spears against [[Sylvester Stallone]] in ''[[The Expendables]]''.
* [[Superman]] pulls off a suplex in the ''[[Superman: Doomsday]]'' movie against the titular villain and drives him into the ground. ''[[Awesome/DC Universe Animated Original Movies|From orbit]]''.
** With a short timeout on the way down to punch each other some more. Really, that fight is easily the best part of the movie. Just turn it off after that's over.
** Doomsday himself used a piledriver on Superman earlier in the fight.
* Even [[Jet Li]] got in one during ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' when he performed a "wrong" i.e. ''lethal'' [[Don't Try This At Home]] piledriver to a Mook, purposely breaking his neck and killing him.
* In the second ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' film, an orc knocks a colleague off of a tower with a Zangief-style dropkick.
* The Duloc brawl in ''[[Shrek]]''. He leaps into a small horse paddock and pulls off a series of wrestling moves on the attacking [[Mooks|Palace Guards]], getting progressively more ridiculous.
{{quote|'''Onlooker:''' The '''chair,''' ''give him the '''chair!!'''''}}
* In ''[[Cursed (2005 film)|Cursed 2005]],'' the main protagonist (geek-recently-turned-werewolf) uses several [[Narm|Narmtastic]] pro wrestling moves while trying out for the school wrestling team, including a backwards suplex in which his opponent is obviously helping him.
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* Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]''. In the climactic sequence, B.A. Baracus executes a scoop slam on {{spoiler|Pike, before dropping him directly on his neck mid-move.}} Bad Attitude indeed.
* The main character of ''Battle Girl'', AKA ''Living Dead in Tokyo Bay'' is played by ''joshi'' wrestler Cutey Suzuki, who fights an enemy [[Super Soldier]] unit made up of fellow ''joshi'' wrestlers Devil Masami, Eagle Sawai, Miss A and Shinobu Kandori. Needless to say, wrestling moves are included.
* In ''[[The Waterboy]]'' the coach is trying to get [[Adam Sandler]]'s character to play football and asks him to do what his favorite wrestler Captain Insano does to the bad guys. He responds with an eye rake. Later in the film, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGw7gTve6cQ he powerbombs an opponent].
* [[Gail Kim]] in one of her films ''Righteous Kill'' is seen performing a headscissors takedown on a person. That move in question normally requires the opponent to lift the wrestler up and hold them as they do the turning.
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick (film)|The Chronicles of Riddick]]'', Riddick kills a mook by suplexing him onto a stalagmite.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Tekken]]'' has King and Armor King, who are wrestlers. But that doesn't explain Heihachi Mishima (a karate master) busting out powerbombs, or kickboxer Bryan Fury's tornado DDT, or even (Kenpo and Xing Yi practitioners) Michelle and Julia Chang's range of suplexes... the reason? Wrestling moves are cool!
** In [[Tekken: Blood Vengeance]], Heihachi takes it up a notch by adding a German Suplex to his movelist, as Jin Kazama can bear witness.
** Jun Kazama's a mixed martial artist, we can accept that. Her moves stem from akido, judo, and karate, we can accept that. So why, as someone with perhaps the least interest in pro wrestling, is she busting out pro wrestling moves?
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'': Leon's ability to shoot an enemy in the knee, then run up to them and perform a Northern Lights Suplex on them is great. In fact many players used little else while fighting enemies that could be dispatched in this way. (Suplexing enemies also tends to stop plagas from spawning).
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** And of course, Mike Haggar from ''[[Final Fight]]'' and later ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'', where he's an actual wrestler.
** ''[[Street Fighter III]]'' brings us Alex and Hugo, the latter being (alongside his base character, the Andore family from ''Final Fight'') based off of wrestling legend [[Andre the Giant]]. EVERY MOVE. And yes, Andre used to throw Drop Kicks in his more agile days.
** Abigail from ''Final Fight'' as well.
** [[Street Fighter II|Guile]] and [[Street Fighter Alpha|Charlie]] do that devastating mid-air Backbreaker throw, and their grab move is a German Suplex
** [[Street Fighter II|Vega/Balrog]] does the Izuna Drop and the Super Rolling Izuna Drop.
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* [[Mortal Kombat]] has Jax's signature Backbreaker, and Sonya's leg slam.
** Oh, and Kitana and Mileena pulling off German suplexes in the second game. Jade later does this, but with her staff in Ultimate and Trilogy.
* The Catsaber of the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series has its "Bell Volcano" special, which is a combo of wrestling moves that includes a suplex, piledriver, and backbreaker.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'': Sometimes, in the overworld, you'll meet a Wendigo, who'll quite happily powerbomb your characters, given the chance. He also uses back drops and clotheslines.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' takes the gold for most absurd example, however. Sabin Rene Figaro uses a peculiar mixture of karate and pro-wrestling moves, which allows him to (among other things) SUPLEX AN ENTIRE TRAIN WHILE IT'S ROLLING AT FULL STEAM.
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* Some of the unarmed finishers in [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] include a chokeslam and a supplex.
* It pretty much goes without saying that Travis Touchdown would not only use a [[Laser Blade|Beam]] [[Katanas Are Just Better]] but also wrestling maneuvers in ''[[No More Heroes]]''. And by finding wrestling masks lying around, he learns new ones. Travis is noted to be a former pro wrestling fan, and the masks have letters that help him remember various moves from his days of wrestling in Calgary (apparently). He also buys videotapes of famous matches (obsessively watching cool things on tape is pretty much how Travis learned to do everything cool to begin with) that he learns new moves from (incidentally, said letters are signed [[Killer 7|MS]]...)
* Half of solo developer [[M Dickie]]'s games are professional wrestling sims, and half are novel genre excursions - a time traveling military game, for example, or a convict simulator, or an ancient Judaean meditation rpg. But to save time and money, Dickie builds them all on top of the same wrestling simulator engine. The result is prisoners performing wrassling throws on one another, or your avatar accidentally smashing Jesus over the head with a plank of wood when you're just trying to give him a hug.
* Several characters, such as Sarah, Jacky, and Jeffry, of ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' play this trope completely straight.
** Inverted with Wolf Hawkfield and El Blaze: in addition to wrestling and lucha libre throws, respectively, they have a fair amount of martial arts and boxing in their movelists.
* In ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Indiana Jones]]'', the title character can hit back body drops, dropkicks, and [[The Karate Kid|sweep the leg]] during attack combos, and even can lock the [[Those Wacky Nazis|"enemies"]] in a full nelson before throwing them aside.
** In ''Lego Batman'', Bane and Killer Croc both have military presses as their grapple positions, and Croc can drop his into a sitout Tombstone Piledriver.
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*** Explained by Otacon how back during {{spoiler|REX}}'s development, he and a bunch of the other scientists decided on a whim to add wrestling software into {{spoiler|REX}}'s programming. As you could guess, the military didn't approve of this and it was never fully developed, but Otacon installed the software anyways
* The Charger from ''[[Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead 2]]'' will hit you with a sort of short chokeslam if it catches you. Then it will do it again...and again...and again...
** The Hunter's pounce isn't all that far from a spear tackle. Though professional wrestlers don't often try to tear their opponents flesh off once they have them pinned.
* Ezio of ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' apparently invented the chokeslam.
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Brotherhood]]'', The Executioner kills targets from behind by pulling off a standing version of an Inverted Death Valley Driver/Burning Hammer, while the Blacksmith uses a backbreaker to kill targets facing him.
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* In ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 7'', Huang Gai's Musou attacks consist of wrestling grapples, including a back drop (misnamed as Piledriver), and a backbreaker (complete with cheering), Deng Ai has an arm bar as one of his Musou and Zhang Fei can pull off a Giant Swing. Anyone who wears a gauntlet (like Ding Feng or Meng Huo) also has a Frankensteiner in addition of a weaker version of the aforementioned Giant Swing.
* In the [[Conan]] game for [[PlayStation 3]], the Cimmerian can learn grapple attacks such as the Piledriver and the 'Warrior Suplex'.
* ''[[Tenchu]]'' can get very wrestler-ish in some of the Stealth Kill animations, with Ayame being [[Beyond the Impossible|specially]] guilty of using overly-complex maneuvers.
** In a more straight example, Tatsumaru was given the Izuna Drop as his strongest special attack in ''Tenchu 3''. Unfortunately, it was removed from his playable form in Co-Op. [[Game Breaker|Not that he needed it, anyway.]]
* [[Brainy Baby|Hoover/Baby Head]] from ''[[Captain Commando]]'' can make his [[Mini-Mecha]] perform piledrivers and drop kicks as part of his arsenal.
* Similarly to the above, Miu's [[Mini-Mecha]] in ''[[Panzer Bandit]]'' can pile drive enemies into the ground, strong enough to generate a [[Shockwave Stomp]] .
* Kirin in ''[[Cannon Dancer]]'' can apply a non-spinning Izuna Drop to most human-height enemies in his game, including some bosses.
* Initially averted by ''[[Pokémon]]''. Splash was completely useless while submission, take down and body slam was nothing like their professional wrestling counterparts...but then it was played straight in the ''mystery dungeon'' spinoffs where the splash was properly painful if not avoided.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Darnell Butler tends to use this in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', especially since he is actually a member of the school wrestling team. During version three's Pregame tournament, he defeated one opponent ({{spoiler|Paul Smith}}) with a series of [[Suplex Finisher|German Suplexes]] and power bombs, essentially using one of [[Tekken|King's]] chain throws.
** And let's not forget [[Memetic Badass|The Riz]] and [[Older Than They Think|Bryan Calvert]] dropkicking people off a cliff and a hotel block, respectively. This was also done in v1, where terrorist Angelina Kaige killed {{spoiler|Lyndi Thibodeaux}} with a dropkick to the face.
* Occasionally used as food preparation techniques on [[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]].
{{quote|''"BODY SLAM THE SAUSAGE!"''}}
* ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'', [[Funny Animal|Alf]][[The Big Guy|red]], piledrives a guard during a raid on a Dragonstorm facility. The guard is killed in the process.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Apparently this move (a suplex) is great against purse snatchers. Don't believe me? [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5TjDH0a0xBQ&feature=related How about now?]
* How do you stop a receiver who won't go down? Philadelphia's Brian Dawkins' answer was the German Suplex. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrLo-4DGV0Y Most awesome tackle ever.]
* Rolando McClain performs a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0LH_jiCDY&feature=related tackle on Rams receiver Danny Amendola] that may have made [[Dwayne Johnson|the Rock]] proud. Granted, unlike Dawkins, McClain got flagged for it. It also got a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] from the color commentator.
* The sport of [[Mixed Martial Arts]] allows a wide range of wrestling moves to be used in actual athletic competition, creating some spectacular matches. This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzk66VwinCc six minute compilation] provides a number of examples. In Japan, many pro wrestlers compete in both staged "show wrestling" and legitimate "shoot wrestling" in which they put their skills to work in actual MMA-style fights.
** Of course, part of that is the fact that pro wrestling grew out of amateur wrestling, especially Greco-Roman wrestling. In amateur wrestling, the suplex is pronounced suplay--a nice bonus for anyone who remembers Gordon Solie.
* Let's not forget the infamous effect of a doing piledriver on a little girl as her brother learned the hard way how much damage (read: death) the move can do. This quickly prompted the WWE (WWF at the time) to hammer in the old saying, [[Don't Try This At Home]]
** Eventually, the highly dangerous nature of piledrivers would result in the WWE would outright ban any sort of piledriver barring less than a handful of exceptions and only in certain situations.
*** Notable aversion: the Tombstone Piledriver (of Undertaker fame) is one of the safest moves in wrestling when properly executed, as the only impact is to the piledrivee's knees, not the piledriven's head (please excuse the awkward nomenclature). Note the distinction of "PROPERLY EXECUTED", young Tropers. Professional wrestlers are just that: professionals. They train for years to do it safely, and look at the list of injuries for any one pro wrestler who's been wrestling for any length of time.
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